In a message dated 2/24/2005 7:37:38 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, jscott@parkspringscommunities.com writes: A vote of thanks for Sherry Balow's article on Elizabeth Hill (Grandma Jones.) It has taken me a while to wade through it but worth it all. Thanks, Sherry ... jack May I second that. I printed it out to mail to my non-computer-using cousins. What a treat to get to read actual history like this. Contributions like this is what makes the Decatur County the best list on-line!!! Hazel Tarr

A vote of thanks for Sherry Balow's article on Elizabeth Hill (Grandma Jones.) It has taken me a while to wade through it but worth it all. Thanks, Sherry ... jack

Hello Mel-- I believe you'd found your Hill's traced to England, which was what my mother had always been told was her history. I could never find that connection, especially since she knew her family, (almost all of it), had come to Iowa from MO, TN and KY. (Her Turpen, Gore, Acton, Hill had mostly been in Iowa since mid 1800's.) I haven't found any connections to Ohio, MD or PA. My mother believed there was an Indian connection which no one in her family discussed. She was grown before her aunt started "confiding" in her, but Mom wasn't interested in genealogy, at least not hers, and not in anything that contradicted what her mother had told her. She would "hint" at Aunt Ollie's stories, tell us it was "possible" that "someone in the family connected with an Indian Chief"---but "physical attributes" aside, she never pursued any REAL knowledge, maybe even believed it was something that should be "kept secret". She told us stories of my father's family, what history she knew and always told us we were English (she and Dad), Welsh (Dad) and possibly a little Scottish(my great-grandmothers family) and French (as it turned out, the only "French connection" I've unraveled was in the kidnap of Mom's gggrandmother, Jane, by Indians in KY, late 1700's that found her traded to a Frenchman before she was finally found and returned to her family. She was later married to Moses Turpen, and they were the parents of Aaron & Moses Turpen, two of several children, early settlers in Iowa.) Mom's Turpen's trace to England, but her Hill's all trace to N.C. and the BEST evidence is that they are connected to the Kesiah/Kissire/Kizzire/Cashiah families that moved from there AFTER the Rev. War. Whether her Hill's have the same Indian connection as the Kizzire's hasn't been determined yet. Good luck to you---if I find a OH, MD or PA link I'll let you know. I hope you'll do likewise if you find connections to any of the family listed in Elizabeths story. Best, Sherry > [Original Message] > From: Mel <mghill@Verizon.net> > To: <balowmsg@earthlink.net> > Date: 2/23/2005 9:52:13 PM > Subject: Re: [IADECATU] Writings of Hazel Jones Uthoff -- Elizabeth Hill(Hampton) Jones > > Sherry, I have Hill's in southeastern Iowa they moved here from Ohio and to > Ohio from MD and to MD from Pa. > Any one in you Hill line from these places. > Mel > www.iowaghosttowns.com > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sherry Balow" <balowmsg@earthlink.net> > To: <IADECATU-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 5:13 PM > Subject: [IADECATU] Writings of Hazel Jones Uthoff -- Elizabeth Hill > (Hampton) Jones > > > > Quite some time ago I received copied pages from another researcher. He > > thought they would be useful as I searched for my KIZZIRE family. They > > are > > the writings of Hazel Jones Uthoff done several years ago as she > > researched > > information on her grandmother Elizabeth Hill. Elizabeth Hill was the > > eldest child of John C. and Polly (Kizzire) Hill and a sister to my > > gggrandfather, Jackson Hill. I'll be posting it here, in segments. I > > hope those that haven't read it will enjoy it, especially since it does > > offer quite a bit of insight into what life was like in northern Missouri > > and southern Iowa. I've retyped Hazel's writings exactly, but have added > > notes of mine, especially since this is definitely not to be considered > > completely factual, and since I'm researching PAST where she left off. > > The > > writings should be subject to revision as documentation or other proof > > might become available. Hazel "surmised" when documentation wasn't > > available, "handed down" stories of family, and did much as I've (and I'm > > sure many others have) had to do with the bits and pieces that genealogy > > leaves you holding. I hope anyone that has anything to contribute to this > > family story, (or to any of the families mentioned), will > > comment--especially if you think you might have something that supports or > > adds to Hazel's work--but also if absolute errors are found, (hers or > > mine). For those NOT wanting to follow this, I'll put ELIZABETH HILL in > > the subject line, followed by Part 1, Part 2, etc. Elizabeth Hill lived > > from 1830-1893. She's buried in the Bethel Cemetery, Decatur Co., IA. I > > believe that is in the New Buda Township. > > > > Sherry Balow > > > > > > > > Sherry Balow > > balowmsg@earthlink.net > > > > > > > > > > ==== IADECATU Mailing List ==== > > Stacey Dietiker, Momdit@aol.com: Decatur County List Administrator, > > Website Coordinator, Decatur County IA Genweb - > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~iadecatu > > > > ============================== > > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >

The story as father told it over and over again went like this: �My father�s farm was on the Osage River below Capps Landing. He owned 311 acres right there n the bend of the river. We had sixty acres on the �crick� that was good, but some of it was hilly and rough. My father had this farm paid for and around $2,000 in the bank. When my father lived back in West Virginia he had signed a note with some feller. This note came due and since the other feller couldn�t pay it, it came back on father to pay it. He was told the note was signed so long ago it was outlawed and he didn�t need to pay it but father said, �I promised to pay if he couldn�t and I always pay my debts.� He had to borrow $650 and pay 10% interest and put a mortgage on the farm. He took the $2,000 plus the $650 and paid off the note in West Virginia. Nearly a year later he was able to sell enough hogs and various things t raise the money to pay off the mortgage. Mr Brumley promised to cancel the mortgage. It was a cold drizzley day and he �tuk� sick on the way home. It was in February and he had about 12 miles of slushy half melting snow under foot. When he got home in the evening he said, �It�s all paid off. I have Mr. Brumley�s promise that he is going to cancel the mortgage and bring it out here tomorrow. In the morning my father was dead. Mr. Brumley claimed that it was a mistake and that he still owed something on it. He wanted the farm for his son-in-law, Jeff Bilyeu.� In the book of land records page 46 and 47 is a record where Elizabeth Jones gave a quit claim deed to W. J. Bilyeu on April 5,1877. While searching the court house records in Tyler County, West Virginia, I found several notes that Lewis Jones had countersigned with Mark Custer, his second wife�s father. I didn�t check the note file at St. Mary�s, West Virginia but it is likely that he also had countersigned notes there because he was doing �Big Business� there for several years. The next ten years of Grandma Jones life might be called the frantic years. Brumley, Missouri is named for the villain of the above story. Every frontier had 50% on his loans. We still have loan sharks today. As soon as the shock of her husband�s death had worn off she tried to cope with the situation. These next years of Grandma�s life should be viewed with compassion and much understanding. Grandpa�s sudden death gave her no chance to prepare for what was to come and she had little knowledge of what was considered the man�s responsibility, business. She had to depend on the honesty and integrity of those with whom she must deal. She could not read or write. She had six living children but they could not read or write either. Her clan of relatives were loyal but they could not read or write and could do little to help her. It must be a bit like being blind while trying frantically to see and understand. She had step-sons with some education. The intense hatreds caused by the Civil War still were evident. Mark Jones and her brothers were on opposite sides. Lou Jones had married in September 1871, Lou and Cal seemed to have been farming together. Grandma Betsy tried to carry on with the help of her two boys, Grant 9 years old and Billy 14 years old. The mixed a bit of play with their work and hardly strong enough for the tasks before them. The first time I took father to Miller County, Missouri he pointed out the very steep hill in Tuscumbia that they had to travel to get into town. The court house on top of this steep hill had 72 steps down to the town on the river bank. That has been changed now for the town has been moved to the top of the hill away from the river�s floods. The steps have crumbled an are covered with wild growth. The road goes around the hill half way down from the brow. Father relived the awful moments when he and Billy tried to take their wagon loads down that steep hill with their team of oxen. Grant rode the shoe brake against the back wheel for he was heavier and Billy walked ahead of the oxen whacking them over their noses to make them hold back. Another time he mentioned a problem they solved. They had to get the wagon and oxen across the river. It was summer, the water was low, it was hot and there were lots of flies. The oxen waded into the middle of the river and stopped enjoying both to drink and to cool off. Stubbornly they stood switching flies. Nothing would make them move. In desperation Billy said, �Grant, get the cat.� Grant got the cat. Now Billy instructed, �Walk on the tongue between the oxen, put the cat on the back of one of the oxen and pull the cat backwards by the tail.� The cat�s claws stuck and with a beller the oxen came up out of the river and the boys got home all right. It�s a wonder Grant wasn�t thrown from the tongue and trampled. Again he chuckled over riding the steer. His job was to carry baskets of corn to fee the steers. With the usual hickory feed baskets, one on each arm, he climbed on top of the rail fence. On impulse, balanced by two equal buckets, he started walking the rail until he came to where a steer stood close to the fence. Calling to Billy he laughingly said, �Look! Billy, watch me ride the steer!� Just then the rail turned and he lit on top of the steer which took off with a beller of fright for the lowest limbs to brush the animal off its back. Grant dropped the baskets and hung on for dear life until they came to a low limb he could grab and dismount. Grandma Jones had to depend on just boys fro her livelihood. At this time her brothers and sisters left her, according to Geo Hawk, Aunt Eliza�s son. The Hill clan moved to Iowa in 1875. There was John, Alexander, Levi and Eliza with their families. Jackson Hill was either dead or divorced for his second wife, Mrs. Stacy (West) Hill married William Martin on February 23, 1871 in Miller County, MO. His children, Nancy Hill (Burrell) and John, (Wild John), by his first wife and Doc and Hannah Hill (Acton) by Stacey West, were all raised by relative. Grandma Betsy Jones tried to carry on as a benevolent widow for her son said, �I remember a case after my father died. A widow woman came to our house with three children. They were starving and had no work. She wanted to stay at our house until she could get work. A woman then might make 50 cents a day. The girls were ten, twelve and fifteen. The oldest girl and the mother stayed about a year until they got work. They only returned for visits but the other two stayed with us until they got married, one three years and the other, four years. After 1877 she must have moved from the farm. Father said, �We moved a lot after father died. we kept hearing about Kansas. It cost very little for land there. Billy, Virginia, Nancy and husband and my mother and me went to Cherokee County, Kansas just west of Joplin, Missouri. The land was cheap but there was no water and we had to haul our wood 18 or 20 miles. Billy said, �Lets go down into Arkansas.� There we found plenty of timber but awfully poor land.� Billy went away to haul a show for Diamond and King through Texas, a Punch and Judy show. Lucy Ann Messersmith and family went west from Kansas and Grandma Jones never heard from her again. She lost both Lucinda and Nancy from accidents. Lucinda had to have a foot cut off because of a foot infection, the same that had killed a younger daughter Eliza. Lucinda (note: this is supposed to be Nancy. -- SB) was supposed to have been around twenty when she died, that would have been soon after Lewis Jones� death. She was riding a horse carrying her small baby in her arms. When the hose shied she was thrown and dragged to her death. She was handicapped by the tiny baby in her arms and by having only one foot to balance in the stirrups. The baby was still alive when they found her for she had protected the child in her fall. The child was seeking nourishment from the dead mother�s breast. Nancy married Abner Hathaway on September 19,1878. She went to Kansas with them but except for the fact she was killed by a horse and left a little girl called Nancy Hathaway I know no facts. The fear, the loneliness and grief that were Grandma�s lot during those ten or fifteen years are hard to imagine. She was alone now except for Grant and Virginia, and she only had Virginia for a few more years. About the year 1882, when she was 14 years old, Virginia died. My mother always said, �Grandma was frantic for fear she would lose Grant too.� Grant said, �I was just a boy but I worked hard. sometimes I got as much as twenty five cents a day, more often I got paid a half a bushel of corn or a hog�s jowl or maybe a side of bacon. I worked four whole days and earned a bushel of wheat. It was hard work. It was hard sliding. It doesn�t hurt a feller to be poor it is only the disadvantages that come with it.� Uncle Billy did return from Texas but by the time Grandma Jones and her son Grant returned to Miller County Billy was married and soon left for Blue Rapids, Kansas. He went on from Kansas to Oregon. Grandma never saw her son William Lewis Jackson Jones again. From 1880 to 1885 Grandma Jones went where her son could get a job. Grant cut ties for the railroads, he helped raft logs down the river, he helped with harvesting here and there. They went to Joplin, Missouri for Grant to work in the lead mines but he refused when he saw the conditions of the miners. In 1885 when Grant Jones was 21 years old, Uncle Johnnie Hill came back to Miller County, Missouri on business. He was having trouble getting his pension payments from the Civil War. He found his sister Elizabeth there in Miller County. She was all alone except for her son Grant Jones, who was home between jobs. Uncle John Hill persuaded his sister Elizabeth Jones to go back with him to Decatur County, Iowa where she could be with her sisters, brothers and daughter Polly Ann. How she hated to go. The horror of her two years there was not forgotten but she and Grant went. They bought a little place down on the Little River Bottom for $350. There was a house of sorts on it, a little log cabin with one room below and one above. Grant worked hard to support his mother. He hewed ties for the railroad at 10 cents a tie. He cut cordwood at 45 cents a cord and worked on the railroad with his little span of mules and a slip scraper. Grandma Jones had 3 or 4 years of security but not much else. They made friends. Then her son, Grant, fell in love and married. Sarah P. Snethen Jones and Elizabeth Hill Hampton Jones had little in common. Sarah�s brother David Snethen liked Grant Jones as a companion but not as his sister�s husband. David told Sadie (Sarah), �Go down there and see how they live and see if you can live that way.� Sadie married Grant Jones and went to live with him and his mother Betsy in that miserable little log cabin. She found out that when she wanted to make cookies there was no sugar to make them and no money to buy sugar. Coffee was often pure hot water with no sugar or cream. It was Grandma Jones who rebelled at having another woman in her house so she married an old man by the name of Parker, much to her son�s disgust. He refused to recognize Parker�s status as his mother�s husband. Grandma Jones was at her sons home when she died. She was ill with malaria but died of severe gastritis according to her death certificate recorded May 11, 1893 at Leon, Iowa courthouse. Her name was listed as Mrs. Elizabeth Parker in the certificate. She knew her daughter-in-law was about to deliver a child that May so she called Sadie to her and blessed the child in the womb. To the last Grandma Jones was a pioneer woman, with the pioneers pride, self reliance and still believing in signs, spirits, lucky pieces and other kinds of fetishisms. Grandma Jones is buried in the Bethel Cemetery with other members of the Hill family. The Bethel Baptist Church is the oldest in Decatur County having been built in 1871. Grandma Jones stone reads: Elizabeth Hill Jones 1830-1893 Her tragedy filled life was ended. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~END~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~ Sherry Balow balowmsg@earthlink.net

Betsy Jones managed the spinning, weaving and sewing. Polly Ann, Lucinda and Nancy operated the spinning wheels. When Grant Jones was five years old he was allotted some work with the preparation of the cotton. His task was to pick the seeds out of a shoe full of cotton each night before going to bed. Summer clothing was also made out of the home spun cotton. If there was a surplus of cotton jean cloth it could be sold at the store. The price seemed to vary, probably depending on the quality. Here are some purchases by the store: 3 yards of jean $1.78; 8 yards of jeans $4.08; 6 yards of jeans$3.00 and 12 1/2 yards of jeans $6.12. The blankets for the beds were made from wool that was washed, cleaned, combed, carded, spun and woven at home. Comforters were made with cotton tops and bottoms filled with woolen bats for the winter and cotton bats for the summer. These quilts became an art form. Any cloth was valuable so every inch of good cloth that could not be used for something else was kept and good cloth rescued from worn out garments was kept to make crazy quilts, chair backs padding and cushions. Some of these quilts and covers were tied with yarns and others were highly decorated with embroidery stitches. Babies were breast fed by the mothers or by a wet nurse. The wet nurse usually had a baby the same age and had plenty of milk for two. It was usual that babies were breast fed a long time because it was thought that this provided a means of family planning. Many babies, Virginia among them, were not put on a schedule but were fed whenever they cried or showed they were hungry or cross. Nursing babies took a lot of time but this time could not be spared from waiting task so the knitting needles or spinning wheel were operated at the same time the baby was nursed. Some tasks were too clumsy or noisy like the operation of the loom for weaving. Knitting was less during the spring and summer for other work took the time. The children and women usually went barefooted. The men working in the woods cutting the railroad ties needed socks and shoes. The men and boys who did the farming and followed the plow on foot walked barefooted in the cool furrows. Because the method of cooking meat over the coals in the fireplace was very slow dinner must be started as soon as the beds were made. Meat in one iron pot and black eye peas in another. Polly Ann must pick the wild greens in the spring including dandelion, poke, dock, lambs quarter, wild lettuce and young plantain. Greens prevented scurvy and provided minerals and vitamins. There was also wild garlic, ramps and onions. Sometimes asparagus went wild too. Lucinda would skim the milk, make cheese from fresh clabber and churn the butter in the 4 to 5 gallon earthen ware churn fitted with wooden lid and dasher. The milk clabbered in 1,2,o r 3 days according to the weather. To make the butter churning easier one usually chanted in rhythm with the dasher: DOWN UP DOWN DOWN UP DOWN UP Come butter come Peter standing at the gate Come butter come Waiting for a butter cake Come butter come After the butter formed it had to be �worked� to remove the sour milk from the fat and then salted and molded. A good spring house helped keep butter firm enough to work the milk out. Nancy was called away to drop beans in the hill with the corn. The cornstalks acted like a pole upon which the beans could climb. Pumpkin were usually planted in the corn. Part of the day Grandma Jones worked on the cotton to get it ready for the girls to spin. She also spent some time sewing the clothes to be worn. Grant Jones and his brother Billy chuckled over the long tailed shirts they usually wore as boys. The shirts came about half way between the knee and ankle. It was fun to dare each other to lift the shirt and run through the nettle patch or sit on a hot rock. The dye was not always permanent and so they would come out of the shirts sporting a different color, bleu, brown, indigo or copper . On church days or when company came the shirts were taken off and replaced with a good pair of pants. Grant Jones� mother wore shirt waist and skirt that were worn in a loose Mother Hubbard fashion for work and in fancy Basque waist for dress. The men wore pants that were high under their arm pits. The men�s overcoats were made of linen and wool usually black wool and white linen spun together and called �Nits and Lice�. These overcoats had big capes sewed on next to the collar and covered the shoulders. Long frock coats were a part of their suit. Fancy occasions might call for a cut away. When noon came everything stopped to put the men�s meal on the table. That might consist of meat, beans, wild greens and cornbread. There was always cornbread. After the dishes were cleared the girls went back to spinning and weaving. Sometimes Grandma Betsy Jones would make soap. The old grease had been saved from cooking and to this was added tallow and suet. The hickory ashes had been saved from the fireplace. The ashes had been wetted down and placed in a big barrel with both ends out of it. The barrel was placed on a slanted board with a trough to catch the lye. Barrels were secured from the cooper or else a big hollow gum tree could be used. Some made crude hoppers of boards or logs and lined the bottom with straw, cornhusks or paper to keep the ashes in the hopper. Making the lye consisted of pouring water from the rain barrel onto the ashes. It took two or three gallons of water according to how much and how compact the ashes were. The grease and lye were put into the big black wash kettle. It is estimated that two pounds of grease was used for each gallon of lye water. A fire was kindles around the kettle and the stirring began. �You really have to boil it to make it thick. It�s just like Jelly.� If it isn�t cooked enough you get soft soap. Grandma Betsy Jones poured her soap into crockery container because tin containers would rust the soap. To make fancy soap it was necessary to strain the fat and lye and add spring leaves of ginger for perfume. Grant explained that there was always extra work for his mother and sisters besides their daily chores. In addition to the butter making, the cheese making and the soap making, there were the straw ticks to fill with clean bright straw at threshing time. Those newly filled straw ticks were delightful to all but especially to the children . When apples began to fall it was apple butter making time, beans to pick and dry or hominy to make, elderberries to preserve, nuts to pick up and other endless tasks. As the day drew to a close, the daily chores drew to an end, there was still the evening meal. Families had mush and milk or left over cold breads and milk. After supper when the loom and spinning wheels were stilled there were sock darning, pants patching, seed picking out of the cotton or the combing of the wool to choose. Although Judge Jenkins, from Miller County court house records, documents many hardship cases following the Civil War, father�s story does not indicate that the Jones family suffered such hardships.. He said, �From the description of all the food we had to eat you may wonder what we did with it. My father was a kind hearted man and he gave to the poor and the needy as long as he lived.� The only hard times he mentioned were when the river flooded. Then the hogs were fattened on mast, hickory nuts acorns and wild black walnuts. They also rooted up wild artichokes. They got fat on such forage. Grant also mentioned that he tried to tie boards to his feet so he could walk on the flinty, rocky land, not because he didn�t have shoes but because children and women went barefooted. Anyone trying to walk barefoot in the creeks of southern Missouri knows what he meant. The flinty rocks can cut through automobile tires. His shoes had thick soles filled with tacks to protect the leather against the rock. In the land records of Miller County on December 6, 1872 Lewis Jones and wife placed their mortgage on their farm for $650.00 with 10% interest. Part of the record reads as follows: Said Lewis Joes and wife promises to pay $650.00 plus interest to W. C. Brumley. If the interest is not paid annually it is to become a part of the principal and be assessed at the same rate of interest. Filed January 21, 1873.� Grant Jones thought his father, Lewis, died in early February 1874 of pneumonia. In 1875 Elizabeth Jones� name appears on all business papers alone. --continued, Part 7 Sherry Balow balowmsg@earthlink.net

After May 10, 1861 Miller County, Missouri was a crossroads for the State Guard troops reporting to Jefferson City. These men were Confederates and lived off the land. The known Union sympathizers suffered most by losing cattle, crops and other items needed by the State Guard and often items that the troops could not use. The first Union Home Guard Companies were organized primarily to protect inhabitants from the Confederate Home Guard. Complaints filed in the court house include; Callaway Wyrich lost a mule and several cattle that were shot and killed. Robert Reed lost a gelding and a horse that were stolen. J. C. Casey lost a black sow and a boar. Levi Whittle lost a number of swine to armed men. W. Ponder lost a sorrel mare, a bay horse, his gray mare and a gelding, a good blanket, his rifle, household utensils and other items from his cabin. Wm. S. Irvin lost a wagon, two mares, harness and bridles, 160 bushels of corn and a saddle and rifle. John Williams lost a rifle, four lasso roped, a saddle, four horse bridles and one mule bridle. August 26, 1861 was high tide for the Confederacy. Secession Companies spread all over Missouri like prairie fires in a high wind. Headlines: Secession Companies Rip Miller County Apart. In the space of a few days many men from Miller and Cole Counties took horses with them and hastened to join General Sterling Price on his march from Springfield to Liberty, Missouri but there is another picture described by Uncle Jimmie Miller. He watched his mother�s and grandmothers agony as they stood in the Simpson yard listening to the big guns booming down at Jefferson City for they knew that their son and brother was in that fight. While they stood helplessly wringing their hands at every boom of the cannon and expecting the worst, a very large sized panther jumped the rail fence into the front yard, raised his front paws upon a large tree, yawned lazily and sharpened his claws in the bark. Who was the beast of prey, man or panther? Miller County, Missouri did not suffer too much from �Ol� Pappy Price�s� army because it operated mostly in the Western part of the state, nor from the Union State Guard under Captain Jacob Capps, Captain Daniel Rice or Colonel Emly Golden for these Union leaders were local men and their armies had some discipline. The Confederate Guerillas and Bushwhackers of Miller County, who were really gangs of criminals terrorizing the citizens, operated uncontrolled in the area. Mothers dealing with disobedient children scared them into obedience not by saying, �The devil will get you�, but by saying, �Crabtree is coming.� The Confederate Guerilla General Crabtree and his men became the most hated and feared men in Missouri. It is said that Crabtree killed more people, burned more buildings, stole and destroyed more property than any other man in Miller County before or since the Civil War. Crabtree was finally killed on August 30, 1864. Horse stealing on the frontier was still considered the worst of crimes. When Squire HUGH GARTIN found his horse in the possession of Mr. Shumate, one of Crabtree�s men, he brought charges in court. The gang had made the caves on Wet Bottom of Big Tavern Creek their headquarters. They could not be dislodged. In Court Mark Jones (note: Elizabeth Hill�s step-son -- SB) informed the justices that he was with Crabtree on August 18. Crossing the river the same day somewhere near the Wet Bottom of the Big Tavern he had seen Mr. Shumate with Crabtree. First he had seen the horse at about the same time they were crossing the river. Mr. Shumate was riding Mr. Gartin�s horse with which Mark Jones was well acquainted having known the horse for three years and Mr. Shumate held possession of the horse for two more days. Two days later Mark Jones had seen Milton Stepp in the Crabtree Company. John Bond testified, �I intercepted Crabtree at James Smith�s place in Cole County. I joined Crabtree of my own free will and accord. I went with Crabtree to Thomasville taking recruits for the South. The day before I left home I saw Shumate and he had no horse then. I know Mr. Gartin�s horse. I saw him in Crabtree�s Command. The first man I saw in possession of the horse was Crabtree.� (note: HUGH & RACHEL GARTIN were the grandparents of Stacy West Hill, wife of Jackson Hill. --SB) This was 1862 but when Crabtree�s men were caught in August 1864 Mark Jones name was not on Crabtree�s list. The Kansas City Daily Journal of Commerce dated July 2, 1864 reads, �Guerilla Outrages in Miller County -- A few days ago the town of Tuscumbia, Miller County, Missouri was visited by a band of Guerillas who held it until they had robbed the stores of nearly all the goods and valuables they contained. After accomplishing the objective, they retired without molestation. We understand that none of the inhabitants were killed.� Neighbors were afraid to help neighbors for fear of Crabtree revenge. Crabtree captured 12 Union men. He let five go but lined the other seven up and shot them. One did not die. On John P. Starlings tombstone is the inscription, �Murdered by Bushwhackers in 1864.� Finally in September 1864, the very month in which Ulysses Grant Jones was born, the Union Militia subdued the Confederate leaders and Southern sympathizers in Miller County with savage ferocity. Military service ended in January 1865 but angry defeated rebels took revenge by burning the barns, fields and homes of their Union neighbors as they returned home. One thousand men from Miller County took part in the Civil War. Seven hundred served the Union and Three hundred served the Confederacy. What happened to Grandma Betsy�s family during this period? The Hill family was a clannish group. They seemed to move as a group and each member of the family was ready to help out other members. Elizabeth�s father, John Hill, must have died during this period because Polly Kizzire Hill�s name appears alone with her children in the 1870 census. Elizabeth�s brother, John A., had married Pauline (Polly) Burrell and she had three children, FRANK, LEWIS AND LUCY J. HILL. John�s wife died soon after Lucy�s birth. Elizabeth�s brother JACKSON HILL had married LEVI HAMPTON�s sister (*Mary) around 1856 and they had two children. Nancy was born in1857 and Johnnie (Wild John) born in1858. Jackson�s wife died and the children were raised by relatives. JOHN HILL (*Wild John, age 12) was with Lewis and Betsy Jones in the 1870 Census and Nancy (*age 13) was with her grandmother, Polly (*Kizzire) Hill (note: Alex & Jemima/Zemineah/Levi also living with Polly in this census. --SB) JACKSON HILL�s second marriage was to STACY WEST, daughter of WILLIAM & SUSAN WEST. (note: Susan (Brazier) West was William�s second wife, stepmother to Stacy. Stacy�s mother was VINA GARTIN, b. 1812 in VA; m. 3/Nov/1834 in Miller Co., MO; d. May, 1846 in MO--SB) Elizabeth�s brother WILLIAM survived the Civil War but took the red measles after he was home and died. Elizabeth�s step-daughter, LUCY ANN JONES married WILLIAM BURRELL. The fate of William Burrell has not been determined but later Grant Jones said that Lucy Ann Jones had married a man by the name of MESSERSMITH and had gone West with him. Grant Jones knew Lucy Ann Jones very well and had a deep affection for her. Mary Ann�s sister, (*Lucy Ann?), MARGARET JONES, who had married JAMES ROARK, was just a name to him. Margaret and her husband James Roark had evidently gone to Colorado earlier. Elizabeth�s sister, ELIZA HILL, married ROBERT HAWK, a hero of the Civil War who marched with Sherman through Georgia from Atlanta to the sea, who had many stories to tell of his experiences. After Lewis and Elizabeth Jones had moved from the Wells Farm to the Berry Farm their little daughter (*Eliza) died of a foot infection. She was never counted in the census since she was only eight years old. Elizabeth�s sister, MARY HILL, had married JAMES HAMILTON. Grandma Betsy Jones was named as �Housekeeper� in the U. S. Census, Her son Grant Jones described their house; �It was a double log house. Each room measured 16 feet by 24 feet. A separate log house was a kitchen and it had a small bedroom off the side of it. Kitchens in the south were usually outside the main house because the use of fireplaces for cooking and other tasks caused many fires. The house was all of logs instead of lumber. The logs were hewed flat on two sides. The cracks were chinked up with little blocks of wood about a foot long. These plastered up with clay. Most of the houses then were made of round logs but hewed log had a flat surface inside and out. These houses were more easily covered with siding when time permitted and the inside could be finished with wainscoting, paneling or plaster and paper. The floors were made of lumber sawed out of oak or hard maple trees. These boards were rough on both sides and were not tongued and grooved but were laid very close together.� His mother and sisters had to scrub these floors for cleanliness and the cleaner was lye water or water with soft soap made from wood lye. Corn cobs were used in place of brushes to scrub the floors. Scouring with sand and wear often made the floors smooth. Cooking took much of the women�s time and Grant Jones described cooking for me: �We had a large fireplace and chimney made of stones and a very wide stone hearth in the kitchen. There were two trammels made of iron which fastened in the wall of the fireplace. The trammels held the big iron pots used for cooking. The bar was hung so it could be swing in or out of the fire. If the fire got too hot, or if something needed only to be kept warm the heat could be adjusted by swinging the pot away from the fire. The big iron pots were used for making stews, soups, boiled meat and vegetables and for heating large quantities of water. Bread was baked in dutch ovens. This was one of the most useful cooking utensils. It was a round iron pot with a handle and an iron lid that had a half inch lip all around the edge. It was often called �Old Bread Oven�. Live coals were pulled from the fire onto the hearth and the oven placed in the coals. One must be careful that the coals under the oven were not too hot. Sometimes three short legs held the pot above the hearth. The iron lid could be hotter than the bottom since the food was not in direct contact with the lid. When the lid was covered with live coals the lip kept the coals from tumbling off. The oven was preheated and then carefully greased with a piece of pork rind . The sides and bottom inside were sprinkled with corn meal to prevent sticking foods. The oven was then ready for baking and corn bread or johnny cake could be poured in or biscuits placed in the over. Other uses include baking potatoes, cakes, cooking meats and heating stews. Sometimes our meat, including fish, sausage, bacon or ham, was fried in skillets over coals on the hearth. Some foods such as potatoes, corn, onions and nuts were baked in hot ashes.� �There was a cold spring house for milk and butter, a smoke house for cured meats and a back yard pool for keeping fish alive. The pool was fed by a spring and it was about 20 feet long, 12 feet wide, and around 6 or 8 feet deep. I remember seeing as many as 10 or 12 catfish in there at one time. These fish weighed from ten to fifty pounds a piece. They were fed on corn and were only taken out when it was time to eat them. The fish were caught on trot lines in the river and stored in the pool for future use.� �The rafters of the kitchen were used for storage. Dried fruits and vegetables such as green beans, navy beans, lentils, corn and peppers were hung there and also apples, peaches, pears and berries.� �Nearly everyone bleached fruit using burning sulphur as a preservative. To bleach fruit fill a 10 gallon tub with sliced apples then put two tablespoons of sulphur in a saucer and strike a match setting the sulphur on fire. Cover the tub with the burning sulphur and apples with a cloth and let it stay all day. At night take the sulphur out. Repeat the sulphur treatment for three days. Transfer the apples to a large jar and tie a clean cloth over the top of the jar. The apples could be eaten anytime without further preservation.� �Vegetables were also preserved by burying them in the ground. To preserve cabbage dig a shallow circular trench on a gently sloped plot of ground. The diameter of the trench will depend on the number of cabbage heads one plans to preserve. Dig a drainage ditch leading down hill away from the circular trench. Throw some of the dirt from the trench into the center of the circular trench and pat into the shape of a low mound. Cover the mound with straw. Pull up cabbages roots and all. Place the cabbages in the trench on the circular mound so that the root of each is covered by the head of another. Cover the circular trench with straw and dirt. The dirt had to be deep enough to prevent the cabbage from freezing. Since the temperature was relative mild the straw hole could be opened from time to time to remove the cabbage. The same method could be used for potatoes, turnips, apples and some other fruits.� The pattern of the meals was described by Grant Jones. �Our breakfast were always fried ham and eggs or bacon and eggs with hot biscuits, butter, maple syrup or molasses and fruit of some kind. When buckwheat cakes were served instead of biscuits we might have some homemade cured sausage. The morning drink was coffee for the grown ups and the youngsters had spice tea or sassafras from the bark of the tree that grew wild in the woods. Sassafras and spice tea were said to clean the blood and was said to be a health tonic. Our dinners, I suppose, were boiled meat, beans or potatoes, sometimes turnips, cabbages or wild greens. The bread was always made from corn. Suppers were nearly always much and milk or bread and milk.� Can you imagine spending a day with Grandma Betsy Jones back in 1868? Her alarm clock in the morning was the sunrise. Since the men wanted to go to the woods or fields early, breakfast always came first. The fires had been banked at night to hold the live coals for starting the fire in the morning. If the fire went out the children must be sent to a neighbor to bring live coals home on a shovel. If this wasn�t possible only the use of a flint and steel or perhaps later matches were available. Both these methods would be slower and delay the breakfast. A hot bed of coals was needed for biscuits to be cooked in the dutch oven and also for heat for the skillet to cook meat. After the breakfast there were cows to milk and the poultry to care for. The money crop in the poultry line was the flock of geese, 100 strong, kept for it�s feathers. Feathers for feather beds, pillows and feather comforters were secured from the flock of geese. Surplus feathers could be sold to Branham and Short�s store for money. Store records reveal the following purchases; Bond for feathers-$14, Dickerson 6 pounds of feathers $2.40 and Bilyeu 6 1/2 pounds of feathers $2.40. Grant Jones remembered that the feathers brought 50 cents a pound. The beds were straw ticks made usually of rye straw and also feather beds from the geese. The bed steads were 3 1/2 to 4 feet from the floor. There were no springs or slats but rope cords were fastened with wooden pins along the rails and drawn tight. At house cleaning the ropes were removed and boiled and washed and then put back on the bed. Sometimes the rails had holes bored for the ropes rather than pins. Sometimes the headboards also had holes and the rope was weaved back and forth about 4 inches apart. The children had trundle beds that were pushed under the big beds to get them out of the way during the day. The beds had six foot high posts which were used to hang mosquito netting curtains to protect the sleeper from malaria carried by mosquitoes. Sometimes the trundle beds were left under the big beds to provide the children with protection from mosquitoes. Those beds were difficult to make. It was necessary to stir the straw which tended to pack down. The feather ticks were lighter and could be shaken for the same purpose. If the bed looked lumpy it was smoothed with the handle of a abroom. The sheets were usually made of home spun cotton that was prepared by the women. Bleaching was accomplished by spreading them on the ground to receive the dew during the night. --continued in Part 6 Sherry Balow balowmsg@earthlink.net

Chas. Wells was a close business associate of Lewis Jones back in Western Virginia Territory and had purchased 700 acres of land along the Osage River in Missouri around 1842. Chas Wells was the owner of a fleet of boats on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. His boat captains purchased food from the Jones smoke and storehouse at the Thomas Jones Farm on the Ohio River near Sisterville, Western Virginia Territory. After Thomas Jones� death, Lewis Jones operated the smoke and storehouse. Following financial losses caused by the 1857 panic Lewis Jones moved to Missouri and found that Chas Wells was leasing his Missouri land. I have not determined what Lewis Jones� part in the Wells land development was. If he had the usual lease arrangement as described to my husband by Colonel William Wells he would have had a three year lease which required Lewis Jones to clear the land and fence the cleared land. During the first 3-year lease he would have received all the income from the timber he could cut and sell. During the second 3-year lease he would be required to divide the income and give one-half to Chas Wells as the owners share. Since this was the period of the railroad expansion most of this cut timber was made into railroad ties. Logs were also rafted down the river as far as New Orleans. (note: this association might provide clues to who the family of second husband of STACY WEST was. After Jackson Hill died she was remarried, in Missouri, to William Martin, said to have been �a riverboat captain� or �worker�. They had at least 2 children. -- SB) Regardless of how the two met we find the marriage certificate of Lewis Jones and Elizabeth Hampton on file in the Miller County Courthouse at Tuscumbia, Missouri. The record is as follows: �I hereby certify that I, Levi W. Albertson, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Miller in the State of Missouri, did solemnize the rites of Matrimony between Lewis Jones and Elizabeth Hampton of the said County of Miller on the 17th day of April A.D, 1859, Levi W. Albertson J.P. Filed 27th of May 1859. E. B. Farley, Clerk By W. M. Lampkin, D.C.� The family of Lewis Jones and Elizabeth Hill Hampton Jones remained on the Wells Farm for the next six years at least; both working hard to earn toward a home of their own. Soon after Elizabeth married Lewis her older step-daughters married and left home. On August 20, 1859 Margaret Jones 19 years of age married James Roark. On October 7, 1860 Lucy Ann Jones age 16 years married William Burrell. Grandma Jones, Betsy, had found security at last. Her new husband was educated, had business experience, was known for his benevolence toward his neighbors and his home was run in a systematic and well organized fashion. Lewis was older than her own father but he was �looked up to� and admired by her brothers. Her brother, John A. Hill, named his second son Lewis Jones Hill in honor of Lewis Jones. Grant Jones, my father, recalls that the men folks, relatives and friends, would be sitting under the large hickory tree in the yard listening to Lewis Jones tell of things he�d read and experiences he�d had. One story was well remembered by my father. Some man in Cincinnati, Ohio had written a so-called vision where men flew through the air like birds and traveled under the sea like fish. (note: perhaps this was in reference to Jules Verne books. --SB) Grant Jones said, �I can hear my father telling the men about this yet, and think, I�ve really lived to see these prophecies come true.� On March 17, 1860 a son was born to Lewis and Betsy Jones. They named him William Lewis Jackson Jones. Since it was customary to name the first son for the grandparents, the new baby, Uncle Billy to me, very likely carried Betsy�s grandparents name. He was named William for her grandfather, WILLIAM HILL, and Jackson for JACKSON KIZZIRE of Tennessee who I assume to be Betsy�s grandfather on her mother�s side and Lewis for LEWIS JONES, Betsy�s husband. Uncle Billy carried the Lewis for family identification and signed his cards W. L. Jones. The name Jackson was almost never used by him. Betsy had already named a son John for her father JOHN HILL and a daughter Polly Ann for her mother POLLY KIZZIRE HILL. Grant Jones, my father, wrote, �When I was three years old my father bought a farm on the Osage River down near St. Elizabeth or down about two miles from Capps Landing on the same side of the river. He owned 311 acres of land but only 100 acres was on the river bottom. The rest of the farm was woodsy and rough.� The deed is recorded in Tuscumbia Courthouse on June 9, 1869 and is dated May 9, 1869. The 1870 U.S. Census records taken on July 19, 1870 Osage Township, Miller County, Missouri gives the following record: Lewis Jones Age 68 M White Farmer Born in Virginia Estate $2000 Elizabeth Jones Age 38 F White HouseKeep Born in Indiana Lewis B. Jones Age 21 M White Farmhand Born in Virginia (b.1849) Calvin R. Jones Age 17 M White At School Born in Virginia (b.1853) Polly Ann Hampton 18 F White Living w/Jones Born in Missouri (b.1852) Lucinda Hampton 16 F White Living w/Jones Born in Missouri *died pre-1878 Nancy Hampton 13 F White Living w/Jones Born in Iowa *later married Abner Hathaway died pre-1878 fall from horse. 1 dau William Jones Age 11 M White At home Born in Missouri (b.1860) Ulysses G. Jones 5 M White At home Born in Missouri (b.1865) John Hill Age 12 M White Farmhand Born in Missouri *son of Jackson & Mary Hill The John Hill shown here is evidently Jackson Hill�s son who was later know as Wild John. (note: he married Emaline Burrell, dau of Geo and Minta (Kizzire) Burrell -- SB) In the same county on page 258 we find Elizabeth Hill Hampton Jones brother as follows: John A. Hill Age 30 M White Farmer Born in Indiana Estate $200 Frank Hill Age 11 M White At home Born in Missouri (b.1859) Lewis J. Hill Age 9 M White At home Born in Missouri (b.1861) Lucy Z. Hill Age 5 F White At home Born in Missouri (b.1865) William P. Hill Age 17 M White Farmhand Born in Kentucky (b.1853) Elizabeth Hill Hampton Jones� mother was also in Miller County, Missouri for the 1870 census. The record follows: (note: John C. Hill had died by this time.--SB) Polly (Kizzire) Hill 53 F White Widow lady Born in Kentucky Alex Hill 18 M White Farmhand Born in Missouri Zemineah ** Hill 16 M** White At home Born in Missouri (b. 1854) Nancy Hill 14 F White At home Born in Missouri *dau of Jackson & Mary Hill (**note: confusion about this child who has been listed as �Levi�, �Zemineah� and �Jemimah/Jemima�. It is unclear if Male or Female though Hazel Uthoff provides for male. This person is also thought to be a child of Jackson & Mary Hill, though Hazel Uthoff previously, perhaps erroneously, listed as a 10th child of John & Polly, after providing that eldest daughter, Elizabeth, was �one of nine children�. --SB) This last Nancy must have been a granddaughter, Zemineah�s first name was Levi. Polly�s age as computed from other census records should have been 57 years. Although the deed to the Lewis and Elizabeth Jones farm is dated May 9, 1869, it is very probable that the Jones family moved to the Sterling H. Berry farm in 1866 or the spring of 1867 because the owner of the Wells Farm, Chas Wells, came to Miller County, Missouri after the Civil War in 1866. He had lost his fleet of boats during the Civil War and his Missouri farm was the best prospect for regaining his fortune. Chas Wells was a slave owner and a southern sympathizer and used his river boats to further the cause of the Confederacy. When the Union Navy captured Mobile, Alabama, Chas Wells� boats were there and were confiscated. Shortly after arriving in Miller County, Missouri he purchased additional steamboats which now hauled freight on the Osage and Missouri Rivers. As they had on the Ohio, the captains of the steamboats on the Osage stopped at the Jones farm for meat and other products of the farm. In visiting the Chas Wells Farm in June of 1971 my husband talked with Colonel William Wells, Air Force Retired, and a grandson of Chas Wells. The farm had been sold at that time and the new owners had already moved in but Colonel Wells was there to move out any remaining personal property not included in the sale. He pointed out the foundation of the original house on the property, the spring house that was used for fresh water in the original house, the original location of the present farm house with the fountain curb still in place and one of the original log cabins that had served through the years, first as a home and later as a barn. He recalled for us some of his experiences as a boy while living with his father, Joshua Russell Wells, who had inherited the land and the steamboats from Chas Wells. Colonel Wells told how as a boy of 7or 8 his father would permit him to take trips with the steamboats. As the steamboat passed the Wells Farm his father would hand him up to the deck and he would ride the boat to its destination and return to the farm when the boat make a return trip in a week or so. Wells found real trouble when he returned to Miller County, Missouri and established his steamboat business. Although the Civil War had ended in the spring of 1865 a decade of violence would follow. Judge Jenkins of Tuscumbia, Missouri wrote of Miller County, �The fatal and ruinous warfare continued some years longer. It seemed as if the people, having become accustomed to fighting, did not know how to leave off.� Chas Wells brought his servants, former Negro slaves, but they soon disappeared becoming victims of the murderous element or of the element determined to frighten away all black people who attempted to settle in Miller County, Missouri. The blacks working on the steamboats were not permitted to enter Miller County, according to Colonel William Wells, and so were unloaded in a more friendly area on the way up the river and rejoined the steamboat again as it returned down the river. Grant Jones was unable to remember how profitable the smoke-house business was for Lewis Jones in Missouri but he left us a good account of the butchering. He said, �When I was a little boy my father had a farm down on the Osage River, right in the bend of the river. We cured meat. We ordinarily butchered forty or fifty head of hogs each year. We sugar cured the hams, shoulders and sides and sold the cured meat in town or to the men on the river boats. Sometimes we took meat to the larger towns like Jefferson City and St. Louis because cured meat brought more money than hogs on the hoof. The side meat sold for 7 cents a pound and the hams for 10 cents a pound. In those days there were plenty of deer so after they had butchered the hogs my brothers Lou and Cal and sometimes my father would go into the woods and kill as many as ten to twelve deer. They always had a stall fed steer that butchered out 1,000 or 1,200 pounds of beef. The hind quarters of the deer, the hind quarters of the beef and the sausage meat of the hogs were all ground together and seasoned with salt, pepper and brown sugar. To some of the sausage they added sage and other spices. This sausage was tied up in corn husks and cured. The corn husks had the ear and silk removed. The sausage rolls were put in the clean liner husks and the ends of the husks were tied tight. This kept all the dirt out.� The smoke-house must have been more profitable than shipping hogs to St. Louis because Grant Jones mentioned that a shipment of hogs sent to St. Louis did not pay the freight bill. Grandma Betsy Jones� life was not to be the secure and serene life she had anticipated when she married Lewis Jones, for the Civil War was fought viciously all over Miller County, Missouri during the years they lived on the Chas Wells Farm. Her life was normal in that she gave birth to four children during this time. WILLIAM LEWIS JACKSON JONES on March 17, 1860, ELIZA JONES in 1862, and ULYSSES GRANT JONES, my father, on September 3, 1864 the day Sherman marched into Atlanta, Georgia, VIRGINIA JONES in 1867. Her life was normal in the tasks that were labeled women�s work must be done; that is, cooking, gardening, milking, poultry raising, spinning, weaving, knitting and sewing of clothing for the family. Grant Jones never told stories about the Civil War in Miller County, Missouri. He was too young to remember but he did say that he had two brothers on each side but only Mark Jones has been identified with Confederacy leaning. Grant Jones did remember that his father, known in Miller County as �Uncle Lewis�, gave aid to his neighbors after the Civil War. Judge Jenkins wrote, �To add to the distresses which Miller County suffered from the conduct of soldiers, militiamen, confederates, and bushwhackers, there occurred a most grievous famine. Many people in the county were almost destitute in regard to the necessities of life. All able bodied men, subject to military duty, gone from their homes in 1864, made it utterly impossible for many citizens to raise corn or even a garden. The winter of 1864-65 was cold, snowy and miserable.� Betsy Hill (Hampton) Jones was very emotionally involved in the Civil War because her three young brothers, JACKSON, JOHN and WILLIAM HILL fought for the Union. Her step-son, MARK JONES, was associated with the cause of the confederacy. ROBERT HAWK, the man her sister ELIZA was to marry, with others from Miller County, Missouri, marched with Sherman through Georgia. The war between the states had been brewing for a long time but had been held in check by such leaders as Andrew Jackson and his close friends Sam Houston and James Polk who, although southerners, firmly declared that the Union must be preserved at all costs. By 1860 the radicals of both the North and South were in command and the age of reason had passed. In Miller County, Missouri it is recorded that Phillip Robinson of Glaze Township cast the first Republican vote in Miller County and nearly lost his life as a result. By November of that year, 1860, the presidential election records in the court house show that Breckenbridge, Southern Democrat received 495 votes; Bell, Constitutional Union, 193 votes; Douglas, Northern Democrat, 94 votes; Lincoln, Republican, 23 votes. Lincoln was elected and on March 4, 1861 in his inaugural address on the steps of the Nation�s Capitol said, �In your hands, my dissatisfied countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of Civil War. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy this government; while I have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.� Huge mass meetings were held in Miller County and often rough and tumble fighting broke out between participants. Judge Jenkins reports on one meeting, �Before the meeting could get started a fight broke between C. Wolf and W. B. Mansell. They commenced slashing at each other with cat-o-nine whips, the leather thongs cracking like a discharged bullet, then fists, rocks, whip handles and knives came into play.� The meeting was dismissed. April 13, 1861the Confederacy took the offensive and Fort Sumter fell. True to his oath and the promise contained in his inaugural address, President Lincoln issued a call on April 15, 1861 for 75,000 troops to preserve the Union. Governor Jackson was determined to take Missouri out of the Union. Captain Lyons, United States Army Commanding Officer of Camp Jackson Arsenal, remained loyal to Lincoln and began enrolling troops from St. Louis and surrounding area that were loyal to the Union. On May 10, 1861 Captain Lyons with 5,000 or 6,000 troops, made up mostly of German emigrants from St. Louis but with a few regular army troops, attacked the State Guard Troops loyal to Governor Jackson and captured them. The Union forces were now in command of the Camp Jackson Arsenal. The battle lines in Missouri were drawn. The Union cause was let by Francis Preston Blair Jr. and the Confederacy by the soon to be ex-governor Claiborne Fox Jackson. Each leader had his own Brigadier General. Nathaniel Lyons for the Union Forces under Blair and Sterling Price �Ol� Pappy Price� for the Confederacy Force under Jackson. In Miller County, Missouri, when the news of the fall of Fort Sumter reached Tuscumbia a few joyous citizens hoisted a rebel flag on top of a tall tree near Atkinson�s store and on the leeward of the ferry landing but the Stars and Stripes continued flying on the right side of the landing. Since the State Guard Companies in Miller County, Missouri, were �Secesh�, people upholding the Union were told either to join-up or leave the county. Since the troops in St. Louis were German emigrants, hatred increased against the minorities. The order was given by the Iberia Home Guard to hang or shoot all eastern people or Pennsylvanians who refused to take the oath of allegiance to the Confederacy. Many refused to take the oath and fled for their lives. The later part of June 1861 most of the State Guard Companies in sympathy with the Confederacy left Miller County and joined the new resigned Governor Jackson and Sterling Price in Southwest Missouri. This move of the State Guards was almost a fatal one for the cause of the Confederacy in Miller County. The Union Forces rallied to oppose the Confederacy. Reverend Jacob Capps, Baptist Minister from Capps Landing, one of the chief Union agitators joined forces with the Osage Valley Regiment to the South of Capps Landing and the Cole County Regiment to the North and the local war was in full force. These men armed only with knives, pitchforks, muzzle loading rifles, shotguns, pistols and rocks proceeded to round up ex-governor Jackson�s powder and shot that had been hidden in houses, barns, cellars and caves in Miller County. Then Colonel Emly Golden�s forces secured the south side of the county and Captain Jacob Capps forces with Captain Daniel Rice�s County Cavalry secured the north side of the county. The Golden and Capps Forces moved upon the courthouse at Tuscumbia and after a minor skirmish took tremendous quantities of the powder which had been stored n the courthouse secretly by E. B. Farley, County Clerk. --continued in Part 5 Sherry Balow balowmsg@earthlink.net

From the U.S. Census of 1850, 1860 and 1870 we can reconstruct the family of John and Polly Hill as follows: John C. Hill Born 1809 in North Carolina Polly Kizzire Hill Born 1813 in Kentucky Elizabeth Hill Born 1832 in Indiana Jackson Hill Born 1834 in Indiana Nancy Hill Born 1836 in Indiana John A. Hill Born 1838 in Indiana William Hill Born 1840 in Indiana Mary Hill Born 1842 in Indiana Mathey Hill Born 1845 in Indiana Not on the 1850 census Eliza Hill Born 1849 in Indiana Alexander Hill Born 1852 in Missouri Levi Hill Born 1855 in Missouri (note: Listed as �Zemiah� and �Jemima--unknown but likely child of Jackson & Mary�s.--SB) Mary Hill, age 60 (note: step mother of John C., widow of William Hill -- SB) was listed in the 1860 census as living with the John Hill family. Mathey Hill was also listed as living with the John Hill family in the 1860 census but since she was not listed with the family in the 1850 census there is a question about her relationship. She could be a daughter of John Hill or perhaps a half sister. Mathey does fit in the family age group chronologically. There was also a Nancy Hill in the 1870 census reported as living with Polly Hill but I have omitted her from the John C. Hill family because I believe this Nancy Hill was Jackson Hill�s daughter and therefore a granddaughter of John C. Hill. (note: the 1870 Osage census lists Polly Hill as a widow with her son, Alex Hill -- age 18 and her (assumed) grandchildren, the children of Jackson and Mary Hill, Jemima--age 16 and Nancy--age 14. -- SB) Elizabeth Hill (Hampton) Jones� maternal grandparents have been a bit harder to trace for women lose their family name and identity when they marry. If Raymond Bell is correct in his statement that 95% of the time the first four children carry the names of their grandparents, we should be looking for the names of JACKSON and ELIZABETH KIZZIRE in Kentucky. Kizzire families are listed in two counties of Kentucky Indexes but I have not found micro-film for these counties that is readable. I have only found out who they are not. (note: Jackson Kizzire has been documented. Is likely the brother of William Kizzire, Polly Acton�s husband. -- SB) There has been a bit of confusion over the relationship of Polly Kizzire Hill and Polly Acton Kizzire. Because my father, Grant Jones, used to say to towheaded children, �Your hair is just as black as Ol� Granny Kizzire�s�, I had assumed she was his grandmother and spent much time assembling her records only to find that my father�s grandmother Polly Kizzire was not a member of Ol� Granny Kizzire�s family but of Ol� Granny Kizzire�s husband�s brothers family. It seems that father must have spoken of Ol� Granny Kizzire not as his grandmother but as a term of affection. Ol� Granny Kizzire whose maiden name was Polly Acton had married William Kizzire in Kentucky in 1812 and later moved to Indiana with her husband. They had three daughters Hanner, Minta and Margaret. William Kizzire died leaving Polly and the three daughters. Polly Acton Kizzire did not remarry but lived the rest of her life with her daughters. Her daughter Margaret died at the age of twelve years. Among the first settlers in Decatur County, Hamilton Township, Iowa in 1840 are listed these familiar names: ASA BURRELL, WILLIAM HAMILTON, WILLIAM ACTON, COLE SEYMOUR AND AARON and MOSES TURPIN. Many of these people thought they were settling in Northern Missouri. HAMPTONS, HILLS, KIZZIRES and others inter-married with this group. In 1842 Geo Burrell married Polly�s daughter Hannah, (Hanner) Kizzire and Polly, �Ol�Granny� and Minta her unmarried daughter lived with Geo and Hannah. The family came to Decatur County,Iowa in 1843. Hannah died in January of 1862 and is buried in the Burrell Cemetery located one mile North of Leon. Geo. Burrell then married Polly�s unmarried daughter, Minta Kizzire, in 1864. Polly Acton Kizzire, �Ol� Granny Kizzire�, continued to live in the Geo Burrell home. She moved with them when they tried Missouri and later Kansas. Minta Kizzire Burrell died on April 21, 1886 and her husband Geo Burrell died in Jan. 1904. Polly Acton Kizzire, �Ol� Granny Kizzire� died on March 3, 1895 at the age of 104 years, 10 months and 22 days. Descendants of Geo Burrell say that we are �Shirt-tail� relation; that is, in-laws and related only through marriage. This claim is through the marriage of Emaline Burrell, daughter of Geo and Minta Burrell, first to Johnnie �Wild John� Hill and later to our uncle Alex Hill. (note: Johnnie is the son of Jackson and Mary (Hampton) Hill. Alex is Jackson Hill�s brother. -- SB) It also seems likely that Ol� Granny Kizzire�s husband, William Kizzire, was an uncle of Polly Kizzire Hill who was the mother of Elizabeth Hill (Hampton) Jones and the grandmother of my father Grant Jones . (note: This is true for Jackson Hill. William and Polly (Acton) Kizzire were then his grandaunt and granduncle, aunt and uncle to his mother, Polly Kizzire Hill. Jackson Hill�s daughter, Hannah Hill, married George Macy Acton whose relationship to Polly (Acton) Kizzire is being researched. Hannah Hill Acton is my great grandmother. --SB) Elizabeth Hill also known as Betsy is not listed in the census records of the John C. Hill family for she had married Levi Hampton. I have been unable to determine whether the marriage took place in Indiana or in Missouri. The marriage record has not been found. From other records I have found it seems most likely that they were married in Missouri and in Osage County. I have not looked in Osage County, Missouri but hope to do so the next time I am in Missouri. (note: the Maries Co. courthouse burned in 1868, all records destroyed. -- SB) My father, Grant Jones, thought his mother, Elizabeth Hill Hampton, moved to Decatur County, Iowa around 1848. The place of birth listed in the census for the children seems to indicate that the year the family moved was 1857 since Nancy Hampton was born in Iowa in 1857. This date also corresponds to the period of migration into Decatur County, Iowa which occurred between 1854 and 1860. The 1854 census shows 3,026 inhabitants in 10 township and the 1856 census more than double or 6,280 inhabitants. The first settlers n the southern part of Decatur County, Iowa came in from Missouri but were really from Tennessee, Virginia, the Carolinas and Kentucky. They thought they were settling in Missouri. Many were across the line in Mercer County, Missouri. The financial panic in 1857 uprooted many families and sent them scuttling for new lands to try and better their positions. This financial panic destroyed the financial standing of Lewis Jones in the Western Virginia Territory and he moved to Miller County, Missouri while the Levi Hampton family left Missouri and settled in Decatur County, Iowa. This was not a good time in Decatur County, Iowa according to Himena Hoffman�s History of Decatur County, Iowa. She wrote, �Many took up wild land and saw visions of a fine farm, a good house and big barns that would some day be theirs. Visions did not come a reality for some. Those who combined thrift and good judgment with strength and willingness to work long hours and the courage to stick through the yeas of tornadoes, drought, floods, grasshoppers and low prices saw their visions become reality. There were many months when the rich bottom lands were flooded....1857-58 were very bad years for Decatur County, Iowa.� Grandma Betsy thoroughly agreed. She often expressed her horror and nightmarish experience of those two years and very stubbornly proclaimed that she would never return to Iowa. Paul Hoffman wrote, �We planted corn the 8th of May but the soil was cold and damp. Some have planted three times. There were terrible tornadoes this summer that caused much destruction.� On June 13, 1858 he wrote, �Tuesday it rained for three solid hours as hard as I�ve ever seen it rain. It washed out all the corn on rolling land and on the level land it drowned out. We have poor prospects for crops here except for fall wheat and rye.� The wives of those early pioneers exhausted themselves at hard labor. They not only did their household task; but also, worked in the fields beside their men folks. Certain tasks were labeled women�s work; therefore, the garden, the milking and the care of chickens, turkeys, geese and ducks was unquestionably women�s work. Betsy Hampton at 26 years of age was a defeated woman. She had given birth to four children, John and Polly Ann named for her parents, Lucinda and baby Nancy. She had endured nature�s worst; too much rain, damaging hail and tornadoes and the grasshoppers that came in such numbers that they darkened the sky and devoured everything in their path. Because of its high altitude Decatur County, Iowa was cold with deep snow and horrible blizzards. Betsy�s husband, Levi Hampton and little Johnnie Hampton died of pneumonia during the cold winter of 1858. This was the final blow and Elizabeth Hill Hampton returned to her parents home in St. Maries County, Missouri. St. Maries Couty because a new county had been formed from part of Osage County, Missouri. Elizabeth�s parents, John and Polly Hill, had been living in Missouri about ten years when she returned to them. In 1855, however, the southern half including Jackson Township, became St. Maries County, Missouri. I have never heard the true story of how Elizabeth Hill Hampton and Lewis Jones met but I believe they may have met on the Charles Wells Farm as neighbors while the men folk in each family cut timber for Chas. Wells. Elizabeth�s brother John and his family are named in the 1860 census immediately following the Lewis Jones family. When Elizabeth Hill Hampton met Lewis Jones she met a man who needed her as badly as she needed him. She had lost her husband and had three little girls and he had lost his second wife and his daughter, Margaret, who had been his housekeeper, was about to be married to James Roark. --continued in Part 4 Sherry Balow balowmsg@earthlink.net

Elizabeth Hill (Hampton) Jones (Parker) Written by Hazel Jones Uthoff (Re-typed from original pages numbered 1-19) Although my Grandmother Jones died at least twelve years before I was born, she was not a stranger to me because an enlarged portrait of her in a gold frame hung above the old SNETHEN family bureau in our front room down on the farm. (note: I imagine this is the first page picture. --SB) A companion picture of her young daughter Virginia hung beside it. Grandma�s eyes always followed me everywhere I went in that room. On my hands and knees I crawled around the room hiding from her eyes; nevertheless, whenever I came out from behind a chair or from under the table or from behind the stove her eyes looked directly into mine. I never felt fear of those eyes that looked directly into mine but her eyes convinced me that mother�s saying that God saw everything I did, no matter where I was, was true. I�d ask, �Here in the house under the table?� Mother always answered, �Everywhere�, and explained carefully, �Maybe mama and papa may not always know what you do but God will always see what you do and know.� I was convinced, God could see through houses, trees, roofs and absolutely everywhere. I was a little embarrassed about his seeing right through the roof of the little necessary house when I was in there. If Grandma�s eyes were always looking at me, why not God. This gave rise to my childish belief that people died because God quit looking at them. Father never talked to me about his mother but wrote, �My mother was about five feet eight inches tall, a little taller than Aunt Eliza (note: her younger sister, married to Robert Hawk/Barton Burrell -- SB). While my father was dark complexioned, my mother was fair with black wavy hair.� Her portrait was done when she was around 48 or 50 years old but to me she seemed a very old, old woman. If her hair was curly, the hair styles of the times disguised it. Her hair was parted in the middle and combed and combed with a fine toothed comb until it was slick and flat, not a hair out of place with a knot at the base of her neck. If her hair was like her sister�s, Eliza, it was ling, thick and heavy. She had a high broad forehead, direct eyes, rather small ears, high cheek bones and a very firm jaw and chin. Her cheeks were sunken and her mouth closed tight. One got the feeling that although life had not been too kind to her she had courage and determination. Father called her determination stubbornness but Janice Holt Giles who married a man from the Kentucky Hills explains, �They are a shy, proud people who had lived there since the revolution. They knew how things should be done for their way was the right way.� Elizabeth was not stubborn for she knew she was right. Grandma Jones was a pioneer woman. I doubt if she ever lived anywhere but in an ever moving covered wagon or in a log cabin. Emerson Hough pays pioneer women homage when he wrote, �...the chief figure of the American frontier...in not the long haired, fringed legging man riding a raw boned pony but the gaunt and sad faced woman sitting on the front seat of the wagon, following her lord where he might lead...her face hidden in the same ragged bonnet which had crossed the Appalachians and the Missouri. ... that was America my brother.� I can not tell for sure what her nationality was for the name �Hill� like �Jones� is a very common name. The names �John� and �William� abound on many lists of �Hills� as the names �Thomas�, �John�, �Samuel� and �Lewis� abound on lists of �Joneses�. On census records the name �Hill� is followed by the declaration, �Born in England� or �Born in Scotland� or �Born in Ireland�. I have read that the �Hill� name really originated in Scotland and was taken from the hilly land of Scotland. Since John Hill, Elizabeth�s father, was born in North Carolina there is little doubt but that our Hill ancestors were Scots because in 1772-72 there were large settlements of Scots near Cape Fear River, Bladen County and surrounding counties of North Carolina. Many had come as early as 1748. A �Hill� of this area became famous during the Revolution and most people with the name �Hill� claim him as an ancestor. Scions of these Hill families went from the swampy land of North Carolina to the South and West over the Smoky Mountains to Tennessee, to the Northwest through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky and to the North through Virginia to the Ohio Valley. A large number of Hill families still reside in Tennessee and John Hill is still their favorite name. Grandma Jones� mother�s name was POLLY KIZZIRE and is very Irish. (note: Indian connections have been established. --SB) The KIZZIRES seemed to have come from Tennessee to Kentucky. (note: traced to North Carolina through Jackson Kizzire/John Kizzire/Sandifer Kizzire --SB.) Elizabeth Hill�s life from the time of her marriage to Levi Hampton was rugged, full of much sorrow and many frustrations. She was not a stoic. Love was shown by hugs, kisses and words of endearment. Anger was understood. Sorrow was a time of wailing, turning pictures to the walls and other rituals deemed appropriate by custom to express grief. There were many superstitions; for example, believing in signs of death such as a dog howling, a bird flying against the window or a hat on a bed. (note: a hat on the bed and many of these superstitions were spoken of by my mother, Dorothy Turpen -- a great-grandniece of Elizabeth�s. When someone was leaving you did not �watch them out of sight�, (what she �learned� from her mother), unless you never wanted to see them alive again. She was a devout believer after having absent-mindedly watched her father leave her home shortly after she was married, (1945). He died that evening of a massive heart attack, leaving her to �believe� she had caused it. --SB) My mother was her daughter-in-law and she always said, �Grant�s mother had a wonderful sense of humor that Grant never recognized. With eyes a twinkle, she teased him unmercifully�. (note: This seems to be a trait in women of this line--several having inherited it through the years. ---SB) Elizabeth Hill smoked a corn cob pipe as did her sister, Eliza, and her daughter Polly Ann. Rebecca Boone once commented that learning to smoke a pipe had brought her so much comfort when, �D�niel (note : Daniel Boone --SB) was away so much�. Pipe smoking had a utilitarian value as well because of the hoards of mosquitoes along the Missouri rivers and creeks. Whole towns were abandoned because of mosquitoes. In spite of her pipe smoking her death certificate records that she died of malaria fever and acute gastritis. Her descendants who have pains from allergies caused by eating such foods as head lettuce, hazel nuts or tea appreciate her acute gastritis from eating canned peaches. Elizabeth Hill was a good mid-wife. My mother mentioned that the attending doctors gave way to her skill. She knew exactly where to place her hands to lift, to press, to ease the pain. (note: my mother spoke of stories of �a relative� possessing these skills as a midwife, in almost these exact words, but I didn�t know who the stories were about. --SB). She was well versed in folk medicines and went often to give aid to those who needed her skill. Uncle Billy Jones said, �if you are a Jones you can walk. Let me test your skill.� Grandma Jones had this walking skill and could walk easily and rapidly for long distances through the countryside dangerous from man, reptiles and beasts. (note: my mother and I shared �fast walking� and heard and hear �slow down� from just about anyone ever walking with us. --SB) Because Grandma Jones� mother POLLY KIZZIRE was born in Kentucky, I have often heard her people spoken of as �Hill Billies�. However they were descendants from the middle class people of Britain who could afford to pay their own way and provide for themselves in a new country with the skills learned in the apprentice system of Britain and passed from generation to generation. There was little opportunity to learn or use the skills of reading and writing. Such skills were no more useful to them in Kentucky than to their ancestors in 17th century Britain and so they could not read or write. (note: This would be equally true if their ancestors were Native American. -- SB) Elizabeth Hill was born in Jackson County, Indiana on July 11, 1832. This may not be an absolute date for they did not write down dates or family records so the dates were taken from census records and court house records which often varied. Her grandparents WILLIAM and NANCY HILL lived in North Carolina until around 1830 and then moved to Jackson County, Indiana. (note: There is a JOHN HILL at the top of pay record documents found for Sandifer Kizzire that may or may not tie the Kizzire/Hill families more significantly to the Tuscarora. --SB) Indiana historians say, �The folks from North Carolina seemed to prefer to settle along the White River.� The White River in Jackson County, Indiana is where the Hill families settled. There is a large National Forest in Jackson County now and the Hill families, although listed as farmers, seemingly earned their living by trapping and cutting timber. The 1840 census of Jackson County, Indiana lists both the JOHN C. HILL family and the JOHN KIZZIRE family. Living with John C. Hill is his father WILLIAM and his step-mother, Mary. I had assumed that our Hill families came with the large contingent of settlers from Terre Haute, Indiana to settle Terre Haute, Decatur County, Iowa but the court records gives Elizabeth�s sister, Eliza�s, birth place as Jackson County, Indiana not Vigo County, Indiana where Terre Haute is located. In fact after Eliza Hill was born on January 30, 1849 and William Hill had died, John C. Hill and his wife Polly Kizzire Hill and John Kizzire and his wife Hannah Hill Kizzire left Jackson County, Indiana and moved by covered wagon to Osage County, Missouri. (note: Hannah Hill is listed as Hannah Elkins in some family records, however, census information supports the possibility that Hannah was the sister of John Hill as it supports Polly Kizzire being the sister of John Kizzire. The families are intrinsically tied together here, and as they connect to my Acton, Turpen, the Hamilton, the Burrell, the Henderson and other Decatur Iowa families. Polly and John Kizzire, the children of Jackson Kizzire are the niece and nephew of Polly (Acton) and William Kizzire. --SB) The 1850 census of Jackson Township, Osage County, Missouri records both families living on a farm owned by ALEXANDER and NANCY HILL. Alexander and Nancy Hill�s birth place was reported as North Carolina and their children�s birthplace reported as Missouri. These records seem to indicate that Alexander and Nancy Hill came directly from North Carolina. The census record follows� #256 U.S. Census 1850 Jackson Twp., Osage County, Missouri Alexander Hill Age 51 Born: North Carolina Occupation: Farmer (b. 1799) Nancy Hill Age 40 Born: North Carolina Occupation: Housewife (b. 1810) Margaret Hill Age 20 Born: Missouri (b. 1830) Alexander Hill Age 16 Born: Missouri (b. 1834) Frederick Hill Age 14 Born: Missouri (b. 1836) Matilda Hill Age 12 Born: Missouri (b. 1838) John Hill Age 11 Born: Missouri (b. 1839) Catherine Cone Age 40 Born: Missouri (b. 1810) Whether Alexander Hill was John Hill�s brother or uncle cannot be determined from the census record but they were surely related. The census record for the John Hill family and John Kizzire family lists No. 255 as the residence of both families. Kizzire was often spelled �Kesiah�. The census record follows: #255 U.S. Census 1850 Jackson Twp. Osage County, Missouri John Hill Age 41 Born: North Carolina (b. 1809) Polly Hill Age 37 Born: Kentucky (b. 1813) *maiden name �Kizzire� Jackson Hill Age 16 Born: Indiana (b. 1834) *married first to Mary(Hampton?/2nd Stacy West Nancy Hill Age 14 Born: Indiana (b. 1836) John A. Hill Age 12 Born: Indiana (b. 1838) *married Pauline (Polly Burrell William Hill Age 10 Born: Indiana (b. 1840) *died of measles after Civil War Mary Hill Age 7 Born: Indiana (b. 1843) *married James Hamilton Eliza Hill Age 2 Born: Indiana (b. 1849) Eliza was almost two. (note: ELIZABETH HILL, oldest child, married LEVI HAMPTON and was out of the home.--SB) #255 John Kizzire Age 36 Born: Kentucky (b. 1814) Hannah Kizzire Age 28 Born: North Carolina (b. 1822) *maiden name �Hill� Polly Kizzire Age 12 Born: Indiana (b. 1838) Sally Kizzire Age 9 Born: Indiana (b. 1841) William Kizzire Age 7 Born: Indiana (b. 1843) Betsy Kizzire Age 6 Born: Indiana (b. 1844) Ervin Kizzire Age 4 Born: Indiana (b. 1846) Robert Kizzire Age 1 Born: Indiana (b. 1850) *died Davis City, Iowa 1/25/1937 Two more children were born to John and Polly Hill in Missouri; Alexander Hill in 1852 and Levi Hill in 1855. (note: These names have been written as �Elic� and �Zemineah� as well as �Jemimah/Jemima -- SB) --continued in Part 3 Sherry Balow balowmsg@earthlink.net

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Elizabeth Hill (Hampton) Jones (Parker) 1830-1893 Re-typed Feb., 2005 from copied pages, the writings of **Hazel Jones Uthoff, grand-daughter of Elizabeth. Copies from William Dunbar --Re-typed by Sherry Balow, copied as written except for occasional use of names in capital letters. Original written sometime after 1971. FOR RESEARCH USE ONLY. (note: Anything I�ve added will be identified as a note, followed by �SB� and will be in parenthesis.) This will include all writings that I received. Some is repetitive. Sherry Balow ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ELIZABETH HILL was one of nine children born to John C. and Polly Kizire Hill; (note: Elizabeth was sister to my 2nd great-grandfather, JACKSON HILL. SB) she was born in Jackson County, Indiana on July 11, 1832. When Elizabeth was about 18, she married LEVI HAMPTON and a short time later the young couple moved to Osage County, Missouri where they lived for about 7 years before moving to Decatur County, Iowa. Life in this part of the country was not easy in the best of times and during 1857-1858, times were particularly difficult. The U.S. was in the grip of a depression, the �Panic of 1857�, and Decatur County was a disaster area. During the summer too much rain, hail, tornadoes, and grasshoppers destroyed the crops. Winter brought blizzards, deep snow and death. Elizabeth�s husband LEVI, and her son, JOHN, died that winter. Elizabeth, vowing never to return, moved from Decatur County, Iowa to St. Marie�s County, Missouri in 1858. During the year that followed, she met, and was courted by, LEWIS B. JONES, they were married on April 17, 1859 in Miller County, Missouri. Lewis was one of 10 children born to Thomas H. and Mary Haines Jones; he was born in a wilderness area of Virginia near present day Middlebourne, West Virginia in 1802. Lewis married his first wife, Rebecca Haines, in 1824 and seven children were born to this union between 1825 and 1838. Rebecca died in 1838 and Lewis married a second time. His second wife, Elizabeth Custer, bore him five children. He was widowed again in 1850. After Lewis had married and moved away from home, his father bought a tract of land along the Ohio River and became a merchant-farmer, selling produce and cured meat to the river boats that carried passengers and cargo along the Ohio River. When Thomas died in 1849, Lewis bought out the other heirs and started a lumber business on McKim Creek in what is now Pleasant County, West Virginia. At one time his holdings included 17,000 acres of land, a saw mill, a store, and a boat building company. During the Panic of 1857, he lost most of his property; what he was able to save, he divided among the children of his first marriage. Lewis then moved west, seeking to recoup his fortune. The children of his second marriage came with him to Miller County, Missouri. Charles Wells, with whom Lewis� family had been associated in western Virginia, owned 900 acres of land on the Osage River near Tuscumbia, Missouri. Charles wanted the land cleared and fenced. Lewis agreed to lease a parcel of land which he would clear and fence in return for the lumber he would remove from the land. It was during these early years on the Charles Wells Farm that he met and married his third wife, ELIZABETH HILL HAMPTON. Lewis remained on the Charles Wells Farm for about 10 years; four children were born into the family during this time -- WILLIAM LEWIS JACKSON, our Grandfather Jones� beloved brother, �Uncle Billy�; ELIZA; ULYSSES GRANT, our Grandfather Jones; and VIRGINIA. About 1869, Lewis, Elizabeth and the children moved from the Charles Wells Farm to a farm on the Osage River near Capp�s Landing which Lewis had purchased with $1800 saved from the sale of lumber. Lewis farmed and sold cured meat, like his father before him, to commercial river boats. When Lewis lived in Pleasant County, Virginia (now part of West Virginia), he had cosigned notes of others to help them obtain loans. About 1873, he was asked to make good on one of those notes and in February of 1874 he drove some hogs into Tuscumbia to raise the money. He returned home about midnight with pneumonia and died before morning. Elizabeth Hill was left a widow for a second time -- this time with two young sons and a seven year old daughter, Virginia. (Eliza had died about four years earlier.) About 1877, some three years after Lewis� death, Elizabeth lost the farm on the Osage River. (Grandfather said she was cheated out of it) and a time of wandering began -- looking for someplace to start over again. For a period of about seven years, Elizabeth and children traveled from Miller County, Missouri to Cherokee County, Kansas to Northwest Arkansas, back to Missouri, and finally to Miller County where she settled for a short time. During the wandering time, Elizabeth supported herself and her brood by working as a midwife, and her children took whatever jobs came to hand to add to the family income. Grandfather said, �I was never too little for the big jobs or too big for the little jobs. I often took jobs that others were too proud to do. We were poor, but I never went hungry or cold. There is no shame in being poor. The only thing wrong with being poor is the disadvantages it brings you�. During this period, Elizabeth lost her remaining daughter, and Uncle Billy married and moved away -- Grant remained with his mother as they moved back to Miller County. In 1885, Elizabeth�s brother, John, (note: JOHN A. HILL -- SB) visited her in Miller County and persuaded her to move back to Decatur County, Iowa with him even though she had sworn never to return to �that horrible place�. After Grant married and moved away, Elizabeth married for a third time -- to a man by the name of PARKER. Grant could never accept his step father and we have no record of him. (note: later the husband of one of one of Elizabeth�s granddaughters, OLLIE ACTON --my great aunt, was named RUBY PARKER. He was from the same area, possibly related. -- SB) Elizabeth died in Decatur County, Iowa on May 11, 1893, apparently the victim of food poisoning. Her grave is located in the cemetery of the Bethel Baptist Church near Davis City, Iowa. ---continued in part 2 Sherry Balow balowmsg@earthlink.net

Quite some time ago I received copied pages from another researcher. He thought they would be useful as I searched for my KIZZIRE family. They are the writings of Hazel Jones Uthoff done several years ago as she researched information on her grandmother Elizabeth Hill. Elizabeth Hill was the eldest child of John C. and Polly (Kizzire) Hill and a sister to my gggrandfather, Jackson Hill. I'll be posting it here, in segments. I hope those that haven't read it will enjoy it, especially since it does offer quite a bit of insight into what life was like in northern Missouri and southern Iowa. I've retyped Hazel's writings exactly, but have added notes of mine, especially since this is definitely not to be considered completely factual, and since I'm researching PAST where she left off. The writings should be subject to revision as documentation or other proof might become available. Hazel "surmised" when documentation wasn't available, "handed down" stories of family, and did much as I've (and I'm sure many others have) had to do with the bits and pieces that genealogy leaves you holding. I hope anyone that has anything to contribute to this family story, (or to any of the families mentioned), will comment--especially if you think you might have something that supports or adds to Hazel's work--but also if absolute errors are found, (hers or mine). For those NOT wanting to follow this, I'll put ELIZABETH HILL in the subject line, followed by Part 1, Part 2, etc. Elizabeth Hill lived from 1830-1893. She's buried in the Bethel Cemetery, Decatur Co., IA. I believe that is in the New Buda Township. Sherry Balow Sherry Balow balowmsg@earthlink.net

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Thanks so much to those of you who have responded with your current email addresses and/or those of others who you have been able to find someone. Special thanks to Erin for her help! Please Remember! I am not just deleting emails from the surnames listings! I just want to clean out those emails that no longer work. It's so frustrating to click on an email address and send an email hoping for contact with another relative only to receive back an email that the person no longer exists at this address. I will make every effort to contact the person first before removing their email address. Stacey

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I got to your site without a problem using the new link. (http://spaces.msn.com/members/fentonscheetz) I've been storing photos at one of the online sites (have shared a few with the IADECATU site) but REALLY need t do something like this! Thanks for sharing. Sherry > [Original Message] > From: Craig Fenton <KeokukCoGenealogy@msn.com> > To: <IADECATU-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: 2/20/2005 8:08:02 AM > Subject: Re: [IADECATU] Check out this site. > > I don't know why msn does this to web addresses and I forgot I needed to convert it. The page is found at Fenton Scheetz Home Page<http://spaces.msn.com/members/fentonscheetz> > > Craig Fenton > ----- Original Message ----- > From: BJ Whitsitt<mailto:folkie@insightbb.com> > To: IADECATU-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:IADECATU-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 11:31 PM > Subject: Re: [IADECATU] Check out this site. > > > Hi, All... > When I clicked on this link, an error message popped up saying that the > page can't be found. Any advice? > > Thanks.. > Barbara > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Craig Fenton" <KeokukCoGenealogy@msn.com<mailto:KeokukCoGenealogy@msn.com>> > To: <IADECATU-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:IADECATU-L@rootsweb.com>> > Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 10:28 PM > Subject: [IADECATU] Check out this site. > > > > > > > http://spaces.msn.com/members/fentonscheetz/<http://spaces.msn.com/members/f <http://spaces.msn.com/members/fentonscheetz/<http://spaces.msn.com/members/ f> > entonscheetz/> > > > > Here is my new personal web page dedicated to my families' genealogies. I > am starting with my Great Grandmother's Photo Albums. The handsome gent on > the main page is my Grandpa Joshua Parker Fenton. > > > > These albums "were destroyed in a fire and did not exist" until 2 years > ago, so please look if you have any of these surnames in your line. Fenton, > Frisby, Crockett, Robinson, Sheen, Poland, McMurtrey, Tobian, Pickett, and a > host of unknowns. If you can identify the person, I would love to know who > they are and I will update the name on the photo. Come back often because I > will be adding more data on a regular basis. > > > > Best regards; > > > > Craig Fenton > > > > > > ==== IADECATU Mailing List ==== > > Stacey Dietiker, Momdit@aol.com<mailto:Momdit@aol.com>: Decatur County List Administrator, > > Website Coordinator, Decatur County IA Genweb - > http://www.rootsweb.com/~iadecatu<http://www.rootsweb.com/~iadecatu> > > > > ============================== > > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx<http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ash x> > > > > > > > > ==== IADECATU Mailing List ==== > Stacey Dietiker, Momdit@aol.com<mailto:Momdit@aol.com>: Decatur County List Administrator, > Website Coordinator, Decatur County IA Genweb - http://www.rootsweb.com/~iadecatu<http://www.rootsweb.com/~iadecatu> > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx<http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ash x> > > > > ==== IADECATU Mailing List ==== > Stacey Dietiker, Momdit@aol.com: Decatur County List Administrator, > Website Coordinator, Decatur County IA Genweb - http://www.rootsweb.com/~iadecatu > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx

I don't know why msn does this to web addresses and I forgot I needed to convert it. The page is found at Fenton Scheetz Home Page<http://spaces.msn.com/members/fentonscheetz> Craig Fenton ----- Original Message ----- From: BJ Whitsitt<mailto:folkie@insightbb.com> To: IADECATU-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:IADECATU-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 11:31 PM Subject: Re: [IADECATU] Check out this site. Hi, All... When I clicked on this link, an error message popped up saying that the page can't be found. Any advice? Thanks.. Barbara ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig Fenton" <KeokukCoGenealogy@msn.com<mailto:KeokukCoGenealogy@msn.com>> To: <IADECATU-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:IADECATU-L@rootsweb.com>> Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 10:28 PM Subject: [IADECATU] Check out this site. > > http://spaces.msn.com/members/fentonscheetz/<http://spaces.msn.com/members/f<http://spaces.msn.com/members/fentonscheetz/<http://spaces.msn.com/members/f> entonscheetz/> > > Here is my new personal web page dedicated to my families' genealogies. I am starting with my Great Grandmother's Photo Albums. The handsome gent on the main page is my Grandpa Joshua Parker Fenton. > > These albums "were destroyed in a fire and did not exist" until 2 years ago, so please look if you have any of these surnames in your line. Fenton, Frisby, Crockett, Robinson, Sheen, Poland, McMurtrey, Tobian, Pickett, and a host of unknowns. If you can identify the person, I would love to know who they are and I will update the name on the photo. Come back often because I will be adding more data on a regular basis. > > Best regards; > > Craig Fenton > > > ==== IADECATU Mailing List ==== > Stacey Dietiker, Momdit@aol.com<mailto:Momdit@aol.com>: Decatur County List Administrator, > Website Coordinator, Decatur County IA Genweb - http://www.rootsweb.com/~iadecatu<http://www.rootsweb.com/~iadecatu> > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx<http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx> > > ==== IADECATU Mailing List ==== Stacey Dietiker, Momdit@aol.com<mailto:Momdit@aol.com>: Decatur County List Administrator, Website Coordinator, Decatur County IA Genweb - http://www.rootsweb.com/~iadecatu<http://www.rootsweb.com/~iadecatu> ============================== Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx<http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx>