Hello, Is there anyone on the list researching the Lyman surname? If so, are any of them from Danville, Illinois area? Thank you, Deborah

MALLORY BODY REMOVED The body of S. H. Mallory, buried for seventeen years in the Chariton cemetery, which was recently taken from the grave, has been cremated and the ashes sent to Orlando, Florida, where the family resides. Mr. Mallory, at the time of his death, owned "Illion" (sic, Ilion), at the north edge of town, which has become known for its association with the things of the day in which he lived. Mr. Mallory was for many years a railroad contractor, a man widely known, and frequently were the doors of "Illion" opened to receive as guests men of state and national reputation. He was at that time president of the First National Bank of Chariton, which in later years became and is now known as the Lucas County National. The body was taken up from the local cemetery on June 9. A daughter, Mrs. Jessie O'Neal, of Orlando, was in Chariton and went with the body to Des Moines, where cremation took place on the following Friday. The monument which had been placed here was shipped to Orlando, where it will again perpetuate the memory of this man who was one of Chariton's foremost citizens. The Chariton Leader, Thursday, 24 June 1920, Page 1 Here's the rest of the story ... And I'm hampered because I can't find the long and detailed article about the suicide of Frank Crocker, who was cashier of Smith H. Mallory's First National Bank and entrusted by his widow and daughter with handling their financial affairs. As it turned out, he was both dishonest and an unskilled investor. The result, about 1907, broke First National, and the Mallorys, who were in Europe at the time, I believe. The first indication that anything was amiss at First National was Crocker's suicide, which took place in his grand old home south of square, now the Fielding Funeral Home. That collapse was cataclysmic for Lucas County, affecting an astonishing range of people (there was no FDIC at that time, remember). My maternal grandfather, William Ambrose Miller, then a struggling young English Township farmer, never got over it in the sense that he never trusted another bank. Ever. He did not have another bank account, anywhere, until the mid-1960s, when he became incapacitated in his 90s and his children cashed in a variety of his assets (bonds, etc.) and opened a checking account so that nursing home bills could be paid. Anyway, the crash placed the Ilion and its related farm, as well as other Mallory assets, in other hands and Mrs. Mallory (Annie) and her widowed daughter, Jessie, left Chariton for Orlando, Florida, where I believe both died. They were not impoverished: The 1910 census shows them living in a house Mrs. Mallory owned in Orlando with a resident servant. But it certainly ended the family's glory days in Lucas County. More articles related to the house itself, and hopefully the Crocker affair, will follow next week. Frank D. Myers

Hi all, Just wanted to let everyone know about the contact I've had from Pat Miller, the email address is: [email protected] Deborah, Thank you for posting this information. William M. Berkey was my gggrandfather's brother and Elizabeth was his wife. In 1906 when this was done they were living in Little Rock, Arkansas. Before that they had lived from the mid 1870 to 1900 in Salt City,Sumner County,Kansas. William died after 1920 in Santa Monica, California and is buried in the National Cemetery in Los Angeles, CA. Pat The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa Thursday, February 8, 1906 'ORIGINAL NOTICE' In the district court of Iowa in and for Lucas county. WILLIAM WINSLOW, Senior, Plaintiff vs. ELIZABETH JAMES, --- JAMES, her husband, CURTIS H. JAMES, --- JAMES his wife, CALEB JAMES and --- JAMES his wife, JULIA JAMES, DORCAS JAMES, CAROLINE CULBERTSON and EDWIN CULBERTSON, ELIZABETH M.J. MUSSELLMAN and DARIUS MUSSELLMAN, ROBERT JAMES and --- JAMES his wife, and the unknown heirs of CALEB JAMES, Senior deceased, MILTON HILLING and --- HILLING his wife, JAMES SUTFIN, JOHN H. SUTFIN, J.P. SHAFER and --- SHAFER his wife, AARON BRYAM and AMANDA J. BRYAM, MR. MARION VANNOY, HUGHES, DAVIS & COMPANY, THOMAS DAVIS AND --- DAVIS, SOLON C. BRAMWELL and --- BRAMWELL his wife, --- DAVIS and --- DAVIS his wife, and --- HUGHES and --- HUGHES his wife, JOSHUA W. HUGHES, S.H. RICE, ELIA WHITE, MARY E. HUNT, MARY E. SUMMERS, ELIJAH SUMMERS, JAMES SUMMERS, --- SUMMERS his wife, WILLIAM H. SUMMERS and --- SUMMERS, his wife, MARY J. SUMMERS and ---her husband, MARTIN H. SUMMERS and --- SUMMERS his wife, S.J. WORK and ---WORK his wife, REBECCA M. SMITH, ELIZABETH BERKEY and WILLIAM M. BERKEY, husband, and R.M. HUNT, C.E. and THOMAS E. STURGEON, their heirs, their unknown heirs; and all persons claiming by, through or under them defendants and the unknown claimants of all of the above named defendants to the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section thirty, and the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter and the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section thirty-one, all in township seventy-two north, range twenty-three west of the 5th, P.M. Lucas County, Iowa.

I just wanted to say a huge 'thank-you' to Frank for the wonderful story about Mr. Mallory and his life. I also very much enjoyed Gary's memories of 'Ilion'. Do either of you know why he named his home 'Ilion'? It was so magnificent to see on the postcard that Gary shared -- and St. Andrews Episcopal Church.. How grand they both were! It sure tugs at my heart to think that they were both torn down. My Best Always, Nancee

Dear Genealogy Friends, I wish to obtain an obituary for Thomas Curtis, who died on May 24 1915 in South Dakota. He was in SD visiting his son, but was brought back to Chariton for burial in the Wayrick Cemetery alongside of his wife Martha (Chenoweth) Curtis. He had lived in Warren Township of Lucas County for 50+++ years, from 1860 until his his 1915 death. Can someone please advise where/how I could obtain his obituary. Thanking you in advance. Sincerely, George Hoyt

The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa Thursday, June 7, 1906 LUCAS LEDGER ITEMS: C.W. VORHEIS departed last evening for Durfee, Iowa, where he has accepted the management of the coal company's store. JOHN JOHNSON southwest of Lucas, who underwent a very difficult operation last Friday afternoon still remains in a dangerous condition. MISS EMMA JOHNSON who is one of the instructors in the college at Deer Lodge, Mont., is expected home next week to spend the summer vacation. NELS STARK JR. and wife returned Sunday from Ottumwa where MRS. S. had undergone a surgical operation. We are pleased to say the lady is rapidly regaining health and strength. Invitations have been issued for the wedding of MISS PEARLE ANNA WALLACE and EARL E. SANDERS, both of Norwood, June 27, at the bride's parents, G.N. WALLACE and wife, at high noon. MISS ELSEY CUMPSTON and WILLIAM FULLER were married at high noon Sunday, May 27th, at the home of the bride's parents, S.S. CUMPSTON and wife, Elder Parley Batten performing the ceremony in the presence of the immediate families and a few friends. MISS EFFIE ARNOLD of Otter Creek Township returned Tuesday from Minneapolis where she graduated in stenography. Word has been received from D(?) RATE and wife of Colorado, that their home has been recently blessed with twin babies -- a boy and a girl. At eight o'clock Tuesday evening, May 29th, a very pretty and impressive wedding took place at the home of the bride's parents, GEORGE WATKINS and wife in which LEHI WILKERSON and MARGARET WATKINS both of Lucas were married, Elder Parley Batten officiating. A gang of men are working with the steam shovel at Clevaland perparing the ground for the removal of the depot and for the building of a mile or more additional sidetrack. So it appears that the calamity howlers who have predicted the speedy ending of No. 4 may have another guess coming. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert October 16, 2004 [email protected]

SMITH HENDERSON MALLORY LAID TO REST Short Sketch of the Life of Lucas County's Prominent Citizen. A Man Who will be Greatly Missed. (The Chariton Herald, Thursday, April 2, 1903, Page 1) The death of Hon. S. H. Malory last Thursday was not unexpected by the citizens of this community, and yet it was a shock that could not be realized, and is not yet realized, by them. Mr. Mallory was so much a part of Chariton that it does not seem possible that he is gone. He was so closely identified with every progressive movement in Chariton that his absence will be a sorrowful remembrance times without number in the years to come. And close as Mr. Mallory was connected with the best interests of Chariton, he did not belong to our city alone, nor to Lucas county alone. Nor indeed to Iowa alone. He was a man who was known and respected from east to west. The HERALD editor has known him personally but two years, but we knew of him long before, and can say - what can not often be said of successful business men - that a personal acquaintance with him only increased our respect and admiration for him. Tremendous in energy, tireless in activity, and very successful in business, he yet took time to enjoy his quiet home life at "Ilion," the work of the church of his choice. Mr. Mallory was a railroad builder on a large scale. He was a leader among leaders, a man who could think on vast lines and see far in advance of his times, and yet at his home city he was quiet and unostentatious, never boastful or even proud of his accomplishments, and always seeking how he could aid his home community in that truest form of philanthropy - by teaching and helping it to aid itself. Branch railroads to aid Chariton were promoted by him, and at the time of his death he was organizing a company to give electric (railroad, FDM) connection to Knoxville and farther east. With his aid the great coal mines near Chariton have become a reality. Largely through his influence Chariton has become noted for beautiful architecture. The first thoroughbred cattle and draft horses were brought to Lucas county by him, and his fruit farm has always been a model for the other farmers of this section and a stimulus to do better in their works. The beautiful Episcopal church stands as a monument to his devotion to religious work. In these and hundreds of other things, Mr. Mallory's great influence will be missed, and when the town clock - a gift from him - was stopped last Thursday at the moment of his death, it was a true signification of how constantly he will be missed by everyone in his home city. No tribute can do justice to the life of such a man. No obituary can give a proper idea of the accomplishments of his life. But the facts recorded below will give the friends of Mr. Mallory, who are located from ocean to ocean, some small conception of the great work which he crowded into his sixty-seven years. And we hope that what he has done, in rising from the life of a poor lad to a commanding position in the world of wealth and influence, by sheer force of will and energy, and entirely without the aid of special education or influential friends, will be an inspiration to everyone who has known him, or who will read these words. Mr. Mallory's life was the life of a real man - self-reliant, zealous, ambitious, and tirelessly energentic; and then after success came, still liberal in heart and hand, and striving always to help those around him, as well as himself, to fulfill their truest and best mission in life. Died, at his home, Ilion, on the morning of March 26th, 1903, of pernicious aenemia, caused by cancer of the stomach, Smith Henderson Mallory, aged sixty-seven years and three months. At 9:30 o'clock on Saturday morning Rev. F. W. Henry, rector of St. Andrews Episcopal church, of which the deceased was a member, conducted a brief service at the home, after which the remains were conveyed to the church, where they lay in state until 1:30 o'clock. At two o'clock the public services were held, conducted by Rector Henry and Rev. Joseph Russell, rector emeritus. A more beautiful or impressive service could not be imagined. The prayer book ritual was used, the choir rendering appropriate selections. The offerings of flowers were very profuse and very beautiful. Large banks and handsome designs of them surrounded the casket, expressing at once the sorrow and respect of the givers and the love of the deceased for God's handiwork. During the service the business houses of Chariton were closed, by proclamation from the mayor, and flags were displayed at half mast. A long procession of sorrowing friends followed the remains to their last resting place in the Chariton cemetery. The honorary pall bearers were Messers. E. A. Temple of Des Moines, S. L. Bestow, Joseph Braden, J. A. McKlveen, Elijah Lewis and J. A. Brown. The active pall bearers were Messrs. F. R. Crocker, W. P. Beem, B. R. VanDyke, S. Oppenheimer, C. R. Kirk and J. A. Penick. Smith Henderson Mallory, son of Smith L. and Jane Henderson Mallory, was born December 2, 1835, at Croton Mills about four miles east of Penn Yan, Yates County, New Yourk. His grandfather Meredith Mallory, a lieutenant in the war of 1812, was one of the earliest settlers of that county, Mr. Mallory received a common school education at Penn Yan and from there attended the academy of John W. (illegible) at Danbury, Conn. (Two lines of type illegible) character, and early in life he was prompted by these traits to start in the world's race determined to carve his own fortune. In 1850, at the age of fifteen, he left the old homestead in New York for Batavia, Illinois, where at that time his grandfather and uncle, John VanNortwick, chief engineer in the construction of the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad from Elgin west, resided, and in December of the same year he secured his first business position in the store of P. J. Burchell, of St. Charles, Ill. This occupation as clerk in a country store, while it trained him in the formation of business habits, and afforded him an opportunity to earn his own living, was too monotonous and circumscribed for one possessing his ambition and capabilities, and he looked around for a widee field. He stayed in this position until the following June, when he secured a place more in accordance with his tastes, in the engineer corps of the Galena & Chicago Union Railway. When the surveys for the Aurora branch extension, from Aurora to Mendota, were begun in August, 1851, Mr. Mallory was promoted to rodman, and during the construction in 1853, was again promoted, and before the completion of the tracks to Mendota, he was offered and accepted the position of engineer in charge. Upon the completion of the Central Military Tract Railroad, from Mendota to Galesburg, Col. J. M. Berrian was made chief engineer of the whole line, the road now known as the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, which was completed to Burlington, Iowa, in 1855, and Mr. Mallory remained with him until the spring of 1857, when, noting the rapid advances made in the value of real estate, he resigned his position and engaged in the real estate business at Fairfield, just at the time the real estate boom of 1856 was collapsing. On March 22, 1858, he was married to Annie Louise Ogden, daughter of Mordecai Ogden, of Penn Yan, N.Y. Soon after h is marriage he returned to Fairfield, where he received the appointment of resident engineer of the Fairfield division of the Burlington & Missouri River Road, which was then being constructed between (illegible) and Ottumwa. On the completion of the track across the Fairfield division, December 1, 1858, he was appointed roadmaster with headquarters in Burlington. In the spring of 1861, he resigned the position of roadmaster to take charge of the location and construction of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway, between Aurora and Chicago. When this work was completed, he, like many others, at that time, was stricken with the oil fever and went to Pennsylvania to engage in the oil business. His stay there was short, for in the fall of 1865, he returned again to Iowa, taking the contract for the construction of the bridges from Ottumwa west on the B. & M. Ry. After brief residences in Ottumwa and Albia, Mr. Mallory came to Chariton in the spring of 1867, buying property and building a home. The bridge contracts to the Missouri river were completed in the fall of 1869, and Mr. Mallory then became division superintendent of the road, with headquarters at Creston, afterwards changed to Chariton. In the year 1870, he organized and established the First National Bank of Chariton, an institution which he, as president, had just cause to view with gratification. In the year 1871 he was appointed chief engineer of the B. & M. Ry., which position he held until 1873, when he resigned to engage in general contracting business. In conjunction with John Fitzgerald and Martin Flynn, under the firm name of Fitzgerald, Mallory & Flynn, he constructed some very heavy work on the Cincinnati Southern R.R., the A.T. & S. F. in Colorado, and the B. & M. R. R. in Nebraska. In the year 1875, Mr. Mallory was elected president of the Iowa Centennial Commission, but owing to the pressure of his private business, with many important contracts on hand, he resigned the office. In 1877, notwithstanding his political faith (he being a staunch democrat, affiliating with a party vastly in the minority in Lucas county,) and his public and long continued connection with railroads, the people marking the public spirit shown by him during his residence among them, and having confidence in his integrity and business qualifications, elected him to represent them in the legislature of the state, and the record he there made fully substantiated the good judgment and wisdom of the electors. In 1878 he was president of the Chariton, Des Moines & Southern R.R., and in 1881 was elected Vice President and General Manager of the Fulton Co. Narrow Guage R.R. In 1888 he was elected President of this road, which position he retained until his death. During the year 1881 he organized the First National Bank of Creston, Iowa, and in April, 1886, the Fitzgerald & Mallory Construction Co., of which he was elected President. This company constructed about six hundred miles of railroad in Kanasa and Colorado (now a part of the Missouri Pacific system) accomplishing the entire work in the brief period of eighteen months. Mr. Mallory spent much time in the direction and furnishing of the Iowa building at the Columbian Exhibition at Chicago in 1893, Governor Boles having appointed him commissioner and the commission having elected him chairman of the executive committee. He was made a Mason at Batavia, Ill., about the year 1856; a Royal Arch Mason at St. Charles in 1864; a Knight Templar at Osceola, September, 1875. In May, 1878, he joined the Chariton Lodge, I.O.O.F., No. 64, and was also a member of the M.W.A. Camp No. 272. Amid all the cares of an engrossing business life, Mr. Mallory always found time and thought for sincere devotion to the service of his Master, Jesus Christ, and the religious services of the church. He united with the Episcopal church in Chariton, April, 1868, being one of the first confirmation class ever formed in this place. From that time until the day of his death he was a faithful and consistent communicant, never permitting his worldly affairs to detain him from attendance at the services of the church, which he gave freely of his time and money whenever either were needed for the upbuilding of his faith. He was largely interested in the erection of the magnificent church building of St. Andrew's parish, and the last work which he planned and executed in his life time was the rebuilding of the rectory property. Mr. Mallory was warden of St. Andrews parish since 1871, a member of the standing committee of the Diocese of Iowa for many years, and a delegate to the general convention of the Episcopal church at many of its triennial sessions. While Mr. Mallory was generally looked upon as what is termed a "railroad man," having been actively engaged so much of his life in railroad enterprises, building, equipping and superintending, yet ever since his location in Lucas Co., he has been comparatively as largely interested in agriculture and might as justly be called a farmer. His home farm, on which his residence, "Ilion," is built, comprises about one thousand acres. He brought the first blooded cattle and draft horses to Lucas Co., and mainly through his enterprises in this direction, this county stands today at the front in the blue grass region for the superiority of the horses raised in its borders. During the years that Mr. Mallory has resided in Lucas Co., it is safe to assert that there has been no public enterprise organized in this community for its benefit that he has not been prominently identified with. Energetic, far seeing, with indomitable will-power; independent in thought, yet cosmopolitan in his views, he has well earned a place in the memory of the people of Iowa. He recognized himself as one of the public, and thoroughly understood that whatever stood for public interests also stood for his individual interests, and yet in his success he was never selfish. To those who met with reverses his ear was always open, and not only his ear but his hand also. Had Chariton more such men within its borders as S.H. Mallory has proved himself to be, it would soon grow to be a city in fact as it is now in name. Relatives attending the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Allen Mallory, Misses Josie and Ruth Mallory, Creston, Iowa; Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Harvey, Chicago, Ill.; Mr. A.D. Mallory, Batavia, Ill.; Mr. E.M. Smith, Batavia, Ill. Among the friends who came were Mr. Daniel Baum, Omaha, Nebraska; Mr. Edw. A. Temple, Des Moines; Col. H.B. Scott, Burlington, Iowa, representing Mr. C. E. Perkins, formerly President of the C.B.&Q. Ry., who is in California at present; Mrs. Leonard and Mrs. Stanchfield, of Creston, Iowa; Col. And Mrs. W. P. Hepburn, Clarinda, Iowa; Mr. D. A. Baum, Omaha; Nebraska and several others. Note: Obituaries of similar length and scope also were published during this week in the competing Chariton newspapers, The Leader and The Democrat. However, this is the most comprehensive of the three. FDM

The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa Thursday, May 31, 1906 MARRIAGE LICENSES: The following marriage licenses were issued during the week: LAREN CAULKINS, 19 to MINNIE GEORGETTTA, 19. W.M. FULLER, 21 to ELSEY CUMPSTON, 23. LEHI WILKERSON, 23 to MARGRET J. WATKINS, 20. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert October 16, 2004 [email protected]

DEATH OF S. H. MALLORY He Passed Away Today at 11:55 o'clock - Funeral Will Be Saturday. S. H. Mallory, died this morning at five minutes before twelve o'clock at Ilion, the family home north of Chariton at the age of 68 years. The cause of his death was pernicious progressive anaemia. He had been a sufferer from this fatal disease for more than a year and had been confined to the house for the past seven weeks. He sank rapidly the last several days. The funeral will take place from St. Andrew's Episcopal church Saturday afternoon at 2 o'cock. The body will lie in state in the church from 10 o' clock a.m. until 1:30 p.m. An extended obituary notice will appear in next week's Patriot. The Chariton Patriot, Thursday, 26 March 1903, Page 1 Note: A similar notice was published 26 March in the competing The Chariton Leader

The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa Thursday, May 24, 1906 One of the meanest acts ever perpetrated in Lucas occurred last night. A crowd of boys went to charivari a newly married couple. The groom came to the door and satisfied their demands and they left. Soon after, another crowd came (some of which had been with the former one) and the groom again appeared, but the gang demanded ten dollars which the groom refused to pay and the boys began to use profane language and vile epithets, but finally left without getting anything for their trouble. Soon afterwards the couple, accompanied by the family of the bride's parents and a lady friend, started for the depot where the bride and groom were to depart on No. 2. The boys had in the meantime procured a lot of eggs with which they assaulted the entire party, first on Front Street near Fuller's Restaurant and later as they were getting on the train, several of the missiles striking the friends of the parties as well as themselves. The conductor and two traveling men also were struck, and the sides of the cars were liberally smeared with eggs. -- LUCAS LEDGER. The boys were arrested and tried, Monday, but the jury failed to agree on a verdict. The negative members of the tribunal must have proceeded on the theory that newly married couples were entitled to a little of the strenuous life before they settled down to the hum-drum of domestic felicity. ---------------------------------------------------- The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa Thursday, June 21, 1906 'The Lucas Egg Throwing' Several weeks ago some Lucas lads charivarid a young married couple there and as the twain went to the train, threw missiles at them and it was charged that among the balance of things was a shower of eggs. Several of the participants were later arraigned before Squire Reed of Lucas, confessed and were fined by him. On Tuesday a case against LORENZO WATKINS, ROBERT HUNTER, DENNIS LEWIS and CLYDE KNOTTS was docted (sic) in Justice E.H. Storie's court in this city, and came up for hearing. The two former were pictured guilty and were fined, together with costs of $9.65 each. The case against LEWIS was dismissed owing to a lack of evidence. The case of KNOTTS went to trial. As the other three defendants made their "eggsit" a jury of a half dozen peers were set on the case but finally failed to hatch out a verdict, the ratio standing 2 to 4 for acquittal. Attorney Wells appeared for the State and W.B. Barger for the defendant; and the case was stubbornly fought on both si! des and at times it is said eloquence flowed in such streams of pathos that the jury shed tears as big as hen eggs, but the issue leaves little to crow over. It is said the case will be re-tried next week. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert October 16, 2004 [email protected]

WHY IN THE WOULD SHOULD WE CARE ABOUT SMITH H. MALLORY? A friend asked me last week out of the blue, "Why in the world did they tear Mallory's Castle down?" He was referring to the mansion on what now is Chariton's north edge known formally as "Ilion," constructed during 1879 by Smith Henderson Mallory and demolished during 1955. Chariton, Iowa for that matter, came late to an appreciation of historic preservation, so it is not really surprising that S.H. Mallory's grand Italianate home (and many other Lucas County landmarks) fell as the decades passed. However, the loss during the same year of the Ilion and the equally magnificent St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, also in large part a Mallory project, was a double disaster. St. Andrew's fell victim to a small congregation and dry rot, generating in the early 1950s an impossible repair bill estimate in the hundreds of thousands of dollars to make it safe, so its demise was inevitable. Ilion, on the other hand, was sold as the rock that formed its foundation, but it was impossibly large and inconvenient by mid-20th century standards and hadn't been fully lived in since 1907 when S.H. Mallory's widow, Annie, and daughter, Jessie, fled to Florida after Frank Crocker broke their bank, First National, and them - an accomplishment that once must have seemed impossible. The Mallorys entered my consciousness during 1955 when I accompanied my parents, Daniel and Reefa (Miller) Myers, and Dad's cousin, Edwin Johnson, and his wife, Betty (Marquis) Johnson, to a public open house at the Ilion that preceded by a few days the start of its demolition. The Chariton Rotary Club had held a grand farewell ball at the Ilion a few days earlier with both Iowa's governor, Leo A. Hoegh, and Charles F. Wennerstrum, chief justice of the Iowa Supreme Court, both of whom were Chariton residents, in attendance. I was too young to remember much about the open house. I recall cars parked in every direction on the grounds, the huge (to young eyes) southwest first-floor room, the ballroom, which I recall as having a green marble floor (but I don't think it really did), the grand staircase, the approach stairs to the tower (we were forbidden to use them), a dark first-floor hallway with an harmonium parked against one wall, glimpses into other rooms, and the basement, where a tour guide told small children like myself that built-in storage places for fruit and vegetables actually had been used for corpse storage. My late parents should have remembered more (I always thought). Their friends, Victor and Fern Johnson, lived in (or camped out in portions of) the Ilion when Victor farmed the place and they had visited them there. But they really didn't - hadn't really thought much about the old barn, other than the fact it was very difficult to heat and filled with whispers. If Lucas County ever had a Renaissance man, it probably was Smith Henderson Mallory. A failure to reproduce enthusiastically may have denied him the publicity he deserves. He had one daughter only, Jessie, and she had no children. So there really was no one to perpetuate his memory. And with one exception, the landmarks associated with Mallory, including his grave, have vanished from Lucas County. The exception is the clock in the Lucas County Courthouse tower, brought home from the Columbian Exposition of 1893 and given as a gift by Mallory to the people of Lucas County. To entertain myself, I've pulled together a few things I have on the gentleman, who deserves better, and propose to share them with you here, in several parts. Gary Tharp postcards, accessible thanks to Gary and David on the Lucas County USGenWeb site, will give you an idea of what both Ilion (S.H. Mallory Residence) and St. Andrews looked like. The photos upon which the Ilion postcards were based were taken after 1894, when elaborate porches were wrapped around the house both to facilitate porch parties and make entrance to the house easier on guests. The original design included only a porch to the right of the tower, fronting the windows of the home's parlor and wrapping around the east side of this part of the house to include an elaborate solarium and cover a secondary entrance just north of the parlor. Originally, the main entrance at the base of the tower had no covering, so guests who arrived in bad weather were dripped on, although a canvas canopy shows in some earlier photos, apparently an effort to rectify this problem. The solarium also had a substantially more elaborate roof when the house first was built, so this had been replaced by 1894. The drawing room, or ballroom, was to the left of the tower, in the southwest corner of the house. To the north were the dining room, library and stair hall. Beyond the main block of the house, to the north, was a slightly lower kitchen wing that included quarters for servants. And north of the kitchen wing was an attached, drive-through carriage house, quite progressive for its day. Each of the major rooms had an elaborate fireplace, but it isn't known if the home's central heating system was installed when it was built or somewhat later. Only the finest materials reportedly were used, and those who saw and remembered the chimney pieces, floors, paneling, built-in cupboards and other woodwork say all of it was a sight to behold. Beyond the the postcards, three published biographies of Smith H. Mallory are available online, courtesy of the Iowa Biography Project. David has a link to the 1881 history of Lucas County, and to the Mallory sketch, on the Lucas County page. A longer sketch from the 1896 "A Memorial and Biographical Record of Iowa" and a very short 1903 sketch from Vol. 4 of "History of Iowa from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century" may be accessed via the "State" as opposed to "County" link on the biography project home page. Don't judge Smith H. by the giddy self-promotion apparently evident in some of these sketches. By all accounts, he was a modest man who headed a friendly family that lived very well indeed, but could afford to do so. These biographies were of the vanity-press genre, composed by a stable of writers who embroidered facts provided by the subjects, great and small, with the goal of making them all sound great. Assuming you'll read those immediately, I'll post next Mr. Mallory's death notice, then (after I've had a chance to proofread the monster again), one of his obituaries. Frank D. Myers October 2004

Hi All: This came through on the IA-IRISH Mailing List and it mentions a Lucas County connection -- so thought you might find it interesting. Nancee -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Harlan, Edgar Rubey. A Narrative History of the People of Iowa. Vol IV. Chicago: American Historical Society, 1931 p. 338 THOMAS J. HENNESSEY maintained his home at Missouri Valley, Harrison County, more than thirty years, and during that period he was continuously identified with the undertaking and funeral directing business, in which he was engaged in an independent way during the last twenty years of his life. In his character and his communal service he meant much to this city, and in his chosen sphere of business he maintained the utmost loyalty and highest ideals, while his ministration in the hours of sorrow were ever marked by abiding human sympathy and kindly consideration. The death of Mr. Hennessey occurred in February, 1927, and it is fitting that in this publication be entered a tribute to his memory. Mr. Hennessey was born in Clonmel, Ireland, November 21, 1867, and his death occurred in the Nicholas Senn Hospital, Omaha, Nebraska, February 3, 1927, he having gone from his home to the Nebraska metropolis to receive treatment at the hospital mentioned. The rudimentary education of Mr. Hennessey was acquired in the schools of his native land, and he was a lad of but fourteen years when he severed the home ties and set forth to see his fortune in the United States. >From the port of his disembarking he forthwith proceeded to Des Moines, Iowa, where he learned the upholstering trade in the establishment of the Harbusche Furniture Company, with which he was thus connected a few years, his arrival in Des Moines having occurred in the year 1882. In that city likewise he advanced his education by attending night school and there also he learned the undertaking and embalming business under the direction of a man named Nelson, who was connected with the Newlen furniture and undertaking establishment and who was one of the first licensed embalmers in Iowa. After his marriage Mr. Hennessy continued his residence in Des Moines until January, 1893, when he removed to Missouri Valley and found employment in the undertaking establishment of T. Foss. While thus engaged he ingratiated himself deeply in the confidence and esteem of this community, and this fact proved an asset when, in 1907, he here engaged independently in business as an undertaker and funeral director. For this new place of business he obtained the building that had up to that time been occupied by the T.M. Gilmore Grocery Company, at 507 East Erie Street, and this he fitted up consistently for the uses to which it was to be applied. Here later additions and improvements to the building were made, and here the business has continued since the death of Mr. Hennessey, who had brought his establishment up to the best standard in equipment and service. His gracious and devoted wife proved his faithful and efficient assistant in conducting the business, and in 1925 he admitted to partnership Darwin A. VanCleave, whereupon the present firm title of Hennessey & VanCleave was adopted. Mr. VanCleave is represented in the following sketch and has continued in the management of the business since the death of his beloved partner. Mr. Hennessey continued his active association with the business he had founded until his death set its seal upon his mortal lips, and it is pleasing to record that his nephew, Harold Hennessey, has been connected with the business since 1927 and is ultimately to be admitted to the firm as the virtual successor of his uncle, whose widow still retains the latter's interest in the firm, though she now maintains her home in Sioux City. The religious faith of Mr. Hennessey was that of the Catholic Church, of which he was an earnest communicant, as is also his widow and he was affiliated with the Knights of Columbus as a fourth-degree knight, and also with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Knights and Ladies of Security, the Brotherhood of American Yeomen, the Modern Woodmen of America and the Knights of the Macabees. On the 27th of November, 1888, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hennessey to Miss Nellie E. Schultze, of Chariton, Lucas County, and after his death she removed to Sioux City, which likewise is the home of their only child, Alonzo J. Mr. Hennessey was true and faithful in all the relations of life and his name shall long be held in gracious memory by the people of the city in which he maintained his home many years- until the time of his death. Cathy Joynt Labath Irish in Iowa http://www.celticousins.net/irishiniowa/index.htm ==== IA-IRISH Mailing List ==== Share your Records-Let's All Help Find Ancestors

16 Oct 2004 Frank This is going to be GREAT ! I've thought for years the citizens of Lucas County missed a tremendous opportunity to promote it's fine heritage by letting this beautiful home torn be down. It, today, should be the proud home of the Lucas County Historical Society and could well house the Lucas County Genealogical Society as well. I too was at that final open house in 1955 and, like you, don't remember a great deal about the day. I was 14 years old at the time. I do, however, remember a bit more from other days prior to that. My mother belonged to a social club called "The Sunshine Workers Club" which is still in existence in Chariton. One of the members of that club lived in "Mallory Castle" (as it was known) for a time and I can remember going there with mother to her club meetings. On at least one of those occasions I recall climbing up into that "forbidden" tower and roaming all over the many, many empty rooms throughout the house. It was one spectacular place in it's day. Tons and tons of solid walnut paneling everywhere. After it was razed, the property was sub-divided and a number of homes were built to create what is now known as Ilion Acres. My in-laws built a new home in 1960 on the portion of that sub-division where the castle sat. Nice ranch-style home but it pales in comparison to what was there before. I'm alternatingly sad and mad everytime I think about "Mallory Castle." Gary W. Tharp Long Beach, CA [email protected] -------Original Message------- From: Frank Myers Date: 10/16/04 15:31:01 To: [email protected] Subject: [IALUCAS] Smith Henderson Mallory Part 1 WHY IN THE WOULD SHOULD WE CARE ABOUT SMITH H. MALLORY? A friend asked me last week out of the blue, "Why in the world did they tear Mallory's Castle down?" He was referring to the mansion on what now is Chariton's north edge known formally as "Ilion," constructed during 1879 by Smith Henderson Mallory and demolished during 1955. Chariton, Iowa for that matter, came late to an appreciation of historic preservation, so it is not really surprising that S.H. Mallory's grand Italianate home (and many other Lucas County landmarks) fell as the decades passed. However, the loss during the same year of the Ilion and the equally magnificent St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, also in large part a Mallory project, was a double disaster. St. Andrew's fell victim to a small congregation and dry rot, generating in the early 1950s an impossible repair bill estimate in the hundreds of thousands of dollars to make it safe, so its demise was inevitable. Ilion, on the other hand, was sold as the rock that formed its foundation, but it was impossibly large and inconvenient by mid-20th century standards and hadn't been fully lived in since 1907 when S.H. Mallory's widow, Annie, and daughter, Jessie, fled to Florida after Frank Crocker broke their bank, First National, and them - an accomplishment that once must have seemed impossible. The Mallorys entered my consciousness during 1955 when I accompanied my parents, Daniel and Reefa (Miller) Myers, and Dad's cousin, Edwin Johnson, and his wife, Betty (Marquis) Johnson, to a public open house at the Ilion that preceded by a few days the start of its demolition. The Chariton Rotary Club had held a grand farewell ball at the Ilion a few days earlier with both Iowa's governor, Leo A. Hoegh, and Charles F. Wennerstrum, chief justice of the Iowa Supreme Court, both of whom were Chariton residents, in attendance. I was too young to remember much about the open house. I recall cars parked in every direction on the grounds, the huge (to young eyes) southwest first-floor room, the ballroom, which I recall as having a green marble floor (but I don't think it really did), the grand staircase, the approach stairs to the tower (we were forbidden to use them), a dark first-floor hallway with an harmonium parked against one wall, glimpses into other rooms and the basement, where a tour guide told small children like myself that built-in storage places for fruit and vegetables actually had been used for corpse storage. My late parents should have remembered more (I always thought). Their friends, Victor and Fern Johnson, lived in (or camped out in portions of) the Ilion when Victor farmed the place and they had visited them there. But they really didn't - hadn't really thought much about the old barn, other than the fact it was very difficult to heat and filled with whispers. If Lucas County ever had a Renaissance man, it probably was Smith Henderson Mallory. A failure to reproduce enthusiastically may have denied him the publicity he deserves. He had one daughter only, Jessie, and she had no children. So there really was no one to perpetuate his memory. And with one exception, the landmarks associated with Mallory, including his grave, have vanished from Lucas County. The exception is the clock in the Lucas County Courthouse tower, brought home from the Columbian Exposition of 1893 and given as a gift by Mallory to the people of Lucas County. To entertain myself, I've pulled together a few things I have on the gentleman, who deserves better, and propose to share them with you here, in several parts. Gary Tharp postcards, accessible thanks to Gary and David on the Lucas County USGenWeb site, will give you an idea of what both Ilion (S.H. Mallory Residence) and St. Andrews looked like. The photos upon which the Ilion postcards were based were taken after 1894 when elaborate porches were wrapped around the house both to facilitate porch parties and make entrance to the house easier on guests. The original design included only a porch to the right of the tower, fronting the windows of the home's parlor and wrapping around the east side of this part of the house to include an elaborate solarium and cover a secondary entrance just north of the parlor. Originally, the main entrance at the base of the tower had no covering, so guests who arrived in bad weather were dripped on, although a canvas canopy shows in some earlier photos, apparently an effort to rectify this problem. The solarium also had a substantially more elaborate roof when the house first was built, so this had been replaced by 1894. The drawing room, or ballroom, was to the left of the tower, in the southwest corner of the house To the north were the dining room, library and stair hall. Beyond the main block of the house, to the north, was a slightly lower kitchen wing that included quarters for servants. And north of the kitchen wing was an attached, drive-through carriage house, quite progressive for its day. Each of the major rooms had an elaborate fireplace, but it isn't known if the home's central heating system was installed when it was built or somewhat later. Only the finest materials reportedly were used, and those who saw and remembered the chimney pieces, floors, paneling, built-in cupboards and other woodwork say all of it was a sight to behold. Beyond the the postcards, three published biographies of Smith H. Mallory are available online, courtesy of the Iowa Biography Project. David has a link to the 1881 history of Lucas County, and to the Mallory sketch, on the Lucas County page. A longer sketch from the 1896 "A Memorial and Biographical Record of Iowa" and a very short 1903 sketch from Vol. 4 of History of Iowa from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century" may be accessed via the "State" as opposed to "County" link on the biography project home page. Don't judge Smith H. by the giddy self-promotion apparently evident in some of these sketches. By all accounts he was a modest man who headed a friendly family that lived very well indeed, but could afford to do so. These biographies were of the vanity-press genre, composed by a stable of writers who embroidered facts provided by the subjects, great and small, with the goal of making them all sound great. Assuming you'll read those immediately, I'll post next Mr. Mallory's death notice, then (after I've had a chance to proofread the monster again), one of his obituaries. Frank D. 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The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa Thursday, May 31, 1906 The Leader mentioned a couple of weeks since an accident which befell CHARLES GITTINGER, nephew of G.J. and H.W. GITTINGER, of this city, while at work on the railroad at Melrose, in which he was struck in the eye with a piece of steel. He has been in Chariton since, taking treatment in the hopes of saving it, but on Sunday the doctors decided that it would have to be removed or the other eye would become affected. He is now feeling well and is encouraged that his vision will not be entirely lost. After the eye was removed it was examined and a sliver of steel three-eighths of an inch in length was found in the posterior. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert October 16, 2004 [email protected]

The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa Thursday, May 31, 1906 LUCAS LEDGER ITEMS: WM. ANDREA of Union Township is building a 12x20 addition to his residence. T.J. PHILLIPS of Ottumwa came up yesterday to look after his business connected with the Cleveland mine. ROY EKLEBERRY who has been visiting relatives in Union Township left yesterday for his home in Seattle, Wash. MISS INA KNOTTS who has spent the past three months with relatives north of Lucas, left last Monday for her home at Kirksville. MARY MUSGRAVE who was taken to the Cottage Hospital at Creston the first of the month, to be operated on for appendicitis, was able to be brought home last Saturday. The whistle at No. 4 signalled the call for work Monday evening and Supt. D.O. CAMPBELL soon had the telephone lines at work sending the news to men gone to seek employment in other coal fields offering their rooms and places back if they wanted to return. We are told there are about seventy-five men at No. 4 now but in the course of a couple of weeks the old number will be back again. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert October 16, 2004 [email protected]

The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa Thursday, May 31, 1906 A young lady having relatives in Chariton was to have met a young man by the name of BARBER, from Ottumwa, last night, and they were to be married. Invitations had been issued, the wedding garments provided and the feast ordered at the bake shop. The young man appeared on the scene but just before the happy hour, the groom to be, received word that his lady love had been married to a rival, a few days ago. Thus ends a romance in real life and proves anew the fickleness of the human heart. The young man had his home furnished but returned sorrowfully this morning to his cheerless abode. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert October 16, 2004 [email protected] *Does anyone know who this might have been?

The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa Thursday, May 31, 1906 LOCAL NEWS: A number of relief trains went through this city last Friday night and Saturday, conveying provisions to the sufferers in San Francisco. MRS. ANDY POTTS was called to Melrose Monday by the serious illness of her mother, MRS. MCKILLIP. FLUKE has not only the largest stock but the best assortment of Wall Paper in the city. See his line. Constable H.C. WAYNICK and Deputy Sheriff Gittinger went down into Washington Township Wednesday night and arrested a farmer boy -- charged with a serious offense. It is to be hoped that the young man can clear himself of the charge. THOS. WOODMAN, son-in-law of WM. MULLEN, is suffering with lung trouble and has erected a tent in which he will live for a time and try the health giving qualities of nature. It is hoped that his condition will improve. MRS. J.D. KNOTTS and little daughter HYLLAS of Lucas, who had been in the city for several days where the latter was receiving X-ray treatments from Dr. Yocom for trouble with her neck, returned home yesterday. W.H. QUERRY, formerly of Russell, who traded for a livery barn at Davis City, a few weeks ago and moved down there, has exchanged the business for residence property in Chariton and has established his family home here. J.G. HALL, of Ottumwa, has leased one of the business rooms in the Copeland block, on the south side, and will soon open a new shoe store. A new front will be put in the building, the stairway built on the alley and everything placed in modern shape. MR. HALL is here now and expects to get his establishment launched in the forepart of May. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert October 16, 2004 [email protected]

Hi All: I wanted to share a note that Frank Myers sent to me -- you'll all enjoy this information... Thanks, Frank!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Nancee, I've been reading with interest the Chariton newspaper articles. I think you'll discover that the author of many of the unattributed historically-oriented articles that appear in The Leader (including The Early Prospects) was in fact The Leader's editor and publisher, Henry W. Gittinger. He was fascinated by local history and tended to do this sort of thing, not bothering to sign his name, assuming that subscribers in that era would know he was using his editor's pen. He also solicited historical accounts from many others, both during his tenure at The Leader and during earlier work at The Russell News, but the source of those solicited articles always is indicated. A sure indication that Henry was writing is reference to Washington Township. That's where H.W. was raised and his grandfather, Xury West, was the first settler of that township. Cheers, Frank

16 Oct 2004 James John Clark below who married Eliza Ricketts is a brother of Alpheus Clark. Both are sons of William & Margaret Clark who are found in the 1860 & 1870 Census of Independence Township (Appanoose Co.) IA. Goldie Clark below is the daughter of James & Helen Clark. From the census I cannot establish that James is also a brother of John & Alpheus. There is no son James in the William Clark household in the 1860 or 1870 census. However -- Alpheus & Pearl; James & Helen & John & Eliza Clark are all buried in Rows 14-15 of Mt. Zion Cemetery in Liberty Township (Lucas Co.) IA Goldie & husband Charles Burgett are also buried there. Eliza Ricketts 1st marriage was to Allison Baker by whom she had 3 children. I surmise Allison died in the Civil War and she subsequently married John Clark. Thus Bakers in Mt. Zion Cemetery also. More than one member of my ancestral line married into the Burgett family. Just a little more info for the pot. Gary W. Tharp Long Beach, CA [email protected] -------Original Message------- From: [email protected] Date: 10/16/04 07:06:29 To: [email protected] Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Goldie Clark m. Chas. Burgett, 1902 Re: [IALUCAS] Mrs. Golda Burgett and Al= =3D?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Greetings James. Below is some information of possible interest. Only have a bit of time this morning to work on this.. 1. Lucas Co. Marriages, 1849-1918, p. 76 5 Jan 1902 Goldie Clark, 17, married Charles Burgett, 20, Lucas Co., IA 2. History of Lucas Co., 1978 edition, p. 465 This source has a short article about the Charles Burgett Family in which it states that "Golda I. Clark was born May 3, 1884". It doesn't state her parents name. 3. Lucas County Cemetery Records, p. 48 Mt. Zion Cemtery, Lincoln Twp. Golda Burgett is buried at Row 15 N-S, #2. There are several Burgett's buried there as well as Clark's. The eldest Clark seems to be John Clark, b. 1844-1906 Co. F. 36 Ia. GAR and wf Eliza A. 1840- 1906 buried in the previous Row # 14S-N, # 1. Nearby are buried Krutsingers, Van Winkle's, Bakers. etc. This is the outline of what I have thus far for the John Clark family .... Need to work at more connections myself. I am from the Werts line. I would assume that one of the children below is your link? Descendants of John Clark 23 John Clark 1844 - 1906 .... +Eliza Ann Ricketts 1840 - 1906 ... 24 Edward Clark 1871 - ... 24 Adella Clark 1872 - ... 24 Floyd Clark 1877 - ... 24 Margaret "Mame" "Mary Grace" Clark 1879 - ......... +Charles Martel Werts, M.D. 1876 - 1946 ... 24 Edith Mae/May Clark 1881 - 1967 ......... +Samuel Pearl Wheeler 1881 - ....... 25 Orval Wheeler 1905 - 1937 ............. +Opal Russell ........... 26 Margaret Ann Wheeler ................. +_____ Goff ............... 27 girl #1 Goff ............... 27 girl #2 Goff ............... 27 girl #3 Goff ....... 25 Don Wheeler 1910 - 1974 ............. +Edna Russell ....... 25 Hazel W. Wheeler 1918 - ... 24 Edna Clark 1886 - Hope this information helps in you search. Mary Beth in Wisconsin On 16.10.2004 at 08:32:52, <[email protected]> wrote: > Good morning to all, > > James Murphy has sent the below email to me. Anyone connected to > him? Contact > James at [email protected] > > Thanks, Deborah > > Thanks to Deborah, great find for me. > > Alf's my grandfather, Nina's my mother, > Glenn Clark's my uncle, Alta Clark's my aunt. > > Can anyone tell me how Mrs. Golda Burgett is a cousin to Alta Clark, > can't > find them in my genealogy. > > James Murphy > > > > > > > > > > > > The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa > Thursday, May 17, 1906 > > LIBERTY TOWNSHIP NEWS: > > ZORA and GRACE BURGETT visited ANDREW MALONE and wife Sunday. > > The party at CICERO GILLASPY's last Saturday evening was well > attended, there > being between 40 and 50 present. Some excellent music was furnished > by ELVA > VANWINKLE and JAMES JOHNS. Various games were played and an > enjoyable time was > had by all. The guests departed at the midnight hour. > > ELSIE HULBERT and MAY, GAY, TESSIE, VIVIAN and EDITH BURGETT spent > Sunday at > ALF CLARK's and helped NINA to celebrate her 14th birthday. > > A basket ball game was played last Sunday between the Blues and the > Reds. It > resulted in a victory for the Reds by a score of 8 to 4. VERN > BURGETT was > referee and CORY HOLMES was timekeeper. The line up was as follows: > Blues - JIM > GILLASPY, center; LLOYD MIKSELL, right forward; SAM ARMON, left > forward; EARL > MIKSELL, right back; WALTER MUMFORD, left back. Reds - GLENN CLARK, > center; > ERNEST RAMSEY, right forward; FRED MORGAN, left forward; RAY > KRUTSINGER, right > back; RALPH MIKSELL, left back. > > ALTA CLARK visited her cousin, MRS. GOLDA BURGETT, a couple of days > last > week. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > > Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert > October 14, 2004 > [email protected] > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ialucas/Main.htm > > > > > > ==== IALUCAS Mailing List ==== > David, [email protected]: Lucas County List Administrator, > Website Coordinator, Lucas County IA Genweb - > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ialucas/Main.htm > > ============================== > You can manage your RootsWeb-Review subscription from > http://newsletters.rootsweb.com/ > > ==== IALUCAS Mailing List ==== David, [email protected]: Lucas County List Administrator, Website Coordinator, Lucas County IA Genweb - http://www.rootsweb com/~ialucas/Main.htm ============================== You can manage your RootsWeb-Review subscription from http://newsletters.rootsweb.com/

Good morning to all, James Murphy has sent the below email to me. Anyone connected to him? Contact James at [email protected] Thanks, Deborah Thanks to Deborah, great find for me. Alf's my grandfather, Nina's my mother, Glenn Clark's my uncle, Alta Clark's my aunt. Can anyone tell me how Mrs. Golda Burgett is a cousin to Alta Clark, can't find them in my genealogy. James Murphy The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa Thursday, May 17, 1906 LIBERTY TOWNSHIP NEWS: ZORA and GRACE BURGETT visited ANDREW MALONE and wife Sunday. The party at CICERO GILLASPY's last Saturday evening was well attended, there being between 40 and 50 present. Some excellent music was furnished by ELVA VANWINKLE and JAMES JOHNS. Various games were played and an enjoyable time was had by all. The guests departed at the midnight hour. ELSIE HULBERT and MAY, GAY, TESSIE, VIVIAN and EDITH BURGETT spent Sunday at ALF CLARK's and helped NINA to celebrate her 14th birthday. A basket ball game was played last Sunday between the Blues and the Reds. It resulted in a victory for the Reds by a score of 8 to 4. VERN BURGETT was referee and CORY HOLMES was timekeeper. The line up was as follows: Blues - JIM GILLASPY, center; LLOYD MIKSELL, right forward; SAM ARMON, left forward; EARL MIKSELL, right back; WALTER MUMFORD, left back. Reds - GLENN CLARK, center; ERNEST RAMSEY, right forward; FRED MORGAN, left forward; RAY KRUTSINGER, right back; RALPH MIKSELL, left back. ALTA CLARK visited her cousin, MRS. GOLDA BURGETT, a couple of days last week. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert October 14, 2004 [email protected] http://www.rootsweb.com/~ialucas/Main.htm