28 Apl 2000 MO-Abstracts Read-Only List -------------------------------------------------------- Source (1 of 2): "The Carrollton Democrat" Carrollton, Carroll County, MO 13 Apl 1999 Obit: Billie Gene WILLIS (of Waverly, Saline County, MO) d 10 Apl 1999, at home b 12 Aug 1930, Carrollton, MO s/o Marie (OWENS) & William Alvin WILLIS m/Elizabeth Elmira McBEE, 27 Sept 1950, Bogard, Carroll County, MO (Elizabeth d 19 Mch 1990) burial in Oak Hill Cemetery in Carrollton --- Source (2 of 2): "The History of Dentistry in Missouri" published 1938, Fulton, Callaway County, MO Bio: (pp 49-50) Henry Howard KEITH (1847-1899) b 14 June 1847 Salem, Massachusetts only s/o Katie M. & Amos B. KEITH resided in Boston until War Between the States then moved w/family to Chicago apprenticed in jewelry w/his uncle in NY 1864: to Philadelphia 1868: to Baltimore abt 1870: to Newark, NJ m/Miss Nana L. BENTEEN (of Baltimore) Feb 1871: to St. Louis d 26 Jan 1899 St. Louis ashes shipped to Asheville, NC for burial Bio: (p 50) John CAMPBELL [no dates] left OH [no date] Spring 1854: reached Chicago by rail then to Peoria; then to Canton [no dates] studied dentistry for 3 weeks in Canton w/a quack who then pronounced him a dentist first practiced in Beardstown (on the IL River) Autumn 1854: to St. Louis in St. Louis: met C.W. SPALDING; Edward HALE, Jr; Harry BARRON; H.J.B. McKELLOPS and Isaiah FORBES finally entered the office of Dr. SPALDING, where, in 2 yrs, he did learn dentistry