This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Charlton, Chase, Griffin, Whitworth, Speck, Monroe, Polly, Hinchey, Coleman, Wilkinson Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zMB.2ACI/852 Message Board Post: IRON COUNTY REGISTER, Ironton, Iron Co. MO, Thurs. Feb. 28, 1935. MORE MAINSTREET MEMORIES PART 2 By Cora Chase Charlton What a "find" for a character delineator, Granny Griffin! She brought so much of the "Auld Sod" direct to our provincial valley. A forceful person and a warm Irish heart she had in her! The long cape did give her a witch-like aspect to us children. I've seen her in the rain wending her way up Main Street with several children sheltered beneath its folds, revealed by the extra pairs of feet and legs visible beneath. No discredit to her that her "byes" were still "byes" after they were old men. Perhaps I'm no judge as to that for all over thirty were aged to me then, a viewpoint I strongly resent now. Once testifying in court, (I forgot the occasion), she brought down the house because, (perhaps through ignorance of our language), she ascribed to one of these sons an anatomical disarrangement which is the prerogative of the opposite sex. How soon the children of such take on American ways and are like the rest of us. Such is the potency of the "Melting Pot." So the writer of Main Street remembers the memorable flood! There was a birthday party in progress at the old, and luckily ample, Whitworth home that night. It must have been March 1st, the year I forgot. Mart Speck came riding gallantly, like Paul Revere, to warn of a broken dam west of Shepherd Mountain, which in connection with the heavy rainfall spelled danger. If I remember, soon not even a horse could have negotiated the distance between the creek and Whitworth's. It is my recollection that quite a number spent the night where they were. I could fill pages with memories of that one home. It was my privilege to be there a great deal. Although I am traveling "light" over these "memory lanes," treating them from a childhood view-point largely, I will digress to say that the family in this home represented substantially, financially and otherwise. They "carried on" despite the tragedy of the early loss of a mother's care. A loss that can never be estimated. They ranked large in the history making of the valley. When asked recently at a social function to join in the recital of "Our most embarrassing moment," I told of my tragic humiliation when I forgot to return the butter-knife to the butter dish, and "Mr. Monroe" had to ask me for it. "Billie" looking on and enjoying my discomforture. No doubt there were other things about which I might far better have been embarrassed, had I begun to "take notice" of those particular things. Other memories of that table were very pleasant. I seem to recall a perpetually heap! ed platter of fried chicken and all the "trimmin's," served, some of the time at least, by that redoubtable figure in early Ironton days, Mary Polly, rest her soul! Had I known enough to "take down" all the darkydom that I knew in those days, my fortune as a writer would be made, now. For instance, (disgressing again), had I been a short hand reporter and had taken down the time they had a debating club at the Colored Church on the hillside and I heard two Negroes debate, "Can thuh sun whop thuh rain or thuh rain whop thuh sun?" The importance of being a young girl in full charge of all that house and its menage was not lost on us from authority in our young lives. The only questioning of the young housekeeper's authority that I remember came from her younger brother. Similar strivings occur in most homes, but it is not often that a "little brother" is in such a subservient position with regard to so slightly older a sister. Clashes in authority were therefore rather frequent and lively. Croquet figured largely as a diversion in those days, even the head of the house enjoying games in between times. I recall that the sole "heating system," aside from a kitchen stove, in that large house, as in so many southern homes, was a good sized fire place in every room. I tried to find out what the nature of the "paint," for so I called it, which he used to go over the hearths of these same "chimbly fiahs" restoring their pristine brightness from time to time, but no one remembers. We could always get a nice shivery thrill by going to attic rooms where in spite of many scourings stains still were distinguishable on the floor boards, dating from the time when the house was new, I imagine, and was commandeered into hospital service at the time of Price's Raid. This was a train of thoughts we tried to banish, as now and then happened the head of the family was off to St. Louis buying, and we two were apt to be alone in the big house. I might be safest to refrain from mentioning that we were not the serene type of friends who soothe each other into tame neutrality, but the kind who keep each other poised, faculties alert, and all set for a brush! That is the desirable attitude they now say, with regard not only to friendship but love and marriage and parenthood. No form of stagnation can get a toe hold in such an atmosphere. Anyway, we had our times of balancing wits in spirited tit-for-tats which left nothing to be desired by way of ennui dispelling. At the height of one such tilts my friend hurled at me what I imagine was the most damaging accusation she could think of at the moment, i.e., namely, to-wit, that at our house was kept hanging in the woodshed a very long time dead and smelly fish, from which my mother sliced "the makin's" of a table dish which we actually ate! In the interests of peace, although two thousand miles separate us, I think I had better not recall to memory my comeback. I think i! t was ample. I will add that my mother's scorn of sauerkraut was as nothing to a real Southerner's detestation of that good old Yankee delicacy, Cod-fish, which came au-natural in those days. To illustrate what our girlish friendships outlived, once my friend Celene and I tempted the fates by making a solemn pact to tell each other what we considered worst in the personal appearance of each. Being the oldest she was elected to "tell" first. She did. Imagine how the iron pierced my soul when she gave me a judicial once-over and announced "Your legs are too big for your head." (The temptations to bring a smile to the face of any still living cotemporary overcomes any prudish considerations I might have about repeating this!) I was so paralyzed by this blow to my pride that I never remembered whether I fulfilled my part of the contract. Those who remember Celene will know it would have been hard to point to any defect in her looks. I dare say her estimate was good. I may, even to this day, be suffering from arrested development of the head! I do know that strenuous use of my legs was one of my early portions, even to carrying family water from a well two ravines awa! y. Oh that well! Oh that loaded wild grapevine near it! Oh that mat of vivid green moss in the same ravine! Who remembers? I hate to leave the Whitworth home without mention of the room that held the magnets to me, a piano! It was one of the old time "parlors" in very truth, large, seldom used. Well to do families strove to keep in reserve for the great occasions such a room. Portraits of all the family, done by Hinchey, a mark of much distinction in those days, hung all around, flush with the ceiling, as was the custom then. How I envied my friend her "lessons" from Julia Coleman, who years later, told me had she divined then my longing and my ability, she would gladly have taught me. But it was too late, then, or so we thought. It was a family woman. I must have had the impetus all right, for my hunger for the piano has never been appeased although I have owned three pianos since and play every chance I get when radios and people do not interfere. The violin took second place and the guitar was a makeshift until I got something better. I saw nothing in Washington, D.C., so romantic to me as the rooms in the National Museum which housed the dozens of old pianos. How easy in the dim light, to picture countless white fingers playing them, countless lovers leaning over them. I have often wondered where the last resting place of the piano on which my friend used to tinkle out the accompaniment to our voices singing "Danube River." Mention of the guitar determines me to skip up to Wilkinson's from here, and invade that family. There is no doubt but that in childhood days I was usually "skipping up to Wilkinson's" or down.

Delightful. Thank You! ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2003 10:21 PM Subject: [MOIRON] More Mainstreet Memories - Part 1 > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Charlton, Chase, Ebert, Lewis, Scoville, Russell, Austin, Medley, Ryan, Speck, Markham, Hunt, May, Emerson, Schultz, Baldwin > Classification: Biography > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zMB.2ACI/851 > > Message Board Post: > > > IRON COUNTY REGISTER, Ironton, Iron Co. MO, Thurs. Feb. 14, 1935. > > MORE MAINSTREET MEMORIES > PART 1 > By Cora Chase Charlton > Oh, these wonderful, wonderful, minds of ours! So superficially understood! At the touch of memory come whole reels of movies with perfect sound and color effects. That great Judgment Book? Will it be this very mechanism, geared to work perfectly? > > One can imagine the different pictures "released" in various minds by those recent reminiscences of Old Main Street days. I thank the writer and the publisher in behalf of my sister and myself for the pleasure experienced in reading them. I have been given the privilege of commenting on the scenes and memories touched upon. The greatest temptation will be to overtax the space and time of the printers. I beg to be allowed to be human, natural, intimate. > > I am going to begin at an incident here in Seattle, which I recount as one of many strange coincidences in my life. I took a street car for the city one evening, and, as one will, rapidly chose to sit with a sweet faced old lady who had saucy little gray curls all around a quaint bonnet. As is the Western custom there were no formalities to her beginning a conversation. "What do you suppose is in that bag?" she said. I said I couldn't guess. "It's manuscripts," she said. "I'm a writer." She told of just having received a $700.00 prize for a story from Collier's. I told her I was on my way then to the Seattle Writer's Club, but that I had no such success as that to point to. > > We talked along easily and while doing so I noted a young colored woman who came in and sat ahead of us. I noted that she had lightish frizz-hair with reddish tones in it, freckles and blue eyes, a type rarely seen, especially out here. I was thinking to myself, I never saw just the same type except one of Aunt Phoebe's girls. After a silence the old lady said, "Have you noticed that girl? I never saw but one like her." Then after a pause she added, "That was in a little town in Missouri." I said, "what little town in Missouri?" and she replied, "Ironton. I used to spend my summers there." And we were thinking of the same identical girl! The old lady is dead now. Her name was Ebert. She has sons here or had. So much for that movie of the past. > > Our writer began at the bridge between Arcadia and Ironton. It is terrible to skip Arcadia and all south of it. Maybe I won't, for memories come surging. For instance the time my mother consented for me to wander what seemed then to a foreign country to Arcadia to visit with a daughter of the Lewis family. Mr. Lewis was then president of the old college, a Methodist institution. You may imagine a hot and flustered little girl timidly stepping up on the porch and a raucous voice screeching out, "Hello, Cora." But I think you will fail to grasp that little girl's consternation at discovering the words coming from a green bird such as she had never before seen or heard of, in a large cage overhead. It might be well to explain that there was a Cora in the Lewis family. > > Commencement day at that old college brought out the highest talent the Valley boasted in those days. I can remember Kate Scoville in piano solos. Marie Russell singing the duet "A Poor Gypsy Maid" with someone, and at a picnic on the grand old lawn a young chap from St. Louis giving the first rendition ever heard by me of "The Flying Trapeze." Yes, it is that old. Old romances and their thrill, not referring to any of my own, come back. Who can remember when Jim Austin ran away with the Belle of Arcadia, Sally Medley? Who can remember Tom Ryan's handsome eyes? The "smugged in" Irish eyes. Who can remember the grand balls at the old Arcadia house? Even before my dancing days. > > First Speck's. With their grounds so carefully laid out and kept, copying earlier days spent in England, and the bridge, one of the accepted destinations for all strollers. I have the unpleasant memories of close encounters with water moccasins around there. Once I picked up a little perfectly round stone, we will call it, which was velvety black, the size of a small pea, and very hard to the teeth. It lay around for years among trinkets, then I got interested in what it could be. No jeweler or anyone could tell me. I had it set in a handsome gold mounting and called it my black pearl. Indeed it was not impossible it might have been one, a fresh water pearl. It excited admiration for years. I never sought to protect it from water or in any way. Then I noticed a roughness in it and a coating, like a hard outer skin started to peel off. We decided then it must have been a very unusual and hard seed of some kind. It was my intention to plant and watch it, but about then it came! > out of the setting and was lost. I would have liked to have raised more "pearls" like it. > > Each of the Markham family might well have been considered an institution in that Valley. Mr. Markham, a very pedantic institution, though he was at times quite human. I recall the bible he presented to me as I lay with my first new born baby in my arms, and the really choice things he said to me as he presented it. He was colportering at the time in Wayne County. I also remember when Fred Hunt, Mrs. Dr. May's brother, given to being carried away with great enthusiasms, was first converted and looking about for someone to "save" hit upon Mr. Markham. Mr. Markham, a life time student of the Bible and religions, but not quite demonstrative enough to suit Fred, listened patiently, then quoted in a mild voice, "I would recommend that you work out your own salvation with fear and trembling," then resumed his deep studies. What an institution was Fanny. It is one of the pleasantest recollections of my girlhood, being, seemingly, always welcome in "Fanny's room." A room where one g! > limpsed things of the outer world, little touches of aesthetic beauty. A room where nothing was too good for common use. A room where plants outdid themselves, and where the sun made free every hour that it was shining. I remember in days of illness when far away in a prairie region with scanty and poor water supply, how my mind taunted me with recollections of Addie's ice cold well in solid rock, and Emerson's spring! Please, won't somebody go and get a good drink for me at those two places! He doesn't deserve to get into print but I'll mention Mr. Markham's old horse Pete. He had the distinction of having the only horse that ever threw me, and he "repeated" the third time before I got home. He could flip his tail in such a way that anyone on him took a tail spin off ahead of him. > > I would like to mention in passing that Fred Hunt would have ranked with our known humorists if he had bent his energies to making his witticisms permanent. I recall many of his "sayings." He came to our house one Sunday afternoon and my sister, then about six, hastened to show him a new plaid dress which was mostly a bright red. She informed him, "This is my new redinggote," that being a sort of draped tunic fashionable then. "Ah," he said. "I see the red, but where, may I ask is the goat?" > > Few people knew that Addie, in a shy way, was also a humorist. He was peddling in his canvas top vegetable wagon once in Pilot Knob, and happened to see a woman's hand reaching slyly under the side cover with the intention of purloining. He calmly reached back and gave her hand a good friendly shake, and she never tried that again. > > Addie was a friend to the community when he began to ship in and peddle articles of diet such as celery, barrels of dill pickles, kraut. I had first enjoyed the boon of tasting sauerkraut at the Schultz home. I discovered that it was a delicacy I must have been starved for back through generations of ancestors. My own family thought it a most vitiated taste, and I never had any unless I could beg a dime and with a small tin pail, go to the Schultz's after some. > > Skipping the Emerson place which is a whole article in itself, I cross the road to recall a phenomenal hail storm which left the iron roof of the old Baldwin mill looking like the top of a salt shaker. If people had not been able to see clear around the cloud that produced it, it would have been a time of terror indeed. The hail stones sounded on the houses as if they were being bombarded with large rocks, a scattering several, then more and more and finally a fusilade. The stones were peculiarly shaped, looking most of all like those old fashioned pincushions made to imitate a tomato, flat and pinched in on both sides at the center. Most of them weighed over a pound. They hit the earth and rebounded as high as tree tops, in every direction. I can also remember a brief snow storm there which snowed not flakes but snow balls. I hope some "oldest inhabitants" can be trotted out to substantiate my stories. >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Charlton, Chase, Ebert, Lewis, Scoville, Russell, Austin, Medley, Ryan, Speck, Markham, Hunt, May, Emerson, Schultz, Baldwin Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zMB.2ACI/851 Message Board Post: IRON COUNTY REGISTER, Ironton, Iron Co. MO, Thurs. Feb. 14, 1935. MORE MAINSTREET MEMORIES PART 1 By Cora Chase Charlton Oh, these wonderful, wonderful, minds of ours! So superficially understood! At the touch of memory come whole reels of movies with perfect sound and color effects. That great Judgment Book? Will it be this very mechanism, geared to work perfectly? One can imagine the different pictures "released" in various minds by those recent reminiscences of Old Main Street days. I thank the writer and the publisher in behalf of my sister and myself for the pleasure experienced in reading them. I have been given the privilege of commenting on the scenes and memories touched upon. The greatest temptation will be to overtax the space and time of the printers. I beg to be allowed to be human, natural, intimate. I am going to begin at an incident here in Seattle, which I recount as one of many strange coincidences in my life. I took a street car for the city one evening, and, as one will, rapidly chose to sit with a sweet faced old lady who had saucy little gray curls all around a quaint bonnet. As is the Western custom there were no formalities to her beginning a conversation. "What do you suppose is in that bag?" she said. I said I couldn't guess. "It's manuscripts," she said. "I'm a writer." She told of just having received a $700.00 prize for a story from Collier's. I told her I was on my way then to the Seattle Writer's Club, but that I had no such success as that to point to. We talked along easily and while doing so I noted a young colored woman who came in and sat ahead of us. I noted that she had lightish frizz-hair with reddish tones in it, freckles and blue eyes, a type rarely seen, especially out here. I was thinking to myself, I never saw just the same type except one of Aunt Phoebe's girls. After a silence the old lady said, "Have you noticed that girl? I never saw but one like her." Then after a pause she added, "That was in a little town in Missouri." I said, "what little town in Missouri?" and she replied, "Ironton. I used to spend my summers there." And we were thinking of the same identical girl! The old lady is dead now. Her name was Ebert. She has sons here or had. So much for that movie of the past. Our writer began at the bridge between Arcadia and Ironton. It is terrible to skip Arcadia and all south of it. Maybe I won't, for memories come surging. For instance the time my mother consented for me to wander what seemed then to a foreign country to Arcadia to visit with a daughter of the Lewis family. Mr. Lewis was then president of the old college, a Methodist institution. You may imagine a hot and flustered little girl timidly stepping up on the porch and a raucous voice screeching out, "Hello, Cora." But I think you will fail to grasp that little girl's consternation at discovering the words coming from a green bird such as she had never before seen or heard of, in a large cage overhead. It might be well to explain that there was a Cora in the Lewis family. Commencement day at that old college brought out the highest talent the Valley boasted in those days. I can remember Kate Scoville in piano solos. Marie Russell singing the duet "A Poor Gypsy Maid" with someone, and at a picnic on the grand old lawn a young chap from St. Louis giving the first rendition ever heard by me of "The Flying Trapeze." Yes, it is that old. Old romances and their thrill, not referring to any of my own, come back. Who can remember when Jim Austin ran away with the Belle of Arcadia, Sally Medley? Who can remember Tom Ryan's handsome eyes? The "smugged in" Irish eyes. Who can remember the grand balls at the old Arcadia house? Even before my dancing days. First Speck's. With their grounds so carefully laid out and kept, copying earlier days spent in England, and the bridge, one of the accepted destinations for all strollers. I have the unpleasant memories of close encounters with water moccasins around there. Once I picked up a little perfectly round stone, we will call it, which was velvety black, the size of a small pea, and very hard to the teeth. It lay around for years among trinkets, then I got interested in what it could be. No jeweler or anyone could tell me. I had it set in a handsome gold mounting and called it my black pearl. Indeed it was not impossible it might have been one, a fresh water pearl. It excited admiration for years. I never sought to protect it from water or in any way. Then I noticed a roughness in it and a coating, like a hard outer skin started to peel off. We decided then it must have been a very unusual and hard seed of some kind. It was my intention to plant and watch it, but about then it came! out of the setting and was lost. I would have liked to have raised more "pearls" like it. Each of the Markham family might well have been considered an institution in that Valley. Mr. Markham, a very pedantic institution, though he was at times quite human. I recall the bible he presented to me as I lay with my first new born baby in my arms, and the really choice things he said to me as he presented it. He was colportering at the time in Wayne County. I also remember when Fred Hunt, Mrs. Dr. May's brother, given to being carried away with great enthusiasms, was first converted and looking about for someone to "save" hit upon Mr. Markham. Mr. Markham, a life time student of the Bible and religions, but not quite demonstrative enough to suit Fred, listened patiently, then quoted in a mild voice, "I would recommend that you work out your own salvation with fear and trembling," then resumed his deep studies. What an institution was Fanny. It is one of the pleasantest recollections of my girlhood, being, seemingly, always welcome in "Fanny's room." A room where one g! limpsed things of the outer world, little touches of aesthetic beauty. A room where nothing was too good for common use. A room where plants outdid themselves, and where the sun made free every hour that it was shining. I remember in days of illness when far away in a prairie region with scanty and poor water supply, how my mind taunted me with recollections of Addie's ice cold well in solid rock, and Emerson's spring! Please, won't somebody go and get a good drink for me at those two places! He doesn't deserve to get into print but I'll mention Mr. Markham's old horse Pete. He had the distinction of having the only horse that ever threw me, and he "repeated" the third time before I got home. He could flip his tail in such a way that anyone on him took a tail spin off ahead of him. I would like to mention in passing that Fred Hunt would have ranked with our known humorists if he had bent his energies to making his witticisms permanent. I recall many of his "sayings." He came to our house one Sunday afternoon and my sister, then about six, hastened to show him a new plaid dress which was mostly a bright red. She informed him, "This is my new redinggote," that being a sort of draped tunic fashionable then. "Ah," he said. "I see the red, but where, may I ask is the goat?" Few people knew that Addie, in a shy way, was also a humorist. He was peddling in his canvas top vegetable wagon once in Pilot Knob, and happened to see a woman's hand reaching slyly under the side cover with the intention of purloining. He calmly reached back and gave her hand a good friendly shake, and she never tried that again. Addie was a friend to the community when he began to ship in and peddle articles of diet such as celery, barrels of dill pickles, kraut. I had first enjoyed the boon of tasting sauerkraut at the Schultz home. I discovered that it was a delicacy I must have been starved for back through generations of ancestors. My own family thought it a most vitiated taste, and I never had any unless I could beg a dime and with a small tin pail, go to the Schultz's after some. Skipping the Emerson place which is a whole article in itself, I cross the road to recall a phenomenal hail storm which left the iron roof of the old Baldwin mill looking like the top of a salt shaker. If people had not been able to see clear around the cloud that produced it, it would have been a time of terror indeed. The hail stones sounded on the houses as if they were being bombarded with large rocks, a scattering several, then more and more and finally a fusilade. The stones were peculiarly shaped, looking most of all like those old fashioned pincushions made to imitate a tomato, flat and pinched in on both sides at the center. Most of them weighed over a pound. They hit the earth and rebounded as high as tree tops, in every direction. I can also remember a brief snow storm there which snowed not flakes but snow balls. I hope some "oldest inhabitants" can be trotted out to substantiate my stories.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sherrill Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zMB.2ACI/850 Message Board Post: Hi Donna, I am searching for information for my great grandmother Lou A. Sherrill Farmer. She was born in Jackson County NC in the 1870's. She married William P. Farmer and lived in Waynesville, NC most of her life. She was the mother of my grandmother Clyde Vivian Farmer. I have one reference showing her mother to be Belle Queen but I'm not sure if that is correct. Do you have any information on her? Thanks Paul Lyda

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HICKMAN, JONES, LUCY, McCORMICK Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zMB.2ACI/849 Message Board Post: Is there an Obit for Mary Jane Hickman born Dec 18, 1845-died April 2, 1914 buried in Des Arc Hickman Cemetery, Also one on Thomas Jefferson Hickman born May 23, 1838 died Jan 20, 1904? John Hickman born April 10, 1871-died March 2, 1937 I believe he was a Doctor. Henry Hickman born-died May 18, 1896 Martha Hickman-Lucy born jan 30, 1887-died Oct 21, 1908I believe they are all buried in Inron Co or Des Arc. Thomas and Mary had nine children that I know of but it seems that 5 of them died real young does anyone know why? the five were Mary,Daniel, James,Henry and Nellie. Will be grateful for any help! Kathy B.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HICKMAN, LUCY, McCormick, JONES, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zMB.2ACI/848 Message Board Post: Is there an Obit for Mary Jane Hickman born Dec 18, 1845-died April 2, 1914 buried in Des Arc Hickman Cemetery, Also one on Thomas Jefferson Hickman born May 23, 1838 died Jan 20, 1904? John Hickman born April 10, 1871-died March 2, 1937 I believe he was a Doctor. Henry Hickman born-died May 18, 1896 Martha Hickman-Lucy born jan 30, 1887-died Oct 21, 1908I believe they are all buried in Inron Co or Des Arc. Thomas and Mary had nine children that I know of but it seems that 5 of them died real young does anyone know why? the five were Mary,Daniel, James,Henry and Nellie. Will be grateful for any help! Kathy B.

HICKMAN, Thomas age 42 TN-TN-TN farming Mary J. " 33 NC-NC-NC John T. " 09 MO Henry C. " 06 " Nancy J. " 03 " Nelley " 1 month 09, June 1880 - Des Arc, Iron Co., Mo. - page 573B Lloyd C. [email protected] wrote: >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >Surnames: LASSITER, HICKMAN, JONES, KING >Classification: Query > >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zMB.2ACI/847 > >Message Board Post: > >Does anyone have and information on the HICKMAN family from Des Arc? Thomas Jefferson HICKMAN who was my gg-grandfather I need to know were he came from and who his parents were? Thomas Jefferson HICKMAN born May 23, 1838, married Mary Jane LASSITER who was born December 18, 1845, in NC. they married in Calhoun Co., Arkansas on June 19, 1865, and had nine children that I know of. Both Thomas & Mary died in MO and are buried in the HICKMAN Cemetery, Des Arc, Iron County, Missouri along with some of their adult children. Thomas died January 20, 1904, and Mary died April 02, 1914. Nancy Jane HICKMAN one of their daughters married Harve C. Jones they were my great-grandparents. Emma V. King nee Jones was their daughter and my grandmother. I want to know more about Thomas and Mary. I only have their names and dates along with their children. my great-grandmother Nancy Jane Jones nee HICKMAN looks like she has Indian blood in her does anyone know anything about her and Thomas? Ma! r! >y Jane HICKMAN nee Lassiter's fathers name I believe was Elisha LASSITER. This is all I know. I would truly appreciate any help! Thank You Kathy B. > > >==== MOIRON Mailing List ==== >Margie Campbell >[email protected] > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

Two sources give the name of Anna , wife of George Washington SUMPTER, Jr. One is "Ozark Hills Friends and Neighbors "and the other is "Past And Present : A History Of Iron County, Missouri 1857-1994" By the Iron County Historical Society, Published By Heritage House Publishing,Marcelin, Missouri. Anna "RIPPER" is told to be of "Holland" descent. Here I think someone has jumped to a conclusion hearing the description "Pennsylvania Dutch" and assumed Dutch meant from Holland rather of Germanic descent as the description denotes. (See George RIPPER born in Germany enumerated 1850 Chanberburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania with (coincidentally?) a daughter named Anna Mary. Anna died April 4, 1912. The informant W. H. COPELAND, who also signed as undertaker, stated that Anna's father was Jacob RIPLEY born in Pennsylvania and her mother Mary HARLAN born Kentucky. To complicate the matter COPELAND filed a supplementary death record to refine the cause of death and gave her father as Jacob RILEY. If W. H. COPELAND is as I think William Henry COPELAND, he is buried the Sumpter Cemetery. In this case he may be related. This probably comes through the Stricklins since I believe one of George's and Anna's grandchildren married a STRICKLIN. Copeland's wife was Stricklin per the second source. My best guess , however, is the information was given to him by daughter Nancy "Kate" SUMPTER CHAPMAN with whom Anna was living in 1910. By the second recording, COPELAND could probably not remember the information exactly. I have looked at a number of sources to find a marriage. These include early marriage index on the Indiana GenWeb, the Illinois Statewide Marriage Index online and a CD with early Kentucky marriages. This was to find an appropriate marriage either between HARLAN and RIPPER/RIPLEY/RILEY and/or Anna ? and George Sumpter. The different geographical locations suggest that there might be a connection to the Wabash. This search yielded no results. In RootsWeb's WorldConnect there is a Jacob RIPLEY born 1796 in Pennsylvania. His wife or mother depending on which record is correct is Anna GOODMAN. He died August 9, 1875 depending on which record is correct in Tuscarawas, Ohio or Sangamon County, Illinois. I know some of the Sumpters came through Sangamon County. On the other hand, I did take great note of the following from the 1890 Special Census Of Union Veterans (Iron County) posted by Jeanette McClure on the Iron County List. RIPPER, Catherine former widow of Peter BOYER, 48 PA Byron Nelson

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: LASSITER, HICKMAN, JONES, KING Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zMB.2ACI/847 Message Board Post: Does anyone have and information on the HICKMAN family from Des Arc? Thomas Jefferson HICKMAN who was my gg-grandfather I need to know were he came from and who his parents were? Thomas Jefferson HICKMAN born May 23, 1838, married Mary Jane LASSITER who was born December 18, 1845, in NC. they married in Calhoun Co., Arkansas on June 19, 1865, and had nine children that I know of. Both Thomas & Mary died in MO and are buried in the HICKMAN Cemetery, Des Arc, Iron County, Missouri along with some of their adult children. Thomas died January 20, 1904, and Mary died April 02, 1914. Nancy Jane HICKMAN one of their daughters married Harve C. Jones they were my great-grandparents. Emma V. King nee Jones was their daughter and my grandmother. I want to know more about Thomas and Mary. I only have their names and dates along with their children. my great-grandmother Nancy Jane Jones nee HICKMAN looks like she has Indian blood in her does anyone know anything about her and Thomas? Mar! y Jane HICKMAN nee Lassiter's fathers name I believe was Elisha LASSITER. This is all I know. I would truly appreciate any help! Thank You Kathy B.

Hello to all of the Lashley researchers out there. We have to celebrate this day - my sister and I found Amos V. Lashley's tombstone today. It was in a field with some more tombstones of the Dettmer family. Range 4 East, Township 33 North, Section 33. - Iron County. We had gone to the Allgier farm to see if anyone there knew where 2 cemeteries were near their farm. So Bob Allgier came with us and showed us an old cemetery up the road from his farm, in a field. Cattle were running in there, and the last two stones had been knocked off their pedestals. It was in sad shape. Bob knelt down on the ground and started digging (with his fingers) at a piece of white rock, that he thought was a downed tombstone. Well, it was big, and pretty soon my sister and I had found a screwdriver and a pen and were helping him dig the dirt off of it. AND GUESS WHAT - it was the tombstone of Rev. Amos V. Lashley born the 5 January 1790 - died the 15 February 1873. It is broken in half almost across the middle. But is still very readable. Now we are wondering how many more stones are under 3 -4 inches of dirt and grass in what looked like a very small cemetery. I know that several Lashley researchers have been looking for this stone for quite some time. Well, it is here. We know exactly how to get to it now. But wish we had the means to set it up again and fence the small little cemetery that it is in. Amos was not a relative of mine, but you all know that I have been doing the Iron County cemeteries for 34 years now. And am in the midst of publishing the 2nd volume of them. So - if some of the Lashley family wants to contact me and I can show them where it is, they are perfectly welcome to repair and set the stone up once again. And dig some more for other stones that may be under the dirt and grass. There were 3 more stones that were readable, all Dettmer people. Jeanette Henson McClure, President of Iron County Genealogy Society and Certified Genealogist.

I am looking for the death date/place of "Rebecca Louisa Welch Hall". She was my Great Grandmother. Married to Jesse Hall. In 1930 she was 80 yrs old living in Des Arc, Iron Co., Mo. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Please do not take my comments personally. They were not intended as criticism of your words or actions. You more than tried to help, you gave a correct answer that Margaret Missouri is not the child of George and Anna Sumpter. We are all learning or else there would not be mailing lists and message boards. Frequently I find what I thought was absolute fact is not. Byron Nelson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lloyd & Peggy" <[email protected]> To: "Byron D. Nelson" <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 1:49 AM Subject: Re: [MOIRON] George and Anna Sumpter 1880 iron county > I was only trying to help someone who was asking if Margaret Missouri > Landreth was Margaret Missouri Sumpter. I replied the best I could. Hope > this hasn't confused anyone. > LC > > >

Re: Byron Nelson Message I too have found some untruths in Ozark Hills Friends & Neighbors. However, it is generally a very good tool for genealogist in most cases. The author records my GGrandmother as nee Barton which is totally false & I have proof beyond any shadow of doubt. However, I have been unable to get that corrected in later editions. Regardless, I have a Susanna "Susie" Clements who was my Grandfather, Jacob Clements, half sister. I had record of her but she seemed to have vanished in the late 1800's until I discovered she had married Henry ("Bone"nickname) Sumpter which is recorded in above mentioned book. I was aware that she was born with a crippled partial arm & I have stumbled onto a photo of both Henry & Susie. However, I have yet to find further info on them. Thanks Jerry Clements ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 10:47 PM Subject: MOIRON-D Digest V03 #47

I was only trying to help someone who was asking if Margaret Missouri Landreth was Margaret Missouri Sumpter. I replied the best I could. Hope this hasn't confused anyone. LC Byron D. Nelson wrote: >If you are looking at the source "Ozark Hills Friends and Neighbors" to say >that George and Anna SUMPTER had 10 children, there are some problems with >source.While it says George was born circa 1812 in Indiana, it also says >George with four brothers came from England to the U.S. (Both things can not >happen.) - "Irvin" SUMPTER is reported to be to have been born 1844 and Mo >d. OK.-Reuben Valentine SUMPTER is said to have married Sarah HENDRIX in >Jonesboro, Arkansas. -Frank SUMPTER is said to have died in 1878. -"Gilbert" >the text reveals was born 1854 MO and died young, single, a school >teacher. - "Sarah Catherine" SUMPTER is said to have married Tom HALL and >then Harrison CHAPMAN. -"Betty" SUMPTER per the author married Henry WELCH >in OK. > >-George's father George and grandfather Henry were born in Virginia. It is >widely believe that George was born between 1812 and 1824 in Franklin or >Vigo County, Indiana. Anna was born in Indiana. A number of families were >immediately in this area before coming to Missouri. The BLACK, BARTON, >REESE, etc families were in Clark County, Illinois just across the Indiana >border. I have BRADSAHW/BROWN ancestors that came to Maries County, Missouri >from Edgar County, Illinois immediately to the north of Clark. It is an area >I with which I have some passing familiarity, having spent over four years >as >a young man in Coles County, Illinois immediately to west of Clark and >Edgar. > >Terre Haute is in Vigo County. Terre Haute was a terminus on the Cumberland >Road commissioned about 1806 during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson. It >was supposed to go diagonally from Terre Haute to Vandalia, Illinois and >then straight out to the Mississippi. Originally it was thought that the >Southern part of Illinois would be the hub of commerce and enterprise for >Illinois. It was becoming apparent even before the Cumberland Road reached >Illinois that there might be commerce and enterprise somewhere in the north >of Illinois. The capital was moved from Vandalia to more central >Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois at the beginning of the 1830's. The >extension to Mississippi was finished as a kind of afterthought during a an >Illinois road project in the twentieth century. > >A number of these families might have known each other in that contiguous >area of Illinois/Indiana for they settled together. It could be also that >settled near because they had in common coming from that area of >Illinois/Indiana. George SUMPTER is enumerated in 1850 in Reynolds County >(household 91/ visit 91) page 395 between Green GOGGINS and George's brother >Erben SUMPTER. On a different sheet of 395 is Rhode BARTON and other >SUMPTER's. BLACK and REESE families are page 396. John BARTON is on page >399. George SUMPTER is in Dent Township, Iron County by 1860. > >- "Irvin" SUMPTER is Erbin SUMPTER, named obviously after George's brother. > >- Reuben was in Oakland, California with Mary as a wife and later there with >Sarah. Although it is possible he married Sarah in Jonesboro, Arkansas, the >prospect is unlikely. > >- Frank SUMPTER was sworn to have died in December 1879 by Jane Trollinger >(Trolinger) in her application for a widow's pension. This was done in front >of a number of individuals that could have known if this fact was incorrect. > >-"Gilbert" SUMPTER seem to be the child enumerated as Gabriel in the census. >While it is possible his name is Gabriel Gilbert or vice versa, my opinion >is the author did properly recollect his name. > >-The author confuses Nancy (Jane?) Catherine SUMPTER with Sarah Elizabeth >SUMPTER. So Kate is the child also know as Nancy or Catherine and married >Tom HALL and then Harrison CHAPMAN. Anna, who died, April 4, 1912, was >living with Harrison and Nancy (SUMPTER)CHAPMAN in 1910 Dent Township, Iron >County. Then "Betty" SUMPTER who married Tom WELCH in OK is Sarah Elizabeth >SUMPTER. > > > >- Anna was reported in the 1900 census to be the mother of 14 children , 3 >living and in the 1910 census the mother of 14 children, 8 living. I can >name all but one. My deduction is that the one I am unable to name was born >and died between census. That child in likelyhood is one of three deceased >at 1900 along with Frank and Gabriel. > > > >1Erben (LDS records indicate he married Martha ASHER). >2 Reuben married Caroline HAWK (Nelson HAWK & Sarah Jane WEASNER), Elizabeth >CARTY -Mrs. Betty BAKER), Mary J. GOGGINS (it appears Jubilee GOGGINS & >Martha BOYD), Sarah >(HENDRIX?) >3 John married Margaret E. TROLLINGER (Joseph TROLLINGER & Susan(na) >PLUMMER). >4 William Franklin married, niece of Margaret E. , Lucinda Jane TROLLINGER >(Samuel TROLLINGER & Eliza GALLAHER) >5 Alexander (Alex. Aleck, Eleck) married Mary E. MINER >6 Gabriel died unmarried. >7 Nancy J. Catherine married Tom HALL, Harrison CHAPMAN >8 James Henry (Henry, Bone?) married (Mary?) Susan "Susie" CLEMENTS >9 Andrew Jackson (Jack) married Cynthia Ann CAMDEN (Benjamin CAMDEN & Sarah >TUBBS) >10 Mary Liviney (or Levina) married Joseph Andrew THOMPSON >11 Sarah Elizabeth married Henry WELCH. >12 Greenberry (married Angie BARTON, Aurena WILLIAMS?) >13 Rene (or Rena) {married William SUMPTER?) > >Byron Nelson > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Lloyd & Peggy" <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 1:44 AM >Subject: Re: [MOIRON] George and Anna Sumpter 1880 iron county > > >>No Margaret Missouri appears in the lineage of Geo. & Anna Sumpter from >>1870 thru 1880. It say that Margaret was born in TX. Of the total of 10 >>children they were all born in MO. >> LC >> >> >>[email protected] wrote: >> >>>This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. >>> >>>Classification: Query >>> >>>Message Board URL: >>> >>>http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zMB.2ACI/846 >>> >>>Message Board Post: >>> >>>Seeking info on George and anna Sumpter lived Missouri >>>1844 thru 1880's >>>would like to know if Margaret Missouri Sumpter born1855 >>>was their daughter >>>Margaret married John Landreth and lived in Hickory County,mo 1880 >>> >>>any help/suggestions appreciated >>>thank you >>>jackie stegeman >>> >>> >>>==== MOIRON Mailing List ==== >>>Margie Campbells Web Page >>> >http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mcampbel/home.htm > >>>============================== >>>To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >>> >go to: > >>>http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >>> >>> >> >> >>==== MOIRON Mailing List ==== >>Coordinator of Iron county Missouri Web Page >>http://www.rootsweb.com/~moiron2/ >>Last updated Sep 2002 >> >>============================== >>To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >> >go to: > >>http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >> > > >==== MOIRON Mailing List ==== >Margie Campbell >[email protected] > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

If you are looking at the source "Ozark Hills Friends and Neighbors" to say that George and Anna SUMPTER had 10 children, there are some problems with source.While it says George was born circa 1812 in Indiana, it also says George with four brothers came from England to the U.S. (Both things can not happen.) - "Irvin" SUMPTER is reported to be to have been born 1844 and Mo d. OK.-Reuben Valentine SUMPTER is said to have married Sarah HENDRIX in Jonesboro, Arkansas. -Frank SUMPTER is said to have died in 1878. -"Gilbert" the text reveals was born 1854 MO and died young, single, a school teacher. - "Sarah Catherine" SUMPTER is said to have married Tom HALL and then Harrison CHAPMAN. -"Betty" SUMPTER per the author married Henry WELCH in OK. -George's father George and grandfather Henry were born in Virginia. It is widely believe that George was born between 1812 and 1824 in Franklin or Vigo County, Indiana. Anna was born in Indiana. A number of families were immediately in this area before coming to Missouri. The BLACK, BARTON, REESE, etc families were in Clark County, Illinois just across the Indiana border. I have BRADSAHW/BROWN ancestors that came to Maries County, Missouri from Edgar County, Illinois immediately to the north of Clark. It is an area I with which I have some passing familiarity, having spent over four years as a young man in Coles County, Illinois immediately to west of Clark and Edgar. Terre Haute is in Vigo County. Terre Haute was a terminus on the Cumberland Road commissioned about 1806 during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson. It was supposed to go diagonally from Terre Haute to Vandalia, Illinois and then straight out to the Mississippi. Originally it was thought that the Southern part of Illinois would be the hub of commerce and enterprise for Illinois. It was becoming apparent even before the Cumberland Road reached Illinois that there might be commerce and enterprise somewhere in the north of Illinois. The capital was moved from Vandalia to more central Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois at the beginning of the 1830's. The extension to Mississippi was finished as a kind of afterthought during a an Illinois road project in the twentieth century. A number of these families might have known each other in that contiguous area of Illinois/Indiana for they settled together. It could be also that settled near because they had in common coming from that area of Illinois/Indiana. George SUMPTER is enumerated in 1850 in Reynolds County (household 91/ visit 91) page 395 between Green GOGGINS and George's brother Erben SUMPTER. On a different sheet of 395 is Rhode BARTON and other SUMPTER's. BLACK and REESE families are page 396. John BARTON is on page 399. George SUMPTER is in Dent Township, Iron County by 1860. - "Irvin" SUMPTER is Erbin SUMPTER, named obviously after George's brother. - Reuben was in Oakland, California with Mary as a wife and later there with Sarah. Although it is possible he married Sarah in Jonesboro, Arkansas, the prospect is unlikely. - Frank SUMPTER was sworn to have died in December 1879 by Jane Trollinger (Trolinger) in her application for a widow's pension. This was done in front of a number of individuals that could have known if this fact was incorrect. -"Gilbert" SUMPTER seem to be the child enumerated as Gabriel in the census. While it is possible his name is Gabriel Gilbert or vice versa, my opinion is the author did properly recollect his name. -The author confuses Nancy (Jane?) Catherine SUMPTER with Sarah Elizabeth SUMPTER. So Kate is the child also know as Nancy or Catherine and married Tom HALL and then Harrison CHAPMAN. Anna, who died, April 4, 1912, was living with Harrison and Nancy (SUMPTER)CHAPMAN in 1910 Dent Township, Iron County. Then "Betty" SUMPTER who married Tom WELCH in OK is Sarah Elizabeth SUMPTER. - Anna was reported in the 1900 census to be the mother of 14 children , 3 living and in the 1910 census the mother of 14 children, 8 living. I can name all but one. My deduction is that the one I am unable to name was born and died between census. That child in likelyhood is one of three deceased at 1900 along with Frank and Gabriel. 1Erben (LDS records indicate he married Martha ASHER). 2 Reuben married Caroline HAWK (Nelson HAWK & Sarah Jane WEASNER), Elizabeth CARTY -Mrs. Betty BAKER), Mary J. GOGGINS (it appears Jubilee GOGGINS & Martha BOYD), Sarah (HENDRIX?) 3 John married Margaret E. TROLLINGER (Joseph TROLLINGER & Susan(na) PLUMMER). 4 William Franklin married, niece of Margaret E. , Lucinda Jane TROLLINGER (Samuel TROLLINGER & Eliza GALLAHER) 5 Alexander (Alex. Aleck, Eleck) married Mary E. MINER 6 Gabriel died unmarried. 7 Nancy J. Catherine married Tom HALL, Harrison CHAPMAN 8 James Henry (Henry, Bone?) married (Mary?) Susan "Susie" CLEMENTS 9 Andrew Jackson (Jack) married Cynthia Ann CAMDEN (Benjamin CAMDEN & Sarah TUBBS) 10 Mary Liviney (or Levina) married Joseph Andrew THOMPSON 11 Sarah Elizabeth married Henry WELCH. 12 Greenberry (married Angie BARTON, Aurena WILLIAMS?) 13 Rene (or Rena) {married William SUMPTER?) Byron Nelson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lloyd & Peggy" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 1:44 AM Subject: Re: [MOIRON] George and Anna Sumpter 1880 iron county > No Margaret Missouri appears in the lineage of Geo. & Anna Sumpter from > 1870 thru 1880. It say that Margaret was born in TX. Of the total of 10 > children they were all born in MO. > LC > > > [email protected] wrote: > > >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > > >Classification: Query > > > >Message Board URL: > > > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zMB.2ACI/846 > > > >Message Board Post: > > > >Seeking info on George and anna Sumpter lived Missouri > >1844 thru 1880's > >would like to know if Margaret Missouri Sumpter born1855 > >was their daughter > >Margaret married John Landreth and lived in Hickory County,mo 1880 > > > >any help/suggestions appreciated > >thank you > >jackie stegeman > > > > > >==== MOIRON Mailing List ==== > >Margie Campbells Web Page http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mcampbel/home.htm > > > >============================== > >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > > ==== MOIRON Mailing List ==== > Coordinator of Iron county Missouri Web Page > http://www.rootsweb.com/~moiron2/ > Last updated Sep 2002 > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

No Margaret Missouri appears in the lineage of Geo. & Anna Sumpter from 1870 thru 1880. It say that Margaret was born in TX. Of the total of 10 children they were all born in MO. LC [email protected] wrote: >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >Classification: Query > >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zMB.2ACI/846 > >Message Board Post: > >Seeking info on George and anna Sumpter lived Missouri >1844 thru 1880's >would like to know if Margaret Missouri Sumpter born1855 >was their daughter >Margaret married John Landreth and lived in Hickory County,mo 1880 > >any help/suggestions appreciated >thank you >jackie stegeman > > >==== MOIRON Mailing List ==== >Margie Campbells Web Page http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mcampbel/home.htm > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zMB.2ACI/846 Message Board Post: Seeking info on George and anna Sumpter lived Missouri 1844 thru 1880's would like to know if Margaret Missouri Sumpter born1855 was their daughter Margaret married John Landreth and lived in Hickory County,mo 1880 any help/suggestions appreciated thank you jackie stegeman

Already from a cross-post I was able to get some help on the Jones and Fosters. Jehu Jones was born sometime in the most likely 1848, I know he was still alive in 1910, because I found him in Graniteville listed as Jay Hugh Jones (obvious the census taker used the sounding and didn't ask for correct spelling). He was still married to Joesphine Belcher in that census. I don't think they moved to Iron county until the late 1860's. I don't know when he or Joesphine died. Their son MacPherson Jones was born in Ohio, 26 Dec 1866, died 29 Jun 1929 and is buried in Middlebrook Cemetary. He married a Missouri Ellen McGill, born 27 Apr 1867 in Tenn. Died 26 Feb 1935 and is buried in Middlebrook Cemetary. Mcpherson Jones had a daughter Celia Sybila who married my great grand father George Page Foster Jr. He was born 21 Feb 1885 in Graniteville, died 9 Oct 1949 in Texas. That's how I'm related to the Jones. Now on the Foster side. George Page Foster Sr was born 16 Jun 1837, I thought in Missouri, but I don't know. He was a Mason with Mosaic Lodge #351 in Belleview. He died 18 Jun 1918 and is buried in Middlebrook cemetary. His wife was Lucy A Lauden, she died 19 Dec 1886 and is buried in Middlebrook cemetary. I'm look for people in Iron researching these lines. I hope I haven't posted too much duplicate information from my cross-posted message from ancestry.com. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.456 / Virus Database: 256 - Release Date: 2/18/2003

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Davidson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zMB.2ACI/845 Message Board Post: I have several Davidsons that moved from MO to AR and a few I believe may have moved back. The most elusive has been Zacchariah Davidson. I do believe he had 4 wives. They were Ella Underwood, Mary Ellen Glover, Loula York and another that I haven't found a name for yet. John Z. had 10 children that I know of they are John, Sid, Sudie, Tom, George, Clarence, Minnie, Verna, Geneva, and Leslie. My ggrandfather John Franklin Davidson is listed in one database as being born in Licking, MO and in another as Floral, AR. John Franklin married Georgia Ann Byrd in AR and they had 4 children. If any of these names sound familiar, any help would be appreciated

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Davidson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zMB.2ACI/201.207.324 Message Board Post: I have several Davidsons that moved from MO to AR and a few I believe may have moved back. The most elusive has been Zacchariah Davidson. I do believe he had 4 wives. They were Ella Underwood, Mary Ellen Glover, Loula York and another that I haven't found a name for yet. John Z. had 10 children that I know of they are John, Sid, Sudie, Tom, George, Clarence, Minnie, Verna, Geneva, and Leslie. My ggrandfather John Franklin Davidson is listed in one database as being born in Licking, MO and in another as Floral, AR. John Franklin married Georgia Ann Byrd in AR and they had 4 children. If any of these names sound familiar, any help would be appreciated.