sent to me by former resident of Moberly. Subject: RE: [MORANDOL] 412 Emerson St, Moberly, Missouri Date: 1/24/2008 12:05:12 A.M. Central Standard Time From: _jdebellis@uwf.edu_ (mailto:jdebellis@uwf.edu) Reply To: To: _ITSJBAGBY@aol.com_ (mailto:ITSJBAGBY@aol.com) CC: BCC: Sent on: Hi James M Bagby, ( _ITSJBAGBY@aol.com_ (mailto:ITSJBAGBY@aol.com) ) I'm replying to your email because my email is webmail and I can't send messages to the list for some reason. If you could share this with the list, I'd appreciate it. Growing up in the Moberly area, I watched with great dismay as the neighborhood grocers closed in the 1970's and 1980s as the older generation passed on, the big chains became more entrenched and the neighborhood elementary schools closed. I remember that each of the 6 elementary schools (South Park, North Park, East Park, Southeast Park, Central and West Park) all had small neighborhood grocers within a short walk of the school. The one near SOuth Park was down 4th street about a block and was named Peyton's. The one near Central was a few blocks from the school and probably almost as close to the Junior High on Rollins Street. It was named Jack's and my grandparents shopped there. It was backed up to an alley between Rollins and Reed Street (800 block I think) and my grandparents lived between the Warson's which was directly behind the store and the Nichols on Reed Street. P.K. Weis lived next to the Warson's or a house down. It was truly the glory days of Moberly. I don't specifically remember the one near Southeast Park, but I do remember one near the others that on rare occasion my mother might stop at. By the way there was also an IGA at Concannon and the street that ran from Rollins to Concannon in front of the junior high and post office (or Tannehill Park where the lion set that in a later generation a couple of Missouri Tiger football papers absconded with in the late 1980's). Jane Spieckermann DeBellis Milton, Florida ________________________________ From: morandol-bounces@rootsweb.com on behalf of ITSJBAGBY@aol.com Sent: Wed 1/23/2008 6:05 PM To: morandol@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [MORANDOL] 412 Emerson St, Moberly, Missouri I remember that little store on the south side of Conconnon, 2 in fact. one was on corner of Burkholder the other on a few blocks away, west. Now a second hand store. Then going South & East was the Temple Stevens Store. corner of Coats or Reed.Across from Post office.PO used to be a small city park. Names ? All three buildings still standing. Their was a little store on Franklin, North side. Close to a G.School. Between Dorser & Emerson When you see it, you can tell it once that it was a was a small store. Name ? James M Bagby In a message dated 1/23/2008 8:32:05 A.M. Central Standard Time, lgillispie@cvalley.net writes: I dont think it was at the corner of Emerson and Franklin, the lot you are taking about was an old two story house made into appartments in the 40's my grandmother lived there in the 50's unless it could have been a store downstairs and living qtrs upstairs . There was a store on the corner of Concannon and Emerson but it faced toward Concannon. There was also a store on the corner of Emerson and Bucannon but it faced Bucannon. Thanks Larry M Gillispie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathy Bowlin" <kjbowlin@embarqmail.com> To: <MORANDOL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 6:58 AM Subject: [MORANDOL] 412 Emerson St, Moberly, Missouri > > > > Hello listers, > > I'm hoping someone can help me find an old photograph or some information > about the small grocery store that stood at 412 Emerson St, Moberly > Missouri. I think this was at the intersection of Emerson and Franklin? > It is now an empty lot. I recently visited the site with my uncle, who > remembered the location from when he was a small child. It was owned in > 1930 by Levi "Lee" Lloyd. I believe he only owned it for a year or > possibly less before it went belly-up under his ownership. I'm interested > in knowing anything about the location and the building, when it was > built, or torn down or destroyed? > > Thanks, > Kathy Bowlin > > ------------------------------ **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489

Wow, I'm loving these little grocery store stories................we lived at 217 Farror St and I attended St. Mary's Catholic School which was just a block up the street. When I was 8 years old (1953), I was riding my sister's brand new tricycle. The cycle was too tall for her and my Grandfather put wooden blocks on the pedals and held them in place with cotter pins. I was pedaling too fast, held my legs out to coast and the pin caught the back of my leg and made a 6" gash on the back of my calf. After Dr. Harold McCormick stitched it up, I was sent home for complete bedrest for 2 weeks. There was a neighborhood grocery and I only remember the owners as "John and Wilma" who closed the store one morning and walked to our house and gave me a box of 12 Hershey Bars to help my recuperation. We weren't friends; just customers...........but, that's what folks did years ago. Moberly was definitely a "Mayberry RFD" kinda place back then. Thanks for the memories! On Jan 24, 2008 9:32 AM, <ITSJBAGBY@aol.com> wrote: > > sent to me by former resident of Moberly. > Subject: RE: [MORANDOL] 412 Emerson St, Moberly, Missouri Date: > 1/24/2008 12:05:12 A.M. Central Standard Time From: _jdebellis@uwf.edu_ > (mailto:jdebellis@uwf.edu) > Reply To: To: _ITSJBAGBY@aol.com_ (mailto:ITSJBAGBY@aol.com) CC: > BCC: Sent on: > Hi James M Bagby, ( _ITSJBAGBY@aol.com_ (mailto:ITSJBAGBY@aol.com) ) > > I'm replying to your email because my email is webmail and I can't send > messages to the list for some reason. If you could share this with the > list, I'd > appreciate it. > > Growing up in the Moberly area, I watched with great dismay as the > neighborhood grocers closed in the 1970's and 1980s as the older > generation passed on, > the big chains became more entrenched and the neighborhood elementary > schools closed. I remember that each of the 6 elementary schools (South > Park, > North Park, East Park, Southeast Park, Central and West Park) all had > small > neighborhood grocers within a short walk of the school. The one near > SOuth Park > was down 4th street about a block and was named Peyton's. The one near > Central was a few blocks from the school and probably almost as close to > the > Junior High on Rollins Street. It was named Jack's and my grandparents > shopped > there. It was backed up to an alley between Rollins and Reed Street (800 > block > I think) and my grandparents lived between the Warson's which was > directly > behind the store and the Nichols on Reed Street. P.K. Weis lived next to > the > Warson's or a house down. It was truly the glory days of Moberly. I > don't > specifically remember the one near Southeast Park, but I do remember one > near > the others that on rare occasion my mother might stop at. > > By the way there was also an IGA at Concannon and the street that ran > from > Rollins to Concannon in front of the junior high and post office (or > Tannehill > Park where the lion set that in a later generation a couple of Missouri > Tiger football papers absconded with in the late 1980's). > > > > Jane Spieckermann DeBellis > Milton, Florida > > ________________________________ > > > From: morandol-bounces@rootsweb.com on behalf of ITSJBAGBY@aol.com > Sent: Wed 1/23/2008 6:05 PM > To: morandol@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [MORANDOL] 412 Emerson St, Moberly, Missouri > > > > > > I remember that little store on the south side of Conconnon, 2 in fact. > one > was on corner of Burkholder > the other on a few blocks away, west. Now a second hand store. Then > going > South & East was the Temple Stevens Store. corner of Coats or > Reed.Across > from > Post office.PO used to be a small city park. > Names ? All three buildings still standing. > Their was a little store on Franklin, North side. Close to a G.School. > Between Dorser & Emerson When you see it, you can tell it once that it > was > a was a small > store. Name ? > James M Bagby > > In a message dated 1/23/2008 8:32:05 A.M. Central Standard Time, > lgillispie@cvalley.net writes: > > I dont think it was at the corner of Emerson and Franklin, the lot you > are > taking about was an old two story house made into appartments in the > 40's my > > grandmother lived there in the 50's unless it could have been a store > downstairs and living qtrs upstairs . There was a store on the corner > of > Concannon and Emerson but it faced toward Concannon. There was also a > store on the corner of Emerson and Bucannon but it faced Bucannon. > > Thanks Larry M Gillispie > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kathy Bowlin" <kjbowlin@embarqmail.com> > To: <MORANDOL-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 6:58 AM > Subject: [MORANDOL] 412 Emerson St, Moberly, Missouri > > > > > > > > > > Hello listers, > > > > I'm hoping someone can help me find an old photograph or some > information > > about the small grocery store that stood at 412 Emerson St, Moberly > > Missouri. I think this was at the intersection of Emerson and > Franklin? > > It is now an empty lot. I recently visited the site with my uncle, > who > > remembered the location from when he was a small child. It was owned > in > > 1930 by Levi "Lee" Lloyd. I believe he only owned it for a year or > > possibly less before it went belly-up under his ownership. I'm > interested > > > in knowing anything about the location and the building, when it was > > built, or torn down or destroyed? > > > > Thanks, > > Kathy Bowlin > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > > > **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. > http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MORANDOL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Wilma, Ibelieve you are talking about Jack Ramsey whose store was on the northeast corner across from East Park School Larry Gillispie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wilma Santos" <gmasanny@gmail.com> To: <morandol@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 11:54 AM Subject: Re: [MORANDOL] Grocery stores in Moberly > Wow, I'm loving these little grocery store stories................we lived > at 217 Farror St and I attended St. Mary's Catholic School which was just > a > block up the street. When I was 8 years old (1953), I was riding my > sister's brand new tricycle. The cycle was too tall for her and my > Grandfather put wooden blocks on the pedals and held them in place with > cotter pins. I was pedaling too fast, held my legs out to coast and the > pin > caught the back of my leg and made a 6" gash on the back of my calf. > After > Dr. Harold McCormick stitched it up, I was sent home for complete bedrest > for 2 weeks. There was a neighborhood grocery and I only remember the > owners as "John and Wilma" who closed the store one morning and walked to > our house and gave me a box of 12 Hershey Bars to help my recuperation. > We > weren't friends; just customers...........but, that's what folks did years > ago. Moberly was definitely a "Mayberry RFD" kinda place back then. > Thanks > for the memories! > > On Jan 24, 2008 9:32 AM, <ITSJBAGBY@aol.com> wrote: > >> >> sent to me by former resident of Moberly. >> Subject: RE: [MORANDOL] 412 Emerson St, Moberly, Missouri Date: >> 1/24/2008 12:05:12 A.M. Central Standard Time From: _jdebellis@uwf.edu_ >> (mailto:jdebellis@uwf.edu) >> Reply To: To: _ITSJBAGBY@aol.com_ (mailto:ITSJBAGBY@aol.com) >> CC: >> BCC: Sent on: >> Hi James M Bagby, ( _ITSJBAGBY@aol.com_ (mailto:ITSJBAGBY@aol.com) ) >> >> I'm replying to your email because my email is webmail and I can't send >> messages to the list for some reason. If you could share this with the >> list, I'd >> appreciate it. >> >> Growing up in the Moberly area, I watched with great dismay as the >> neighborhood grocers closed in the 1970's and 1980s as the older >> generation passed on, >> the big chains became more entrenched and the neighborhood elementary >> schools closed. I remember that each of the 6 elementary schools >> (South >> Park, >> North Park, East Park, Southeast Park, Central and West Park) all had >> small >> neighborhood grocers within a short walk of the school. The one near >> SOuth Park >> was down 4th street about a block and was named Peyton's. The one near >> Central was a few blocks from the school and probably almost as close to >> the >> Junior High on Rollins Street. It was named Jack's and my grandparents >> shopped >> there. It was backed up to an alley between Rollins and Reed Street >> (800 >> block >> I think) and my grandparents lived between the Warson's which was >> directly >> behind the store and the Nichols on Reed Street. P.K. Weis lived next >> to >> the >> Warson's or a house down. It was truly the glory days of Moberly. I >> don't >> specifically remember the one near Southeast Park, but I do remember one >> near >> the others that on rare occasion my mother might stop at. >> >> By the way there was also an IGA at Concannon and the street that ran >> from >> Rollins to Concannon in front of the junior high and post office (or >> Tannehill >> Park where the lion set that in a later generation a couple of Missouri >> Tiger football papers absconded with in the late 1980's). >> >> >> >> Jane Spieckermann DeBellis >> Milton, Florida >> >> ________________________________ >> >> >> From: morandol-bounces@rootsweb.com on behalf of ITSJBAGBY@aol.com >> Sent: Wed 1/23/2008 6:05 PM >> To: morandol@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [MORANDOL] 412 Emerson St, Moberly, Missouri >> >> >> >> >> >> I remember that little store on the south side of Conconnon, 2 in fact. >> one >> was on corner of Burkholder >> the other on a few blocks away, west. Now a second hand store. Then >> going >> South & East was the Temple Stevens Store. corner of Coats or >> Reed.Across >> from >> Post office.PO used to be a small city park. >> Names ? All three buildings still standing. >> Their was a little store on Franklin, North side. Close to a G.School. >> Between Dorser & Emerson When you see it, you can tell it once that it >> was >> a was a small >> store. Name ? >> James M Bagby >> >> In a message dated 1/23/2008 8:32:05 A.M. Central Standard Time, >> lgillispie@cvalley.net writes: >> >> I dont think it was at the corner of Emerson and Franklin, the lot you >> are >> taking about was an old two story house made into appartments in the >> 40's my >> >> grandmother lived there in the 50's unless it could have been a store >> downstairs and living qtrs upstairs . There was a store on the corner >> of >> Concannon and Emerson but it faced toward Concannon. There was also a >> store on the corner of Emerson and Bucannon but it faced Bucannon. >> >> Thanks Larry M Gillispie >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Kathy Bowlin" <kjbowlin@embarqmail.com> >> To: <MORANDOL-L@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 6:58 AM >> Subject: [MORANDOL] 412 Emerson St, Moberly, Missouri >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > Hello listers, >> > >> > I'm hoping someone can help me find an old photograph or some >> information >> > about the small grocery store that stood at 412 Emerson St, Moberly >> > Missouri. I think this was at the intersection of Emerson and >> Franklin? >> > It is now an empty lot. I recently visited the site with my uncle, >> who >> > remembered the location from when he was a small child. It was owned >> in >> > 1930 by Levi "Lee" Lloyd. I believe he only owned it for a year or >> > possibly less before it went belly-up under his ownership. I'm >> interested >> >> > in knowing anything about the location and the building, when it was >> > built, or torn down or destroyed? >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Kathy Bowlin >> > >> > ------------------------------ >> >> >> >> >> >> **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. >> http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> MORANDOL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MORANDOL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

> > By the way there was also an IGA at Concannon and the street that ran > from > Rollins to Concannon in front of the junior high and post office (or > Tannehill > Park where the lion set that in a later generation a couple of Missouri > Tiger football papers absconded with in the late 1980's). > If I'm following your directions correctly I believe this was Van's IGA. My grandmother used to work there. There was also a very small one just down the street on Concannon that was connected to the house my grandmother lived in. Thresa Chism

I've printed out all of the messages and will try to answer them all in this message. Jane - the grocery stores near the six elementary schools were: North Park, Ted Grimshaw had a store at 428 Franklin Avenue. Added on and is now a house. East Park, Jack Ramsey's store at the corner of Barrow and Porter. Torn down. Southeast Park, I don't remember one being very close, but there was one on Promenade and another, Croft's, on East Logan. There may have been more, but I was seldom in that part of town. South Park, as you said Peyton's Market on South Fourth. Now a dog groomer's place. Central - there was one directly across the street. I can't remember the name of it. And the one you mentioned on West Rollins. It has had a number of different names but Clements Market is the one I remember best. That is what it was called when I was at MJC. Now an upholstery shop. West Park - I don't remember any being real close, but there probably was. The lion which was stolen from Tannehill Park is now in Lion's Park on Beuth Road, I believe. At one time it was in a fountain in the smaller Tannehill Park behind the Post Office. It has been stolen several times, but keeps coming back! James - Temple Stephens had a store on Johnson Street a couple blocks north of the Post Office between West End and Franklin Sts. After you made the curve at the North end of Johnson and it became Concannon, Van's Market was in the first block on the North Side. A couple of blocks West, at Burkholder St, was Earl B. Noel Market on the South Side facing Burkholder. I don't remember another store further West and there is no second hand store. I lived on Concannon 1947-1950 and walked to the Junior College every day. There might have been one there before that, but not since then. The building at the SE corner of Concannon and Emerson is now a house, but it does look like it might have been a store. When we lived on West Reed St. there was a little store directly behind us on West Coates St. I can still picture the owners in my mind, but sure can't remember their names. But that was 50 years ago so I guess I'm entitled to forget in that time! On North Ault St., at the corner of N. Ault and Madison Ave. was Flayhan's. I've certainly enjoyed reading the posts. Keep it up. Shirly

I am enjoying these posts because I was born in Moberly, but I never actually lived there, just visited. Phyllis Lessly Fleming ----- Original Message ----- From: "shirly1" <shirly1@swbell.net> To: morandol@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 5:07:35 PM (GMT-0500) America/New_York Subject: Re: [MORANDOL] Grocery stores in Moberly I've printed out all of the messages and will try to answer them all in this message. Jane - the grocery stores near the six elementary schools were: North Park, Ted Grimshaw had a store at 428 Franklin Avenue. Added on and is now a house. East Park, Jack Ramsey's store at the corner of Barrow and Porter. Torn down. Southeast Park, I don't remember one being very close, but there was one on Promenade and another, Croft's, on East Logan. There may have been more, but I was seldom in that part of town. South Park, as you said Peyton's Market on South Fourth. Now a dog groomer's place. Central - there was one directly across the street. I can't remember the name of it. And the one you mentioned on West Rollins. It has had a number of different names but Clements Market is the one I remember best. That is what it was called when I was at MJC. Now an upholstery shop. West Park - I don't remember any being real close, but there probably was. The lion which was stolen from Tannehill Park is now in Lion's Park on Beuth Road, I believe. At one time it was in a fountain in the smaller Tannehill Park behind the Post Office. It has been stolen several times, but keeps coming back! James - Temple Stephens had a store on Johnson Street a couple blocks north of the Post Office between West End and Franklin Sts. After you made the curve at the North end of Johnson and it became Concannon, Van's Market was in the first block on the North Side. A couple of blocks West, at Burkholder St, was Earl B. Noel Market on the South Side facing Burkholder. I don't remember another store further West and there is no second hand store. I lived on Concannon 1947-1950 and walked to the Junior College every day. There might have been one there before that, but not since then. The building at the SE corner of Concannon and Emerson is now a house, but it does look like it might have been a store. When we lived on West Reed St. there was a little store directly behind us on West Coates St. I can still picture the owners in my mind, but sure can't remember their names. But that was 50 years ago so I guess I'm entitled to forget in that time! On North Ault St., at the corner of N. Ault and Madison Ave. was Flayhan's. I've certainly enjoyed reading the posts. Keep it up. Shirly ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MORANDOL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- Phyllis Fleming "No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves."--Amelia Earhart

> > A couple of blocks West, at Burkholder St, was Earl B. Noel Market on the > South Side facing Burkholder. This was the one I was talking about that connected to the house my grandmother lived in on Concannon. I had to ask my mother since I was very young at the time and barely remember the house. Thresa Chism

Lena Chism, 1905-2008 Published Sunday, January 20, 2008 Columbia Dailey Tribune Lena St. Clair Chism, 102, of Jones Wildwood Care Center in Madison, formerly of Higbee, Harrisburg and the Sturgeon area, died Friday, Jan. 18, 2008, at Boone Hospital Center. Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday, Jan. 21, at Fenton Funeral Chapel in Centralia with the Rev. Bob Flanagan, pastor of Sturgeon Christian Church, officiating. Interment will be at Mount Pleasant Christian Church Cemetery near Higbee. Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. She was born April 28, 1905, a triplet, in a log cabin in Howard County near Harrisburg, the daughter of John Morrison and Pearl King St. Clair. She was married to Frank St. Clair in 1927, and he preceded her in death in 1939. Later, on Jan. 11, 1950, in Randolph County, she was married to Leonard Chism, and he preceded her in death July 9, 1986. Survivors include a son, Lowell St. Clair and wife Barbara of Columbia; one daughter, Helen Bowne and husband Buford of Sturgeon; two daughters-in-law, Earlene St. Clair of Clark and Shirley St. Clair of Moberly; 12 grandchildren; 27 great-grandchildren; and 17 great-great-grandchildren. She also was preceded in death by her parents; two sons, Franklin Wayne St. Clair and Morrison Wayne St. Clair; two brothers; and two sisters. Mrs. Chism was the oldest living member of Mount Pleasant Christian Church near Higbee. She enjoyed gardening, crocheting, crossword puzzles and Scrabble. To all who knew and loved her she was lovingly called "Mam." Honorary pallbearers will be Kris St. Clair, Luke Taylor, Adam Taylor, Michael Templeton, Zachary Templeton, Jacob St. Clair, Jason St. Clair, Justin Wallace, Joshua Wallace and Austin Orth. Pallbearers will be Frank St. Clair, Vann St. Clair, Jim St. Clair, Steve St. Clair, Andy St. Clair and Will St. Clair. Memorials are suggested to Mount Pleasant Christian Church. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Just a couple of clarifications for anyone interested. She was the only survivor of the set of triplets. The other two died within two weeks of birth I believe. Also, the name of her second son preceding her in death should be Morrison Doyle St. Clair. Thresa Chism