This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Tarwater, Moore, Clark, Rowland Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XNB.2ACI/394.1 Message Board Post: Rebecca Tarwater b.16 Sep 1841 in MO married on 16 May 1861 in Ray Co., MO John Moore b. 1834 in KY Rebecca Jane Tarwater b 20 Oct 1832 in MO married 10 July 1856 in Ray Co. MO Jeremiah Vardoman Clark b. 3 Sep 1833 I also have a Rebecca Jane Tarwater b. 1802 in TN which I don't yet have a spouse for. She's the daughter of Jacob Tarwater & Sally Rowland

Thanks, Joy. It would be a lot less confusing if they had used more original names for their children, wouldn't it? Judy At 07:20 PM 9/17/01 -0400, you wrote: >Judy, > >Lewis Tarwater was married only twice. >The Lewis Tarwater who married Martha Henry was the son of Jacob & Kate >Tarwater. >Lewis Tarwater who married Mary Jane McGuire those children are all hers. > >The info you have on Jeremiah V Clark is correct. His parents are my ggg >greatparents. > >Joy

Judy, Lewis Tarwater was married only twice. The Lewis Tarwater who married Martha Henry was the son of Jacob & Kate Tarwater. Lewis Tarwater who married Mary Jane McGuire those children are all hers. The info you have on Jeremiah V Clark is correct. His parents are my ggg greatparents. Joy

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/XNB.2ACI/341.1 Message Board Post: I have an Alexander Bogart/Bogard of Ray Co. MO in my database, and some info. I believe this Sarah Bogard Clevenger would be his ?granddaughter? I did not understand what date her obituary indicated. I know there are Clevenger burials in the Bogart Cemetery, Ray Co. Shirley BOGART Harper

I have a question for Sharron or anyone who can clarify for me. My information agrees with most of what was posted, except in the following areas: At 09:09 PM 9/16/01 -0400, you wrote: <snip> >1. Lewis S. Tarwater b. 1792 d. 1880, m. 1825. He married (1) Mary Jane >McGuire and (2) Sarah A De Harte I have 3 marriages for Lewis. (1) Mary Jane McGuire (in 1825) Child: Gabriel, b. 1829 (2) Martha Ann Henry (in 1831) Children: Gideon, b. 1832 Gilbert, b. 1832 (assume twins) Franklin, b. 1838 (3) Sarah DeHarte (in 1841) No known children The next difference is: <snip> >9. Rebecca Jane Tarwater b. 1810 d. 1859 m. (1) Jame Franklin Francis McGuire >(2) Jeremiah Vardoman Clark <snip> >11. Stephen Tarwater b. 1811 d. 1850 m. 1830 Rachel Rowland I have that the Rebecca Jane Tarwater who married Jeremiah V. Clark was the dau. of Stephen Tarwater and Rachel Rowland (#11 on this list). Stephen's Rebecca was b. 1832; m. 1856, and had 9 children. Do I have incorrect information? Thanks. Judy Arnold GOD BLESS AMERICA

Sorry to be late on the Tarwater, Tucker, Scott I have a Jacob Tarwater, Jr. who married Sarah Rowland, Sarah was the daughter of Mathew Rowland and mother unknow. Jacob Tarwater, Jr. b. abt. 1767 in Bedford Co., Pa., d. May 12, 1859 in Richmond , Mo. m. Sarah Rowland on Jan. 15, 1797. Children of Jacob Tarwater, Jr. and Sarah Rowland are: 1. Lewis S. Tarwater b. 1792 d. 1880, m. 1825. He married (1) Mary Jane McGuire and (2) Sarah A De Harte 2. Frances Tarwater b. 1796 married George Master 3. Nancy Tarwater b. 1798 d. 1893 m. Ranslear Clark 4. Mary Jane Tarwater b. 1800 d. 1801 5. John Tarwater b. 1804 d. 1871 m. 1826 to Sarah Loyd 6. Elizabeth Tarwater b. 1806 d. 1862 m. 1821 to Joseph Woods 7. Benjamin Tarwater b. 1807 d. 1815 8. Samuel O. D. Tarwater b. 1808 d. 1899 m. five times (1) Mary Broadhurs (2) Elizabeth Orphet (3) Sarah E. Kinsey Mills (4) Malinda Brown (5) Mary Keeney 9. Rebecca Jane Tarwater b. 1810 d. 1859 m. (1) Jame Franklin Francis McGuire (2) Jeremiah Vardoman Clark 10. Jemimah Merfree Tarwater b. 1810 d. 1894 m.1829 to Alfred Jackson 11. Stephen Tarwater b. 1811 d. 1850 m. 1830 Rachel Rowland 12. Joseph Tarwater b. 1812 d. 1813 13. William C. Tarwater b. 1816 d. unknown m. Sarah Unknown Daniel H. Tucker b. 1881 d. 1926 m. Nora Scott in 1901 Nora Scott is the daughter of George Washington Scott and Mary Aliza Broadhurst Daniel H. Tucker and Nora Scott are Nellie Tucker and Blanch Tucker and Cecil Tucker **Note I do not have the information on Nellie Tucker , Blanch Tucker , Cecil Tucker Daniel H. Tucker is the son of Benjamin F. Tucker and Elvira Frakes George Washington Scott is son of Charles Scott and Milly unknown Mary Aliza Broadhurst is the daughter of Ephraim Broadhurst Sharron Scott

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: ROBARD WILD Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XNB.2ACI/404 Message Board Post: I am searching for info about GGF John E. Robard and GGM Bernise Wild in Ray Co. They were married 11/July/1869. also any info on parents and siblings. I believe the Robard surname was changed to Roberts before 1882 when my GM was born. Thanks. Jack Lake

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Tarwater, Rowland Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XNB.2ACI/171.2.1.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Jacob Tarwater who married Sara Rowland was only married once as far as I can tell, but since sons Samuel, John and Lewis all had multiple marriages, it doesn't suprise me to find other multiple marriages in the Tarwater clan and I have a tendency to put a number on their marriages just as my way of mentally keeping them straight. Sorry if I confused anyone.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Tarwater, Rowland Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XNB.2ACI/171.2.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Jacob Tarwater who married Sara Rowland was only married once as far as I can tell, but since sons Samuel, John and Lewis all had multiple marriages, it doesn't suprise me to find other multiple marriages in the Tarwater clan and I have a tendency to put a number on their marriages just as my way of mentally keeping them straight. Sorry if I confused anyone.

I have never seen this, thanks. Linda ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 1:00 PM Subject: [MORAY-CGA] Launa Summers Woods > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Woods, Summers, Tarwater, Devling > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XNB.2ACI/400 > > Message Board Post: > > from the Excelsior Springs Daily Standard. We found this yellowed newspaper clipping in my grandmother's (Gladys Woods Devling) belongings after her death. > > LOG CABIN STORIES > Even If Its a Log Cabin There's No Place Like Home > Mrs. Wiley Woods Lives 38 Years in Log Cabins > Thirty-eight years of living in log cabins and rearing her family makes Mrs. Wiley Woods, correspondent for Excelsior Springs Daily Standard for the past 34 years, somewhat of an authority on the subject. Though humble the various cabins were, she still insists that those were the happy days, and "there's no place like home." Her memory of log cabins is a one-room and attic dwelling hewn from large logs with a broadax, of which possibly, she states, not many in these days have seen. The cracks were plastered with lime and sand and sometimes old claymud, and the walls were painted with whitewash made from lime. She was born in such a cabin located on the southwest corner of Wallace district, on a hill northeast of what then was called "Old Mill Ford" a ford crossing on Fishing River on the farm of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Turner. Mrs, Woods' mother often told of the skunk that made his appearance in that same house through the floor and in their tussel with it! > left its peculiar "perfume". She also told how she would enjoy listening in the late afternoon to her neighbor, Mrs. Riley O'Dell, also living in a log cabin down in the valley west, singing as she went about her work. Her mother, although she had a beautiful voice could never carry a tune but enjoyed listening to others. Her father, who was a music teacher, tried in vain to teach her. Mrs. Woods' parents were the late Mr. amd Mrs. W. D. Summers who were born in log cabins on the farm now owned by R. W. Turner in Wallace district where Mrs. Woods was also born, and her father on what is known as Ephraim Hutchings farm located on Ray-Clay line south of Excelsior Springs. The Bushwackers were bad during the days of her grandfather, Thomas Summers, who often related how he had to hide out during the civil war from the Bushwackers who roamed the country killing men. Just as the war closed her mother's uncle, Philip Siegel was killed near her father's home. When quite young! > , her father use to delight in getting an old frozen piece of cornbread and going out in the chimney corner to eat it. Her great-grandfather Siegel was born in a log cabin on the farm now owned by his grandson, Hughey Siegel and her parents later lived in a log cabin for 10 years on the Siegel farm, southeast of Siegel cemetery and which is still standing. Improvements have been made however and new siding added. The first home purchased by her parents was one-half mile northeast of Wallace schoolhouse, a log cabin, in which they lived for several years until a new schoolhouse was built and her father bought the old one and remodeled it into what she thought was a very fine house, with two rooms down and one up. Mrs. Woods was married in 1904 to Wiley Woods, son of the late Isaac Woods also born in a log cabin. For two years they lived in the Woods house which was then a double log house with siding and ceiling. Their child, Mrs. Beatrice Rush, was born there. In 1906 th! > ey bought the present farm and lived in a cabin which had been taken down twice and rebuilt in defferent places, all cracks again plastered with sand and lime. For 17 years the lived in this cabin and two more children were born, Euel Woods of Orrick, and Mrs. Gladys Devling of Plattsburg. In 1923 they built a new five-bedroom with four rooms down and one up, which burned with its contents in 1939. A new three-roomhouse was soon built by the help of neighbors to replace it. During the time this was being built the Woods' stayed a few nights at the home of their son but soon became homesick. Neighbors gave them a four-cap cook stove and a few other articles and their son-in-law, Robert Devling, North Kansas City, brought a truck load of donated things back to the farm place and they moved into the old log cabin again, despite the fact that it had been taken over by chickens and dogs and cats. They scrubbed the floors and lined the walls with cardboard, and there they li! > ved and cooked for the men building their new home until it was finished. That first night they sat on boxes under trees and ate out of pans--but just the same she adds, "There's no place like home." Mrs. Woods recalls that her early training included plenty of work, as the four oldest children were girls and they did about every kind of work a man did. Her father used to say "Girls learn to work,fer it you don't now, someday you'll have to, and it will be a lot better to quit than learn in old age." Her mother bore the seven children and had a doctor only with the first born and never again until two weeks before she died at the age of 88. Her mother was always ready to help her father in all his work as he was not too well. She recalls her mother saying he would sit in the shade with her when she was a baby while her mother plowed with Old Bill and double shovel plow. Old Bill and a cow were all they had given them when they were married, but they always said, "there ! > was no place like home." > > > ==== MORAY-CGA Mailing List ==== > Ray CO. Genealogical Assn. maintains the library in the Ray County Museum. Open Wed-Sat 10:00 - 5:00. Library volunteers on duty from 12:00 - 4:00. Free admission to the library. >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Woods, Summers, Tarwater, Devling Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XNB.2ACI/400 Message Board Post: from the Excelsior Springs Daily Standard. We found this yellowed newspaper clipping in my grandmother's (Gladys Woods Devling) belongings after her death. LOG CABIN STORIES Even If Its a Log Cabin There's No Place Like Home Mrs. Wiley Woods Lives 38 Years in Log Cabins Thirty-eight years of living in log cabins and rearing her family makes Mrs. Wiley Woods, correspondent for Excelsior Springs Daily Standard for the past 34 years, somewhat of an authority on the subject. Though humble the various cabins were, she still insists that those were the happy days, and "there's no place like home." Her memory of log cabins is a one-room and attic dwelling hewn from large logs with a broadax, of which possibly, she states, not many in these days have seen. The cracks were plastered with lime and sand and sometimes old claymud, and the walls were painted with whitewash made from lime. She was born in such a cabin located on the southwest corner of Wallace district, on a hill northeast of what then was called "Old Mill Ford" a ford crossing on Fishing River on the farm of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Turner. Mrs, Woods' mother often told of the skunk that made his appearance in that same house through the floor and in their tussel with it! left its peculiar "perfume". She also told how she would enjoy listening in the late afternoon to her neighbor, Mrs. Riley O'Dell, also living in a log cabin down in the valley west, singing as she went about her work. Her mother, although she had a beautiful voice could never carry a tune but enjoyed listening to others. Her father, who was a music teacher, tried in vain to teach her. Mrs. Woods' parents were the late Mr. amd Mrs. W. D. Summers who were born in log cabins on the farm now owned by R. W. Turner in Wallace district where Mrs. Woods was also born, and her father on what is known as Ephraim Hutchings farm located on Ray-Clay line south of Excelsior Springs. The Bushwackers were bad during the days of her grandfather, Thomas Summers, who often related how he had to hide out during the civil war from the Bushwackers who roamed the country killing men. Just as the war closed her mother's uncle, Philip Siegel was killed near her father's home. When quite young! , her father use to delight in getting an old frozen piece of cornbread and going out in the chimney corner to eat it. Her great-grandfather Siegel was born in a log cabin on the farm now owned by his grandson, Hughey Siegel and her parents later lived in a log cabin for 10 years on the Siegel farm, southeast of Siegel cemetery and which is still standing. Improvements have been made however and new siding added. The first home purchased by her parents was one-half mile northeast of Wallace schoolhouse, a log cabin, in which they lived for several years until a new schoolhouse was built and her father bought the old one and remodeled it into what she thought was a very fine house, with two rooms down and one up. Mrs. Woods was married in 1904 to Wiley Woods, son of the late Isaac Woods also born in a log cabin. For two years they lived in the Woods house which was then a double log house with siding and ceiling. Their child, Mrs. Beatrice Rush, was born there. In 1906 th! ey bought the present farm and lived in a cabin which had been taken down twice and rebuilt in defferent places, all cracks again plastered with sand and lime. For 17 years the lived in this cabin and two more children were born, Euel Woods of Orrick, and Mrs. Gladys Devling of Plattsburg. In 1923 they built a new five-bedroom with four rooms down and one up, which burned with its contents in 1939. A new three-roomhouse was soon built by the help of neighbors to replace it. During the time this was being built the Woods' stayed a few nights at the home of their son but soon became homesick. Neighbors gave them a four-cap cook stove and a few other articles and their son-in-law, Robert Devling, North Kansas City, brought a truck load of donated things back to the farm place and they moved into the old log cabin again, despite the fact that it had been taken over by chickens and dogs and cats. They scrubbed the floors and lined the walls with cardboard, and there they li! ved and cooked for the men building their new home until it was finished. That first night they sat on boxes under trees and ate out of pans--but just the same she adds, "There's no place like home." Mrs. Woods recalls that her early training included plenty of work, as the four oldest children were girls and they did about every kind of work a man did. Her father used to say "Girls learn to work,fer it you don't now, someday you'll have to, and it will be a lot better to quit than learn in old age." Her mother bore the seven children and had a doctor only with the first born and never again until two weeks before she died at the age of 88. Her mother was always ready to help her father in all his work as he was not too well. She recalls her mother saying he would sit in the shade with her when she was a baby while her mother plowed with Old Bill and double shovel plow. Old Bill and a cow were all they had given them when they were married, but they always said, "there ! was no place like home."

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XNB.2ACI/398 Message Board Post: WILEY WOODS RITES AT O'DELL CHAPEL Funeral services for Wiley Woods, 76 year old farmer of southwestern Ray county, will be conducted by the Elder Emerson McAfee at 1:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at O'Dell Chapel. Burial will be in the O'Dell cemetery. Good Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Mr. Woods died at 5:05 oclock Saturday afternoon at his home, seven miles northwest of Orrick. He had been in failing health the past several years, but was active until the day of his death. He had walked nearly a mile for the mail Saturday morning and complained of not feeling well when he returned to the house. He went to bed and died that afternoon. He was born July 31, 1875, in the Red Brush community and had lived his lifetime there. He was the last of twelve children of Isaac and Elizabeth (Tarwater) Woods, both native Ray countains.

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/XNB.2ACI/396 Message Board Post: Found a great Ray County Genealogy Site: http://65.10.15.149/FreeGen/Home.html They will be adding over 1 billion names to their online database over the next few months.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jackson, Tarwater, Woods Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XNB.2ACI/171.2 Message Board Post: Jacob Tarwater and Sarah are my mother's family. We have some family history on the Tarwaters in Ray Co. One Tarwater was seriously disabled and bedridden from his injuries in the "Morman War" and was the only man to receive a pension from it. He still managed to father several children after his disability... I would love to share Tarwater history with you, but I'm not sure we have much history on that branch of the Jacksons. (Jacksons are married into our family in a couple of places).

I have two Rebecca Tarwater but there not married to a David Fletcher Rebecca Tarwater the daughter of Samuel O.D. Tarwater and Mary Broadhurst . Rebecca Tarwater married a John Moore Rebecca Tarwater b. 1841 d. 1925 No children listed Rebecca Jane Tarwater the daughter of Jacob Tarwater, Jr. and Sarah Rowland Rebecca Jane Tarwater married twice. (1) Jeremiah Vardoman Clark and (2) James Franklin Francis McGuire No children listed Rebecca Jane Tarwater b. 1810 and d. 1859 m. July 10, 1856 Sharron Scott

Sherri I saw the postings regarding the Tarwater Family in Ray County, MO. Would you happen to have a Rebecca Tarwater who married David Fletcher in your records? Rebecca is buried in the Riffe Cemetery. She died in 1850 and it states on her headstone that she was married to David Fletcher. Thanks for any assistance you can give. Jean Searching my Fletcher, Tarwater, and Broadhurst family ancestry in Ray County, MO.

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/XNB.2ACI/395 Message Board Post: Joshua Y. Cravens was b. 1833 in NC, m. Sarah Anderson b. TN 1836 and no doubt had Ray Co. MO connections. His dau. Eliza Jane Cravens m. Robert A. Elliott from Ray Co. MO in 1879. Is there a connection between my Joshua Y. Cravens and Joshua Cravens who was b. in NC and died in Crab Orchard, Ray Co. MO (son of Joseph Cravens of Randolph Co. NC)? Will share info from Joshua Y. Cravens on down. [email protected] Thanks.

william riley blythe married didama fletcher daughter of david fletcher. contact me direct if you want additional information that i have

I USE CAPS AS I HAVE A VISION PROBLEM. MY GGGRANDFATHER WAS WILLIAM RILEY BLYTHE AND HIS MOTHER WAS REBECCA JANE FLETCHER. DOES THIS MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU. VIVIAN

I have two Rebecca Tarwaters, one married to John Moore and one married to Jeremiah Clark. If you think either of these are who you are looking for, I have more information. Linda Evans [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2001 12:48 AM Subject: [MORAY-CGA] McGuire/Tarwater/Fletcher/ > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: McGuire,Fletcher,Tarwater,O'Dell > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XNB.2ACI/394 > > Message Board Post: > > Looking for marriages,births,deaths of The McGuire's-Francis,Franklin,John. Rebecca Tarwater/Mary Jane Fletcher in KY,NC,TN,MO, IA, > > > ==== MORAY-CGA Mailing List ==== > Ray CO. Genealogical Assn. maintains the library in the Ray County Museum. Open Wed-Sat 10:00 - 5:00. Library volunteers on duty from 12:00 - 4:00. Free admission to the library. >