The Lead Belt News, Flat River, St. Francois County, Missouri, Feb. 16, 1940. (Note: The date of death in this obituary is one day off from the obituary which is posted on Mackley's site which was from another newspaper. That obituary has February 13th as month and day of death. Also, the other obituary has his mother's maiden name as Leads instead of Leabs.) ISAAC W. NASH. Isaac Wesley Nash was born at Old Mines, Mo., on March 27, 1887, and died at his home at Richwoods, Mo., on February 12, 1940, aged 52 years 10 monthgs 16 days. He was a son of the late Riley and Hannah Leabs [Leads ?] Nash. The body was removed to the home of his brother, Ben Nash, of Valles Mines. Funeral Services will be held Friday at 2:00 p.m. at the Valles Mines Church. Interment will be in the Buster Cemetery. Benham Service.

That reminds me of the two obits that I got last week from cousin Virginia Brown. These obits were for JOHNSON S. "Jonce" NASH. The Lead Belt News had him listed as JOHNSON NASH born in Shannon County, on December 21, 1847, the other as JACKSON NASH born in Saline County, born December 21, 1848. These two obits could not have been any further off on the true information, and if you were not a family member, you would never had known that they were for the same man. Johnson was actually born Decemeber 21, 1852, as per Family and Census Records. Goes to show your really have to check and double check information. I do not know what the second Newspaper was, but who every they got their information from was really off on this family. Joyce Nash-Wafford ----- Original Message ----- From: "B. Warner" <bkwofc@i1.net> To: <mostfran@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 4:26 AM Subject: [MOSTFRAN] Isaac W. Nash > The Lead Belt News, Flat River, St. Francois County, > Missouri, Feb. 16, 1940. > (Note: The date of death in this obituary is one day off > from the obituary which is posted on Mackley's site which > was from another newspaper. That obituary has February > 13th as month and day of death. Also, the other obituary > has his mother's maiden name as Leads instead of Leabs.) > > ISAAC W. NASH. > > Isaac Wesley Nash was born at Old Mines, Mo., on March 27, > 1887, and died at his home at Richwoods, Mo., on February > 12, 1940, aged 52 years 10 monthgs 16 days. He was a son > of the late Riley and Hannah Leabs [Leads ?] Nash. > > The body was removed to the home of his brother, Ben Nash, > of Valles Mines. Funeral Services will be held Friday at > 2:00 p.m. at the Valles Mines Church. Interment will be > in the Buster Cemetery. Benham Service. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MOSTFRAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Joyce, You are so right. Newspapers are not always accurate. Sometimes it's because of typos and often they were just given wrong information by the funeral homes. In the old days, before faxes, the obits were called in to the newspaper by the funeral homes so sometimes the information was just misunderstood by the person at the newspaper listening to the information over the phone. Also, names were not always spelled out so if it was a name with various spellings what turns up on the obit may not be what is on the birth or death certificate. Obituaries are, however, a good source of "leads" which is why we post them. In other words, on the obits we post - what you see is what you get! LOL! Bettye On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 08:14:39 -0800 "Joyce D Wafford" <ograndma1@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > That reminds me of the two obits that I got last week >from cousin Virginia > Brown. These obits were for JOHNSON S. "Jonce" NASH. > > The Lead Belt News had him listed as JOHNSON NASH born >in Shannon County, on > December 21, 1847, the other as JACKSON NASH born in >Saline County, born > December 21, 1848. These two obits could not have been >any further off on > the true information, and if you were not a family >member, you would never > had known that they were for the same man. Johnson was >actually born > Decemeber 21, 1852, as per Family and Census Records. > > Goes to show your really have to check and double check >information. I do > not know what the second Newspaper was, but who every >they got their > information from was really off on this family. > > Joyce Nash-Wafford > > > ----- Original Message ----- >From: "B. Warner" <bkwofc@i1.net> > To: <mostfran@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 4:26 AM > Subject: [MOSTFRAN] Isaac W. Nash > > >> The Lead Belt News, Flat River, St. Francois County, >> Missouri, Feb. 16, 1940. >> (Note: The date of death in this obituary is one day >>off >> from the obituary which is posted on Mackley's site >>which >> was from another newspaper. That obituary has February >> 13th as month and day of death. Also, the other obituary >> has his mother's maiden name as Leads instead of Leabs.) >> >> ISAAC W. NASH. >> >> Isaac Wesley Nash was born at Old Mines, Mo., on March >>27, >> 1887, and died at his home at Richwoods, Mo., on >>February >> 12, 1940, aged 52 years 10 monthgs 16 days. He was a >>son >> of the late Riley and Hannah Leabs [Leads ?] Nash. >> >> The body was removed to the home of his brother, Ben >>Nash, >> of Valles Mines. Funeral Services will be held Friday >>at >> 2:00 p.m. at the Valles Mines Church. Interment will be >> in the Buster Cemetery. Benham Service. >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> MOSTFRAN-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 >MOSTFRAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >without the quotes in the subject and the body of the >message