Yesterday I wrote: > According to my mom, the McHaffie homestead at SDC was the home of a Mrs.Thornhill (I think her first name was Eula??), whose maiden name was McHaffie. This doesn't discount your info, though, Gina, because Mrs. > Thornhill (who lived next to my grandparents in Branson in the late 1930's) grew up in that cabin and would have been the right age to be a daughter of the daughter you are talking about. I got the wrong neigbor. The McHaffie neighbor was Mrs. Opal Parnell. Mom also says she believes Mrs. Parnell was related to the Casey family. Ingrid

In a message dated 01/18/2001 7:40:36 PM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: << There is a Henry T Wheeler on the 1870 census. He was living with a McKinney family. This is the listing (Swan township): McKinney Benj F 31 Tn Belvaretta C 25 Mo Sarah E 14 " Wheeler Henry T 16 " Tippet Elizabeth 15 " >> Henry T. Wheeler was the son of Alpheus Wheeler and Elizabeth Oliver, she d/o James Oliver and Rachel Holman/Holeman. Elizabeth died in 1854 in Taney Co. and Alpheus remarried a widow named Mary Franklin, then he died by 1860, leaving Henry T. and another son Benton J. orphans. Mary ___ Franklin married a 3rd time to a man a named McKinney. In the 1860 census these children were living with Milton Oliver on the Taney Co. census. Between 1850 and 1860 Mary had 3 husbands. Wonder what she was feeding them?? I don't know where Benton was at this timein 1870, perhaps he was the oldest and living on his own. I know that Alpheus was an lawyer and was from VA. I assume Henry was living with the McKinney's as a step relative of sorts. I am not a Wheeler descendant, but a descendant of a sister of Elizabeth Oliver and have this information from my own research and from a descendant of Elizabeth and Alpheus. Hope this helps someone. Ida

There is a Henry T Wheeler on the 1870 census. He was living with a McKinney family. This is the listing (Swan township): McKinney Benj F 31 Tn Belvaretta C 25 Mo Sarah E 14 " Wheeler Henry T 16 " Tippet Elizabeth 15 " Debby home page http://debbylee.homestead.com/frontpage.html Forum Assistant - Signs of the Times http://www.delphi.com/signs2001/start Assistant Manager - Texas Rose Graphics http://www.delphi.com/bladepro/start Forum Assistant - Internet Friends http://www.delphi.com/pookah/messages Forum Assistant - Adventures of Splat and Smush http://www.dephi.com/splatandsmush/messages

Hi Listers, Am Looking for information on a J.W. Wheeler age 35 b. Tenn. He and his family are listed in the 1850 Taney County Census, Swan Township. The J.W. is John Wesley and he is My husbands GG Grandfather. This family is in Howell County in 1860, but two of his sons were listed as Taney county Soldiers either killed or died of illness during the Civil War. There are 12 children in this family. Farmer, William, Nancy, Robert, James, Jonathan, Richard, and others born after 1850 that I don't have in front of me right now. I would like to hear from anyone who has Wheeler ancestors in Taney, Howell or Douglas Counties. Thanks, Pat ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

the only Cannefax is William Born April 26,1886 Died July 13,1887 and he rests in Bethel Cem.. its a few miles from Dann or Brownbranch...carol ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nancy Boyd" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 2:52 AM Subject: Re: [MOTANEY] Brownbranch/Dann Cemeteries > I am looking for the names of Morris and Cannefax. Possibly Martha Morris > and Amanda Cannefax. > > Thanks > > Nancy > > > ==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== > > > > ============================== > Search over 900 million names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > >

Hi fellow listers, Does anyone know if there is a transcription of the McHaffie Cemetery online? My great-grandparents are buried there. I would like to know if they have markers....etc. Thanks, Shirley-n-Oregon

Just ran into town, Gina, and checked Index to 1870 Taney County Census and don't see John & Mary (Stiffler) LENNINGS listed in the Index pages. Don Houk -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 1:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [MOTANEY] 1870 Census - John & Mary Lennings I am hoping one of you listers may have run across the family of John & Mary (Stiffler) Lennings on one of the 1870 census' of the area. Mary was the daughter of John Bardell & Martha Ann (Brumbelow) Stiffler, but we have never found anything on her other than her marriage to John Lennings. Also - do they show up on the 1876 State census? ~gina~ Visit my homepage at http://hometown.aol.com/ginaburningsky/myhomepage/business.html ==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== ============================== Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history learning and how-to articles on the Internet. http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library

Aren't these little genealogical mysteries such fun?? LOL Visit my homepage at http://hometown.aol.com/ginaburningsky/myhomepage/business.html

>>geez - Don, was that a pun? "Just ran into town, Gina" LOL<< Our Don is a VERY funny man...gawrsh, I'm glad he's a cuzzin. Vonda ListMom for MOTaney and MO-AR-WRV http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~moarwrv/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gregvonda/

According to my mom, the McHaffie homestead at SDC was the home of a Mrs. Thornhill (I think her first name was Eula??), whose maiden name was McHaffie. This doesn't discount your info, though, Gina, because Mrs. Thornhill (who lived next to my grandparents in Branson in the late 1930's) grew up in that cabin and would have been the right age to be a daughter of the daughter you are talking about. Ingrid

geez - Don, was that a pun? "Just ran into town, Gina" LOL Visit my homepage at http://hometown.aol.com/ginaburningsky/myhomepage/business.html <A HREF="http://burningskyenterprises.com/">Burningskyenterprises.com</A>

Can anyone tell me if there were any Tillman folks in Swan Township, maybe even in Dickens, in about 1875 or so? I think that may be how my gg-grandmother and her sons got to Taney Co. & how she met Robert Payne Austin. There was most likely family there already. She had Caudle kin in the area already too. Jerry Johnston Scottsdale, AZ

I am hoping one of you listers may have run across the family of John & Mary (Stiffler) Lennings on one of the 1870 census' of the area. Mary was the daughter of John Bardell & Martha Ann (Brumbelow) Stiffler, but we have never found anything on her other than her marriage to John Lennings. Also - do they show up on the 1876 State census? ~gina~ Visit my homepage at http://hometown.aol.com/ginaburningsky/myhomepage/business.html

Hi Vonda - Yes, according to my g-g-g-grandfather's obit (John Bardel Stiffler 1899) he occupied a cabin on the old Casey farm for 13/14 yrs, and the Casey daughter married a McHaffie which is how this cabin came to be named the McHaffie Homestead. What I'd love to be able to confirm is whether or not this is the cabin that was occupied by the family of John Bardell Stiffler when it was still considered the Casey Farm. ~g~ PS - Don Houk answered several of my emails, and when I requested copies with reimbursements for photos, postage & gas for a trip to town - he let me know he now lives in Japan!! LOL Well, that's a fer piece for a trip to town! Anyway, he has a bit o' stuff on Taney Co. Visit my homepage at http://hometown.aol.com/ginaburningsky/myhomepage/business.html <A HREF="http://burningskyenterprises.com/">Burningskyenterprises.com</A>

Oh, and I fergot to mention... You'll find Lewallen spelt various ways, such as Lieuallen and Llwellen (with a "y", maybe?) The latter with the double "l"s I believe would have Welsh origins. Whether Welsh origins are a source with our bunch, I rather doubt. And Beth, I don't know much about them in the 1900s. V ListMom for MOTaney and MO-AR-WRV http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~moarwrv/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gregvonda/

Welp. (That's hillbilly for "Well!", when you gotta pause to think afore you say somethin'. The thinkin' part's the hard part.) In a huge way, I wish more of you lived closer to home. I know you'd be just as excited as us homefolks are about this year. "Outlaw Roundup" is coming along well, I think, in my totally unprofessional opinion. Having never done this kind of thing before, when it comes to donations, etc., I ask for the moon and stars, and seldom get disappointed when I get a chunk of the moon in return. Sometimes I get more than that. First of all, the Bald Knobber Re-enactment. The script, while Ingrid, Rick, and I have never written one from scratch before, is roughly 2/3 done. We only have a card game and a couple-3 more killings to go. The tentative title is "The League: Taney County Justice". I think we ought to be hired to do the screenplay for the movie... there's funny stuff, hugely emotional stuff, dramatic stuff, all the makings for a real story that is as accurate as we can make it, given our limitations on time, space, and funds. Ingrid and Rick both have theater backgrounds (I'm too inhibited to be an actor), and all of us have done some writing. We have approached the local PBS station and notified some of the powers-that-be involved with the Ozarks Studies Institute in Springfield; we're hoping that maybe someone will come film the re-enactment. We've started filming ourselves (is that facetious or what?) while writing, in case we have to do our own documentary LOL. But we're gonna be too busy on 19 May to film the re-enactment. We are looking to schedule musicians and story tellers to do their thing in the morning, from 9 - 1. The play will start about 1:30, then I'm still hopping up and down on one foot, trying to get "Big Smith" in to do a benefit concert, and "kick it in" as soon as the play's over. They do a number of benefits every year. For those of you interested, go to: http://www.bigsmithband.com/ and check out their music. These are Bilyeu and Williamson cousins, with Rik Thomas (another cousin), and a really hot band in the area right now. A bunch of us are going to see them Saturday night in Springfield. We have an inside track in that Greg's uncle went to school with the Bilyeu's mother and Rik's dad in Spokane--I hope. Rik said they are not booked on that date, but whether they'll make us one of their benefits is another story. Y'all say your prayers, for we're spending a lot on this benefit for the jail restoration, and I'd rather not have to pay a chunk of that for the band as well. Since admission is free to the whole event--another rule we're breaking--let's hope! We are going to do hayrides, kids' activities e.g. gravestone rubbing, and the cabin down in Shadow Rock Park will be cleaned and opened to the public. If you want to help with this, let me know... And this is just the beginning...Ingrid's mom, Jo Stacey Albers, told me last night not to talk about "White River Valley Homecoming" to be held the last weekend in October this year, anymore--she's looking forward to it too much, she can't wait! LOL That's gonna be the big shindig, with a pig roast, "survival" crafts, and a lot more. But I gotta do "Outlaw Roundup" first...that's my "baptism by fire", so to speak. Meeting will still be 30 Jan at Una's Cafe at 6 pm for all who can make it! Vonda ListMom for MOTaney and MO-AR-WRV http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~moarwrv/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gregvonda/

Okay, from what I have discovered... The Lewallens were either Creek or Cherokee (depending on who you talk to) who moved to Taney County shortly about 1843, from AR. Prior to that, the family had been on the Trail of Tears, and left it in AR. Hannah was the mother of our bunch, b ca 1814 TN d ca 1861 Christian Co. MO. She took up "homesteading" on Bull Creek, near where F Hwy crosses it today. I've been given to understand that she didn't die at home, but the story goes that Hosea Bilyeu and Ike Lewis were digging a grave for "Old Lady Lewallen" at Meadows Cemetery and were almost captured by bushwhackers (they traded shots). Hosea was the s/o Jacob Bilyeu b 1803 d 1852 and Catherine Elizabeth Williams b 1803 d 1852, who was raised by John Witten and Sarah Frances Harp Bilyeu. As for Hannah's husband, there are some theories, but I'm not saying "fer or agin". One is that Hannah's maiden name was Motley, and her husband was John Robert Babil Lewallen. Another is that her husband was a Matthew John Lewallen. We'll probably never know for sure. The family moved from lower Bull Creek after the start of the Civil War. Being in close proximity to the Springfield-Harrison Road, there was considerable problem with bushwhackers, etc. I would imagine they holed up for a time near the Bilyeus, but after Hannah's death, John Mitchell's book "Tales from Bull Creek Country" states that several went on up to Laclede County and Dade County. The children I have for Hannah are C (a girl) b ca 1833 TN d possibly in Taney Co., shortly after moving from AR Mary Jane b ca 1835 TN d 1861 md Wiett Bilyeu Keziah b Apr 1836 TN d ca 1921 Christian Co. MO md James Oliver Matthew John (cited in an earlier post) Jessee V. b ca 1841 AR d aft 1882 md Louisa Hammond Sarah M. b ca 1842-44 AR nothing else known George b ca 1843-1845 d 17 May 1912 Dade Co. MO md Lucinda Glass James Ross b ca 1845-47 Taney Co. MO d during the Civil War. A Lewallen son was killed by bushwhackers taking supplies to the Union Army. It is believed that James was the one, for he hasn't been found after the 1860 census. Robert R. b ca 1847-53 Taney Co. MO md Sarah Angeline Davis. This family is the one that started Lewallen Cemetery out between present-day Fall Creek Road and Hwy 165. Angie was a niece of Sarah Frances Harp Bilyeu, and like her cousin Hosea (pernounced "Hosie" in this neck o' the woods) was raised by Old Man Witt and her aunt. Elizabeth D. b Mar 1848. She died in 1900, in Ozark. She married Stephen Bilyeu, the s/o Old Man Witt (again, this is John Witten) Bilyeu and Sarah. She is the one who attacked Bud Meadows with a huge carving knife when he was engaged in a shootout with her husband and 3 sons in 1898. This feud, known as the Bilyeu-Meadows Feud, is still a sore point with descendants today, and many of the intermarried, close-cousin Meadows and Bilyeu families don't speak to each other--I'm not kidding. I just discussed it with a Bilyeu cousin last night. Bud Meadows' wife was Salina Elizabeth, d/o of the aforementioned Hosea Bilyeu and his wife, Charlotte Angeline Cecil (another of Sarah Harp's nieces. If you ain't confused, you're kin). As fer me bein' out politickin' n' campaignin', more on that in a bit. Vonda ListMom for MOTaney and MO-AR-WRV http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~moarwrv/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gregvonda/

Gina and others (who's this Doug y'all are talking to? Don?) The McHaffie Homestead is the only "old" cabin at Silver Dollar City. The rest of the cabins were built since the beginnings of the park, from my understanding...most of them by a guy who goes all over the world to build log cabins, but lives right over by Garber...Willard Jones. V ListMom for MOTaney and MO-AR-WRV http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~moarwrv/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gregvonda/

Okay, Don and Pama, I give up and bow before you in supplication. Greg bought me FTM vers 8 for my b-day, and I've been trying real hard not to open up my database so I won't feel guilty for not getting the new version loaded. Dock is the son of Matthew John Lewallen and Martha Bilyeu. Matt being the son of Hannah Lewallen, and Martha the d/o John "Witt" Bilyeu and Sarah Frances Harp. Mat b 1839-1840 TN, Martha b Sep 1844-1850. Other children of "Matt and Matt" (m abt 1864) are (all b in Taney, I think): John R. b ca 1864 md Mary Brawner George W. b ca 1865 md Bedia Z. Williams Jesse B. b 9 Aug 1870 md Flora B. Friend James b ca 1873 md a Sarah E. Thomas b 1 May 1874 md Ollie Manship Wyate (sp?) b ca 1879 (I believe he died young) Sarah b ca 1879 md Jasper Compton Dock WIlliam b 26 Jul 1884 md Rebecca J. I didn't have Elsie's maiden name (Thanks, Don!). Vonda ListMom for MOTaney and MO-AR-WRV http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~moarwrv/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gregvonda/

I larn summat noo ever'day. ROFLOL I have jest bin correk-tid on me 'n Pama's dialectin'. Gotta 'mit, thuh person wuz right, and when a person duz sech a fine job o' "sanging" as Pama did las' week, it jest don' soun' right when you say "sing." But I got the funniest story about that. A few years ago, Victoria was reading "Hop On Pop" by Dr. Seuss aloud to Greg and me. She got to the part that reads "Thing" and "Sing", only...she said "thang" and "sing." Then-- "Hey, those don't rhyme!" in huge protest. Didn't matter that she'd just read them, and they were spelled similarly. When Greg and I got done wiping the tears outta our eyes, we then 'splained that hillbillies don't necessarily per-nounce things the way they're spelt. Last night, this same darlin' daughter corrected me fer sayin' "Ain't". Thang is, I never sed it 'till I moved back to the Ozarks frum a few years in Kansas City. It is one of the hardest thangs in thuh world to misspell bad enough to sound right and misspell good enough for you to understand what I'm a-sayin'. Vonda ListMom for MOTaney and MO-AR-WRV http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~moarwrv/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gregvonda/