NOTE: Maude Elinor HAMILTON had 3 spouses: S1 - James PARKINSON; S2: Albert SMITH; S3: Clair HAMILTON Observer-Reporter Wednesday, August 15, 2001 Maude E. Hamilton Member of Avery United Methodist Church. Maude Elinor Hamilton, 82, of Bellmead Apartments, Washington, formerly of Beallsville, Bentleyville and Monongahela, died Sunday, August 12, 2001, in Presbyterian Senior Care, Washington. She was born July 13, 1919, in Ellsworth, a daughter of Jessie and Ada Hawkins Beall. Mrs. Hamilton was a graduate of Beallsville High School. She was a member of Beallsville Presbyterian Church for the first 30 years of her life. She held many offices in First Baptist Church of Monongahela, where she taught the Philathea class for 20 years. She also held many offices in Bentleyville United Methodist Church and was a member of Avery United Methodist Church of Washington. Surviving are three sons, Richard Parkinson of Lexington, S.C., William Parkinson of Panama City, Fla., and James Parkinson of Newport News, Va.; three stepdaughters, Jean Dormo of Bentleyville, Doris Cox of Anchorage, Alaska, and Nancy Morris of Trona, Calif.; three stepsons, Robert Hamilton of Marietta, Ga., James Hamilton of Red House, W.Va., and Donald Hamilton of Washington; five grandchildren, Melanie, Michael, Peter and Kenneth Parkinson and Melissa Cook; and 17 step- grandchildren. Deceased is her first husband, James Parkinson, whom she married in 1940 and who died in 1948; her second husband, Albert Smith, who died in 1975; her third husband, Clair Hamilton, who died in 1985; a brother, Rodney Beall; and a daughter, Elinor Amanda Hamilton.