Lewis Gearhart
1879 - 1958 (79 years)1. Lewis Gearhart was born on 6 Jan 1879 in Hazard, Perry County, Kentucky; died on 25 Apr 1958 in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio; was buried in Siloam Cemetery, Bluestone, Rowan County, Kentucky. Other Events:
- Census: 1900, Farmers, Rowan County, Kentucky
- Census: 1910, Morehead, Rowan County, Kentucky
- Census: 1920, Augusta, Bracken County, Kentucky
- Census: 1930, Pine Grove, Rowan County, Kentucky
Notes:
MHR note: Lewis Gearhart was a private in L Troop of the US Cavalry in the Spanish-American War. He was retired from working from the rail road when MHR first met him.
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134271828/lewis-gearhartLewis married Clara Morton Enix on 3 Jul 1900 in Ironton, Ohio. Clara (daughter of Joseph Buchanan Enix and Indiana Louisa "Lou" Hedges) was born on 4 Dec 1879 in Fithian, Vermilion County, Illinois; died on 28 May 1956 in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky; was buried in Siloam Cemetery, Bluestone, Rowan County, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 2. Ruth Octavia Gearhart
was born on 13 Apr 1901 in Bluestone, Rowan County, Kentucky. - 3. Helen Sidney Gearhart was born on 20 Feb 1903 in Bluestone, Rowan County, Kentucky; died on 1 Sep 1991 in Batavia, Clermont County, Ohio; was buried in Mount Moriah Cemetery, Withamsville, Clermont County, Ohio.
- 4. Pearl Gearhart was born on 20 Jan 1906 in Bluestone, Rowan County, Kentucky; died on 20 May 1910 in Bluestone, Rowan County, Kentucky; was buried in Siloam Cemetery, Bluestone, Rowan County, Kentucky.
- 5. John Maxwell Gearhart was born on 2 Sep 1909 in Bluestone, Rowan County, Kentucky; died on 25 Aug 1962 in Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida; was buried in Siloam Cemetery, Bluestone, Rowan County, Kentucky.
Generation: 2
2. Ruth Octavia Gearhart (1.Lewis1) was born on 13 Apr 1901 in Bluestone, Rowan County, Kentucky. Notes:
MHR note: Ruth married 2nd to John James Kelly.
LKH note: In 1940 Ruth's first husband James Bradbury is with his second wife and with the two children of his marriage with Ruth.
Ruth married James Bradbury on 24 Dec 1919, and was divorced before 1940. James was born on 18 May 1904 in Brooksville, Bracken County, Kentucky; died on 11 Nov 1981; was buried in Highland Cemetery, Augusta, Bracken County, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Family/Spouse: John Joseph Kelly. John (son of Thomas Kelly and Delia Fallon) was born on 30 Aug 1892 in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio; died on 26 Aug 1951 in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio; was buried in Dayton National Cemetery, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
3. Helen Sidney Gearhart (1.Lewis1) was born on 20 Feb 1903 in Bluestone, Rowan County, Kentucky; died on 1 Sep 1991 in Batavia, Clermont County, Ohio; was buried in Mount Moriah Cemetery, Withamsville, Clermont County, Ohio. Notes:
HELEN B. GEERS, CIVIC ACTIVIST
GOP volunteer and poll worker encouraged all to vote
By Jim Calhoun
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Helen B. Geers believed everyone has a civic duty to vote.
She took that duty seriously, and she wasn't very patient with those who didn't.
She spent more than two decades working at polling precincts, registering people to vote and encouraging the elderly to cast absentee ballots, in Hamilton and Clermont counties.
The Amelia resident died of complications from heart disease Tuesday in Clermont Mercy Hospital. She was 88.
"She worked right up until she was 85. She was still registering voters and (being) aggravated when they didn't vote." said her daughter, Mary A. Haverkamp.
Mrs. Geers simply could not fathom how anyone could be disinterested in civic affairs.
"She thought they should be participating in their government," said Haverkamp, who lives in Clermont County's Monroe Township.
Mrs. Geers was a GOP Central Committee Woman, which means she was in charge on election day at her home precincts in Batavia and Amelia.
"She was very active in our party," said John Born, former Republican chairman of Clermont County. "She was very supportive of Republican principles and local leadership."
Mrs. Geers, a native of Morehead, Kentucky, belonged to the Order of the Eastern Star chapter in Amelia and the Clermont County Republican Club. She also volunteered at some events for the county Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services Board.
Mrs. Geers is also survived by a son, Richard Boothe of Newport, Kentucky; six grandchildren and seven great-children.
Her husband, former Cincinnati police Officer Alphonse Geers, whom she married in 1939, died in 1960.
Funeral service is 9:30 a.m. Saturday in E. C. Nurre Funeral Home, 177 W. Main St., Amelia. Visitation is Friday from 5 to 8 p.m., with Eastern Star service at 7:30 p.m.. Burial will be in Mount Moriah Cemetery in Union Township.
Memorials can be made to the American Cancer Society, 25 N. Second St., Batavia, 45103.
Published in The Cincinnati Enquirer (Cincinnati, Ohio) on Thursday, September 5, 1991.
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/203961007/oscar-richard-boothe
Section 3Helen married Oscar Richard Boothe on 20 Jan 1923 in Augusta, Bracken County, Kentucky. Oscar was born on 13 Jan 1898 in Mason County, Kentucky; died on 14 Dec 1964 in Dayton, Campbell County, Kentucky; was buried in Sharon Cemetery, Augusta, Bracken County, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Helen married Alfonse Fredrick Geers on 30 Apr 1941 in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. Alfonse (son of Joseph Geers and Elizabeth Hollmann) was born on 8 May 1898 in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio; died on 29 Apr 1959 in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio; was buried in Mount Moriah Cemetery, Withamsville, Clermont County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
4. Pearl Gearhart (1.Lewis1) was born on 20 Jan 1906 in Bluestone, Rowan County, Kentucky; died on 20 May 1910 in Bluestone, Rowan County, Kentucky; was buried in Siloam Cemetery, Bluestone, Rowan County, Kentucky. Notes:
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134271778/pearl-gearhart5. John Maxwell Gearhart (1.Lewis1) was born on 2 Sep 1909 in Bluestone, Rowan County, Kentucky; died on 25 Aug 1962 in Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida; was buried in Siloam Cemetery, Bluestone, Rowan County, Kentucky. Other Events:
- Census: 1940, Russell, Greenup County, Kentucky
Notes:
Gearhart, John M. – The remains of John M. Gearhart, resident of 5020 Anderson Ave., who passed away Saturday at a local hospital, was sent by Wilson Sammon Company Funeral Home Monday night to the Stucky & McBrayer Funeral Home, Morehead, Ky., where funeral services and interment will be held.
The Tampa Tribune, Tampa, Florida. Tuesday, 28 August 1962.
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134522320/john-maxwell-gearhartJohn married Racine Elizabeth Shelton [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
John married Emma McDowell after 1940. Emma was born on 9 Jun 1910 in Kentucky; died on 30 Jun 1963 in Russell, Greenup County, Kentucky; was buried in Siloam Cemetery, Bluestone, Rowan County, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]