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| 8851 | Memphis Myrtle Minnie Blaylock, 95, of Memphis died Saturday at her home. Services will be at noon Monday at Forest Hill Funeral Home East with burial at 3:30 p.m. Monday in Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church Cemetery in Duck Hill, Miss. Mrs. Blaylock, the widow of Hardy B. Blaylock, leaves six daughters, Dorothy M. Counts, Joyce Maness and Pearl Rose Sparks, all of Memphis, Louise Counts of St. Charles, Mo., Mary Elliott of Hickory Flat, Miss., and Emeline Payne of Potts Camp, Miss.; four sons, Ruby B. Blaylock and William T. Blaylock, both of Grenada, Miss., Ralph H. Blaylock of Southaven and Robert A. Blaylock of Cahokia, Ill., 34 grandchildren, 56 great-grandchildren and seven great-great-grandchildren. The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tennessee. Sunday, 8 March 1992. | Brown, Myrtle Minnie (I941)
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| 8852 | Merle E. Eaton, 91, of Greeley, born October 18, 1921 in Riverton, Wyoming to Harvey and Goldie (Gardner) Eaton. He married Marian Farrens. Merle left to be with his maker on Sunday, November 25, 2012. Merle was raised on a farm in Riverton, Wyoming on Riverview Route. . He and his Dad farmed together several years. He worked on Square S Ranch, Piceance Creek in Western Colorado and then Meeker, Colorado. He moved to Greeley and worked for the Great Western Sugar Factory in Greeley and Eaton. He was involved with building the walking dragline at Point of Rocks (Bitter Creek) Wyoming. Merle was a business agent for Operating Engineers and was involved with building the Wheatland Power Plant in Wheatland, Wyoming. Survivors include his children; Mary Achziger, of Eaton, Dale Eaton of Laramie, Wyoming, Sharon (Milt) Slagowoski, of Lyman, Wyoming, Judy (Gary) Mason, of Eaton, and Richard (Bobbie) Eaton of Silt, Colorado, several Grandchildren, Great-grandchildren, and Great-great grandchildren who love and will miss him. He is preceded in death by his father, Harvey Eaton and his mother. Goldie (Gardner) Eaton Farrens , his wife, Marian Farrens, a daughter, Jean Ann Eaton, sisters, Mildred Chapman and Zelma Smith, sons, Daryl Eaton and Alan Eaton, son-in-law, Clarence Achziger and grandson, Mark Ashman. A memorial service to celebrate Merle’s life will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, December 1st at the Moser Funeral Service Chapel, 3501 S. 11th Avenue, Evans, Colorado. Memorial gifts can be made to Judy Mason in care of Moser Funeral Service. https://www.moserfuneralservice.com/obituaries/Merle-Eaton-25075/#!/Obituary | Eaton, Merle Edwin (I1360)
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| 8853 | Merlin M. Jacobs Merlin M. Jacobs, 75 died Friday in Ball Memorial Hospital. Mr. Jacobs was born in Toledo, Ohio, and moved to Muncie as a child with his parents, Otis and Beulah Jacobs. He attended Central High School. Mr. Jacobs retired from Chevrolet-Muncie (now New Venture Gear) in 1982. He was in the Merchant Marine during World War II and was a member of Avondale Sympathy Club. Survivors include his wife of 46 years, Eunice Jacobs; a son, Philip Jacobs, Peru; several grandchildren; three nieces, LaVonne Bell, Eaton, and Sharon Breese and Linda Phillips, both of Mundeline, Ill.; a nephew Ron Phillips, Mundeline; and several great-nieces and great-nephews. Services will be 11:30 a.m. Monday in Meeks Mortuary. Entombment will be in Elm Ridge Mausoleum. Calling at the mortuary will be 3-6 Sunday and before services Monday. Muncie Evening Press, Muncie, Indiana. Saturday, 3 April 1993. | Jacobs, Merlin Meredith (I4198)
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| 8854 | Merryman Elmer E. Merryman, 74, of Lexington, died Sunday after a long illness. Born in Versailles on Aug. 21, 1921, he was a son of the late Edward and Eliza Bumgardner Merryman and a veteran of the U.S. Army service in WWII. He was wounded and captured by the German Army in the Battle of the Bulge and remained a POW until the end of the war. He was a member of the Assembly of God, Mortonsville, and employed by the General Electric Kentucky Glass Plant where he retired after 30 years service. He is survived by his wife of almost 50 years, Blanch Million Merryman; one daughter, Peggy Lee McCord, Lexington; three sons, Edward Hughes Merryman, Hopkinsville, Glenn Ray Merryman, Marietta, GA, and Elmer Daryl Merryman, Quinton, VA; nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Funeral services 10 a.m. Wednesday at Kerr Brothers Funeral Home by Brother Gilbert Sargent with burial in Camp Nelson National Cemetery. Visitation 7-9 p.m. today. Memorial are suggested to the Lexington Veterans Administration Hospital, 2250 Leestown Rd., Lex., KY 40511. Lexington Herald-Leader, Lexington, Kentucky. Tuesday, 9 April 1994. | Merryman, Elmer Ellsworth (I4906)
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| 8855 | Mervil Wright, age 88 of Englewood passed away Tuesday, March 23, 2021 at Hospice of Dayton. He was born in Jackson, Kentucky on December 21, 1932 the son of Corbett & LuVernie (Farris) Wright. He retired from Delphi Chassis after 30 years and was a member of the Miami Shores Baptist Church. He was an avid coon hunter and dog trainer. He is survived by his son David (Mary) Wright; step children Barbara (Gary) Griffith, Kathy (Jerry) Key, Sherry Crosley-Breno and Howard F. Suiters Jr,; grandsons Forrest (Rebekah) Wright and David (Victoria) Wright Jr., numerous step grandchildren and great grandchildren; Brother Elmer Wright and several nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. He was preceded in death by his parents; wife Velma G. Wright; and sisters Hazel Noble and Irene Watkins. A gathering of family and friends will be held on Monday, March 29, 2021 from 11:00 am – 1:00 pm at the ZERKLE FUNERAL HOME, 11900 N. Dixie Dr., Tipp City. A funeral service will be held on Monday at 1:00 pm at the funeral home with Pastor Doug Surber officiating. Burial will follow in Forest Hills Memorial Gardens, Tipp City. | Wright, Mervil (I5422)
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| 8856 | Methodist Conference of Kentucky, 1841, 240, #6 Rev. Absolom Hunt, 1841, Bath County, Ky. Rev. Absolom Hunt died on the 21st of February 1841. He was born in the state of Virginia, December 4th, 1773, but in the days of his youth emigrated with his parents to the Holston county. From thence they came to Kentucky; and after his marriage, he lived several years in Fleming County, where he laboured a few years as a local preacher with great acceptability. He gave himself up wholly to the work in September 1815, and was received on trail in the Ohio Conference, and appointed successively to Madison, Lexington, Hinkston, and Limestone circuits; all in the state of Kentucky. The General Conference having in 1820 formed the Kentucky Conference he became one of its members, and was successively appoint to Liberty, Paris, Lexington and Hinkston circuits. It was in 1828 that he received his last appointment. At the close of that year, conference placed him i a sperannuated relation. He became the subject of painful affliction, and was rendered incapable of traveling on horseback, but he preached occasionally in the neighborhood. He was generally considered a very successful preacher, and a most powerful exhorter. He was remarkably fond of reading, and delighted much in Wesley's sermons. He conversed freely and calmly about death, which to him had no terrors. His confidence appeared to be strong in the Lord. A few weeks previous to his death he lost the entire use of his right side, and his powers of speech became so much disorganized, that he could not articulate so as to be understood. But he was patient and resigned. Thus he suffered until he fell asleep in Jesus. Submitted by Bobby Hunt. From Ancestry Family Tree of Smith Family Briar Patch by pekeapoomom https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/112707860/person/120158390659/media/b6a7ca66-731d-4946-aa38-5e0d06d9e0f5?galleryindex=5&sort=-created | Hunt, Rev. Absolom (I3662)
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| 8857 | MHR and 1900 US census gave birth date as Aug 1867. Kentucky Death Record give birth date as 4 Mar 1873 | Ralstin, Solomon (I545)
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| 8858 | MHR gave birth date an 6 November 1870 | White, Horatio Seymour (I864)
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| 8859 | MHR give birth date as 4 Nov 1849 and location as North Carolina. | Roberts, Rosie Caroline (I701)
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| 8860 | MHR give death date for Grace as 1926. There is a California Death Index: 1950-1939 entry for a Grace O. Hedges birth year abt 1905, death date 3 Nov 1926, Los Angeles, California. Also an abstract of an obituary for Grace O. (Strawn) Hedges, died 5 Nov 1926, Los Angeles, California, with father Charlie Strawn and spouse James S. Hedges. However. I find a 1930 US census record for a James Hedges (b. abt 1906, Colorado) and wife Grace Hedges (b. abt 1906, Missouri) living in Los Angeles, California. The census information matches for James and Grace but that puts MHR's information into question. | Strawn, Grace O. (I319)
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| 8861 | MHR gives birth date as 22 July 1886. | Clester, Arthur Charles (I331)
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| 8862 | MHR gives Colorado as place of death. | Hedges, Robert (I345)
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| 8863 | MHR gives her name as Meleene Key McCarthey. | McCarthey, Melva "Melviie" (I1536)
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| 8864 | MHR gives his cemetery as Mougey Farm Cemetery, near Oakland. | Hedges, Matthias (I1597)
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| 8865 | MHR gives his cemetery as Mougey Farm Cemetery, near Oakland. | Hedges, Mary Ann (I1598)
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| 8866 | MHR gives M. B. Ball as Marietta's second husband. | Cassity, Marietta (I2448)
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| 8867 | MHR gives marriage date as 10 February 1852. | Family: Albert Russell Cassity / Vianna Jane Hedges (F6)
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| 8868 | MHR gives marriage date as 12 Nov 1923, but William Presley Cassity and Gevieve Cassity are already in the 1920 US census with two sons ages 4 and 3. | Family: Willis Presley Cassity / Genevieve Belcher (F1166)
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| 8869 | MHR gives marriage date as 13 Oct 1879 | Family: Henry W. Samples / Sallie A. J. Hedges (F423)
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| 8870 | MHR gives marriage date as 4 Jan 1925, Trenton, Missouri. Missouri marrige records1805-2002 gives marriage of Charley Collins and Grace Jenkins, 4 Jan 1925, marrige place Trenton, Grundy County, Missouri, marriage registration Linn County, Missouri. Missouri marriage records 1805-2002 give marriage of Charles Collins and Grace Geneva Collins, 28 Jul 1928, marrige place Milan, Sullivan County, Missouri, registation place Linn County, Missouri. | Family: Charles Collins / Grace Geneva Jenkins (F98)
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| 8871 | MHR gives Mota's birth date as 16 SEP 1870. MHR also gives information about cemetery stone stating age 75 years which would agree with age and birth year given on Mota's death certificate. | Moody, Mota Frances (I493)
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| 8872 | MHR gives the marriage date as 20 Oct 1916. | Family: Grover Cleveland Thompson / Blanche B. Cassity (F1045)
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| 8873 | MHR gives wife's name as Nannie Flanery. | Terry, Teressa Rissa (I1159)
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| 8874 | MHR had birth date as 1882. 1900 US census gives birth date as April 1882 | Mattingly, Amanda Alice (I513)
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| 8875 | MHR had birth date as Dec 1879 | Razor, Sarah Caroline (I540)
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| 8876 | MHR note. Chester C. Adkins was a pipe fitter for the rail road. He had a stroke in 1957 and collapsed on the floor of the cab. | Adkins, Chester Charles (I838)
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| 8877 | MHR note. In 1953 they lived in Dry Ridge and George worked in Erlanger, Kentucky. | Hedges, George Washington (I484)
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| 8878 | MHR note: 12 children | Razor, Lacy Henry (I541)
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| 8879 | MHR note: from Ada (Hedges) Smith, 21 September 1950. James Alvah Hedges and Philora Allen, his wife left Kentucky in a covered wagon probably in the fall of 1871, to go to a place S. of Ogden, Ill. They made a camp at Covington, Indiana, and “Phy” did the washing while they lay over. They located at Ogden, Ill., but ca. spring of 1872, became homesick for Kentucky and went back by covered wagon. They returned to Ill. In March 1882, on the train, and settled this time near Fairmount, Vermilion Co., Ill. James Alvah’s brother, Wm. Rively Hedges had come to Ill. with him, and settled N. of Ogden, and Frank Hedges came with them. After James Alvah left to return to Ky., via covered wagon, Wm. Rively and his family went back by train and whom should they see on arrival but “Jim”, oldest son of Wm. Rively, whooping and “Hollering.” Wm. Rively and family returned to Ill. ca.1881, and located near Fairmount, Vermilion Co., and James Alvah and his family followed in 1882. Wm. Rively Hedges moved in 1890 (Mary Dalton’s birthday), on the train, to Purdin, Mo. | Hedges, William Riley (I10)
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| 8880 | MHR note: from Ada (Hedges) Smith, 21 September 1950. Ada Louvina Smith's parents, James Alva Hedges and Philora (Allen) went in January, 1881, from Rowan Co., Ky, near Farmers (they’d lived in the old house on their grandfather Hedges’ place, and he in the new one) to Homer, Ill., and when they went to leave, Ada went to tell her grandfather goodbye. He was up on a ladder trimming trees, and she recalls that he had white whiskers. She had been 7 in August. “We said, ‘Goodbye, Grandpa.’ And he began to cry and said, ‘Don’t tell me goodbye.’ That was the last time we ever saw Grandpa. We kissed the dog when we left, and even the folks cried. That dog was a wonderful god. He was called ‘Old Ring,’ and was a nice collie, but the thing he did that last time has been talked of in the family ever since. Ada heard her grandmother, Malinda R. (Cassity) Hedges say, ‘There are two roosters running around in the back orchard, and we should have Old Ring run them down, and we’ll divide them.’ They (Grandpa and Grandma, and my folks) had just let their chickens run together. Old Ring must have been getting fairly old then, or the folks would have brot him along, as he was their dog. Grandma and Mother went on about their business, and by and by they went out to the orchard, and there was Old Ring, with one of the roosters caught. As soon as they picked up that one, he ran and caught the other. No one could be found who would admit to setting Old Ring onto the roosters, and so far as they could determine, Old Ring had understood their remark and acted upon their quietly spoken words to each other.” Willie was a baby when they returned to Kentucky in 1874, and Ike and Russell were born there. We lived in the old house and Grandpa and Grandma in the new one on the same place. “Aunt Betty” lived with grandpa. She was a woman who’d been jilted. She was no relation to the family. She went blind, and once fell downstairs and broke her neck. She was good old soul. (I think she was the ‘Aunt Betty’ of the perpetual sunbonnet, that Ida Cronkhite told me of. M.H.R.) James Alvah Hedges and Philora Allen, his wife left Kentucky in a covered wagon probably in the fall of 1871, to go to a place S. of Ogden, Ill. They made a camp at Covington, Indiana, and “Phy” did the washing while they lay over. They located at Ogden, Ill., but ca. spring of 1872, became homesick for Kentucky and went back by covered wagon. They returned to Ill. In March 1882, on the train, and settled this time near Fairmount, Vermilion Co., Ill. James Alvah’s brother, Wm. Rively Hedges had come to Ill. with him, and settled N. of Ogden, and Frank Hedges came with them. After James Alvah left to return to Ky., via covered wagon, Wm. Rively and his family went back by train and whom should they see on arrival but “Jim”, oldest son of Wm. Rively, whooping and “Hollering.” Wm. Rively and family returned to Ill. ca.1881, and located near Fairmount, Vermilion Co., and James Alvah and his family followed in 1882. Wm. Rively Hedges moved in 1890 (Mary Dalton’s birthday), on the train, to Purdin, Mo. | Hedges, James Alva (I11)
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| 8881 | MHR note: from Ada (Hedges) Smith, 21 September 1950. Ada Louvina Smith's parents, James Alva Hedges and Philora (Allen) went in January, 1881, from Rowan Co., Ky, near Farmers (they’d lived in the old house on their grandfather Hedges’ place, and he in the new one) to Homer, Ill., and when they went to leave, Ada went to tell her grandfather goodbye. He was up on a ladder trimming trees, and she recalls that he had white whiskers. She had been 7 in August. “We said, ‘Goodbye, Grandpa.’ And he began to cry and said, ‘Don’t tell me goodbye.’ That was the last time we ever saw Grandpa. We kissed the dog when we left, and even the folks cried. That dog was a wonderful god. He was called ‘Old Ring,’ and was a nice collie, but the thing he did that last time has been talked of in the family ever since. Ada heard her grandmother, Malinda R. (Cassity) Hedges say, ‘There are two roosters running around in the back orchard, and we should have Old Ring run them down, and we’ll divide them.’ They (Grandpa and Grandma, and my folks) had just let their chickens run together. Old Ring must have been getting fairly old then, or the folks would have brot him along, as he was their dog. Grandma and Mother went on about their business, and by and by they went out to the orchard, and there was Old Ring, with one of the roosters caught. As soon as they picked up that one, he ran and caught the other. No one could be found who would admit to setting Old Ring onto the roosters, and so far as they could determine, Old Ring had understood their remark and acted upon their quietly spoken words to each other.” Willie was a baby when they returned to Kentucky in 1874, and Ike and Russell were born there. We lived in the old house and Grandpa and Grandma in the new one on the same place. “Aunt Betty” lived with grandpa. She was a woman who’d been jilted. She was no relation to the family. She went blind, and once fell downstairs and broke her neck. She was good old soul. (I think she was the ‘Aunt Betty’ of the perpetual sunbonnet, that Ida Cronkhite told me of. M.H.R.) | Hedges, William Ribelin (I1)
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| 8882 | MHR note: from Ada (Hedges) Smith, 21 September 1950. Ada Louvina Smith's parents, James Alva Hedges and Philora (Allen) went in January, 1881, from Rowan Co., Ky, near Farmers (they’d lived in the old house on their grandfather Hedges’ place, and he in the new one) to Homer, Ill., and when they went to leave, Ada went to tell her grandfather goodbye. He was up on a ladder trimming trees, and she recalls that he had white whiskers. She had been 7 in August. “We said, ‘Goodbye, Grandpa.’ And he began to cry and said, ‘Don’t tell me goodbye.’ That was the last time we ever saw Grandpa. We kissed the dog when we left, and even the folks cried. That dog was a wonderful god. He was called ‘Old Ring,’ and was a nice collie, but the thing he did that last time has been talked of in the family ever since. Ada heard her grandmother, Malinda R. (Cassity) Hedges say, ‘There are two roosters running around in the back orchard, and we should have Old Ring run them down, and we’ll divide them.’ They (Grandpa and Grandma, and my folks) had just let their chickens run together. Old Ring must have been getting fairly old then, or the folks would have brot him along, as he was their dog. Grandma and Mother went on about their business, and by and by they went out to the orchard, and there was Old Ring, with one of the roosters caught. As soon as they picked up that one, he ran and caught the other. No one could be found who would admit to setting Old Ring onto the roosters, and so far as they could determine, Old Ring had understood their remark and acted upon their quietly spoken words to each other.” Willie was a baby when they returned to Kentucky in 1874, and Ike and Russell were born there. We lived in the old house and Grandpa and Grandma in the new one on the same place. “Aunt Betty” lived with grandpa. She was a woman who’d been jilted. She was no relation to the family. She went blind, and once fell downstairs and broke her neck. She was good old soul. (I think she was the ‘Aunt Betty’ of the perpetual sunbonnet, that Ida Cronkhite told me of. M.H.R.) James Alvah Hedges and Philora Allen, his wife left Kentucky in a covered wagon probably in the fall of 1871, to go to a place S. of Ogden, Ill. They made a camp at Covington, Indiana, and “Phy” did the washing while they lay over. They located at Ogden, Ill., but ca. spring of 1872, became homesick for Kentucky and went back by covered wagon. They returned to Ill. In March 1882, on the train, and settled this time near Fairmount, Vermilion Co., Ill. James Alvah’s brother, Wm. Rively Hedges had come to Ill. with him, and settled N. of Ogden, and Frank Hedges came with them. After James Alvah left to return to Ky., via covered wagon, Wm. Rively and his family went back by train and whom should they see on arrival but “Jim”, oldest son of Wm. Rively, whooping and “Hollering.” Wm. Rively and family returned to Ill. ca.1881, and located near Fairmount, Vermilion Co., and James Alvah and his family followed in 1882. Wm. Rively Hedges moved in 1890 (Mary Dalton’s birthday), on the train, to Purdin, Mo. | Allen, Philora (I19)
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| 8883 | MHR note: from Ada Smith’s scrap book, Danville, Illinois. 28 September 1950. Gladys Pearl Allen, dau. Of Oscar and Nancy Allen, was born Jan. 15, 1899, at Arcola, Ill., and died July 21, 1928. She moved to Fairmount with her parents when a child. She m. Sept. 31, 1916, Danville, Lester Smith. They had 4 children, one baby dau., Ruth Maxine, preceding her in death, Jan. 9, 1927. A son James, and 2 daus., Madeline and Betty Lou survive her. Her mother, Mrs. Nancy Allen, two brothers, Walter and Sidney Allen, and 4 sisters: Mrs. Grover Wilson, Mrs. Ros Bennett, Mrs. Paul Comer, and Miss Ruth Allen survive. Her father, two brothers, and one sister, Mrs. Edd Starks, preceded her, the sister just dying 11 mo. Ago. She leaves aged grandmother, Mrs. Rebecca Allen. (not verbatim). | Allen, Gladys Pearl (I294)
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| 8884 | MHR note: from Ada Smith’s scrap book, Danville, Illinois. 28 September 1950. Thomas L. Smith, b. June 26, 1864, Armstrong Co., Pa. Cam to Ill with his parents when 4 years old. When 20 he moved to Sheridan neighborhood where he has lived since; m. Aug. 7, 1892, Miss Ada Smith. He left: foster dau. Mrs. Mike Brazelton, of Oakland; a sister, Mrs. Lyde Woods, of Broadlands; two bros.; Winfield, of Homer, and Will, of Hicksville; and 9 grandchildren. He united with the Center Point Christian Church 42 years ago. (The foregoing is not copied verbatim.) Mrs. Mike Brazelton is Grace. LKH note: Mrs. Mike Brazelton is Alta Grace Kelso, daughter of Dennis Kelso and Maude Smith. Maude Smith, a sister of Thomas L. Smith, died in 1908 when Grace was 2 years old. Thomas and Ada (Hedges) Smith took in Grace and raised her as a daughter. | Smith, Thomas Laben (I290)
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| 8885 | MHR note: from Clara (Enix) Gearhart, 11 October 1950. Clara got this story from her grandmother Eneix. Gr.-grandfather Hamm had put a beef to fatten near the house up on Tygart Creek, in Carter Co. Ky. One morning he went out and his beef had been killed in the nite. No one knew why the dogs didn’t give warming of the beast’s presence. He called the dogs and got on his horse, and they found the trail of the animal in the woods not far away, and found it – a panther, stretched out full length in a tree. He got off his horse and took off his coat and tied it around the tree, so the panther wouldn’t come down, and went back for his gun. He shot the beast, which measured 9 ft. from end of its nose to tip of tail. Even the old-timers stopped to look at it, as it was larger than any they’d seen. This was about 1820. People cut off claws to show how large it was. Some of the people who passed were going thru to the Big Sandy River for salt. They would put salt in one side of the bag they brot for the purpose, and put a stone in the other side, to balance it across the horse’s back. (Clara doesn’t know why they didn’t divide the salt and put some in each end instead of using a stone._ Grandmother had one claw, which I saw, and it was as long as my little finger. Someone finally threw that claw away. They had a sugar camp over on Big Perry. People would go over and take a side of meat and sack of meal and stay for a week or two, and make big sugar cakes in a mold as big as a big kettle lid, and four or five inches thick. The mold was a hollowed-out piece of cedar. They’d take home what they needed and leave the rest at the camp for months. No one ever tampered with it but once when someone had taken a knife and cut off a little slice. That was all the sugar they had in those days. | Hamm, Joseph (I987)
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| 8886 | MHR note: from Clara (Enix) Gearhart, 21 October 1950. Great grandmother Hamm and her two sisters were 2 or 3 miles up Triplett, visiting Bob Million’s, or someone, up what is now Holly. One had her baby with her. As they walked along, going home toward dusk, one of them said, “That is one of the boys, who’s calling, isn’t it?” They listened to a sound like “oo—ee” near them. One of the others said, “No, that is a panther,” and finally it came within sight and followed along, gnashing its teeth, and chattering to attract attention. The women took turns, one walking backward to keep the beast in sight, while the others walked forward as rapidly as possible, helping her along. Each took off her bonnet, and they threw them back, one at a time, to delay the panther. It stopped each time, to sniff and tear the bonnet, and the women then took off their aprons, and each was thrown down. In this way they finally got to the top of the hill, tho it was now nearly dark, and they were very frightened. Then Grandma began to call the dogs, and finally they came, and ran the panther off. It was about a mile up that hill, and they usually went horseback when they went down. Afterward they went back to see about the clothing they’d thrown down, but it was in ribbons. | McClurg, Nancy (I988)
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| 8887 | MHR note: from Clara (Enix) Gearhart, 21 October 1950. My grandmother Enix didn’t have anything but a curtain hung for her outside door, with all those wild animals prowling around. The wolves howled around, and she was there alone with her little brother, part of the time. Her mother had died. The wolves would come after the sheep in the nite, and she’d get up and set the little dog to scare them away. | Hamm, Matilda (I986)
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| 8888 | MHR note: from Clara (Enix) Gearhart, October 1950. Aunt Rosann (Hedges) Gilkison told me about a time when “Vian” married George G. Hamm, and they had a big gang around in hunting season, something like a resort hotel. They lived in a big “double” log house, with a long porch, about 40 or 45 ft. long. It had a big chimney in the middle, and fireplaces on each side. They had an “everlasting” spring in the yard, and a long gourd dipper with a hole drilled near the tip of the neck part, to hang it on a rail on the tree near the spring. Everyone who came by to drink from the spring used this dipper, of course. One time Vian was getting a noon meal with that whole gang of men waiting to eat, and had her bread dough made up and on a big wooden cooking tray ready to bake (The trays were of white linden wood – light and as white as could be.) Vian turned her back, going about her work, when one of the great hunting hounds darted up and grabbed the dough in its mouth (it stuck together all in one mess.) and tore out into the yard with it and had wolfed it down, all but a bit, when they discovered it. Then Vian had to go to work and mix up about a half-bushel of flour into another batch, before the men could eat. (Clara went over to the Basfords, neighbors, and borrowed one of the old trays, tho smaller than the one Vian had used, to show Mrs. Reiner. Basfords’ tray was about 20 inches across the long way, and was sloped down into a bowl-like shape, the open top being in a rectangle, longer than side, with corners rounded a bit.) | Hedges, Vianna Jane (I5)
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| 8889 | MHR note: in letter from Ida Cronkhite dated 2 January 1951. They told me "Jim" Carey's story when I was small. He was courting Eliza Jane [Cassity] when along came the Mexican Was. He was in the army that went to Mexico City. He returned with badly shattered health. My father went with him to see an old lady that cured by "conjur". She rubbed the sore place on his side, and told him he would soon vomit, and get well. They started home and he did vomit; said he was throwing up some cheese he had eaten in Mexico City - tasted just like it! He did get well at last. In the meantime he had renewed his suite with Eliza Jane. Finally when his health was nearly restored, they married. The way I remember the story, the first child, a boy, was diseased, and did not live long. The twins Will, and Alice, were O.K., but Eliza Jane soon died, and he married P. [Permalia} Brain. He volunteered in the Federal Army in the Civil War, much to the disgust of the Brain family, who favored the Confederacy. My brother, Charley, met Will and his sister Alice in Missouri, and they claimed him for a first cousin, because their mother and our father had been double cousins. | Carey, James Madison (I429)
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| 8890 | MHR note: James Armstrong was the brother of Polly who married Peter Thompson Cassity who is our ancestor. He is buried in 3 Lick Cemetery, on a hill near the old log house of William Ribelin Hedges, and I saw his stone when there the first time but he had died so much earlier than Polly that I didn't recognize the possibility of his being her brother, and didn't copy the inscription, and when I went back the next time, the stone had disappeared, but the people next door denied all knowledge of having anything to do with its removal, tho I think they had removed it to plant tobacco there. | Armstrong, Mary "Polly" Melissa (I22)
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| 8891 | MHR note: Levi's father, William, had stated in his will that his son Andrew could keep the plantation Hedgehogg is he could, which Andrew did by buying out the other two sons, Levi and William. | Hedges, Levi (I340)
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| 8892 | MHR note: Pascal's son Dothan Vawter was a soldier in the Union Army during the Civil War. | Vawter, Pascal (I356)
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| 8893 | MHR note: Seven children. Jesse served in WWI. Belonged to the American Legion. He was a Mason and a Republican. | Gardner, Jesse Lee (I103)
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| 8894 | MHR note: She bumped her knee on a bureau and it caused an infection which cost her life. | Allen, Minnie Davis (I2386)
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| 8895 | MHR note: three children. | Hedges, Arnold Melnott (I215)
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| 8896 | MHR note: William's parents were William Gilkison and Sarah (Walton) Gilkison. He had two brothers, Mark and French Gilkison. LKH note: So far I can not find records for his parents or his brothers. | Gilkison, William (I385)
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| 8897 | MHR note: Wm. M. Ringo served in the Mexican War and when he returned he appeared to have lost his mind. He charged a man with being his wife's lover. No one believed his wife had done anything wrong in his absence but he got his gun and went to the sawmill and shot his cousin "Strand" Pleak who wasn't even the accused man. Stand's body well onto the conveyor belt and barely was saved by those standing by from going into the saw. A posse was gathered to take Wm. M. Ringo who went home and barricaded himself in the house and sniped at anyone who came near. His gun finally ran out of ammunition and he tried to et a pistol in his pocket but he'd stopped in the orchard and felled his pockets with peaches and couldn't get the gun out. One of the posse shot and killed him. | Ringo, William Martin (I5656)
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| 8898 | MHR note: Ida Cronkhite said that Jacob Demaree was a widower with four small children. MHR note: Jacob's parents were John Allen Demaree and Dianna Ogle. John Allen Demaree's parents were James Demaree and Nancy Clemons. LKH note: I can't find census records for any of the Demaree families given by MHR. | Demaree, Jacob (I17)
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| 8899 | MHR note: James Carey and his second wife Pamelia A. Brain had the following children: Nancy Carey, James Madison Carey, Grant Carey, Sarah Carey, and George Carey. | Carey, James Madison (I429)
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| 8900 | MHR note: Robert was superintendent of schools, San Jose, Illinois, 1940. He graduated from Augusta high school in 1921 and B.S. Culver-Stockton in 192__. M.A. from University of Illinois (Urbana) in 1937. Received at Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. He was superintendent in Camden, Illinois for four years; Smithfield for five years; Mequon for two years. Theta Kappa Nu (Culver-Stockton). | Yates, Robert Louis (I967)
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