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5701	OBITUARY CHAS. LEWIS PASSES AWAY Cancer Is Fatal To Prominent Man One of south Iron County's best known and beloved characters died last Friday in the passing of Mr. Chas. Lewis. He had been a sufferer only a comparatively short time from a fatal cancer under his arm. About two months ago he went to the hospital and had the small growth removed. He was never able thereafter to be up very much and gradually grew weaker and the suffering worse as death approached. Mr. Lewis was a member for about 30 years of the Baptist church at Annapolis and one of its most faithful servants and, as some said, 'pillars.' He was a board member of the newly organized cemetery association and a very interested worker for the short time he got to serve. He had not been an active farmer for the last two or three years because of not feeling so well, but had engaged in stock hauling and buying until rather recently. Mr. Lewis was born on July 12, 1886 and died on January 21 at the age of 57 years, 6 months and 5 days. In 1907, he married Hattie Warncke to which union was born six children. One of these died in infancy. The wife and the remaining children survive. They are Mrs. Irma Mann, Aurlin and Jesslyn, of Annapolis, Otis and Jimmy of St. Louis. There are four grandsons besides a host of other relatives and many, many friends, who are saddened at his passing. Funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon at the Union church at 2 p.m. Rev. Seal preached the sermon and Rev. Joe Alcorn assisted in the service. A group of singers from the community sang several hymns. Interment was in the Annapolis cemetery. (Original newspaper article in possession of Jesslyn Lewis in March 1991)	Lewis, Charles J. (92151158)
5702	Obituary Death visited the home of Solomon Franklin King near Brunot on Mill Creek in Madison County, Missouri, Sept 29, 1917 at 9 o'clock where he had lived for 65 years. Uncle Saul was born at Memphis, TN. Apr 4, 1829, and came to Missouri, locating at Current River when but a boy where he lived but a year, moving from there to Madison County, where he has lived ever since. Solomon King and Permelia Isabelle Ross were united in marriage on 20 Mar 1853. They came to their present home on Apr 7, 1853. They came with one horse and their posessions slung to a pack saddle. To this marriage were born 6 children, of which 4 survive him. 2 sons: Earl and Henry, and two daughters; Melvina and Nancy Young from near Fredericktown, MO.: 29 grandchildren: 21 great grandchildren. We are all pleased that God spared Uncle Saul to see so many generations in his family, a blessing not given to many. Uncle Saul endured hardships in his early married life that would make the young men of today very much discouraged. Uncle Saul The Fredericktown, Madison County, Missouri "Democrat News" dated 11 October, 1917, page 3.	King, Solomon Franklin (44304097)
5703	Obituary Jerrel “Wayne” Lewis, 78, of St. Louis, MO, passed away November 7, 2020, at Mercy Hospital South in St. Louis. He was born in Pangburn, Arkansas, January 24, 1942, to the parents Elvis Eli and Velma Jane (White) Lewis. Wayne was a loving husband, father, grandfather, and brother. He married Shirley Sutton on September 1,1962, and they were blessed with two children. He was a supervisor and worked in customer service many years. Wayne loved to be outside working in the yard, going for walks, often traveling and was very active. He had a great love for his family. In addition to his parents, he is proceeded in death by two brothers: Walter and Hollis Lewis. Wayne is survived by his loving and devoted wife of fifty-eight years; children Randy Lewis and wife Tracie of Washington, MO, Shannon McNamara and husband Matthew of Bartlett, IL; grandchildren: Cameron McNamara, and Faith McNamara; brothers: Paul Vernon Lewis of Troy, Jerry Lewis of St. Louis, David Lewis of Savannah, GA, Gary Lewis of St. Louis; sisters: Maxine Pyles of St. Charles, Cynthia Martin of Patterson, and Carolyn Raddatz of Piedmont. Wayne will be greatly missed by his family and friends. Visitation will be held at 12:00 noon, Tuesday, November 10, 2020, at First Baptist Church of Arnold, 2012 Missouri State Rd, Arnold, MO, 63010. Memorial service will follow at 2:00 pm, also at the First Baptist Church Chapel. Online condolences can be made at www.rueggfuneralhomes.com	Lewis, Jerrel Wayne (41989369)
5704	OBITUARY Mrs. Clema Foster Lewis was born in Piedmont, September 5, 1919; and entered into her rest at her home in Des Arc on July 7, 1940, at the age of twenty years, ten months, and two days. Early in life she suffered the loss of her parents and lived for a number of years with her foster parents, Mr. and Mrs. Green Brooks. She was united in marriage to Mr. Wellman Lewis, December 9, 1937. To this union were born two children; Norma Elaine, and Wellman Wayne. She leaves to mourn her departure a devoted husband, two children, four sisters, three brothers, her foster parents, and the parents of her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Zell Lewis, to whom she seemed as an own daughter. Besides these, there are 41 host of near and distant relatives together with a community of friends to whom she was most essential. The first interest in the life of Clema Lewis was her husband, her family and her home. She was a splendid mother and sacrificing wife. May the strong comforting arm of a loving Heavenly Father, soothe and sustain those to whom her going has been such a blow. As the rose is picked in its bud for its beauty, so has this life ended early, just as it was breaking forth in full blossom. The funeral services were held in the Church of the Nazarene, Des Arc, with Rev. S. N. Whitcanack, Pastor, in charge. —Contributed.	Foster, Clema (50815236)
5705	Obituary Sandra Lee Engelbrecht, 80, of New Haven, MO, passed away Tuesday, July 24, 2018 at New Haven Care Center. Sandra was born in Washington, Missouri on November 19, 1937, a daughter of the late Ellis & Wilhelmina (Meyer) Rodgers. She was the widow of John W. Engelbrecht. They were united in marriage on August 22, 1959, at St. Peter's United Church of Christ, New Haven. John preceded her in death on February 7, 2011. Sandra was a very active member of St. Peter's United Church of Christ. She was the church organist, the music director for 45 years and a member of the quilters group. She loved to quilt, cook, and spend time with her grandchildren. Sandra is survived by a daughter, Laurie Steinbeck & husband Rick, of Hermann; by a son, Dave Engelbrecht & wife Jodi, of New Haven, by her siblings, Kay Egley, of Phoenix, Arizona; Elaine Pehle, of New Haven; and Roni Rodgers, of Union, and by four grandchildren, Eli Steinbeck & wife Erika, of Edmond, Oklahoma; Hannah Steinbeck & fiance Mike Rettaliata, of Charleston, South Carolina; and Emma & Jacob Engelbrecht, of New Haven. She is preceded in death by her parents, her husband, and a grandson Justin Steinbeck. Visitation will be held Monday, July 30th from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Toedtmann & Grosse Funeral Home, New Haven. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 11:00 a.m. at St. Peter's United Church of Christ, New Haven, with Rev. David Poe officiating. Burial will be at St. Peter's Cemetery. Memorials may be given to New Haven Hospice or New Haven Music Boosters. C/O Toedtmann & Grosse Funeral Home.	Rogers, Sandra Lee (50463666)
5706	Obituary Thomas Ruble, 90, of Vulcan, passed away Friday, January 31, 2020. He was born February 12, 1929, in Vulcan, MO, to Clell and Bess (Lewis) Ruble. Tom was a loving father, grandfather and friend. He married Veldeen “Vel” Williams on April 22, 1972. Tom was a member of the Pipefitters Union 562. He was proud to lay down the foundation for his grandson, Jeremy Eaton and son-in-law, Robert Eaton. Tom served in the United States Army. He enjoyed spending time with his family, especially his grandchildren. He also enjoyed fishing in his lake from his deck and hosting fish fry’s. Tom was a long-time member of Free Spirit Baptist Church in Vulcan, MO. He is preceded in death by his loving wife of forty-two years, his brothers: Ralph Lewis, Jack Ruble, Berlin Ruble, and Junior Ruble; his sisters: Katherine Hammers and Carma Sisk Faborito. Tom is survived by his children: Terry Ruble of Pevely, Lea Eaton and husband Robert of Bonne Terre; his stepchildren: Rob Damouth and wife Donna of Salem, Rick Damouth His photo at: https://www.rueggfuneralhomes.com/obituary/Thomas-Ruble	Ruble, Thomas William (4740096)
5707	OBITUARY William Alcorn, 70, of Annapolis, died in a St. Louis Hospital May 27. Services were May 30 from the Union church at Annapolis with the Rev. Allan in charge. Interment in the Annapolis cemetery with White and Sons in charge. (THE MOUNTAIN ECHO newspaper ... Ironton, Iron County, Missouri ... June 1, 1950) OBITUARY ANNAPOLIS HAPPENINGS column... Bill Alcorn passed away Saturday evening at St. Louis. Funeral services were Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Union church with burial in the cemetery beside his wife who preceded him in death. (THE MOUNTAIN ECHO newspaper ... Ironton, Iron County, Missouri ... June 1, 1950)	Alcorn, William Henry (59415395)
5708	Obituary Yvonne Frances Elrod, 96, of Piedmont, MO, passed away Tuesday, April 11, 2023, at Clarks Mountain Nursing Home, Piedmont, MO. She was born in Des Arc, MO, June 23, 1926, to parents James and Myrtle (Fowler) Lewis. Yvonne was a loving mother, grandmother, and friend. She married Kenneth Elrod May 20, 1944, and was blessed with two children. Yvonne was of the Baptist faith and attended Friendship Baptist Church of Piedmont. She was born and raised in Des Arc, a 1944 graduate of Des Arc High School and moved to Piedmont in 1957. She loved her garden and her flowers. Yvonne was a passionate and nurturing homemaker. She had a feisty spirit, she enjoyed cooking and serving her family. Her family was everything to her. In addition to her parents, she is preceded in death by her loving husband of sixty-three years, brothers: Arvil and Darwin Lewis; sister: Naomi Zager. Yvonne is survived by her children: Kenny Elrod and wife Sally of Piedmont, Debbie Griffin and husband Nolan Tritschler of Columbia; grandchildren: Kent Elrod, Keri Elrod, Matthew Griffin and companion Sara Williams-Brown, Molly Newville and husband Justin; great-grandchildren: Kaden Elrod, Kenton Elrod, Van Newville and Harper Newville. Yvonne will be greatly missed by her family and friends. Visitation was held at 1:00 pm, Sunday, April 16, 2023, at Ruegg Funeral Home, Piedmont Chapel. Funeral followed at 3:00 pm, also in the Piedmont Chapel. Pastor Pete Ruble ministered to the family. Kenny Elrod, Kaden Elrod, Kent Elrod, Kenton Elrod, Matthew Griffin, Justin Newville, Nolan Tritschler served as pallbearers. Burial was in Mt. View Cemetery, Des Arc	Lewis, Yvonne Francis (9342314)
5709	Obituary - The Democrat, Elsberry newspaper - 12-17-1920 The remains of John Riley Thompson, who died at his home in Los Angeles, CA arrived here Sunday evening, accompanied by his widow, and funeral services were conducted the following morning at 10 am at the Methodist church. Rev. LC Maggart officiating. Interment was made in Elsberry cemetery. Mr. Thompson was a resident of this community many years ago, and the large attendance at his funeral testified to the fact that he had lived in the memory of old time friends. John Riley Thompson was born in Lincoln Co., MO 4-13-1837 and died in Los Angeles, CA 12-4-1920 @ the age of 83 yrs. 7 mo. 22d. He was first married in 1861 to Miss Maggie Damron, who preceeded him to the grave 15 yrs ago. 5 children were born of this union as follows: Mrs Myrtle Moore of Grand Junction Colorado, HL Thompson of Tulsa, OK, Dr. SA Thompson of Mt. Vernon, IL and CD Thompson. In Nov. 1910 Mr Thompson was united in marriage with Mrs. Julia Hittich, and 2 yrs later they established their home in California where they resided until the former's demise. Many years of Mr. Thompson's life were spent on the water. At the age of 20 yrs. he began his career on Mississippi River steamboats and continued for many yrs in the capacity of pilot or captain, until the care of his mother devoted upon him and he was obliged to give up his chosen occupation. He remained with his mother until her death, a matter of 4-5 years, on the farm now owned by RL McMahill, north of town. Mr. Thompson had been in feeble health for nearly 2 yrs and his death was not unexpected by those in touch with the family. It had been his oft-expressed desire to be laid away in Elsberry Cemetery by the side of his 1st wife, and his wishes were carried out in this respect. Members of the local Odd Fellows organization upon request of the Louisiana lodge, of which the deceased was a member, acted as pall bearers, it being impossible on account of bad roads and inconveinient train service for Louisiana to send representatives. Mr. Thompson was a member of the Baptist church, but owing to the fact that the Elsberry church is without pastor, the funeral services were held @ the Methodist church. 12-17-1920 The Democrat Mrs. Julia Thompson of Los Angeles, CA, and son Mr Hettich of Granite City, IL, Miss Mary, SA Thompson, wife and children, Louis, Harry, and Mary Margaret, of Mount Vernon, IL who were called here to attend the funeral of the former's husband, the late John Riley Thompson, were guests in the home of RE Black (husband of Susan Jane Damron, a 1st cousin of John R. Thompson's wife) during their stay in Elsberry. Mrs. Thompson accompanied her husband's remains from Los Angeles, where he died, and met here by her son and stepson and family.	Thompson, John Riley (19140887)
5710	Obituary :The Bismarck Gazette - July 4,1968 : Lee Keathley, son of the late Wallace Keathley and Sara Jackson Keathley, was born in Iron County Missouri on February 5, 1883 and passed away at the Missouri Pacific Hospital in St. Louis on Wednesday, June 26, 1968 at the age of 85 years, 4 months and 21 days. Mr. Keathley was a retired Locomotive engineer of the Missouri Pacific Railroad. He was also a member of the First Baptist Church of Bismarck and the Masonic Lodge No. 41. He is surived by his wife Edna Keathley, of Bismarck; three sons, Bob Keathley, of Detroit, Mich.; Don Keathley, of Springfield, Va.; Carlos Keathley, of Thayer, Missouri; a step-son Leroy Pinkley, of Bismarck; one daughter, Mrs. Ruby Hagard, of Independence, Missouri; six grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. Funeral service were held at 2:00 o'clock last Saturday afternoon from the United Methodist Church at Bismarck, conducted by Rev. Robert Edwards, pastor of the First Baptist Church, of Bismarck. Interment was in the Masonic Cemetery with funeral arrangements under the directions of Shipman and Sons.	Keathley, Lee (78923980)
5711	Obituary Collection 1930-Present on ancestry.com Name: Frank Deeter Rayfield Gender: Male Death Age: 71 Birth Date: 7 Sep 1933 Birth Place: Annapolis, MO. Marriage Date: 15 Jan 1983 Residence Place: Annapolis Death Date: 18 Jun 2005 Death Place: Cape Girardeau, MO. Burial Date: 21 Jun Burial Place: Annapolis Obituary Date: 26 Jun 2005 Obituary Place: Annapolis, Iron, Missouri, USA Father: John Rayfield Mother: Della Rayfield Spouse: Sue Miller Child: Scott Stidmon Ronnie Stidmon Cynthia Fischer Dee Galan Gary Rayfield Siblings: Max Rayfield Robert Rayfield Elmer Rayfield John Rayfield Gene Rayfield E.J. Rayfield	Bounds, Sarah A. (9360336)
5712	Obituary for Phillip Otis Lewis Phillip Otis Lewis of Bridgeton, MO passed away on May 21, 2019 at the age of 79 years, 4 months, 1 day. He was born January 20, 1940 in St. Louis, MO a son of the late Otis and Mayme (Pratt) Lewis. Phillip is survived by three children; Kathy, Michael, and Billy, one brother Larry Lewis, and one sister Marilyn Lombardi of Wentzville, MO; four grandchildren, Amanda, Nichole, Zach, Ashley, several great grandchildren, and many other loving family and friends. Funeral services for Phillip will be held on May 24, 2019 at 1:00 pm at the Cole Family Chapel. Visitation will begin May 24, 2019 at 11:00 am. Interment will be in Arcadia Valley Memorial Park.	Lewis, Phillip Otis (64605728)
5713	Obituary for Regina Miller (Kendrick) Regina Miller (Kendrick) Regina L. Miller, 67 of Arcadia, MO, formerly from Des Arc area passed away Wednesday, January 3, 2018, at St. Anthony’s Medical Center, St. Louis, MO. She was born to parents Clarence J. and Bernice (Gibson) Kendrick on May 3, 1950, at St. Louis, MO. Regina grew up in Des Arc and attended school there before finishing at South Iron High School at Annapolis, MO, in 1968. On May 25, 1968, she married Jerry Wayne Miller, and to this union two children were born. She had been a homemaker during her children’s younger years and then later worked as a quality inspector at Flat River Glass. She was a Christian with extremely strong faith that enjoyed being a blessing to those she knew and even those she didn’t. Her sense of humor often kept those around her in stitches with her stories. She had last attended Happy Zion General Baptist Church in Annapolis, MO. She is survived by her daughter, Leslie McCaig and husband Michael of Annapolis, MO; grandchildren: Emily McCaig and Evan McCaig; brother, Steven Robert Kendrick of Piedmont, MO; sister, Carol E. Higgins and husband Glen of Des Arc, MO; brother in law, Mike Miller and wife Donna of Poplar Bluff, MO; sister in laws: Sandy Miller of St. Louis and Sue Tucker and husband Larry of Desloge. She is preceded in death by her parents; her husband; son, Jason Miller whom passed away in 2016; sister, Dana Marie Noonan; brother in law, Gary Miller. She will be missed by many. Visitation was held Saturday, January 6, 2018, from 5:00 pm, at Ruegg Funeral Home, Piedmont, MO. Services followed Sunday, January 7, 2018, at 2:00 pm, also at the Piedmont chapel. Pastors Keith Luke and Mike Harrison ministered to the family. Jason Mays, Steve Kendrick, Michael McCaig, Evan McCaig, Gabe Landing and Damon Jackson served as pallbearers. Burial followed at Meadows Cemetery near Annapolis, MO.	Kendrick, Regina L. (49779680)
5714	Obituary for Regina Miller (Kendrick) Regina Miller (Kendrick) Regina L. Miller, 67 of Arcadia, MO, formerly from Des Arc area passed away Wednesday, January 3, 2018, at St. Anthony’s Medical Center, St. Louis, MO. She was born to parents Clarence J. and Bernice (Gibson) Kendrick on May 3, 1950, at St. Louis, MO. Regina grew up in Des Arc and attended school there before finishing at South Iron High School at Annapolis, MO, in 1968. On May 25, 1968, she married Jerry Wayne Miller, and to this union two children were born. She had been a homemaker during her children’s younger years and then later worked as a quality inspector at Flat River Glass. She was a Christian with extremely strong faith that enjoyed being a blessing to those she knew and even those she didn’t. Her sense of humor often kept those around her in stitches with her stories. She had last attended Happy Zion General Baptist Church in Annapolis, MO. She is survived by her daughter, Leslie McCaig and husband Michael of Annapolis, MO; grandchildren: Emily McCaig and Evan McCaig; brother, Steven Robert Kendrick of Piedmont, MO; sister, Carol E. Higgins and husband Glen of Des Arc, MO; brother in law, Mike Miller and wife Donna of Poplar Bluff, MO; sister in laws: Sandy Miller of St. Louis and Sue Tucker and husband Larry of Desloge. She is preceded in death by her parents; her husband; son, Jason Miller whom passed away in 2016; sister, Dana Marie Noonan; brother in law, Gary Miller. She will be missed by many. Visitation was held Saturday, January 6, 2018, from 5:00 pm, at Ruegg Funeral Home, Piedmont, MO. Services followed Sunday, January 7, 2018, at 2:00 pm, also at the Piedmont chapel. Pastors Keith Luke and Mike Harrison ministered to the family. Jason Mays, Steve Kendrick, Michael McCaig, Evan McCaig, Gabe Landing and Damon Jackson served as pallbearers. Burial followed at Meadows Cemetery near Annapolis, MO.	Kendrick, Regina L. (49779680)
5715	Obituary from The Mountain Echo, Wednesday, February 9, 2005. Marshall W. Keathley passed away January 29, 2005 at the age of 88 in Denver Colorado. Mr. Keathley was born September 20 1916 growing up on a farm near Ironton, the youngest of thirteen children of William Tyler Keathley and Martha Evaline Lewis Keathley. On October 15, 1943 he married Kathleen Stephens in Camp Walters, Texas. They were married 61 years when she passed away February 1, 2004. He was preceded in death by his parents; four brothers, Walter, Clarence, Elmer and Herschel, five sisters, Della Lucille, Nettie, Lester and Myrene. He is survived by one sister, Lorene Keathley of Ironton, and many nieces and nephews. He graduated from Ironton High School in 1935 and from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1942 with a degree in Geology. He served in the U. S. Army from 1942 to 1946 with the rank of Captain, while serving in the reserves he was promoted to Major and honored with the Presidential Unit Citation Purple Heart, Bronze Stars and Combat Infantry Badge. Mr. Keathley worked for Forest Oil Corporation from 1953 to 1981 in Texas and Colorado. Mr. & Mrs Keathley were active members in the Midland Gem and Mineral Society in Texas. There will be no services.	Keathley, Marshall Woodrow (16753056)
5716	OBITUARY OF GEORGE KING The angel of death has again visited the Brunot community and taken another of our old citizens. Uncle George King surrendered to the will of God, at his home near Brunot, on the 12th day of April 1917. Uncle George was born on the farm where he died. He had lived near Brunot all of his life with the exception of a short sojourn in Manila, Arkansas. He is survived by his father and his mother, his wife Elizabeth; two brothers, Henry & Earl of Brunot: two sisters, Miss Melvina and Nancy Young of near Fredericktown: three sons, Thomas of Manila, Arkansas, Oscar of Des Arc: three daughters, Mrs J M Brown and Mrs John Goad of Brunot, and Mrs Jennie Moore of Sacramento, California. His father, Saul King is 91 and his mother Permelia is 85 years old. He also had a host of grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren,. The deceased was 62 years, 8 months and 18 days old.	KIng, George Washington (55738458)
5717	Obituary of Hazel Ruth Reese Pott (1913 - March 30, 2013) Ocean Springs, MS ~ Mrs. Hazel Ruth Reese Pott, 100 years of age, of Ocean Springs, MS, died Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Ocean Springs. Mrs. Pott was born in Ringgold, LA and had been a longtime resident of the MS Gulf Coast. She was a homemaker and a Baptist. She was an active member of Gulf Hills Country Club and a member of the Ladies Golf Association. She loved to travel to California to visit her grandchildren and enjoyed day trips with her sister. Mrs. Pott was preceded in death by her husband, Ben Pott. She is survived by her son, Johnny Pott and his wife, Mary Rose; sister, Doris Stagg of Eunice, LA; four grandchildren and four great grandchildren. The family prefers memorials to made to one's favorite charity. Graveside services will be 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, April 2, 2013, at Crestlawn Memorial Park. Bradford-O'Keefe Funeral Home in Ocean Springs is in charge of arrangements. Published in The Sun Herald on April 1, 2013 - from findagrave.com	Reese, Hazel Ruth (40128554)
5718	Obituary of Mrs. K.H. Schaper Emma Louise Engelbrecht was bom near Drake, Mo., May 10, 1863. She was left an orphan at the age of thirteen. She was converted and united with the German M.E. Church at the age of 17. On Aug. 6, 1885, she was united in marriage to Rev. J. O. Jacob. This union was of brief duration, her husband being called from his labors Oct. 8,1887. Of this marriage were two children, Elmer, who passed away April 21, 1938, his home being in Tulsa, Okla., and Amelia, wife of W.J. Burgess, of Chula, Mo., who was born after the death of her father. Of this family there are eleven grandchildren and ﬁve great-grandchildren. Three brothers and three sisters preceded her in death. Those surviving are; John Engelbrecht, Stony Hill, Mo., Joseph and Mrs. Henry Oberg, Bay, Mo., Mrs. Henry Berger, Union, Mo., Gust Engelbrecht, Oxford, Nebr. On June 26, 1895, Mrs. Jacob became the wife of Bro. K.H. Schaper, whose home was in the vicinity of the Zoar M.E. Church, a few miles north of Wright City. Here prosperity and happiness crowned their lives until death again brought to her a broken home and a second widowhood in the going home of her husband on Jan. 2,1917. The issue of this union consisted of ﬁve children all of whom are here to give loving tribute to a devoted and saintly mother and to cherish the memory of a kind and indulgent father. 'Tis beautiful indeed, to note that children bereft of their parents rise up in the strength of noble manhood and womanhood and call them blessed. The children of this union are: George, on home farm, Troy; (Anna) Mrs. Clem Creech, Troy; (Marie) Mrs. Walter Bruning, Wright City; (Emma) Mrs. B. G. Meyer, Topeka, Kan.; Esther, St. Louis. Of this family there are seven grandchildren. There are three surviving step-sons and a number of step-grandchildren to whom she was very devoted. Three words in this brief life history challenge attention-orphaned, widowed and converted. The ﬁrst two suggest sorrow, loneliness and in many instances privation and hardship of various kinds; but the word converted to God through Jesus Christ, how it sweetens the bitterness, softens the hardness and sanctiﬁes all to the working out of the exceeding and eternal weight of Glory. Mother Schaper came to visit her daughter, Mrs. Clem Creech, and while there she was stricken with partial paralysis which rendered her helpless, but of which she did not suffer. Friday morning, March 7, 1941, at 6:30 the second stroke summoned her to be absent from the body, but present with the Lord. Loving care was ministered by Mrs. Creech and other members of the family up to the ﬁnal moment of the closing of a beautiful life. Funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon at the Wright City Methodist Church by her pastor. Rev. J. L. Nickerson, assisted by Rev. Louis J. Duewel of Troy. Interment was in the Zoar cemetery.	Engelbrecht, Emma (73046209)
5719	OBITUARY: Mary Jane Keriakos April 18, 1938 July 1, 2024 On July 1st, 2024, Mary Jane Keriakos, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, began her eternal life in heaven at the age of 86. She had a lifelong passion for music, style, French life, travel, and her family. Mary Jane was born in Gary, Indiana. She was the only child of Steve and Paula Delardos. She was raised in a close-knit Greek community. At the young age of six, Mary Jane learned to play the piano as well as speak English in addition to her native Greek. She discovered at this young age that piano was one of her first great loves. She graduated from Horace Mann High School in Gary, Indiana. She went on to the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago and became an accomplished pianist. In 1958, Mary Jane married and moved to Washington, DC. She attended Catholic University and received a BA in Piano. She enjoyed playing classical music and teaching piano lessons on her beloved Steinway Grand piano. In later years, Mary Jane developed an interest in law. She took paralegal courses at George Washington University and then went on to earn her law degree in 1974 at the Potomac School of Law in Washington, DC. She moved to Annapolis, MD, to start a law practice in general and Maritime law. She resided and worked in Annapolis for 20 years. Mary Jane dreamed of seaside living and continuing her law practice in Florida. She moved to South Hutchinson Island, Florida where she practiced Estate Planning and Probate Administration from 2003 to 2019. She excelled at providing law services to anyone in need. Mary Jane was actively involved in her communities and made many loving friends where ever she lived. She participated in Kiwanis, Rotary Club, ushered at the Sunrise Theatre in Ft. Pierce, FL, and volunteered in supportive community based programs. She attended the Community Church of Vero Beach drawn by the worship, fellowship and the abundant music. Mary Jane is lovingly remembered by her friends for her love of ballroom dancing. Her favorite dance was the Tango with its intricate footwork. She also loved traveling with family and friends throughout her life. It would be remiss to exclude her obsession for all things French. She enjoyed visiting Paris, learning the French language, reading books about France, and eating french desserts. Mary Jane moved to Colorado Springs in 2021 “to escape the hurricanes and live with family”. Family was another of Mary Jane’s greatest loves. Family meant the world to her and kept her going through her illnesses. She spent her last years surrounded by her daughters, grandchildren, and great grandchildren. Mary Jane with her former husband, Van Keriakos, raised three loving daughters in Reston, Virginia. She is survived by her children, Susan Lewis (Jon), Colorado Springs, CO, Paula Veevers, Tucson, AZ and Vanessa Reyda (Vince), Middletown, RI. She is also survived by seven grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. Mary Jane will be interred with her parents in Arlington, Virginia. There will be a private graveside service as well as a gathering for friends and family in Florida, dates to be determined. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Community Church of Vero Beach, Florida or Sunrise Theatre, Fort Pierce, Florida in her memory. One of Mary Jane’s favorite Bible verses was “Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.”1 John 4:7 NIV	Delardos, Mary Jane (23737199)
5720	Obituary: The angel of death has again visited the Brunot community and taken another of our old citizens. Uncle George King surrendered to the will of God, at his home near Brunot, on the 12th day of April 1917. Uncle George was born on the farm where he died. He had lived near Brunot all of his life with the exception of a short sojourn in Manila, Ark. He is survived by his father and his mother, his wife Elizabeth; two brothers, Henry and Earl of Brunot; two sisters, Miss Melvina and Nancy Young of near Fredericktown; three sons, Thos of Manila, Ark., Oscar of Des Arc; three daughters, Mrs J M Brown and Mrs John Goad of Brunot, and Mrs Jennie Moore of Sacremento, California. His father Saul King is 91, and his mother Permelia is 85 years old. He also had ahost of grandchildren, and 3 great grandchildren. The deceased was 62 years, 8 months and 18 days old. More About GEORGE WASHINGTON KING: Burial: King Farm Cemetery, Brunot, Madison County, Missouri	KIng, George Washington (55738458)
5721	Obituary: Aubry Dwain Montgomery, 75, of Poplar Bluff died Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012 at his residence. Mr. Montgomery was born Oct. 8, 1936, in St. Louis, Mo. He was a member of Calvary Community Church, had retired as a long distance truck driver. Mr. Montgomery was also a veteran of the U.S. Navy. He enjoyed spending time with his family, reading western books, watching western movies and fishing. On Oct. 12, 1959, he married Joyce Delia Lashley in Peach Orchard, Mo. She preceded him in death on Feb. 24, 1993. Survivors include 8 children: Annabel Williams, Guy Montgomery and Tammy Mellon all of Poplar Bluff, Steven Montgomery, Victoria Highland and Dale Montgomery all of Doniphan, Mo., Joe Montgomery of West Plains, Mo. and Aubry Dwain Montgomery Jr.; 19 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; and a sister, Evelyn Thompson of Haviland, Kans. His parents, Guy and Ollie (Bradley) Montgomery also preceded him in death. Visitation will be from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Thursday at Cotrell Funeral Chapel. A graveside service with full military honors will follow at 2 p.m. Thursday at Hvam Cemetery in Butler County with the Rev. Shelvie Stephens officiating. (Cotrell Funeral Chapel)	Montgomery, Aubryy Dwain (8155308)
5722	Obituary: http://www.semissourian.com/story/1961617.html	Edwards, Neal C. (79860343)
5723	Obituary: http://www.semissourian.com/story/2100600.html Clarence Kurre Clarence Allen Kurre, 93, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, July 14, 2014, at Saint Francis Medical Center. He was born July 1, 1921, in Cape Girardeau, to August L. and Malinda M. Weiss Kurre. Clarence attended Randol School, Hanover Lutheran School, College High School, and graduated from Steimle Business College. He served in the South Pacific with the U.S. Navy during World War II and Korean War. Clarence was employed by Kimbel Lines, Delta Lines, and ABF 45 years. He was a member of Teamsters Retiree Club and VFW Post 3838. He was active in Boy Scouts more than 20 years. He held various offices, including pack master and Scout master of Troop 8, and was a vigil member of Order of the Arrow. Survivors include four children, Patricia (Don) Beard and Judith (Mike) Ringwald of Cape Girardeau, Nancy (Royce) Dyson of Tampa, Florida, and Timothy (Jane) Kurre of Cape Girardeau; nine grandchildren, Eric Rothe, Ben (Rachel) Rothe, Daniel (Angela) Rothe, Scott (Denae) Ringwald, Amy (Darin) Stageberg, Craig (Beth) Ringwald, Jennifer (Nick) Thrasher, Jason (Charlsie) Beard and Jeff Beard; and 14 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents; wife, Dorothy Haman Kurre; and a sister, Ruth Edwards. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home. The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Trinity Lutheran Church in Cape Girardeau, with the Rev. Nathan Burgell officiating. Burial will be in Cape County Memorial Park. Memorial contributions may be given to the Lutheran Home or Trinity Lutheran Church. Southeast Missourian-15 July 2014)	Kurre, Clarence Allen (95754734)
5724	Obituary. Died, near Sabula at 5 o'clock P. M. Wednesday, December 26th, 1888, Sarah A., infant daughter of George and Lucretia Lewis, aged 1 year, 0 months and 17 days. Sad that so lovely a flower must so soon fade. Our bright eyed darling is gone, the sweet pratling tongue now dumb in death, will greet us no more. How our aching hearts despair when we look upon its little form. So cold lying there; those little ice-cold fingers as in snowy grace they clasp the toy that did In life give it o much joy. Dear bereaved parents and friends, grieve not for Sallie, be patient. these severe afflictions are not from the ground. They are of times celestial blessings. Sallie is not dead, the sweet voiced child we so much loved, but by guard lan angels led from temptation, safe from sin's polution. She lives whom we call dead May the aiilicted family find comfort in Him who hath declared that babes are heirs of heaven, and submit to the will of Him who does nothing wrong. For, She shall sleep, but not forever, There will be a glorious dawn; We shall meet to part, no, never, On the resurrection morn. When we see a precious blossom That we've tendered with such care, Suddenly taken from our bossom, How our aching hearts despair! Round her little grave we lingered, 'Til the setting sun was low, Feeling all our hopes had perished With the flower we cherished so. She shall sleep, but not forever, In the lone and silent grave; Blessed be the Lord that taketh, Blessed be the Lord that gave! In the bright, eternal city Death can never, never came! In Ilis own good time He'll call us Fom this land to home sweet home.	Lewis, Sarah A. (30277524)
5725	Occupation listed as Butcher in St. Louis City Directories 1878, 1883	Irion, Herman Albert (9202663)
5726	Occupation: 1909 Ship Passenger List: Hair Dresser 1921 Death Certificate: Barber	Leimbach, Charles Oscar (80842922)
5727	Occupatiorn: Baker at 1820 Aresenal - currently home of Gus' Pretzels Residence 1818 Aresenal	Leimbach, Rudolph Heinrich (77565824)
5728	Odella Pauline Slaughter, 87, of Jefferson City, died Tuesday, April 14, 2009, at St. Joseph's Home. She was born on Feb. 16, 1922, in Meta, Mo., the daughter of the late Roy and Angie Pointer West. She was married on Oct. 11, 1941, in Jefferson City to Wilbur Wayne Slaughter for 50 years, living on a farm in rural Eugene. He died on Nov. 4, 1991. She was a 1940 graduate of Jefferson City High School, and a 1942 graduate of Jefferson City Business College. Mrs. Slaughter served as Executive Secretary of the Missouri Oil Jobbers Association for 40 years until her retirement. She attended Eugene Christian Church most of her life until she sold her farm and moved to Jefferson City in 2007, after which she was a member of Capital City Christian Church. Odella contracted tuberculosis at a young age and lived at the Mt. Vernon, Missouri, Sanitarium during her recovery. She was told she would never be able to work outside the home, but her independence and strong work ethic proved them wrong. Her children and grandchildren were always her number one priority and she worked very hard to provide for them. She will be missed by her family and a multitude of friends. Survivors include one daughter and son-in-law, Gloria Jean and Richard J. Schulte, Edmond, Okla.; one son and daughter-in-law, Stephen Wayne and Marcia Slaughter, Jefferson City; eight grandchildren, Stacie (Steve) Paciotti, Katy, Texas; Eric Schulte, Edmond Okla.; Tara (David) Jones, Denver, Colo.; Meredith (Jeff) Boessen, Jefferson City; Dr. Andrea (Dr. Robert) Garrett, Madison, Wis.; Natalie (Aaron) Grothoff, Hartsburg, Mo.; Tyler Slaughter, Kansas City, Mo.; seven great-grandchildren, Karsten Paciotti; Greyson Jones; Andrew Boessen; Audrey Boessen; Grant Boessen; Elizabeth Garrett; William Grothoff; Samuel Grothoff; and one sister-in-law, Wanda West, Paducah, Kentucky. She was preceded in death by one sister, Marcella Eisner and four brothers, Leonard, Sherman, Clarence, and Corbett West. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Friday, April 17, 2009, at Dulle-Trimble Funeral Home with the Rev. Gary Baker officiating. Burial will be in Mt. Carmel Cemetery. Visitation will be 4-7 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Jefferson City News-Tribune (MO) April 15, 2009	West, Odella Pauline (13824843)
5729	Ogie and Gertude lived in Arcadia, Mo where he became the City Marshall in the latter years of the 1930's. Then in 1940 he was employed as an Iron County Deputy Sheriff. Ogie was elected Sheriff in 1944 serving 32 years being relected 7 times. He left the office of Sheriff in 1976 having the distinction of the longest running Sheriff in the state of Missouri. He continued to serve the people of Iron Co as the Baliff of the County Court until 1988. He then entered the nursing home at Arcadia Valley Hospital. The TNN network did a special concerning his record as the longest running sheriff in the state of Missouri.	Selinger, Ogie H. (5680260)
5730	Old Goshen Cemetery	Howard, Sarah (97175280)
5731	Old Lorimier Cemetary by Cape Girardeau County Genealogical Society 1994: Anton Jr 11 Aug 1875 - Dec 1877 (stone) actually Anton III s/o Anton Schrader and Friederika Renne and grandson of Anton and Johanna (Beinert) Schrader . Father and grandfather were brickmasons and owned brickyards, partners at various times with Jos Lansmon and Daues. Built old Trinity Luth Ch, St. Francis Hospital (on Good Hope St) and many of city's older buildings. Besides Anton Jr. other children of Anton and Friederika (Renne) Schrader were: William C. married Ella Kurre; Herman married Agnes Schmitz of St. Louis; Frieda married Lutheran schoolteacher Charles Kramp and lived in Chicago; Arthur (Ott), a rural letter carrier married Maude Clippard and 2nd Anna Rieman; Arnold lived in Kansas City, Amanda married Floyd Couchman, Ella married Arthur Lorimier and lived in St. Louis: Alfred married Edna Earl Cox: Henry m Hilda Kasten; Antonia married G E Vogel; Benjamin married Selma Meyer. Herman, Allred and Henry were all bricklayers. The family home was the large two story brick still standing at 520 S. Sprigg. Will and his family lived at 615 ? S Sprigg.	Schrader, Anton Heinrich Carl III (96721408)
5732	Old Lorimier Cemetary by Cape Girardeau County Genealogical Society 1994: Anton Schrader and Friederika Renne - son of Anton and Johanna (Beinert) Schrader . He and his father were brickmasons and owned brickyards, partners at various times with Jos Lansmon and Daues. Built old Trinity Luth Ch, St. Francis Hospital (on Good Hope St) and many of city's older buildings. Besides Anton Jr. other children of Anton and Friederika (Renne) Schrader were: William C. married Ella Kurre; Anton III; Herman married Agnes Schmitz of St. Louis; Frieda married Lutheran schoolteacher Charles Kramp and lived in Chicago; Arthur (Ott), a rural letter carrier married Maude Clippard and 2nd Anna Rieman; Arnold lived in Kansas City, Amanda married Floyd Couchman, Ella married Arthur Lorimier and lived in St. Louis: Alfred married Edna Earl Cox: Henry m Hilda Kasten; Antonia married G E Vogel; Benjamin married Selma Meyer. Herman, Allred and Henry were all bricklayers. The family home was the large two story brick still standing at 520 S. Sprigg. Will and his family lived at 615 ? S Sprigg.	Schrader, Anton Heinrich Jr. (58489428)
5733	Old Lorimier Cemetery	Regenhardt, Anna (31722716)
5734	Old Redford Cemetery	Lewis, Samuel (9476944)
5735	Old Redford Cemetery	Bradey, Elizabeth (93918179)
5736	Old Redford Cemetery	Jones, Rosella Jane (11199630)
5737	OLD REDFORD CEMETERY, Reynolds County, Missouri Lewis, Elizabeth 1858 - 1935 Homemade Marker Lewis, Samuel 05 Jan. 1855 - 11 Dec. 1926 Homemade Marker	Lewis, Samuel (9476944)
5738	OLD REDFORD CEMETERY, Reynolds County, Missouri Lewis, Elizabeth 1858 - 1935 Homemade Marker Lewis, Samuel 05 Jan. 1855 - 11 Dec. 1926 Homemade Marker	Bradey, Elizabeth (93918179)
5739	Old Section A Lot 49	Scheppelmann, Heinrich "Henry" (64242456)
5740	Old Section A lot 84 grave 3	Dossett, Minerva (80328104)
5741	Old Section A lot 84 grave 4.	Willer, Edgar William (79931194)
5742	Old Section B lot 239	Ische, Paul Marvin Louis (39743575)
5743	Old Section B, Lot 229, grave 1	Clifton, Mattie (40272984)
5744	Old Section B, Lot 229, grave 2	Scheppelmann, Albert Henry (26798802)
5745	Old Section, Lot 49, Grave 5	Scheppelmann, Hulda Wilhelmine Emilie (25466803)
5746	Old Section, Lot 84, grave 1	Willer, Eduard/Edward (19843928)
5747	Old Section, Lot 84, grave 2	Scheppelmann, Freda Frances (11226200)
5748	OLDEST WOMAN IN PAJARO VALLEY CALLED BY DEATH Death of Mrs. Laura McNeely at 82 Years--Crossed Plains in 1852. WATSONVILLE. Aug 1. - Mrs. Laura McNeely, who was known as the oldest living pioneer of the Pajaro Valley died suddenly at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C E. Bloom on the Santa Cruze Road at 8:30 o'clock Tuesday evening. Mrs. McNeely had been enjoying good health and her sudden death was a shock to her family and friends. Mrs. McNeely was 82 years of age and crossed the plains with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Williams in 1852, coming direct to this valley. Her father and brother conducted one of the first stores in Watsonville. In 1853 she married Archibald McNeely, who preceded her to the grave 20 years ago. One brother, a son Charles, and a daughter, Mrs Bloom survive her. The funeral will take place tomorrow morning at the home of her daughter. San Jose Mercury-News Vol 83, Number 33, 2 Aug 1912 pg 1 col 7 https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SJMN19120802.2.126&srpos=15&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-Archibald+mcneely-------1	Williams, Laura C. (89011748)
5749	On 28 April 1864, Battery F left Vicksburg and traveled up the Mississippi River to Cairo. From there, the battery moved first to Clifton, Tennessee, then to Huntsville and Decatur, Alabama, and finally to Rome and Acworth, Georgia, which it reached on 8 June. From that date until 8 September, the unit took part in the Atlanta campaign. Battery F fought at the Battle of Marietta starting on 10 June and the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain on 27 June. There was more action at Nickjack Creek on 2–5 July, at the Chattahoochee River on 6–17 July, and at Bald Hill on 20–21 July. fron: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_F%2C_2nd_Illinois_Light_Artillery_Regiment#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDyer19081041-1	Pott, Friedrich Adolph (29051712)
5750	on DC 16219	Kemp, Pearl Permilia (72174014)
5751	On DC, BD is 10 Sep 1858	Theuerkauf, Frederick (19301279)
5752	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Living (74005290)
5753	on findagrave memorial 233968288 page: Daughter of Dr Chester A. Poe and Launa Bess Cause of death Scarlet Fever child died in convulsions Informant on death cert W.D. Poe of Alhambra Mo	Poe, Ruby (36054536)
5754	on findagrave memorial page: Doris Nevada (Stevenson) Hogue, 79, of Lonedell, Missouri, died Tuesday, 29 June 2021. Born on Wednesday, 13 August 1941, she was the daughter of Herbert Stevenson and Nevada Gordon of St. Louis. She is survived by her husband of 59 years. Doris Nevada was preceded in death by one brother, Melvin Stevenson of St. Louis, Missouri. She was interred July 20, 2021.	Stevenson, Doris Nevada (57877096)
5755	On gravemarker: Private, 356th Field Artillery. S.S. Division	King, Soloman Franklin (15210684)
5756	On his farm	Pointer, Daniel Shelton (22027529)
5757	On March 28, 1930, the Turkish Postal Service Law made Izmir (the Turkish variation of “Smyrna”) the city’s internationally recognized name.	Source (S13804854)
5758	On marriage license, her name is spelled Winey....on Census, Winnie.	Lane, Winnie (13453652)
5759	On Marriage license, his first name is Gally.	Family: Galveston L. Casteel / Nancy Jane Brewer (F73066860)
5760	On Nov. 2, 1893, she was married to Henry William Kurre. Survived by daughters, Mrs. Otto Oberbeck, Mrs. Herman Zschille, and Mrs. August Voshage, 11 grandchildren and one great-grandchild, four brothers, August, Henry, George and Charles Weiss and one sister, Mrs. Bern Savers.	Weiss, Matlida Wilhelmina Christine Louise (42665020)
5761	On Royal Carribbean cruise ship Freedom of the Seas off the coast of Spain on the day the ship departed Barcelona, Spain.	Ragland, Linda Dianne (45600652)
5762	On the Fred Lewis farm: Susie is the blind mule Kit is the mule Charlie is the horse	Lewis, Fred (14080220)
5763	online submitters are showing death of Alexander Lewis in St. Louis, Missouri. This is not the same Alexander. The one that died in St. Louis no doubt is this one: 1850 Bonhomme, St. Louis, Missouri Nancy M Lewis 44 M Monroe Lewis 22 William A Lewis 20 John B Lewis 18 Alexander Lewis 16 Fletcher Lewis 13 Martha Lewis 9 Zelice Lewis 7 Sarah Lewis 5 Sophronia Lewis 2 Missouri Death Records, 1834-1910 about Alexander Lewis Name: Alexander Lewis Death Date: 28 Jun 1852 COUNTY: St Louis Race/Ethnicity: White Gender: M (M	Lewis, Alexander (97072384)
5764	Only record of her is in 1910 Census	Drumheller, Iva (76088948)
5765	Only walled lot in cemetery	Lewis, Francis Marion (86315435)
5766	Opal G. Clifford, age 93, of Redwood City, CA, passed away on Dec. 28, 2003. Funeral services were held on Jan. 14, at the Redwood Chapel, Redwood City. Burial in Alta Mesa Memorial Park, Palo Alto, CA.	Chilton, Opal (92719896)
5767	OPTIONAL: Martinus Heberer Sex Male Father's Name Nicolai Heberer Father's Sex Male Mother's Name Magdalenae Mother's Sex Female Spouse's Name Elisabetha Höhn Spouse's Sex Female Spouse's Father's Name Adami Höhn Spouse's Father's Sex Male Spouse's Mother's Name Catharinae Marriage Date 11 May 1812 Marriage Place Bieber, Bieber bei Offenbach, Offenbach am Main, Hessen, Deutschland Page Number Reference 38, 39 Martinus Heberer's Parents and Siblings OPEN ALL Nicolai Heberer Father M Magdalenae Mother F Martinus Heberer's Spouses and Children OPEN ALL Elisabetha Höhn Wife F Other People on This Record OPEN ALL Adami Höhn M Catharinae F Digital Folder Number 008114121 Image Number 00281 Collection Information Germany, Rhineland-Palatinate, Diocese of Mainz, Catholic Church Records, 1540-1952 Cite This Record "Deutschland, Rheinland-Pfalz, Diözese Mainz, Katholische Kirchenbücher, 1540-1952", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6CYM-1NMC : 11 January 2021), Martinus Heberer, 1812.	Heberer, Martin (96049385)
5768	Ora Lovelace photo: http://home.snu.edu/~hculbert/heroes.htm	Lovelace, Ora Victoria (9192339)
5769	ORA LOVELACE—PREACHER MAKER "The Reader's Digest," said Ora Lovelace, principal of the Bible School at Stegi, in response to my question as to her favorite reading. A little unconventional you doubtless think for a hidden away missionary in far-off dark Africa. Possibly you are thinking she would be standing out under the African sun, a palm leaf fan in one hand, a native shooing flies off of her wrinkled brow, and a hymn book held high with the other hand. Well, anyway, she drops back into the conventional preacher-maker when she adds, "I can spend the longest time unconscious of my surroundings when buried in a good Bible commentary, such as the Biblical Illustrator or the Pulpit Commentary." What Miss Lovelace has not done on the mission field, I assume, has not been done, unless it was to shoe her favorite mount on which she formerly went mule-packing over the African veldt. Here is her story. "My tasks and places of labor have been so numerous," she affirms in relating her life's work since landing in Durban, Africa, in June, 1919, "that I can hardly attempt to tell of them. First I had charge of the girls at Peniel, while studying the language as opportunity afforded, which was meager indeed. From there I was made principal of the Preacher's Training School, though it was scarcely more than a grade school as the students could not read or write, most of them, however, being very eager to pursue their studies. "Miss Rixse was my colaborer in that joyous task. For ten years without a break, and with scarcely a day out of the schoolroom during the long terms, I loved and labored under the Holy Ghost, carrying every young man on my heart, his soul, training and his every problem as well as his distant future. This was my life. "In 1931 the Esselstyns having been sent to take over the school I went for one year to become the senior missionary at Bremersdorp while the Hynds were on furlough. All the while at Piggs Peak I was in charge of the outstations and also pastor of the church. From Bremersdorp I seemed to become an extra, filling in here and there until the present time." In 1932 she became overseer of the district with headquarters, or shall I say a hot room, at Stegi. The following year she came to America on furlough. During her furlough, her first and only one in twenty-two years, she underwent a thyroid operation under the skilful hands of Dr. Mangum at his missionary hospital in Nampa, Idaho. "In 1935 I returned to Stegi," she goes on to tell her story, "to be a teacher in the Bible school for a year, as the school had by this time been located there. From Stegi I hopped to the Eastern Transvaal and spent a year at Bethel Mission station with a view to opening a way for a Girls' Home. On the furlough of the Shirleys I moved to Acornhoek to be the sole missionary in all the district for a time. Others soon came, however, and this year (1941) I have returned to reopen a Bible school here at Stegi." "And those," I suggested, "were easy years." "Not on your life, for sometimes the responsibilities were staggering and the load very heavy, but I have proved God to be true." Alone so much I wondered if such a missionary could be afraid, and she replied, "I'm scarcely afraid of anything—maybe an uncaged lion. Perhaps, while on the lion's trail, the most thrilling moment I have ever seen physically was to watch a lion attack a young deer within a few feet of where I was standing." Should such an experience be ours, I am certain not many of us palefaces in far-off and tame America would long be standing there, well, unless rooted by fear to the very ground. But she is not afraid. And there have been few thrilling or unusual events or unusual circumstances that have crossed her path in her African years. Well, not many at least, she says, and then goes on to relate such minor incidents as having her car come near skidding over mountainous roads. "Once the saddle turned and ndabembi (mule or horse?) went wild with fright and I was thrown headlong onto the stones, which knocked me unconscious. All the while Miss Carpenter was busy driving the wild animals away to keep them from tramping on me." No, not many unusual incidents! Just a few like the following one: One day she and a native boy were out visiting when the native killed a dangerous snake and on the return trip when they came to the snake, "there were so many around the dead one—so many we could not count them—that we got away as quickly as possible." And of course it was just an ordinary event in the life of a pioneer missionary when as she was riding her horse across a swollen river that the current carried her mount far downstream. "I was helpless," she says, "to do anything but the horse somehow managed to get us out." After telling of such incidents she appends, "None of these are outstanding dangers, just the ordinary type." One is reminded, reading of such heroism, of the request an official board in a far western town in Illinois in the early seventies sent to the Methodist bishop who was holding conferences over in Ohio. "Dear reverend sir," the request began, "this year when you send us a parson, please send one who can swim, for the last one we had sent us was drowned while tryin' to swim the river gittin' to his appointment." "My favorite recreation or pastime," she relates, "is to go camping with a group composed of congenial members down by the side of an African river with some trusty natives in the party. And at night have a big campfire to light the scene." However, she does not like to go native as we express it. For in living as the natives do, though there have been many sacrifices, little rooms, huts and all kinds of food that have checkered her past years in Africa, she finds that the natives lose their respect for her leadership. "The native," she says, "prefers someone to whom he can look as his superior." This faithful missionary is the product of a little Missouri town that now has passed into glorious oblivion. Down in Des Arc, Missouri, years back, they had a holiness school with such men as Dr. C. E. Hardy, Prof. A. S. London and others there. In 1905 she was radically and gloriously converted, definitely called to Africa as a sphere of missionary work, through the work of that passed-on holiness preacher, J. B. McBride. Then she went to the college, finished high school, took the theological course, headed for Trevecca Nazarene College, took a course in nursing there and in Philadelphia later, and then was ready to set sail for the land of her calling. The most momentous hour since her birth on March 6, 1888, was the moment she set foot on African soil, for she knew she was in the hands of God. Her first task was to run the Girls' School at what is now the Schmelzenbach Memorial Station. "I called it the deaf and dumb school, for I had been here only a few weeks and I could not talk to the girls neither could they converse with me. It was done by signs and wonders! When I see the girls now, women they are with families, we have much fun in going over those days together." Yes, there are times when she is hungry for the companionship of the home folks and with the other missionaries she looks forward to the mail from the homeland. "Just now," she writes, "I am occupying a small, stuffy room in Miss Dixon's home, which was her guestroom. It has corrugated iron on top and sides, making it extremely hot in hot weather and extremely cold in cold weather. Each Saturday I go kraal visiting with the workers and Miss Dixon and I oversee the cooking by turns. It has been so long since I have had a choice of foods and have had the power of choice that I would not know how to exercise it. Hence there are no favorite foods." Her greatest joy is in pastoring a native church and "in seeing the growth and development of the congregation. I like making plans for this work, to get all talents in the church put into action, and to see new people reached and brought in." "What conditions," I had asked, "do you deplore most?" "I deplore most conditions that have brought about a decline of interest in the Bible Training School, the tendency among the native Christians to revert to some of their old unchristian customs and to bring them into the church. But most of all I deplore a missionary program that demands all the life and strength of the missionary force to carry it out, until there is little left to promote revivals and more definite salvation work." From the book – Missionaries in Action - On the African Front, Part 1 By Basil Miller 1941 Nazerene Publishing House 2923 Troost Ave. Kansas City, Mo. Locations mentioned = Present day Acornhoek = Acornhoek, Mpumalanga Bremersdorp = Manzini, Eswatini – home of Southern Africa Nazarene University Durban = city of Durban, South Africa Peniel – no modern day equivalent Piggs Peak = Piggs Peak, Eswantini Stegi = Siteki, Eswatini Provinces in South Africa: Swaziland was renamed Eswantini in 2018. Eastern Transvaal was renamed Mpumalanga in 1994	Lovelace, Ora Victoria (9192339)
5770	Ora Maxine Hansard Obituary Born: Tuesday, 24th of December 1918 Died: Wednesday, 29th of August 2012 Interred: Wednesday, 5th of September 2012 Ora Hansard age 93, of Hillsboro, Missouri passed away Tuesday, August 28, 2012 in Fayetteville, Tennessee. She was born December 24, 1918 in Des Arc, Missouri the daughter of the late Edith (nee Miller) and Elmer Lovelace. In addition to her parents she is preceded in death by her husband Verlin Hansard, son-in-laws Bill Tipton and Kenneth Dees and two sisters. She is survived by a son Mark Hansard and wife Kathy of Mansfield, Texas, daughters Joyce Tipton of Fayetteville, Tennessee and Gail Dees of Hillsboro, 5 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. She was a procurement employee at the United States government small arms plant in St. Louis, Missouri and a member of the Second Baptist Church of Festus, Missouri. Visitation 5:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. Tuesday, September 4, 2012 at Vinyard Funeral Home in Festus with funeral services 10:00 A.M., Wednesday, September 5, 2012 at the funeral home officiated by Pastor Gary Satterfield of Second Baptist Church. Interment in Memorial Park Cemetery in Normandy, Missouri. Memorials preferred to Second Baptist Church of Festus. Des Arc, Missouri Fayetteville, Tennessee Memorial Park Cemetery, Normandy, Missouri	Lovelace, Ora Maxine (18510080)
5771	Orange, California California Death Index, 1940-1997 Name: George Myron Lewis Social Security #: 546140959 Sex: Male Birth Date: 18 Aug 1921 Birthplace: Missouri Death Date: 20 Nov 1984 Death Place: Orange Mother's Maiden Name: Keathley	Lewis, George Myron (79013568)
5772	Orig, Block 13, Lot 44 West, Space 3	Damron, Margaret Elizabeth (69211151)
5773	Orig, Block 13, Lot 44 West, Space 4	Thompson, John Riley (19140887)
5774	original newspaper obit	Giesler, Anna (56408427)
5775	Originally buried in Mt. Vernon Memorial Gardens. Reinterred in Regenhardt lot in Oakwood Cemetery, Mt. Vernon.	Regenhardt, Robert Gene (65061392)
5776	Originally New Picker Cemetery. Founded in 1832 by the German Evangelical Church, the cemetery was originally named New Picker Cemetery. Purchased by numerous individuals, it was renamed Saint Louis Memorial Gardens in 1981 and was seized by the City of St. Louis in 1996 and renamed Gatewood Gardens Cemetery. interment.net listing: Gatewood Gardens Cemetery - Burial Records St. Louis, Missouri GPS: 38.566762, -90.291200 7133 Gravois Ave St. Louis, MO 63116 Date published: December 29, 2017 Total records: 21,580 LAMBERT, Oscar, burial: 12-13-1961, section: SG, lot: 975d, grave: 975D Records below were acquired from the City of St. Louis on on December 23, 2017. When the City bought the cemetery in 1996, it did not receive a complete set of records. The city sought assistance from the St. Louis Genealogical Society, and was able to assemble a 90% complete collection of records. The missing 10% of the records are located specifically in the old side of the cemetery, in blocks two and four. These graves are made up of single grave pauper burials. They have no markers or surviving caskets, and the records give no information as to how they are organized. The completed portions of the records were derived from the logbooks, map books, lot owner books, lot cards, and deed books.	Lambert, Oscar Arthur (46754494)
5777	Other Arndts in Trinty Lutheran Church Cemetery	Arndt, William Charles (99459467)
5778	Other Children: John Hermann Schreiner (1870- ) Bertha Maria Carolina Schreiner (1873-1937) Charles Karl Schreiner (1876- ) Anna Mary Schreiner (1878-1964) Minnie Schreiner (1880- ) Arthur Schreiner (1884-1888) Oscar P. Schreiner (1887-1967) Irwin Theodore Schreiner (1889-1969)	Schreiner, Heinrich G. (76604416)
5779	Other information in the record of Antonia Carolyn Kramp from Illinois, Cook County, Birth Certificates, 1871-1940 Name: Charles F Kramp Age: 39 Birthplace: Germany Sex: Male Wife: Frieda Schrader Daughter: Antonia Carolyn Kramp Event Type: Birth Event Date: 22 Jul 1911 Event Place: Forest Park, Cook, Illinois, United States Registration Date: 12 Jun 1945 Registration Place: , Cook, Illinois Gender: Female Father's Name: Charles F Kramp Father's Birthplace: Germany Father's Age: 39 Father's Estimated Birth Year: 1872 Mother's Name: Frieda Schrader Mother's Birthplace: Cape Girardeau Missouri Mother's Age: 32 Mother's Estimated Birth Year: 1879 Certificate Number: 8127	Kramp, Antonia Carolyn (95169783)
5780	Other information in the record of Mrs. Philipina Lassauer from Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths. familysearch.com Name: Mrs. Philipina Lassauer Event Date: 29 Sep 1934 Event Place: Elmhurst, Du Page, Illinois Gender: Female Race: White Age: 64 Birth Date: 10 Dec 1864 Birthplace: New York, New York Father's Name: Herman Irion Father's Birthplace: Germany Mother's Name: Marie Weinrich Mother's Birthplace: Germany Occupation: Housewife Residence Place: St. Louis, Missouri Spouse's Name: John Burial Date: 04 Oct 1934 Burial Place: St. Louis, Mo. Cemetery: St. Paul	Irion, Phillipina (7008994)
5781	Other information in the record of Otto Heberer from Germany, Württemberg, Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Catholic Church Records, 1520-1975 Name: Otto Heberer Event Type: Marriage Event Date: 16 Nov 1874 Event Place: Mühringen, Horb, Württemberg, Deutschland Sex: Male Birth Date: 1850 Father's Name: Johann Eduard Heberer Mother's Name: Maria Dänner Spouse's Name: Maria Schülze Spouse's Sex: Female Spouse's Birth Date: 1834 Spouse's Father's Name: Johann Anton Mattes Spouse's Mother's Name: Theresia Schuhmacher Certificate Number: 3	Family: Otto John Heberer / Maria Schülz (F12948234)
5782	Other researchers have her middle name "Osee" but it's "Olsa" on her husband's WWII Draft Registration. findagrave.com memorial # 96298402 - I don't think this is her	Lewis, Lelia Olsa (83036012)
5783	Otto Heberer Germany, Württemberg, Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Catholic Church Records, 1520-1975 Name: Otto Heberer Event Type: Baptism Event Date: 7 Dec 1849 Event Place: Altshausen, Saulgau, Württemberg, Deutschland Birth Date: 7 Dec 1849 Father's Name: Eduard Heberer Mother's Name: Marie Dänner Certificate Number: 85 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:D3HT-GRN2?from=lynx1UIV8&treeref=G8Y2-LV9	Heberer, Otto (60071078)
5784	Otto Heberer Germany, Württemberg, Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Catholic Church Records, 1520-1975 Name: Otto Heberer Event Type: Baptism Event Date: 7 Dec 1849 Event Place: Altshausen, Saulgau, Württemberg, Deutschland Birth Date: 7 Dec 1849 Father's Name: Eduard Heberer Mother's Name: Marie Dänner Certificate Number: 85 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:D3HT-GRN2?from=lynx1UIV8&treeref=G8Y2-LV9	Heberer, Otto (60071078)
5785	Our father, the subject of this writing, was born Sept. 17, 1858 in Iron County, Missouri, of which he was a resident all his life, and died at the age of 67 years, 6 months and 28 days, being the eldest of 10 children of the late Uncle Billy and Aunt Abby Lewis. He was united in marriage to Malinda J. Jackson March 13, 1881 and to this union were born 9 children, 4 of them dying in infancy. Those living are: Mrs. Lillie Chilton, Farmington, Mo.; Mrs. Allie Stevenson, Detroit, Mich.; Chas. Lewis of Annapolis; Mrs. Ruth Brever, Annapolis; Mrs. Ethel Ruble, Des Arc; besides he leaves a wife, 21 grandchildren and 5 greatgrandchildren, and friends without number that his clean and Christian life was accountable for. He professed faith in Christ at the age of 16 years and was baptised by Br O. Settles into the Missionary Baptist church at Annapolis, but later when this church disbanded, he, with his wife, joined the general Baptist Church of which he was a member for 26 years or until God saw fit to call his to his reward. He was always found at his post of duty whatever it demanded. There was never any finding fault or dissatisfaction with him, always looking on the bright side of things. He was active in church and religious affairs as well as political, serving two terms as county judge in Iron county. His many friends will remember his as being generous, big hearted and kind, always having a word or jest for every one he met. The funeral was conducted by Bro. Z.F. Yount and Bro. J. W. Alcorn at the Presbyterian church, it being the closest church. The six living brothers acted as pall bearers. Quite a large crowd attended the funeral, friends and relatives from several distant places. He was laid to rest by the side of his dead babies at the Lewis cemetery near Annapolis, a place we will always hold sacred to our hearts, for there we know lies one of the best friends we children and mother had on earth. Oh, what it means to give up father. One year ago we watched life slowly ebb out and it has been a year of heartaches and loneliness. Sometimes it seems only a dream that father is gone from us forever. Then there's the awakening, it is true but yet we know that we, too have the same debt to pay and "it wont be long; it may be soon,"' and we will look to the hills from which our strength cometh and lean heavily on the arms of our burden bearer, for we feel assured that some day if we are as faithful as the one that taught u May each of us five children be able to say if we, like father, were called out: "We want to like everybody." May we, a broken family, look forward. Wife and Children. Annapolis, Mo., April 25. (THE MOUNTAIN ECHO newspaper... Ironton, Iron County, Missouri ...May 5, 1927)	Lewis, Francis Marion (86315435)
5786	over age 45 - a Jacob Cagle living next to him , age 16-35 born 1795-1804 NOTE: if all 3 census's are the same man, he probably only had 2 living sons, one born 1810 and one son in 1800 under 5. He had probably at least 5 girls	Lewis, John (80053096)
5787	OVERVIEW: FRANKLIN COUNTY, TYRONE TOWNSHIP 1918 – Franklin County History Centennial Edition by H.M. AIKEN Tyrone Township lies south of Goode and joins Perry County on the west. The name Tyrone was selected as the name of the township when it was first organized. The name was taken from the name of an old steamboat that plied on the waters of the Mississippi River. Charles Tinsley was captain of this steamboat for many years and being an early settler and a man of influence, the name of the steamboat was voted as the name of the township. John Kirkpatrick seems to have been the first settler in the township, settling on what is now the Reid farm on Little Muddy Creek, in 1818. Barzilla Silkwood and the Tinsleys came soon afterwards, so likewise did the Mulkeys. Old Mulkeytown sprung into existence in the very early day; the trading point took its name from the Mulkey family. John Mulkey put up the first store in 1835. The Mulkeys have been very prominent in the the history of the county. Judge Mulkey, who became very prominent as a jurist, sprang from this family of Mulkeys in the county. The Mulkeys and John Kirkpatrick were related. They held religous meetings at the home of John Kirkpatrick soon after his coming to Franklin County in 1818. As a result of the meetings, a church was organized in about 1823, which became known as the “Christian Church”, being the first organized in the state of Illinois. For nearly a century the Mulkeys and Kirkpatricks have been identified with this old church. From this church’s influence more than eleven Christian Churches have been organized. Later the Harrisons, Bayless, Prices, Plumlees, Rogers, Means, Davis, Swishers, Greenwoods, Arteberrys, Dees, Tefferkellers, McClellands, Snyders, Capelands, Reids, Keonigs, Hills, Browns, Faggs, Eubanks, Ethertons, Moyers, and Cook families came into the township and Tyrone township began to develop rapidly. What is known now as the I. C. R. R. was built through the county in 1879-80. Isham Harrison had part of his farm laid outinto town lots, soon new Mulkeytown became a thriving village. Mulkeytown has not been a mushroom town, but has had a steady growth, the citizenship of the staid old town has been of a high character, standing for good schools and good moral citizenship. The people of the vicinity of Mulkeytown have ever been characterized as church-going people. In the eastern part of Tyrone and in Browning Township, settles a family of people destine to play an important part in the history of the county. This was the Harrison family. They seem to have been related to the Virginia stock of Harrisons , and of close kin to William Henry Harrison of “Tippecanoe fame” who became president. The founder of the Harrison Clan in this county was Isham Harrison who, coming into the county about 1814, settled southeast of what is now the city of Christopher. Isham Harrison was shutup in the Fort Jordan during the indian trouble of 1812. He, like John Browning, selected a site on the west of Big Muddy for his place of settlement. Along with him two grown sons came and settled near by. When Illinois almost reached statehood and Franklin County had been organized, Harrison was sent to Kaskaskia, then the capitol, to help frame the first Constitution of Illinois. The greatest question in the convention was the slavery question. Harrison, though a slave owner, stood against a slavery clause in our constitution. On Aug. 26, the convention had finished its work. The Constitution of Illinois was never ratified by the people. Lemuel Harrison, a son of Isham Harrison, was the first surveyor and county commissioner of the county. He surveyed out the first town on Frankfort Hill. His two sons, Isham and Christopher, were the founders of the two largest towns in Tyrone-Christopher and Mulkeytown. Christopher Harrison, a son of Lemuel R. Harrison, was one of the 49 dying of cholera and was buried at Independence, Mo. His cousin was with him and went on to California, but returned in a short time and married the widow of his cousin. Christopher Harrison owned land where the city of Christopher is now located. His two sons, F.O. and Sydney, had the town named Christopher in honor of their father. The town did not grow fast at first. Bolliver Farris put up the first store then later sold to Walker Bros., who continued the store. Then came Horace Shepherd, who became a partner of Farris. Mr. Shepherd was an original boomer of Christopher has been with the city during all its growth, he having died a short time ago. In the early days of Christopher the postmaster would carry the mail to the train and most of the citizens of the town would accompany him to see the “cars come in.” Many jokes were made on Christopher in those early days but ere long the staid old town took on a new life. Coal was located and mines developed. An energetic bunch of real estate men began to push Christopher and soon it was a fast growing town. The building of the C. B. & Q. Railroad and the great coal development has transformed the little village of Christopher into one of the best cities in the county. Christopher has four large coal mines lying near, with an output that is enormous. The population of Christopher is about 8,000. Tyrone has the following schools: Robtown, Cane Creek, Blue Grass, Long Beach, Mulkeytown, Arkansas, Christopher, North City, Valier.The churches of the town ship are: Baptist – Christopher and Valier; Methodist – Greenwood, Valier and Christopher; Christian-Mulkeytown and Christopher; Catholic – Christpher; Free Baptist -Christopher. Politically, Tyrone is Democratic but often times Republicans carry the township. The present supervisor is Joe Bacon. The town of Valier on the C.B.& Q. R.R. is a lively place. There are two large mines near and indications point to it as a very important city of the country. ———————————————————————————-	Harrison, Isham (41951315)
5788	Owensville, Mo. — Helen Kathryn (Griffen) Fritzemeyer, passed away June 1, 2011, in Washington, Mo., after a gradual decline in health. Her home was near Drake, Mo. She was born in Oakwood, Mo., Nov. 13, 1918, to Joe and Neva Griffen. Helen is survived by her children, Mary Robertson (Trevor), Jerry Fritzemeyer (Judy); two brothers, Arthur Griffen (Dorothy), Danny Griffen (LeVon); and one sister, Betty McGee; grandchildren, Paul and Annabel Parkhurst, April Otten, Brenda and Keith Strope, Brian and Lorna Griffen, Steve and Amanda Parkhurst, Carrie Johnson, Daisy and Doug Skelly, and Jared Fritzemeyer; and several great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren. Helen is preceded in death by her mother and father; her husband, Wesley; daughter, Patricia Parkhurst; and sister, Doris Turner.	Griffen, Helen Katheryn (68470293)
5789	Owned a dry goods store at 1902 Aresnal.	Rist, Albert Sr. (3127105)
5790	Owned and Operated the Theuerkauf Bakery at the southwest corner of Broadway and Sprigg.	Theuerkauf, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm (86947062)
5791	Ozarks Watch Vol. IV, No. 4, Spring 1991 / Vol. V, No. 1, Summer 1991 Between Missourians Civil War in Ripley County Based on Jerry Ponder, "The Wilson Massacre," and "The Burning of Doniphan," previously unpublished articles submitted to OzarksWatch. Part I: The Wilson Massacre An unusual group assembled at the Pulliam farm in southwestern Ripley County, Missouri for Christ-mas in 1863. Nearly 150 officers and men of the Missouri State Guard's 15th Cavalry Regiment (Con-federate); at least sixty civilians, many of them women andchildren; and 102 prisoners, officers and men of Company C, Missouri State Militia (Union). The civilians were family members, friends, and neighbors. Confederate "hosts" and Union "guests" were all Missourians; but they were divided by perhaps the bitterest of all enmities--those of civil war. The day's activity was to begin with religious services conducted by the Reverend Colonel Timothy Reeves, commanding officer of the 15th Cavalry and a Baptist preacher of Ripley County. Then would follow Christmas dinner in the afternoon. The group at Pulliam' s farm numbered above three hundred at the very least, if the figures on the record are to be believed. It was too many for a mere religious service and holiday dinner. Pulliam's was one of Reeves's regimental camps.1 What began as a festive occasion ended in horror and tragedy. As the celebrants sat at dinner, their arms stacked, they were surprised by two companies of the Union Missouri State Militia, more than 200 mounted cavalrymen. Only those guarding the prisoners, about 35 men, were armed. The Militia attacked without warning, shooting into the crowd, attacking with sabers, and killing at least thirty of the Confederate men instantly and mortally wounding several more. According to local tradition, many--perhapsmost---of the civilians were killed or wounded as well.2 The Union force had no casualties, suggesting the possibility that the Confederates may not have fired a shot. The survivors--some 112 officers and men, with their horses, arms, and equipment--were captured and taken out of the War for good, some to die in prison. Colonel Reeves, however, escaped.3 The official report of the Union Commander, Major James Wilson, confirms the quick, bloody character of the event: "I divided my men into two columns and charged upon them with my whole force. The enemy fired, turned, and threw down their arms and fled, with the exception of 30 or 35 and they were riddled with bullets or pierced through with the saber almost instantly." Wilson's account did not explain why, if the enemy fired, no bullet shot at point-blank range found its mark; nor, if the rest "fled," why they were all captured. Neither did Wilson mention the presence of civilians, nor harm done to them.4 The Union force was a quick-moving raiding party, sent out on December 23 from the Union stronghold at Pilot Knob in Iron County, some eighty miles to the north. Their purpose: recapture of the Union prisoners. They retired the next morning taking the freed personnel of Company C, MSM, and the new Confederate captives of the 15th Cavalry, MSG. The stunned survivors were left to bury the dead and reflect on the carnage. About half of those killed, both soldiers and civilians, were taken to Doniphan and buried in the Old Doniphan Cemetery south of the courthouse. Tradition is that the graves were dug by a few Negro men, and the bodies were wrapped for burial by town women. Other bodies were buried near where they fell in the Ponder and Union Grove Cemeteries .5 In Ripley County, well seasoned to the war, the incident was no doubt taken in stride. But it was not forgotten, and not forgiven. It remains in the collective memory as the Wilson Massacre, memorializing in infamy the commanding officer of the Union force. It became part of the vengeful guerrilla warfare in the eastern Ozarks. The Wilson Massacre exemplifies the fact that the Civil War in Missouri was often a war between Missourians themselves. Major James Wilson was from Lincoln County on the Mississippi River just above St. Louis. The Union State Militia and the Confederate State Guard were both Missouri forces drawn from and fighting in behalf of the divided populous. The events leading up to the Wilson Massacre provide insight into that internal war. Union sentiment was strong in St. Louis, especially among Germans and Irish. It was also strong in the river counties where Germans were numerous, and across much of the Missouri Ozarks. Confederate sentiment was strong in the Arkansas Ozarks; and Missouri counties close to the state line tended to have more Confederate sentiment than those farther north. Especially was this true in the southeast Missouri Ozarks. Ripley County was on the Arkansas border, and its historic trade and travel routes ran south to Arkansas and the lower Mississippi Valley. Ripley County was a Confederate place. The Pulliam farm was but a few miles from the state line. [14] Union control of St. Louis and of Jefferson Barracks had been crucial at the outset of the war, in part because two Ozarks railroads radiated from there. The one to the southwest terminated a hundred miles out near Rolla. The one to the south, the Iron Mountain Road, terminated some eighty miles out at Pilot Knob in Iron County. The Federals established strong points at the ends of those lines, and their spheres of military influence radiated from them. The Wilson Massacre was one of many events in the continuing struggle between those Union strongholds and the Confederate-sympathizing countryside. The unusual, and unusually brutal, characteristic of that war was not just that military lines were ill-defined to non-existent but that the citizens themselves, the local residents, were peculiarly involved. The case of Ripley County illustrates the point. In the summer of 1861 practically every man in Ripley and neighboring Missouri counties answered the call of Governor Claiborne Fox Jackson and joined the Missouri State Guard. Jackson was a secessionist and the State Guard was considered the legitimate state force by those who supported secession and the Confederate cause. One of the principal Ripley officers was the famous Timothy Reeves, whose story follows. After their six months enlistments expired, those of the State Guard interested in extended soldiering join, joined the regular Confederate army and left for other battle areas, especially those east of the Mississippi. Some units manned defensive positions in southeast Missouri for a time on a line New Madrid-Bloomfield-Doniphan-Greenville-Alton. In Ripley County, they built and manned a fortified position, Fort Currentview, at the state line near the strategic Current River. By 1862 the demand for manpower elsewhere had drained these Confederate positions. Ripley and adjacent counties were left without adequate defense. In this situation local militia began to organize. They considered themselves primarily defenders of their homes and families. But by the North they were termed irregulars or guerrillas, outlaw units .6 In Ripley County two such units were formed. The Reverend Timothy Reeves, Baptist minister in the county seat of Doniphan, raised Reeves's Independent Company of Missouri Scouts, which was attached to the command of Confederate General John Sappington Marmaduke, a Missourian from Saline County. Men joined from Stoddard County on the east to Oregon County on the west, and north toward the Union fort at Pilot Knob. Reeves was able to keep Marmaduke apprised of practically all Union troop movements in the region. His command were also charged with helping maintain civil order, a job he took with extreme seriousness.7 The second unit in Ripley was raised by Reeve's neighbor, William Righter. Righter, concerned that Reeves was often absent, raised a company whose express purpose was defending local citizens against Union raids or outlaw activity. Righter soon found himself with a much larger job. What began as one company grew to several from Ripley County and one or more from each county in the region. Righter' s troops were strictly citizen soldiers who refused to be sent to service elsewhere. They would fight only to defend their home area.8 Righter's commission came from Missouri State Guard Brigadier General M. Jeff Thompson. Thompson had failed to receive a regular CSA commission, despite repeated attempts. Consequently, Righter denied in later years that he was ever a Confederate colonel,and had been only a Missouri colonel, because Thompson had the power only to issue a Missouri commission.9 Righter and Reeves did a creditable job of maintaining local order. When large Northern units raided, they of necessity adopted guerrilla tactics of fight and retreat, returning after the Yankees were gone. Usually they retreated to Confederate strongholds in Arkansas; but they also had some safe havens locally or in the swamps of the nearby Bootheel lowland. Righter was not safe on one occasion in Arkansas, however. He was captured along with Jeff Thompson during a Union raid on Pocohontas, some thirty miles down Current River from Doniphan, in July 1863. He went to Gratiot Prison in St. Louis, was paroled, and spent the rest of the war in the city reading law. He consequently missed the fateful Christmas massacre. 10 [15] After the Thompson-Righter capture, the Reverend Reeves combined his Independent Scouts with Righter's cavalry, and took command of a united 15th Missouri Cavalry Regiment. Together with remnants of Missouri units that had fought in Arkansas (Battle of Helena, July 1863) and many new recruits, Reeves's new regiment had as many as twenty full companies--actually a brigade-strength command. Colonel Reeves's brother William, from neighboring Butler County and also a Baptist minister, was his adjutant. 11 The county-based companies under Reeves were widely spread; no doubt command was difficult. Mostly farmers and merchants, the men were mobilized only when necessary for defense of the region. However, permanent posts were maintained: at Doniphan, the fords of Current River, Fort Currentview, along main roads, and elsewhere.12 The immediate cause of the Wilson Massacre was a series of events at Centerville, Reynolds County. Centerville Courthouse was some sixty miles north of Doniphan and twenty-five southwest of Pilot Knob. Late in 1863, Centerville was captured by the Union 3rd Cavalry from Pilot Knob. Company C was left as garrison. On December 21, while engaged in building stables on the courthouse grounds, they were surprised and surrounded by Company N of Reeves's 15th Missouri Cavalry, under command of Captain Jesse Pratt, before the war the Baptist minister of Centerville. Company N was composed of farmers and merchants of Reynolds County. Probably Pratt and the Reeves brothers, also Baptist preachers, were long-time acquaintances. That Pratt was accorded the honor of recapturing his hometown was not accidental. Captured were 102 Union men with their horses. Pratt took them south to Ripley County with a small group, leaving most of his men to garrison Centerville. He presented the prisoners to Reeves at Pulliam's on Christmas morning, and joined his fellows of the regiment for the day's festivities.13 One Union soldier had been allowed to escape at Centerville, doubtless to carry news of the event back to Pilot Knob. Reaction there was swift. Colonel R.G. Woodson, commander of the 3rd Missouri, ordered two mounted cavalry companies under Major James Wilson to pursue Pratt. They left Pilot Knob mid-morning on the twenty-third. Wilson's force rode swiftly, rising in the darkness of the twenty-fifth to be on the road at 3:00 AM. They passed through Doniphan that morning, and continued west toward Ponder, capturing pickets as they went, and descended on Colonel Reeves's group and prisoners just as they were eating Christmas dinner.14 Wilson probably was able to follow the tracks of the captured Union Company C and their guard. One hundred and fifty horses would leave a trail in December mud. However he accomplished it, he went to Reeves like an arrow to its target. His report said, "...eight miles from Doniphan, I captured 2 pickets; 2 miles farther (and only some five miles from Reeves) I captured another post, and still 2 miles farther we came upon a rolling picket on patrol and ran them off the road, capturing 1 and compelling him to lead us to the camp of Reeves." The "rolling picket" who escaped obviously was unable to bring a warning to Reeves in time. 15 During the Battle of Pilot Knob the following month, Major James Wilson was captured by elements of General Shelby's command. Shelby ordered an immediate military court for Wilson and two others captured with him. Major Wilson and the two soldiers were found guilty of murder for the Christmas Day, 1863, massacre and were ordered to be shot to death. No record has been found to prove who shot Wilson and his men, but the consensus is that members of the 15th Missouri Cavalry Regiment made up the firing squad. No doubt there were plenty of volunteers for the job. After the war ended Colonel Reeves was charged with the act, but later released. 16 The massacre site has gone by many names since: Battle Hollow, Battleground Hollow, and Battlefield Hollow. It is no longer listed on maps, but residents of southwest Ripley County know the location and story. The action has become known as The Wilson Massacre. It was the bloodiest day of the war for Ripley County. Part II: The Burning of Doniphan On September 19, 1864, some one hundred mounted Union Cavalry burned the town of Doniphan. It was an action associated with the beginnings of Price's Raid, which culminated in the Battle of Pilot Knob the following month. But the torching of Doniphan was primarily an act of vengeance, without military significance, and was in effect an afterclap of the Wilson Massacre ten months earlier. It was a measure of the hatred the Yankees had for Timothy Reeves and his "guerrilla band," as the 15th Cavalry Regiment was known. Later Union accounts of events in Ripley County that September focused on the bloody skirmishes connected with Price's invasion of Missouri. They ignored or covered up the burning. Only 39 years later, when a Union veteran participant, William Nevin, wrote a more complete account, did the Northern written record show what Ripley Countians had known all along. 17 By mid 1864 the war was going badly for the Confederacy in Missouri and Arkansas. Southern commanders decided upon a bold stroke: an invasion from Arkansas of eastern Missouri, aimed at St. Louis. It would also rally support for the Southern cause and recruit new troops, by then desperately needed. Major General Sterling Price, CSA, from Chariton County, Missouri, would command a three-division strike force. The intrepid Brigadier General Jo Shelby, CSA, of Lafayette County, Missouri, would command one ofthem. Independent units like Reeves's regiment would be attached to Price's force for the operation. [16] But the burning of Doniphan had other causes. In late August or early September of 1864 a party of a half dozen Union soldiers, Illinoisans paroled in Arkansas, were making their way from Little Rock to St. Louis. They were on foot, having given their "parole" (i.e. their word) not to fight again until officially exchanged. They were hot, ragged, tired, and hungry. When they reached Doniphan they went to the hotel and asked for a meal and lodging. The hotel keeper was one Lemuel Kittrel, a Confederate veteran forced to return home because of wounds. His brother-in-law was Confederate Colonel Willis Ponder. Kittrel was a successful businessman and merchant, an ardent Confederate, and, like most Ripley Countians, still enraged by the Christmas massacre. Kittrel turned the Union men out unfed and unhoused. They slept that night in a field north of Doniphan, doubtless nursing their grudge against rebel Missourians.18 They were to receive the same treatment as they continued north; and by the time they reached the Federal garrison at Patterson, some fifty miles away in Wayne County, they were barefoot, almost naked, and nearly starved. The officer of the group, a Colonel G.W. Mitchell, is reported to have requested of the 3rd Cavalry at Pilot Knob that theybum the town of Doniphan if they ever had the opportunity. 19 Mitchell and other informants apprised the Union command of Price's impending invasion, including the fact that Jo Shelby's division planned to head north on a line through Ripley County. On September 18, a Lieutenant Eric Pape was sent south from Pilot Knob with a hundred mounted men to determine Shelby's location and strength. According to the 1903 Nevin account, he also had been ordered by Major James Wilson to bum Doniphan. Pape's company arrived in the town about five o'clock the morning of September19.20 A company of Reeves's 15th Missouri Cavalry Regiment, all Ripley men, were deployed over the county as an advance party of Price's army. (The 15th Cavalry Regiment was by now attached to Price's command and integrated into his plans for the invasion.) About 40 of them were in Doniphan that morning. Pape attacked the little force three times, after which they retreated south on the road to Kittrel's Mill, burning the bridge over Quick Creek behind them. Pape's company crossed Current River at the Doniphan ford and rode south to the Arkansas border, the Confederates retreating in front of them. Pape then returned to Doniphan about noon. William Nevin, who was a soldier in Pape's company, went to the home of a widow Lowe, and asked for a noon meal. (His companion was Sergeant Steakly, one of the diarists of the action.) Though the widow's husband, Colonel Aden Lowe, had been killed at Fredericktown, Madison County, in 1861, she agreed to feed them. Just as dinner was ready, she looked out the window and saw the town ablaze. She sensed instantly what was happening and turned to her guests, beseeching them to intercede to have her house spared. Of all the buildings in Doniphan, only the Lowe house and the Methodist Church (ironically built in 1847 by Lemuel Kittrel) escaped the flames that day. Nevin also reported that the smaller Confederate force returned and attacked the Yankees while they were firing the town, but were driven off by the superior Union numbers and the Federal repeating rifles.21 [17] Jerry Ponder at the site of old road down which Wilson's cavalry charged into Reeves's encampment, background. Behind fringe of trees is Mill Branch of Fourche Creek. Steep wooded hillside beyond might have been escape route for survivors. OzarksWatch photo. Pape's Yankees withdrew east and north toward Butler County, stopping to burn every house and outbuilding along the road. (Nevin, however, wrote that no houses were destroyed outside of Doniphan.)22 General Jo Shelby, leading the westernmost of Price's three divisions just south of Ripley, doubtless heard of the burning and hastened to Doniphan with a force of cavalry, arriving at the town in the afternoon. He was furious. He had friends and relatives there, and had recruited in the vicinity several times with good results. He dispatched 150 men under Lieutenant Colonel Hector Johnson to run down Pape's company. They were able to follow the line of destruction. Price, traveling farther east with the central division of his command, was perhaps as close to Pape as Shelby. Upon hearing of the burning, he, too dispatched a force to chase the Yankees. His adjutant' s report later described witnessing women and children going through the still smoking ashes of their houses and barns, searching for food.23 Johnson's pursuing force from Shelby's division found Pape's company in the dark of night on the ridge back of Ponder' s Mill, near present Fairdealing. Nevin wrote that Pape' s men could hear the Confederates getting into position in the darkness; bur Pape, doubtless dead tired, did not take it to be a serious threat. It was serious. At daybreak, Johnson attacked. The repeating rifles held him off for a time; but when the force from Price's central division arrived, the Yankees were overwhelmed. Forty-seven of the original hundred were killed; the rest fled into the woods.24 Ripley County spent the remainder of the war without significant intervention from Union troops. Doniphan, an important town before the war, rebuilt when the war ended. But it was well over twenty years before it reached its pre-war size and never again was the regional center of importance it had been. After the war a small group of Union soldiers under the command of Captain W.A. Naylor was sent to Doniphan to govern the county and appoint officials to act as county commissioners. Naylor became a leading citizen of Ripley; the present town of Naylor is named for him. Many former Northern troops moved to Ripley County after the War, and while trouble continued through the 1870s between the two factions, by the mid-1880s little trace remained of the war. It was many, many years however, before a Republican would be elected to office in Ripley County. As far as can be learned, not one of the survivors of Lieutenant Pape's command that burned Doniphan was ever in Ripley County again. Notes for "Between Missourians" 1 Compiled service record of Major James Wilson, Record Group 94, National Archives, Washington, D.C.M. Jeff Thompson, The Civil War Reminiscences of General M. Jeff Thompson, ed. by Donal J. Stan-ton, Goodwin F. Berquist, and Paul C. Bowers (Dayton, Ohio: Momingside, 1988), 16-17, 65-68. Jerry Ponder, The History of Ripley County, Missouri (Doniphan Missouri: Ponder Books, 1987), 27, 58. War Department correspondence file for 1863, National Archives microfilm publication M1064. T.L. Wright, Jr.,"Doniphan--No Man' s Land During the Civil War," 1929, Doniphan Public Library, Doniphan, Missouri. 2 ponder, History of Ripley County, p. 52. 3 One of the captives was Lieutenant Amos T. Ponder who had served in the 9th Missouri Infantry Regiment, but had resigned due to illness. Though a civilian at the time, he was treated as a military captive. Another, Elijah Dalton, was home on leave from the 9th Missouri. He subsequently died in the Federal prison at Alton, Illinois. Compiled service record of First Lieutenant Amos F. Ponder, Sr., Record Group 94, National Archives; St. Louis Prison records, National Archives microfilm publication M598-0072. Compiled service record of Private Elijah Dalton, Record Group 94, National Archives; Alton, Illinois Prison records, National Archives microfilm publication M598-0014. 4 Report of Major James Wilson to Colonel Richard G. Woodson, December 30, 1863, in United States War Department, The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (130 vols., Washington DC, 1880-1902), Series 1, XXXIV, Pt. l, 784. Hereafter cited as OR., All citations are from Series 1. 5 Interview with Mrs. Wash Harris by Dr. John Hume, 1889; Jean Ponder, "Doniphan During the Civil War," 1950, Doniphan Public Library. 6 M. Jeff Thompson, Civil War Reminiscences, 16-17, 65-68. 7 Letters of Captain Timothy Reeves to Brigadier General John S. Marmaduke, November 14, 1862 and June 11,1863, Library of Congress, Washington DC; reports of Captain Timothy Reeves to Colonel John Q. Burbridge, May 31, 1863, and to "Colonel Commanding" at Batesville, Arkansas, August 22, 1863, in "Loose Military Records," National Archives. 8 Address of Captain W.C.S. Lackey to a meeting of Ripley County Confederate veterans in 1901, a newspaper clipping in the Doniphan Public Library, Doniphan, Missouri. 9 W. R. Ponder, "Colonel William H. Righter," Twice-A-Month Magazine, (St. Louis), September 2, 1909, pp. 5, 6, 16. [18] 10 Thompson, Reminiscences of M. Jeff Thompson, 202-210; Ponder, "Colonel William H. Righter;" St. Louis prison records, National Archives microfilm publication M598-0072. 11 Confederate Organizations--Missouri, a microfilm publication of the United States Army Historical Unit, Washington, DC. Letter of Francis Tate to Jerry Ponder, 1987; report of Captain Abijah Johns to Colonel Richard G. Woodson, February 28, 1864, OR, Pt. 1, 154. By these events, Reeves seems to have advanced in rank from captain to colonel. 12 One battalion-sized unit withdrew to Coon Island in the lowlands of eastern Butler County. Them, surrounded by swamps, they carried on almost a normal life even during the war, and returned home after it ended. Their commander, George Thannisch, was killed from ambush January 1864, the month after the Christmas Massacre, by troops of the 3rd Cavalry Regiment from Pilot Knob. Their report of "Captain Thannisch and two soldiers" was subsequently changed to read "three bushwhackers." Personal communication from Francis Tate to Jerry Ponder regarding Captain George Thannisch, 1987. 13 personal communication from James E. Bell to Jerry Ponder, 1987; historical information at the Reynolds County Courthouse, Centerville, Missouri. 14 Report of Major James Wilson to Colonel Richard G. Woodson, December 30, 1864, OR, XXII, Pt. 1,784; interview with Mrs. Wash Harris by Dr. John Hume, October 1889, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis. 15 Colonel R.G. Woodson wrote his superior, General Fish, as follows: "Official dispatches from Major Wilson inform me that he attacked Reeves seventeen miles southwest of Doniphan, Ripley County, Missouri, about three o'clock Christmas Day; killed and wounded 35 of the enemy, captured 115 prisoners, including 13 Commissioned Officers, with all their equipment, ammunition and campage and 125 horses; also recaptured every man of Company C, captured at Centerville with their arms and campage. Wilson says that the 3rd behaved splendidly, officers and men." Daily Missouri Democrat, St. Louis, December 29, 1863. Wilson's report to Woodson is.as follows: "Pilot Knob, Missouri, December 30, 1863, To: Colonel R.G. Woodson, Commanding Post Pilot Knob, Missouri. Sir: In compliance with your orders of the 23rd instant, I left Pilot Knob, in command of 200 men, about 10:00 AM December 23, 1863, arriving at Patterson at 9:00 PM. Left there at daylight on the 24th and encamped at Long's at 9:00 PM, having traveled 35 miles. Marched again at 3:00 AM 25th instant; passed through Doniphan, taking a southwesterly direction towards the Arkansas line. Eight miles from Doniphan, I captured 2 pickets; 2 miles further I captured one other post, and still 2 miles further we came upon a rolling picket on patrol and ran them off the road, capturing 1 and compel ling him to lead us to the camp of Reeves. Arriving at the Camp, I divided my men into two columns and charged upon them with my whole force. The enemy fired, turned, and threw down their arms and fled, with the exception of 30 or 35 and they were riddledwith bullets or pierced with the saber almost instantly. The enemy lost and killed about 30; wounded mortally 3, slightly 2, total killed and wounded 35. Prisoners captured 112; horses, besides those of Company C, 75; also their arms, ammunition and campequipage. On morning of 26th, I started for Pilot Knob, arriving here about 4:00 PM on the 29th of December, 1863. I cannot speak in too high terms of praise of the officers and men under my Command. There was no loss on our side in killed or wounded. James Wilson. Commanding, Third State Militia, Major James Wilson to Colonel Richard G. Woodson, December 30, 1863, OR, XXII, 784. 16 Cyrus A. Peterson, "The Capture and Murder of Major James Wilson," January 26, 1906, Pike County Historical Society, Bowling Green, Missouri. 17 Sergeant James C. Steakley, "The Story of Price's Raid," Thomas Ewing, Jr., papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Letter from William Nevin to Cyrus A. Peterson, 1903, Ewing papers. Official reports are lacking and few participant accounts agreeon factual details regarding the military action at the town and the burning. Two Union sergeants later published a"diary" which obstinately provided only a biased account, failing to mention the burning. Most writings were based on those accounts until publication of the 1903 Nevins letter. 18 "Lemuel Kittrell," Genealogical Society of Butler County, Missouri, Area Footprints (August-November 1990), 91; Jerry Ponder and Eldon Dow Vandiver, The Family of Abner Ponder (Doniphan, Missouri: Ponder Books, 1989), 82, 96, 176, 305. One report had it that Kittrell had earlier poisoned the food of Union men eating in his hotel. 19 Same Rowe, "My Recollection of the Events Leading Up to, During and Following the Battle of Pilot Knob," n.d., Ewing papers; letter from William Nevin to Cyrus A. Peterson, 1903, Ewing papers. 20 Ibid.; an undated newspaper clipping from The Prospect (Doniphan, Missouri), Doniphan Public Library. Nevin to Peterson, 1903 Ewing papers. Papes men were drawn from companies O, I, and K, 3rd MSM, and Company JA, 47th Missouri Infantry Regiment. All were mounted. 21 M. Jeff Thompson, Reminiscences; Wright, "Doniphan--No Man's Land"; letter of William Nevin to Cyrus Peterson, 1903, Ewing papers. Most descriptions of this action are confused. Sergeant James Steakley's account in the Ewing papers mentions a bridge across the Current River which was allegedly destroyed by Confederate troops, but no bridge existed at this location until 1899. Not even a ferry operated there until 1867. William Nevin states that the bridge was on the road to Kittrell's Mill, which indicates that a small bridge spanned Quick Creek on the south edge of Doniphan. The road passed Kittrell's Mill about one mile south of Doniphan and continued down the east side of the Current River to Indian Ford, which was the location where General Sterling Price and General James B. Fagan's division crossed the river and encamped on the night of September 19, 1864. Price and Fagan marched from Indian Ford to Martinsburg by a secondary road. The Butterfield Stage used the Kittrell's Mill route and Indi [19] 22 Letter of William Nevin to Cyrus A. Peterson, 1903, Ewing papers; Benjamin LaBree, The Confederate Soldier in the Civil War (Louisville, Kentucky: Courier-Journal Job Printing Co., 95), 286. 23 L.A. MacLean, "Price's Army Daily Journal," September 20, 1864, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. 24 Steakiey, "The Story of Price's Raid," Simon U. Branstetter diary, and letter of William Nevin to Cyrus A. Peterson, all in the Ewing papers; Major James Wilson to Brigadier General Thomas Ewing, Jr., September 20, 1864, OR, XLI, Pt. 1,454; Morning Reports, Various Missouri Posts and Units, Microfilm Series 617, Reel 180, Numbers 1040, 1066, 1077, and 1531, United States Army Historical Unit, Washington DC; War Department correspondence file for 1864, National Archives microfilm publication M 1064; Genealogical Society of Butler County, Butler County, Missouri II (Poplar Bluff, Missouri: Taylor Publishing Co., 1988), 8-9. Two of the Confederates were killed and four were wounded. The dead were buried at the site, the Yankees in a mass grave on the west side of the Military Road, and the Confederates in individual graves on the east side. The Confederate site became a cemetery which was used well into the present century, known as The Military Cemetery. Editor's Post Script Writers in addition to Ponder have noted the final Reeves-Wilson encounter. Excerpts from three of them follow. All appear to be authoritatively documented: --From Joseph Conan Thompson, "The Great-Little Battle of Pilot Knob. (Part II)," Missouri Historical Quarterly, April, 1989,283 n: After their capture [at Pilot Knob], Major Wilson, Captain Dinger and the others were led to [nearby] Ironton. There they assembled with the other prisoners. After being stripped to the waist and forced to relinquish their boots, the prisoners marched barefooted behind General Fagan's column to a farm located 10 miles west of Union and 15 miles southwest of Washington [in Franklin County, some 70 miles north of Ironton]. While on the farm, Confederate Colonel Tim Reeves singled out Major Wilson and five other men, chosen at random, and had them executed by firing squad. All of the others were paroled. No explanation for the major's murder has ever been offered. --From Michael Fellman, Inside War: The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri During the American Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), p. 182: Union Major Wilson died a good death at the hands of Reeves' guerrilla band....Two southern men on their way back...to their homes [perhaps among those paroled in Franklin County?] stopped off at Mr. Alexander's house in Greenville [Wayne County] and reported Major Wilson's honorable death. At the execution Reeves said to Wilson, "'Major, you are a brave man--but you never showed my men quarter.' At the execution Major Wilson himself commanded: 'ready, aim, fire!' Those two men," Alexander wrote, "though [Wilson's enemies], praised his bravery." Fellman proposes that a"central metaphor of war [is] the great hunt," which could be stretched to include war by stealth-----common in guerrilla warfare: There were few opportunities for courageous and manly engagement with an enemy who was almost always unseen, who rarely came out to fight in the serried ranks of storybook wars. In such a nasty war [as guerrilla war in Missouri], it was unusual to look the enemy in the face, to discover in him the manly foe truly worthy of your honorable battle. Still, if you did capture the enemy, you would execute him and want him to die nobly; and if you were captured, you would be shot and would want to die an honorable death. That was the fit end of the great hunt. Thus Fellman' s characterization of Wilson' s end as a"good death," and an"honorable death," and his context for the witnesses' report to Mr. Alexander of Reeves's chivalrous salute to Wilson and the condemned man's command of the firing squad. --From Andy Collins, "To the Victor Belong the Spoils," Missouri Historical Quarterly, January, 1986, pp. 191,192: As a result of the Battle of Pilot Knob, Colonel Tim Reves [sic] acquired the eternal hatred of the Union forces in Southeast Missouri. According to witnesses, Major James Wilson and six of his men...had allegedly been turned over to Tim Reves, who...had them shot. On October 24 (1864), the bodies...were found by a farmer near Washington, Missouri. [20] Collins writes that at the close of the war 7454 Confederate regulars and irregulars surrendered at Wittsburg and Jacksonport, Arkansas. "Of this number,'' he writes, "the Union forces refused to parole only one man. This man was Colonel Timothy Reves." But he was soon able to return home nevertheless. In 1867, [Reeves] was back in Ripley County, when...he performed two marriage ceremonies in his capacity as a minister. The rest of his life seems to have been that of a semi-itinerant minister. In October, 1867, he married a Carter County widow and...officiated at marriages [there] from 1867-1869. Marriage books from Butler County show Reeves as a minister there in 1877....His short obituary in the Doniphan Prospect News (1885) did not even mention his Civil War exploits. (pages 194, 195) Jerry Ponder is a retired military intelligence officer, a Ripley County native, and author of writings on the history of that area. His ancestors were participants in the events described in this article. [Editor's note: Mr. Ponder and OzarksWatch are grateful for the advice and assistance of Mr. John Bradbury, Western Historical Manuscripts Collection, Rolla, in the preparation of the following article.]	Lewis, Benjamin (75270272)
5792	Page 150: https://scgensoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Index-to-Brides-Grooms-All-Names.pdf Last name misspelled: McNeilly, Archibald. Year: 1853 Document # 0028 Page 243: https://scgensoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Index-to-Brides-Grooms-All-Names.pdf Williams, Laura C Year: 1853 Document # 0028 Page 2601: https://scgensoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Santa-Cruz-Marriages-1850-1940.pdf	Family: Archibald McNeely / Laura C. Williams (F12343444)
5793	PALOS VERDES ESTATES, Calif. -- Margie Lee Caterson, born in Cape Girardeau Oct. 29, 1925, the youngest of two daughters of Selma and Benjamin Schrader, passed away Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019, at her home in Palos Verdes Estates. She was 94. Margie attended Mac Murray College for Women in Jacksonville, Illinois, and worked as a social worker for the Children's Home Society in St. Louis before her marriage in 1946. She had lifelong interests in community service, a concern for children in need, women in politics, travel with her husband, Howard, and becoming an excellent cook. She was an active community volunteer and board member with various organizations both in Ohio and southern California, including the League of Women Voters, Girl Scouts, YWCA of San Pedro, The Neighborhood Church and others. She is survived by her daughters, Cecille, Denise and Suzanne; and twin sons, Russell and Karl; and grandchildren, Rachelle, Gregory, Alec, Riley, Paul, Jack, Vida and Lucy. She was preceded in death by her parents; sister, Melva Rose Lewis of Cape Girardeau; and husband, Howard Caterson. Gifts in memory of Margie may be made to the building fund of Rolling Hills United Methodist Church in Rolling Hills, California. Announcement is courtesy of Lighthouse Memorials and Reception-Rice Center in Torrance, California. - Published in SE Missourian 21 Dec 2019.	Schrader, Margie Lee (80328660)
5794	Pandelis Limneos Migration • United States Index to Alien Case Files, 1940-2003 Name Pandelis Limneos Immigration Date 12 Nov 1966 Immigration Place Noyes, Kittson, Minnesota, United States Immigration Place (Original) Noyes, MN Birth Date 10 Feb 1909 Birthplace GREECE Event Type Immigration Event Place Note NOY Registration Number 14644679 NOTE: Noyes, Kittson County, MN is the nearest U.S. port of entry south of Winnipeg, Cannada "United States Index to Alien Case Files, 1940-2003," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6FYW-G6XF : 17 June 2022), Pandelis Limneos, 12 Nov 1966; citing Immigration, Alien Registration Number , "Index to Alien Case Files at the National Archives at Kansas City, ca. 1975 - 2012," NAID 5821836, Records of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, 2003 - 2004, RG 566, National Archives at Kansas City.	Limneos, Peter Nicolas (12751946)
5795	Paralysis	Mathews, Margaret (89807429)
5796	Parents are Albert Ruehmann & Caroline nee Borgfeld	Ruehmann, Johanne Sophie Olga (60843424)
5797	Parents are John Wiley Bennett (MO DC 39159) and Emma Bennett	Bennett, Viola (95974557)
5798	Parents marriage: Name: Bessie A. Cleary Gender: Female Marriage Date: 29 Nov 1905 Marriage Place: Ft. Covington, New York, USA Spouse: Merton S. Jackson Certificate Number: 27398 Records Sharing Certificate Number: Name Bessie A. Cleary Merton S. Jackson ancestry.com: in the New York State, Marriage Index, 1881-1967	Jackson, Kenneth Ross (74402470)
5799	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Living (2270972)
5800	Parents: William Tesreau and Rose Mathews	Tesreau, Nellie Mae (36971237)

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