Matches 401 to 450 of 571
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Nephew of Robert "The Bruce". | DE BRUCE Robert (I3663)
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Never had any children. | VINCENT Bill (I2016)
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never married | LOWE Mary (I0179)
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Never married | WALKER Henry Black (I3977)
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Never married, per Rayond Bruce.
From the book "The Upper Part of Greenville County, SC", page 155
On Tuesday afternoon, during an electric storm which passed through the upper part of the county the barn of Dr. J. S. Bruce of Sandy Flat was struck by lightning and burned to the ground almost before anyone had detected the fire. Six head of horses together with all of the feed stuff, were demolished in the fire, causing a loss of about $2500 with only a very small amount of insurance (GDN, June 10, 1909).
Dr. Bruce lived in Sandy Flat and made house calls over the area for fifty cents. A farmer who lived near Double Springs Church had a daughter who complained of being sick and was not able to work. The farmer seeing Dr. Bruce coming up the road in his buggy went out to the road and stopped him and asked the doctor to check his daughter. When the doctor had completed his examination, the farmer asked him what was wrong with the girl; to which Dr. Bruce replied, "Laziness!"
Notes from Raymond Bruce April 2006. Raymond said he had contacted an elderly cousin who told him she remembers staying with Dr. Smiley Bruce when she was a young child. She asked Dr. Bruce if there was something she could do to make herself useful while he was out calling on patients. He said she and her sister could polish his shoes. She told Raymond she had never seen so many shoes in all of her life! They polished and polished until they couldn't polish any more.
| BRUCE James Smiley (I2608)
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Never married, per Uncle Floyd's papers. | BOLLINGER George Frederick (I1896)
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Never married. | BRUCE Luther M. (I2609)
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Never married. | BRUCE Mary Elizabeth Dorcus (I3929)
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Never married. | BRUCE Eliza Caroline Devier (I3930)
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Never married. | BRUCE Nancy Armanda (I3934)
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Never married. | WALKER Mary Narcissus (I4267)
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Never married. | GAHAGEN Dorothy (I4641)
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News of death came from Vicci Medler Sweeney. | WALKER Mack Robert (I2019)
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Newspaper article in Clanton dated October 2005 says her name was Dixie Alabama Wells. | WELLS Dixie Belle (I1183)
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Newspaper article in Clanton paper October 2005 says his name was Jeff Davis Jones | JONES Thomas Jefferson (I1182)
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No children
Funeral services were handled by Lorberg Memorial Chapel, Cape Girardeau, MO 63701.
Floyd drove a truck for Arkansas Best Freight Lines. | BOLLINGER Samuel Floyd (I1986)
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No known wife, however 1880 census shows him as "Senior".
Also engraved on the same headstone as Edmond Lowe are the words "Martha Carroll 1825 - 1906". | LOWE Edmond (I0173)
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Note from Marti Cummins in April 2006
In the 1910 census Mason is living with his uncle Zetta Thompson at age 3 and in the 1920 census he is 13 living with Zetta. In 1930 he is married and his age is listed as 22. In Lulu's oribuary he is listed as a surviging son. It would appear that Lulu gave birth to Mason while unmarried and they gave him to Fred's older brother, Zetta, to raise. Zetta's wife had had two children and neither survived according to the 1910 census. The booklet A History of the Thompson Cemetery notes on page 12 that two infant children of Mr. and Mrs. Zettie Thompson are buried in the cemetery. | THOMPSON Mason S. (I2768)
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NOTE: Jamile has a photo of a headstone from Clanton City Cemetery that says D. Y. Lowe, born March 20, 1881, died Oct 12, 1902. This may or may not match this Dalton Yancy Lowe. | LOWE Dalton Yancy (I0216)
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NOTE: Ordered, and ruled out, death certificate of Mary Jane Walker of Pulasky County, KY. Her father was Sam Campbell of Pulaski County (colored).
Bailey's death certificate says his mother was Mary Hearley.
1860 Census
KY/Crittendon County/Bells Mines
Mary (16) living with her husband John W. Craig (19) born in Indiana, and Nancy Craig (61) born TN. Just a few houses away was Mary's mom and dad.
1880 Census
Widowed Mary J. Walker with 6 children living in KY/Crittenden County//Bells Mines
From History and Families 1882 - 1999 of Crittenden County, KY, published by Genealogy Society: As a widow with one daughter, Mary married H. M. Walker and had six children. They were Ed, Mack, Hurl, Ira, Bail, and Lizzie. Mary Jane was a midwife and doctored many people. She died of consumption or TB. She is buried at Mt. Zion between Mr. Walker's grave and a cedar three. There is no marker.
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Deed Book Y, Crittenden County, KY
September 27, 1890
(Page 350)
This indenture made this the 27th day of Sept 1890 between Mary J. Walker and J. M. Walker her husband and H. E. Walker and Wilmoth Walker his wife, and John W. Kapplar and Elisabeth E. Kapplar his wife, and D. H. Walker and Minnie Walker his wife and H. M. Walker, I. S. Walker and W. B. Walker all and the only heirs at law of H. M. Walker Deceased, all of the County of Crittenden, State of Kentucky except H. E. Walker and wife, and John W. Kapplar and wife of Stoddard County, State of Missouri, parties of the first part and Alex Woody of the County of Crittenden & State of KY party of the second part. Witnesseth, that the parties of the first part, in consideration of the sum of Six Hundred & twenty five Dollars, paid and is to be paid as follows Mary J. Walker One Hundred and Seventy five dollars cash paid for her Dowry right. She being the widow of sd. H. M. Walker, before her marriage with J. M. Walker her present husband, and H. E. Walker Seventy dollars paid and John W. Kapplar and wife Elizabeth Kapplar Seventy dollars cash paid and H. M. Walker Seventy Dollars paid by J. B. Lowey and D. H. Walker cash paid Thirty five dollars and the remainder being $35 to be paid when he becomes of age and makes the sd Woody a deed to his interest to the land herein named, and J. B. Lowey is to execute his notes to I. S. Walker and W. B. Walker who are minor heirs, Seventy dollars apiece, with 6% interest until they become of age and make the sd Lowey a Deed to their interest in the land here in mentioned. Hath bargained and sold and by these presents do convey and confirm unto the sd Woody party of the second part, his heirs and assigns forever, a certain tract or parcel of land lying in the County of Crittenden State of KY and described as follows viz: Beginning on a double white oak, which are stumps now, on the waters of Hoods Cree, thence up a drain with the meanders to where Kings fence originally struck the drain, thence with Kings fence to Spanish Oak, thence S78W 50 poles to a Spanish oak, thence S70.W52 poles to a dogwood, thence S36 poles to a white oak, thence E 156 poles to a black oak with crisp line, thence N61 poles to a stake, thence N27 W45 poles to a stake, thence S4 poles to an ash, thence N75 W60 poles to the beginning containing Eighty-two acres more or less. To have and to hold the same, with all the appurtenances unto the party of the Second part, his heirs and assigns
(page 351)
forever and the parties of the first part, doth further covenant with party of the second part that they will warrant and forever defend the title to the foregoing described land and premises from the claims of all persons claiming the same or any part thereof. A lien is hereby retained upon the property, as security for the payment of all unpaid purchase money. In testimony whereof the parties of the first part, hath hereunto subscribed their names.
Mary J. Walker, J. M. Walker, H. E. Walker, Wilmoth Walker, J. W. Kappler, Lizzie Kappler, Mack Walker
State of Missouri, Stoddard County
I M. L. Crabtree a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Stoddard and state of Missouri do certify that this instrument of uniting from J. M. Walker and wife Mary J. Walker, John W. Kapler and wife Elisabeth E. Kapler, H. E. Walker and wife Wilmoth Walker, wsa produced to me on the 3rd day of November 1890 by H. E. Walker & Wilmoth Walker and on the 3rd day of November by John W. Kapler and Elizabeth Kapler and the contents and effects of the instrument being explained to the said Wilmoth Walker and Elisabeth Kapler separately and apart from their said husbands, they thereupon declared that they did each freely and voluntarily execute and deliver the same to be their acts and deeds and consented that the same might be recorded and was acknowledged by the said H. E. Walker and John W. Kapler to be their acts and deeds, and consented that same might be recorded. Given under my hand this the 3rd day of November 1890.
M. L. Crabtree Justice of the Peace
State of Missouri, County of Stoddard
I hereby certify that M. L. Crabtree Esq before whom the foregoing acknowledgement was made and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature thereto…. (not copied)
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March 2007: Brenda J. J. searched for death certificate for Mary Hurley Walker, but found none. She also searched cemetery records, but did not find the burial place of Mary Hurley Walker or her third husband James M. Walker.
June 2008: Found copy of death certificate for Mary Jane on Ancestry.com. Shows that information on certificate came from Rosa Kappler, Mary Jane's daughter-in-law.
| HURLEY Mary Jane (I2040)
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Notes for Francis M. Bruce: 1880 Census shows F. M. Bruce living with W. B. Hartgraves as a laborer, Lawrence County, AL | BRUCE Francis M. (I0075)
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Notes for Sarah Harris. Her brother is James Harrise, and his wife is Elizabeth J. Ferguson | HARRIS Sarah Jane (I2824)
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Notes from Kenneth O. Sims on June 7, 2005:
Maybe I should tell you also that Ester is said (her daughter told me) along with the the statement I gave you that the SIME were "mean as hell and would kill you in a minute". I certainly have never found that to be true. The one's I have known have been rather meek and mild. The only one I have ever heard of being "mean as hell" was Ester's mother who was the daughter of B. H.'s brother Henry G. Sims. My maternal grandmother told me that she lived next door to her once and liked her OK. I wonder if this comment might have been in response to no one much liking her. I do know that my aunts really, really did not like me "messing with" genealogy. It's almost like they had something to hide. May something Esther told them, or maybe something they knew. (alluding to a statement that there had been a "killing in Georgia".)
1880 Calhoun Co., AL Henry G. Sims is still living on the land he purchased there in 1845 in Section 32, Township 12S, Range 10E, adjacent to parcels purchased by his presumed brothers Garrison, George, and Hutson.
Enum. Dst. 11, page 10 (Beat #9)
fam. #98
Henry G. SIMS 67 SC VA SC farmer
Elizabeth 51 TN Ireland Ireland wife
Marion 30 AL SC TN son
Carline 26 AL SC TN da.
John 22 AL SC TN son
Nancy 21 AL SC TN da.
Frank 18 AL SC TN son
Elizza 14 AL SC TN da.
Anna 11 AL SC TN da.
Note that Henry's birthplace and those of his parents match exactly what Bev. H. said in 1880 Blount Co.! Henry's youngest daughter, Elizabeth Anna (born 23 Jan 1868) would later marry her first cousin Thomas Benton SIMS, son of Beverly Hutson, as Thomas's second wife.] | SIMS Henry G. (I1781)
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November 29 2001: Funeral services for Ruth E. VanHooser, 93, of Marion, were held Nov 20 at Gilbert Funeral Home. Rev. Cortis Hill and Rev. Bill Crabtree officiated. Burial was in Mapleview Cemetery. VanHooser, a member of Calvery Baptist Church in Crayne, died November 18 at Crittenden Hospital. She is survived by a son, Bobby Don Gilland of Marion; two daughters, Helen Corn of Litchfield, IL and Jean Foster of Springfield, IL; nine grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by two husbands, James Gilland and Luke VanHooser; and two daughters, Virginia Corn and Laverne Croft. | WALKER Ruth Elizabeth (I4141)
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Obit. from Banner Press Newspaper dated 12 December 1935 (Saturday):
Mrs. Tom Bennett, aged 79 years, and a former resident of this county, died Tuesday morning at 2:20 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W[U.] Smith of near Burfordville. Mrs. Bennett had been in poor health for some time. Mrs. Bennett is survived by her daughter, with whom she made her home, and a son, Henry Bennett, of Lutesville, who is manager of Ward store. She is also survived by a sister, Mrs. S. P. Presnell of Patton and a half-sister Mrs. Martha Walker of Poplar Bluff and a half-brother, Price Bolinger of Cape Girardeau. her husband died two years ago. Funeral services were held Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock at the Patton Methodist Church, conducted by Rev. John Starkey. Interment was in the church cemetery.
From death certificate: Died in Malden (Dunklin County), MO at Ridgeview Manor.
9/5/02 Jamile called Rainey Funeral Home a second time to ask if Martha was at Dexter City Cemetery. This time, they were able to find her with the death date, since Rainey handled the funeral arrangements. Her gravesite is in Dexter City Cemetery [original cemetery], Section 3, Lot 741. | BOLLINGER Martha Louisa (I1833)
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Obit. from Banner Press Newspaper dated 12 December 1935 (Saturday):
Mrs. Tom Bennett, aged 79 years, and a former resident of this county, died Tuesday morning at 2:20 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W[U.] Smith of near Burfordville. Mrs. Bennett had been in poor health for some time. Mrs. Bennett is survived by her daughter, with whom she made her home, and a son, Henry Bennett, of Lutesville, who is manager of Ward store. She is also survived by a sister, Mrs. S. P. Presnell of Patton and a half-sister Mrs. Martha Walker of Poplar Bluff and a half-brother, Price Bolinger of Cape Girardeau. her husband died two years ago. Funeral services were held Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock at the Patton Methodist Church, conducted by Rev. John Starkey. Interment was in the church cemetery.
Per Marti Cummins: Price was raised by his uncle Louis Harmon (his mother's brother) and Louis' wife Polly. | BOLLINGER Thomas Henry Price (I1912)
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Obit. from Banner Press Newspaper dated 12 December 1935 (Saturday):
Mrs. Tom Bennett, aged 79 years, and a former resident of this county, died Tuesday morning at 2:20 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W[U.] Smith of near Burfordville. Mrs. Bennett had been in poor health for some time. Mrs. Bennett is survived by her daughter, with whom she made her home, and a son, Henry Bennett, of Lutesville, who is manager of Ward store. She is also survived by a sister, Mrs. S. P. Presnell of Patton and a half-sister Mrs. Martha Walker of Poplar Bluff and a half-brother, Price Bolinger of Cape Girardeau. her husband died two years ago. Funeral services were held Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock at the Patton Methodist Church, conducted by Rev. John Starkey. Interment was in the church cemetery. | BOLLINGER Mary Ann (I1934)
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Obituary
She is survived by four daughters, Doris Looney of California, Carol Waldrop of Barling, Linda Lemon of Alma, and Claudene Britt of Barling; a son, Robert Looney of Van Burean.... | MICHELS Alberta Virginia (I4722)
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Obituary for S. E. Bruce says Ida Bell's married name was Huff. This was a newspaper error.
1930 Census: William D. Duff and Ida Bell were living in Birmingham, AL. | DUFF William D. (I1180)
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Obituary from Crittenden Press January 1915
Mary C. Brantley was born Mar. 8th, 1829 and died Jan 4, 1915, age 85 years 9 months 4 days. She was married to Fielden Brantley Feb 11 1847 and to this union were born seven children. The husband and four children have preceded her to the grave, and she leaves three children to mourn their loss. She professed faith in Christ at the age of thirteen years and joined the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at Cave Spring and remained a faithful member until death. The funeral was conducted by the writer at the family graveyard, after which her body ws laid to rest to await the resurrection mourn. J. R. King, Blackford, KY.
| WALKER Mary Catharine (I3985)
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Obituary from Crittenden Press September 10, 1903
Fielding Brantley died at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Doc Guess, last Friday, Sept. 4th. He had been in bad health for months having been stricken with paralysis from which he never recovered. He leaves a widow, Mrs. Catherine Brantley and three children, Gus Brantley, Mrs. Mary Guess, and Mrs. Hugh Alice McConnel. Mr. Brantley was one of our best citizens and a man much liked. He was born November 9 1825 and was therefore in his 78th year.
Fielding and Mary Catherine had a total of 7 children, but only three were living at the time of her death. | BRANTLEY Fielden (I3986)
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Obituary from K. Kappler March 6, 2007
Mrs. Anna Tropp Cappler was born in Bavaria, Germany, Sept. 1826, immigrated to America in 1852, and began work in New Orleans, LA. There she was united in marriage to Jacob Cappler in 1852. They came to Missouri and settled in Stoddard County near Lakeville in 1861, where Mr. Cappler died some years ago. Mrs. Cappler was an earnest christian from childhood, and her life was a continual declaration of her noble character. She joined the M. E. Church South in 1853, and was always true to the church of her choice, and faithful in the service of Christ, ready to help by her prayers, her presence, her means all work that tended to the upbuilding of the kingdom of God. She died Nov 5 1898, leaving a host of friends and reletives, with four children, Martin and John Cappler, Mrs. Dr. J. C. Farrar and Mrs. J. Mat Zimmerman. Sister Cappler lived well. She died well, and she rests in peace with gos. S. C. Biffle. | TROPF Anna Maria (I4102)
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Obituary Union and Banner, Clanton Press, December 18, 1913.
Jamile has a photo of headstone. Headstone says death was in 1916 (not 1913). It also says she was the wife of James W. Lowe (not James E.) in error. The designs on her headstone and the headstone of James E. Lowe are identical, so I am sure they are a match. I double-checked to see if she married a second time to another Lowe and I don't have anything to indicate that. I assume that whoever had her headstone carved made errors in the date and James' middle initial. | SANDERLIN Mary (I0116)
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Obituary was in Chilton View November 1, 1883 (I do not have a copy.)
Was a Mason.
James Edwin Lowe was named after his two grandfathers. | LOWE James Edwin (I0105)
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Obituary:
Paul W. Shepherd, Sr., 67, of Beaufort, died Tuesday, June 2, 2009 at his residence. He was born in Pelahatchie, Mississippi, the son of the late Thomas Shepherd and Lottie Bell Shepherd. He served his country in the United States Air Force and was a member of Carteret Street United Methodist Church. Paul was an avid fisherman who loved life. He was a loving husband and father and will be greatly missed by his family. He is survived by his wife, Barbara Hucks Shepherd of the home, one son, Paul W. Shepherd, Jr. of Lady's Island, S.C.; four sisters, Margaret Keene of Huntsville, Alabama; Judy Moore of Yazoo City, MS; Frances Keene of Virginia Beach, Virginia; Mary Derrick of Egypt; 4 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren. The family will receive friends Thursday, June 4, 2009 from 6-8:00 P.M. at Copeland Funeral Service. A memorial service will be held Friday, June 5, 2009 at 2:00 P.M. at Carteret Street United Methodist Church. Inurnment will follow in the Beaufort National Cemetery with military honors. Memorials may be made to Hospice Care of America, 21 Professional Village Circle, Beaufort, S.C. 29907. Copeland Funeral Service is in charge of arrangements. (Published in The Island Packet from 6/4 to 6/11/2009) | SHEPHARD Paul W. (I5091)
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Obituary: A Tribute, Denison Herald, Denison, TX August 6, 1963
Walter Marcus Looney Rites Set in Bennington
Bokchito-Services willbe held at 4 p.m. Wednesday a t the Bennington Baptist Church for Walter Marcus Looney, 79, of Bokchito, who died Monday in a Durant hospital. Burial will be in Bennington Cemetery under the direction of Murray Funeral Home of Durant. Looney was born in Indian Territory April 20, 1884, and Married Lola Allen Oct 5, 1919 at Old Bennington. He had made his hom in Bryan County for 53 years and was a member of the Baptist Church. Surviving are his wife; a son, Claude of Fort Smith, Ark; and five grandchildren. | LOONEY Walter Marcus (I4708)
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Obituary: The Times Leader Online, Princeton, KY
Front page on Friday, March 16, 20007
Harold Anderson Walker, 86, of Vallejo, Calif., and formerly of Caldwell County, died Sunday, Feb. 18, 2007, at Vallejo, Calif. Born Feb. 28, 1920, at Cobb, a son of the late William A. and Mollie Perry Walker, he was combat systems quality and reliability assurance manager in the defense department in Mare Island Naval Shipyard. He was a World War II veteran. He joined the Navy in 1939, serving six years during World War II, in both the Pacific and Caribbean theaters. His ship was ordered out of Pearl Harbor just before the attack that launched the U.S. into World War II. He left the Navy in 1945 as a First Class Petty Officer. He was active in many organizations including The Pearl Harbor Survivors Association (Associate Member), AAHMES Shriners, Veterans of Foreign Wars, TinCan Sailors Association, National Association of Retired Federal Employees and Yount Lodge No. 12 of the Free & Accepted Masons of California, Scottish Rite of Freemasonry 32 degree. He was preceded in death by his wife, Lois Tuma Walker. Survivors include four sons, Gregory N. Walker, Robert W. Kennard and William D. Kennard, all of Napa, Calif., and Kieth E. Tuma of Pollack Pines, Calif.; a daughter, Karen S. Kemmer of Post Falls, Idaho; and several grandchildren. Graveside services with military rites will be held Tuesday, March 20, at 10 a.m. at Millwood Cemetery. The Rev. Ronnie Fox will officiate the service. There will be no visitation. | WALKER Harold Anderson (I4093)
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October 17, 1856
Benton County, Ark
Thomas B. Nail and wife Elizabeth Hubbard, and James W. Wilson and wife Rachel Hubbard, power of attorney to Ayers Newman of this place to recover their inheritance from the late Moses Guest of Grundy County, TN. Wives are the granddaughters of Moses Guest. | HUBBARD Elizabeth (I4742)
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Odd that Robert Allen Carlton and his wive Emma Adeline (Harrison) Carlton died on the same date. Research to see if they died in an accident, or if the information I have is incorrect. | CARLTON Robert Allen (I5007)
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Of Cherry Valley, TN | DAVIS Anderson (I4087)
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of Lochleven | VIPONT Allan (I3700)
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Olive (Ollie),a daughter, was born ca. 1809 in North Carolina and lived in North Carolina; Jefferson County, Alabama; and Wood County, Texas. Olive married Ephraim Hix March 22, 1836 in Jefferson County Alabama. Ephraim Hix was evidently related to Elisha Hix, possibly his younger brother or a cousin. | COZBY Olive (I1753)
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On Januar 12, 1946, Gertrude Walker was the listed informant on the death certificate for her mother-in-law Fannie Walker's death certificate. At that time Gertrude was living in Marion, KY. | UNKNOWN Gertrude (I3880)
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On Oct 18 1765 Margaret's uncle David Looney gave gond with James McDowell as the appointed guardian to her, an orphan of Daniel Looney. (August County, SC Wills book B3, page 433) | LOONEY Margaret (I0318)
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Opened the Baker Mill before the war. | BOLLINGER Miller Henry (I1982)
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Origin of name: MacGillowney, the Manx form of the early Gaelic name MacGiolla Dhomhnaigh, which was worn down to MacGillowney, and then to Lowney, Lewney, and Looney, according to genealogist David Craine. Robert's birth place (Ballagilley Farm) translates to balla, meaning village, and Gilley, part of their last name.
Lived Looney's Mill Creek of James River in Botetourt Co., VA
Was a Manx Friend (Quaker).
About 1731, Robert and Elizabeth came to America from the Isle of Mann, Great Britain, with their family, settling first in Philadelphia, PA and later in colonial Maryland. In 1739 - 40, they moved west to the new frontier and settled in Augusta County, VA on the James River. There on Looney Creek, Robert and Elizabeth raised their family, established the first ferry crossing of the James River, built a mill, grew crops and raised livestock. Due to the constant conflict between France and England, as well as the threat of Indian attachs, a fort was ordered built in 1755 around the Looney homesite. This fort was named Fort Looney and was at the junction of Looney Creek and the James River. This fort was part of a series of forts ordered built along the frontier to protect settlers and to keep the French from claiming the territory. Fort Looney was visited in 1756 by Col. George Washington, future first president of the United States. The Looney sons were frontiersmen and pioneers. Some fought and died with the British against the French and Indians. Some were killed by Indians during frequest frontier raids on settlers while others helped to explore and expand the frontier boundaries first into southwestern Virginia and eventually into Tennessee Indian Territory. The Looney sons and grandsons fought against the British in the War of Independence.
Article in The Decatur Daily about James W. Looney said that Robert and his wife Elizabeth had a total of 14 sons. It also said that n 1734 Robert and Elizabeth were in Philadelphia where they joined an expedition into the Colony of Virginia. The following year he settled on a patent of 294 acres, for which he had to pay the Crown land rent of one shilling a year, on the south bank of the Cohongoronto (upper Potomac) River, probably near present day Hagerstown, MD. By 1739 Robert moved southward through the Shenandoah Valley, finally settling on a grant of 250 acrea on the James River. In 1742 Robert gained another 400 acres in grants, and became one of the most prosperous farmers in the area, with his own mill, orchards, nursery, cattle and horses, and even operated a ferry across what may still be found today not far from Natural Bride - Looney's Mill Creek.
[From The MacGiolla Dhomhnaighs, or MacGillewneys, or Looneys of the Missouri-Arkansas Border, by Donald R. Holliday]
During or near 1731, the first forebear of the Missouri-Arkansas border Looneys immigrated to the British colony of Pennsylvania with his wife and seven sons, entering through the port of Philadelphia. Their eighth son was born in 1734; six more sons and probably one daughter would follow. In 1732, Robert settled on a patent of 294 acres on the Cohongoronta River near present Hagerstown, Maryland (Sayre, NAMA). He maintained possession of that original patent until 1766 when, through power of attorney, he sold the land.
In 1739-40, Robert Looney joined some seventy other families of Friends in moving southward through the Shenandoah Valley to settle a 100,000 acre grant of land on the Opeckan River. Robert settled a tract of 250 acres of land on the James River in what was to become part of Augusta County, and later Botetourt County. He donated lands for the county seat and became an influential man in colonial politics. In 1742 he acquired three grants of approximately 1000 acres of land. Sayre says he became "one of the most prosperous farmers in the area, with his own mill, orchards, nursery, cattle and horses and even operated a ferry across .... Looney's Mill Creek." Goodrich Wilson writes in The Roanoke Times that they had a blacksmith shop and, because of the strategic location of their property where James River flowed around the base of the Purgatory Mountain spur of the Alleghenies and the base of the Blue Ridge, their home became, sort of tavern and trading center .... In 1745, John Buchanan was entertained at Looney's both going and coming on his visits to the New River Settlements. In 1753, the Moravian Fathers, on their way to start their settlements around what is now Winston-Salem, stopped at Looney's to have their wagons mended, their horses shod, their food supplies replenished, and....a large batch of bread baked to their order. In 1756, George Washington crossed the river by their ferry on his way to inspect frontier forts, and the year before the Revolution, Hugh McAden stopped there while he watched the Looneys build a stockade fort for defense against the Indians.
Robert's will, dated September 14th, 1769, was recorded in Botetourt County; it was probated November 13th, 1770.
When war with the French and Indians broke out, Robert, Jr., was among the first to be killed in southwest Virginia: Sunday 15, 1756. James Burke brought word that Robert Looney was killed and that he had himself one horse shot and five taken away by the Shawnee Indians.
Goodrich Wilson also reports that "Peter, another son [the first born in the colonies], a sergeant at Fort Vause, was captured when the fort fell, and was carried off by the Indians. The winter passed; summer came to the Valley. Peter came back from .... as far north as Detroit." Ed Sayle captures the heart of the family's early American military history:
A third son, Samuel, was killed by Indians in 1760, and the home of a daughter, Lucy Jane, was raided and looted by Indians. Robert Looney, mindful of his responsibilities to his family and followers, erected a fort, Fort Looney, one of the fortifications recorded as resisting the Indian and French depredations until the end of the war in 1763 .... But the end of the Indian Wars was not to spare the Looney family. During the American Revolution, two of Robert Looney's sons, Absolem and David were to see duty--Absolem in patriotic service in support of the military forces under General Washington, and David as a Major in the North Carolina Militia. And three of Absolem's sons, like the offspring of his brothers, were to serve in the Virginia Militia, with one dying of gunshot wounds in both legs after his role in the American victory at the Battle of King's Mountain in North Carolina.
Another son, Captain Joseph, was at Yorktown for the British surrender. Absalom, fifth son of Robert and Elizabeth, born about 1729 in the Isle of Man, discovered in 1770 what is yet called Abb's Valley while on a hunting and scouting expedition in southwest Virginia, in what is now Tazewell County. Mary Elizabeth Looney notes that "Absolem...led his family and some followers and founded a settlement at least four years before that noted frontier explorer, Daniel Boone, arrived in the same area to build a fort only six miles from Absolem's homestead." Ab, Captain James Moore and his family, and Robert Poage and his family settled in the valley, but during the early part of the Revolution, with Indian attacks continuing and the militia called to the Continental Army, the Poages abandoned the valley; Ab and his family, at his father's insistance, returned to Fort Looney; and the Shawnee raided the valley and killed or carried off the remaining Moore family. The State Historical Society of Virginia has erected a bronze tablet in memory of the tragedy and to mark the location of Abb's Valley. It is on Route 85, five miles southwest of Pocahontas, Virginia.
During the Revolution, Absalom furnished beef for the Continental Army and served in his brother Joseph's company. After the Revolution, he returned to his valley and prospered. He and his wife, Margaret, had twelve children, five sons and seven daughters. He is reported by Elizabeth Looney to have been killed by Indians while going to the well to draw a bucket of water. Ed Sayle places his death at Dunkard's Spring, Virginia. In his will, dated September 28, 1791 and probated at the June 1796 County Court, Absalom left five shillings each to eleven children and the remainder of his estate to his youngest, Benjamin.
In addition to killing or being killed by Indians, some Looney's also married them. Mary Elizabeth Looney reports at least three such marriages, two in the Robert, Jr. line. The third "married a niece of Enoli, Black Fox, chief of the Cherokees. This Enoli lived and died in Alabama. John [son of niece of Enoli and a Looney?] became a Chief and died here in Washington while in D.C. to sign a treaty with the government. He is buried in Congressional Cemetery.'' She goes on to say, "Samuel Looney of Robert, Jr. is said to have married a grandchild of Pocahontas, but we have never, never, never been able to prove this."
Ab's son Michael moved west to Hawkins County, Tennessee, where he and his wife, Temperence Cross, had ten children between 1781 and 1799 and "where the 1,500 acre farm he acquired at a half-shilling an acre is still held by his heirs." Michael and Tempy's youngest son, John, inherited the home place. A family list compiled in 1905 from cemetary records shows that "[John] and wife, Elizabeth Johnson, are buried in the old Looney graveyard there on the south side of Michael. There are about 120 graves and a row of slaves." Two of Michael and Tempy's grandchildren served in Alabama and Tennessee legislatures. One great-grandchild (son of granddaughter Sally whose parents were Michael and Tempy's second child, Margaret, and Dangerfield Rice) served four terms as governor of Georgia, then was elected to the U.S. Senate. Rachael, eighth child of Michael and Tempy, was in Polk County according to the 1840 census and Dallas County, Missouri according to the 1850 and 1860 censuses. The third child, William, moved to Arkansas in 1802.
Lawrence Dalton writes that William Looney settled the site of Elm Store, Arkansas, near Pocahontas, the first white man to settle on the Eleven Points, as he came here as early as 1802, and entered !,500 acres of land. He brought three negroes with him, and for a number of years was obliged to go to Cape Girardeau, Missouri, 135 miles distant, and be gone for about two weeks, to buy groceries and other necessary articles. Their meat was .... bears, deer, turkeys, etc'. He could not raise hogs on account of bears. Very little farming was done in those days, as from six to ten acres was considered a good crop, and the horses and cattle lived on the cane. A number of years elapsed before there were any settlers besides himself and two brothers named Stubblefield, on this stream, and it was fifteen to twenty miles to the nearest neighbor. He had afl'ne orchard, and made brandy in great quantities, about 1,500 gallons per year.
He married Rhoda Stubblefield, and they had ten children. William, "being an educated man, taught his children at home and thus they became fairly educated." His will is dated March 10th, 1846 and "proved" April 25, 1846. Rhoda died a year later, on April 18, 1847.
Robert Looney's will from C. Waldrop
Written on the date of his death: September 14, 1769
Recorded in Will Book A, page 5, Botetourt County, VA
In the name of God amen September the fourteenth, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-nine. I Robert Looney being very sick and weak in body but of Perfect mind and memory and calling to mind the uncertainty of this life and knowing that all men was born to die once I recommend my soul to God who gave it and my Body to the ground to be buried in a decent manner at the discretion of my Executors nothing doubting but I shall have it again at the Resurrection. As for the worldly Estate that it has pleased God to bless me with I give and bequeath in manner and form the following. I leave my well beloved wife, Elizabeth Luney, and my beloved son, Joseph Luney, to be my sole Executors. Next I leave to my beloved grandson, John Luney, one shilling sterling. All the remainder of my Bodily Estate after my funeral charges and Lawful debts are paid I give and bequesth to my well beloved wife, Elizabeth Luney to Live on and use as she pleaseth During her natural life and then to descend to my beloved son, Joseph, at her death the rest of my children having already got all that I allow to them of my Estate. Signed Sealed and Pronounced in Presents of us
his mark Robert R. Luney (seal)
John Smith
James Crow
Ellinor Crow
John Burton (his mark)
At a court held for Botetourt County the 13th of November 1770 this writing purporting to be the last will and Testament of Robert Looney decd. was Presented in court by Joseph Looney one of the Executors herein named and proved by the oaths of Thomas Crow, James Crow and John Smith and ordered to be recorded and on motion of said Executor who made oath according to Law certificate is granted him for obtaining a probate thereof in due from whereupon he together with Abraham McClelland and John Looney his securities entered into and acknowledged their bond in five hundred pounds conditioned as the Law. Este John May B.B.B.
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Orphaned at an early age and raised by family and friends. | BOLLINGER Joseph (I4190)
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Owned a larte tract of land adjoining the land of Samuel Lee. | FAIL John (I1236)
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Paid States to Research Marriage of Neal & Alma around 1968
MichiganYears 1967, 1968, 1969 Nothing Found | Family F0747
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Pamela Butler:
1766: Frances Cooke Butler lived with her eldest son, Aaron on the old family farm. After Aaron died, his two sons (Edmund and John) sold the farm and moved north to Culpeper County, VA.
1773: She was living with William Watson. Reference was made to Frances Cooke in family letters as being in poor health but improving. | COOKE Frances (I1206)
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