Winifred “Winnie” Gold was the daughter of Johnathan and Sarah (Ryalls) Gold. She was born at Gold Hill in Lincoln County, Tennessee. The census shows that she was born in 1825, and her tombstone at the Molly Wright Cemetery reads; Winnie, wife of Timothy Cavener Sr. died September 3, 1912 at the age of 95 years, 6 months and 14 days. This would make her born February 20, 1817. She grew up in Lincoln County, TN. at Gold Hill with the rest of the Johnathan Gold family. On August 15, 1844 she married Timothy Cavener. Their marriage is on record in the courthouse at Lewisburg, Marshall County, TN. Thomas Gold married Mary Jane Cavener, and Rachael Minerva Gold married William Patrick Cavener, all brothers and sisters.

The Gold’s and Cavener’s lived as neighbors at and near Gold Hill. Timothy and Winnie spent their first 8 years of married life in that area. During which time they four children born to them. (1) Amanda Jane Cavener, born August 14, 1845. (2) William Patrick Cavener, born March 1, 1847. (3) Martha F. Cavener, born February 19, 1848. (4) Henry Clay Cavener, born in 1949.

On March 20, 1852, Timothy and Winnie loaded their four children and all their earthly belongings on to the Wagon Train that brought the Gold and Cavener families to Green Valley in what is now, Porter Township, near Boaz, in Christian County, Missouri. On the 1860 census of Christian County they are shown with three more children, (5) George Washington Cavener, born September 5, 1853. (6) Sarah Cathelene Cavener, born September 20, 1855. (7) Mary Elizabeth Cavener, born in 1857 (8) then Margaret L. Cavener was born August 19, 1861. Making a total of eight children four born in TN. and four born in Missouri.

Timothy Cavener joined the Army when his youngest daughter was only one day old. On August 20, 1861 he joined the Army and fought for the north in the Civil War. He died a Prisoner of War at Little Rock, Arkansas, and was buried there. The grave of Timothy Cavener was mistakenly marked on his stone as “C. Timothy”, located in Section 3, grave #2975. Timothy and Winnie had 320 acres of land laying on the west side of the road at Boaz, Missouri.  Winnie was left with all eight children. They lived near the south end of the farm. Winnie was found in the household with Lum and Sarah C. Garoutte in the 1880 census.  She was able to keep the land until about 1882, when she sold most of it to Margaret L. and her Husband, Martin Van Buren Butler. Winnie is found in the household with George and Nancy Cordelia (Smith) Solomon, in the census of 1900. Nancy Cordelia was the daughter of Sarah Cathalene Cavener by a first marriage to David Smith. We have no record of what happened to him. Winnie spent her last few years with her daughter, Amanda Jane and “Booty” John Estes. She died September 3, 1912 and was buried in the Molly Wright Cemetery beside her daughter, Amanda Jane, (Cavener) Estes one and one quarter mile south of Union City, in Stone County, Missouri. Winnie was the daughter of Johnathan and Sarah (Ryalls) Gold. She was born at Gold Hill in Lincoln County, TN. Her tombstone reads; Winnie Cavener, wife of Timothy Cavener, Sr.Died September 3, 1912, at the age of 95 years, 6 months and 14 days. Using these dates, it would make her born February 20, 1817. She grew up at Gold Hill with the rest of the Johnathan Gold family. On August 16, 1844 she married Timothy Cavener, their marriage is recorded at the Marshall County courthouse in Lewisburg, TN. Thomas Gold married Mary Jane Cavener, and Rachael Minerva Gold married William Patrick Cavener. All the children of these three Gold-Cavener marriages were double cousins, and they all came to Christian County, Missouri in the early 1850’s.

On the 1860 census of Christian County, MO., Timothy and Winnie are shown with three more children; (5) George W. Cavener, born September 5, 1853. (6) Sarah Cathleen Cavener, born, September 20, 1855. And  (7) Mary Elizabeth Cavener, born in 1857.

Then (8) Margaret L. Cavener was born August 21, 1861 in Christian County, MO., making a total of 8 children born to this union. Four were born in TN., and four born in Missouri.

Timothy Cavener left to join the Army, August 22, 1861, when his youngest daughter was only one day old. He fought for the north in the Civil War. He died in 1864 a prisoner of war in Little Rock, Arkansas, and is buried there.

PROOF OF NAMES AND DATES OF CHILDREN OF WIDOWS
APPLYING FOR PENSION UNDER ACT OF July 1866

State of Missouri, County of Christian

On this 23rd day of January, AD 1869, personally appeared before me; Margaret L. Garret, of Christian County, State of Missouri, and Mary M. Garrison, of Christian County, State of Missouri. Who being duly sworn, doth each for himself depose and say, that they have been acquainted with Mrs. Winney Cavener for 25 years, and know her to be the widow of Timothy Cavener. Late a Private in Co. F, 24th. Regiment of Missouri Infantry, Volunteers, who joined in the service of the United States on or about the 21st day of August 1861, and died in Little Rock, Arkansas, August 4, 1864. That Timothy Cavener left surviving him the following children under sixteen years of age, and none others, who were born as herein stated.

George W. Cavener, born September 5, 1853, living in Christian County, MO.

Mary Elizabeth Cavener, born May 15, 1857, living in Christian County, MO.

Margaret L. Cavener, born August 21, 1861, living in Christian County, MO.
That the deponent, (1) Margaret L. Garret was present at the birth of the aforesaid child, George W. Cavener, and was present at the birth of Sarah C., Mary Elizabeth, and Margaret L., said children, and have personal knowledge of the facts here stated. She was present at the birth of all the above named children and nursed Mrs. Winney Cavener at the time of her confinement at the several special times.

That the deponent, Mary M. Garrison was present and in the room at the birth of the aforesaid children; George W., Sarah C., Mary E., and Margaret L. said children. And have personal knowledge of the facts here stated. She was present in the room at the births of the said children. She assisted and nursed Mrs. Winney Cavener at the several times of her confinement at the several times of her confinement, at the birth of the above stated children. And they further say that they have no interest whatever, direct or indirect, in the prosecution of this claim.

Signed---Francis Smart                                        Margaret L. Garrett
Signed---Jefferson Garrison                                        Her (X) Mark
Mary M. Garrison
Her (X) Mark

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Claim of Widow having Minor Children
Claim No. 13052

I certify that Winney Cavener, widow of Timothy Cavener, who was a private in Co. R. 24th Regiment, MO. Vols. In the service of the United States, is entitled under the provisions of an amendment to the act of July 14, 1862, to receive at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the fifth day of August 1864, and continue during life, unless she shall again marry, in which case the pension to her and for the within named children is not payable after the date of such marriage.

Also there shall be paid to the widow on account of the following named children, to commence the 25th day of July 1866.

George W., who will be sixteen years of age September 4, 1869.

Sarah C.        “      “    “      “         “     “   “            “      19,  1871

Mary E.         “      “    “      “         “     “   “            “      14,  1873
Margaret L.    “     “     “     “         “     “   “        May      14,  1877

The additional sum of two dollars per month for each child until arriving at the age of sixteen years, provided such child has not, before that date, married, died or been abandoned.

Dated---June 17, 1869
Signed—W.T. Otto

Pension dropped October 21, 1913, Cert. No. 130-522

Winney Cavener was last paid at $12.00 per month to August 4, 1912, Reason—Death at School, Missouri---War Dept.

GENERAL AFFIDAVIT
State of Missouri, County of Christian

In the matter of Pension Claims of Winney Cavener, Widow of Timothy Cavener, Co. F. 24th Regiment of Mo. Vols.  On this 18th day of September 1894, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace in and for the aforesaid, County, Duly authorized to administer oaths . Jacob C. Jackson aged 51 years a resident of Joplin in the County of Jasper and State of Missouri. Well known by me to be reputable and entitled to aforesaid case as follows;

That he was a member of Co. F., 24th Regt. MO. Vols, with Timothy Cavener, knew him while in said Company and Regiment, and I was present and seen Timothy Cavener arrested and taken away from camp. This was March 1864 on the north side of the river near Little Rock, Arkansas. And knew that he, Timothy Cavener had bad health during the fall and winter before his arrest. And from what I remember his complaint was camp or chronic diarrhea, and I firmly believe that this disease resulted in his death after his arrest, and I visited him in May after his arrest, and he was still suffering apparently with the same disease. And his appearance showed that his condition was worse than at the time of arrest Timothy Cavener was a man that would work and do duty when he was not really able at times, and would go as long as he could before giving up. I heard him complain of diarrhea in the fall and winter of 1863. This is my oral statement made to John Walker at Billings, MO., on September 18, 1894. And reduced to writing by him in my presence, and I was not aided in any way by any person or persons. His address, Joplin, Jasper County, Missouri.

Signed—Jacob C. Jackson

GENERAL AFFIDAVIT
State of Missouri, County of Christian

In the matter of Winney Cavener, Widow of Timothy Cavener, Co. F. 24th Regt. MO. Vols.On this 26th day of June 1891, personally appeared before me, a Notary Public in and for the aforesaid County, Duly authorized to administer oaths. S.P. Maples, aged 48 years. A resident of neighborhood of Billings, in the county of Christian, and State of Missouri. Well Known to me to be reputable and entitled to credit, and who being duly sworn, declares for himself, in relation to aforesaid case, as follows;

That he was a member of Co. D., of the 24th Regt. MO. Vols. While Timothy Cavener was a member of Co. F. of same Regiment and that he was acquainted with Timothy Cavener for five years before they went into service, and has always known him as a good honest citizen before the War and known him as a good soldier in the service. Affiant further states that him and Timothy Cavener was always, intimate friends, and ask about it and was told by different parties and it was done through spite, a soldier that had trouble and a fight with Cavener, My post office address; Billings, Christian County, Missouri.

Signed—S.P. Maples

Several of these General Affidavits were signed and filed with the Office of Pensions, Due to the circumstances of the standing which Timothy Cavener had with the War Department, which was very unusual, needed proof of several different things about the whole matter.

“Booty John” Estes (son-in-law of Winnie Cavener). On May 29, 1891, stated that he was 48 years old and that he knew Winnie for 25, years, never lived more than 5 or 6 miles from her, states that Winnie has no source of income and very little property.

Joseph Garrison who married Martha Dilla Ann Gold and sister to Winnie Cavener on August 25, 1891. States that he is 57 years old, lives at Billings, MO. That he was in Co. G. 8th Regt. MO. Cav.  And Timothy Cavener was in Co. F. 24th Regt. MO. Inf. At Buvall Bluff, Arkansas in July of 1864. He got a letter from Timothy Cavener stating that he was sick and wanted him to come and see him and let him have some money and as soon as he could get a pass. I went to see him at Little Rock, Arkansas in Military Prison. The officer examined the record and informed me that Timothy Cavener was dead, and he states that he called for clothing and belongings to said Cavener and got them and expressed them home to Winnie Cavener, his widow. His clothes was marked with his name. Affiant thinks that Timothy Cavener about August 4, 1864, but did not see him after he died.

W.K. Berry, Of Otto, Missouri states that Timothy Cavener was in the hospital in late October of 1863, was returned to his Company but was not able to do duty, and was still sick in March of 1864. He sta6ed that said Cavener was very ambitious and would do duty at times when he really was not fit. He was a good soldier, good character and good standing in his Company, and the affiant understood at different times that this charge was brought against him through spite work, and they boasted about doing it afterwards. Affiant was Corporal in said Company.

David Teague, age 51, lived at Billings. He was in the same Co. and Regt. Mo. Cav. As Timothy Cavener, during the late war, also well acquainted with him before the war. States that Timothy Cavener was too weak to carry water to cook with. He was a good soldier, and would not take medicine as long as he could avoid it. That he was arrested through spite work.

Francis M. Smart, May 26, 1897, age 55, a resident of Sharon Township, County of Barber, State of Kansas, Corporal of Co. F. 24th Regt., MO. inf. Vol., that he was well acquainted with Timothy and remembers well that he was sick, with diarrhea in Arkansas in the fall of 1863. (Francis Marion Smart married Amanda Emaline Gold, sister to Winnie (Gold) Cavener

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, DC July 3, 1896

Record and Pension Office, War Department. For use in the further special examination of pension claim of Winney Cavener, widow of Timothy Cavener, Cert. No. 130,522, Co. F. 24th Regt, MO. Vol. Cav.
Please furnish full military record of the above soldier; who is supposed to have enlisted in Co. F. 14th Mo. Cav. While on leave of absence in 1862 and served therein a few months, then returned to his former Regiment.
Timothy Cavener was born in 1834 in Amelia County, Virginia. He was the son of Patrick and Keziah (Tucker) Cavener. He married Winnie Gold, and they were the parents of eight children. He volunteered to serve in the Army, when their youngest child was only one day old.

SUMMARY OF TIMOTHY CAVENER’S WAR RECORD

Company f. 24th Regiment of Missouri infantry, Volunteers

Company F. 14th Regiment of Missouri State Militia Calvary Volunteers

August 20, 1861 Enlisted October 14, 1861 Mustered in as a private in Company /e, of the 24th Regiment of Missouri Infantry Volunteers at Rolla, Missouri, for a period of three (3) years.

August 20---October 31, 1861 Present.
November and December 1861, Present.
January 1, Through February 19, 1862,--- absent with leave.
February 20, 1862--, Declared a Deserter.
March 20, 1862-- Enlisted at Springfield as a Corporal in Captain Robertson’s Company of the Missouri State Militia for the duration of the War in Missouri.
April 8, 1862 --Reported for duty with Captain Robertson’s Company, which later became Company F. of the 14th Regiment of the Missouri State Militia Calvary, Volunteers.
June 30, 1862,----- Arrested and returned to Company F. of the 24th Regiment of the Missouri Infantry, Volunteers.
July and August, 1862 ---Attached to Company C.
September and October 1862----Present
November Through December 27, 1862---Present.
December 28, 1862-----Taken prisoner by Confederate Forces at Van Buren, Missouri and transported to Little Rock, Arkansas.
January 30, 1863---- Paroled by Confederate Forces.
February 12, 1863---Reported to Benton Barracks (Hospital) in St. Louis, Missouri.
February 1863---- Absent (not returned to duty)
March & April 1863----Present.
April 10, 1863,----Present at special muster
May  & June 1863---Present (pay not drawn at his request)
July & August 1863---Present.
September and October 1863----Present.
November and December 1863---Present.
January and February 1864---Present.
March 12, 1864, -- Confined in Military prison at Little Rock, Arkansas.
April, May, June and July, 1864---Confined in Military Prison or in prison Hospital.
August 4, 1864, Died of Chronic Diarrhea while confined in the Military Prison at Little Rock, Arkansas. And buried 150 yards south of the east wall of the prison. The number of his grave was 08.

Due to the fact that the Arkansas State Capitol Building was built on the site of the “Old Prison” the Union Soldiers buried there may have been moved to the Little Rock National Cemetery. But according to the Little Rock National Cemetery Director, Alvin L. Sanders, as of January 5, 1993 there is no burial record for Timothy Cavener. Mr. Sanders further stated “there is over 3000 unknown Union Soldiers interred in the Cemetery and Timothy may be among them.

October 15, 1864, Company F, of the 24th Regiment of Missouri infantry, Volunteers muster-out roll at St. Louis, Missouri, shows that he was last paid December 31, 1863, even though he was shown present during the period from January 1, through March 12, 1864, when he was sent to the Military Prison.

On July 13, 1896—The charge of desertion  of February 20, 1862 against Timothy Cavener, while a member of Company F, of the 24th Regt. Of the Missouri Infantry Volunteers, was issued by the War Department and a discharge was issued from Co. F., 14th Missouri State Militia, on August 5, 1896.

AMANDA MANCREY JANE CAVENER

Amanda Jane “Mandy” daughter of Timothy and Winnie (Gold) Cavener was born August 15, 1845, at or near Gold Hill in Lincoln County, Tennessee, and died at Logan, MO., November 19, 1932 of heart failure. (Billings funeral home records). She married John “Booty John” Estes, November 6, 1866 in Stone County, Missouri. He was born November 17, 1841 and died October 16, 1916 in Stone County. They are both buried in Molly Wright Cemetery, one mile south of Union City. Their children were; George, Vinia, Sarah Francis, Patsy, Louisa, Martha Ellen, Amanda A. “Banner”, William E., and John C. Estes.

“Mandy”and “Booty John” Estes lived ¾ of a mile west of Union City. “Booty John” walked with a limp, caused by an injury to his foot or ankle. There was also another John Estes. So they called him “Booty John” Estes. His father was also John Estes. In the 1860 census of Stone County, it shows; John Estes 63, Va., Margaret 60, Va., Eliza 20, TN., and John H., 18, TN. My Dad told me that Mandy Estes was about the best person that he ever knew. If she knew someone down and out, she wanted to take them in. They raised two orphaned boys, who were brothers, John Thomas and Arthur Thomas. John Thomas went to Illinois and lived with John C. Estes (son of “Booty John and Mandy Estes.  Arthur Thomas lived east of Hurley near James River for most of his life. I never knew what relation, if any, to the Estes family.

In the winter of 1938-39, not long after Ruby and I were married. John Thomas and his lady friend, who was the daughter of John C. Estes, came and stayed over night with us. He was kind of a Dude sort of a person, he wore pants and a vest with suspenders and a little tight fitting black hat. He was driving a Model T. Ford with a little cracker box cab on it. He had a special tool that he re-crimped all of the disks on a cream separator, it was supposed to do a better job getting the cream out of the milk. We went down to my Dads house and he re-crimped the disks on his cream separator, and it really did do a better job getting the cream out of the milk.

We really enjoyed having them visit with us. He always had something funny to say. He kept us laughing all the time they were there.

GEORGE ESTES

George Estes, son of “Booty John and Amanda Jane (Cavener) Estes. He was born in 1867 in Stone County, Missouri. He married Kathryn Ottendorf. She was born in 1867 on board of a ship enroute from Germany, and died in 1949.

George Estes, like his father “Booty John Estes” was referred to as “Farmer George” Estes, because there was another George Estes. Their children were; (1) Charles “Bee” Estes, born December 18, 1889, died in 1908, he married Nancy Wade, (2) Clarence Estes, first married Ada Sullivan, after her death he married Lucy Skaggs. He had no children by either marriage. (3) Velma Estes married G. Sherman Cook, MO. (4) Roy Estes, married Ada Mitchell and they had a child. (5) Floyd Estes married Fena Mitchell and they had two children, Alice and Ruby Estes. (6) Alfred Estes was born June 28, 1893 and died July 14, 1975. He married Bessie Grammer who was the daughter of Sarah A. Leath and Jobel S. Grammer of Lawrence County, MO.
Sarah A. Leath was a sister to John Hiram “Man” Leath who married Martha Francis Leath and they were the parents of Tom, Myrtle, and Loren Leath who lived for many years 3 miles east of Hurley, in Stone County, MO. They were the parents of Hiram and Martha A. Anderson. (See Gold-Anderson Book by David and Peggy (Anderson) Caldwell for the Anderson connection). (7) Vesta Estes, born May 4,1905 and died April 9, 1935. She married Byron T. Allhands, (8) Emmitt Estes. (9) Earl Efton Estes (10) Cord Estes.

Alfred and Bessie (Grammer) Estes had 3 children; Max Esma Estes, Marjorie Estes and Lillian Alice Estes. Max Esma Estes was born March 16, 1918 and died January 23, 1975. He is buried in the Wise Hill Cemetery. He married Marcelene Little who was the daughter of Floyd Little and they had Ronnie Estes who married Judy Cummings, and they had 3 children.

Marjorie Estes, born March 6, 1920, she married Keith Rhodes and they had 3 children; James “Buddy” Rhodes, and Janice Rhodes, then they divorced.

Lillian Alice Estes was born May 8, 1922 and died September 13, 1997 at Republic, MO. She married Raymond Little who preceded her in death as well as a infant son. She married Hobert Beard in 1970 and they had no children. She is buried in Mt. Carmel, Cemetery south of Clever in Christian County, MO.

FROM THE OBITUARY COLUMN
Lillian Beard

Republic, Lillian Beard, 75, Republic Mo. died at 8 p.m. Saturday, September 13, 1997 in Balanced Care, Republic.

Lillian was born May 8, 1922, in Clever, MO. to Alfred E. and Bessie Bell Blades Estes. She was married to Raymond Little who preceded her in death, as well as an infant child. She was married to H.O. Beard in April 1970. They made their home in the Republic area where she attended the Calvary Baptist Church. She was very active in the Republic Senior Citizens Center where she made many friends and continued to spread her joy of helping people. She loved to share here talents and cooking stills and her love of growing flowers with her family, neighbors and friends.

She is survived by her husband, Hobert Beard, three step-sons, Don Beard, Monett, Rick Beard, Mount Vernon, and Dave Beard, Springfield; two step daughters, Jennifer Vaughn, Republic, and Pam Boc, San Francisco, Calif., a sister, Marjorie Rhodes, Springfield, several step-grandchildren, step- great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews, and “ Pet’ a close personal friend. She  was also  preceded in death by a brother, Max Estes and a step-daughter, Charlotte Miller.

Funeral services will be at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, September 16, 1997 in Meadors Funeral Home Chapel, Republic. With the Rev. Mike Green officiating. Burial will be in Mount Carmel Cemetery, south of Clever. The casket will be closed at all times.

VINIA ESTES

Vinia “Aunt Vine” Estes was the second child of Booty John and Amanda Jane (Cavener) Estes. She was born in1868 and died in 1943. She married Benjamin Watkins, January 8, 1888. They are both buried in Molly Wright Cemetery south of Union City, MO.

JOHN C. ESTES

John C. Estes, son of Booty John and Amanda Jane (Cavener) Estes, He was born  in 1882 and died in Illinois. He married Mary Trewatha. They went to Illinois when they were young, and raised their family and died there. Some of their descendants are still living that area of Illinois, at this date. (2001)

WILLIAM E. ESTES

William E. Estes, son of Booty John and Amanda Jane (Cavener) Estes, was born in 1878 in Stone County, MO. and died in1932. He married Francis Pruitt. She was born in Stone County., MO.

SARAH F.S. ESTES

Sarah F.S. Estes was the daughter of John H. “Booty John” Estes and Amanda Jane (Cavener) Estes, Granddaughter of Timothy and Winnie (Gold) Cavener, and Gr-granddaughter of Johnathan and Sarah (Ryalls) Gold. She was born March 8, 1870 and died October 13,1943 in the Community Hospital at Aurora, Lawrence County, MO., at the age of 73, and buried in the Smart Cemetery, Christian County, MO.

On August 25, 1892 she married John Robert Teague in Stone County, Mo., He was born May 17, 1868 and died September 7, 1947 at Aurora, Lawrence County, MO., at the age of 79. He was buried beside his wife Sarah, in the Smart Cemetery, Christian County, MO.

They made their home about 3 miles southwest of Clever in Christian County, Missouri.  Their children were; (1) Sarah Teague, born in 1892. (2) Olis Teague, born April 10, 1893, and died December 26, 1918 and was buried in the Smart Cemetery. He married Gladys name unknown.

(3) Bertha E. Teague, born October 3, 1894, and died March 9, 1914, at the age of 19, buried in Smart Cemetery. (4) Gertrude Susan “Gertie’ Teague, born July 13, 1896 in Christian County, MO. She married Otto “Ted” Utke, he was born October 8, 1890 in Aurora, Mo., and died April 15, 1931 at the age of 40.He was buried beside his wife Gertie in St. Peters Evangelical Cemetery, near Billings, in Christian County, MO. Their children; (1) Willard Otto Utke born in about 1924 and died in 1970 at the age of 45. (2) Marie Utke, born September 12, 1925 in Christian County, MO. She married Fred Burkey, born December 25, 1917. They reside on their farm one-mile north and one mile west of Clever, MO. They had at least two children,  (1) Carl Burky, born August 30, 1952, married Jackie Cochran, and they have one child, Cory “Corky” Burky, born in 1990. The other known child of Fred and Marie Burky was Chester Burky, born September 14, 1956 and he married Candy Ellison and their children are; Caleb Burky, born in 1985, and Cary Burky born in 1986.

The third child of Gertie and Otto “Ted” Utke was Alene Utke, born in 1928, she married Jim King, he died in 1994, They had two children; Randy King and David King.

(5) Robert “Bob” Teague, born September, 3, 1900 in Christian County, Mo., and died February 16, 1982 in Pheonix, Maricope County, Arizona. He married Pearl Ellis.

(6) Myrtle Lucy Teague, born November 1899 and died October 19, 1947 in Logan Lawrence County, Mo., at the age of 47 and buried in Smart Cemetery. She marrried Howard Graf.

(7) Leonard Teague, born March 8, 1902 in Christian County, MO., and died February 6, 1975, buried in Smart Cemetery. He married Luria Jane Ellis, she was born November 12, 1901,

(8) Alfred Teague, born December 26, 1906 in Christian County, MO., and died October 12, 1994 at age 87, and buried in the Maple Park Cemetery, in Springfield, MO.

(9) Gladys Teague, born July 11, 1908 and died July 6, 1978 at the age of 70. She is buried at Smart Cemetery.

(10) Infant Son born in 1909, died August 30, 1909, Smart Cemetery.

(11) Hazel Teague born August 3, 1911, died June 7, 1913, Smart Cemetery.

(12) Howard Woodrow Teague, born March 1, 1913, died June 13, 1993, at age of 89. Buried in Smart Cemetery. Howard was a Veteran of World War 2, and the Korean War. He was awarded the Purple Heart. He married Logie A. Slaughter, July 7, 1969. She was born April 1, 1917.

(13) Daughter Teague, no dates, Helen Teague stated that the last of 13 children died in October of 1994 at the age of 88, probably born in about 1895.

POLLY “PATSY” ESTES

Patsy Estes was the daughter of John H. Estes and Amanda Jane (Cavener) Estes. She was born in about 1871 in Stone County, MO., and died in 1944 in Union City, Stone County, MO.

She married Frank Hair. He was born in about 1864 and died in 1953. Their children were; (1) Ernest Hair, born in 1892 and died in 1976. He married Mary “Samanthy” Scott who writes “ Much in a Basket” for the Crane Chronicle. They had one child; Ernestine “Billie” Hair. She married Ernest Eaton. They lived most of their lives in Springfield. Ernest Eaton died in1997 and buried in the Short Cemetery, one mile south of Hurley, in Stone County, MO., (2) Audie E. Hair, born in 1897 and died July 5, 1976. She married Homer Gold, who was the son of Silas Gold, and Silas was the son of Thomas Gold. Audie was a daughter of Patsy Estes, who was a daughter of Amanda (Cavener) Estes who was the daughter of Winnie Gold and Timothy Cavener, who was a sister to Thomas Gold. Homer and Audie had; Finis, Raymond, and Iva Lee Gold. (3) Sherman Hair married Una Emilie Peters, and they had no children; they lived at Browns Spring, in the north end of Stone County. They were both buried in the Marionville, Cemetery, Lawrence County, MO. He was a farmer and stockman.  (4) Lois Molly Hair, was born May 26, 1902 and died March 12, 1941. She married Javen S. Wampler, February 29, 1920 at the home of her parents; Frank and Patsy Hair, By Rev. C.M. Deaver. (Javen’s brother in law). Javen’s parents were, John Wilson Wampler and Elizabeth (Huff) Wampler. The children of Javen and Lois Wampler were; Hazel Gypsy, Howard John, Fern “Pauline”, Jamie Lee, and Earl William Wampler.

Hazel Gypsey Wampler first married John Deeds, 2nd. She married____. 3rd. She married Ira “Doc” Freeman, October 6, 1951, at Newkirk, Oklahoma. She was born December 19, 1920 at Clever, MO. (1) They had a son, Ricky Earl Freeman, he was born December 26, 1952 at Laurence, Kansas. (2) Howard John Wampler was born September 21, 1928 at Seymour, Missouri. She died August 18, 1986 at Springfield, MO., and buried at Greenlawn Cemetery at Springfield, MO. Their children were; Brad Lee, Lisa Kay, and Kirk Anthony Wampler.

Brad Lee Wampler was born September 23, 1964 in Springfield, MO. He married Pam Gann, August 27, 1976 at Springfield. Lisa Kay Wampler was born in Springfield. She married Howard Ponder. August 10, 1984 they have one child. Nicholas Antony Ponder, born February 19, 1986 at Springfield, MO.

Fern Pauline Wampler was born July 27, 1924 at Clever, Mo. She married John Elvin Sollenberger, November 1, 1942 at Albany, Oregon. He was born January 29, 1917 at Nickerson, Kansas. He died February 5, 1983 at Derby, Kansas, and is buried in the Derby, Cemetery at Derby, Kansas. His parents were; Ellis and Sallie Sollenberger. Their children were; Carol Ann, Judy Kay, Dana Jo, and John Ellis Sollenberger.

Carol Ann Sollenberger was born March, 1945, at Hutchinson, Kansas. Judy Kay was born October 16, 1948 at Winfield, Kansas. Dana Jo was born May 8, 1953 at Winfield, Kansas. John Ellis was born February 28, 1965 at Wichita, Kansas. He died May 25, 1981, he was mowing a corner lot and there was a car wreck at the corner and a truck jumped the curb and hit him. Carol Ann first married Jerry L. Propst September 7, 1963 at Wichita, Kansas. (no children)

2nd. Carol Ann married Melvin D. Parscal, August 15, 1967 at Eldorado, Kansas. She had two children; Russell Douglas Parscal, born June 5, 1976 and Ryan Michael Parscal, born December 27, 1977. Judy Kay had three children, Lisa Jo, born March 29, 1972, Dustin Lee, born and died April 26, 1973, and Laura Ann, born March 2, 1976, Ann had 2 children; Matthew Tyler, born January 28, 1980, and John Arthur, born November 25, 1983.

Jamie Lee Wampler was born April 26, 1928 at Clever, MO. He married Phillis Elaine Nelson, July 15, 1955 at Winfield, Kansas. She was born May 17, 1934 at Winfield, Kansas. Their children were; Mark Lee Marcia Diane and Michael Joseph Wampler. Mark Lee was born April 17, ___, at Miami, Oklahoma. He married Dorothy Chapman, October 23, 1982 at Stillwater, Oklahoma.  They had one child; Lindsay Leann, born January 14, 1985. Marcia Dianne Wampler was born July 21, 1963 at Winfield, Kansas. She married Mike Thomas Parsons, August 16, 1980, they have two children; Megan LeeAnn, born November 26, 1983, and Leah Diane born June 13, 1981. Michael Joseph Wampler was born November 30, 1967 at Wichita, Kansas.

Earl William Wampler was born September 3, 1930 at Clever, MO. He married Judith Ann Stone, December 16, 1962 at Arkansas City, Kansas. She was born October 23, 1940. Their Children were; Michelle Renee, Jeffrey Lee, and Christine Kay Wampler.

Michelle Renee Wampler was born July 6, 1961 in Arkansas, City, Kansas. Jeffrey Lee was born July 6, 1963 at Arkansas City, Kansas. Christina Kay was born August 14, 1966 at Arkansas City, Kansas. Michelle Renee was born to a first marriage by Judith Ann, and was adopted by Earl, Michelle married Kevin Ray O”Daniel July 19, 1982 at Arkansas City, Kansas. They had a set of twins, Seth Benjamin, and Sean Clark, born March 12, 1989. Jeffrey had one child. Courtney Leigh, born May 13, 1989

The family history of Lois Molly (Hair) Wampler was furnished by Jeffrey Lee Wampler. Lois was in the sixth generation of the Michael Gold descendants.

(5) Homer Hair was born December 23, 1906 and died September 23, 1967. He married Goldie Robinson, she was born June 23, 1917. She was the daughter of Michael Jay Robinson and Reathel Evelyn Keener.  Homer and Goldie had one son; Davy Lee Hair, born February 18, 1943 near Browns Spring, MO. He married Edna Faye Stewart, March 17, 1962. She was born December 15, 1945 at Galena, MO. They had two sons; Larry Dale, and Jay Frank Hair. Larry Dale was born January 15, 1964, he married Linda (DeWitt) Eby, March 14, 1986. Their children were; Cody Dale, born January 9, 1988 and Dustin Craig born March 19, 1989. They later divorced. Jay Frank Hair was born March 16, 1968. He married  Lisa Daugherty, November 16, 1988., they were divorced in 1989, they had no children. Jay Frank later married _____.(name not available) they have two children.

Elizabeth Louisa Estes was born February 24, 1871 in Stone County, MO. and died August 11, 1934 in Stone or Christian County, MO. She married James Green, and they had a son; Elijah Green, who was born December 22, 1895 and died October 13, 1898.

Republic Funeral Home Records; Louisa Elizabeth Green died August 11, 1934 at St Johns Hospital in Springfield, MO., age 61 years, 5 months and 26 days, acute Myocarditis—heat stroke, service at Clever Christian Church, Clever, MO. --Wife of J.C. Green, Religion, --Christian, Father-- John Estes, Mother-- Amanda Cavener.

James Green was born in 1868 and died in 1950, (dates taken from tombstones in Wise Hill Cemetery, north of Clever, MO.)

E-mail By Nancy Lou Braly

August 6, 2000

Dear Ray;
I guess I can fill in the blanks, on the Louisa Elizabeth Estes and James Columbus Green.

My mom was Jewel Mandy Malin. Her parents were Lou and James Green.  Their children were; (1) Myrtle Green, Wise, (2) Alpha Irene Green, Fuller, (3) James Leslie Green, (4) Jewell Mandy (Green), Malin, (My Mom) (5) Hattie Green Stanberry (not sure of spelling) (6) Anna (Green) Moody, Jacobson, Abernathy/ (7) Chloe (Green) Wicker, (8) Raymond Loyd Green.  They also had a baby brother who died in his dads arms of one of those terrible diseases. I think whooping cough. He was referred to as “Baby Earl”. He is buried next to James and Louisa (Estes) Green. I have a little button shoe that was Baby Earl’s.

Ray, before I tell you any more, I don’t know if I mentioned it before, But my cousin lives in California and she has the deed to the Wise Hill Cemetery. Her Dad or Grandfather gave the land. Her Mom was Myrtle (Green) Wise, and her husband was Ed Wise and they lived on a little farm out side of Clever until they sold the farm and moved to Clever.

The picture of “Booty” John Estes is showing off his foot was so he could get a pension since he was in the Civil War. He stood in the back while being sworn in, so no one could see his club foot he was born with.

This I am writing out of order, but I am just writing as I thinkof things.

James Columbus Green was a carpenter and I know he built the pulpit and did a lot of interior work of the Christian Church where his funeral was held. I was only eight when he died. so I don’t remember the exact church. I wish I had a picture of the inside showing some of his work. I remember my Mom saying that at one time he made seven caskets for one family. That must have been a sad work. I have heard some crazy stories about that guy.

My brother said my mother almost crawled under the pew at church one Sunday when he disagreed with the preacher. In his quite little voice that echoed through.  He annnounced that the preacher was a liar and didn’t know what he was talking about. And of course when he got home he showed them in the bible and he was right.  My brother said he knew the Bible frontward and backwards.

I really know very little about my grandmother except she was a great lady and had to be married to that stinker, James Green. My Aunt Myrtle (Green) Wise was married to Ed Wise and they lived on a farm outside of Clever. I loved that farm.

Their children were; (1) Edna Wise, (2) Howard Wise, a professional cook. (3) Kurt Wise, a bus driver in Muskogee, Oklahoma. He had two daughters; Sheila Jo Singler and Sharon Thompson of Muskogee, Oklahoma. (4) and Lloyd Wise, I do not remember his occupation.

Alpha Irene (Green) Fuller, who was divorced from Lee Fuller and they had no children, I believe they had the largest Cafeteria in St Louis, Mo., at one time. After they divorced she had a little grocery store in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Alpha’s birth date was February 23, 1898, and her death date was August 27, 1982. She died in Galena, Kansas and is buried at Galena, Kansas.

Raymond Lloyd was born March 20, 1913. He was the baby and his wife was Lola and they spent most of their lives living with Alpha. Raymond had some kind of spinal disorder and walked way bowed over and had to use crutches. He and Lola helped my Aunt Alpha in her grocery store and they later moved to Galena, Kansas. They all three died there and were buried in Galena, Kansas, in the Oak Hill Cemetery.

Anna (Green) Moody Jacobson Abernathy lived most of her life in Muskogee. She worked for a large grocery store, I believe it to be Wolf’s. She was married to Garland Moody. They had two children; (1) Jo Ann (Moody) Tomilson (2) and Richard “Ducky” Moody.  Jo Ann was living in Houston and could possibly still live here, and I do not know the whereabouts of “Ducky” since they were older than me. Anna later married Jacobson, after he died she married an Abernathy. I do not know the date of her death but it was probably in the 1980’s.

James Leslie Green born in Christian County, MO. was married to Ruth who should be given saint-hood. She was the most wonderful person you would ever want to meet.

Jim Green owned a grocery store and several rent houses in Muskogee, Oklahoma. They had two children; Wayne and Maxine Green. Wayne was what I would now call a cerebral palsey baby and I mean Ruth and Jim were the most wonderful parents to Wayne. He died at age thirty-six and he is buried with his mom and dad in Muskogee, Oklahoma. He never could speak, but you knew what he wanted and he was loved by all. His sister; Maxine married my first boy friend. I was five years old and I thought Leon Raney hung the moon and as I got older I realized what a special man he was. He also helped take care of Wayne. He’d carry him to the car or sit him in a glider swing, my grandfather, James Columbus Green had made for him and help with any care he needed as well as his sister. Maxine went to nursing school and Leon worked at Corning Ware in Muskogee, Oklahoma. They have two children; Donna and Jimmy, both living in Oklahoma.

James Leslie Green and all of the Green kids could make music on any instrument they picked up. No one could play, “ The twelve street rag” like Uncle Jim.

Hattie (Green) Stanberry, I met her once, but I know she had two sons, Lorenzo and Leonard. They are no longer living.

Chloe (Green) Wicker, she was married to Lonnie Wicker and they lived in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Lonnie died at a young age, from a congenial heart problem. They had two children who Cloe raised by herself. June Ann and Lonnie “Boscoe” Wicker, Jr. June Ann died in her twentys’ from a heart defect also. She was married and had two sons. Lonnie “Boscoe”Wicker, Jr. was married and divorced and has a daughter named Kellie Wicker. Boscoe lives in Nevada and Kellie lives in Washington State.

Then there is Jewell Mandy (Green) Malin, (my mom) who was married to Fred Malin Sr. My dad retired from the Navy, Railroad and tinkered with everything until he died. My mom worked for the Telephone Co., Railroad, and worked for the Church Nursery for 11 years. My dad died from heart and lung disease, but mainly from a broken heart when my mom died due to complications from a brain cancer. They had five children; (1) Fred Malin, Jr.He married Vann Miller, and they had three sons; Darrell, Fred, and Billy Linn, both live here in Houston, and they also had a baby that died at a few hours of age, John C. Malin.

(2) Billy James Malin married Arninta Kerr and they have five children; Jean, Joe, James and Julie.  Billy served in the Navy and was a trucker and Arminta is a seamstress.

Ray, this is getting long. I’ve got to take a break, and will continur later, Nancy.

Later the same day she continued her email to me, the record of her family as she knew it.And this is what she said in that email.

August 6, 2000

Dear Ray;
I’ll tell you one of the funnies stories I heard about my grandpa Green (James Columbus Green). One night he came home and had had a drink or two and he went to shave and shaved off one side of his mustache. He had had it most of his life. I know my mom just turned over in her grave, but I think it was funny.

Did you notice how tall he was? He was almost seven feet tall. I’ll be calling my brother in a few days and try to get some stories from him. He’s a mess too so he will probably make them a little more colorful. He is real funny and has all kinds of stories.

I think I have finally gotten to the Malin kids. Jewell Mandy (Green Malin’s little darlings. There were five of us. I told yo about my brothers, so that just leaves the girls. Cloe Ann is third in line. Her name came from our Aunt Cloe and Aunt Anna. I think she finally got used to her name after she got out of school. She was church secretary and homemaker. She is married to Billy Joe (Pete) Hayes Sr., who is retired from the Post Office. They live out a little ways from Houston, and they enjoy nature, and the animals around them. They feed deer, rabbits squirrles and birds. They have a beautiful yard that they work in all the time. They have two boys, Billy Joe Hayes, Jr. Who is married to Sherri and they have two daughters; Blair, and Kelli Jo. Billy worked for Exxon, Danny Tom Hayes is married to Pam and he works for S.W. Bell Telephone Company. He has two daughters from his previous marriage and Pam has three daughters, she was widowed.

The family then blended together so well and we are all so thankful Danny and Pam found each other. With five teenage daughters he always seems to want to be at the top of the prayer list. He has for each day of the week, a wife on the weekend and his mom. He seems to feel out numbered, poor ole Danny, ha, ha, they are all very active in their churches.

Then comes Barbara Ellen (Malin) Riddle. She is a registered nurse and works for V.A. Hospital here in Houston and she is married to Alton Denton Riddle who is in the Insurance Business. They have a son, Alton Glenn Riddle who is with the Houston Police Department in the Homicide Division. Needless to say he stays busy if you read the papers. He is married to Rita and she has four daughters; Susan, Stephanie, Sarah, and Erin. Rita works for an eye doctor. Their family is a beautifully blended family also. Then there is Amanda “Mandy” Denice and she is a vet here in Houston. She is not married yet, She had several children; Shasta, a 95% wolf, Gus a Rotwielder, Jasper, some kind of a hound. Dolli, a sheltie, Hunter a yellow cat with no tail, Devil Kitty, a cat minus a back leg a rare hawk that she has permission to keep. Molly the Ferrit and a snake that went for his reward recently. Do yo think she is a animal lover?? Do you think she has trouble putting down animals, because people no longer want them? She brings them home, Glenn and Mandy are both graduates of Texas A & M. They are #1 Aggie fans.

Then here comes the tail end, MEEEE; Nancy Lou (Malin) Braly. Lou comes from my grandma Lou (Estes) Green. I live here in Houston, and I graduated from Memorial Hospital School of Xray Technology. And then went to E.M.T. school. My great love is emergency medicine, I did the emergency medicine and orthopedic medicine. I had to retire because of health problems. I have had seven back surgeries and four total joint replacements and I need more.

I’m married to  Robert D. “Bobby” Braly and hs is a retired structural Steel building Builder.  He has been almost a full time nurse since we married spending months at a time at the hospital taking care of me, he’s a winner!! We have been married nine years. I was divorced and had two adopted daughters. Lori Michelle Mixon is a housewife and her husband drives a truck. She has three beautiful boys, Travis, Timmy Lynn, and Justin. Staci Lynn Polk is married to Darius Daryl Polk and they have two beautiful daughters. Brittnay, who is seven and Kaci Nicole, who is almost two. Staci works for the Vice President of the Houston Astros Pro. Baseball team and her husband has his own barber shop. I am not able to be very active so I spend most of my time playing on the computor. You’d think I’d know more about it, but I don’t.

Well, Ray, I guess I’ve brought you up to date on the Green side of the family and if I can come upwith more I’ll get it to you. Can you send me some pictures: and tell me about yourself and your family.

As soon as I re-do my computor and get it going right I’ll get the scanner going and mail you a packet.

Thanks for all the information yu’ve shared.

By the way, mine and Bobby’s big hobby is fishing at the bay so I’ll send yu a couple of crazy fishing pictures. Keep in touch.     Your Cousin,    Nancy.

Martha Ellen Estes

Was born October 17, 1876 in Stone County, MO., and died December 23, 1943 and is buried in Green Lawn Cemetery, on North National, Avenue, in Springfield, MO., She married James F. Woods, who was born March 9, 1859 and died March 18, 1912. He is buried in the White Cemetery Stone County, MO. They were married June 25, 1896. She was his 2nd wife. He was the son of Francis and Melsina (Steele) Woods. After Francis died, Melsina married Samuel Estes.
The children of James “Jim” Woods and Martha Ellen Estes were;  (1) Audie May Woods, born May 5, 1897 and died April 9, 1976, she is buried in the Deleware Cemetery in Christian County, MO. (2) Edna Marie Woods, 1st. married Orville Thurman, 2nd. She married Clarence Stevens, who was killed in World War 2, in 1944. (3) Lois Woods was born November 15, 1903. She married Russell Evans. (4) Stella Woods married Jim Epperson, (5) Vesta L. Woods was born in 1899 and died February 14, 1900, and was buried in the White Cemetery in Stone County. Jim Woods died March 18, 1912 later Martha Ellen (Estes) Woods married Duncan Bracken, They had no children.

Audie May Woods married a Meritt, and had two daughters; (1) Hazel Meritt, who married Irving Miles, they resided just off of Hwy ZZ, three miles NE of Clever, Mo., in 1995.       (2) Charlene Meritt married Richard Arndt, who was the son of Clarence and Lyndal (Frazier) Arndt.,

 (NOTE) In “Traces of Gold” second edition; It reads, Martha Jane Estes. It should read Martha Ellen Estes. (Per—Hazel (Meritt) Miles. May 11, 1995.)

(NOTE) (I visited in the home of Hazel and Irving Miles, May 11, 1995, R.G.)

WILLIAM PATRICK CAVENER
Son of Timothy and Winnie (Gold) Cavener

William Patrick Cavener was born in 1847 near Petersburg, Linclon County, Tennessee, and died September 25, 1938 in North Hillboro, Hill County, Texas. He married Mary Francis Hurst, March 13, 1868, in Stone County, Missouri. She was the daughter of William Hurst and Nancy Hale. She was born March 12, in 1850 in Lincoln County, TN., and died October 18, 1929 in North Hillboro, Hill County, Texas.

In the census of 1860, Pearce Township of Stone County, Missouri we find her listed with her parents in house # 297, it reads; Wm. Hurst, age 60, Ky., Nancy 45, Va., Sophia, 26, TN., Jackson (laborer) 24, Tn., William 14, TN., Frances 11, TN., Jordan 9, Tn., Rufus 6, MO. Wm. Hurst was a blacksmith. He brought his family to Missouri between 1851 and 1854.

William Patrick and Mary Francis (Hurst) Cavener left Stone County, Missouri in 1872 and traveled through Indian Territory (Oklahoma) and stopped in Grayson County, near Sherman, Texas. They later moved to Oceola, Texas and built a two story house there in 1898. The house burned in 1945 and John was killed in that fire.

The children of William Patrick and Mary Francis (Hurst) Cavener were;

(1) Veronica Nancy Meade, Cavener, was born April 22, 1869 in Stone County, MO., and died March 29, 1949, she is buried in the Headrick Cemetery, Jackson, Oklahoma. She married Edward Clinkscales, He also died at Headrick Cemetery, Jackson, Oklahoma.

(2) Ida Dell Cavener was born July 10, 1870, in Stone County, MO. and died March 29, 1949 in Jackson, Oklahoma, she married Jeter Asbury Booker, January 1, 1888, in Stone/Christian County, Missouri. She died May 21,1965, Altus, Jackson County, Oklahoma.
(3) Charles McClure Cavener, born December 1, 1871 in Stone County, MO., and died August 14, 1954, Hill County, TX. He married Anna Acton, January 15, 1927, Hill County, TX.  She was born June 3, 1883, died June 20, 1951.

(4) Edwin Cavner, was born March 23, 1873, Sherman, Grayson County, TX. He died October 29, 1969, Victorville, San Bernardino County, California. He married Lula Hilton, December 24, 1900, His second marriage was to Etta Mae Francisco. December 2, 1901, in Hill County Texas. She was born September 24, 1878 in Snowflake, Scott County, Va. And died March 23, 1942 in Amarilo, Potter County, Texas, with tuberculosis. Their children; (1) Ola Cavener, born September 21, 1902 in Hill County, Texas. (2) Irene Cavener, born January 11, 1905.

(3) Joe Cavener was born January 5, 1907, Hill County, Texas. (4) James Keitt Cavener born March 5, 1912 Jackson County, Oklahoma. Died November 19,1998, Victorville, San Bernardino, Co. Calif. He was the son of Ed Cavener and Etta May Francisco, Ed was the son of Wm. Patrick and Mary Hurst Cavener, grand son of Timothy and Winnie Gold Cavener and great grandson of Patrick and Keziah (Tucker) Cavener. His funeral was held Monday, November 23, 1998 at 10:00 a.m. at East Lawn Sierre Hills Mortuary in Sacramento, California., He married Christine Wilkins, December 28, 1941 at Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Loving father of Carolyn Webb and her husband David Webb. Devoted grandfather of Scott & Susanne Webb. Loving brother of Ola Nickerson, of Rancho Mirage, California, and James Cavener of Pheonix, Arizona. A resident of El Paso, Texas for 22 years and also live in Indio, California for 15 years and Citrus Heights, California for 15 years. A member of the Roseville Church of Christ, aged 91 years. Friends are welcome to attend Funeral Service on Monday, November 23, 1998 at 10:00 a.m. at East Lawn Sierra, Hills Memorial Park, Officiating Pastor Dan McQuiddy and Pastor Elmer Prout, Honorary, Pallbearers, Clyde Clark and Frances Clark. Pallbearers; David Webb, Frank Justice, Dick Covert, Scott Webb, Susannne Webb, Shannon Davis, Internment ----East Lawn Sierra, Hills.

Child of Joe Cavener and Christine Wilkins was Carolyn Jo Cavener, born April 13, 1945 in Shirley, Massachusetts. Carolyn Jo married David Jefferson Webb, February 25, 1967, in El Paso, Texas. He was born November 10, 1936 in Texas. Their children were; Scott David Webb, born January 3, 1969 in Roseville, California.  And Suzanne Lynn Webb, born October 14, 1971, in Roseville, California.

Frances Arlene Cavener, daughter of Edwin Cavener, born March 5, 1912 Jackson County, Oklahoma, and died December 26, 1988 in a Automobile accident, in Victorville, San Bernardino, Co. California. She married Jimmie Wesley Reed November 1, 1932 in Duncan, Stephens Co., Oklahoma. He was born August 23, 1914 in Marlow, East of Stephens, Co., Oklahoma and died November 17, 1972 of lung cancer, in Victorville, San Bernardino, Co. Calif. Their children were; Joan Reed, born November 1, 1934, Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma. She married Franklin Elex Justice, January 23, 1953. He was born November 1931 in Chipley, Washington County, Florida. Their children were; Charles Franklin Justice born November 12, 1954 in San Bernardino, California. And Sheryl Ann Justice, born September 27, 1956 Loma Linda, San Bernardino County, California.

Billy Wesley Reed, was born April 9, 1939, in Oklahoma, He married (1) Mary Virginia Little, November 2, 1956 in San Bernardino, California. She was born July 20, 1938. They had Donald Wesley Reed, born March 20, 1962.

Tribby Nickerson, daughter of Ola Cavener was born July 30, 1922 and died in 1988. She was the mother of Wendy Nickerson.

Jeffrey Stevens Foster, son of Linda Rose Cavener, was born March 6, 1962 in Tuson, Pima Co. Arizona He married Joanne J. Jividin, December 20, 1986 in Stone Mountain, Georgia. She was born April 1, 1962 in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Their children were; (1) Jane Elizabeth Foster, born April 4, 1989. Dekalb Co. Georgia.  (2) Jillian Elise Foster born April 9, 1991, Tucker, Dekalb Co. Georgia. (3) Jessica Emily Foster was born April 9, 1991, Tucker, Dekalb Co. Georgia.  (4) Jamie Ellyn Foster, born April 2, 1993, at Tucker, Dekalb, County, Georgia.
 

Dena Linette Foster, was born December 31, 1963 in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia. She married Wayne Bennett Williams, August 31, 1985 in Lilburn, Gwinnett County, Georgia. He was born August 4, 1953 in Farmington, Massachusetts.  Their children were; Bruce Williams, born October 7, 1990 at Lawrenceville, Gwinnett, Co. Georgia. And Devan Wayne Williams born February 19, 1996 at Snellville, Gwinnet, County, Georgia.

Todd Allen Cavener, son of James Paul, grand-son of James Keitt Cavener, was born April 4, 1968, He married Kelly Ann Wilson, May 26, 1990 in Scottsdale, Arizona. She was born September 5, 1968, in Bayshore, New York, They had Casey Nicole Cavener.
Charles Allen Cavener, was born September 20, 1971, in New Orleans, LA. He married Bobbie Jo Drake, August 20, 1994. She was born June 7, 1974 in Philadelphia, PA. Their children; Kaitlin Leigh Cavener, born December 18, 1993, Phoenix, Arizona. And Charles Lewis Cavener, born October 15, 1994. Champaign, Illinois.

Charles Franklin Justice was born November 12, 1954 in San Bernardino, California. He married (1) Anna Marie Paholsky January 17, 1975, in Victorville, California.  He married Pamela Ann Kerns Shaughnessy, April 28, 1990, in Las Vegas, NE. She was born Nov., 21, 1959. They were the parents of Jamie Lynn Justice, born October 4, 1975. Married Damon Virgil Thompson, July 19, 1997, Victorville, California. And Melissa Ann Justice, born October 18 1978, Riverside, California. Child of Charles Justice and Pamela Shaughnessy is; Ryan Shaughnesssy, born May 28, 1986, (stepchild)

Sheryl Ann Justice, daughter of Joan and James Clester are; (1) Michael James Clester Justice, born April 2, 1977, Loma Linda, San Bernardino, California. And Infant Girl Clester, born and died May 24, 1978.

Donald Wesley Reed was born March 20, 1962 in Loma Linda, California. He married Michelle Leis, November 6, 1982, in Victoria, California. Their children were; Stephanie Sue Reed, born July 20, 1986 and Aaron Wesley Reed, March 27, 1990, Apple Valley, San Bernardino. California.

(4) James Keitt Cavener, born January 18, 1910, in Jackson County, Oklahoma.

(5) John Steele Cavener, born July 14, 1876 and died March 29, 1945, in a house fire near Hillsboro, Texas.

(6) Sally Cavener, born December 23, 1877, Hill County, TX., died November 13, 1904, Hill County, Texas. Buried at Prairie Dale Cemetery, Hill Co. Texas. She married Owen Putnam. Their child; Dudley G. Putnam was born August 14, 1902. He married Willie Mae Unknown. Their child was Owen Putnam, and James Kenneth Putnam, born February 11, 1933.

(7) Ola Cavener, born March 17, 1880, Hill County, TX., died September 22, 1902, Hillsboro, Hill County, Texas. She never married.

(8) Medius Barkley Cavener, born May 3, 1882, Hillsboro, Hill County, Texas, died August 31, 1936. He married May Mansell February, 1911. Their children; Elton Cavener, Girl Cavener, Oral H. Cavener, born February 4, 1914. And Jesse Leon Cavener, born April 3, 1919.

(9) Lena May Cavener, born February 16, 1884, Hillsboro Hill County, TX., died November 27, 1937, Eldorado, Butler County, Oklahoma. She married George Wagner, December 19, 1908 in Snyder, Kowa, County, Kansas. (1) Mildred Keitt Wagner, born November 18, 1908, Oklahoma City, married Emmitt Sauders, July 27, 1929. (2) John George Wagner born September 6, 1911, Rossville, KS. and married Ruth Snyder. (3) Mary M. Wagner born February 11, 1914, Rossville, Kansas. She married Harold Hedrick., August 11, 1930. (4) Maxine L. Wagner, born December 21, 1915.  (5) Maurine P. Wagner, born October 9, 1918, She married Floyd Hellickson, September 15, 1945. (6) James C. Wagner, born September 15, 1921, he married Nameije Altiene, September 14, 1963. (7) Magdean Wagner, born November 25, 1922, she married Herbert J. Kasten, August 29, 1948

(10) Keitt Garland Cavener, born August 25, 1886, Hillsboro, Hill County, Texas. Died October 28, 1937, Hillsboro, Hill County, Texas, married Oran Swafford, born February 12, 1878, died November 7, 1965.

(11) Leslie Harrison Cavener born January 16, 1893, Hill County, Texas, died April 4, 1893, Hillsboro, Hill County, Texas.

NANCY MEADE VERNICIA CAVENER

Nancy Meade Veronica Cavener was born April 22, 1869 in Christian County, Missouri, and died March 20, 1949 in Frionia, Parmer County, Texas. She married Edward Clinkscales. He died in Headrick, Oklahoma.  Their children were; (1) Hodge Clinkscales, (2) Ulman Clinkscales. (3) Ima Clinkscales, (4) Luster Clinkscales, died in Huntsville, Texas. (5) Willie Lea Clinkscales, born September 19, 1892, and died February 3, 1967, Friona, Parmer, Texas. She married James Rice Southward. He was born December 7, 1879 and died July 4, 1967, Friona, Parmer County, Texas. Their children were; (1) John Orville Southward, born May 8, 1910. He married Lula Jane Fancher, October 14, 1939, she was born January 5, 1910, and died September 2, 1962.

(2) Ruby Faye Southward, born January 22, 1912

(3) Mildred Boyce Southward, born November 24, 1913, died December 12, 1985, she married Wayne Bernard Mitchell, February 18, 1933. He was born August 24, 1912. Mildred
Boyce Southward died of colon cancer.

(4) Ola May Dell Southward, born June 12, 1915, she married Ray Hope, June 1, 1940.

(5) William James Southward, born January 22, 1918, He married Margie Ann Bracken, she was born August 26, 1918.

(6) Melvin Rice Southward, born December 26, 1919, he married Billie Louise Johnson, October 8, 1966, she died July 19, 1969.

(7) Marvis Franklin Southward, born December 15, 1921, he married Mary Teer, born February 13, 1921.

(8) Kenneth Southward, born March 7, 1927, died March 7, 1927.

(9) Harold Dead Southward, born June 22, 1930. He married Janet Dorsh June 3, 1954.

IDA DELL CAVENER

Ida Dell Cavener was born July 10, 1870 in Christian County, Missouri, and died May 21, 1965 in Altus, Jackson County, Oklahoma. She married Jeter Asbury Booker, January 1, 1888 in Hillsboro, Hill County, Texas. He was born June 19, 1865 in Illinois, and died April 17, 1924, in Jackson County, Oklahoma.   Their children were; (1) Charles Bluford Booker, born November 25, 1888, Hillsboro, Hill County, Texas, and died January 24, 1955, Headrick, Jackson County, Oklahoma. He married Gladys Cassidy, November 20, 1907, in Headrick, Jackson County, Oklahoma. They were the parents of (1) unknown Booker, (2) Cecil Booker.

(2)William Roscoe Booker, was born July 10, 1870 in Christian County, Missouri, and died January 24, 1955, Headrick, Jackson County, Oklahoma.

(3) Clyde Gertrude Booker, born October 22, 1892, north of Hillsboro, Hill County, Texas, and died March 12, 1984, Fariview, Major County, Oklahoma, married Edgar Plew, December 16, 1913, Headrick, Jackson County, Oklahoma.
(4)  Wesley Virgil Booker, born November 13, 1894, North of Hillsboro, Hill County, Texas. Died May 19, 1975, North of Headreick, Jackson County, Oklahoma, he married Nora VanCleave, September 15, 1916, Altus, Jackson County, Oklahoma.

(5) Sofia Jewell Booker, born August 20, 1896, died June 28, 1897.

(6) Doshia Elsie Booker, born June 5, 1898, Oklahoma Territory, died November 5, 1982, married Mavin Irby Edwards, December 23, 1920.

(7) Bula Mae Booker, born September 7, 1900, Oklahoma Territory, Jackson County, Okla. Died May 10, 1989, Denton, Denton County, Texas. She married Thomas Lewis Bessire, November 29, 1922, in Estelline, Hall County, Texas. They were the parents of June Elizabeth Bessire, born August 18, 1925, Jackson County, Okla. She married Lee Girard Knox, Nov. 29, 1946.  In Stillwater, Oklahoma, He was born July 4, 1922, Hall County, Texas.

(8) Zula Cleo Booker, born July 1, 1902, Headrick, Jackson County, Oklahoma, and died September 30, 1907 Jackson County, Oklahoma.

(9) Chatty Zoe Booker, born February 22, 1905, Jackson County, Oklahoma, and died December 31, 1988, Hunt County, Texas, married William Mayo Turner, October 29, 1923. Ft Worth, Tarrant County, Texas.

(10) Blanche Marie Booker born February 11, 1908, Headrick, Oklahoma. Died June 11, 1994, Bethany, Oklahoma, married Charles C. Kelley, July 2, 1929 Lawton, Commanche, County, Oklahoma.

(11) Lee Cruce Booker, Born May 24, 1910, Jackson Co. Oklahoma, and died March 9, 1990, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas.

(12) Ralph Odel Booker, born April 4, 1913, Jackson County, Oklahoma, and married Hazel Van Cleave, September 18, 1937, Altus, Jackson County, Oklahoma,

(13) Melba Inehl Booker, born October 18, 1917, Headrick, Jackson County, Oklahoma. Died January 30, 1980, Redondo Beach, Los Angeles County, California.  First she married Floyd Dishman. Second she married Paul Neill. Third she marrried Robert Eugene Hagen, January 1, 1964. Her child by Floyd Dishman was Wanda Marie Dishman, who married Billy Petree, Sr.  Her child by Paul Neill Sr., was Patrick Neill.

Charles McLure Cavener was born December 1, 1871 in Stone County, MO. and died August 14, 1954 in Hill County, Texas. He married Anna Acton, January 15, 1927 in Hill Co., Texas. She was born June 3, 1883, and died June 20, 1951.

MARTHA F. CAVENER

Martha F. Cavener was born February 19, 1848 in Lincoln County, Tennessee and died February 16, 1914 in Greene County, Missouri. She married John Calvin Hagewood, November 6, 1866 in Greene County, Missouri. He was born July 25, 1842, and died February 16, 1890, in Greene County, Missouri.

Martha F. Cavener was on the Wagon Train that came to Christian County, MO., in 1852. Martha F. and John Calvin Hagewood were the parents of eight children; (1) Gillie Hagewood, born in 1868. Marion Hagewood, born in 1871. (3) John T. Hagewood, born in 1875, and died January 9, 1939 of T.B.(4) William Hagewood, born in 1878. (5) Lucy Hagewood, born in 1881. (6) Emma Hagewood, born in 1883. (7) Emmitt Hagewood, born in 1885. (8) Delia Hagewood, born in 1888.

In the 1880 census of Greene County, MO., Pond Creek Township, House # 132, it shows as follows; Thomas Hagewood, 32, Jane 33, John C., 16, Marion 15, Mary A. 13, Sarah Rebecca, 11, Nancy E., 9, Matilda F., 7, William M., 5, James W., 2, and Marcelius 1/12. This is the family the parents of John C. and Sarah Rebecca Hagewood.

A daughter of Gillie Hagewood lived in Billings, Missouri at this date October 21, 1986. Her name is Maud. She married Bert Robertson. Marion Hagewood married a Sparks, and they had seven children; Earl, Alvie, Roscoe, Pearlie, Boyd, Daisy Mae, and Carlos Hagewood.

Boyd Hagewood married Stella Groesbeck she was born May 7, 1915 and died July 24, 1997, in Cox Medical Center in Springfield, MO., Boyd died in 1992. They are buried in the National Cemetery in Springfield, MO.

Daisy Mae Hagewood married Howard Batson, they lived about three miles north of Billings, MO. and had two children; Margaret Louise, born in 1929, and Wayne Batson, born in 1934, Daisy Mae died July 23, 1997. Howard Batson died in 1995.

John Thomas Hagewood was born in 1875. He married Martha “Maggie” Ada McDaniel, who was a twin sister to Ava A. McDaniel who married Charles Elmer Garoutte. His mother was Sarah Cathelene (Cavener) Garoutte, and sister to Martha F. (Cavener) Hagewood. They were daughters of Timothy and Winnie (Gold) Cavener.

The children of Martha A., and John T. Hagewood, were; Burl, Ocie, Emmitt, (Toad) Pauline, who married Gerald Bowling, she died in 1984. And Ann who married John Lee, Mae who married a Tinsley and Marie who married a Wade. She was born October 4, 1909 and died July 16, 1999, Republic, MO., buried in Blades Chapel, Cemetery.

Marie (Hagewood) Wade, 89, Republic, Mo., died at 6:15 a.m. Friday July 16, 1999 in her home. Marie was born October 4, 1909, in Republic, to John and Ada (McDaniel) Hagewood, She was married to Jim Wade, April 28, 1918. He preceded her in death in 1973.

A lifetime resident of the Republic area, she was of the Protestant faith. A homemaker, she was an excellent cook, and quilter. Her grandchildren, great grandchildren and gr.-gr.-grand children were her pride and joy.
Marie is survived by a daughter and her husband, Margaret and Rex Pittman, Billings, a brother and his wife, Ocie and Gladys Hagewood, Republic, a sister and her husband, Anna and John Lee, Crane, four grandchildren, nine gr.-grandchildren and a gr.-gr.-grandchild, nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Sunday July 18, 1999 in Meadors Funeral Home, Republic, with burial in Wade Chapel Cemetery.
Visitation will be from 7 to 8 p.m. today in the funeral home.

Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of SouthWest Missouri.

In the Lindsey Cemetery near Republic are the following graves: John C. Hagewood, born July 25, 1842 and died February 16, 1890. Martha F. Hagewood, born February 19, 1848 and died February 16, 1914 William Hagewood, born February 1, 1879 and died March 22, 1902. Lucy Hagewood Estes, (wife of Lige Estes) born April 12, 1881 and died March 9, 1904. Emma Hagewood born March 18, 1883 and died April 19, 1905. Della Hagewood born January 5, 1888 and died September 7, 1912. All five of these children died before any of them reached the age of 25.

Burl Hagewood told me the reason the five children of John C. and Martha F. Hagewood, died young, was they used water from a shallow dug well that was located near a ditch and could have gotten some drainage from their barn. He said it was their only source of water. They called it T.B. . They owned the land on which the Blades Cemetery is located, and the building sight can be seen from the cemetery. Burl Hagewood died November 17, 1989 of a apparent heart attack while driving his tractor on Greene County, Farm Road 65-5 north of Billings. He is buried in the Mars Hill Cemetery near Crane, in Stone County, Missouri.

John Calvin Hagewood died February 16, 1890. In that same year of 1890, Martha F. Hagewood is listed in a special federal census as the widow of John C.  Hagewood of the 46th Missouri Infantry, she still resided in the Pond Creek Township.

Joining the home place of John C. and Martha F. Hagewood on the north side of the cemetery, and on the south side of Highway 74 and on the west side of where Burl Hagewood made his home is where Columbus Garoutte and Sarah Cathelene (Cavener) Garoutte lived when their house blew away December 4, 1880, injuring Grandma Winnie (Gold) Cavener and crippling her for life. Burl went with his parents to visit “Booty” John and Amanda Jane (Cavener) Estes, and says he remembers seeing Grandma Winnie Cavener. He said she was a real tall and slender woman. He said the Estes family lived west of Union City, MO. in Stone County, MO. Burl also said he went with his parents to visit his Uncle William Patrick Cavener in Texas when he was just a small boy.

The Blades Chapel Methodist Church is located near the Blades Cemetery. Several of our people attended church there including the families of John Calvin and Martha F. Hagewood, Columbus “Lum” and Sarah Cathleen (Cavener) Garoutte, and Winnie (Gold) Cavener. When Uncle Tommy and Uncle Billie retired they both moved to Billings. Both of their 2nd wives were Methodist. Uncle Billie married Elizabeth Jane Gibson in 1878, after Mary Jane (Cavener) Gold had died in 1877 and Uncle Tommy married Catherine Wright.

Elizabeth Jane (Gipson) Gold had a daughter; Louisa Gibson, who married Thomas Blackstone Blades. Both Elizabeth Jane and her daughter, Louisa, are buried in the Blades Cemetery. They all attended church at the Blades Methodist Church.

Uncle Billie may have adopted Louisa, at least she was referred to as Louisa Gold.

Emmitt  “Toad” Hagewood was born March 12, 1908 and died September 1, 1935 in a car wreck. He is buried in Lindsey Cemetery.
The census records of 1900 for Pond Creek, Township of Greene County, MO. Shows, Martha Hagewood, born February 1849, wd., Marion L. 29, Son, November 1879. John T. 24, Son 1875, William, 21, Son February 1879. Sarah L., 19 daughter April 1881. Emmitt, son 14, July 1, 1885, Cordelia, 12, daughter January, 1888. (Died September 7, 1912)

HENRY CLAY CAVENER

Henry Clay Cavener was born July 1, 1849 in Lincoln County, Tennessee, and died September 10, 1932 in Greene County, MO., and buried in Lindsey Cemetery. He married Sarah Rebecca Hagewood, March 28, 1870. She was born in 1848 and died in 1928.

Henry Clay Cavener was  eight months old when he came from Tennessee on the Johnathan Gold Wagon Train that left Gold Hill in Lincoln County, TN., on March 20, 1852 and settle in Green Valley near Boaz in Porter Township, Christian County, Missouri. He grew up near Boaz, and after his father, Timothy Cavener, died in 1864, at Little Rock, Arkansas, during the Civil War. He stayed with his mother until March 28, 1870 when he was married to Sarah Rebecca Hagewood, (by T.S. Barnett, M.G.) who was a sister to John Calvin Hagewood, who married Margaret F. Cavener. Their children were double cousins. They are both buried in Lindsey Cemetery. In the census of 1880 we find this; Henry Clay Cavener 29, Tn. Va. TN., Sarah R. 32, MO., TN., TN., William B. 9, MO., Virginia E. 6, MO., Laura L. 2, MO., Cisy, Cavener, GMO 73, Va. Va, Va.Timothy 1, MO. TN.MO. The Cisy, Cavener is the same person shown in the 1850 census of Marshall County, TN., in the home of Thomas and Mary Jane (Cavener) Gold. Cisy, Keziah was the mother of both Timothy Cavener and Mary Jane (Cavener) Gold.   The Marshall County, TN. Census shows; Thomas Gold, 32, Mary Jane, 22, Margaret Jane, 3, James T., 2, and Keziah Cavener 50. She may be buried in the Lindsey Cemetery near Republic, MO.

In the Lindsey Cemetery are the following tombstones: Henry C. Cavener 1849-1932. Sarah R. Cavener, 1848-1928. Thomas (Timothy) Cavener, son of H.C. and S.R. Cavener, 1878-1882. Emmett Cavener, July 23, 1883, August 1883. Lola (Riley) Cavener, 1st wife of Frank Cavener is also buried there. January 13, 1884, August 15, 1915. In Evergreen Cemetery at Republic we find; Frank Cavener, 1893-1948, and Bessie Cavener (same stone) 1898-1982.

Funeral Home Records of Republic, MO., show; Henry Clay Cavener, born in Lincoln County, TN. July 1, 1851 and died September 10, 1932, near Republic, and buried in Lindsey Cemetery.

Frank Cavener was the son of Virginia Elizabeth Cavener, (daughter of H.C. and S.R. Hagewood) . Burl said they called Sarah Cavener, “Aunt Beck”.

Henry Clay and Sarah Rebecca lived just south of the Lindsey Cemetery. You can stand in the cemetery (1993) and see the old barn still standing, about one-quarter mile away.

William Benton Cavener was the son of Henry Clay and Sarah Rebecca (Hagewood) Cavener. He was born February 28, 1871 in Republic, Greene County, Missouri and died February 14, 1940 at Bradleyville, Taney County, MO. He married Nancy Ann Martin. Their children were; (1) Henry Everett Cavener, born October 29, 1904 at Good Hope, Polk County, Mo., He died February 19, 1974, at Bradleyville, Taney County, MO., and buried in the Paterson Cemetery.  He married Della Mabel Brumfield, she resides near Bradleyville, Taney County, MO.  (Feb. 2001) (2) Cora Ellen Cavener and (3) Sarah Jane Cavener.

The children of Henry Everett and Della Mabel Cavener were; (1) Gordon Leroy Cavener, born June 29, 1931, at Bradleyville, Taney County, MO. He married Mildred Marie Addington, February 9, 1952 in Harrison, Arkansas. Their Children were; Wanda Yvonne Cavener, born March 29, 1952,  Donnetta Kay Cavener, born August 26, 1956, Infant, Patterson Cemetery, Taney County, Missouri., and Randy Leroy Cavener, born November 14, 1955, infant, Patterson Cemetery.

Treva Yvonne Cavener was a daughter of Henry Everett and Della Mable (Brumfield) Cavener, she was born November 30, 1934 at Bradleyville, MO. She married Verlin James Graham April 16, 1951 in Harrison, Arkansas. Their children were; (1) James Glenn Graham, born May 30, 1953. (2) Gayle Lynn Graham, born October 14, 1954, San Antonio, Texas. (3) Lynda Marie Graham, Born November 20, 1955, San Antonio, Texas, she married David Lee Karr, November 30, 1973, at Cameron, Missouri. (4) Cynthia Joanne Graham was born April 6, 1960, at Kirksville, Missouri. Gayle Lynn Graham married Henry Allen King, May 24, 1974, in Cameron, Missouri. Gayle Lynn Graham graduated from the Cameron High School in 1972. Their children were; (1) Patrice Coray King, born March 2, 1976, St. Joseph, MO. (2) Henry Allen King, born May 19, 1978, Brookfiled, Mo. married Jennifer, May 24, 1997 Bevier, Missouri.

Cynthia Joanne Graham was born April 6, 1960 in Kirksville, MO. She married Marty Bowers, March 10, 1979, in St. Joseph, MO. They had one child; James Cody Graham, born September 23, 1979, in St. Joseph, MO. Cynthia Joanne Graham graduated from Savannah High  School, in 1978, Savannah, Missouri.

Second she married Darrel Marvin Hanson October, 13, 1972, in Kansas City, MO. Darrel Marvin Hanson was the son of Ralph Hanson and Mary Thompson.  Education: September 1956 entered St. Joseph Jr. College to pursue a course in Pharmacy, One year later, transferred to Kansas City, University, School of Pharmacy, graduating in June of 1960. Passed Missouri Board of Pharmacy and licensed in October, 1960. Graduation; 1951, Central High School, St. Joseph, MO. Military Service, March 5, 1952, Enlisted in United States Air Force, served on active duty until March 1956. Honorable Discharge from USAF on Feb. 29, 1960 Korean Veteran. Retirement; June 30, 1994. Retired from Missouri State employment, at Missouri, Rehabilitation Center Mt. Vernon, MO. Also had seven and a half years service at St. Joseph State Hospital, St. Joseph, MO. before coming to Mt. Vernon, MO.  Etta B. Cavener daughter of H.C. and S.R. Cavener was born July 25, 1887, She married Walter Duncan Mooneyham. They had a daughter; Opal Marie Mooneyham, buried at Lindsey Cemetery.

GEORGE  WASHINGTON CAVENER

George Washington Cavener, was the son of Timothy and Winnie (Gold) Cavener. He was born  September 5, 1853 near Boaz, in Porter Township, Christian County, Missouri. He died October 22, 1927, one mile south and two miles east of Union City, in Stone County, Missouri. On November 15, 1877 he married Mary Elizabeth Holder, by R.S. Holderby, M.G.She was born August 17, 1858 in Christian County, MO. and died September 27, 1899 in Christian County, MO. They are both buried in the Frazier Cemetery near Boaz in Christian County. Their children were; (1) Timothy Elcana Cavener, (2) William Andrew Cavener. (3) Martha F. Cavener. (4) Stella Beatrice Cavener. (5) James Arthur (Fred) Cavener (6) Shackey Cavener. (7) and Francis Susan Cavener.

Mary E. Holder was the daughter of Elcana (L.C.) Holder and grand-daughter of John and Elizabeth Ann (Smallwood) Holder, Elcana Holder was born October 1, 1827 in Bedford County, TN., and died September 16, 1912, in Christian County, Missouri. Elcana Holder married Winfred (Winney) Ledbetter, August 15, 1844 in Marshall County, TN. She was born September 9, 1836 in Bedford County, Tn., and died September 21, 1864. They are both buried in the Wise Hill Cemetery north of Clever, in Christian County, MO.

The children of Elcana and Winney (Ledbetter) Holder were; (1) William “Handy” Holder, born December 15, 1854 in Bedford County, Tn., and died September 25, 1929. He married Minerva Jane McBride, they are both buried in Frazier Cemetery, near Boaz, MO. (2) Mary Elizabeth, born August 17, 1858 and died September 27, 1899. On November 15, 1877 she married George Washington Cavener. They are both buried in Frazier Cemetery. (3) Francis Jane Holder, born May 10, 1861 near Boaz, and died April 28, 1948 in Springfield, MO. She married Joshua “Josh” Pearce and they are both buried in Frazier Cemetery (4) John M. Holder, born and died September 20, 1864, and buried in Christian County, MO. (5) Andy J. Holder married Susan Frazier, they went to California and both died there. Susan Frazier was a sister to her six year old brother who was choked on a grain of corn, and was the first to be buried in the Frazier Cemetery, They father donated the land for the cemetery. There is a stone in the cemetery which states that he was the first to be buried in that cemetery, his name and dates are on the stone.

Timothy Elcana Cavener was the oldest child of George W. and Mary Elizabeth (Holder) Cavener. He was born November 17, 1878 and died August 8, 1944. ON July 15, 1900 he married Nancy Elizabeth Sissel in Stone County, MO., She was born October 2, 1872 near Boaz, and died October 9, 1951. They are both buried in Frazier Cemetery. They were the parents of five children; (1) George Elza Cavener, born April 19, 1901 and died February 4, 1984, buried in Frazier Cemetery. (2) William Warren Cavener, born September 17, 1905 and died August 27, 1995, buried Frazier Cemetery.  (3) Elsie Cavener, born in 1904. (4) Henry Cavener, born July 16, 1906, he resides near Rogersville, MO., (Nov. 1996)  (5) Ethel Cavener, she married a Weeks and had at least two sons and one daughter. Joe Weeks of Kansas City, MO. and Charles Weeks, of Chatam, Mass. Charles was visited me two different years when he came to Missouri, on his vacation and family research. He was a good researcher, we should always be grateful to him for his contribution to our family records. He was doing research in the State of New York, and found the record that told us who Keziah Cavener’ maiden name was and that she married Patrick Cavener. He found several other records about the Tucker family, including the Tucker family Bible records. It shows her parents to be Benjamin and Jane (Jency) Spinner, and her parents names. Along with Court Depositions that verified that part of the family records.

I visited with Henry Cavener who lives near Rogersville, MO. He said he was born in Stone County, MO. and that they went to Possum Trot to school (Fair View). They all walked from what he thought was about a mile south of there to where they lived and that where they lived was about two miles east of Little Racket Church (Cross Roads Church) one mile south of Union City. I ask him, why did they call the church ‘Little Racket’. He said because they always had a racket going on at the church. (Note) (That was about 1910-1912). He also told me that he knew Uncle Tim (T.O.) Cavener, who lived at Union City, “

Otibuary of William Warren Cavener” William Warren Cavener, 90, Springfield, MO., died at 6:10 p.m. Sunday August 27, 1995 in Greene Haven Nursing Home.

He was born in Stone County, Missouri. He was a farmer and had worked at Gober and Mathews, Novelty Shop. He is survived by a brother, Henry Cavener of Rogersville, a sister Ethel Weeks, Lockwood, a daughter, Wanda Decker, Springfield, and Mary Carr, Jerico Springs, and two nephews, Joe Weeks of Kansas City, and Charles Weeks of Chatam Mass.

Services will be at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, August 30, 1995 in Klingner Mortuary, Burial will be in Frazier Cemetery, Boaz. Friends my call at their convenience in the funeral home.

William Andrew Cavener was the second child of George Washington Cavener and Mary Elizabeth (Holder) Cavener. He was born July 28, 1881 near Boaz, and died February 7, 1958 at Hogoton, Stevens County, Kansas. He married Flora Belle Rosner at Edward, Kansas in August of 1907.

Martha E. Cavener was the third child of George W. and Martha E. Cavener. She was born July 16, 1884 near Boaz. And died October 2, 1890, and is buried in Frazier Cemetery.

Stella Beatrice Cavener, the fourth child of George W. and Mary E. Cavener, was born March 2, 1887 near Boaz, MO. and died February 15, 1975 at Colorado Springs, Colorado, she married Walter Winter Seibert, July 31, 1907 in Stafford County, Kansas. He was born November 1, 1886 at Larned, Kansas, and died December 29, 1970 at Cannon City, Colorado. They were the parents of John Walter Seibert.

The parents of Walter Winter Seibert was Luther Brown Seibert land Mary Frances Carr. Luther Seibert was born September 9, 1859 in Clark County, Ohio, and died June 20, 1908 in Mackville, Kansas. Mary Frances Carr was born February 24, 1868 in Larned, Kansas, and died July 6, 1898 in Mackville, Kansas. They were united in marriage September 20, 1885 in Larned, Kansas.

John Walter Seibert, who was born August 19, 1920 at Hugonot, Kansas, and died in about 1998 or 1999. Married Wauneta Belle Smith, December 21, 1946 in Seattle, Washington. She was born October 21, 1922 at Byron, Washington. They reside at Iola, Kansas (date January 21,1998,) They were the parents of Kathleen Diane Seibert, and Charles Dale Seibert.

Kathleen Diane Seibert was born November 22, 1947 in Washington D.C. She married David Louis Haar, February 4, about 1968, in Lake Worth, Florida. He was born September 4, 1942 in Illinois. They had two children; Brian David Haar, born November 2, 1969, and Malinda Ann, born March 15, 1973.

Charles Dale Seibert was born September 9, 1957, he married Elizabeth Ann Wenzel at West Fork, Arkansas, March 19, 1976. They were the parents of Lee Jason Seibert, born October 7, 1981 at West Fork, Arkansas. The second wife of Charles Dale Seibert was Leann Morlan, born June 17, 1967, they were married February 2, 1987 at Iola, Kansas, and they were the parents of Johnathan James Seibert, born October 30, 1987, and Julia Marie Seibert, born May 23, 1995.

John Walter Seibert served in the U.S. Army during W.W. 2. He did lots of genealogical research and had lots of records on the Cavener family at his death in 1998.
I was acquainted with John and Waunita. At one time they owned a cabin on Table Rock Lake in Stone County, Missouri. I visited them there a couple of times. They have also visited me at my home, and we exchanged information on our Gold and Cavener family tree. I really enjoyed being with them, he was a good genealogist, and a wonderful person.

James Arthur (Fred) Cavener was the fifth child of George W. and Mary E. Cavener, was born October 13, 1889 near Boaz, in Christian County, MO., and died January 23, 1909 at Galena, Kansas, while living with Nancy Cordelia (Smith) Solomon (daughter of Sarah C. Cavener) and her son. It is not clear whether George W. Solomon, her husband; was still living with her at that time. The two boys got into an argument over a girl, and Fred was shot. Harry Holder told John Seibert that he was a small boy when it happened and his father William Handy Holder, (Uncle to Fred) was one of the persons that received the body when it was shipped back to Missouri. Because George W. Cavener (Fred’s father) was living in Stone County and did not have a telephone. The death was called a suicide. (The above information on Fred’s death was furnished by John Seibert who was a nephew of Fred Cavener). Nancy Cordelia Solomon was the daughter of Sarah Cathelene Cavener, and David Smith.Sarah C. was a sister to George W. Cavener.Nancy Cordelia, Smith married George Solomon, Sarah C. was the mother of Nancy Cordelia, Smith, Sarah C. later married Lum Garoutte of near Republic, Missouri.
Shackey Cavener was the sixth child of George W. and Mary E. Cavner. He was born March 30, 1892 and died August 16, 1892.
Frances Susan (Sis) Cavener was the seventh child of George W. and Mary E, Cavener, she was born June 30, 1894 and died September 18, 1979. She married Benjamin Harrison Cook, he was born in 1887 and died in 1960. His parents were Wm. David Cook and Maud E. Snodgrass. Their children were (1) Delmar Cook, who was born May 17, 1910 and was still living at last report. (2) Ora  Cook, born December 19, 1912, she lived at Lubbock, Texas. (3) Auda Jean Cook, born April 19, 1915. Benjamin Harrison and Frances Susan (Cavener) Cook are both buried in the Molly Wright Cemetery, in Stone County, Missouri.

Mary Elizabeth (Holder) Cavener died September 15, 1899, and was buried in the Frazier Cemetery. George Washington Cavener was buried next to her when he died October 22, 1927.

George W. Cavener of Boaz, MO., re-married on October 15, 1904 to Sarah Jane (Jackson) Points of Jamesville, Stone County, MO. by E.J. Farris J.P. She was the mother of Tom Points. Tom and his wife had two daughters and one son; Eldena Points, Wanda Lea Points, and P.K. Points. So Tom Points was a ½ brother to the children of George W. and Sarah Jane (Points) Cavener. Sarah Jane in 1879 and died 1928, she is also buried in Frazier Cemetery.

George and Sarah Jane were married in Christian County. All of their children were born in Stone County, one mile south of Possum Trot and one-fourth mile west on the south side of the road. This is where they spent their remaining days.

Their children were; (1) Rolla Cavener, born in 1905 and died in 1978. He never married, and stayed among his family and neighbors and worked for about whatever they wanted to pay him for his work, and I guess he made a pretty good hand to work on the farm. I never heard a bad word about him. He is buried in the Frazier Cemetery. (2) Burl Cavener, was born in 1909 in Stone County, Mo., and died  (February 16, 2000) He married Mary Adams, who was a daughter of Frank and Ella (Parker) Adams Granddaughter of Jasper Newton and Rachael Elizabeth (Gold) Adams. Gr-granddaughter of William C. Gold, who was a brother to Winnie Gold who married Timothy Cavener, who was the father of George W. Cavener.

The children of Burl and Mary (Adams) Cavener were; Darrell Cavener, Faye Cavener, Car Lee Cavener, and Junior Cavener. Several of these children lived in the Crane, Marionville, and Billings, Mo., area.

Wilma Faye Cavener, was born December 30, 1933, born in Greene County and raised in Hurley, Missouri. in Stone County, Missouri. She married Duane Thomas.

WILMA FAYE (CAVENER) THOMAS

Wilma Faye Thomas departed this life December 7, 1999 to be with her Lord. She was born December 30, 1933..She was the daughter of Burl and Mary (Adams) Cavener.

She attended Broadway Bible Church of God. She was a former Zenith employee for many years. She enjoyed Cardinals’ baseball and was an avid fan of the Bears and Lady Bears. She was an accomplished bowler. Her greatest joy was her family. Faye touched many lives and will be greatly missed.

She is survived by her husband of 47 years, Duane Thomas. Her daughters; Debbie Westfall, Janet Glenn, both of Springfield, her grandchildren; Heather Westfall, Harvey Westfall, and Adam Glenn, all of Springfield, and Eric Jones of Texas. Her father, Burl Cavener, Brothers; Junior Cavener and his wife, Linda, Carl Cavener and his wife, Charlotte, and Darrell and his wife, Susie, as well as numerous nieces and nephews and an abundance of friends.

Funeral services will be at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 11, 1999 in Greenlawn Funeral Home North. Burial will be in Greenlawn, Memorial Gardens.
Visitation will be from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. Friday, in the funeral home.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions maybe sent to St. John’s Hospice Care, Springfield.  Burial December 11, 1999, Greenlawn Memorial Gardens at Springfield.

(3) Jewel Cavener, was born in 1911 in Stone County. (4) Cleo Cavener was born in 1913. He married Mable Martin who was a sister to Efton Martin who married Edna Gold, who was a daughter of John Gold, son of Wm. C.Gold. Efton and Edna (Gold) Martin were the parents of Joe Martin who lives about 3 miles north of Crane, in Stone County, MO. on Highway 13,  (January 21, 1998). The children of Cleo and Mable (Martin) Cavener were; Dale, Ray, Jerry, Denzil, Marjorie, Shirley Ann, Linda, Tommy, Billie, Jimmie, and Julie Cavener.

Mary, (Burl’s wife) is buried in Marionville, Cemetery. Mabel (Cleo’s wife) died about, January of 2000.

Ray Cavener, son of Cleo and Mabel (Martin) Cavener, married Saundra Hall, who is the daughter of Milton and Lydia Elizabeth “Betty” (Steele) Hall. Ray and Saundra live about 3 miles northeast of Crane, in Stone County, Missouri.

(5) Dolan “Jack” Cavener was born in 1916. (6) Lena Belle Cavener was born in 1918. (7) Lorene “Bobbie” Cavener was born in 1919 and died in 1941 in an automobile accident in California. She is buried in the Frazier Cemetery. (8) Maudie Cavener, born in about 1924 in Stone County, Missouri.

George Washington Cavener and Sarah Jane Cavener lived for many years at the old home place about one mile south of Possum Trot in Stone County, Missouri. Where most of their children grew up. George was a farmer and was well respected in the community.

Sarah Jane Points is shown in the 1900 census, in Cass Township, Stone County, MO., as the wife of Jack Points who was born in Arkansas. They were both shown to be 22 years of age with two children listed with them, they were; Wm., age 1, MO. and Effie M. dau. 2 months of age.

Next door was shown; Daniel Points, 40, and wife, Mary J., 45 both born in Missouri. They have four children listed with them Thomas F. 15, Wm. W., 14, Candy, dau. 8, and Alta, dau.  4, all four born in MO.

In the 1889 census of Stone County, in Cass Township, is listed in household #321; Goodwin Jackson, 33, Tn. Tn., Doralee, wife 33, MO., TN., James 12, MO. TN., William, 9, MO, TN. Nathaniel 6, MO, TN.

This Sarah, may be Sarah Jane (Jackson) Points. Some members of the Points family are buried at the Jamesville Cemetery, in Stone County, MO.

SARAH CATHALENE CAVENER

Sarah Cathalene Cavener was the daughter of Timothy and Winnie (Gold) Cavener. She was born September 20, 1855 near Boaz, in Christian County, MO. On January 13, 1870 she married David Smith. By W.K. Johnson, M.G.They were the parents of one daughter; Nancy Cordelia Smith. She was born December 15, 1870. Sarah Cathalene and David Smith were divorced.  Nancy Cordelia was raised in the home of George W. Cavener. She was known as Nancy Cordelia Cavener.
On the census for Cass Township of Stone County, MO., we find; David T. Smith 22, born in Arkansas, Sarah C. 14, MO.

Nancy Cordelia Smith married George W. Solomon, December 10, 1889. He was born in 1866. They had a son; Wiley Solomon, who married Nora King, October 2, 1910, they had three daughters; Reba, Eula Mae, and Bonnie June Solomon.

Wiley Solomon and Nora (King) Solomon had three known sons; George, Bob, and Vincent Solomon.

George Solomon lived in Springfield, MO. He was born May 5, 1929 in Springfield,. He married Oneta Mae McNabb, May 27, 1951. George Solomon was a builder, developer and realtor and along with Oneta they operated Solomon Realtors, and Construction Company. He built over three hundred homes in Springfield. George and Oneta were the parents of; Michael George Solomon. Stephen Lewis Solomon, and Suzanne Marie Solomon. George Solomon died December 22, 1996, and was buried in the Frazier Chapel Cemetery, near Boaz, in Christian County, Missouri.

In the census of 1900 for Christian County, Lincoln Township, (Clever) it shows; House #253. George Solomon, age 33, born in 1866 and married 10 years. Nancy C. age 29, born in 1870.
Wm.W., son 9, born in 1890,Winnie Cavener, Gr-mo. Age 79 born in 1820. George and Nancy also had a son, Elvie Solomon, born September 29, 1892, and died May 20, 1894. Nancy Cordelia (Smith) Solomon died August 24, 1914, and is buried in the Frazier Cemetery.

ONETA SOLOMON

Oneta Solomon, 69, Springfield, passed away at 945 a.m. Tuesday, January 8, 2002. She had suffered from Alzheimer’s disease for more than a decade. Oneta was born August 29, 1932, in Carthage, MO., The oldest of three daughters of Boyd and Ceola McNabb. Since the age of 12 she had one love, that of fellow Sunday school student and member of Mt. Carmel United Methodist Church, George Lewis Solomon. They married May 27, 1951, together they had three children; Michael George Solomon, Stephen Lewis Solomon, and Suzanne Marie Solomon. Oneta lost George to brain cancer, December 22, 1996. Michael and his wife, Mary are of Springfield and have th ree children, Pepper Woolsey, Chipper Solomon and Aaron Solomon. Pepper and her husband, Cory, have two childdren, Opra and Preston. Stephen is of Dallas, Texas. Suzanne was tragically killed May 18, 2001 when she was hit by a drunk driver while en route to Dallas, Oneta is survived by her sister, Cynthia Huffman and many brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law. Nieces, and nephews. She lost her sister, Rita Miller of Carthage in 1999. Oneta graduated from Central High School where she was a Worthy Advisor of the Order of Rainbow Girls. She had a love for classical music that was fulfilled as first chair violenist for the Springfield Youth Symphony, at SMSU, she was a member of Alpha Delta Pi and majored in elementary education. Oneta was a REALTOR with the Greater Springfield BOARD OF REALTORS. George and Oneta ran George L. Solomon Construction Company and built hundreds of homes together. Since her youth, Oneta was an avid reader and greatly enjoyed traveling. Oneta and George joined King’s Way United Methodist Church in 1961, where they were active in couples fellowship groups, raised their children, and Oneta was a member of The United Methodist Women. In spite of her many accomplishments, Oneta prized her family above all else. She had unfailing love and devotion for her family. She and George always led their children by faultless example.  Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, January 12, 2002, in King’s Way United Methodist Church, 2401 S. Lone Pine, with Rev. C.E. “Gene” Atkins officiating and under the direction of AyreGoodwin-Lee Funeral Home at Rivermonte. Burial will follow in Frazier Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be from 6 to 8 p.m.  Friday, January 11, 2002 in the funeral home at 4500 S. Lone Pine.

Second; Sarah Cathalene (Cavener) Smith married Columbus “Lum” Garoutte, January 11, 1880. He was born September 23, 1854 and died October 17, 1916. Sarah Cathalene died December 5, 1930. They lived all their life near Republic, Missouri. They were the parents of seven children; Charles Elmer, Joseph Mathise, Minnie, Marshall, Minnia, Elzada, William Anderson, and Mary Garoutte.

(1) Charles Elmer Garoutte was born November 30, 1880 and died January 5, 1965. On January 1, 1908 he married Ava A. McDaniel, who was a twin sister to Martha “Maggie” Ada McDaniel, who married John Thomas Hagewood, who was the son of Martha F. Cavener and John Calvin Hagewood. When Charles Elmer was four days old a cyclone blew the house down, mother and baby were unharmed, but Grandma Winnie Cavener had an injury to her back and was cripple the rest of her life. She was staying there while Charles was little.

Charles Elmer and Ava (McDaniel) Garoutte had at least four children; Dolly, Gladys Myrl, Lloyd Gils, and Jimmy D. Garoutte.

Dollie Garoutte was born October 17, 1908 and died April 30, 1977, she is buried in the Wade Chapel Cemetery, north west of Republic, Missouri. Dollie married Sam Faust, they had three children, (1) Lora Lee Faust, who 1st. married  Leo S. Day, and  later married John L. Bacon.  (2) Joan Faust who married Norval L. Brown, (3) Mary Sue Faust married William Finis Robertson.

Gladys Myrl Garoutte married W.H. “Casey” Grimmett. They had two children; William Charles Grimmett, who married Shirley Ann Lee and Donna Sue Grimmett.

Lloyd Gils Garoutte married Hildred Alice Leigh, and they had two children; Lloyd Leroy Garoutte, who married Judy Ann Jones and Dennis Eugene Garoutte married Vera Geurrero.

Jimmy D. Garoutte married Marie Blades and that is all the information available for him at this time.

(2) Joseph Mathise Garoutte was born January 16, 1882 and died October 11, 1939. He married Mary Ellen Etheridge on March 13, 1904. She was born May 23, 1883 and died July 16, 1963. They are both buried in Wade Chapel Cemetery. Their children were; Elva Emery Garoutte, born in 1908, and died in1945, he married Ruth Drisel, Melvin Anderson Garoutte married Pauline Mayes, and They had a son; Jimmy Ray Garoutte. Olive Luella Garoutte married Earl Jackson and they had two children; Billy Joe Jackson married Barbara March, and Betty Jane Jackson, Sherel Joseph Garoutte was born in 1918 and died in 1965. He married Katherine Hicks and they had a daughter; Sheral Kay Garoutte, who married James Steers.
(3) Minnie Garoutte, was born September 15, 1906. She married Fred Garoutte, who was a son of Benton Garoutte. They were married about a year and Minnie died, Fred died February 1, 1963 as a fire swept through a nursing home where he was living at Stotts City, Missouri. They had no children.
(4) Marshall Garoutte was born September 14, 1894 and died September 29, 1967. She married Emery Elgin Newton, and they had Floyd Newton, (1913-1913). Orten Newton (1914-1914) Geraldine Newton, and Johnny Thomas Newton, who first married Jean Margaret Lafollette and had a daughter; Hazel Jane Lafollette, who married Fred Johnson Jr., then he married Wilma Jean Smith and they had; Branda, Floyd, Minnia, John T., and Emery Newton.

(5) Minnia Elzada Garoutte and Emery Elgin Newton were married January 12, 1912. He was born February 1, 1888, Minnia Elzada was sick for many years before her death September 16, 1967. She was a member of the Blades Chapel Methodist Church. He was still living in 1985. They had ten children.

(6) William Anderson Garoutte was born March 29, 1888 and died July 25, 1958. He married Eula Brown, one child; Carlos Paul Garoutte, born May 17, 1915.

(7) Mary Garoutte, born August 1891, and died December 5, 1915, she married Austin Davis, August 21 1910. He was born February 2, 1885. They had no children.

ALEXANDER H. SOLOMON

Alexander Hardin Solomon first married Sarah Williams, who was a half sister to Wynn D. Williams, which makes he an Aunt to Clyde Williams, who married Ada Lucille Gold (daughter of Lorenzo Dow Gold.)  She was born in about 1847. They were married in 1868 and she died January 29, 1872. Second, Alexander H. Solomon married Sarah P. Creasy who was the oldest daughter of Louisa “Lula” (Gold) Creasy, on August 31, 1873. She was born in Marshall County, Tennessee, and came to Christian County, MO., with his mother in about 1859.  Alexander H. Solomon and Sarah P. (Creasy) Solomon had one child; Martha Louise “Mattie” Solomon, born June 23, 1875. She married Hugh L. White Johnson. A great grand daughter of “Mattie” is Peggy Mitchell, whose address in 1986 is 391 Mania, #107, Fresno, California 93727. Sarah P. (Creasy) Solomon died October 5, 1877. Third, Alexander H. Solomon married Sarah Frances (Johnson) Solomon was born November 19, 1848 and died July 19, 1940. They are both buried in the Frazier Cemetery, beside a son, Wiley F. Solomon, who was born January 23, 1883, and died January 3, 1896.

Alexander H. Solomon was residing in or near Green Valley east of Clever in 1886, when he served as a judge in the election of that year. The election was held in ‘Uncle Billy” Thompson’s store, located one half mile south of where highway 14, crosses Green Valley. It is thought to be the first store in the area.

George W. Solomon, who married Nancy Cordelia Smith, is in the 1880 census of Lincoln Township (Clever) of Christian County in the household of Joseph H. Williams. He is listed as an orphan, 15 years of age (no relationship is stated). He is believed to be a nephew of Alexander H. Solomon. Nancy Cordelia (Smith) Solomon was a daughter of David Smith and Sarah C. Cavener, whose parents were Winnie (Gold) and Timothy Cavener. Winnie is found listed in the 1880 census in the household of Columbus “Lum” Garoutte. She is also found in the 1900 census in the household of George and Nancy Cordelia, (Smith) Solomon. Nancy Cordelia was born December 15, 1870. Sarah and David were divorced. Nancy Cordelia grew up in the home of George W. Cavener.  She was known as Nancy Cordelia Cavener. She married George W. Solomon in about 1890. He was born in 1866. Their children were; Wm. W. Solomon, born in 1890. And Elvie Solomon, born September 29, 1892.

MARY ELIZABETH CAVENER

Mary Elizabeth Cavener was the daughter of Timothy and Winnie (Gold) Cavener. She was born September 14, 1857 near Boaz, Missouri, and died in 1941. On July 4, 1875 she married Joseph C. Hale. He was born in 1854 and died in 1932. They are both buried in the Manley Cemetery, two miles south of Battlefield, Greene County, MO. Their stone reads; Joseph C. “Bud” Hale (1854-1932) (same stone) Mary E. Hale, (1857-1941). Buried next to them, Cleveland Hale, born December 26, 1887 and died March 23, 1909. (Republic Funeral Home Records) age 21 years 2 months and 27 days, suicide, shooting; Occupation farmer married.  Frankie Hale born October 29, 1890, at Nixa MO. (Republic Funeral Home Records, reads; Frankie Hale, age 18 years, 5 months, and 18 days, died April 23, 1909 at Nixa, MO., single, suicide, Carbolic Acid) William Robert “Bob” Hale born July 4, 1896 and did May 8, 1972.

Joseph C. “Bud” Hale and Mary Elizabeth (Cavener) Hale lived 2 miles west of the Manley Cemetery, west of Wilson’s Creek.

The other “Bud” Hale lived about three miles wast of Clever in Christian County, Missouri.His name was Johnnie B. “Bud” Hale. He married Nellie Manley, who was the daughter of Charles B. and Martha Ann (Gold) Manley, who was the daughter of Thomas and Mary Jane (Cavener) Gold. Mary Elizabeth Cavener and Martha Ann Gold were first cousins, and each married a “Bud Hale”.

The children of John G. ”Bud” Hale and Nellie Manley were; Darl, Verna, Glen, Donald, Irene and Hobert. Darl married Myrtle Welsh, Verna married Arthur Crumpley. Glen married Hazel Taylor. Donald died in his twenties, Irene married and lives in California. Hobert 1st married Marie Geren and she died. Later he married Linnie Hale (no relation). She was the daughter of Jack Hale. Who lived in Stone County at the top of the hill on the J.T. Jenkins farm, east of Hurley, MO.

The parents of Joseph C. “Bud” Hale were shown in the census of 1870 in Porter Township of Christian County, George Hale, 36, TN., Elizabeth 39, Illinois, Joseph C., 16, MO., Sarah 6, MO., Mary C. 5, MO., Ruben 1, MO.

The 1870 census of Christian County, MO., in Porter Township shows; the parents of Julie Hale who married Silas Gold, John G. “Bud” Hale was not born until 1875, James Hale 38, TN. Nancy M. 38, TN. Ester 15, MO., Manda M. 6, MO., and James L., 1, MO.

The census of Lincoln Township, Christian County, shows; Joseph C. Hale 25, Elizabeth 18, (wife) Lucy (dau) 3, MO. Jackson (son) 1, MO.

The Census of Polk Township for 1889 shows; James H. Hale 48, TN., Nancy M. (wife) 48, TN., LaManda 16, (dau) Mo., James S. 13, (son) Mo. Nancy M. (dau) 9, MO., John G., (son) 5, MO., son, MO., Melvina (dau) 1, MO.

(NOTE) The information on the two Bud Hale’s was furnished by Harry Holder who lived at Clever and was a nephew of Mary E. Holder who married George W. Cavener.

MARGARET L. CAVENER

Margaret L. Cavener was the daughter of Timothy and Winnie (Gold) Cavener. On February 24, 1878 she married Martin Van Buren Butler who was born May 31, 1855 and died December 7, 1896. At Boaz, MO. Margaret L. Cavener was born August 19, 1861 and died March 10, 1910 near Boaz. They were buried in the Butler Cemetery, located on their home place near Boaz. In 1984 all the Butler graves were moved to the Frazier Cemetery, north of Boaz.

Their children; (1) Infant son born and died October 18, 1878.

(2) Infant daughter born and died June 3 1880 near Boaz.

(3) Laura L. Butler was born August 11, 1881 and died January 24, 1912. She married Robert Marion Hurst, November 5, 1908. He was born June 25, 1861. They are both buried in Mt. Carmel Cemetery. They had a daughter; Thelma Irene Hurst who was born June 5, 1909. And died December 25, 1991. On September 19, 1926 she married David Eugene West, who was born February 20, 1907,  in Greene County, MO., and died October 13, 1990 in Springfield, MO.

Thelma and David West had a son; Marion Dean West, who was born August 8, 1927. On August 5, 1951 he married Martha Dolores Owns, who was born June 4, 1928. They had two children. (1)Robert Dean West, born August 29, 1952. (2) Stephen Eugene West, born December 16, 1954 and he married Lee Ann Gowin on July 24, 1976. She was born July 24, 1958, they had a son; Adam Eugene West, who was born June 16, 1981. 2nd.  Stephen Eugene West married Helen Annette Gordon, she was born April 24, 1962 they had Christine Nicole West, born August 27, 1991.

(4) Lucy J. Butler, born December 6, 1883 near Boaz, and died August 7, 1896.

(5) Charles Homer Butler was born February 21, 1886 near Boaz and died March 16, 1961. He married Minnie Elizabeth Young, born July 25, 1889 and died March 18, 1982. They both died in Hardin, Montana and were buried in the Fairview Cemetery, in Hardin Montana. They were the parents of Letha Pearl Butler, who was born September 4, 1924 and died September 9, 1924.

Rowena May Butler was born December 19, 1909 in Clever, Missouri, and died June 10, 1992. She married Todd Riley, Toward Dillon, Sr. on June 18, 1929. He was born in 1905 and died in 1974. They both died in 1974. They are both buried in Hardin, Montana in the Fairview Cemetery.

Todd Riley Toward Dillon Jr., was born May 30, 1930 in Hardin, Montana, and died October 14, 1956 at the age of 26 years 4 months and 15 days in Hardin, Montana, buried in Fairview Cemetery.

Goldie Ivon Butler was born October 15, 1911 in Clever, Missouri, and died May 18, 1978. She married A.E. “Ed” Holland December 12, 1932. He was born January 29, 1912, and died September 7, 1990. They both died in Hardin, Montana and buried in Fariview, Cemetery.

Charles Chester Butler was born December 1, 1914 I Hardin Montana. He married Evelyn Edna Colstad, July 19, 1936. She was born July 12, 1915 in Pompeys Pillar, Montana. She was the daughter of William and Bessie Lois (Mankie) Butler. They had Janice Lorraine Butler, born September 30, 1947. She married Don  Obie, and they had Kristyn Nicole, Born February 13, 1969, and Damon Obie, born March 23, 1924, Both born in Billings, Montana.

(6) Lemuel Augustine Butler, born March 12, 1888 near Boaz and died February 16, 1981 in in Springfield, Missouri. On January 16, 1910 he married Delphia Alice Short. She was born December 18, 1891, and died November 5, 1988 in Rialto, California. Lemuel and Delphia are both buried in the Frazier Cemetery, near Boaz.

Rayo Linda Butler was born February 24, 1911 in Boaz, Missouri. She was married to Andrew Howard, June 30, 1940. He was born May 26, 1906 in Billings, MO. He was a U.S. Army Captain in World War 2.

Melena Marie Butler was born in 1913 and in October 1913 near Boaz, MO.

Johnnie Leon Butler was born March 15, 1917 in Boaz, and died November 20, 1933 buried in Butler  Cemetery.

Martin Wesley “Westie’ Butler was born June 21, 1921 in Boaz, Missouri. He married on September 2. 1939 to his first wife, Geraldine Mabel Teague, who was born April 21, 1899 in Protem, Missouri and died December 11, 1963. He married Beulah Blanche Bagley, born March 18, 1897 in Cedar Creed, MO., and died November 24, 1986. They are buried at the Bruner Cemetery, in Bruner, MO.  Martin Wesley and Geraldine Mabel (Teague) Butler had a daughter; Linda Kay Butler, who was born June 20, 1941 in Springfield, Mo., and she married July 24, 1864 in Lynwood, California to Robert Leroy Chapman of Gardena, California. He was born January 9, 1930 in St. Louis, MO. They were divorced in January of 1974.
2nd. Martin Wesley Butler married Velma Iona Gregory, who was born June 20, 1926.  She was the daughter of Charley Jackson Gregory of Reeds Spring, MO., and Susan Angelion Tennison. Martin died October 10, 1983 in Springfield, MO., and is buried in the Frazier Cemetery, near Boaz, Missouri. Robert Lee Butler was born in 1923.

(7) William Lee Butler, born September 11, 1889 near Boaz, and died September 18, 1889 near Boaz.

(8) Infant son, born and died February 23, 1892, buried in the Butler Cemetery.

(9) Bessie Maude Butler, born August 11, 1893 and died April 10, 1919 she married Frank Vincent Willoughby, on November 8, 1909. He was born April 1, 1886, and died February 3, 1959. Fredrick Grant Willoughby Sr. was born November 10, 1910, and died March 19, 1974. He married Ada Smith. They were the parents of Dona Willoughby, who was born August 11, 1935. She married Charles Strain, then they were divorced. Their children were; Valera Ann Willoughby, born in 1960. Kristy Kay Willoughby born in 1962 Frederick Grant Willoughby, 111, born in 1964. Steven Charles Willoughby, born in 1966, Second; Frederick Grant Willoughby, Sr., married Thelma Hoke Sanders, November 10, 1947. He was born May 25, 1910. They had no children.   Paul Henry Willoughby Sr. was born May 14, 1916. He married Helen Clarke Hunter in 1940, She was born in 1905 and died in 1955.   Paul Henry Willoughby Jr., was born August 23, 1941. On August 10, 1968 he married Carol Hentley and adopted a baby boy December 21, 1979, Paul Michael Willoughby born December 19, 1979.

Paul Henry Willoughby Sr. Second married Velma Honel Bedsaul, she was born January 3, 1919.
Zola Evelyn Willoughby was born January 5, 1919. She married James Ellis Austin on August 16, 1937. He was born October 15, 1915 and died August 14, 1983. He is buried in the Deleware Cemetery east of Clever in Christian County, MO.

William Franklin Austin was born February 25, 1942. He married Putcher in 1960. William adopted her son, Gregory, who was born in April of 1958. Then they had Alexander Austin who was born February 28, 1961. 2nd. William Franklin Austin married Sue Ann Sissel in June of 1972. 3rd. He married Cynthia Dawson in China during August of 1981 and finalized the marriage by marrying in Minneapolis, Minnesota in August of 1981. Cynthia had two sons by a previous marriage that William adopted. He had two additional children by his first wife, Cary Austin, born in 1964 and Brandon Austin born in 1966.

Frank Vincent Butler, 2nd married Laura Tennis Nokes, April 1, 1920, she was born September 26, 1881, and died September 23, 1974 and is buried in Deleware Cemetery.

(10) Nora Ethel Butler, born September 18, 1894 near Boaz, and died July 4, 1962 She married Hugh James Wise, M.D., born January 13, 1893 and died May 28, 1939, at Sparta, Missouri. Nora Ethel and Hugh are buried in the Frazier Cemetery.

Robert James Wise Sr. M.D. was born June 25, 1917 in Chadwick, Mo. On March 28, 1944 he married Mary Jane Woods, who was born February 5, 1919 at Kansas City, Missouri, She was a daughter of Lee Acker Woods of Smithville, Missouri, and Mary Estella Stean of Liberty, Missouri. She died November 19, 1990 at Houston, Texas.

Jane Lee Wise was born February 14, 1946 at  New Orleans, Louisiana. On November 27, 1968 she married Michael Patrick Murphy at Houston, Texas.  They had three children  (1) Shannon Lee Murphy, born March 11, 1970. (2) Mary Jane Murphy, born November 6, 1971, and (3) Michael Murphy, born March 28, 1975.

Mary Martha Wise, born October 15, 1948 at Houston, Texas. On May 21, 1971, she married C. Jim Stewart 111. Their children; C. Jim Stewart IV, born November 21, 1974, and Robert Bass Stewart, born March 9, 1977.

Judith Ann Wise, born June 27, 1951 at Houston, Texas. She married Dr. Thomas Hayes, M.D. They had two children; Elise Hayes, born May 17, 1983, and Forest Keller Mayes, born January15, 1985.
Robert James Wise Jr. was born December 25, 1952 at Houston, Texas.

John Woods Wise born April 20, 1954 at Houston. On December 15, 1979 he married Margaret Thompson, their children were; Toby John Wise, born March 15, 1982 and Peter Mark Wise, was born August 19, 1984.

Nancy Lou Wise, was born April 20, 1954 at Houston Texas.

Wilda Curtis Butler was born December 7, 1915 at St. Louis, MO. On December 23, 1943 she married Wallace Raymond Stacey, M.D. he was born March 29, 1916 at Jasper, Arkansas.

Raymond Christopher Stacey was born February 23, 1947 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He married Sue Shipp.

Dannielle Christine Stacey was born May 15, 1985 in Houston, Texas.

Eric Parker Stacey was born August 3, 1988 in Conroe, Texas.

Stephen Parker Stacey was born April 27, 1950 in St. Louis, MO.

James Jeffrey Stacey was born December 15, 1956 at Independence, Missouri.

(11) Lora Jewell Butler, born January 1, 1896 near Boaz, and died June 1986 in Tracy, California, and buried at Stockton, California. She first married Walter E. Duelen, on January 21, 1914. He was born December 12, 1892, and died December 8, 1928 at Nixa, Missouri at the age of 35. He is buried in Stockton, California. They were married January 21, 1914 at Ozark, Missouri.  They were the parents of three children; (1) Elsie Pauline Deulen, born January 2, 1915, at Nixa, Missouri. She died June 12, 1964 at Stockton, California. (2) Frank Lewood Deulen, born April 29, 1919 at Jamesville, Stone County, Missouri. He was a Veteran against the Japanese in the Aleutian Islands. He presently lives at 742 S. Osburn Ave, Kankakee, Illinois, 60901-5630, phone 815-932-7869. He married Carolyn Louise Lund, March 8, 1944 in Medford, Jackson County, Oregon. Their children are; Carole Dee Deulen, born March 5, 1945 in Wichita, Falls, Wichita County, Texas. She married John Arthur Gelino, born September 9, 1936. They were married August 30, 1969 in Kankakee, Illinois. They have one child; Amy Anita Gelino, born September 10, 1970 in Norman, Mclean County, Illinois. She married Trent Nainon in Columbus, Georgia.
They had a daughter; Tasha Nainon, born in June of 1988. Eric Arthur Geline born September 25, 1971 Norman, Mclean County, Illinois. Kelly Christine Geline, born November 2, 1977 in Lansing, Michigan. Kristin Carole, born October of 1984 in Lansing, Michigan.

The second child of Frank Elwood and Carolyn Louise Lund was; Lana Louise Deulen, born November 7, 1947 in Kankakee, Illinois. She married David Paul Schimpler, October 2, 1965 in Kankakee, Illinois. They had two children; Traci Lynn Schimpler, born February 19, 1968 in Kankakee, Illinois.  Lisa Danielle Schimpler, born November 14, 1970 in Kankakee. 2nd. Husband of Lana Louise (Deulen) Schimpler was Dennis Clifton Spears, born December 5, 1945 in Marshalton, Iowa. They were married September 2, 1983 in Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico.

Third child; Vonna Kristine Deulen born November 24, 1950 Kankakee, Illinois. She married Harry Christopher Lamb. “Quill” Hermans. They had one child; Lesida, Emma Hermans, born May 2, 1989 in Botswand, Africa. 2nd husband of Vonna Kristine Deulen, Clem Izza, divorced in 1986. They had one child. Tasanee Kristine Izzi, born June 9, 1984, in Babcock, Thailand.

The fourth child of Frank and Carolyn Louise Deulen was Frank Wayne Deulen, born June 22, 1952 in Kankakee, Illinois.  Military service, US Army about two years in South Korea, He married Deborah Jean Zimmerman, August 27, 1980, in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Charlotte Dee Deulen, born April 15, 1922 in Abesvlle, Stone County, Missouri. She died January 28, 1975 at Stockton, California. She married William McMeechan Jr., at Reno, Nevada. He was born November 19, 1916 and died December 10, 1992. Their children; (1) Jim McMeechan, born May 24, 1939 at Stockton California. He married Janis Mitchell June 7, 1959. Their children; (1) Cindy McMeechan, born January 10, 1959 at Modesto, California. (2) Dean McMeechan, born November 1, 1961 at Modesto.  (3) David McMeechan, born November 19, 1962, at Modesto. (4) Catherine Ann McMeehan, born November 24, 1964 at Modesto. (5) Kathy Sue McMeehan, born June 3, 1949. (6) Peggy Jewel McMeehan June 17, 1951.

2nd. Lora Jewell Butler Married William Emmett Lee, May 15, 1933. He was born February 28, 1904, and died December 28, 1973. They had one child; Emmett William Lee born July 8, 1936, at Sprata, Missouri. He married Donna Raye Powell, March 31, 1962, at Santa Cruz, California. She was March 30, 1945 at Santa Cruz, California. She was the daughter of Richard Howard Powell and Lanoma Betty Moore. Their children were; Dana Lynn Lee, born March 12, 1962 at San Padro, Ca. They had a son; Jason Lee Avila, born September 12, 1989 at Tracy, California.

Dr. Jamie Lora Lee, Ph. D., born December 18, 1963 at Tracy, California. Married June 16, 1990 at Stockton California. To Dr. Stephen Alexander Wesley M.D. of Redlands, Cal. They had one child, Joshua Stephen Lee Wesley, born January 3, 1993, at Redland Beach, California.

Timothy and Winnie (Gold) Cavener  had 320 acres of land laying north and south on the west side of the road at Boaz, MO., Timothy joined the Army at Springfield, Missouri, August 20, 1861 when his youngest child; Margaret L. Cavener was only one day old. He died in Little Rock, Arkansas, August 4, 1864. Winnie was left with eight children. Tim and Winnie’s home was near the south end of their farm. She managed to keep the farm until about 1882, when she sold most of it to her daughter; Margaret L., and her husband, Martin Van Buren Butler. They lived on the north end of the farm. Lum Garoutte and his wife, Sarah Cathelene (Cavener, sister to Margaret L. Butler) also purchased some of the land. Winnie is found in the 1880 census in the household of Lum and Sarah C. Garoutte. She is also shown in the 1900 census in the household with George and Nancy Cordelia (Smith) Solomon. Nancy Cordelia was the daughter of Sarah C. Cavener and David Smith.

Winnie spent her last few years with her oldest daughter, Amanda Jane and “Booty John” Estes west of Union City, MO. She died September 3, 1913 and was buried in the Molly Wright Cemetery, in Stone County, MO.

Rachael Minerva Gold was born in 1826 in Lincoln County, Tennessee, and died August 25, 1899 in Tiff City, McDonald, County, MO., and was buried in Cummings Cemetery on the banks of Buffalo River, near Tiff City, McDonald County, Missouri.

She married William Patrick Cavener, October 21, 1853 in Giles County, TN. He was born February 1, 1831 in Bedford County, TN., (Marshall County after 1836) to Patrick and Keziah (Tucker) Cavener. He died in 1913 in Deleware, Ottawa County, Oklahoma.
He was listed in the household of Timothy and Winnie (Gold) Cavener, in the 1850 census of Marshall County, TN. He is shown to be 19 years of age. Rachael Minerva Cavener (his bride to be) was also listed in the same household. They did not leave on the Wagon Train with the rest of the Johnathan Gold Clan, March 20, 1852 for Christian County, Missouri.

Rachael Minerva and William Patrick Cavener were married in the fall of 1853, and joined the rest of the Gold, Cavener families in Christian County, MO. in the year of 1854. Their first child was born in April of 1855 in Missouri. They are shown in the 1860 census of that county in Porter Township near Boaz, as follows; William Cavener 24, Valuation $100. TN., Rachael Minerva 28, TN., Martha 5, MO., Mary 3, MO., a son 1, MO.

William Patrick and Rachael Minerva are shown on the 1870 census of Newton, County, MO. They are also shown on the 1870 census of McDonald County,  (McDonald County was still part Newton County at that time). Wm. Patrick Cavener 37, TN., Rachael Minerva, 44, TN., Martha 15, MO., Mary 14, MO., Robert P. Cavener, 12, born in MO.

Rachael Minerva (Gold) Cavener is buried less than one mile from the Oklahoma and Missouri State Line, in Missouri.
After Rachael Minerva died, William Patrick lived just over the State Line in Oklahoma among the Indians. When he died they (the Indians) thought he was Indian, so they buried him in (Euchie) an Indian cemetery. Then, when the Dam was built nearby the graves that were in the low part of that cemetery wee moved out. William Patrick Cavener was identified and moved to the Council House Cemetery in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, where several of his descendants were buried. Which is about one mile from the State Line, which is less than three miles from where Rachael Minerva is buried.  His stone reads as follows; William P. Cavener, Co. D. 13, MO. S.M. Cav. Died 1913. Rachael Minerva is buried next to her daughter, Martha C. Sutter, born April 1855 and died May 20, 1926. Martha’s daughter, Maud L. Sutter is also buried near by, born July 12, 1882 and died March 20, 1902.

We visited with an old gentleman who lives near Tiff City on the State Line Road, his name is Clayborne Brokaw, he was 89 years old in 1986. He said he remembered Wm. Patrick Cavener, he said they called him Bill, and several of his descendants were still in the area.

Mary Cavener, (daughter of Wm. P. and Rachael Minerva (Gold) Cavener was born in 1855 in Christian County, MO. She married Sumner Maynard and they had 10 children; Cal, Claude, William, Milo, Bert, Laura, Carrie, Etta, Myrtle and Lou Maynard.

Cal Maynard has a son, Norman Maynard, who lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 6712 E. Oklahoma, St. 74115, Phone NO. 918-835-1726 (in 1986).

Bert Maynard has a grandson who lives near Miami, Oklahoma. His name is Fredas Cook. His mother’s name is Blanche Cook. (I visited him in 1988).

Lou Maynard married Albert Elliot, they are both buried in the Euchie Cemetery near the lake. They had a daughter who lives at Fairland, Oklahoma. Her name is Zelma Friend, and she has a son; Ray Friend who lives near by in Fairland, Oklahoma.

Myrtle Maynard married John Crowder, they are both buried in Council House Cemetery.

In the library at Neosho, McDonald County Biographical Appendix, page 1079, see a story of Dr. Lyman Maynard, who was the father of Sumner Maynard.

(Other traces of the Cavener family who lived near Boaz, MO., in the 1850’s.) It sounds like it was free range in Christian County at that time July 30, 1857.

“Quote” A sorrel gelding taken up by Wm. Cavener of Porter Township in Greene County.  (NOTE) This is Wm. Patrick Cavener who married Rachel Minerva Gold.

November 14, 1857—“Quote” A steer taken up by Timothy Cevener, Porter Township, Greene County, MO. Appraised by D.G. Frazier and Ephram Maples. Same Township, before G.F. Howard, J.P.

Members of the Missouri Militia, from Christian Co., MO. in 1866, Cavener Timothy, #575 age 24, height 5’10”, light hair, blue eyes, fair complexion and married.  (T.O. Cavener son of James and Fanny Cavener).

Wm. Patrick Cavener, # 809, age 34 height 6’1”, light hair, blue eyes, fair complexion and married (brother to Timothy Cavener).

Wm. P.J. Cavener 718 age 20, height 5’10”, auburn hair, hazel eyes, fair complexion and single. (Wm. James.Patrick. Cavener, son of John Cavener.)

Wm. Cavener #808 age 19, height 6’1”, light hair, blue eyes, fair complexion and single. (Wm. Patrick Cavener, son of Timothy and Winnie (Gold) Cavener.

William Patrick Cavener (son of Patrick and Keziah) stated on the census of 1870 of McDonald County, MO. that his father was born in Ireland. Wm. Patrick in Bedford County, (after 1836 it was Marshall County.) in 1831. (Most of our records on the Maynard family were furnished by Dorothy Todd Avery)

BUREAU OF PENSIONS

William Patrick Cavener

Pension # 46749

January 3, 1880
1   Wife name-----Rachel Minerva Gold
2   Married-------- October 1, 1853
2   Recorded------ Fayetteville, Lincoln County, TN.
4,  His first marriage
5,  His children---Martha C. Cavener, born April 3, 1855
Mary E. Cavener, born November 13, 1857
Robert Cavener, born Jaunuary 20, 1859
P.O.---Neosho, Newton County, Missouri.
Entered Service—March 10, 1862
Served in Co. D. 14, Mo., Vol’s
Commanded by Samuel Flagg
Discharged  at St. Louis, Missouri, April 10, 1865, age 48, and a farmer.
To assist him in getting his pension on May 10, 1889, L.F. Smart and Joseph Garrison of Christian County, gave their deposition and stated that they were well acquinted with Wm. P. Cavener up to 1870-71, when he left that neighborhood. So this is when he went to Newton, and McDonald Counties.

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

Know Ye, That William Patrick Cavener, Private of Captain John Croft. Co. M, 4th Regiment of Cavalry, MSM VOLUNTEERS who was enrolled on the tenth day of March 1862.  To serve 3 years or during the War is hereby discharged from service of the United States this 28th. day of March 1865, at Warrensburg, Missouri, by reason of time of enlistment. (A objection to his re-enlistment is known to exist).

Said; William P. Cavener was born in Bedford County, State of Tennessee, is thirty one years of age, six feet two inches high, red complexion, blue eyes, sandy hair, and by occupation, when enrolled, a farmer, Given at Warrensburg, MO., this 28th day of March, 1865.

GENERAL AFFIDAVIT

McDonald County, Missouri

1886—He states that he is a resident of the Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, Grove, P.O., Indian Territory.

He states that he was treated for diarreah by Dr. Frazier in Christian County, Missouri, later by Dr. J. Cass of Senecca, Missouri, and is now using patent medicine.

Occupation,  a farmer.

DECLARATION OF PENSION--1907

He states that he was born September 25, 1831 in Bedford County, TN., and that he resided in Greene County, MO., Newton County, MO., until 1871, McDonald County, 1885, Indian Territiry 1887, back to McDonald County, Missouri, sine 1896, and that his present address is Tiff City, Missouri.

Signed----G.W. Epperson

Dated—March 28, 1907

DECLARATION OF PENSION—1912
He states that his several places of residence has been; Seneca, MO, Tiff City, MO., Cheeokee Nation, Grove Oklahoma., and now Jay, Oklahoma.

(Reference)

PASSENGER ARRIVALS AT THE PORT OF PHILADELPHIA, 1800-1819

Kavanaugh Patrick------(name of ship) Julia Ann,  October 8, 1817.

PENSION DROPPED

Dated December 1913, Certificate # 467498

Act of May 11, 1912

William P. Cavener

I have the honor to report that the above named pensioner who was last paid at $30, to August 4, 1913 has this day has been dropped from the roll because of death.
ERL.

Signed by Disbursing Clerk.

Children of Rachael Minerva Gold and William Patrick Cavener are;

(1) Martha E. Cavener, was born April 3,  1855  IN Christian County, MO., and died May 20, 1926 in McDonald County, Missouri. She married a Sutter, they were the parents of Maude C. Sutter, who was born July 12, 1882 and is buried in Cummings, Cemetery.

(2) Mary E. Cavener was born in 1857 in Christian County, MO. She married Sumner Maynard they had ten children;

Recently, I have corresponded with Dorothy (Maynard) Todd Avery, and she is descended as follows; (9) Dorothy Maynard Todd, (8)Estell Maynard, (7)Millard Maynard, (6) William Maynard, (5)Sumner Maynard and Mary Ellen Cavener, (4) William Patrick Cavener and Rachael Minerva Gold,  (3)Patrick Cavner and Keziah Tucker, (2) Benjamin Tucker and Jane Spinner. (1) John and Mary Spinner.

The father of Sumner Maynaard was Dr. Lyman Maynard, his father, Cyrus Maynard, his grand father, Reuben Maynard his Great grand father, John Maynard, his great great grandfather, and his great great great grandfather was John Maynard.  (Information furnished by Dorothy Todd Avery).

DESCENDANTS OF JOHN MAYNARD

John Maynard 1, was born in 1610 in England, and died December 10, 1672 inSudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. (1) He married unknown in England. (2) Mary unknown.

“Immigrant to America”, John and his eight year old son, John 11, came to America around 1638, just 18 years after the first pilgrim ship landed at what we not call Plymouth, Massachusetts. His home lot of four acres was located in what is now Wayland at the junction of Old Mill Road (South Street), on the road to Concord, adjacent to the home lot of Henry Rice. He was one of the 47 who shared in the division of Sudbury Meadows in 1639.

John married Mrs. Axtell widow of Thomas Axtell and she is the mother of the remainder of his children. The idenity of Mary is unknown, but possibly she was Mary Rice daughter of  John’s neighbor, Henry Rice.

John became a freeman in 1644 and was a fence-viewer soon after in 1655. ON January 4, 1655, he was granted land in the second squadron of the new grants, in the town of what is now called Maynard, Massachusetts. He received lot 22 of 130 acres, bounded on the north by the Concord line and south by he Lancaster highway. In May of 1656, he eas one of 13 petitioners for land in what is now called Marlboro, Massachusetts.

John Maynard died in Sudbury on December 10, 1672. His Will dated September 4, 1672 and proved April 1, 1673. In it are mentioned his eldest son, John Maynard, son Zachery, wife
Mary, daughter Elizabeth wife of Joseph Graves, daughter Lydia, wife of Joseph Moore, and youngest daughter Mary, not yet married. His wife Mary and son Zachery were named joint executors “My Trusty friends, Deacon John Haines and Joseph Noyes both of Sudbury”, were to be supervisors to assist the executors. The will was witnessed by Henry Locker and John Toll. The inventory of the estate was taken December 30, 1672 by Edmund Goodenow, John Haines, and Joseph Noyes and came to 263 pounds.

The town of Maynard, Massachusetts was named for John’s descendant, Amory Maynard, born in Marlboro, February 24, 1804, son of Isaac and Lydia (Howe) Maynard.

The child of John and unknown Maynard is (1) John Maynard 11, born in 1630, in England, and died December 22, 1711, Marlboro, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

The children of John and Mary Unknown Maynard are; (2) Elizaabeth Maynard, born May 26, 1649, in Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and died in June of 1676, in Sudbury, she married Joseph Graves, January 15, 1664/65 in Sudbury, Massachusetts. (3) Lydia Maynard, was born in about 1`651 in Sudbury, and died November 23, 1717, in Sudbury. She married Joseph Moore in about 1668, at Sudbury. (4) Jannah Maynard was born September 30, 1653 at Sudbury, and died before September 6, 1672, she married John Hayden, October 14, 1669. (5) Mary Maynard was born August 3, 1656 and died November 1677 at Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. She married Daniel Hudson, July 21, 1574 in Sudbury. Massachusetts.

John Maynard 11, was born in 1630 in England, and died December 22, 1711 in Marlboro, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. (1) He married Mary Gates April 5, 1658, in Sudbury, Worocester County, Massachusetts, daughter of Stephen Gates and Ann Veare. (2) He married Sarah (Blandford), Keys in 1679 in Sudbury.

“Immigrant to America” John immigrated to America with his father around 1638/39, when he was only eight years old to Sudbury Plantation, (which today is a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts ). He married Mary Gates, who was baptized in Bingham, Endland, was ordered to lay out the land of the plantation and order the highways. He first wife; Mary Gates, died in Marlborto around 1678. He then married Sarah (Blandford) Keys.

John Maynard 11 was a selectmen in 1707 and 1710 and he became a freeman between 1685 and 1690.

The Will of John Blandford of Sudbury, dated October 21, 1687 mentions his daughter Sarah Maynard and the Will of Dorothy Blanford of Marlboro dated Decembeer 29, 1694 bequeathed to daughter Sarah Maynard where I now am and where I have been well treated ever since I Came from Sudbury, wife of John Maynard.
On March 18, 1691/92, John Maynard was assigned to a garrison in Marlboro consisting of twelve men, including his son John and headed by Ensign John Woods. The assignment was due to the first French and Indian War.
John’s name appears on a tax list of 1668 for the town of Marlboro. His tax was just over 11 shillings. He signed the list as one of the select men. His Will was dated May 18, 1702 and names his four sons; John Simon, David, and Zachariah; two daughters; Hannah Davenport and Elizabeth Brigham, youngest son Joseph, two youngest daughters, Sarah and Lydia Maynard, Rachel Wheeler, a servant of some kind, two grand children, Mary Woods and Elizabeth Woodes, and wife Sarah. John further requested his “loving friends, John Woods, Sr. and Isaac, Amsden, Sr. And James Woods to be overseers to this my last will and testament. “ The will was witnessed by Johnathan Woods, Sr.; James Woods, and Isaac Amsden, Sr. A codicil to the will, dated March 6, 1708, mentioned James, son of John’s son John. The inventory for the estate, taken January 4, and proved January 9, 1711/12 by Isaac Templeton, Simon Gates, and Isaac Amsden, totaled 347. 14 06 pounds.

The children of John Maynard 11 and Mary Gates

Mary Gates was born about 1659 and died February 3, 1688/89 in Marlboro, She married Isaac Woods, in about 1682.

John Maynard 111, was born January 7, 1659/60, Marlboro, and died March 15, 1729/30, Marlboro, Massachusetts.

Hannah Maynard was born in about 1662, she married Johnathan Davenport, December 1, 1680.

Elizabeth Maynard, was born April 4, 1664, in Marlboro, Massachusetts, She married Nathan Brigham in about 1692.

Simon Maynard was born June 15, 1666, Marlboro, and died April 5, `748, he married Hannah unknown.

Zachariah Maynard, was born September 29, 1668, he married Sarah Woods. .

David Maynard was born December 21, 1669, and died October 2, 1757, He married Hannah Waite. (2) he married Jemima Brigham, February 6, 1731/32.

Unknown son Maynard was born October 27, 1762, Marlboro. Mass..

The children of John Maynard 11 and Sarah Keys were;

Sarah Maynard was born May 15, 1680, and died February 4, 1757. She married Joseph Johnson, January 9, 1704/05.

Lydia Maynard was born August 29, 1682, she married Thomas Hagate, April 7, 1703.

Joseph Maynard was born August 27, 1685 and died in 1721.

John Maynard 111 was born January 7, 1659/60 and died March 15, 1729/30 in Marlborough, He married Lydia Ward, daughter of Richard Ward and Mary Moore.

The children of John Maynard and Lydia Ward are.

Capt. John Maynard, born April 27, 1690 in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, He married Hepsibah Grigham July 23, 1719.

Daniel Maynard was born March 16, 1691/92 and died January 1, 1760. He married Mary Oaks, February 20, 1734/35.

James Maynard was born March 31, 1694 Middlesex County, Massachusetts. He married Mary Morse, January 6, 1718/19.

Mary Maynard was born February 10, 1695/96 and died March 28, 1717.

Reuben Maynard, Sr. Was born October 21, 1698, and died about 1762, Shrewsbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts.

Abagail Maynard was born February 2, 1700/01.

Phineas Maynard was born May 20, 1703 and died July 1, 1725.

Bethiah Maynard was born September 24, 1705 and did July 1, 1725.

Heziekiah Maynard was born June 17, 1798, and died October 28, 1781.

Reuben Maynard Sr. was born October 21, 1698 and died about 1762. He married Dorothy Williams, May 22, 1745 in Westboro, Massachusetts. . They lived at Shrewsury, and all their children were born there. Their children were;

Reuben Maynard Jr. was born July 16, 1746 and died February of 1813. He married Mary “Molly” Garfield, February 15, 1776 in Westboro. She was a daughter of unknown Garfield and Deliverance Fay Garfield. They had several unknown children. He and Mollie were on the 1790 census at Shrewsbury Massachusetts Census record and the 1800 Hubbard County, Massachusetts census record. Reuben may have been a Revolutionary Veteran. Their children are;

Candace Maynard was born July 19, 1777 in Worcester County, Mass. She married Alpheus
Diodatus Shumway June 17, 1810.

Tyler Maynard, was born November 27, 1778, Worcester, County, Mass.

Azubah Maynard was born November 28, 1781, Worcester County, Mass.

Cyrus Sumner Maynard Sr., born July 9, 1787, Shrewbury, Worecester County, Mass.He died May 6, 1869 in Hayden, Jennings County, Indiana. He married Mary Ann “Polly” Kendall January 25, 1813, in Danby, Tompkins County, New York, she was the daughter of Abel Kendall, and Betty Wilder.   Oral family history relates that Cyrus was smitten with Polly Kendall and talked her father into taking him with their family when they moved from Massachusetts to New York. They were to get married upon arrival in New York, however to Abel Kendall’s dismay he and his wife decided that Cyrus and Polly should marry while enroute to their destination.

Cyrus and Polly married and had ten children while living in New York. They then moved to Indiana where he was an original land purchaser at Jennings County, Indiana on September 13, 1837. He was a farmer and a carpenter.
In 1831, in the Baptist Church building was used during the week for a schoolhouse for the children at Six Mile area. One of the first teachers was Dorcas Maynard, daughter of Cyrus and Polly Maynard, later school house were built which was usually a log cabin, made with a large fireplace for heat and windows covered with greased paper for lighting. They weere usually built on someones farm and within walking or riding distance of the pupils the school at Hayden had a barn built behind it where the students horse could be kept during the day.
Both Cyrus and Polly are buried in Six Mile Cemetery, the first burial place in the township. In January of 1839 the Baptist Church at Cross Roads met to form an organization of trustees to be in charge of the Six Mile Cemetery. The deed for the graveyard property was obtained in February from Cyrus Maynard. It was a part of the old Maynard farm, Jennings County, Indiana.

Cyrus and Polly Maynard, Dorcus Maynard Wilder and husband, Sallie Ann Daily, Vesta Daily, Mary A. Daily, Cyrus Maynard, Jr., Mary Maynard and Carman I. Maynard are buried at Six Maynard Cemetery, Jennings County, Indiana.

Polly (Kendall) Maynard was a granddaughter of a Revolutionary War, Veteran. Polly was an expert herbalist and midwife and was instrumental in he son. Lyman becoming a.physician.  Her daughter, Lucinda also married a physician, Dr. Elisha Hause.

Polly and Cyrus saw that their children were educated with either a trade or profession. Dorcus was schoolteacher. Lyman was a physician. Abel was a blacksmith and Cyrus Jr., and John were carpenters.

Children of Cyrus Maynard and Mary Kendall are;

Cyrus Sunmer Maynard Jr. was born November 13, 1813, in New York and died February 11, 1847, in Jennings County, Indiana.

Mary Maynard was born February 25, 1815 in New York and died September 29, 1837 in Jennings, County, Indiana. She married Samuel Sawyer Wilder, February 11, 1835 in Indiana.
Betsey Maynard was born November 12, 1816, in New York and died in Indiana. She married Samuel Sawyer Wilder, (her brother in law).

Abel Kendall Maynard was born October 21, 1818 in New York, and died (probably) in Wisconsin.

Lucinda Maynard was born September 30, 1820 at Wayne, Schuyler County, New York. He died December 19, 1876, at Six Miles, Jennings County, Indiana. She married Dr. Harriet Elisha Hause March 26, 1837 in Indiana. They are both buried in Six Miles Cemetery.

Dorcus Maynard, was born July 30, 1822 in New York, and died January 22, 1899, in Jennings County, Indiana. She married (1) Lyman Baily. (2) She married Calvin Wilder. Dorcas was a schoolteacher. She is buried at Six Miles Cemetery. Child of Dorcus Maynard and Calvin Wilder, Calvin Wilder Jr.,

Elmira Ann Maynard was born July 21, 1825 in New York and died February 12, 1837 at Altay, Steuben County, New York. She is buried at Altay, New York.

John Flavel Maynard was born in 1827. He married Esther Ann Whitcomb, January 29, 1854 in Indiana. He was a carpenter. He and his family later moved to Wisconsin. Their children were; Eva, and Anna A. Maynard.

Dr. Lyman Maynard, was sborn November 24, 1829, in Steuben County, New York, and died December 26, 1906 at May McDonald County, Missouri. He married Sally Daily, January 25, 1852 in Jennings County, Indiana, daughter of Sylvester Daily and Sally Sylsby

Dr. Lyman Maynard secured his literary education in common schools, and Vernon Acadamy, of Indiana. His parents, having moved to Jennings County, Indiana when he was a small boy. He read medicine under the direction of Dr. Alfred Force, of Handinburg, Indiana, and in June of 1860 he moved Austin, Indiana and began practicing his profession. Three years later he moved to Little York, Indiana and practiced until 1869, when he came to Missouri. Locating in Jasper County. The following summer he moved to Newton County, and in the spring of 1881 located to propeerty on Buffalo Creek where he opened a doctor’s office and store, he called the community, May, named after the first three letters in his last name. He continued to live at May where he successfully practiced his profession. Dr. Maynard was a member of the Maonic fraternity, 100F and the Farmers Alliance. After Lyman’s death, Sophia moved to Deleware County, Oklahoma to be near her son, Sumner. She lived there until her death in 1937. Lyman is buried at the May/Price Cemetery, McDonald County, Missouri east of Goodman. First gravel road on left past May Church Sophia is buried at Eucha Cemetery, Eucha, Deleware County, Oklahoma.

The Children of Lyman Maynard and Sophia Daily are; Sumner Maynard, Edith Maynard, Edgar Maynard, Alice J. Maynard, and Minnie M. Maynard.
Sumner Maynard was born in October 1852, Jennings County, Indiana, and died January 6, 1935 in Eucha, Deleware County, Oklahoma. He married Mary Ellen Cavener, May 3, 1874 in Newton County, MO. She was the daughter of William Patrick Cavener and Rachael Minerva Gold. When their children were of school age, Sumner and Mary lived in the area of the Council House at Tiff City, McDonald County, Missouri. Their children attended the tribal school at Council House at Tiff City, both Sumner and Mary are buried at Eucha Cemetery, Eucha, Deleware County, Oklahoma.

Mary Ellen (Cavener) Maynard was the daughter of a Union Civil War Veteran, a grandfather of the War of 1812, Veteran and great granddaughter of a Revolutionary War, Veteran, The children of Sumner and Mary Ellen Maynard were;

(1) Lou E. Maynard married Albert Elliot. (2) James Calvin Maynard, born February 8, 1875 in Newton County, MO. (3) Laura Belle Maynard was born February 9, 1877 in Newton County, MO. (4) Robert Milo Maynard, was born September 18, 1878 in Newton County, MO., and died November 25,1958. He is buried at Seneca Council House Cemetery, Tiff City, MO. (5) Carrie E. Maynard was born December 20, 1880, in Newton County, MO. (6) William May Maynard was born March 1, 1883, McDonald County, MO., and died December 7, 1964 at Gravette, Benton County, Arkansas. (Hospital) He married Anna Gertrude Wolfinbarger, October 20, 1900 in Council House, Tiff City, Missouri. She was the daughter of Joseph Wolfinbarger and Sasrah Wilson. William died of gun shot wound to the head (self inflicted). Anna died from complications of a stroke. Will and Anna lived most of their married life at Jay, Oklahoma, and Will was a farmer.
Family members buried at Duffield Cemetery, Ona G. Maynard Thatcher, Anna Maynard, William M. Maynard, and Erasmus M. Maynard.
The children of William Maynard and Anna Wolfinbarger are; (1) Millard Fillmore Maynard was born August 10, 1901, Tiff City, MO., and died December 22, 1985, Toppinish, Yakima County, Washington. (2) Herbert Maynard was born April 24, 1902 and died August 4, 1902. (3) James Edward Maynard was born September 21, 1905. He married Flora Long. He died from throat Cancer and a gun shot wound. (4) Erasmus Manford “Mac” Maynard, was born September 9, 1906. He married Fern Alexander, he died from lung cancer. (5) Ona Gertrude Maynard was born June 15, 1909 and married Allen Thatcher. Ona died from breast cancer. (6) Lyman Ray Maynard was born September 20, 1911 in Caycuga, Oklahoma. (7) Baby Maynard was born May 11, 1913. (8) Gerta Sunell Maynard was born July 21, 1914. She married Pete Hyde.

Effie Leona Murry married Samuel James Tilden Mitchell. Their child was; Wynona Montez Mitchell.

Millard Fillmore Maynard was born August 10, 1901 in Tiff City, McDonald County, Missouri, and died December 22, 1985 in Toppinish, Yakima County, Washington. He married (1) Juanite Wisteria Goss, November 26, 1921 in Miami, Ottawa County, Oklahoma daughter of Mead Goss and Dora Hood. (2) He married Catherine Ahto on November 28, 2950. Millard and Dolly divorced in Neosho, Missouri, on September 7, 1949. (Broderbund Family Archieves #110, Vol. 2M-Z, Ed6, Social Security and Death Index, U.S. Date of Import, December 17, 1998, Internal Ref. # 1.112.6.9838.178). Individual, Millard Maynard Social Security # 448-09-9603 issued in Oklahoma, birth date, Aug. 10, 1901. Death date December 1985.

While a teenager Juanita Wisteria “Dolly” Goss lived around Saratoga, Southwest City, Missouri. In later age she moved ot Olymia, Washington to be near her son Estell. She is buried in Olympia Cemetery, Olympia, Washington.

The children of Millard Maynard and Juanite Goss are;  (1) Estell Filmore Maynard, was born August 12, 1922, Afton, Ottawa County, Oklahoma.  He married Elsie Lucille Phipps, December 13, 1941 in Pineville, McDonald County, MO. daughter of Frank Phipps and Rhoda Hairrell.  Estell is a hard worker skilled businessman and avid fisherman. Lucille is extremely intelligent, capable and has a wonderful personality. She was named after her grandmother. Their children were; Dorothy Sue Maynard, born July 16, 1942 at Lanagan, McDonald County, MO. Barbara Louise Maynard was born May 27, 1947 at Lanagan, MO.

Dorothy Sue Maynard was born July 16, 1942 in Lanagan, MO. She married (1) David James Todd, October 12, 1961 in Olympia, Washington. (2) She married Gary William Avery in 1994 in Little Rock, Arkansas. The children of Dorothy Maynard and David Todd are  (1) Michael James Todd, born May 24, 1962 in Olympia, Washington, and died April 14, 1998 in Roy, Pierce County, Washington. (2) Mark Maynard Todd, born January 12, 1968, Olympia, Washington. (3) Elizabeth Ann Todd, born March 15, 1970, in Olympia, Washington.
Barbara Louise Maynard was born May 27, 1947 in Lanagan, MO. She married (1) Gary Conwell, (2) She married William Kenneth VanRuff in 1965 in Olympia, Washington. (3) She married Raymond Price in 1998 in Olympia, Washington. She had only one child by William Kenneth VanRuff is Eric William VanRuff, born February 2, 1966 in Olympia, Washington.
Michael James Todd was born May 24, 1963 in Olympia, Thurston County, Washington, and died April 14,1998 in Roy, Pierce County, Washington. He married Karla Wade in Olympia, Pierce County,Washington.  They had one child; Cameron Wade Todd.
Mark Maynard Todd is the father of one child; Briteny Taylor Maynard, born August 3, 1995.
Elizabeth An Todd was born March 15, 1970 in Olympia, Washington. She married Michael Anthony Davis, in August of 1989, in Olympia, Washington. They were divorced in 1998, their children were; Brooks Lauren Davis, born April 1, 1990, and Evangeline Sarah Davis, born April 15, 1996.
Eric William VanRuff was born February 2, 1966, he married Caroline “Cari” Emily Graves, August 7, 1988 in Squim, Clallum County, Washington. Their children were; Kyanna Lee VanRuff born August 27, 1991, in Port Anglees, Clallum County, Washington.
Alina Robin VanRuff was born April 11, 1993 at Port Angeles, Clallum County, Washington.
McKenna Emily VanRuff was born October 3, 1996, at Renton, King County, Washington.
(2) Harold Lloyd Maynard was born December 29, 1926 and died January 11, 1992, in Yakima, Washington. He married Vetta Perron. (3) Lyman Ray Maynard was born September 20, 1911 in Cayuga. Oklahoma. He married Ellen Therese Mandeville, May 15, 1937 in Seneca, Kansas.

The Children of Lyman Ray Maynard and Ellen Mandeville are. Robert Lyman Maynard, Bonnie Jean Maynard, Jackie Howard Maynard, Becky Sue Maynard, Nancy Ann Maynard, Jerry Lee Maynard, and Roseanna Maynard.

Claude Lee Maynard was born August 7, 1885 in McDonald County, MO. He married Loretta Lewis. After marriage, Claude and his wife, Loretta Lewis Maynard moved to Muskogee where her brother had the Marston Mills and where he farmed large acreage. They later bought a house in Locust Grove. After his parents moved to Rattle Snake Gulch near Eucha, Claude prevailed upon his wife to move to Jay, Oklahoma in 1914. Loretta was the daughter of Lafayette Lewis.

Etta Maynard was born January 19, 1887. Myrtle Maynard was born March 4, 1888, she married John Crowder. They are both buried at Council House, Cemetery, Ottawa County, Oklahoma.
Burtrum “Burt” Maynard was born April 1, 1892 and died in 1944, he is buried in Seneca, Council House, Cemetery, Tiff, City, MO.

Pearl Maynard was born in 1907.

Edith Maynard was born in 1856 in Indiana and died in 1945 in McDonald County, Missouri. She married George Washington Murry. They had 2 babys and Clarence buried at May/Price Cemetery, McDonald County, MO. Clarence Leroy Murry was born in 1878 and died in 1938 in McDonald County, MO. Also Edith and George W. Murry is buried at May/ Price Cemetery, McDonald County, MO. Their child; Effie Leona Murry.

Alice Maynard married Samuel Whitman, March 8, 1874.

Minnie M. Maynard.

Sarah Jane Maynard was born January 8, 1832 in New York and died October 19, 1862. She married Elijah C.Thornton, May 19, 1850.

Cyrus Sumner Maynard Jr. was born November 13, 1813 in New York, and died February 11, 1847 in Jennings County, Indiana. He married Sarah G. Amick, May 15, 1842 in Indiana. Both Sarah and Cyrus are buried in the Six Mile Cemetery. His Will was dated July 9, 1846 (Will Book 1, pg 62-64) recorded March 6, 1947. Executors; Cyrus Maynard and Charles Griffith. Wittnesses; Jesse Whitcomb and Sarah Jane Maynard. Their children were; Charles, Margaret, and Cyrus Maynard.
Abel Kendall Maynard was born October 21, 1818 in New York and died in Prob, Wisconsin. He married Sarah Ann Reed, October 24, 1843, in Jennings County, Indiana. Abel and Sarah later moved to Kansas, and he was a blacksmith. Their children were; Olive Maynard and Fernando Maynard.

William C. “Uncle Billy” Gold was the son Johnathan and Sarah  (Ryalls) Gold. He was born April 21, 1827, at or near Gold Hill in Lincoln County, Tennessee.  Gold Hill is about 2 miles west of Petersburg on the West Fork of Cane Creek and Fishing Ford Road. He is shown on the 1830 and 1840 census of that county.  He married Sarah Paralee Alexander, November 4, 1850 in Marshall County, Tennessee. She was born December 12, 1830. Their marriage is on record at the Marshall County, Courthouse in Lewisburg, Tennessee. The Gold family settled there in about 1810, and were all there until 1850 when the census was taken, except Thomas Gold (brother to Zachariah, Johnathan and David Gold). He, Thomas Gold took his family and went to Jackson County, in about 1828 or 1829. They were listed as farmers in the census. Both Zachariah and Johnathan are on the Tax Records of Lincoln County, TN., during the 1820’s. Despite the wilderness, and hard times, and their primitive farming tools, they raised large families. William C. “Uncle Billy” Gold was one of 14 children, 11 girls and 2 boys that lived to be grown, and one boy that apparently died during the 1830’s. He was born about 1828, and shown on the 1830 census, but was not there on the 1840 Census. . Zachariah was the only son of Michael who stayed in Lincoln and Marshall Counties of Tennessee.

Uncle Billy and Aunt Sarah Gold’s first child was William Thomas Alexander Gold, born October 21, 1851 in Giles County, TN.

On March 20, 1852, the Johnathan Gold family left Lincoln, Giles and Marshall counties for Christian County, Missouri on a wagon train that apparently carried at least 22 members of the Gold and Cavener families. By the time the 1860 census was taken 37 members of the Gold family were listed on that census, and the families of James and John Cavener, who were brother to the three Caveners who had married into the Johnathan Gold family in Tennessee. Were all listed in that census living in Porter Township, near Boaz in Christian County, Missouri.

In that census were listed Johnathan Gold and his wife, Sarah (Ryalls) Gold, and the families of their daughters; Winnie, Rachael Minerva, Louisa C.”Lulu”. Listed nearby were; Fanny Cevener (widow) and her six children, John Cavener (widower) and his four children, Jesse Creasy and his wife and six children.

Thomas Gold married Mary Jane Cevener.  Winnie Gold married Timothy Cavener, and Rachael Minerva Gold marrried William Patrick Cavener. All married in Tennessee.

Keziah (Tucker) Cavener, Mother of all five of these Cavener children. May have been on that Wagon Train, but the first record we have of her in Missouri, was in the 1880 census living with her grand son; Henry Clay Cavener. She was shown to be in the household of Timothy and Winney (Gold) Cavener, in Marshall County, Tennessee in 1850.

Soon after the Civil War had ended, Johnathan and his wife Sarah; had both died and buried in the old abandoned Gibson Cemetery, at Deleware Town, in Christian County, MO.

According to word handed down through his daughters’, Martha Dilla Ann (Gold) Garrison would point out to her children and grandchildren where her mother and father were buried, when traveling that road on their way to Ozark, the County Seat of Christian County.

A grandson of Martha Dilla Ann (Gold) Garrison, (Claude Arndt.) told me personally (RG) that his mother has told him many times that is where  his great grandma and grandpa Gold are buried.

In 1866 after the death of Johnathan and Sarah (Ryalls) Gold, most of the childdren had married and moved away; Rachael Minerva, Margaret L., Mary M., Martha Dilla Ann, Louisa C. “Lulu”, Amanda Emaline, and Sophia Almeda, had all married and lived in the area. . Uncle Tommy and Uncle Billy, took their families and moved just a few miles over into Stone County, Missouri, in 1866.

Uncle Tommy settled down two miles south of Union City, and Uncle Billy settle down about two miles west of Browns Spring, Missouri, on the Old Wire Road.

Uncle Billy and Aunt Sarah Paralee (Alexander) Gold’s three oldest children were born in Tennesee; William Thomas Alexander Gold was born in Giles County, TN. October 21, 1851. He married Martha A. Cunningham, April 9, 1876 in Stone County, MO., by A. McElyea, J.P.

Uncle Billy’s children who were born In Christian County, Mo., were; Rachael Elizabeth, born in 1853. Marean (Mary Ann) born in 1857, Nancy Jane, born in 1860, and Joseph Gold born in 1864. The rest of his children born in Stone County; James born in 1866, John, in 1869, and Mary Ellen “Maggie” Gold born in 1872.

Wm. C. Gold, was born April 21, 1827 in Giles County, TN., and died July 10, 1910 in  Billings,  MO. Sarah Paralee (Alexander) Gold, was born December 12, 1830, and died December 24, 1880 in Stone County, Missouri. They are both buried in the Gold Cemetery on their old home place, which is located on the Old Wire Road, in Stone County, Missouri.

WARRANTY DEED

Gold Cemetery

May 17, 1883

Between William C. Gold and Elizabeth Jane Gold, his wife, of Stone County, Missouri, Party of the first part.
And the People --- in consideration of one dollar, Do grant, bargain, and sell, convey and confirm to the parties of the second part. Their heirs and assigns the following described land, lying, being, and situated in the County of Stone and State of Missouri.

Beginning at the corner of quarter section,  between Section 14, and 15, Township 26, Range 24, running north 65-1/2 degrees west 12 chains and 45 links, thence north 1 chain and 58 degrees west ½ acre running a 6 degrees and 25 minutes east.

Signed---William C.Gold

Her

Elizabeth Jane  X Gold

Mark

Registered—Deed Book, 1, page  130

Stone County, Missouri.

In the Stone County, Abstract Office at Galena, we find; Gold Cemetery, titled to Wm. And Elizabeth Jane Gold. The Gold Cemetery is approximately 70 ft. wide and 120 ft. long, lying easst and west. Both Wm. C. and Sarah P. (Alexander) Gold are buried in this old cemetery located on the the Wire Road of Stone County, Missouri.
This old abandoned grave yard is located about 2 miles east of Bradfield, in Stone County, Missouri. It is  located on the Old Wire Road. The land on which it is located was settled by Wm. C. Gold in 1866. Records handed down through  the Gold family  tells us that the first grave in the Gold Cemetery was that of little girl who died while traveling on the Old Wire Road. NO grave for her has been identified.
When this Gold Cemetery was cleaned up in 1985 by; Leaford Gold, Ray Gold, and Curtis and Catherine Jackson, the fences were re-built at that time. And the Stone were read, and  we all agreed that the people buried there were identified as follows;  There appears to be other  graves, either with no stone or with field or native stone to mark them but no information.

Beginning at the southwest corner of the cemetery.

(1) Infant daughter of Jim and Elizabeth Adams, born, 8-14,-1900, died 8-16-1905
(2) Wm. T.A. Gold-b- 1851.
(3)  Martha, wife/Wm. T.A. Gold—1849-1883.
(4)  Field Stone—no markings.
(5)  Roma Lucille Heaton –1925—1926.
(6)  Field Stone—no markings
(7)  Jane, wife of S. Cunningham-b-5-10-1812-d- 10-8?
(8)  Unmarked grave—S. Cunningham
(9)  Sara E. Rapp, wife of J.M. Rapp—2-18,-1831-d-5-17-1909.
(10) Sarah Elizabeth Rapp, dau. Of Jim and Mollie Rapp,-1901-1903.
(11) Field Stone, no markings
(12) Field Stone, no markings
(13) Field Stone, no markings
(14) Sara P. Gold-b-Dec.21, 1830-d-Dec. 24,-1880
(15) Wm. C. Gold-b-April 21, 1827-d-July-10, 1910
(16) Martha wife of John Gold, Jan. 26-1869, d- Apr. 20, 1898
(17) Field Stone, no markings
(18) Isaac D. Rapp—1893-1894
(19) Mary Ann Rapp-March 26, 1858, d- January 18, 1902
(20) Lucinda Rapp—1899-1902
(21) Jessie Dunfield, no date, (infant)
(22) Ethel Mae Dunfield—no dates
(23) Leonard Dunfield—no dates.
(24) Ella Dunfiled--(infant) no dates
(25) Nancy Jane Dunfield,-no dates.
(26) Charles Dunfield, 6-9-1887 d- 4-4, 1910.
(27) Geneva Pearce-1-1-1848, d- 11-12-1906
(28) James J. Pearce 6-3-1833-d-4-28-1923.

ARMY DISCHARGE OF WILLIAM C. GOLD

William C. Gold, Private under Henry Sullivan, Company K, 46th. Regiment of the Missouri Infantry. Volunteered September 9, 1864, Discharged May 12, 1865, Age 38, 5’9”, dark complexioned, Blue eyes, dark hair, Occupation, Farmer. Discharged at Springfield, Missouri. May, 12, 1865.

LAND PATENT FOR WILLIAM C. GOLD
July 13, 1878.

The SE quarter of the NE quarter of Section fifteen in Township Twenty Six of Range Twenty Rour in the District of lands subject to sale at Springfield, Missouri, containing forty acres, In Stone County, Missouri.

After the death of Aunt Sarah Paralee (Alexander) Gold Uncle Billy married Elizabeth Jane Gibson. She was born in 1838 in Indiana, and migrated to Oklahoma, and raised her family of six children there. One of her daughters; Louisa Elizabeth Gibson was born October 15, 1866 and died August 1, 1941. She married Thomas Blackstone Blades. The Blades family called  Wm. C. and Elizabeth Jane Gold, “Grandpa and Grandma Gold. Several of the Blades family said they attended the funeral of both.  Thomas Blackstone Blades and Louisa Elizabeth (Gibson) Blades had a daughter; Bertha Blades who married Marion Hagewood, who was the son of Margaret F. and John C. Hagewood. Louisa (Gibson) Blades was born October 15, 1866, and died August 1, 1941. They were also the parents of Alfred L. Blades, who was born July 5, 1885.
Bertha Blades Hagewood is buried in the Wade Chapel Cemetery. Louisa was a member of the Methodist Church at Blades Chapel, Elizabeth Jane Gibson also attended church at Blades Chapel.
Elizabeth Jane was part Indian with real dark complexioned. Uncle Billy moved to Billings in about 1890 or 1892 and spent his last few years there.
In the Census of 1900 for Christian County, Polk Township,  it shows; William C. Gold, born in TN., married 15 years.

Elizabeth Jane is buried in the Blades Chapel, Cemetery, west of Republic in Greene County, MO. Her stone reads; Elizabeth J. Gold, born September 1, 1838 and died June 14, 1913.

Uncle Tommy’s 2nd wife; Catherine (Wright) Gold also went to church at Blades Chapel. She is buried in the Wright’s Chapel Cemetery, about 3 miles east of Hurley in Stone County, Missouri.

WILLIAM THOMAS ALEXANDER GOLD

William Thomas Alexander Gold, son of William C., and  Sarah P. (Alexander) Gold, was born October 22, 1851 in Giles County, TN. about 2 miles west of Petersburg, on the West Fork of Cane Creek. He was only 5 months old when he was brought to Christian County, MO., on the Johnathan Gold Wagon Train, March 20, 1852. The Wagon Train left Gold Hill on that 500 mile trip to Missouri. After the civil War had ended, Wm. C. moved his family to Stone County, and settled down on the Old Wire Road, about 2 miles west of  Brown’s Spring.
We know very little about the early life of William T. A. Gold at home. All of the children of Wm. C. Gold may have attended the first known school in the area, which was the Chapel School. It was located about ½ mile north of where they lived. No school has been there ssince the 1920’s.

He married Martha E. Cunningham, April 9, 1876 in Stone County, MO.By A. McElyea. J.P. She was the daughter of Samuel and Jane (Wiles) Cunningham, who was born inSurry County, North Carolina. They were close neighbors with the Wm. C. Gold family and listed on the 1860 census of Stone County, Samuel and Martha Jane Cunningham are buried in the Gold Cemetery on the Old Wire Road, in Stone County, Missouri.

The children of Wm. T.A., and Martha (Cunningham) Gold, were; (1) Virgil Thomas Gold, (2) James Robert Gold, (3)Mary Elizabeth Gold, (4) and “Porter” George Gold, who was a mail clerk on a mail train in Oklahoma, He married Mattie Garrett.

Virgil Thomas Gold married Della Virginia Gray, September 16, 1908. They lived in the Browns Spring area in Stone County, MO., and they had two children, a daughter, Mary “Cecil” Gold, a son, Wm. Melville Gold.

Mary “Cecil” Gold, born July 25, 1909 in Stone County, MO., and died August 2, 1995, buried in the Crane Community, Cemetery. She married Ralph A. Wright, December 9, 1928. Their children were; Jerry, William, Charles G., Joe, and Elizabeth Gold,
Elizabeth Wright married a Culin, she died in 1975.
Wm, Melvin Gold is a retired Col. from the U.S. Army, and lives in San Antonio, Texas.
James Robert “Jim” Gold married Emma Earnhart, their children were; Dora Gold, Alice Gold and Mary E. Gold.
Dora Gold was born in about 1910 and died March 9, 1997 at Bolivar, Missouri. She married Boyd Hopkins, and they had at least one daughter, Golda, Jean Hopkins, who married Gene Potts, Dora (Gold) Hopkins was buried in Greenwood, Cemetery.

Alice Gold married Efton Thomas and lives in Aurora, Missouri.

“Porter” George Gold was a porter on a mail train in Oklahoma. He married Mattie Garrett.

“About the parents and gr-parents of Martha E. Cunningham”

Martha E. Cunningham was born in 1849 in Lincoln County, Tennessee, and died in Stone County, Mo., in 1883. She was the daughter of Samuel and Jane (Wiles) Cunningham who are buried in the Gold Cemetery in Stone County, MO.

Samuel and Jane Cunningham were neighbors to the Wm. C. Gold family. By the time that the census of 1870 was taken, Samuel Cunningham had passed away and the census reads as follows; Jennie Cunningham, 50, NC., Nancy 25, TN., Martha E. 22,TN.,Elizabeth 16, MO

Steven Wiles Sr. Was born in England and married Rachael Steelman in Surry County, North Carolina., March 30, 1809. He died in Surry County in 1856. To this marriage was born the following known children; (1) Eleanor Wiles, who married James Mills, (2) Catherine Wiles, who married a Reese. (3) Charles Wiles, married Emaline____, he died in Lincoln County, TN. (4) Celia Wiles married Henry Sullivan, died in Christian County, Missouri.  (5) Rachel Wiles married Thomas Sullivan, and died in Stone County, MO.(6) Jane Wiles married Samuel Cunningham, parents of Martha E. Cunningham who married Wm. Thomas Alexander Wiles (7) Rose Wiles married Marion Wise and lived in Madison County, Arkansas. (8) Polly Wiles married Abraham Cunningham, died in Gentry County, MO. (9) Steven L. Wiles married Elizabeth Mills, daughter of James and Nancy Mills, of Lincoln County, Tennessee.
Jane “Jennie” (Wiles) Cunningham was the daughter of Steven and Rachel (Steelman) Wiles, Jennie was born in Surry County, NC in 1812.

The Gold’s, Rapp’s, Hurst’s. Cavener’s and Cunningham’s were all connected to some extent by marriage.

The marriage records of Stone County, shows that Wm. T.A. Gold and Alice Meisner of Miller, MO., were married (2nd marriage) December 1 1906 at Crane, MO.

MARY ELIZABETH GOLD

Mary Elizabeth Gold, daughter of William Thomas Alexander Gold, was born October 9, 1882 in Stone County, Missouri, and died September 2, 1966, in Clovis, Curry County, N.M.She married Sampson Powell Barris, December 29, 1903. He was born October 5, 1875 in Greene County, Missouri., and died July 6, 1964 in Clovis. He is buried at Lawn Haven Memorial Garden, in Clovis, New Mexico.

Their children were; (1) Virgie Rena Barris born May 20, 1907 in Marionville, Lawrence County, MO., and died July 30, 1972 at age 65, interred at Lawn Haven Memorial Gerdens in Clovis, Curry County, New Mexico. She never married, (name possibly Virginia Rena).
(2) Martha Maye Barris born September 4, 1911 at Marionville, MO., and died January 16, 1985, Interred at Lawn Haven Memorial Gardens, Clovis, New Mexico. She married Clyde McCormick, April 7, 1945.
(3) Raymond L. Barris, born July 12, 1914 in Marionville,MO., and died December 19, 1970, he married in 1947.
(4) Wilford H. Barris, born June 4, 1919 in Billings, MO. He married Emma Lujan in January of 1948. Their child; Esther Barris.

JAMES ROBERT GOLD

James Robert Gold was the son of William Thomas Alexander Gold. He married Emma Earnhart. Their children were; (1) Dora Gold born in about 1910 and died March 9, 1997. She married Boyd Hopkins.
(2)Al;ice Gold, married Efton Thomas
(3) Mary Gold.

DORA (GOLD) HOPKINS

BOLIVAR----Dora Gold Hopkins, 87, Boliver, MO., died Sunday, March 9, 1997 in Citizens Memorial Healthcare Facility after a long illness.

She was a life long resident of Polk County and Bolivar. Mrs. Hopkins was one of the original employees of the Bolivar Telephone Exchange and stayed with the phone company through it’s transitions until her retirement.

She was a member of the First Baptist Church and a membe of the Rebecca Lodge, both of Bolivar. She is survived by a daughter; Golda Jean Potts and her husband, Gene. Bolivar. A sister; Alice Thomas, two grandchildren, four great grandchildren, two nieces, a nephew and numerous friends.

She is preceded in death by her husband, Boyd.

Service will be a t 1 p.m. today Marach 12, 1997, in Pitts Chapel, Bolivar, with Pastor Ray Leininger officiating, burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery.

Memorial contributions may be made to Citizens Memorial Hospital Hospice.

RACHAEL ELIZABETH GOLD

Rachael Elizabeth Gold, was the daughter of William C. and Sarah Paralee (Alexander) Gold. She was born in 1853 in Christian County, near Boaz, Missouri. She was only 13 years of age when the Wm. C. Gold family moved to Stone County, and settled down on the Old Wire Road. About 2 miles west of Borwn’s Spring, MO.

Not much is known about where the Gold children went to school or church. According to old records handed down to us, they walked to church at different places, to the Shilo church and to the Black Jack School at one time there was a church there.  They probably all went to the first school in the area. Chapel School, was located ½ mile north of where they lived.

Rachel Elizabeth married Jasper Newton Adams in January of 1873, by Wm. Slate, Minister. Their children were; (1) Molly Paralee Adams. (2) Bill Adams. (3) Clara Adams (4) Edd Adams (5) Ester Adams. (6) Frank Adams.(7) Jim Adams, (8) Lucie Adams. (9) Roy Adams (10) and Bessie Adams.

(1) Molly P. Adams married James Madison Rapp Jr., who was born September 12, 1868 and died October 25, 1949. He is also buried at the Marionville 100F Cemetery. They were married  October 17, 1895 in the residence of W.F. McCullah, Circuir Clerk of Stone County, MO. (NOTE) The county clerk, W.F. McCullah, who performed their marriage ceremony, may have been  William Francis McCullah, son of Alexander and Lucy Robertson) McCullah Jr.William Francis McCullah, Jr., was in the merchantile business at Marionville, and may have been the Stone County, Clerk as well.

James Madison Rapp, Jr. was the son of James Madison and Sarah E. (Adams) Rapp Sr., James Jr. was a brother to Issac Benton Rapp who married Marean (Gold) Jackson. A connection between Sarah E. (Adams) Rapp, and Jasper Newton Adams is unknown.

The children of James Madison and Molly Paralee (Adams) Rapp were; (1) Gertrude Rapp, (2) Efton Rapp. (3) Earl Rapp. (4) Sarah Elizabeth Rapp. (5) Merel Audrey Rapp. (6) Velma Etta Rapp. (7) Edna Pearl Rapp. (8) Loren  Boyd Rapp.

Gertrude Rapp was born September 21, 1896 and died November 27, 1976 at the age of eighty years, and is buried at the Marionville 100.f, Cemetery, in Lawrence County, MO., She was married to John Ebersold in about 1919. He died November 30, 1969. Their children were; Vernon Ebersold and Lloyd Ebersold, Vernon was born October 13, 1920, he worked 29 years for the Civil Service as a paint supervisor at Ft. Leonard Wood Army Post. He now has a upholstery business in Republic. He married Mary Hobson and they were divorced. They had a son Larry Wayne Ebersold, who was born August 5, 1952. Larry Wayne married Julie Fraker in 1986. They reside in Springfield, MO. He operates a floral and gift shop in Mansfield, MO.  and she is employed by southwest Missouri State university in Springfield.
The second wife of Vernon Ebersold was Pearl Daniels, she is employed by Bristol Shoe Company in Marionville, Missouri for over 12 years.
Lloyd Ebersold was born August 24, 1922 and died March 14, 1961, buried at Marionville, Missouri. He married Bernice Raulston from Billings, MO., After Lloyd died in 1961 Bernice married Frank Rephlo who died October 9, 1986. She resides in Billings, MO., retired from teaching in 1983 from Springfield Public Schools. Lloyd and Bernice had two children; Jackie Lee and Janice Ann Ebersold.
Jackie Lee Ebersond was born May 30, 1950, and married Cheeryl Twiggs. Janice Ann Ebersold was born  June 15, 1952, she married Ralph Mires, in Greene County, MO. They have three children; Nathan Mires, born January 10, born January 14, 1981, and  Sarah Mires, born August 5, 1985.
Efton Rapp was born December 12, 1898 and died April 25, 1987, and is buried at Claremore, Rogers County, Oklahoma. He married Iretta Berry. She worked for Bell Telephone Company for a short time. Then they moved to Claremore, Oklahoma where they lived for several years. After he died she returned to Aurora, Missouri. They had one son, William Wayne Rapp, who married Rita Ghan and they had three children, Tonya, Tami, and Travis Rapp. Tonya Rapp was born July 12, 1969, she married Greg Johnson, and they live in
Clinton, MO., and they have a son, Brandon Johnson, who was born February 21, 1989.

Tami Rapp was born August 20, 1971. She is a employee of Springfield, City Utilities.   Travis Rapp was born September 2, 1975, and resides in Springfield, Missouri. He was attending school there in 1992.

Earl Rapp was born July 9, 1899 and died August 1, 1965. He married Iva Odom, she died December 7, 1962.  They are both buried at Marionville 100F Cemetery, Lawrence County, Missouri. Earl and Iva raised Mae Rapp (daughter of Tebe and Maude Rapp) after her mother died when Mae was about 2 weeks old. They had at least 3 children; (1) Virginia Rapp, born July 8, 1925. (2) Victor Rapp.(3) Betty Ann Rapp, born March 4, 1934.

Virginia Rapp married Gene Smith and they were the parents of Carol Jean Smith, who was born August 5, 1947. She was a National Sales Representive for KDEB Television Station in Springfield, Missouri. She married Gene Parker in November of 1967. And they are the parents of three children; Wesley Parker, born February 8, 1971. Jeffrey Parker, born July 15,1974, and Scott Parker, born March 15, 1982.

Carol Jean and Gene Parker then divorced, and Carol Jean married Paul Smart in June of 1991, then divorced him and later married Bill Stout. Virginia and Gene were also the parents of Douglas Smith,  who now live in California, and is single

Virginia Smith was the first child of Earl and Iva (Odom) Rapp, she married Gene Smith, he was born between 1926 and 1933. He was a graduate of the University of Arkansas.
In 1992 he was a Receiver Coach for the Chicago Bears Football team. Lhe also coached for the Houston Oilers, Tampa Bay Bucaneers, and the Detroit Lions. He married Carol Irby who was from Aurora, Missouri. They had three children; (1) Rhonda Rapp, born in 1952, she married bill Olafson, and they had 2 children, who were from a prior marriage of Bill’s, they were James and Lisa Olafson. (2) Paula Rapp, born in 1954, she married Peter Learn, and had 2 children; Josh Learn, born in 1980 and Tristan Learn, born in 1984, and they reside in Columbia, Missouri. (3) Marla Rapp was born in 1958, she married Scott Rivera, and they have a son; Justin Rivera born in 1988.

Betty Ann Rapp was the third child of Earl and Iva (Odom) Rapp, born March 4, 1934. She married David Charles “Buddy” Howard before 1954. They have David Kent Howard, his surname was changed to Bassore. David Kent (Howard) Bassore married Debra Constantine who was form St. Louis, MO.

The second husband of Betty Ann Rapp was Donald James Bassore, who was born August 18, 1935,  they were married in November of 1960. They had at least 2 children; (1) Juli Linette Bassore was born August 29, 1962. She married Ted Heinzler, from Marshall, MO. They had 2 children; Hallie Marie Heinzler, born March 26, 1991, and Hannah Christine Heinzler, born in 1993. (2) Christopher Todd Bassore, born May 13, 1964. He is a teacher and coach at Aurora, High School in Lawrence County, Missouri.

Sarah Elizabeth Rapp was the child of James Madison and Mollie (Adams) Rapp, and was born June 8, 1901 and died June 26, 1903. She is buried in the Gold Cemetery, in Stone County, Missouri.

Merele Audrey Rapp was the fourth child of James Madison and Mollie (Adams) Rapp, born October 20, 1905. She married Elmer Courdin, she was a employee of the Frisco Railroad Company in Springfield, MO. They were the parents of Max and David Courdin. (1) Max Courdin was born May 7, 1933. He married Floydine McElhaney, June 21 1952. They had three children; Kathleen Jo Courdin, born January 20, 1953. She married John R. Bills, and their children were; Kara Lee Bills, born December 9, 1977, and John Robert Bills, born October 28, 1982. (2) Karen Lee Courdin was born June 19, 1957. She married a Pickens, and they had 2 children, Shawn and Brent Allen Pickens, born 1974 and 1976.

The second husband of Karen Lee Courdin was Bill Price, who she married after 1976.(3) Kristy Ann Courdin was born February 5, 1960. Education: Central Oklahoma University, Employed by Mutual of New York, Insurance Company. She married Donald G. Dewberry.

The second child of Merle Audrey (Rapp) and Elmer Courdin was David Courdin, born April 1, 1937. He married Carol Green.

The fifth child of James Madison and Molly Paralee (Adams) Rapp, was Velma Etta Rapp, born July 22, 1906 and died May 8 1985. She is buried in the Maple Park Cemetery at Aurora, Missouri. She married Lewis Michel, who was born about 1900. They lived at Aurora, MO. They were the parents of Etta Lou Michel, Jimmy Lee Michel, Charles Michel, and Barbara Michel. (1) Etta Lou Michel was born in 1926 and died in 1976. She had been married, but was single when she died. She had no children. (2) Jimmy Lee Michel is the owner of  Jimmy Michel Motor  Company in Aurora, Missouri. He married Nora E. Sisco, and they have two children, timothy J. “Tim” Michel, born June 24, 1950. He helps his parents operate the Jimmy Michel Motor Co. in Aurora. Tim married Rita K. Summers, August 8, 1960, and they have two children; Stacy Michel, born June 8, 1971. And she married Andy Gardner, they have one child; Chad Michel, born August 11, 1975. The other child of Jimmy Lee and Nora E. (Sisco) Michel was Libby Lee Michel, born April 10, 1954, she married Robert Bruce Grisham, and they have two children; Robert Bruce Grisham Jr., born December 17, 1978, and Amy Elizabeth Grisham, born August 7, 1980.

The third child of Velma Etta (Rapp) and Lewis Michel was Charle Michel, born October 9, 1929. He owns and operates a printing shop in Coffyville, Kansas. He married Mona Lou Evans, July 21, 1950 and they had four children; Michael Eugene Michel, D.D.S., born December 4, 1954, Michael and his family reside in Topeka, Kansas, Occupation, Dentist. He married Janet Troupe in August of 1979.  Their four children; Erin Troupe Michel, born March 4, 1981. Adam  Patrick Michel, born October 14, 1984. Cooper William Michel, born October 14, 1989, and Mary Elizabeth Michel, born September 10, 1991. The second child of Charles and Mona Lou (Evans) was Julie Lou Michel, born February 28, 1958, she resides with her family in Coffyville, Kansas. She married Tim Wiles, their children were; Eric Michel Wiles, born February 0, 1981. Sarah Michel Wiles born August 13, 1982. And Gregory Lynn Wiles, born September 9, 1987. The third child of Charles and Mona Lou (Evans) was Linette Marie Michel, born October 9, 1959, (resides in Coffyville, Kansas). She married Tom Mark Tipton, their two children wer Katie Leigh Tipton, born July 10, 1984, and Benjamin Mark Tipton, born June 4, 1987. The fourth child of Charles and Mona Lou (Evans) was Barbara Michel, born January14, 1938. She married Kenneth Leroy Payne, born November 25, 1957. Kevin James, born December 16, 1958, Kendra Lynne, born January 14, 1962 and Keli Song Michel, born May 20, 1972 in Inchon, Korea (adopted daughter) The seventh child of Mollie and James Madison Rapp, Jr. was Edna Pearl Rapp, born September 29, 1908 and died December 30,. 1983. She was married January 9, 1931, and both buried in the Basher Cemetery, in Douglas County, Missouri. They had one known child. Patsy Miller, on March 9 1949, she married Virgil James Everett, and their children were; Verna Sue and Paula Jean Everett. Verna Sue married Edward William Dingeldein, June 30, 1972, they lived in Springfield, Missouri. Their only child was Jason Edward Dingeldein, born September 13, 1976. Verna Sue was born October 13, 1950.

Paula Jean Everett was born August 15, 1953, she married Joseph Edward Schatz, October 16, 1974. They had two children; Christine Ann Schatz, born July 8, 1976. Chad James Schatz, born March 26, 1982.

The eighth child of Mollie Paralee and James Madison Rapp, was Loren Boyd Rapp, born February 3, 1911, and died February 9, 1972. He is buried south of Aurora, in Lawrence County, MO. He married Edna Shoemaker, and they had two children; Loren Boyd Rapp Jr., and Wanda Rapp, (no dates available).

Mollie Paralee Adams, daughter of Jasper Newton Adams and Rachael Elizabeth (Gold) Adams she was born December 28, 1876 near Crane, MO., and died May 30., 1935 at the age of 58 years.  She was buried in the Marionville100F Cemetery, in Lawrence County, Missouri.  She married James Madison Rapp, Jr. who was born September 12, 1868, and died October 25, 1949, and buried in the Marionville 100F Cemetery, beside his wife, Molly. They were married October 17, 1895 at the residence of W.F. McCullah, Circuit Clerk of Stone County, MO. James Madison Rapp Jr. was the son of James Madison Rapp and Sarah E. (Adams) Rapp.

James Madison Rapp Jr. was a brother to Isaac Benton Rapp, who married Marean (Mary Ann) (Gold) Rapp. Sarah E. Adams was the daughter of Monroe Adams who was a brother to Jasper Newton Adams. They were the sons of Isaac Adams.
 

NANCY JANE GOLD

Nancy Jane Gold was the daughter of William C. and Sarah Paralee (Alexander) Gold, whe was born  in 1860 in Green Valley, Porter Township, near Boaz, in Christian County, Missouri. She married Charles Dunfield in Stone County, Missouri. Their children were; (1) Leonard Edward Dunfield, He married Ethel Mae Wagener. (2) Charles Ernest Dunfield, he never married. (3) Ella Dunfield, she married a Woods. (4) Roxie Dunfield married John Geren.

Roxie (Dunfield) Geren is buried in Smart Cemetery, between Billings, and Clever in Christian County, MO.

The children of Leonard  Edward and Ethel Mae (Wagner) Dunfield; (1)  Jesse Dunfield, (2) Cleo Dunfield, first married Jack O’dell, he was hit by a Missouri Pacific, train, and killed between Quail Spur and Hurley, in Stone County, MO.

Jack O’dell was born January 30, 1902 and died June 6, 1931, and he is buried in the Long Cemetery at Quail Spur, in Stone County. MO. He married Cleo Dunfield, and they were the parents of a daughter; Jackie O’dell.

Jackie O’dell married Gerald Edward Pinkley, and they had a daughter Kimberly Pinkley, and they had a daughter born in July of 1986. Second, Cleo married Efton Morris

(3) Chloe  “Scratchy” Dunfield  married Ruby Scott they were the parents of Eddie and Wayne Dunfield.

Ernest and Jessie (Cloud) Dunfield had Robert Eugene Dunfield, born May 5, 1932. They  had two daughters;  Dixie Lee Dunfield, born March 3, 1935. Glena Maxine born March 5, 1937 and Kenneth Ernest Dunfield born October 7, in about 1939.
They had a half sister---Faye Magness.

Charles Dunfield the husband of Nancy Jane Gold, went to Oklahoma to work in the wheat harvest, and never came back. He got a ride with a man in a buggy coming this way, and it is thought that he met with foul play. He was last seen with a man. They were sitting on a log beside the road. He was never seen or heard of again. Nancy raised their five children alone and she had a real hard time. She worked for Bud Hair when he could afford to hire her. He gave her a pair of shoes when she came to do the washing for the Hair family with her feet  wrapped in rags. They helped her all they could. Nancy Jane (Gold) Dunfield is buried in the Gold Cemetery in Stone County, MO. Also buried there with her; Charles Dunfield, (son) Leonard Edward Dunfield, Ethel Mae (Wagener) Dunfield, and Ella Dunfield and Jessie Dunfield, daughter of Leonard Edward Dunfield. They are buried in the north east corner of the cemetery.

Chloe “Scratchy” Dunfield was born October 23, 1908 and died June 24, 1934. He is buried in the Molly Wright Cemetery, in Stone County, Missouri.

From the Crane Chronicle     Cleo Morris, 89.

Crane—Service for Cleo Morris, Crane, will be at 2,p.m. Friday in Manlove Stumpft Funeral Home. The body will be cremated following the services.
Mrs. Morris a retired factory machine operator died at 3 p.m.  Monday Jun 9, 1997 in Sunshine Manor, Republic,
Visitation will be from 10:00 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday inb the Funeral Home.

JOSEPH GOLD

Joseph Gold, son of William C. and Sarah Paralee (Alexander) Gold, was born in 1864 and died in 1952. He was born in Christian County, near Boaz, Missouri. He married Margaret Head, September 28, 1888. They were the parents of Artie Gold, and twins Luther and Arthur Gold and Pearl Gold.
Joseph Gold is listed in the Lawrence County, MO. census in 1900 with his family at that time.  Several of the Gold families had moved into the Aurora area to work in the mines.

Joseph Gold, Dec. 1866, 33 yr.  M-9, MO, MO. ILL. Miner Ore.
Martha Gold, March  1872, 28 yrs. 3-3. MO.
Alfred Gold, (m) Nov. 1891, 8 yrs. MO. Mo., Mo.
ShermanGold (m) April 1893. 7 yrs. MO. MO. MO.
Lydia V. Gold (f)  Dec. 1895. 4 yrs. MO. MO. MO.

Other family members who had moved there to work in the mines were; Thomas Wright, and Alice (Gold) Wright, his wife and 3 children listed with them.

George W. Gold is shown living there with his wife and 2 children.
Allen Gold and Martha, his wife and 4 children are listed there with him.
James J. Gold, (son of Wm.C.Gold) with his wife and 4 children.

Also listed there is James H. Yoachum (ex-husband of Margaret L. Gold as a widow, with a housekeeper and his gr-daughter by his 2nd marriage. Her name is Mabel, born December 1895. And William Yoachum (son of James H. Yoachum) born in 1869, 30 yrs. Lovina,

August 1873, 26, and his three children, Annie Nov. 1, 1893, 6 yrs. Mary, Oct. 1895, 4 yrs, and Clara, March 1898, 2 yrs old.

Artie Gold, born about 1891. She married Leonard Pearce. Their children were; (1) Lyndal Pearce who married Jesse Maples, (2) Claude Pearce, (3) Jerald Pearce, married Ruby Plowman.

William Arthur Gold was born about 1893. (twin) He married Martha Hayes. They had a daughter; Juanita Hayes.

David Luther Gold was born in about 1893 (twin). He married Hazel Thompson, who was the bookkeeper for the Hurley Farmers Exchange for several years.

MAREAN (MARY ANN) GOLD

Marean Gold was born March 11, 1857 in Christian County, Missouri. The Wm. C. Gold family is shown in the1860 Census near Boaz.  It shows; Wm. T.A., 8 years old. Rachel Elizabeth, 6, Mary Ann 3, Nancy J. 5 months. Then in the 1870 census of Stone County, it shows; the children; William 19, Elizabeth 16, Mary A., 13 Nancy J. 9, James 4, Joseph 7. John 1.

William T.A. Gold was born in Lincoln County, TN., and the next four, Rachael Elizabeth, Mary A., Nancy Jane, and Joseph were born in Christian County, and the rest wee born in Stone County, Missouri on the Old Wire Road.
Marean Gold first married William Hugh Jackson, and they had one son; William (Bill or Bud) Jackson. He was born in about 1887. William Hugh took his wife and four-year-old son to her parents home (Uncle Billy Gold) and left them there. Then ten days later a body was found along the railroad tracks and identified by the clothing to be that of William Hugh Jackson. This happened about 1891.  Isaac Benton Rapp lost his wife August 3, 1890. Marean and Isaac Benton Rapp were married in about 1894, and they had four children; Douglas, and Lulu both died young, then they had Van and Albert Rapp. Marean and Isaac Benton Rapp. Albert was born in 1897 and died February 15, 1966. He married Hattie Mae Williams, November 1, 1916. They had six children (1) Lloyd Britten Rapp, (2) Lucille Mae Rapp, (3) Irene Elizabeth Rapp (4) Eldon Lee Rapp. (5) Thelma Lea Rapp (6) Charles Benton Rapp.

Stephen Langford (Tiebe) Rapp was the son of Isaac Benton and Tennessee (Sullivan) Rapp. Albert and Tiebe Rapp were half brothers. Tiebe’s children by his first wife (Maud Geren)
(1)Ivon Rapp, (2) Harold Isaac Rapp, (3) Donald L. Rapp, (4) Leonard Geren Rapp. (5) Ehel Mae Rapp, (6) Eva Lee Rapp, By his second wife; (Lena Butler) (1) Lowell. By his third wife, (Louise Hanafin) (1) Jack Wilburn Rapp, (2) Mary Lou Rapp, (3) Joe Rapp. (4) Charlotte (5) Janet Rapp, (6) Billy Gene Rapp.

Marean died January 8, 1902 and is buried in the Gold Cemetery on the old home place in Stone County, MO. Tiebe Rapp is buried in the Smart Cemetery with all three of his wives. Mrean had one child by the name of Jackson and four by the name of Rapp.

William (Bill or Bud) Jackson) may be buried in the Charity Cemetery but no marked grave is found there that identifies it as his.

Isaac Benton Rapp is buried in the Smart Cemetery next to his first wife, Tennessee (Sullivan) Rapp.

Stephen Langford (Tiebe) Rapp’s oldest child; Ivon Ellen Rapp married Howard Gold, the son of George Washington Gold.

Lucille Mae Rapp, the daughter of Albert Rapp,(son of Marean Gold) married Leaford Gold, who was the son of Elmer Thomas Gold, who was the son of Andrew Thomas Gold, son of James Thomas Gold, son of Thomas Gold.

ISAAC BENTON RAPP

Isaac Benton Rapp was the son of James Madison Rapp and Sarah E. Rapp. J.M. Rapp was born October 1, 1828 and died April 9, 1883 and is buried in the Smart Cemetery. Sarah E. Rapp was born February 18, 1831 an died May 7, 1909. She is buried in the Gold Cemetery in Stone county, Missouri. Isaac Benton Rapp was born in December of 1849 and died April 3, 1924. He first married Tennessee Sullivan, who was born March 10, 1854 and died August 3, 1890. To this union was born three sons; Columbus Rapp, born in 1880 and died in1940. Charles Arthur Rapp, born Feruary 15, 1886 and died September 14, 1966 in Texas, and Stephen Langford (Tiebe) Rapp, born October 2, 1888 and died December 11, 1967. He is buried in the Smart Cemetery in Christian County, Missouri.

Marean (Mary Ann) Gold was the daughter of William C. and  Sarah P. (Alexander) Gold, born March 11, 1858 in Christian County, Missouri and died January 8, 1902. She is buried in the Gold Cemetery, on the  Old Wire Road in Stone county, Missouri. She first married William Hugh Jackson and they had one son; William (Bill or Bud) Jackson.

William (Bud) Jackson married Minnie Lea Maples, and they had three children; Herman, Audria pearl, and Curtis Jackson.  Audria Pearl married a Stearns.

(NOTE) The information on Hugh Jackson was furnished by Katherine Jackson, wife of Curtis Jackson and also information by Paul Jackson.)

When Bud was seven years old his mother (Marean) married Isaac Benton Rapp who had also lost his spouse, (Tennessee Sullivan Rapp). They had two children, who died dyoung, then they had Van Rapp and Albert Rapp. Albert Rapp was born in 1897 and died February 15, 1966. He married Hattie Mae Williams, November 1, 1916. They had six children; Lloyd Britten Rapp, was bonr April 22, 1919. He married Jewell Damity and they had two daughters and then they divorced, He married Abbey Morin, June  #, 1972. (2) Lucille Mae Rapp was born July 30, 1921. She married Leaford Gold, who was born September 16, 1919. They were married September 28, 1940. They had two children, Deanne and Ronald Gold. Their daughter, Deanne Gold, was born March 22, 1946 and she married James R. House, October 22, 1965, They had two boys; Craig Allen House, born July 16, 1969 and Darin Keith House, born May 30, 1971. Ronald Lee Gold, born October 12, 1949, married Carol Sue Jenkins, born July 16, 1951.  They were married November 13, 1969. They had three children; Carrie Lynn, born March 15, 1971, Brian Lance Gold born February 21, 1974, and Chanda Rena, Born December 24, 1975. (3) Irene Elizabeth Rapp, was born October 29, 1923 and married John O;Neal June 27, 1942. They had twin boys. (4) Eldon Lee Rapp was born August 16, 1925. He married Maxine Scott, April 30, 1949. They had two boys and a girl (5) Thelma Lee Rapp was born March 15, 1937. She married Joe Bacher, November 28, 1964. They had no children. (6) Charles Benton Rapp was born July 16, 1941. He married Karen Breidenstein, July 12, 1968.

STEPHEN LANGFORD RAPP

Stephen Langford “Teibe” Rapp was the youndest son of Isaac Benton and Tennessee (Sullivan) Rapp. He was born October 2, 1888. He married Maude Geren. Their children were; (1) Ivon Ellen Rapp, born November 13, 1913. She married Howard Gold, son of George Washington and Permelia (Mitchell) Gold. Ivon and Howard were married January 18, 1933. (2) Harold Isaac Rapp, born August 6, 1915. (3) Donald L. Rapp, born June 30, 1918. (4) Leonard Geren Rapp, born February 13, 1920. (5) Ethel Mae Rapp, born December 17, 1922. (6) Eva Lea Rapp, born December 3, 1924. Maude (Geren) Rapp died February 24, 1925.

Stephen Langford, then married Lena Butler, and had one child; Lowell, born May 1, 1929. Lena died April 3, 1931.

In April of 1933, Tiebe married Louise Hanafin, and they had six children; (1) Jack Wilburn Rapp, born November 11, 1933. (2) Mary Lou, born May 4, 1935.(3) Joe Rapp, born in1936. (4) Charolette born in 1938, (5) Janet, born in 1941, (6) Billy Gene, born in 1945.

Stephen Langford Rapp is buried beside his three wives in Smart Cemetery, Charistian County, Missouri.

JAMES GOLD

James Gold was the son of William C. Gold, and Sarah Paralee (Alexander) Gold. He was born in about 1867 in Stone County, Missouri. He married Ellen Forrester and they were the parents of  Anas Gold, born about 1893, Harry Gold, born in February of 1897, Willie Gold, born in November 1894, and Annie Gold born about 1895

JOHN  WILEY  GOLD

John Wiley Gold was the son of William C. and Sarah Paralee (Alexander) Gold. He was born June 28, 1868 in Stone County, Missouri. He died May 24, 1941, and is buried at the Crane, Community Cemetery, Stone County, Missouri. He married Martha Jane Jackson, Augusst 25, `888. They had three children;  (1) Grace Gold, (2) Charley Efton Gold, (3) Ethel Gold, Martha Jane (Jackson) Gold was born January 26, 1869 and died 1898. She is buried in the Gold Cemetery, in Stone County. After she died Charley and Ethel went to stay with Ike Gardner and his wife; Jane and they raised them. (this information furnished by Pauline (Dewitt) Pearce.

John Wiley Gold and his second wife; Sarah Williams, had two children; (1) Hazel Edna “Pearl” Gold born October 16, 1901 aand died August 9, 1929, she married Efton Martin, and they had an infant daughter born and died August 9, 1929. Both Pearl and her baby died the same date. They were also parents of Joe Martin. He resides at his home about 3 miles north of Crane, in Stone County, MO.

(2) Robert Lincoln Gold, who married Beatrice Davis and they had four children, Sarah Ann, Juanita, Robert Lurern and Roy Gold.
Sarah Ann Gold was born in August of 1928, and she married Noel Harris in 1946, and they had three children; Noel Kenneth Harris, John David Harris, and Tammy Elizabeth Harris.

Noel Kenneth Harris was born in 1947 and he married Elizabeth Young, and they had a son; Sean Quinn Harris.

John David Harris was born in 1950 and married Marie Brown. They had two sons; John Noel and Adrian Kenneth Harris.

Tammy Ann Harris was born in1957, She married Mike Rentsch, no children.

Juanita Gold was born in 1930 and married Don Laurence. They had four children, Sandra, Beatrice, James Eugene, Rebecca Ann, and Roberta Jane Laurence.

Sandra Laurence married Jerry Dickerson and had two sons; one died shortly after irth. Her son Jeffrey, married and had a son named Andrew Dickerson. Sandra’s first husband died and she married Larry Kiamond, and they had a daughter, Cindy Diamond.

Robert Laverne Gold was born November 9, 1934 in Crane, Missouri and died December 15, 1997 and buried in the Crane Community Cemetery. He married Lucille Wilson, and they had three daughters; Roberta Lucille Gold who married Lee Edwards, no children. Kimmie Gold, who marrie Doug Swearingen and had two sons; Jason and Kimmie. She also had a daughter Nickie, by Bille Grant. Sherry married Howard Alexanderand had two children; Justin Wayne and Jennifer Raine Alexander.

Roy Gold was born in 1942 and married Ellen Stewart. They had a son; Duncan Gold, and a daughter; Diedra Gold, Duncan Gold married Sharon Thomas,

Roy’s first wife died at the age of 28. He then married July Wilson.

CHARLEY EFTON GOLD

Charley Efton Gold spent a number of years in the Army. He later married Sarah Gray, she was the daughter of Clay and Will Gray, and was raised by her grandmother, Sarah (Hodges) Fugitt, and lived for awhile with Ike Gardner and his second wife, Arminta (Dewitt) Gardner. Charles Efton Gold and Sarah (Gray) Gold had at least four children; Donald Lee Gold, Louise Gold, Jack Gold, and Charles L. Gold.

Charles L. Gold was th son of ? Charles Efton and Sarah (Gray) Gold.  He was born in 1937 and died in October of 1995. He married Nancy (unknown). They had two children; Gregory gold who lives in Springfield, and Cynthia (Gold) Giacin of Dallas, Texas. Charles and Nancy lived in Republic, Missouri. He was a member and elder of the Republic First Christian Church. He worked for Associated Wholesale Grocers, for 25 years in data processing. He was an Army Veteran.

ETHEL GOLD

Ethel Gold was the daughter of John Wiley Gold and Sarah (Gray) Gold. She married Off Rickman, who was born in 1882 and died in 1961. Both are buried at Marionville, MO. (1) They had a son who died in infancy. (2) Jane Rickman, who married Murl Garoutte who was a half brother to Sarah Gray. (3) Dorothy Rickman married a Harris. (4) Betty Rickman married Dale Soutte, and (5) a son Y.B. Rickman who never married and worked as an accountant for several years for Frisco Railroad Company at Springfield, Missouri.
 

MARY ELLEN GOLD

Mary Ellen “Maggie” Gold daughter of William C. Gold and Sarah Paralee (Alexander) Gold. She was born in 1872 in Stone County, Missouri. She married William Harvey Garrison, who was born January 28, 1865. Their children were; Lela, Ina, Neva, and Burl Garrison.

Lela married Sam Tacker and they had four children; Earl, Donna, Douglas, and Glen Tacker.

Ina married Zena O’Neal and they had two daughters; Henrietta and Ina Mae. Henrietta died in 1984. William Harvey Garrison and “Maggie” (Gold) Garrison, are both buried in the Ocie Cemetery, located in Barry County west of Crane MO. She died April 24, 1931, at the age of  58 years, 7 months and 18 days. He died January 1, 1954.

Louisa C. Gold was the daughter of Johnathan and Sarah (Ryalls) Gold, born at “Gold Hill”in 1830 on Cane Creek, about 2 miles west of Petersburg, Tennessee, near the Lincoln/Giles and Marshall County Lines. She is accounted for in the 1850 census of Giles County, TN. in the household of the Johnathan Gold family. She married a man by the name of Creasy in 1850, and did not go on the Johnathan Gold Wagon Train. However she is listed on the Christian County, MO. census of 1860 near Boaz with her four children. It reads as follows;

Louisa C. Creasy 30, TN., Sarah P. Creasy 8, TN., Amanda 6, TN., Martha Creasy 4, TN., and Henry Creasy 1, born in Missouri. So she came to Christian County in about 1859. We have no record of what happened to husband and father of her children.

In the marriage records of Christian County, we find that she married Jacob David Turner, March 20, 1862. In the 1880 census of Lincoln Township (Clever) of Christian County, we find this, David Turner and Louisa C. Turner with two children; Joseph R. Turner 11, and Jefferson R. Turner 8. In the 1860 census of Christian County, Porter Township; Henry Turner age 53, born in Kentucky, David 22, TN., Daniel 21, Nancy A. 8, TN., Elizabeth 17, Mo., and Mary A. 16, MO. This family came to Missouri in about 1842. About 10 years before the Johnathan Gold family came to Christian County, MO.

The marriage records of Greene County, Missouri shows; Lulu Turner married T.S. Lipps, November 10, 1889. The census of 1900 shows David Turner with a different wife; David Turner 64, Lucinda Turner born February 1843, age 57.

Listed in the census of 1910 in the city of Billings, MO. We find; Jacob D. Turner, head of household age 74 years old.
Jesse Creasy and his family is also shown in the same 1860 census of Christian County, on that census in Household # 351; Porter Township, Jesse Creasy 60 VA.,  Real Estate and personal property, $11.075.  Catherine, 52, TN., Minerva J. 25, Tn., George T., 22, TN., Cannon M., 19, Charles, TN., 16, Aneliza, 14, TN. It appears that this Jesse Creasy returned to Tennessee. He is shown back there in Giles County, TN., in the land records there. He appeared in court to sign a deed. Louisa Gold may have married a son of this Jesse Creasy, and may be that is how he came to live in Christian County, MO., near Boaz.

SARAH P. CREASY

Sarah P. Creasy was the daughter of Louisa C. Gold. She was born in 1852 and died October 6, 1877 in Christian County, MO.  We believe she is buried in Frazier Chapel Cemetery near Boaz in Christian County near Boaz, Missouri.  She married Alexander Hardin Solomon August 31, 1873. He was the son of George Solomon and Barbara Osteen.

Alexander H. Solomon first married Frances Sarah Williams, (her first marriage was to James Young, in 1861. He died on April 21, 1864. They had a daughter; Josephine Young, born in 1861. (Other records show her name to be Susan Sarah Williams) who was born November 11, 1845 and died on January 29, 1872. She then married James Solomon. Frances Sarah Williams was a half-sister to John Jefferson Williams. John Jefferson’s son Wynn Dixon Williams had a son; Clyde Leonard Williams who married Ada Lucille Gold, who was the daughter of Lorenzo Dow Gold. James Solomon was a brother to Alexander Solomon

Second, Alexander H. Solomon married Sarah P. Creasy, on August 31, 1873. Sarah P. Creasy was born in Marshall County, TN., the daughter of Louisa C. “Lulu” Gold Creasy. She came to Christian County, Missouri, in about 1859.

Alexander H. Solomon and Sarah P. (Creasy) had one child; Martha Louise “Mattie” Solomon, who was born June 23, 1875, Mattie Solomon married Hugh L. White Johnson. A great granddaughter of  “Mattie” I s Peggy Mitchell who lives in California.(1986).

Alexander H. Solomon is found serving as a judge in 1886 in the election of that year, The election was held in “Uncle Billy Thompsons” store, located one half mile south of where highway 14 crosses Green Valley east of Clever in Christian County MO. It is thought to be the first store in that area.

George W. Solomon, who married Nancy Cordelia Smith, is shown in the 1880 census of Lincoln Township (Clever) in Christian County, MO., in the household of Joseph H. Williams. He is listed as a orphan, 15 years of age, no relationship is stated. He is believed to be a nephew of Alexander H. Solomon.

Nancy Cordelia (Smith) Solomon was the daughter of David Smith and Sarah C. (Cavener) Smith, whose parents were, Timothy and Winnie (Gold) Cavener. Winnie is listed in the household of Columbus “Lum” and Sarah C. (Cavener) (Smith) Garoutte in the 1880 census. Then in the 1900 census of that Christian County, Winnie is listed in the household of George W. and Nancy Cordelia (Smith) Solomon. Nancy Cordelia was born December 15, 1870. Sarah C. (Cavener) Smith and David Smith were later divorced.

While Nancy Cordelia Smith was growing up, she stayed with her Uncle George W. Cavener and his family. She was known as Nancy Cordelia Cavener. She married George W. Solomon in about 1890. He was born in about 1866. They had a son; Wiley Solomon, who married Nora King. They had a daughter, Rebecca Solomon who married a Coffman and they had two sons; George and Bob Solomon. They lived in Springfield. The census of 1900 for Lincoln Township of Christian County, MO shows; House #253, George W. Solomon age 33, born in 1866, married 10 years. Nancy C. 29, born in 1870, Wm. W., son, 9, born in 1890 and Winnie Cavener GMO born in 1820.

George W. and Nancy had a son; Elvin G. Solomon born September 29, 1892, and died May 20, 1894. Nancy Cordelia Solomon died August 24, 1914 and is buried in the Frazier Cemetery, near Boaz, beside her son; Elvin G. Solomon.

Sarah P. (Creasy) Solomon died in 1877, and Alexander H. Solomon married Sarah Johnson. He was married three times, and all three was named “Sarah”. He is buried in Frazier Cemetery,  near Boaz, Missouri.

He was called Alexander Hardin “Preach” Solomon, (NOTE) He was not a preacher.

Martha Louise “Mattie” Solomon, daughter of Alexander H. Solomon and Sarah P. (Creasy) Solomon, born January 23, 1875 in Arkansas, and died Febvruary 18, 1956 in Oxnard, Ventura County, California. She is buried in Ivy Lawn Cemetery, Oxnard, California. She married Hugh L. White Johnson, August 17, 1891 in Mt. Vernon, Lawrence County, MO. He was born August 14, 1872 in Spencer, Missouri, and died September 16, 1955 in Oxnard, Ventura County, California Ivy Lawn Cemetery, Oxnard, California. Their children were;

(1) Arvell L. Johnson, born December 13, 1893, he married Lizzie M. Bader, December 27, 1918. She was born in June of 1897, in Missouri.

(2)  Claude Leonard Johnson, born December 1, 1894m Miller, Missouri, and died August 27, 1961.

(3)  Orval Hobert Johnson, born October 21, 1896, Miller, Missouri, died March 8,1976.

(4)  Homer D. Johnson, born  August 25, 1898, Miller, Missouri, Lawrence Co., died March 4, 1920.

(5)  James Leo Johnson, born November 9, 1900, Miller, Lawrence Co. Missouri.

(6)  Raymond L. White Johnson, born July 25, 1903, Miller, Missouri, died August 11, 1927.

(7)  Hollis Hugh Johnson, born September 19, 1906, Miller, Missouri.

(8)  Oris Linden Johnson, born November 5, 1907, Miller, Missouri.

(9)  Elton Alexander Johnson, born September 15, 1909, Miller, Missouri.

(10)  Dallas L. Johnson, born December 2, 1912, Miller, Missouri.

(11)  Maynard Johnson, born February 7, 1914, Miller, Lawrence County, Missouri died July 17, 1967

Sarah Jane Gold was the daughter of Johnathan and Sarah (Ryalls) Gold. She was born at Gold Hill in Lincon County, Tennessee. She married Jesse Creasy, December 2, 1850 in Lincoln County, Tennessee. He was born in Giles County, Tennessee, and they both died in Texas. Their children were;  (1) Mary C. Creasy, born in 1851 at Lynville, in Giles County, TN. (2) Martha A. Creasy, born in 1853 at Pulaski, in Giles County, Tn., she married James Thomas, she is buried at Condon Grove. (3) John T. Creasy was born in 1855 at Lynville. (4) William Carroll Creasy was born in 1858 in TN. He married Eula Vaughn. (5) Ann Elizabeth Creasy was born in 1862 in TN. She married Richard Temple. (6) “Manda” Amanda Creasy married Wharton Morris. (7) Nancy E. Creasy, was born in 1854 in Tn., She is shown in the 1880 census of Greene County, Missouri. It reads as follows; N.E. Creasy (S. kh) 26, Tn. Tn. TN. She was married to Reuben Fare of Lawrence County MO., on March 22, 1881. (Ref; marriage records of Greene County, Missouri) (8) Franklin Creasy was born in 1871 in Texas. He married Grace Easton.

It appears that Jesse and Sarah Jane (Gold) Creasy went to Missouri, and stayed in the Greene and Christian County area for a short time, and then went on to Texas. And that Nancy Elizabeth either stayed in Missouri with relatives or some other reason that we are not aware of. Then later married Reuben Fare of Lawrence County, MO.

Mary C. Creasy was born in 1851 at Lynville, in Giles County. She married James Brockleband Milton. He was born October 1857 in Wassund, Yorkshire, England, and died in Bee, Johnson County, Oklahoma. His father was George Milton and his mother was Ann Brocklebank. Mary C. Creasy was the daughter of Jesse and Sarah Jane (Gold) Creasy. Their children were;  (1) Myrtle Rosella Milton, born July 15, 1882 in Montague, Texas, and died March 20, 1949 at Verden, Caddo County, Oklahoma, she married Frank Nelson Gentry, March 11, 1898. Buried at Spring Creek, Cemetery. (2) Ora Milton, born July 15, 1884, died in 1885, in Texas. (3)Loda Milton, born 1885, died in 1885, in Texas. (4) Leonard Leaf Milton, born July 30, 1888 at Tishomingo, Johnston County, Oklahoma, and died April 23, 1959, at, Guymon, Texas County, Oklahoma, and buried at Guymon, Oklahoma. He married Letushia Pearl Smith, December 23, 1909, at Hedrick, Jackson County, Oklahoma. The parents of Letushia Pearl Smith were; John Anderson Smith, and Magnolia Melvina Rutledge.

(5) Lucy Milton was born and died in 1889, Tishomingo, Johnson County, Oklahoma.

The children of Leonard Leaf Milton were; (1) Dortha Lenora Milton, born December 20, 1910 at Verdan, Caddo County, Oklahoma, and died March 10, 1988 at Guymon, Texas County, Oklahoma.  She married Leo Ballard, October 18, 1933 at Poasset, Caddo County, Oklahoma. (2) Buna Mae Milton, born June 28, 1913 at Verden, Caddo County, Oklahoma, and died January 21, 1985 at Lancaster, California.  She married Hiram Clifton Case. (3) Granvil Melford Milton, born August 13, 1916, at Verden, Caddo County, Oklahoma. He died December 13, 1985. He married Mary E. Roberts, February 5, 1941. (4) Fleety :Lorean Milton was born January 1, 1919 at Verden, Caddo County, Oklahoma. She married James Willaim Copple, October 5, 1935 at Gilbert, Maricopa, Arizona. (5) Larence Leaf Milton, born November 20, 1920. He married Jessie Margie Copple, December 17, 1945 at Bakersfield, Kern County, California. (6) Lila Lucille Milton was born April 22, 1923. She married Cecil Edison Gentry, January 29,1939, at Anadarko, Caddo County, Oklahoma. (7) Stella Melvina Milton was born September 16, 1925 at Pocasset, Caddo County, Oklahoma. She married Arnold Bryant Holcomb, January 31, 1947, at Searcy, White County, Arkansas. (8) Edna Aritha Milton, was born January 3, 1928 at Pocasset, Caddo County, Oklahoma., she married Larry Hudson, December 9, 1944 at Gardena, Los Angeles, California, (9) Lillie Fern Milton, born February 18, 1930 at Pocasset, Caddo County, Oklahoma, and died April 12, 1964 at Guymon Texas County, Oklahoma. She married Gayland Wilson Lensing, December 24, 1951 at Clayton, New Mexico. (11) Melvin Ray Milton was born August 19, 1935 at Gilbert, Maricopa, Arizona.

The children of James William Copple and Fleety Lorean Milton were; (1) Nancy Faye Copple was born July 14, 1936 at Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. She married Richard Henry Bowen, April 12, 1958, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California.  (2) Pauline Ruth Copple was born September 27, 1940 at Wagner, Wagner County, Oklahoma. She married Douglas Michael Denatly April 6, 1968, at Bakersfield, Kern County, California. (3) Barbara Lorean Copple was born August 10, 1946, at Tulare, Tulare County, California. She married James Alan Helton, April 23, 1966 at Las Vegas, Nevada.

The children of Nancy Faye Copple and Richard Henry Bowen were;  (1) David Richard Bowen was born May 19, 1959 in Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany. He married Rose Ann Sellers, February 13, 1982 at Oakland, California. (2) Debra Fay Bowen was born July 13, 1960 in Bakersfield, California. (3) Elaine Lorean Bowen was born December 26, 1961 at Burlington, San Mateo, California, and died October 2, 1977 at Porterville, California, and buried at Clovis, Fresno, California. (4) Mark Ernest Bowen was born April 13, 1964 at Fresno, California. He married Karen Woodward April 17, 1984 at Manti, Utah. (5) Julie Ann Bowen was born February 10, 1966 at Fresno, Cal., she married Jerry Wayne Russell Larson in Oakland, Cal., January 4, 1986. (6) Chris William Bowen was born March 10, 1967 at Fresno, California. He married Stephanie Lynn Yates at Laguna Beach, California, November 7, 1992 (7) John Henry Bowen was born April 23, 1969 at Fresno, California. He married Lisa Snidman, May 28, 1993 at Salt Lake City, Utah.

The children of David Richard Bowen are (1) Christine Wanda Bowen, born June 12, 1983 at Provo, Utah. (2) Brandee Brooks Bowen, born December at Provo, Utah. (3) Melanie Marie Bowen, born July 25, 1987, at Provo, Utah. (4) Garrett David Bowen, born May 27, 1990, at Littleton, Arapahoe County, Utah.

The children of Debra Fay Bowen and Shawn Harold Fitzpatrick are; (1) Tyrel Donald Fitzpatrick, born November 16, 1984, at Rexburg, Madison County, Idaho. (2) Scott Richard Fitzpatrick born December 31, 1986 Provo, Utah. (3) Kathleen Elaine Fitzpatrick, born December 27, 1989.

The children of Mark Ernest Bowen and Karen Woodward are; (1) Spencer Henry Bowen. Born April 10, 1988 at Provo, Utah. (2) Briggette Bowen, born March 22, 1990 at Vandenberg, AFB. Santa Barbara, California. (3) Bryonna Bowen was born October 24, 1992.

The children of Julie Ann Bowen and Jerry Wayne Russell Larson; (1) Brittany Ann Larson, born November 18, 1987,  at Fresno, California. (2) Taylor Marie Larson was born March 27, 1991, at Fresno, California. (3) Jerry Wayne Russell Larson was born December 22, 1994 at Fresno, California.
The children of Chris William Bowen and Stephanie Lynn Yates are; (1) Chris Austin Bowen was born July 12, 1990.

THE GENERATIONS

1   Michael Gold-------1758-1814
2   Johnathan Gold-----1788-1865
3   Sarah Jane Gold----1832-
4   Mary C. Creasy-----1851-
5   Leonard Leaf Milton – 1887-1959
6   Fleety Leaf Milton----1919
7   Nancy Faye Copple---1936

ENOCH FRANK CREASY
By Clarisse Lee (Clark) Cottier

Enoch Frank Creasy was the son of Jesse and Sarah Jane (Gold) Creasy. He was born January 17, 1871 in Whitsboro, Grayson, Texas. He died April 24, 1929 in Haileyville, Pittsburg, Oklahoma. On November 11, 1894 he married Gracie, Katherine, Easton who was born March 23, 1874 in Tishomingo, Indian Territory, Oklahoma. She died July 29, 1955 in Antioch, Contra Costa, California.

Their children were; (1) Clora/Clara Susie Creecy, born January 17, 1897 at Emet, Indian Territory, Oklahoma. She married Will Davis in February of 1913. (2) Zella Creecy, (3) Lera Nettie Creecy, was born January 18, 1899 at Emet, Indian Territory, Oklahoma. She died May 18, 1899. (4) Juel/Jewel Creecy, was born July 26, 1900, at Emet, Indian Territory, Oklahoma, on November 9, 1916 she married Will B. Lazenby. (5) Pearlie Marguerite Creecy was born June 14, 1904 at Emet, Indian Territory, Oklahoma, and died November 15, 1916 at Modesto, California. (6) Claude Henry Creecy was born in 1904/1906 at Milburn, Johnston County, Oklahoma, and died in Sacramento, California in 1992. (7) Vernon “Bud” Theadore Creecy, was born January 15, 1912 in Johnston County, Oklahoma. He married Hazel Gentry. (8) John Thomas “Jay” Creecy was born January 15, 1914. (9) Rena Juanita Creecy was born February 14, 1917 in Milburn, Johnston County, Oklahoma. She married John Cottier, Sr. in May of 1933. (10) Louise Creecy was born in 1919/1920.

Clarise Lee Clark was the daughter of Wm. James Clark and Elsie Ella (Becker) Clark. She married John Cottier, June 16, 1956 in Antioch, Contra Costa, California. He was the son of John Cottier Sr. and Rena Juanita Creecy. John Cottier Jr. was born September 2, 1934 in Haileyville, Pittsburg, Oklahoma.

The children of John Cottier Sr. and Rena Juanita (Creecy) Cottier were; (1) John Cottier, who married Clarisse Lee Clark. (2) Wm. Earnest Cottier was born May 10, 1946 at Antioch, Contra Costa, California.  He married Rose Marie Kitterman, February 11, 1956 at Reno, Nevada. (3) Edwared Eugene Cottier was born November 19, 1939 and he married Sharon Ruynalds.
The children of John Cottier Jr. and Clarisse Lee.(Clark) Cottier are;  (1)Lynn Marie Cottier who was born May 31, 1957 in Torance, California, she married Geoffrey Ray Voss, June 17, 1978 at Coloma, Eldorado, California, they later divorced (2) John Curtis Cottier was born January 26, 1960, at Placerville, Eldorado, California. He married Terese Marie Garcia, July 2, 1988 at Red Bluff, Tehama, California.

Generations

1   Michael Gold 1758-1814
2   Johnathan Gold- 1788-1865
3   Sarah Jane Gold 1832-
4   Enoch Frank Creecy 1871-1929
5   Rena Juanita Creecy 1917-
6   John Cottier—1934-
7   Lynn Marie Cottier—1957

Nancy Elizabeth Gold was the daughter of Johnathan and Sarah (Ryalls) Gold. She was born in about 1833 in Lincoln County, Tennessee. She married James C. Robertson, October 5, 1855 in Greene County, Missouri.

In the census of Gile County, TN., in 1850, she is listed as being 16 years of age. Two years later when she was 18 years old, she came with the Johnathan Gold Wagon Train to Greene Valley, in Porter Township, near Boaz, in Christian County, Missouri.

The marriage records of Greene County, MO., shows that she married James C. Robertson of Republic, Missouri, October 5, 1855.

The marriage record of Greene County, also shows that James C. Robertson married Amanza Beal in the same year, a James C. Robertson married Nancy Elizabeth Gold. Therefore we are uncertain about her after she was married in 1855. She may have gone to Texas or some point west. (More research needs to be done her). (RG)
MARY M. GOLD

Mary M. Gold, was the daughter of Johnathan and Sarah (Ryalls) Gold. She was born in about 1834 at Gold Hill in Lincoln County, Tennessee. The census of Giles County, TN., lists her as being 15 years of age. She came with the Johnathan Gold Wagon Train to Christian County, Missouri, in 1852.

She married Thomas Jefferson Garrison who was a brother to Joseph Garrison who married Martha Dilla Ann Gold.  They had no children. They lived near the Smart Cemetery between Clever and Billings, in Christian County Missouri.

Martha Dilla Ann Gold was the daughter of Johnathan and Sarah (Ryalls) Gold. She was born June 23, 1836 near Petersburg, TN., at  “Gold Hill”. She is accounted for in the census of 1840 with the Johnathan Gold family. Residing in district # 15, shown on a land parcel or census map. She grew to the age of 16 years of age in Lincoln and Giles County, at or near Gold Hill. On March 20, 1852, she was on the Wagon Train that left Gold Hill for Christian County, Missouri, and settled in Green Valley, near Boaz, Missouri.

Martha Dilla Ann Gold married Joseph Robert Garrison on March 16, 1856 in Greene County, MO. They resided for several years in Christian County, in Polk Township, between Clever and Billings. They lived in Stone County for many years. There were several Garrison’s listed in the north end of Stone County. He died in Stone County, May 1, 1905. He was born February 15, 1834. She died June 10, 1888. They were buried in the Gold Cemetery in Stone County. Their graves were moved to the Smart Cemetery, in 1969 between Clever and Billings, in Christian County, MO. Their children were; (1) Alminia Vandelia, Garrison was born March 1, 1857.  And died October 31, 1857. (2) Sarah Diana Garrison, born August 31, 1858, and died August 4, 1860. (3) James Harvey Garrison was born July 24, 1866, and died July 31, 1949. He married Mammie Kenner, born March 15, 1894. No issue. (5) Nancy Almeda Garrison. (6) William Joseph Robert Garrison (7) Isaac Thomas Garrison. And (8) Mary E. Elizabeth Garrison.

NANCY ALMEDA GARRISON

Nancy Almeda Garrison was the daughter of Joseph Robert and Martha Dilla Ann (Gold) Garrison. She was born October 14 1860 in Christian County, Missouri, and died October 19, 1899. She married John Benjamin Chapman, he was born in 1854 and died at Galena, Missouri in 1932. They are both buried in the Smart Cemetery. Their Children were; (1) Jessie May Chapman, (2) Bertha Ann Chapman. (3) James Elbert Chapman. (4) Ross Chapman born in about 1893, he never married, buried in the Smart Cemetery. (5) Stanford Chapman died at Seminole, Oklahoma and was buried at Stroud, Oklahoma.

Jessie May Chapman, was born December 16, 1883, and died April 3, 1942. She married Thomas Jefferson Holder.  Her mother (Nancy Almeda (Garrison) Chapman, was the daughter of Martha Dilla Ann (Gold) Garrison, was the sister of Winnie (Gold) Cavener. Who was the mother of George W. Cavener. George W. Cavener married Mary Elizabeth Holder. Mary Elizabeth was a sister to Thomas Jefferson Holder. The children of Jessie May and Thomas Jefferson Holder were (1) Lora Almeda Holder was born January 7, 1909, near Clever, Missouri. She first married James Hobart Cobb in 1929, they were divorced in 1949. Their children were; Meta Lee Cobb, Gary Joe Cobb, and Linda Faye Cobb. Lora later married Ora Edom Short. (2) Clora Jane, (3) Lloyd, (4) Effie,(5)Nellie Grace, (6) Bertha Helena, (7) Sheen, and (8) Bessie Ann Holder.

Joseph Robert Garrison, was the son of Joseph Robert and Martha Dilla Ann (Gold) Garrison. He was born July 23, 1868 and died June 13, 1955 at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and is buried at Cherokee, Oklahoma. On June 21, 1896 he married Mary Belle Lasswell, she was born November 13, 1872, their children were; Homer Ralph Garrison, Joseph Don Garrison, Benjamin Paul Garrison, Lillian Belle Garrison, and William Carl Garrison.

Homer Ralph Garrison was born March 12, 1897, at Sharon, Barber County, Kansas. He died in November of 1952 and is buried at Cherokee, Oklahoma. He married Leo Maple Sapp, who was born November 26, 1900. Their children were; William Dolan Garrison, born February 27, 1922, and Sandra Edwina Garrison. (no information)
Joseph Don Garrison was born February 22, 1899, in Woods County, Oklahoma. He died December 30, 1969 at Norman, Oklahoma. In May of 1921 he married Nita Ellen Smith at Alva, Oklahoma. She was the daughter of John Earl and Ida Mae (Lewis) Smith. Joseph Don Garrison was a Veteran of World War 1, and World War 2.Their children were; Joseph Don Garrison Jr., Denzil Doss Garrison, and Donita Rae Garrison.

Joseph Don Garrison Jr. was born March 27, 19232 at Hooker, Oklahoma, he was Veteran of World War 2, and the Korean War. On August 30, 1947 he married Virginia Sue Samuels. She was born November 21, 1924 at Altus, Oklahoma.  Their Children were; Joseph Don Garrison the 3rd.,  born November 17, 1950. He married Lyn Michelle Cooper, December 7, 1974. She was born November 11, 1954. John Scott Garrison born April 10, 1954 at Norman, Oklahoma. ON November 12, 1975 he married Carolyn Sherrell Chase, in Jakarta, Indonesia. She was born March 2, 1955 in London, England. Their child was Elizabeth Ellen Garrison was born May 6, 1955 at Norman, Oklahoma. Denzil Doss Garrison was born November 20, 1926 at Norman, Oklahoma. He was a lawyer, and a Oklahoma Legislator for 16 years. He was a veteran of World War 2, and the Korean War, (a Major). On April 3, 1954 he married Barbara Lee Hopper. She was born October 18, 1931 at Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Her parents were; Alfred Arthur Hopper and Marie Pet Foster. Their children were; Charles Alfred Garrison, born March 3, 1955. Ellen Marie Garrison, born September 21, 1956. Kathryn Ann Garrison, born January 17 1959, Elizabeth Lee Garrison born May 3, 1963. Martha Amanda Garrison, born September 16, 1966. All of the Children were born at Bartlesville, Oklahoma.

Donita Rae Garrison was born August 7, 1930 at Hooker, Oklahoma. On November 26, 1953 she married Kenneth Leroy Patchin. He was born July 9, 1929. His parents were; Roy Elwin Patchin, and Agnes Roundtree. Their children were; Randal Brent Patchin born September 30, 1955. Brett Alan Patchin, born and died September 30, 1955. Brett Alan Patchin was born September 10, 1957, and Bart Elwin Patchin, was born August 8, 1960. All of the children were born at Norman, Oklahoma.

Benjamin Paul Garrison was born November 18, 1902 in Woods County, Oklahoma. On November 14, 1925 he married Verna Marie Stout, she was born November 19, 1902. They had one child, Verna Gayle Garrison.

Lillian Belle Garrison was born December 18, 1907, Cherokee, Oklahoma. On April 2, 1933 she married Claude Harrison McDonald. He was born June 5, 1888, and died February 2, 1968. Their children were; Darlene, Gary Dee, and Jimmy Lee McDonald.

William Carl Garrison was born January 8, 1910 Corps of Engineers. Career US Army, Major General. The inspector General US Army, On June 4, 1933 he married Jessie Lucille Dunham. She was born April 2, 1909. Their children were; Sharon Garrison, Mary Nell Garrison, and Linda Carol Garrison.

Isaac Thomas Garrison was the son of Joseph Robert and Martha Dilla Ann (Gold) Garrison. He was born March 19. 1873 in Stone County, MO., and died January 27, 1941 at Aurora, Missouri and is buried in the Wade Chapel Cemetery, one and one half miles northwest of Republic, Missouri. He first married Pearl Maurica Britian, born May 3, 1874 in Greene County, Missouri. She died September 30, 1902 in Sandpoint, Idaho. She was the daughter of Fletcher Britian and Mary Jane Jackson. Their children were; Tresse Leona Garrison, and Betty Leora Garrison, born March 13, 1899, in Greene County, Missouri.

On October 18, 1903 Isaac Thomas Garrison married a second wife. Amanda Frances Browning. Their children were; Joseph Ovcal Garrison, Audrey Pearl Garrison, and Clifford Olin Garrison. Both wives of Isaac Thomas Garrison are buried beside him in the Wade Chapel Cemetery, northwest of Republic, MO., in Greene County.

Child of Isaac Garrison and Audrey Talburt is Carol Talburt (Garrison) Wagaman.

Mary Elizabeth Garrison, was the daughter of Joseph Robert and Martha Dilla Ann (Gold) Garrison. She was born March 15, 1875, and died November 2, 1960, in Billings, Christian County, MO. .She married Frank L. Arndt, who was born February 11, 1866 and died January 24, 1947. He was a farmer, and they both are buried in the Smart Cemetery. Their children were; Laura Ann. Claude Earnest, Maude Mae, Olive, Carl Curtis Born August 9, 1895 and died July 3, 1897, Alice born December 19, 1910, and died October 3, 1935.

Laura Ann Arndt was the daughter of Frank L. and Mary Elizabeth (Garrison) Arndt. She was born July 15, 1892, in Christian County, Missouri. On February 18, 1908 she married Leo John Harter. He was born November 23, 1884 in Kansas. He died March 4, 1973 in Springfield, MO. He was the son of John L. Harter and Catherine Elizabeth Griesemer. Their children were; Arthur Matharis Harter, Carl James Harter, Richard Francis Harter, Lucille Elizabeth Harter, Dorothy May Harter, Clarence Joseph Harter, James Robert Harter, Wilbur Eugene Harter, Robert Thomas Harter, Alice Marie Harter born August 12, 1910 and died December 7, 1922 at Billings, MO. Nellie Lucile Harter born May 12,1912 and died October 27, 1930 at Billings, MO. Leo Murl Harter born May 2, 1924 at Billings, MO. U.S. Army, Kora. Carl Bernard Harter was born September 11, 1927 at Billings, MO. and died June 10, 1934.

(Note)

I delivered fuel to Claude Arndt. He said to me. “Did you know we are related? I told him I did so he proceeded to tell me that they used to go the Ozark to pay their taxes, etc., in a buggy and when they passed the old Gipson Cemetery east of the James River “that his Mother, Mary Elizabeth (Garrison) Arndt” would always make it a point to tell all of us children, “That is where your Gr-grandfather and gr-grandmother Johnathan and Sarah (Ryalls) Gold is buried.

That old cemetery has been abandoned and is completey grown over with trees and brush. No stone for them has been found in that cemetery. (RG)

From the Obituary Column

April 10, 1991

Laura Ann Harter, 98, Billings, was born July 15,1892 in Christian County, Missouri. to Mary Elizabeth Garrison and Frank L. Arndt. She died at 12:45 a.m. Tuesday in Republic Park Care Center Following a long illness. She was united in marriage to Leo John Harter on February 18, 1908, She was proceded in death by her parents, and her husband and two brothers, Claude and Carl Arndt. Four sisters, Olive Bahm, Maude Hartley, her twin, Alice Arndt, and Bessie Pearl Arndt. Four sons, Carl J., Arthur M., Richard J. and Paul Bernard Arndt. Two daughters, Alice Marie and Nellie Lucille Harter, and four grandchildren.

She was a member of the St, Joseph’s Catholic Church and a homemaker.

She is survived by six sons; Raymond and his wife Lura, Clarence and his wife, Betty, Jim Bob and his wife Mary Alice, Wilbur and his wife. Vivian, Bob and his wife Linda, and Leo Murl, all of Billings, Two daughters, Lucille Skaggs, Irving, Texas, and Dorothy Blakely and her husband, Earl. San Marcus, California. Three Daughter- in-law’s; Mary Belle, and Alma Harter, and Gertrude Salchow, all of Billings, 45 grandchildren and 106 great-grandchildren.

She leaves a total of 220 living descendants, Services will be at 10; a.m. Friday in St. Joseph’s Catholic Church with Msgr. John J. Runish officiating. Burial will be in St. Joseph’s Cemetery under direction of Meadors Funeral Home.The Billings Chapel will be open Thursday morning

Clarence J. Harter Sr. 68

Billings—Service for Clarence J. Harter Sr., Billings, will be held at 10;a.m. today in St. Joseph Church. Burial with Military Rites will be in St. Joseph’s Cemetery under the direction of the Meadors Funeral Home. Mr. Harter died at 4:40 a.m. Tuesday in St. John’s Regional Health Care Center, in Springfield. Mr. Harter died May 7, 1991

Claude Ernest Arndt was the son of Frank L., and Mary Elizabeth (Garrison) Harter. He was born November 14, 1897, at Billings, MO. He was a farmer. He died July of 1975. On March 25, 1917 he married Freda Fay King, she was born January 4, 1898, at Billings, MO. and she died May 31, 1978. Their children were; Delbert Lewis Arndt, Cleo Marie Arndt and Eugene Frank Arndt. Maude May Arndt was born April 23, 1900 at Billings, Mo., and died December 25, 1973 at Los Angeles, California. She was married August 9, 1919 to Otto William Hartley, at Mt. Vernon, Missouri. They are both buried in the Rose Hill Cemetery, Whittier, California.  He was born August 7, 1900 at Billings, MO. and died May 31, 1978. Their children were; Delbert Lewis Arndt, Cleo Marie Arndt, and Delmar Walter Hartley.

Olive Arndt was born January 7, 1903 (a twin) she died August 31, 1943. She married Fred Williams Bohn.  They had one child; Doris, who married Howard Gunnett.

Bertha Ann Chapman, daughter of Nancy Almeda (Garrison and John Chapman. She was born January 29, 1888 near Billings, MO. She died October 28, 1970. She married Samuel Plennie Young. He was born February 25, 1887 in Christian County, MO. He died May 7, 1941. They are borh buried in Frazier Cemetry, near Boaz, MO. Their children were; Dorothy Ellen, James Roy, Beulah Mae, Leslie Howard, Oren Stanford, Cecil Junior and Paul Benjamin Young.

Dorothy Ellen Young was born Buen 9, 1908 in Christian County, MO. She married Harley Gold, June 28, 1925, in Billings, MO.He was born June 30, 1903 in Christian County, MO. Harley Gold is a grandson of Uncle Tommy Gold, and Dorothy Ellen (Young) Gold is a great grand daughter of Martha Dilla Ann Gold. Their children were; Louise, Lucille, Helen, Billy Joe, Denny Lee, Stanley, Charles, and Shirley Gold.

James Roy Young was born March 13, 1913 at Nixa, Missouri. He was married to Mary Elizabeth King in 1937. She was born in 1918, the daughter of Eura W.King and Delphia Victoria Estes. Their children were; Sharon Elizabeth, and James Leon Young.

Beulah Mae Young was born January 9, 1915 at Nixa, MO. She married Howard McDermott Pennington, March 10, 1934 at Cassville, MO. He was born March 31, 1908. They had two children; Gerald Wayne Pennington, and Larry Joe Pennington.

Leslie Howard Young was born January 2, 1918 at Clever, MO. He was a aVeteran of W.W. 2, and served in the Navy. ON August 9, 1939 he married Junaita Marie Daniel. She was born October 12, 1923. They have a son, Howard Llyndon Young.

Oran Stanford Young was born August 31, 1920 at Springfield, MO. He married Vinita Garner at Greenfield, MO., in 1941. Their children were; Betty Ann Young, born August 6, 1942 at Mt. Vernon, Mo., she married Charles Lee. Max Leborn Young, born Novembere 11, 1951 at Mt. Vernon, MO.

Cecil Junior Young was born February 24, 1929 at Clever, MO. He married Gwendolyn Louise Davis, April 11, 1964. She was born Pctober 1, 1937 at Yakima, Washington. They had at least one child, Michell Lee Young, born June 24, 1969 at Seattle, Washington.

WILLIAM CARL GARRISON

Major General William C. Garrison, United States Army, Great grandson of Johnathan Gold (By Denzil Garrison)

Martha Dilla Anna (Gold) Garrison was a daughter of Johnathan Gold and granddaughter of Michael Gold. Michael served in the American Rev. War. And his sons Zachariah, Johnathan, David, and Thomas Gold all served on the War of 1812. David gave his life at the Battle of Talladego, Alabama, and Zachariah was wounded in that same battle. Gold’s have served extensively in the civil War on both sides. Thomas Gold  (son of Zachariah) was killed in the Battle of Stones River. Known as The Battle of Murfreesboro in Tennessee as a Confederate soldier. And his brother William Gold is also believed to have lost his life in that battle. The sons of Johnathan Gold, on the other hand were Union Soldiers.

Dilly Gold married Joseph Robert Garrison, who was a Union Cavalryman in the Civil War. He served in the same unit as did Thomas Gold, son of Johnathan Gold. Their commanding officer was Captain  James Harvey Garrison, the brother of Joseph Robert Garrison. Golds served in the Mexican War, the Spanish American War, World War l, and World War 2., the Korean War, and War in Vietnam, and in Desert Storm. And will no doubt serve in other conflicts when their country calls. That is the way it is with the Golds.

Perhaps the most illustrious soldier among the descendants of Michael and Johnathan Gold was William Carl Garrison, grandson of Joseph Robert Garrison and Dilley Gold Garrison. He rose through the ranks to be th Inspector General of the U.S. Army. Can you imagine what a surprise it would have been to Michael Gold, who was an American soldier at Valley Forge, and who no doubt was trained by the first Inspector General, Baron Von Steuben if he could have known that his great great grandson would one day be The Inspector General for that same army.

William Carl Garrison, known in the military as William C. Garrison, who was born in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma on January 8, 1910, the son of William Joseph Robert Garrison, and Mary Belle Lasswell Garrison. He graduated as an engineer from the University of Oklahoma in 1932. He married Jessie Lucille Dunham, June 4, 1933 at Medicine Lodge, Kansas. Their three daughters are; Sharon, Mary Nell, and Linda Carol Garrison.

He entered military service as a Private in the Oklahoma National Guard, while a college student. In September of 1940 he entered active duty as a Captain of Field Artillery with the 45th Infantry Division.  In 1942 he became Instructor of Tactics in the Field Artillery School at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. Later he activated the first 8-inch howitzer in the U.S Army at Ft. Ord. California. He took his Batallion to Europe in early 1944 and served in General Patton’s Third Army. He became the commander of the 419th. Field Artillery Group. He was highly decorated in Europe, and his unit was renowned as one of the best in the Third Army.

After returning from Europe to his wife and three daughters, he became Chief of the Tactics Section of the Engineer School at Ft. Belvoir, Virginia, where he remained until 1948. He served in Panama accompanied by his wife and family from 1948 to 1952.

He attended and graduated from the Army War College in the class of 1952-53.  For four years after that he was in the Pentagon in troop program work. He served a year in Korea as advisor toa Corps Commander in the Army of the Republic of Korea.

Upon return to the United States, he assumed commaand of the 2nd United States Army Missle Command in Ft Hood, Texas, and Ft. Carson, Colorado.

In 1960 he served in the Headquarters, United States Army Command, Fort Monroe, Ivrginoa with the rank of Brigadier General. In 1961 General Garrison became the Artillery Commander of the 24th Infantry Division in Europe. He was promoted to Major General in 1963. He became Commanding General of the X USA Corps at Ft. Lawton, Washington in 1964.

In 1965 General Garrison became Deputy Inspector General in Washington, D.C.In November of 1966 William C. Garrison was installed as “ The Inspector General of The United States Army”.  He served in that assignment until his retirement from the Army in 1968.

Among the citations and decorations belonging to General Garrison was the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star Metal with V device (with Oak Leaf Cluster). American Defense Service Medal, American Campaign Medal, European-African Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, World War 2 Victory Medal, Army Occupation Medal (Germany). National Defense, Service Medal, Croix de Guerre with Palm (French) War for the Fatherland 3rd Degree (Russian).

In 1969 the President of the United States appointed General Gfarrison as a Member of the American Battle Monuments Commission. As a member of that Commission he traveled throughout the world, inspecting American military cemeteries, to insure that they were being properly tended and cared for. He was very proud of this service and he seerved on the Commission until 1979.

General Garrison moved to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1968, as Federal-State Cooridinator, He served in that capacity until 1970, when he again retired. He and his wife remained in Oklahoma City until his death on October 16, 1980. General Garrison was buried with full military honors at the Post Cemetery, Ft. Sill, Oklahoma.

Audrey Pearl Garrison, daughter of Isaac Garrison and grandson of Martha Dilla Ann (Gold) Garrison. Audrey Pearl Garrison married a Talburt.  They ran a grocery store in Aurora, Mo., for several years.  They were the parents of Carol Talburt.

Carol Talburt was raised in Aurora, MO., but now makes her home in Peoria, Illinois. She married a Wagaman.

Sophia Almeda Gold was the daughter of Johnathan and Sarah (Ryalls) Gold. She was born April 28, 1838 near Petersburg, Tennessee at Gold Hill., and died December 5, 1911. She was only 14 years old when the Johnathan Gold Wagon Train left Lincoln County, TN., for Christian County, MO., March 20, 1852. They settled down near Boaz, in Porter Township, Christian County, MO.

When the 1860 census of Christian County was taken, Spohia Almeda and Amanda Emaline were both still at home. Sophia Almeda married Ervin Perkins, no issue. We have no record of what happened to him.

Amanda Emaline Gold married Francis Marion Smart on February 19, 1865. By the spring of 1866 the war was over, Johnathan and Sarah (Ryalls) Gold, had both died and were both buried in the Old Gipson Cemetery, east of the James River Bridge. Uncle Tommy and Uncle Billy had both moved to Stone County. At that time, Sophia Almeda may have gone to stay with her sister, Amanda Emaline and her husband, Francis Marion Smart. Where Sophia met and married a brother to Francis Marion Smart on June 23, 1867. His name was Lafayette “Fate” Smart. He died January 16, 1914. Their children were; Eura, Charlotte Nancy, James and Geneve Smart was born in 1868.

Lafayette “Fate” Smart had a sister named Geneva who was born in 1848, and married James J. Pearce. They are the parents of Leonard Pearce who married Artie Gold, daughter of Joseph Gold and Margaret Head. Joseph Gold was the son of William C., and Sarah P. (Alexander) Gold. James J. Pearce and Geneva (Smart) Pearce are buried in the Gold Cemetery, in Stone County, Missouri.

Lafayette and Sophia Almeda (Gold) Smart are buried in the Smart Cemetery at Christian County, Missouri.

Nancy Elizabeth Smart married a Twiggs, and they had a daughter; Inez Twiggs.

Inez Twiggs married a Greer, they were the parents of Joyce Greer. And Joyce Greer married a Markham, and they had Lauren Markham who married a Henry.

Margaret L. Gold, daughter of Johnathan and Sarah (Ryalls) Gold was born March 30, 1840 in Lincoln County, TN. She is listed on the 1850 census of Giles Gounty, TN. In house #1153, District 17, with the Johnathan Gold family.
She came to Christian County, MO., on the Wagon Train with the Johnatahn Gold family in 1852.  She married James H. Yoachum in Greene County, MO. in August of 1858.   He was the son of George W. and Elizabeth Hooper. (George’s 2nd wife.)  George W. Yoachum and his wife, Alcey, are buried in the old walled up Cemetery near Jamesville, in Stone County, MO.

After they became the parents of three children, they were divorced and he went to Lawrence County, MO.

She later married William L. Jarrett on October 15, 1867. She is buried in the Yoachum Plot in Smart Cemetery. Her head stone reads as follows. M.L. Jarrett, born March 30, 1840 and died February 22, 1894. There are several Yoachums buried there, but none identified as her children.

Their known children were; George Yoachum, James Franklin Yoachum, and Sarah Alice Yoachum.

George Yoachum married Angelina Harpool, their children were; Mary Yoachum and Margaret Yoachum.

James Franklin Yoachum

He was born August 24, 1859 and died December 18, 1947, buried in Smart Cemetery, Christian County, MO. He married Francis Madora “Dora” Smart, June 2, 1878 in Billings, MO. She was born May 27, 1860 in Billings, MO., and died July 22, 1895 in Billings, Christian County, MO. Buried in Smart Cemetery. Their Children were; (1) Alfred M. Yoachum, born June 3, 1881, Billings, Mo., died December 30, 1900, Billings, MO. buried in Smart Cemetery. (2) James Tilford “Tip” Yoachum, was born August 18, 1883 and died October 15, 1961, in Billings, MO., buried in Smart Cemetery, Christian County, MO.

(3) Maude Yoachum was born June 12, 1891, (twin to Claude) she died September 5, 1979 at Springfield, Mo.  Buried in St. Peter’s Evangelical Cemetery, Billings, MO. She married Phil Rauch, their children; Inez, and Glenn Rauch. (4) Claude Yoachum, born June 12, 1891. Married Lydia Koenig and had two daughters. Second; Frank Yoachum married Lena Holcomb and they had a daughter; Lee Yoachum who married Henry Verfurth, and they had two girls; and three boys.   (5) Lee Yoachum (6) William Ernest Yoachum, born June 3, 1879, and died October 26, 1928. And buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Christian County, MO. He married Stella M. Dosche, June 1, 1910, by E.F. Howcroft. J.P. she was born in 1889 and died in 1983. (7) C. Ross Yoachum born June 3, 1887 and died January 27, 1889 buried in Smart Cemetery.

Sarah Alice Yoachum

Was born June 5, 1864. She married Joseph Edmond Davis. He was born October 21, 1863, and died November 13, 1947. Their children were; (1) Merton Davis, (2) Mina Jane Davis, born September 30, 1886 and died February 22, 1984.  She married Robert Clarence Robertson M.D. June 2, 1909. He was born August 6, 1883 and died January 28, 1973. They were the parents of Sloan Davis Robertson M.D., born August 8, 1915 and died September 2, 1971. He married Margaret Fenter Hackstaff, November 1, 1941. She was born October 1, 1913, and died November 23, 1983, Their children were; Nancy Jane (Blaisdell) Robertson, born October 20, 1944. And Sloan Lindsey Robertson, M.D., born October 26, 1947.

SLOAN LINDSEY ROBERTSON
By Ray Gold

In my many memories of gathering information about my ancestors, one would be lucky indeed if they can find a person who is as dedicated to accuracy and thoroughness in researching and recording his, mine, and your family history.

It was the first week of July 1994. I received a telephone call from a man whom I had never met, or even knew to be in our midst. He said he was Sloan Robertson and a descendant of Margaret L. Gold, who was his Gr-gr-grandmother and a sister of my gr-gr-grandfather, Thomas Gold. Of course that got my attention. And I was very interested in learning more about Margaret L. Gold and her descendants.

Margaret L. Gold had come to Christian County, Mo., from Lincoln County, TN. On the Johnathan Gold Wagon Train who arrived in Christian County, about May 10, 1852, and settled down in Green Valley in Porter Township near Boaz, MO.

He said he would like to come down and visit with me about the Gold Family History, and ask if he could come down the next morning.

Our Aunt Ida (Gold) Burkhardt had passed away on July 2, 1994 and was to be buried that morning, and I planned to attend her funeral which was being held in Billings. She was to be buried in St. Peters Evangelical Cemetery at Billings. Someone in Springfield had told him about my family research project. I told this person whom I had never met, that I would be attending that funeral, but would be available after the funeral. He ask if I knew where Margaret L. Gold was buried. I told him that she was buried in the Smart Cemetery, between Clever and Billings just off of highway 14. So we quickly agreed that we would meet at the junction of highway 14, and 60, in Billings after the funeral. From there we would go to the grave of his gr-gr-grandmother.

When I arrived at the place where we had agreed to meet. There he was waiting for me. I had ask my sister; Louella (Gold) Dulin to go and meet him with me. So she followed me there to meet and greet our newfound cousin; Sloan Lindsey Robertson. We little knew what a friend we had met but the way he was dressed and presented himself we knew he was our kind of a person.

After all introductions etc. we commented about his pickup truck and camper. It had everything that a person would have at home, seemed like and a lot that some of us don’t have that many conveniences in our homes. Cabinets, gas cook stove, table, radio, t.v., shower, computor, lights, toilet, bed, satellite dish, fan, and air conditioner. I probably forgot some of what that camper was equiped with.

He said he was a retired M.D., and sometimes spends two or three months away from home. That is the life a lot of us would like to have. Good for him. I am glad he can spend his time that way.

Then we took off for the Smart Cemetery, which is about two and one half miles from Billings on Highway 14, and then one half mile south on a county road to the cemetery. We each one had our own transportation. We arrived at the cemetery a few minutes later to visit the grave he was looking for. We went to the grave and he took notes galore and registered all graves in the Yoachum plot.

While he had found the grave he was looking for, he also got a bonus. We showed him several other graves that were ralated to us all, including three of Margaret L’s sisters. He commented that he didn’t expect to find so much information in one cemetery. All four of these Gold sisters came together on the Johnathan Gold Wagon Train in 1852. Both my sister and I were really impressed with the thoroughness of his notes.

When we left the cemetery, Louella went home from there and Sloan followed me to my home in Stone County which is about 10 miles southeast from the cemetery.

Sloan and I spent all after noon exchanging family records and visiting. He told me where he lived and showed pictures of his home. If I recall correctly, he came back in a day or so and camped in my yard and stayed over night in his camper. We both exchanged much of what records we had about the Yoachums, Gold, Robertson, and families related to both of us.

Sloan Lindsey Robertson has returned several times since that first year, and we always enjoy our visits. He is a good person to know and work with, expecially if you are researching the same family tree that he is researching. I am always glad to see him coming up my driveway. He has contributed much to my family tree and I hope to see him coming to my home each year, usually in June, July, or August.

Sloan’s address is; P.O. Box 35116, Phoenix, Arizona, 85069-5116 Phone 602-465-9205, E-mail address---SRHAFALOF@AOL.COM

(3) Ralph Ernest Davis. (4) Bertha Louise Davis.

James Tilford “Tip” Yoachum, son of James Franklin Yoachum was born Augustr 18, 1883 in Billings, MO. and died October 15, 1961 in Billings, MO. and buried in Smart Cemetery. He married Maude. E. Sanders, November 2, 1904 in Christian County, MO., By R.E.L. Burks, M.G.She was bron November 7, 1884, and died July 10, 1962 and buried in Smart Cemetery.  Their children were;  (1) Lucein Yoachum born in about 1906.  (2) Miriam Beatrice Yoachum, born January 14, 1911. And (3) Infant Daughter, Yoachum, born in about 1914.

Inez Rauch daughter of Maude Yoachum was born May 23, 1915 and died November 11, 1991 buried Smart Cemetery. She married Adolph H. Schnick, he was born July 9, 1908 and died June 1, 1986 in Smart Cemetery. Their children; (1) Madelyn Schinick, born June 23, 1942, Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio. Occupation-Music Teacher. (2) Elaine Kay Schnick, born January 29, 1944. (3) David Ray Schnick, born August 13, 1949.

Alfred Glenn Rauch son of Maude Yoachum, born February 19, 1920 and died May 8, 1977 in Billings, MO.  He married Kathleen Davis, September 22, 1940 in Christian County, MO. by Rev. Worth Caughron. She was born February 10, 1923 in Billings, MO.  He is buried in Smart Cemetery.

Amanda Emaline Gold was the daughter of Johnathan and Sarah (Ryalls) Gold, and Granddaughter of Michael Gold. She was born June 23, 1842 in Giles County, Tennessee, near the Lincoln/Giles County Line, and Gold Hill.  She was only 10 years of age when Johnathan Gold and his family moved to what is now Christian County, Missouri, and settled down in Green Valley, Porter Township, near Boaz, Missouri. She resided with her parents until they died in the early 1860’s. On February 19, 1865 she married Francis Marion Smart, and lived in Polk Township west of Clever in Christian County.  He was born August 22, 1841 in Greene County, MO. He was the son of William C. Smart (1816-1887) and Nancy Ann (Garrison) Smart. (1821-1902). He was the grand-son of Peter Smart and Mary (Cavett) Smart, and gr-grandson of James C. Garrison, and Gr-grandson of Isaac Garrison. His grandson was Diana Kyle, and her father was Robert Kyle (1740-1829).

Francis Marion Smart and Amanda Emaline Smart are shown in the census of 1880 in Polk Township, between Clever and Billings, in Christian County, Missouri., as follows; Marion Smart, 39, Farmer, Mo., Amanda  38, wife, Tn., Sarah 14, Dau. Mo., Lettie 12, Dau. Mo., Edward 10, son, Almira, 7, dau. Mo., Nellie, 3, Dau. Mo., Clara, 10/12, Dau. MO. Other records show that they lost two sons as infants near Billings. The first one William Johnathan born and died in 1882.

It was sometime after the birth of their last child that they moved to Sharon, Barber County, Kansas.  Francis Marion Smart died March 19, 1928. Amanda Emaline died March 27, 1922. They are both buried in Barber County, Sharon, Kansas.

The following information was furnished by Andy and Frances McGehee:

Their children  were all born in Missouri (1) Sarah Elizabeth, (2) William Johnathan. (3) Lettie Kiona, (4) Edward Monroe, (5) Nancy Almina “Minie”, (6) Nellie Madora, (7) Clara Malissa, (8) Oby Marion, and (9) Ernest Lafayette Smart.

Sarah Elizabeth Smart was born November 23, 1865, she married William K. Rhodes in 1884. She died October 28, 1953 at Springfield, Missouri.
William Johnathan Smart was born and died December 20, 1968 in Billings, Missouri.
Lettie Kiona Smart, was born July 30, 1868, she married James Whalin. She died April 21, 1947 in Los Angeles, California. 2nd. She married Richard A. Waller in 1893, 3rd. She married James Williams in 1915.
Nancy Almina “Minie” Smart was born July 1, 1873. On December 11, 1891 she married Edward W. Herndon. She died April 24, 1956 ar Harper, Kansas.

Nellie Madora Smart was born February 5, 1877. She married John Max Sandy. She died June 23, 1956 at Greenburg, Kansas, and was buried at Sharon, Kansas.

Clara Melissa Smart was born August 18, 1879. On May 11, 1898 she married John A. Booher at Sharon, Kansas. She died March 4, 1964 at Kingsman, Kansas.

Oby Marion Smart was born August 22, 1882 and died in November of 1882 at Billings, MO.

Ernest Lafayette Smart was born September 10, 1884 in Billings, Mo. On December 23, 1908, he married Mary Pfaff, he died October 10, 1972 at Peoria, Illinois.

ADAM DOUGLAS SANDY

(Ref. Frances Mae (Sandy) McGehee)

Adam Douglas Sandy was born in Virgina. He died in 1879. He married Matilda Pontzious, and they were the parents of ;(1) John Max Sandy, who married Nellie Madora Smart, who was the daughter of Francis Marion Smart and Amanda Emaline (Gold) Smart. John Max Sandy was born December 25, 1872 near Wapello, in Louisa County, Iowa. He is buried in Sharon, Kansas. (2) George Washington Sandy was born October 29, 1869 in Almira, Louisa County, Iowa. He married Addie Almira “Minie” Frunald, December 25, 1898. He died June 15, 1957. (3) James “Jim” Wilson Sandy married Anne Gaele.

JOHN MAX SANDY

(Ref. Frances Mae (Sandy) McGehee)

John Max Sandy was born December 25, 1872 near Wapello, Louisa County, Iowa.  On November 11, 1894 he married Nellie Madora Smart, in Kansas, their children were; (1) Floyd Merle Sandy, born March 4, 1899 at Sharon, Kansas.(2) Oscar Marion Sandy, born June 8, 1895 at Wsanta Fe, Kansas. He married Clara Rozella Kieffer, He died Decembe 31, 1953 at St. Johns Hospital in Springfield, Missouri. (3) Elbert Theadore Sandy was born September 7, 1893 at Sharon, Kansas. He married Mabel Inez Coffman. He died October 29, 1989 at Moline, Kansas. (4) Gladys Matilda Sandy was born September 5, 1908 at Sharon, Kansas. She married ElmerWesley Wark. 2nd. She married Wilbur Thompson.

OSCAR MARION SANDY

By Francis Mae (Sandy) McGehee

Oscar Marion Sandy was born in 1899 in Santa Fe, Kansas. He married Clara Rozella Kieffer on June 24, 1916, at Sharon Kansas. Their children were; (1) Francis Mae, born January 12, 1927. She married Don C. Cole on September 3, 1943. (2) Max Foster Sandy, born March 14, 1929 at Groom in Grey County, Texas. (3) Vada Ruth Sandy, born December 18, 1931 in Dawn, Deaf Smith County, Texas. She married Ewell Lonnie Brown;, December 24, 1951 at Lebanon, Missouri. (4) Eula Bernice Sandy was born February 16, 1933 at Dawn, Deaf Smith County, Texas. She married Kenneth Mitchel Cole in August 1953. (5) Verla Lee Sandy was born March 21, 1939 at Southland, Camdenton County, Missouri. She never married, Max Foster Sandy married Wilma Jean McDaniel.

FRANCIS MAE SANDY

By Francis Mae (Sandy) McGehee

She was the daughter of Oscar Marion Sandy and Clara Rozella Kieffer. She was born January 13, 1927, in Grey County, at Groom Texas.

She is the granddaughter of John Max Sandy and Nellie Madora Smart. She is the gr-grand-daughter of Adam Douglas Sandy and Matilda (Pontzious) Sandy. On her mothers side she was the granddaughter of George Leanader Kieffer and Anna Kieffer, and also gr-granddaughter of Hanover Swink and (Unknown), and James (1799) and Martha (1805) Robinson of Kentucky.

VADA RUTH SANDY

By Frances Mae (Sandy) McGehee

Vada Ruth Sandy was born December 18, 1931 at Dawn, Deaf Smith County, Texas. She first married Kenneth Mitchell Cole, (Divorced) 2nd She married Ewell Lonnie Brown, He was born July 6, 1929 at McAlester, Oklahoma. They were married December 24, 1951 in Labanon, Mo. by Rev. Cecil Smart. Their children were Dennis Wayne Brown, born July 17, 1954 at Camp Chaffee, Arkansas. Patricia Ann Brown was born December 23, 1955 at Lawton, Oklahoma. She married Clyde Randolph Cole, December 24, 1979 at Ft. Worth, Texas.

Teressa Kay Brown was born December 23, 1956 in Lawton, Oklahoma. On March 7, 1975 she married Russell Ortez in Mineral Wells, Texas, they were divorced at Ft. Worth, Texas, April 14, 1982.

On September 3, 1943 Frances Mae Sandy married Don L. Cole at Lebanon, Missouri, in Laclede County. Missouri. He was born September 27, 1921 near Eldridge in Laclede County,MO. Tpo this marriage was born four children (1) Donald Eugene Cole, born October 4, 1944 in Lebanon, Missouri. On February 24, 1973 he married Elia Josephine Santa Cruz, in San, Jose, California. (2) Beverly Jo Cole was born April 22, 1948 at Leoti, Kansas, died November 29, 1964 at Springfield, Missouri. (3) Twila Gail “Tel” Cole was born May 25, 1950 at Russell, Kansas. On October 21, 1978, she married Kenneth Dwayne Hillme. They were married by Rev. Dale Fufft, at Richland, Missouri. (4) Melva Rae Cole, born July 10, 1951 at Russell, Kansas.

Donald Eugene and Elia have a son, Christopher Ryan Cole, born November 2, 1976 in Springfield, Missouri, at St. Johns Hospital. (Biological father Donald Lee York). Don N. Cole and Frances Mae Sandy were divorced in February of 1964.

On June 26, 1965 Frances Mae (Sandy) (Cole) married Rev. W. Dale Hufft, after his death in 1992. Francie Mae married Andrew Calvin “Andy” McGehee, on May 13, 1995.

MAX FOSTER SANDY

By Frances Mae (Sandy) McGehee

Max Foster Sandy was born March 14, 1929 at Groom, in Grey County, Texas. He was the son of Oscar Marion Sandy and Clara Rozella (Kieffer) Sandy. He was a brother of Frances Mae Sandy. He was married to Wilma Jean McDaniel on August 19, 1951 at Russell, Kansas. To this union was born two children; (1) Steven Foster Sandy, born June 14, 1952 at Russell, Kansas.  He was married to Catherine Louise Lundeen on June 13. 1970 divorced October 10, 1979. (2) Connie Jean Sandy was sborn October 7, 1956 in Kansas City, Missouri, at the St. Maries Hospital. On May 7, 1985 they wre divoced on October 5, 1989. 2nd. Max Foster Sandy married Shirley Ruth Sloan in 1991 and divorced April 9, 1992. Max Foster Sandy died July 25, 1997, and was burid in Waynesville, Memorial Cemetery July 27, 1997.

The Generations

1   Michael Gold----1758-1814
2   Johnathan Gold--1788-1865
3  Amanda Emaline Gold-1842-1928
4  Nellie Madora Smart-1877-1956
5  Oscar Marion Sandy-1895-1953
6  Frances Mae Sandy-1927-
7  Donald Eugene Cole-1944

(NOTE)   One rainy morning in late summer of 1995, my telephone rang, and on the other end of the line was Doris Gunnett, who said to me; “ Ray, I have someone here that would like to visit you at your home about the Gold Family Records. She is a descendant of Amanda Emaline Gold, and would like to come to your home for a visit. OK, I said, but the creek is up and I will have to help you get across the high water. As soon as we got accross the branch, introductions were in order. The lady steped forward and introduced herself as Frances McGehee, Gr-granddaughter of Amanda Emaline Gold. Then she introduced her husband; Andy McGehee.

Our visit was one of the highlights of my entire research on the Gold family history. We both were happy to find that we were cousins, and we both enjoyed doing family research together.

I would like to state to you that our records of Amanda Emaline Gold were almost non-existent until that date. Very few lines about that branch of the family were availabe when the second edition of “Traces of Gold” was printed in 1994. But thanks to Frances, we now have a good record on that branch of the Gold family.

Even though we did not meet until rather late in life, It has been a real treat for me to meet a cousin who is so dedicated to compiling the best family record possible to pass on to our descendants. Her commitment to this project has added much to the understanding of our heritage. It is hard for me to find words that will express adequately my appreciation for her efforts in this project. Thank you Frances. (Ray Gold)

SARAH ELIZABETH SMART

Sarah Elizabeth Smart was the daughter of Francis Marion and Amanda Emaline (Gold) Smart. She was born November 23, 1865 in Christrian County, MO., and died October 28, 1953 in Springfield, Missouri. And was buried in Green Lawn Cemetery. She married William Noah Rhodes in 1884 in Greene County, MO. He was the son of Wesley Rhodes and Caroline Stewart. He was born February 15, 1862 in Rome, Union Coutny, Georgia, and died July 18, 1960 in Greene County, MO. Buried in Green Lawn Cemetery.

William Noah Rhodes was over six foot tall. He had broken his hip and walked on a crutch. He lived to be 98 years old. He could not read or write, his wife Sarah, taught him how to read and write.  Their children; (1) May Ida Rhodes, born December 9, 1884, and died April 27, 1971, Billings, MO.  She married Henry Drier, of Billings, MO.  They had two children. Robert Drier, and Virginia Drier. (2) Myrtla E. Rhodes, born September 25, 1886, and died in December of 1949 in Greene County, MO. Green Lawn Cemetery. Married a Savage.  And had two children; Maureen Savage and Josephine Savage. (3) Mattie Rhodes, born November 28, 1888, and died July 20, 1890, Billings, MO. (4) Rose Etta Rhodes born April 15, 1891, Billings, MO. died January 26, 1970, Springfield, Mo. Green Lawn Cemetery.  She married Howard Lee Jones, August 30, 1910. He was the son of Summerfield Jones and Sarah Kerr. He was born July 9, 1890. And died February 24, 1946. Their children were; (a) Margaret Jones. Born June 21, 1911 and died January 26, 1990 in Springfield, Mo. She married William Martien, and their children were; . (i) Charles Martien, born July 31, 1938,  (ii) Katherine Rose Martien, born, November 4, 1947, and (3) Jane Carole, Martien, born June 15, 1951 in Springfield, MO. (b) Rosalea Jones, born December 24, 1913.  And died October 16, 1994, Springfield, MO. Green Lawn Cemetery. She married Kenneth Trenmore Hines, March 29, 1941. Their children were; Sandra Lee “Sandy” Hines.born July 4, 1946 and married Leigh Morton Vaughn, June 12, 1971, Kansas City, MO. (i) James Norman Hines, born September 20, 1949 Springfield, Mo.  He married Linda Salkil August 11, 1968, Springfield, MO. (c) Sarah Bernice Jones, born October 5, 1917. (d) William Howard Jones born July 3, 1922 and died April 2, 1997, Springfield, Mo., he married Joan Mudd, June 9, 1946, Springfield, MO.

Floyd Merle Sandy was born March 4, 1899 and died May ee, 1927 in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He married Maude Eggleton, November 13, 1917.

Funeral of Floyd Merle Sandy at Sharon Kansas

The following account of the burial of Merle Sandy who died in the City Hospital at Fayetteville, Arkansas from a revolver shot wound inflicted by Claire Farrar is taken from the Sharon Kansas Times.
Mr Floyd Merle Sandy was born March 4, 1899 at Sharon, Kansas, and died May 22, 1927 at Fayetteville, Arkansas. On November 13, 1917 he was united in marriage to Miss Maude Eggleton of Sharon, Kansas.

To this union was born four children; which with his wife, survives him. They are Marguerite Josephine, age 8 years, Hobart Allen 7 years, Mildred Imogene age 5 years.  And Henry Merle age 16 months. He also leaves to mourn his loss his father, mother, one sister and two brothers.  He grew to manhood at Sharon, Kansas, although he had been away for a few years, he always claimed Sharon as his home. Merel was known for his jovial, sunny disposition, and will be sadly missed by his friends and relatives. The funeral service was preached by Rev. S.B. Owens from the Baptist Church at 3 p.m.  May 25, and the body was laid to rest in the Sharon Cemetery.

(5) Pearl Rhodes, born July 13, 1893, died September 17, 1971, Springfield, MO. married Gilbert Gann.

(6) Hazel Jean Rhodes born July 8, 1900, Christian County, MO. (a twin to Helen), died November 16, 1979, Springfield, MO. M. Cecil Hicks.

(7) Helen Rhodes born July 8, 1900, Christian County, MO. married Calvin Uzzell.

NELLIE MADORA SMART
By Francis Mae (Sandy) McGehee

Nellie Madora Smart was a daughter of Amanda Emaline and Francis Marion Smart.  She was born February 5, 1877 and died June 23, 1956 in Sharon, Barber County, Kansas. She married John Max Sandy. Their children were; (1) Floyd Merel Sandy, born March 4, 1899, Sharon, Barber County, Kansas. Died May 22, 1927, Fayetteville, Arkansas. (2) Oscar Marion Sandy, born June 8, 1895, Santa Fe, Kansas (3) Elbert Theadore Sandy born September 7, 1903. (4) Gladys Matilda Sandy, born September 5, 1908 Sharon Kansas, she married Elmer Wesley Ward.