Note: Lois Malone was Arizona Goldmine Parker’s Sister.

I am including it here because of her relationship to our family and the information contained.

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INTRODUCTION

I am undecided whether to begin this account with our maternal or paternal families. Perhaps I should start with the family I think is the most important; not because it was the wealthiest and most prestigious, but

because they were down-to-earth, honest, and worthwhile people.

I have few family records to research as to actual facts, and much of this will be "hearsay" from others who spoke of certain happenings and events, and some of it will be based on stories left behind by family members who knew of the events. Some of these stories will seem humorous and others somewhat tragic, but, all in all, they were our family, bad and good, and since some of you children have expressed a desire to know and to have some sort of record, I will oblige by giving you a direct and honest account of all I remember and have researched.

HUGHES - BALLOU - TYLER

In writing this family history for you children, I must tell you that much of it is by word of mouth from mother or father to sons and daughters. We have no written proof of most of the information. If Grandfather Tyler or Great-grandfather Hughes had any family papers, they were lost during the Civil War. Grandfather Tyler died in the midst of the war, and the last place he lived was in Hartville, Missouri. He may have left belongings there. Grandmother left there and came, by gradual stages, to Maries County. Letters and other papers were kept in an old trunk and the contents were burned when Nancy (your great-aunt) died. Just think of the letters from the Hughes family who went on to California and of their being destroyed just as though they were wastepaper!

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I will begin with the Hughes family because to me they and the Tylers are responsible for any worthwhile characteristics we have inherited.

The first record of a Hughes in Missouri is from the records in Franklin County, which show that a William Hughes settled on DuBois Creek, not far from what is now Washington, Missouri, in 1794. Since Great-grandfather William Hughes (your great-great) was born in 1783, presumably this was his father (your great-great-great-grandfather). And, also presumably, it was his father (or your great-great-great-great-grandfather) who migrated to this. country in the late 1600's with William Penn.

According to family legend, Penn was related to the Hughes family, but it has not been determined whether it was on the Hughes side of the family or that of the elder Hughes' wife. The Hughes family came from Wales.

The Hughes family was very strict in religious matters and also believed in the occult.

Great-great-grandfather Hughes (who will be referred to as William Hughes the First) came from Pennsylvania originally, then later moved to Maryland, where Great-grandfather (your great-great) was born in 1783. He will be referred to as William II. William the First was a soldier in the Revolutionary War.

Relation to Me Relation to You Children

Cynthia Ann Tyler Mother Grandmother

m. Father Grandfather

Thomas Bickerton Anderson

Rebecca Hughes Grandmother G-grandmother

John Hunter Tyler Grandfather G-grandfather

William Hughes II G-grandmother G-G-grandmother

Prescilla Ballou G-grandfather G-G-grandfather

William Hughes I G-G grandfather G-G-G Grandfather

William Hughes,

came here with Penn G-G-G-grandfather G-G-G-G-grandfather

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Great-great-grandfather Hughes's children were:

William See information later in account.

Joseph Went to California in the 1840's, but he remained in MariesCounty long enough to beget three illegitimate daughters by the same woman, who later married Ake Rowden, and those offspring were given the name Rowden. The three daughters married and their descendants still live in Maries County. One of the daughters, Melinda, was George Cansler's mother and another was Effie Sease's mother. The third daughter married a man by the name of Orr.

Joseph died in California in 1867

(Rowden, after the first wife died, married the widow of Joe Hutchison, Jr., a nephew of your Grandmother Malone. You are related through the Crum family to the Snodgrass, Malone, Hutchison, Brown, Bray, Haines, and Myers families; through the Andersons to the Copelands, Tyrees, Grahams, Heltons, Breedens, Meltabargers, Bassetts, Russells, McDaniels, Nobletts, Knights, and many others. Also through the Andersons or Hugheses you are related to the grand-parents of Irene Murphy John.

Actually there are very few families in this county that are not related to you by blood or marriage.)

John Who also made the trip to California. He never married. Disappeared after having made considerable money in mining. It was believed that his mining partner had murdered him.

Mary Only daughter. She married Priscilla Ballou's brother William.

Noland Died single in California. No other information.

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In 1807 Great-grandfather William Hughes met Priscilla Ballou (or Belleau) in Carolina (whether North or South is not known) and they were married that same year. Priscilla (born in 1785) was of French ancestry and had come to America with her family because of religious persecution, although they themselves were not really what one would call a religious people. They did not, however, take very kindly to being ordered about. The different branches of the family chose their own spelling of their surname. Some spelled it BALLOU, BELLOW, BIRLEU, BELLEAW, BELLIEU, BILYEU, and, in one instance, just plain BLUE. Their number was many, and a pretty wild bunch of men, I gather.

After a few years of married life they, together with Great-grandfather's brother Joseph and several of the Ballous, left Maryland to begin a journey West. Priscilla's brother William married Great-grandfather's only sister Mary before they left Maryland.

After settling for a while in Kentucky, they moved on to Tennessee, where one of the Ballou boys (Isaac) married an Indian girl.**

Eventually the Hugheses and Ballous ended up in Missouri in Gasconade County, in 1818, near Vienna, in a place called Hurricane Bluff. What are known now as Maries, Osage, Miller, and Gasconade Counties were then known as Gasconade County. The division into separate counties came about sometime near the 1830's.

Grandmother Rebecca Tyler (nee Hughes) was born at Hurricane Bluff in 1819. Then her father, Great-grandfather Hughes, returned to Kentucky in 1821 where he lived for six years, returning to Missouri in 1828. Priscilla died in 1832 and was buried on a bluff along the Gasconade, south of Indian Ford. After her death and after his children had gone to California, Great-grandfather Hughes married again, a widow named Slate, and had two more daughters. There is no further information regarding them.

We have seen records of his filing on land in Pulaski and Osage Counties.

Great-grandfather Hughes was a blacksmith and an expert gunsmith.

(** In 1830, Isaac Ballou (Bilyew, Birlew, Ballieu), probably a son of this Isaac, Priscilla's brother, and his young wife, both under 20 years of age, settled on the Tavern Creek, near Iberia in Miller County. He hunted for three years with the famous (or infamous) Chief Rogers, the half-Indian who supposedly was part Indian. Isaac bought corn from his neighbors, ground it into meal, and, with hunting, made his living that way. The Ballous voted Republican. I wonder what became of all of them.)

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GREAT-GRANDFATHER HUGHES' CHILDREN

McKamy Wilson The eldest, born in Tennessee; lived all

b.4/18/1808 his life in Maries County.

d.9/13/1887

Married Elizabeth Davidson, sister to the Davidson who was the first husband of your great-grandmother Malone (nee Sarah Snodgrass). They had 8 children, 4 boys and 4 girls:

Harriet - married Larkin Crane.

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Melvina - married a Briggs, Civil War

veteran, Union Army; killed at Gettysburg. Three children of this union.

Lucinda - married James Knight; no children.

Nancy

Priscilla - married a Bassett: lived in Texas.

John P. - married Mary Tackett.

Elisha - married Rachael J. Roach.

Hiram - married Sarah Frances Eads

George H. - no data.

Hiram Second son, born in Kentucky. Married Lucinda Johnson Bowen, widow, with three children. Daughter of Sydney Johnson; sister to Old Betsy Hawkins (nee Johnson), who was considered to be a witch; and a sister of Mischal Johnson.

Hiram rode for Mischal and was sent on long journeys to cattle and mule markets. He was gone for over a year on one of trips. Upon his return he found his wife with a new baby (not his), and then decided to join the other members of the Hughes family in California. He was planning to leave his wife with Mischal, but Mischal blackmailed him into taking her and her four children or he would swear Hiram had rustled his cattle. Hiram took her with him. They later had two more children.

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Stephen Third child, no information.

John Never married.

Elisha Married Mary Coleman, a banker's daughter San Jose, California. Two children:

John - no information

Frances - Married John Colbert, and later a man named Fabrette.

Children of both marriages • still live in California.

David Also made the trip to California. Died single and young.

Melvlna Died single.

Elvira Married a man by the name of Johnson. They had two children. If I am not mistaken, Johnson was a great-uncle of Milt, Tom, and Millard Shockley. After Elvira died from ill treatment and neglect by her husband, Johnson married a great-aunt of Lucy Henderson.

Johnson was so stingy that Elvira had to fasten her clothing with thorns. This Johnson was a brother of the "famous" Mischal Johnson, preacher, teacher, cattle man, and, as the Hughes family tells it, a rustler besides. He was considered a very wicked man, and those at his bedside at the time of his death saw "a ball of fire emerge from his coffin and fly out the open door." They were so frightened they left. (An old ghost story!)

Elizabeth First married a man named Shobe; one daughter, Jane. Second marriage to William Wright; two sons born of this union.

Priscilla Died single.

Rebecca First marriage to William Tucker of Fayetteville, Arkansas. Two children:

b.1819

d.1904

Myra - Married Henry Davis and lived in in Willow Springs. Several children, but we have lost touch.

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(Rebecca, cont'd) Frances - Married a man named Caine; one daughter:

Minerva - After death of Aunt

Fanny (Frances), Uncle Tom and Uncle Cates and Grandmother Tyler raised Minerva.

Minerva married a man named Olmstead and lived in St. Louis. Two children, Flora

and a boy whose name I do not remember.

Second marriage: After the death of Tucker, Rebecca married John Hunter Tyler.

They had six children.

My Grandfather Tyler was a widower with three sons. Aunt Nancy said he was born in Virginia in 1801. Mama said he talked of living in Georgia. He may have been born in Virginia, but he was a "fiddle foot" and probably did travel to Georgia. Possibly that is where he met his first wife, an Irish (Welsh?) girl named Cynthia Chestnut. They had three boys, Larry, Robert, and Patrick, nicknamed "Chick." She died and Grandfather started traveling West with his boys. He got as far as Fayetteville, where he met Grandmother Tyler (a widow with two girls) and married her. This was before the Civil War.

Grandfather Tyler claimed direct descendancy from the rebel "Wat Tyler", who lived in the fourteenth century. There has been a Wat in each generation of Grandfather's family.

He also claimed to be a cousin of President John Tyler. Their fathers or grandfathers were brothers and the maternal name must have been Hunter, which was Grandfather's middle name. He had several brothers, all in favor of the North, although he was a rabid Southerner. During the Civil War he did not try to keep in touch with his family, who were Northern sympathizers. He also had no use for President John Tyler, who he said was a Tory.

Grandmother had been left quite well off -- William Tucker had owned an inn or hotel; but her finances were tied up in Confederate money, so she lost the hotel and, probably with Grandfather's help, lost everything else. He was never satisfied to stay in one place too long. That's when they moved to Hartville, and that's where my mother was born.

Grandfather Tyler was 60 years of age when the war came, and he tried every way he could to get into the army so he could fight for the South. When he failed, he formed a militia

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in Hartville. He was a totally self-sufficient man, and in one instance when Union soldiers tried to take his horse, he dared them to take it. They left with the excuse that the reason they didn't take the horse and shoot him was that he was 60 years of age. The soldiers came back after dark and stole his horse.

One battle between the North and South was fought near Hartville. After the battle the hallway of the courthouse was full of bodies, and he helped bury the dead of both sides.

Not long after, Grandfather died. He was buried on the bank of White River, which now is a big lake. It is understood that when the dam was being excavated, all who were buried there were excavated with it rather than being exhumed and reburied.

After his death Grandmother Tyler came on to Maries County with their six children, and none old enough to be of much help. Her two daughters by William Tucker (Myra and Frances) had married. It took her six years before arriving in Vienna. My mother, Cynthia, was about 16 years old when she arrived here. No one knows where the stops were, or how long Grandmother Tyler remained at each. But Grandma Cynthia stated it took about six years to arrive in Vienna, where Grandmother Tyler had some relatives. She worked for other people and some of the relatives were able and willing to take some of the children. Grandma Cynthia lived with a cousin of Grandmother Tyler's, a William Wright, until she came on to Vienna.

GRANDMOTHER REBECCA'S CHILDREN

Nancy b.8/20/1849 The eldest, born in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Never married.

d.1/2 /1928

Ruth b.7/20/1850 Born in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Married Enos Logan from somewhere around Columbia. He deserted her and their two children. She died, leaving her two little girls for Uncle Tom and Uncle Cates to see after. Mamie, the oldest, married Dennis Fennessey and moved to Pacific, Missouri. Both died long ago, but their children and grandchildren live there.

The other daughter, Julie, disappeared.

Elisha William Born in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Died single. Nickname "Cates." Member of Vienna Masonic Lodge for almost 40 years.

b. 12/23/1851 d. 8/2/1933

Thomas Born in Fayetteville, Arkansas. b. 9/23/1853 Died single.

d. 1938

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Cynthia Born in Hartville, Missouri. Married Thomas Bickerton

b. 7/19/1855 Anderson, Tuesday evening, September 14, 1880. Eight

d. 1949, age 93 children:

Harriet - Born Sept. 25. 1881

Died 10/5/1882

John Paul Vane - Born April 9, 1883. Married Ruth Boston.

Three children:

Rachael - lives in Tulsa.

Thomas - lives in Denver.

Lucille - married Kent Spring. Lives in Oklahoma.

Addie Aletta - Born Jan. 1, 1885; died in 1942. Married Ira C. Calkins. Two boys:

Llew, who died on Bataan. One daughter.

Don, who lives in Albuquerque. Married; two daughters.

Mary Lamar - Born 1882; died in infancy.

Lois Agusta - Born December 13, 1891. Married George W. Malone in 1909, July 18.

Nine children.

(see Anderson family tree)

Mildred - Born March 19, 1894. Married Ben Otto, deceased. Two children:

Bernard - deceased; single.

Helen - married Robert Hight; lives in California; three daughters: Holly, Marjory, and Elizabeth.

Second marriage to John Waidelich; One child, Donna.

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Grace - Born Nov. 17, 1896. Married Charles Scott; one daughter:

Naomi - Married Morris Byrd;Two daughters:

Julie; married, now divorced.

Suzanne; married R. Faris; two children;

David and Sarah.

Glen - Grace's twin brother; died in infancy.

Arizona Married Columbus Parker; four boys:

b. 1359

Bayard - Married Oma Hutchison. Five children.

Charles - Died single.

John - Died single.

William Columbus - Nicknamed "Snits." Married a daughter of Charles Spratley, whose mother was a Copeland, a second cousin of mine. They had one daughter, Olive, who married a man named Eikoff.

After Aunt Zone was born, Grandmother left her unnamed for so long that Grandfather said if she didn't name that child soon he was going to call her "Arizona Goldmine." I suspect he was getting an "itchy foot" about then, with an idea of moving on to Arizona. Anyhow, she wasn't named and they just began calling her Arizona, shortening it to Zone.

Grandmother Tyler named her first Tyler boy for her first husband and Grandfather Tyler named Mama for his first wife. I think that's really something! Catch me naming any of you for my first husband!

Grandfather's two oldest boys by Cynthia Chestnut died soon after he and Rebecca were married. Lawrence (called Larry) and Robert died in the mid-1860's. The youngest, Patrick (nicknamed "Chick"), went with a drove of cattle to California about the time the Hugheses did. Arrived with one cow. He started mining,

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then decided to gamble instead and made his fortune. He wrote he was coming home and Grandmother would never have to work again. That was the last they ever heard of him. He probably was murdered too, as was John Hughes, Mama's uncle.

Several of Grandmother Rebecca's Ballou relatives left Missouri for Arkansas when the Civil War fighting got bad and never returned to Missouri. Not only the Ballous, but a good many others also left; some to evade having to enlist and some for safety. Not only wore there wild animals in the woods, but there were bushwhackers too. People claimed affection for the South and rode at night to do their evil, but it also gave them an excuse to rob and kill and have the real reason hidden. More than one man hid in his cellar all through the war, or out in a barn somewhere, and his folks would bring him food. Not only through the Civil War did this happen, but during the last two World Wars. Of course, there were not as many who deserted as during the Vietnam War, but they are all the same the world over, and, to me. that doesn't look any worse than paying someone to do your fighting.

I could also write about the hard life most women suffered during that Civil War, and before, when living was pretty primitive and downright dangerous from wild animals, or, once in a while, an Indian or two creeping from the forests. Everett King has written an authentic story about the primitive way of life then. so all of you who have his book can read and see that your Tyler and Hughes relatives lived about like that; also your Snodgrass and Crum relatives. There was very little easy and fancy living for anyone. But that was good for them. People who can't stand up under adversity and hard times never amount to anything worthwhile..

But I'd better go on and finish this Tyler-Hughes story and try to get it all down without getting sidetracked so often.

Well, this story is about finished. Sometime, some of you could do a bit of investigating into the Tyler family in D.C. and see what you can find out about the name "Hunter" in regard to it, and especially if two Tylers (any two and which ones) married sisters. I don't doubt Grandfather's word one bit. He was honest, truthful, and brave and had no false pride about him. He didn't feel it was an honor at all, as most people would, to be related to a president. Actually, he had the idea that there was no one superior Co himself. I think that's a splendid idea to keep in mind.

Grandmother Rebecca was left quite well off by her first husband, but due to bad management she lost it or it was wasted. Grandfather was never happy to stay in one place for long at a time. In fact, our whole family is touched with the same disease. Grandmother Tyler used to say that we were part of the "Lost Tribes of Israel." The Hughes family was Welsh, superstitious, and held a firm belief in the spirit world. Uncle Cates believed in transmigration of souls and the whole family believed in signs

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and omens. Elisha Hughes and his niece Frances (my mother's half-sister) were mediums and also kept in Couch with each other by what we now call ESP. No wonder their descendants have had a I difficult time trying to disbelieve in ghosts. Well, there is an old saying, and I Chink it applies especially to the Welsh people, that "The young shall dream dreams and the old shall see visions." That attitude is not wholly on the Hughes-Tyler side; the Wisemans were also "touched."

It is a bit too much for me to straighten out the various intermarriages, but King's book will show you that the Ballou, Wiseman, and Hughes families intermarried with the Andersons and that Maries County was pretty well settled by offspring of Chose families, along with the Heltons, Vaughns, and Eads families, who also intermarried with them. All of them were first settlers of this region; some, while it was known as part of Gasconade County; part after it became Maries County.

The Hughes family came first. There are records of land they bought in what is now Osage County. At that time Osage-Maries-Gasconade-Miller were all one big county. After Grandfather Anderson came, the county was surveyed and separated into the present counties. Thomas A. Anderson owned land in nearly all of them. Besides his own acreage in Maries County, the farm Howard and Jean own was part of his holding. Also in Vichy there are now 200 acres which were sold (I suppose by Uncle Richard) that have no good deed. Everett King told me. I don't know who has it; I didn't ask for I knew if it was still in the Anderson name, taxes had eaten it up. When Vienna became a town or county seat, lots that Shockley had deeded to it were bought up mostly on the south. Some, on the north and east were bought by Thomas Anderson. He deeded the cemetery plot to the town, and the money he and others paid for the lots went into the town's treasury. There was (and part of it still is) a block of four squares that never had a clear deed. When Louise King sold Chat comer lot opposite the bank, she got a clear deed by my and Mildred's signatures. It probably was with the other three blocks sold by Richard Anderson without his brothers' signatures. Everett told me a while before he died that there was no good deed to any of it. So this land went with all Thomas Anderson's holdings. Someone needed money, and it was sold without the younger boys' knowledge.

The Tylers, on the other hand, worked for their living. Stayed poor, but respectable and respected. Uncle Cates became a member of the Masonic Lodge and taught men who wanted to become Masons all the necessary briefings. Grandmother Tyler (we always called her "Mother" instead of Grandmother, and people in Vienna called her "Aunt Rebecca") was, when I knew her, a little, dried-up, loving person. I was about 8 or 10 years of age when she died.

In looking over a book published long before Everett King's, there are records of land owned by the following in what is now

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ANDERSON FAMILY

William Anderson Birthdate unknown. He was of Scottish descent. Wife was supposedly Welsh, No information available regarding her.

Three children:

Thomas A. Anderson. Born 1/5/1813 Died 8/28/1860

Only son of William by his first wife. Born in Tennessee. Married Myra Ann (or Miriam) Wiseman on November 12, 1837. Myra was born 10/4/1823; died 9/10/1909. They had eight children:

(1) Richard Watson - Born 10/19/1839. Married

Harriet Hoops; one daughter:

Julia - Married Tom Watkins;

Two children:

Guy - married; childless

Florence - married a Dickenson; two

children: Julia, deceased, single; Richard, no data,

(2) Lucinda Caroline - Born Feb. 27, 1842 - Died May 23, 1842

(3) John Edwards - Born 12/16/1844; died 7/20/1866

Married Susan Cansler. No children. Susan married after John's death and had children, who now live in California.

(4) James Monroe - Born 7/20/1848; died 5/5/1898.

Married Nancy Hoops, half-sister to Richard's wife.*

(5) Mary Frances - Born 8/13/1850; died 8/11/1857.

(6) Mathilda Roberta - Born 12/29/1852; died 2/15/1873, Married William Casebolt. No children.

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*Seven children who lived to maturity

(7) Thomas Bickerton - Born 12/25/1856

Died 12/28/1897.

Your grandfather. Married Cynthia Ann Tyler (Granny), who was born July 19, 1855. They had eight children; D. Mar. 1949

Harriet Anetta - see page 8

James Paul Vane - "

Addie Aletta - "

Mary Lamar - "

Lois Augusta - Born 12/13/1891.

Married George W. Malone in 1909. Nine children:

Cynthia Jeretta - Born 2/25/1912, at

6:00 a.m. Married in 1954 to Stanley L. Westerdahl; widowed in 1957. No children.

James Paul - Born 7/16/1913 at 12: 00 p.m. Married Velcia Copeland (born March 1910). Two sons:

Shawn - born 1/13/1940; died in 1972. Married Imogene Renkemeyer; divorced; two sons: Jimmy and Kyle.

Danny - born 6/8/1949. Married Judy

Helton. One daughter, Allison.

John Tyler - Born 12/17/1915, at 6:00 a.m.; died 12/12/1973.

Married Kathryn Wenzel Sept. 27, 1957.

Three children:

Pamela - born 9/17/1958

Jeretta - born 3/26/1960

Carla - born 8/12/1962

Rachael Gail - Born 7/2/1919. Married,

divorced; no children.

Robert - Born 12/17/1920. Married Lee

Salo. Eight children:

Cynthie (2/11/1946); married to

Curt Nelson; three daughters.

Robert (7/22/1948); married; one son, Isaac.

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Becky (5/29/1951); married to David Cruise; two daughters.

Timothy (1/15/1953) - single.

Meribeth (9/23/54) - married to Mark Ewing; no children.

David - single; now in Navy.

Jennifer - single - at home.

Michelle - Called Shelley. At home.

Helen - Born 11/12/1924 (5: 00 p.m.).

Married Lloyd Steen, divorced; one son:

Michael John (3/20/1949) - married; two sons, Matthew and Jeffrey.

Married Harlan Lincoln Harner, who was born 1/14/1924. Four children:

Stephen (2/2/1952) - single

Jeffrey (10/18/1953) - single

Lauric (3/17/1960) - single

Brian (4/28/1962) - at home.

Jean - Born 2/6/1928. Married to Howard Loyal Henderson (4/27/28). Seven children, two died in infancy.

Sue - born 9/28/1949- married to

Michael Wenger.

Terry - born 10/10/1951; married to Dallas Snodgrass; Dustin (7/27/1973).

Loyal Smith - born 9/7/1952; .

Patricia - born 8/26/1956;

Carl Tyler - born 10/18/1959;

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Brian - Born 7/26/1929; married to

Nancy Secrest, born 11/28/1930.

Two daughters:

Nancy Jane - born 10/3/1955;

single.

Bridget - born 7/25/1957;

single.

Patricia - Born 12/3/1934; married to

Gus James; two children:

Julie - born 3/27/61

Jeffrey - born 5/19/64

Mildred - see page 8 Grace & Glen - see page 9

(8) William Davenport. Born 1 /12/1860. Married Mame

Eagan from the State of California.

William Anderson's second child by his first wife was:

Nancy Ann - who first married John Washam; they had one daughter, Julia Ann. Later she married Hood Vaughn (3/12/1835).

Elizabeth - his third child by his first marriage. Married a Tipton. One son, Samuel.

William's second marriage was to a Miss Lacy. They had 5 children;

Isaac - married Kitty Ann Crawford; several children, two of whom married Menteer men in Jefferson City.

William - twice married; two children.

James - married Harriet Hedrick; two children.

Emeline - married James Belk.

Rebecca Ann - married Stephen Bilyey (Billyeu?)

Mahala Anderson - married John Taff.

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Grandfather Thomas A. Anderson came here from DeSoto County, Mississippi, in the early 30's. His father, William Anderson, owned slaves and property in DeSoto County. Before leaving Mississippi, Grandfather Thomas had fathered two daughters by a widow by the name of Mrs. Mulkey (sp.?) (nee Lacy). Grandfather wanted to marry the Widow Lacy but his father wanted to prevent the marriage, so he sent Grandfather, with several ox teams, wagons, slaves, and money, to settle in this part of the country. Grandfather was Co become one of the wealthiest men in the county. Everett King states that the widow was Grandfather's first wife, but this is in error, for he did not marry the widow even though he had two children by her.

When Grandfather left DeSoto County he left his two daughters (by the Widow Lacy) with his sister Elizabeth Tipton, who then had a daughter of her own. The two daughters were sent to a young ladies' seminary to be educated. Grandfather told his sister that he would send for them as soon as he had built a home. About eight years passed. Grandfather, in the meantime had become engaged to Matilda Catherine, daughter of Davenport Wiseman, but she died before they were married. He then courted her sister Myra, and they eloped and were married on November 12, 1837. The record of the marriage is found in the courthouse in Linn, Missouri. Grandfather Hughes (a traveling minister) had married them. King's book has the name of the minister who married them entirely different from my Grandfather Hughes.) Grandfather Tom was 24 years of age and Grandmother Myra was 13 at the time of their marriage. On the evening of their elopement, Grandfather chatted with Myra's parents while she slipped out and put her clothes in his saddle bags, and then rode off with him.

In those days of bad or no roads, the ministers would travel by horseback. It was slow and tiring work, and sometimes young couples who wanted to marry had to wait a long time for the preacher to arrive to marry them; then, possibly, when he did get around to them they had already gone to housekeeping and some probably had families started. It was not "hippy" style living. Some of them, however, would go through a private ceremony until the preacher could arrive to make the marriage legal. In one case, the couple set up housekeeping, then made a ceremony of planting a tree, by each, near the door -- somewhat like, only better, than "jumping over the broomstick," which was also a sort of wedding ceremony for some* Everett King told me this.

Grandmother Myra's family had come to America perhaps in the late 1700's. Her grandparents were from a foreign country --probably Poland, but Everett King states in his book that they were Dutch or German Jews.

The first daughter to be born to Grandfather and Grandmother Anderson died after three months. Uncle Richard was born when Grandmother was 15, on October 19, 1839, and was named Richard Watson. Lucinda Caroline was born on February 27, 1842; John

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Edwards was born December 16, 1844; James Monroe, July 20, 1848; Mary Frances, September 13, 1850; Mathilda Roberta, December 29, 1852; Thomas Bickerton, December 25, 1855; William Davenport, January 12, 1860.

There is a notation in the "DEATHS AND BIRTHS" of a Mathilda Catherine Wiseman, born March 31, 1832. It is supposed she was the sister of Grandmother Myra, and the one Grandfather had been engaged to marry before her death, There is no date given for her death, but it was supposedly in her 17th year.

Grandmother Myra had little to do in the home, since there were slaves to do the work. She sewed for all of them, however, and the little Negro children grew up wearing the same sort of garment my father and his brothers wore for every day -- a long, shirt-type garment. I don't know what type clothes they had for special occasions, but the long, shirt-type is what they wore at home. The young Black children also attended the primitive school the Anderson boys attended until they were old enough to be put Co work, or sold, as the case might be.

Grandfather Tom Anderson and his father had large tobacco barns on the land near Lane's Ford. Steamboats could come that far up the river then and Cake the tobacco to market. He had also built large barns on his homestead for his stock, plus a building for a store where he kept merchandise for the neighborhood. His nephew from Mississippi came up to handle that job for him. Slave labor did all the rest. He dealt in stock -- mules, horses, and cattle -- and kept busy in politics and neighborly doings.

Grandfather took care of his estate, traveled here and there on business matters, hobnobbed with the officials in Jefferson City and St. Louis, and had good personal friends in government offices throughout the county. He had his own race track and many fine horses, and would not allow his children to associate with "ordinary, common" people. One wonders how he could do the extensive entertaining he did in a home that consisted of only two large rooms and an attic, but most rural people of that time in this area lived in just such conditions, and Grandfather was an expansive host, evidently well-liked, a good mixer and neighbor.

Grandfather died during the Civil War and his estate was in the hands of two different executors until Richard was of age. One executor was John Felker,* Grandfather's son-in-law; the other executor was also a son-in-law.* when Richard Cook over the estate was already dimished to some extent. By the end of the war the slaves had left. Grandfather had freed most of them before the war began. After that it was a downhill course for his holdings. My father was about five years old when Grandfather died. Until my father was about 18, things were pretty comfortable. Grandfather accumulated what he left in twenty years and by the time my father

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* *Husbands of his two illegitimate daughters

was 24 it was all gone! The only one living in comfort at that time was Richard. I shouldn't hold him and the other executors to blame entirely, for the family, as a whole, thought they could go on living easy, Richard and Monroe's wives, both daughters of another wealthy man, insisted on keeping to their way of life.

The Anderson boys had never been taught to do any real

manual labor. They liked gambling, drinking, horse racing, and that was the extent of their knowledge; although Uncle Richard had become an attorney and should have known how to handle estates. Grandfather left a will, leaving the home and land thereon to Grandmother, but the other wealth of his estate was to be equally divided among his children, legitimate and illegitimate. It seems the illegitimate children benefited most. All the boys married women who liked the rich and comfortable way of living. My father married a sensible woman, although poor, and until ray father's death the family was well provided for, although he was lame from arthritis and blind in one eye from neuralgia since the age of 18.

My Papa had attended the School of Mines for a while, and after his marriage to Mama, at the age of 24, he went into politics. He held the offices of Treasurer, Circuit Clerk, and Postmastership in Vienna. During the time he held office, Mama helped him with his office work (and she had had only a third-grade education). If the books are still in existence, many of his ledgers will show where Mama lined them in red so he could see the lines as he [recorded items. His handwriting was a beautiful script, almost like copperplate. The boys in the family were well educated for that period of time.

Great-grandfather William wasn't more than 60 or 65 when the war broke out. He seemed to be a mysterious sort of person, (going back and forth from Missouri to Mississippi, and marrying again after he sent Tom here Co Missouri. He married a sister of (the widow he wouldn't allow Thomas to marry and raised another (family just about the ages of my father and his brothers and sisters (He may have even fought in the South -- I had an announcement of a book being published in Mississippi about the men who fought a "bushwhacking" battle against the Northern army, a sort of hit-and-miss affair by men who didn't want to join the Regular Army but hated the North. One of the men, the leader of this troop was called "Bloody Bill" Anderson. If it was by chance Great-grandfather, then more power to him. His grandsons were of weaker stuff.

I'm sure if I had been interested about family while Grandmother Myra lived, she could have told me everything I want to know NOW, But young people never seem to be concerned about the past. I know more about my mother's family and personal life than I do about my father. The Andersons were the people of money and substance (materially), but the Tylers and the Hugheses were the really worthwhile ones after all.

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Richard graduated from law school and practiced law until his death. He, too, was crippled from arthritis. Richard married Harriet Hoops, from another wealthy family in Osage County. Monroe married her half-sister Nancy. Richard had only one child, Julia, who married a man by the name of Watkins and who was later shot to death in Vienna by another editor named Diggs. Julia had two children and two grandchildren, Richard Dickenson, grandson, may still be living. Monroe had five daughters and two sons. None is living except Gwen Orear, about my age at this writing, who lived or lives in Farmington, Missouri. Mamie's daughter lives in Denver. There is no information on the rest. Gwen was Octavia Anderson Bowles's daughter. Allie Anderson (married a Smith) had two little girls - no data. Roberta and Tom died single. Don, the last one, disappeared.

John Anderson married Susan Cansler and died, childless, from poisoned whiskey. It was told that John Felker (married to Amanda, one of Grandfather Tom's illegitimate daughters) and Dr. Irvin Jones (married to the other illegitimate daughter, Jane) put drugs in John's jug of whiskey and sent him home, hoping, they said, that he would go to sleep and there would be no trouble from an old enemy coming to town. Their story was that it was to keep the two men from meeting; however, he died from the effects of the drug and whiskey, but no investigation was ever made. Of course, the other point of view was that the two daughters would have stood to inherit more.

Roberta, the only daughter then living, married William Casebolt, and died childless and young.

Mama always said the Bick's family had disapproved of their marriage from the beginning, and were not pleased with his choice of a wife, regardless of the fact that she actually came from a better class of people, although not wealthy, but honest and decent. The Andersons felt, in their Southern arrogance, that Papa had married "beneath" him. Up to the time Grandmother Myra lost her home, the family still felt that way about Mama. After Grandmother Myra had signed over her home to Monroe and his family, she was abandoned and had to come make her home with my Mama and Papa. She stayed with them for several years until her youngest son (who was also a wastrel) married a nice little woman from California and settled down. Grandmother then went to live with him until her death fourteen years later, in 1909. That son, William, died childless. His wife, Mamie Eagan, who had lived in Sacramento, met him while he was in California with his half-sister and brother-in-law John Felker. Felker had gone there hoping to settle, didn't like it, Cook a ship to South America, trying to get back home, was shipwrecked, and had to stay a year in South America before getting back to New Orleans, From there he took a steamboat to St. Louis. Uncle Will went to work for Tom Bray in Vienna, who had a flour mill and clothing store at Paydown, after he returned from California.

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It is remembered by our family that Mr. Bray was one of the very firm, good friends of my Papa. He helped him in his political career, and when Papa became too ill Co run for office again, Mr. Bray encouraged Mama to announce for the office. When it was said that she could not raise the bond because of being poor, Mr. Bray said, "Hell, I'll pay the bond myself!" At that time, it seems to me, it was quite a heavy one -- thousands for the Treasurer's office -- but it was almost unheard of for a woman to hold office at that time, and she had three or four opponents. One was Papa's nephew. She lost, but we have always remembered Tom Bray with affection.

In Chose days people paid their taxes and other expenses with gold coins, and Grandfather did almost entirely with gold. Great-grandfather had an old Scotch gardener who had come with the family from England and on to Maries County with them. He expected his wages Co be paid in gold. No one ever knew what he did with his money, since he had no expenses and never went to town. When he wanted whiskey, he had access to Grandfather's supply. Grandfather kept it by the keg or barrel. Grandmother made his cloches. He apparently buried the gold somewhere, but none of the Andersons thought to look for it after his death. When the Anderson home was sold Co Schenker, the new owners practically dug up the place, tearing the rocks out of the wall of the cistern, looking for the old Scot's fortune in gold.

The house still stands, solid as ever, but doesn't look as it did in those days. It was originally built of logs hewed smooth and put together with huge pins instead of nails, and made as storm-proof as a house could be made. The wide floor boards are still there, but the house has been weatherboarded over the logs and modernized to some extent. It could not be considered a very comfortable house now. The slave cabins, of course, and all the old buildings are gone, and it has the reputation of being haunted from the time Mama and Papa were married. It is said some very odd things happened, not only while the Andersons lived in it, but after other people took possession. (Probably Grandfather Anderson's ghost coming back to haunt those who abused his authority!). I am 84 years of age at the present, and it was only about three years ago that I visited that house. It is not far from where we live, and where I lived most of my life, and somehow I had a feeling that I belonged there. But, not so! It might have been the home of a total stranger instead of the home of my ancestors. Guess I'm not psychic after all. I am not particularly proud of the Andersons I knew, but I can respect my Grandfather because he was a man of vision and ambition. He did a lot to build up Vienna and Maries County.

Nothing is ever said about the part Grandfather played in the formation of the County, although the Shockleys and Johnson families were frequently written up regarding their contributions to the formation of Maries County.

Not many people know that although Mr. William Shockley gave 70 acres of the town site, he bought back all the land south of the courthouse (from one block south). Thomas Anderson bought all the lots north from where the old Henderson Hotel stood. That money went into establishing the county seat and deeding the cemetery acreage to the town. After Grandfather died, Uncle Richard then sold the lots off one by one; also, on the east side of the courthouse there is a two-block square, from Main Street east, taking in four blocks Chat never had a good deed made for any of it until Everett King bought the building where now a new clothing store stands. My sister Mildred and I signed away our rights to that lot.

It Is not understandable how other people bought their places without "good" deeds, for evidently Uncle Richard, or one of the executors, just sold the land without making out deeds. Everett King told me this, but the back taxes on those four blocks would have been out of reason for any claim to have been made after so many years. We do know that a nephew of my Papa's, Thomas Felker, and John W. Terrill had owned the lots at one time, and since both were lawyers, they knew as well that the land could not legally have been sold. Crookedness goes on in small towns much the same as in large ones.

I have no idea how Grandfather Anderson treated his slaves while he lived; he was stern with his children, but Grandmother said the Negroes were all anxious to be free. There was only one slave who wanted to stay, but his wife left and he had to go too. This was old Elijah (or Lige, as they called him). He was a Negro chat Thomas's father had seen on one of his buying trips down south. He seemed about Grandfather Thomas's age, about three years old, too small to walk chained to the other slaves. He bought him and brought him to Mississippi. Tom and Lige grew up together, but Lige was left behind when Tom came to Missouri. When Tom's father (William) died, his estate was sold, and a man by the name of Wherry bought Lige. After Grandfather married, the man who bought Lige died, and he was again up for sale. He sent word to Grandfather Tom to be sure to come to the sale. Grandfather saddled an extra horse and rode and bought him. He lived at the Anderson place until he was free. He left his son James to live with the Andersons, but James, who had been almost as well educated as the Anderson boys, didn't stay long. He went to Springfield, married, and reared two sons who became fine men. One was a lawyer. The two old slave bills are still in existence, but not with our branch of the family.

Grandmother Myra was a typical little black-eyed Jewess. The family was close-knit and she was not one to visit neighbors. She lived only for herself and her family. She always called Grandfather "Mr. Anderson." If there was ever any jealousy on her part coward the other women Grandfather knew, it was never mentioned by her.

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Great-grandfather William, who sent Grandfather Tom packing to keep him from marrying the Widow Lacy, married the sister of the Widow Lacy after Grandfather Tom left Mississippi. William fathered several other children (half-brothers and half-sisters of Grandfather Tom) and also came on to Missouri to settle not far from Grandfather's home. Two of the grandchildren married Menteer men in Jefferson City. Their descendants still live there. One of the half-sisters went to Springfield and the others died in a typhoid epidemic. The names of these children are in Everett King's book.

The strain of bluegrass in Maries County and adjoining counties was brought by Grandfather Tom by ox team to his home in Maries County from Kentucky. He was the owner of about thirty slaves, which does not sound too commendable at this writing.

Grandfather brought his sister Nancy Washam and her little girl Julie with him when he came to Missouri. Nancy had been married to a man named Washam, but had divorced him later. Julie had stayed with her father after the divorce. After Grandfather's wagons had left Hernando, Nancy told him to go on, she had forgotten something. She rode back, snatched up her little girl, and caught up with the wagon train. She also was well off financially. Within a short time after coming to Missouri, she married Hood Vaughn, who is related to Grandma Graham, Howard's grandmother.

After Julie grew up she married Tod Helton and became the great-grandmother of Paul's wife Velcia, and also the ancestress of the two Shelton boys, whose mother is Hazel Birmingham's sister.

Grandfather Tom laid out his own racetrack -- the famous Cloverleaf Track, known all over, not only in Maries County but also in the state. People at that time were as race crazy as they are now. Thomas had brought a famous stallion here, and Nancy -also had a fine horse. People from far off would come to the races. Grandmother Myra didn't approve, but kept quiet, listening every moment for some one to be brought in with a broken neck. You didn't have to be wealthy to race -- just so you had a fast horse, and nearly everyone around here had one. Uncle Tom Tyler had a racer and he was comparatively poor. The Canslers, Joneses, and others all had horses. After Grandfather died Monroe carried on the racing stable until the estate was so diminished he finally had to give up the home place.

In those days it was not only the Andersons who drank, raced, and gambled. Vienna had always had two open saloons. My mother and father lived in a log house just back of one saloon (where the Gazette office is now), and night after night men would sit in the back room of the saloon and shoot at tin cups of whiskey on each other’s heads. The bullets would pop into the log walls of my parents' house. Will Jones, son or my father's

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brother-in-law, and George Cansler, another relative of ours with a bar sinister (Hughes), son of Henderson Cansler, would ride through the streets of Vienna with the bridle reins held in their mouths and a pistol in each hand, shooting at the sky. No law and order, especially for what was considered the elite of Vienna; and make no bones about it, Vienna, a scrub town, did have its elite class, mostly old Southern families who settled here. Grandfather among them.

I have said he was stem with his children. My father, Bick, was quite young when Grandfather Tom died, and until he was 17 or 18 he had a pretty easy life. Uncle Richard was the sober one of the family, never drinking to excess, but it was through his hands that most of the estate disappeared. The more underprivileged neighbors would come asking help of some sort, and Aunt Roberta, who was tender hearted, would give them meat until Grandfather put a lock on the smokehouse door. Then she would have one of the Blacks climb up and remove a few shingles and get what she wanted.

Besides supervising his farm, Grandfather bought and sold cattle, mules, and horses; was on seemingly good terms with everyone but one family here by the name of Crismon. Crismon also had a fine race horse and at one time just before a race (in the night) damaged or tore up part of the track. He and his brother hated Tom and plotted to "get" him at a time he was exercising his big horse. They thought he would not dare leave his horse loose to fight back. However, he held the bridle in one hand and whipped both of them. I don't know the real reason for the enmity, but considering Tom's ego, he perhaps had slighted them in a way that only an arrogant Southerner knows best. Grandmother Myra hated them too. But anything "Mr. Anderson" (as she called him) did was gospel with her. He must have been a loving husband, for she mourned him all those long years afterward. Whether she knew of his chasing other women and having fathered several more illegitimate children in Maries County, we have no idea. She never mentioned anything about it, although most of their own family knew about it. Several good farms were deeded by him to the mothers of those children. In one case I know of, he also stocked the farm. Grandfather was a large and tall man; had to have his hats and boots made to order, but none of his sons was more than ordinarily tall. Richard and Monroe were the "dandies" of the family. Both were old enough to attend balls and "to-dos" with him, with their ruffled shirts and fancy clothes, before he died. But during the Civil War, Richard, instead of enlisting, paid another man $800 to fight in his place. That was legal, if you were a coward or not. Quite different from my mother's father, who, at the age of 60, tried to enlist on the side of the South and was refused, so he formed a militia at home. I'm afraid the Anderson family, per se, can't stand up to be admired, except that Thomas was ambitious and had a vision of what he and his family of boys could accomplish.

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That ambition died when he did. My father, of all of them, was the only really honest one, and I've always believed it was because of my mother, who would never have agreed to any hanky-panky of any sort. He did, after ten years of marriage and heavy drinking, finally realize what he was doing to a very good and faithful wife, and suddenly quit his alcoholism, became a "true Christian", and gave her seven years of comparative happiness. By "true Christian" I mean he changed in so many ways. He had no use for anyone who was weak enough to drink or gamble -- no in-between colors --everything was a sin or it wasn't. Then he died and left her with five children to rear with no help of any sort. Lucky for us that She had a quiet determination to see that we were kept clean, dressed as well as any other children of that time, and given the best education available. One reason we got through our young years without any heartburnings for things we didn't have was that she taught us that money and the things money could buy didn't amount to a "hill of beans" unless you had a "good" family back of you, which we felt we did.

Although my mother knew the Andersons intimately -- their shortcomings, etc. -- she also admired what she heard from Grandmother Myra and my father of Thomas Anderson's fierce pride in his family background (as proud in some ways as she herself was), his independence, and ambition. He was not particularly "purse proud" but was a man who expected, and tried as long as he lived, to build up a family dynasty that he would be satisfied with. He was well liked by his neighbors, with one exception, and did a lot for Maries County in Crying to establish a county seat: dividing Gasconade into several different counties; establishing roads throughout the county, which at that time was mostly virgin timber and wide prairie (on the east side), and establishing churches and schools.

He deeded the present cemetery acreage to the Catholic Church, so he was not a religiously biased man. When the few members of the church decided it was too far out for a church, a plot in town at the present place was secured, and the acreage was given as a cemetery for both Catholic and Protestant, with the proviso that no lot was to be sold for individual use. He owned land (farms) in every direction from the town; for one, the farm and land adjoining Howard Henderson's farm, and as far as Vichy. There is land chat once was his northwesterly along the Maries almost to the mouth of the Maries into the Osage. President Van Buren was in office then and sold grants of land for 25 cents an acre. Grandfather owned in Maries County alone well over 5000 acres. His Blacks cleared and planted the crops. We have Grandfather's deed to his first home, which is signed by Van Buren.

He was a man of wide vision. The pity of it is that at his death all progress stopped. He didn't have one son who could manage as he did, especially after the freeing of the Blacks put a stop to hard labor.

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Although he did many things we disapprove of, such as his interest in women other than his wife, we can give him credit at least for his ambition and also for the fact that his close personal friends liked and admired him to the point that many named their sons Anderson in his honor -~ the Jones, Bowles, Bray, and other families.

Grandmother Myra told of a sore spot coming under her tongue

from smoking her pipe. She was worried that it might be malignant. People in that day never discussed cancer. She said that "Mr. Anderson" came to her in a dream and said: "Myra, get some yellow Pocoon (a medicine used then) and keep it on that spot." 1C apparently was successful. Yellow Pocoon is made from the root of the plant, dried and powdered. It would appear that not only the Hugheses and Tylers saw visions and dreamed dreams.

Grandfather's sister Elizabeth (Aunt Betsy) Tipton's daughter married a man named Robinson. Their daughter Eudora has a town named for her on or near the line between Mississippi and Arkansas. She married a man named Deane and her daughter lived in Tampa, Florida, where "Cousin Dora" died about the time of Everett King's death. Any data on the Anderson family died with her. We had kept in touch up to that time, but my family and troubles multiplied too fast for me Co do anything further. As far as I know now, the only living direct descendants of Thomas Anderson are myself, Mildred, Grace, and* Mamie's daughter, and, if they are living, Guy Watkins (who must be 90 years old) and Cousin Julia's grandson (Dickenson). He graduated from West Point some forty years, more or less, ago. Then there are Paul's and Addie's children. No others. Paul's son Tom lives in Denver. He has been married twice and has two children by his first wife, one boy and one girl. Anyhow, the last of the legal Anderson name.

The Andersons were Scots. Great-grandfather Anderson's wife was Welsh. The Hugheses were both Welsh; the Tylers were English, although there was Welsh on the maternal side. The Wisemans were Jewish; the Ballous were French.

* Mamie was the daughter of James Monroe, my father's brother.

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My mother came to Vienna several years after her mother and the others got here. For six or seven years she lived with a cousin of Grandmother Tyler (William Wright, in Wright County, Missouri). At nine years of age she had learned to card and spin wool, then weave it into a piece of what was known then as Linsey. Originally it would be a sort of dirty white color, but the women would dye it brown with walnut hulls, or with berry or bark for reddish colors; blue or red with homemade dyes, and then make their dresses out of the heavy stuff and the pants and coats for the men. Later on here, near Vienna, a man named Bray built a woolen mill where he used machinery to weave the cloth. Not bad-looking either, and it wore well too. A suit of that would last for years. People had their shoes handmade. Only the very wealthy and big town dwellers had shoes that were manufactured. What a reversal -- only the wealthy can afford to have shoes handmade now. Most small places had a shoemaker who measured the foot and made shoes. They were nice looking too.

At least every settlement had at least one shoemaker, gunsmith, and blacksmith. The men molded their own bullets, built their own homes, and the women gardened, canned, preserved, and dried fruits, sewed, and cooked with no modern conveniences. I can remember my Mama having what was known as an "ash hopper" in the back yard -- saving ashes and making lye to make her own laundry soap, and also using the lye to make hominy. There were no nicely scented bath soaps then. Both my grandmothers lived just such a primitive life, but Grandmother Myra had it a bit easier. At first she had the Negroes to do the heavy work. After Chat, she lived with one or another of her son's wives and didn't have anything to do but sit and smoke her pipe.

Grandmother Myra's parents had come from Europe. We don't know too much about them, only that in the beginning there were two sisters and a father and son. The younger sister was to marry the son. The older sister hated to see her start out for America alone, so she married the father. They all came at the same time.

Grandmother Myra's mother's name was Federski or Featherski. I fancy the first spelling, and it sounds definitely Polish. Everett King said they were "Black Dutch." Here in Maries County the people called the Germans "Dutch," Her father's name was Wiseman or Weisman or Wisemann, perhaps German-Jew. I have never seen any family records, only Thomas Anderson's Bible record of marriages, births, and deaths.

Davenport Wiseman settled in Maries County about the same time as the Andersons. He was a gunsmith and also farmed. A brother accompanied him to Maries County. Davenport had four daughters that we know of: Mathilda Catherine (to whom Grandfather was first engaged), Myra, Lucinda, and Mary America. Mary America married a Copeland. The Wisemans often named their

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children Davenport and America.

Between the Wisemans, Copelands, Hugheses, Ballous, Eadses, and Heltons, not to mention Breedens, Maries County and parts of Osage, Miller, Pulaski, and Phelps counties were populated,

Mama came to Vienna when she was about 16 and went to work for Aunt Rachael and Uncle Mose Smith, who at that time had the hotel in Vienna. They were two of the "first settlers." Aunt Rachael was a member of the Hoops family and seemed like a member of ours. I remember her and Uncle Mose after they gave up the hotel (to Smith Henderson). I believe Uncle Mose was in some way related to Smith Henderson (Howard's great-grandfather). The men who were building the brick court house to replace the one that burned down some time around 1869 were boarders at Smith's Hotel.

From that time, when she was 16, until she was 24, she lived and worked in Vienna. Sometimes for Aunt Harriet Anderson (Richard's wife). There is where she learned to smoke a pipe, which she continued to do until after my father's death. Aunt Harriet, Nan, and several older women (the so-called social set of Vienna) all smoked pipes. They would gather at one home or the other for their "hen" parties, and Mama was usually the one who filled the pipes, lighted them, gave a few puffs to get them started, and acquired the habit!

Mama evidently didn't let the fact that she was poor and had to work for her living dampen her spirits. She told me she danced from the stove to the Cable to whatever she had to do, and teased and played tricks on people to aggravate them, until one night she stepped out after dark and came face to face with a big bear (she supposed it was a bear), upright on its hind legs. It just disappeared, but scared her so that she stopped the tricks. Most people believed in ghosts, and I think that's what she thought it was. More than likely it WAS a bear and she scared it just as badly. Anyway, she became interested in religion and joined the Methodists. Some of her enthusiasm was expended then in going to church and "feeling" the spirit, shouting as they did then. Said they would stand up sometimes on the benches and clap their hands, shout, and take on until their hair escaped the pins and combs and tumbled down. That went on for some time until she "backslid" and went to a dance. The Methodists "churched" her, so for a time she danced to her heart's content, but eventually went back and asked forgiveness and they took her back. She stayed a Methodist for nearly ten years.

In Chose ten years, after marrying my father, she patiently took care of him, helping him dress and undress. He was badly crippled from arthritis and had lost one eye from so-called neuralgia. She helped him at his office and also helped him home when he had had too much to drink. In those first ten years he came near to being an alcoholic. However, suddenly he just quit.

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Changed to a person who had no use or sympathy for anyone who drank. They both joined the Christian Church and from then for seven years he walked a very straight and narrow path. They were very poor yet, for only when he held his different offices were they reasonably comfortable (materially). But in those seven years they bought a home and it was left clear at the time of his death. Also Mama had four more babies, eight altogether, and she was left with five to take care of. The oldest, Paul, was 14; the youngest was one year old.

At that time too, both of them were what we would call (now) drug addicts. In those days doctors had only morphine and opium for killing pain. Most people in Vienna and Maries County thought nothing of asking for a dose of morphine or opium. Most people, like my father and mother, kept it as we do aspirin. Or, if in pain, they would go to the doctor and get it when they needed it. My father began using it by the time he was 18 or 20 and had lost his eye from neuralgia. Mama took it for her "spells" of colic (perhaps gallstones). Both had their daily doses, and any child could go see the doctor for it when their parents needed it. I have gone for a neighbor to the drugstore in Vienna and asked many times for 25-cents worth of plain opium (a chunk about the size of a large chocolate), a sort of brown waxy substance, with a slightly bitter taste. Used just as commonly as we use aspirin. Very few people now would believe that statement, but any old person of my age living now would tell you it is a fact. I suspect my father was still using morphine daily to the day he died, and I know Mama was for she told me that when Papa died she knew she would be wholly responsible for us, with no help from anyone. She knew she would have to give it up. So she took just a little less each day and soon was rid of the habit. She had a fierce pride and determination to take care of us just as well as if she hadn't lost my father.

And I must say she did. She worked for other people, hard, toilsome work, starting out at daybreak and sometimes it would be night when she got home. The snow would be knee-deep at times. Then she would sit at her sewing machine until all hours at night. She was the town's dressmaker. But how little she was paid then! And her daily work never earned her more than 50 cents a day. Of course, food was cheap then, but with five to feed and clothe, it was difficult. Not only was she a good mother and a strictly religious one (too much so, we used to think), but she was the wailing wall for all the women of her church and social group. They all came to Aunt Cynthia with their problems. I got to listen to a lot when I was about 8 years old, but didn't: understand what I heard until years later. Poor Mama counseled more than one troubled wife to hold on and be patient. The funny thing about gossip those clays, it seemed to be the settled, middle-aged, married women who were gossiped about and who caused all the trouble between decent women and their husbands. Not the young girls at all. Of course there is no answer for a straying husband.

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People sort of expect men to do so. But the best thing I can think of for a wife or mother to keep on the straight and narrow is to have so many children she doesn't have time to get into trouble. Frankly speaking, though, I don't know which would be the best -- or worst.

Well, to go on. As I have said, Mama was very strict with us. Not very demonstrative. None of us is. which is as I like it. I can remember my father kissing me before he would go to work and holding me on his lap when I was at least five years old, but I never kissed my mother that I can remember except after I was grown, when she would leave our place for somewhere else. But that doesn't mean she didn't care for us. I think she would have willingly died for any of us. And we had a good home life, with the comforts that any other child had, or nearly so. I don't think any of us except Addie ever thought of ourselves as being poor. We didn't feel poor, at least I never did, and our mother was not one to complain about hard times, which is unusual. She had been advised to put us in a "home'' and go to work in some large city. Whoever advised Chat just wasted breath. She never would have given one of us up.

Well, I've written all I know about your various heads of family. You can make your own deductions as to what sort of people they were. There is, of course, some worthwhile attributes in all of them, but I think you can all see that my mother was actually the one above all of them who helped to mold all of you into decent, honest people.

Grandmother Tyler had just such a hard life as my mother after Grandfather died, working to keep her family together. None of the older ones had more than three months of schooling. Mama taught herself to read and write, and I suppose Uncle Cates did the same. There were wild cattle, snakes, wild hogs, and other animals Grandmother Tyler had to fight, besides leaving her small ones alone in a rural area while she worked. Luckily she wasn't afraid of anything, wild or tame. Indians hadn't entirely disappeared from this part of the country either. I've hoard her tell about hiding two of her children under a big iron pot once when she saw a couple of Indians looking toward the house when Grandfather was away. They probably were just looking to see if there was something they could carry off. But she didn't take a chance. The Union soldiers seemed a bigger threat to her than any Indian, for what they didn't take they destroyed.

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CRUM, HUTCHISON, MALONE, and SNODGRASS

Of the above, the Snodgrass family was one of the first settlers in Maries County. Their beginnings were in England. They came to the East Coast of the United States with the Johnson family. George Snodgrass the First had married a Johnson girl. He was of a Quaker family. He moved from the East Coast to Kentucky and Tennessee, and from there to what is Maries County. He homesteaded on Cedar Creek. That land has been Snodgrass land for over one hundred years. They had five children at the time they came here. Their last child, Sarah, was born here. She became the grandmother of the Malones. She first married William Davidson and they had one daughter. Davidson was the brother of Uncle McKarny Hughes's wife. Sarah's second marriage was to William Malone, and they had two children, James and Hannah. James married Rachael Crum; Hannah married a Prewitt. They had six children. (See Everett King's book). Hettie, the second daughter of Hannah and Prewitt, married Henry Hefti of Vienna. Their children are second cousins of yours.

William Malone disappeared after Hannah was born. He had come into Missouri (Maries County) as a stranger from Pennsylvania. He worked for the Andersons for a time, and 1 suppose for the Snodgrasses. Courted the Widow Davidson and married her. I think he just got bored and went back to Pennsylvania. His family believed he had been murdered by a man named Dillard Green (a bad character) and his body thrown over a cliff into the River. Anyhow, Sarah next married Gabriel Myers, whose father had been a Revolutionary War soldier.* She had four children by him. He was a widower with one son, Will. Gabriel and Sarah's children all died except Columbus, known as "Uncle Lum" by the Malone children. When Myers died she married Zachariah German, and they had one son, Alonzo. Of her Myers family, one grandson and great-granddaughter live in Oregon.

The Malone son, your Grandfather James, grew up in Maries County; went into the Union Army during the Civil War at the age of 17, Company M of the 3rd Missouri Cavalry. After the end of the war he came home and married Rachael Crum. James was born May 20, 1842. He must have gone into the army about the time the war first started. He was about 23 when it ended, but didn't marry Rachael Crum until 1870. He was a farmer all his life, a really good and honest person. No pretence. If he didn't like you, he never pretended he did. Grandmother Malone (Rachael Crum) was born in Tennessee on June 2, 1853. Her father was Robert Sevier Crum (Krum, Krump? - Dutch ancestry or German) and her mother was Elizabeth Hutchison, daughter of Joseph (whose wife was Rachael Meyers). There is no information available as to Joseph Hutchison's antecedents, but he must have had a mother who was educated. He became the unofficial secretary of the entire

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* See King's book, page 629

County of Gasconade. He wrote an excellent hand and was a good business man. He was honest and thoroughly respected. His daughter Elizabeth (who was the mother of your Grandmother Malone) made a bad bargain when she married Robert Crum. He was an extremely cruel man, beating his wife and children unmercifully. In those days a woman who was tied to a man of any sort had to stay with him. Divorce was considered as much of a disgrace as prostitution. Elizabeth was a timid person also and just put up with her husband's meanness. They had eight children. When the last baby was born she died under what the neighbors called "suspicious circumstances."

Within three weeks after Elizabeth's death, Robert married Harriet Collins, presumably a widow. Grandmother Malone (Rachael Jane) said Harriet was a better mother than Robert was a father. He continued to beat his children until she stopped him.

After Harriet died he married the mother of Leslie B. Hutchison, prosecuting attorney of Maries County for many years. When Robert Crum's second wife came to Maries County she was, like William Malone (your great-grandfather), a mystery woman. She brought two children with her by the name of Coates. She claimed they were not hers, that she was only taking care of them. They grew up with the Crum children. The girl, Ellen Coates, married Uncle Lum Myers after his first wife died. He had two sons by his first wife. Ellen was so mean to them they left home and lived with their Uncle Joe Crum. The boy, John Coates, eventually became the banker in Vienna. He married and had three girls by his first wife. His second wife was a Noblett and they had two children.

When Robert Crum died in 1906 he was quite a wealthy man, but when his estate was settled the two Coates children claimed Harriet as their natural mother and, along with the last wife, Mrs. Hutchison, got the majority of his estate (by law). Leslie Hutchison was their attorney. The Crum children were given $1, 000 each or land of that value. The Hutchisons were very good people, respected and respectable. So was your Grandfather Malone, and most of the descendents of Robert. But he was anything BUT!

The children of Robert Crum and Elizabeth Hutchison were:

Rachael Jane (your grandmother)

John

LaNetfcie

Joseph

George Washington (known as Wash")

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Rachael Jane Crum married James Malone and they had nine children:

Sarah - married a Romine; 5 children.

Mary (or Moll) - married a West; then a Miller; 3 boys.

William - never married.

Henry - married a West.

Martha - married Jim West; 5 children.

(Viola's father)

George - married Lois Anderson; 9 children.

Joseph - married Anna Hastings; 3 children.

Ollie - married Ad Breeden; no children.

James - died in infancy.

All the Malones are dead except our family, Viola and her two brothers and two sisters. One of Joe's children is living. Some of the Romines are in Texas. Also the Hefti boys can be considered Malone offspring, but not Crum or Hutchison.

On my side of the family your bloodlines are English, Scot, French, Welsh, and Jewish.

On the Malone side the bloodlines are Irish, German (Dutch?), and English. So you are pretty well a mixture of good and bad.

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GEORGE SNODGRASS Married a Johnson. They had six children. The youngest:

Sarah - Married William Davidson (brother of Elizabeth Davidson, who was the wife of McKamy Hughes, son of Wm. Hughes the Second)

One daughter born to this union.

Second marriage to WILLIAM MALONE; two children:

James - married Raphael Jane Crum; 9 children:

Sarah - married a Romine; 5 children

Mary_ - married a West; then a Miller; 3 boys.

William - never married.

Henry - married a West

Martha - married Jim West; 5 children

George - married Lois Anderson; 9 children. Joseph - married Anna Hastings; 3 children.

Ollie - married Ad Bredden; no children

James -- died in infancy

Hannah - Married a Wm. Followill; 2 children.

Then married a John Prewell; 6 daughters.

Third marriage to Gabriel Myers; 4 children, one survived:

Columbus Fourth marriage to Zachnriah German; one son:

Alonzo

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ROBERT SEVIER CRUM

- Born in Greene County, Tennessee, 9/9/1828; son of John and Jennie Crum. ——— Died in 1906.

Married Elizabeth Hutchison; 7 children:

Rachael Jane (your grandmother)

John F.

LaNettie

Joseph P.

George Washington (known as: "Wash")

Mary E. (married James Copeland)

William J.

Agnes Collins, second marriage (presumably a widow;, she brought two

children to Missouri with her, John and Ella Coates; said they were not hers; later they claimed her as their natural mother)

Louise Hutchison (nee Krewson), widow of William Hutchison; third marriage.

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THE CARVER FAMILY

Our connection with the Carver family is a remote one. Joel Carver married Louisa Jane Hughes, daughter of Hiram Hughes (son of William Hughes II and brother of Grandmother Rebecca Hughes Tyler). Joel was the son of Richard Carver, second son of Christian Carver. Louisa and Joel were married in California in 1853 and had eight children, one of whom was Rose Carver Danner, who has written a history of the Carver-Danner families.

The attached copies of letters may be of interest since they are about the former slave George Washington Carver. As you know, he assumed the name of Carver after his owner and benefactor Mose Carver.

Mose Carver, born in 1812, was the son of Christian Carver, who was the son of the first Carver of whom there is any trace. Michael Carver settled in Pennsylvania in 1727. He had three children, George, Anna, and Christian, who was born in 1759 in Pennsylvania.

On one occasion during slavery days, just before the Civil War, Mose Carver attended an auction sale. A colored woman and her two little sons were put on the block Co be sold for a debt. Mose bid them in for $750 but never made slaves of them. He sent the boys to school and gave them a good home. While the war was going on, Bushwhackers made a raid in his neighborhood and took the mother and one of the boys, whose name was Jim. Mose and the other boy, George Washington, hid and escaped capture. The mother was never heard of again. Little Jim was located and Mose gave a man $50 and a race horse to get him back. History shows what achievements George Washington Carver went on to.

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

George Washington Carver National Monument

Diamond, Missouri

December 27, 1955

Mrs. Lois Anderson Malone Tav. Rt.

Brinktown, Missouri

Dear Mrs. Malone:

The National Park Service of the Department of the Interior has recently acquired by donation the correspondence of Dr. Richard Pilant, formerly of Washington University, who was chiefly responsible for the passage of the legislation creating George Washington Carver National Monument.

In Dr. Pilant's file we have found your letter of June 15, 1953 advising in part that you have an item containing the history or the Carver family and the Hughes family. If you have this material still in your possession we would very much appreciate its loan. A research program concerning the early life of Dr. George Washington Carver is now in progress and we are trying to obtain ell possible bibliographical data relating to the Carver family and the slave boy, George Washington Carver.

For your convenience and reply a stamped self-addressed envelope is enclosed.

Sincerely yours,

Clarence H. Schultz

SuperinLendent

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

George Washington Carver National Monument

Diamond, Missouri

January 6, 1956

Mrs. Lois Anderson Malone

Tav, Rt.

Bricktown, Missouri

Dear Mrs. Malone:

This is written to thank you for the loan of your family genealogy "A History of Christian Carver and Frederick Danner and their Descendants" by J. D. Danner in collaboration with Rose carver Darner, published in Willows, California in 1931. This material has been of great, value to us and we appreciate your loaning it to us.

Sincerely yours,

Clarence H. Schultz

Superintendent

Enclosure

Alonzo

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