Volume 35, Number 3 - Winter 1996
Bits and Pieces
by Pauline Barton
Joan Boswell, 8011 Hunter, Raytown, MO 64138, is tracing her family records and found CHARLES and SUSAN MORGAN listed on the 1876 Territorial Records. She found SUSAN MORGAN and her family living in Springfield, MO in 1880. CHARLES MORGAN died in 1878. She is wondering if CHARLES MORGAN might have been living in Springfield, MO in 1876.
Joe P. Patterson, 4993 F. 27th Street, Thlsa, OK 74114, included this interesting story along with his membership dues. "I look forward to receiving the Quarterly as I usually find very familiar names or places including both sides of my family which arrived in Taney County in the 1800s. I would like to note that Lois Holman, the Society’s (ex) President, was my third grade elementary teacher in Branson during the 1940-4 1 school year. I remember well in November of 1940, during the Presidential election, our 3rd grade class held a "mock" election under Miss Holliday’s direction. (That was the name I remember her by as she was not married at the time.) Jimmy Yandell being from an old Democrat family in Taney County represented Franklin Roosevelt. I represented Wendell Winkle. I know FDR won the election, but I don’t remember who won between Jimmy and myself. What a long time ago that was. Keep up the good work. I moved to Oklahoma in 1944."
Long time WRVHS member Morris F. Barker, Anaheim, CA died in the summer of 1995. He was from the Taney County pioneer families of Morris, Berry, and Barker. His Grandfather Thomas Jefferson Berry was a founder of Branson and business partner of Rueben S. Bran son, for whom Branson was named.
Editor Lynn Morrow joined the ranks of paid Life Members of the WRVHS.
For information about current activities and membership of the Greater Ozarks Colony of the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the state of Missouri, please contact Mrs. Nancy Fitch Harms, Colony Governor, 5055 5. State Hwy. 125, Rogersville, MO 65742-8920. Telephone (417) 753- 3466 or 753-7987.
THE PHILLIPS FAMILIES GENEALOGY SWAP MEET will be held at the Best Western Inn, 2101 South 4th Street, located on the corner of 4th and Grand Streets, Chickasha, OK 73018. Telephone (405) 224-4890, on August 15, 16, and 17, 1996. The purpose of the event is to exchange your genealogy information, meet other Phillips folks, and find your Phillips families. Reservation cut off date at the Best Western Inn is July 22, 1996. Committee Chairman is Dale F. Phillips, 1927 South 7th Street, Chickasha, OK 73018. Telephone (405) 224-6927.
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