Volume 36, Number 3 - Winter 1997
Bits and Pieces
Mrs. Margaret Teague, P. 0. Box 816, Burns, OR 97720, would appreciate information about her Great grandfather WILL BOSTON who had the OLD BOSTON FERRY across WHITE RIVER. She would appreciate information about the OLD BOSTON FERRY. She would also like to purchase a copy of ELMO INGENTHRON’S book, The Land of Taney.
Mrs. Dorothy Ehrcke, Route 1, Box 630, Talala, OK 74080-9724 is searching the genealogy of her great grandmother, MARGARET CUTBIRTH. Mrs. Ehrcke’s grandmother was DOLLIE DOROTHY BARGER, the daughter of GEMES C. WHORTON and MARGARET CUTBIRTH WHORTON. Help is appreciated.
Mrs. Cherylle S. Martens, 177 Bramblewood Lane, East Amherst, NY 14051, thanks the WRVHS for assistance in the genealogy research of the PAR-TONS and BATES. Now she is hoping to get help in tracking down the marriage records of her father’s grandparents on his mother’s side. His grandmother’s name was LOUISA MELISSA TRAMMELL. Her parents were JAROD H. TRAMMELL and AMANDA (MANDY) PIERSALL TRAMMELL. AMANDA’S father was ISAAC PIERSALL, a full blood Indian from Georgia. LOUISA was married twice. The first marriage was to HUMPHREY R. LEEDS on February 24, 1878. They were married at her parents home in Scott Township, Taney County, Missouri. HUMPHREY R. LEEDS died in 1887. On January 15, 1890, LOUISA TRAMMELL LEEDS married ROBERT JEFFERSON HUGHES (Mrs. Martens father’s grandfather). They were married at "Conner P. 0., Taney County" Would the P. 0. be Post Office?
Ruth Asher, research chairman of the WRVHS, will do extra research. Member Janice Soutee Looney, P.O. Box 231, Walnut Grove, MO 65770, Telephone (417) 994-2316, will do research at a reasonable fee. Upon request she will mail you a list of her genealogy publications.
Mr. Fred Hall writes a column "Tracks and Trails" for the Crane Chronicle. He wants the "tracks" you have made for his c
olumn. His address is: Fred Hall, P. 0. Box A, Crane Chronicle, Crane, MO 65633.
The PHILLIPS FAMILIES Second 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, August 14, 15, 16 and 17, 1997. Contact Dale F. and Clara Ann Brees Phillips, 1927 S. 7th Street, Chickasha, OK 73018. Telephone (405) 224-6927. Please send SASE when requesting information.
An Invitation
Big New Years Party
Doling Park Rink
Mon. Dec. 31--S p.m. to 1946
Some folks can’t see scenery because of the trees... Well, I can’t think with thoughts like these: V-E Day arrived--DO YOU THINK HITLER DIED? The Japs are licked--OR DID HITLER HIDE? Mussolini got caught! There are others who ought To be taught not to talk so darn much! If that is right, I’m a saint! And that’s one thing sure, I know I ain’t. Oh, Heck, so what! Just listen here Let’s roll out the old and in the New Year On your skates at the DOLING PARK RINK, And let the rest of the world sit and think!
--Ethel Morrow scrapbook, Springfield, Mo.
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