Volume 5, Number 8 - Summer 1975
MRS. JOHN LOWERY
by Edna Hazel McCullough
I was born in Stone County, Missouri-at a little place called Earl. which blew away in one of those tornados which almost every spring hits some area in southern Missouri or northern Arkansas. Earl was never rebuilt, but I always use it as a place of birth! (it is what shows on the birth certificate.)
I think I must be related-to some degree to most of the families of Stone, Taney, Christian, and other counties in Missouri - And a few in Arkansas! My mother was a Meadows (Eva Emery Doty of Indianapolis, Indiana has lust published the second volume of the Meadows Genealogy which has our family in it). descended from Israel Meadows-and Barbara Green Meadows - Revolutionary War soldier. I think all MEADOWS in that area of Missouri (and in Iron and Ripley counties) descend from Israel, through son William who came to Christian and Taney Counties. William was married to Sarah Ann HANSON, daughter of John HANSON AND Magdalena WALL (daughter of Conrad WALL) Hanson, John (also son of John Hanson) Hanson also was a soldier of the Revolution. My grandmother was a BILYEU, who came to New Amsterdam about 10 August 1661, from Holland, but the family was originally from that section of France which I think is now located in or near Belgium. The Bilyeu history goes on and on and on and on and on and on.. .Then there are all the MELTON’S, and my grandmother BILYEU, some degree, married a MELTON. I’d love to get a bit more done on that family for I descend through Rheuben MELTON & Allie McAdams - not Ancil MELTON from whom many in that area descend. Then, there are the HARPS, and the CECILS (This group closely allied to the families of the Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857 in Utah).
My paternal line is different. My name was McCullough - descended through William C. McCullough and Mary Harriet Tyner. William C. was from Tuscarawas, Ohio while Mary H. was from Illinois, Perry County; of this couple, I know nothing more than the day I began to see if I could find out more about them. Maybe something will turn up to give us help along that line. I do know that there were hundreds of McCulloughs in Ohio, and MOST of them came to Missouri. Cleo
McCullough of Rockaway Beach is my first cousin. My grandmother McCullough was a HALE, and her mother was a BUTLER. If our information is accurate, and I see no reason to think it is not, Sarah Butler mentioned in the will of Elias Butler, which I attach, and who later married Turner Hale, is my ancestor. I have volumes on that family. It is interesting because Neally BUTLER mentioned in the Will is buried in the Blue Eye Cemetery, and his daughter Melissa Ann Butler married George Washington BAINES, whose son Joseph Wilson BAINES was the father of Rebecca BAINES, mother of President Lyndon B. JOHNSON. So the HAINES and BUTLERS around Oak Grove, Blue Eye, and in Barry County, Missouri as well as Carroll Co. Arkansas are my relatives. (I have not been able to figure out the Wilson middle name as yet.) Sarah Butler’s mother (Susan last name not known married second a-William Morris and had four sons whose life histories I have followed through Civil War documents, and it makes exciting history! And somehow on both sides we are related to WILLIAMS KEELAND, and on and on. It is easy to see how all mankind descends from Adam & Eve!
I also have one other document which you might find of interest to your publication. For 47 years my father was surveyor, etc. for Stone County, Missouri. He and my mother purchased the original surveys of that county (taken from Taney in 1851) and I extracted some years back the names of the families who were settled in the area when the original survey was made. Would you like it?
I am attaching hereto the data on Elias Butler, as I mentioned before. So far as I can determine not even the Johnson biographies possessed this information. I hope this summer to be able to try to track down Martin J. Butler and then to see if he is listed in any of the biographies, etc. I also hope to find Out more on the Hale line. Please note, if you wish, that I have data down to the present generations on these individuals descendants - just did not think it would perhaps be interesting enough to print. Elias Butler’s will has never been published that I can find. (Had it not been for the first child
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of Turner and Sarah Hale having been named Elias Ogborne (Auburn?), I might never have found it either. The Keeland Civil War affidavits were simply filled with information.
Mrs. Mildred Lander Roden recently sent me four pages copied from a journal or diary, which she had borrowed from someone named Shirley Lowe. On the family of Boyds, who may be of the Butler relatives, there was invaluable information as well as on others. No one seems to know just who wrote the article. However, in doing research on our Meadows family, I went to Crane, Missouri to visit a relative, of whose existenance I was unaware, and she had the family data from her mother, copied in an old cookbook!
If you wish to state something about the Meadows genealogy. It is available from Eva Emery Doty, 6132 Woodfox Court, Indianapolis, Indiana 46226, at $12.50.
Jewell Ross Mehus
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