Volume 7, Number 10 - Winter 1982
Bits & Pieces
New member, June Westphal, P.O. Box 183, Eureka Springs, AR 72632, needs help with the Stone County census records. What year she didn’t say.
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Mary Johnson, S.R. Box 20, Vian, OK 74962, would like to hear from decendants of James & Jesse Ewing. Both born Ohio, Jesse in 1828. The family moved to Schuyler County, IL in 1837, then to Linn County, KS by 1857.
James was in 1870 Taney County, MO census with wife Emily. James died in the 1870’s. Jesse Ewing was in 1880 Taney County census with James family. The 1900 Big Creek Township Taney County census listed James’ son, William H. Ewing, born in 1873. His wife was Norah & daughters were Frankie & Emma. James’ daughter, Mary was born in 1876 married Joshua Kissee and had a daughter, Bula (Beulah).
Mrs. R. E. Carison, 542 Sybil Lane S.E., Marietta, GA 30067 will exchange information on Barber/Kerney. Mary Barber Brumley married John Kerney about 1866. Lived in Christian County, MO and Coffeyville, KS. Died Albany, OR about 1910. She also has files of Brumley records to exchange.
Your secretary needs help in answering some of the requests that come in the mail. Do
you:
- have a map of the old Butterfield Stage Route?
- have a highway map of the Central Ozarks before Table Rock Dam?
- know when your dues are due? It is printed twice in every issue of the quarterly. Inside front cover and on the back under your address. All memberships expire June 30 of every year.
If you want to accept the offer of member Paul Welch to help other members free of charge in family research (announced by L. Brown and recorded in the minutes) send a stamp to the secretary and you’ll receive his address.
Opal Kissee, 11499 Hwy. 99 E., Los Molines, CA 96055, is trying to complete a listing of all those buried in the old Booth Cemetery on Bee Creek. Most people buried there are her ancestors-Booth & France. She promises to let the list be printed in the quarterly when completed as much as possible. Please help if you can.
Mrs. Sang M. Lee, 7245 N. Hampton Road, Lincoln, NB, 68506 (writer of the William Burton story found elsewhere in this issue) is now working on another mystery. She found Elizabeth Burton in Hickory County, Missouri in the 1870 census. She was still in Stark Township in 1874 along with some Bozarth relation (which she knows were intermarried with the Burtons from Tennessee). Then the Bozarths and Bartons disappeared from the Hickory County area. She is interested in hearing from any descendants of William Burton and Elizabeth Caldwell as well as those of his sisters, Fannie Burton (Mrs. Middleton McDonald) of Taney County in 1856 and Elizabeth Burton (Mrs. Joseph Bozarth) of Taney County in 1852.
Mrs. Edna Merriman Shore, P.O. Box 653, Port Angeles, WA 98362, is doing research on the Merriman & Wright families from Taney County. Great grandparents were Curtis U. & Abigail Green Merriman who were married in Ramsey, IL 1857. Children, all born in Taney County, were John, Bryant H., Lily, Elizabeth, Caroline, Margaret, Mint, Harriett, Catherine & Abigail. Other great grandparents were Joseph and Dinah Pierce Wright and Mrs. Shore is trying to find the parents of Dinah Pierce. Her third great grandparents were Charles & Nancy Ham Merryman and married about 1820 in Montgomery County, TN. Charles’ first wife was Betty Cook who died in 1818 or 19. Information on any of these people, especially John Morgan Merriman and Charles Merryman, is wanted and will exchange information.
Mrs. Lee G. Knox, 1213 Amherst Drive, Denton, TX 76201, is still looking for a headstone for William Timothy Cavner (Cavender) who died about 1865. His wife, Winnie died in Sept. 1912 and is buried in the Mollie Wright Cemetery in Stone County. She is almost sure the daughter married an Estes and lived in the north-central part of Christian County - Finley Township. Mrs. Knox continues, "I am still trying to put both my family and my husbands family together. They both lived in Christian and Stone Counties. In fact, the more I dig, the more I feel they had to be almost within walking distance of each other."
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