Dorothy Mae Park

Other Events and Attributes:

• USR1: Emphysema

Notes:

Obit: - The Beacon News (Aurora ILLINOIS),, June 23, 2002
Dorothy M. Marino, age 69, of Yorkville, Illinois passed away peacefully at her home surrounded by her family on Thursday, June 20, 2002. She was born on November 27, 1932 in Pontiac, Illinois the daughter of Forest and Alberta (Lehmann) Park.
Dorothy was united in marriage on June 4, 1960 to Frank Marino and they spent the next 42 happy years of their lives together. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister and aunt who will be deeply missed by her family and many friends.
Mrs. Marino was formerly employed at Fox River Lanes Bowling Alley and Leisure Oaks both in Yorkville. She had many hobbies including playing the organ, bingo, oil painting and crocheting. Dorothy will be remembered for the love she gave to her family, especially her grandchildren and great grandchildren.

She is survived by her husband, Frank of Yorkville; her children, Susan (Roger) Sigmund of Sandwich, Sandy Marino of Sandwich, Sheila (Neil) Rowley of Yorkville, Frank (Rhonda) Marino of Yorkville and Candy (Tom) Haun of Knoxville, Tennessee; her grandchildren, Dawn Rice of Yorkville, Shannon (Tricia) Akre of Morris, Kane (Jaime) Akre of Elwood, Adam Clayton of Yorkville, Sarah (Brandon) Stewart of Plano, Ryan and Betsy Clayton both of Yorkville, Anthony Marino of Courtland, Jenny Marino of Yorkville, Frankie Marino of Sandwich, Tom (Shelly) Haun and Sissy (Ray) Witt both of Tennessee; her great-grandchildren, Stephanie Smith, Lyndsie Rice, Breanna and Trenten Akre, Logan Stewart, Payton Akre, Alexandra and Taylor Haun and Deanna Witt; her brothers, Duane (Shirley) Park, of Monticello, Indiana, Donald Park of Texas and Dan (Suzanne) Park of Harrison, Arkansas; her sisters, Delores (Bill) Raber of Pontiac, Illinois and Darlene (John) Armour of Pontiac; her brothers-in-law, Lewis (Nettie) Marino of Omaha, Nebraska and Tony (Judy) Marino of Broadview, Illinois; and her sister-in-law, Sallie (Joe) Blank of Omaha, Nebraska; as well as several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents.

A Funeral Service will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, June 24, 2002 at the Larson-Nelson Funeral Home in Yorkville, Illinois.Interment will follow at Elmwood Cemetery in Yorkville, Illinois.
Friends may call from 2:00 until 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, June 23, 2002 at the Larson-Nelson Funeral, 410 E. Countryside Parkway, Yorkville, Illinois.
Arrangements by Nelson Funeral Homes, (630)553-7611.

Buried:
Elmwood Cemetery

Dorothy married Frank Marino on 4 Jun 1960 in Joliet, Will Co., IL. Frank was born on 18 Jul 1930 in Omaha, Douglas Co., NE; died on 1 Oct 2006 in Yorkville, Kendell Co., IL; was buried in Yorkville, Kendell Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Susie Marino
2. Sandy Marino
3. Sheila Marino
4. Franklin Marino

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Barber/Taxi Co.
• Religion: Cumberland Presbyterian Church
• Baptism: 26 Mar 1922, Fisher, Champaign Co., IL

Notes:

Parks to hang up cab keys By Rick Baker

PONTIAC--Almost three decades in the taxi game have left them with some good stories to tell--like the one about the woman who thought she was in Pontiac, Mich., and the millionaire he thought was a bum. this is forest and Albert Park’s last week at the Safeway Cab co., a small taxi business they opened here in 1941. “I got into cabs because I was a barber and I saw the war taking all my customers away,” Forest said.

He started with the family car and made $8.25 his first day on the job. He built it up at one time to a fleet of six cabs and a gross of more than $300 a day in this town of 10,500. Odds are pretty strong that he has driven over the streets of Pontiac more than any man ever has or will. He’s covered every street in the city hundreds of times and worn out a lot of cars on them.

“I’ve seen a lot of things come and go,” he said in his small office Monday. One of the strangest things he’s seen come and go was a man he picked up in 1971 in front of the old Pontiac Hotel, since demolished. “That guy had me worried from the moment he got in my cab,” Park recalls, describing a poorly dressed and dirty man. “He was the oddest rider I ever had in one of my cabs.”

The man had been living at the hotel a while, Park learned, and he had some odd habits--like sleeping with his shoes on and keeping his bedroom mirror covered with a blanket. “Well, this dirty fella says he wants to go on up to Joliet. So I said, ‘get in.’ All the while we drive along, he keeps looking out the back window as if something is after him,” Park said.

It was beginning to get dark near Dwight, Park said, when the man changed his mind and began telling him to drive down dirt road. “Finally we got to Morris, when he said he wanted to go to Seneca. I stopped at the first gas station, grabbed the keys out of the ignition, and told him that was as far as we were going,” Park said.

Park said he had given the ride up as profitless soon after leaving Pontiac, but still asked if the man had the money to pay him something. the man pulled several bills out of his shoe. The bills were waded into little balls. “He started peeling them open, and when he came to a $50, he handed it over. I gave him the change, and then called the police. I figured he was wanted for something,” Park said.

A few days later the sheriff called Park and told him his dirty customer was a millionaire--the owner of a few prosperous California orange groves. “If I had known that then, I would have driven him anywhere in the world,” Park said.

Then there was the elderly woman destined for Grand Rapids, Mich., by train from St. Louis, Mo. Grand Rapids is in western Michigan. When the train conductor announced the train was moving into Pontiac, she thought she had somehow gotten off course and wound up in Pontiac, Mich., in the eastern part of the state. “Well,” Park said, “She said she wanted to go to Grand Rapids, so I took her up there. It cost her $125. Our fares were quite a bit cheaper then,” he said. He’s also made runs to Indianapolis, Ind., and St. Louis for people who didn’t have the time or patience to wait for a bus.

But most of his driving--hundreds of thousands of miles of it--has been right here in Pontiac. With a 10-year leave from the business from 1951 to 1961, he’s been at it for 27 years. So has she. Alberta has spent most of her time answering calls in the office, but she used to drive a cab for her husband’s company.

When he started, his fare was a flat 25 cents for any ride in town. Today there is a minimum $1 far, with zone rates applying after a certain number of blocks are travelled. While his cabs have never been involved in a major accident, he has seen his insurance premiums double. He’s also seen his gasoline bills triple.

He’s also seen eight other cab companies in this town come and go since he opened his business. Safeway has been the only taxi business in Pontiac since 1961. The Parks plan to turn the business over to one of their three sons next week.

Baptism:
East Bend Mennonite Church, by J.A. Heiser

Buried:
Memorial Park Cemetery

Forest married Alberta Leota Pearl Lehmann on 13 Jul 1930 in Pontiac, Livingston Co., IL. Alberta (daughter of Albert W. Lehmann and Emma P. Bose) was born on 11 Jul 1912 in Girard, IL; died on 3 Oct 1983 in Pontiac, Livingston Co., IL; was buried on 7 Oct 1983 in Pontiac, Livingston Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Central Christian Church

Notes:

Daughter of Albert W. and Emma (Bose) Lehmann.

Died:
Social Security Info

Buried:
Memorial Park Cemetery

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: 1905, Employed as clerk In a dry goods and grocery store near New Haven, MO for four months.
• Occupation: 1912 R. R. Section laborer, according to Laura Mae’s birth certificate
• Occupation: A.O.Smith, Mfg. In Kankakee, IL
• Occupation: Abt 1913 Coal mines in southern Illinois
• Occupation: Abt 1919 Farm Laborer In Fisher, IL Area
• Occupation: Assembly Operator, Paramount Textile, Kankakee, IL
• Occupation: Thomas Lawless’s grain mill in Cerro Gordo, IL
• Reference Number: 12
• Religion: Christian
• Residence: Kankakee, Kankakee Co., IL
• USR1: Cardiac Failure--Due To Recurrent Virus Infection Lung, And Coronary Disease
• Census: 1910, Boone Twp., Franklin Co., MO
• Residence: 1912, Leslie, Franklin Co., MO
• Residence: Abt 1913, Southern Illinois
• Residence: Abt 1919, Fisher, Champaign Co., IL
• Census: Jun 1920, East Bend Twp., Champaign Co., IL
• Baptism: Jan 1921, Fisher, Champaign Co., IL
• Residence: 27 Apr 1942, Chatsworth, Livingston Co., IL

Notes:

Before his marriage, Grover lived for a while in Kiel, MO. Mr. Kiel, in the Kiel File, probably answered the question of why. He reports that “Grover spent several months in 1905 working in a store in New Haven, “during which time he no doubt lived in Kiel.

Grover and his family moved from Missouri to Illinois in order to find work. They moved first to two southern Illinois communities--Carlyle and Taylor Springs--where Grover worked in the coal mines. One day Grover met a man who knew a farmer from Illinois needing help. So, in 1913 Effie and Grover pulled up roots in Southern Illinois and moved to Central Illinois with their family in order to work on the farmlands, remaining in Illinois until death. Grover began working as a farm hand on the Alvin [August?] Sperling farm near the small village of Fisher. Later he worked for John Teuscher, a Mennonite family that attended the East Bend Mennonite Church near Fisher. Grover was so impressed with the life of this family that the Park family became a member of the Mennonite community, and several children married Mennonites. Grover later worked for many years at the A.O. Smith plant in Kankakee.

Several days following the wedding of granddaughter Donna Schrock and Del Birkey, Grover had a heart attack and died five months later in Kankakee.

Residence:
521 W. Water Street. Lived there in 1952 when I was married.

Census:
Lived on Antioch Rd.- Laborer/Section Hand, Grover 25, Effie, 20, Forest 2, Mamie 2, Roy 0

Residence:
R.F.D. #2 Source: Laura Mae’s birth certificate. . . .
Place name: Indian Paint Mine
Description: A prehistoric paint mine, near Leslie in the northeast part of Boone Township. This mine, which is said to be the only one ever found in the United States, was discovered about 1903 by Dr. Walter S. Cox, of Cuba, Missouri, who happened upon it while he was opening what he supposed was a new mine. He developed the first fire-clay pit at Owensville and later interested himself in iron mines along the Colorado River. Dr. Cox removed over 1200 primitive iron sledges and rock tools from the Indian Paint Mine. Evidently great numbers of Indian laborers had worked for many years to tunnel for long distances along the soft seams of red ungent intermingled with solid iron. Here the aborigines mined and mixed the glowing red mineral colors he used for so many purposes. Some of the ways he utilized the paint were: for personal adornment to discomfit his foe or to charm his admirer, for decorations of his habitation and pottery; for painted pictgographs on the walls of hills and caverns; for decorated altars; and for his protection from the sun and insects. The pigments were derived from many sources, but usually were of mineral origin, particularly the oxides of iron and carbonate of copper. These Indians were usually adept at mixing their colors, which were ground in small mortars or rubbed down on a flat stone, and in extracting the stains and dyes from vegetable substances. The colors were applied as dry paint with a piece of clay, chalk, or charcoal; or, when mixed with oil or water, with the hand or fingers, or a stick. Occasionally the colors were even sprayed with the mouth as was the case with the Pueblo mask painters. Several tribes prepared dry paints by mixing the pigments with sand, meal, or clay. Dry paints made in this manner were usually used to adorn ceremonial chambers or altars. (Hodge, "Painting"; MHR XXXI; Washington Library Records)
Source: Harrison, Eugenia L. "Place Names Of Four River Counties In Eastern Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1943.

Residence:
Near Shelbyville, IL

Residence:
Mae said she was 2 when they came to Fisher, Mamie’s recollection is that she was 12 and they came in 1919.

Census:
Parks, Grover, 35, head of household; Effie, wife, age 30; Forrest & Mamie, age 12; Roy, age 10, May, age 8. Listed just following John S. Teuscher family.

Baptism:
East Bend Mennonite Church, by A. Schrock

Died:
St. Mary Hospital

Buried:
Kankakee Memorial Gardens in Aroma Twp., Kankakee, IL

Eli married Effie Louella Blackwell on 22 Apr 1906 in Gerald, Franklin Co., MO. Effie (daughter of James William Henry Thomas (Tom) Blackwell and Clarissa Jane West) was born on 6 Jul 1889 in Walbert/Gerald, Franklin Co., MO; died on 30 Apr 1964 in Gibson City, Ford Co., IL; was buried in Apr 1964 in Kankakee, Kankakee Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Hairdresser
• Reference Number: 13
• Religion: Christian Church, Mennonite, Interdenominational
• Residence: Chatsworth, Livingston Co., IL
• Residence: Kankakee, Kankakee Co., IL
• USR1: Daughter Mae Said Death Was Caused By Cancer Of The Lymph Nodes.
• USR1: Passive Congestion Of The Lungs Due To Cardiac Decompensation. Other Significant Conditions Contributing To Death, But Not Related To The Terminal Condition: Metastatic Carcinoma-Primary Unknown.
• Baptism: Jan 1921, Fisher, Champaign Co., IL
• Residence: Abt 1914-1932, Fisher, Champaign Co., IL

Notes:

Place name: Walbert https://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_franklin.html
Description:
A post office in the western part of Boone Township. It was established in 1895 and discontinued in 1910. Ulrich K. Baur, a merchant, was its first postmaster. His sons were named Walter and Herbert; and the first syllable of Walter's name and the second syllable of Herbert's name were combined into Walbert, which was made the name of the place. (Postal Guide; Kiel's BIOG. DIR., 212 & map; Miss Johnson: F.L. Notting)
Source:
Harrison, Eugenia L. "Place Names Of Four River Counties In Eastern Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1943.

Birth:
Marriage record, Clark Co. MO, 22 Apr 1905 presented as proof, as well as birth date of daughter Laura Mae, 2 May 1912.

Residence:
521 W. Water Street

Baptism:
East Bend Mennonite Church, by A. Schrock

Buried:
Memorial Gardens

Notes:

It seems their marriage certificate was registered in Clark Co., but they were married in Franklin Co.

Married:
Antioch Church, by W. B. Adams. Marriage date from Family Register in Effie’s Bible.

Notes:

Buried:
Memorial Park Cemetery

Albert + Emma P. Bose. Emma was born in 1886; died in 1951; was buried in Pontiac, Livingston Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
Memorial Park Cemetery

Other Events and Attributes:

• HIST: Place name: Stanton Description: A small mining community in the east central part of Meramec Township. It is the successor to a vanished town on a site a short distance to the south, originally called Reedville. Reedville was named for its founder, Dr. Silas Reed, a physician who was born in Ohio in 1810. He came out to Franklin County and became surveyor for Missouri. When the post office was established at Reedville on July 25, 1856, he was its only postmaster. A few months later in the same year, Dr. Reed discovered a very rich copper deposit nearby in the southern part of Meramec Township. These were given the name of the Stanton Copper Mines, for John Stanton, an Eastern man who had come out to Missouri and was proprietor of a powder mill in the vicinity. John Stanton had died a few years earlier, about 1850. On November 11, 1856, the name and location of the post office was changed to Stanton Copper Mines. August Wengler was the first postmaster, and was succeeded by Dr. Silas Reed. The first mine was opened in 1860 and the yield proved abundant. From 1865 to 1867 the town was one of the most flourishing in Franklin County. By 1868, however, deterioration set in, and the population steadily dwindled. In 1920 there was only one person, a renter, living at the former site of Reedville. Meanwhile another community began to grow up a short distance to the north. Charles Gallaher was the first white person to settle there. Bennett Thurmond built the first house in 1866. In 1868 a new town was platted by Theophile Papin, H.W. Leffingwell, R.S. Elliott, Sylvester Papin, and Henry T. Mudd, and given the name of Stanton, shortened from the name of the copper mines. A post office by the name of Stanton was finally established here on August 19, 1880, and has since remained. Also spelled Staunton. (Postal Guide; Davis & Durrie, 364; COUNTY ATLAS 1878, 13, 16; HIST. FRANKLIN, 338-9; Eaton; Kiel's BIOG. DIR., 209; 211; Miss Johnson: Charles Ripley) Source: Harrison, Eugenia L. "Place Names Of Four River Counties In Eastern Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1943. Place name: Stanton Copper Mines Description: See Stanton. Source: Harrison, Eugenia L. "Place Names Of Four River Counties In Eastern Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1943. Stanton Description: A small mining community in the east central part of Meramec Township. It is the successor to a vanished town on a site a short distance to the south, originally called Reedville. Reedville was named for its founder, Dr. Silas Reed, a physician who was born in Ohio in 1810. He came out to Franklin County and became surveyor for Missouri. When the post office was established at Reedville on July 25, 1856, he was its only postmaster. A few months later in the same year, Dr. Reed discovered a very rich copper deposit nearby in the southern part of Meramec Township. These were given the name of the Stanton Copper Mines, for John Stanton, an Eastern man who had come out to Missouri and was proprietor of a powder mill in the vicinity. John Stanton had died a few years earlier, about 1850. On November 11, 1856, the name and location of the post office was changed to Stanton Copper Mines. August Wengler was the first postmaster, and was succeeded by Dr. Silas Reed. The first mine was opened in 1860 and the yield proved abundant. From 1865 to 1867 the town was one of the most flourishing in Franklin County. By 1868, however, deterioration set in, and the population steadily dwindled. In 1920 there was only one person, a renter, living at the former site of Reedville. Meanwhile another community began to grow up a short distance to the north. Charles Gallaher was the first white person to settle there. Bennett Thurmond built the first house in 1866. In 1868 a new town was platted by Theophile Papin, H.W. Leffingwell, R.S. Elliott, Sylvester Papin, and Henry T. Mudd, and given the name of Stanton, shortened from the name of the copper mines. A post office by the name of Stanton was finally established here on August 19, 1880, and has since remained. Also spelled Staunton. (Postal Guide; Davis & Durrie, 364; COUNTY ATLAS 1878, 13, 16; HIST. FRANKLIN, 338-9; Eaton; Kiel's BIOG. DIR., 209; 211; Miss Johnson: Charles Ripley) Source: Harrison, Eugenia L. "Place Names Of Four River Counties In Eastern Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1943. Place name: Stanton Copper Mines Description: See Stanton. Source: Harrison, Eugenia L. "Place Names Of Four River Counties In Eastern Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1943. Description: A small mining community in the east central part of Meramec Township. It is the successor to a vanished town on a site a short distance to the south, originally called Reedville. Reedville was named for its founder, Dr. Silas Reed, a physician who was born in Ohio in 1810. He came out to Franklin County and became surveyor for Missouri. When the post office was established at Reedville on July 25, 1856, he was its only postmaster. A few months later in the same year, Dr. Reed discovered a very rich copper deposit nearby in the southern part of Meramec Township. These were given the name of the Stanton Copper Mines, for John Stanton, an Eastern man who had come out to Missouri and was proprietor of a powder mill in the vicinity. John Stanton had died a few years earlier, about 1850. On November 11, 1856, the name and location of the post office was changed to Stanton Copper Mines. August Wengler was the first postmaster, and was succeeded by Dr. Silas Reed. The first mine was opened in 1860 and the yield proved abundant. From 1865 to 1867 the town was one of the most flourishing in Franklin County. By 1868, however, deterioration set in, and the population steadily dwindled. In 1920 there was only one person, a renter, living at the former site of Reedville. Meanwhile another community began to grow up a short distance to the north. Charles Gallaher was the first white person to settle there. Bennett Thurmond built the first house in 1866. In 1868 a new town was platted by Theophile Papin, H.W. Leffingwell, R.S. Elliott, Sylvester Papin, and Henry T. Mudd, and given the name of Stanton, shortened from the name of the copper mines. A post office by the name of Stanton was finally established here on August 19, 1880, and has since remained. Also spelled Staunton. (Postal Guide; Davis & Durrie, 364; COUNTY ATLAS 1878, 13, 16; HIST. FRANKLIN, 338-9; Eaton; Kiel's BIOG. DIR., 209; 211; Miss Johnson: Charles Ripley) Source: Harrison, Eugenia L. "Place Names Of Four River Counties In Eastern Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1943. Place name: Stanton Copper Mines Description: See Stanton. Source: Harrison, Eugenia L. "Place Names Of Four River Counties In Eastern Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1943.
• MILF: Y
• Occupation: Farmer
• USR1: Bronchial Pneumonia
• Census: 1880, Boone Twp., Franklin Co., MO
• Residence: Apr 1921, Gerald, Franklin Co., MO

Notes:

Elizabeth Boone, daughter of Frank Park, tells the story her grandfather, Eli B. Park, told her as a child how he lost one of his fingers: In a letter dated July 8, 1993, Elizabeth relates:

"It was when he was in the war between the North and South. The war was over, but he had been taken prisoner by the South (and was still being held by them). It was late in the afternoon and he was with a bunch of other prisoners in the back of a wagon. They came to a big corn field which covered many acres. The captain of the North said, 'Some of you fellows get out and gather enough corn and we will stop and build a fire and roast it for supper.' Grandpa and the next guy to him jumped out and he picked up a hatchet out of the wagon to take along. They ran down the rows of corn and when they were out of sight they just kept going. When they got to the end of the field, there was another road. They went across into the woods and tried to hide. After dark they decided to roast some corn to eat.

"Grandpa took out his hatchet, started cutting wood for a fire, but hit his finger and cut it off. It was winter and had it not been so cold he probably would have bled to death, but as it was, his finger froze as it began to bleed and froze it over. About the time this was happening they heard a wagon coming, so they hid under a brush pile until the wagon went by. When it was far enough away they built a fire and roasted the corn and tried to wrap up Grandpa's finger. They walked back the other way until they thought they were over the northern line and then slept until the sun came up. They ran into some of their (northern) men and kept walking and getting a ride on wagons until they got home."

According to Dave Boone, Frank Park’s grandson, his grandfather told the following stories about Eli:

“Eli went to a neighbor’s farm to visit and found two brothers about to kill one of their cousins. He took a singletree and knocked them out and stopped the fight. Later they did kill the cousin and put the blame on Eli. Eli had to hide out in the woods because the sheriff had people watching the house. Eli’s mother would hang a colored towel in the window if it was not safe to come in and get food, and a white towel if it was safe. He hid several weeks until someone told who really killed the cousin.

“When Eli was plowing by the river, three men came and asked to borrow his mule to cross the river. He refused, but offered to take them across one at a time. He took the first one over and when he went back the other two said they would take the mule away from him anyway. There was a fight and he whipped them both and they had to swim the river to get away.

“My grandfather said he (Eli) had a reputation as a fighter and a fiddler.”

12 Dec 1890 Tribune Champion City Items, reports, “Mr. Eli Park is erecting a new house, he says he knows it is set straight East and West because he set it by his corn rows and Otto Gahlough marked off the ground.”

In the year 1905 (Sept 29) the Tribune Champion City Chips reported, “Our famers have nearly completed corn cutting and are preparing to sow wheat. Most of the fodder cut before the rain is reported worthless and some corn is spoiling in the shock. But the ridge farmers should feel sorry for the bottom farmers this season. And in return the bottom farmers should be sorry for the ridge farmers five to one as it has been about five years since the ridge farmers harvested a crop equal to the one they are harvesting at present.”

FAG gives another child to the couple: Charles E. Park.




Eli Park, Pvt. in Company I under Captain Crowe in 26th Regiment of Infantry Volunteers; Enlisted Sept. 21, 1861 at Union, MO. and mustered in Dec. 26, 1861 at Pacific, MO.; Dis (discharged) Nov 21, 1862 at St. Louis, MO.}

Census:
#73, age 32, farmer, with wife and five children

Died:
Informant was Mrs. E.B. Parks of Stanton, Cert. signed by Walter R. Mattox of Sullivan

Buried:
Stanton Cemetery

Eli married Melinda Olive Thompson on 28 Mar 1867 in Franklin Co., MO. Melinda (daughter of John Anderson Thompson and Angeline Park) was born on 30 Mar 1847 in Franklin Co., MO; died on 6 Oct 1930 in Overland, St. Louis Co., MO; was buried on 9 Oct 1930 in Stanton, Franklin Co., MO. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Bef 1923, St. Louis, St. Louis Co., MO
• Residence: 1923, Champion City, Franklin Co., MO

Notes:

Her husband’s obit gives her middle name as Olivia. After Eli’s death Melinda lived with her son Alfred, near Champion City, according to the 29 Jun 1923 Journal.

Residence:
To live with son Alfred

Buried:
Stanton Cemetery

Notes:

Married:
Copy of certificate in file

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer
• Census: 14 Jun 1880, Boone Twp., Franklin Co., MO
• Census: 5 Jun 1900, Boone Twp., Franklin Co., MO
• Residence: Abt 1914, Maries Co., MO
• Census: 26 Jan 1920, S. Jefferson Twp., Maries Co., MO

Notes:

The 1900 census lists Tom living as a farmer in the south part of Boone Township, Franklin Co., MO. He was renting a farm and reported that he could neither read nor write. His wife could do both. His two sons were listed as farm laborers. Mary and Effie were in school, Ada at home. Living with the family was Elizabeth West Keeney, Clarissa's sister, who later married Tom.

The 1920 census reports that Tom's parents were born in Tennessee, but this may be incorrect.
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Gasconade County Republican, Owensville, MO, January 13, 1938: Father of H. Blackwell buried at Lanes Prairie-Funeral Services were held for Thomas Blackwell Sunday at the Skaggs Chapel at Lanes Prairie with burial in the Skaggs Cemetery. Rev. J. Arvin conducted the services.

Thomas Blackwell was born in Walbert [Franklin Co, MO] on May 2, 1862. He was 75 years old at the time of his death. He leaves his wife, nee Betty West, four daughters: Mrs. Mary Riske, Mrs. Ada Unger of St. Louis; Mrs. Effie Parks of Fisher, Illinois; and Mrs. Bertha West of Lanes Prairie; and two sons, John of Gerald and Henry of Owensville. 
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Home in 1930: Jefferson, Maries Co, MO 
Radio Set: No 
Occupation: Farmer 
J H Blackwell 69 lst mar age 21 MO MO MO
Elisabeth J Blackwell 74 wf lst mar age 20 MO

Home in 1920: Jefferson, Maries, Missouri 
Thomas H Blackwell 53 mar. MO TN TN
Elizebeth J Blackwell 63 wf mar. MO
Skaggs Adaline 85 mil wd TN
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Marriage, Maries Co, MO: Thomas Blackwell and Elizabeth J. West married 4 June 1916. Note: full name for Thomas Blackwell is "James Thomas William Henry Blackwell".
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Home in 1910: Boone, Franklin Co, MO
Date: 11 May 1910
Street: Sullivan Road 
Thomas Blackwell 49 mar2 3y farmer MO
Elizabeth A Blackwell 50 wf mar2 3/3 ch MO
Bertha V Blackwell 6 dau MO
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Marriage, Franklin Co, MO: Thomas Blackwell and Elizabeth Keeney married 16 Nov 1907 in Union, Franklin Co, MO.
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March 29, 1907: Clarissa Jane Blackwell died
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Home in 1900: Boone, Franklin, Missouri 
Thomas Blackwell 38 May 1862 mar 16y MO
Clarissa Blackwell 38 wf Oct 1861 6/5 ch MO
John Blackwell 17 son Feb 1883 sgl MO
Henry Blackwell 17 son Feb 1883 sgl MO
Mary Blackwell 14 dau Jun 1885 MO
Effie Blackwell 9 dau Jul 1890 MO
Ada Blackwell 7 dau May 1893 MO
Elizabeth Keeney 42 sil Jun 1857 Div. MO
(Elizabeth A. West, Mar. John Keny 26 Nov 1874, Franklin, MO)
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Marriage, Franklin Co, MO: James William Thomas Henry Blackwell, Shotwell, Franklin Co, MO and Clarissa Jane West from Shotwell, Franklin Co, MO married in Shotwell, Franklin Co, MO on 30 April 1882.
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Home in 1880: Boone, Franklin Co, MO 
Clarisia J. Blackwell 51 f/w wd KY 
Eliza J. Blackwell 25 dau sgl MO
James W. H. T. Blackwell 18 son sgl MO
James P. Childers 74 father sgl KY
Sarah E. Berte 6 gd MO
Jesse Cooper 30 w/m -- farmer MO 

Census:
ED 68 p.4, Line 3

Census:
Listed with wife, children, sister-in-law, ED 28 p.3 Line 58, Cannot read or write.

Residence:
Gerald Independent, 10-1-1920.

Census:
ED 62 p.8 Line 30 Living with Tom and Elizabeth was Adaline Skaggs, Elizabeth’s mother

Died:
Ervin and Earl Blackwell served as pallbearers for Tom.

Buried:
Skaggs Chapel Cemetery (according to Earl Blackwell, who was a pallbearer along with Ervin)

James married Clarissa Jane West on 30 Apr 1882 in Shotwell, Franklin Co., MO. Clarissa (daughter of John William (Westley?) West and Mary Jane Ankrum) was born on 30 Oct 1860 in Walbert/Gerald, Franklin Co., MO; died on 29 Mar 1907 in Shotwell, Franklin Co., MO; was buried on 30 Mar 1907 in Gerald, Franklin Co., MO. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• USR1: Paralysis

Notes:

OBIT:
Source: Friday, April 5, 1907 Republican Headlight
Franklin County Historical Society

Again the Angel of Death has entered our threshold and taken from our midst Mrs. Clarissa Blackwell, the beloved wife of Thomas Blackwell of Gerald.

Clarissa West was born near Walbert Oct 31, 1861 and was married to Thomas Blackwell May 1, 1882 and died March 29, 1907, age 45 years, 5 months, and 89 days.
Deceased leaves to mourn her untimely death a husband, two sons, four daughters, an aged mother, one brother and two sisters.

She was stricken Sunday morning March 24 with paralysis and while everything was done that could be done by human hands, she grew rapidly worse and all realized the case to be hopeless from the start.

To the bereaved family our hearts go out in sympathy. Could we but relieve one pain and thus help them to bear their burden, we feel the bitter pangs of giving up a loving wife and mother.
In her death, the husband has lost an affectionate wife and the children a fond and loving mother and the community an esteamable neighbor.

The remains were tenderly laid to rest in the New Friendship cemetery Sat, March 30, in the presence of a large concourse of sorrowing relatives and friends. Rev. W. B. Adams conducted the funeral services with two fitting and appropriate sermons, one at the residence and the other at the cemetery, each paving a beautiful tribute to the faith she embraced while yet in her tender years.
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Place name:Shotwell - https://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_franklin.html

Description:A former post office in the northwest part of Boone Township, about one mile east of the present Gerald. The post office was established in 1855 and discontinued in 1907. Shotwell was probably a local family name; at least one Shotwell is known to have lived in the eastern part of the county. Cf. the Illmo (formerly Shotwell) Mines, above. No record remains, however, of the origin of the name. The temptation to invent an etymological explanation was irresistible, and at least two typical but contradictory stories are current locally. One tells of an early shooting affray between two pioneers who claimed the same deer lick. They met on a dark night and began shooting at each other until they had used up all their ammunition without inflicting any injuries. In mockery of their bad marksmanship, John Seaton, the first postmaster, decided to call the new post office Shotwell. Others ascribe the name to some particular exhibition of good shooting. All the explanations cannot be true, and place names seldom originate in particular incidents anyway. (Postal Guide; COUNTY ATLAS 1878, 13; HIST. FRANKLIN, 337; Kile's BIOG. DIR., 210; Miss Johnson: G.F. Duerr; J.A. Schroeder; Dr. W.P. Fitzgerald)Source:Harrison, Eugenia L. "Place Names Of Four River Counties In Eastern Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1943.

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Home in 1880: Boone, Franklin, Missouri, USA 
Mary J. West 40 f/w wd farming Iowa 
George M. West 23 son mar. MO [lined out-error]
Harriett V. West 20 dil mar. MO [lined our-error]
Virginia A. West 1 f/w gd MO [lined out-error]
*Clarissa J. West 20 dau sgl MO
Rachel Smith 17 dau MO
Sarah F. Smith 14 dau MO
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Shotwell items:
Mrs. Thomas Blackwell died at her home last Friday, March 29. She was laid to rest in the Friendship cemetery Sat. We extend our sympathy to the bereaved. [Source: Friday, April 5, 1907 Republican Headlight - Franklin County Historical Society]

Birth:
Pension Record: Ann Wilson as midwife gives written oath to birth
birth record at
http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/birthdeath/births.asp?id=142845
gives birth year as 1865
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/189087312/clarissa-jane-blackwell gives birth day as 31 Oct 1861

Died:
At home.
Shotwell was an early name of the area which became Gerald. “Shotwell, located in Township 42, Range 3 west, was so named by John Seaton, the first postmaster, from an incident which occurred in the pioneer days of the county. Mr. Alexander Gregory and an old Mr. Wages, pioneer settlers, each claimed the same deer lick, and both went to it one night to kill deer. The deer failed to appear, and, after waiting for a long time, each became aware of the other’s presence. They soon began firing at each other, and fired away all their ammunition, without personal injury to either. Shortly after this exciting but, as it turned out, harmless episode Mr. Seaton was appointed postmaster, and in honor of such good shooting named the postoffice Shotwell. The little village was built some years afterward, and the name, was, as a matter of course, applied to the village.”

Buried:
New Friendship Baptist Church Cemetery. W.B. Adams conducted the service. (Clarissa’s name does not show up on Find-A-Grave.)

Source: Friday, April 5, 1907 Republican Headlight - Franklin County Historical Society - Shotwell items:
Mrs. Thomas Blackwell died at her home last Friday, March 29. She was laid to rest in the Friendship cemetery Sat. We extend our sympathy to the bereaved.