Mary Francis Childers

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• Religion: Antioch Christian Church

Notes:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73520103/mary-francis-blackwell#source

OBITUARY: THE CITIZEN, April 10, 1925
Mrs. Henry Blackwell, nee Mary Childers was a member of Antioch Christian Church. Rev. W.B. Adams conducted services. She died at Ellinwood, Kansas.

Child of George Henry Childers and Sarah Francis Stewig Childers.

Died:
Rev. W.B. Adams conducted services at Antioch Christian Church

Buried:
Adams-Butler Cemetery, Lyons Twp., Beaufort, MO

Mary married Henry T. Blackwell in 1905. Henry (son of James William Henry Thomas (Tom) Blackwell and Clarissa Jane West) was born on 8 Mar 1884 in Leasburg, Crawford Co., MO; died on 27 Nov 1954; was buried in Franklin Co., MO. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Henry T. Blackwell, son of Thomas J. Blackwell and Clarissa Jane West. Henry remarried twice after his first wife, Mary Childers Blackwell died. Although he is listed on the tombstone with his first wife, Mary F. Childers Blackwell, he is buried in the Argo Cemetery in Franklin Co., Missouri. The birth year for that cemetery is listed as March 8, 1885. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73520102/henry-t-blackwell

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• Census: 1860, Franklin Co., MO

Notes:

OBITUARY: FRANKLIN COUNTY TRIBUNE, Union, Missouri, May 12, 1911, Page 5
George H. Childress died at his home, south of Leslie, Friday evening, May 5, 1911, at the age of fifty-six years. He was well and favorably known all over Franklin County. Always friendly and cordial, he won many friends. He was an honored member of the Champion City Lodge of Modern Woodmen of America. He was a faithful and earnest worker in the Christian church at Antioch where he will be sadly missed by all. He was tenderly laid to rest in the old family cemetery where so many of his loved ones now rest. Deceased leaves four sons, Ben, Fred, Robert, and Leo; five daughters, Mrs. James A. Graham, Mrs. Charles Farrar, Mrs. Henry Blackwell, Mrs. Charles P. Taylor, Mrs. John Blackwell, all living near Leslie. 
Funeral services were conducted at the home and at the cemetery by Rev. W.B. Adams, his pastor for many years at Antioch church. The M.W.A. conducted int funeral services at the cemetery. The grave was covered with beautiful wreathes and clusters of flowers. Everything that loved ones could do to relieve him and restore him to health was done, but a loving Father called to His--weary child, "Come home," to that beautiful shore, where times ceases never, and night comes no more, There Jesus is reigning--we'll ever be blest; We'll sever no more in the land of sweet rest. The bereaved ones have the sincere sympathy of all. A Friend.

Note: His name is George Henry Childers. His obituary states he is buried in the family cemetery. Also, his daughter's obituary states he and his wife are buried in the Adams family Cemetery.

Census:
Age 5, listed as living with Sarah his mother

Buried:
Adams-Butler Cemetery

George married Sarah Francis Stiewig on 2 Nov 1873 in Franklin Co., MO. Sarah was born on 20 Aug 1855 in TX; died on 23 Feb 1907 in Franklin Co., MO; was buried in Franklin Co., MO. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• USR1: Heart Failure

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OBITUARY: Friday, March 7, 1907 Republican Headlight, Franklin Co., Missouri

Died at her home near Leslie, on Saturday morning, February 23, 1907, Sarah Frances, wife of Geo. H. Childers, in the fifty-first year of her age. Although her health had not been good for some time, her death was sudden and unexpected, as is usual in heart failure. She passed gently and peacefully into that sleep that knows no waking. She leaves to mourn her loss, her husband and ten children. The surviving children are: Sarah, the eldest, who is with her father; Lucy, wife of James Graham, near Champion City; Nancy, wife of Chas. Farrar, near Leslie; Mary, wife of Henry Blackwell, of Gerald; Ida, wife of Chas. Taylor, of Gerald; Alice, wife of John Blackwell, of Gerald; and Benjamin, Frederick, Robert, and Leo, who are at home. One child died in infancy several years ago. The deceased was a daughter of Mr. Stewig, who was well and favorably known in this county. She was an earnest and devoted Christian worker in the Antioch Sunday School and church of which she has been a member ever since its organization. Not only by precept but by example did she strive to train her children in the way they should go. With them she studied the Word of God and sang the beautiful songs, and although her voice will no more be heard in the choir at Antioch where she will be so sadly missed, she has joined the invisible choir in that beautiful "home over there." Our heartfelt sympathy we extend to the bereaved ones.

Birth:
Death record of daughter and 1910 census says she was born in Texas

Buried:
Adams-Butler Cemetery, Lyons Twp. - St. Johns?

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• USR1: Pneumonia
• Census: 1850, Franklin Co., MO

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OBITUARY: THE MILLENNIAL HARBINGER, Bethany, Va, May 1857, Vol. VII, No. V, Page 299.
Died on Thursday morning, Dec. 25, 1866 (sic), at his residence in Franklin Co., Mo., in the 45th year of his age, of Pneumonia, Henry Childers, for 25 years a consistent member of the Christian Church. He retained to within a few hours of his death his full vigor of mind, and expressed entire resignation and confidence in the Redeemer. (Sent in by E.R.C.). NOTE: The notice had the death year listed as 1866, but the date on the paper was May 1857. Henry actually died Dec. 25, 1856.

Henry Childers, son of Thomas G. & Mary Richardson Childers. Married first to his cousin Elizabeth Maupin, the daughter of John Maupin and Elizabeth Richardson. 

Married second to Sarah Mitchell Adams, the widow of Elijah Adams, Jr. Henry was the father of six children with his first wife, and the father of four more children with his second wife.

Probate document from Franklin Co. Probate Court, Union, MO:
Know all men by these presents that we the undersigned heirs of Henry Childers, deceased, do consent and agree to the selling off of one hundred and twenty acres of land belonging to said estate containing the Mansion House and all other improvements connected with the same, lying, on the said one hundred and twenty acres being as we believe equal to one-third of the real estate of said deceased. In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seal this March 11, 1859.

E.R. (Elihu) Childers seal
B.J. Valentine seal
T.G. Childers seal
Mary A. Childers seal
Joseph A. Havenner seal
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Probably arrived in Boone Township about 1830 (see Franklin Co., MO 1878 Atlas Map, (reprint). History of Townships, Boone Township, p. 14.

The 1850 census shows four Adams children living with Henry and Sarah: William age 12, Robert age 11, Lucy age 9 and Susan S. age 7. (Also, children Joanna 11 mo, William Adams 12, Robert Adams 11, and Lucy Adams 9.

Census:
#787 Listed with wife Sarah and 7 children, plus 4 Adams children

Died:
Date from tombstone

Buried:
Adams-Butler Cemetery, Lyons Twp.

Henry married Sarah Mitchell on 24 Nov 1847 in Franklin Co., MO. Sarah (daughter of Robert Mitchell, daughter of Lucy Bass) was born in 1810 in Green Co., KY; died in Sep 1868 in Franklin Co., MO. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1860, Boeff Twp., Franklin Co., MO

Notes:

When Henry’s estate was settled, Sarah (second wife) received her dower portion which her children inherited. After the death of her brother, George, Joseph M. Adams became the guardian of the two youngest Childers children: George Henry and Naomi.

Birth:
1860 census says she is 45

Census:
#245 Listed as head of household w/six children

Notes:

Married:
Record, Franklin Co. Court House

Other Events and Attributes:

• MILF: Y
• USR1: Pneumonia
• PURC: 7 Sep 1838, Franklin Co., MO
• Census: 1850, Franklin Co., MO

Notes:

May 1857, OBITUARY: THE MILLENNIAL HARBINGER, Bethany, Va, May 1857, Vol. VII, No. V, Page 299
Died on Sunday, Dec. 21, 1856, at the residence of his son, Henry Childers, in Franklin Co., Mo., in the 75th year of his age, Capt. Thos. G. Childers, a native of Greenbrier Co., Va., long a consistent member of the Christian Church. (Sent by E.R.C.)

Thomas Goolsby Childers, husband of Mary Richardson and father of Henry Childers. Thomas G. Childers died of pneumonia at his son, Henry Childers's home on December 21, 1856--four days before Henry died of pneumonia. His tombstone is believed to be one of the two blank bases next to Henry Childers. One of the original patent owners of Section 20, Township 43, Range 2 West.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/74126757/thomas-goolsby-childers

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It has not been established if or how Thomas Goolsby is connected to the other Childers families. He could also be a son of Henry.

In Franklin Co. deed index there is entry for land sale from Thomas G. Childers to Henry Childers, and another entry for a sale to Phillip Miller. Yet another sale to Eli Valentine, who married daughter Nancy.

PURC:
Cert No 5483 NE qtr, SE qtr Sec 21, Twp 42, R2W, 40 acres

Census:
#788 Listed age 69, with Mary age 60

Buried:
Adams-Butler Cemetery

Thomas married Mary “Polly” Richardson on 3 Dec 1799 in Madison Co., KY. Mary (daughter of Daniel Richardson and Nancy Estes Townsend) was born on 20 Oct 1784 in VA; died on 20 Sep 1855 in Franklin Co., MO; was buried in Beaufort, Franklin Co., MO. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• PURC: 1 Oct 1845, Franklin Co., MO

Notes:

FRANKLIN CO., MO, LAST WILL & TESTAMENT: WILL BOOK A (1819-1854) , PAGE 12: Daniel Richardson, August 31, 1820.

Polly named as a daughter in the will of Daniel Richardson.

Mary "Polly" Richardson Childers, daughter of Daniel and Nancy (Townsend) Richardson. Wife of Thomas Goolsby Childers. She died September 20, 1855. Her tombstone is believed to be one of the two blank bases next to Henry Childers

Children of MARY RICHARDSON and THOMAS CHILDERS are:
1. DANIEL CHILDERS
2. SARAH CHILDERS
3. SUSANNAH CHILDERS
4. NANCY CHILDERS
5. HENRY CHILDERS
6. MARY "POLLY" CHILDERS
7. MILTON RICHARDSON CHILDERS
8. BENJAMIN GOLDSBURY CHILDERS

PURC:
Cert No 13179, S 1/2 of lot No.1 of SW qtr Sec 31, Twp 42, R3W

Buried:
Adams-Butler Cemetery

Notes:

By Reverend Benjamin Coleman, Order Book 1773-1782 p.511

Married:
Copy of marriage record held by Lucille Adams Smith