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"Leamon Howard Ammons, 92, of Rochester Hills for 10 years, formerly of Troy, died Feb. 9, 2008, in Troy. He was born Feb. 19, 1915, in Hohenwald, Tenn.

Mr. Ammons retired as a machinist from S&S Manufacturing, Ferndale. He was a life member of Masonic Lodge 570, Hazel Park, and of Scottish Rites. He was also a member of Moslem Shriners, Southfield.

He was predeceased by his wife, Mary Elizabeth Luther, on April 10, 1988. The couple were wed June 29, 1946, in Hohenwald.

Surviving are his children, Madelyn (Wayne) Tharp of Hohenwald, Sherry (Donald) McBroom of Rochester Hills and Diane (Randall) Moreland of Madison Heights; siblings, Alma Warren of Hohenwald, Dorothy Hurt of Atlanta, Ga., Glen (Betty) Ammons of Hohenwald and Mary Helen (Bob) James of Centerville, Tenn.; grandchildren, Jill, Chad and Jeremy and great-grandchildren, Stone, Sailor, Jackielynn, Kaya, Jered and Jessup.

He was predeceased by parents William and Esther Ammons.

Visitation, 3-8 p.m. today with 7 p.m. Masonic service, Price Funeral Home, 3725 Rochester Road, Troy; services, noon Tuesday, funeral home, with the Rev. George V. Johnson Jr. officiating; burial, Christian Memorial Cemetery, Rochester Hills; memorials, Shriners Hospital for Children, 24350 Southfield Road, Southfield, MI 48075; online, www.pricefuneralhome.net.

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Ammons, Leamon Howard (I16854)
 
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"Milwaukee, a Half Century's Progress, 1846-1896: A Review of the Cream City's Wonderful Growth and Development from Incorporation Until the Present Time: A Souvenir of Her Golden Anniversary," (Milwaukee: Consolidated Illustrating, 1896), p. 99:

"Charles Stolper Cooperage Co., Manufacturers of Brewers' Packages.

THIS establishment is the leader in its line in this city and the best known to the trade is equipped with all the latest improved machinery and only skilled and experienced hands are employed. The industry was started by Mr. Charles Stolper, Sr. in 1855. The present company was formed in 1892 and has ample resources at command The works are located on Third street from No?s 651 to 665 and 650 to 666 Fourth street and extending through the block 400x450 feet in dimensions. The main shop is a three story brick 190x300 feet while in rear is the shop for hand work 40x150 feet adjoining are immense storage houses for carrying the finished packages while there is always several million staves piled in the yards seasoning by the natural air and sun the only sure way to get satisfaction. President [John A.] Stolper is notably progressive he has ever kept pace with modern improvements in machinery and processes he has never delayed getting in the best machinery and tools and today the company's plant is the model one of the kind in existence. The outfit of costly machine tools specially made for this concern includes a Stave dresser hollowing machine, a Benson stave bucker and equalizer, a bender, joiner, trussers, a machine for doweling, crozing, and chamfering, barrel lath, hoop driver, hoop punch and flaring machine, all kinds of heading machinery, bung boring machines, etc. Power is supplied by one of Filer & Stowell's 150 horsepower corliss engines using steam from two 80 horse power boilers. There is a pneumatic tube system for collecting shavings and dust from each machine for use as fuel freight elevator and every modern convenience. Beer barrels are the specialty here being turned out in wholes, halves, quarters, sixths, and eighths. They are of best materials and elaborate finish and are the popular favorites with the brewery trade everywhere being in use in every State in the Union and are exported to Europe. The company sells to the Pabst Schlitz and other leading breweries here also in Chicago, St Louis, and in the east. When the local and western oak gave out Mr. Stolper promptly set out to find the best that grew elsewhere and secured 3,500 acres of the choicest white oak timber lands at St Francis, Ark. He there built a factory having two-three equalizers, two buckers, two double joiners, heading and stave saws, etc. run by a 50 horse power engine and keeps it busy under the management of Mr. Edward Lechner, his son in law, in the manufacture of the staves used here. The company enjoys complete facilities both as to materials and machinery and we desire to say in the most impressive language it stands at the head in the manufacture of Brewers? Packages. Their products are in growing demand the sales aggregating $250,000 annually." 
Stolper, Johann Albert (I34139)
 
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"Our History: 'THIS CONGREGATION SHALL BE KNOWN AS TEMPLE SHALOM ...' We have no definite record when the first Jews came to Colorado. In the mid 1870's, a large community already existed in Leadville and smaller settlements in Denver, Cotopaxi, Silverton and other mining camps.

The record of the first Jew in Colorado Springs is a matter of conjecture. The first individual of whom we have definite knowledge is a Louis Ehrich of New York who arrived in 1882. He was a philanthropist of note, having presented to the Typographical Union the large tract of land on which now stands the Union Printers Home. An official census of 1892 lists two families, three widows, ten children, and five bachelors.

The first religious service was held in the year 1895, someone's memorial service. That year High Holy Day services were observed locally in private homes and conducted by one of the worshippers. Later, various lodge halls were rented and Cantors engaged. In 1900, when a Torah was purchased, twenty-one names were listed as contributors. . . ." 
Livermore, Oscar (I38271)
 
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"Pictorial and Biographical Memoirs: Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana" (Chicago: Goodspeed, 1893, 466 pp.), pp. 143-144:

". . . William Moore received his education in the common schools of Centre Township, Marion County, attending during the winter months and working on the farm during the summer season. . . . When he married [1869]Miss Lucy A. Kitley, daughter of Richard and Martha (Davis) Kitley," they moved on March 29 on a "tract of 180 acres he had purchased about eighteen months previously of the WQilson heirs, paying for the same $50 peracre. Of this tract 80 acres were cleared and he has since cleared 20 acres. Mrs. Moore inherited 80 acres from her father's estate. . . . Mr. Moore holds membership in the Baptist Church and is a trustee and deacon. He is not very active in politics and votes the Republican ticket."  
Moore, William (I14149)
 
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"U.S. Census Prairie, Pulaski County, AR 1870: "Phillip S. Deal, age 26 b. Abt. 1844 North Carolina, farmer real estate owned $440 other property $450, wife Mary S., age 22 b. Abt. 1848 Mississippi; one daughter b. Arkansas: Christiana E., 10/12 b. Oct 1869; Nannie Cochrane, 14 b. Abt. 1856 Arkansas; housekeeper: Nina Potter 22; two hired men, ages 22: Elbert L. Mcniell & John Richey."

U.S. Census Prairie, Lonoke County, AR 1900: "Phillip S. Deal, age 56 b. Nov 1843 North Carolina parents b. North Carolina, farmer, wife Mary S., age 52 b. Abt. 1848 Mississippi, parents b. Tennessee; two sons b. Arkansas: Hulen Deal, age 25 b. Jul 1874, farmer, single, Howard S. Deal, age 21 b. Jul 1878 Arkansas, farm laborer, single; two boarders: Nora Green 20, Elmer Green 15."

U.S. Census Prairie, Lonoke County, AR 1910: "Phillip S. Deal, age 66 b. Abt. 1844 North Carolina parents b. North Carolina, farmer, wife Mary S., age 62 b. Abt. 1848 Mississippi, parents b. Tennessee; son: Howard S. Deal, age 32 b. Abt. 1878 Arkansas, father b. North Carolina mother b. Mississippi, rural mail carrier, wife Lee, age 28 b. Abt. 1892 Arkansas."

U.S. Census Lonoke County, AR 1920: "Phillip S. Deal, age 77 b. Abt. 1843 North Carolina, farmer, widower," in the household of his son, "Howard S. Deal, age 41 b. Abt. 1879 Arkansas, wife Leona, age 28 b. Abt. 1892 Arkansas."  
Deal, Philip Socrates (I19917)
 
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"U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865:

James K. Wheeler, Union, 10th Regiment, Kansas Infantry; rank in: Corporal, rank out, Sergeant"

Pension record:

"Wheeler, James K. Co D. Kans. Inf; Co. E. 10th Kans. Inf.;
11 Feb 1890 Application 754688 Certificate 546742 Kans.

Wheeler, Metilda E. [sic] 1 Feb 1919 widow Application 1135277 Certificate 868221" 
Wheeler, James Keller (I14911)
 
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10 Oct 1910 Indianapolis "Star" p. 10:

"Appeal from J.P. Court. #19640 George Kessler vs. Robert Thomas, Superior Court, Room 1."

12 Jan 1911 Indianapolis IN "Star," p. 13, advertisement:

"HORSES, VEHICLES, ETC. Geo. Kessler, Prince of Auctioneers, will sell at public auction every day this week the following for cash: fifty horses, mares, mules, ponies, carts, pony buggies, wagons of all kinds and harness of all descriptions. . . . George Kessler has made this a lifetime business and buys at the best prices and in big quantities. He is therefore able to show you bargains in most everything you should desire. Sale opens every morning at 9:00 sharp. 426 West Pearl Street."

Evidently auctioneer George Kessler sued Robert Thomas, lost in Justice of Peace Court, and appealed to Superior Court.

Roy Elmer Thomas told me that his father, Robert Thomas, engaged in buying and selling horses and sometimes "pumped them up" to make them look better, hence more valuable. This lawsuit may have resulted from such a transaction.

Roy Richard Thomas February 2008 
Thomas, Robert (I12911)
 
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A description of agriculture around Indianapolis, IN in 1843, when Edward C. Thomas was farming in Perry Township, Marion County, IN:

(From 1839 until 1847, Henry Ward Beecher was the minister of the Second Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis. There, Beecher avidly pursued his interest in gardening. He regularly contributed a column about horticulture to the "The Indiana Journal." In 1847, Reverend Beecher became the first minister of Brooklyn, NY's just organized Plymouth Congregational Church. At the time of his death in 1887, Reverend Beecher was preaching to as many as 2,000 or more each Sunday and was the most famous clergyman in America.)

http://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/imh/article/view/5622/4966

"Indiana Magazine of History," Volume III, Issue 4 (1907), pp 189-193:

"INDIANAPOLIS IN 1843: A HENRY WARD BEECHER LETTER.

We are indebted to Mr. W. H. Ragan, of Washington, D. C, for a copy of this interesting letter, which was originally published in Hovey's 'Magazine of Horticulture,' of Boston, Massachusetts. It contains information not to be found elsewhere, both as to horticulture in Indiana and conditions in Indianapolis at an early day. We have omitted an unimportant preliminary paragraph.

'In this State we have an area a little more than four times greater than Massachusetts. There are eighteen nurseries, whose proprietors are chiefly supported by their sales. Apple trees sell for ten, and pear for twenty cents. An orchard is to be found upon almost every farm, and lately the pear has been more than ever sought after. At our October [Marion county fair] was exhibited the greatest variety of fruits and flowers ever exhibited in this State, perhaps I may say in the West. From fifty-five to sixty varieties of apples were shown, and forty-three new seedling apples competed for a [prize]. A branch of the Rhode Island Greening was exhibited, two feet in length, bearing fifteen apples, weighing 12 lbs. 9 oz. I send you a brief account of the fair, enclosed in some other papers. You will see a beet mentioned, weighing thirty-two lbs. You will also see three seedling apples named and recommended for cultivation: Tariff, Red Jacket, and Osceola; the first two, capital fall apples, the last supposed to be a first-rate late winter apple. Those which we have are not yet ripe [January 24, 1843], nor at all fit for eating. The number of seedling apples in this State is very great, and some of them, in the neighborhood in which they grow, are esteemed more highly by the settlers than the old standard fruits. The soil and climate so modify the flavor and other qualities of the apple that there is some reason for believing that an apple originated on any given soil, will be better than many which are introduced into it; for though the apple is raised with great facility in almost every soil, yet it is probable that each variety affects a particular one and will refuse its most perfect qualities to all except that one. Thus, I perceive, the most popular apples of New England are natives: the Rhode Island Greening, Hubbardston Nonsuch, Roxbury Russett, Baldwin, Minster, etc. The choice apples of the middle States are natives of them, and to a very considerable extent this is becoming true of the West.

The annual meeting of our [Church] is held during the winter, [so] the greater number of citizens from [rural areas], during the sessions of our courts and legislatures, may be reached and interested in this [event]. I shall send you the reports, address and proceedings of our winter meeting as soon as they are published.

I omitted to mention that on selling the fruit last October, great competition arose for the pears, and they sold at 12½, 25 and 50 cents apiece, many of them. I obtained the only specimen of the Duchesse d'Angouleme (the first I believe which has ripened in the State) for the moderate price of 62½ cents. I am afraid I should have doubled the bid rather than have lost her ladyship; and if all duchesses are of equal worth commend me to their society. I need not say I was 'somewhat filled' with her company. It was not a dear bargain in the sequel, for the gentleman who raised it was so much pleased with my enthusiasm for his favorite that he presented me a tree of the same kind, and one of the Beurre d'Aremberg.

You will perceive, when you obtain the report of our winter meeting, that a [prize] of fifty dollars is offered for seedling apples, other premiums to encourage gardens, the obtaining of choice fruit trees, introduction of hardy shrubs and flowers, etc. Our great design is to awaken in the body of the peopleamong farmers, artizans and men of small means a taste for fruit and flowers, and to fill the State, from the beginning, with the most select varieties. The peach, plum, cherry, apple, pear, quince, apricot, and small fruits might search through our land and find no better soil and climate for their perfection than that of Indiana. Our variable springs are almost the only obstacle. Long summers, brilliantly clear atmosphere, great warmth, and dryness during the fall ripening months, give our fruit great size, color, and flavor. If the mass of the community take hold earnestly, amateur cultivators will spring up of themselves. As it is I remember very few gardens in Massachusetts, except near large cities, which could compare with ten or twenty in this town (Indianapolis is a town of about the size of Northampton).

In going to Terre Haute, Indiana last summer I stopped at a small, poverty-stricken little town called Mt. Meridian; shackly houses, huts and hovels, pale faces and ragged children gave no great expectation of refinements. Putting up at the best tavern (in the West, no matter how small the town, there are always from two to five or even eight taverns to choose among), I soon retired to bed as the easiest way of reaching next morning. On rising and going into the rear of the building for washing water (we are always allowed to help ourselves in such trifles), I found the well standing in the middle of a very beautiful little flower garden; neat beds full of flowers, cleaned walks, trimmed borders. I could hardly trust my eyes. From the rear of the grounds I could almost throw a stone into the primeval forests, whose fragments yet lingered in parts of the garden; and the house was itself poorer than many a barn which I have seen in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. Opening a rude wicket gate, I entered a spot of nearly an acre, well laid out and filled with the choicest vegetables, growing with the most vigorous health. Currants, raspberries (white and red Antwerp), strawberries, gooseberries, were thriving, and many select varieties of pear and apple. The whole garden bore evidence of careful cultivation and good taste. Such a spot, in such a town, and behind such a house, surrounded and almost overshadowed by the forest, and produced, not by wealth, but by the personal labor of one man, poor and advanced in life, delighted me more, I do believe, than would the grounds of the London Horticultural Society. If every county in our State had one such citizen I should not fear for horticultural interests in our State. The best assortment of seeds and plants which our town will afford shall be at the service of such a cultivator the coming spring.

You will be pleased to learn that many of the pears which have given out in New England do well as yet with us. The St. Michael (or fall butter, as it is called here), thrives and bears excellently well, though Kenrick, following Fessenden, says that in New England it is 'an outcast, intolerable even to the sight.' The specimens at our fall fair could hardly be surpassed.

A number of public-spirited gentlemen have associated, to plant all the private streets in this town with shade trees. We shall select from the ample stock of our own forests, mostly. But it is proposed to put in a number of pear and plum trees; the first being a beautiful shaped tree as well as fruitful, and the plum, it is thought, will be free from the curculio, planted upon a highway. In the three squares upon which stand the State House, Court House, and Governor's House, it is proposed to gather and plant a specimen of all our forest trees.

This reminds me of an incident in our early town history related to me by one of the first settlers. A large circle of nearly four acres was reserved in the center of the town and the native trees, sugar maples, left standing upon it. Under these trees, before churches were built, religious meetings were held in summer, and the prospect was that our town would have an adornment of this little grove which no architecture can bestow. One morning, however, he was attracted thither by the sound of an axe, and found one of the leading lawyers of the place exercising himself, as a preparation for breakfast, in felling one of the largest trees. It was too far cut to be saved. And so good an example could not be lost upon others. One by one these magnificent trees disappeared. Now we have a huge yellow brick building in the center of this circle; about a dozen locusts, with stems half as large as one's wrist, have for the three last years been struggling for life until they seem weary and faint, and so stand still.

The Court House Square, something larger than the former piece of ground, was covered with a noble growth of stately trees, and it was determined to save them. A man was set, however, to thin out the plat, and being left to his own discretion, he felled all the younger trees and left the very old and tall ones standing. As might have been expected, the first wind, finding an easy passage through, uprooted a multitude of trees, and the citizens, to save the rest from a like fate, chopped them down instantly, and happily relieved this square, too, from unpleasant shade. All is not yet told. At a later day a number of gentlemen procured an order (if I mistake not) from the county commissioners to plant out the ground with shade trees, and a large number of the locust was set. However, that nothing might break in upon the practice of the county, the jailer's cow was permitted to pasture upon the plat, and in sight of the citizens she proceeded patiently to bark the trees or break them down, until not a single one was left. A gentleman not without a taste for horticulture, from day to day, saw, from his office door, this destruction, as he informed me with great naivete, as though it were a sin to interfere and save the trees. Thus, in all our towns, comes first, extermination; then come scorching summer suns, and too late the wish that the trees had been spared; and at last planting begins, and we who live amid the immense forests of a new country; on whose town plat, not fifteen years ago, grew immense oaks, maples, sycamores, beeches, tulip trees and elms?are planting the short lived locusts {Robinia pseudo-acacia) to obtain a speedy shade! I can think of but three forest trees now standing in this town within a space one mile square: two elms and one buckeye. The same scenes are enacting in every town which springs up at the West. We are gaining meadows, and corn bottoms, and green hillsides, and town plats, by an utter extermination of the forest. Here and there an Indian may be found lingering around the old possessions of his nation, as if to mourn their loss, and to remind us of his ancestors; but of the forest, it is almost true that not a single tree is left to recall to our minds the glory of its fellows. Indeed, I have thought that those who were obliged to clear farms or timber land, imbibe the same feelings toward trees which the pioneers have toward the Indians?as things to be destroyed, of course. This devastation of our forests the political economist regards as a blunder, and says it is an unthrifty practice, but one who looks upon trees almost as if they had souls, witnesses this needless extermination with some feelings which can not be expressed in the pound and penny language of the mere economist. I think it is Michaux who pronounces the full-grown elm to be the most magnificent production of the vegetable kingdom. Is not an old, and tall, and broad, and healthy tree nobler to the eye than any temple or cathedral? The wonder of a century's growth ends in an hour by some man who never for one single moment thinks of the majesty or beauty of his victim; who only thinks how soonest to get it down, and burned up, and out of the way of the plough.

Respectfully yours, H. W. BEECHER.

Indianapolis, Indiana, January, 1843.'" 
Thomas, Edward Charles (I12936)
 
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According to Beverly on April 13th: Owned a pet bird that she would bring to Lavon's house.

Her youngest child Lamar Briggs was mentally handicapped. 
Davis, Ina Nevada (I12264)
 
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Additional Information at:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18884235/mary-ellen-wilson 
Galer, Mary Ellen (I117)
 
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Additional Information at:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/93406815/william-winfield-fountain
 
Fountain, William Winfield MD (I116)
 
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An old timer's explanation of the public appeal at the end of the nineteenth century of traveling shows:

Steve Goodson, "Public Entertainment in Atlanta, 1880-1930 (Athens, GA: Univ. of Georgia Press, 2007), Ch. II "Amusements":

"In 1948 the Atlanta Historical Bulletin published reminiscences by Walter McElreath, lawyer, politician, and founder of the Atlanta Historical Society, remembered Atlanta as he had first encountered it in the closing decades of the nineteenth century. He fondly recalled the time when Atlanta's churches, retailers, and grocery stores, as well as the residences of its leading citizens, were all clustered near the center of what was then a small and compact city. Life seemed to move at a slower, horse-drawn pace; everybody was at home and had nowhere to go. Any queer or amusing character was in those days and object of interest which [today] would pass practically unnoticed.' . . ." 
Family F18043373
 
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Ancestry.com

"Genealogical and Historical Notes on Culpepper County Virginia, Embracing a Revised and Enlarged Edition of Dr. Philip Slaughters History of St. Marks Parish.

THE THOMAS FAMILY. (By Mrs. Mary Dunnica Micou.)

The Thomas family of Culpeper County goes back, [as described below], to the emigrant in the following order: Massey (6), Massey (5), John (4), John (3), William (2) William Ap Thomas (1):

Without doubt the Thomas family of Orange county, and also that of Culpeper county, are descended from the earliest emigrant of that name, who came to Essex county, or rather the one who patented land from Elizabeth county, to Essex, from 1637 to 1665, in all, about 3,400 acres. He is mentioned first as William Ap. Thomas, and most of his grants are given to him for bringing to this country, William Thomas and als, presumably his sons, as William Thomas, aged 22, and Robert Thomas, aged 20, came to Virginia, in June 1635, and John, aged 19, in July
1635. The way in which land patents are taken out by these young men indicate that they were sons of William Ap. Thomas, all being granted to them in the same neighborhood.

Robert m. a Miss Massie, and settled in Essex, having a son, Edward, m. Catherine Williamson, (daughter of Henry Williamson). He established the Essex county family, and lived at Thomas Neck, on the Rappahannock River; was Justice of Peace in 1695, and High Sheriff in 1696; died in 1699.

William Thomas, aged 22, in 1635, took out land in Northumberland county, and is called "William of Yeocomooo." He was Justice of Northumberland county in 1656, and Burgess of Surry county in 1652; he had land patents in every county from Surry to Essex county. He
probably brought his wife from England, as he is granted land in Lancaster county, for transporting William Thomas and wife from England. Her name was Rebecca, and she survived him, as she takes but letters of administration in 1635.

His son, John, was then 17 years of age, showing that he was born in 1648. He died in 1710, leaving wife, Elizabeth, children: Richard, William, Peter, John, Elizabeth, Jane, Richard, who is mentioned as son and heir of John
Thomas, is undoubtedly the Richard Thomas who m. Isabella Pendleton, daughter of Philip Pendleton, the emigrant. Richard and Isabella Thomas both took out land in King and Queen and Spotsylvania Counties in 1728. Richard Thomas died in 1748, and his widow, Isabella, went to live in Brysdale Parish, Caroline county. Their children are uncertain as to number and name. There is a Rowland Thomas and a Joseph Thomas mentioned with her in deeds of land, but the relationship is not defined. It is certain, though, that her daughter, Mary, m. Col. Thomas Barbour, and another, Catherine, m. Ambrose Barbour. Her son, Richard, m. in 1753 Mildred Taylor, of Orange county; their children were : Richard, George, James, Sarah, and Mildred, m.
John Piper. James Thomas m. in 1781 Eliza beth, dau. of Henry Pendleton.

John Thomas,youngest son of (John, William, William Ap Thomas.) and brother of Richard, was born about
1690; he bought land in King William, Spotsylvania, Hanover, Orange and King George counties, between 1725 and 1739. In 1776 he was living in Bromfleld Parish, Culpeper county. He died in 1782, a very old man, having survived two of his sons, and having several great grand children.

He mentions in his will the following children: Benjamin, John, Massey, William, Margaret McKay, Sarah Powell, and Ann Kirk. His son, Benjamin, succeeded to his property in King George County, and died 1782. His son, William, made his will in 1776 in Maryland. His son, Massey Thomas, died in 1776, leaving wife, Elizabeth, children : Reuben, John, William, Massey, Jesse, and Susannah.

Massey Thomas Jr. served in the Revolutionary Army from 1776 to 1779 in the 10th. Virginia Regiment, Col. John Green. He m. 1st. Elizabeth Barlow, 2nd Martha Pendleton, daughter of Philip, 2nd. son of Henry and Mary (Taylor) Pendleton.

Thus, the great nephew of Richard Thomas m. the great neice of Isabella Pendleton, his wife. The children of Massey Thomas and Martha Pendleton were : 1. Frances Taylor, b. 1788, m. Lewis; 2. Philadelphia Pendleton, b. 1789, iu. James Dunniea; 3. Sallie Minor, b. 1791, m. Wm. H. Dunniea; 4. Granville Pendleton, b. 17 ; 5. Virginia Curtis, b. 1794, m. Norwood; 6. John Price, b. 1796; 7. Martha Curtis, b. 1798, m. Ramsey. Massey Thomas moved to Woodford county, KY, before 1812 and died there.

His son, Granville Pendleton Thomas, fought in the war of 1812 to 1815, in the 2nd. Kentucky Regiment. The mother, Martha (Pendleton) Thomas, moved, after her husband's death, to Missouri with her two sons-in-law, James and William H. Dunniea, and died there in 1824." 
Thomas, William Ap (I21523)
 
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Ancestry.com

"In the first transaction Lewis [K. Thomas] made in VA, he paid in Pennsylvania currency, leading one to suppose he had recently come from that state.

1730 - son, Owen was born on George's Creek, Springhill Twp, Fayette Co, PA

1743 - Orange Co, VA, Order BK 1 page 57; mentions him ceases in Orange and begins in the new Frederick County

1748 - PIONEERS OF SHENANDOAH VALLEY, Eddy Press, Winchester, VA, 1909: "states Lewis and Owen Thomas served as chain bearers for a survey by Washington and Fairfax." (these may have been brothers").

1751 - May 16, died in Frederick Co, VA, Will BK 1 page 454; John Smith as administrator, with Samuel Walker and Owen Thomas as securities.

1756 - Lewis' estate was finally settled, we may assume that then the youngest child became of age..

Reference:
TWO CENTURIES OF ELIZABETHTOWN AND HARDIN CO., page 623
THE HAW FAMILY ANCESTRY, LDS film call # 1321193 item 7; page 207-8
Above from Diane Miller."
 
Thomas, Lewis K. (I41709)
 
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Ancestry.com One World Tree 
Conner, James (I29400)
 
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Ancestry.com, One World Tree:

"Mary Elizabeth Deal b. Abt. 1744 PA, m. Henry Ikert b. 1740 PA d. Abt. 1800 Lincoln, NC, no children listed; m. Abt. 1803, Lincoln, NC, Leonard Cline b. Abt. 1778 Lincolnton, Lincoln, NC, five children all b. Lincoln, NC: Noah Abt. 1805, Paul Abt. 1807, Mathias S. 26 Nov 1809, Amon Abt. 1810, Franklin Abt. 1812, Betsy Abt. 1817."

The problem with the entry above is the birthdates of Mary Elizabeth Deal (Abt. 1744) and the children.

"Henry Ikerd b. 16 Mar 1761 Bedminster, Bucks, PA d. Oct 1800 Lincoln, NC m. Abt. 1788 Lincoln, NC Elizabeth b. Abt. 1763, four children all b. Lincoln, NC: Daniel Abt. 1790, Catherine 'Caty' Abt. 1794, Fanny Abt. 1798, Henry 19 Jan 1806."

"U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900: Leonard Cline b. Abt. 1777, Spouse Mary Elizabe [sic] Diehl."

"U.S. Census 1820, East of The South Fork of The Catawba River, Lincoln, NC: Leonard Cline."

Roy Richard Thomas July 2008 
Cline, Leonard (I13306)
 
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Ancestry.com:

"Company K, 35th REGIMENT, N.C. TROOPS .

This company, known as the "Burke and Catawba Sampsons," was raised in Burke and Catawba counties and was enlisted in Burke County on October 15, 1861. It was mustered into state service on October 29, 1861, and was assigned to the 35th Regiment N.C. Troops as Company K. The company functioned thereafter as part of the 35th Regiment, and its history for the remainder of the war is reported as part of the regimental history.

Ancestry.com"

"The information contained in the following roster was compiled from a company muster-in roll dated October 29, 1861, and from company muster rolls for January-April, 1862, and November, 1864-February, 1865. No company muster rolls were found for October 15, 1861-December 31, 1861; May, 1862-October, 1864; and March-April, 1865. Valuable information was obtained from primary sources such as the North Carolina adjutant general's Roll of Honor, discharge certificates, medical records, prisoner of war records, pension applications, and Civil War newspapers. Secondary sources such as postwar rosters and histories, cemetery records, and records of the United Daughters of the Confederacy also provided useful information.

DEAL, SYLVANUS, Private - Enlisted in Burke County at age 30,June 3, 1863, for the war. Deserted on an unspecified date. Court-martialed and sentenced to be executed; however, he was granted a reprieve and was reported in confinement at Castle Thunder Prison, Richmond, Virginia, May 4, 1864. Returned to duty on an unspecified date. Wounded in the right thigh near Petersburg, Virginia, June 17, 1864. Hospitalized at Richmond on or about June 29, 1864. Furloughed for thirty days on October 1, 1864. Reported absent wounded through February 17, 1865." 
Deal, Sylvanus Leander (I14656)
 
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Ancestry.com:

"Jacob Miller, Clay County Indiana

Jacob Miller born, April 4, 1822 was seven years of age when his parents moved from Somerset county to Ohio where he was reared and educated, and for a while worked as a shoemaker. He married Margaret Vanhorn of Jefferson County, Ohio on February 3, 1948. He moved to Clay county, Indiana in 1850. There he bought land for two and one-half dollars an acre, in section 4, Harrison township. His first steps were to clear space in order to make room for the humble log cabin in which all of his children were born, and in which the family lived for a number of years. Over the years Jacob cleared the land which was heavily timbered and kept making improvements on his land. After many years of laboring with a courage and never failing-energy that helped him cope with the difficulties that arose. By dint of preservation he placed the entire tract under cultivation, set out fruit trees, and erected a substantial set of frame buildings, rendering his estate one of the best estates in the neighborhood as regards its improvements and equipment. In the sunset years of his long and useful life, he lived retired from active care on the home farm that he hewed from the wilderness, having long since given to his son its entire management.

His wife Margaret, the daughter of John and Mary (Rose) Vanhorn, natives of of Pennsylvania, and of German ancestry, died Feburary 1, 1904, leaving four children, Julia Ann (wife of Abraham Snellenberger), Leah Elizabeth (wife of George Roush), Pearson Frances Gardner, and Ellen (wife of Lewis Storm)."

 
Miller, Jacob L. (I42445)
 
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Ancestry.com:

"The grave of Melchoir Hefner is at Saint Johns Lutheran Church Cemetery in Conover, Catawba County, North Carolina, U.S.A.

Melchoir's tombstone was dedicated by the Sons of the American Revolution, Catawba Valley, NC Chapter. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War.

Descendants of the Melchoir's family can be found in North Carolina, Georgia, Arkansas, and Missouri - according to the following website which lists information about 'The Hefner DNA Project.'"

http://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/h/hefner/.
 
Hefner, Melchoir (I43977)
 
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Anderson Chenault Quisenberry, "Kentucky in the War of 1812" (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1969), Ch. 10, "The Battle of New Orleans," pp. 134-149:

"On October 14th, 1814, Kentucky Governor Shelby issued a call for men for the New Orleans campaign, and under that call three regiments of Kentucky Detached Militia were brought into the field and organized for that campaign, namely:

1. Slaughter's Regiment...
2. Gray's Regiment, organized November 10, 1814, and commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Presley Gray, who resigned and was succeeded by Lieutenant-Colonel John Davis. The Majors were James Johnson, William Walker and Zeba Holt. The regiment had ten companies, with a total strength of seven hundred and twenty-one officers and enlisted men.
3. Mitchusson's Regiment...

These troops were commanded by Major General John Thomas, with Brigadier General John Adair as his Adjutant General. The total strength of the Kentucky militia raised for the New Orleans campaign was two thousand two hundred and fifty-six. To these must be added the officers and men of the Seventh Regiment of United States Infantry (who were recruited in Kentucky), at that time four hundred and sixty-five strong, bringing the grand total of Kentucky troops up to two thousand seven hundred and twenty-one. Of these troops sixteen hundred and forty were on the firing line, and engaged in the Battle of New Orleans. One thousand and eighty-one of the Kentucky militia did not take part in the battle because they could not be furnished with arms."
 
Thomas, John Franklin (Maj. Gen., KY militia) (I35995)
 
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Available online: Simeon L. Deyo, ed., "History of Barnstable County, Massachusetts, 1620-1890," (June 1890; reprint, Salem, MA: Higginson Book Co.), Chapter XIV, "Town of Sandwich," pp. 264-322.  
Gifford, William (I21725)
 
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Bob Jones, "Jacob Shook, The Man and His Legacy, Chapter III":

http://www.shookhistory.org/ShookBook3.htm

"The original land grants on Lyles creek record the owners, Johan Baum in 1750 was the first recorded, Simon Yonoss (Jonas) and Hinrich Shrink, Phillip Hahn, Conrod Mull, Conrad Boobey and Johann Hagins appear soon after.

Then in 1753 the German United Brethren or Moravians purchased a huge tract of land in Lord Granville’s district, location undefined. They set out to determine the land they would select and brought a small team of surveyors across the Catawba to "look for the land". As guide they hired Johann Baum. Being duly impressed with the area between the South Fork of the Catawba and the Catawba proper they decided that this area, which included Lyle’s Creek, would be an ideal spot for their projected colony. John Carteret, Lord Granville set aside this huge parcel, as well as several others, for the Moravians and ceased to sell land there late in 1753.

For ten years the land lay under this reserve. The Moravians decided to place their colony at a less remote area which is today Forsyth County, NC in 1755, but the restriction still remained on the Catawba lands until 1763.

In that year the land was released and it seems that many German settlers had been living on the land in question without deed for up to ten years. In 1763 many of them came to the Land Office in Rowan County at Salisbury, a two-day walk away from home, and registered their claims.

The surnames from Lyle’s Creek include Henry Pope, George Schmidt (Smith), Jacob Wissenaut, Adam Aker (Eckard), Adam Bolch, Thomas Cowan, Peter Grunt, Michael Hart, Johan Haun, Andrew Killian, Isaac Lowrance, Peter Stutz, Christian Treffelstadt, Conrad, Joseph and William Whittenburg and William Fulbright. . . .

Then in late 1763 John Carteret, Lord Granville, died and his heirs in England closed the sale of his lands. It was 1778, 15 years later, before the office would open again, and many, many Germans had come to live on the unclaimed lands by then. In December 1778 8,900 acres were registered in Salisbury on Lyle’s Creek alone. Among these names we find Christopher Beekman (Jacob’s Capitan in the Cross Creek Campaign) Adam Bolick, George, Peter and William Deal, George Eslinger, Peter Gront, Frederick Gross, Devault Hunsucker, Johann Isonhower, Frederick Shull, Andrew Fulbright and . . . Johann (Hans) and Jacob Shuke (Shook). In that year Jacob was 29 years old."

Edited by Roy Richard Thomas March 2008 
Deal, William (I7979)
 
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Charla A Kolander kindly shared this comment:

Comments: My grandfather, Albert Lee Dixon was never named Ed. The name for my grandmother here is correct.

Charla A Kolander
charlaak@gmail.com 
Dixon, Ed Albert Lee (I30583)
 
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COLORADO CULTURAL RESOURCE SURVEY

Architectural Inventory Form, Historical Background:

Stratton Building, Colorado Springs, CO & Kaufman's Department Store

"Winfield Scott Stratton became a multi-millionaire in gold mining in the Cripple Creek boom of the early 1890s. After Stratton died in 1902, the trustees of his estate continued to invest funds to preserve and grow the estate. This building was erected by the Stratton Estate in 1914. Colorado Springs architect Thomas MacLaren designed the $123,000 building. The large two-story corner building featured an overhanging roof with modillions, extensive use of terra cotta ornamentation, an elaborated center entrance on the west topped by a round-arch window, large one-over-on-light windows with transoms on the second story, and storefronts with clerestory windows on the east and west. The building was designed to accommodate four additional stories when demand warranted. The Stratton Building had storefronts on S. Tejon and E. Colorado Avenues. . . . Kaufman's Department Store moved to this location in 1948, from across the street at 28 S. Tejon Avenue.

Kaufman's Department Store was founded in Colorado Springs by Mose and Sam Kaufman in 1896; they were joined by B.S. Kaufman in 1897 and Oscar Livermore in 1900. Richard Moses Livermore assumed leadership of the company in 1934, following the death of Oscar Livermore.

The store carried clothing for men, women, children, and infants, as well as accessories. Morris Guberman acquired a controlling interest in the company in July 1941 and became its president and general manager.

The building underwent a dramatic remodeling in preparation for Kaufman?s occupancy in 1948. Plans to give the building a striking Modern appearance were developed by local architect E.L. Bunts and the store design division of Amos Parrish & Co. of New York in 1946. The building's owner, the Myron Stratton Home Foundation, spent $250,000 on remodeling the building, while Kaufman's spent the same amount on interior decoration. The Gazette-Telegraph opined that the transformation had resulted in 'the most strikingly modern store between Chicago and the Pacific coast.' Finished in blue terra cotta, Colorado native red sandstone, and California redwood, with a front glass window-wall, it is the last word in modern buildings, it blends with the landscape and takes its color from the sky and red rocks of Colorado.'

Kaufman's Department Store opened in this building in early August 1948, taking over good parts of both floors. Some independent storefronts remained in the building after Kaufman's moved in, including Myers Jewelers and the Ute Drug Store on the corner. In 1953, Kaufman's took over an additional 4,000 square feet on the second floor. Kaufman?s celebrated sixty-five years of operations in Colorado Springs in 1961. The Gazette-Telegraph noted that the company provided excellent working conditions and benefits for workers, including, life insurance, hospital insurance, and an employees profit-sharing retirement trust. In 1961, Kaufman's acquired 7,000 square feet of ground floor space previously occupied by the Ute Drug Co. and Burlews, Inc. (an appliance store) and undertook a $50,000 remodeling. In 1964, Kaufman's was acquired by Hillmort Shop of Colorado, a subsidiary of Goldring, Inc., of New York. Goldring operated about sixty specialty shops and department stores across the country." 
Livermore, Oscar (I38271)
 
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Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph 11 Jun 1973, p. 9: "Richard Moses Livermore, former owner of Kaufman's, died sunday in a local hospital, age 73. . . . [He] was born here 7 Apr 1900. . . . His father and uncles former Kaufman's which Mr. Livermore owned until 1941, when he sold to Morris Guberman. Later he owned the Blue Sruce Restaurant and in recent years was a partner in the All Points Travel Bureau. . . . He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Shirley Livermore; a daughter, Mrs. Carol Norris of Cascade, CO, and two grandchildren, Richard Steven Alden and Comer Anthony Alden." 
Livermore, Richard Moses (I38225)
 

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