http://sharedancestors.com ...the ties that bind. Shared Ancestors Shared Ancestors Evo RSS 2.0 Parser 60 http://sharedancestors.com/images/evo/minilogo.gif http://sharedancestors.com 94 15 Powered by Shared Ancestors en-us admin@sharedancestors.com 2010-09-05T20:14:34-06:00 hourly 1 2010-09-05T20:14:34-06:00 http://sharedancestors.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=7 7@http://sharedancestors.com From The Past 2010-04-03T11:39:07-06:00 Posted by http://sharedancestors.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=6 6@http://sharedancestors.com General 2010-04-03T11:35:19-06:00 Posted by http://sharedancestors.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5 5@http://sharedancestors.com General 2010-01-23T20:35:11-06:00 Posted by http://sharedancestors.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4 • Name: Emma Frances POST
• Given Name: Emma Frances
• Surname: Post
• Sex: F
• Birth: 4 Jul 1848 in Kane, Green Co, IL
• Death: 1926 in Larned, Pawnee Co, KS
• Note: "Ancestors Robert Kitchell, Rev. Abraham Pierson, John Cory, Obadiah Bruen, Jean Genung, Edward Ball came to America over 300 years ago. Her grandfather Jacob Post, and a great grandfather Joseph Wood, were born in New Jersey and fought in the Revolutionary War. "

Mrs. Leasure was born in Illinois and came out to Larned, Kansas, in 1873. She had the spirit and enterprise of the true pioneer and before her first marriage she took up a pre-emption, plowed the furrows for setting out a row of hedge, and built a shack. She was the first woman married in Pawnee County after its organization. She was married in 1873, at Larned to Capt. Daniel Bright. The license for her marriage was issued by Captain Bright himself, who was then serving as probate judge. Mrs. Leasure and Mrs. Tompkins, wife of the first newspaper man of Larned, made the first flag which was raised in the new county to celebrate the Fourth of July celebration in 1873. This flag was made of strips of red, white and blue torn from old clothing.
]]> 4@http://sharedancestors.com From The Past 2010-01-19T01:04:13-06:00 Posted by http://sharedancestors.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3

1332 India Bubonic Plague original location of this pandemic.


1347-1350 Europe Bubonic Plague - Nearly 1/3 the population of Europe succumbed in the first two years.


1349 Norway, Scotland, Prussia, Iceland, Italy - Bubonic Plague


1351 Russia - Bubonic Plague


1485 England - The Sweat. Also called The Swat, New Acquaintance, Stoupe, or "Knave know thy master".


1508 England - The Sweat. A fast acting disease, "they were dancing in court at nine and dead at eleven."


1517 England The Sweat


1518-1520 Mexico: Aztec Empire - Smallpox. Brought to South America by the Spanish


1527-1530 Peru: Inca Empire - Smallpox


1539-1540 England - Bubonic Plague


1550-1566 England - Bubonic Plague. The population of England may have fallen as much as 6% between 1550 and 1560 due, primarily, to the plague.


1551 England - The Sweat


1577 England: Oxford - Goal fever


1581 England: York - Goal fever


1590 England: Lincoln - Goal fever


1615 England - Unknown burning fever


1616 USA: New England - Smallpox. Mostly affects Native Americans


1634-1635 England - Smallpox


1636 England: Hereford - Goal fever


1638 England - Unidentified fever


1647 USA: Massachusetts - Yellow Fever


1649 USA: New England: Massachusetts and Boston - Smallpox. Boston especially hard hit.


1657 USA:Massachusetts and Boston - Measles


1660-1661 England - Unidentified fever


1666 England:London - Bubonic Plague. Last great outbreak.


1666 USA: New England - Smallpox


1678 USA: New England - Smallpox


1687 USA: Massachusetts and Boston - Measles


1690 USA: New York/New York City - Yellow Fever


1711 Europe, especially Northern Europe - Plague


1713 USA: Massachusetts: Boston - Measles


1729 USA: Massachusetts: Boston - >Measles


1732-1733 Worldwide - Influenza


1736 USA: Massachusetts: Essex Co.- Throat Distemper. Nine hundred (900) children died within 6 months in Essex County alone. Probably diphtheria.


1738 USA: South Carolina - Smallpox br>


1739-1740 USA: Massachusetts: Boston - Measles


1747 USA: Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina - Measles


1759 North America - Measles


1761 North America, West Indies - Influenza


1770-1772 Balkans - Plague


1772 North America - Measles


1775 North America - Unknown. Especially in New England.


1775-1776 Worldwide - Influenza


1783 USA:Delaware: Dover - Bilious Fever


1788 USA: Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, New York: New York City - Measles


1793 USA: Pennsylvania: Harrisburg - Unknown


1793 USA: Pennsylvania: Middletown - Unknown


1793 USA:Vermont - Influenza. Killed 500 people in 5 counties in 4 weeks.


1793 USA: Virginia - Influenza


1793-1794 USA: Pennsylvania: Philadelphia - Yellow Fever. Over 4,000 dead.


1796-1798 USA: Pennsylvania: Philadelphia - Yellow Fever


1803 USA: New York/New York City - Yellow Fever


1820-1823 USA - Fever. Starts on the Schuylkill River in Pennsylvania and spreads across the nation.


1820-1823 USA - Fever


1831-1832 USA Asiatic - Cholera. Brought by English immigrants


1832 Ayrshire towns of Stevenston, Dalry, and Kilbride - Cholera


1832 USA: New York/New York City - Cholera. More than 3,000 dead


1832 USA: Louisiana: New Orleans - Cholera - 4,340 dead


1832-1833 USA: Missouri: St.Louis - Cholera.


1833 USA: Ohio: Columbus - Cholera


1834 USA: New York/New York City - Cholera


1835 USA: Missouri: St. Louis - Cholera


1837 USA: Pennsylvania: Philadelphia - Typhus


1841 USA - Yellow Fever


1846-1850 Ireland - Potato Famine. A fungus called "the Blight" infected the potato crop


1847 USA: Louisiana: New Orleans - Yellow Fever


1847-1848 Worldwide - Influenza


1848-1849 North America - Cholera


1848-1849 USA: New York/New York City - Cholera. More than 5,000 dead


1850 USA - Yellow Fever


1850-1851 North America - Influenza


1851 USA: Great Plains - Cholera


1851 USA: Illinois: Coles County - Cholera


1851 USA: Missouri - Cholera


1852 USA: Louisiana: New Orleans - Yellow Fever. 8,000 dead


1854 USA: Texas: Corpus Christi - Yellow Fever


1855 USA - Yellow Fever


1857-1859 Worldwide - Influenza


1860-1861 USA: Pennsylvania - Smallpox


1862-1863 USA:Southern California - Smallpox. Many Native Americans and Mexicans died


1865-1873 USA: Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, New York, Massachusetts: Boston, Louisiana: New Orleans - Smallpox


1866 USA: Maryland: Baltimore, Tennessee: Memphis, Washington DC - Cholera


1867 USA: Texas: Indianola, Galveston, and Corpus Christi - Yellow Fever


1867 USA: Louisiana: New Orleans - Yellow Fever. 3,093 dead


1873 USA: Alabama - Cholera. Moved along the railroad lines from Huntsville to Birmingham and Montgomery as these cities industrialized


1873-1875 North America and Europe - Influenza


1878 USA: Northern New Jersey, possibly elsewhere - Diphtheria. Occurred in the Spring


1878 USA: Southern states - Yellow Fever. Over 13,000 dead in lower Missisippi Valley


1883 USA: Alabama - Yellow Fever


1885 USA: Pennsylvania: Plymouth - Typhoid


1886 USA: Florida: Jacksonville - Yellow Fever


1895 USA: Washington DC - Malaria


1898 Cuba - Yellow Fever. Spanish-American War; the disease took over 5,000 soldiers in July and August, only 968 died in combat


1900 USA: Texas: Galveston - Cholera


1905 New Orleans, LA - Yellow Fever


1916 USA - Polio. Over 7,000 deaths, 27,363 reported cases, America's worst polio epidemic


1918 USA - Spanish Influenza. Over 500,000 dead, worst single U.S. epidemic


1918-1919 Worldwide - Influenza


1941 Australia - Rubella. This disease was once considered one of the least troublesome childhood diseases


1949 USA - Polio. 2,720 dead, 42,173 reported cases


1952 USA - Polio. 3,300 dead and over 57,000 cases reported


1962-1965 Worldwide - Rubella. Affected as many as 12.5 million causing deafness, blindness; approximately 30,000 babies in USA alone due to maternal Rubella


1981-Present - Worldwide AIDS/HIV. U.S. AIDS cases: 886,575; total estimated AIDS deaths: 501,669 (Centers for
Disease Control); 2003 total world AIDS cases: 38 million; total world AIDS deaths: 20 million.


1989-1991 USA: Maryland first, later all USA - Measles

]]> 3@http://sharedancestors.com General 2009-11-29T13:51:08-06:00 Posted by http://sharedancestors.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2     When she was eighteen she met and married Michael Ghormley, always affectionately referred to by Lexie as "Mikey". Neither Lexie nor Mike liked her given name so she changed it, and from then on was known as "Lexie Willie". She and Mike had two children, a son, Jesse Bernard, and a daughter Loise; the daughter would die young of pneumonia, as would Mike. Lexie always spoke highly of her "Mikey" stating, "He was always good to me." Sometime after the death of Loise and her beloved Mikey, about 1912, she and Bernard moved to Georgia where her parents had already relocated a few years before. She began to work in a mill and she spoke of taking homemade pickles and crackers for her lunch everyday; life was hard for a widow with a young son to support.

    About 1913 she met, probably at the mill she was working in, and married Ellis Garrett. They had two sons and a daughter and then, in 1921, the couple decided to move to Missouri, possibly because Ellis had family there, or maybe for better employment opportunities. For whatever reason, they packed up what belongings could be put on a covered farm wagon, and the kids, and set off for the long hard journey to Missouri. Rush, Lexie's brother, accompanied them to help with the move, later returning to Georgia. Lexie walked most of the journey from Georgia to Missouri behind the wagon, carrying baby Lottie Mae and tending her three sons, Bernard, Sherman, and Coleman. Shortly after arriving in Missouri, Pauline was born in October of the same year so Lexie must have been pregnant when she walked those many miles. Ellis and Lexie would have three more daughters, Mary Belle, Willie, and Lucille.

    Life wasn't easy for Lexie; Ellis was a drinker and abusive, especially to his stepson Bernard. He would hang around long enough to get her pregnant, grab what money he could, and then he would disappear for long periods of time. Lexie continued to work out in the fields of their farm, taking in extra work as she could, in order to support the family. Lottie Mae tells of her mother working long, hard hours and coming into the house every evening exhausted. One of the kids would always run and get a pan of warm water for her so she could soak her feet. Lottie Mae said there were many times her mother would have her get a pen and paper and Lexie would dictate letters to her while she soaked, many to her father and to her Aunt Bunie. The last child, Lucille, was born in 1929; soon after that Ellis left for the last time and never returned. Years ago Coleman and his wife, June Baker Garrett, were staying with Lexie and June spent many afternoons talking with her. June asked Lexie why, when Ellis had been so abusive, she had stayed with him. Lexie told her that she had left Ellis three times but that each time she left him, her family, most notably her father, made her go back to him. Most likely the thought of her father's censure would have been more difficult and painful for her to face than Ellis' abuse.

    After Ellis left for the last time, Lexie bought a cafe in Willard, Missouri and it became known as "Garrett's Cafe." Lexie worked long hours in the cafe, as did the children. The kids would get out of school and go to the cafe to help out; Lexie had indeed taught her children the meaning of "good work ethics", which stayed with all of them throughout their lives. About 1944 or 1945, before WWII ended, Lexie sold the cafe and moved to Springfield. All of the family remember well the big, two story house on Robberson Street. By this time Lexie had many grandchildren, and as the years went by there would be great, as well as great-great-grandchildren and many family get-togethers in the house on Robberson Street.

    In Feb 1982, at the age of 92, Lexie broke her hip. While in the hospital she was told by the doctors that she could not return home until she could walk and that usually took about 6 months (medical science, of course, not being like it is today). Lexie walked out of the hospital in 27 days. Soon after, the house on Robberson Street was sold and she moved into a mobile home behind her daughter Pauline's house. About six months after she left the hospital, Lexie suffered a stroke which paralyzed her left side and affected her speech. The next few years must have been torture for a woman who had always been so independent. But Lexie, as she had always done, met this challenge and coped with her disabilities with grace and dignity.

    Lexie Evans Ghormley Garrett passed away 3 Sep 1986, leaving behind a loving family and a legacy that will not be forgotten. During her lifetime, she saw 17 United States presidents take the Oath of Office, her country involved in 5 wars - not counting the "Cold War", man's first flight in an airplane and his first steps on the moon, the sinking of the Titanic and the Lusitania, the discovery of antibiotics, diseases such as polio and smallpox eradicated, and the introduction of AIDS. She was a strong woman with true, pioneering grit and an indomitable spirit.]]> 2@http://sharedancestors.com From The Past 2009-11-29T13:46:31-06:00 Posted by http://sharedancestors.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1 December, 2002Date: December 23, 2002, Springfield, Missouri
    Roy Hulston owned the mill at this time (mid to late 1920s). He was a Frisco Railroad conductor. My mother had remarried to Ellis Garrett, my stepfather. They had moved to the area from Georgia when I was about age 13. I remember that Andy Kirby Sr. owned most of the land, the old Marcum place, where the mill sits today in the Park. We were sort of sharecroppers for Mr. Kirby and we lived just south of where the Park is now. We raised corn and hogs, and had a couple of milk cows. We used to plow the south field in the Park for Mr. Kirby. My mother used to fish in that larger creek that runs by the mill today. She would catch some of the nicest catfish there. Everybody helped everybody in those days.    As a boy, I used to set traps all around, even where the park is today. We were catching a lot of polecats, fox, squirrels and coons. We could usually get a dollar and fifty cents for a polecat hide. Once I caught a large polecat in a trap near the spring in the park. This one didn’t have the white stripes down its back, but just a white mark on its head. Of course it was still alive. If you could manage to jump on the thing and hold its tail down, it wouldn’t get you. I did my best, but missed this time. It got me right in the eyes. I ran over to the spring creek and washed my eyes out. I got six dollars for that one. I’d most often empty my traps in the afternoon and early evening, take the animals home, and skin them in the mornings before I went to school. By the time I got to school, my clothes often smelled of skunk. I went to school at Flat Creek, west of Willard. For a long time, we had an older school teacher. Then she left, and was replaced by a young teacher. One morning, this young teacher asked us what smelled so bad! Some of the other boys told her that we trapped polecats. She told us to go home and change clothes. We told her we didn’t have any other clothes.     We trapped as many as thirty squirrels a day sometimes. Many people didn’t eat squirrels because they didn’t think they would taste good. But they were actually quite good. After we skinned them, Mother would just put them all in a big pot of boiling water and make a stew.    I do remember there were three caves in the area of our farm. One was very near the spring in the park. I found a large rock and pushed it aside. I was able to get inside a room about as large as our living room in our home here.     I joined the U.S. Navy at age 15 in 1924. I served on the battleships U.S.S. Tennessee and U.S.S. Idaho. When I came out of the service, I returned to Dade County on the train. No one was waiting for me at the station in Everton, so I walked home. My dog met me about half-way there, so happy to see me.     I remember the mill very well. The Hughes lived by the mill and operated a sort of general store there. Mr. Hughes had two daughters, Virginia and Susie, both very attractive. They had groceries, overalls, shirts, shoes and the like. By myself, I would take a sack of corn by horseback to be ground there. I remember Mr. Hughes ran for a political office and won. Mr. Newkirk was the postmaster. In later years, I drove my old Star car. John Nixon ran the mill in about 1928-1929. During the Depression, you couldn’t sell corn for nothing.     We raised hogs. I remember Roy Hulston hauling a bunch of them to town for us, and we made about four dollars on the load. The banks were always willing to loan money for a farmer to raise hogs. Roosevelt had the farmers kill all their hogs at one point. I felt so badly about it since there were so many hungry people. I would take a wagon, with sideboards, loaded with corn to the mill, and traded it for a twenty-pound sack of flour. I do remember the sifters and old mill with stones.     At that time, the Model T Ford was a very popular car. It had a “lock-to-lock” steering wheel to prevent theft. One day, here came these guys to the mill in one of these Model Ts. Somehow the steering wheel got locked, and the car turned right up on its side between the mill and where the bridge is today. Well, some of we men just went over and tipped it back upright. That reminds me. There used to be an old wooden (commercial) garage in Dadeville. I was there one time when these people came along in their Model T. Model Ts were known for their bad brakes. They couldn’t stop the car and drove right through the back wall of the garage, but no one was even hurt. The same kind of thing happened in a garage over in Everton at the east end of town near the bandstand. These guys were working on an old caterpillar tractor in the garage. No one there knew exactly how to operate this tractor. When the repairs were complete, one of the guys said he was sure he could back it out of the garage. You controlled the turning of the tractor with pedals. Well, this guy took out the whole wall of the garage!    Men used to meet at the mill, sometimes sat around and talked, and told tales. Some of them had signed their names at different places in the mill. It was a good place to fish. There was a widow who lived near the mill. She had a daughter who married a Mr. Poindexter. This daughter led singing there sometimes. One family had a quartet. Though I never saw him myself, I remember some people telling about a black man who did a lot of fishing down there. The people said he made good stew, and shared it with them. It was kind of a lively little place on Saturdays and Sundays. The Stumpffs also lived nearby.]]> 1@http://sharedancestors.com From The Past 2009-11-29T11:09:19-06:00 Posted by