Janna Michelle Smith

Thomas married Norma May Deboard [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Obituary: 17 Oct 2007, Mountain View, Howell County, Missouri, USA;

  Obituary, Mountain View Standard

  "Lora Duane 'Monk' Smith Lora Duane 'Monk' Smith was born November 25, 1922. He departed this life on October 9, 207 at St. John?s Regional Health Center, Springfield, Missouri at the age of 84 years. Monk graduated from Willow Springs High School. He then married Doyne E. Walker on October 23, 1942 in Hutton Valley, Missouri and to this union, three children were born; Thomas Duane, Norman Jack and Troye Tanna. Monk served his country in the United States Navy during World War II. Monk enjoyed working, tinkering, going to church, and serving the Lord. He is preceded in death by his parents; one brother, Norman, and one great grandson, Isaiah. Survivors in clyde his wife, Doyne of the home; two sons, Thomas Duane Smith and wife, Norma, of Palmdale, California and Norman Jack Smith and wife, Charlotte, of Mountain View; one daughter, Troye Tanna Reese and husband, Randy, of Mountain View; three brothers, Victor Smith of Idaho, Melvin Smith of St. Louis, Missouri, and Kenny Smith of Mountain View; six sisters, Mildred Piper, Fern Reese, and Mary 'Tiny' Weeks all of Mountain View, Patsy Lorance of California; Wanda 'Fritz' Dabney of South Carolina, and Shirley Vines of St. Louis, Missouri; eight grandchildren; thirteen great grandchildren; and a host of relatives and friends. Funeral services were held at 10:00 a.m. Friday, October 12, 2007 in Yarber Chapel with Pastor Edwin Woolsey and Rev. Daryl Walker officiating. Interment was in Walker Chapel Cemetery, Trask, Missouri under the direction of Yarber Mortuary, Mountain View."

Lora married Doyne Elizabeth Walker [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Oren married Norma Scharn on 30 Jun 1945 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, and was divorced. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jeffrey married Jessie Roberts Trowbridge about 1917. Jessie was born on 31 Dec 1899 in Kansas, USA; died in Jan 1985 in Willow Springs Township, Howell County, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Narrative:

  Written by Jessie (Trowbridge) Smith, date unknown

  I was born in a small town in Cloud County, Kansas in the little settlement of Minersville, close to Concordia, Kansas, one of a family of eighteen children having the same father and mother. My father worked in the coal mines until 1897. When the Cherokee Strip of Oklahoma was opened for settlement, my father and his brother were on the line to try to get a homestead, but failed along with many others. However, both were able to take over from others who got land and after five years prove up on their homestead. So we stayed on the place each summer and in the winter returned to Kansas and my father worked in the coal mines. My uncle kept our cows and we always made the trip by covered wagon. Our first home on the homestead was called a dug-out and was dug in the side of a hill. It was snug and warm but very dark only on days when it was warm enough to leave the door open. Which was dangerous after it got warm enough for rattlesnakes to come out. At one time my aunt left the baby asleep on the bed and went out to hang some clothes. When she went back in, a rattlesnake was sleeping on the bed with the baby. She said the Lord must have it hypnotized for she was able to turn the dishpan over it and get out with the baby. Uncle Eddie came and killed it and put up the screen door but (it was) not much like the ones we use today. As soon as a crop could be put in, a new house was started. First four horses were hitched to a plow to cut and turn up the sod. It was careful cut and hauled and my dad and Uncle Ed started out house. It was 28 by 14, since there were several of us children, it was none too large. It was 8 foot high with a slightly raised roof with a ridge pole covered with wide thick boards, then layers of sod like the walls which were soon covered with a thick coat of green. In one end three bunk beds were built to one wall and curtained off. The rest of this room was the kitchen with the usual cupboard made of green tin and a stove and table and a few chairs. The flue in the middle partition served both stoves and the other room had one large bed, which was pulled out at night and made a bed for my sister and I. This, with a dresser and baby bed completed our furniture, until much later. In 1906 we had a new house built and traded our place for a much larger one, where we lived two years. Dad hauled freight for a country grocery store two days a week and farmed too, but he decided to come out and see if he could locate in Missouri. In August 1907, we had a farm sale. loaded two covered wagons and in three weeks we arrived in Mtn. View. We camped in a wagon yard close to where the Penninger house is now if I remember right. A Mr. Durnell was a land agent then and fixed up a trade where dad traded one team wagon and harness and got the farm just south of Shady Grove schoolhouse. We attended school there. Some of my school mates are still around: Lula Jackson, John CAmpbell, the Denton boys and Lena and Wilford Millary, whose father was teacher and last and orneriest -- Earl Walker. He pulled our hair, tripped us, and tied his sister lena's and my sister Mary's braids together, and dropped them in the ink. But when the teacher asked who did it, he didn't know -- He'd been so busy getting his lesson. Millard Robbins was our close neighbor, also Uncle Tom Walker whose son Roy was teaching Cantrell School. They were going over and take dinner the last day and asked us kids to go along. He told us to walk down a steep hill and told Earl to hold our hand so we wouldn't fall fall down. After the rig got out of sight, Earl said, "Its lots easier to run down hill than up." So down hill we sailed, 'til I fell down and skinned one hand and both knees and tore up my socks. I must have squalled pretty loud for they waited for me and let me ride and Uncle Tom said, "If I knew you did this on purpose, you'd get your britches tanned.' Well he got to walk with my sis, who was 12, like he planned and my brother walked with Lena. I remember that one of Carl Caton's brothers spoke a piece that day. It was: Mulberry leaves and calico sleaves and all school teachers are hard to please. When spring came, our place in Oklahoma had not sold, so my father decided to return to Oklahoma and try to sell our place and come back. This required six years. We exchanged our home there for a place near Hutton Valley but, as it was already rented, we lived on a farm that the man owned as Trask until the next November. While moving, one of my brothers who was very small for his age, decided to walk over to the other place. He was stopped several times by people who were sure he was lost. My father hauled tomatoes to a canning factory and, one day, he took one of the girls along. The man helped her out, but started to carry her across the yard/ She said, "Put me down. I can walk!" He said, "I know you can, but I want to carry you." Dad said. "How old do you think she is. She is eighteen, past." And he dropped her so quick you'd have thought he'd got burned. We were very glad to get moved into own home which had six large rooms and two porches. Also a cellar covered by a smoke house. One of our neighbors, Newt Smith, usually stopped by on Sunday a.m. on his way to Lost Camp Church and visited a few minutes. You don't forget someone who takes time to be friendly when you move into a strange place. He was a friend to everyone and loved by all who knew him. He was accidentally killed a few years later in a hunting accident and we were all terribly grieved. He left two small boys whose mother was dead and now they were double orphaned. They were left on their own at an early age, but both married nice girls and have nice children and grandchildren. Dad found time every fall to take us kids to Jacks Fork to spend the day playing in the water and looking for hazel nuts, walnuts and butternuts. We would fix our dinner the day before and start about daylight in the wagon. One year, a neighbor boy was going with us if he could. He didn't show up, so we finally went on. Just as we were getting ready to eat dinner, he arrived all hot and tired. Dad said, "We'd have waited a bit if we'd known you were coming." He said, "Oh, I knew you'd be gone. I told them to get me up early and it was daylight, but I'd have sure been mad if I'd missed my dinner for I thought maybe if I ran I could catch you so I missed my breakfast too." He got his dinner, picked some nuts, and I'm sure he enjoyed the trip home much better. Some of the story needs explanation, perhaps, for those who might read this and are not acquainted with the family. Jacob Alva (called Alva) and Nancy Alma (called Alma) were both small people. None of their children were very tall, my father, Carl Trowbridge, at five feet - six inches tall must have been among the tallest of the boys and Guy was much shorter. Many of the girls were five feet and shorter. Perhaps this is the place to list the children of Alva and Alma Trowbridge. There was Roy, born in 1892; Roy E,. born 4 Feb. 1894; Mary T., born 31 Jan., 1896; Floyd Erwin and Lloyd Edward, born 25 March, 1898; Jessie Marie, born 31 Dec. 1899; Thomas, born 11 June 1901; Grace, 15 Sept. 1902; Lora, 31 jan. 1904; Hazel, 4 July 1905; Letha, 24 Feb. 1911; Carleton Earl, 9 April 1912; Willis, 24 Feb. 1914; Eunice, __________________; James, 24 Aug. 1917. All but one of the 18 children lived until adulthood. Eunice died in infancy. when this was being written in 1990, only Ena, Letha, CArl and James survived. (Carl died December 26, 1996). For the last few years, this writer kept notes of my father's memories and those of his sister Hazel who passed away on 1988. When I asked Hazel why Jacob Alva left Oklahoma to settle in Missouri, she said he never liked the "northerns" (sandstorms) and wood for fuel was hard to get. he had to go to a place she called "the canyons" to get wood for heating and cooking. Evidently, this was some distance away. The big house Jessie mentioned burned while the family was away. A temporary building was hurriedly put up for Alma and the younger children, and the older boys with their father, slept in the barn while they rebuilt the house. The house was of stone and still stands near Hutton Valley. The man who lives there graciously allowed me to photograph the house and told me of the changes he had made. My father told me that the family did whatever they could to make money in order to pay the taxes. His mother took the younger children with her to Northern Arkansas to pick strawberries. Grandpa took the older ones to Fisk, Mo. to pick cotton. The children seemed to regard these trips as high adventure. Alma inherited some money when her mother died. Alva wanted to buy livestock with the money; she wanted to pay off the farm. They bought the livestock. In perfect hindsight, Alva later admitted that she was the wiser, because the stock didn't return a profit and they lost the farm. They had a twenty-year loan on the "old home place" as the family always called the farm. They lived there 22 years, paying only the interest and taxes. When Grandpa saw he was going to lose it, he sold it to ___________________________________ and traded ________________________________ for a farm in the Mt. Olive Community. By this time, most, perhaps all of the family were gone, times were difficult for the aging couple. Mother told me of a family get together when several of the children and their families came to visit for the day. Floyd's wife, Ovilla, had brought some green beans canned in vinegar -- several half-gallon jars of them. Alma cried silently all morning, which was very unlike her. Alva and some of the men sat up some sawhorses with boards across them for a table outside. When they sat down to dinner, the only thing on the table was Ovilla's beans. Alva said, "We've never been quite so low before, but we're grateful for what we have." As one who can never remember going without food, that story haunted me. Surely, they were people of great courage to have provided for so many years for so many children without becoming soured and bitter. Perhaps, in the face of great need, great faith is born and Alma was a woman of faith. My father remembered going to the barn to tend the horses and, on hearing her praying in one of the stalls, slipping quietly away. Daddy said that she would find some secret place like that to pray all her life. Some of my most treasured memories are of family gatherings at their house when I was a child. There were lots of cousins with whom to play. From the farm in the Mt. Olive Community. Alva and Alma moved to Guy's farm near Willow Springs. They remained there until Alma, who had been an invalid for some time died on Jan. ??, 1952. Alva took a room in town for a while, worn out from the constant care of Alma, but found it very lonely. He was visiting his daughter Ruth, when he died. He had bought a suit shortly before and told Ruth, when she urged him to wear it to some affair, that he had bought it to be buried in. On Dec. 1952 he joined Alma.

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• Medical: As a young man, Earl had had his first physical for WWI. He was working with a steel mallet and a metal splinter went into his eye. The eye healed and looked nearly normal--just a little scar/milkiness, not really noticeable. But he was always blind in that eye. He learned to compensate for depth perception because he was an excellent shot and he could hit a nail squarely on the head. [Per my dad.] May have kept him out of WWI.
• Medical: From my father: Earl was born with a very short tongue. It was \"clipped\" by their doctor when he was an infant, to give it more motion. He could never stick his tongue out of his mouth very far--just far enough to see it.
• Residence: Note written by Bill Walker (my father, and the son of Grace & Earl Walker): "In Oct 1917 they were married. They lived until Jan 1919 in the old Crowder Place. When it burned, my folks moved to Liberal MO In 1930 they moved to the new (present) farm house. During the 10 intervening years they must have lived SOMEWHERE. That somewhere included the Maw place, the home place, Brandsville, West Plains, Brushy Knob, Koonce Place, Sedgewick place and finally 'the farm.' "
• NEWS: 13 Sep 1918, Mountain View, Howell County, Missouri, USA; In the Mountain View Standard: \"Public Sale I will sell at my place, known as the Tom Walker farm, 4 1/2 miles south-west of Mountain View, on the old Willow Springs Road, on Tuesday, September 17 The Following Property To-wit: 3 horses consisting of sorrel mare, 5 years old, weigh 1100, in foal by jack; bay mare, 5 years old, weigh 1100, in foal by jack; bay mare, 4 years old, weigh 1000, not bred; 13 head of cattle consisting of 5 milk cows, yearling heifer, yearling steer, 6 calves, crop in field, 9 acres corn, 2 acres beans, about 3 tons good hay in barn, good set double harness, and good set single harness. Sale Begins Promptly at 10 O\'clock Terms of Sale?On all sums of $5 and under, cash; on all sums over $5 a note with approved security will be taken for 8 months, bearing interest at the rate of eight per cent per annum from date of sale; four per cent off for cash on all sums over $5. All accounts must be settled before goods are removed. Earl Walker W. M. Robbins, Auctioneer\"
• NEWS: 4 Jul 1919, Mountain View, Howell County, Missouri, USA; In the Mountain View Standard: \"Earl Walker and family have moved back from Liberal, Mo. They will go to housekeeping soon, on his brother\'s farm, we understand.\"
• Census: 20 Jan 1920, Goldsberry township, Howell County, Missouri, USA;

  1. Walker, T. N., head, owns, mortgaged, male, white, 62, widowed, can read and write, Tennessee, Tennessee, Tennessee, farmer, own account, farm schedule no. 205 2. _____, Earl, son, male, white, 25, married, can read and write, Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee, farmer, own account, farm schedule no. 205 3. _____, Grace, daughter [daughter in law], female, white, 22, married, can read and write, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri 4. _____, Lenah [Lena], daughter, female, white, 22, single, can read and write, Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee 5. _____, Donald, grandson, male, white, 1 year [8] months, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri

• Residence: 13 May 1920, Howell County, Missouri, USA; Mary Walker was born in a shed located in the area of the present-day Bill Walker farmhouse - before the house was built there. It belonged to Tom Walker, and was part of the original Crowder homestead. The shed was used for various purposes later, including a chicken house. Living in it together were Earl, Grace, their two children, and Earl's father Tom.
• Newspaper Article: 31 Dec 1920, Mountain View, Howell County, Missouri, USA; From the Mountain View Standard: \"Earl Walker and family of Brandsville spent Christmas here with relatives.\"),(
• NEWS: 9 Jun 1921, West Plains, Howell County, Missouri, USA; Excerpt of article about a retiring mail carrier:

  \"When the government changed the mail route it was necessary to re-advertise the contract. Earl Walker of Mountain View, was the lowest bidder getting the contract for $1500 a year. Over the new route it is 60 miles from West Plains to Bakersfield and return . . . .\"

• Land: 1922, Near Mountain View, Howell County, Missouri, USA;

  Earl bought 44 acres [extra 4 due to correction line] of the original Crowder place from his dad.

• Residence: Abt 1923, Brushy Knob, Douglas County, Missouri, USA; Grace and Earl were living around Brushy Knob in Oregon Co MO. Earl was working off a $200 debt - probably doing some building for Harold Sauer, his sister Elsie's husband.
• Residence: Abt 1926, Collier Place, Howell County, Missouri, USA; Doyne lost at Collier Place, _____-_____-1926, Howell County, Missouri.
• Residence: Abt 1927, Floyd Koonce Place, Howell County, Missouri, USA; Grace and Earl and family lived for at least two years on the Floyd Koonce place while Floyd was in Oklahoma. Jack was born on the place, helping to fix the date.
• Residence: Abt 1929, Sedgwick Place, Howell County, Missouri, USA
• Event-Misc: 1930, Walker farm, near Mountain View, Howell County, Missouri, USA;

  Built the present house on the farm in this year, completed prior to Dad's birth. Daddy was born there that September. They may have lived in a little chicken house on the place prior to that.

• Census: 24 Apr 1930, Goldsberry township, Howell County, Missouri, USA;

  1. Walker, Earl T., head, owns, farm, male, white, 36, married, first married age 23, can read and write, Tennessee, Tennessee, Tennessee, farming, general farm, employed, not a veteran, farm schedule no. 196 2. _____, Grace M., wife, female, whtie, 32, married, first married age 19, can read and write, Missouri, Missouri, Illinois, no occupation 3. _____, Donald E., son, male, white, 11, attending school, can read and write, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri 4. _____, Mary O., daughter, female, white, 9, attending school, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri 5. _____, Phyllis W., daughter, female, white, 8, attending school, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri 6. _____, Dora [Doyne] E., daughter, female, white, 5, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri 7. _____, Newel [Newell] B., son, male, white, 3 years 9 months, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri

• Anecdote: Abt 1935, Howell County, Missouri, USA;

  Family story about Earl Walker getting work on a road building crew during the Depression, as dictated by his son Bill to his son Scott, Christmas break, 2014:

  "In 1938, the state went to work on Highway 17 through Mountain View, Missouri, about a mile south of the farm. It was the middle of the depression and jobs were VERY hard to come by, and Earl T went to see if he could get work on the road crew. He approached the men where they worked, asked who was in charge, and was directed to the foreman, who was standing nearby. "I have a family to support and I'm looking for some work," he said. The work was extremely difficult physical labor, using picks and shovels and pure manpower to create the roadway. Earl T was about 5' 6" and weighed no more than 135 pounds. The foreman looked him up and down. "We already have plenty of good men on this crew," he sniffed, and turned away. Earl T walked away and watched a bit. He noticed a better dressed man also watching, and asked one of the crew who he was. "That's the head man for the whole road. He don't usually come down here." Earl walked up to this boss and repeated his request for work. The boss pointed at the foreman and said "You'll have to talk to him. He's the foreman." "I already talked to him, and that son of a bitch don't know a good man when he sees one," Earl answered. The boss grinned. "All right, why don't you get down there with them boys clearing rocks and let's see what you can do." They did not have to watch long to learn that Earl T was as tough as anyone one on the crew, and he stuck. As time went on, they needed more trained horse teams and wagons and they hired Earl to bring his team in. His team did not even need a driver, responding perfectly to voice commands from Earl. This meant Earl got a good raise, being paid for his team as well as his own labor. Earl T spent the rest of the summer finishing the road into town with the crew. When the job was over, Earl was voted "best man on the road" and given a new hat in recognition of his efforts. It was something he was always proud of. (In another variation of this story, Earl got the job by challenging the boss, saying "I'll go to work over there breaking rocks for nothing, and if I don't outwork the rest of them, you don't have to keep me or pay me.")

• Census: 25 Apr 1940, Goldsberry township, Howell County, Missouri, USA;

  1. Walker, Earl, head, male, white, 46, married, completed grade 8, Missouri, same house 1935, employed for pay, 60 hours, farmer, farm, own account, 52 weeks, income $250, no other income 2. _____, Grace, wife, female, white, 42, married, completed grade 8, Missouri, same house 1935 3. _____, Phyllis, daughter, female, white, 18, single, attending school, completed high school, Missouri, same house 1935, not employed 4. _____, Doyne daughter, female, white, 15, single, attending school, completed 1 year high school, Missouri, same house 1935 5. _____, Newell, son, male, white, 13, attending school, completed grade 7, Missouri, same house 1935 6. _____, William, son, male, white, 9, attending school, completed grade 5, Missouri, same house 1935 7. _____, Irene, daughter, female, white, 7, attending school, completed grade 1, Missouri, same house 1935 8. _____, Maxwell, son, male, white, 5, not attending school, Missouri, same house 1935 9. _____, Leon, son, male, white, 3, Missouri, same house 1935 10. _____, Norman, son, male, white, 1, Missouri, same house 1935 11. _____, Tom N., father, male, whtie, 82, widowed, completed grade 8, Tennessee, same house 1935, not employed, retired farmer, income $180

Notes:

See attached sources.

Earl married Grace Milicene Campbell on 11 Oct 1917 in West Plains, Howell County, Missouri, USA. Grace (daughter of James Boyd Campbell and Lucy Wesley Deboard) was born on 18 Jan 1898 in Howell County, Missouri, USA; died on 14 May 1983 in Willow Springs, Howell County, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 14 Jun 1900, Goldsberry township, Howell County, Missouri, USA
• Newspaper Article: 21 Jul 1927, West Plains, Howell County, Missouri, USA; Undoubtedly Grace\'s appendix removal.

  \"Barbara Walker is the guest of her uncle, Earl Walker near Mountain View, while her aunt is in the hospital at West Plains.\"

• Obituary: 28 May 1983, Mountain View, Howell County, Missouri, USA;

  Obituary, Mountain View Standard

  "Mrs. Grace Walker passed away recently. She was the wife of Earl Walker who is a patient at Willow Care Nursing Home. She is survived by four daughters, Mary Wells, Diane Smith, Phyllis Easton, Irene Hansen; six sons, Donald Walker, Newell B. (Jack) Walker, William Walker, Leon Walker, Max Walker, and Paul Walker, many grandchildren, great grandchildren, other relates and friends. She attended the Nazarene Church many years. We extend sympathy to the husband and children and other relatives. 'Earth holds no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.' "

Notes:

Census:

1. Campbell, James B., head, white, male, August 1870, 29, married, married 2 years, Missouri, Missouri, Arkansas, farmer, can read and write, renting, farm, farm schedule no. 154
2. _____, Lucy, wife, white, female, August 1876, 23, married, 2 years 2 living, Illinois, Illinois, Illinois, can read and write
3. _____, Gracie, daughter, white, female, January 1898, 2, Missouri, Missouri, Illinois
4. Bolerjack, Henry, step son, white, male, July 1894, 5, Missouri, Illinois, Illinois

Notes:

Married:
Earl and Grace were married in a hotel lobby in West Plains, in a double ceremony with Lee and Bertha Flood.

Children: Donald Earl Walker was born on 9 Jul 1918 in Howell County, Missouri, USA; died on 13 May 2006 in Upland, San Bernardino County, California, USA. Mary Odessa Walker was born on 13 May 1920 in Missouri, USA; died on 1 Jan 2006 in Mountain View, Howell County, Missouri, USA; was buried in Walker Chapel Cemetery, Howell County, Missouri, USA. Phyllis Westley Tennessee Walker was born on 16 Feb 1922 in Howell County, Missouri, USA; died on 28 Nov 2008 in Mountain View, Howell County, Missouri, USA; was buried on 1 Dec 2008 in Mountain View-Center Hill Cemetery, Howell County, Missouri. 5. Doyne Elizabeth Walker Newell Boyd "Jack" Walker William Dewey "Bill" Walker was born on 28 Sep 1930 in Mountain View, Howell County, Missouri, USA; died on 5 Sep 2021 in Hearthstone Beaverton, Hart Road, Beaverton, Washington County, Oregon, USA. Grace Irene "Irene" Walker Maxwell Henry "Max" Walker Julius Leon "Leon" Walker was born on 19 Jul 1936 in Missouri, USA; died on 27 Dec 2020 in Springfield, Greene County, Missouri, USA. Norman Paul "Paul" Walker

William married Lillie Pearl Martin on 16 Aug 1909 in Chandler, Lincoln County, Oklahoma, USA. Lillie (daughter of Joel Greene Martin and Mary Elizabeth Maples) was born on 12 Jun 1892 in Dent County, Missouri, USA; died on 1 Oct 1982 in Montery Park, Los Angeles County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

BIRT: NAME William Deboard
Sex: M
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