John Taylor

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• Census: 29 Aug 1850, Castor township, Stoddard County, Missouri, USA; 1. Taylor, John, 36, male, farmer, Tennessee 2. _____, Alexander, 16, male, farmer, Tennessee, attended school 3. _____, Riley [J.? T.?], 13, male, Tennessee, attended school 4. _____, Nancy, 2, female, Missouri
• Census: 16 Jul 1860, Willow Springs township, Howell County, Missouri, USA; 1. Taylor, John, 46, male, farmer, real estate $500, personal $500, Tennessee 2. _____, Mary J., 26, female, \"Dom\" [domestic?], Illinois 3. _____, Alexander, 26, male, farmer, real estate $300, personal $150, Tennessee 4. _____, Riley J., 21, male, farmer, real estate $100, personal $150, Tennessee 5. _____, Nancy J., 12, female, Missouri 6. _____, Martha J., 5, female, Arkansas 7. _____, Luther B., 3, male, Arkansas 8. _____, Adina, 8 months, female, Missouri

Notes:

Died:
Based on his daughter Nancy's birth ca 1864, and his wife's remarriage ca 1868 (first child to new marriage b 1869).

John married Sarah Carey about 1833. Sarah was born in in South Carolina, USA; died about 1849 in Stoddard County, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Mary Jane Reece between 1850 and 1855. Mary was born about 1834 in Illinois, USA; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 29 Aug 1850, Castor township, Stoddard County, Missouri, USA; 1. Taylor, John, 36, male, farmer, Tennessee 2. _____, Alexander, 16, male, farmer, Tennessee, attended school 3. _____, Riley [J.? T.?], 13, male, Tennessee, attended school 4. _____, Nancy, 2, female, Missouri
• Census: 16 Jul 1860, Willow Springs township, Howell County, Missouri, USA; 1. Taylor, John, 46, male, farmer, real estate $500, personal $500, Tennessee 2. _____, Mary J., 26, female, \"Dom\" [domestic?], Illinois 3. _____, Alexander, 26, male, farmer, real estate $300, personal $150, Tennessee 4. _____, Riley J., 21, male, farmer, real estate $100, personal $150, Tennessee 5. _____, Nancy J., 12, female, Missouri 6. _____, Martha J., 5, female, Arkansas 7. _____, Luther B., 3, male, Arkansas 8. _____, Adina, 8 months, female, Missouri

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• Biography: R. I. Taylor is a native of Henry County, West Tenn., and was born on the 9th of April, 1839, his parents being John and Sarah (Carey) Taylor, the father a native of West Tennessee and the mother of South Carolina. The paternal grandfather was a Virginian by birth, the maternal grandfather having come originally from South Carolina. John Taylor emigrated from Tennessee to what is now Clay County, Ark., about 1852, coming in a wagon drawn by an ox team, and settled on the farm now owned by Robert Hawthorne, in Carpenter Township, where he made improvements and resided until about 1859. Then he removed to Howell County, Mo., and died there in 1866. His wife died in Stoddard County, Mo., on her way to Arkansas. To them were born four children R. I. Taylor being the third in order of birth. He was but thirteen years of age when he came to this State, and received only limited educational advantages as there were but few settlers and no schools in the country at that time. Such knowledge of books as he possesses was obtained at home by self application. In the spring of 1861 he enlisted in Company F, Seventh Arkansas Regiment, and served until the close of the war, being a participant in the battles of Shiloh, Perryville, Murfreesboro, Mission Ridge and several hard skirmishes. He was wounded by a gun shot in the left arm at Shiloh, which has nearly ruined the use of that member, and was also wounded by a gun-shot at Murfreesboro, but soon recovered as it was merely a flesh wound. He served as second sergeant and was paroled in 1865. He returned to Clay County, and about 1872 located on his present farm, which consists of 200 acres of land, with some sixty-five acres under cultivation. He raises corn principally, and gives considerable attention to stock. Having followed farming all his life he is thoroughly acquainted with its varied features. In 1867 he was married to Rebecca Howell, a native of Missouri, by whom he has three children: John, Lewis and Alma. By his second wife, whose maiden name was Annie Heath, he had two children: Rosa, living, and Rosella L., who is deceased. Mr. Taylor is a well- respected pioneer of Clay County, having resided here since the time when not more than a half dozen families were within miles of him. He has aided very materially in the advance and progress of the community.
• Census: 29 Aug 1850, Castor township, Stoddard County, Missouri, USA; 1. Taylor, John, 36, male, farmer, Tennessee 2. _____, Alexander, 16, male, farmer, Tennessee, attended school 3. _____, Riley [J.? T.?], 13, male, Tennessee, attended school 4. _____, Nancy, 2, female, Missouri
• Census: 16 Jul 1860, Willow Springs township, Howell County, Missouri, USA; 1. Taylor, John, 46, male, farmer, real estate $500, personal $500, Tennessee 2. _____, Mary J., 26, female, \\\"Dom\\\" [domestic?], Illinois 3. _____, Alexander, 26, male, farmer, real estate $300, personal $150, Tennessee 4. _____, Riley J., 21, male, farmer, real estate $100, personal $150, Tennessee 5. _____, Nancy J., 12, female, Missouri 6. _____, Martha J., 5, female, Arkansas 7. _____, Luther B., 3, male, Arkansas 8. _____, Adina, 8 months, female, Missouri
• Census: 19 Jul 1870, Current River township, Randolph County, Arkansas, USA; 1. Taylor, Riley J., 30, male, white, farmer, Tennessee 2. _____, Rebecca C., 24, female, white, keeping house, Missouri 3. _____, John R., 1, male, white, Arkansas 4. Howell, Sallie, 63, female, white, Kentucky 5. Thomas, Marion, 18, male, white, farm hand, Missouri 6. Miller, William W., 5, male, white, Missouri
• Census: 24 Jun 1880, Kilgore township, Clay County, Arkansas, USA; 1. Taylor, Riley J., white, male, 40, married, farmer, Tennessee, Tennessee, South Carolina 2. _____, Missouri A., white, female, 21, wife, married, keeping house, Kentucky, Arkansas, Kentucky 3. _____, Jno. R., white, male, 11, son, at home, attended school, Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri 4. _____, [Louis N.?] white male, 9, son, attended school, Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri 5. _____, Alma [middle initial not clear], white, female, 6, daughter, Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri 6. Mulholland, William, white, male, 21, boarder, single, laborer, Arkansas, Kentucky, Kentucky

Notes:

Returned to Clay Co ARK. where he had a 200 acre farm, 65 acres of it under cultivation. Raised principally corn.

Riley married Rebecca Howell in 1867. Rebecca (daughter of Unknown Howell and Sallie [Inknown]) was born in in Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Riley married Missouri A. Heath about 1879. Missouri was born about 1859 in Kentucky, USA; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 29 Aug 1850, Castor township, Stoddard County, Missouri, USA; 1. Taylor, John, 36, male, farmer, Tennessee 2. _____, Alexander, 16, male, farmer, Tennessee, attended school 3. _____, Riley [J.? T.?], 13, male, Tennessee, attended school 4. _____, Nancy, 2, female, Missouri
• Census: 16 Jul 1860, Willow Springs township, Howell County, Missouri, USA; 1. Taylor, John, 46, male, farmer, real estate $500, personal $500, Tennessee 2. _____, Mary J., 26, female, \\\"Dom\\\" [domestic?], Illinois 3. _____, Alexander, 26, male, farmer, real estate $300, personal $150, Tennessee 4. _____, Riley J., 21, male, farmer, real estate $100, personal $150, Tennessee 5. _____, Nancy C., 12, female, Missouri 6. _____, Martha J., 5, female, Arkansas 7. _____, Luther B., 3, male, Arkansas 8. _____, Adina, 8 months, female, Missouri
• Census: 16 Jun 1880, Howell township, Howell County, Missouri, USA; 1. Smith, Richard, white, male, 37, married, farmer, cannot read or write, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri 2. _____, Nancy C., white, female, 32, wife, married, seeing house, cannot read or write, Tennessee, Tennessee, Tennessee 3. _____, Mary, white, female, 14, daughter, single, at home cannot write, Missouri, Missouri, Tennessee 4. _____, Leondas, white, male, 9, son, Missouri, Missouri, Tennessee 5. _____, Philip, white, male, 7, son, Missouri, Missouri, Tennessee 6. _____, Ida, white, female, 5, daughter, Missouri, Missouri, Tennessee

Nancy married Richard Grimes Smith on 27 Jul 1866 in Howell County, Missouri, USA. Richard (son of Samuel Harrison Smith and Caroline Moony) was born about 1842 in Missouri, USA; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 16 Jul 1860, Willow Springs township, Howell County, Missouri, USA; 1. Taylor, John, 46, male, farmer, real estate $500, personal $500, Tennessee 2. _____, Mary J., 26, female, \"Dom\" [domestic?], Illinois 3. _____, Alexander, 26, male, farmer, real estate $300, personal $150, Tennessee 4. _____, Riley J., 21, male, farmer, real estate $100, personal $150, Tennessee 5. _____, Nancy J., 12, female, Missouri 6. _____, Martha J., 5, female, Arkansas 7. _____, Luther B., 3, male, Arkansas 8. _____, Adina, 8 months, female, Missouri
• Census: 25 Aug 1870, Goldsberry township, Howell County, Missouri, USA; 1. Smith, James K. P., 23, male, white, farmer, real estate $500, personal $300, Missouri 2. _____, Mary J., 34, female, white, keeping house, Illinois 3. Taylor, Martha J., 15, female, white, Arkansas, attended school 4. _____, Luther B., 12, male, white, farm hand, Arkansas, attended school 5. _____, Adina, 10, female, white, at home, Missouri, attended school 6. _____, Sarah A., 9, female, white, Missouri, attended school 7. _____, Nancy [initial?], 6, female, white, Missouri 8. Smith, James [C.?], 1, male, white, Missouri 9. _____, Trissa C., 2 months, female, white, Missouri, [March?]
• Census: 17 Jun 1880, Chapel township, Howell County, Missouri, USA;

  1. Crowder, M. Jane, white, female, 25, widowed, keeping house, Arkansas, Tennessee, Illinois 2. _____, L. Jane, white, female, 5, daughter, at home, attending school, Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas 3. _____, L. Bell, white, female, 3, daughter, at home, Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas 4. _____, J. Cora, white, female, 8 months, born in September, daughter, at home, Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas 5. Taylor, S Ann, white, female, sister, single, at home, Missouri, Tennessee, Illinois 6. _____, N. Susan, white, female, 16, sister, at home, Missouri, Tennessee, Illinois 7. _____, L. Benton, white, male, 22, brother, single, farm labor, Arkansas, Tennessee, Illinois

• Census: 4 Jun 1900, Galena township, Joplin County, Missouri, USA;

  1. Blythe, Martha, head, white, male, August 1855, 44, widowed, 5 children 5 living, Missouri, Tennessee, Illinois, hotel keeper, can read and write, renting house 2. Crower [Crowder], Bell, daughter, white, female, May 1877, 23, single, Missouri, Tennessee, Missouri, can read and write 3. Blythe, Addie, daughter, white, female, November 1882, 17, single, Missouri, Tennessee, Missouri, can read and write 4. _____, Baxter, son, white, male, November 1885, 4, single, Missouri, Tennessee, Missouri, can read and write 5. [Harmond?], M. B., boarder, white, male, May 1849, 51, married 18 years, Ohio, New Jersey, Ohio, real estate broker, can read and write 6. Mindenhall [Mendenhall], Thomas, boarder, white, male, July 1864, 35, married 3 years, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, cement contractor, can read and write 7. _____, Cora, boarder, white, female, September 1879, 20, married 3 years, 1 child 1 living, Missouri, Missouri, Tennessee, can read and write 8. _____, James A., son, white, male, February 1898, 2, Missouri, Missouri, Pennsylvania 9. Parmenter, Bell, servant, white, female, December 1881, 18, single, Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee, servant, can read and write 10. Williams, S., boarder, white, male, March 1866, 34, single, Illinois, North Carolina, Illinois, carpenter, can read and write 11. Patton, F., boarder, white, male, July 1871, 28, single, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri, machinist, can read and write 12. Lott, William, boarder, white, male, November 1862, 37, single, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, cement side[walk? work?], can read and write 13. Mitchell, Charles, boarder, white, male, December 1874, 25, single, Kentucky, Vermont, Vermont, canvasser, can read and write 14. Clay, Henry E., boarder, white, male, February 1871, 29, single, Kansas, Ohio, Illinois, attorney at law, can read and write 15. Fitzgerald, Eugene, boarder, white, male, October 1876, 23, single, Tennessee, Tennessee, Tennessee, can read and write 16. Pierce, Charley F., boarder, white, male, June 1876, 23, single, Missouri, New York, New York, day laborer, can read and write 17. Coffey, Be[nj?], boarder, white male, March 1871, 29, single, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, attorney at law, can read and write 18. Clay, Scott W., boarder, white, male, August 1880, 19, single, Kansas, Ohio, Illinois, school teacher, cab read and write

• Census: 29 Apr 1910, Pleasant Hill township, Cass County, Missouri, USA;

  1. Blythe, Martha J., head, female, white, 33, widowed, 5 children 5 living, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri, own income, can read and write, owns, free of mortgage, home 2. Crowder, Bell, daughter, female, white, 29, single, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri, can read and write 3. Moran, Dora, daughter, female, white, 33, widowed, 1 child 1 living, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri, can read and write 4. _____, May, granddaughter, female, white, 19, single, Utah, Pennsylvania, Missouri, can read and write

• Census: 10 Jan 1920, Baker township, Crawford County, Kansas, USA;

  1. Ready, Charles T., head, owns, mortgage, male, white, 34, married, can read and write, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri, farmer, home farm, own account, farm schedule no. 20 2. _____, Cora N., wife, female, white, 40, married, can read and write, Missouri, Missouri, Tennessee 3. _____, Victor L., son, male, white, 12, attending school, can read and write, Oklahoma, Missouri, Tennessee 4. Mendenhall, James A., step son, male, white, 21, single, can read and write, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Missouri, electrician, merchant marine 5. Blythe, Martha, mother in law, female, white, 64, widowed, can read and write, Missouri, Tennessee, Illinois

• Death Notice: 22 Oct 1933, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA;

  Death notice, Martha Jane (Taylor) Crowder Blythe, Kansas City Star

  "Blythe--Mrs. Martha J. Blythe, 78 years old, a widow, died last night at her home, the Netherlands hotel, 3835 Main street. Mrs. Blythe leaves two daughters, Mrs. D. J. Foster, of the Netherlands hotel, and Mrs. Leonard Boyd, of Pittsburg Kas., and a son, Baxter B. Blythe, 4276 East Sixty-first street. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 o?clock Monday at the Freeman chapel, Forty-second street and Baltimore avenue. Burial will be in Pleasant Hill, Mo."

Notes:

Census data is inconclusive about the parentage of Martha J. Taylor. Although she is found in the home of John Taylor in the 1860 census, it is difficult to tell whether she is his daughter or the daughter of Alexander TAYLOR, age 26, in the same household. Both John and Alexander are born in TN; it is likely that Alexander is John's son. However, there is also a Mary J. Taylor, age 26, b IL, in the household. She must be the wife of either John or Alexander, and the mother of Martha J. Taylor. The order of listing in census would lead me to conclude that Mary J. , age 26, is married to John, age 46. I would further guess that Alexander, Riley and Nancy J. were from a previous marriage of John Taylor. They youngest three children, Martha J., 5, Luther B., 3, and Adena, 8/12 are probably the children of Mary J. and John Taylor. However, this is onlly a guess.

In the 1870 census, Martha J. Taylor is in the home of James K. P. Smith and his wife, Mary J., b IL. Evidently Mary J.'s husband has died and she has remarried. Neither John Taylor nor Alexander Taylor can be found in the 1870 census, so it is impossible to tell which of them died. Cemetery records have not been helpful in this regard.

In exchanging e-mail with a descendant of Martha's sister, Sarah A. TAYLOR; Sheryl Karlowski-Brown. Sheryl was in possession of the death certificate of Sarah A. TAYLOR, which listed her parents as John TAYLOR and Jane REECE.

Birth:
Although Martha Jane's death cert states birth in Missouri, the 1860, 1870, and 1880 census records all state her birth in Arkansas (ages 5, 15, and 25) Additionally, her younger brother Luther B. was born in Arkansas, while other siblings are listed with Missouri birth.

It seems likely that her death cert is in error.

Martha married Joshua T. Crowder on 11 Jan 1874 in Howell County, Missouri, USA. Joshua (son of Bluford Azeri Crowder and Jane Eveline Tidwell) was born on 23 May 1849 in Giles County, Tennessee, USA; died on 9 Mar 1879 in Howell County, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Martha married Aron Columbus Blythe on 16 Dec 1881 in Howell County, Missouri, USA. Aron (son of Aaron Blythe and Nancy [Unknown]) was born about 1858 in Missouri, USA; died between 1885 and 1900. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Note: Proof argument, partial, verifying that the Luther Benton \"Bent\" Taylor who was hanged in Clay Co ARK is the same one that was the son of John Taylor and married Marcilla DeBoard: 1. 1880 census his brother Riley J. Taylor is in Clay Co ARK. Living in his home is William Mulholland who was with Bent at the time of the murder, and who testified against Bent at trial (turned state\'s evidence) to save himself). 2. The Chicago article states that Bent\'s wife was living in Howell County. 3. Riley J. and Bent are both placed in John Taylor\'s 1860 census home in Howell Co MO 4. Riley J. Taylor's Goodspeed bio for Clay Co ARK, states that he was the sone of John Taylor and Sarah Carey, that they moved from the east to Clay Co ARK around 1852 and stayed there until around 1859, when they moved to Howell Co MO. After serving in the Civil War he returned to Clay Co in 1865 and settled there. [Just a start, but convicting.]
• Census: 16 Jul 1860, Willow Springs township, Howell County, Missouri, USA; 1. Taylor, John, 46, male, farmer, real estate $500, personal $500, Tennessee 2. _____, Mary J., 26, female, \"Dom\" [domestic?], Illinois 3. _____, Alexander, 26, male, farmer, real estate $300, personal $150, Tennessee 4. _____, Riley J., 21, male, farmer, real estate $100, personal $150, Tennessee 5. _____, Nancy J., 12, female, Missouri 6. _____, Martha J., 5, female, Arkansas 7. _____, Luther B., 3, male, Arkansas 8. _____, Adina, 8 months, female, Missouri
• Census: 16 Jul 1860, Howell County, Missouri, USA; 1. Taylor, John, 46, male, farmer, real estate $500, personal $500, Tennessee 2. _____, Mary J., 26, female, \\\"Dom\\\" [domestic?], Illinois 3. _____, Alexander, 26, male, farmer, real estate $300, personal $150, Tennessee 4. _____, Riley J., 21, male, farmer, real estate $100, personal $150, Tennessee 5. _____, Nancy J., 12, female, Missouri 6. _____, Martha J., 5, female, Arkansas 7. _____, Luther B., 3, male, Arkansas 8. _____, Adina, 8 months, female, Missouri
• Census: 25 Aug 1870, Goldsberry township, Howell County, Missouri, USA; 1. Smith, James K. P., 23, male, white, farmer, real estate $500, personal $300, Missouri 2. _____, Mary J., 34, female, white, keeping house, Illinois 3. Taylor, Martha J., 15, female, white, Arkansas, attended school 4. _____, Luther B., 12, male, white, farm hand, Arkansas, attended school 5. _____, Adina, 10, female, white, at home, Missouri, attended school 6. _____, Sarah A., 9, female, white, Missouri, attended school 7. _____, Nancy [initial?], 6, female, white, Missouri 8. Smith, James [C.?], 1, male, white, Missouri 9. _____, Trissa C., 2 months, female, white, Missouri, [March?]
• Census: 17 Jun 1880, Chapel township, Howell County, Missouri, USA; 1. Crowder, M. Jane, white, female, 25, widowed, keeping house, Arkansas, Tennessee, Illinois 2. _____, L. Jane, white, female, 5, daughter, at home, attending school, Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas 3. _____, L. Bell, white, female, 3, daughter, at home, Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas 4. _____, J. Cora, white, female, 8 months, born in September, daughter, at home, Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas 5. Taylor, S Ann, white, female, sister, single, at home, Missouri, Tennessee, Illinois 6. _____, N. Susan, white, female, 16, sister, at home, Missouri, Tennessee, Illinois 7. _____, L. Benton, white, male, 22, brother, single, farm labor, Arkansas, Tennessee, Illinois
• Newspaper Article: 3 Aug 1881; From the Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn): \"Turned Her Loose A Little Fracas which Transpired over in Arkansas Little Rock, August 2?Information of a serious shooting affray in this county reached here yesterday from Corning. Bent Taylor and Emery Poe are the names of the parties. They are brothers-in-law, living on adjoining farms about ten miles back from Corning. Poe\'s sister is Taylor\'s wife. Last Saturday the men got into a dispute. Strong words followed. Poe quickly lost all self-possession, and began climbing over the fence to get at Taylor. Taylor, who had his gun with him, brought it back to his shoulder, and commanded Poe to climb back. Poe perished in coming over, and his adversary \"turned her loose,\" the rifle ball entering Poe\'s shoulder and ranging down his back. Physicians were called and pronounced the wound of a very dangerous character. Taylor went to Corning and gave himself up to the authorities. The wounded man declines to prosecute him, and the shooter was released on a promise being given to be on hand at the next term of Court.\"
• Newspaper Article: 4 Aug 1881; From the Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.): \"Bent Taylor shot his brother-in-law, Emory Poe, near Corning, Clay County, Arkansas, last Saturday. Wound dangerous.
• Newspaper Article: 22 Apr 1882; From the Chicago Daily News: \"Corning, Ark., April 21.?Luther Benton Taylor was hanged here to-day for the murder of Riley Block [sic]. Last night he was confined to the court-house, strongly guarded. He denied having slain Block [sic], but admitted the murder of Judge Kilgore, who was shot down some months ago in his home while he carried one of his children. Taylor held a sort of levee from 9 a.m. till taken to the gallows. Several ministers prayed and sang with him, and nearly one hundred women of respectability thronged his room, many weeping piteously as they shook his hand. These sympathetic tears so unnerved him that he, too, broke down and wept. At 11 o\'clock he ate a hearty dinner, made a careful toilet, after which he was led to the scaffold erected on the outskirts of town. Nearly four hundred people were gathered around it. After singing and prayer Taylor declined to make any confession, but declared that he died for the crime of another. He was calm and resolute. When the cap was adjusted he raised it, saying \"Goodby, all.\" The trap was sprung, breaking his neck and killing him instantly. His last request was that he might be buried by the side of Rilly Block [sic], whom he was hung for murdering. \'I am only about 25, but feel as if I had lived sixty years,\' was the remark of Luther B. Taylor, a few hours before his death on the gallows. The expression conveyed no dread of his approaching doom, but only the remembrance of manifold and various crimes packed in the few years he had lived. He was born in Clay county, Arkansas, in 1851, of parents in comfortable circumstances, who indulged his idle inclinations. His father, mother, brother, and two sisters are still living. His education was neglected, embracing only enough knowledge of reading to devour with avidity the yellow-covered trash from which he drew ideal heroes, and to which he no doubt owes a long stride in his downward career. When he should have been at school or at work, he was scouring the woods, rifle in hand, accompanied by a brace of hounds, subsisting on game, and amusing his resting hours with dime blood-and-thunder narratives. Before he was 14 years old he had figured in such questionable transactions that Arkansas became too hot for him, and he was self-exiled to southern Missouri. That debatable ground was still the theater of a guerrilla warfare of assassination and rapine, the legacy of the passions and prejudices engendered by the rebellion. Capt. Monks, of West Plains, led a band of union partisans, and against them contended the Alsups, a gang of ex-confederates, who kept up an internecine strife against tremendous odds. Taylor fought on either side indifferently for the fun of laughter. He was a ready-made desperado when the warring neighbors laid down arms and shook hands He gloried in approving himself \"desperate\" by nerve and recklessness. He never told how many men he had slain, but admitted they were many. One of the first events after his marriage was his trial and acquittal on charge of murder. His wife, now living in Howell county, Missouri, is said to be a young woman of beauty intelligence, and refinement, who became infatuated with the dashing and handsome young ruffian, clinging to him to the last with rare devotion. The murder for which Taylor suffered was committed near [Neilville?], on the Iron Mountain railroad, on Dec 29, 1880. After a day\'s spree he had started homeward with Riley Block [sic] and William Mulholland. They stopped by the roadside and drained a bottle of whisky. A quarrel arose and Taylor, with one lunge, cut Block\'s [sic through from ear to ear The murderer and Mulholland rode away, leaving Block to die where he fell. The body was found soon afterward, and Taylor and Mulholland were arrested. The former escaped, but was recaptured. At the trial, Mulholland, to save his own neck, turned state\'s evidence, and on the witness stand described the murder graphically. His testimony could not be impeached, and Taylor was convicted and sentenced to death. After sentence Taylor was lodged in the state\'s prison at Little Rock for safekeeping. No effort was spared to secure executive clemency, but Gov. Churchill could find no reason to interfere. Shortly before his execution, Taylor said that but for his family he had as lief die by the rope as in any other way He admitted that he had killed Riley Block, but said that no one saw him do the deed. Speaking of his companion in crime, he said: \'As for Mulholland, may God have mercy upon him. When my spirit is freed from the body I only crave one thing?whether I go heavenward or to Hades?and that is to be allowed to haunt hi. I would like to be with him everywhere, an invisible demon, torturing him until life became a burden, and at length driving him to destruction and despair. When I am gone I don\'t want him to know a moment\'s peace, a happy home, or a prosperous day.\' \"
• Newspaper Article: 22 Apr 1882; From the New York Herald (New York, N.Y.). This very long article appears not to be very reliable. Was he hung for killing Emory Poe or Riley Black? Tells of his involvement with post-civil war border terrorists, mentions Howell County. Excerpts of a long article: \"This afternoon Luther B. Taylor was hanged at this place for the murder of Riley Black. . . . \" \'I was born in a humble home in Clay County, Ark., sometime in 1857?twenty-five years since. Up to my fourteenth year my life was as peaceful as the waves on the Black River, which ran almost beside my father\'s door. . . . I went to Southern Missouri. In this section of country I found myself in the midst of scenes as exciting as they were horrible. The feelings engendered by the war had not yet died out, and vendettas were raging everywhere. In Howell county Bill Monks and his noted band were making a life and death struggle\' in Douglas county the Allsups held sway, and life was held more lightly there than anything else in the country. . . . \' \" \" \'I married a fair girl, and for a time was happy and contented. . . .\"
• Newspaper Article: 28 Apr 1882; From the Fort Smith Elevator, Fort Smith, Arkansas: \"Bent Taylor was hung at Corning, Clay county, on Friday last. He was led to the scaffold protesting his innocence, and stuck to it to the last.\"

Notes:

Taken from republished articles in the Clay County
Courier, Corning, Clay County, Arkansas.[1882]

Bent TAYLOR and Wm. MULLHOLLEN were brought from jail
at Boydsville by Sheriff J.A. McNEIL to face the grand
jury investigating the murder of Riley BLACK on
December 29, 1881. Each accused the other of the crime,
but evidence showed that TAYLOR was the guilty one.
Jacob BROBST, foreman of the grand jury, is to be
commended for the indictment. The Klan vowed death to
any juror who found TAYLOR guilty.

The trial of Bent TAYLOR found him guilty and he has
been sentenced to hang on April 21 at 1 p.m. The Klan
were in town to free him but so many deputies were on
hand they were afraid to make an attempt. the prisoner
was sent to the penitentiary of Little Rock for safe
keeping until execution. His partner, Wm. MULLHOLLEN
turned states evidence and received a sentence of five
years.

Judge J.Buck KILGORE is the citizen honored by the name
of our township. Pioneer citizens recall his
assassination in 1877. It is the opinion that Bent
TAYLOR, hanged last April for the murder of Riley BLACK
was the perpetrator of the KILGORE murder.

New Year's 1882 begins with a fresh chapter in the wave
of crime that has been sweeping this side of the county
since the removal of the county seat to Boydsville in
1877. This chapter is titled Murder. On December 29th,
Riley BLACK, Bent TAYLOR and Wm. MULHOLLEN of the
Vidette Community, after spending the day at
Neelyville saloons, were returning home and the body of
RILEY was discovered the next morning on the road out
of Missouri with his throat sliced from ear to ear. A
coroner's jury was convened and RILEY's companions have
been lodged at Boydsville on the charge of murder.
The three principals are thought to belong to the gang
of outlaws that has disturbed the peace of the Western
District since the 1877 bushwacking of Judge KILGORE.
The grand jury that meets in February should give this
outrage a full and completer examination.

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Birth:
States his birth in Clay County, Arkansas, in 1857.

Luther married Marcilla Vitura Deboard on 14 Sep 1880 in Howell County, Missouri, USA. Marcilla (daughter of Joel Franklin "Franklin" Deboard and Margaret Ann "Ann" McKenzie) was born about 1861 in White County, Illinois, USA; died after 1901. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Note: After Adina\'s 1895 death, George W. Barnett remarried on 6 Sept 1899 in Howell County, Mary Cordell. (Marriage license date.) They were enumerated in 1900 in Wharton Co TX.
• Census: 16 Jul 1860, Willow Springs township, Howell County, Missouri, USA; 1. Taylor, John, 46, male, farmer, real estate $500, personal $500, Tennessee 2. _____, Mary J., 26, female, \\\"Dom\\\" [domestic?], Illinois 3. _____, Alexander, 26, male, farmer, real estate $300, personal $150, Tennessee 4. _____, Riley J., 21, male, farmer, real estate $100, personal $150, Tennessee 5. _____, Nancy J., 12, female, Missouri 6. _____, Martha J., 5, female, Arkansas 7. _____, Luther B., 3, male, Arkansas 8. _____, Adina, 8 months, female, Missouri
• Census: 25 Aug 1870, Goldsberry township, Howell County, Missouri, USA; 1. Smith, James K. P., 23, male, white, farmer, real estate $500, personal $300, Missouri 2. _____, Mary J., 34, female, white, keeping house, Illinois 3. Taylor, Martha J., 15, female, white, Arkansas, attended school 4. _____, Luther B., 12, male, white, farm hand, Arkansas, attended school 5. _____, Adina, 10, female, white, at home, Missouri, attended school 6. _____, Sarah A., 9, female, white, Missouri, attended school 7. _____, Nancy [initial?], 6, female, white, Missouri 8. Smith, James [C.?], 1, male, white, Missouri 9. _____, Trissa C., 2 months, female, white, Missouri, March
• Census: 4 Jun 1880, Sisson township, Howell County, Missouri, USA; 1. Barnett, J. Dallas, white, male, 35, married, farmer, Tennessee, Virginia, Tennessee 2. _____, Tennisee [sic], white, female, 35, wife, married, keeping house, Tennessee, Tennessee, Tennessee 3. _____, N. James, white male, 11, son, works on farm, attended school, Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee 4. _____, M. Parille, white, female, 8, daughter, attends school, Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee 5. _____, Victor, white, male, 3, son, Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee 6. Taylor, Adina, white, female, 19, [no relationship stated], Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee
• Census: 12 Jun 1900, Justice Precint 7, Wharton County, Texas, USA; Adina\'s family after her death and her husband\'s remarriage:: 1. Barnett, G. W., head, white, male, February 1858, 42, married, married 0 years, Tennessee, Tennessee, Tennessee, farmer, can read and write, owns farm free of mortgage, farm schedule 26 2. _____, [Marie C.?], wife, white, female, May 1874, 26, married, 0 years, 4 children 4 living, Missouri, Missouri, can read and write 3. Barnett, Minnie, daughter, white. female, June 1886, 14, Missouri, Tennessee, Missouri, at school, attended school 4 months, can read and write 4. _____, Royal, son, white, male, May 1889, 11, Missouri, Tennessee, Missouri, at school, attended 4 months, can read and write 5. _____, Charlotte, daughter, white, female, February 1892, 8, Missouri, Tennessee, Missouri, at school, attended 4 months 6. _____ Eve, daughter, white, female, November 1895, 5, Missouri, Tennessee, Missouri

Notes:

Birth:
Though FindAGrave and her cemetery marker give her birth as 16 October 1861, she was enumerated in July 1860 as 8 months old.

This would support a birth month of about October but a birth year of 1859. It is likely that she was born on the month and day found on her stone, but in 1859, not 1861.

Adena married George W. Barnett on 22 Mar 1883 in Howell County, Missouri, USA. George was born about 1858; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 25 Jun 1900, Howell township, Howell County, Missouri, USA; 1. Robbins, Henry J., head, white, male, July 1863, 36, married, married 17 years, Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee, farmer, can read and write owns farm with mortgage, farm schedule 372 2. _____, Sarah A., wife, white, female, April 1863, 37, married 1 years, 6 children 5 living, Missouri, Tennessee, Illinois, can read and write 3. _____, Effie J., daughter, white, female, August 1883, 16, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri, attending school, can read and write 4. _____, Ollie C., daughter, white, female, November 1884, 15, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri, attending school, can read and write 5. _____, Mertie C., daughter, white, female, October 1888, 11, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri, attending school, can read and write 6. _____, Riley G., son, white, male, November 1896, 3, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri 7. _____, Thomas N., son, white, male, October 1898, 1, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri 8. Taylor, Rosa, niece, white, female, January 1883, 17, single, Arkansas,Tennessee, Tennessee, attending school, can read and write
• Census: 15 Apr 1910, 808 Penn St., Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA; 1. Robbins, Sarah, head, female, white, 47, widowed, 5 children 4 living, Missouri, Tennessee, Illinois, keeper, lodging house, own account, can read and write 2. _____, Riley, son, male, white, 13, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri, attending school, can read and write 3. _____, Neal, son, male, white, 11, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri, attending school, can read and write [several lodgers, surnames Lloyd, Beads, and Kingsley]
• Census: 10 Jan 1920, 417 W. 14th, Ward 4, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA; 1. Robbins, Sarah A., head, [owned or rented \"un\", unknown?], female, white, 57, widowed, can read and write, Missouri, Tennessee, Illinois, keeper rooming house, own account 2. Holmes, Archer M., lodger, male, white, 57, single, can read and write, New York, New York, New York, paper hanger, own account

Notes:

Birth:
Death certificate gives her birth as 15 April 1863. However, 1870 census gives her age as 9.

Sarah married Henry Johnson Robbins on 15 Oct 1882 in Howell County, Missouri, USA. Henry was born on 7 Jul 1863 in Missouri, USA; died on 16 Apr 1941 in Mountain View, Howell County, Missouri, USA; was buried in Walker Chapel, Howell County, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 29 Aug 1850, Castor township, Stoddard County, Missouri, USA; 1. Taylor, John, 36, male, farmer, Tennessee 2. _____, Alexander, 16, male, farmer, Tennessee, attended school 3. _____, Riley [J.? T.?], 13, male, Tennessee, attended school 4. _____, Nancy, 2, female, Missouri
• Census: 16 Jul 1860, Willow Springs township, Howell County, Missouri, USA; 1. Taylor, John, 46, male, farmer, real estate $500, personal $500, Tennessee 2. _____, Mary J., 26, female, \"Dom\" [domestic?], Illinois 3. _____, Alexander, 26, male, farmer, real estate $300, personal $150, Tennessee 4. _____, Riley J., 21, male, farmer, real estate $100, personal $150, Tennessee 5. _____, Nancy J., 12, female, Missouri 6. _____, Martha J., 5, female, Arkansas 7. _____, Luther B., 3, male, Arkansas 8. _____, Adina, 8 months, female, Missouri

Nancy married James A. Blythe on 19 Mar 1882 in Howell County, Missouri, USA. James (son of Aaron Blythe and Nancy [Unknown]) was born about 1856 in Missouri, USA; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Parents:

  Death certificate named father as "Unknown Crowder" and mother as "Martha J. Taylor." It named her husband as John Foster.

• Census: 17 Jun 1880, Chapel township, Howell County, MIssouri, USA;

  1. Crowder, M. Jane, white, female, 25, widowed, keeping house, Arkansas, Tennessee, Illinois 2. _____, L. Jane, white, female, 5, daughter, at home, attending school, Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas 3. _____, L. Bell, white, female, 3, daughter, at home, Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas 4. _____, J. Cora, white, female, 8 months, born in September, daughter, at home, Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas 5. Taylor, S Ann, white, female, sister, single, at home, Missouri, Tennessee, Illinois 6. _____, N. Susan, white, female, 16, sister, at home, Missouri, Tennessee, Illinois 7. _____, L. Benton, white, male, 22, brother, single, farm labor, Arkansas, Tennessee, Illinois

• Census: 29 Apr 1910, Pleasant Hill township, Cass County, Missouri, USA;

  1. Blythe, Martha J., head, female, white, 33, widowed, 5 children 5 living, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri, own income, can read and write, owns, free of mortgage, home 2. Crowder, Bell, daughter, female, white, 29, single, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri, can read and write 3. Moran, Dora, daughter, female, white, 33, widowed, 1 child 1 living, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri, can read and write 4. _____, May, granddaughter, female, white, 19, single, Utah, Pennsylvania, Missouri, can read and write

• Residence: 1916, 1526 Central, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA
• Obituary: 8 Nov 1961, Kansas City, Jackson County, MIssouri, USA;

  Obituary, Dora J. (Crowder) Moran Foster, Kansas City Times

  "Mrs. Dora J. Foster. Mrs. Dora J. Foster, 85, of 3612 Wyandotte, died testerday at the home. Mrs. Foster was born in West Plains, Mo., and lived here for 74 years. There are no immediate survivors. Services will be held at 10 o?clock Friday at the Newcomer chapel, Brush Creek and the Paseo; graveside services at 12 o?clock at the cemetery in Pleasant Hill."

Notes:

Name:

Death certificate names her only as Dora J.

Buried:

Oddly, Dora's FindAGrave entry is under the name Dora J. Blythe. The marker was not photographed, so it is not clear if that name is on the marker. However, Dora was born the daughter of Joshua T. Crowder, who died when she was just 4 years old. Her mother subsequently married Aron/Aaron Blythe. Dora married first a Moran and then a Foster. She appears in Kansas City directories as Dora Foster and her death certificate is in that name.

Ladora married Thomas F. Moran on 25 May 1889 in Jackson County, Missouri, USA. Thomas was born about 1860 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 9 Oct 1894 in Salt Lake City, Utah; was buried on 12 Oct 1894. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children: 31. May Moran   was born about 1892 in Utah, USA; and died.

Ladora married John Foster on 16 Jul 1910 in Cass County, Missouri, USA. John was born about 1879 in Oklahoma, USA; died after 1910. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Parents:

  Bell's 1911 death certificate names her parents as "Joshaway Crowder," born in Tennessee, and Martha Taylor born in Missouri. The informant was "Mrs. D. J. Foster," Dora Crowder, her sister.

• Census: 17 Jun 1880, Chapel township, Howell County, Missouri, USA;

  1. Crowder, M. Jane, white, female, 25, widowed, keeping house, Arkansas, Tennessee, Illinois 2. _____, L. Jane, white, female, 5, daughter, at home, attending school, Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas 3. _____, L. Bell, white, female, 3, daughter, at home, Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas 4. _____, J. Cora, white, female, 8 months, born in September, daughter, at home, Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas 5. Taylor, S Ann, white, female, sister, single, at home, Missouri, Tennessee, Illinois 6. _____, N. Susan, white, female, 16, sister, at home, Missouri, Tennessee, Illinois 7. _____, L. Benton, white, male, 22, brother, single, farm labor, Arkansas, Tennessee, Illinois

• Census: 4 Jun 1900, Joplin, Galena township, Jasper County, Missouri, USA;

  1. Blythe, Martha, head, white, male, August 1855, 44, widowed, 5 children 5 living, Missouri, Tennessee, Illinois, hotel keeper, can read and write, renting house 2. Crower [Crowder], Bell, daughter, white, female, May 1877, 23, single, Missouri, Tennessee, Missouri, can read and write 3. Blythe, Addie, daughter, white, female, November 1882, 17, single, Missouri, Tennessee, Missouri, can read and write 4. _____, Baxter, son, white, male, November 1885, 4, single, Missouri, Tennessee, Missouri, can read and write 5. [Harmond?], M. B., boarder, white, male, May 1849, 51, married 18 years, Ohio, New Jersey, Ohio, real estate broker, can read and write 6. Mindenhall [Mendenhall], Thomas, boarder, white, male, July 1864, 35, married 3 years, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, cement contractor, can read and write 7. _____, Cora, boarder, white, female, September 1879, 20, married 3 years, 1 child 1 living, Missouri, Missouri, Tennessee, can read and write 8. _____, James A., son, white, male, February 1898, 2, Missouri, Missouri, Pennsylvania 9. Parmenter, Bell, servant, white, female, December 1881, 18, single, Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee, servant, can read and write 10. Williams, S., boarder, white, male, March 1866, 34, single, Illinois, North Carolina, Illinois, carpenter, can read and write 11. Patton, F., boarder, white, male, July 1871, 28, single, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri, machinist, can read and write 12. Lott, William, boarder, white, male, November 1862, 37, single, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, cement side[walk? work?], can read and write 13. Mitchell, Charles, boarder, white, male, December 1874, 25, single, Kentucky, Vermont, Vermont, canvasser, can read and write 14. Clay, Henry E., boarder, white, male, February 1871, 29, single, Kansas, Ohio, Illinois, attorney at law, can read and write 15. Fitzgerald, Eugene, boarder, white, male, October 1876, 23, single, Tennessee, Tennessee, Tennessee, can read and write 16. Pierce, Charley F., boarder, white, male, June 1876, 23, single, Missouri, New York, New York, day laborer, can read and write 17. Coffey, Be[nj?], boarder, white male, March 1871, 29, single, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, attorney at law, can read and write 18. Clay, Scott W., boarder, white, male, August 1880, 19, single, Kansas, Ohio, Illinois, school teacher, cab read and write

Notes:

Died:

Bell died of bronchial pneumonia.

Other Events:

• Census: 17 Jun 1880, Chapel township, Howell County, Missouri, USA;

  1. Crowder, M. Jane, white, female, 25, widowed, keeping house, Arkansas, Tennessee, Illinois 2. _____, L. Jane, white, female, 5, daughter, at home, attending school, Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas 3. _____, L. Bell, white, female, 3, daughter, at home, Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas 4. _____, J. Cora, white, female, 8 months, born in September, daughter, at home, Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas 5. Taylor, S Ann, white, female, sister, single, at home, Missouri, Tennessee, Illinois 6. _____, N. Susan, white, female, 16, sister, at home, Missouri, Tennessee, Illinois 7. _____, L. Benton, white, male, 22, brother, single, farm labor, Arkansas, Tennessee, Illinois

• Census: 4 Jun 1900, Joplin, Galena township, Jasper County, Missouri, USA;

  1. Blythe, Martha, head, white, male, August 1855, 44, widowed, 5 children 5 living, Missouri, Tennessee, Illinois, hotel keeper, can read and write, renting house 2. Crower [Crowder], Bell, daughter, white, female, May 1877, 23, single, Missouri, Tennessee, Missouri, can read and write 3. Blythe, Addie, daughter, white, female, November 1882, 17, single, Missouri, Tennessee, Missouri, can read and write 4. _____, Baxter, son, white, male, November 1885, 4, single, Missouri, Tennessee, Missouri, can read and write 5. [Harmond?], M. B., boarder, white, male, May 1849, 51, married 18 years, Ohio, New Jersey, Ohio, real estate broker, can read and write 6. Mindenhall [Mendenhall], Thomas, boarder, white, male, July 1864, 35, married 3 years, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, cement contractor, can read and write 7. _____, Cora, boarder, white, female, September 1879, 20, married 3 years, 1 child 1 living, Missouri, Missouri, Tennessee, can read and write 8. _____, James A., son, white, male, February 1898, 2, Missouri, Missouri, Pennsylvania 9. Parmenter, Bell, servant, white, female, December 1881, 18, single, Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee, servant, can read and write 10. Williams, S., boarder, white, male, March 1866, 34, single, Illinois, North Carolina, Illinois, carpenter, can read and write 11. Patton, F., boarder, white, male, July 1871, 28, single, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri, machinist, can read and write 12. Lott, William, boarder, white, male, November 1862, 37, single, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, cement side[walk? work?], can read and write 13. Mitchell, Charles, boarder, white, male, December 1874, 25, single, Kentucky, Vermont, Vermont, canvasser, can read and write 14. Clay, Henry E., boarder, white, male, February 1871, 29, single, Kansas, Ohio, Illinois, attorney at law, can read and write 15. Fitzgerald, Eugene, boarder, white, male, October 1876, 23, single, Tennessee, Tennessee, Tennessee, can read and write 16. Pierce, Charley F., boarder, white, male, June 1876, 23, single, Missouri, New York, New York, day laborer, can read and write 17. Coffey, Be[nj?], boarder, white male, March 1871, 29, single, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, attorney at law, can read and write 18. Clay, Scott W., boarder, white, male, August 1880, 19, single, Kansas, Ohio, Illinois, school teacher, cab read and write

• Census: 22 Apr 1910, Broadway (street), Geary, Geary township, Blaine County, Oklahoma, USA;

  1. Mendenhall, Cora, head, female, white, 30, divorced, 1 child 1 living, Missouri, Tennessee, Missouri, proprietress, hotel, can read and write, renting house 2. _____, Avery, male, white, 12, single, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Missouri, attending school, can read and write 3. Bliss, Mary, servant, female, white, 23, single, Kansas, Germany, Germany, cook, hotel, can read and write 4. Holcomb, Jennie, servant, female, white, 24, single, Texas, Georgia, Texas, chambermaid, hotel, can read and write 5. Nowell, Leonard, servant, male, white, 24, single, Texas, Alabama, Alabama, waiter, hotel, can read and write

• Census: 10 Jan 1920, Baker township, Crawford County, Kansas, USA;

  1. Ready, Charles T., head, owns, mortgage, male, white, 34, married, can read and write, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri, farmer, home farm, own account, farm schedule no. 20 2. _____, Cora N., wife, female, white, 40, married, can read and write, Missouri, Missouri, Tennessee 3. _____, Victor L., son, male, white, 12, attending school, can read and write, Oklahoma, Missouri, Tennessee 4. Mendenhall, James A., step son, male, white, 21, single, can read and write, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Missouri, electrician, merchant marine 5. Blythe, Martha, mother in law, female, white, 64, widowed, can read and write, Missouri, Tennessee, Illinois

Notes:

Birth:

Cora's birth is recorded at FindAGrave (presumably from a marker) as 29 September 1880. However, the 1880 census recorded her as 8 months old, born the previous September.

Died:

Missouri death certificate cannot be locate for Cora (Crowder) Mendenhall Ready. Her FindAGrave listing is under Cora Blythe, as was her sister's.

It is not clear whether she was also divorced from her second husband, Thomas Ready, or not.

Cora married Thomas H. Mendenhall on 14 Oct 1896 in Jackson County, Missouri, USA, and was divorced between 1900-1910. Thomas was born in in Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children: 32. James Avery Mendenhall   was born on 3 Feb 1898 in 1206 E. 17th, Kaw township, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA; and died.

Cora married Charles T. Ready after 1911. Charles was born about 1886 in Missouri, USA; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Effie C. Leddery. Effie was born about 1885 in Kansas, USA; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: May 1866, Amarillo, Potter County, Texas, USA
• Census: 30 Apr 1910, Precinct 7, Wharton County, Texas, USA; 1. Tredwell, Isaac, head, male, white, 31, first marriage, married 3 years, Texas, Virginia, [??], laborer, farm, can read and write, renting, house 2. _____, Minnie, wife, female, white, 23, first marriage, married 3 years, 2 children 2 living, Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee, can read and write 3. _____, Minnie M., daughter, female, white, 2, Texas, Texas, Missouri 4. _____, Raymond, son, male, white, 11 months, Texas, Texas, Missouri 5. Roome, Walter, boarder, male, white, 22, single, Minnesota, Minnesota, Minnesota, laborer, farm, can read and write 6. _____, Roy, boarder, male, white, 20, single, Louisiana, Minnesota, Minnesota, laborer, farm, can read and write
• Census: 7 Jan 1920, Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA; 1. Treadwell, Isaac, head, renting, male, white, 40, married, can read and write, Louisiana, Virginia, Virginia, farmer, rice farm, own account 2. _____, Minnie, wife, female, white, 33, married can read and write, Missouri, Tennessee, Missouri 3. _____, Minnie Mae, daughter, female, white, 11, attending school, can read and write, Texas, Louisiana, Missouri 4. _____, Raymond, son, male, white, 10, attending school, can read and write, Texas, Louisiana, Missouri 5. _____, Bernice, daughter, female, white, 7, Texas, Louisiana, Missouri
• Census: 25 Apr 1930, Precinct 1, Crockett County, Texas, USA; 1. Tredwell, Minnie, head, renting, $35, not a farm, female, white, widowed, married 25 years, can read and write, Texas, Texas, Texas, washing, home 2. _____, May, daughter, female, white, 22, single, can read and write, Texas, Texas, Texas 3. _____, Bernice, daughter, female, white, 17, single, can read and write, Texas, Texas, Texas [Next door to them is E. S. Nunly, age 35, widowed, born Texas, employed as a water pumper]
• Directory: 1936, 215 E. Owings, Longview, Gregg or Harrison County, Texas, USA; \"Nunley, Emery L. (Minnie) hlpr Humble P L Co h 215 e Owings\"
• Census: 18 Apr 1940, New London, Rusk County, Texas, USA; 1. Nunley, Emery L., renting, $12, not a farm, head, male, white, 44, married, completed 2 years high school, Texas, in 1935 resided Longview, Gregg County, station engineer, crude oil production 2. _____, Minnie, wife, female, white 47, married, 2 years high school, Missouri, 1935 Longview, Gregg Co
• Residence: Oct 1948, Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas, USA; In the Clovis News-Journal: \"Mrs. Minnie Nunley, Lawrence, Kan., is in Clovis visiting her sister and family, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Sweem, 100 Main.\"
• Obituary: 13 Jun 1963, Waco, McLennan County, Texas, USA; Emery L. Nunley\'s 1963 obit names his wife as \"Vannie Lane Nunley.\"
• Residence: Before 1965, California, USA; 1969 obit states that she had come to Amarillo from California four years previous.
• Residence: 1965-1969, Amarillo, Potter County, Texas, USA
• Obituary: 5 Aug 1969, Amarillo, Potter County, Texas, USA; From the Amarillo Globe-Times: \"Mrs. Minnie J. Nunley Funeral services for Mrs. Minnie J. Nunley, 83, of 604 Prospect will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Schooler-Gerden Colonial Chapel. The Rev. Carols McLeod, pastor of the San Jacinto Baptist Church, will officiate, assisted by the Rev. Jack Riley, pastor of Trinity Methodist Church. Graveside services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday in Westlawn cemetery of Borger. Mrs. Nunley, a native of West Plains, Mo. died Monday in St. Anthony\'s Hospital. A practical nurse, she came here four years ago from California. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. R. E. Kimber of 2908 Comanche; a son, Raymond Treadwell of Central, N.M.; a sister, Mrs. Caralee Patridge of Crown Point, N. M., three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.\"

Minnie married Isaac H. Treadwell [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Minnie married Emery L. Nunley before May 1966. Emery was born about 1896 in Texas, USA; died about June 1963. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: May 1866, Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA
• Military: 1917-1918; 2nd lieutenant, field artillery, WWI

Other Events:

• Census: 14 Apr 1930, Precinct 5, El Paso County, Texas, USA; 1. Patridge, John A., head, owns home, farm, male, white, 44, married, first married age 32, can read and write, Mississippi, Mississippi, Alabama, farmer, farming, farm schedule 6 2. _____, Caralee, wife, female, white, 37, married, first married age 21, can read and write, Missouri, Tennessee, Missouri, teacher, public school 3. _____, Glen, son, male, white, 16, attending school, can read and write, Texas, Mississippi, Missouri 4. _____, Dorothy, daughter, female, white, 14, attending school, can read and write, Texas, Mississippi, Missouri 5. _____, Mildred, daughter, female,w hate, 6, attending school, Texas, Mississippi, Missouri
• Residence: Sept 1963, Bellflower, Los Angeles County, California, USA
• Residence: May 1966, Crown Point, McKinley County, New Mexico, USA

Notes:

Name:
Listed in Addie Eva Barnett's obit.

Caralee married John A. Patridge [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Obituary: 31 May 1966, Clovis, Curry County, New Mexico, USA; From the Clovis News-Journal: \"Mrs. Addie Sweem Mrs. Addie Eva Sweem, 70, died Monday morning at her home south of Clovis. She had been a resident of Clovis since 1932. Mrs. Sween was born Nov. 14, 1895 in Joplin, Mo. She was a member of the Baptist Church and the Order of Eastern Star. Surviving are her husband, Robert C. of the home; a daughter, Mrs. Homer Bennett of Clovis; a brother, Roy Barnett of Houston, Tex.\' sisters, Mrs. Minnie Nunley of Amarillo, Tex., and Mrs. Caralee Patridge of Crown Point; four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Charles V. Steed Chapel with Dr. Carl Scott, pastor of Central Baptist Church officiating. Entombment will be in Plains Sanctuary Mausoleum.\"

Notes:

Birth:
Date discrepancy, as her mother is said to have died the previous May. Perhaps she was born in 1894?

However, her date of birth remains consistent, including her obit in 1966. Possibly her mother's date of death is wrong (taken from FindAGrave).

Family/Spouse: Robert C. Sweem. Robert was born in 1897; died in 1968. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 10 Jan 1920, 1404 Broadway, Kansas City, Missouri, USA; 1. Willard, Earl B., head, renting, male, white, 34, married, can read and write, Kansas, Ohio, Illinois, grocer, grocery, own account 2. _____, Effie J., wife, female, white, 34, married, can read and write, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri, husband\'s assistant 3. Robbins, Neal., brother in law, male, white, 21, single, can read and write, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri, clerk, grocery
• Obituary: 2 Mar 1956, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA; Funeral home notice, classifieds, Kansas City Times: \"WILLARD?Services for Mrs. Effie Robbins Willard of 3019 Grand will be held in the Stine & McClure chapel, 3235 Gilliam plaza, Friday afternoon at 2 o\'clock. Interment will follow at Mt. Moriah cemetery STINE & McCLURE\"

Other Events:

• Obituary: 18 Oct 1961, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA; From the Kansas City Times: \"Wichita?Mrs. Ollie C. Kalowski, 73, a native Missourian who moved here in 1906 from Paradise, Kas. Mrs. Leon Vestal of Kansas City is a daughter and Neal Robbins and Riley Robbins, both of Kansas City, are brothers.\"

Family/Spouse: [husband of Ollie C. Robbins] Karlowski. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Parents:

  James's 1923 passport named his parents as "Thomas H. Mendenhall and Cora N. Mendenhall."

• Occupation: Jul 1923, London, England;

  Radio operator, United States Shipping Board, London

Family/Spouse: [husband of Mildred Patridge] Johnson. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

[Daughter] married Homer Bennett [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]