Missouri, Howell - email Shannon Chenoweth Graham (13 Feb 2007)

• Title	Missouri, Howell - email Shannon Chenoweth Graham (13 Feb 2007)
  Short Title	Missouri, Howell - email Shannon Chenoweth Graham (13 Feb 2007)
  Publisher	Shannon Chenoweth Graham, Jefferson City, Missouri [(E-address for private use),] to Janis Gilmore, Pawleys Island, South Carolina, e-mail, 13 Feb 2007; regarding the Chenoweth, Vickers, Hargroves, and DeBoard families of Howell County, Missouri; digital copy held by author (2007).
  Source ID	S774
  Text	Dear Janis: I have just spent about 4 hours reading your website, and taking a trip back home and certainly in time. I want to thank you for the picture of Uncle Franklin and Aunt Ann. I have one of my ggrandmother, Amy McKenzie Vickers, who was the sister of Ann and Aunt Vite, whose first marriage was to Frank Hargroves but have none of the others.. I am making a book on my Vickers-McKenzie, Griffin-Lucas, and all my other connections in Howell County, MO and White Co., IL, Dover, TN and Wilmington, .SC., Since I am much older than you, 87, to be exact, I met many of these people to whom you and I are related. My mother was, Pearl Vickers Chenoweth, the oldest child of Orville Vickers and Sarepta Griffin. When mother died in 1985 in CA, my son, Nicholas presented me with 6 audio tapes of family history. These tapes are now transcribed and in the book. If you are interested, I would be happy to tell you anything I know about our very religious, hard working, warm, kind, ancestors. Did you know we all have beautiful singing voices When I learned to play hymns, we used to spend Sunday Aftenoons at my grandparents with me playing the organ and my uncles, always several DeBoards and their families singing every hymn we knew. You should have heard them sing Whispering Hope, Amazing Grace, and There is a Fountain Filled With Blood. My grandfather, James Vickers, had heart problems and could not go to the Civil War. Uncle Frank Hargroves and Uncle Franklin both went, along with Hiram Floyd, a cousin and neighbor. JIm said leaving him with all those women and children was worse than going to war. Our ancestors had a wonderful sense of humor. I had red hair and a million freckles and Uncle Retus loved to tease me about my Irish temper. He loved to tease any child that would respond. Snowdon was always the minister, pleasant, cheerful, but reserve. I could go on and onlThe minister of the Baptist Church in Willoow Springs in the 1950s told me Uncle Retus taught him to preach. They trained many ministers in the area. I see in the Roush Line you have Oley Roush but not his first wife, a Davis, mother of Oley Jr; and Davis, who married Thelma Epperson, they have one son, Davis Jr. You also don't list Oley's other brother, Otis. Oley and his second wife, Rebecca Keithley were close friends of my mother and father, S.J. and Pearl Chenoweth. The Uncle Will Hargroves Family in Mountain View has the McKenzie Bible. Since Aunt Vite lived the longest, she had the Bible last. There is an enormous McKenzie Website from Illinois. Ann, Amy and Vitura had a sister, Amanda who died young. I didn't know that until I went into the website. Both their brothers, George and William drowned off the Coast of South Carolina in the steamboat explosion of the General Lyons. They spent most of the war in Catawba Prison, had started home, and were killed. This is a sample of the stories mother left. I get an e-mail almost every day from someone checking on their relatives down home. I'm working with a Tina Swyers right now whose ancestor was a Williams who was Postmaster at Pomona for years. Could you help her? She's also related to the Frazees and Lovans at Willow Springs. She is related to me through my Griffin ggrandmother, Margaret Williams of Sommerville, TN,. Again, I will be happy to tell you anything I can about our relatives. I hope we can get a picture of Aunt Vite. Do you know the Hargroves at Mountain View? It's been so many years since I've had contact with them, I have no idea who is in charge of the memorabelia. Sincerelhy, Shannon Chenoweth Graham
  Linked to	Rebecca Keithley George Thomas McKenzie William J. McKenzie

  
  

• Notes

  Shannon Chenoweth Graham is the daughter of Pearl Vickers and S.J. Chenoweth, of Howell County, Missouri. Shannon's grandfather was James Vickers. Shannon stated that she was age 87 in 2007, so she would have been born around 1920. She resides in Jefferson City, MO, (2007) and her email address is