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Eli Thadeus Smith 1891 – 1913

October 4, 2010 by Carol Yates Wilkerson

The Harvey Lawson Smith Family circa 1914 It’s sad when anyone dies young, and quite often even after death their likeness can still be included in family photos as evidenced in the image above. My grandmother Minnie Caroline Smith (young lady in the middle in white) was just nineteen when her next older brother Eli [...]

Filed Under: Death Certificates Tagged With: Ancestry, Brandsville, Cyndi's List, Eli Thadeus Smith 1891 - 1913, Harvey Lawson Smith, Missouri State Archives, tuberculosis, West Plains Missouri

Allene Moore Chapin 1915 – 2010 Newspaper Woman

July 7, 2010 by Carol Yates Wilkerson

Her brother Dick Moore called her Mary Allene, but when she and I first began to share family information she instructed me to call her Allene. Allene will always be thought of in my mind as one of those “grand gals” with spirit and the spunk to speak her mind. Sadly, I never got to [...]

Filed Under: DAR, Genealogy, Obits Tagged With: Allene Moore Chapin 1915 - 2010 Newspaper Woman, American women writers, Chapin, Howell County Missouri, Moore, Newspaper woman, Osgatharp, Revolutionary War, Smith, West Plains Missouri, West Plains Quill, Yates

A Festival of Postcards: Wheels

July 1, 2010 by Carol Yates Wilkerson

Jim and I are going out of town for a few days on a car trip, so I want to leave you with a recent post. I’m participating in a genealogy carnival A Festival of Postcards, with the topic this time of “wheels”. You may not see many actual wheels in this picture, but it [...]