Friday, January 4, 2019
Ghost Traces: Argyle R. Burton - Oklahoma Rancher
Ghost Traces: Argyle R. Burton - Oklahoma Rancher: Argyle R. Burton was born to Ophelia (Gerald) Burton on 11 October 1867. By 1870 he is living with his mom in a house where she is a Domes...
Argyle R. Burton - Oklahoma Rancher
Argyle R. Burton was born to Ophelia (Gerald) Burton on 11 October 1867. By 1870 he is living with his mom in a house where she is a Domestic Servant. A few years later he is in Kansas and marries Cecilia Brazzeal and they have a son Roy. A few years later Argyle marries Myrtle Arnold. I can find no trace of Cecilia after the marriage date but Roy is still with him.
Argyle is my 2nd cousin and his name has been misspelled and pronounced so many ways. In 1870 it is Igala, 1875 A. Burton, in 1900 he is Guy, in 1940 he is A.R. Burton. On a marriage certificate he is Gayle R. Burton while on another marriage certificate he is Guyle R. Burton and G.R. Burton. Later in life he seemed to settle on A.R. Burton. By 1914 he is living near Bartlesville in Washington County, Oklahoma which is on the edge of Osage Reservation. His 1900 census actually has his address as Osage and Kaw Indian Reservation. He first settled on Bird Creek in Osage Territory later moving to farm land southwest of Bartlesville.
Argyle is a farmer and cattleman enlarging his farm continuously for years. He is known for adapting the latest and newest farming technologies and equipment. He has vast orchards and a keen knowledge of animal husbandry with extensive cattle and horse herds and buys the best pedigreed sows for breeding pigs.
There are 17 oil wells on his property and he receives royalties from these wells. In 1929 Argyle takes out a loan from the bank to purchase cattle. In 1930 at the start of the Great Depression in the midst of the Oklahoma Dust storms the bank calls in the loan. Argyle cannot repay the loan at that time so he gives the bank over 1400 acres in payment. That land was purchased from the bank in 1938 and became the Hughes Ranch.
Argyle died in June 1955 and is buried in White Rose Cemetery.
Argyle is my 2nd cousin and his name has been misspelled and pronounced so many ways. In 1870 it is Igala, 1875 A. Burton, in 1900 he is Guy, in 1940 he is A.R. Burton. On a marriage certificate he is Gayle R. Burton while on another marriage certificate he is Guyle R. Burton and G.R. Burton. Later in life he seemed to settle on A.R. Burton. By 1914 he is living near Bartlesville in Washington County, Oklahoma which is on the edge of Osage Reservation. His 1900 census actually has his address as Osage and Kaw Indian Reservation. He first settled on Bird Creek in Osage Territory later moving to farm land southwest of Bartlesville.
Argyle is a farmer and cattleman enlarging his farm continuously for years. He is known for adapting the latest and newest farming technologies and equipment. He has vast orchards and a keen knowledge of animal husbandry with extensive cattle and horse herds and buys the best pedigreed sows for breeding pigs.
There are 17 oil wells on his property and he receives royalties from these wells. In 1929 Argyle takes out a loan from the bank to purchase cattle. In 1930 at the start of the Great Depression in the midst of the Oklahoma Dust storms the bank calls in the loan. Argyle cannot repay the loan at that time so he gives the bank over 1400 acres in payment. That land was purchased from the bank in 1938 and became the Hughes Ranch.
Argyle died in June 1955 and is buried in White Rose Cemetery.
Monday, December 24, 2018
Ulysses Grant Parsons - Dead in the Woods
On Friday the 18th of August 1939 Ulysses Grant Parsons was laid to rest in the Claquato Cemetery.
Ulysses was my 7th cousin 3 times removed. We share my 9th Great Grandfather, Thomas Bliss. He was born in June 1863 to Henry Charles and Abigail (Buck) Parsons. Ulysses sister Wealtha Chase Parsons is the grandmother of a man known as John Wayne.
He grew up helping his father on the family farm in Sumner, Warren County, Illinois. He met and fell in love with Eva Graham and on 4 October 1887 he married her. By 1900 the young couple had moved to the Township of Jackson in Hall County, Nebraska and began farming. In 1910 they were in Humboldt in Richardson County, Nebraska and Ulysses was working in a Lumberyard as a Salesman. Ulysses and his family made one last move to Chehalis in Lewis County, Washington were he was a salesman in the grocery business.
On Tuesday 15 August 1939 Ulysses went out into the woods about 6 miles from his home in Chehalis to cut some wood for his home for the up coming fall and winter. After he failed to come home a search was made and he was found dead in the woods presumably by heart attack.
He left a wife, a son and a daughter.
Ulysses was my 7th cousin 3 times removed. We share my 9th Great Grandfather, Thomas Bliss. He was born in June 1863 to Henry Charles and Abigail (Buck) Parsons. Ulysses sister Wealtha Chase Parsons is the grandmother of a man known as John Wayne.
He grew up helping his father on the family farm in Sumner, Warren County, Illinois. He met and fell in love with Eva Graham and on 4 October 1887 he married her. By 1900 the young couple had moved to the Township of Jackson in Hall County, Nebraska and began farming. In 1910 they were in Humboldt in Richardson County, Nebraska and Ulysses was working in a Lumberyard as a Salesman. Ulysses and his family made one last move to Chehalis in Lewis County, Washington were he was a salesman in the grocery business.
On Tuesday 15 August 1939 Ulysses went out into the woods about 6 miles from his home in Chehalis to cut some wood for his home for the up coming fall and winter. After he failed to come home a search was made and he was found dead in the woods presumably by heart attack.
He left a wife, a son and a daughter.
Sunday, December 23, 2018
Morris Lee Maddux - Shot
In 1925 Christmas day was on a Friday. School was out, a weekend loomed ahead, there was no rain, no snow and the temperature was about 51. Morris Lee Maddux who was 14 and three of his friends decided to go on a hunting trip to Ferris Texas. Ferris is about 20 miles south of Dallas. If you have ever traveled North on Interstate 45 to Dallas or South to Houston you have passed through Ferris. Morris lived in Palmer Texas which is about 9 miles south of Ferris and sits just off of Interstate 45.
Morris and his friends reached Ferris on Saturday and set up camp. They were in high spirits, and loaded with new hunting weapons, ammunition, warm clothing and homemade treats. They filled their days with hunting and their nights with tales of the days adventures.
Monday evening things went very wrong for the boys. One of the boys had left his shotgun out in the brush away from the camp site. It was supposed to have been unloaded, empty, and just set aside. It was not. They went back for the gun and as boys will be boys a scuffle started and the shotgun went off.
By now the sun had set and the sky was getting darker. Morris lay on the ground blood pooling around his left side. He had been shot. His friends get him to a hospital in Ferris where he dies less than 2 hours later. The funeral was on Wednesday at 2:30 and Morris was buried in Palmer at Palmer Cemetery.
Morris was the son of Greenwood and Freddie Maddux. He is my 7th cousin 3 times removed. In simpler terms we share a very great grandfather. Alexander Maddux 1613 - 1659.
Morris and his friends reached Ferris on Saturday and set up camp. They were in high spirits, and loaded with new hunting weapons, ammunition, warm clothing and homemade treats. They filled their days with hunting and their nights with tales of the days adventures.
Monday evening things went very wrong for the boys. One of the boys had left his shotgun out in the brush away from the camp site. It was supposed to have been unloaded, empty, and just set aside. It was not. They went back for the gun and as boys will be boys a scuffle started and the shotgun went off.
By now the sun had set and the sky was getting darker. Morris lay on the ground blood pooling around his left side. He had been shot. His friends get him to a hospital in Ferris where he dies less than 2 hours later. The funeral was on Wednesday at 2:30 and Morris was buried in Palmer at Palmer Cemetery.
Morris was the son of Greenwood and Freddie Maddux. He is my 7th cousin 3 times removed. In simpler terms we share a very great grandfather. Alexander Maddux 1613 - 1659.
Monday, December 10, 2018
Mary Bliss Parsons - Witch
Witch.
Witch they called her.
Mary Bliss Parsons, my 9th Great Aunt was accused on more than one occasion of being a witch. Mary was a daughter of the wealthy prominent Bliss family. She was the wife of Joseph Parsons and mother of 14 children. Her husband was a hard working, business savvy, honorable man who acquired great wealth. He had connections with prominent people and made good investments. They had a large home and were very wealthy.
In 1656 Mary and her family moved from Springfield Massachusetts to Northampton Massachusetts. Soon after they settled in jealous neighbors started to whisper rumors that Mary had made a pact with Satan and she was a witch. Whenever livestock died, or children or spouses became ill neighbors would claim it was Mary casting spells because they had a disagreement or argument with her. If anyone had a disagreement with any member of the Bliss or Parsons family and something tragic happened they blamed Mary. The daughter of a neighbor became angry at her mother and decided to pretend illness to retaliate against her mother. Mary was accused of putting a spell on the girl. Mary's husband immediately brought slander charges upon the neighbors and after Mary was found not guilty at trial neighbors publicly apologized.
18 years later the charge of witch was again cast at Mary by the same neighbors when their spouses died. The trial was held in Boston and Mary spent three months in jail while awaiting trial and during the trial. She was acquitted.
After the trial Mary Bliss Parsons and her family moved back to Springfield Massachusetts where Mary lived until her death in 1712.
I am not going to write a lot about this as there are brilliant articles and books on these events everywhere. Especially this book,
Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth-Century New England: A Documentary History 1638–1693
and
SILENCING THE WOMEN: The Witch Trials of Mary Bliss Parsons - Kathy-Ann Becker.
Witch they called her.
Mary Bliss Parsons, my 9th Great Aunt was accused on more than one occasion of being a witch. Mary was a daughter of the wealthy prominent Bliss family. She was the wife of Joseph Parsons and mother of 14 children. Her husband was a hard working, business savvy, honorable man who acquired great wealth. He had connections with prominent people and made good investments. They had a large home and were very wealthy.
In 1656 Mary and her family moved from Springfield Massachusetts to Northampton Massachusetts. Soon after they settled in jealous neighbors started to whisper rumors that Mary had made a pact with Satan and she was a witch. Whenever livestock died, or children or spouses became ill neighbors would claim it was Mary casting spells because they had a disagreement or argument with her. If anyone had a disagreement with any member of the Bliss or Parsons family and something tragic happened they blamed Mary. The daughter of a neighbor became angry at her mother and decided to pretend illness to retaliate against her mother. Mary was accused of putting a spell on the girl. Mary's husband immediately brought slander charges upon the neighbors and after Mary was found not guilty at trial neighbors publicly apologized.
18 years later the charge of witch was again cast at Mary by the same neighbors when their spouses died. The trial was held in Boston and Mary spent three months in jail while awaiting trial and during the trial. She was acquitted.
After the trial Mary Bliss Parsons and her family moved back to Springfield Massachusetts where Mary lived until her death in 1712.
I am not going to write a lot about this as there are brilliant articles and books on these events everywhere. Especially this book,
Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth-Century New England: A Documentary History 1638–1693
and
SILENCING THE WOMEN: The Witch Trials of Mary Bliss Parsons - Kathy-Ann Becker.
Thursday, December 6, 2018
Samuel Clement Paints
Samuel Clement my 11th Great Uncle was an artist/painter and he lived from 1635 to 1678.
Samuel was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts to Elizabeth and Augustine Clement and who was also an artist/painter, more on him at another time.
Samuel married Hannah English in 1657 and they lived in Boston where in 1658 she passed. He then married a woman named Deborah and they had 4 children.
During the 1670s John Freake had his portrait painted. He lived in Boston not far from the home of Samuel.
The artist is unknown but the painting has been attributed to Samuel Clement. Elizabeth Freake, John's wife also had her portrait painted. In the first version of her she is holding a fan and not 6 month old baby Mary, her youngest daughter.
A portrait of Henry Gibbs
as well as his siblings and a few other portraits are also attributed to Samuel.
In 1679 Samuel's will is probated.
Samuel was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts to Elizabeth and Augustine Clement and who was also an artist/painter, more on him at another time.
Samuel married Hannah English in 1657 and they lived in Boston where in 1658 she passed. He then married a woman named Deborah and they had 4 children.
During the 1670s John Freake had his portrait painted. He lived in Boston not far from the home of Samuel.
The artist is unknown but the painting has been attributed to Samuel Clement. Elizabeth Freake, John's wife also had her portrait painted. In the first version of her she is holding a fan and not 6 month old baby Mary, her youngest daughter.
A portrait of Henry Gibbs
as well as his siblings and a few other portraits are also attributed to Samuel.
In 1679 Samuel's will is probated.
Friday, November 23, 2018
Parker E. Mick - 39th Regiment
In 1839 in in the village of Rossie, St. Lawrence County, New York, Martha Mick, the wife of Jesse E. Mick gave birth to a boy they named Parker E. Mick. He was a fair haired, blue eyed boy who helped out on the family's farm.
Parker is my 1st cousin 4 times removed. We share a Greatest Grandfather.
The Mick family had moved to Manlius Illinois by March of 1855 where they bought 20 acres of land from John and Alice Mitchel.
On 10 September 1861 Parker joined the 39th Regiment of the Illinois Volunteer Infantry. He was mustered in Chicago on 11 October 1861 as a member of Company K. They were immediately ordered to St. Louis Missouri and by 29 October 1861 were Williamsport Maryland.
South Carolina
39th taken in the summer of 1863 Parker may be somewhere in the photo - photo from Jean Wilson
The 39th Regiment had settled in at Morris Island, South Carolina in the summer of 1863, by the end of July Parker was ill. He could not perform his duties during August and September. On 19 October 1863 he was granted a furlough for health reasons. Parker goes to St. Augustine Florida to what the Army called a Convalescent Camp. He spends all of November in the Hospital Convalescent Baracks. 23 November 1863 Parker dies. A Funeral Escort was arranged for 2 o'clock on 25 November 1863.
Fellow soldiers and Dr. Charles Clark had this to say about Parker. "He was an enthusiastic soldier - old fashioned, comical, full of fun and very popular with the men of his company."
Parker is my 1st cousin 4 times removed. We share a Greatest Grandfather.
The Mick family had moved to Manlius Illinois by March of 1855 where they bought 20 acres of land from John and Alice Mitchel.
On 10 September 1861 Parker joined the 39th Regiment of the Illinois Volunteer Infantry. He was mustered in Chicago on 11 October 1861 as a member of Company K. They were immediately ordered to St. Louis Missouri and by 29 October 1861 were Williamsport Maryland.
39th taken in the summer of 1863 Parker may be somewhere in the photo - photo from Jean Wilson
The 39th Regiment had settled in at Morris Island, South Carolina in the summer of 1863, by the end of July Parker was ill. He could not perform his duties during August and September. On 19 October 1863 he was granted a furlough for health reasons. Parker goes to St. Augustine Florida to what the Army called a Convalescent Camp. He spends all of November in the Hospital Convalescent Baracks. 23 November 1863 Parker dies. A Funeral Escort was arranged for 2 o'clock on 25 November 1863.
Fellow soldiers and Dr. Charles Clark had this to say about Parker. "He was an enthusiastic soldier - old fashioned, comical, full of fun and very popular with the men of his company."
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