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GYPSYWOMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03042621041213415958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050679860222075139.post-8135321067612989242012-07-13T14:21:00.004-04:002012-07-13T14:31:03.804-04:00MY SECOND YEAR<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>from left, aunt fay from minden, louisiana - mamastrap - and aunt mae, who, as usual, was dressed in one of her many many brightly colored floral print dresses - were her hands visible, her weekly manicured nails in fire engine red would be seen - as was the custom in that time, all the women dressed daily in beautiful dresses and silk hose - their hair and nails were done every week at the local "beauty shop" where the latest gossip was exchanged and tea and cookies served - </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>- visible in the window behind us are the crocheted curtains hanging - these beautiful handmade crocheted pieces were everywhere at mamastrap's - in the form of chair back/arm protective pieces and curtains and even coverlets on the beds - her flower boxes were always in bloom and her yard full of gorgeous hydrangeas in pinks and blues - but my favorite of all her plants was - and still is - the lantana - i was fascinated by it's little flowers within a flower head - she had them in every color -</b></span></div>
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</div>GYPSYWOMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03042621041213415958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050679860222075139.post-36615358154944832442011-01-03T20:05:00.011-05:002011-05-30T18:40:26.551-04:001943 - THE WORLD AROUND ME - updated 05302011<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/TSJhEjzb9QI/AAAAAAAAFNg/VKfq6ZHQ9lU/s1600/shoe+print+1943.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/TSJhEjzb9QI/AAAAAAAAFNg/VKfq6ZHQ9lU/s320/shoe+print+1943.jpg" width="163" /></a><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">so as i come into the world</span> and begin to take <i>baby steps here baby steps there</i>, these are the things taking place in the universe which i now call home -</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<center style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=9050679860222075139&postID=3661535815494483244" name="Side">Side</a> Glances — Oliver-Hammer</b> </center> <center style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <b>Sedro-Woolley <i>Courier-Times</i>, Jan. 29, 1943 </b> </center> <b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [We noticed] tall and luxuriant tomato plants in George Hammer's garden at the rear of his store.<br />
[<i>Journal</i> Ed. note: George Hammer was a partner in the original Oliver-Hammer Clothes Shop. At the time of this story, it was located on its original lot, 805 Metcalf Street, on the east side of the block between the L& M (Leber and Martindale) grocery and the Courier-Times, in the building that two gift shops occupy today. That building is not as deep on its lot as the other neighbors, so Hammer had plenty of room out back to grow a small garden, with eastern exposure, where cars are parked today. Hammer sold the business in 1958 to Pinky Robinson and Greer Drummond, who had been associated with him for two decades.]</b><br />
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<center style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=9050679860222075139&postID=3661535815494483244" name="Royce">Royce</a> Crossman leaves his market</b> </center> <center style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <b>Sedro-Woolley <i>Courier-Times</i>, July 8, 1943 </b> </center> <b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Royce Crossman is taking a temporary leave from his Crossman's Market in the Tradewell building because of ill health. Bob Mahaffie, owner of Mahaffie's Market, has purchased the stock and will take care of Crossman's business while he is away. The same high-grade service and meats which have for years made Cross- man's Market so popular, will be furnished in the absence of Mr. Crossman. Pete Kilgo will continue at the market and Mr. Crossman expects to be back in a few months<br />
[<i>Journal</i> Ed. note: the address of the Tradewell Market was then 212 State Street, in a 40x120-foot building that is no longer there. At that time through 1965, Metcalf Street dead-ended at State Street. In the late 1950s Tradewell moved to the old Jech Universal Motors buildings on Murdock Street, which is now the home of the Sedro-Woolley Museum. Mahaffie's Market was at 823 Metcalf Street, the southern half of what is now Joy's Sedro-Woolley Bakery.]</b><br />
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<center style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=9050679860222075139&postID=3661535815494483244" name="Mahaffie1">Bob</a> Mahaffie's shops stay open</b> </center> <center style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <b>Sedro-Woolley <i>Courier-Times</i>, July 29, 1943 </b> </center> <b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Bob Mahaffie, proprietor of Mahaffie's Meat Market, has arranged to turn his market over to John Pittington of Mount Vernon, when he leaves in a few days to join the army. Pittington is at present manager of the meat market at the Safeway store in Mount Vernon.<br />
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<center style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=9050679860222075139&postID=3661535815494483244" name="Mahaffie2">Mahaffie</a> goes to army, change in market manager</b> </center> <center style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <b>Sedro-Woolley <i>Courier-Times</i>, Aug. 5, 1943 </b> </center> <b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> John Pittington, manager of the Safeway meat market at Mount Vernon, has taken over Bob Mahaffie's Market in the Parker Dependable Grocery building [southeast corner of Ferry and Metcalf streets, Swastika building], for the duration of the war. Mahaffie reports this week at Fort Lewis for active duty in the army. Pitting-ton will be assisted in the market by his wife.<br />
Shortly before being drafted, Mahaffie had arranged to take over Crossman's market at the Tradewell store, as Royce Crossman, proprietor, on account of poor health, is retiring from business for a year or two. This market will now be managed by Nels Enberg, with Pete Kilgo continuing as his associate in the business. Enberg has been employed for several months at the Mahaffie market.<br />
[<i>Journal</i> Ed. note: At that time, state law dictated that the butcher shop in any grocery store be separate from the grocery section. Most often there was a different manager who leased the butcher section. In Mahaffie's case, his shop was solely devoted to butchering and wholesale and retail sale of meat.]</b><br />
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[<i>Journal</i> Ed. note: Jac Running (Jacob Ben) originally owned a small neighborhood grocery store at 319 Gibson street, a block north of the Great Northern tracks, in the residential district, a block away from the original P.A. Woolley mansion. Jac was born in North Dakota in 1891 and his Norwegian-immigrant parents — Martin Johan and Anna Margarethe Running, moved to Sedro-Woolley sometime in his childhood. Their address in the 1913 Polk Directory is RD1, which probably means they lived somewhere in the Skiyou-Utopia area. Running became most famous locally for his talent as a musician. Several old timers have recounted that he performed in the John Philip Sousa band. Sousa (1854-1932). Sousa was widely recognized as the "king of the American march." and a writer "for the feet instead of the head." Sousa's band performed all over the country, including many times in Seattle, but we suspect that Sousa performed with the band regionally rather than nationally because he would have been too young to march with Sousa's national band in its heyday.<br />
In September 1926 he organized a 21-piece Drum and Bugle Corps band for the Sedro-Woolley American Legion post #43, which consisted of ten bugles, nine sets of drums and two leaders. At that time he also sold sheet music out of his store. He married one of the pioneer debutantes of Woolley, Ruth Bovey Shrewsbury, the granddaughter of the Bovey family who owned one of the first boarding houses in old Sedro by the river in 1889, and the daughter of a Woolley pioneer and mill owner, Homer Shrewsbury. She was also an accomplished musician and dancer. In the 1920s, bands such as the one led by Running often marched in a funeral cortege with lodge dignitaries all the way from downtown to the Wicker cemetery, and on Memorial, Fourth of July and Armistice Day ceremonies. Running was a World War I veteran, but we have no details of his service. We hope that a reader who is a descendant of any of those families will share family historical details with us and especially a photo of Jac and/or Ruth.]</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: garamond,times new roman,times;">for a complete reading about sedro-woolley during this period, just click <a href="http://www.stumpranchonline.com/skagitjournal/S-W/Odds/OddsS-W04-0602-Business2.html" style="color: red;">here</a> .</span></b></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<b>Following American involvement in the war manufacturers around the US became as efficient at producing war machines as they had been producing other goods with companies like ford and GM managing to change from cars to bombs and aircraft engines and at the same time due to the number of men overseas fighting the war using more women for manufacturing a total of 18 million women were employed. Due to shortages America sees it's first rationing. Italian and German forces surrender in North Africa as the war in Europe starts to turn the Allies way. The Glenn Miller Orchestra provided the most popular music of the time. <br />
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<u>How Much things cost in 1943</u></b><br />
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Average Cost of new house $3,600.00<br />
Average wages per year $2,000.00<br />
Cost of a gallon of Gas 15 cents<br />
Average Cost for house rent $40.00 per month<br />
Bottle Coca Cola 5 cents<br />
Average Price for a new car $900.00 <br />
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<u>World War II 1943</u></b><br />
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U.S. - The Pentagon, considered to be the world’s largest office building is completed - In the United States, it is announced that <i>shoe rationing Canned food, meat, cheese, butter and cooking oils will go into effect </i></b><br />
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<b> Poland - German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Krakow. <br />
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Germany - German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces. <br />
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UK - British deception plan " The Man Who Never Was" or Operation Mincement executed. <br />
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Italy - Mussolini Resigns in Italy and Surrender Of Italy is announced on September 8th <br />
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Hungary - Budapest more than 2,000 citizens sent to Concentration Camps <br />
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U.S. - America takes control of Guadalcanal <br />
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Iran - The Allied leaders of Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union meet for the first time in Iran<br />
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UK - The Dambuster Raids by RAF 617 Sqdn on 17th May on German dams <br />
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Poland - Warsaw Jewish Ghetto Uprising against the Nazi's <br />
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Germany - The British and Americans bomb Hamburg on July 24th causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians. <br />
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U.S. - Future President Lt. John F. Kennedy's command the PT-109 is sunk by a Japanese destroyer <br />
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U.S. - US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the supreme Allied commander<br />
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<b><u>Events of 1943</u></b><br />
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U.S. - Great Depression ends in the United States: With unemployment figures falling fast due to World War II-related employment <br />
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U.S. - The Works Progress Administration ( PWA ) designed to provide jobs during the Great Depression of the 1930's is ended.<br />
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U.S. - Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C is Completed<br />
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U.S. - Due to shortages in Copper the U.S. one-cent coin is struck in steel <br />
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U.S. - Montana Coal and Iron Company Explosion Kills 74 <br />
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India - Bengal, India famine leaving up to 3 million dead.<br />
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Lebanon - Lebanon Gains Independence From France <br />
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U.S. - "Pay As You Go tax" introduced in US<br />
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U.S. - Car Tax Registration introduced in US <br />
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U.S. - The Pentagon in Washington D.C. is Completed </b><br />
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</span></b></div></div>GYPSYWOMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03042621041213415958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050679860222075139.post-37098295714213765102010-12-30T18:00:00.006-05:002012-07-13T13:49:03.528-04:00THE STORY OF ME...[updated july 13, 2012]<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">as a true LEO, it was only fitting that i came into this world with all the drama befitting one of such stature - and so, in utero it seems that i was playing hulahoops with my umbilical cord which i wound round and round my little short neck - which meant a theatrical appearance at birth - according to my father, who loved to tell this tale, i was the color of the penny minted in 1943 </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"> - because of the war effort, this was the only year that copper was not used in the penny composition, thereby resulting in a zinc-coated steel-colored penny - </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">and, also according to this teller of tales, the doctors indicated they would not wager the copperless penny that i would survive the feat of my strangulating birth - so i was immediately immersed into tubs of alternating hot and cold water in an attempt to resuscitate/shock my little lungs and heart - well, the end result is obvious - here i am - none the worse for wear and tear - </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">in addition to the black penny birth story is the story told by my mother - and written in my babybook - of somewhere in the hospital at the time of my birth, a choral group was singing “when the roll is called up yonder” - and then, there is the fact that i was born on a wednesday - wednesday, the day whose children are allegedly full of woe - having been born on the middle day of the week, i was also the middle child of three children -</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">be all that as it may, this is the story of my physical entry into this world - </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">my birth is announced with all the fanfare of the day...</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>and these were the first posts all about ME:</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">following my birth in the midst of world war II it was necessary for me, an infant, to be issued a war ration book by the federal government aka BIG BROTHER - and, accordingly, <span style="font-size: x-large;">they took away my name and issued me a number 247990DX:</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">seattle is nearby - a beautiful drive - and from the air just as beautiful:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>for more beauty, </b></span><b><span style="font-size: large;">just follow the seattle floating bridge to the magestic mount ranier:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>- while i have no conscious memories of my life in washington, all my life i have felt such an affinity for the mountains - i can smell the trees and hear the bubbling mountain streams still - a few months before my first birthday, my parents took us into canada - but i've no photos of that journey -</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>awaiting my arrival home was my three year old big sister, jerelyn charlene [born october 29, 1940] - until my birth, she had been the "only child" of our parents - the apple of our father's eye [he called her "jeri" because he'd wanted a boy or so it was said] - so my showing up was a challenge but one that she seemed to enjoy at least, at times, and/or as these photos seem to indicate [end of august to mid september 1943]:</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"> all of my little wardrobe was handmade [including blankets, booties, bonnets, coats, gowns, and dresses] either by my mother or by my paternal aunt mae nash -</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">my big sister had a matching ensemble, handmade, as well, and we were dressed in these for our studio portrait here - </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">as i seem to be saying in this photo made when i was 10 months old, i was never one for the prissy little organza frocks that i was destined to wear and would much have preferred the barest necessities for modesty's sake only: </span></b></div>
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</div>GYPSYWOMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03042621041213415958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050679860222075139.post-50457766496503016552010-05-12T15:24:00.004-04:002010-08-29T15:44:48.020-04:00THE MCGALLIARDS - CLARISSA CAROLINE MCGALLIARD my paternal grandmother<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/S-r9i_GBbEI/AAAAAAAAEIo/56bIEDomnes/s1600/McGalliard+crest+from+mary+lou+mcg+%282%29.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/S-r9i_GBbEI/AAAAAAAAEIo/56bIEDomnes/s400/McGalliard+crest+from+mary+lou+mcg+%282%29.jpg" width="276" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>THE MCGALLIARD FAMILY CREST</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>IRELAND</b></div><br />
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</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>MCGALLIARD HOME PRESENT DAY</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>BUILT _____</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>_________, NORTH CAROLINA</b></div>GYPSYWOMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03042621041213415958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050679860222075139.post-87977321250307496862009-09-08T20:41:00.053-04:002010-07-11T18:22:24.100-04:00RUTH PERRY ROWAN LYNN GILSTRAP - early life - WITH ADDITIONS 10/13/09<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/Sqb-5Q7wJ2I/AAAAAAAACVM/2YXdjqYYrkY/s1600-h/1906+1222+ruth+crop.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379267064692221794" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/Sqb-5Q7wJ2I/AAAAAAAACVM/2YXdjqYYrkY/s400/1906+1222+ruth+crop.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 308px;" /></a><span style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold;">winifred alwilda "ruth" perry<br />
born august 22, 1906<br />
photo december 1906<br />
4 months of age<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold;">born on a _____, in ______________, at 2:00 pm, she weighed 9 lbs<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold;">she died on february 26, 1977, while hospitalized at glenwood hospital, west monroe, louisiana, from complications of pneumonia - at that time, she lived in monroe, across the ouachita river from west monroe - her burial is in the gilstrap plot in the winnfield louisiana cemetary - </span></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/Sqb-p48I1YI/AAAAAAAACVE/N5GvWCkSaOM/s1600-h/1908+ruth+parents+crop.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379266800553350530" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/Sqb-p48I1YI/AAAAAAAACVE/N5GvWCkSaOM/s400/1908+ruth+parents+crop.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 282px;" /></a><span style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold;">ruth 1909<br />
3 years old<br />
with parents<br />
george franklyn perry<br />
cora agnes rowan perry</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/Sqb-O7zkmQI/AAAAAAAACUk/qW2W1kM78Kw/s1600-h/1912+ruth+reverse+photo+handwriting.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379266337466259714" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/Sqb-O7zkmQI/AAAAAAAACUk/qW2W1kM78Kw/s400/1912+ruth+reverse+photo+handwriting.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 271px;" /></a><span style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold;">handwritten notes on back of photo <i>above</i> indicate</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br />
</span><span style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold;">hair dark brown - eyes light brown</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br />
</span><span style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold;">dress white - bracelet gold</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">address on card handwritten by cora agnes rowan perry</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">lace cloth dress - coral beads and coral colored ribbon</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">the card is addressed to mr and mrs j sullivan<br />
"mrs j sullivan" is MARY ELIZABETH [BETTY] HAYES ROWAN - mother of cora agnes [granny]<br />
mary elizabeth, after the death of cora's father, in ____,<br />
married again - this time<br />
to JACKSON SULLIVAN in 1912 -<br />
jackson sullivan died in 1937 and is buried in childress texas<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">age 13</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">ruth wilson [left] and ruth perry [right]</span><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">ruth wilson was the best friend of mother - she used to tell stories of how they were often thought to be twins because they looked so much alike even though they were not related at all</span> -</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">on june 11, 1922, two [2] months before her 16th birthday, she married for the first time, to RAY JOSEPH RAINES, from whom she was divorced april 12, 1926 [caddo parish louisiana?]</span></div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">identity of man unknown unless RAY JOSEPH RAINES* or PICKETT PRICE LYNN</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">it is known that she and raines were divorced april 12 1926</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">[*his last name is often spelled RAINS which is believed to be the original spelling] </span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">ruth perry raines and JOHN PHILLIP RAINES</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">born april 21, 1923</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">died april 24, 1935</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">photo on louisiana avenue school steps - shreveport louisiana</span><br />
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<div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;">of her marriage to ray raines, she had one child, john phillip raines, born april 21, 1923, during the time that they lived at 1304 oakland street, shreveport, caddo parish, louisiana - handwritten notes on the back of this photo reflect date and location and that she handmade the gray coat she is wearing here -<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">john phil on the left - ruth's friend rachel and her son</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">shreveport louisiana</span><br />
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<b>note on back of card says "allen and john phil - odessa texas 1930"</b><br />
<b>the identity of allen is unknown</b><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">age 24</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">hobbs new mexico</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">handwritten notes on the back of this photo give the date and location -</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">john phil would have been 7 years old but there are no pictures of him taken in hobbs</span><br />
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<div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;">this may have been taken also in hobbs new mexico but the exact location is not known - there are no notes on the back of this picture - <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/TDo-ZNQS8iI/AAAAAAAAEhQ/WN_YvE-8Em4/s1600/PD_0025.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/TDo-ZNQS8iI/AAAAAAAAEhQ/WN_YvE-8Em4/s400/PD_0025.JPG" width="385" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">photo of her mother, cora agnes rowan perry, made on this same blanket in front of this scrub brush tree - the film markings on the back of this photo and on the photo of her behind the umbrella [where the location is known as hobbs] is the same on both photos - and the film print numbers are the same which would seem to indicate that at least the photos were made from the same roll of film - </div></div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">1930</span><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">again, no notes on photo to define date and location, but the location seems to be the same as the one known definitively to taken in hobbs new mexico</span></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/Sqb8d5NT0-I/AAAAAAAACS0/tPz3qTD5zwY/s1600-h/1930ca+rock+fence.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379264395443688418" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/Sqb8d5NT0-I/AAAAAAAACS0/tPz3qTD5zwY/s400/1930ca+rock+fence.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 335px;" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">ca. 1930</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">neither date nor location are known for sure</span><br />
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<b>ca. 1925-1930</b><br />
<b>no date on photo but her handwritten note below on reverse is to her mother, cora agnes</b><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/Sqb8WtGA5vI/AAAAAAAACSs/PwtubwmP9nY/s1600-h/1933+05+or+06+pickett+lynn.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379264271932778226" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/Sqb8WtGA5vI/AAAAAAAACSs/PwtubwmP9nY/s400/1933+05+or+06+pickett+lynn.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 241px;" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">ruth perry raines lynn<br />
pickett price lynn<br />
born june 22, 1902 - tula rosa new mexico<br />
died april 5, 1936 - lamesa texas<br />
</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">photo may or june 1933</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">the man is thought to be PICKETT PRICE LYNN since they were married april 14, 1933 -</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">the handwritten notes on the back of the card indicate the date but not his identity - the other words written are "read patio" but where that is remains unknown</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">abilene texas</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">cora agnes rowan perry berry and ruth's first son, john phillip raines</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/Sqb6mzNrK-I/AAAAAAAACR0/_YfpWWFl7O8/s1600-h/1934+dec+john+phil.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379262349430172642" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/Sqb6mzNrK-I/AAAAAAAACR0/_YfpWWFl7O8/s400/1934+dec+john+phil.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 287px;" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">december 1934</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">john phil</span><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">just four [4] months after this picture was made, on april 24, 1935, just twelve [12] years old, john phil died - if memory serves, we were told that he developed appendisitis and died as a result of complications - mother never ever recovered from his death and always kept a pictoral shrine of him in our home - john phil was buried in mount zion cemetary in marthaville louisiana, the home town of his father - anytime our family was traveling anywhere near marthaville when we were children, we always made a side trip to visit his grave - </span></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold;">ca. 1930-1935</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">again, definitive time and location undetermined</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">top photo is dated june 16, 1929 and appears to be at same location of one below -</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">no notes on other photo to indicate date nor identities of either man</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">the taller man on left is believed to be cb berry, ruth's stepfather, although this is not certain</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">the other man is unknown as is the location of the photograph</span></span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">HER EARLY LIFE STORY</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">the early life of our mother was tumultuous to say the least - from what she told us, her parents were not happy from the time of her youngest memories - according to her, her father was controlling and her mother apparently, like most women of her time, did not, often, anyway, contradict her husband - her mother and father divorced ca. 1928 and ultimately, her mother re-married, as did her father -</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">her mother's second marriage was to CB BERRY, a texas businessman who, at the time of his death, was a very wealthy lubbock resident and owned at least one large hotel there - my grandmother and cb married __________, 19____ -<br />
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</span><span style="font-size: 100%;">her father's second marriage was to EUNICE FAYE PICKARD - she was actually four [4] months younger than our mother, having been born december 25, 1906 - papa perry and faye [we were not allowed to refer to her as our grandmother, but only as papa perry's wife], married december 24, 1937 - they had no children of their own and the story from our mother was that when they were about to marry, they came to her and told her and she told them that they must never have a child of their own - and they did not - to say that the relationship between our mother and our grandfather's wife was strained is to put it mildly - [however, when, as children, my brother and sister and i visited them in new mexico, i have only happy memories] -</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">during the 1920's-1930's mother and her mother spent a great deal of time together, some of it traveling - in those years, the two of them wrote poetry prolificly and there are several volumes of their poetry which are now being prepared for publishing -</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">as mentioned above, john phil, mother's first born, was the apple of her eye - she adored him totally and from his death, she never recovered - two [2] years before his death, she married pickett lynn who she called her "cowboy" - with john phil the child of her love, pickett was the man of her love - she and pickett were married in 1933 and on april 5, 1936, he was tragically killed in an automobile accident to which she was witness - as a matter of fact, it was the car in which she was riding that struck and killed him - the story was that she and pickett were out with friends of theirs, headed to a picnic, the women in one car and the men in the lead car - at some point, the car door next to pickett opened somehow as they drove, he fell out of the car and was hit and run over by the car in which our mother was a passenger - he died in lamesa texas and was buried in big springs texas, just north of town - like john phil's grave, whenever our family traveled and were within 100 miles of the cemetery, we made a side trip for our mother to visit his grave - our father never complained -</span></div><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br />
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<div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">CHRONOLOGY:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">june 1, 1922 she married ray joseph raines [also sometimes spelled "rains"]</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">april 21, 1923 her child john phil born</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">april 12, 1926 she divorced ray raines</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">____, 1928 her parents divorce</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">_______, 1930 her father's mother dies</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">april 14, 1933 she married pickett price lynn</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">april 24, 1935 her child john phil died</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">may 17, 1935 her maternal grandmother mary elizabeth hayes rowan - sullivan [granny] dies</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">april 4, 1936 her husband pickett lynn killed</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">_____, 1937 her step-grandfather [jackson sullivan] dies</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">__________, ___ her mother re-marries</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">december 24, 1937 her father re-marries</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">april 30-may 1, 1938 marries our father</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">march 12, 1939 her mother, cora rowan perry berry, died</span></div></div>GYPSYWOMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03042621041213415958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050679860222075139.post-32159291976545778332009-09-08T20:39:00.058-04:002011-04-19T17:15:54.781-04:00THE GILSTRAPS revised 02/12/2011 IN PROGRESS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/S4G0jzvCzmI/AAAAAAAADzs/EwiwqjIPXJI/s1600-h/kizie+bloyd+yoes+wife+of+william+conrad+yoes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br />
</a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/S4G1SUVHMFI/AAAAAAAADz0/P0bW3_EjXe8/s1600-h/charles+jr.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/S4G1SUVHMFI/AAAAAAAADz0/P0bW3_EjXe8/s400/charles+jr.jpg" width="302" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>CHARLES HERBERT GILSTRAP aka JACK</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"> MY FATHER</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">born may 1, 1909 saint paul, madison county, arkansas<br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">died december 19, 1961 monroe, ouachita parish, louisiana</span></span></b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">married</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>RUTH PERRY ROWAN LYNN</i> [MOTHER] april 30-may 1, 19___</span></span></b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> born august 22, 1906 _________</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">died february __, 197___ west monroe, ouachita parish, louisiana</span></span></b></div><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">it is taken at the home of MAMA STRAP in winnfield, winn parish, louisiana - </span></span></span></b><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">the newspaper article announces the marriage of our parents at exactly the hour of midnight saturday, april 30 - therefore, the date[s] on their marriage license are april 30 and may 1 - planned by them so as to have the two dates with may 1 being the birthday of our father - their wedding ceremony was performed by Reverend John S. Rankin at the First Baptist Church in Seagraves Texas - their witnesses were Mildred McGaha and Mr. Coty of Seagreaves - our mother at that time was the night cashier at the Club Cafe in Seagreaves and our father was employed in Seminole where they made their home - </span></span></b><i><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">children of this union</span></span></b></i></div></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">JERELYN CHARLENE GILSTRAP born october 29, 1940</span></span></b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">JENEAN CORETTE GILSTRAP born august 11, 1943 sedro woolley, skagit county, washington</span></span></b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">CHARLES GORDON GILSTRAP born september 14, 1945 __________ died march 27, 1991 _________, ____ county, arkansas </span></b><b><span style="font-size: small;"> <br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">OBITUARY OF CHARLES HERBERT GILSTRAP <br />
</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">From: January 4, 1962 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Chas. H. Gilstrap Is Buried Here Saturday, Dec. 30</span></b></div><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Funeral services for Charles Herbert Gilstrap, 52, of Monroe, were held at 10 a.m. Saturday, December 30, 1961, at the Southern Funeral Home Chapel in Winnfield with Dr. W. L. Holcomb officiating. Burial was in the Winnfield Cemetery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Acting as pallbearers were Harper Terrill, Jim Watts, Welby Willis, Gordon Bullitt, Hovey Harrell and Raymond Dubois.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Gilstrap, who was in the construction business in Monroe, spent his boyhood in Winnfield, and moved to Monroe after World War II. He died Friday in a Monroe hospital after a short illness. He is the son of Mrs. Charles Gilstrap, Sr., of Winnfield.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Besides his mother, he leaves his wife; two daughters, Jerlyn Gilstrap and Mrs. Jenean Fuller, all of Monroe; two brothers, J. M. Gilstrap of Monroe and Bill Gilstrap of Winnfield; three sisters, Mrs. E. E. Nash and Mrs. Norman Smith, both of Winnfield, and Mrs. A. V. Ratcliff of Minden; and one grandchild.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>[this is the actual newspaper obituary - however, some of the information is inaccurate and/or other is missing - but quoted verbatim for authenticity purposes here] </i><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">When PapaStrap and MamaStrap married, he was just a month over the age of 20 and she was just a month short of her twentieth birthday. They were both residents of St. Paul, Madison County, Arkansas at the time of their marriage and here is a copy of the marriage license issued to them june 29, 1904, for their july 2, 1904 marriage:</span></span></b></div></div></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">children of this union</span></span></i></b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">LAURA MAE GILSTRAP born _________, 1905, _________ died ___________, 19___ winnfield, winn parish, louisiana</span></span></b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">MILDRED FAY GILSTRAP born _______, 1907 _________ died _________, 19___ _______________</span></span></b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">CHARLES HERBERT GILSTRAP</span> [AKA JACK] born may 1, 1909 ________, died december __, 196___,monroe, ouachita parish, louisiana</span></span></b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">JESSE MARION GILSTRAP born ______, 1914 _________ died __________ _______________</span></span></b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">MARY FRANCES GILSTRAP born ________, 1915 ___________ died ____________ _________________</span></span></b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">WILLIAM CLARK GILSTRAP born ____________, 1921 ______________ died _________1956 winnfield, winn parish, louisiana</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">CARL GILSTRAP born _________, 19___, _____________ died _________,19___ winnfield, winn parish, louisiana</span></b><b><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></b></span><br />
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<pre> </pre><pre><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Biography of Charles Gilstrap*</b></i></span></pre><pre><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Source: Chambers' "History of Louisiana", 1925. </b></i></span></pre><pre><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Submitted by Greggory Ellis Davies, </b></i></span></pre><pre><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Winnfield, Winn Parish, La.</b></i></span>
Charles Gilstrap was born at Winslow, Washington County, Arkansas, June 15, 1884, </pre><pre style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>the son of Jesse and Frances A. Yoes Gilstrap. His parents were born at the same</b></span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>place. The father spent his active business life in the timber and mercantile </b></span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>business. All of the sons of this family worked in the same industry. They are </b></span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>W. C., T. J., J. F., W. O., and Charles. </b></span>
<b>Charles was educated at Fayetteville, Arkansas, and at age nineteen, engaged in </b></pre><pre><b>the timber business, supplying ties and timber to the Kansas City and Southern </b></pre><pre><b>Railway. In 1920 he moved his operation to Winn Parish, Louisiana, first to </b></pre><pre><b>Dodson, then Winnfield. He was the founder and active head of Southern Tie and </b></pre><pre><b>Timber Company headquartered at Winnfield, incorporating same in 1924. At that </b></pre><pre><b>time J. S. P. Porter became vice-president and L. H. Pace, secretary-treasurer.
In 1904 he married Miss Clara McCallard, of Madison County, Arkansas. They had </b></pre><pre><b>four sons and three daughters: Max, Fay, Charles, Jr., Carl, Jessie, Francis, </b></pre><pre><b>and Betty.*</b></pre><pre> </pre><pre>- *It should be noted that not all this </pre><pre>information is accurate - however, it is </pre><pre>reproduced here verbatim as reflected in the </pre><pre>original document -
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">- this 1918 draft card shows their home in Mayfield, Washington County, Arkansas, at this time - papastrap's employment is that of material and warehouse man for a company called Mid-Co Gasoline Company in Billings, Nohle, Oklahoma - this is a short synopsis of that company and its pipeline business:</span></b></span><br />
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MID-CO TRANSPORTATION COMPANY 1st<br />
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Serial 7s. Dae quarterly Sept., Dee.»<br />
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Mar. and Jane 15th, as follows: $50,000<br />
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from Dec. 15, 1919, to Dee. 15, 1920, and<br />
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£55,000 from Mar. 15, 1921 to Jane 16, 1923.<br />
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Dated June 15, 1919. Interest payable Sept.. Dec, Mar. and June 15 at Trustee's office.<br />
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Tax Status—Payment of Federal Income<br />
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Tax not assumed by the company.<br />
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Authorized $800.000<br />
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Outstanding 800,000<br />
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Purpose of Issue—To provide funds for the purchase of forty-five miles completed pipe line from Mid-Co Gasoline Company's refinery at West Tu!a;i, to the Winona pool In the Osage Nation, Oklahoma, and for constructing and equipping a six-inch Une from Black Bear, where it connects with the Mid-Co Gasoline Company's eight-Inch line to Billings field, to a point on the Winona line, a distance of about 66 miles, passing through the Osage oil fieidS.<br />
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Denomination—Coupon, $1.000, registrable as to principal.<br />
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Trustee—Continental & Commercial Trust & Savings Bank, Chicago.<br />
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Redeemable as a whole or in part on any Interest date at 101 and interest upon SO days notice.<br />
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Sinking Fund—The Mid-Co Petroleum Company and the Mid-Co Gasoline Company, Joint Jessees, guarantee the payment of both principal and interest by depositing with the Trustee on*the 15th day of each month, beginning July 15, 1919. amounts equivalent to the monthly accruals of both principal and Interest of all outstanding bonds of the Mld-Cc Transportation Company.<br />
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Guaranteed by endorsement by M. M. Travis, president and principal stockholder of the Mid-Co Petroleum Company and Mid-Co Gasoline Company.<br />
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Organization and Control—Ownership and manne*merit of this company is practically the same as that of the Mid-Co Petroleum Company and the Mid-Co Gasoline Company, these, three compank-s belnp operated as one organization. Mid-Co Petroleum Company and Mid-Co Gasoline Company Jointly lease and agree to control, maintain and operate this company's pipe line, paying In consideration thereof a monthly rental sufficient to meet monthly accruals of both maturing principal and Interest of this bond Issue. Also to pay all taxes, cost and expense of replacing and opera ting properties of the company. This lease remains )n full force and effect during the life of these bonds and may not be cancelled, modified, assigned or surrendered as long as any of these bonds or interest thereon are unpaid, without the consent of the Trustee.<br />
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Original Market—Offered June. 1919, by Stern Brothers & Company. Kansas City, Mo..<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">the image here of the 1930 winnfield, winn parish, louisiana, census shows the residence of mamastrap and papastrap on maple street [lines 48-50 pg. 1] - </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">this was, in fact, their home until papastrap lost the house in a poker game, so the story goes - and they then bought the house on north boundary street that we grew up in and that they both lived in until their deaths - </span></b></span><br />
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</b></span></div><div style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>papastrap was <span style="font-weight: bold;">born june </span>15, 1884</b></span></div><div style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>papastrap <span style="font-weight: bold;">died june </span>2, 1946</b></span></div><div style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>papastrap's father <span style="font-weight: bold;">died in june </span>1933</b></span></div><div style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>his mother's mother was <span style="font-weight: bold;">born in june</span> 1837</b></span></div><div style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>mamastrap's father <span style="font-weight: bold;">died in june</span> 1908</b></span></div><div style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>his brother [who just died] <span style="font-weight: bold;">died on may 31</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">within hours of june </span>1946 and was <span style="font-weight: bold;">buried june</span> 1946</b></span></div><div style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>his brother [who just died] was <span style="font-weight: bold;">married in june </span>1925</b></span></div><div style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>his brother who had just died were <span style="font-weight: bold;">born in june</span> [1886]</b></span></div><div style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>another brother <span style="font-weight: bold;">died in june</span> [1970]</b></span></div><div style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>two [2] sisters <span style="font-weight: bold;">died in june</span> [1961 and 1950]</b></span></div><div style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>papastrap's date of birth numerologically is <span style="font-weight: bold;">33</span> and his date of death is <span style="font-weight: bold;">11</span> - both master numbers</b></span></div><div style="color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>his brother's [who just died] numerological death date is<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">11</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">OBITUARY FOR CHARLES GILSTRAP</span></span></b></span><br />
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</span></b></span></div><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Obituaries: Charles S. Gilstrap, 1946, Winn Parish, LA.</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">**********************************************</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">http://usgwarchives.org/la/lafiles.htm </span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">**********************************************</span></b><br />
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><b>From: June 7, 1946 Winnfield News-American<br />
Charles S. Gilstrap Funeral Conducted Wednesday A. M.<br />
Prominent Winnfield Lumberman Dies Of Heart Attack</b><br />
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</b></div><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Funeral services for Charles S. Gilstrap, 61, who died of a heart attack early Monday morning at Coffeyville, Kansas, were conducted at the chapel of Southern Funeral Home at 10 a.m., Wednesday, with the Rev. Alwin Stokes, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, officiating. Interment was in the Winnfield Cemetery.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Mr. Gilstrap's death was preceded Friday by that of his brother, T. J. Gilstrap, also by heart attack and also in Coffeyville. Charles Gilstrap and his son, Jack, of Winnfield, had left Saturday by automobile for Coffeyville to attend T. J. Gilstrap's funeral on Monday. Charles Gilstrap retired at about 8 p.m. Sunday, and was found dead at 8 a.m. Monday by his son.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Born June 15, 1884, Mr. Gilstrap had long been a resident of Winnfield and had been prominent in the Louisiana lumber industry for 35 years and had operated a number of pine and hardwood mills in this state. He was general manager of a lumber mill at Bremerton, Wash., several years ago and was operating a lumber sales office here at the time of his death.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Clara Gilstrap, Winnfield; four sons, William C., Charles, Jr., and Carl Gilstrap of Winnfield and Jesse Gilstrap of Monroe; three daughters, Mrs. May Nash and Mrs. Norman A. Smith, both of Winnfield, and Mrs. Fay Ratcliff of Minden; his mother, Mrs. P. A. Gilstrap of Fayetteville, Ark.; two brothers, William Gilstrap of Fayetteville and James Gilstrap of Coffeyville, Kansas; and a sister, Mrs. Mary Castile of St. Paul, Ark.</span></b><br />
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</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>JESSE GILSTRAP</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">MY GREAT GRANDFATHER</span> <br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b>born august 5, 1859 woolsey, washington county, arkansas</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b>died june 6, 1933 st paul, madison county, arkansas</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b><i>married</i><span style="font-size: large;"><i> </i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>FRANCES ABIGALE YOES</i></span> [aka <span style="font-size: large;"><i>FANNY</i></span>] on July 5, 1877 </b><br />
<b>in winslow, washington county, arkansas</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b>born november 22, 1862 greenland, arkansas</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>died april 17, 1952 fayetteville, arkansas</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">[Full credit to Marguerite Gilstrap's "Our Gilstrap Grandparents" notebook, Washington DC, December 1977, from which the following is taken, with much love, gratitude and appreciation for allowing us, the great grandchildren, to know our family] BOTH my great grandparents were born in washington county, arkansas, and were descended from colonists who came to this country in the mid-18th century and who fought in the revolutionary war, with their grandchildren beginning to move westeard in the early 1800's - </span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">all four of FANNY's grandparents were in what is now washington county, arkansas, by 1830, six years before arkansas became a state - JESSE's father's parents [<span style="font-size: large;">THOMAS JOHN GILSTRAP </span>and <span style="font-size: large;">ANN MARY McCLENDON</span> - <i>section below</i>] arrived in the county by the mid-1840's - </span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">FANNY was born in a cabin in the path of soldiers gathering to fight the battle of prairie grove - JESSE's father died within six [6] months of his enlistment in the union army - </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/Su3VIg87upI/AAAAAAAADDw/xLmiPgbYEZ4/s1600-h/jacob+yoes+father+of+frances+abigail+ca.+1880s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/Su3VIg87upI/AAAAAAAADDw/xLmiPgbYEZ4/s400/jacob+yoes+father+of+frances+abigail+ca.+1880s.jpg" width="292" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the young couple grew up in the shadow of the aftermath of that tragic war - they began their married life on a little farm near the home of her parents, <span style="font-size: large;">JACOB YOES</span> [photo left] and MARY ANN REED [photo right] [more about JACOB and MARY ANN below] - </span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/Su3W8lMw2CI/AAAAAAAADD4/UWsWGrC-ppA/s1600-h/mary+ann+catherine+reed+married+jacob+yoes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/Su3W8lMw2CI/AAAAAAAADD4/UWsWGrC-ppA/s400/mary+ann+catherine+reed+married+jacob+yoes.jpg" width="293" /></a><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">with the coming of the railroad, JESSE joined FANNY's father and brothers in operating stores along the frisco line - at the age of forty-nine [49], JESSE retired from the mercantile business and seven [7] years later, bought the farm where they lived and spent many happy visits with their grandchildren - JESSE died in 1933 and was the first death in their immediate family - FANNY outlived two of their daughters and three of their sons when she died at the age of 89 in 1952 - </span></b><br />
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</span></b></div><b><i>children of this union</i></b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><b>WALTER COLUMBUS GILSTRAP</b><b> born july 6, 1878 died january 18, 1946</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><b>MARY ELIZABETH GILSTRAP born november 23, 1879</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><b>LUCY MAY GILSTRAP born may 29, 1881 died may 6, 1941</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><b>ROSA BELL GILSTRAP born december 8, 1882 died june 1950</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">CHARLES GILSTRAP</span> [aka <span style="font-size: large;">PAPA STRAP</span>] born june 15, 1884 died june 2, 1946</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><b>THOMAS JACOB [JAKE] GILSTRAP born november 10, 1886 schaberg, crawford county, arkansas</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><b>died may 30, 1946</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><b>married JESSIE STEWART june 17, 1925</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><b>JAMES FRANKLIN born may 10, 1888 mountainsburg crawford county, arkansas</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><b>died _______</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><b>married JOSEPHINE MARROW born 1881 died 1971</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><b>WILLIAM OLIVER McKINLEY born september 8, 1899 westford, washington county, arkansas</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><b>died________</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">married EULA MARIE LINDLEY on december 12, 1921 </span></b><b></b><br />
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</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/SuTmikEmKTI/AAAAAAAAC8U/dEANHXvACaY/s1600-h/jesse+gilstrap+with+son+walter+gilstrap+and+friend+tom+king+ca+1884.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/SuTmikEmKTI/AAAAAAAAC8U/dEANHXvACaY/s400/jesse+gilstrap+with+son+walter+gilstrap+and+friend+tom+king+ca+1884.jpg" /></a></div></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>this tintype image [left] is of JESSE GILSTRAP, WALTER GILSTRAP and a friend tom king and is the oldest picture of JESSE and his and FRANCES ABIGAIL'S son, WALTER - here, WALTER appears to be about six years of age, so the photo would date about 1884, shortly after JESSE went into business in winslow, arkansas - JESSE's bowtie is a bit off-centered and he has a somewhat glazed look which might suggest that they were on a holiday and had a drink or two - </b></div><b> <br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">this image of FRANCES ABIGAIL and BABY was made at the same time, about 1884 - the infant she is holding is CHARLIE [PAPA STRAP] - in this photo, also from a tintype, FRANCES ABIGAIL is twenty-two [22] years old and probably had traveled by buggy or wagon or perhaps even by train to have it done -</b><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/SuTotDoOrzI/AAAAAAAAC8k/EtXwBytH3Lw/s1600-h/jesse+and+fannie+frances+abigail+yoes+gilstrap+and+baby+charlie+papastrap+ca+1884.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/SuTotDoOrzI/AAAAAAAAC8k/EtXwBytH3Lw/s400/jesse+and+fannie+frances+abigail+yoes+gilstrap+and+baby+charlie+papastrap+ca+1884.jpg" width="280" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>the picture below of the the couple's sons was made in 1906 in fort smith, arkansas, when the family gathered for the funeral service of GRANDFATHER YOES - WALTER had lived with his grandparents in van buren, arkansas, when he attended fort smith business college - JAKE would soon begin work in a bank in alma in which the YOES family had an interest - the brothers were devoted to each other, enjoyed visiting together and were each eager to help the other in time of trouble - CHARLIE [PAPA STRAP], JAKE and WILLIAM found their careers in the lumber business from the beginning - JIM later went to work for JAKE and WALTER, who had added a lumber yard to the store at saint paul, owned and operated a lumber yard in fredonia, kansas from 1940 until his death - <br />
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<b>in 1912, <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">FANNY [photo below right] is about 50 years old and is a small [5'2"], cheerful lady with a muffin face, dark brown eyes and dark brown hair that she wears parted in the middle and drawn into a bun a the back of her headand any tendrils that are loose, are curly - she is kind and friendly and externally busy -<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">they live in a white cottage in the middle of the block across the street from WALTER and his wife NELL JETER and their children, MARGUERITE and DICK, in saint paul, arkansas - at this time, in addition to two of their sons, JAKE and WILLIAM OLIVER McKINLEY, living with them are FANNY's mother, GRANDMA BROCK, then 73 years old and frail and deaf, and BESS LANSDALE, FANNY's neice, who is about twenty [20] years old - BESS is slender, with fine features and about FANNY's height and coloring - JAKE is tall like his father and is about 26 years old, has his mother's dark eyes and hair and round face - WILLIAM OLIVER McKINLEY is a lively 13-year old with his mother's coloring and frame - </span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">nearby live three other sons, WALTER, age 34, and his wife NELL JETER and their children, DICK and MARGUERITE; <span style="font-size: large;">CHARLIE [PAPA STRAP]</span>, age 28, and his wife <span style="font-size: large;">CLARISSA CAROLINE McGALLAIRD [MAMA STRAP] </span>and their four [4] children, MAE, FAY, <span style="font-size: large;">JACK [CHARLES/DADDY]</span>, and CARL; JIM aged 24, and his wife KATE SWITZER; and MARY who is thirty-two [32] years old, with her husband SILAS CASTEEL -</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">that same year, 1912, ROSE, then 29 and WILL ANDERSON and their boys, EARL, BURL AND new baby HERBERT, will visit from their home in vian, oklahoma, where WILL has a store - LUCY, 31 years old and married to TOM ELLIOTT, write letters often telling about their children and the happenings of the nation's capitol and send pictures of their children, JESSE, MARY FRANCES and VIRGIL - they live in mount ranier, maryland, and TOM is with the US Treasury - his first job had been with the brooklyn nany yard when JESSE visited them then when his first grandchild and namesake was still a baby -</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">JESSE retired in about 1908 from the mercantile business, being worth about $20,000 at that time, with part of it his earnings and savings and part an inheritance from FANNY's father - JESSE's income is from rents on leases on the land they inherited and from interests, with loans paying 12 percent, risky ones at 15% - </span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the furniture in their cottage is simple and functional - an iron bedstead in the living room and two iron bedsteads in each of the bedrooms - there are nice old handmade pieces, too, a table, chest and pie cupboard that were believed to have been made by someone on FANNY's side of the family, maybe her grandfather, CONRAD YOES - there is a little cane-seat high chair which is probably the oldest piece and is thought to have been new when THOMAS JOHN and ANN MARY GILSTRAP got it for JESSE in 1859 - it was used by all eight of JESSE's children and now by his visiting grandchildren - </span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">there is a large picture in the livingroom that dominates the entire room - it's an enlarged photograph in a gilded frame of a very handsome man - FANNY's father, JACOB YOES [see photo above, left] - also in the home are books - there are new sets of the Harvard Classics and the Cambridge edition of Shakespeare that belong to JAKE - others in the shelves belong to BESS, acquired when she was a student in the College of the Ozarks - there is also a novel, a story of romance in Oklahoma Territory, called "Jack Brainerd" and it is written by JOHN W YOES, one of FANNY's brothers - the book was released in 1904 by Eastern Publishing company in boston -</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the home of JESSE and FANNY also has mucical instruments, a violet and a cornet, both which were hung on the wall - JESSE played country music he had heard all his life on his fiddle - always solo - and the horn belonged to JAKE - there is also a shotgun on the living room wall but the GILSTRAP men were not hunters, nor fishermen, although WALTER had a set of fishing rods in a leather case [used only once] - </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">in 1908 WALTER and NELL went with her brother, ED JETER, and his wife, ANNIE JETER, and the JOHN GILLS to boxley, believed to be in newton county, to fish on the buffalo river - the story goes that they went to pettigrew by train and arranged to use teams and wagons from the sawmills - the ladies and children traveled in the rig with the men and their helpers driving the three wagon which carried tents, cots and other camping equipment - one wagon was loaded with hay for the horses and mules - in those days, the trip required an overnight stop - but they had forgotten the suger and went to a nearby farm to buy some - however, the farm family, recent european immigrants speaking little english, welcomed them into their home and were unwilling to take a cent for the molasses they shared - the buffalo river was clear and sparkling and the fish large and abundant - they all had a glorious time - </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">but when they got back to saint paul, JESSE was furious - WALTER had missed the masonic ceremonies for a mr. welton's funeral - it seems that the masonic lodge was JESSE's church - and he and his sons, except for young WILLIAM, attended meetings, held office and took part in the funeral services for fellow masons - the lodge rooms were on the second floor of the school building - FANNY told the story to her grandchildren of how her father, JACOB YOES, having been taken prisoner during the civil war - as he rode through a pass where he would be a target, he held his hand up in a masonic signal and was unharmed -</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">FANNY's social life was family and church centered - she was a shouting methodist and was known to ferventl cry, praise the lord, amen! during sermons - the church she attended was the white one on a hill by the schoolhouse, an interdenominational church that served ministers of various protestant faiths - a presbyterian minister, brother stockburger, would come once a month from fayetteville and NELL, KATE and JIM were in his flock - </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">there was another church in saint paul on the same street as their house and just a block away - the church of christ or campbellites as they were also called - that congregation was about 20 families in size and they sang without accompaniment, with their only musical instrument a tuning fork - </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">during the summer months, a singing teacher spent two or three weeks teaching members and anyone else music with shaped notes - the young people in the family attended the singing school and revivals, too - and those who did stay home could hear the singing and sometimes, the sermons as well - in the summer of 1912, there were no street noises, nothing after the train had made its daily run and the mills had closed for the day - there were no buses, motorcycles, cars - only bird calls, the lowing of cattle, barking dogs, croaking frogs and the roar of a falls that comes into existence down the mountain back of the house after a long rainfall - </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">throughout their lives, JESSE and FANNY were early risers and went to bed early, too - FANNY had chores from sun up till sun down and JESSE's retirement did not affect her schedule - there was no electrical power in saint paul then - they used wood for cooking and heating - WILLIAM was old enough to help bring in the wood, draw the water for washing, the cow and chickens and his pony - and sometimes milking the cow - the GILSTRAP children were taught to take on chores at an early age - </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">WILLIAM was also the one who brought in the groceries and seed from the store - by wheelbarrow - in 1912, the family bought flour and sugar in 50 pound bags, lard in 25 pound stands and at least five pounds of coffee at a time - the coffee was in the bean, and ground fresh each morning - </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the GILSTRAPS like other families in the community ate chicken on sunday - cured pork - bacon or sausage - the rest of the time - there was no butcher shop and no refrigeration in any of the stores - freshly slaughtered beef was bought occasionally from farmers or townsment who arranged to sell it to people who could use it at once -</span></b><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>JACOB YOES</b></span></div><b><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/S4GqNPMpJNI/AAAAAAAADzE/aVu8fjuggyA/s1600-h/jacob+yoes+in+uniform+b12031839+d02061906.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/S4GqNPMpJNI/AAAAAAAADzE/aVu8fjuggyA/s320/jacob+yoes+in+uniform+b12031839+d02061906.jpg" width="268" /></a></b><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>born September 3, 1839 died February 6, 1906</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>married <span style="font-size: large;">MARY ANN REED</span> January 17, 1858 Washington County Arkansas</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
<b>Yoestown, Arkansas - The community of Yoestown received its name from Jacob Yoes, owner of the large plantations on the Arkansas River.</b></div></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>Colonel Yoes, Sergeant in the United States Army at the close of War in 1865, [photo left] was the owner of large mercantile interests along the Frisco railroad at Mountainburg, Chester, Armada, Winslow and West Fork and when he became United States Marshal for the western district of Arkansas in 1889 he began to convert his mercantile interests into lands. In February 1892, he bought the Dillard James lands, 707 acres, and established headquarters at Moore’s Rock. </b><br />
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<b>In 1901 he acquired two hundred acres of the Sidney Austin land to escape the inconvenience and danger of overflow of the Arkansas River. Col. Yoes moved his headquarters to this tract. On this tract, he built a large cotton gin, with seed houses, cotton houses, warehouses, a blacksmith shop, saw mill, grist mill and large store building all for the use of the public. He also built a large eight-room dwelling and thus a wilderness became a prosperous business center, through the organizing genius of one man. Since his death in 1906, the citizens have honored his name by calling the place Yoestown.<i> Pg. 410 History of Crawford County by Clara B. Eno, published by the Van Buren Press Argus 1951.</i></b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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<b>A CIVIL WAR CASUALTY</b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>by Robert G. Winn</b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Flashback Volume 27 No. 1</b></div><br />
<b>The three women who dug the shallow grave to bury a young man that dark night during the War Between the States had no thought of establishing a cemetery. Their only purpose was to give the murder victim a decent burial which would not be discovered by bushwhackers who had fired the fatal shot, and also to avoid retribution that might fall upon them if they themselves were suspected of harboring a member of the enemy forces.</b><br />
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<b>Whether the men who killed the youth were southern sympathizers or merely renegade bushwhackers is not known, as the two accounts of the shooting and the identity of victim in detail.</b><br />
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<b>One version of the story as told by Miss Orphie Edmisten to Mrs. Iris Collier, present owner of the farm on which the cemetery is located is as follows:</b><br />
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<b>It is during the Civil War when most of the able-bodied men were away fighting in the Union or Confederate armies. <i>Jacob Yoes, owner of the farm, was with the Federal troops. </i></b><b><i> His young wife, living alone on the farm, had been joined by two other young wives whose menfolk were away. </i> The identify of the women is not positive. One was a Mrs. Poor; a second was a Mrs. Center. All three of the names are those of earliest pioneers in the southern part of Washington County.</b><br />
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<b>As they went about their tasks of keeping the house and doing what farming they could in the absence fo their men, the women were always alert, listening for any sounds which might herald the approach of the soldiers or marauding bands of dreaded renegade bushwhackers. At the sound of horsemen approaching, all the livestock, poultry or produce that could be hidden was quickly concealed. Much of the fighting in the mountains was carried on by guerrilla groups foraging over the country, taking what they could get their own survival.</b><br />
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<b>As the women worked on this particular day, they were alerted by the sound of a gunshot not far away. Soon horses were heard approaching and a band of renegades rode up the gate. They could be either outlaws or Southern sympathizers in search of Northern soldiers. Mrs. Yoes greeted the men from the doorway of her log cabin. The leader inquired whether she had seen a young soldier. She replied that she had seen no one. The two other women, standing in the background, verified her denial. Three of the men dismounted and with drawn weapons at the ready. The men searched through the house and the outbuildings. Satisfied that nobody was hiding on the premises, they departed without foraging for food or livestock. The were obviously in pursuit of someone who had eluded them.</b><br />
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<b>The women were greatly disturbed by the hot they had heard and the search by the bushwhackers. Who was the object of the search? Was the person one of their own men, trying to return home for a short time away from his regiment? Was he a friend or neighbor - or some other outlaw lurking in the vicinity? As they were thus speculating, they heard a low moan from the weed covered garden near the house. Not knowing what to expect - whether the sound was actually coming from someone in distress or was a decoy to lure them to some unknown danger - they waited. Soon a blue-clad figure was seen moving toward the house and a feeble call for help was heard. Then a young Union soldier appeared. While the women stood immobile with fear and surprise, he dragged himself to the front step, collapsing in a pool of his own blood. Obviously, he was seriously wounded. The shot that the women had heard earlier had found its mark, but the victim had managed to conceal himself, apparently giving the impression that the bullet had missed its target. The men had come by the house and searched in the belief that they had lost their prey.</b><br />
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<b>As quickly as possible, the women tried to bandage the ugly wound, and they managed to get the soldier into the house, out of sight in case the outlaws should return. In spite of their efforts to save him, however, the young man died that day. He was a stranger. A search of his clothing failed to reveal any identifying information. Fearing for their own lives if the outlaws should return and find them digging a grave, the women decided to conceal the body as best they could until after dark and to bury it in the woods across the field from the road and house. They wrapped the body in blankets and, protected by the darkness, carried it across the field and into the even darker protection of the forest. There, they dug a shallow grave and after offering prayers for solace to whoever the family of the youth might be, the women committed the body to the earth. As they feared reprisals if it was discovered that they had performed this act of mercy, they disguised the grave as much as possible to conceal the fact that the earth had been disturbed. Leaves and trash were raked over the spot. A native field stone was placed at the head, but in such a way that a casual observer would think it merely lay there, not that it marked the last resting place of a young man who had been shot down so ruthlessly.</b><br />
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<b>The other version of the incident - told to Mrs. Elsie Center Jones of Fayetteville - is that the teen-aged son of one of the women was in the house with the three women when the bushwhackers were seen approaching. The boy wanted to run out the back door and hide in the woods. His mother, thinking that because of his small stature, the men would not harm him, talked him into staying. She feared that the men would shoot anybody seen fleeing from the house. However, when the outlaws entered the room and saw a young man as large as some youths serving in the military forces, they killed him on the spot. A secret burial at night agrees with the first version. The difference in the stories is that the second version identifies the youth as a member of a local family. The mother was rumored to have grieved the rest of her life, feeling that if she had permitted her son to run as he wanted to do, he might have escaped. Thus, she blamed herself for his death.</b><br />
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<b>Nobody interviewed now knows which version is correct - only that a young man was shot and was buried in the woods and that the location became the Yoes-Collier Cemetery.</b><br />
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<b>The log cabin still stands. Mrs. Collier says that for many years, when rain dampened the step, a dark spot appeared, indicating the place where the young man’s blood had soaked into the wood. </b><br />
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<b>At the top of the hill known as West Mountain, on the road from Winslow to the Devil’s Den State Park, turn left off the blacktop onto the dirt or gravel road, follow this road, keeping right at all forks for the 1.2 miles to the cemetery. No sign of any kind names the place. It is known now as Yoes-Collier, simply because of the ownership of the l and. Only the earliest day Yoes are buried there, and none of the Collier family.</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>THE LAW ENFORCEMENT DAYS OF JACOB</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><i>courtesy of Kathy Weiser's Legends of America </i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b> </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=9050679860222075139&postID=3215929197654577833" name="Jacob “Blake Jake” Yoes">Jacob "Blake Jake” Yoes</a> (1839-1906) - One of the best known of Judge Isaac Parker’s </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <a href="http://www.legendsofamerica.com/law-usmarshals.html"> U.S. Marshals</a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, Yoes was also a miner and an entrepreneur. Born in 1839 in West Fork, </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <a href="http://www.legendsofamerica.com/AR-Mainpage.html">Arkansas</a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> to Reverend Conrad and Kissiah Bloyed Yoes. He left home at the age of 17, later married Mary Ann Reed, and worked in the lead mines in </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Granby</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Missouri</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">. In 1862, he enlisted in the First </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <a href="http://www.legendsofamerica.com/AR-Mainpage.html">Arkansas</a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Cavalry of the U.S. Army where he fought in the Battle at Prairie Grove. During his service, his primary task was fighting bushwhackers, of which, he is said to have killed about 50 men. Along the way, he took shots in both hips and the left leg. In 1864, he refused a 1st Lieutenant's commission and was discharged.</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">and about the same time, was elected as the Washington County Sheriff. Yoes' entrepreneurial spirit continued as he built a number of stores all along the Frisco Railroad between Fayetteville and </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <a href="http://www.legendsofamerica.com/AR-FortSmith.html">Fort Smith</a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, established a flour mill, and owned interests in a canning factory and several hotels. Later, he would also serve in the </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <a href="http://www.legendsofamerica.com/AR-Mainpage.html">Arkansas</a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> legislature. </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: right;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">In May of 1889 he was appointed U.S. Marshal of the West District of </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <a href="http://www.legendsofamerica.com/AR-Mainpage.html">Arkansas</a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> with 200 deputies under his command. Later, he developed a number of real estate interests and the community of Yoestown, </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <a href="http://www.legendsofamerica.com/AR-Mainpage.html">Arkansas</a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> was named for him. Jacob Yoes died February 6, 1906 and was buried in the National Cemetery at </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <a href="http://www.legendsofamerica.com/AR-FortSmith.html">Fort Smith</a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <a href="http://www.legendsofamerica.com/AR-Mainpage.html">Arkansas</a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">. </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>YOESTOWN</b></span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The community of Yoestown received its name from JACOB YOES, owner of large plantations on the Arkansas River. Colonel Yoes, Sergeant in the United States Army at the close of the War in 1865, was the owner of large mercantile interests along the Frisco railroad at Mountainburg, Chester, Armada, Winslow and West Fork, and when he became United States Marshal for the western district of Arkansas in 1889, he began to convert his mercantile interests into lands. In February 1892, he bought the Dillard James lands of 707 acres and established headquarters at Moore's Rock. In 1901 he acquired 200 acres of the Sidney Austin land to escape the inconvenience and danger of overflow of the Arkansas River. Col. Yoes moved his headquarters to this tract. On this tract, he build a large cotton gin, with seed houses, cotton houses, warehouses, a blacksmith shop, saw mill and large store building all for the use of the public. He also built a large eight-room dwelling and thus, a wilderness became a prosperous business center, through the organizing genius of one man. Since his death in 1906, citizens have honored his name by calling the place Yoestown. </span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>[pg. 410 History of Crawford County by Clara B. Eno, published by the Van Buren Press Argus 1951]</i></span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>THOMAS JOHN GILSTRAP</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">MY GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></b></span><b>born 1836 died 1862</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i><b>married</b></i><b><i> <span style="font-size: large;">ANN MARY MCCLENDON</span></i></b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b>born 1839 died 1914</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/SuTQMvSWftI/AAAAAAAAC7s/PNbBxCF74vU/s1600-h/thomas+john+gilstrap+greatgreatgfather.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/SuTQMvSWftI/AAAAAAAAC7s/PNbBxCF74vU/s640/thomas+john+gilstrap+greatgreatgfather.jpg" width="510" /></a></div><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>in 1836, my great great grandfather was born in tennessee to ISAAC </b><b>and LOCHIE DAVIS GILSTRAP</b><b> - the 1840 census shows his parents in macon county missouri and ten [10] years later, in cove creek township, washington county, arkansas - his great grandfather, PETER GILSTRAP, along with three brothers, came to this country from the british isles in 1749 and settled on the east coast in craven county, north carolina - PETER GILSTRAP fought in the revolutionary war -</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>his father, ISAAC, a confederacy sympathizer, was a slave owner in missouri and when war broke out, ISAAC's oldest son JESSE, then 38 years old, a millwright living in "the narrows" [now called mountainburg], "took with him 17 recruits to the federal army at cassville, missouri - when colonel larue harrison obtained leave to organize an arkansas regiment, JESSE GILSTRAP raised the first field company" - he was made a captain and THOMAS JOHN was made a first lieutenant - other recruits were their brothers, BENJAMIN and WESLEY, and their brother-in-law, REUBEN BURROWS -</b><br />
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<b>on august 29, 1858, THOMAS JOHN married ANN MARY McCLENDON, with the marriage being witnessed by JOHN THOMAS' younger brother, WESLEY - ANN MARY was the daughter of JOSEPH BARNWELL McCLENDON [1792-1865] and JANE LODEN [1797-1841] and was born in 1839 in bledsloe county, tennessee - JAND LODEN died when ANN MARY was but two [2] years old - JOSEPH McCLENDON, after her death, remarried and the family moved to washington county, arkansas - <br />
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<b>a year after THOMAS JOHN's marriage to ANN MARY, when their first baby, JESSE, was born, JOHN THOMAS' mother, LOCHIE GILSTRAP, served as midwife, according to the pension records in the archives - </b><br />
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<b>in november 1862, THOMAS JOHN died of pneumonia at cross hollows, benton county, arkansas [his date of death is listed elsewhere as november 3, 1863] - REUBEN was killed in the battle of prairie grove in december and BENJAMIN died of pneumonia in january - JESSE was assigned to what we would now call guerilla warfare and a year later, mustered out of the service on charges of "lax discipline, sleeping out of quarters without leave, failing to make proper company reports and uncleanliness of person" - in the files at the archives, there is an eloquent defense contained in a letter to general rosencranz - he was given an honorable discharge and elected to the legislature - sadly, he, too died a young man in 1866 - of the brothers, THOMAS JOHN is the only one buried in the national cemetery in fayetteville, arkansas - </b><br />
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<b>four years after the death of THOMAS JOHN, at the age of 30 years, ANN MARY McCLENDON GILSTRAP married WILLIAM HAMILTON BROCK [Major] </b><br />
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<b>[born june 1826 in north carolina and died march 27, 1912 in fayetteville, arkansas] </b><br />
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<b>on december 10, 1868, with the ceremony being performed by justice of the peace, Guilford Center, in washington county, arkansas - copy of marriage recordation below:</b><br />
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<div style="text-align: right;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Major Brock had also been married previously, to SARAH EMMALINE SINIARD 1825-1866, with whom he had at least five [5] children: Martha Ann 1851-1904, Huet 1852-1916, Mahala Catherine "Kitty" 1855-1928, Amanda "Mandy" J 1859-1912, and Mary Louise Brock 1864-1941- </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FcNF27O3gfg/TVbpzyjq-xI/AAAAAAAAFU0/zJR-UrqobwE/s1600/600c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FcNF27O3gfg/TVbpzyjq-xI/AAAAAAAAFU0/zJR-UrqobwE/s320/600c.jpg" width="259" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><b>His parents were ISAAC [TEXAS] BROCK 1805-1901 and LUCINDA CAROLINA HILL 1810-1849 - just as an aside, ISAAC was renown for his longevity as the man who lived three [3] centuries - at the age of 74, he joined the confederate army in 1861 and served four [4] years as a blacksmith - </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>ISAAC GILSTRAP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">MY GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER</span> <br />
</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>born 1799 died 1877</b><br />
<b>march 22, 1822 - tennessee<br />
</b> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>married</i> </b><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>LOCKIE DAVIS </i></span><br />
</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>born 1801 died 1873</b></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>BENJAMIN GILSTRAP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">MY GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER</span> <br />
</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>born 1766 died 1806</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b>married <span style="font-size: large;">WINIFRED MUMFORD</span></b></i></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>PETER GILSTRAP Jr.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">MY GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER</span> <br />
</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>born 1735 died 1797</b><br />
<b><i>married</i> <i><span style="font-size: large;">MARY JANE BRIGHT</span></i></b><br />
<b>born 1764 died 1802</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>PETER GILSTRAP Sr.</b></span><br />
<b>MY GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER</b><br />
<b>born abt 1705 - died between oct 1767-28 apr 1768 in new bern, craven county, NC</b><br />
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<b>1730 <i>in Somerset Maryland married</i> </b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">RACHEL AYDELOTT</span></i> </b><br />
<b> born abt 1710 in Somerset, Maryland </b><br />
<b>died ________ in _________</b><br />
<b>[daughter of BENJAMIN H AYDELOTT and SARAH FOOKS]</b><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">"According to family tradition one.*<br />
Thomas (some say Peter) came from England somewhere between 1725 and 1750. Some say he had three sons, others that he had four sons. Their names were Peter, Phillip, John and Idlett. According to some their names were James, John Idolet and Peter.<br />
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There was a tradition that they all took part in the Reveloutionary War. That two were killed in the war. That they settled in Virginia. That the Elder ( Peter) Gilstrap lived to a good old age. As he grew old and childish he wanted to return to England. He was left at home one Sunday with some grandchildren while older members of the family went to church. He took and axe and wandered off into the woods and was never seen again. It is supposed he was destroyed by wild animals. His axe and hat were found. Also where he had digged in the groung supposedly for water.<br />
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Peter went south and settled in North Carolina.<br />
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Note: Also from this letter Mary stated "I have queried more that one person who has listed Thomas as the father of the brothers in Craven County NC and without exception have been told that the source was William Henry Gilstrap of Taocma records. You will note that he does not say Thomas was the father-Obviously someone read this info of his and took it as verification - It was published in his biography and that may be where it was picked up as Thomas"</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">*The above copied from a letter written by Mary Cassad to Robert Gilstrap dtd 5 June 1989 . [copy of letter on file in Robert Gilstrap's file. ID # 3633 - (Excerpt from the W H Gilstrap collection at the Washington State Historical Society, Tacom a Washington. Copied 19 May 1989 by Mary Casad, San diego, CA)</div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b> THOMAS GILSTRAP</b></span></div><b>MY GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER</b><br />
<b>born abt 1705 St Peter Nottingham England - died ______ in __________</b><br />
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<b>june 18, 1693 </b><br />
<b>married</b><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>HANNAH HASELING</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">born St Mary Nottingham, England</span> </b></span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>JAMES GELSTROP</b></span></div><b>MY GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER</b><br />
<b>born abt 1640 [England?] - died _____ in ________</b><br />
<b>married _____________ on___________ in______________</b><br />
<b>born_________ died___________</b><br />
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</div></div>GYPSYWOMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03042621041213415958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050679860222075139.post-60736682929912197412009-09-08T20:35:00.001-04:002009-09-08T20:38:02.778-04:00YAYA PATERNAL HISTORY - CLARISSA CAROLINE MCGALLIARD GILSTRAP - GRANDMOTHERPHOTO AND NARRATIVE HISTORY TO BE ADDED HEREGYPSYWOMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03042621041213415958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050679860222075139.post-77355334774327560202009-08-30T19:15:00.003-04:002009-09-08T20:34:11.354-04:00YAYA MATERNAL HISTORY - GEORGE FRANKLYN PERRY GRANDFATHERPHOTOS AND HISTORY TO BE ADDEDGYPSYWOMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03042621041213415958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050679860222075139.post-46891654497358407372009-08-30T19:07:00.026-04:002009-11-01T12:53:19.679-05:00CHARLES HERBERT "JACK" GILSTRAP JR and WINIFRED ALWILDA "RUTH" PERRY GILSTRAP - PARENTS<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/SpsHjzYqvcI/AAAAAAAACIA/k12WhIVp0YU/s1600-h/charles+jr.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375898891867307458" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/SpsHjzYqvcI/AAAAAAAACIA/k12WhIVp0YU/s400/charles+jr.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 303px;" /></a><span style="color: #cc9933; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;">CHARLES HERBERT "JACK" GILSTRAP JR</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc9933; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;">born may 1, 1909 [am] - saint paul arkansas - weight 8 lbs<br />
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<span style="color: #cc9933; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;">died december 29, 1961 - monroe ouachita parish louisiana - </span><br />
<span style="color: #cc9933; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;">buried winnfield winn parish - winnfield cemetery gilstrap plot<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/SpsG__3vPqI/AAAAAAAACH4/FP-0kJprCZ8/s1600-h/1922+09+ruth+studio.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375898276743560866" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/SpsG__3vPqI/AAAAAAAACH4/FP-0kJprCZ8/s400/1922+09+ruth+studio.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 302px;" /></a><span style="color: #cc9933; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;">WINIFRED ALWILDA "RUTH" PERRY GILSTRAP</span><br />
</div><span style="color: #cc9933; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;">born august 22, 1906<br />
died february 26, 1977 west monroe ouachita parish louisiana</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc9933; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;">buried winnfield winn parish louisiana - winnfield cemetery gilstrap plot <br />
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<span style="color: #cc9933; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;">married april 30, 1938 - may 1, 1938</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc9933; font-family: trebuchet ms;">mother and daddy were married in seagraves, texas at midnight on april 30 and may 1, 1938, dates and time chosen so that they would have a unique wedding date with both days on their marriage certificate - these are not their wedding pictures but there are no photos remaining - the picture of daddy is made in 1941 while mother's picture was made in 1922 when she was sixteen [16] years old -<br />
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this was the first marriage for our father - and the third marriage for our mother -</span><br />
</div></div>GYPSYWOMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03042621041213415958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050679860222075139.post-38760633067182910462009-08-30T19:07:00.025-04:002009-10-26T11:28:48.173-04:00MATERNAL HISTORY - CORA AGNES ROWAN PERRY - GRANDMOTHER<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/Sqb0jeVrtDI/AAAAAAAACRk/anjGGA2IW8Q/s1600-h/1904a+ca+cora.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379255695217243186" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/Sqb0jeVrtDI/AAAAAAAACRk/anjGGA2IW8Q/s400/1904a+ca+cora.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 301px;" /></a><b>1904</b><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>ca. 1916</b><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>made same day as the group photo in ruth's section</b><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>identity of man is unknown - i don't believe it is papa perry as he was taller than her - and it doesn't look tall enough to be cb berry either - but during time of divorce of cora and george [papa perry]<br />
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<b>thought to be photo of</b><br />
<b>C.B. BERRY</b><br />
<b>second husband of CORA AGNES ROWAN PERRY BERRY</b><br />
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</div>GYPSYWOMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03042621041213415958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050679860222075139.post-83368283599819268552009-08-30T19:04:00.008-04:002009-09-17T14:54:36.455-04:00YAYA MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS - GEORGE FRANKLYN PERRY and CORA AGNES ROWAN PERRY<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/SpsFoBqJHxI/AAAAAAAACHw/BHAJ9oqsdX0/s1600-h/1905+1015a+wedding.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 270px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/SpsFoBqJHxI/AAAAAAAACHw/BHAJ9oqsdX0/s400/1905+1015a+wedding.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375896765394919186" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >WEDDING PHOTOGRAPH</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 153, 51);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >GEORGE FRANKLYN PERRY</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >born february 23, 1886 toler texas<br />died april 18, 1964 hobbs new mexico</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >CORA AGNES ROWAN PERRY</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >born january 30, 1888 roseburg, coquilla county oregon<br />died march 12, 1939 lubbock texas</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >married<br />october 15, 1905<br />somerville county texas<br /></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >NARRATIVE TO BE ADDED HERE</span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /></div>GYPSYWOMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03042621041213415958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050679860222075139.post-6068346860854561082009-08-30T19:03:00.001-04:002009-08-30T19:03:51.365-04:00PATERNAL HISTORY TO BE ADDEDGYPSYWOMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03042621041213415958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050679860222075139.post-75763989121851883022009-08-30T18:39:00.008-04:002009-09-06T15:42:35.703-04:00YAYA'S PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS - CHARLES HERBERT GILSTRAP SR and CLARISSA CAROLINE MCGALLIARD GILSTRAP<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/Spr_7l4w2tI/AAAAAAAACHY/hN_9moSoU-I/s1600-h/gilstrap+wedding.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 283px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6es0KFA20iU/Spr_7l4w2tI/AAAAAAAACHY/hN_9moSoU-I/s400/gilstrap+wedding.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375890504467667666" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">WEDDING PHOTOGRAPH</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">CHARLES HERBERT "CHARLIE" GILSTRAP SR</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >born june 15, 1884 died june ___, 1946<br /><span style="font-size:130%;">CLARISSA CAROLINE MCGALLIARD GILSTRAP</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >born august 24, 1884 died _______</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >married july 2, 1904</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >NARRATIVE TO BE ADDED:</span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>GYPSYWOMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03042621041213415958noreply@blogger.com