Marriages Samuel Thompson & Jane Palmer Mch 1837

Samuel Thompson Jany 1, 1812

Jane Palmer 1811

Mary Jane Scott May 29, 1822

His children

1. Mary Palmer Thompson Mch 13, 1838

2. Sarah Thompson Dec 25, 1840

3. Martha Jane Thompson Apr 16, 1842

4. Rachel Thompson Apr 12, 1844

by second wife

5. Joseph Scott Thompson Sept 14, 1846

6. Joseph Scott Thompson Mch 4, 1849

7. Margaret M. Thompson Aug 16, 1851

8. Samuel George Thompson Feby 11, 1854

9. Hance Thompson Feby 28, 1858

10. John Andrew Thompson Nov 24, 1860

11. Eliza Henderson Thompson Sept 25, 1863

All born on the old Samuel Thompson farm in Louden Tp, Carroll Co, O.

Their children:

1. Irma Stella Thompson Nov 7, 1891

2. Adda Jane Thompson Mch 11, 1893

3. Mary Margery Thompson Apr 22, 1894

Deaths

Jane Palmer Thompson Apr 20, 1844

Samuel Thompson Aug 23, 1885

Mary Jane Scott Thompson Apr 21, 1886

Joseph Scott Thompson Nov 28, 1846

Rachel Thompson Apr 7, 1871

Margaret M. Thompson July 7, 1872

Hance Thompson Sept 15, 1883

Eliza Henderson Thompson Mch 6, 1884

Samuel George Thompson Dec 8, 1887

Mary Palmer Thompson Apr 17, 1899

Sarah Thompson Frazier Mch 25, 1925

Joseph Scott Thompson Feby 27, 1922
1. Irma Stella married Dec 21, 1916 at Scio, O to Edwin Gerome Hibbs born Aug 29, 1888 in Tuscarawas Co, O son of William Hibbs & wife Martha Elizabeth Henderson. Both living at Edgefield, a suburb of Canton, O Route & where he is salesman for Nye Mfg Co & have four children the oldest born in Cleveland, O, the second in Salem, O also the third & the fourth in Canton, O viz:
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I. John William Hibbs born June 2, 1917

II. Edwin Thompson Hibbs born July 12, 1918

III. Marjorie Elizabeth Hibbs born Aug 15, 1919

IV. Herbert Lee Hibbs born Mch 18, 1925

I. John Albert Keys born Feby 1922.

They have two children both born in Cleveland, O viz:

I. Margaret Jane Fulton born Nov 21, 1915

II. Mary Frances Fulton born June 25, 1917 Both living here where Mr Fulton is a Life Insurance agent.

Mary Jane Scott was born near Venice, Washington Co, Pa, daughter of Joseph Scott & his first wife.

John A. Waggoner was son of John Waggoner & first wife ______ Young.

Samuel Frazier was son of Thomas Frazier & wife Alia or Mahala Thompson (her Aunt0 they being first cousins.

Sarah Thompson who married Joseph Scott Thompson was his first cousin, being daughter of Hance Thompson & his first wife Eliza Henderson. Maggie J. Patton was born at New Rumley, O daughter of David Patton & his wife Sarah Rutan. She & her husband Samuel George Thompson had two children born near Kilgore, Carroll Co, O

1. David Patton Thompson

2. Forrest Scott Thompson
1. David is married & has 4 children living & 1 dead & lives in Alberta Dist in Canada

2. Forrest S. married May Alexander & have two boys & live in Egypt where they are missionaries at Assiut? [sic] Have two boys born there.

He says that his Uncle Andrew paid $25 to engage passage on an old sail boat & that a new sailboat was leaving a couple of days later & all of the others wanted to go on it, but he would not lose his $25 or break his word. They were 15 weeks on the sea & the new boat evidently failed to weather the storm as it was never heard from. Mr T. is in check room at Central Y.M.C.A.

Leaving 11:11 PM

He said it might be well to see his uncle Thomas Thompson's unmarried daughter, Alice Thompson living alone in Germano (formerly Jefferson) O right in the town who is hard of hearing & uses a trumpet. Her brother Elmer lives on the farm. The other children of Thomas are dead.

He said his sisters, Mary, Rachel, Margaret & Eliza all died single as did also his brother Hance. The other five who grew up as record shows were married.

John W. Waggoner was in Civil War 4 years.
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At residence of Mrs Clara Kilgore 1125 N. High, Columbus, O Mch 17, 1926 abt 3 PM

Mr P.E. Kilgore came a little before three & drove me about. We didn't find this woman, but the landlady of the rooming house said she was divorced & we learned from her & a neighbor that her husband was of the London, Ohio Kilgores who P.E. said were a lot of rough necks. She is listed as a nurse, widow of Charles.

We were admitted by Mrs Grace Kilgore Evans who is a handsome buxom full round faced woman of 50 yrs, unwrinkled & proud of being a Kilgore. She says her father Edward Porter Kilgore was born Apr 7, 1842 at Kilgore's bridge abt 8 miles S.E. of Chillicothe, O. He was a conductor on the RR & was an intensely religious man & would read no newspaper but the Christian Advocate on Sunday.

Joseph Warren had brothers, Andrew, Samuel & James Kilgore. This Andrew was wealthy & laid out the town of Waverly, O county seat of Pike Co & his descendants live in Cincin, O where they control the traction lines, one of his sons, Joseph (or possibly John ) was in the Ohio Legislature. She said her Kilgores were Scotch Irish & came from West^d Co, Pa. Said her mother, who is listed as a clairvoyant, was 75 yrs old & had married a Rondo? for her 2^d husband, but kept Kilgore name Tel Univ 9063. I made arrangements to go back tomorrow afternoon.

We went to 1487 Penn Ave & a man said he had lived there since last June & said he didn't know John Andrew Thompson but the lady next door said his daughter could be found at the above number, the home of her husband's father. We found Mrs French Fulton here nursing her mother & arranged with her to see her father, John Andrew Thompson at No 403 14^th Ave after 7 Pm. See pages 169 175.

Left 4:50 PM
Residence of Robt G. Cowie, S.W. corner Joyce & E. Hudson Columbus, O Mch 17, 1926 5 PM

We found their son & as we came away, met Mrs Cowie whose maiden name was Pritchard. She says her husband & his brother, John are from Scotland, having come over about 15 yrs ago. She knows nothing about a Robert B. Cowie but says there are some Cowies out Arlington Way. Ask W.L. Mattoon

Left 5:10 PM

Book 11 p 576

Mrs Jack says her husband, James Edgar Jack who is not here now, evidently separated, was born in the neighborhood of Amanda, Fairfield Co, O about 1873, son of Arthur Jack. Arthur died at Kingston, Ross Co, O about 3 yrs ago aged about 74 yrs & his widow whose maiden name was Sallie Butler died Jany 10, 1926 at her daughters, Mrs Mary Bookwalter's in Springfield, O. Arthur had brothers, Thomas & Joe Jack both of whom died at Kingston, O. See if they left any wills. Thomas had the following children:

Will & Frank (twins) Will lives in Calif. Frank is dead. was a druggist here where he worked for Brown.

Charlie, cashier of Ross Co Bank at Chillicothe, O see my record. See book 14 p 232. last week of Sept 1925.

Laura, single, lives in Kingston,

Joseph had five or six children. He died in Kingston, O 22 to 25 yrs ago & his widow Alice remarried. Don't recall her name & lives in Lancaster, O aged abt 60 yrs. Of his children she recalls:

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Burton

Malcolm

Robert

James Edgar Jack married on Nov 21, 1902 at Circleville, O

Ada Belle Waite my informant born Aug 8, 1881 near Kingston in Ross Co, O daughter of John J. Waite & his wife Margaret Jadwin. Has two children, both born in Columbus, O viz:

1. Helen Louise born June 21, 1904 died June 19, 1907

2. Theodore born Oct 19, 1906 died Apr 21, 1907

She says Malcolm A. Karshner No 55 E State St in the Insurance business is a first cousin of her

Leaving 5:55 PM

Book 13 P 71

At residence of Mrs Lucy M.V. Mackey No 55 Southwood Ave, Columbus, O Mch 17, 1926 6:22 PM

Mrs Mackey is the mother of Andrew M. Jacks who lives at No 65 Southwood, the next house beyond across a side St that comes into Southwood & his wife & her two little girls have come across, we having first gone there, the husband, his sister & her daughter & their step father are all here. Mrs Mackey was Lucy Privett born in Iredell Co N.C. on Mch 18, 1863, daughter of Cade Privett & wife Martha Wooten & who on Oct 12, 1881 married in Iredell Co, N.C. Arthur Ansel Jacks who was born Jany 2, 1867 in Iredell Co, N.C. son of Andrew Jacks & his wife Lucinda Jacks. She remarried after his death & his now Lucinda Seagraves & is stout & hearty, has good mind 83 yrs old & lives at the Franklin Co, O Home.
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Mrs Mackey's first husband died in May 1898 here in Columbus, O & is buried in Green Lawn Cemetery. She had two children to him viz born in Columbus, O

1. Pearl Ann Jacks born Mch 30, 1891 married 1^st Nov 20, 1910 at Columbus, O to Clifton Earl Shafer born June _____, son of Oraine [sic] Shafer & his wife Blanche McVay. They were divorced in Nov 1922 & he is living. Had one child born in Columbus, O. Married 2^d Aug 7, 1924 in Newark, O William Robert Jewell born June 24, 1880, Louisville, or Lewisville, O son of Averill Jewell & wife Nancy Butler. Her child is No issue to Jewell.

1. Mildred Lucy Shafer born Oct 30, 1912

2. Andrew Martin Jacks born Dec 29, 1897 married Nov 1, 1918 to Estella May Fields born Mch 13, 1902 in London, O daughter of George Washington Fields & his wife Matilda Burton. They have two children Jacks;Pearl AnnJacks;Pearl AnnJacks;Pearl AnnJacks;Pearl AnnJacks;Pearl Ann

Jacks;Andrew Martin

Shafer;Clifton Earl

Shafer;Pearl Ann (Jacks)

Jacks;Estella May (Fields)

Fields;Estella May

Jacks Marie Lucile

Jacks;Alice Louise both born in Columbus, O viz:

1. Marie Lucile Jacks born Aug 29, 1921

2. Alice Louise Jacks born Mch 9, 1925
Mrs Jacks married 2^d Mch 6, 1907 Melvin V. Mackey who was born in Wayne Co, O Mch 12, 1864 & who was there tonight & has a very good memory.
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Andrew M. went upstairs & brought down a small old well preserved flexible back bible of his grandmother Jacks which was published by the American Bible Society in NY in 1865 in which she & he had written viz the following record:
1. Lucinda J. Jacks born in Iredell Co. N.C. May 14, 1843

Her children

1. Arthur Ansel Jacks B Jany 2, 1867 in Iredell Co., N.C.

2. Mary Lucinda Jacks B Dec 5, 1868 in Iredell Co. N.C.

3. Martin Vallandigham Seagraves born Oct 24, 1872

4. Lee Roma Seagraves a girl born Feby 1, 1874

Leaving 7 PM

Book 13 p 71

This house was locked up & dark & the lady next door said that Mrs Olive Day Thompson, widow of Arndt is now Mrs Davis & lives at 50 or 50 1/2 Whitethorne St

Left 7:11 PM
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[descendant chart]

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Mrs Seagraves says she was Lucinda Jacks born in Iredell Co N.C. abt 25 miles from Statesville, on May 14, 1843, daughter of Martin Jacks & his wife Susannah Shores. Her father was born in 1788 she thinks in N.C. & died in Iredell Co N.C. when her last child was born which was in 1874 aged 86 yrs & is buried in Flat Rock Church graveyard in Yadkin Co N.C. but she doesn't think there is any marker. His father was Job Jacks. She remembers him. Said her grandmother died the year she was born & he married again & moved to "Putman Co" where he died. She says he came from England, but don't know what part. Martin Jacks was a Methodist & had one brother & five sisters:

1. Clayton Jacks was married & moved to Indiana when she was a little girl & had a family.

2. Rhoda married Jake Osborn & lived in Iredell Co & had 2 girls.

3. Nancy married Anderson Swinney [Sivinney?] & lived in Iredell Co. No issue.

4. Lydia married William Campbell & lived in Iredell Co & had 6 or 7 children.

6. Fannie married Pinckney Lindsay & lived in Iredell Co. Had 4 children. These were all by the first wife. Job Jacks was a preacher a Circuit rider in the Meth church & was old when he married his second wife & had no issue by her.

Martin Jacks had seven children viz:

1. Elizabeth Jacks married Owen Wooton lived in Iredell Co N.C. & had 3 children. She & all of her brothers & sisters except my informant are dead.

2. Mary Jacks married David Bell & lived in Yadkin Co N.C. Had 3 children

3. David Reed Jacks married Mary Copley & lived in Yadkin Co & had 4 children viz: Belle, Dora, another girl & Greeley.

4. Lucinda, my informant B May 14, 1843

5. Jane, died young

6. Angeline died young

7. Joseph Lee Jacks, the youngest married Sallie McCrary & lived in Iredell Co & had about 8 children viz:

1. Andrew

2. William

3. Grover Cleveland

[rest not named in this interview]

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Henry, married & lived at Statesville, N.C.

William, don't know

Carrie married but don't know who &

Andrew, her husband who died 4 or 5 yrs after their marriage & he too is buried at Flat Rock graveyard. She had two children to him viz:

I. Arthur Ansel Jacks born Jany 2, 1867

II. Mary Lucinda Jacks born Dec 5, 1868 She was 2 or 3 yrs old when her father died. She married John Comer. Both living in Bexley, O east of here & has six children.

Mrs Jacks married 2^d Mch 12, 1871 to George Seagraves & he is living, but she says "he ought to have been dead years ago". To him, she had two children viz:

III. Martin Vallandigham Seagraves Born Oct 24, 1872 lives down toward Winchester, O & is single

IV. Lee Roma Seagraves a girl born Feby 1, 1874 married William King. Both living a mile this side of Reynoldsburg, O where he is a machinist. Has 3 children.

Leaving 9:55 AM

The Supt. is Dr John William Jones whose father, Samuel Jones was one of the 18 children of Matthew Jones & his wife Sallie Thoroman, daughter of Samuel Thoroman & his wife Ann Crawford. He has no information concerning the bible record of his grandfather Matthew Jones who was a son of David Jones of whom family tradition says he was in the Revolutionary War. He did however get the leaf from his father's bible giving his record. He had eight children by his first wife & then for his second wife married a widow with four children & had six children by her. Dr Jones remembers seeing Cyrus Hull who married his Aunt Anne Jones & his son Newkirk Hull who was a school teacher, but he knows nothing of any of his descendants nor where he went. He says his Uncle Thomas Jones first went to Iowa, but don't know where & later moved to Wisconsin where he died, leaving a large family of well educated children, one of his sons thinks Wilson was Supt of Public Instruction for the State (living [best guess] about 1900). There was a judge Jones

His Aunt Sarah Jones married Henry Newland, went west, he thinks to Nebraska. He recalls the names of four children which he thinks is all there were:

1. John Henry, thinks was married

2. Isaac, don't know

3. Lina

4. Paul

The two leaves, four pages of his father's bible give record as follows:

Samuel Jones was born Dec 2, 1825 (on Lick Fork in Adams Co. O)

Sophia H. Jones (nee Clark) was born Mch 26, 1826 (in Adams Co, daughter of James Clark & his wife Jane Smith)

Samuel Jones and Sophia Clark was married Oct 31, 1851.

Their children were all born in Meigs Tp, Adams Co, O 8 in number.

1. Mary Jane Jones born Nov 2, 1852

2. Matthew James Jones born May 6, 1854

3. Elizabeth Anna Jones born Feby 10, 1856

4. Sarah Thoroman Jones born June 28, 1857

5. John William Jones born Jany 25, 1860
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6. Paul Kameron Jones born Oct 18, 1861

7. Daghlgreen [sic] H. Jones born Sept 2, 1863

8. Edward Stanton Jones born Apr 25, 1867
Sophia H. Jones died Feby 26, 1868 aged 41 yrs & 11 mos (She died in the old homestead in Meigs Tp & is buried in Clark Cemetery there)

Samuel Jones & Mrs Margaret Calloway were married Feby 14, 1869 (She was widow of William Calloway who died in Andersonville prison & daughter of Stephen Toler & his wife)

They had six children

9. George Washington Jones born Oct 21, 1869

10. Samuel Sheridan Jones born June 20, 1871

11. Lillian May Jones born Jany 20, 1873

12. Malissa Ann Jones born Dec 28, 1875

13. Levia Agnes Jones born Dec 14, 1877

14. Rachel Ellen Jones born Mch 29, 1880
Margaret Jones (nee Toler) was born Nov 4, 1837
Deaths

John W. died Feby 1, 1870 aged 15 yrs & 8 months

Mch 10, 1853 near Hunting, Ia Esther Dunkin aged 35 yrs
J.T. Bradney & Elizabeth Ann Jones married Mch 4, 1875

Josephine Bradney born Dec 14, 1875

Flora Dell Bradney born Apr 19, 1878
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Samuel Jones died Apr 23, 1903
Dr Jones own record is as follows:
John William Jones married Nov 26, 1885 at Mineral Springs, Meigs Tp, Adams Co, O by Rev Elliott, Pres to Cora Ann McFerson born May 19, 1861 at Red Oak, O daughter of Adam McFerson & wife Rebecca McCreight. Have had four children, first three born at Manchester, O & the last in the State School for the Deaf, Columbus, O, viz: 1. Marjorie McFerson Jones Sept 6, 1886

2. Carrie Louise Jones Aug 18, 1888

3. Reva Pauline Jones Aug 21, 1891

4. Helen Clark Jones Aug 21, 1900

1. John Edwin born Jany 20, 1920

2. Edward Given Marquis Jr born Mch 20, 1924
4. Helen Clark died Sept 1, 1901
Mr Jones oldest sister Mary Jane married John Newton Holt now deceased, but she is living on the homestead, Meigs Tp Adams Co, O. Dr Jones will communicate with her & others of his brothers & sisters & send me the record of their respective families.

Leaving 1:30 PM

He is interested in getting a book

See b 14 p 552 3

See b 16 p 502
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At residence of Mrs Martha W. Kilgore No 1359 Neil Ave Columbus, O Mch 18, 1926 2:30 PM

Mrs Kilgore & her daughter, Mrs Evans say that Joseph Warren Kilgore's father was a miller at Kilgores Bridge over the Scioto River in Ross Co, O 8 miles from Chillicothe, O toward Jackson, O. He died there & each of his children had homes on the farm.

Joseph Warren Kilgore was married twice. 1^st to Elizabeth Wiley who died in 1860 & nine months later he married 2^d abt 1861 to Mary Waldren & had one son. He had 3 sons & 1 daughter by his first wife. After his 2^d marriage, he moved to Hamilton, Ind where his youngest son was born & his wife died. His children by his first wife were all born in Ross Co, O. He came back to Ross Co to the old home & lived & died with his daughter who never married & is buried there. He died in Aug 1892. Don't know abt his bible record. He was aged abt 84 as Mrs Evans remembers his celebrating his 75^th birthday when she was eleven. His children in the order of their ages were as follows:

1. Anna Isabel who never married

2. James Kilgore married & lived in Indiana from where he entered the Civil War & died while in the service. He had 5 children born in Indiana

1. Allen Porter Kilgore oldest, died single in Indiana

2. Laura married _____ James & moved to State of Washington

3. Elizabeth married ____James a bro of Laura's husband & went to State of Washington.

4. Charles was a cripple humped back from being injured when a boy. Last heard from, he was single & in Indiana.

5. Morton, the youngest was principal of a Normal School & Business College at Fulton, Ky in 1891

3. Irvin Allen married 1874 to Mrs Josephine Grimm, widow of _____ Grimm. He was a gray haired bachelor when married & they had one child born in Columbus, O & he was a freight conductor & was killed & cut to pieces on the RR on Sept 15? 1893

2. Herbert Fowler Kilgore born say 1883 & married Mary Hurst. Have no issue. Both living at 27 Patterson Ave here.
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4. Edward Potter Kilgore born Apr 7, 1842 & died Jany 15, 1893, married 1^st 1865 Sarah Jane Doty who died Oct 1866 when her only child was born in Chillicothe, O. He married 2^d Jany 21, 1870 in Logan, O Martha Webb Crook born June 21, 1851 in Logan, O daughter of Emanuel Crook & his wife Elizabeth Snyder. They had seven children, oldest & the two youngest twins born in Columbus, the 2^d & 3^d in Athens, O, 4^th & 5^th in Logan, O.

1. Forney Kilgore born Oct 1866. His mother said "I call my baby Forney" & died. He was raised in the country near Chillicothe by his Doty grandparents & they know nothing further here about him.

2. Alfred Gregg Kilgore born Mch 12, 1871

3. Luelah Grace Kilgore born July 3, 1872

4. Wily [sic] Lee Kilgore born Feby 22, 1874

5. Lauren Bort Kilgore born Nov 28, 1875

6. Henry Harrison Kilgore born Apr 27, 1879

7. Joseph W. Dean Kilgore born Oct 2, 1891

8. Laura Edith Irene Kilgore born Oct 2, 1891

2. Alfred Gregg married July 25, 1895 in Columbus, O to Mrs Irene Bowland widow of Frank Bowland

I. Doris Kilgore born May 6, 1898 married Sept 29, 1916 at Columbus, O to Frederick Stehmeyer, born Jany 13, 1888 in Germany, son of Frederick Stehmeyer & wife Louisa. No issue.

Alfred Gregg Kilgore died Mch 2, 1901. Irene Bowland Kilgore died Feby 26, 1901. He died of Pneumonia & she of an operation from which she bled to death. Mrs Kilgore raised the children. Doris & her husband live at 8250 Epworth Blvd Detroit, Mich where he works in Recreation Bldg Apt 205.

3. Luelah Grace, my informant married Nov 19, 1900 in Columbus, O to Ambrose Lambert Evans born June 28, 1839 at East Richland? Belmont Co, O son of John Evans & wife Eliza Kendig. He died June 23, 1911 in Columbus, O. Had one child born here.

I. Martha Faye Evans born Aug 31, 1901. She is at home single, but at present is in NY City.

4. Wiley Lee is single & lives here. He is a meat cutter

5. Lauren B. married June 15, 1901 at Columbus, O To Eva Renss (pro Rice) born Apr 19, 1882 in Columbus, O, daughter of Peter

Renss & wife.

I. Edward Emanuel b Jany 1, 1902

II. Thelma Lee b Jany 14, 1904. She married & have separated. Edward is single.

6. Henry H. married Jany 1, 1903 at Columbus, O to Daisy Day born July 10, daughter of Isaac Day & wife Romaine Stevenson. Both living in Nashville, Tenn where he is a supervisor on the Tenn central RR. Have three children, the two oldest born in Columbus, & the youngest in Basil, O viz:

I. Grace Romaine born June 20, 1904

II. Ruth Webb born July 29, 1905

III. Charles Henry born June 28, 1907 see below

7. J.W. Dean died Feby 29, 1892

8. L.S. Irene died Feby 14, 1904
Mrs Kilgore married 2^d Sept 8, 1904 in Columbus, O to Jacob Frisbie Rundio born Apr 16, 1848 at Lancaster, O & died at Sandusky Soldiers Home Oct 26, 1916. He served in the Civil War for 90 days, was son of Zachariah Rundio & wife Elizabeth. No issue.
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I. Grace Romaine Kilgore [see page 198] married June 20, 1923 to Hamilton Williams of Ashland City, Tenn. Both living in Nashville, Tenn where he is a farmer. Have one child born near Ashland City, Tenn.

a. Mary Virginia born May 27, 1924

a. Daisy Ruth born Dec 5, 1923

Joseph W.

John

Jim

Don't know of any sisters of other brothers.

Leaving 4:30 PM

Mrs K. says there was a Simon Kilgore of Delaware Co who was wealthy. Also were Kilgores at London, O. Mrs Evans said she wanted a book.

[margin note reads:] He showed me in the Dining room at lunch where 500 deaf & dumb children, all happy, were eating lunch, not an officer in the room. The Institute had its inception in 1829. This should be on 193 page.
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At the State Institution for the Feeble Minded, Columbus, O Mch 18, 1926 5:30 PM

These are fine spacious grounds & large buildings abt half a mile back from W. Broad St. The lady in the office sent a boy for Otis Marie & he came in the hall. He is a splendid specimen of physical manhood, handsome & with a fine face 6 ft 1 1/2 in tall & weighs 185 lbs. He says he was born Mch 3, 1883 in WVA, he thinks in Kanawha Co as his parents left there when he was young, son of Charles Marie, & his wife Julia A. Mahaffey.

He married Fronetta Hoop, his first wife June? 1914 at West Union, O & says she died in Nov? 1917. No issue.
See book 15 p 199 where the dates I got were different.

Leaving 5:46 PM

The lady who came to the door said that John Harlan Peairs had moved to No 243 19^th Ave Tel Univ 7610 W. I phoned them & found that he was at work on night turn tonight & I arranged to go out between 8 & 9 o'c in the morning.

Left 6:40 PM
Phoned Residence of Joseph D. Kilgore No 127 1q4^th Ave Columbus, O Tel Walnut 1525 Mch 18, 1926 9 PM

I was out there at 4:25 PM yesterday & the lady who came to the door said Mr Kilgore was attending his mother's funeral yesterday at Pittsburgh & would not be back until tonight. Tonight, his wife said he would not be back until tomorrow, Friday night & that his mother had died at Wilkinsburgh & that his father's name was Harman Kilgore. I arranged with his wife to write him. She was very cordial & said he would gladly answer.

Rang off 8:11 PM

See Book 21 p 94
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At residence of John Harlan Peairs No 243 E 19^th Ave, Columbus, O Mch 19, 1926 8:55 AM

Mr Peairs has not returned from his work yet, but Mrs Peairs' sister has brought me upstairs to see Mrs Peairs who is sick. She does not know about the first wife, but he has jut now come in, a fine tall handsome man 6 ft 2 in. He was married 1^st Nov 14, 1879 in Morgan Co, O to Ida May Barkhurst born Sept 30, 1859 in Morgan Co, O daughter or Reese Barkhurst & wife Mary Mercer. She died Aug 1^st, 1903 at Toledo, O & is buried in Green Lawn Cemetery at Toledo, O as is also her youngest daughter, Pearl Peairs & they have markers. They had three children, the oldest born at Rural Dale, Muskingum Co, O, the second & third in Zanesville.

1. Lenna Peairs, born July 29, 1882

2. Grace Lelia Peairs born Mch 24, 1884

3. Pearl May Peairs born July 7, 1886
1. Lenna was married Sept 23^rd 1903 in the Spring at Toledo, O to Eugene Thompson born June 8, 1879 at Toledo, O son of Edward Hoffman Thompson & wife Allie Gruver. Both living but separated Jany 4, 1917, she at 25 24 Lawrence Ave & he at 14 Columbia Ave Vineland NJ. Had three children all born in Toledo & with her, viz:
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I. Dorothy Marie Thompson born Dec 3, 1906 single & teaching in Penna,

II. Edward Harlan Thompson born Oct 20, 1911 in school aged 15 yrs.

III. Donald Eugene Thompson born Aug 22, 1914 in school aged 11 yrs.
2. Grace was married Apr? 20, 1910 at Toledo, O to Louis Hamilton Shilling born Dec 17, 1886 in Morgan Co, O son of Samuel Spencer Shilling & wife Isabella Osborn. Both living at Rural Dale, O where he has a general store. They have one child born in Rural Dale, O viz:

I. Gladys Louise Shilling born July 20, 1912 aged 14 yrs in school

Their P.O. is Blue Rock O living in Blue Rock Tp
3. Pearl M. died single in July 16^th 1903 two weeks before her mother & is buried in Toledo, O. Had "Flu" Grippe & pneumonia. Her mother never spoke after she heard of Pearl's death.
Mr Peairs married 2^d Sept 2, 1909 at Zanesville, O by Rev Courtney, Meth Epis who has been preaching 55 yrs to Anna Talley born June 22, 1861 in Muskingum Co, O At Zanesville, O dau of John P. Talley & his wife Rebecca Ford. No issue. Mr Peairs is time keeper in the office of the American
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Rolling Mill Co & is a member of the Meth Epis Church & is a Democrat. Does not know of Maud Peairs, teacher at 123 Whittier St.

See Book 14 p 88

Leaving 9:50 Am

Says Peairs settlement is in Salt Creek Tp Muskingum Co abt 7 miles S.E. of Zanesville, O.
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At residence of James Butler Finley No 1446 Thurlow Ave Columbus, O Mch 19, 1926 11 AM

Mr Finley is an interior decorator & painter & is away for the day so his wife, a large woman, who received me, says: She says he was born at East Liverpool O & his brother Wilson Finley aged 74 died last year & often talked of the family. Their father was Richard Finley & she has gone upstairs to get his bible.

It is a medium large bible & was published by John E. Potter & Co Phila, Pa but is without date.

The record is as follows:

Richard Finley & Margaret Wilson was married Mch 26, 1846 Richard Finley & Mary Parks was married Mch 18, 1857

James B. Finley & Bertha Bell Shelton (my informant) was married Oct 6, 1910