September 5, 2004

Lucy DeYoung

1. DAVID¹ ECHELBARGER¹ was born Bef. 1756 in England¹, and died Unknown.

Child of DAVID ECHELBARGER is:

More About ELIZABETH STONE:

Alt. Spelling of Name: Strome¹

Child of MICHAEL ECHELBARGER and FRANCES BELL is:

Notes for JOHN ECHELBARGER:

The Echelbargers also buried at the Isabel Cemetery

Echelbarger,

Almeda dau of F.M. & S.E. Echelbarger died Sept. 22, 1874

aged 4m.18d. (Broken and partly gone.)

Estle D. son of F.M. & S.E. Echelbarger died May 11, 1880

aged 1y.4m.1d.

John died Feb. 8, 1869 aged 52y.1m.26d.

Mary A. wife of John Echelbarger died Nov. 21, 1860 aged 42y.1m.22d.

Wm. died Nov. 19, 1874 aged 26y.7m.

"Farewell my wife and children all

From you a father Christ doth call

Mourn not for me it is in vain

To call me to your sight again"

Civil War Soldiers Grant County

Echelbarger, William, Priv., Co F, 57th Reg. Buried Galbreath Cem.,Grant County IN

More About JOHN ECHELBARGER:

Burial: Unknown, Point Isabel Cemetery, Grant County, Indiana⁸

More About MARY ANN FOSTER:

Burial: Unknown, Point Isabel Cemetery, Grant County, Indiana⁸

Child of PHEBA ECHELBARGER and WILLIAM EAKINS is:

More About MICHAEL ECHELBARGER:

Occupation - 1: 1860, Farmer with Real Estate worth $1, 400¹⁰

Notes for MARY ANN ECHELBARGER:

POINT ISABEL CEMETERY

The earliest settlement in Green Township was in 1843. The first church was built by the Methodists on the Jeremiah Hammer farm. He donated the ground for church and graveyard purposes. The first church was built of logs, as time passed and a small town was begun at the cross - roads a mile east, a new church was built at that place. The cemetery has a full population and only an occasional burial is made there. Lovely tall pine trees stand in this place and old fashioned roses ramble over the graves of these early makers of a fine township. Source DAR 1940

"This cemetery is located exactly one half mile west of the intersection of State Road #13 and State Road #26, on the north side of State Road #26

I worked in this cemetery in June of 1996. I was appalled at the number of stones missing. Row after row of bases protruding out of the ground attest to the fact of the missing stones. In several places there were many stones stacked together. On the west end, near the highway, is an above ground crypt - like structure, which was full of stones. Many were in pieces and several were footstones and just miscellaneous parts of bases. I wonder if this was actually built to hold what was left of the Kelly - McClain Cemetery. They say it was destroyed by hogs. When the DAR read the cemeteries in the early 1940's, it was mentioned that all that was found at the Kelley - McClain was one piece of a stone. Is it possible that they were moved long before the DAR read the cemeteries?

Old fashioned roses are still abundant in this cemetery, but only one fir tree still stands. Many of the stones were illegible from time and the elements. I found many stones that the DAR had not recorded in the 1940's, but there are still 30 stones I didn't find that they had recorded. This doesn't mean they aren't there. Many stones were beyond recognition. I would guess there were at least a dozen stones I couldn't get any information from. There is also the possibility I could have missed some, as careful as I tried to be sometimes it does get difficult. There were at least two thickets that were grown up so bad, it was hard to tell if I got all the stones.

NOTE: It has been brought to my attention that the 1877 Atlas of Grant County designates the name of this cemetery as New Hope. I have no explanation for this. Their was another cemetery called New Hope/Paxton, located on 38th St. southeast of Marion. That cemetery is almost totally destroyed leaving only 3 markers left. I have no idea whether there are any connections here or not."

*Asterisk denotes a stone not found at this time.

Kelley,

Albert son of A. & C. Kelley died Aug. 20, 1877 aged 7y.11m.27d.

S/S with Oliver

Charity wife of Abraham Kelley died Dec. 13, 1881 aged 32y.10m.17d.

Ida M. dau of A. & C. Kelley died Aug. 19, 1879 aged 1m.7d.

(Badly weathered and worn, couldn't check it for accuracy.)

Oliver son of A. & C. Kelley died Mar. 15, 1876 aged 2y.1m.17d.

S/S with Albert

In Abraham Kelley's Civil War Pension Application he states that Charity was buried on the family farm.

More About MARY ANN ECHELBARGER:

Alternate Birth: 27 Jan 1849²⁰

Burial: Unknown, Point Isabel Cemetery, Grant County, Indiana²¹

Notes for ABRAHAM KELLEY:

Civil War

At enlistment for the Civil War "his personal description was as follows: Height four feet eight inches; complexion dark; color of eyes blue; color of hair dark; that his occupation was farmer; that he was born Sept 16th 1844, at Henry County, Indiana.

Residence: Wabash County, in Occupation:

Enlist Date: 03 September 1863 State: IN"

118th Infantry Regiment IN 16 September 1863 01 March 1864 Infantry

Officers Killed or Mortally Wounded - 0

Officers Died of Disease or Accident - 1

Enlisted Killed or Mortally Wounded -3

Enlisted Died of Disease or Accident - 86

Regimental History

One Hundred and Eighteenth Infantry IN (6 MONTHS)

One Hundred and Eighteenth Infantry. -- Col., George W.

Jackson; Lieut.- Col., Henry C. Elliott, Maj., Henry B.

Sayler.

This regiment was organized during July and Aug., 1863, principally at Wabash, but moved to Indianapolis on Aug. 31, where its organization was completed. It was mustered in Sept. 16 for six months. Leaving the state the same day, it joined the other six months regiments at Nicholasville, Kentucky., and moved with them to east Tennessee.

From Cumberland Gap it proceeded via Morristown, to Greeneville, and in November accompanied the command to Clinch River, participating in the battle of Walker's ford. Col. Jackson was placed in command of a brigade sent to the relief of the 5th in. cavalry, which had been engaged with a heavy force of the enemy 2 miles south of the river and was in desperate straits because of the exhaustion of its ammunition.

The 118th, in command of Lieut.-Col. Elliott, waded the river, formed in line of battle on both sides of the road, and advanced, thus enabling the cavalry to fall back and cross the river. The regiment fell back slowly under the assaults of a brigade, repelling a charge on its right and re-crossing the river.

It was engaged during the winter in the arduous duties of that campaign and suffered greatly. It moved to Maynardville IL Jan., 1864, thence to Cumberland Gap, Camp Nelson, then home, and was mustered out at Indianapolis about the middle of February.

Its original strength was 987; gain by recruits, 30; total, 1,017. Loss by death, 81; desertion, 26; unaccounted for, 17.

Source: The Union Army, Vol. 3, p. 177

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Civil War Second Tour - He served for his brother David B.

Enlisted as a Private on 15 October 1864 Drafted in Company K, 23rd Infantry Regiment IN on 15 October 1864 Mustered out on 23 July 1865 in Louisville, Kentucky

Sources: Report of the Adjutant General of the State of IN. (IN Roster) Published in 1865-66 by Holloway

Name of Regiment Date of Organization Muster Date Regiment Type 23rd Infantry Regiment ndianaN 29 July 1861 23 July 1865 Infantry

Officers Killed or Mortally Wounded -4

Officers Died of Disease or Accident -2

Enlisted Killed or Mortally Wounded - 68

Enlisted Died of Disease or Accident -143

23rd REGIMENT INFANTRY.

Organized at New Albany, Indiana., and mustered in July 29, 1861. Left State for Paducah, Kentucky., August 15. Attached to District of Paducah, Kentucky., to February, 1862. 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, Army of the Tennessee, to March, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, Army of the Tennessee, to July, 1862. Unattached, District of Jackson, Tenn., to November, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, Left Wing 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee, to December, 1862. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 13th Army Corps, December, 1862. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 17th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to January, 1864. 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, 17th Army Corps, to April, 1864. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, 17th Army Corps, to July, 1865.

SERVICE.--Duty at Paducah, Kentucky., till February, 1862. Demonstration from Paducah on Columbus, Kentucky., November 7-9, 1861. Moved to Fort Donelson, Tenn., February 12-15, 1862. Expedition toward Purdy and operations about Crump's Landing, Tenn., March 9-14. Battle of Shiloh, Tenn., April 6-7. Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. March to Purdy, thence to Bolivar, Tenn., and duty there till September. March to Luka, Miss., September 1-20. Duty in District of Jackson till November. Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign November 2, 1862, to January 10, 1863. Reconnaissance from LaGrange November 8-9, 1862. Moved to Memphis, Tenn., January 20, 1863; thence to Lake Providence, La., February 21, and to Milliken's Bend, La., April 17. Passage of Vicksburg and Warrenton Batteries April 22 (Detachment). Movement on Bruinsburg and turning Grand Gulf April 25-30. Battle of Port Gibson, Miss., May 1. Bayou Pierrie, May 3. Ingraham's Heights May 3. Bruins- Burg May 6. Battle of Raymond May 12. Jackson May 14. Battle of Champion's Hill May 16. Siege of Vicksburg May 18-July 4. Assaults on Vicksburg May 19 and 22. Surrender of Vicksburg July 4, and duty there till February, 1864. Expedition to Monroe, La., August 20-September 2, 1863. Operations about Natchez, Miss., December 1-10. Meridian Campaign February 3-March 2, 1864. Veterans on furlough March and April. Moved to Bird's Point, Missouri.; thence to Clifton, Tenn,; thence march to Ackworth, Ga., May 5-June 8. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign June 9 to September 8. Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Assault on Kenesaw June 27. Nickajack Creek July 2-5. Chattahoochie River July 5-17. Nickajack Creek July 6-8. Leggett's (or Bald) Hill July 20-21. Battle of Atlanta July 22. Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25. Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30. Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1. Lovejoy Station September 2-6. Operations against Hood in North Georgia and North Alabama September 20-November 3. Shadow Church and Westbrook, near Fairburn, October 1-3. March to the sea November 15-December 10. Ball's Ferry and Georgia Central Railroad Bridge, Oconee River, November 23-25. Siege of Savannah December 10-21. Campaign of the Carolinas January to April, 1865. Pocotaligo, S.C., January 14. Salkehatchie Swamp February 2-5. Rivers Bridge February 3. South Edisto River February 9. Orangeburg February 12-13. Columbia February 16-17. Fayetteville, N. C., March 11. Battle of Bentonville March 19-21. Occupation of Goldsboro March 24. Advance on Raleigh April 10-14. Occupation of Raleigh April 14. Bennett's House April 26. Surrender of Johnston and his army. March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 19. Grand Review May 24. Moved to Louisville June, and duty there till July 23. Mustered out July 23, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 4 Officers and 68 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 143 Enlisted men by disease. Total 217. Its original strength was 1,050; gain by recruits, 477; reenlistments, 277; unassigned recruits, 36; total, 1,840. Loss by death, 154, desertion, 99; unaccounted for, 273.

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Handwritten with Abraham Kelley's signature

United States of America

State of Missouri

County of Buchanan

Abraham Kelley being duly sworn upon his oath states that he is the identical Abraham Kelley, who enlisted as a private in Captain G.W. Fluhart's Company C, 118 Regiment of IN Vol; was enrolled on the 1st day of August, 1863, to serve 6 months, and was discharged on the 1st day of March 1864, at Indianapolis by reason of expiration of term of service; and whose application for pension is No 1145.116; He further states that he did not serve in the military or naval service of the United States prior to August 1, 1863; that subsequent to March 1, 1864, to-wit, he enlisted as a private in Captain James F. Stuckey Company K 23rd Regiment IN Infty Volunteers on the 15th day of October 1864, to serve one year or during the war, and was discharged from the Service of the United States on the 21st day of July 1865, at Louisville Kentucky by reason of Gen Order No 26, Hqtrs Army. That the above is the only times and terms of enlistment that he ever served in the military or naval service of the United States.

/s/ Abraham Kelley

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Source: The Union Army, Vol. 3

Battles Fought

Fought on 06 February 1862 at Fort Henry, TN.

Fought on 12 May 1863 at Raymond, MS.

Fought on 19 June 1863 at Vicksburg, MS.

Fought on 03 July 1863 at Vicksburg, MS.

Fought on 11 June 1864 at Kenesaw Mountain, GA.

Fought on 13 June 1864 at Kenesaw Mountain, GA.

Fought on 16 June 1864 at Kenesaw Mountain, GA.

Fought on 20 June 1864 at Kenesaw Mountain, GA.

Fought on 03 July 1864 at Nickajack Creek, GA.

Fought on 20 August 1864 at Atlanta, GA.

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Kelleys from Grant County, Indiana that served in the Civil War.

Kelley, Abraham, of Franklin Twp; Priv., Co K, 23rd Reg. Substitute.

Kelley, Daniel B.; Co A, 42nd Reg.; Missouri 7-21-65. Buried Thrailkill Cem., Grant County, Indiana

Kelley, Jonathan; Priv., Co B, 8th (3mo) Reg; Missouri 8-6-61. Drafted for 2nd tour as Unassigned Recruit IN 32nd Reg. on 5-20-64.

Kelley, Samuel S.; Priv., Co B, 8th (3mo) Reg; Missouri 8-6-61; recruited as Priv., Co F, 34th Reg. Died at New Orleans on 10-24-63

Kelley, William M.; Priv., Co B, 8th (3mo) Reg.; Missouri 8-6-61; recruited as Priv., Co F, 34th Reg. Died at Benton Barracks, Missouri. 4-9-63

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From the Savannah Reporter 2 Aug. 1901

Give Away Big Farms

The lucky Ones in the Big Land Lottery in Oklahoma

Lawton District

No. 615 Abe Kelley, Savannah

No. 779 C. L. Allen, Whitesville

No. 787 Oliver Byers, Blackwell, Oklahoma

Ten residents of Andrew county and one recent resident had drawn prizes in the Oklahoma land drawing up to Wednesday evening, all of whom will get good farms, as the numbers run from 615 to 1367, and all the numbers below 4,000 are said to be good for first class "quarters". The above are the homesteads drawn up to Wednesday evening, by parties from this county.

....It is stated in some of the newspapers that if those whose names are drawn from the wheel do not care to prove up for their hundred and sixty acres, their claims are worth from $4,000 to $6,000 each. while the Government gives the lands ostensibly to settlers, many who win will dispose of their claims by going through the form of relinquishing them to other parties, or allowing whoever buys the land to jump their claims and prove up on them. An offer of $5,000 was made on the s streets of El Reno before the opening for any claim in either district of the first five hundred drawn. In contradiction of the above, however, a dispatch from Washington says that Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock is very indignant over the statements that the persons who drew the first choices in the El REno and Lawton districts of the Indian lands recently thrown open for settlement were preparing to sell their claims to the highest bidder and that the officers of the general land office would not be able to enforce the provision of the homestead law against such transfers. Secretary Hitchcock said that on previous occasions when lands were thrown open for settlement it may have been possible that such transfers were made, owing to a lack of proper registration facilities. The introduction of the new system of allotment and the care that has been exercised on this occasion in keeping the records would prevent effectually any such land juggling by speculators. He pointed out that the terms of the homestead law five years must elapse between taking out of a title by a settler and the perfection of the title and payment of the final fee. During the interval the settler must live upon and improve his property, and any transfer of his rights before the expiration of the five-year limit would invalidate the title to his claim. It would be absolutely impossible, Mr. Hitchcock says, for land speculators and boomers to evade the law in a single instance at the present opening, owing to the detailed accuracy of the methods of registration and allotment.

Abe Kelley is a farmer living a mile east of Savannah. He is a brother of Judge Henry S. Kelley, of St. Joseph. ....

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In the 1900 Census Abraham lists his Mother as being born in Indiana.

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In the 1880 Census they have a hired hand, John Adamson 22, living with them.

They have a boarder C.E. Carson, 60, living with them in 1900. Ana is the only child at home.

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In the 1920 census he lists his Father as being from Ireland and his Mother as being from Scotland. He and Anna live in the 293 Enumeration District which is San Diego City; Precinct 49 Bounded by: Balboa Park, 16th, Broadway, 14th. His son Luther lives 7 houses away.

Abraham had lived in San Diego 15 years at the time of his death

More About ABRAHAM KELLEY:

Alt Spelling of Name: Kelly²²

Burial: 24 Dec 1921, Mt. Hope Cemetery, San Diego, California²³

Cause of Death: Apoplexy

Census - 2: 1870, Grant County, Indiana, Green Twn. Image 7²⁴

Census - 4: 1900, Nodaway Township, Andrew County, Missouri, page 109²⁵

Civil War Veteran: Bet. 03 Sep 1863 - 01 Mar 1864, Company C 118 in Infantry and Company K 23 in Infantry²⁶

Employment: Owned the General Store at Union, Missouri²⁷

Move 2: 1906, From Missouri to San Diego, California

Occupation - 2: 1870, Farmer with real estate worth $1, 000 and $300 in personal assets²⁸

Child of DAISY EAKINS and JESSE TETRICK is:

Notes for CAROLINE MARION KELLEY:

Clark Funeral Home. Service in Union Star, Missouri.

More About CAROLINE MARION KELLEY:

Alt. Spelling of Name: Carolyn⁴⁹

Burial: 27 Oct 1953, Savannah Cemetery, Savannah, Missouri⁵⁰

Cause of Death: Organic Heart Leision and Influenza

Funeral Home: Roland D. Clark, King City, Missouri⁵¹

Notes for THOMAS LLOYD WILKERSON:

The youngest of 12 children.

After the Civil War when their son John was mustered out at the close of the Grant and Sherman campaigns of the War (after three years of intensive service for the Union) the family decided to move to Missouri, where two Conner uncles had settled before the war. The four oldest sons rode horseback from Ohio bringing with them eight horses to begin farming (horses at the close of the war were scarce). The parents and eight children came by train, arriving in the early fall of 1865, and settled south and west of Savannah, Missouri, in the area known as Hackberry Ridge.

Abut 1875 the parents, John and Ann, and several of the younger members of the family moved to the Rochester and Helena area of Missouri, where the children later married and established homes.

Thomas had resided in Union Star 30 years and 1 month at the time of this death.

Thomas farmed and then bought a store in Union Star.

THE HARDWARE STORES

By Mrs. Bruce Wilkerson

History of Polk Township

W. E. Piper and Jim McClain had put in a hardware stock and tin shop next to the Simpson Store building and in a few years erected a new structure. Later James Thomas and Henry Sharp bought out McClain's interest, and later on they sold out to Tom Wilkerson, and D. O. Robison. John and Frank Farrell, in 1905, built two rooms joining west on this store and bought an interest with Robison and Wilkerson. In 1907, Sanford Wilkerson moved to Union Star from his farm near Savannah and bought the entire stock of hardware, furniture and implement business. Mrs. Sarah McQuinn purchased the building. In 1921, Mr. Wilkerson moved the hardware and furniture stock to the Kimberlin building on the north side of the street. In 1923 he built the west room on the corner which is the present hardware store. His son, Bruce, assumed management in 1924, and ran the business until 1966. In 1944 the partition between the two rooms was removed making one large store room. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hutchcraft bought the stock in 1966 and still operate under the title of "Wilkerson Hardware

Obituary

"THOMAS WILKERSON FORMER RESIDENT DIES" 1-11-1933

Thomas Wilkerson thirty years a merchant in Union Star, died at 1:00 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at his home from the effects of an apoplectic stroke suffered last Thursday, from which he had never regained consciousness. Funeral services were held at 1 o'clock Saturday afternoon at the Christian Church conducted by the Rev. S. Riggs, assisted by Rev. J.C. Bigbee and Rev. J.B. Wairafen. Burial was in Savannah.

Mr. Wilkerson was the youngest of a family of twelve brothers and sisters, and the fourth of the family to have died within a year. John Wilkerson of Mt. Ayr, Iowa, Mrs. James Ballas of St. Joseph and Albert Wilkerson of Union Star, brothers and sister of Tom Wilkerson all died in 1932, and another brother, Sanford Wilkerson, Union Star hardware merchant, died in 1932. Of the family of twelve the following three survive: Vince Wilkerson, Union Star; Mrs. J.Q. Wells, Helena; and Mrs. John Osborn of Crosby. This was an Andrew county family of clean lives of the finest of men and women, and Thomas as one of them. Andrew county is honored by their living here.

Mr. Wilkerson was born in 1865 in Warren county, Ohio, and his parents brought him to Missouri when he was a baby. He was reared near Savannah, and there he married Miss Carrie Kelley, who, with five of their seven children, survives. Mr. Wilkerson moved to Union Star in 1900 to engage in the hardware business, in which he continued until about eight years ago, since which time he has been in the grocery business.

The surviving children are: Mrs. Charles Pemberton, Billings, Mont.; Mrs. Clarence Smoot and Mrs. Marvin Gibbons of St. Joseph and Mrs. Tom Smoot and Lloyd Wilkerson of Union Star. Also surviving are six grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Two children Alva and Anna, preceded their father in death.

More About THOMAS LLOYD WILKERSON:

Burial: 07 Jan 1933, Savannah Cemetery, Savannah, Misouri⁵²

Cause of Death: 12:55 PM from Apoplexy

Census - 3: 1920, Polk Township, DeKalb County, Missouri

Move 1: 1865, After the Civil War - Missouri

Move 2: 1875, Rochester and Helena Missouri

Occupation 1: Farmer⁵³

Occupation 2: 1920, Salesman Retail Hardware⁵⁴

Resided: 1888, Andrew County, Missouri⁵⁵

Resided 1: 1923, Locust Street Union Star, DeKalb County, Missouri^56,57

More About CHRISTIAN KELLEY:

Census: 1920, San Diego California 293 District, Pct. 49 Sheet 5A⁷³

Military: None

Move 1: Bet. 1902 - 1912, Moved from Missouri to California⁷³

Occupation: 1920, Laborer for the City⁷³

Occupation - 1: 1930, Watchman for the City of San Diego⁷⁴

Own a Radio: 1930, No⁷⁴

Resided: 1930, "G" Street, San Diego, California⁷⁴

Value of Home: 1930, $3, 000

More About LUTHER PLEASANT KELLEY:

Census - 2: San Diego California 293 District, Pct. 49 Sheet 3A⁸⁰

Move 1: Bet. 1902 - 1910, Moved from Missouri to California⁸⁰

Occupation: 1920, Street Laborer, Grader for the City⁸⁰

Occupation - 1: 1930, Laborer, City of San Diego⁸¹

Own a Radio: 1930, No⁸¹

Resided: 1930, "B" Street, San Diego, California⁸¹

Value of Home: 1930, $15, 000⁸¹

Child of EVERETT TETRICK and MARY HIX is:

Notes for KATHERINE OLIVE WILKERSON:

Katherine Olive Wilkerson Pemberton was the eldest daughter of Thomas and Carolyn Wilkerson, born September 2, 1887 in DeKalb County, Missouri. She was her father's "boy" and told us many tales of her early life on the farm, many involving old Dick and Lucy the gently over-worked team of farm horses. But they sold the farm and moved to Union Star a thriving railroad and farming center. There Wilkerson General Store prospered, Katherine finished high school and met then married a handsome blue-eyed black haired young man Charles Pemberton whose parents lived nearby. He worked for the Brown Shoe Company in St. Louis, as did his friend Frank Riggs. The snappily dressed young men returned periodically to the home town, where they regaled everyone with tales of big city life.

She was married to Charles Pemberton on August 23, 1908 at the Wilkerson Family reunion at Union Star, Missouri.

Charles and Kate opened a harness and saddle shop in Maysville, Missouri. But the advent of cars and farm machinery made the harness shop unprofitable, but they were true children of their adventurous pioneer ancestors. Selling their business, gathering their belongings together and taking their children, Frances and Yvetta, they set out via railroad for Billings, Montana to open a shoe repair shop. One of my most vivid memories is standing at the railroad station in St. Joseph, holding my sister's hand and watching my weeping grandmother, arms around Mother, "There's nothing but Indians and outlaws out there, take care of my grandchildren." Fearfully I watched out the train window and sure enough as we crossed the Yellowstone river, camped out below the bridge were blanketed Indians next to their tepees cooking over open fires. Horses were tethered to the big farm wagons, children everywhere! Grandmother's worst fears were true! But it was all forgotten in the new adventures awaiting us.

Soon we were settled in a new home, a new school for me, a new job for Dad. But the old ways of warmth, good plentiful food, thrift and industry prevailed in our home which centered around our Mother's plans and ambitions for us. Dad bought our first car, a Ford touring car, Mother could hardly wait to learn to drive, they planned and outfitted a camping kit, Mother even making us matching camping clothes, knickers and jacket with a blouse to match. We spent weekends fishing in the mountains, took trips to Yellowstone Park, Pompey's Pillar, Roundup to name a few.

Kate enjoyed the camping, fishing, and exploring the family did in the area. She was a superb needlewoman, cook and housekeeper.

Charles did not care for the shoe repair business and soon became a salesman and machinist for the Champion Shoe Machinery County of St. Louis. He traveled over the western states and when Yvetta and Frances were out of school, Kate made arrangements to travel with him, selling a line of women's lingerie and stockings.

But before her plans could materialize she announced to her family a new baby would soon arrive. Twin daughters, Dorothy and Donna, made the family complete. In 1936, because of company expansion, they moved to Woodinville, WA. Charles died May 17, 1957 and Kate moved to Bothell, WA. Because of ill health she moved to Emma Chadwick Convalescent home and lived there until her death. Source: Yvetta Pemberton Hoyer

More About KATHERINE OLIVE WILKERSON:

Alternate Birth: 1886, 1900 Census lists her birth as 1886⁸⁹

Alternate Birth - 2: 26 Sep 1885⁹⁰

Burial: 01 Jun 1981, Acacia Park Cemetery, Seattle, Washington⁹⁰

Cause of Death: Cardiac arrest, ante myocardial infartion and cornonary artherosclerosis

Move 1: Billings Montana to open a shoe repair shop

Move 2: 1936, Woodinville, WA because of a company expansion

Occupation: Homemaker⁹⁰

Resided: Emma P. Chadwick Home⁹⁰

Social Security Number: 535-03-1694 D⁹⁰

Notes for CHARLES FRANKLIN PEMBERTON:

Supporting Affidavit for birth Certificate says born near King City, Missouri.

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Owned a shoe repair shop in billings, Montana and then was a salesman for a St. Louis shoe machinery firm for 20 years.

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Was an Army Inspector of Ordnance 1917-1918 during WW1 in New York. I.D. No. 13270. He was classified V by the Local Draft Board.

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Became a member of the Masons in Missouri in 1910. Member of Lodge Number 113 in Billings.

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Another address where they lived in Billings around 1918 was 237 Terry Avenue.

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In 1933 they are living at 1718 North 24th Street, Billings, Montana

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The moved to Woodinville, Washington in 1935. Tom Pemberton Jr. remembers he always knew when Charlie was in town, the ash tray came out. He also remembers he had a very distinctive laugh.

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Letter to his sister Alice from his sister Clara in his funeral book

"Dear Alice, We have lost another one of our big family. One by one we will go. Whew you called this morning it was such a shock. I was going to fly up one day and back the next. But Dr. Smith said if I didn't just have to go - meaning that if there was (sic) know one else here not to leave Davey. so I just won't try to come. And I am so glad that you went to see him. Kate (sic) new best. I am sending her a card also. Love Clara."

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Obituary

"Pemberton Rites Held Here May 17

Services were held May 17 at the Bothell Funeral Home for Charles F. Pemberton 74, longtime resident of the Woodinville area. He died at this home in Kirkland where he had lived for about a month.

Pemberton was born in Berlin, Mo., and owned a shoe-repair shop in Billings, Montana for a number of years. Pemberton was a member of the Masonic lodge in Billings.

Survivors include his wife, Katherine; four daughters, Mrs. Virgil Hoyer of Kirkland, Mrs. Milford DeYoung of Bothell, Mrs. James DeYoung and Mrs. Allison DeYoung of Seattle; a brother Thomas Pemberton of Billings; four sisters, Mrs. Bess Head of Rosendale, Mo., Alice Pemberton and Mrs. Emma Noonan, both of Billings; and Mrs. Clara Davidson of Phoenix; and seven grandchildren. Burial followed at Acacia.

More About CHARLES FRANKLIN PEMBERTON:

Alt Birth Location: Berlin, Missouri⁹⁰

Burial: 17 May 1957, Acacia Park Cemetery, Seattle, Washington⁹⁰

Burial Plot: Cedar Section, Block 99, Grave 3⁹¹

Cause of Death: pulimonary Hemmorahage and cancer of the Lung & Prostate

Funeral Home: Bothell Funeral Home⁹²

Occupation: Shoe Repair Machinery Salesman⁹³

Occupation - 2: 1920, Shoe and Harness Maker⁹⁴

Social Security Number: 535-03-1694⁹⁵

Marriage Notes for KATHERINE WILKERSON and CHARLES PEMBERTON:

Married by Rev. Riggs, pastor of the Union Star Baptist church

Notes for LENA LEOTA WILKERSON:

Died at 84 after a one-year illness. Made her home with her granddaughter, Mrs. Mary Ann Hale, Route 2, St. Joseph

" A native of Union Star, Mrs. Smoot lived in the St. Joseph area since 1929. She was a retired clerk for the United Department Store and a member of the First Christian Church of St. Joseph."

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Lived in King City, Missouri As did Marguerite Elizabeth Wilkerson Rush and Issac and Rebecca Wilkerson

More About LENA LEOTA WILKERSON:

Burial: Unknown, Memorial Park Cemetery, St. Joseph, Missouri¹⁰⁰

Cause of Death: Influenza

Notes for MILDRED WILKERSON:

Meierhoffer-Fleeman Mortuary Rev. Charles H. Bayer to Officiate

More About MILDRED WILKERSON:

Education: 1911, Graduated from Union Star High School¹⁰⁴

Resided: 1977, Semonole, Florida¹⁰⁵

Notes for THOMAS LLOYD WILKERSON:

He and Verna are renters paying $6 a month

Funeral at Union Star Christian church

More About THOMAS LLOYD WILKERSON:

Burial: 10 Nov 1963, Union Star Cemetery¹⁰⁶

Census: 1930, Living in DeKalb County, Missouri, Union Star, 3A¹⁰⁷

Occupation: 1930, Clerk in a general store¹⁰⁷

Resided: 1930, Maple Street, Union Star¹⁰⁷

Notes for YVETTA KATHRYN PEMBERTON:

Obituary

Memorial Services for Yvetta Kathryn Hoyer of Kirkland, is a 3:30 pm Saturday at Kirkland congregational Church, 106th fifth Ave. Mrs. Hoyer died Wednesday at Overlake Hospital Memorial Center. She as 80 year old.

Born Nov. 9, 1909 in Maysville, Missouri., she later moved to Billings, Mont. A graduate of Eastern Montana Normal School, she taught school in Saco, Mont., and on June 27, 1932 married Virgil R. "Bud" Hoyer. The couple came to Washington in 1934 and have lived on the Eastside for 54 years.

in 1958 Mrs. Hoyer resumed her university studies and earned a teaching degree at the University of Washington. For 14 years prior to her retirement in 1974 she was a reading specialist for the Bellevue School District. She was an active member of the Kirkland Congregational Church, and also belonged to the Rose Hill Study Club.

Mrs. Hoyer is survived by her husband Virgil; son, Ron and his wife Karen, of Kirkland; sisters and brothers-in-law, Francis and Milford DeYoung of Edmonds, Dorothy and Jim DeYoung of Lynnwood, and Donna and Al DeYoung of Woodinville; three grandchildren, Jon, Katie, and Joe; and 11 nieces and nephews.

More About YVETTA KATHRYN PEMBERTON:

Burial: 17 Feb 1990, Redmond, Washington¹⁰⁸

Notes for JOHN MILFORD DEYOUNG:

Named after his Father John?

Obituary

Milford DeYoung, oldest son of the pioneer merchant family of Woodinville, died of cancer Jan 12, 1992.

The oldest of six children of John and Ellen DeYoung, Milford came to Woodinville with his parents in 1925 when they purchased the Woodinville Mercantile Company, and worked for many years in the family business.

In 1938 he married Frances Pemberton, one of the first teachers at the newly rebuilt Woodinville grade school on NE 175th Street. He worked during the war years in the shipyard at Houghton as an electrician. Following the war he managed stores for Seattle Paint and Hardware and worked for Centennial Flour Milling County He returned to Woodinville in 1963 to manage his father's hardware store.

Just before his own retirement he established the DeYoung Tax Service in Bothell, which he later moved to Woodinville, and which his son Larry now operates.

Mr. DeYoung is survived by his wife, Frances, of Edmonds; sons Lance of Albuquerque and Larry of Bothell; four grandsons David and Craig DeYoung of Albuquerque and Lane and Adam DeYoung of Bothell, brothers & sister and numerous nieces and nephews.

More About JOHN MILFORD DEYOUNG:

Burial: 17 Jan 1992, Hillcrest Burial Park, Kent, Washington¹⁰⁸

Education: Graduate of the University of Washington¹⁰⁸

Social Security Number: 538-01-7905¹⁰⁹

Children of DONNA PEMBERTON and FREDERICK DEYOUNG are:

Children of DOROTHY PEMBERTON and JAMES DEYOUNG are:

Children of MARGUARITE SMOOT and GEORGE ALLEN are:

More About HELEN BERNICE SMOOT:

Burial: Unknown, Cremated¹¹¹

Children of HELEN SMOOT and WILLIAM COLHOUR are:

Child of HELEN SMOOT and LLOYD NOE is:

Children of ETHELDA GIBBONS and THOMAS BROCE are:

Children of RONALD HOYER and KAREN GERDE are:

Children of LANCE DEYOUNG and SHANNON KUSCH are:

Children of LARURENCE DEYOUNG and ARLENE HAJEK are:

Children of LINDA DEYOUNG and WALLACE COOPER are:

Children of WILLIS ALLEN and ROSLAND HOLT are:

Children of WILLA COLHOUR and DAVID DEWEY are:

Children of WILLA COLHOUR and LARRY DAGMAR are:

Child of JON HOYER and LYNN UNKNOWN is:

1. Ron Tetrick.

2. Cemetery Records.

3. Ron Tetrick.

4. Cemetery Records.

5. Ron Tetrick.

6. Cemetery Records.

7. 1880 Census.

8. Cemetery Records.

9. Ron Tetrick.

10. 1860 Census.

11. Pension Application.

12. Caroline Kelley Wilkerson's Death Certificate.

13. Cemetery Records.

14. 1880 Census.

15. Ron Tetrick.

16. Civil War Pension Application.

17. Family Record.

18. Pension Application.

19. Death Certificate.

20. Ron Tetrick.

21. Cemetery Records.

22. Caroline Kelley Wilkerson's Death Certificate.

23. Death Certificate.

24. 1870 Census.

25. 1900 Census.

26. Company Muster Rolls.

27. Family Record.

28. 1870 Census.

29. Civil War Pension Application.

30. Cemetery Records.

31. Civil War Pension Application.

32. Pension Application.

33. Civil War Pension Application.

34. Cemetery Records.

35. Civil War Pension Application.

36. Cemetery Records.

37. Civil War Pension Application.

38. Ron Tetrick.

39. Family Record.

40. Civil War Pension Application.

41. Death Certificate.

42. Thomas Wilkerson's Death Certificate.

43. Savannah City Cemeteries, Andrew County Historical Society.

44. Death Certificate.

45. Family Record.

46. Death Certificate.

47. Family Record.

48. Death Certificate.

49. Family Record.

50. Savannah City Cemeteries, Andrew County Historical Society.

51. Death Certificate.

52. LeLani Colhour.

53. Alberta Wilkerson Graham.

54. 1900 Census.

55. John Wilkerson's Obituary.

56. J. H. Wilkerson's Obituary.

57. 1920 Census.

58. Family Record.

59. 1900 Census.

60. Lena Smoot's Obituary.

61. Savannah City Cemeteries, Andrew County Historical Society.

62. Cemetery Records.

63. Savannah City Cemeteries, Andrew County Historical Society.

64. Family Record.

65. Memorial Card.

66. Lena Smoot's Obituary.

67. Family Record.

68. 1900 Census.

69. Savannah City Cemeteries, Andrew County Historical Society.

70. Civil War Pension Application.

71. 1920 Census.

72. 1930 Census.

73. 1920 Census.

74. 1930 Census.

75. 1920 Census.

76. Civil War Pension Application.

77. Social Security Records.

78. Family Record.

79. 1930 Census.

80. 1920 Census.

81. 1930 Census.

82. 1920 Census.

83. Social Security Records.

84. 1930 Census.

85. Family Record.

86. Death Certificate.

87. Family Record.

88. Death Certificate.

89. 1900 Census.

90. Death Certificate.

91. Funeral Book of Charles Pemberton.

92. Family Record.

93. Death Certificate.

94. 1920 Census.

95. Death Certificate.

96. Family Record.

97. Lena Smoot's Obituary.

98. Obituary.

99. Lena Smoot's Obituary.

100. LeLani Colhour.

101. Family Record.

102. Lena Smoot's Obituary.

103. Family Record.

104. Polk Township Missouri Historical Book 1976.

105. Lena Smoot's Obituary.

106. Family Record.

107. 1930 Census.

108. Family Record.

109. Social Security Records.

110. Lena Smoot's Obituary.

111. LeLani Colhour.

112. Family Record.