Knox County IL Archives Biographies.....MARTIN, Agrippa Simeon 1798 - 1879 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.org/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.org/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Bill BOGGESS bilboggess@webtv.net July 21, 2009, 9:51 pm Author: Bill BOGGESS & Jane HOUGH THE MARTIN FAMILY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Martin family (parents & children) left Oneida county, New York with families named; Allen, Bruce, Ferris, Frost, May, Olmstead, Prentice, Sanderson and Simmons in the spring of 1837, following a path to Log City, Knox County, Illinois which later became the Michigan Central Railroad route. They came by horse drawn covered wagons taking six weeks for the journey to join with George Washington Gale and group who arrived, May 1836. Ellen "Nellie" Reed Martin (1860IL-1935MO), an offspring of Agrippa Simeon Martin's (1798NY-1879IL) son Simeon Hammond Martin (1833NY-1863IL), born Rome, Oneida county, New York 19 September 1833. Agrippa, reportedly born Oneida county in 1798, about time it was split from western Herkimer county, a party to the Presbyterian group under leadership of "Reverend Jno Waters, a graduate of Princeton" in New Jersey. Their group formed a committee in 1835, to find a site in Illinois suitable for farming, a town and college. This was no doubt influenced by the fact the Indians were being moved to what became Oklahoma and western Arkansas, and the national financial panic which was building and came about in 1837. This committee, including leader George Washington Gale (1789NY-1862IL), went west selecting and purchasing 17 sections of land (10,770 acres) located on the ridge, "fifty miles east" of and between Mississippi and Illinois rivers, south of Henderson Grove, in Knox County, Illinois as their site, returning to New York. The following year the group of some twenty, including Gale, arrived from Oneida County, New York, May 1836 at what they named, Log City, setting about platting a town, now Galesburg, and a college, now Knox College both created in 1837. "The City of Galesburg is a unique town in that it was a planned city whose purpose was fostering religious education. Knox College was the main reason for its existence. The college was granted a charter by the Illinois State Legislature in 1837, but it was not until 1841 that it opened its doors to the first freshman class. Old Main was completed in 1857." www.usgennet.org/usa/il/state/counties.htm (When approached for information, present day staff at Knox College were most helpful and furnished much of the material that is presented herein concerning the college and Martins early life.) "Knox College is a private, four-year, liberal arts college situated in Galesburg, Knox county, Illinois. Knox College was set up in 1837 as the Knox Manual Labor College. The founders of the college were George Washington Gale and Reverend Samuel Wright. Knox College featured among the Best 368 Schools by Princeton Review in 2008. Knox College offers graduate degrees, pre-professional and co-operative programs in fields of study including arts, humanities, sciences, social sciences, business and management." Agrippa, as afore mentioned, with his family (parents & children), as afore stated, left Oneida county, New York with families named; Allen, Bruce, Ferris, Frost, May, Olmstead, Prentice, Sanderson and Simmons in the spring of 1837, following a path to Log City, Knox County, Illinois which later became the Michigan Central Railroad route. They came by horse drawn covered wagons taking six weeks for the journey to join with George Washington Gale and group who arrived in May 1836. http://books.google.com/books?id=ro4UAAAAYAAJ.. (page 554) Gale, his followers and his early successors were pretty grim people. They were against slavery, sin, and intoxicating beverages. The original land deeds said that manufacture or sale of intoxicating beverages would cause the land to revert to the College. Later Historic Highlights: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Fifth of seven Lincoln - Douglas debates held at Galesburg 7 (11?) October 1858 the year before "Jennie" (Belinda Jane Reed) married Agrippa's son, Simeon Hammond Martin, 30 August 1859. Carl Sandburg born 6 January 1878 whose father worked for the C,B & O RR about same time Agrippa Martin, did. George Washington Gale Farris, jr grandson of a first settler, invented the Farris Wheel for Chicago's 1892 Columbian World's Fair. Ronald Reagan [1911IL-1989CA] moved to Galesburg with his family at the age of five [1916]. They lived in an apartment at 1260 N. Kellogg Street and later moved across the street to 1219 N Kellogg. He attended the Silas Willard Elementary School. Nancy (Davis) Reagan's stepfather, Dr. Loyal Davis, a well-known Chicago neurosurgeon, was born in Galesburg. Dr. Davis married Nancy's mother in 1929 adopting Nancy who spent many vacations from school at her grandparent's Walnut Avenue residence in Galesburg. HONOR ROLL of FIRST SETTLERS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Created in 1937 was a list of those arriving in 1836, 1837 and shortly thereafter, prepared during the centennial year of town and school, from records by Earnest Elmo Calkins, including; "Agrippa Simeon Martin -1879 "Lovisa (Kirkland¹) Martin "From Tully, N Y; married (1) Lovisa Kirkland¹; (2) Abigail Prentice. "Children: Hannah Wright (Pond), Charles Finney." (Its unclear why younger son Simeon Hammond Martin was not included, born 1833, land owner 1850, Class of 1855, married 1859, died1863) Agrippa and family were also early members of Galesburg's First Church of Christ, as was Lucinda Reed and Abigail Prentice; see http://books.google.com/books?id=tKzRAAAAMAAJ... ¹Hough Family History has her name as Bushnell (?) with a grandson named Horace Bushnell Martin, also, it notes a daughter named Abigail Martin, born 1812 married a Mr Prentiss which can NOT be documented as reported. HOWEVER: Our research shows that Agrippa married a Louisa Kirkland Bushnell (1791CT-1860IL) born Hanover, New London, Connecticut parents being; Janson Bushnell (1763CT-1847OH) and Hannah Kirkland (1765CT-ABT1798CT) www.archive.org/stream/.../historicalsketch00bish_djvu.txt (page 59) and that widow Abigail (Skinner) Prentice (1813NY-1886IL) was Agrippa's second wife as of 5 May 1862. In 1870 census they are living next to Peter Bushnell (blacksmith) and family, he and wife from Sweden. Hannah Wright Martin (1818NY-1903IL) married Francis Xavier Pond (1819NY-1905IL) in 1841 and found in her father's, Agrippa, household for 1850 U S census, and with brother Simeon for 1860 U S census. Charles Finney Martin (1827NY-1864TN), named for Reverend Charles Finney who wrote a book against Freemasonary, was in the first commencement ever held for what now is Knox College in its Class of 1846, and became a member of its faculty for several years. He then was in Class of 1853 and graduated from Union Theological Seminary. Mr Charles F. Martin was ordained to the work of the ministry on 25th of June, 1854, in the Church of the Puritans, New York, of which he was a member. He became married and they journeyed as missionaries to Copts in Egypt sailing from New York 12th of October 1854 under the American Missionary Association returning in 1858, both with broken health due to the heat thus on 17th of September 1859 they, regretfully, resigned. [Records show a Charles F Martin, born ca 1828, of Caskill, NY enlisting in Company B, New York 5th Heavy Artillery serving 14 AUG 1862 to 17 September 1862 (?)] He next became pastor of the Congregational Church in Peru, La Salle, County, Illinois, until 1863, when appointed District Secretary of American Tract Society of Boston at Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee where he passed away 7 February 1864 at the young age of thirty-seven years and one day old. Source: Records of the American Missionary Assciation, forwarded by E M Horton, to Knox College. Simeon Hammond Martin (1833NY-1863IL) had purchased eighty acres of farmland in 1850 from the Bartlett's, the groups cabinet and coffin maker, graduated Knox College Class of 1855 and settled in farming then married Belinda Jane Reed, "Jennie B Reed, 30 August 1859, License # 00003452", in Knox county, Illinois, by Rev Elwood Bucher, first a farmer then a cashier/teller at Reed's Bank in Galesburg, having two children before his untimely, tragic, drowning death of 4 August 1863. "Jennie", thirteenth child of father Asa Reed's fourteen known children, seventh of her mother Lucinda Birby (father's 2nd wife), born 13 October 1835 in Claremont, Sullivan county, New Hampshire, died eighty-four years, two months and eight days later in Texas, lost her mother at age ten, father reportedly moving to his crippled brother's home down in Hillsbourough county, New Hampsire, she's found as "Jane B Reed", fifteen years old, being raised in household of Eliada B. and Eliza D. Stevens on 1850 U S census for Claremont, Sullivan County, New Hampshire with 23 year old brother Sylvester Reed (1827NH-1913KS) and others. (Seems highly doubtful she went to Illinois in the 1840s as Hough Family History has it) The Reed family of cozy New England area, had two reasons for migrating to illinois in the 1830s. One, the national financial panic of 1837, the other, that Indians were being herded out of state to what became Oklahoma and western Arkansas, and migrate they did. "Jennie's " written notes (at best, confusing), passed to Edwin then g.g.granddaughter Jane, has her siblings moving to Illinois (but why mixing with a bunch from Oneida county, New York??), starting with oldest half-brothers, twenty-six year old Asa D and twenty-two year old Horatio Reed in 1837 or ealier, when she was but two years old. Somewhat like opening a jar of olives, after the first couple, others follow rapidly. The brothers opened a merchandising business in Farmington, Fulton county, soon thereafter, starting first Illinois slaughter house, location below Canton on the Illinois river. Land purchase records reveal Asa buying a lot of farmland starting about 1840 and the two bought a lot of land jointly, starting 1847. Both Asa and Horatio were married in Illinois, Asa, "Addie" to sister of P P Chapman, Clarinda E Chapman in Hancock county on 5th October 1837 then Horatio on 9 June 1840 to Caroline Hand in McDonough county. Asa was a charter member of Farmington's Congregation church in 1849, reportedly built several brick buildings on Fort street east of Main known as "The Reed Block", www.thepeplows.com/data/lord/236vernon.txt . Also Asa reportedly built a few elegant brick homes. was a director of the Peoria and Oquawka Railroad (P & O) in 1851 and on and on, later a banker in Galesberg. Family members, seemingly, would visit the brothers, then stay in the area. Half-sister Mary Reed (1819NH-1844IL) moved west from New Hampshire, married in Fulton county, 1842 to Phineas W Tainter and dies in Jacksonville, Morgan county, 1844. Half-brother Albert (1817NH-1880IL), wife Margaret Ann and kids fresh from Massachusetts, were on the 1850 U S census in Farmington, Fulton county, he as a "merchant", later in Galesburg. Sister Lydia Reed (1822NH-1872IL) died in Ontario, Knox county. "Jennie" wrote, she lived with twenty-four year older Asa, his wife Clarinda and family in Fulton county before her marriage, where, in the fall, with his wife, would clean pigs feet, writing they were very nice to her. Sister Clarinda F Reed "Clara" (1829NH-1862WI) married Orange H Cook (1826OH-1881WI) www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wisauk2/greenfield1880.htm in Knox county, Illinois in 1857, he, her dead sister Lucinda's (1832NH-1856WI) husband moving to his home in Greenfield, Sauk County, Wisconsin, where, reportedly, their mother had many cousins, raising sister's kids as well as having some of her own. Confusing however, is the fact; there are many other Reed families with same names, within this area of Illinois. "Jennie" is found on Eighth United States Census (1860) of Galesburg, Knox county, Illinois, as "Jenny Martin", with husband she married 1859 in Knox county, their three month old daughter Ellen and husband's sister, Hannah W (Martin) Pond with her husband "T K" (Francis Xavier). Her half-brothers Asa and Albert Reed and families were then in Galesburg, successful business men. Older brother, whom she was with in 1850, and who's said to have documented her husband's tragic death, Sylvester Reed, also lived in Galesburg and Knoxville first married Emily Hand in Fulton county 1855, when she died he married Sarah Adelaide Simmons, 1873 in Knox county, removing to Frankfort City, Marshall county, Kansas to live and die but is buried 1913 in Galesburg. Charles Reed (1839VT-1902CA), youngest of the Reed children, graduating in Class of 1867 at Knox College, married Sarah Augusta Goold in Cook county, in 1868, west to Topeka, Kansas before the great Chicago fire then north to Minneapolis, Minnesota. When he died in 1902, Augusta moved back to Chicago. travelled and was listed in the 1930 census. Having no children, Augusta gave her six volumes of Shakespeare to niece "Nellie" which went to Edwin, now in Jane's ownership. The New-England born Reed family were, for some unknown reason, drawn to area around Galesburg, Illinois and mixing with those from Oneida county, New York, such as "Jennie", Belinda Jane Reed? "Jennie" lost her husband, a Union army paymaster clerk, aboard the sabotaged steamer "Ruth" www.civilwarstlouis.com/boatburners/steamerruth.htm 4 August 1863 when it burnt in the Mississippi river downstream of Cairo, Illinois on way with a $2.6 million payroll to Vicksburg for General U S Grant's men who had won the much delayed, bloody and important, battle at Vicksburg, Mississippi, with control of both New Orleans and Memphis, now giving the Union army control of most of the Mississippi river's navigation. Major Josiah Tilden (1830VT-1905IL), a friend who was with Simeon when the incident occurred, survived, as did some 130 others, returned a booklet to "Jennie" which her husband always carried and told her of that terrible night, which she wrote about in a letter found among the Hough Family History papers. "Jennie's" father-in-law, Agrippa Simeon Martin, lost his wife sixty-nine year old Louise Kirkland (Bushnell) in 1860 who reportedly bore him thirteen children, only afore mentioned three known, however the following may have been their kids found listed as early church members; Stephen D, Pheba, Catharine, Elizabeth, Emily Amanda, and a Lucy who may have married into the Martin family. Agrippa on 5 May 1862 married widow Abigail Prentice with her brood of kids, and he was appointed executor of son's estate. They are found on U S 1870 census in Galesburg with her daughter, Alice, "dressmaker" son Junius "postal RR worker" and neighboring Swedish family named Bushnell. The Bushnell name seems to play an important roll in the Martin family. a)- Family said that was surname name of Agrippa's first wife, Kirkland listed on early church list, found was Louisa Kirkland Bushnell (1791CT-1860IL). b)- "Jennie's" son-in-law, Franklin B Hough (1859IL-1890TX) mentions a Mr Bushnell on September 1877 post card when leaving Chicago. c) Son of Simeon and "Jennie" named Horace Bushnell Martin (1862IL-1926TX), whose namesake was maternal grandmother's cousin, Reverend Horace Bushnell (1802CT-1876CT). (Google: "Rev Horace Bushnell") "Jennie" and offsprings are listed in Ontario township, Illinois (?) for the Nineth U S census (1870) then back to Galesburg for the Tenth U S census (1880). Seventeen years after loss of Simeon, year following father-in-law, Agrippa S Martin, passing away at age eighty-one and with son Horace Bushnell Martin's, born 27 January 1862 in Galesburg, graduation in 1880 from Knox College, "Jennie", for unknown reason(s), removes family from home on Tompkins street in Galesburg, Knox county, Illinois with its 38,000 population, to Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri with its 60,000 people. Daughter Ellen "Nellie" Reed Martin (1860IL-1935MO) (born 3 April 1860 in Galesburg), joining them after her 1881 graduation, meeting Franklin Benjamin Hough. "Nellie", following her 24 May 1883 marriage to Franklin Hough in Kansas City, met 5'-9" tall, 300 pound, blond haired, blue eyed, ex-Yale football player, twenty-thee year old artist, Frederic Remington (1861NY-1909NY) who was brought home spring of 1884 for lunch by twenty-five year old hubby, Franklin. It seems Remington, employed at the Kansas City Star newspaper, had been swindled out of all his funds and was about to take fatal action against the party when Franklin Hough talked him out of it and took him home for lunch. They became close friends. He went east and got married 1 October 1884, with invitation to the Hough's, bringing his bride, 'Missie", Eva Adelle Caten back to Kansas City where she stayed a short time before returning east. Frederic then moved his stuff and himself into "Nellie" and Franklin's home for awhile before going to the southwestern part of our country, pursuing his love of art. He kept in touch with the Houghs then visited them on a trip back east, when so broke, Franklin provided funds for the trip. While living with them he did several pieces of work, watercolors, oil, etc, including a watercolor, about 9 by 11 inches of "Nellie's" horse Dick. "Nellie" and Franklin's invitation to the wedding remains in the Hough Family files as did the five pieces of art he gave her for over one hundred and ten years, since 1935 kept at Kansas City's Nelson-Atkins Museum, till after 1996 when the three watercolors were restored, all sold but the watercolor of "Nellie's" horse, "Old Dick", remaining at the museum (see below). Franklin also received letters from Eva A (Caten) Remington, one after trip to Canada for his grandfather's, John Connell, funeral of 28 October 1887. Then reportedly "Nellie" took ill husband Franklin to 301 Laurel Hill, San Antonio, Texas 1888/9 for his health (possibly (?) leaving the young boys, Clayton Franklin born 1884 and Walter Martin born 1886 with their grandmothers), where he died August 1890, at age of thirty-one years four months and two days. Following or about same time "Nellie" and Franklin B Hough's move to Texas, "Jennie", for unknown reason(s), and son Horace, maybe with "Nellie's" sons, moved to Carthage, Jasper County, Missouri, possibly joining with Jane "Jennie" M (Connell) Hough ca 1889, to where Jane's brother-in-law's, Charles Hough, family lived for over twenty years, - - - then Horace married Irene Cunningham (1868MO-1944TX) in 1891 in Carthage. Hough Family History has them living in Kansas City, Missouri for awhile. They removed to Dallas, Dallas county, Texas in 1896, having four known children, one, an infant female, Lucy who died New Year's Day 1895, buried in Carthage's Park cemetery, joined later; 1920 by great,aunt, Amanda "Dixie" Hood (1853TN-1920MO) eight year invalid younger sister of Lucy (Hood) Cunningham, where she lived and died, had lived earlier with brother Thomas Clay Hood in Iowa, and reportedly in Colorado Springs, 1921 by infant Lucy's namesake and grandmother, Lucy (Hood) Cunningham, in 1932 by Ann Amanda Dent (1835MO-1932MO), widow of Colonel John Dent whose sister was wife of President U S Grant, uncle Thomas ,1944 and aunt May Franks, 1949, and eighty-five year later, 1980, cousin Helen Franks and uncle Allen Cunningham. Irene also had three known boys, with whom, winter of 1917/8 she spent three months with mother in Carthage; Edgar Horace (1892MO-1966TX), Robert Cunningham (1903TX-1973TX) who maintained a lifetime relationship with Edwin A Hough, & (Sgt) Charles A (1909TX-I944INDIA) killed during WW II in plane crash in India, also two granddaughters (Robert's kids), one, Emily Louise (1933TX-2001TX) the other, Lucy still living January 22, 2009. Irene and family are interned in Grove Hill cemetery, Dallas, Texas. Irene Cunningham, born in August 1868, graduated high school with thirteen others in 1885, later from Drury College in Springfield, Missouri, first of three known daughters born of Lon (1845VA-1911MO) and Lucy (Hood) Cunningham (1844TN-1921MO), divorced ca 1876 from father, Leonidas P Cunningham, an attorney (obituary said married five times) known are four daughters, one son plus an adopted daughter, arrived in Carthage July/August 1866, responsible for first railroad in Jasper county, later becoming "Frisco's", to Joplin 1877, a most prominent Jasper county citizen till death in 1911. Mother, Lucy Hood, arrived ca 1854 at North Fork township, 1860, Coon Creek post office (now Jasper, NOT Sarcoxie as many write where cousin Norris Clark Hood (1843TN-1887MO) lived), living and entertaining her last fifty-two years at 310 west Third street, adding a porch in 1904, possibly home father, Norris Clark Hood (1811SC-1870MO) built upon 1865/6 return to burnt-out and destroyed Carthage from Bourbon county, Kansas with Jasper county records intact. (Norris Clark Hood's log home west across Main street until destroyed during the war, after Civil War the temporary courthouse was constructed were Hood's home was, later site of Center Building, owned by James Luke, Luke J Boggess' namesake, housing a nice theater in the 1940/50s. In 1865/6 Hood built his new frame home three blocks west on Third at Maple, possibly where daughter Lucy lived her last fifty-two years.) Lucy, at age 16, 4 July 1861 had proudly waved her U S Flag painted red, white, and blue, petticoat, from atop the stile, on west side of Carthage's courthouse square to Colonel Sigel's arriving Union Troops (recorded as a painting by Andy Thomas), in defiance of, older, "Belle Star" (1848MO-1889OK) and others who supported the Confederates in this town of some 500 citizens with deeply divided emotions which destroyed Carthage before war ended. This, the day preceding one of Civil War's earliest battles, Battle of Carthage, with Wilson's Creek Battle the following month. Colonel Franz Sigel (1824GER-1902NY) sought out Lucy's father, ex-sheriff, Norris C Hood for local information, then lost both battles to the Confederates, Carthage, to Governor Claiborne Jackson and Wilson's Creek, to former Missouri governor, Gen Sterling Price, in August. Mother "Jennie" R Martin's home was at 1535 south Garrison avenue, Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri(ah) in 1891 which that September she deeded to her 1890 widowed daughter "Nellie" who removed to Carthage where her mother lived after loss of husband, Franklin B Hough, in Texas. They raised her two sons, Clayton and Walter seemingly in the eight hundred block south Main (nearer work and school), while "Nellie" was employed as a stenographer, since 1896 with law firm of McReynolds & Haliburton. After sons finished Carthage's "Central School" (high school), widow "Nellie" married widower Joseph F Boyd (1859IN-1934MO) in 1904, afterwards spending time at Saint Louis' World Fair. Officiating the marriage was Reverend William Sims Knight, D D (1837OH-1905MO), who has returned from serving Lindenwood College in Saint Charles, Missouri, now again president of Carthage Collegiate Institute which was started 1886, under his watchful eye at church on Grant street, now with stately $36,000, multi-story brick building in 1400 block of south Main street, built by George Brown Wood. Knight, a former minister of Presbyterian church in 700 block of Grant street, died at his desk, reading school's morning mail in 1905. Boyd came to Jasper county from Wayne county, Indiana, becoming successful in western Jasper county mining areas since ca 1887 then he and wife to Carthage from Joplin about 1901, to manage his many business and residential properties, as well as being active in civic affairs. Mother "Jennie" R Martin was in his household at 1535 south Garrison avenue in 1910 U S census then visiting son Horace Bushnell Martin in Dallas, Texas when she died the 21st day of March in 1919 according to Texas Death Records. Her body was returned to Carthage for burial at Park cemetery. Lot 81, Block 34. Cemetery records show death 23 March 1919, which is incorrect. Her tombstone reveals only year of birth and year of death. Grandson, Walter Martin Hough, Edwin's father, joined her in 1932 with dissatisfaction of his second wife "Marie" and cemetery records reveal other grandson she helped raise, Clayton Franklin Hough's body was moved here December 1932 from Lot 17, Block 12, where buried 1930 with his father, Franklin Benjamin Hough and other grandmother, Jane "Jennie" M (Connell) Hough. "Nellie's" sons, Clayton & Walter, each ended with one child, providing her a granddaughter, Phyllis and grandson, Edwin, whom she helped cloth and educate. Her sons each died at age of forty-six and are now buried in Lot 81, Block 34. Park cemetery, Carthage, Missouri with her mother, "Jennie" (Reed) Martin. Also noted is, "Nellie" and Joseph spent a lot of time in Corpus Chisti, Texas for health reasons. Clayton was the fullback of his high school's football team then worked in Carthage's Central National Bank with Sidney Knight (1883ENG-1960MO) and Hale M Boggess (1879WV-1942MO) (president, 1925-1933), spent time in Texas before he married Evelyn DuFranc in 1915 at Carthage, moving to Denver, Colorado, having a daughter, Phyllis Evelyn Hough-Bucknams (1917CO-1985CAN). Clayton lost his wife while living in Colorado in 1928, two years later, thirteen year old Phyllis lost her father while he was a patient in a hospital at Wichita Falls, Texas. Clayton's body was brought to Carthage and buried in Park cemetery Lot 17, Block 12, moved to Lot 81 Block 34 December 1932. Phyllis' maternal parents, the Bucknams of Eagle River, Vilas county, Wisconsin adopted her, whom Edwin maintained a life long relationship with. Phyllis married Edward "Ted" C Hodges day before Christmas 1945. living in Leamington, Ontario, Canada while he worked at Ford Motors. They gave a nice gift to Edwin's daughter, Jane, when she married and when her son, Gianmarco, was born in New York City. Walter Martin Hough married Adele A Sigler (1887MO-1918MO) at Carthage, friday, 25 August 1905. Her father, James Albert Sigler (1858OH-1944MO), an eight year veteran, Jasper County Recorder, first to serve in new $100,000 courthouse when completed 1895. Hough Family History reported they moved to Dallas, Texas where his mother's only brother, Horace Bushnell Martin and family lived. He's said to have worked for the Saint Louis and San Francisco Railroad company (Frisco) whose 1st Vice President & General Manager in St Louis was Carl Raymond Gray (1867AR-1939DC) who lived in Carthage from 1890 to 1898 with young son, later Major-General C R Gray, Jr., in charge of military railroads in Europe and Africa during WW II. Infant son Franklin W Hough was born and shortly after died on Saturday, the 23rd of February 1907 in Dallas, Texas of pneumonia, buried the 26th in Park cemetery, Lot 17, Block 12, Carthage, Missouri where his paternal grandfather Franklin Benjamin Hough was buried 1890 and in 1914 his paternal great,grandmother, Jane M (Connell) Hough. Walter and Adele did not get along well, so she spent a lot of time up in Carthage. Missouri Birth Registration #143 listing birth of "Albert Edwin Hough" has father Walter in Beaumont, Jefferson county, Texas (with St Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railroad, mostly owned by B F Yoakum, Chairman of "Frisco"), when Adele was at Carthage birthing their second son, friday, 23 October 1908, with a birth certificate, filed some thirty years later, 11 January 1939 by his maternal grandmother, Ellen Josephine (Mills) Sigler Robertson (1866NE-1959MO), giving his name as; "Edwin Albert Hough". Both of Edwin's parents were also the second known children born of their parents. Adele separated from Walter, left Houston, Harris county, Texas, returning to Carthage ca 1916, with son Edwin, staying with sister Estelle, at least for awhile. Walter had been transferred to Houston from Beaumont by St Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railroad when in 1917 he signed for the Draft of WW I stating he was divorced and had one child. Shortly thereafter he married Blanche M "Marie" Chiswell in New Orleans, born 2 February 1885, nine months following the 8 May 1884 birth of Harry S Truman, in Lamar, Barton county, Missouri, a month before his parents moved to Harrisonville, Cass county, Missouri, she the daughter of attorney Lee & wife Belle Chiswell. Walter now employed with Mississippi-Warrior Barge line in New Orleans, then with 1918 United States Congressionally created, Federal Barge Lines, created for World War I. There are letters to and from Walter and new wife "Marie" to varies family members within Hough Family History papers. (Hough Family History has "Marie" married to a socially prominent New Orleans business man, J Floyd Hodge and leaving her estate to a retarded son, including what she had left of inherited estate of Walter Hough.) Adele raised Edwin until she met and married a second husband in February then, less than two weeks, died in the Yates Hotel at Joplin March 1918. His maternal grandmother, Ella Josephine (Mills) Sigler may have attempted to care for him but due to ill health and Adele's tragic death, younger sister Estelle (Sigler) Meyer (1889MO-1955MO) and her second husband, took over, when he had little, to no good clothing, according to a stern letter she sent his father in 1919. Edwin is in Estelle's home on Carthage's Mound street in U S census in 1920, as are her youngest sister, Helen Margaret (1901MO-1989CA) and father James Albert Sigler. While growing up, Edwin became a very interesting story teller, as were reportedly both; his paternal grandfather Franklin and father Walter afore him. Edwin then graduated as valedictorian of his 1926 Carthage High School class with letters having him attending the University of Missouri(ah) in 1927 and 1928 when Edith Boggess was also there until death of her mother, Kate (Knight) Boggess (1876ENG-1928MO), 1 April 1928. "Nellie" wrote Edwin: "I went to the Boggess home [1205 south Main street, "WETZAL's FOLLY", one of first built on Main street,1876] after the mother [Kate] passed on and saw Edith and Mr Boggess and S C, didn't see Luke Boggess. It was certainly a tragedy http://files.usgwarchives.org/mo/jasper/obits/b/boggess5ob.txt . Miss Edith spoke of seeing you a few days ago." ["Nellie" and S C, worked at McReynolds & Haliburton Law firm at the same time] Edwin is listed on 1930 U S census in New Orleans with father and step-mother then graduated with honors, 1 August 1930 receiving two bachelor degrees, journalism and in arts and sciences, a member of Phi Kappa Psi, president of Sigma Del Chi, president of Q E R H , senior honorary society, executive chairman of the Memorial Union campaign and editor of University of Missouri(ah) yearbook, the Savitar. He spent month of August in Colorado Springs and Estes Park before taking his position (depth of depression years) in New York City with a national firm dealing in financial advertising, earning $35 per week, buying his first Brooks Bros suit for $50. Winter of 1931/2; In August of 1931 Edwin took a leave of absence to join two journalist friends on a trip to Canada, venturing into the country seventy-five miles northeast of Waterways, Alberta, Canada in the wild country of Clearwater Valley until spring. He had written "Stell [Estelle] and Bill" in December 1931; "Since we have no dog team ... - - ... there will be sufficient room in the carry-all of his toboggan to accommodate our bed rolls and grub box. It will be an exciting trip, not alone for the spectacular vistas of the river and valley under snow and ice but also for the very fact that it will be our first long distance journey by dog team." It being more than a fifty mile journey to Waterways for Christmas and New Years, where Waterways Hotel has set up for them a Christmas dinner. Edwin had earlier ventured into the wilds of Canada from Minnesota by auto, July 1931, and documented leaving October 1931 at Bobb, Montana. Edwin's father passes away 31 January 1932 in New Orleans, with funeral in Carthage, burial, to the displeasure of his second wife "Marie", next to his maternal grandmother, "Jennie" Martin at Park cemetery, Lot 81, Block 34, Edwin is unable to attend while with two others, seventy-five miles northeast of Waterways, Alberta, Canada in the wild country of Clearwater Valley, however he did cut short his wilderness adventure and rushed back to Carthage arriving after the burial. 19 April 1933 finds Edwin in Kansas City involved with an aviation journal, "Aircraft Age". His letters say; he has been up, flying to St Joe, St Louis also over Carthage and may take up flying himself during the summer. His twice widowed paternal grandmother, "Nellie" passes away 8 June 1935, about a year following second husband Joseph, with Mrs James Luke (Miriam L Chappell, 1884NY-1959MO), first reader at First Church of Christ Scientist in charge at funeral and pallbeares being; G Everett Hough, S C Boggess, Wesley Haliburton, J D Carter, H D Hoge, and Bryon Ash (a neighbor & partner of James Luke (1854ENG-1925MO) who brought Kate (Knight) Boggess, Edith;s mother, to America from England, raising her till married to S C Boggess March of 1898). Edwin inherited her five Frederic Remington (1861NY-1909NY) www.spanamwar.com/remington.htm pieces of art, to wit; "Catlle Rustlers", "Gracious Senorita", "Prairie on Fire", "Sentinels at Guard" and "Old Dick", Nellie's horse, work done by Frederic while he lived, between 1883 and 1888, with Edwin's grandparents, Franklin and "Nellie" Hough in Kansas City sometimes using Franklin as a model. Nelson Art Gallery of Kansas City, (now Nelson-Atkins muesum), maintained these fine pieces of art for Edwin, who in turn featured them on special occasions, separately or as a group with other Remington paintings, for public viewing. (A private viewing arranged for Bill Boggess' interested friends, spring of 1981, explaining the darker colors used were during his earliest years) Edwin also inherited the buildings in THE BARLETT BLOCK, between 4th and 5th east side of Main street, Carthage, Missouri, bought in 1901 from Mrs Helen T Bartlett by Joseph F Boyd and first wife for $11,000. A painting by Andy Thomas was in collection of Danny Hensley, with picture on page 179; Jasper County, The First Two Hundred Years, by Marvin L VanGilder Edwin marries Edith Boggess while she's in Manitou Springs, Colorado, 24 August 1935. Honeymooning by visiting relatives and enjoying a motor car, sight-seeing, tour of Colorado & New Mexico, then to her new home at 1045 south Garrison avenue in Carthage, Missouri, house next to partner of uncle James Luke, who brought her mother, his neice, Kate Knight, from England. From Edwin's "Washington Post" 1995 obituary; "In 1939, he moved to Washington and worked for the Farm Security Administration as a specialist in price controls. He served in the Navy [at Rod & Gun Club, Everglades City, Collier County, Fla., when the fishermen, such as "Uncle" Charley Boggess (1878FL-1970FL) & son, used their vessels to seek out German submarines in Gulf of Mexico, so say he in 1980s while lunching there] in the Pacific during the final months of World War II. "After the war, he worked in Korea and Japan as a civilian economist with U S military forces. "He returned to Washington in 1952 to work for the Office of Price Stabilization; in 1954, he joined the agency that later became AID and was posted in Manila. He came back to Washington in1956 as desk officer for Cambodia and served in that capacity for years. "In retirement, he traveled extensively." His loving wife and companion of nearly sixty years obituary; "Edith Boggess, was a [1932] graduate of Springfield Teachers College in Missouri. She taught school in Carthage and at an American school in the Philippines, where she accompanied her husband to an agency for International Development assignment. They also lived in Korea and Japan. She was a resident of Chevy Chase, and had lived in the Washington area off and on since 1938. A Girl Scout leader: a volunteer with the Common Cause; and member of River Road Unitarian Church; the P.E.O. philanthropic organization; the Foreign Service Wives Association; and the Chevy Chase Women's Club." Not mentioned in her obituary was: She attended Franklin and Mark Twain grade schools in Carthage, then while parents lived in Kansas City (1921 to 1925) the Bigelow's School for Girls (Jean Harlow (1911MO-1937CA) attended in 1925), back to Carthage High School two years finishing high school at Sullins school in Bristol, Virginia. Edith Boggess was also, fourth born, second to adulthood, to Samuel Cleveland Boggess (1874WV-1946MN) and Kate Knight (1876ENG-1928MO) in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri, 15 August 1906. She helped bury her grandmother, Sarah Elizabeth (Wood) Boggess, in Point Pleasant cemetery, Harrision county, West Virginia where her husband , parents and five of ten siblings were buried, northerly across Wizzardism run, in Carpenter Hollow, next easterly, to school Sarah and older brother once taught. Cemetery, first established in 1835 as Mount Morris Methodist Espiscopal church, moved for railroad construction about 1855 to present location, renamed Point Pleasant, now with 127 known buried. Edith returning with daughter Jane in 1948. We found it Easter week-end 2003, overgrown with illegal livestock roaming freely and learned the Methodist church abandoned it in 1964. We set about finding other descendents of the interned, and with help of neighbor Bertha Webb, partially restored Point Pleasant cemetery in 2004 & 2005. http://community.webtv.net/billboggess3/MAKENPOINTPLEASANT Edith lost her mother and sister-in-law within fourteen hours while at the University of Missouri. April 1928. Edith returned home to become the women of the house for her father and younger brother S C, jr (1911MO-1994FL), plus her older brother Luke (1899MO-1974MO) and his two young sons, L Jack Boggess (1924NE-2001OR) and William (Bill) Samuel Boggess, born 1927, upon their return to Carthage from home in Waldo area of Kansas City, until he remarried in 1932. Eddie and Ed's last home was at; 3301 Rolling Road, in Chevy Chase, Montgomery County, Maryland. Daughter Jane Ellen, an architect, born 1936, who in turn had one son, Gianmarco Leoncavallo, born 1974, arranged and oversaw their cremains buried in Lot 174, Block 32 of Park cemetery, Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri(ah) at 11:00 am, 13 May 1996. Many of the Houghs, Boggesses and related family members are found resting in Carthage's beautifully maintained Park cemetery (once saved from financial ruin by Edith's father), among some 15,000 others, once abutting on its north, the original, ~ ~ "Old Mother Road, Route 66" ~ ~ also known as Oak street! <----------<>----------> Compiled jointly by Jane L Hough and William (Bill) Samuel Boggess, year 2009. Additional Comments: For indiviuals information see: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ , database; califa1 A booklet with many pictures was filed with Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois File at: http://files.usgwarchives.org/il/knox/bios/martin1534gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ilfiles/ File size: 39.2 Kb