Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 02:00:29 GMT To: ky-footsteps@sirius.dsenter.com Subject: ky-footsteps V1 #7 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nancy Trice Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 16:31:19 -0500 Subject: KY-F: DeMoss: OH-KY-SD-IN The Messenger, Madisonville, Ky, Aug. 15, 1945 CLARENCE DeMOSS DIES AT HANSON Clarence J DeMoss, 56, Hanson Rfd 1 farmer, ill of tuberculous for many years, died at 2:30 am today in his home. He had been bedfast eight years. Mr DeMoss, son of the late T W and Alice DeMoss, was born January 26, 1889. He married Miss Lillian Gropengieser in 1910, who, with four children born of the union, survive. The latter are Sergeant Shelby DeMoss, army air force, stationed at Columbus, Ohio; Technical Sergeant Carl DeMoss, Sioux Falls, S D, who has returned to the states after twenty-six months oversears service; Raymond DeMoss and Clarence J DeMoss Jr., both of Hanson rfd 1. Other survivors are two grandchildren, Barbara DeMoss, Hopkinsville; Beverly Ann DeMoss, Fort Branch, Ind; four brothers, Curry DeMoss and Jesse DeMoss, both of Hanson; Shirley DeMoss, Sebree; Hayes DeMoss, Wadsworth, Ohio, and three sisters, Mrs R I Parker and Mrs J F Rhodes, both of Hanson and Mrs Erskine Holbert, Arkron, Ohio. Since boyhood Mr DeMoss had been a member of Emberry Methodist church, Vandetta, and funeral services will be conducted in that church after arrival of the two sons who are in the armed forces. Rev. J B Emberry, Bremen, will officiate, assisted by Rev. C W Simpson, Hanson. Burial will be in Clear View cemetery, Vandette. Obituary contributed by: Maria Troutman, Note by Maria: Clarence was the son of Peter Washington DeMoss, not T W. ------------------------------ From: Nancy Trice Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 16:31:22 -0500 Subject: KY-F: McGREGOR: KY-MI-IL-ARK The Daily Messenger, Madisonville, Ky, May 27, 1935. Dawson Springs, May 27.-- Funeral services were conducted here the weekend for William McGregor, 67, who died at Saginaw, Mich., Wednesday. Burial was in Menser graveyard, near here. Mr McGregor, a jeweler and watch repairer here for twenty-five years, had been residing in Michigan for severel months. He is survived by three sons, Alfred McGregor, city; James and Robert McGregor, Chicago, and three daughters, Mrs Ada McGregor, Oceola, Ark., Mrs Minno Grant, Chicago, and Mrs Alene Crisp, Repton, Ky. ------------------------------ From: Nancy Trice Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 16:31:21 -0500 Subject: KY-F: KIRKWOOD: KY-AL-MO The Messenger Madisonville, Ky., Tuesday April 24, 1973 Oscar Wayne Kirkwood, 96, of 703 Westside Ave. Earlington, died at 6:10 p.m. Monday at Browns Rest Home in Madisonville where he had been a patient since Dec. 1971. He was born Dec. 26, 1876 to the late Katherine Osbourne and Hiram Kirkwood in Hopkins Co., He married Emma Pearl Adcock in 1902 and to this union 5 children were born with 4 surviving. she preceded him in death in Nov. 1972. He was a retired farmer and had owned and operated a coal mine in the Richland area. He was a member of the Missionary Baptist Church. He is survived by one daughter; Mrs. Katherine Shaffer of Mongomery, Ala., three sons, Rudolph Kirkwood of Earlington, Horace Wayne of White Plains and Fred of Madisonville, a half sister; Mrs. Telly Griffith of East St. Louis, Mo. 10 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at Reid-Walters Funeral Home at 2:oo Thyrsday with Dr. Harold Purdy officiating with burial in Odd Fellows Cemetery in Madisonville. Friends may call at the funeral home after 4:00 p.m. Wednesday. Obituary contributed by: James D Laffoon ------------------------------ End of ky-footsteps V1 #7 *************************