REO Speed Wagon 1923
Heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend who heard it from another…that REO Speedwagon (the band) got their name from REO Speed Wagon (this automobile).†
I found this ad in the July 15, 1923 issue of Southern Ruralist Magazine. I had initially called my husband to look at the magazine because of the date. I didn’t realize that I had any newspapers or magazines prior to 1930 until I saw this.
REO Motor Car Company had first produced wagons, then later motorized vehicles. The Speed Wagon was considered very dependable, a quality vehicle. They were introduced in 1915 and, according to Wikipedia, produced “through at least 1953”.
So here you go! The “Ancestor of the Pickup Truck”!
†My husband thought that this would be an awesome introduction…he also counts on the song getting stuck in everyone’s head for the day
Reverend Robert Haskins Crozier, D.D.
Though I am not related to Robert Haskins Crozier, I decided to write a post about him because I had a person ask for some information and because he wrote the book Fiery Trials, Or a Story of an Infidel’s Family, which is based on events that happened in Marshall County, Mississippi concerning my 4th great-grandfather Peter McQueen and his two oldest daughters.
When I first looked up Robert Haskins Crozier on Ancestry I noticed that no one had yet found all of the census records for him. This is due to transcription errors, which is is understandable considering the handwriting.
photo found at Google Books-click picture to go to source
Robert Haskins Crozier was born January 28, 1836 in Coffeeville, Yalobusha County, Mississippi to parents Hugh Galbraith Crozier (1808-1876) and Nancy (Nannie) Oliver (1818-1884).
In 1840 the family lived in Yalobusha County, Mississippi. Only Hugh (father) is named on the census since all family member names didn’t appear on the US Census until 1850. He is listed as Hugh G Crozier. On this census are:
2 white males under 5 years of age
1 white male between 20 and 29 years of age
1 white male between 30 and 39 years of age
1 white female between 20 and 29 years of age
1 male slave between 10 and 23 years of age
1 female slave between 10 and 23 years of age
1 female slave between 24 and 35 years of age
In 1850 the family had moved and are found on the census enumerated in District 13, Panola County, Mississippi. Robert is listed as Robert H Crozier, age 14 years and a schoolboy (as he was marked as having been to school within the last year). Also on the census are: his father Hugh G Crozier (a farmer, born in Tennessee, age 42 years), his mother Nancy K Crozier (born in Tennessee, age 31 years), a younger brother Orlando Crozier (age 10 years) and Hugh V Crozier (age 2 years).
According to Wright American Fiction (Vol. 3, 1876-1900, No. 1312, Reel C-58-citation found in the McAlexander-Marshall County Collection) Robert married Mattie (Martha) Harding in 1859, though I have been unable to find the marriage record itself.
In 1860 Robert is found with his wife living in Post Office Eureka, Panola County, Mississippi with his parents. He is listed as Robert H Crozier, age 24 years and a teacher of Latin and Greek. Martha is listed just under him as Martha C Crozier (age 22 years). The others living in the household are: his father HG Crozier (a farmer, age 52 years), his mother Nancy K Crozier (age 42 years), his brother Orlando M Crozier (occupation listed as “Gentleman”, age 19 years), brother Hugh V Crozier (age 11 years) and sister Dora Crozier (age 9 years).
In 1870 Robert and Mattie are found living in Hickory Plain, Prairie County, Arkansas. Robert is listed as RH Crozier, age 34 years and a teacher. His wife is listed as MC Crozier (age 31 years). She has “ditto” marks under Occupation leading me to believe that she was also a teacher. By 1870 they had four children. The children are listed as: SF Crozier (male, age 9 years), Eva A Crozier (female, age 8 years), EW Crozier (male, age 4 years) and RE Crozier (male, age 1 year). Also living with the family were: M Short (female, housekeeper, age 17 years) and Perry Hood (female, house servant, age 12 years).
It wasn’t long after the 1870 census was enumerated that Martha (Mattie) passed. On November 1, 1871 a 35-year-old Robert married an 18-year-old Mary Elizabeth Reinhardt in Prairie County, Arkansas.
By 1880 Robert had moved his family to District 159, Sardis, Panola County, Mississippi. He is listed as RH Crozier, age 43 years and his occupation is listed as Minister of Gospel. His wife is listed as ME Crozier, age 27 years and keeping house. His children are listed as: Eva Crozier (age 17 years), Emmett Crozier (age 13 years), Hattie Crozier (age 7 years), Allie Crozier (5 years), Norman Crozier (age 3 years) and Rosa May (age 6 months). Also living with the family are his sister Dora Crozier (age 27 years) and his mother NK Crozier (age 63 years).
There is no census for 1890, of course.
In 1900 the family is found living in District 3, Palestine Ward 1, Anderson County, Texas. Robert is listed as Robert H Crozier, age 64 years and his occupation is Presbyterian Minister. His wife is listed as Mary E Crozier, age 46 years. Her birth is given as August of 1853. The children living with them are: Harriett A Crozier (musical teacher, age 29 years), Aldereare(?) Crozier (musical teacher, age 25 years), Norman R Crozier (school teacher, age 22 years), Rosa May Crozier (age 20 years), Hugh W Crozier (stenographer, age 17 years) and Fredie W Crozier (age 8 years).
The family is found on the 1910 census living in District 0004, Palestine Ward 1, Anderson County, Texas. Robert is listed as Rev. D.D. (Reverend, Doctor of Divinity) RH Crozier, age 74 years, a preacher-minister. His wife is listed as Mary E Crozier, age 56 years. Their children living with them are: Hattie Crozier (music teacher, age 37 years), Allie Crozier (music teacher, age 35 years), Rosa May Crozier (age 30 years), Hugh W Crozier (stenographer for the railroad General Attorney, age 26 years) and Fredericka Crozier (age 18 years). Interestingly enough his daughter Eva Crozier is listed after Fredricka. She is age 47 years and a teacher at a private school. I don’t know why she is listed after the other children. Robert’s sister Dora Crozier also lived with them. She is listed as age 58 years, no occupation. Two other people lived in the house with the family: GW Palmer (a boarder from New York, age 62 years) and Lan Hyter(?) (a cook/servant, widowed, age 52 years).
Reverend Robert Haskins Crozier died on July 16, 1913 in Palestine, Anderson County, Texas. The cause of death listed on his death certificate was “heart strain the result of arterio sclerosis”.
According to Wright American Fiction (Vol. 3, 1876-1900, No. 1312, Reel C-58-citation found in the McAlexander-Marshall County Collection) Robert graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1857 with a BA, and two years later received his MA. He was the Principal of the Eureka Male Academy until the beginning of the Civil War, at which time he joined the Confederate Army (records will be presented in a separate post). He was Second Lieutenant, promoted to Captain in late 1862. It was shortly after he resigned from the service in 1865 that he wrote his first novel, The Confederate Spy. In 1867 Robert became the Principal of the Hickory Plain Male and Female Academy in Hickory Plains, Prairie County, Arkansas. It was here that he met his second wife Mary, as she was a student at the Academy. The same year he married Mary he became the President of Lonoke College in Lonoke County, Arkansas. In 1872 he acquired his license to preach for the Presbyterian Church. Not only was his wife a Presbyterian, but his grandfather had been an elder at the Presbyterian Church in Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee.
Robert wrote several novels between 1867 and 1887. These include:
The Confederate Spy: a Story of the War of 1861 (1867)
The Bloody Junto: Or, the Escape of John Wilkes Booth: a Story Containing Many Interesting Particulars in Regard to the Trial and Execution of Mrs. Surratt and Other So-Called Conspirators (1869)
Fiery Trials, Or a Story of an Infidel’s Family (1882)
Araphel: Or the Falling Stars of 1833 (1884)
The Cave of Hegobar: Or the Fiend of 1878 (1885)
Deep Waters: Or a Strange Story (1887)
Golden Rule: a Tale of Texas (1900)
The End of the World: a Tale (ca. 1908)
Call of Christi: a Story of Foreign Missions (190?)
In 1877 Robert was the pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Sardis, Panola County, Mississippi. Later that same year he became the pastor at the Presbyterian Church in Monroe, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana. He moved his family to Palestine, Anderson County, Texas in 1888 and became the pastor at the First Presbyterian Church there, where he remained for 21 years. The Arkansas College at Batesville gave him an honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1889. Until his death in 1913 he held the title of Pastor Emeritus. Nearly two thousand sermons were carefully preserved by his children, each one dated when they were written and when they were delivered. He gave an address on the death of Jefferson Davis, as well as on the assassination of William McKinley.
Robert Haskins Crozier appears to be a much beloved man, both as a member of the communities he lived in and as a pastor. His sermons and writings were highly sought after, with glowing reviews for all of his novels.
Wordless Wednesday: Cleo Leatherman-Unknown
William Henry Gollings
When I was 9-years-old my step-father David Harcourt Gollings adopted me. I hadn’t much contact with my birth father Roger Dale Ray (Robert Jewell Vincent). So when DHG adopted me he became Dad and I became a Gollings. Though I am not a Gollings by blood, I am a Gollings according to the courts. I acquired two sisters out of the deal, too. And some interesting ancestors. I have been slowly working on a project for my dad, scanning photos and letters of the families of my Grandma Ina (Ina Lee Ellis, Ellis and Frazer families) and Grandpa Bill (Gollings and Roe families).
My relationship to William Henry Gollings:
Me
David Harcourt Gollings (dad)
William Harcourt Gollings (grandpa)
William Henry Gollings (g-grandfather)
(note: all records found on Ancestry with the exception of the birth record, which was found at Family Search)
William Henry Gollings was born May 14, 1871 in Govan, Lanarkshire, Scotland to parents Henry Gollings (about 1837-1903) and Eliza Ellis (1849-1924). I’m not really sure why his parents were in Scotland since his father was from Leominster in Herefordshire and his mother was from Liverpool in Lancashire, though there was a shipyard in Govan, I believe. William Henry was only one of two children born in Scotland to his parents, the other nine were born in Peterborough in Northamptonshire.
WH (as he shall be known in this post) appears on the 1881 England census living in District 23, East Peterborough, Northamptonshire. He is listed as Henry Gollings, age 9 years, occupation scholar (schoolboy, I assume). This census states that he was born in Glasgow, Scotland even though the birth record is Govan (Govan did not become a part of Glasgow until 1912, so they were still considered separate “towns”). His parents are listed as Henry Gollings (joiner, age 43 years) and Eliza (age 31 years). Also in the household are his siblings: Mary (age 8 years), Jessie (age 6 years), Edith (age 4 years), Arthur (age 2 years) and Nellie (age 6 months). According to a lineage chart I received for the Gollings line WH also had an older sister named Eliza, born 1869 in Scotland, that passed away June 1875 in Peterborough.
I am unable to find WH on a census record in the 1890s. Census records state that he came to America in 1889, so finding him on the 1890 census will be totally, completely impossible (seeing as it was destroyed). I did find a UK Incoming Passenger List with him on it, though. According to the list William H. Gollings, a grocer age 21 years, left New York, New York aboard The Majestic and arrived on June 12, 1893 in Liverpool, England.
(an interesting side note: The Majestic was a White Star Line ship…you know, like Titanic)
WH married Emily Georgeanna (Georgeann) Roe (1871-1932) in England prior to immigrating to America. The only marriage record I can find for a William Henry Gollings is for Jan-Feb-Mar 1896 in Salford, Lancashire. Emily’s name is not in the same book, however, so I am not positive this is same person.
The next record I can find for WH is another one I can’t actually see. It is a record on the Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500-1900. If anyone out there can send me a copy of his information I would be ever so happy! It is found in Index to Montgomery Co. Early Naturalizations, Illinois State Genealogical Society Quarterly, Fall 1991, pp. 171-177 and Winter 1991, pp. 230-240.
By 1900 WH and Emily had their first two children. The family is found on the census living in Decatur, Macon County, Illinois. Now, it’s because of the accuracy of census records that I am unsure about place of marriage, etc. But here is what is on the census:
Henry Gollings: born May 1872 (though birth record is 1871), married for 4 years (which would make 1896 correct), born in England (not correct, he was born in Scotland), parents born in England (correct), immigrated in 1889 (explains why I can’t find him in the 1890s), naturalized, bookkeeper for an oil company, could read and write, spoke English and rented a house.
The others living in the household were his wife Emily (age 29 years), son Henry (born in Missouri, age 2 years) and daughter Jessie (born in Illinois, age 1 year). According to Pat at the Macon County History Museum the only oil companies he could find were (wholesale) Merchant’s Oil Tank Line Company, Standard Oil Company, Standard Oil Company of Illinois and (oil extracting) Pratt Construction Company, United States Oil Extracting Machinery Company-and those were in the 1909 directory, the earliest directory the museum has.
By 1910 WH and Emily had four more children. They had moved and are found on the census living at 520 E. 89th Place, Chicago Ward 33, Cook County, Illinois. WH is seen as:
William H. Gollings: age 38 years, born in Scotland, England (uh…), parents born in England (correct), naturalized, works as a statistical clerk at a car shop (fancy-schmancy way of saying bookkeeper, I think) and rents a house.
The others living in the household were his wife Emily G (age 39 years), son Henry E (age 13 years), daughter Jessie (age 11 years), daughter Emily (age 9 years), daughter Dorothy (age 5 years), son William H (Grandpa Bill, age 3 years), and son Arthur E (age 2 months).
(note: I looked up the address where they lived on Google and the house is still there. the house was built in 1890)
In 1920 the family had moved again, this time to 7250 Perry Avenue, Chicago Ward 32, Cook County, Illinois. WH is seen as:
William Gollings: age 48 years, born in Scotland (correct!), speaks English, parents born in England (correct) and both spoke English, rents and was a clerk somewhere (I can’t make out where he worked).
The others living in the household were his wife Emily (age 49 years), daughter Jessie (age 21 years), daughter Dorothy (age 17 years), son Harcourt (Grandpa Bill, age 12 years) and son Arthur (age 9 years). They also had a lodger living with them named Elsie Steiner (age 23 years).
(note: I looked up this address and the house is no longer there. it’s just the foundation left)
By 1930 the family had moved again. This time they were living at 2516 64th Street, Chicago District 591, Cook County, Illinois (I thought the street number was 2576, but that would have put it smack dab in the middle of an intersection). WH is seen as:
William Gollings: age 58 years, born in Scotland, parents born in England, renting and works as a timekeeper at…I think it says can company.
The others living in the household were his wife Emily (written as Emilie, age 59 years), son William Harcourt (Grandpa Bill, age 22 years) and son Arthur (age 20 years).
(note: I also looked up this address…sad, but it seems to have been torn down and a new building in it’s place)
WH’s wife Emily died on July 8, 1932 in Cook County, Illinois. I am unable to find any other records of him until his death in August of 1967. I can’t find an exact date. The Social Security Death Index only gives the month and year for him. It also gives his year of birth 1873 (not correct).
My dad said that he met his grandfather WH once and he was retired, but he thought he possibly had worked in the meatpacking industry in Chicago. He may have at some point (like, maybe in 1920?) worked as a clerk/bookkeeper.
Peter McQueen 1.0
Note: to see a post for Robert Haskins Crozier CLICK HERE
While I continue to track down the parents of Peter McQueen I suppose putting some information up about him would keep me from writing one very, very long post about him. †
My relationship to Peter McQueen:
Me
Virginia Marie Stalls (mother)
James Paul Stalls, Jr (granddaddy)
Minnie Virginia Richards (g-grandmother)
Jerome E Richards (2nd g-grandfather)
Caroline McQueen (3rd g-grandmother)
Peter McQueen (4th g-grandfather)
According to census records Peter McQueen was born about 1795 in South Carolina. I do know (due to a court case involving one of his daughters and his niece) that he had at least one older sister named Ann McQueen who married Stephen Wood. Ann McQueen, also from South Carolina, died in Meriwether County, Georgia.
Peter McQueen is not on any census records until 1840 for some reason, so tracking his exact whereabouts is difficult.
Peter married Elizabeth Freeland in 1820 in West Feliciana, Louisiana. They had (according to the divorce papers) three daughters: Louisa in 1822, Melissa in 1824 and Caroline in 1826. By 1827 the family was living in Lauderdale County, Mississippi.
In 1827, when Caroline was about a year old, Peter deserted his family. He had previously sold many of their belongings. When he left he took two slaves that Elizabeth’s father had given her, telling Elizabeth he would sell the slaves and return with the money. He disappeared for 10 years. I have been unable to find him on the 1830 census (or 1820 census, for that matter).
Peter apparently returned sometime in 1837 and took the two oldest daughters, Louisa and Melissa, from their home against their will, though why he did not take Caroline is not known (unless, as might be suspected, Caroline is not actually his daughter…). According to records he took the girls up to Marshall County, Mississippi and enrolled them in school.
Elizabeth filed for divorce in May of 1838. She assumed that Peter had fled west of the Mississippi River and was possibly living in Arkansas. A notice went out in the paper in Jasper County, Mississippi asking him to come forward and face the accusations. Of course he didn’t and the divorce was finalized May 1839.
In 1840 Peter is found living in Northern Division, Marshall County, Mississippi. Listed in the household are:
1 white male between 15 and 19 years of age
1 white male between 40 and 49 years of age
3 male slaves under 10 years of age
1 female slave under 10 years of age
1 female slave between 10 and 23 years of age
1 female slave between 24 and 35 years of age
It is not clear who the white male between 15 and 19 years of age is, nor at this point do I know if the female slave between 10 and 23 years of age and the female slave between 24 and 35 years of age are the two that he took from Elizabeth.
It was about 1840 when Peter brought Louisa and Melissa to live with him. According to court records between 1840 and 1850 Peter became upset when his daughters attended a Methodist Church and kicked them both out of his house. It’s not clear whether he kicked them out for attending church, for attending a Methodist Church or attending the night meetings at the Methodist Church. However, Reverend Robert Haskins Crozier wrote a novel based on the incident titled Fiery Trials: Or, a story of an Infidel's Family, Rogers and Company, 1882. The book paints Peter as an atheist who forbid his family to even think about religion.
On April 24, 1843 Peter, who had been named the administrator of William M Bostwick’s estate, reported that the estate was insolvent. Peter may not have been forthcoming in filing a list of the assets of the estate until October 1846. (William Trezevant et al. vs. Peter McQueen, Administrator of William M. Bostwick, deceased)*
The January Term of 1849 found Peter in court again when Theodore Bostwick sued him for wages he felt Peter owed him. The judge found for the defendant (Peter) and awarded a new trial. Bostwick had failed to present evidence to prove his case and the judge declared that Peter had shown kindness in providing clothes, food and medical attention. (Peter McQueen vs. Theodore D. Bostwick)*
In 1850 Peter is found on the census still living in Northern Division, Marshall County, Mississippi. He is listed as Peter McQueen, 55 years of age, a farmer and born in South Carolina. This is the first time that it is shown where he claims to have been born. Also living in the household with him is a man named John Bogan, 23 years of age from North Carolina who was a carpenter. It’s not clear his relationship to Peter. The slave schedules also list Peter as having twenty-one slaves between the ages of 9 months and 33 years.**
The year 1850 found Louisa living with the Grey family in Marshall County, Mississippi. She would go on to marry Thomas Cottrell, then Jeremiah Elder. In 1850 Melissa was living with the Benjamin Cottrell family in Marshall County, Mississippi. Benjamin Cottrell owned the Sylvestria Girls School in Marshall County and Melissa taught there. Melissa died in 1851 and is buried in the Cottrell Family Cemetery in Marshall County, Mississippi. Her headstone reads “When my father and mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up”.
The census enumerated in 1860 finds Peter living in Town 2 Range 5, Byhalia, Marshall County, Mississippi. He is living by himself, age 65 years, a farmer, extremely wealthy and still from South Carolina. He is again on the slave schedules as having 30 slaves between the ages of 8 months and 40 years.
In 1860 Peter’s niece, Mary Ann Wood Mullins lost her husband Patrick Henry Mullins to a brain inflammation leaving her to raise four children on her own. Peter’s will, dated September 3, 1863 appoints Mary Ann as executrix. Peter’s entire estate was left to her and her children, but nothing to his last living child Louisa. According to a Mississippi Supreme Court case, October Term 1866 between Mary Ann and Louisa (Mary A. Mullins et al. v. Louisa Cottrell) concerning the validity of the will Peter lived in Choctaw County (it is not clear whether Choctaw County, Mississippi or Choctaw County, Alabama, though Mississippi seems to be the most obvious) two years prior to his death. The record of the case*** goes on to say that in Choctaw County he “killed a man in that county, and was killed in attempting to escape”. It goes on to state that Peter died in the “autumn of 1865”, but it doesn’t give an exact date of death. It also doesn’t tell us where he is buried.
Questions:
-Who are Peter McQueen’s parents?
-Where was Peter McQueen prior to 1820?
-Where was Peter McQueen between 1827 and 1837?
-Is Caroline actually Peter McQueen’s daughter?
-Who are these Mystery McQueens living with Robert Hoyle in 1860, Township 2 Range 4, Byhalia, Marshall County, Mississippi: Peter McQueen (age 2 years) and Infant Boy McQueen (age 4 months) who don’t appear to have any parents and there aren’t any other McQueens living in the area?
† information on court cases concerning him will be separate posts…he apparently was not at all unfamiliar with what the inside of a court room looked like…
* both William Trezevant et al. vs. Peter McQueen, Administrator of William M. Bostwick, deceased and Peter McQueen vs. Theodore D. Bostwick cases can be found in Cases argued and decided in the Supreme Court of Mississippi, Volume 20, Mississippi, EW Stephens Publishing Company, 1849
**I am going to go ahead and say that what I learned about this guy concerning slaves makes me really dislike…no, hate him…he truly disgusts me
***found in Mississippi Reports-edition, publisher and publishing year unknown-photocopied pages found in research files of Hubert H McAlexander, the McAlexander-Marshall County Collection, JD Williams Library, University of Mississippi-information can also be found in The Southwestern Reporter, Volume 149, West Publishing Company, 1912
Prem 1943
This ad for Prem is from June 1943. Prem is pretty much SPAM, just a different company.
How horrible of an ad is this? A take off of “Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater”, this Peter in the ad is just a jerk. Granted, Peter from the original poem was a jerk, too, but this is ridiculous. He wouldn’t even share a tiny bit of meat with her until she started buying Prem. Then the only reason he would share with her (I’m betting) is because he had such a hard time gagging down the whole 12 ounces by himself.
Another problem with this ad is that it claims “In every can, 12 full ounces of solid meat-no waste”, but if you take a good look at the can it says “ NET CONTENTS INCLUDING JUICES 12 OZ”. So it isn’t all meat!
The last, and to me most disturbing, part of this ad is the recipe at the bottom. I don’t know if they mean to have some cold Prem on a plate, potato chips on the side and then an avocado topped with fruit or if they actually mean cold Prem, potato chips on top, avocado on top of that and the whole thing topped with fruit. Either way, cold Prem? Gag.
Malcolm McMillen and Minerva Worsham
If I have tracked down this couple correctly then this is my relationship to Malcolm McMillen and Minerva Worsham:
Me
Virginia Marie Stalls (mom)
James Paul Stalls, Jr (granddaddy)
Minnie Virginia Richards (g-grandmother)
Minnie DeMumbrie (2nd g-grandmother)
Cornelia Ann McMillen (3rd g-grandmother)
Malcolm McMillen/Minerva Worsham (4th g-grandparents)
I searched and searched and searched (and searched some more!) and I *think* I have found Cornelia A McMillen's parents. I haven’t been able to trace them back to any particular McMillen or Worsham families, so anyone out there in internetland, feel free to help! (and, of course, when I find information I will post it)
(note: after searching around on the internet I discovered that Cornelia A McMillan is probably actually McMillen. unless all of the records are wrong, in which case I apologize. the only place I have found it as McMillan is in my Granddaddy’s baby book and the 1860 census. that baby book also has Caroline McQueen as Carolyn, but all records I have found are Caroline.)
On January 19, 1831 Malcolm McMillen and Minerva Worsham married in Maury County, Tennessee.
Within about two years after their marriage their daughter Cornelia was born. However, it is not until 1850 that she shows up by name on a census with them. This is because up until 1850 only head of household was named on the US Federal Population Census, though there are some states that conducted their own census reports that listed other family members.
In 1840 the family is found in Tipton County, Tennessee. Head of household is Malcolm, listed as M.G. McMillon. Everyone in the household:
2 males between 20 and 29 years of age
1 male between 30 and 39 years of age
1 female between 5 and 9 years of age
1 female between 20 and 29 years of age
1 female between 60 and 69 years of age
1 male slave under 10 years of age
1 male slave between 10 and 23 years of age
1 female slave between 10 and 23 years of age
I’m guessing that one of the males between 20 and 29 years of age and the female between 20 and 29 years of age are Malcolm and Minerva. The female between 5 and 9 years of age would be Cornelia. I’m not sure who the others are, though.
In 1850 the family is found on the census living in District 14, Shelby County, Tennessee. They are listed as:
M.C. McMillen, age 41 years, born in Tennessee
Manerva McMillen, age 40 years, born in North Carolina
Cornelia McMillen, age 18 years, born in Tennessee
Also living with the family is a man by the name of William P Day, age 24 years. Not a single person living in the household has an occupation listed. In fact, under occupation for Malcolm (M.C.) it actually says “none”. This is also the very first time we get to see in which state they told the enumerator they were born.
The 1860 census has the whole family moved to Mississippi. While Cornelia had married (John) Spencer DeMumbrie and was living in Tunica, Tunica County, Mississippi, her parents weren’t that far from her. Malcolm and Minerva are shown living in Austin, Tunica County, Mississippi. They are listed as:
M.G. McMillan, age 50 years, a farmer, born in North Carolina
M.H. McMillan, age 50 years, born in Virginia
So the place of birth changed for both of them.
Sometime between 1860 and 1870 Malcolm died, most likely in Tunica County, Mississippi. Cornelia had also died within the same time frame. By 1870 Spencer DeMumbrie had moved with his daughter to Austin, Tunica County, Mississippi and Minerva is living with him, most likely to help raise his and Cornelia’s daughter Minnie. In the household are:
S. DeMumbrie, age 49 years, a planter, born in Tennessee (this is Spencer)
Clara DeMumbrie, age 13 years, born in Mississippi (this is Minnie)
Jane Gilcris, age 19 years, born in Tennessee (this is Spencer’s future 2nd wife listed as Effee Jane Gilchrist on the marriage record)
Mary McMillen, age 62 years, housekeeper, born in North Carolina (this is Minerva)
Ellen Johnson, age 60, born in South Carolina (I don’t have a clue who this is)
Again, the place of birth changed.
By 1880 Minnie had married Jerome Richards. Spencer had married Effee Jane Gilchrist and disappeared off the face of the planet (at least until I find where they went). Minerva is found on that census living with Minnie and her family in District 1 and 2, Tunica County, Mississippi. Living in the household are:
J.E. Richards (Jerome), age 24 years, a farmer, born in Arkansas, both parents born in Tennessee (this last bit of information is, of course, wrong)
C.A. Richards (Minnie), age 21 years, wife, keeping house, born in Mississippi, father born in North Carolina (wrong), mother born in Tennessee (wrong)
J.E. Richards Jr (Jerome Jr), age 2 years, son, born in Mississippi, father born in Arkansas, mother born in Mississippi
M.H. McMillen (Minerva), age 70 years, grandmother (to Minnie), at home, born in Tennessee, both parents born in Virginia (not yet sure)
The other people found living in the household are boarders: J.A. Matthews, Ellis Sholley and Barbary Shipp. Once again, the place of birth has changed for Minerva.
There is no census for 1890, of course. Jerome and Minnie are found living with their family in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee by 1900 and Minerva is not living with them. I feel it’s safe to assume that she died sometime between the 1880 census and the 1900 census, especially since I can’t find her on any 1900 census (unless she was nice and spry and remarried).
So, now I just need to find the families of Malcolm and Minerva. I also have a feeling that Effee Jane Gilchrist is somehow tied into either the McMillens, the Worshams or both.
Wordless Wednesday: Unknown
Elizabeth Freeland and Claiborn Perry Marriage Record
I have been waiting on this and finally received it! The marriage record between Elizabeth Freeland and Claiborn Perry (Claiborn spelled according to his Civil War records). Elizabeth married Claiborn a year after her divorce from Peter McQueen was granted.
The State of Mississippi
Lauderdale County
Issued a License authorizing the solemnization of the rites of matrimony between Claburn Perry and Elizabeth McQueen this 29th Day of August AD 1840
James Ray clerk