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Mura Mae Cox

10 Sunday May 2020

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Mura May Cox

On May 10, 1897 in Vigo Township, Knox County, Indiana, Mura Mae Cox was born to Emily Arabelle McCullough and Frank Cox.  She was the third of five siblings that lived to adulthood–Raymond and Blanche were older, and Anna and Jessie were younger.  Her father supported the family through farming.

Soon after the birth of Jessie in 1904, the family moved to Welch Township in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri.  Frank remarried in 1907 to Mollie Bugg Givens Schwepker.  It is unclear what Arabelle’s fate was between 1904 and 1907.  The Deed Record Index for the land purchase in Welch Township indicated that both Frank and Arabelle were listed in the transfer.  That would lend credence that she possibly perished in Missouri.

With the addition of a step-mother, the 1910 Census actually has the five siblings rather scattered.  Raymond and Mura were living at home with their father.  Blanche worked as a servant for a private family.  Anna and Jessie could be found back in Knox County living with different families.  The exact circumstances surrounding this situation are unknown.  Anna was listed as a ward of Mr. and Mrs Bode Goodman in Bicknell.  Ann and Charles Rogers were raising Jessie in Westphalia.  Ann was Frank’s sister and Jessie’s aunt.

Mura Mae saw both of her older siblings marry in 1911.  In January 1915, her father died of tuberculosis in Vincennes.  It’s possible they were back in Indiana visiting family over the holidays.  Since her father did not have a will, the widow was placed in charge of the estate and Mura Mae basically was homeless.  She was found in 1920 to be living with her father’s cousin Nathan Killion and his wife Cordelia in Daviess County, Indiana.  In November 1920, Mura Mae married Jesse Thomson and they moved to Indianapolis.

Mura and Jesse had three children: Colleen, Shirley and Ramon.  In 1930, they were living on Sugar Grove Avenue, just a few miles from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.  The house they lived in then may still be there today.  It is possible it was a duplex at the time.  Jesse supported the family as a sales manager for a hardware store.  By 1940, he had risen up to the rank of territorial manager.  They had moved to the Crown Hill part of Indianapolis which not far from the present day Children’s Museum.

Over the years, their children grew up and started families of their own while Mura and Jesse continued to live in Indiana’s capital.  Despite the lack of a cohesive childhood together, pictures of Mura and her brother and sisters would indicate they remained close throughout the years.  In 1965, her sister Blanche died of colon cancer.  Raymond followed in 1968.  On December 22, 1975 at the age of 78, Mura was a victim of breast cancer.

Mura Mae Cox

Mura Mae was my 2nd great aunt on my dad’s side.

REFERENCES

  • United States Census – 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940
  • Indiana Death Certificates
  • Indiana Marriage Certificates
  • Find a Grave website
  • Deed Records 1805-1910, Cape Girardeau County MO
  • Missouri Marriage Records
  • Missouri Wills and Probate Records

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Mildred Ann Atkinson

21 Tuesday Apr 2020

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On April 21, 1914, Mildred Ann Atkinson was born to James Weley Atkinson and Maude Rogers in Bicknell, Indiana.  She was the youngest of four children born to this family.  Her siblings included her brothers Eugene and James and a sister Esther.  Eugene died of meningitis at the age of fourteen before Mildred was born.

Mildred attended Bicknell public schools and graduated from Bicknell High School before attending Lindenwood College in Missouri.  She started her career as a high school teacher at her alma mater teaching Latin.  She later would move to Indianapolis where she taught English in several of the high schools there until her retirement in 1974.

In 1936 Mildred married Virgil Edwards.  Shortly thereafter, they moved to Indianapolis where they made their lifelong residence.  Virgil was an accountant and served in the Navy.  He co-owned a florist shop in Indianapolis for over 30 years.   Mildred and Virgil were the parents of two children.

After 61 years of marriage at the age of 84, Mildred passed away on October 23, 1998.  Virgil followed three years later.

Mildred Atkinson

Mildred was my 2nd cousin 2x removed on my dad’s side. 

REFERENCES

  • United States Census, 1920, 1930, 1940
  • Indiana Birth Certificates
  • Indiana Death Certificates
  • Vincennes Sun-Commercial via Newspapers.com
  • Find a Grave website

Sarah Catherine Rogers & Richard Bennett revisited

30 Sunday Nov 2014

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As I was making one last check of everyone associated with my Fielden line, I noticed that Ancestry had provided me with more potential data on Sarah Catherine Rogers.  One source, a memorial for Sarah Rogers on findagrave.com blew a whole in my findings for June Bennett Fielden’s parentage.

First, the memorial for Sarah doesn’t mention a daughter named June Bennett.   Then I finally found the 1880 census records for Richard Bennett and his first wife Mary Jane Briscoe.  It’s highly unlikely that Mary Jane died, Richard married Sarah and had June all in a year.  Sarah was a widow in 1880, listed as Sarah Brown.  The newspaper article about Richard listed her as Sarah Catherine (Rogers) Maddox so somewhere during 1881 she had to have been married to a Maddox fellow as well.  Not very realistic.

The memorial on Find A Grave also lists her Maddox husband as Daniel Maddox who died in 1896.  Not a lot of divorces back then, so that meant she probably didn’t marry Richard Bennett until after 1896.  The newspaper article stated that Richard died in 1897, so that would mean that they weren’t married for long.

On top of all that, the 1880 census data indicated that Richard was born in 1846, not 1810.  This was confirmed further in the Kentucky Death Records database which also provided a date of death in 1901, not 1897.  This date of death was also confirmed by the database for Headstones Provided for Deceased Union the Civil War Veterans.  This, in conjunction with a 1900 census entry for Richard and Sarah made the 1898 marriage record for them more believable.

Based on all this, June Bennett’s mother is not Sarah Catherine Rogers, but Mary Jane Briscoe.  Moral of this story:  Don’t make random assumptions, and don’t always believe what you read in the newspaper, or on the internet.

Richard O and Sarah Rogers Bennett

15 Saturday Nov 2014

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Today I am looking into the ancestors of Richard O. Bennett and his second wife Sarah Rogers Bennett.  They are my 3rd-great grandparents.  Much of the information I have is based on an article found in the Ohio County (KY) Times on August 5, 1971, written by Agnes D Ashby.  The Bennetts and their descendants settled in and around Ohio County, Kentucky which is one county southeast of Owensboro, KY.

Richard Bennett was born August 1, 1810 in Kentucky to Joseph and Susanna Ceckerell Bennett.  I have no information on Joseph or Susanna.  Richard was first married to Mary Jane Briscoe, supposedly in Virginia.  They had 5 children: George, Ophelia, Ethel, Sallie Ann, and Samuel.  Richard’s second marriage was to Sarah C. Rogers.  She had been married twice previously, once to a Brown and then to a Maddox.  Richard and Sarah had one daughter, June, who is my great-great-grandmother.  Richard died March 1, 1897.

Interestingly enough, three of the daughters married Fielden brothers.  June married Arley on August 14, 1895; Ethel married John on September 23, 1885; and Sallie married Thomas on February 28, 1895.

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Blanche Cox DeMoss Robertson

10 Monday Nov 2014

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Yesterday, when I was reviewing my information on Blanche Cox DeMoss Robertson, my great-grandmother, there were some questions raised.

  1. My data said Blanche and Samuel I. DeMoss were married in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.  This concerned me because both were born in Knox County, and census records showed they settled in Knox and Greene Counties after they were married.
  2. Blanche’s obituary listed a sister named Jessie, however, I had not located her in the census records or vital records.  I wasn’t sure when she was born or which of her father’s marriages she was a product of.

Blanche was born 1894 to Frank and Arabelle (McCullough) Cox in Knox County.  She had an older brother Raymond and three sisters—May, Anna, and Jessie—according to her obituary.  As of the 1900 Knox County Census, Jessie had not yet been born and Arabelle was still alive.

The Cox family had always lived in Knox County, but I had a 1910 Census record showing them in Cape Girardeau.  Blanche wasn’t listed with the family in the 1910 census.  She was found in another household working as a live-in maid in Cape Girardeau.  The census also listed  a woman named Mollie as Frank’s wife and that they had only been married 3 years.  So, Arabelle was gone and Jessie couldn’t be located.

A copy of Blanche and Samuel’s marriage license was indeed found in the Missouri marriages database. It was obtained on December 22, 1911 and filed on December 26.  What I am curious about is how did this marriage come about?  Samuel was about 5 years older than Blanche and the Coxes had moved to Missouri a good 4-5 years earlier.  Blanche wasn’t even 18 at the time of the wedding, so how did they get together?  Was this an arranged marriage or was he coveting her when she was 12?  At any rate, Blanche and Samuel returned to the Knox/Greene County area and went on with their lives, having four children, one of which was my grandfather Samuel T. DeMoss.  Samuel Isaac died in 1945.  Blanche married Coen Robertson before my grandfather died in 1955.  She died in 1965.

Jessie’s whereabouts were still a mystery.  I stumbled across another researcher’s data on Ancestry.com which referred to the 1910 census where she was listed as an adopted daughter of Charles and Anna Rogers in Westphalia.  Her birth was circa 1904 which would make Arabelle her mother, and most likely Arabelle died in childbirth.  Since fathers did not raise their infants back then, Jessie was given to someone else to raise; that someone else being the Rogers’.  Today I discovered that Anna Rogers was Frank’s sister, so Jessie was raised by her aunt and uncle. Yet another aunt and uncle, August and Emerine Cox Begeman lived in the next house down the road.  By 1920, I had lost Jessie again.  She wasn’t with the Rogers’ who had moved to Greene County, her sister Blanche, or the Begemans.

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Westphalia is just down the road from Edwardsport  in Widner Township, Knox County.