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Terry Mason's Family History Site39,273 names. Major lines: Allen, Beck, Borden, Buck, Burden, Carpenter, Carper, Cobb, Cook, Cornell, Cowan, Daffron, Davis, Downing, Faubion, Fauntleroy, Fenter, Fishback, Foulks, Gray, Harris, Heimbach, Henn, Holland, Holtzclaw, Jackson, Jameson, Johnson, Jones, King, Lewis, Mason, Massengill, McAnnally, Moore, Morgan, Overstreet, Price, Peck, Rice, Richardson, Rogers, Samuel, Smith, Taylor, Thomas, Wade, Warren, Weeks, Webb, Wodell, Yeiser. |
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RESEARCHER-DESCENDANTS: Information sent to T.Mason on 18 Sep 2003 by Aneta Shipley <ashipley@leblink.com> and updated on 3 Jan 2004.
RESEARCHER: Michelle Jaynes <michelle@shipleysystems.com> has information on WorldConnect.Rootsweb.com. "After Christopher Columbus and Annie Cobble were married they moved to 120 acre farm four miles south of Dora that was homesteaded by Grandfather J.T. Shipley in 1800's. Son Harold owned 93 acres of the original homestead. They raised 11 children with 2 others dying as infants in a three room house. Main part was log with two rooms added on - a bedroom, livingroom, and kitchen, with two fireplaces, one at each end of the hose. This didn't provide much heat as water left in the teakettle on stove would be frozen in the morning. There were two beds in bedroom and two in livingroom. Mattresses were strawsticks made fresh each year after thrashing. Besides raising their own 11 children they helped raise several nieces and nephews from two different families - the mother being dead and the father needing help. The children were not all there at the same time, but a lot were. They all went to Ball School one and 1/2 miles away, and graduated from the eighth grade. in 1943 they built a new house with two bedrooms, a living room, kitchen, and an upstairs. Breakfast consisted of biscuits (mixed in a dishpan, causing a mad scramble to get to the table to be sure to get some) with gravy, oatmeal, molasses, and home-made butter. Lunch was beans, potatoes, sauerkraut, pickled beans, and any garden produce available at the time with cornbread. Supper was cornbread and milk, and sometimes cornmeal mush.
They dried fruit - apples, peaches, and pumpkins - which kept all winter. They raised cabbage, turnips, potatoes, and apples. These were buried in the ground for winter use as they had no cellar. Washing was done on a washboard, using lye soap made from hog fat and lye. Ironing was done with a sod iron heated on kitchen stove. Wood cutting was done with a cross cut saw and chopping ax.
3415. Henry Tecumseh Smith
Census: 1900, Ozark County, Missouri.
