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 "Shirley Brown Collection"

AGI-006-18                                    Shirley Brown Collection                                                  3C-4-1b 

This small collection was gifted to the PCGS Library by Shirley Stewart Brown. The collection consists of photos, funeral cards, obituaries and family genealogies of the Stewart, Brown, Zumwalt, Hutcheson families. All photos have been scanned.

 

Folder/Item

Contents

1

Photos

  1. Eighth Grade class at Cliquot   no date
  2. Martha and Billy Brown
  3. Nettie Brown   2 copies
  4. Nett Brown
  5. Charley and Nettie Brown
  6. Mrs. Nettie Brown
  7. (Stillman) Pete, Joe, Evart, Bill and Charley Brown
  8. Joe and Ida Brown, Rosa and Martha
  9. Moore and Lula (Brown) Jones

2

Photos

  1. Moore and Lula (Brown) Jones
  2. Group photo, 1932
  3. Identification of people in photo 11
  4. Jesse Lois Stewart 7-25-1905/2-26-1981
  5. Arthur Kemp Gardner and Jessie Lois (Stewart) Gardner
  6. Mary Ann (Stewart) and Jessie Lois Stewart
  7. Perry J. and Julia McLinn
  8. Unidentified
  9. Mary Ann (Weese) and Jesse Thomas Stewart

3

Photos

  1. Courthouse in Bolivar     8x10
  2. Unidentified school group   8x10
  3. Frisco Engine   5x7
  4. Work on railroad    very faded
  5. Unidentified class photo
  6. D.H.S. Basketball team photo  no identification
  7. Brothers and wives of Nettie Brown, Sisters and husbands of Nettie Brown
  8. Whaley family
  9. Identification of photos 26 and 28

4

Photos

  1. Children in wagon
  2. Emma D. School in Goodson 1928
  3. Otis Stewart standing at grave of Jesse T. Stewart   2 copies
  4. Glen, Brent, Sheila, Brad, Lois Gamble
  5. Albert and Elsie (Stewart) Kifer
  6. Albert and Elsie Kifer
  7. Four generations – Jessie Gardner, Lois Gamble, Sheila Ellis, Ashlie Ellis
  8. Carl’s 1933 class Fair Play  1983?
  9. Unidentified
  10. Grandpa and Ma Stewart (Francis Marion and Mollie)
  11. Ethel, Tressie, Mae
  12. Jewell and Gaylard Beason and girls
  13. Gaylard, Jewell and girls
  14. Everett and Margaret Stewart 1999
  15. Olen Stewart
  16. Wilma Lorene
  17. Ora Olen and Elsie Stewart
  18. 1933 Senior Class    Fair Play

5

Funeral Cards

  1. Myrtle Hawkins   2 copies
  2. Oles C. Stewart
  3. Beulah Edith Brown
  4. Dora Myrtle Hutcheson
  5. James Fredrick Tillery   3 copies
  6. Judge James Alexander Pickering
  7. Mamah H. Elsworth
  8. F.M. (Frank) Troyer
  9. Bernice A. Beach   6 copies
  10. Carl Brown
  11. Alice Grace Hawkins (widow of Perry F. Hawkins    2 copies
  12. Rose May Whaley   3 copies
  13. Jess James McLin   2 copies
  14. Raymond L. Campbell
  15. Mae Zumwalt
  16. Henry Zumwalt
  17. Gladys Stewart   2 copies
  18. Roy Stewart   2 copies
  19. Willie Virgil Stewart   2 copies
  20. Eva Wilma Tillery
  21. Eva Violet Stewart (copy)    2 copies
  22. Gaylard Beason   (copy)

6

Funeral Cards

  1. Elvina Boren (wife of John P. Boren)
  2. Susie Caroline Hawkins
  3. Charlie L. Hale
  4. Eveard Austin Brown
  5. Charles Richard Brown
  6. Stilman C. (Pete) Brown
  7. Mrs. Nettie Mae Phillips   2 copies
  8. Glen Irvin Beach
  9. Elsie May Pierce
  10. Cordia A. Phillips
  11. Lola Tinsley
  12. Lula Ethel Jones   2 separate funerals (Iowa and Missouri)   2 cards
  13. Ella Watkins
  14. Mrs. Letha Brown   2 copies
  15. Mrs. Sabra Evans
  16. Elizabeth H. (Beach) Kenyon
  17. Homer V. Stewart
  18. Georgia E. Killingsworth
  19. Shirley Ellen Brown
  20. Irene M. Carneal
  21. Mary Jane (Mollie) Steward (widow of Francis M. Stewart)   copy
  22. Wesley Grayham   copy
  23. Leslie V. Stewart   copy

7

Funeral Cards

  1. Dale C. Gorden
  2. Joyce Lynn Gorden
  3. Chloris V. Gorden
  4. Widdie W. Stewart
  5. Pearl E. Hale
  6. Fred F. Hawkins
  7. Tomie R. Hale
  8. Susie Opal Hale
  9. Leonard W. Hawkins
  10. Clifford W. Hale
  11. Annie Hale
  12. Jennie Hale
  13. Juanita “Mead” Stewart
  14. Robert “Bob” Beach    2 copies
  15. Omer C. Taylor
  16. Winifred Ellen Taylor
  17. Imogene E. Morris
  18. Charles Glen Brown
  19. Zella Mae Piper
  20. James Alexander (Alex) Summers
  21. Franklin Scott Brock   copy (2)
  22. Sarah Elsie Stewart   copy
  23. Noel Stewart  copy (2)
  24. Wesley R. Hawkins     copy

8

Obituaries

  1. Zella M. Piper
  2. Cora H. Brown
  3. Elsie Emma Stewart   3 copies
  4. Mrs. Jane Crain
  5. Veta Crain
  6. Carolyn Crain
  7. Eva Wilma Tillery   2 copies
  8. Gaylard H. Beason
  9. Lon C. Hawkins
  10. Mrs. A.J. McPheeters (Serelia Ann)
  11. Beulah M. Brown
  12. Hugh Dunn
  13. George Hejna
  14. Georgia E. Killingsworth
  15. Stillman Curtis Brown
  16. Eva V. Stewart    4 copies
  17. Noel Stewart   2 copies
  18. Roy Stewart   2 copies
  19. Mary Jane (Mollie) Stewart   2 copies
  20. Willie Virgil Stewart   2 copies
  21. Delbert Nelson Hutcheson   3 copies
  22. Laura Bell Stewart   3 copies
  23. John William Stewart   3 copies
  24. Ora Olen Stewart   3 copies
  25. Nettie Mae Phillips
  26. Gladys Stewart    (death notice only)
  27. Zerma L. Tinsley
  28. Glen P. Carson
  29. Leland Ray Stewart
  30. Roy F. Gladden
  31. Mrs. Polly Standley
  32. Nora Alice Angle
  33. Warren D. Gamel
  34. Willard Ray Gamel
  35. Ralph A. Gamel
  36. John R. Boren
  37. Scott Franklin Brock   2 copies
  38. Mae Zumwalt    3 copies
  39. Henry Zumwalt   3 copies

9

Newspaper clippings/Miscellaneous

  1. Scott Brock and Ethel Stewart married   2 copies
  2. Glen Carson: Last of former sheriffs
  3. Stewarts plan open house    Noel and Wave Stewart 50th anniversary w/photo   2 copies
  4. Enon celebrates century and a half of ministry w/photo
  5. Fair Play 8th Grade Graduation Program   May 10, 1955
  6. Baccalaureate Program, Bolivar High School   May 26, 1989
  7. Hundreds of people pay last tribute to Otis Stewart    includes obituary
  8. “Corl assigned”    Capt. Paul E. Corl, Highway Patrol traffic fatality analyst
  9. “Half Way man dies in ditch cave-in”   Dwain Eagon   “Man dies as ditch collapses” obituary of Dwain C. Eagon

10

Rural school photos from newspaper        all photocopies

  1. Mt. Etna 1943, Goodson 1937-38
  2. Flint 1947-48
  3. Leith 1947-48, Moore 1938
  4. Union #33 1941-42, Eidson 1936
  5. Bloomer 1931, Polk School 1951-52
  6. Black Oak 1908
  7. Flint 1940, Black Oak 1934
  8. Union Ridge 1940
  9. Green Mound 1932, McKinney 1938-39
  10. Polk 1947-48
  11. Inglis 1936-37
  12. Sunset 1946-47
  13. Mt. Etna 1947-48, Carter 1942-43, Brush Creek 1929
  14. Knapp 1940
  15. McKinney 1948-49
  16. Inglis 1948-49
  17. Knapp 1935-36, Carter 1947-48
  18. Polk 1938, Polk 1948-49
  19. Forest Grove 1937
  20. Pleasant Vale 1951-52, Clark 1946
  21. Carter 1930, Carter 1947-48
  22. Pleasant Ridge 1939, Greenleaf Graduates 1938
  23. Slagle 1946-47, Kinder 1936
  24. Old Polk School 1905
  25. Union Grove 1947-48
  26. 3rd/4th Grade Polk 1955-56, Green Leaf 1930
  27. Inglis 1948-49, Union Grove #41 1948-19

11

Obituaries     photocopies w/several on a page

  1. Ardella Hawkins, James Dennis Hale, Jennie Hale, Henry Zumwalt, Edward B. Hawkins, Roy F. Gladden
  2. Loah Claud Abel, Carl Abel, Jereline Warren, Bertha McLin, Leonard W. Hawkins, Jess J. McLin
  3. Eva Wilma Tillery
  4. Jesse Higginbotham, Laura Bell Hutcheson Stewart, Clifford Hale, Lon C. Hawkins
  5. Dale LeRoy Stewart, Phineas Virgil Stewart, Lawrence E. Stewart
  6. Bobby D. Higginbotham, Ardella Hawkins, Edward B. Hawkins, Russie Hawkins, Roy F. Gladden
  7. Fifty wedded years for Lon Hawkins and wife, Wendell J. Stewart (infant), Lon C. Hawkins
  8. Lon Cornelious Hawkins, Dale LeRoy Stewart
  9. Raymond Campbell, Veta Crain, Jesse Elliott Cheek
  10. J.A.H. Whaley, Eva Wilma Tillery, Claude E. Whaley, Lon C. Hawkins, Jesse J. McLin
  11. Susie Opal Kaudle Hale
  12. Henry Zumwalt
  13. Roy Stewart, Mrs. Mae Zumwalt
  14. Delbert Hutcheson
  15. Gaylard H. Beason, Mary Jane (Mollie) Stewart
  16. Jeannine M. Wilson, Lewis G. Woods, Claude Whaley, Mildred Williams
  17. Jereline Warren
  18. Francis Marion Stewart
  19. Joseph B. Pitts
  20. Van Buna Warren
  21. Fern Anson
  22. Fred J. Tillery   2 typewritten copies

12

Obituaries from folder labeled “My Family”

  1. Carl Abel
  2. Loah Claud Abel   2 copies
  3. Raymond Campbell   2 copies
  4. Lawrence Boyd   2 copies
  5. June Boyd   2 copies
  6. Willis E. Carneal
  7. Irene M. Carneal
  8. Godfrey Gamel
  9. Opal Gamel   2 copies
  10. Russie Hawkins
  11. Leola May Hawkins
  12. Carl C. Hutcheson
  13. Sidney B. Hutcheson
  14. Laura Bell Hutcheson Stewart
  15. Addie Emma Stewart   3 copies
  16. Wendell J. Stewart (infant)   2 copies
  17. Lawrence E. Stewart
  18. Melvie Ray Stewart
  19. Oles C. Stewart   2 copies
  20. Dale LeRoy Stewart   2 copies
  21. Phineas Virgil Stewart
  22. Paul E. Smith
  23. Martha Jean Holt Smith
  24. Charley L. Shadwick

13

Miscellaneous

  1. Newspaper clipping – Bolivar youth, 16, is killed as speeding auto overturns    Norris L. Warren    no date/source
  2. 8th Grade graduates, 1927   list from Bolivar Herald May 26, 1927
  3. Original marriage license of John W. Whaley and Mary A. Brachenridge   includes copy
  4. Copy – Children’s Home Society of Missouri Contract – Placement o9f Myrtle Whaley, age 9, with Jas. And Ida Hattersley   2 copies
  5. Copy – Letter to grandchildren from J.A.H. Whaley Feb 27, 1939
  6. Hawkins ancestry   6 pgs
  7. Junior Francis Hawkins, Bessie Irene McLinn     birthdate, marriage date, death date
  8. Letter to O. Stewart from Howard H. Stewart   March 26, 1990   3 pages
  9. Interview of Mrs. Okla Stewart      March 20, 1980   5 pgs
  10. Nancy Grider Zumwalt information         Transcribed article from Bolivar Weekly Courier Sep 3, 1859 death of Jesse Zumwalt
  11. Letter to George Hooper on Zumwalt family
  12. Transcribed articles by J.M. Zumwalt as printed in Bolivar Free Press in 1908     9 pgs
  13. Pgs. 5-10 unknown source – Jones, Zumwalt, Stewart   6 pgs
  14. “A History of the Stewart Family as I Know It” by Ernestine Stewart Kinsey   July 2007   7 pgs
  15. Pgs 231-32   Histories of Polk County Families Vol. 1    Hutcheson, Hutchison     2 pgs

 

 


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