Ruthie Lenora Linder

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Ruthie — Myron Michael Crandall. [Group Sheet]

Ruthie — Billy Ray Palmer. Billy (son of Zeniff Alma Palmer and Sibyl Eurene Myers, son of Herman Ray Bailey and Sibyl Eurene Myers) was born 17 Oct 1935, Gilmer, Upshur, Texas; died 16 Dec 2001, Apache Junction, Maricopa Co., AZ; was buried , Phx. Memorial Gardens, Phoenix, Maricopa County, AZ. [Group Sheet]

1. Cheri Lynn Palmer
2. Billy Gene Palmer
3. Danny Lee Palmer
4. Dean Ray Palmer

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• Death: Mesa, Maricopa, Az
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• Residence: 1920, Kellyville, Creek, Oklahoma, United States
• Residence: 1930, Creek, Oklahoma
• Residence: 1935, Rural, Maricopa, Arizona
• Residence: 1940, Supervisorial District 1, Maricopa, Arizona, United States; Relation to Head: SelfRelative Relation to Head: Wife
• Initiatory (LDS): 8 Aug 1953, ARIZO

Notes:

Family Bible is with Johnnie Wesley Linder's wife Ruth
Personal knowledge of children on sheet
Partial History of Johnnie Wesley Linder as told by Himself
July 11, 1999

The following was transcribed from a cassette and is exactly as spoken by Johnnie
without making corrections as to grammar. Johnnie passed away on the 14th , three
days later and was unable to finish.

This is suppose to be the story of my life for whatever it's worth to anybody.
I was born in May 1, 1918, and it was near a little town called Bristow, Oklahoma.
That is, a farming community and I knew nothing else until 1935 when I left
Oklahoma. I was born to a very dysfunctional family, thought we didn't know
what dysfunctional meant back then.

One incident that I don't remember, my mother told me about, was when I was
about two and a half or three years old, I had pneumonia and they just about lost
me. We worked out in the field in the farm all of the time. And she had put on a
pot of black-eyed peas to cook when we were working on an old wood stove. And
I could, I guess I could smell those peas cooking, and I guess I was hungry, she said
that they had been feeding me very light meals, very light liquid food. And she says
she came in, and here I was up on a chair. I had pushed a chair over and got up on
the chair and was eating fist-fulls of those black eyed peas with the hog fat in 'em.
'Cause I guess I was hungry. She says she was shocked and amazed that I could do
that while being so young. As I said I don't remember, but mom told me several
times about my eating the hog fat and black-eyed peas out of the pot with my fist
full.

Ruthie Crandall in background asks, "Did you say your name?"

Oh, I got a name. I was born, my mother gave me a name of Johnnie Linder. She
said it was for her uncle Johnny McNew, but she didn't know how to spell it I guess
because it ended up before I went to school as Johnnie instead of Johnny like so
many other boys were named. I don't remember too much about my childhood until
I was about five or six years old. That's when we had moved to an old place with an
old house about 12 miles north of Bristow, a farm of course. My dad was a cattle
buyer; he always dealt in cattle, one way or another. He was also an alcoholic and a
drunkard. I hope no one ever has to live under these conditions.

When I was four and five years old, and my sister younger than me was three or
four, we were both cotton tops, white headed, and when dad'd come in drinking, he
loved to chase us out into the cotton field. And after he'd run us out into the cotton
fields, only he'd just pretend he was running, and we were scared so we ran out there
and hid, until mom would call us to come back into the house.

When I was about five and half to six, I hadn't started school yet. The older
children which was four of 'em, I was number five of six kids, they started school
at another place where they lived and then they started school in this Liberty
school house which was about three or four miles from where we lived. I never
started to school until I was about seven, my birthday being May 1, and school
didn't start until September or August. Being in a farm community you went to
school about the first six weeks from August to mid September and then you was
out to help gather the crops of cotton and corn and anything else that was raised.
I started to pick cotton when I was about five years old and milking cows when I
was seven. It was all kind of fun at the time just to prove that I could milk and I
could pick cotton, which today wouldn't be so much fun. My older brothers and
sisters were Lenora was the oldest and then Fred, then Omer, and then Helen, that's
four, and then me, then Fanny.

We had I guess fun together as much as a farm people and country kids could
have. My older brother was kind of protective of me, and he would, he would get
me on a horse when I was about four years old. I noticed I could ride before I could
walk very good. I know when I was about five I was suppose to dry the dishes for
Helen and he sneaks me out on a horse and we went horseback riding. Well, when we
returned, my mother was waiting with a switch, and before I got off the horse I got
switched on the seat because I had run off. It was kind of funny, I guess, the way it
turned out. But, that didn't stop Fred from sneaking me out ever so often and riding
horses.

I got to back up a little bit. I was almost born on a horse. My dad had gone to
Amarillo, Texas and to various places and bought the cattle and had them shipped
in to Bristow. And there was a lot of corrals there to receive the cattle off of the rail
boxcars. My mother was riding and handling the cattle to pasture 'em and she was on
the horse three days before I was born, and probably the next day after I was born
she was back on the horse because the cattle had to be moved. So I was almost born
on a horse.

When I was about six or seven, around six, I hadn't started school yet, then dad,
my brothers had broken up an old shack about a mile away, and they had left the
axe there. They made up something or other; they had me go down there by myself
to get the axe. And I was coming back, there's a few acres of young trees there,
almost a forest, and as I was coming back with the axe on my shoulder and saw this
two black people. One of them come running out hollering they was gonna get me,
and I laid the axe up on my hands and I was gonna fight 'em. And Helen started
hollering "Johnnie, don't hit me with the axe, it's me Helen." And the other one was
my older sister Lenora, but they never did pull that stunt again.
That's just an incident in my life

(Ruth Linder in the background) "The lightning, on the horse and lightning."

Another incident happened when I was a little older, then riding a horse down to
a neighbors. And it happened to be the road I was riding on was in between phone
lines, I mean, yeah, phone lines on one side, electric lines on the other side, and it
come up a storm. The lightning flashed and I could feel electricity and the horse he'd
tremble and jerk, 'cause the animals kind of draw electricity. So I got out in the, as
much as I could, in the middle of the road as far away from each of the wire lines as I
could and then tried to out run the storm. But I've felt lightning quite a few times
when I was on a horse riding, either horse back, or bare back or with a saddle. It seems
that the animals do draw lightning flashes and lightning hits. It tingles you could feel, I
could feel the horse shimmer and shake, but I was never on one when it got lightning
struck. It was just a? yeah, there was cases of animals getting struck by lightning out
in the pasture. But thank the Lord I never was on one when it got struck.

We'll go back to this little two-room schoolhouse called Liberty. There was, they
held church meetings in it, and they held Christmas parties in it. I don't know what
else, but I was at this Church (schoolhouse) on Christmas Eve with my family and I
was, I hadn't started school, so I was still under seven years old, five and a half to six.
Then there was a constable out of Olive, Oklahoma where the schoolhouse was built
that I went to later. But he was the constable, he was the bus driver, he was just an
old man trying to get by. And there was a rowdy kids all right, and the families that
were wild and rough and mean. And this one boy was about 15 or 16 was there that
night and he started riling the constable, he told him he was gonna take his gun off of
him. And the constable told him he better not, he better stay clear. "Nah, I'm gonna
take that gun off of you." And he went towards him. The constable drew his gun and
told him to stop, and he didn't stop, and the constable shot him, through the side.
And I heard the shot, but I didn't actually see him fall. I was about probably thirty
feet from where this happened, it happened on the porch of this schoolhouse, the
front porch. And I was scared. I was a fraidy cat most of my life. I didn't like
violence; I had seen an awful lot of it.

I saw, after I was going to school two or three years my dad, he always was
picking, really picking fights with neighbors, or anybody, and this was after we
moved up to what we called the old home place. It was a big white house, a big red
barn, and it had a storm cellar. We lived there for quite a number of years, it was
there, that's where I started school, at Olive Oklahoma. I rode the bus; it was about
six and a half to seven miles. There was a time when the storms came by, came
through, lightning, thunder and hail, wind, and the other thing this house had on it was
lightning rods. Which was a good thing, because if lightning struck the house it would
burn a hole in it about a foot around and the lightning rods took the lightning bolt and
run it into the ground.

The people that had, our neighbors, had to come almost up through our yard, the
road came through there from their place. And then went on out to the main road that
took you out either to Drumright or Sapulpa, Bristow, Manford. And Dad had had
some words with the neighbor and the owner of the neighbor's property, named
Dicks, and they came up there to open the gate to go through and dad wouldn't let
them open the gate. So they turned around and went back and got a couple of clubs
and someone else, I don't remember who else, and they came back. This Art Dicks
said, "John, what the hell's the matter with you?" and dad said, "You can't come
through here, these people have left the gate open and let my cows out." I don't know
whether they did or not, but that's what he told 'em, that's why he was angry
with 'em. So, he said, "Well, we're gonna come through, if we have to beat you." to
dad. And so the fight started. My oldest brother, he came out of the house and he
took the little guy named Van Meeter, he took him on and fairly whipped him good.
And dad was fighting this Art Dicks and he, I don't know how, but he ended up with
a club in his hands, and Art Dicks, him and the other man that was there, they got in
the old car and turned around and went the other way. Then they brought a charge
against my dad for trying to keep them from getting out of their property. I don't
know what the ramifications of the law is, I don't know what it was then. But they
did have a trial and dad was cleared, I don't know why.

I just grew; I remember an incident or two before we moved to this old home place.
All of us still down below. One morning, or rather afternoon, mom and dad came out
of the timber up there with a fresh cow and new calf. And Fanny and I we run on up
there full of curiosity and asked where did they get that little calf. And mom being the
kind of prude that she was I guess, or something, says, "Oh, she dug it up out there.
" Fanny and I went and got our shovels and hoe and we went out to dig up some
calves. That was so funny, after?

(Mike Crandall in background asks) "What was your age?"

?Our age was less than six and about four. And that's the way mom was, anytime
anything would come up with sex, why, it was very prudently and very rudely
dismissed, she didn't mince any words about it.

(Ruth Linder in background says) "That's the way she was raised."

What?

(Ruth repeats above)

Yes, yeah, yep. After we moved up to the old home place, and I was about eight
years old or so. Fred and Omer had taken the wagon and team and gone over to the
big pasture to get wood, and Fred had left without his cap. As usual, when these
boys came in the cap would go one way and they'd go the other. Then when they got
ready to go somewhere they couldn't find the cap. Mom had found it and so she'd
made me get on the horse and go over to the big pasture and to take the cap. Well, I
was scared of the forest, what, wolves was probably the most vicious animal in there
besides snakes or coyotes and stuff. So I took the cap and I went up through the lane
over into the big pasture and I got lost. I didn't know which way was which except
that there was kind of hot headed clouds up there and I, as I said I was scared, and I
hollered to "God, show me the way home." and I started crying. And it sounded like
a voice come out of the clouds and said, "Johnnie, turn lose the reigns, the horse will
take you home." I turned lose the reigns and the horse just trotted right on back to
familiar territory, and then I got mad at the horse and told the horse that he was the
one that got me lost. That was so silly. I did a lot of silly things back then.

(Ruth Linder in background) "You was five or six, it was just childish"

A big bank of sand down below the lane where it went into the big pasture, and the
creek when it would rain would wash a lot of sand and there was about a 10 foot
bluff there. And I would run and jump off of that bluff down into the sand and it
would hurt my leg when I did. But I'd do it because I liked to do it. I liked to climb
trees and ride horses and jump off of bluffs?

(Ruth in background) "And front porches.

?Yeah, and front porches, but I didn't know any better than to do that when my leg
was degenerating in the hip. So I did all of those things which really I shouldn't have
done. But I didn't know any better. I jumped out of the hayloft down on the ground.
To me it was a way up there; it probably was no more than 10 feet.

I, before I talked about me being born on a horse, and my mother told me, told all
of us, that she was riding around the pasture, and she saw this black man watching
her and she was scared of him. And it happened about three days, three times, and he
was probably just looking at mother afraid that she was gonna get hurt or something,
the neighbor knew that she was riding and herding the cows. But she saw him this
day and it was unnerving to her, so she took out her little gun, a 32 pistol that dad
had given to protect herself with. And just as this man went over the bank to get
down to the creek, why she shot at him. And, of course she missed him. I say of
course, because I don't think that she was really aiming at him. She just wanted to
scare him. And I expect he got scared when he heard that bullet singing through the
tree limbs. That's just one of the things that happened before I was born.


The following addendum is from notes taken by oldest daughter Ruthie Crandall
after a conversation with Johnnie about his life.

When dad was four years old his first memory is of working in the fields. One day he
and Uncle Omer sneaked off to pitch horseshoes and saw that their house was on fire.
Grandma and Grandpa were asleep inside and they ran to get them out. They lost
everything except what they were wearing. This is a shame for those of us who are
trying to do genealogy as all Linder family history up to that time was in a trunk in
that house and it all burned up. The family moved into one of Grandpa Morgans'
rental houses temporarily. But soon moved into one of their own as Grandpa Linder
had a great desire to be independent.

They spent their Christmas's with Grandma and Grandpa Morgan. Dad says
Grandma Morgan was a "Princess of a woman" and all ways made their Christmas
a wonderful time. Being at Grandpa Morgans' was their first experience of indoor
plumbing.

Dad remembers going with his father and brother to take a load of hay into town by
horse and wagon. This was an all day job, and they brought a load of hulls back as
well as a little red wagon for dad. This was his Christmas present for that year.

Dad started school when he was age seven as there was no kindergarten and you had
to be seven to start first grade. Dad went though his sophomore year at this school.
One time he and some other boys were giving the teacher a hard time, she threatened
to send them to the principal. The principal was outside the door and said, "I will
take them now." When he got them all in his office he told them "If you want a
whipping go outside and cut a switch and I will use it on you. Dad thought about
what he said and the "if you want a spanking" stuck out. Well, dad didn't want a
whipping and, therefore, didn't cut a switch. When they got back into the principal's
office he asked dad why. When dad told him, he carefully hid a smile and then sent
him back to class without a whipping. He graduated from the eighth grade in cap and
gown. The ninth and tenth grades didn't make much of an impression on him, except
he took public speaking and was very good at it. He was chosen to be the M.C. of a
school program at another school.

Things weren't too good at home and he decided to leave home and moved in with
Aunt Helen and her husband Buster. This took place in the depression era when jobs
were scarce. When school was out his sophomore year he and Buster and a group of
young men decided to head west to try and find work. What they found was a very
dry country and no work. They traveled for a month in Oklahoma, Kansas and
Colorado and then decided to go to Arizona, which they found to have a lot of farm
jobs available.

Family Bible is with Johnnie Wesley Linder's wife Ruth
Personal knowledge of children on sheet
Partial History of Johnnie Wesley Linder as told by Himself
July 11, 1999

The following was transcribed from a cassette and is exactly as spoken by Johnnie
without making corrections as to grammar. Johnnie passed away on the 14th , three
days later and was unable to finish.

This is suppose to be the story of my life for whatever it's worth to anybody.
I was born in May 1, 1918, and it was near a little town called Bristow, Oklahoma.
That is, a farming community and I knew nothing else until 1935 when I left
Oklahoma. I was born to a very dysfunctional family, thought we didn't know
what dysfunctional meant back then.

One incident that I don't remember, my mother told me about, was when I was
about two and a half or three years old, I had pneumonia and they just about lost
me. We worked out in the field in the farm all of the time. And she had put on a
pot of black-eyed peas to cook when we were working on an old wood stove. And
I could, I guess I could smell those peas cooking, and I guess I was hungry, she said
that they had been feeding me very light meals, very light liquid food. And she says
she came in, and here I was up on a chair. I had pushed a chair over and got up on
the chair and was eating fist-fulls of those black eyed peas with the hog fat in 'em.
'Cause I guess I was hungry. She says she was shocked and amazed that I could do
that while being so young. As I said I don't remember, but mom told me several
times about my eating the hog fat and black-eyed peas out of the pot with my fist
full.

Ruthie Crandall in background asks, "Did you say your name?"

Oh, I got a name. I was born, my mother gave me a name of Johnnie Linder. She
said it was for her uncle Johnny McNew, but she didn't know how to spell it I guess
because it ended up before I went to school as Johnnie instead of Johnny like so
many other boys were named. I don't remember too much about my childhood until
I was about five or six years old. That's when we had moved to an old place with an
old house about 12 miles north of Bristow, a farm of course. My dad was a cattle
buyer; he always dealt in cattle, one way or another. He was also an alcoholic and a
drunkard. I hope no one ever has to live under these conditions.

When I was four and five years old, and my sister younger than me was three or
four, we were both cotton tops, white headed, and when dad'd come in drinking, he
loved to chase us out into the cotton field. And after he'd run us out into the cotton
fields, only he'd just pretend he was running, and we were scared so we ran out there
and hid, until mom would call us to come back into the house.

When I was about five and half to six, I hadn't started school yet. The older
children which was four of 'em, I was number five of six kids, they started school
at another place where they lived and then they started school in this Liberty
school house which was about three or four miles from where we lived. I never
started to school until I was about seven, my birthday being May 1, and school
didn't start until September or August. Being in a farm community you went to
school about the first six weeks from August to mid September and then you was
out to help gather the crops of cotton and corn and anything else that was raised.
I started to pick cotton when I was about five years old and milking cows when I
was seven. It was all kind of fun at the time just to prove that I could milk and I
could pick cotton, which today wouldn't be so much fun. My older brothers and
sisters were Lenora was the oldest and then Fred, then Omer, and then Helen, that's
four, and then me, then Fanny.

We had I guess fun together as much as a farm people and country kids could
have. My older brother was kind of protective of me, and he would, he would get
me on a horse when I was about four years old. I noticed I could ride before I could
walk very good. I know when I was about five I was suppose to dry the dishes for
Helen and he sneaks me out on a horse and we went horseback riding. Well, when we
returned, my mother was waiting with a switch, and before I got off the horse I got
switched on the seat because I had run off. It was kind of funny, I guess, the way it
turned out. But, that didn't stop Fred from sneaking me out ever so often and riding
horses.

I got to back up a little bit. I was almost born on a horse. My dad had gone to
Amarillo, Texas and to various places and bought the cattle and had them shipped
in to Bristow. And there was a lot of corrals there to receive the cattle off of the rail
boxcars. My mother was riding and handling the cattle to pasture 'em and she was on
the horse three days before I was born, and probably the next day after I was born
she was back on the horse because the cattle had to be moved. So I was almost born
on a horse.

When I was about six or seven, around six, I hadn't started school yet, then dad,
my brothers had broken up an old shack about a mile away, and they had left the
axe there. They made up something or other; they had me go down there by myself
to get the axe. And I was coming back, there's a few acres of young trees there,
almost a forest, and as I was coming back with the axe on my shoulder and saw this
two black people. One of them come running out hollering they was gonna get me,
and I laid the axe up on my hands and I was gonna fight 'em. And Helen started
hollering "Johnnie, don't hit me with the axe, it's me Helen." And the other one was
my older sister Lenora, but they never did pull that stunt again.
That's just an incident in my life

(Ruth Linder in the background) "The lightning, on the horse and lightning."

Another incident happened when I was a little older, then riding a horse down to
a neighbors. And it happened to be the road I was riding on was in between phone
lines, I mean, yeah, phone lines on one side, electric lines on the other side, and it
come up a storm. The lightning flashed and I could feel electricity and the horse he'd
tremble and jerk, 'cause the animals kind of draw electricity. So I got out in the, as
much as I could, in the middle of the road as far away from each of the wire lines as I
could and then tried to out run the storm. But I've felt lightning quite a few times
when I was on a horse riding, either horse back, or bare back or with a saddle. It seems
that the animals do draw lightning flashes and lightning hits. It tingles you could feel, I
could feel the horse shimmer and shake, but I was never on one when it got lightning
struck. It was just a� yeah, there was cases of animals getting struck by lightning out
in the pasture. But thank the Lord I never was on one when it got struck.

We'll go back to this little two-room schoolhouse called Liberty. There was, they
held church meetings in it, and they held Christmas parties in it. I don't know what
else, but I was at this Church (schoolhouse) on Christmas Eve with my family and I
was, I hadn't started school, so I was still under seven years old, five and a half to six.
Then there was a constable out of Olive, Oklahoma where the schoolhouse was built
that I went to later. But he was the constable, he was the bus driver, he was just an
old man trying to get by. And there was a rowdy kids all right, and the families that
were wild and rough and mean. And this one boy was about 15 or 16 was there that
night and he started riling the constable, he told him he was gonna take his gun off of
him. And the constable told him he better not, he better stay clear. "Nah, I'm gonna
take that gun off of you." And he went towards him. The constable drew his gun and
told him to stop, and he didn't stop, and the constable shot him, through the side.
And I heard the shot, but I didn't actually see him fall. I was about probably thirty
feet from where this happened, it happened on the porch of this schoolhouse, the
front porch. And I was scared. I was a fraidy cat most of my life. I didn't like
violence; I had seen an awful lot of it.

I saw, after I was going to school two or three years my dad, he always was
picking, really picking fights with neighbors, or anybody, and this was after we
moved up to what we called the old home place. It was a big white house, a big red
barn, and it had a storm cellar. We lived there for quite a number of years, it was
there, that's where I started school, at Olive Oklahoma. I rode the bus; it was about
six and a half to seven miles. There was a time when the storms came by, came
through, lightning, thunder and hail, wind, and the other thing this house had on it was
lightning rods. Which was a good thing, because if lightning struck the house it would
burn a hole in it about a foot around and the lightning rods took the lightning bolt and
run it into the ground.

The people that had, our neighbors, had to come almost up through our yard, the
road came through there from their place. And then went on out to the main road that
took you out either to Drumright or Sapulpa, Bristow, Manford. And Dad had had
some words with the neighbor and the owner of the neighbor's property, named
Dicks, and they came up there to open the gate to go through and dad wouldn't let
them open the gate. So they turned around and went back and got a couple of clubs
and someone else, I don't remember who else, and they came back. This Art Dicks
said, "John, what the hell's the matter with you?" and dad said, "You can't come
through here, these people have left the gate open and let my cows out." I don't know
whether they did or not, but that's what he told 'em, that's why he was angry
with 'em. So, he said, "Well, we're gonna come through, if we have to beat you." to
dad. And so the fight started. My oldest brother, he came out of the house and he
took the little guy named Van Meeter, he took him on and fairly whipped him good.
And dad was fighting this Art Dicks and he, I don't know how, but he ended up with
a club in his hands, and Art Dicks, him and the other man that was there, they got in
the old car and turned around and went the other way. Then they brought a charge
against my dad for trying to keep them from getting out of their property. I don't
know what the ramifications of the law is, I don't know what it was then. But they
did have a trial and dad was cleared, I don't know why.

I just grew; I remember an incident or two before we moved to this old home place.
All of us still down below. One morning, or rather afternoon, mom and dad came out
of the timber up there with a fresh cow and new calf. And Fanny and I we run on up
there full of curiosity and asked where did they get that little calf. And mom being the
kind of prude that she was I guess, or something, says, "Oh, she dug it up out there.
" Fanny and I went and got our shovels and hoe and we went out to dig up some
calves. That was so funny, after�

(Mike Crandall in background asks) "What was your age?"

�Our age was less than six and about four. And that's the way mom was, anytime
anything would come up with sex, why, it was very prudently and very rudely
dismissed, she didn't mince any words about it.

(Ruth Linder in background says) "That's the way she was raised."

What?

(Ruth repeats above)

Yes, yeah, yep. After we moved up to the old home place, and I was about eight
years old or so. Fred and Omer had taken the wagon and team and gone over to the
big pasture to get wood, and Fred had left without his cap. As usual, when these
boys came in the cap would go one way and they'd go the other. Then when they got
ready to go somewhere they couldn't find the cap. Mom had found it and so she'd
made me get on the horse and go over to the big pasture and to take the cap. Well, I
was scared of the forest, what, wolves was probably the most vicious animal in there
besides snakes or coyotes and stuff. So I took the cap and I went up through the lane
over into the big pasture and I got lost. I didn't know which way was which except
that there was kind of hot headed clouds up there and I, as I said I was scared, and I
hollered to "God, show me the way home." and I started crying. And it sounded like
a voice come out of the clouds and said, "Johnnie, turn lose the reigns, the horse will
take you home." I turned lose the reigns and the horse just trotted right on back to
familiar territory, and then I got mad at the horse and told the horse that he was the
one that got me lost. That was so silly. I did a lot of silly things back then.

(Ruth Linder in background) "You was five or six, it was just childish"

A big bank of sand down below the lane where it went into the big pasture, and the
creek when it would rain would wash a lot of sand and there was about a 10 foot
bluff there. And I would run and jump off of that bluff down into the sand and it
would hurt my leg when I did. But I'd do it because I liked to do it. I liked to climb
trees and ride horses and jump off of bluffs�

(Ruth in background) "And front porches.

�Yeah, and front porches, but I didn't know any better than to do that when my leg
was degenerating in the hip. So I did all of those things which really I shouldn't have
done. But I didn't know any better. I jumped out of the hayloft down on the ground.
To me it was a way up there; it probably was no more than 10 feet.

I, before I talked about me being born on a horse, and my mother told me, told all
of us, that she was riding around the pasture, and she saw this black man watching
her and she was scared of him. And it happened about three days, three times, and he
was probably just looking at mother afraid that she was gonna get hurt or something,
the neighbor knew that she was riding and herding the cows. But she saw him this
day and it was unnerving to her, so she took out her little gun, a 32 pistol that dad
had given to protect herself with. And just as this man went over the bank to get
down to the creek, why she shot at him. And, of course she missed him. I say of
course, because I don't think that she was really aiming at him. She just wanted to
scare him. And I expect he got scared when he heard that bullet singing through the
tree limbs. That's just one of the things that happened before I was born.


The following addendum is from notes taken by oldest daughter Ruthie Crandall
after a conversation with Johnnie about his life.

When dad was four years old his first memory is of working in the fields. One day he
and Uncle Omer sneaked off to pitch horseshoes and saw that their house was on fire.
Grandma and Grandpa were asleep inside and they ran to get them out. They lost
everything except what they were wearing. This is a shame for those of us who are
trying to do genealogy as all Linder family history up to that time was in a trunk in
that house and it all burned up. The family moved into one of Grandpa Morgans'
rental houses temporarily. But soon moved into one of their own as Grandpa Linder
had a great desire to be independent.

They spent their Christmas's with Grandma and Grandpa Morgan. Dad says
Grandma Morgan was a "Princess of a woman" and all ways made their Christmas
a wonderful time. Being at Grandpa Morgans' was their first experience of indoor
plumbing.

Dad remembers going with his father and brother to take a load of hay into town by
horse and wagon. This was an all day job, and they brought a load of hulls back as
well as a little red wagon for dad. This was his Christmas present for that year.

Dad started school when he was age seven as there was no kindergarten and you had
to be seven to start first grade. Dad went though his sophomore year at this school.
One time he and some other boys were giving the teacher a hard time, she threatened
to send them to the principal. The principal was outside the door and said, "I will
take them now." When he got them all in his office he told them "If you want a
whipping go outside and cut a switch and I will use it on you. Dad thought about
what he said and the "if you want a spanking" stuck out. Well, dad didn't want a
whipping and, therefore, didn't cut a switch. When they got back into the principal's
office he asked dad why. When dad told him, he carefully hid a smile and then sent
him back to class without a whipping. He graduated from the eighth grade in cap and
gown. The ninth and tenth grades didn't make much of an impression on him, except
he took public speaking and was very good at it. He was chosen to be the M.C. of a
school program at another school.

Things weren't too good at home and he decided to leave home and moved in with
Aunt Helen and her husband Buster. This took place in the depression era when jobs
were scarce. When school was out his sophomore year he and Buster and a group of
young men decided to head west to try and find work. What they found was a very
dry country and no work. They traveled for a month in Oklahoma, Kansas and
Colorado and then decided to go to Arizona, which they found to have a lot of farm
jobs available.

Johnnie — Ruth Hood. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• _UID: 2E1ABBC215CA11D782E700047586F39B82B9
• _UID: 99BD68BEE350D246B93984CCA9F5B486E193

Other Events:

• _UID: 2E1ABED015CA11D782E700047586F39B9399
• Residence: 1942, Salinas, California
• Residence: 1958, Fresno, California, USA

Notes:

Family Bible in possession of child #5
Personal knowledge of children on sheet

1900 US Census Clark, Pope Co., Arkansas
June 16, 1900
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M3XM-CY8
Virgil ? Linder Head M Jun 1848 51 Widowed AL NC SC
Virgil A Linder Son M Jul 1884 15 Single AR AL TN
John Lee Linder Son M Mar 1887 13 Single AR AL TN
Fanny R Linder Dau F Nov 1889 10 Single AR AL TN
Living next door
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3XM-CYF
Martin W Linder Head M Sep 1876 23 Married 1yr AR AL TN
Minnie M Linder Wife F Feb 1881 19 Married 1yr 1 1 KS KS KS
Martha E Linder Dau F Feb 1900 4m Single AR AR KS

1920 US Census Kellyville, Creek, Oklahoma
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN1H-LC5
John Linder Head M abt 1886 34 Married AK AL AK
Ollie Linder Wife F abt 1892 28 Married AK AL AK
Lenora Linder Dau F abt 1910 10 Single OK AK AK
Fred Linder Son M abt 1912 8 Single OK AK AK
Omer Linder Son M abt 1914 6 Single OK AK AK
Helen Linder Dau F abt 1917 3 Single OK AK AK
Johnnie Linder Son M abt 1919 1 Single OK AK AK

1930 US Census Hazlip, Creek, Oklahoma
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XC78-NHX
John Linder Head M abt 1887 43 Married AK AL AL
Olie Linder Wife F abt 1894 36 Married AK AK GA
Omer Linder Son M abt 1914 16 Single AK AK AK
Helen Linder Dau F abt 1916 14 Single OK AK AK
John Linder Son M abt 1919 11 Single OK AK AK
Annie Linder Dau F abt 1921 9 Single OK AK AK

1940 US Census Santa Cruz Judicial Township, Santa Cruz, California
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K963-QN3
John L Linder Head M abt 1887 53 Married Arkansas
Ollie P Linder Wife F abt 1892 48 Married Arkansas

United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZZ9-NNZ
Name: John Lee Linder
Event Type: Draft Registration
Event Date: 1917-1918
Event Place: Creek County no 2, Oklahoma, United States
Gender: Male
Nationality: United States
Birth Date: 23 Mar 1887

BillionGraves Index
http://billiongraves.com/pages/record/person/2786219
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KXMM-X79
John Lee Linder
Event Type: Burial
Birth: 1887
Death: 1969
Cemetery: Mesa City Cemetery
Mesa, Arizona, United States

United States Social Security Death Index
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V9PP-2WT
Given Name: John
Surname: Linder
Birth Date: 23 March 1887
Social Security Number: 526-16-1884
State: Arizona
Last Place of Residence: Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona
Previous Residence Postal Code: 85201
Event Date: March 1969
Age: 82

From the Bible of Ollie Pearl Morgan

CHILDRENS NAMES
---------
Mary Lenora Linder
Borned 27 of April 1909
Fred D. Linder Boy
Borned 13 0f Sept 1911
Omer Lee Linder Boy
Borned Aug. 16 1913
Alice Helen Linder girl
Borned March 25 1916
Johnnie W. Linder boy
Borned May 1 1918
Fannie Rose Linder girl
Borned July 5 1920
All Children alive at this time
in this day May 12, 1942


Ollie Pearl Morgan borned at Marrilton Ark July 4, 1892
John Lee Linder Borned RussellVille Ark March 23 1887
John Lee Linder of Bristow Okla JT and Ollie Pearl Pearl Morgan of
Bristow Okla JT were by me united in Matrimony according to the
ordinance of GOD and the Laws of ___ at Bristow JT on the 11 day
of Dec in the year of our Lord 1907 signed "JM Morgan" Bristow J.T.
witnesses W. M. Linder and Edgar Leaman
Deaths
John Linder folks Ollie folks
Father VJ Linder borned 1848 JM Morgon
died Dec 4, 1923
Bro WM Linder borned Sept 15 1876
died Sept 27 1961
Sister Fannie R Vicars borned 1888 John L Linder
died Oct 8 1962 died March 15, 1969
Bro VA Linder Borned 3 July 1885
Died March 16 - 63
Sister Mary Cordelia Storment/Dela Brozell
Died Sept 13 -64
Borned Oct 8 1878
86 years old

Deaths of Relations
Virgil T Linder John Linder Father
Died Dec 3 1923 - 75 - 6 M & 1 day old
Mary Jane Morgon Ollie Linder Mother
Died Dec 18 1926
Pearl Linder Died Aug 11 1952 Fred Linder wife
JM Morgan Died May 18 1960 Ollie Linder Dad
Grandma Sharpton Died Dec 4 1926 Ollie Linder GrandMother 82 - 7 m old
John Brother MW Linder Died Sept 27 1961 85 years & 12 day
wife Minnie Linder Died Feb. 2, 1962
John sister Fannie R. Vicars Died Oct 10 1962 age 73
Bro Arthur Linder died March 16 63

John married Ollie Pearl Morgan 11 Dec 1907, Bristow, Creek, Olahoma, United States. Ollie (daughter of James Manuel Morgan and Mary Jane Mcnew) was born 4 Jul 1892, Morrilton, Conway, Arkansas, United States; died 12 Jul 1976, San Jose, Santa Clara, California, United States; was buried 16 Jul 1976, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Initiatory (LDS): COMPLETED, PROVO
• _UID: 2E1ABBD615CA11D782E700047586F39B96BD
• Residence: 1900, Washington, Conway, Arkansas, United States; Marital Status: SingleRelation to Head: Daughter
• Residence: 1958, Fresno, California, USA

Notes:

1900 US Census Washington Township, Conway, Arkansas
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3X5-3PK
James M Morgan Head M Dec 1868 32 Married TN TN TN
Mary J Morgan Wife F Sep 1874 26 Married 9yrs 3 2 AK TN TN
Odessa Morgan Dau F Sep 1887 13 Single AK TN TN
Ollie P Morgan Dau F Jul 1892 8 Single AK TN AK
Nellie M Morgan Dau F Sep 1896 4 Single AK TN AK

1920 US Census Kellyville, Creek, Oklahoma
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN1H-LC5
John Linder Head M abt 1886 34 Married AK AL AK
Ollie Linder Wife F abt 1892 28 Married AK AL AK
Lenora Linder Dau F abt 1910 10 Single OK AK AK
Fred Linder Son M abt 1912 8 Single OK AK AK
Omer Linder Son M abt 1914 6 Single OK AK AK
Helen Linder Dau F abt 1917 3 Single OK AK AK
Johnnie Linder Son M abt 1919 1 Single OK AK AK

1930 US Census Hazlip, Creek, Oklahoma
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XC78-NHX
John Linder Head M abt 1887 43 Married AK AL AL
Olie Linder Wife F abt 1894 36 Married AK AK GA
Omer Linder Son M abt 1914 16 Single AK AK AK
Helen Linder Dau F abt 1916 14 Single OK AK AK
John Linder Son M abt 1919 11 Single OK AK AK
Annie Linder Dau F abt 1921 9 Single OK AK AK

1940 US Census Santa Cruz Judicial Township, Santa Cruz, California
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K963-QN3
John L Linder Head M abt 1887 53 Married Arkansas
Ollie P Linder Wife F abt 1892 48 Married Arkansas

California, Death Index, 1940-1997
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPNX-2HN
Name: Ollie P Linder
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 12 Jul 1976
Event Place: Santa Clara, California, United States
Birth Date: 04 Jul 1892
Birthplace: Arkansas
Gender: Female

From the Bible of Ollie Pearl Morgan

CHILDRENS NAMES
---------
Mary Lenora Linder
Borned 27 of April 1909
Fred D. Linder Boy
Borned 13 0f Sept 1911
Omer Lee Linder Boy
Borned Aug. 16 1913
Alice Helen Linder girl
Borned March 25 1916
Johnnie W. Linder boy
Borned May 1 1918
Fannie Rose Linder girl
Borned July 5 1920
All Children alive at this time
in this day May 12, 1942

Ollie Pearl Morgan borned at Marrilton Ark July 4, 1892
John Lee Linder Borned RussellVille Ark March 23 1887
John Lee Linder of Bristow Okla JT and Ollie Pearl Pearl Morgan of
Bristow Okla JT were by me united in Matrimony according to the
ordinance of GOD and the Laws of ___ at Bristow JT on the 11 day
of Dec in the year of our Lord 1907 signed "JM Morgan" Bristow J.T.
witnesses W. M. Linder and Edgar Leaman
Deaths
John Linder folks Ollie folks
Father VJ Linder borned 1848 JM Morgon
died Dec 4, 1923
Bro WM Linder borned Sept 15 1876
died Sept 27 1961
Sister Fannie R Vicars borned 1888
John L Linder
died Oct 8 1962
died March 15, 1969
Bro VA Linder Borned 3 July 1885
Died March 16 - 63
Sister Mary Cordelia Storment/Dela Brozell
Died Sept 13 -64
Borned Oct 8 1878
86 years old

Deaths of Relations
Virgil T Linder John Linder Father
Died Dec 3 1923 - 75 - 6 M & 1 day old
Mary Jane Morgon Ollie Linder Mother
Died Dec 18 1926
Pearl Linder Died Aug 11 1952 Fred Linder wife
JM Morgan Died May 18 1960 Ollie Linder Dad
Grandma Sharpton Died Dec 4 1926 Ollie Linder GrandMother 82 - 7 m old
John Brother MW Linder Died Sept 27 1961 85 years & 12 day
wife Minnie Linder Died Feb. 2, 1962
John sister Fannie R. Vicars Died Oct 10 1962 age 73
Bro Arthur Linder died March 16 63

Other Events:

• _UID: 2E1ABBDC15CA11D782E700047586F39B9C0B

Notes:

Ruth Hood Linder in March 2016 was asked if her father was named Samuel "Green" Hood. She replied, "That is not my father. My father was Samuel Hood not Samuel Green Hood."

BIRTH CERTIFICATE IN THE POSSESSION OF PATRON
LISTED CORRECTLY IN THE IGI. MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE
IN THE POSSESION OF PATRON DEATH CERTIFICATE IN
THE POSSESION OF PATRON

My Life History by Samuel Hood Mesa 6th Ward
I was born April 28, 1889 in Empire, Dodge County, Georgia, to Elijah Ballard Hood and Mary Victory Ann Lamb, in a little Sawmill Town, 130 miles south of Atlanta Georgia.
The most outstanding event in my early childhood, was a train ride I took when I was five years of age.
The railroad track ran near our home this certain morning, the train stopped near our house , I climbed upon the Engine Tender and hid.
A neighbor saw me as the train was pulling out, and hurried over to tell my mother he saw me on the train. She was washing the breakfast dishes and it excited and frightened her so she ran all the way into town, a distance of 2 miles with the dish towel in her hand to send a telegram ahead for the engineer to look out for me at his next stop 40 miles from Empire.
The Engineer found me about 25 miles and took me in the seat by him the rest of the way in. He took me to the end of his run and took me home on his return trip.
My mother was so tickled to see me she grabbed me and hugged me, but I should have been paddled.
I have never did any real pioneering, I have lived in places that were already settled.
My Father was born January 10, 1858 in Goldsboro, North Carolina, on a farm. He lived there until he was 18 years of age, then he left to work in the Turpine Works and and Timber in Empire, Ga. He later took up farming again and stayed with it until his death.
He joined the Later Day Saint Church in 1905, at the age of 43. He had never belonged to any other church.
My mother was born, March 19, 1861 on a farm in Yonkers Georgia. Her father was a Medical Doctor for years until he became disabled and was forced to quit practicing.
This is where my mother met my father and they were married. They had 11 children 5 boys and 6 girls.
My Mother joined the church in 1906.
I was never called on a mission, but I loved taught classes in Sunday School and Mutual, and served as a Ward Teacher.
I have had any Civic or Political connections.
I have an 8th grade education most of it has been obtained through self studying and practical experience. Especially Mathmatics, due to my work providing a living for myself and family.
I have worked for the Salt River Valley Water Users over a period of over 42 years, but 38 years straight as a Zanjero (Water Master), which requires a lot of Mathmatical figuring. I have a farmer all my life.
I did some rail roading for awhile, but my eyes failed me and I had to give it up.
I am now retired from the S.R.V.W.U.A. on a Pension and Social Security.
I have been married twice. I met my firsr wife Mentie Emma Cooper here in Mesa and was married April 5, 1915. We had 7 children 5 now living 2 boys and 3 girls.
My wife passed away July 9, 1936, leaving me with the five children.
I met my second wife Amy R. Gibbons and we were married March 19, 1937. Whom I am living with now.
We have two children 1 boy & 1 girl. Making me a total of 9 children 7 living. I am the proud Grandfather of 14 grand children.
My oldest girl filled a mission in the California Mission. My two older boys served three years each in the Navy in World War 2.
Two of my children married out of the church and have converted their companions. I feel it is a great honor to them as they went on and lived their religion and brought their companions into the church. I migrated from Southern Georgia out here in 1912. I have been in a number of states in the Union but I have never traveled abroad'
I tried to enlist in the Army in the World War 1 but the war ended before I made it.

From "Questions and answers to a letter written to Sam Hood
by Bertha 26 Jan. 1962.
1. How did you happen to move to Arizona?
A. In Feb. 1912 I had a sister living at Mesa, Arizona whose name was
Beatrice Arline, now Selvitz. I was 23 years of age when I took the train
to Mesa. I stayed there until the 24th day of July when I took the train
back to Georgia. I went back to Mesa April 4, 1914.

June 1914. I met Mentie Cooper at church in Mesa Third Ward June 1914.
It was June Conference. Mentie and her brother invited me to go to their
home for dinner that Sunday, but I did not go, but I did go later or the next
Sunday. This was not love at first sight. I would go with other girls and her
in the group and we all would rent a buggy and horse to go buggy riding each
Sunday. We rented these from the Livery Stable,..... Then Mentie and I
started going together, and we would go to the restaurant right after Sunday
School, each lunch, then go riding, We would usually get in about midnight,
as the longest way was the shortest way home. Mentie's mother, Telitha
Ann Cooper would worry until we got home.
Grandpa Cooper always went on to bed.

We were courting each other from October 1914, until about October 1915.
We were in the orange grove north of grandpa Cooper's house eating oranges
when I asked Mentie to marry me. She seemed to be very happy, but she did
not give me a reply until about a week later. We then decided we would go to
Spring Conference at Salt Lake City in 1916, and were married on the 5th of
April, 1916 in Salt Lake. We spent two weeks there and then returned to
Mesa. I went back to work for Hugh Dana and worked until April 12, 1917,
and went to U.S. Reclamation Service and worked until Jan. 1, 1955.

2. How old were you?
A. 23

3. Did you stay right at first with Hugh Dana?
A. No, I headquartered at old man Phillip Coleman's home.

4. Did you stay with Hugh Dana until you were married?
A. I started to work for Hugh Dana who was road foreman for Maricopa
Highway Department in 1914. I made $2.50 a day then when it started. I
worked then for the U.S. Reclamation Service out of Tempe until about
December until they got the power house finished, and then I went back
to Hugh Dana to work. I stayed with this job with Hugh Dana and the
Maricopa Hy. until after I was married in 1916.

5. Where was your first home with Mentie? Was it that tent house?
A. No, it was in quite a large adobe house on the No. east corner of Hugh
Dana's house. First home an adobe building on Hugh Dana's place. Was an
old original Dana home.(Bertha typed answers in so I could send copy to
Susan Linder who wrote for information.) Written on the back of this sheet
are more notes as follows;

1915 =Hugh
1917
1918
1919 = Live at Hugh Dana and farmed. Had 40 acres land and made $9,000
clear. Everything looked so good. Eli F. Bought farm tractor $850, plow
$250, I ran cotton planter.
1920 = going to rent Cooper ranch while going on one year visit to Florida.
But after dad had started to work his land he changed his mind and tore up
the contract. So rented Tom Watkins place while he went on mission to
California. But bottom fell out cotton that year and they didn't make
anything. It took himself three or four years to pay back the debts he said
they had. Application to work for the water users in March. Happened there
was a job open and he got his Ford car and went to work for $70 a month.
Were living across the road from Grandma and Grandpa Cooper then
moved bach into Aunt Mamies tent house in 500 block W. Main.

6. Where were you living when Curtis was born?
A. On West Main Street in Mesa. In Aunt Mamie and Uncle John Stinson's
house or tent house.
Curtis was born?
February 6, 1918 in the tent house on West Main Street, Mesa, Arizona.
Bertha was born?
Down by Hugh Dana's place in a lumber house, November,
November 7, 1919.
Mary was born?
249 West Second Street, Mesa, Arizona, November 1, 1921.
Ruth was born?
104 North Morris Street, Mesa, Arizona, October 1, 1923.
Bob was born?
240 North Morris Street, Mesa, Arizona, April 25, 1927.
Dorithy was born?
240 North Morris Street, Mesa Arizona, August 25, 1930.

7. When did you start working for the water users, what year?
A. 1917 when I went on steady as a water man.

8. Did you retire in 1954 or when?
A. Jan. 1,1955. Spent 38 years on this job.

9. Do you know where I could contact any of your Grandfather Lamb's
people? Does he have any brothers, or nephews or nieces living in Georgia?
A. Mistress K. D. Tripp, 505 Kibbee Street, Hawkinsville, Ga. Phone 34236.
That is grandfather Lamb's granddaughter. She is my mother's oldest sister's
daughter. If you will contact her she can tell you about them.

Written on the back of this sheet are more notes as follows:

1914- Left Georgia by train and went to Salt Lake City. Stayed with
missionary J. A. Barrett family for several weeks. Was planning on settling
in Utah but his brother Bob had come out to Lone Pine, Calif. with his sister
Viola to get married to George Hancock. He wrote and told Sam how
wonderful the country was there and he was going to file for a homestead and
wanted him to come out. So he went to Lone Pine in spring (march) 1914 but
didn't find that the land was as good as his brother said. The spring that he
found on the land was only melting snow water--so he went on to Mesa,
Arizona--worked around at jobs he could get & then went to work for Hugh
Dana and highway--1912 worked with waterusers. Hugh Dana was road
foreman and he went to work for him and worked until 12 March 1917
Zanjero. Retired January 1955.

10. Was your Grandmother Lamb the only child her mother
Emily Rogers ever had?
A. Yes, she went by the name of Robert Ann Rogers.

11. Did your Grandmother Lamb ever know her father?
A. I don't think so. She was an only child her mother Emily Rogers ever had.
Emily was unmarried when Robert Ann Rogers was born. Robert Ann was
14 years old when she married Floyd Lamb. She was born in 1843.
Grandfather Floyd Lamb was born in 1819.

12. What name did she go by? Annie Morgan, Robert Ann Morgan, Roberta
Ann Rogers or what?
A. She went by the name of Robert Ann Rogers.

(Written at bottom of page in red:)
Sam Hood said in letter December 1961 from Tulsa Oklahoma, Floyd Lamb
was an M.D. practiced around Younker, Ga. He was not a mormon. I was
baptized for him in 1916 and his work in Salt Lake Temple.
His wife died in 1922.

13. What do you remember about your Grandfather and Grandmother Lamb?
A. They lived on a farm near Yonkers, Ga. Grandmother lived there until
two or three months before she died. She then went to live a short while
with Mrs. Tripp's father and Mother, who were Archie Warren. His wife
was Eliza. Grandmother died at this home. She was buried at Macedona, a
Baptist Church, about one mile north of her home, which is about 2 1/2 miles
north of Yonkers, Ga.

From "Life history of Sam Hood" 6 December, 1963
At shop in Ukiah, California Sam Hood said to stretch their shoes when they
were youngsters they put cotton seed in their shoes and wet them and let
them swell and stretch the shoe.

7. Dad how much school did you have? -- I remember you joking about
walking in one door and out another? -- What sort of school was it?
I, Sam Hood, attended school around Empire and Roddy, Georgia, just a
few weeks at a time, amounting to a total of about 4 or 5 months of schooling.
I liked Spelling, Arithmatic and Geography. All I had was hand me down
books that other kids did not want. I use to lay down on the floor by the
open fire and read by the firelight. The first school teacher I ever went to was
Addie Young who was a big fat old maid teacher. I wet my pants every day
and she would whip me for it. She sent me down to the woods to get a switch,
and I did not have a knife to cut one. So she followed me and found me xxxxxxx
stooped over chewing with my teeth. That stopped her whipping me and she
never whipped me any more. I would ask to be excused to leave to go to the
toilet, and she would not let me go, therefore I could not hold my water and
wet my pants.
8. Do you remember the missionaries who converted you? --
How old were you ?
I was 21 years old when I was baptized. William J. Ethington baptized me
at Empire. Elder S. M. McKinney confirmed me. Baptized 17th day of July
or August, 1910, at Empire, Ga. in the creek that runs through the home place,
now Parker's place.The name of the creek is Walton.
I was ordained a Priest by Elder ? .

Questions and answers to a letter written to Sam Hood
by Bertha in December 1961
1.- Is your mother's name Victoria or Victory?
A. Victoria.

2- Do you know when your grandfather Robert B. Hood moved from North
Carolina to Georgia?
A. Do not know. It was just after Civil War and then moved to Cochran
(county seat) Ga. and lived there a long while. Lucky got it from there and
Sampson Parker has the property at Empire, Georgia. Now Sampson Parker
can look at deeds and tell you. Before war property sold for $2.50 (this could
be $2,50 which might mean $2,500.00 for 175 acres, after Civil War sold
$400.00 for 175 acres. Contack Parker.

3- Do you know if Robert B. Hood kept a diary or had a bible or any family
records?
A. Mary B. Roberts had the Hood family Bible. She built a new house and
moved and they put the Bible in the barrell with other books when they
moved, and the rats got into the barrell and destroyed the books, Bible
included included. Mary Roberts is now deceased. Her daughter, Mrs. Letecia
Green, at Empire Georgia, Route 1, and she will get it. She might be able to give
you more information.

4- Do you know where Sam Hood is?
(That young fellow from North Carolina who was in our home in Mesa?)
A. Sam Hood got killed in an automobile accident. He was working in
Philadelphia and about. Five or six years ago he was killed. Write Mrs. Burney
Hood in Raleigh, N.C. You should have that information, as you corresponded
with Sam after he visited Mesa.

5- Who was the first in your family to become "Mormon"?
A. Mary Hood Johnson and then Ed, Abbie and Viola. this group was
baptized in 1905 at Empire, Ga. Mother , dad, Annie and Beatrice were later,
but I do not know when they were baptized.

6- Was grandfather Floyd Lamb a Doctor?
A. Yes, he was an M.D. He practiced around Younker, Ga. He was not a
Mormon. I was baptized for him in 1916 in Salt Lake Temple and did his work
for him. His wife died in 1922.

7- Did your mother and father live in Empire most of their lives?
A. They lived in West Farm just east of Madison Florida. They had one child
who died, (William) about age of 4 months ). Then they went back to Empire
Ga. and stayed until 1911; then then moved down near Alme where sister
Mary lived, and father died December 1942, and mother died 24 of Jan. 1947
and buried at Axson, Ga. Ed can give you more information than I can. Dad
and mother both buried right there by the church. Sister Mary buried right
beside them, he did general farming, cotton, vegetables and livestoch. I built
at Empire , Ga. in the yard 1910 and it still stands. It contained three rooms
and a porch, the portion I built on.

8- Does Aunt Abbie live in your parents original home?
A. Abbie lives in R. B. Hood's original hoo\me.(log cabin).
They have since put siding on it now.
__________
326 South Tremont
Tremonton UT 84337

Dear Darl,

We really enjoyed getting your letter, because it gives us a chance to sit down
and finally put some of these things in writing.

Regarding my dad's name, Samuel L. Green Hood. He always told the story
that he was not given a name until he was six years old in 1895. Apparently
a census taker came around and wanted the names of everyone that lived in
Empire, Georgia. Dad always said he was a sickly child and his parents hadn't
expected him to live so they just put off giving him a name. They called him
"Hammer" and "Cowboy," but the census taker wouldn't let it go at that. He
pulled out a list of names and had dad run his finger down them even though
he couldn't read. Dad always said he stopped on the shortest name he could
find, which was Sam. The name he chose was recorded as Samuel L. Green,
who was a black doctor in that part of Georgia. Dad always refused to use
the "L. Green" because he said it had belonged to a black man. What you
have to understand is that Dad was born only 24 years after the Civil War
ended, and he learned to shun anything that even hinted of being black.

Apparently Dad and his father never did get along very well. Dad always
said he was a very picky eater and at times just did not have much of an
appetite because he didn't feel well. He said he could remember more than
once his dad demanding that a plate of dirt be put before him if he refused to
eat what was fixed.

I can understand the frustration of a parent with a child who doesn't eat well.
All of our children are asthmatics, and my son more than any will not eat when
he doesn't feel well. Martin has always said food smothers him when he is
having difficulty breathing. I am sure my dad was the same way.

In fact, Dad ran away from home when he was 15 years old in 1904, and
never returned to live there full time again. He would go back and visit, but
he worked as a fireman on the railroad for a time and just rambled for a while
picking up work wherever he happened to be. He finally settled down in
Mesa, Arizona, in February 1912. He entered the state the day it was
granted statehood, and he was quoted as saying that they had to wait until he
arrived before it achieved statehood.

The tradition that was always handed down about his Grandmother Robert
Ann Lamb was that her parents never married. Supposedly John Morgan was
from a well-to-do family and she was from a poor one, and his parents refused
to let them get married. Her mother, Emmaline Rogers was sent to Washington,
D. C., while she was pregnant and that is where Robert Ann was born. It makes
sense that if her name was Robert Ann that she would go by "Annie."

We also thought that the Lambs were from Ireland, however, the Dublin they
refer to is Dublin, Georgia and were original settlers in this of the counties in
this area known as the "Wire Grass area of Georgia." We were going to follow
up on the leads we have found over the past few months during the Christmas
season. Michael and I both had the week between Christmas and New Year's
off, but we also both had the flu, too. We never did feel well enough to drive
the 70 miles to Salt Lake and spend a day in the genealogical library following
up on these leads.
As to my half-brothers and sisters, I don't correspond much with Curtis, but I
do with Bertha quite a bit. I am from my dad's second marriage, and my parents
divorced after being married 23 years. There was a coolness from most of them
until about 15 years ago when I started corresponding and talking to Bertha
regularly. So I can't really tell you much about Curtis and his family.

Bertha's son that you ask about is William or Bill. Bertha said he was never
the same after he returned from Viet Nam. He apparently suffered from the
post traumatic stress syndrome that so many of the returning veterans did,
and it eventually took its toll. He death was ruled as a suicide, but her
husband, Bud, just could never accept that. I think that is why they told
everyone it was a hunting accident. He was out in the country in his car
when they found him. Perhaps it is best if you still call it a hunting accident
if you write or talk to them about it.

Bertha is no longer in California. They returned to Hoffman, Oklahoma, early
last year. It just did not work for them to live right in with their daughter and
her husband. They lived in the foothills above Ukiah, California, and they did
not like the snow and cold. They both are rather crippled up from arthritis,
birth defects, and accidents and walking on the ice was very dangerous for them.
Bertha was born with one leg about six inches shorter than the other, and both
she and Bud have been injured in car accidents that have made matters worse.
Bud's accident in the early 50's left him with one leg shorter than the other, and
he was rehabilitate as a shoe repairman in California where they ran their own
store for close to 25 years in Ukiah. Her address is P. O. Box 462, Dewar,
Oklahoma 74431 and her phone is (918)652-9775. Hoffman no longer has a
post office and there is no delivery so they have to drive about five miles to
Dewar (pronounced as Doer) to get their mail. They are much happier here
because they have their own apartment that is connected to their oldest
daughter's house. It gives them a little more privacy and independence.

No one has seen Robert Barfield Hood since 1960. He had been gone for
many years and showed up asking for money from my dad. When he got
what he wanted he left, and no one has heard from him again. None of us
have any idea whether he is dead or alive.

Yes, Ruth and Johnnie had a big family. Their children are:

Ruthie Crandall, Samuel Linder, Susan Green, Linda Hendrix,
Eddie Linder, David Linder, Teresa Anderson, and Dawna. I can't remember
Dawna's married name. Their address is 1404 South Spenser, Mesa, AZ
85204. I am fairly close to their two daughters Ruthie and Linda as we are
about the same age.

Dorothy and Frank "Bud" Koubik never were able to have
children. Her address is 49365 Alpine Avenue North, Stanfield, Minesota.
Her husband died in April 1992 of a heart attack during surgery for a hiatal
hernia. She spent last winter with Ruth and Johnnie in Mesa, Arizona, and
this year she is spending it with Curtis and his wife in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.

I have one full brother and his name is Richard Ballard Hood, and he lives in
New Ulm, Minnesota. His story is a little of that like Bob's in that he took
off and no one knew where he was for nine years, and then suddenly he called
me out of the blue. He and his third wife have lived in New Ulm since 1979.
He and I talk on the telephone occasionally, but unfortunately we have very
little in common anymore. I wound up raising his two sons from his first
marriage part time from the age of 12 and full time when each of them turned
16. His oldest, Rick, is now 26 years old and drives truck for England Trucking
out of Salt Lake City. He is thinking very seriously of getting married. The
younger boy, Tim, is 24 years old and married with a baby that is almost a
year old and another one on the way in May. He and his wife live in Salt Lake
City. We see them quite often and their little boy is like a grandson to us.

My mother was descended through the Gibbons and Wilhelm families. Both
families were early Mormon pioneers and joined the Mormon church in its early
days in the 1830s. They came west in the major migration during and after 1847.
My great grandfather, Andrew Smith Gibbons, was one of the seven scouts that
explored the best route for the first of the 1847 wagon trains to take. He was
among the first group to enter the Salt Lake Valley in July 1847. However, he
return to Council Bluffs, Iowa, where he helped to guide other wagon trains west
until 1853 when the Mormon settlers had to vacate the Indian land they were
living on. He then moved his family to Salt Lake City then.

Shortly after arriving in Salt Lake City, he was sent to southern Utah to help
with Indian trouble because he apparently had such a calming effect on them.
He and his family lived in 13 or 14 different communities in southern Utah,
southern Nevada, and northern Arizona. Our family tradition says he planted
nine peach orchards before he was able to harvest fruit from any of them that he
planted. Just as he would get established, he would be sent into another area to
calm the Indians. He and his sons finally settled in St. Johns, Arizona, in the
northeastern part of the state. St. Johns is very close to both the Apache and
Navajo Indian Reservations. In addition, he was one of the first three white men
to visited the Hopi Indians in the village of Moencopi. Moencopi is the oldest
continuously inhabited settlement in all of North America, because the Hopis
have been there for centuries. Andrew Smith Gibbons life story was chronicled
in a book by Helen Bay Gibbons called "Saint and Savage," published by Deseret
Book. However, I understand it is no longer in print.

The Gibbons family also got together in 1980 and published a family history
called "The Turning of the Hearts," and starts with Andrew Smith Gibbons'
father, William Davidson Gibbons. The only bad thing about the book is that
it does not have an index and it was done before the days of PC computers.

His son, Richard Gibbons, was my grandfather, and he too was one of the
original Arizona pioneers. He was heavily involved in cleaning up the
lawlessness that plagued Arizona into the 20th century. In fact, he was elected
to the Territorial Legislature of 1901 and co-sponsored a bill that created the
Arizona Rangers after the pattern of the Texas Rangers. Their community of
St. Johns was on the route from areas like Tombstone to the Robber's Roost
(of Butch Cassidy fame), and they were always being plagued by ruthless
outlaws. I have 800 typewritten pages of his journals that go from 1888 to
1924 when he died.

The Wilhelms' story is much the same. John Benjamin and Clarrisa Harding
Wilhelm joined the Mormon church in Ohio in 1842 and started making plans
to move to Nauvoo, Illinois. They arrived in Nauvoo on October 1, 1844 and
stayed there in the winter of 1846 when the Mormons were forced to leave.
Instead of going to Winter Quarters near Council Bluff, Iowa, as did most of
those who were forced to leave, they went to Weston, Missouri, where
Clarrisa ran a boarding house. Her husband was very ill and she stayed there
until her husband died on March 8, 1851. She then took her children west by
herself working as a cook on a wagon train to earn her passage.

Her son, Bateman Haight Wilhelm married Lydia Hannah Draper, who was from
another family who came west in the Mormon migration of 1847. Bateman and
Lydia also lived all over southern Utah and northern Arizona. Their daughter,
Clarrisa Isabell Wilhelm married my grandfather, Richard Gibbons, and their
daughter, Amy Gibbons married my dad, Sam Hood. We have copied a great
deal of this information that we have printed out from the computer and are
sending it to you in a separate package.

The research we have gathered that has already been done takes the Gibbons
and Wilhelm families into colonial New England. Their roots go back to
Massachusetts and Connecticut, while we have found the Hood-Lamb
ancestors, apparently, go into colonial Virginia.

I was born in Mesa, Arizona, on April 14, 1945, and lived there until Michael
and I were married on March 25, 1967. We have lived in Tucson, Arizona; San
Jos Costa Rica; Preston, Idaho; Idaho Falls, Idaho; Moab, Utah; Blanding, Utah;
and Tremonton, Utah. We have been in Tremonton since December 1976. Our
children's birth places sound a little like a travel log. Amy Jo was born in Costa
Rica; Juliet was born in Rexburg, Idaho; Ruth was born in Moab, Utah; and
Martin was born in Monticello, Utah. There were times I wondered if we would
ever stop living the life of gypsies and settle down in one place, but we finally did.

Well, I hope this answers some of your questions about my family. As I said we
will make copies of the information we have and send it to you.
Jody H. Jensen
(801) 257-3652
__________
Part of a letter written to Darl from Jodi Jensen
326 South Tremont UT 84337

Darl,
really enjoyed getting your letter, because it gives us a chance to sit down and
finally put some of these things in writing. my dad's name, Samuel L. Green
Hood. He always told the story that he was not given a name until he was six
years old in 1895. Apparently a census taker came around and wanted the names
of everyone that lived in Empire, Georgia. Dad always said he was a sickly child
and his parents hadn't expected him to live so they just put off giving him a name.
They called him "Hammer" and "Cowboy," but the census taker wouldn't let it go
at that. He pulled out a list of names and had dad run his finger down them even
though he couldn't read. Dad always said he stopped on the shortest name he
could find, which was Sam. The name he chose was recorded as Samuel L. Green,
who was a black doctor in that part of Georgia. Dad always refused to use the "L.
Green" because he said it had belonged to a black man. What you have to
understand is that Dad was born only 24 years after the Civil War ended, and he
learned to shun anything that even hinted of being black. Dad and his father never
did get along very well. Dad always said he was a very picky eater and at times
just did not have much of an appetite because he didn't feel well. He said he could
remember more than once his dad demanding that a plate of dirt be put before him
if he refused to eat what was fixed. . .
Jodi Jensen

Samuel married Mentie Emma Cooper 5 Apr 1916, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT. Mentie (daughter of Eli Franklin Cooper and Martha Annie Telitha Elizabeth "Lizzie" Pattison) was born 21 Jun 1893, Seneca, Lake, Florida, United States; died 9 Jul 1936, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States; was buried 12 Jul 1936, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• _UID: 2E1ABBDE15CA11D782E700047586F39B9E25

Notes:

FIRST WIFE OF SAM HOOD, DIED IN CHILDBIRTH.
The birth place of Mentie needs to be checked. The place may be
Ponceannah Cemet, Seneca Copied from a letter to Willis Hood -
date missing
Dear cousin Willis
Thank you very much for your letter. It was a pleasant surprise. I really
appreciate your thoughtfullness and help. Mrs Gurney P. Hood had written
and given me your address and I was planning on writing to you. Yes. My
oldest daughter, Bertha H. Smith and I are trying to compile a history of the
Hood family in America. I had some information on John R. Hood Sr. given
to me years ago when I left Georgia but it was sketchy. I have some questions
I hope you can answer. For your convenience I am enclosing a separate sheets
of question-You can answer and send back.
I will try and get all the information you sent me on my regular history sheets
and sent you a copy. Also if you'd I'll send you the information about my
Grandfather Robert B. Hood and his descendents.
I am 75 years old.- I am ---end

This was included to show a little history about Mintie and her interest in
genealogy and where Bertha learned her love of genealogy. Mintie was sending
a letter to the Hood historian of that time. Willis S. Hood born 16 April 1879
was the son of Solomon Pope Hood who was the son of John Robert Hood Jr.
who was the son of John Robert Hood Sr. He was 14 years older than Mintie.

Other Events:

• Confirmation (LDS):
• Initiatory (LDS): COMPLETED
• _UID: 2E1ABBEC15CA11D782E700047586F39BACDB

Notes:

1.Personal(Johnnie Wesley Linder)knowledge of #6 John Lee LINDER
2.Family bible of Ollie Pearl Morgan Linder, in possession of
Johnnie W. Linder
3.Oklahoma Marriage record and death certificate
4.U.S. Census 1880 Arkansas census

Family bible of Ollie Pearl Morgan Linder, in possession of
Johnnie W. and Ruth Linder
CHILDRENS NAMES
---------
Mary Lenora Linder
Borned 27 of April 1909
Fred D. Linder Boy
Borned 13 0f Sept 1911
Omer Lee Linder Boy
Borned Aug. 16 1913
Alice Helen Linder girl
Borned March 25 1916
Johnnie W. Linder boy
Borned May 1 1918
Fannie Rose Linder girl
Borned July 5 1920
All Children alive at this time
in this day May 12, 1942

Ollie Pearl Morgan borned at Marrilton Ark July 4, 1892
John Lee Linder Borned RussellVille Ark March 23 1887
John Lee Linder of Bristow Okla JT and Ollie Pearl Pearl Morgan of
Bristow Okla JT were by me united in Matrimony according to the
ordinance of GOD and the Laws of ___ at Bristow JT on the 11 day
of Dec in the year of our Lord 1907 signed "JM Morgan" Bristow J.T.
witnesses W. M. Linder and Edgar Leaman

John Linder folks
Father VJ Linder borned 1848
died Dec 4, 1923
Bro WM Linder borned Sept 15 1876
died Sept 27 1961
Sister Fannie R Vicars borned 1888
died Oct 8 1962
Bro VA Linder Borned 3 July 1885
Died March 16 - 63
Sister Mary Cordelia Storment/Dela Brozell
Died Sept 13 -64
Borned Oct 8 1878
86 years old

Deaths
Ollie folks
JM Morgan
John L Linder
died March 15, 1969

Deaths of Relations
Virgil T Linder John Linder Father
Died Dec 3 1923 - 75 - 6 M & 1 day old
Mary Jane Morgon Ollie Linder Mother
Died Dec 18 1926
Pearl Linder Died Aug 11 1952 Fred Linder wife
JM Morgan Died May 18 1960 Ollie Linder Dad
Grandma Sharpton Died Dec 4 1926 Ollie Linder GrandMother 82 - 7m old
John Brother MW Linder Died Sept 27 1961 85 years & 12 day
wife Minnie Linder Died Feb. 2, 1962
John sister Fannie R. Vicars Died Oct 10 1962 age 73
Bro Arthur Linder died March 16 63

Arkansas County Marriages, 1837-1957
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N9M3-MNL
Name: V T Linder
Event: Marriage
Event Date: 11 Dec 1873
Event Place: , Lonoke, Arkansas, United States
Spouse: M J Berry
Spouse's Age: 19
Spouse's Estimated Birth Year: 1854
Copied from Image:
Marriage Certificate
I J. C. Forhep an ordained Minister of the Gospel in the State of Arkansas do hereby certify
that I did duly join in Marriage on the 11th day of December 1873 in the State of Arkansas
County of Lonoke ? V. T. Linder aged (blank) years and ? M. J Berry aged 19 years and I did
then and there declare to be man and wife. Given under my hand this the 12th December 1874
Credentials held in Prairie County. J. C. Fosbep? (seal)
State of Arkansas
County of Lonoke
Geo. M. Chapline County Clerk and E. Offici? Recorder in and for the County aforesaid do hereby
certify that the above was filed in my office on the 24th day of February 1874. and the same is
now duly recorded in Record
Book A page 27 In Testimony Whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of my office
(seal) this the 24th day of April 1874. Geo M Chaplin Clerk

http://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=787
In 1873, the Arkansas legislature was forming and locating counties, and a petition was
introduced to the legislature to form the county of Lonoke. Governor Elisha Baxter signed the
act on April 16, 1873, creating Lonoke County from the parent counties Prairie and Pulaski.

1860 US Census Hardin Township, Conway, Arkansas
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8W3-4MH
A W Lendar M abt 1804 56 North Carolina
J T Lendar F abt 1807 53 South Carolina
Arcena Lindar F abt 1844 16 South Carolina <-Arcenia
Virgil Lindar M abt 1849 11 Alabama
Martha C Lindar F abt 1852 8 Alabama

In the next two 1870 Census's notice that this Mary J Berry lived
in the same township as Virgil did. I did a little research and found that
the Town of Caroline had a population of 1,297 in 1870 You can find this
information by typing: (The url is very long)"population by township 1870
1910 Arkansas" without the quotes. Mary J and Virgil had a very good chance
of getting to know each other in this small town.

1870 US Census Caroline, Pulaski, Arkansas July 21, 1870
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNCD-MXQ
W A Linder M abt 1803 67 North Carolina
Virgil T Linder M abt 1849 21 Alabama
Martha Linder F abt 1852 18 Alabama
William L Linder M abt 1859 11 Arkansas

1870 US Census Caroline, Pulaski, Arkansas
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MNC6-9FS
W N Berry M abt 1833 37 Tennessee
Elizabeth Berry F abt 1833 37 Tennessee
Mary J Berry F abt 1855 15 Tennessee
Martha Berry F abt 1858 12 Tennessee
Alauna Berry F abt 1860 10 Tennessee
Francis Berry F abt 1862 8 Tennessee
Nancy Berry F abt 1874 6 Tennessee
Emma Berry F abt 1866 4 Arkansas
Eliza Berry F abt 1868 2 Arkansas
James Berry M abt 1870 5m Arkansas

US CENSUS 1880 Magness, Lenoke, Arkansas June 1-2, 1880
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNW6-N4B
V.T. Linder Head M abt 1846 34 Married MS -- --
Mary J Linder Wife F abt 1855 25 Married TN TN TN
Wesley Linder Son M abt 1875 5 Single AK MS TN
William E Linder Son M abt 1880 2m Single AK MS TN
Cordelia Linder Dau F abt 1878 2 Single AK MS TN
Josephine Berry sis-in-law F abt 1865 15 Single AK TN TN
Elisa Berry sis-in-law F abt 1868 12 Single AK TN TN

1900 US Census Clark, Pope Co., Arkansas
June 16, 1900
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M3XM-CY8
Virgil ? Linder Head M Jun 1848 51 Widowed AL NC SC
Virgil A Linder Son M Jul 1884 15 Single AR AL TN
John Lee Linder Son M Mar 1887 13 Single AR AL TN
Fanny R Linder Dau F Nov 1889 10 Single AR AL TN
Living next door
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3XM-CYF
Martin W Linder Head M Sep 1876 23 Married 1yr AR AL TN
Minnie M Linder Wife F Feb 1881 19 Married 1yr 1 1 KS KS KS
Martha E Linder Dau F Feb 1900 4m Single AR AR KS

Creek Co. Marriage Records
16 Nov 1907 - 15 Mar 1921
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~okcreek/marriage/l-marr.txt
LINDER, Virgil SCROGGINS, Haley 07 Mar. 1910 2 134

US CENSUS 1910 Bristow, Creek, OK April 28, 1910
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:ML7J-TNT
Virgil Linder Head M abt 1848 62 Married3 3yrs AR AR AR
Thaley Linder Wife M abt 1855 55 Married3 3yrs AR AR AR
Frank S Linder Son M abt 1892 18 Single AR AR AR
Will Smith Nephew M abt 1883 27 Single AR AR AR

Copied from the Linder Legacy
By Jacquelyn Guccione 2006
Virgil (now age 62) is tired of living alone and, on February 27, 1908,
marries 55 year old Thaley Steward. Her 18 year old son, Frank lives
with them; as does a 27 year old nephew, Will Smith. They are all from
Arkansas as well. They appear to be living in the town of Bristow, just
down from the jail. NOTE: There is also a marriage record for Virgil
Linder and Haley Scroggins on March 7, 1910.
Thaley did not die until 1912; she is buried among family and there is
no reference anywhere to another wife. I have located a 5 year old Thaley
B. Scroggins in Conway County in 1860; this would agree with 55 year old
Thaley Steward in 1910. Several Scroggins family members went to Creek
County. So after extensive research, I am persuaded that Haley Scroggins
and Thaley Steward are probably one and the same. As yet I have no
explanation for the two dates, unless it was a legal issue concerning the
status of unknown Mr. Steward.
______________
The information that names Herman Berry and Delila Elwood as the parents of Mary Jane Berry came from information given to Ruth Linder from Roy Dollar. Who was a cousin to Johnnie Linder. The Dollar's and the Linder's had grandmothers that were sisters and were both Berry's. Johnnie Linder was John Lee Linder's son and also a brother to Fannie Rose Linder. This source was "personal knowledge".

Virgil married Mary Jane Berry 11 Dec 1873, Lonoke, Arkansas, United States. Mary (daughter of W N Berry and Elizabeth J) was born 25 Sep 1855, Henderson, Tennessee, United States; died Abt 1891, White, Arkansas, United States; was buried Abt 1891, AR. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Initiatory (LDS):
• _UID: 2E1ABBEE15CA11D782E700047586F39BAEF5

Notes:

Arkansas County Marriages, 1837-1957
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N9M3-MNL
Name: V T Linder
Event: Marriage
Event Date: 11 Dec 1873
Event Place: , Lonoke, Arkansas, United States
Spouse: M J Berry
Spouse's Age: 19
Spouse's Estimated Birth Year: 1854
Copied from Image:
Marriage Certificate
I J. C. Forhep an ordained Minister of the Gospel in the State of Arkansas do hereby certify
that I did duly join in Marriage on the 11th day of December 1873 in the State of Arkansas
County of Lonoke ? V. T. Linder aged (blank) years and ? M. J Berry aged 19 years and I did
then and there declare to be man and wife. Given under my hand this the 12th December 1874
Credentials held in Prairie County. J. C. Fosbep? (seal)
State of Arkansas
County of Lonoke
Geo. M. Chapline County Clerk and E. Offici? Recorder in and for the County aforesaid do hereby
certify that the above was filed in my office on the 24th day of February 1874. and the same is
now duly recorded in Record
Book A page 27 In Testimony Whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of my office
(seal) this the 24th day of April 1874. Geo M Chaplin Clerk

Copied from Dawna Vicars
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/SY6K-541
Birthdate from descedent Delford S. Markham notes his baby book says his great grandparents
as Mary Jane Berry born Henderson CO, TN, on the date of: September 25, 1855. This is
different than the date noted on the 1900 Pope Co, AR Census which says December 18, 1857.
The census was taken of the Linder family and although 25 sep census often has different dates

1860 US Census Civil District No. 8, Henderson, Tennessee
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M8T6-QT9
W N Berry M abt 1833 27 Tennessee
E J Berry F abt 1833 27 Tennessee
Mary J Berry F abt 1855 5 Tennessee
M T Berry F abt 1857 3 Tennessee
Alabama Berry F abt 1858 2 Tennessee

1870 US Census Caroline, Pulaski, Arkansas
July 15, 1870
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MNC6-9FQ
W N Berry M abt 1833 37 Tennessee
Elizabeth Berry F abt 1833 37 Tennessee
Mary J Berry F abt 1855 15 Tennessee
Martha Berry F abt 1858 12 Tennessee
Alauna Berry F abt 1860 10 Tennessee
Francis Berry F abt 1862 8 Tennessee
Nancy Berry F abt 1874 6 Tennessee
Emma Berry F abt 1866 4 Arkansas
Eliza Berry F abt 1868 2 Arkansas
James Berry M abt 1870 5m Arkansas

In the next 1870 Census notice that this Mary J Berry lived in the same township as Virgil did.
I did a little research and found that the Town of Caroline had a population of 1,297 in 1870
You can find this information by typing: (The url is very long)
"population by township 1870 1910 Arkansas" without the quotes.
Mary J and Virgil had a very good chance of getting to know each other in this small town.
In the next 1870 US Census Virgil Linder is found living in the same small town as Mary Jane
I have replaced the parents of Mary Jane Berry with W N and Elizabeth Berry

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MNCD-MXQ
1870 US Census Caroline, Pulaski, Arkansas July 21, 1870
W A Linder M abt 1803 67 North Carolina
Virgil T Linder M abt 1849 21 Alabama
Martha Linder F abt 1852 18 Alabama
William L Linder M abt 1859 11 Arkansas

http://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=787
In 1873, the Arkansas legislature was forming and locating counties, and a petition was
introduced to the legislature to form the county of Lonoke. Governor Elisha Baxter signed the
act on April 16, 1873, creating Lonoke County from the parent counties Prairie and Pulaski.

1880 US Census Magness, Lenoke, Arkansas June 1-2, 1880
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MNW6-N4Y
Head V.T. Linder M abt 1846 34 Married MS -- --
Wife Mary J Linder F abt 1855 25 Married TN TN TN
Son Wesley Linder M abt 1875 5 Single AR MS TN
Dau Cordelia Linder F abt 1878 2 Single AR MS TN
Son William E Linder M abt 1880 2m Single AR MS TN
sis-in-law Josephine Berry F abt 1865 15 Single AR TN TN
sis-in-law Elisa Berry F abt 1868 12 Single AR TN TN

1900 US Census Clark, Pope Co., Arkansas
June 16, 1900
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Virgil ? Linder Head M Jun 1848 51 Widowed AL NC SC
Virgil A Linder Son M Jul 1884 15 Single AR AL TN
John Lee Linder Son M Mar 1887 13 Single AR AL TN
Fanny R Linder Dau F Nov 1889 10 Single AR AL TN
Living next door
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Martin W Linder Head M Sep 1876 23 Married 1yr AR AL TN
Minnie M Linder Wife F Feb 1881 19 Married 1yr 1 1 KS KS KS
Martha E Linder Dau F Feb 1900 4m Single AR AR KS

Copied from dvicars1102344
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/SY6K-541
Birthdate from descedent Delford S. Markham notes his baby book says his great grandparents
as Mary Jane Berry born Henderson CO, TN, on the date of: September 25, 1855. This is different
than the date noted on the 1900 Pope Co, AR Census which says December 18, 1857. The census was
taken of the Linder family and although census often has different dates

The information that names Herman Berry and Delila Elwood as the
parents of Mary Jane Berry came from information given to Ruth
Linder from Roy Dollar. Who was a cousin to Johnnie Linder. The
Dollar's and the Linder's had grandmothers that were sisters and
were both Berry's. Johnnie Linder was John Lee Linder's son and
also a brother to Fannie Rose Linder. This source was "personal
knowledge".
On August 2, 2002 Ruth Linder said Herman was born about 1803 He
married about abt 1836, He died abt 1859 His wife Delila was born
abt 1807 and died abt 1861 Mary Jane was born abt 1855 in Tenn
and died abt 1891 in Arkansas.

There is another Mary Jane Berry that has been mistaken for our Mary Jane Berry. Here is a source from
Ancestry.com that disproves that relationship. This Mary lived only 6 days.
Family Data Collection - Individual Records about Mary Jane Berry
Name: Mary Jane Berry
Parents: Samuel Winter Berry, Susan Blanchard
Birth Place: Lycoming, of Lycoming Twp, PA
Birth Date: 18 Dec 1857
Death Date: 24 Dec 1857

Other Events:

• Initiatory (LDS): COMPLETED, ARIZO
• Residence: Cleveland, Conway, Arkansas, United States
• Residence: Bristow, Creek, Oklahoma
• _UID: 2E1ABBF815CA11D782E700047586F39BB877
• Residence: 1870, Township 6 Range 9, De Kalb, Alabama, USA; Residence Post Office: Rawlingsville
• Residence: 1880, Jackson, Alabama, USA; Marital Status: SingleRelation to Head: Stepson
• Residence: 1900, Washington, Conway, Arkansas, United States; Marital Status: MarriedRelation to Head: Head
• Residence: 1910, Bristow Ward 3, Creek, Oklahoma, United States; Marital Status: MarriedRelation to Head of House: Head
• Residence: 1920, Bristow, Creek, Oklahoma, United States; Relation to Head: HeadResidence Marital Status: Married
• Residence: 1930, Bristow, Creek, Oklahoma, USA; Marital Status: MarriedRelation to Head: Head
• Residence: 1935, Bristow, Creek, Oklahoma
• Residence: 1940, Bristow, Creek, Oklahoma, USA; Marital Status: MarriedRelation to Head: Head
• Confirmation (LDS): 17 Jul 1971, ARIZO

Notes:

The place of birth, Gadsden, Etowah, AL. was known as Double
Springs until 1846. Nancy Jane Bradford was the first wife. Mary
Jane was number 2. Lillian Mills was number three. James Manuel
Morgan had twin sons die at birth
Family Bible in possession of Ruth Hood Linder
Death certificate register #181 & #528 Oklahoma
Personal knowledge of Ollie Pearl #1 & #3 Nellie Mae

Ruthie Linder Crandall said James Manuel was a circuit rider

1860 US Census Northern Division, De Kalb, Alabama
Post Office; Rawlingsville
Syntha D. Scoggins F abt 1820 40 South Carolina
Icy F. Scoggins F abt 1842 18 South Carolina
Emma C Scoggins F abt 1843 17 South Carolina
Squire H Scoggins M abt 1844 16 South Carolina
Manuel Scoggins M abt 1846 14 South Carolina
Cuida Scoggins F abt 1848 12 South Carolina
Malinda Scoggins F abt 1850 10 South Carolina
Catharine Scoggins F abt 1852 8 South Carolina

1870 US Census Township 6 Range 9, DeKalb, Alabama
Post Office; Rawlingsville
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28 30 Cynthia Scoggins F abt 1820 50 South Carolina
Emanuel Scoggins M abt 1846 24 South Carolina
Lucinda Scoggins F abt 1849 21 South Carolina
Melinda Scoggins F abt 1851 19 South Carolina
Catharine Scoggins F abt 1853 17 South Carolina
29 31 Clementine Morgan F abt 1842 28 South Carolina
Sulenad Morgan F abt 1866 4 Tennessee
James E Morgan M 1 Alabama
Diana Luttrell F 9 Alabama

1880 US Census Jackson, Alabama
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James Sharpton M Married 22 abt 1858 Married GA GA GA
Emma C. Sharpton F Married 38 abt 1842 Married SC SC SC
Salena Morgan F Stepdau 14 abt 1866 Single TN AL SC
Manuel Morgan M Stepson 11 abt 1869 Single AL AL SC

1900 US Census Arkansas Conway Washington Twn June 7, 1900
Head James M Morgan M Dec 1868 31 Married 9yrs TN TN TN
Wife Mary J Morgan F Sept 1874 25 Married 9yrs 3 2 AK TN TN
Dau Odessa Morgan F Sept 1887 12 Single AK TN TN
Dau Ollie P Morgan F July 1892 7 Single AK TN AK
Dau Nellie M Morgan F Sept 1896 3 Single AK TN AK

1910 US Census Oklahoma Creek
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Head James M Morgan M 42 Married AL AL SC
Wife Mary J Morgan M 33 Married AK AL AL
Dau Nellie M Morgan F 13 Single AK AL AK
Son James L Morgan M 5 Single AK AL AK
Mother Emmy C Sharpton F 68 Widowed SC SC SC
Niece Andrew Louisa C Niece W F 18 Single AK AK TN

1920 US Census District 16, Bristow, Creek Co., Oklahoma
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MN1H-CK1
Morgan James head M W 52 M AL AL SC minister
Mary J wife F W 46 M AK AL AL none
Luther son M W 14 S AK AL AL none
Emma C Sharpton mother F W 77 W SC SC SC none
McNew John wifes father M W 74 W AL TN TN none
Anders Lou niece F W 30 S AK AK AL
Dollar John son in law M W 28 M AK US US
Nellie Daughter F W 23 M AK AL AK
Roy son M W 6 S OK AK AK
Milford son M W 3y3m S AK AK AK
Floyd son M W 3m S AK AK AK

1930 US Census Bristow, Creek, Oklahoma
James M Morgan Head M 58 abt 1872 Married AL AL AL
Lillian Morgan Wife F 28 abt 1902 Married AR AR TX
Elfreda V Morgan Dau F 1y2m abt 1929 Single OK AL AR

1940 US Census Bristow, Creek, Oklahoma
James M Morgan Head M 71 abt 1869 Married AL
Lillian Morgan Wife F 38 abt 1902 Married AR
Elfreda V Morgan Dau F 11 abt 1929 Single OK

Arkansas County Marriages, 1837-1957
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Name: James M Morgan
Marriage Event Date: 01 Apr 1891
Event Place: , Conway, Arkansas, United States
Age: 22 Estimated Birth
Year: 1869
Residence: Cleveland, Conway, Arkansas
Spouse: Mary Mcnew
Spouse's Age: 17
Spouse's Estimated Birth Year: 1874
Spouse's Residence: Cleveland, Conway, Arkansas
Marriage License Date: 31 Mar 1891

Arkansas Marriages, 1837-1944
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Groom's Name: James M. Morgan
Groom's Birth Date: 1869
Groom's Age: 22
Bride's Name: Mary Mcnew
Bride's Birth Date: 1874
Bride's Age: 17
Marriage Date: 01 Apr 1891
Marriage Place: Conway,Arkansas
Bride's Father's Name: John Mcnew

Arkansas, County Marriages Index, 1837-1957
Name: James M Morgan
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Birth Year: abt 1869
Residence: Van Buren, Arkansas
Spouse's Name: Nancy A Bradford
Spouse's Gender: Female
Spouse's Age: 20
Spouse's Residence: Van Buren, Arkansas
Marriage Date: 19 Sep 1886
Marriage License Date: 17 Sep 1886
Marriage County: Van Buren
Event Type: Marriage
FHL Film Number: 2131883

Arkansas, County Marriages Index, 1837-1957
Name: J M Morgan
Gender: Male
Age: 58
Birth Year: abt 1869
Residence: Bristow, Creek, Oklahoma
Spouse's Name: Lillian V Mills
Spouse's Gender: Female
Spouse's Age: 25
Spouse's Residence: Cleveland, Conway, Arkansas
Marriage Date: 6 Jun 1927
Marriage License Date: 6 Jun 1927
Marriage County: Conway
Event Type: Marriage
FHL Film Number: 2048100

COPIED FROM THE WILLIAMS/BURKE Family Tree in ANCESTRY.COM
I came across a note I had written many years ago from a publication
my mother had from her mother-in-law, Emma Clementine Scoggins Roberson.
This is taken from the following:
"The Guiding Light of God's Truth Made Plain" by Evangelist J. M. Morgan
(James Manuel Morgan - son of Emma Clementine Scoggins Morgan Sharpton-sister
to Immanuel Lay Scoggins, sometimes called Manuel or Man Scoggins)
Page 14, Chapter 27
MANUEL LAY SCOGGINS
Mrs. Cinthy D. Scoggins, Mother
Stincy Scoggins, his wife
Miss Lindy Scoggins, sister
Mrs. Emma C. Morgan, sister
From Mt. Carmel School, near Dorens Cove near Bridgeport, Alabama
Came to Arkansas in the fall of 1875. M.L. Scoggins was a Union soldier. In 1881
John A. Cargile helped him get his bounty of $1400 and a small pension. M.L.
Scoggins paid the railrood fare for his mother and her family from Alabama to
Arkansas in November 1881. I do not have a copy of the original publication, but
will search for it. Grandma Roberson always said her parents came to Arkansas in
a covered wagon. She said the road was swampy with narrow lanes. She told me
they saw a snake so long it reached all across the roadway. The family came to
Lewisburg, Arkansas and lived there until her father could build a house in northern
Conway County. (I found property in Van Buren County that he had, so they may have
lived there first). While they were at Lewisburg, the oldest daughter, Ellen, died
of some type of disease. She was buried in the cemetery in Lewisburg. I looked for
a gravesite, but there was probably no marker other than a stone to mark her grave.
During the 1840's through the turn of the century, Lewisburg was a thriving town.
When the railroad was built a couple of miles north of Lewisburg, the county seat
was moved to the growing town of Morrilton. Lewisburg still has a few houses, but
when the new bridge across the Arkansas River was built in the 1970's, it is harder
to find the old part of town. Sharon Roberson Hardin, August 2012

James married Mary Jane Mcnew 1 Apr 1891, Conway, Arkansas, United States. Mary (daughter of John Wesley Mcnew and Elizabeth "Lizzie" Isabella McNew) was born 2 Sep 1874, Center Ridge, Conway, Arkansas, United States; died 18 Dec 1926, Bristow, Creek, Oklahoma, United States; was buried 20 Dec 1926, Bristow, Creek County, Oklahoma, United States of America. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Initiatory (LDS): COMPLETED, ARIZO
• Residence: Cleveland, Conway, Arkansas
• _UID: 2E1ABBFA15CA11D782E700047586F39BBA91
• Residence: 1900, Washington, Conway, Arkansas, United States; Marital Status: MarriedRelation to Head: Wife
• Residence: 1910, Bristow Ward 3, Creek, Oklahoma, United States; Marital Status: MarriedRelation to Head of House: Wife
• Residence: 1920, Bristow, Creek, Oklahoma, United States; Relation to Head: WifeResidence Marital Status: Married

Notes:

The place of birth, Gadsden, Etowah, AL. was known as Double
Springs until 1846. Nancy Jane Bradford was the first wife. Mary
Jane was number 2. Lillian Mills was number three. James Manuel
Morgan had twin sons die at birth
Family Bible in possession of Ruth Hood Linder
Death certificate register #181 & #528 Oklahoma
Personal knowledge of Ollie Pearl #1 & #3 Nellie Mae

1880 US Census Lick Mtn twp, Conway, Arkansas
McNew John W M 35 AL TN TN
Isabella W F 32 Wife AL TN TN
James W M 12 Son AK AL AL
Mary W F 6 Dau AK AL AL
Sarah W F 4 Dau AK AL AL
Florence W F 2 Dau AK AL AL

1920 US Census District 16, Bristow, Creek Co., Oklahoma
Morgan James head M W 52 M AL AL SC minister
Mary J wife F W 46 M AK AL AL none
Luther son M W 14 S AK AL AL none
Emma C Sharpton mother F W 77 W SC SC SC none
McNew John wifes father M W 74 W AL TN TN none
?And? Lori? niece F W 30 S AK AK AL
Dollar John son in law M W 28 M AK US US
Nellie Daughter F W 23 M AK AL AK
Roy son M W 6 S OK AK AK
Milford son M W 3y3m S AK AK AK
Floyd son M W 3m S AK AK AK

Arkansas County Marriages, 1837-1957
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NM13-GV4
Name: James M Morgan
Marriage Event Date: 01 Apr 1891
Event Place: , Conway, Arkansas, United States
Age: 22 Estimated Birth
Year: 1869
Residence: Cleveland, Conway, Arkansas
Spouse: Mary Mcnew
Spouse's Age: 17
Spouse's Estimated Birth Year: 1874
Spouse's Residence: Cleveland, Conway, Arkansas
Marriage License Date: 31 Mar 1891

Arkansas Marriages, 1837-1944
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F7SQ-FX1
Groom's Name: James M. Morgan
Groom's Birth Date: 1869
Groom's Age: 22
Bride's Name: Mary Mcnew
Bride's Birth Date: 1874
Bride's Age: 17
Marriage Date: 01 Apr 1891
Marriage Place: Conway,Arkansas
Bride's Father's Name: John Mcnew

Other Events:

• AFN: 1VHS-ZN
• _UID: 2E1ABC0415CA11D782E700047586F39BC521
• Initiatory (LDS): 20 Jul 1956, ARIZO

Notes:

1860 US Census Cross Roads District, Wayne, North Carolina
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Robert B Hood 31 1829 North Carolina
Mary Hood 29 1831 North Carolina
Curtis B Hood 4 1856 North Carolina
Elijah B Hood 2 1858 North Carolina
Tyson J Hood 1 1859 North Carolina
Abner Capps 24 1836 North Carolina

1880 US Census District 317, Dodge, Georgia
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Elijah B HOOD Self M abt 1858 22 Married NC NC NC
Mary V A HOOD Wife F abt 1864 16 Married GA GA GA

1900 US Census Militia Districts 1455-1456, Empire, Mullis,
Dodge, Georgia
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3N6-SJZ
Elijah B Hood Head M Jan 1858 42 Married 20yrs NC NC NC
Mary V Hood Wife F Mar 1861 39 Married 20yrs 11 9 GA GA GA
Mary Hood Dau F Apr 1882 18 Single GA NC GA
Edward Hood Son M Apr 1885 15 Single GA NC GA
Viola Hood Dau F Mar 1886 14 Single GA NC GA
Robert Hood Son M Oct 1887 13 Single GA NC GA
Samuel Hood Son M Apr 1889 11 Single GA NC GA
Abigail Hood Dau F Feb 1891 9 Single GA NC GA
Anna Hood Dau F Jun 1892 8 Single GA NC GA
Dizy Hood Dau F Dec 1895 5 Single GA NC GA
Aline Hood Dau F May 1899 1 Single GA NC GA

1910 US Census Empire, Dodge, Georgia
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Elija B Hood Head M abt 1858 52 Married1 NC NC NC
Victra Hood Wife F abt 1854 56 Married1 11 9 GA GA GA
Viola Hood Dau F abt 1886 24 -- GA NC GA
Samuel Hood Son M abt 1890 20 -- GA NC GA
Abbi Hood Dau F abt 1891 19 -- GA NC GA
Annie Hood Dau F abt 1893 17 -- GA NC GA
Aline Hood Dau F abt 1900 10 -- GA NC GA
Johnson Ferrell Nephew M abt 1905 5 -- GA GA GA

1920 US Census Rockingham, Bacon, Georgia
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E Ballard Hood Head M abt 1858 62 Married GA GA GA
Mary E Johnson Dau F abt 1883 37 Widowed GA GA GA
Ferrell Johnson G-son M abt 1906 14 Single GA GA GA
Ermer Johnson G-dau F abt 1910 10 Single GA GA GA
James Johnson G-son M abt 1913 7 Single GA GA GA

1930 US Census Rockingham, Bacon, Georgia
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:3M1C-NPZ
Elija B Hood Head M abt 1858 72 Married NC NC NC
Mary V Hood Wife F abt 1861 69 Married GA GA GA
Mary E Johnson Dau F abt 1882 48 Widowed GA NC GA
James Johnson G-son M abt 1914 16 Single GA GA GA
Erma Johnson G-dau F abt 1911 19 Single GA GA GA

1940 US Census Rockingham, Militia District 1728, Bacon, Georgia
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Mary E Johnson Head F abt 1883 57 Widowed Georgia
Mildred Johnson Dau F abt 1909 31 Single Georgia
Erma Johnson Dau F abt 1911 29 Single Georgia
Elijah Hood Father M abt 1858 82 Widowed North Carolina

NEED TO VERIFY THESE DATES BY MORE THAN
JUST LETTER TO JODY.
BIRTH 1988 IGI
SAM HOODS NOTES SAY HE DID THE ENDOWMENT FOR
ELIJAH BALLARD HOOD 20 JUL 1956 PROBABLY IN ARIZONA
DESCRIPTION OF ELIJAH BALLARD HOOD AND MARY
VICTORIA ANN LAMB WRITTEN IN 1914 BY THEIR SON SAM
HOOD IS AVAILABLE IN "SAM HOODS LIFE HISTORY AND
FAMILY NOTES" AVAILABLE FROM PATRON. IN THAT
RECORD EBH BIRTH IS GIVEN AS JAN 10 1858 AND MVAL
BIRTH AS 19 MARCH 1861; THEIR MARRIAGE AS 4 MARCH
1880 IN EJB HOME GEORGIA.
Batch #: 6940159, Source Call #: 001881,, 001913
Batch #: 6940437, Source Call #: 001912
Elijah Ballard Hood
Interview 11 July 1963 by Bertha Hood in Ukiah, California.

Description: Tall broad shoulders. Height 6 ft 2 in. Skinny and rawboned.
Very black hair. Black eyes. Sober person. Mothers coloring and his fathers
looks.
Raised in North Carolina until after Civil War. He was in his teens when
they moved to Florida and then to Cochran, Georgia and finially to home his
father bought.
He didn't like school. His father wanted him to to get more education. He
wanted to work. He said, "His freedom as a farmer was more to him than wages
was." He was a very good farmer. Very strict and would let them wear anything
but somber plain clothes. The boys could never wear shirts unbuttoned and if
tore something. They had to go and get patched right then. Hired school
teachers in home until they had free school. Dad (Sam Hood) was around 15
years old when they had school. But his father kept him home to work while
older children went and then they all left and he didn't get much schooling.
But he (Elijah) taught his children to shoot well, because so many
animals wild and tame went "mad". They had to carry a gun everywhere, even
in the field to work for protection against this menace.
He accepted the Elders in his home. There were mostly Christian
Science, Baptist and some Methodist.
They build a public school at Rawley, Ga. (1/2 mile from where they
lived)., then when Elders came they'd hold church one Sunday and then on
the other Sunday Christian Science held church. Elijah didn't join church for
5 or 6 years after elders came. He was a hard shell (or primitive) baptist.
He liked to fish a lot, but not hunting. In the summertime when crops
were laid by they would take several wagons and men and fish and camp
several weeks at a time. Okmilgee river, Logpan Lake, and the mouth of
Limestone creek.
The family big celebration was 4th of July. The community would go
seining for fish and have big fish frys.
We workout for our spending money and dress clothes.
Each Monday morning he laid out certain amount of work for each child
to do during the whole week. If they worked hard and long and got it done by
Wednesday they could go out and work for spending money. They'd help at
odd things around the community.
He was very strict about who his girls went with and how they acted.
He never had a buggy for his family and never let his children use any
animals on Sunday. He said it was against the Lords will to use the animals
on Sunday for pleasure or anything.
He was well read in Bible. Could quote much scripture.
He was a great reader and took lots of magazines, Agricultural Magazine,
Story Magazine (written in Maine (?), Improvement Era, LDS Elders Journal,
called Liahona. They were good readers.
He was well educated. Could have gone on further but didn't want to.
Could read and write a good hand.
(Notes on back or near these sheets, this may go with
Robert Barfield Hood instead of Elijah Ballard Hood)
Nathan married Bloodhurst
Frank Hood, nephew of Robert Barfield and sons had millinery shop in
Ashville N. C.
Sons of E. L. Hood (Great uncle of Sam Hood)
used to go to Paris for fashions.

Elijah married Mary Victoria Ann Lamb 4 Mar 1880, Yonkers, Dodge, GA. Mary (daughter of Floyd Lamb and Robert Ann Rogers) was born 17 Mar 1859, Cochran, Bleckley, Georgia; died 24 Jan 1947, Alma, Bacon, Georgia, United States; was buried 26 Jan 1947, Utah Cemetery, Atkinson, Georgia, United States. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• AFN: 1VHT-VS
• _UID: 2E1ABC0615CA11D782E700047586F39BC73B

Notes:

Mary Victory Lamb Hood
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=32979039
Birth: Mar. 17, 1859, USA
Death: Jan. 24, 1947
Bacon County, Georgia, USA
Family links:
Spouse:
Elijah Ballard Hood (1857 - 1942)
Children:
Edward Walter Hood (1884 - 1962)*
Robert Repard Hood (1887 - 1965)*
Burial:
Little Utah Cemetery
Axson, Atkinson County, Georgia, USA
Created by: Kathy
Record added: Jan 16, 2009
Find A Grave Memorial# 32979039

1870 US Census East of the River, Pulaski, Georgia
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Floyd Lamb M 42 abt 1828 Georgia
Robert A Lamb M 27 abt 1843 Georgia
Emily E E Lamb F 10 abt 1860 Georgia
Victoria Lamb F 9 abt 1861 Georgia
Bethena L Lamb F 5 abt 1865 Georgia
George S Lamb M 4 abt 1866 Georgia
Carrie V Lamb F 1 abt 1869 Georgia
Emily E Rogers F 67 abt 1803 Georgia

1880 US Census District 317, Dodge, Georgia
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8LG-BX2
Elijah B HOOD Self M abt 1858 22 Married NC NC NC
Mary V A HOOD Wife F abt 1864 16 Married GA GA GA

1900 US Census Militia Districts 1455-1456, Empire, Mullis,
Dodge, Georgia
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3N6-SJZ
Elijah B Hood Head M Jan 1858 42 Married 20yrs NC NC NC
Mary V Hood Wife F Mar 1861 39 Married 20yrs 11 9 GA GA GA
Mary Hood Dau F Apr 1882 18 Single GA NC GA
Edward Hood Son M Apr 1885 15 Single GA NC GA
Viola Hood Dau F Mar 1886 14 Single GA NC GA
Robert Hood Son M Oct 1887 13 Single GA NC GA
Samuel Hood Son M Apr 1889 11 Single GA NC GA
Abigail Hood Dau F Feb 1891 9 Single GA NC GA
Anna Hood Dau F Jun 1892 8 Single GA NC GA
Dizy Hood Dau F Dec 1895 5 Single GA NC GA
Aline Hood Dau F May 1899 1 Single GA NC GA

1910 US Census Empire, Dodge, Georgia
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLKJ-7ZJ
Elija B Hood Head M abt 1858 52 Married1 NC NC NC
Victra Hood Wife F abt 1854 56 Married1 11 9 GA GA GA
Viola Hood Dau F abt 1886 24 -- GA NC GA
Samuel Hood Son M abt 1890 20 -- GA NC GA
Abbi Hood Dau F abt 1891 19 -- GA NC GA
Annie Hood Dau F abt 1893 17 -- GA NC GA
Aline Hood Dau F abt 1900 10 -- GA NC GA
Johnson Ferrell Nephew M abt 1905 5 -- GA GA GA

1930 US Census Rockingham, Bacon, Georgia
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:3M1C-NPZ
Elija B Hood Head M abt 1858 72 Married NC NC NC
Mary V Hood Wife F abt 1861 69 Married GA GA GA
Mary E Johnson Dau F abt 1882 48 Widowed GA NC GA
James Johnson G-son M abt 1914 16 Single GA GA GA
Erma Johnson G-dau F abt 1911 19 Single GA GA GA

1940 US Census Axson, Militia District 1353, Atkinson, Georgia
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K72D-M8C
Edward Hood Head M abt 1884 56 Married Georgia
Bessie Hood Wife F abt 1884 56 Married Georgia
Melvin Hood Son M abt 1915 25 Single Georgia
Mary Va Hood Mother F abt 1859 81 Married Georgia

DEATH CERTIFICATE IN POSESSION OF PATRON
Dodge County was created in 1870. She could not possibly have been
born in Dodge County. Within the future boundaries yes.
In Jody(Hood)Jensen's record of Mary, Mary is shown to be born in
Yonkers,Wilkinson,Georgia
In Jody Jensen's record Seal-to-Parents is; Sub 14 apr 1999
By Sam Hood as narrated to Bertha Hood 25 Aug 1963
LOOK:
Auburn hair and grey eyes,Short legged and long bobied. Her husband
was short bodied and long legged.

Never had a chance to go to school. Born just before Civil War and was
when South was building up after war. Could read a little but not write. Her
father arthritis during Civil War and was in Army went down to Darian
(pronounced Dairy - Ann) and worked in salt works during the war. When
Sherman came through they heard him and dynamited the salt works and
escaped in the forest. (Sherman began his march on 15 Nov 1864 and ended
in Savannah, Ga. 21 Dec 1864).

Her home was little out of the way of the Sherman Army didn't get
burned or destroyed.

Her father was quite well to do. The home she was raised in was a well
built log cabin her mother had gotten from the "Morgan Estate" before she
was married.

She had the coldest well in county. Water was so cold they lost several
animals from drinking water right from that well.

This home was in Dodge county one mile north of Younkers.
("Younkers"Same spelling as from original)

Her home she was raised in what farming was done was done by the girls
and her mother Emily Rogers. (Emily Rogers was her grandmother. Her
mother was Robert Ann Rogers (Morgan) Lamb).

When she and Elijah Ballard (Hood) were married they moved to
homestead where Sampson Parker lived in.

Very pleasant disposition and lovely singing voice, Very beautiful when
young, Had the prettiest natural wavy auburn hair. Very high forehead.

She was a Baptist. When she was 17 years old she went to a dance and
the church cut her off because she wouldn't say she was sorry and never
joined another church until L.D.S.

Lots of Christian Science people in neighborhood. Once dad
(Elijah Ballard) was very sick and called members from the church. Brother
John T. Bates and his wife and they for dad and he was healed.

They were the first family to join the church when L.D.S. missionaries
came around. But his father-in-law was really angry about it and one time
was hiding in bushes to kill Elder Green. Said he would shoot a hole so big
a buzzard a buzzard could fly right through him and not get a drop of blood.
But as he was hiding in the bushes a man came along and asked him what he
was doing and he said he was going to kill the Elder (Mormon) for baptizing
his son-in-law (John T. Bates), The man talked him out of it and took him
home.

FIRST L. D. S. MISSIONARIES

Elder Henry Bronson of Fairview, Idaho. Elder R.L. Jensen, Brigham City
Utah, Elder B. F. Stewart; Elder Justin Green and Elder George A. Mathews
of Arizona.

They (Elders Bronson and Jensen) had been three days and nights without
food and were trying to get across the O'Connor and Elder Bronson drowned.

When Elders first came Elijah Barfield (Ballard) Hood was moving a house
(had a house moving party) Elders came and helped. At dinner they refused
coffee and got to talking and passed out literature. Parkers, Hoods, W.E.Hart.
Buckins, Horne the names of first families to join church here.
Hoods liked what missionaries said and were soon baptized.

Other Events:

• _UID: 2E1ABC1215CA11D782E700047586F39BD3D7

Notes:

Eli Franklin Cooper's Bible & Family History Records
in possession of Nellie May Cooper Rogers
748 South Horne St., Mesa, Arizona 85204


1900 US Census Seneca, Lake Co., Florida
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M367-FZP
R W Patterson Head M Nov 1848 52 Married 3yrs GA GA GA
Georgie S Patterson Wife F Dec 1861 39 Married 3yrs 10 7 FL GA GA
Aldon C Patterson Son M Aug 1898 2 Single FL GA FL
Walter A Patterson Son M Nov 1899 6m Single FL GA FL
Guy O Tucker Stepson M Mar 1882 18 Single FL GA FL
Effie E Tucker Stepdau F Apr 1888 12 Single FL GA FL
Eva L Tucker Stepdau F Jul 1890 10 Single FL GA FL
May E Tucker Stapdau F May 1891 8 Single FL GA FL
Joseph R Tucker Stepdau M Jul 1894 6 Single FL GA FL

Next door

1900 US Census Seneca, Lake Co., Florida
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M367-F89
Eli F Cooper Head M Feb 1859 41 Married 8yrs GA AL GA
T E. Cooper Wife F Jul 1873 20 Married 8yrs GA GA AL
James E Cooper Son M Aug 1883 16 Single FL GA GA
Thomas J Cooper Son M Dec 1888 11 Single FL GA GA
Mentie Cooper Dau F Jun 1893 6 Single FL GA GA

Next door

1900 US Census Seneca, Lake Co., Florida
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M367-F8W
Eli Cooper Head M Aug 1826 73 Married 54yrs AL SC SC
Elizabeth Cooper Wife F Jun 1828 71 Married 54yrs GA GA NC
Lowry Frank A Boarder M Apr 1865 35 Single NC NC NC

Read the notes of Telitha Elizabeth Pattison
for some of Eli Franklin's history.

Florida
By Nellie Cooper Rogers
They were said to have arrived in Orange County (now Lake County) in
December about 1860.
When Eli Franklin was a baby his parents moved to Florida to improve
their financial condition. They had heard of the citrus boom in Florida and
had heard much about gathering "gold" from trees. When they reached Florida
their draft animals gave out. They also found to get an orange grove one had
to fill out papers and file them on the land with the government, clear it. When
that was done, they had to then buy young orange trees at a high price, plant
them and then wait several years before they began to yield. They were
discouraged.

My grandmother's (Martha) brothers, Jim and John McEwen had made the
trip to Florida with them, but when they found it wasn't going to be very easy
to get their "gold", they decided to return to where they came from (where that
is, we do not really know). When their draft animals gave out, Eli and Martha
could not go back nor could they go on. So, they took up land and cleared the
land. That means they cut the trees down and they also had to cut and clear the
undergrowth brush so they could build a house and sheds for the animals as
well as to clear enough land to plant crops. Eli quickly built a small cabin of
logs with a clay fireplace on which they cooked.

Frontier Life
By Nellie Cooper Rogers
Like all the other frontier families, they raised their own food. Eli Franklin,
their son, remembers that their food consisted of corn pone made from home
ground corn. Corn pone is kind of like the cornbread we eat now, only it was
made with more coarsely ground corn flour and therefore the bread was heavier.
The family raised their own corn.
They also grew turnips, cabbage, beans, carrots, sweet potatoes, "cow peas"
(black eyed peas), turnips and other vegetables that were the main things they ate.
They also found that the heart of the small palms that grew thick at the edge of the
swamp made a delectable vegetable. It was called wild palm. The tender leaves, or
the center of the palm was a white color. This was gathered and made into a
delicious dish of what they called "Swamp Cabbage". It was fixed as we fix cabbage
now with a nice piece of pork to season it. There also were wild berries from the
woods and swamps that they gathered.
The family often found wild honey in the woods, and they also made molasses
or syrup from the juice of the sugar cane that they raised. For meat, they raised
their own pigs and cows and chickens.
They had whatever wild game the woods provide such as deer and bear and also
wild turkey. Deer and bear could be found almost anywhere and were hunted most
of the year. Hunting was one of the favorite pastimes of the men and everyman had
his hunting hounds.
The land that Eli and Martha lived on in Orange County, Florida was partly
cultivated and part of it was open forest and scrub. Scrub was land upon which grew
an undergrowth sometimes as high as a man's head. It was beautiful country with
forest on every side, with cultivated spots here and there, but most of it was
primitive forest. Eli's property was said to be near a lake, and there are so many
lakes in Orange County, (now named Lake County) it is very probably true.

The Mormon Missionaries
by Ruth Hood Linder
In Florida about 1900 two Mormon missionaries came to the door of Eli and Telitha Cooper's home during a rainstorm. They were soaked to the skin. Grandma had them come in and get by the fire to dry and get warm. They then began to teach her about the gospel. Later Telitha laid a pallet of bedding down on the floor for them to sleep on. A little later grandpa Eli came in from the woods where he had been chasing his cows to make sure they had not wandered off. Grandma Telitha was very excited about the gospel and began to tell him she knew it was true because it was like her mother had always taught her. Grandpa Eli said "Do you know who they are? They are MORMONS!" The Mormons during this time were hated and could even get shot in the south even in Florida. Grandma said, "I don't care who they are, I know what they are saying is true." The missionaries from this time forth began to give lessons to Telitha. Eli was in the room but did not participate. Then Telitha decided she was ready for baptism. She was taken to the river to be baptised but guess what? Eli was the first one into the water to be baptised!

Eli married Martha Annie Telitha Elizabeth "Lizzie" Pattison 14 Sep 1892, Seneca, Lake, FL. Martha (daughter of Robert William "Billie" Pattison and Emmaline Mason Ann Lucindy Waller) was born 7 Jul 1873, Blakley, Early, GA; died 9 Sep 1964, Mesa, Maricopa, Az; was buried 14 Sep 1964, Mesa, Maricopa, Az. [Group Sheet]

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• _UID: 2E1ABC1415CA11D782E700047586F39BD5F1
• Confirmation (LDS): 3 Jun 1900

Notes:

1880 US Census Damascus, Early, Georgia
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M8L5-D9F
Household Gender Age Birthplace
SELF Robert Patterson M 31 1849 Married GA GA GA
WIFE Emiline Patterson F 34 1846 Married AL SC SC
SON William D Patterson M 10 1870 Single GA GA AL
DAU Mary E. Patterson F 8 1872 Single GA GA AL
DAU Martha A. Patterson F 6 1874 Single GA GA AL
DAU Sarah O. Patterson F 4 1876 Single GA GA AL
DAU Clara J. Patterson F 1 1879 Single GA GA AL
Sister-in-Law Mary Merriman F 38 1842 Widow GA SC SC
MOTH Martha Patterson F 70 1810 Widow GA SC SC

1900 US Census Seneca, Lake Co., Florida
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M367-FZP
HeritageQuest Series: T623 Roll: 172 Page: 228
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Head R W Patterson M Nov 1848 52 Married 3yrs GA GA GA
Wife Georgie S Patterson F Dec 1861 39 Married 3yrs 10 7 FL GA GA
Son Aldon C Patterson M Aug 1898 2 Single FL GA FL
Son Walter A Patterson M Nov 1899 6m Single FL GA FL
Stepson Guy O Tucker M March 1882 18 Single FL GA FL
Stepdaughter Effie E Tucker F April 1888 12 Single FL GA FL
Stepdaughter Eva L Tucker F July 1890 10 Single FL GA FL
Stepdaughter May E Tucker F May 1891 8 Single FL GA FL
Stepson Joseph R Tucker M July 1894 6 Single FL GA FL
Next door
1900 US Census Seneca, Lake Co., Florida
Cooper Eli F. Head M Feb 1859 41 Married 8yrs GA AL GA
T. E. Wife F Jul 1873 20 Married 8yrs GA GA AL
James E. Son M Aug 1883 16 Single FL GA GA
Thomas J. Son M Dec 1888 11 Single FL GA GA
Mentie E. Dau F Jun 1893 6 Single FL GA GA
Next door
1900 US Census Seneca, Lake Co., Florida
Cooper Eli Head M Aug 1826 73 Married 54yrs AL SC SC
Elizabeth Wife F Jun 1828 71 Married 54yrs GA GA NC
Lowry Frank A. Boarder M Apr 1865 35 Single NC NC ?C


From
"Marriage Work and Family"
The children born to Robert and Emmaline were:

Burton John 16 Oct 1868 Blakley, Early, Ga.
Dennis William 22 Dec 1869 Blakley, Early, Ga.
Mary Emmaline 28 Jan 1871 Blakley, Early, Ga.
Telitha Elizabeth 7 July 1873 Blakley, Early, Ga.
Charles 1 Feb 1875 Blakley, Early, Ga.
Sarah Olivia 3 Apr 1876 Blakley, Early, Ga.
Clara Jane 20 Nov 1878 Damascus, Early, Ga.
Catherine Melinda 12 Jan 1881 Damascus, Early, Ga.

Burton John died on the day of his birth 16 Oct 1868
Charles died 15 days after his birth on 15 Feb 1875

In Harmony with southern tradition, children were given several names
and nicknames. The Pattison family was no exception. Below is a listing
of the family members and the various names that they were know by:

Robert William was called Billie by his wife.
Emmaline full given name was Ethel Rilla Luranie Rendy Emmaline
Mason Ann Lucindy.
Mary Emmaline was also known as Mary Emmie or Mamie.
Telitha's given name was Martha Annie Telitha Elizabeth. She was
also know as Lizzie
Charles was called Charlie.
Sarah Olivia was known as Sallie Olivia, Ollie, and Libbie
Catherine Melinda was known as Kittie Melinda and Kate.

From "My Cooper Legacy" compiled by Nellie N. Olsen Ostler.
Papa was caring for a cow of a friend. Suddenly the cow disappeared.
After spending quite a time hunting it, he started home. He passed one
man's house and saw that he was butchering an animal, so he went over to
where he was. There he saw the hide of his friend's cow. This was definately
the cow he was hunting.
These men were bold. Why should they be afraid? No one could do
anything to them.
Well Papa swore out a warrent for their arrest. Jim Drawdy, the leader, and
his followers swore they would kill grandpa. "Jim Drawdy, the leader of the
gang called Lizzie "The Little Devil". He called her that because she was an
accurate "shot" with any gun in her hands. And she was fast and very savvy.
Drawdy said that if it wasn't for the "Little Devil", they could get Eli. Night
after night Lizzie would stand guard with her gun, while Eli got his much
needed rest. Day after day Lizzie would follow Eli at a distance while he
worked in the crop fields so that no one could slip on him unexpectedly. She
was always carrying a gun while riding horseback with her baby (Mentie)in
front of her on the saddle.
Momma carried a gun for 15 years to protect her husband.
Eli heard that Arizona was good cattle country, especially in the Pine-Payson
area. Further investigation found that a cattle war was in progress. The Florida
fued was still fresh in Eli's mind and he decided against ranching and cattle. He
had been a good farmer in Florida and decided to be a farmer in Arizona.
When Telitha was born, she was given the full name of Martha Anna Telitha
Elizabeth Pattison. Telitha is pronounced "tell-eye-tha".
She is listed as Martha A. Patterson on the census records taken when she
was a child.

Story told by Ruth Hood Linder
In Florida about 1900 two Mormon missionaries came to the door of Eli and Telitha
Coopers home during a rainstorm. They were soaked to the skin. Grandma had them come
in and get by the fire to dry and get warm. They them began to teach her about the
gospel. Later Telitha laid a pallet of bedding down on the floor for them to sleep on.
A little later grandpa Eli came in from the woods where he had been chasing his cows
to make sure they had not wandered off. Grandma Telitha was very excited about the
gospel and began to tell him she knew it was true because it was like her mother had
always taught her. Grandpa Eli said "Do you know who they are? They are MORMONS!" The
Mormons during this time were hated and could even get shot in the south even in Florida.
Grandma said, "I don't care who they are, I know what they are saying is true." The
missionaries from this time forth began to give lessons to Telitha. Eli was in the room
but did not participate. Then Telitha decided to get baptised. She was taken to the river
to be baptised and guess what? Eli was the first one into the water to be baptised!