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GEORGE Cheuvront, (s/o Gideon Cheuvront and Phoebe
Post), the third son of Gideon Cheuvront and Phoebe Post was born Lewis
County, West Virginia, Jul. 30, 1833, d. Aug 30, 1882, Sullivan Co., MO.
In the spring of 1856, he and his brother Martin traveled to Missouri by
covered wagon (Gwen Cooney, granddaughter of Mary Alda (Cheuvront) Lorentz,
tells of listening to stories of how George Cheuvront and others came to
MO from VA in 5 covered wagons). George married Sept. 23, 1856, Sullivan
Co., MO, Phoebe Matilda Wolf (daughter of Andrew F. Wolf, & Lydia
Smith Wolfe) b. Apr 23, 1833, Lewis Co., WVA, d. Oct 8, 1879, Sullivan
Co., MO, and settled near Milan, Sullivan County, Missouri.
In later years, after the death of Pheobe and George, their 2 youngest
daughters, Alda 13, and Clara 9, were sent to brother Martin in Shelby
County to make their home.
Andrew F. Wolf, the father of Phoebe, and his family had migrated from
West Virginia earlier and Phoebe often told how she had been frightened
on the trip by every clump of bushes thinking an Indian was lurking behind
it. The roads and trails were primitive and rough and the hardships
were many.
There is no record of the exact year the Wolf family first arrived in Missouri.
There is, however, a land grant dated Oct. 10, 1856, signed by Franklin
Pierce, President of the United States, covering 40 acres — the NE 1/4
of the SE 1/4 of Sec. 9, Township 63, Range 21 in the District of Lands,
Milan, Missouri — among the family papers. This land was registered
in Milan, Missouri, Certificate of Registration No. 8540 and shows that
he was there on that date. (The signature of Franklin Pierce appears
to be genuine.)
George and Phoebe settled on a farm in the northwestern part of Sullivan
County, approximately nine miles southeast of the present village of Harris
and one mile southeast of the Asbury Church. Andrew F. Wolf's farm
was located on West Locust Creek two miles east and one mile south of the
old Griffith School. This was one mile north of George's farm.
It was the old Wolf farm that Melburn and Olive Edmonds
Cookman, Arminta and Clara Cookman's parents,
purchased and lived on where he moved his family to Missouri from West
Virginia in 1887. (Arminta later married George's
son John, and Clara married his son Luther).
Early day farming among the stumps of the Missouri prairie was not easy.
Oxen were used to pull the "stump" and "brush" plows breaking up the soil
between stumps and clumps of tough hazel brush. Usually there was
no room to work a disc or other machine to further break up the soil, so
a man with a planter, or just a hoe and a sack of seed, would follow and
plant the hills of corn. Weeding was done by hand and most corn was
cut, shocked, and husked from the shock. Nearly all farm work was
done with one and two horse implements or by hand — and it was hard.
In the early days, this area was so remote from markets, that the few farmers
would band together and drive their hogs and cattle to market at Quincy,
Illinois, on the Mississippi River, about 100 miles distant. Considering
the lack of roads and bridges, this must have been quite a trip.
Some marketing was done at Brunswick on the Missouri River only 60 miles
away.
George's first purchase of land as shown by deeds found among the family
papers was in 1859. The first dated Feb. 12, 1859, is for 40 acres
described as SW 1/4 of SE 1/4 of Sec. 15, Township 63, Range 21, Sullivan
County, Missouri. For this 40 acres, he paid $100.00. The deed
is signed by James Ross and (X) Nancy Ross. The next deed of purchase
is dated April 9, 1859, for another 40 acres described as SE 1/4 of NE
1/4, Sec. 21, Township 63, Range 21, Sullivan County, Missouri — which
cost him $120. This deed was signed by (X) Joseph Smiley and (X)
Tarthenar Smiley.
One of George's land purchases, filed for record on the 10th day of March,
1869, and recorded in Book A, United States Patents, pages 192 and 193,
by George W.A. Preston, Clerk, County of Sullivan, Missouri, is unique.
It covers an 80 acre land grant by the General Land Office, Warrant No.
21,344 to Perkin Thompson, Private, Captain Green's Company, North Carolina
Militia, War of 1812.
This grant covers the NW 1/4, SE 1/4, and N ½ of lot number 1, of
the SW 1/4 of Section 7 in Township 63, of Range 21, in the District of
Lands formerly subject to sale at Milan, new Booneville, Missouri, and
is dated Sept. 10, 1859. It is signed by James Buchanan, President
of the United States, and appears to be a genuine signature. It carries
an assignment to Dwight Durkee and a later abstract shows ownership by
J. Boner, from whom George purchased it and recorded his purchase on the
date above, March 10, 1869.
Other deeds show other land purchases right up to the year of his death
in 1882, as he increased his holdings to 640 acres. All of his land
was purchased at prices from $2.50 to $5.00 per acre as shown on the deeds
of purchase.
One very interesting paper is a mortgage note dated Jul y 5, 1865, showing
that George and his wife Phoebe borrowed $100 at 10% interest payable in
12 months, and gave as security 160 acres of land — SE 1/4, Sec. 16, Township
63, Range 21, Sullivan Co., Missouri. Also, there are two co-signers
— A. F. Wolf, his father-in-law, and Saul Reger, Jr., future father-in-law
to Della Cookman, sister of Arminta
and Clara Cookman. Money must have been "tight" in 1865 — at
least in Missouri. (It is interesting to note that Phoebe signed
this mortgage with an (X).
George also worked as a carpenter and built many of the pioneer homes in
that section. He built many of the early day one room schools in
Sullivan County and it is said that for each school house built, he bought
another 40 acres of land with his earnings.
Pheobe Matilda Wolf Cheuvront, his wife, was born April 23, 1833, and died
on Oct. 8, 1879. George Cheuvront died at the original homestead
on Aug. 30, 1882, and he and Phoebe are buried in the Thomas Union Cemetery
approximately six miles west of Milan, Missouri. They raised a large family
of six sons and two daughters, of whom the following six lived to maturity;
Andrew Martin, John Oliver, David Enoch, Mary
Alda, Luther, and Clara Theodosia.
In preparation for the care of their first-born (1857?), George cut one
of the many fine walnut trees on his homestead and had it sawed into lumber
for a cradle. As their infant son died, he used the lumber instead
in the construction of a corner cupboard. This cupboard is a beautiful
piece of work and, considering that it was constructed entirely with rather
crude hand tools, proves that George was a true craftsman. It is
still in the family and considered a prized possession. In 1948,
Luther Cheuvront (then age 78) saw the old cupboard
and asked if his initials were still visible where had had carved them
in the drawer edge when he was a youngster. He was elated to find
them still there and told how he had seen the drawer half full of gold
and silver coins accumulated from the sale of hogs and cattle only to have
them all go for payment of a note his dad George had co-signed for a relative.
With the coins when his hopes for a new pair of boots he had been promised
for helping care for the livestock sold.
children:
Andrew "Martin" Cheuvront
(s/o George Cheuvront and Phoebe Matilda Wolfe), born Jan. 3, 1859
— died Sept. 1888. Andrew Martin was born on the old homestead, Sullivan
Co., MO on Jan. 3, 1859. He married Oct. 29, 1884, Sullivan Co.,
MO, Elizabeth Ella Cochran, born 1862 and died 1897. They had three
children — Effie, Esther and George. Andrew Martin contracted tuberculosis
early in life and went west to Garden City, Kansas, by covered wagon seeking
to improve his health. He came back to Missouri and died at the home
of Melburn Cookman — his Grandmother Wolf's old home — in Sept. 1888.
Esther and George died in infancy. Effie married Earl Stamp and moved
to Kansas City, Missouri, where she died about 1918. She had one
child, a son, Gerald, who is now (1970) living somewhere in the Western
part of the United States. See also: Luther Clyde Cheuvront below.
Children:
Effie Cheuvront (d/o Andrew Martin Cheuvront and Elizabeth Ella Cochran),
b. c1884, m. Earl Stamp.
Esther Cheuvront (d/o Andrew Martin Cheuvront and Elizabeth Ella Cochran)
George Martin Cheuvront (s/o Andrew Martin Cheuvront and Elizabeth Ella
Cochran)
Infant Son (s/o George Cheuvront and
Phoebe Matilda Wolfe), born Oct 21, 1861 — died Oct 21, 1861
John Oliver Cheuvront
(s/o George Cheuvront and Phoebe Matilda Wolfe), born Aug. 13, 1863 — died
Feb. 12, 1914. John Oliver was born at the old homestead Aug. 13,
1863. He was married to Arminta Cookman
(daughter of Melburn Cookman and Olive Edmonds)
born Jan 12, 1867, Harrison County, West Virginia, on Oct. 18, 1888, Sullivan
Co., MO. It is interesting to note that the families of both John
Cheuvront and Arminta Cookman were raised on Jesse's Run, near Jane Lew,
West Virginia, but John and Arminta never knew each other there.
George Cheuvront left West Virginia by covered wagon in 1856, 11
years before Arminta was born, and the Cookman family left there by train
for Missouri in 1887. John Oliver was a farmer and stock buyer and
lived on a farm five miles southeast of Harris, Missouri, from 1890 until
his death in 1914. He developed his 320 acre farm from the raw prairie
land. Part of it was heavy timber which he and hired hands cut, rolled
the logs into huge piles, and burned. By farming between them, the
stumps and clumps of bush eventually rotted and were hauled to leave the
fields clear.
The life of a stock buyer in the early 1900's was pretty rugged and involved
riding horseback far and wide over the countryside buying, collecting,
herding, and selling cattle. Many trips necessitated a week or more
by horseback, staying and eating with farmers here and there wherever accommodations
could be found. It is said that he knew Jesse and Frank James and
some of their gang, and twice met them on the roads of Sullivan County,
Missouri.
John Oliver was a highly respected member of the community whose word was
considered good as a bond. The story is told that he once bought
a farm on a verbal agreement to pay a certain amount six months later.
No further contract was made, or seemingly expected, and on the appointed
date — six months to the day later — he showed up with the agreed amount
and the sale was consummated.
Early in life he contracted the dreaded disease tuberculosis, which was
prevalent in the family — probably induced by the damp "creek bottom" location
of the old homestead. As a result, his health was never good and
worsened when he was injured while working his horses on the road bed of
the new Milwaukee Railroad when it was laid through the western part of
Sullivan County. Unable to do hard work after this, he turned to
cattle buying and large scale farming where he did mostly supervising and
traveling, leaving the harder work to others. His death was caused
by TB.
His wife, Arminta Cookman, was born on a farm
on Jessee's Run near Jane Lew, West Virginia, on Jan. 12, 1867. She
moved to Missouri with her family in October 1887, and died on the home
place on March 21, 1943. John Oliver and his wife Arminta are both
buried in the Asbury Cemetery approximately 8 miles southeast of Harris,
Missouri.
photos of the family of John O. Cheuvront on
photos page 1, 7, and 13
Following is the old Bible record of John O. and
Arminta Cheuvront:
Husband: John Oliver Cheuvront, born August 13, 1863.
Wife: Arminta Cookman Cheuvront, born Jan. 12,
1867.
Married: October 18, 1888
Children's
Names
Infant: born Jan. 12, 1890
Donna Olive Cheuvront: born July 14, 1892
Eva Cheuvront: born Jan. 1, 1893
Ora Maude Cheuvront: born May 6, 1895
Clara Lillian Cheuvront: born May 17, 1898
Mildred Edith Cheuvront: born April 17, 1901
Helen Cheuvront: born June 22, 1904
John Howard Cheuvront: born Sept 30, 1906
Paul Gerald Cheuvront: born Sept. 15, 1911.
Marriages
Donna: August 30, 1915 Mildred: July 25, 1920 Paul: Nov. 14,
1934
Evah: April 7, 1915 Howard: July 23, 1927
Deaths
John Oliver Cheuvront: died Feb. 12, 1914.
Arminta Cookman Cheuvront: died Mar. 21, 1943.
Infant daughter: Jan. 12, 1890
Ora Maud Cheuvront: died Feb. 22, 1897
Clara Lillian Cheuvront: died Sept. 27, 1904
Helen Cheuvront: died Aug. 19, 1905
Paul Gerald Cheuvront: died July 29, 1962.
Infant Daughter (d/o John Oliver Cheuvront and Arminta Cookman),
born Jan. 12, 1890 — died Jan. 12, 1890.
Donna Olive Cheuvront, (d/o John Oliver Cheuvront
and Arminta Cookman), born July 14, 1891. Married Aug. 30, 1915,
Clyde E. Fairley, a farmer. They lived on a beautiful farm in Sullivan
County, Missouri, three miles southeast of Harris. Clyde was a good
farmer and his farm was exceptionally well kept, clean, and productive.
He farmed all his life with horse-drawn equipment and never owned a tractor.
When Clyde and Donna retired and moved to Harris in 1956, it truly represented
the end of an era — the era of the good life of the small family operated
"horse powered" farm with its relaxed unhurried way of life that was so
rich in so many ways that its shortcomings have all but been forgotten.
Donna is (1970) a well-known weaver and quilter throughout Missouri.
Three daughters were born to Donna and Clyde Fairley. Clyde E. Farley
died at the home on Aug. 9, 1960. He is buried in the Harris Cemetery.
Children:
Clydella Letetia Fairley (d/o Donna Olive Cheuvront and Clyde E. Fairley),
born Sept 17, 1916. Married Jul. 4, 1942, Lee Sandefur, born Aug.
13, 1912. They have two children; Delbert, born Sept 13, 1946, who
lives and works in Topeka, Kansas and Linda, born April 15, 1953, living
in Harris, Missouri. Children: Cydella Letetia Fairley, b. Sept 17,
1916, Harris, Sullivan Co., MO, m. Lee Sandefur.
Gail Arminta Fairley (d/o Donna Olive Cheuvront and Clyde E. Fairley),
born July 3, 1918, married Jul. 25, 1938, Harry Eugene Williams, born Jan.
20, 1918. They developed the Luch Acres dairy farm four miles west of Harris
where they lived until Harry's death on April 7, 1967, Gail continued to
live on the farm and operate the dairy, with son Roger's help, until it
sold in 1970. Then she moved to a new home in Trenton, Missouri.
They had two children; Harriet Gail Williams, born May 31, 1939, married
Sept. 2, 1962, Olin Dean Robertson and Roger Clark, born Mar 6, 1941, married
Gerda Jessica Kalt in Spittal, Austria and are now living in Trenton, Missouri.
Mary Helen Fairley (d/o Donna Olive Cheuvront and Clyde E. Fairley),
born Aug. 12, 1920, married Jun. 15, 1941, Alford Scott Diggs, born Aug.
11, 1913. No children. |
Evah Cheuvront (d/o John Oliver Cheuvront and Arminta Cookman), born Jan.
1, 1893, married April 7, 1915, Ray E. Watson. They lived on a farm
5 miles southeast of Harris, Missouri, until 1925. In that year they
moved to Bingham Canyon, Utah, where Ray worked for the old Utah Copper
Co., in their great open pit mine. For many years, he worked as a
driller and later ran the drill rigs that brought up the test cores in
the largest open pit mine in the world.
Ora Maude Cheuvront (d/o John Oliver Cheuvront and Arminta Cookman), born
April 6, 1895 — died Feb. 22, 1897.
Clara Lillian Cheuvront (d/o John Oliver Cheuvront and Arminta Cookman),
born May 17, 1898 — died Sept. 27, 1904.
Mildred Edith Cheuvront (d/o John Oliver Cheuvront and Arminta Cookman),
born April 17, 1901, married Jul. 25, 1920, Raleigh M. Scott. They
lived for many years on their farm approximately 10 miles from Milan, Missouri.
With their son and grandsons they built up the home farm to several thousand
acres. They have one son: Hubert Tilson Scott, b. Apr. 19, 1921,
m. Garnet Theo Carver.
Helen Cheuvront (d/o John Oliver Cheuvront and Arminta Cookman), born June
22, 1904 — died Aug. 19, 1905.
John Howard Cheuvront (s/o John Oliver Cheuvront and Arminta Cookman) born
1906 near Harris, Missouri , married 1927, Hildred Pauline Michael born
1905. They moved to Arizona in 1938. Howard and Hildred have
two children:
Shirley Ruth Cheuvront (d/o John Howard and Hildred Michael Cheuvront)
born 1930, Missouri, married Robert Elis Ericson. They have three
children; Robert Tod Ericson, Christine Alison Ericson, {b aft. 1950},
and Leslie Sue Ericson, {b aft. 1950}.
Ronald Howard Cheuvront (s/o John Howard and Hildred Michael Cheuvront)
born 1936, Missouri, married Sue Carole Irvine, born 1938. They have
three daughters; Carole Sue Cheuvront, Connie Lyn Cheuvront, and Sharon
Kay Cheuvront, all {b aft. 1950}.
Paul Gerald Cheuvront (s/o John Oliver Cheuvront and Arminta Cookman),
born 1911 — died 1962. Married 1934, Dorothy Mae Stroud, born
1911. They lived on the home farm near Harris, Missouri with his
mother until her death in 1943, moving to Phoenix, Arizona afterward.
They had two sons:
Jerry Frederick Cheuvront (s/o Paul Gerald Cheuvront and Dorothy Mae Stroud),
born 1935, married Lois jean Christensen. They have two children;
Deborah Ann Cheuvront and Kenneth David Cheuvront, both {b aft. 1950}.
Steven Paul Cheuvront (s/o Paul Gerald Cheuvront and Dorothy Mae Stroud),
born 1948.
see also: Cookman p.5
Cookman p.4
David Enoch Cheuvront (s/o George Cheuvront and Phoebe
Matilda Wolfe), born Sept. 25, 1865, died April 1926. He left
Missouri in his early days and entered the mining industry in the western
part of the United States. Later he returned to Missouri and entered
the real estate business in Shadwick in the Ozarks region. He moved
from there to Heflin, Alabama, where he was also engaged in the real estate
business and where he died. He married Enoree Sutton in 1909.
They had no children. About 1915 they adopted Eileene.
Mary Alda Cheuvront
(d/o George Cheuvront and Phoebe Matilda Wolfe), born Feb. 26, 1869, Sullivan
Co., MO, died Apr, 26, 1936, Muskogee, OK. Mary Alda was only
13 years of age and her sister Clara Theodosia 10 years of age at the time
of her father George's death. Since George's wife Phoebe had preceded
him in death by three years, there was no one in the family to care for
the two young girls. Consequently, they were sent to their uncle
Martin Cheuvront's home in Shelby County, Missouri. Mary Alda married
1886 , Shelby Co., MO, Thomas Seymour Floureny Lorentz
(s/o Alexander Lorentz b. Fauquier Co., VA 1816 and Elizabeth Parr,
d/o William, b. Sept. 27, 1823) b. May 15, 1855, Harrison Co., WVA.
Tthey lived on a farm 1 1/4 miles east of Leonard, Shelby County, Missouri,
until 1926 when they moved to Muskogee, Oklahoma. Flournoy Lorentz
died 1936. Alda lived on in Muskogee with
her son's family until her death in 1941. The following are the children
of Mary Alda Cheuvront and Flourney Lorentz:
Clyde Lorentz (s/o Mary Alda Cheuvront and Thomas
Seymour Flourney Lorentz), born Mar. 1892, died 1932. Married
1913, Annie Ora Doll Upton (7th child of Charles T. Upton and Lucy Ellen
Gaines), born Dec. 23, 1896, and lived with his parents on the home farm
until 1926, where he was engaged in the purebred hog business. He
moved to Muskogee, Oklahoma with his parents in 1926. From there
he moved to Oakland, California where he died in 1932. His wife and
children lived with his mother and brother until his mother's death in
1941. Clyde and Doll had six children; Vivian born 1914, MO;
Gwendolyn, born 1916, MO.; Helen, born 1919, MO; Harold, born 1921, MO;
Lynn, born Sept. 14, 1924, MO.; Vernon, born 1927, OK. Children:
Vivian Lorentz (d/o Clyde Lorentz and Annie Ora Doll Upton), b. 1914, Leonard,
MO, d. 1980., m. 1st, 1932, Harry Knight, m. 2nd, 1960, Joseph Rice.
Gwendolyn Regenia Lorentz (d/o Clyde Lorentz and Annie Ora Doll Upton),
b. 1916, Leonard, MO, m. 1st, William L. Appleby, m. 2nd, Walter M. Cooney.
Helen Upton Lorentz (d/o Clyde Lorentz and Annie Ora Doll Upton), b. 1919,
Leonard, MO, m. Denver Q. McKee.
Harold Clifton Lorentz (s/o Clyde Lorentz and Annie Ora Doll Upton), b.
1921, Leonard, MO, m. 1st, Jane L. ____, m. 2nd Lorene Keen.
Lynn Lorentz (s/o Clyde Lorentz and Annie Ora Doll Upton), b. 1924, Leonard,
MO, m. 1979, Dana Calfee, b. 1924, Carbon Glow, KY.
Merle Lorentz - born 1900, died 1969/70. Merle lived with his parents
on the home farm near Leonard, Missouri, until 1926, when he moved with
them to Muskogee, Oklahoma. He worked in construction in the Muskogee
area until 1949 when he moved to Houston, Texas, and later to Golden Acres,
Texas. |
Luther Clyde Cheuvront (s/o
George Cheuvront and Phoebe Matilda Wolfe), born Sept. 8, 1870, died May
26, 1963, married Jan. 27, 1893, Clara Cookman
(daughter of Melburn Cookman and Olive Edmonds),
born Feb. 13, 1871, West Virginia, and died Sept. 19, 1968, Roosevelt,
Oklahoma. Luther was only 9 years old when his mother died, and not
yet 12 years old when his father died. He lived with his older brothers
on the old homestead until the death of his brother Martin
in 1888. During these years he did spend two years with his sister
Alda in Shelby County, Missouri, so that he could attend school.
After Martin's death, Luther and his brother David
Enoch ran a drug store for awhile in LaPlata, Missouri. After
this try at business Enoch went to the northwest in pursuit of various
mining ventures and Luther traveled for an oil company for five years while
his wife Clara made her home with her sister Arminta.
After the stint with the oil company Luther decided to move west and participated
in the Oklahoma Land rush when the Indian territory was opened for settlement.
An interesting story was related by Gwendolyn, granddaughter of Mary Alda,
that when Luther decided he wanted to move west and participate in the
land rush, he didn't have the money, so Mary Alda and Flourney Lorentz
gave him the money to get his start. He failed to draw a claim
but bought one four miles west and 1 ½ miles south of where the
town of Roosevelt, Oklahoma was later laid out and named after President
Theodore Roosevelt. Luther used to tell the story about a visit to
the town by President Roosevelt when he was entertained by one of the citizens.
This man rode down a coyote, while they were riding together, reaching
down from the saddle and killing it with his bare hands — much to the surprise
of the President. [much
more about Roosevelt, OK here]
Luther first lived on his claim in a tent where, due to poor water and
lack of sanitary facilities,
he contracted typhoid fever, the dreaded disease that had killed his father,
his brother Martin, and later his brother John,
who came from Missouri to nurse him back to health. Luther's illness
was so bad that in 1912 he was told by his doctor that he had only six
months to live. He took a trip to Colorado Springs, Colorado, for
the summer and returned many summers after gradually building his health
back to normal through work and exercise in the high altitude climate of
the mountains.
Luther opened a drug store, a bank, and an insurance agency in the town
of Roosevelt. He was game warden for the state of Oklahoma during
the years 1925 through 1929. In the first term of President Franklin
D. Roosevelt, he was appointed a member of a special committee sent to
the Pribilof Islands to make a special wild life study for the Federal
Government. He later met with President Roosevelt's party on a fact-finding
trip through the Northwest.
Needless to say, he outlived the doctor by many years and died in Roosevelt
at the ripe old age of 93. He was a 32 Degree Mason.
Luther Clyde Cheuvront and Clara Cookman had
one son:
Luther Clifton Cheuvront (s/o Luther Clyde and Clara Cookman Cheuvront)
born 1907, Roosevelt, OK - died 1988, Roosevelt, Kiowa Co., OK. Married
Dorothy Faye Stewart (daughter of Alva T. Stewart and Bell Barnes), born
1907, Altus, Oklahoma, died 1962, Roosevelt, OK. They had one
daughter:
Dorothy Ann Cheuvront (d/o Luther Clifton and Dorothy Faye Stewart) born
1939, married Laird K. Sipe (son of Laurence K. Sipe and Venetta Yingling),
born 1939. They had two daughters; Lori Dee, and Lyne Dae.
Clara Theodosia Cheurvont (d/o George Cheuvront
and Phoebe Matilda Wolfe), born Aug. 8, 1873 — died 1959. Married
April 2, 1891, Robert Jackson King, born Jan. 2, 1870, Yarrow, MO,
died Nov. 16, 1949. They lived for many years in Leonard, Shelby County,
Missouri, where Mr. King was a carpenter, bricklayer, and farmer.
In 1928, they moved to Kirksville, Missouri, and in 1930, to a farm near
Yarro, Missouri. After Mr. King's death, Clara made her home with
her daughter Cozette until her death. They had three daughters: Harka
Lana, Helen Regenia ("Cozette") and Ruth Bernice. Children:
Harka Lana King (d/o Clara theodosia Cheuvront and Robert Jackson King),
born March 28, 1892, died Nov. 16, 1918. Married Charles Hugh Upton
May 2, 1910. They had two sons; Charles King Upton, born Mar. 11,
1911, died Dec. 13, 1930. Hugh Dean Upton, born Mar. 1, 1913.
Dean now works for Texas Empire Pipeline Oil Co., and lives in Cushing,
Oklahoma.
Helen Regenia Cozette King (d/o Clara Theodosia Cheuvront and Robert Jackson
King) born 1906, married 1936, Herbert L. Baker. Mr. Barker was an
electrician and Cozette operated a Rest home for the Aged in Palmyra MO.
Ruth Bernice King (d/o Clara theodosia Cheuvront and Robert Jackson King)
born Sept. 8, 1909, married Jun. 15, 1936, Carl L. McVay. Ruth and
her husband live on a potato ranch near Merrill, Oregon. They have
three sons; Ronald Carl McVay, b. Sept. 2, 1938, Jimmy Dean McVay, b. Oct.
14, 1940, David Jackson, b. Dec. 24, 1942.
descendants
of Gideon and Phoebe Post Cheuvront, p. 1
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