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This came from another list and I thought it was interesting. Jack Childers
in OKC
THE SMOCK WEDDING
“One of the more unusual customs that came to America was the
SMOCK WEDDING. Under English common law if a widow remarried
and brought any of her late husband’s property to the marriage, the new
husband became liable for any and all the debts of the previous husband.
Women owned nothing in their own right, and this included their clothing.
So it became the custom for indebted widows to get married in their
underwear, or smocks.”
“The SMOCK WEDDING was tripple-fold. It was a bankruptcy proceeding;
it was a marriage ceremony; it was an investiture because the bride then got
a new wardrobe from her new husband”.
“In theory the ceremony was held for all to see, on a public highway. But in
practice many smock weddings were indoors.”
“When Major Moses JOY married Widow Hannah WARD of Newfame,
Vermont, in 1789, she was stark naked. She was in a closet, her hand extended
through a hole cut in the door. Then she put on a fine set of clothes and
emerged from her closet in style, to the general admiration of the assembled”
Source:
Ancestors and Descendants of LEWIS ROSS FREEMAN with related families
By Patty Barthell Myers Penobscot Press 1995. Page 626
Searching for Childers of Kansas.
Elvira (Vera) A. Childers b. 1858 Illinois d. 1946 Pratt, KS, m. James H. Frost b. 1855 Ohio d. 1934 Pratt, KS.
one son, Earl O. Frost b. 1889 m. Eva E. Lennert Pratt, KS
Walter A. Childers m. 1883 Eldorado, Butler, KS Rosetta Jane Frost b. 1859 Ohio d. 1950 Pratt, KS.
Jane Frost
jfrost(a)netconnectmo.com
Subj: [TXBOWIE] ORIGINAL MARRIAGE CERTIFICATES
Date: 03/13/2000 7:35:03 AM Central Standard Time
From: Hstryhntr2(a)aol.com
To: TXBOWIE-L(a)rootsweb.com
Hello List Members,
Texarkana USA Genealogical Society has in its possession more than 9,000
Original Marriage Certificates for marriages in Bowie County, TX and 2,000 +
Originals for Miller County, AR. The majority of them are from about 1889 to
1935. A few older, some more recent. The Miller County are indexed by both
Groom and Bride. The Bowie County are indexed by Groom only. Currently,
we are working to index these by Bride as well but it will take a while
longer.
They can be obtained for the low cost of $2.50, a SASE and a short lineage
chart showing your relationship to the individuals. If you had relatives who
married in either of these counties in this time frame, I will be happy to
check
for availability of their certificates. If we have them, you will be
notified on
where to send your information so that it will reach the proper person. Will
also notify you if they are not available.
We would love to get all of these Certificates placed in the hands of family
members as they would be a great addition to your family records. Please
feel free to forward this mail to any list to which you subscribe.
Thanks,
Doris Lindblad
Hstryhntr2(a)aol.com
from History of Labette County, Kansas and its Representative Citizens, ed. &
comp. by Hon. Nelson Case. Pub. by Biographical Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill.
1901
"We crossed the Neosho River at Rocky Ford on the State line on the evening
of April 17, 1857; there we camped near the residence of James Childers, who
was a white man, and who had married one of the Rogers girls; he lived on the
west side of the river, in what is now a part of Cherokee county. The next
day he came with us to the present site of Chetopa, where I decided to
locate, and where we encamped. After arranging with those who came with me to
proceed to getting out the logs with which to build, I started for Osage
Mission to meet Major Dorn. It was now near the last of April; I clerked for
the Major during the disbursement to the Indians of their funds. During this
time I attended a meeting of the council of the Osage chiefs, held at that
place, at which they discussed the propriety of paying a bill of about $39 to
a young man by the name of Peyett, who had acted as inerpreter to Dr.
Griffith, of Carthage, who had a year before that time been sent by the
Government to vaccinate the Osages. Several of the chiefs made speeches
opposing the payment, saying, 'That if the Government intended to do them a
kindness it ought to pay the interpreter as well as the doctor'; when they
came to the close, White Hair requested Chetopa to speak for him, and he
depicted in very strong language the horrors of the small-pox, and what
benefit they had received from the young man, who had well earned his money,
and that being a just debt they should pay it, and suggested that it be paid
by the chiefs; the ranking chief, White Hair, to pay $10, and the other
chiefs a less sum.
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"I took my daughter Martha, and two sons, Albert and John, and started for
Council Grove on the day last named, November 19, 1863. The following persons
also accompanied us on that occasion part of the way: Elizabeth and Christian
McMurtry, two children of John McMurtry, who had recently died in the army;
Larkin McGhee and family; Jane Jackson, whose husband was then in the army;
and Mrs. Walker, whose husband had been driven into the Rebel army. In
addition to my own property which was destroyed at this time, the following
persons also had all of their property burned: Sarah Rogers had a large
hewed-log house and a large stable on what is now Mr. Crichton's place north
of town; George Walker, a Cherokee, had a house, stable, crib, etc., west of
the river, just south of where Mr. Edwards' mill now stands; John McMurtry
had a house near where the west end of the bridge across the Neosho now is,
which was set on fire but would not burn, and was afterward torn down. Larkin
McGhee had a house and stable and some grain just south of the branch south
of Chetopa, on land now owned by Dr. Halderman. There were perhaps 300
soldiers composed of Indians and whites under the command of Captain Willits,
Adjutant Ahle, and Lieutenant Joslyn, who did this burning, and who stated
that they acted under instructions from their commanding officers. At this
same time they arrested James Childers and demanded of him his money; they
had been informed that he had $6,000 buried. At first he denied having any,
but after they had put a rope around his neck and stretched him up for
awhile, and after letting him down, he acknowledged having $2,000, and told
them where it was; they found this and wanted more; he said that was every
cent he had. He was stretched up and let down two or three times, and was
finally killed, his throat cut, and left unburied, and was eaten by the hogs.
I asked to be allowed to go back and bury him, but was refused permission. I
got this statement in reference to his being killed from his son. This
entirely broke up the Chetopa settlement. I stayed at Council Grove until
September, 1865, when I went back to Chetopa, and in November of that year
moved my family back. I lived with George Walker that winter, and built on my
farm across the river, and have ever since had my home in or near Chetopa.
INDIANA JACK
<A HREF="http://homes.arealcity.com/Civilwarchilders/index.html">http://homes.
arealcity.com/Civilwarchilders/index.html</A>
found this online from kansas
On the 24th of October, 1854, William Chestnut, O. C. Brown, John I. Everett,
Elder Palmer, Henry DeVillers, a young land surveyor by the name of Smith,
Allen Wilkerson and two or three others whose names are not recollected, made
claims in and around the mouth of the Pottawatomie Creek and in the course of
the next two weeks erected their cabins and made such permanent preparations
to stay that they were entitled to be considered as the first exclusively
white settlement of the county. About the time of their location, probably a
few days before, W. C. Childers, from Missouri, with his two sons, James and
A. Childers, located on the northern bank of the Marais des Cygnes, a little
east of the Chestnut settlement. About this time Paola began to receive an
influx of white settlers.
A big Thank You to Pat Dennett for not only extending my family tree,
but also giving me a picture of one of my ancestors. Another Big Thank
You to Eric Petty for also giving me a picture of another one of my
ancestors. What a thrill to get family photos!! To all who are searching
for family, you never know when you are going to hit paydirt like I did
this last week. Don't give up hope. New family and old family are out
there just waiting to be discovered. Thank you Pat and Eric.
I now have 3 different spellings in the same family- Childers, Childress
and Childres!
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Hazel (Dedman) Conway
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