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Liberty Ship #1937 was named George C. Childress
Anybody know any more about this ship?
The style of nomenclature adopted for the emergency vessels the United States
Maritime Commission used broad guidelines. Initially,the ships - with certain
military exceptions and in some of the variations to the basic type - were,
generally, named for eminent Americans from all walks of life who had made
notable contribution to the history or to the culture of the United States of
America - some famous, some forgotten, yet others heroic - or even mythical.
Then, as war progressed, 120 Liberties were named for heroes of the American
Merchant Marine; not only those who had lost their lives by enemy action, but
in other disasters at sea. All ranks were among them, from master to seaman,
chief engineer to wiper, purser to cook, as radio operators, utility men
and a stewardess. Altogether, more than one hundred Liberty ships were named
for women and another group honored some of the war correspondents killed on
duty. But the main guideline was that the name used had to be of a deceased
person, and during the term of the Liberty ship building program the Maritime
Commission received many letters from American citizens suggesting that
certain of their ancestors or relatives 'qualified' for a ship to be named
for them. Only one Liberty ship, the FRANCIS J. O'GARA, was named for a
living person - and this in error. Purser of the JEAN NICOLET, sunk by a
Japanese submarine, he was thought to have perished, but returned home after
the war from a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp. And there were also complaints
received at the USMC Public Relations Office, generally from persons who
objected to the names already allocated. It is said that one prominent
politician complained '. . . I understand my name has been given to a Liberty
ship. I am not dead, not in drydock and do not need my bottom scraped. Please
cancel the name.' He was advised that the ship had been named in honor of
another person of the same name who had been dead for many years.
Of all these ships,there are only two left in operating condition, JOHN W.
BROWN on the east coast, andthe SS JERIMIAH O'BRIEN on the west coast !!!
Most people think The Drug Problem is a relatively new thing. Not so.
You will remember my great Aunt Lillie who died at age 102 a few years back ? Well, Aunt Lillie had been a Deputy US Marshal in her colorful career filled life.
(Lillie Sipes Young Wolfenbarger, 1897-1999, daughter of Margaret Elizabeth Childers and William Elijah Sipes)
In 1933 Lillie was assigned to service as a Deputy in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Her 13 year old son, William O'Dell Young, was in school there. He told his mother that some kids in school were selling marijuana to other students.
So Deputy Lillie staked out the school yard, watched several transactions through her binoculars, then got a warrant to arrest the culprits. She took the head Marshal with her and arrested them on the school grounds.
Seems like they had The Drug Problem back then also !!
Aunt Lillie tried to resign from the Marshal's Service after a criminal knocked her down and tried to shot her as he straddled her prone body. His gun misfied. Lillie said all she could think of was leaving her children motherless and vowed that very instant to resign if she lived through that experience. However, the Marshal refused to accept her resignation, and did indeed call on her for several more cases throughout the years. She told me that one time he sent her a letter saying he would need her service for a case and when Lillie called him up to say she had resigned, the Marshal told her she had better get her rearend over to his office for duty or he would come to arrest her !!! As far as Lillie knew, she was still a Deputy when she was over a hundred years. She use to get letters from the Marshal's office up to her death.
Lillie still had her guns when she was 100, but she got worried that some neighborhood kid would get in her house, steal the guns and hurt someone with them. So she didn't call me, she called the police department, who was more than glad to come out and pick them up for her !!! How I would have loved to have those guns for my family collection !
Jack Childers in OKC
International Society of BlackSheep Genealogists
http://www.gbnf.com/genealogy/childers/html/surnames.htm
"I've traveled a long way and some of the roads were not paved"
I need any information I can get on Carl Childers. The only thing I have
at this time is: Carl Childers wife died about 1929. They had a
daughter, Edna, who married Christian "Chris" Bloomer/Bloemerf who died
about 1963 in Milwaukee County Hospital. Thanks in advance.
Jeannean
MILITARY ABSTRACTS FROM COUNTY COURT MINUTE BOOKS 1849-1861
Abstracted by Robert L. Bailey
> 2 Jul 1849, "Charles F. WELCKER and Samuel L. CHILDRESS appeared in open
> court and after being first sworn depose and say that they were acquainted
> with Edward ARNOLD late a private in Captain James FREEMANS Company of the
> 4 Regiment of Tennessee volunteers in the war with Mexico and who is
> reported to have died on the 11th June 1849 in Scott County State of
> Illinois possessed of a military land warrant for 160 acres and they
> believe he died unmarried and without issue but left surviving him his
> father Jonas R. ARNOLD of Roane County, Tennessee. SOURCE: County Court
> Minute Book (1849-1856), page 5.
>
>
Indiana Jack
http://www.geocities.com/injackcw/
Do you know what happened to the grandpa during the Civil War? Did he
survive, was he wounded, was he a prisoner, where is he buried?
Since I'm sitting at home with nothing to do, given my right arm is in a cast
from 2 operations in the last 3 months to correct some nasty arthritis in my
wrist. I'm up grading and improving my Childers/Childress Civil War
information site, to provide more and better information. I can use all the
help I can get, to track down this info.
Drop me a line.
Be sure to include his name, regiment, and state.
Also I'm still seeking copies of letters, photos,(post-war photos are great
too!), all family stories you might have.
Indiana Jack
http://www.geocities.com/injackcw/
Major General John Calvin Brown, P.A.C.S.
Major-General John Calvin Brown was born in Giles County, January 6, 1827.
When nineteen years of age he was graduated at Jackson college, Tenn., and
two years later was admitted to the bar at Pulaski. From that time (1848)
until May, 1861, he practiced law successfully. He then entered the Third
infantry regiment of the provisional army of Tennessee as captain, and on the
16th of May was commissioned colonel of that regiment, which, with the other
soldiers of Tennessee, became part of the provisional army of the Confederate
States upon the accession of Tennessee to the Southern Confederacy. At the
battle of Fort Donelson (February 14-16, 1862) we find Colonel Brown
commanding the Third brigade of General Buckner's division, and acting a
conspicuous part in the charge which opened the way for the retreat of the
Confederate army to Nashville. The fact that the opportunity was not improved
detracts nothing from the gallant achievement of the men who made that
brilliant charge. When, on the 16th, the fort was surrendered, Colonel Brown
became a prisoner of war and remained in the enemy's hands for six months.
Shortly after his exchange he was commissioned as brigadier-general (August
30, 1862). He participated in the Kentucky campaign, and was wounded at the
battle of Perryville, October 8, 1862; with his usual gallantry fought at
Chickamauga, where he was again wounded, and recovered in time to act an
heroic part at Missionary Ridge. In all the movements of the Dalton- Atlanta
campaign he was distinguished, and on the 4th of August, 1864, he was
commissioned major-general. In Hood's gallant but disastrous effort to
retrieve the waning fortunes of the Confederacy by his Tennessee campaign,
General Brown was again among the foremost, commanding Cheatham's division.
In the fierce charge at Franklin, in which so many of the choicest spirits of
the army of Tennessee laid down their lives, he was severely wounded. At the
close of the war he resumed the practice of law at Pulaski, Tenn. He was a
member of the constitutional convention which met at Nashville in 1870. The
next year he was elected governor of the State, being the first Democrat
chosen to that position after the war. He was the second member of his family
to be thus honored, his brother, Neil S. Brown, having been governor from
1847 to 1849. One of the leading issues of Governor Brown's administration
was the State debt, which at the beginning of his term amounted to
$43,000,000 bonded, besides a large floating debt. At the close of his
administration in 1875 (he having served two terms), the bonded debt had been
reduced to $20,000,000, the large floating debt had been paid, and the credit
of the State had been fully re- established. After retiring from the
executive office he engaged in every position which he held. In 1864 he
married Miss Bettie Childress, one of the most beautiful and cultured women
of the South. Their elegant home was in Nashville. The death of General Brown
occurred at Red Boiling Springs, Tenn., August 17, 1889. Source: Evans,
Clement, ed. Confederate Military History, Vol. XII, Confederate Publishing
Company, Atlanta, GA, 1899
This one works for me. Thanks to all!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark and Gary" <London2001(a)earthlink.net>
To: "Robert K. Childers" <childers(a)bright.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 5:57 PM
Subject: Re: [CHILDERS] translation
> This site seems to be what you are looking for but I can't get it to work
> http://www.yilmazguney.com/translate/translate.htm
>
> $185 for a automatic translation devise
> http://www.tvdate.com/translator/qt/qt19.html
>
> $75 and up for translation services of a human
> http://www.tvdate.com/translator/qt/qt19.html
>
> More translation fee for services
> http://www.rootsweb.com/~polwgw/trans.html
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert K. Childers" <childers(a)bright.net>
> To: <CHILDERS-L(a)rootsweb.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 2:21 PM
> Subject: [CHILDERS] translation
>
>
> Does anyone have a site that will translate Polish-to-English?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> Bob Childers
> Ohio
>
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