Bringing in 2007

Saddam is dead. Dead before 2007. The only other person I know who has been rushed to their death, so fast, was Timothy McViegh. Now investigators are wishing McViegh was alive to answer questions about his ties to the extreme terrorist in the Phillipines. Maybe Saddam did deserve to die, but maybe he could have sat on death row for twenty years like our prisoners in America. At least he could have written his memoirs, and answered, some unanswered questions.



James brown is dead. Over the years he has done "I Feel Good", "Sex Machine", "Get Up Offa That Thing", "Papas got a brand new Bag", " Get On Up". I like that one and that one, ahhhh shucks I like them all. I remember in the 70's, Saturday Night Live did a skit called "The James Brown Home Security
System".......ooooohwwwwwwoeeeeee......get out of here!......its was hilarious!...............I will miss James brown..........Song of the Week.......... one of my favorites "It's a mans World", by James Brown.


Gerald Ford is dead. He was appointed Vice President by Richard Nixon, when then, Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned. Then was appointed President when Richard Nixon resigned as President after the Watergate scandal. I always thought that our presidents were elected officials. Its not surprising that I have been lied to again. But then the best part of this journey is that Gerald Ford aquitted Richard Nixon for his crimes. Quite frankly, the American people should have demanded an elected president, after an administration of scoundrels. I guess we were too busy dancing Disco, and oh yes, we wore bell bottoms back then. Without even thinking conspiracy, I see Ford was appointed the scapegoat for Nixon. Don't get me started on the "Watergate Plumbers", that is a whole other story. J. Edgar Hoover would have been ecstatic to know that such powerful men had fallen. If you think I feel bitter over watergate, Your Right! I was with a Marine Detachment that watched over Richard Nixon. He was a very nice man, quiet to us Marines, but very respectful. In my heart, I never blamed Nixon for the scandal, I blamed the Party who corrupted him.

Happy New Year
Daniel

Merry Christmas 2006

Included in my story tonight is the biography of John Donne, and his famous Christmas Poem "Nativity". Equally, his Poem "Crucifying" is just as powerful, and should sit beside his "Nativity" Poem. This, of course, the story of life and death of young Jesus.
John Donne (1572-1631) was the most outstanding of the English Metaphysical Poets and a churchman famous for his spellbinding sermons.
Donne was born in London to a prominent Roman Catholic family but converted to Anglicanism during the 1590s. At the age of 11 he entered the University of Oxford, where he studied for three years. According to some accounts, he spent the next three years at the University of Cambridge but took no degree at either university. He began the study of law at Lincoln's Inn, London, in 1592, and he seemed destined for a legal or diplomatic career. Donne was appointed private secretary to Sir Thomas Egerton, Keeper of the Great Seal, in 1598. His secret marriage in 1601 to Egerton's niece, Anne More, resulted in his dismissal from this position and in a brief imprisonment. During the next few years Donne made a meager living as a lawyer.
Donne's principal literary accomplishments during this period were Divine Poems (1607) and the prose work Biathanatos (c. 1608, posthumously published 1644), a half-serious extenuation of suicides, in which he argued that suicide is not intrinsically sinful. Donne became a priest of the Anglican Church in 1615 and was appointed royal chaplain later that year. In 1621 he was named dean of St. Paul's Cathedral. He attained eminence as a preacher, delivering sermons that are regarded as the most brilliant and eloquent of his time.

NATIVITY.
Immensity, cloister'd in thy dear womb,
Now leaves His well-beloved imprisonment.
There he hath made himself to his intent
Weak enough, now into our world to come.
But O ! for thee, for Him, hath th' inn no room ?
Yet lay Him in this stall, and from th' orient,
Stars, and wise men will travel to prevent
The effects of Herod's jealous general doom.
See'st thou, my soul, with thy faith's eye, how He
Which fills all place, yet none holds Him, doth lie ?
Was not His pity towards thee wondrous high,
That would have need to be pitied by thee ?
Kiss Him, and with Him into Egypt go,
With His kind mother, who partakes thy woe.

CRUCIFYING.
By miracles exceeding power of man,
He faith in some, envy in some begat,
For, what weak spirits admire, ambitious hate :
In both affections many to Him ran.
But O ! the worst are most, they will and can,
Alas ! and do, unto th' Immaculate,
Whose creature Fate is, now prescribe a fate,
Measuring self-life's infinity to span,
Nay to an inch. Lo ! where condemned He
Bears His own cross, with pain, yet by and by
When it bears him, He must bear more and die.
Now Thou art lifted up, draw me to Thee,
And at Thy death giving such liberal dole,
Moist with one drop of Thy blood my dry soul.

Song of the Week
When it came to Christmas music, I think Nat king Cole over the years had the best. One of my favorites is "O Holy Night". When you listen to this song, it will give you goosebumps. What a voice, so powerful, and inspirational.

Merry Christmas Everybody

Violet Susan Roberts....My 2nd Great Grandmother

John Price Gaddy and Violet Susan Roberts


My 2nd Great Grandmother was Violet Susan Roberts who married John Price Gaddy. Their daughter was Nancy Caroline Gaddy who married Albert Pike Word. Violet Susan Roberts was my Grandmother's (Mamaw's), Grandmother. The following is a letter that has been transcribed written by Florence Myrtle Gaddy, who descends from John Henry Gaddy. This letter is a very visual insight on Violet Susan Roberts in her later years, written by her Grandaughter Florence.


I, Florence Myrtle Cook Wilson, born September 2, 1897, am the last living one of the family of John Henry Gaddy and Susan Alice Cook. I shall try to relate a few things that happened while I was growing up on our 40 acre Farm which was 3/4 of a mile north of Newport, Barton County, Missouri.

My maternal grandmother, Susan Violet Roberts Gaddy, lived with us all the time I can remember while growing up. She was very stern about discipline. I remember one time my mother was gone mid-wifering and my grandma was left in charge. At noon time I mixed too much cornbread and molasses on my plate and could not eat it. Grandma put it up on the cupboard and said I had to eat every bit of it before I could have anything else to eat. I wasn't stubborn, I just couldn't eat it. So I got nothing to eat for my supper. The next morning Mama was home and she said I didn't have to eat it. To this day I can't eat anything sweet on cornbread.

Her husband, my grandfather, John Price Gaddy, who was born in Lexington, Kentucky on August 24, 1827, died at an early age from cancer long before I was born. He is buried in Round Prarie Cemetery but has no marker so we can't find the grave.

Grandma told us a little about her growing up. Her family lived on a cotton farm in North Carolina and had two black slaves, a man and woman who were married to each other. They were called Aunt and uncle. They ate at the table with the family and shared in the profits of the farm.

My grandmother was 24 when she married and had a big hope chest filled with handmade linens and hand-pieced quilts. Marrying so late she had time to make so much. Girls were considered old maids at that age.

My grandma was a Christian and embarrassed my mother in church by shouting when she felt the spirit. A Shouting Methodist. After she got too old to go to church she would have her own service every Sunday afternoon. She would set her chair in the middle of the living room with her Bible and hymn book, then read some scriptures and sing some hymns in her old cracked voice. Mother would not let us kids bother her at all. If we had company, we had to keep them quiet too.

She raised sweet potato plants in what she called a hot-bed and every year she sold them to the neighbors in early spring. She covered them every night with old quilts and sacks, then in the morning she would take them off so the sun could get to them. One morning she went to lift the covers off and underneath was a copperhead snake all curled up ready to strike. She jumped back and it missed her but how she yelled. By the time my dad got there the snake had gotten away, never to be seen again.

With the money she got from selling the sweet potato plants she bought a pair of black laced old lady's shoes and calico for two dresses which she sewed by hand. We had a Singer sewing machine but she would not use it. She made the dresses the same, without a pattern, a tight fitting bodice with long sleeves and a gathered shirt which fell to her shoetops. For years she had ready her clothes to be buried in. They were made of black taffeta in the same style as her calico dresses. She made a bonnet of the same black material. Several times a year she would take them out to air them. It would give us kids the shivers.

Every time she had a sick spell she would say that it was her last and that she was dying. She would take on and groan and carry on. She slept in the same room with us kids and it would scare us, but when she did get her last sickness she was very quiet. They brought her bed down to the living room so Mama wouldn't have to climb the stairs. We all watched her die. She had been in a coma for a while. I was standing at the foot of her bed, my sister, Mary, and her husband, at one side. Grandma suddenly opened her eyes and said, "I want you to join the church." We all three did that after she passed away. She went back into the coma and never spoke again.

The neighbor-men hitched up their wagon and went to Lamar to get the coffin while the women came and bathed her and dresses her in the black taffeta dress and bonnet. Other neighbors dug the grave and the burial service was held that afternoon as it was very hot weather. No one in those days thought of embalming. Years later another grandson and I got together and had a stone put on her grave. It is still there in the Newport, Mo. cemetery which is next to the Baptist Church.


Thinking back now!
Does anybody remember climbing the firetower up on Hwy 64 over in Dallas County, MO. This area was also called Jack Rabbit pass. Anyway, you could see for miles from the top of that tower. There were no towns within 20 miles. When I was younger we would climb the tower and drink beer, and other dispicable things......! We would spit off the top of the tower, and count how many seconds it took to hit the ground.

Song of the Week
My brother and my sisters were raised around the rivers of Missouri. My dad had this obsession with rivers and fishing, of which we all joined in. We had a canoe, I believe to be 18 foot , and aluminum. We would float, on some days 5 to 10 miles, we would fish, and swim. I remember one float we just picked up trash, to clean the river up. My Dad was an environmentalist long before there was such a thing!!
Natalie Merchant must have been raised not far from the River. On her Tigerlily album, she has two songs that are wonderful songs of words and music. "The River" is a classic song, but the one I like most is, "Where I Go"......................... Enjoy!

THOMAS RICE....The Emigrant, Our first known ancestor in America

Lord Rhys of Wales

Thomas Rice was an Englishman by birth, of Welsh extraction. He came to America aboard the Bristol Merchant in 1679/80 assigned as an apprentice to John Stephens.

From The Rice Family 1680 to 1793 compiled by William Gunn Calhoun, 1973, p. 3.
"Stephen Rice, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, had sons Thomas, Hezekial and Ibjan who migrated to Hanover County, Virginia when it was a colony."

From The Thomas Rice Family Home Page: Family Tree Maker. com. Internet site.
In the later part of his life, he owned a small plantation in the lower part of what is now called Hanover County, Virginia. He received this land from King George II by deed, dated April 29, 1693, for 1, 200 acres of land in Hanover County, on both sides of Cub Creek and Dirty Swamp, bounded by the lands of Col. Davis Meriwether, James Goodall and Richard Brooks.
Tragedy overtook Thomas Rice when he let his wife, with nine sons and three daughters, and went to England to receive a considerable estate which had been left to him. He did not return. The sailors reported that he died at sea. It is supposed that he was assassinated. Nothing was ever heard regarding the inherited English estate.

"His family was left destitute in a strange land....." "The family being left without an earthly father, were distressed, but they were, in the good providence of 'God, provided for." Memoirs of the Reverend David Rice, published by Thomas T. Skillman, Lexington, Kentucky. 1824, pg. 420. (B.R. 55K 46, rare Book Division, Congressional Library, Washington, D,C.

From the World Connect Project at Roots Web. Barnes - Rice Family by. Sharon Barnes.
"Thomas Rice, the emigrant 1680 had nine sons and three daughters. His son David married Susannah Searcy and had David, "The Apostle to Kentucky" who married Mary Blair 1762." Based upon this we know that the line of descent is direct. "A Thomas Rice was in Kingston Parish, Gloucester County, VA April 29, 1693. One record states he came to America the latter part of the 17th century. His people were from Wales and bore the Coat-of-arms with the motto: FIDES NON TIMET. In old Welsh the name is spelled "RHYS." a copy of the old Coat-of-arms once belonged to the widow of John Holt Rice D.D., son of Benjamin Rice and Catherine Holt. "The Vestry Book of St. Paul's Parish, Hanover County, VA 1706-1786 on page 213 gives the returns made March 14th 1708-09 from the surveyor of the 39 precincts. "The lands of David Crawford, Thomas Rice, John Sims and Thomas Crenshaw lying adjacent to each other being made one precinct of which the said Thomas Rice and John Sims were appointed overseers." p.4

Again, the William and Mary Quarterly (Vol. 21) gives the record of Hanover County 1734-35 as follows: "12/3/1734-- Thomas Rice (St. Martin's) to David Crenshaw 400 acres both sides north branch of Cubb's Creek in St. Martin's. wife Joyce to Thos. Jackson." (page60)

"The Dictionary of American Biography (Vol. XV, page 537) tells us that Thomas Rice, an Englishman of Welsh extraction emigrated to Virginia at an early date. Upon a return trip to England, possibly to settle an inheritance, he was either lost at sea or murdered. In any event he was never heard from again."

From Genesis in Virginia: Exodus to Illinois compiled by Christine Rogers rice, 1995. pp. 2-3
"Thomas Rice first appeared in county records of New Kent in colonial Virginia in 1686, and by the start of the 18th Century he can be found in land records of both Hanover and Gloucester Counties of that state. He is thought to have come from Shirementon Bristol in the British Isles and to be of the Welsh family known as Thys, descendants of chieftain kings of the 7th and 8th centuries.
"Tradition says that Thomas Rice and a brother, Hezekiah, fled to Virginia about 1685 as a result of the rebellion against King James. One story that concerns Thomas is that earlier in England an old man named Rice died with only a daughter to survive him. He left his estate to her providing that she promised never to change her name. Later upon marriage, her spouse took the name Rice. It was this mother's property that Thomas Rice, then of Virginia, returned to claim upon his mother's death.
"Thomas was never heard from again and several very early documents attest to Thomas' disappearance if not the rest of the story. His brother Hezekiah was said to have been murdered when returning from Jamestown, Virginia, where he had gone to sell his tobacco crop. Each man left several children and was an ancestor of many residents of the South. "

"The Sarver Collection of genealogical material in the State Archives of Tennessee contains a document which states that Thomas Rice was a physician, but his famous grandson, David Rice, does not mention that Thomas was of that profession. Thomas' wife was named March, some say her maiden name was Hewes. Her given name is sometimes written Marie or Mary, varied interpretations of ancient manuscripts. The family has carried down Marcy through family nomenclature which seems to indicate that it is correct. Baptismal records dating from 1685 to 1702 can be found fro some of Thomas Rice's children. These parish records are from St. Peter's of New Kent." p.4

The Virginia rent rolls of 1704 list a Thomas Rice in Parish of St. Peters and St. Paul.

"The parish records of Hanover County mention Thomas Rice as late as 1711/12 as a processioner. In 1716 the bounds of his land were placed in the hands of an overseer, indicating some problem, likely his death."
"David Rice in his memoirs stated that the family of Thomas Rice was left in poor circumstances and part of the family, including his father, the elder David, moved 40 miles upcountry in Hanover to a smaller plantation on a branch of Cub Creek. David, Thomas, and Edward Rice all were known to live in this general vicinity. Old Thomas' widow Marcy last called "widow Rice" and in 1722 when a child was indentured to her. Recounting the struggles of the Rice family, preacher Rice characterized David Rice, his father, as a poor farmer, with no slaves, who thought they were more trouble than worth. His mother, Susannah Searcy, was depicted as a most religious woman who opposed slavery on principle. The memoirs state that 4 or 5 of old Thomas' children became preachers.
[Thomas Rice.ged]

ID: I3048
Name: Thomas Rice
Sex: M
Birth: in New Kent/Hanover County, VA
Death: ABT. 1716, died at sea while returning to UK for inheritance
Note:
Thomas came to America aboard the Bristol Merchant in 1679/80 assigned as
an apprentice to John Stephens. Thomas died at sea when he returned to UK
for his inheritance.
Rice Families of Caswell County, North Carolina -
http://www.ficom.net/members/wolfslayer/rice.html
Thomas and Marcey Rice were Welsh immigrants.
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From The Rice Family 1680 to 1793 compiled by William Gunn Calhoun 1973
p. 3
Thomas Rice
"Stephen Rice, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, had sons Thomas, Hezekial and Ibjan who migrated to Hanover County, Virginia when it was a colony." We are inclined to believe that the above Thomas is our first known ancestor. Another source tells us, "Thomas Rice, the emigrant 1680 had nine sons and three daughters. His son David Married Susannah Searcy and had David, 'The Apostle to Kentucky' who married Mary Blair in 1762."
Based upon this we know that the line of descent is direct.
"A Thomas Rice was in Kingston Parish, Gloucester County, VA April 29, 1693. One record states he came to America the latter part of the 17thcentury. His people were from Wales and bore the Coat-of-arms with the motto: FIDES NON TIMET. In old Welsh the name is spelled "RHYS." A copy of the old Coat-of-arms once belonged to the widow of John Holt Rice D.D., son of Benjamin Rice and Catherine Holt.
"The Vestry Book of St. Paul's Parish, Hanover County, VA 1706-1786 on page 213 gives the returns made March 14th, 1708-09 from the surveyor of the 39 precincts. "The lands of David Crawford, Thomas Rice, John Sims and Thomas Crenshaw lying adjacent to each other being made one precinct of which the said Thomas Rice and John Sims were appointed overseers." p. 4
"Again, the William and Mary Quarterly (Vol. 21) gives the record of
Hanover County 1734-35 as follows: "I2-3 1734--Thomas Rice (St. Martin's) to David Crenshaw 400 acres both sides north branch of Cubb's Creek in St. Martin's, wife Joyce to Thos. Jackson." (page 60) "The Dictionary of American Biography (Vol. XV, page 537) tells us that Thomas Rice, an Englishman of Welsh extraction emigrated to Virginia at an early date. Upon a return trip to England, possibly to settle an inheritance, he was either lost at sea or murdered. In any event he was never heard from again."
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From Genesis in Virginia: Exodus to Illinois compiled by Christine Rogers
Rice, 1995.
pp. 2-3
"Thomas Rice first appeared in county records of New Kent in Colonial Virginia in 1686, and by the start of the 18th Century he can be found in land records of both Hanover and Gloucester Counties of that state. He is thought to have come from Shirementon Bristol in the British Isles and to be of the Welsh family known as Rhys, descendants of chieftain kings of the 7th and 8th centuries.
"Tradition says that Thomas Rice and a brother, Hezekiah, fled to
Virginia about 1685 as a result of the rebellion against King James. One story that concerns Thomas is that earlier in England an old man named Rice died with only a daughter to survive him. He left his estate to her providing that she promised never to change her name. Later upon marriage, her spouse took the name Rice. It was this mother's property that Thomas Rice, then of Virginia, returned to claim upon his mother's
death. "Thomas was never heard from again and several very early documents attest to Thomas' disappearance if not the rest of the story. His brother Hezekiah was said to have been murdered when returning from Jamestown, Virginia, where he had gone to sell his tobacco crop. Each man left several children and was an ancestor of many residents of the South. "The Sarver Collection of genealogical material in the State Archives of Tennessee contains a document which states that Thomas Rice was a physician, but his famous grandson, David Rice, does not mention that Thomas was of that profession. Thomas' wife was named Marcy, some say her
maiden name was Hewes. Her given name is sometimes written Marie or Mary, varied interpretations of ancient manuscripts. The family has carried down Marcy through family nomenclature which seems to indicate that it is correct. Baptismal records dating from 1685 to 1702 can be found for some of Thomas Rice's children. These parish records are from St. Peter's of New Kent."p. 4
"The parish records of Hanover County mention Thomas Rice as late as
1711/12 as a processioner. In 1716 the bounds of his land were placed in the hands of an overseer, indicating some problem, likely his death. The vestry book of St. Paul's Parish, which was the parish created from a portion of the old St. Peter's, gave a return on 14 March 1708/9 for its 39 precincts, "The lands of David Crawford, Thomas Rice, John Sims (sic), and Thomas Crenshaw laying adjacent to each other being made one precinct of which the said Thomas Rice and John Sims were appointed overseers." Of
interest in this early record is the mention of neighboring lands of
Symes and Crenshaw, both of whom figure in later Rice marriages.
"David Rice in his memoirs stated that the family of Thomas Rice was left in poor circumstances and part of the family, including his father, the elder David, moved 40 miles upcountry in Hanover to a smaller plantation on a branch of Cub Creek. David, Thomas, and Edward Rice all were known to live in this general vicinity. Old Thomas' widow Marcy last called "widow Rice" and in 1722 when a child was indentured to her. Recounting the struggles of the Rice family, preacher Rice characterized David Rice, his father, as a poor farmer, with no slaves, who thought they were more trouble than worth. His mother, Susannah Searcy, was depicted as a most
religious woman who opposed slavery on principle. The memoirs state that 4 or 5 of old Thomas' children became preachers.
From Genesis in Virginia: Exodus to Illinois compiled by Christine Rogers
Rice, 1995.p. 5
"Another descendant of old Thomas Rice of Hanover was Nathan L. Rice, born in 1808, who also would become the national moderator of the Presbyterians. Born and reared in Mercer County, Kentucky, he went on to serve as pastor of churches in our largest cities including Chicago and New York City. In the last years of his life following the Civil War he became …p. 40
The property of the Rices actually lay in both counties although the
homeplace of Thomas Rice was actually in Caswell on Cabin Creek. Most of his records are entered in that jurisdiction. Thomas Rice arrived in 1775. [Note, I believe this is a descendant of the old Thomas.]
p. 41
Records of the Superior Court of equity for District of Mero, 11 August 1808, transcribed in part by WPA Historical Record Project, Davidson County TN, the case was pursued for over 30 years in Tennessee courts; Caswell Deed Book O, pg. 221, indicates heirs of John Rice names William H. Rice, Williamson Rice and John Windsor filed powers of attorney to sue in behalf of rights to land of John Rice as early as 26 May 1804. Wilson County, TN. Probate Settlements, Book 5, pg 27, property sale by Patterson Miles and Frances Underwood. note due estate from George
Underwood; book 6, p. 6, administrator's settlement, Thomas Miles, Jr., recorded 27 May 1830; pg 234, Thomas Miles, guardian for Joshua, Clary, Betsy, Polly, Patsy and Newton, reports in June 1831, expenses for bonnet and shoes for Betsy, Polly, and Patsy.
p. 45
. . . "A record in Gloucester, Virginia, home of the early Gwynns,
indicates that a Thomas Rice owned 30 plus acres in that county.
[Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 32, pg 259.]
p. 46
. . . "The Hanover Rices claim a coat of arms said to be the same as that of the Rice and Thomas families which stem from Sir Rhys ap Thomas, a natural son of George Plantagenet. This line had a peerage granted by Bloody Mary in 1555. Earlier figures of interest in the lines are Sir Griffith Rice, Catherine Howard, who descended from William, the Conqueror, and Vryan Reged, lord, of South Wales. [Coat-of-arms data; for genealogy of Welsh Rice family, see A History of Wales by Sir John Edward Lloyd, condensed in Rice and McGhee Families History.]"
"The childhood home of Sarah Rice Gwynn would have been in Hanover as proved by her brother William H. Rice's pension papers. She, born in the early 1750's, was likely a great-granddaughter of Thomas, the immigrant. Her father, Thomas Rice's own birth would be in the 1720's, to make him
of the generation of the immigrant Thomas Rice's grandsons."
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On 1704/05 Rent Roll of Virginia from Wertenbaker, Thomas J., The
Planters of Colonial Virginia, Russell & Russell New York, New York
Rice, Tho Parish of St Peters and St. Paul, 1704
Rice, Thomas Glocester, Kinston Parish
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The Welsh Rices of Dynevor Castle - from Shelby Rice Sutton of St.
Georges, Delaware.
This goes back to the 11th century to give the background of those
ancient Welsh princes whose given name was Rhys (Rice). There were times in the pre-Norman period when the Deheubarth kings were
unable to maintain their hold on all parts of the kingdom. Rhys ap
Tewdwr, the last independent Deheubarth king to rule the whole kingdom, was killed in a 1093 skirmish with Normah forces. His death marked the end of an era. By the early years of the 12th Century The three provinces of Deheubarth became part of a territory of lordships ruled by Normans who enjoyed a power derived by conquest from the Welsh kings they displaced.
Rhys ap Tewdr left a son, Gruffudd ap Rhys, brought up in exile in
Ireland, Gruffudd returned to try and regain his father's kingdom. He managed to secure a foothold in Ystrad Tywi from which he launched a powerful Welsh campaign after the 1135 death of Henry I. Gruffudd fell during early stages of the struggle and his three elder sons were in due course eliminated. A fourth son, Rhys ap Gruffudd, survived. By 1171 he had secured control not only of the greater part of Ystrad Tywi, but the whole of Credigion and parts of Dyfed. The same year Henry II, anxious to secure settlement of the Welsh problem, recognized the position Rhys had won for himself. Rhys, from his chief castle at Dinefwr, ruled a
Deheubarth which - though less extensive than the pre-Norman kingdom - was still a major political entity.
The earliest surviving redaction of Welsh law emanates from Deheubarth and is very probably to be attributed to the years of Rhys' supremacy. …
At this gathering - proclaimed the previous year throughout Wales,
England, Scotland and Ireland - Rhys set two contests, one for the poetry and another for "the harpers and the crowders and the pipers and various classes of music" and chairs were awarded to the winner of each contest. It was after the 1189 death of Henry II and Rhys's failure to secure rapport with Richard I that major conflict broke out. Rhys turned first to those lordships on the perimeter of his principality and then to the frontier central sections, but the ageing warrior's vigorous campaigns did not solve these issues. Before Rhys ap Gruffudd's 1197 death, Deheubarth itself was rent by the conflict which arose between his sons.It seems likely Rhys intended his eldest son, Gruffudd, should succeed him as ruler of the entire kingdom, which he had ruled from Dinefwr, but
within a few weeks of the Lord Rhys's death Gruffudd's position was
challenged by three of his brothers, Maelgwyn, Rhys Gryg and Maredudd.Maredudd and Rhys Gryg were the first to gain possession of Dinefwr, but on July 2, 1201, Maredudd was killed fighting against the Normans. Rhys Gryg managed to hold on to Dinefwr, but Gruffudd seized Cantref Bychan and its main castle at Llandovery. Then on July 21 Gruffudd died at Trate Florida, leaving two young sons, Rhys Ieunac and Owain. IN spite of their
youth, the two sons continued the struggle against their uncles to hold on to at least some of their father's territory. During the next few years Dinefwr changed hands often but Rhys Gryg gradually asserted a hold on Ystrad Tywi.
There were no surnames in the days of the Welsh "Rice" princes. The name "Rhys ap Tewdwr" means Rice, son of Tewdwr, with Rhys (or Rice) and Tewdwr both being first names. Thus Gruffudd ap Rhys is Gruffudd, son of Rhys, and his son, in turn, is Rhys ap Gruffudd. All their descendants could just as legitimately claim as a surname Tudor (Tedwdwr) or Griffith (Gruffudd), instead of Rice (Rhys). Later, when surnames became obligatory, some descendants adopted the Rice surname.

John WORD was my 3rd Great Grandfather

Cynthia "Nettie" Faynetta Word, daughter of John Word and Margaret Prewitt.


John WORD was born 1780 in Charlotte Co., VA, came from Ky. to Center Point, Hempstead Co., Ark. about 1820. He brought his family of nine children and several slaves. His children were: John, Matt, Jim, Tom, Orville Crawford, Elizabeth "Betsie", Peggy, Polly and Martha. His first wife died in 1821, and he returned to Ky. in 1823 and married a widow named Margaret (Peggy) Prewitt LATIMER. Their children were Nettie and Sam. John Word died in Center Point, Ark. in 1843. His widow Peggy died in Center Point, Ark, in 1864. (This information from Lloyd M. Rice Jr., Uncle Jack)

Hempstead County, AR, Will Book B, Pages 45-46; will written 20 Oct 1836; filed 27 April 1844 and settled.

WILL OF JOHN WORD
In the name of God, amen: I, John Word, of the county of Hempstead and State of Arkansas, being in good bodily health and of sound and siposing mind, calling to mind the frailty and uncertainty of human life, and being desirous of settling my worldly affairs, do make this my last will and testament herby revoking and making null all other last will and testaments by me heretofore made. First, I give and bequeath to my beloved son Orvil Word one hundred dollars. Second, I give and bequeath unto William Henry, my Son in law, One cow and calf. Third, it is my will that my beloved wife Peggy A. Word shall possess and hold all the remainder of my estates, real, personal, and mixed during her natural life after paying my funeral expenses and other past debts I may owe at and after the time of my decease. Fourth: It is my will that from and after the decease of my said wife, that the said remainder of all my estates, real, personal and mixed shall be equally divided between my beloved daughter Cynthia Finnetta Word and my beloved son Samuel H. Word. In testimony whereof, I, the said John Word have here subscribed my name to this, my last will and testament, this 20th day of October 1836. Signed, sealed in the presence of J.W. Finely / Andrew C. Roberts
/s/ John Word (seal)


[I was told by descendents of Cynthia Faynetta Word, Orvilles step sister, that they could not find any evidence of the rest of the Word family, other than Orville. Our family notes say John Word had children from his first marriage. Thomas, John, Mathew, James, Elizabeth, Polly or Mary, and Peggy. None of these children were in the will of John Word, which is somewhat puzzling. The will only mentions Orville, and his son-in-law William M. Henry, and leaves the rest of his estate and affairs to Margaret. This may make since if some of the children are still living with Margaret, and the rest of the children had married and moved away.

The search for John Word has been exhausting and quite complicated. In family research, everyone has their brickwalls. John Word happens to be mine, and I have spent many, many hours researching him.

I have found new information, which I find very interesting. It seems that the Henry's intermarried with the Word family. They also migrated together. Martha Ann Word b 1817 in Mo., married William M. Henry. Wiliams father, John William Henry, first married Ann Alexander, then married second Elizabeth "Betsie" Word. Elizabeth was the sister of Martha Ann Word. John Word married Margaret Latimer (Prewitt or Pruitt in later years). She was the widow of John Latimer. Margaret and John had a son Isham P. Latimer, who married Mary Caroline Henry. I have found on a 1840 census in Pike Couny, Ar, in the Brewer Township, Thomas Word, John Word, James Henry, and Isham P. Latimer. They all live within five houses of each other. The census shows John Word 30 to 40 years old, another female 20 to 30 years old, and a female 60 to 70 years old. I suspect this to be Margaret Word. The family records show John Word died in 1844, if this is true then he should have been on the 1840 census, which tells me that he died much earlier, before 1840. I suspect that John and Thomas are the sons of our John Word and brothers to Orville Crawford Word. James Henry is the brother of our William M. Henry who married Martha Ann Word. I have found some information where I believe John Henry and John Word may have lived in Missouri, and then migrated together to Arkansas. The following are land certificates issued to John Ward and John Henry. In all of my research, the Word family has been documented as Ward Family. It shows John Henry widowed, this would explain the death of his first wife, Ann Alexander. I do not know if these are French or Spanish land certificates. It is one or the other, because Federal Land Patents were not issued until after 1812. Here is why. Those lands of Missouri were either owned by France or by Spain. After the Louisiana Purchase of 1804, it took the Federal Government many years to survey the land they had bought. These surveys were not fully completed until the early 1820's. These lands that were bought from France or Spain between these years were fully recognized by the US Government, once they had completed their surveys.

John Henry and John Word's families intermarried. John Henry eventually married John Words oldest daughter, Elizabeth. It seems quite clear that John word and John Henry were traveling companions. First in Kentucky, then Missouri, and then to Arkansas. John Henry was a famous "Methodist Circuit Rider". He traveled a lot of territory in the early 1800's, and preached the word of God.

The real question is, what was John Word doing in Missouri before 1804, prior to the Louisiana Purchase. These lands were owned by the French. Was he a "Longhunter", like Daniel Boone? Was he traveling with the Prewitts, or Henry family? There are several Word families for which our John Word may descend from, but I have no proof of who his father was, or which family he descends from.

John Ward
LAND CERTIFICATE FOR MISSOURI BETWEEN 1808 AND 1812
03/18/1809 CERTIFICATE NUMBER 206
John Henry
LAND CERTIFICATE FOR MISSOURI BETWEEN 1808 AND 1812
05/29/1811 CERTIFICATE NUMBER 668
WIDOW

The records show that Orville and Martha Ann Word were born in Mo, or KY. There are no records to prove for sure. But John Henry had a son James who was born in Belleview, Iron County, Mo., in 1803. There is some indication that they may have came from Howard County Mo. The following excerpt is from the History of Howard County. We find a trading post owned by none other than a man named Prewitt. I believe this to be Isham Prewitt Sr., Margaret Prewitt's grandfather. I also believe that this is where the Henry's and the Word's are also from in Missouri. Isham P. Prewitt II, was Margarets father, they were from Harrodsburg Ky. I believe this is also where John Word and John Henry's roots were from, both families migrating from Virginia to Kentucky first. This would also explain why John Word went from Mo to Ky to marry Margaret Prewitt, and then took her and her kids onto Arkansas and settled around the mid 1820's. By the way, the prewitt family in America of which Margaret descends, dates back to 1624, Cape henry, and the first settlements at Jamestown.

The following history of Howard County, Mo., is from The History of Howard and Cooper Counties, St. Louis: National Historical Company, 1883, pp. 88-99.

The French settled Canada and the northwestern part of the United States, as well as the country about the mouths of the Mississippi river. They came into the upper Mississippi and Missouri valleys in 1764, under the lead of Pierre Laclede Liguest, who held a charter from the French government, giving him the exclusive right of trade with the Indians in all the country as far north as St. Peter's river. Laclede established his colony in St. Louis in 1764, and from this point they immediately began their trading and trapping excursions into the unbroken wilderness. Their method of proceeding was to penetrate into the interior and establish small local posts for trading with the Indians, whence the trappers and hunters were outfitted and sent out into the adjacent woods. In this way, the country west and northwest of St. Louis was traversed and explored at a very early day, as far west as the Rocky mountains. But of the extent of their operations, but little has been recorded; hence, but little is known of the posts established by them.
That these daring Frenchmen had explored that portion of Howard county lying contiguous to the Missouri river, even prior to the year 1800, there can be no doubt; that there existed within the present limits of the county a trading post, for several years before its settlement proper, there can be no doubt. The names of the streams, such as Bonne Femme, Moniteau, etc., attest the fact that they were of French origin, and had been seen and named by the French pioneers.
Levens and Drake, in their condensed but carefully prepared history of Cooper county, say: "While Nash and his companions were in Howard county (1804), they visited Barclay's and Boone's Licks, also a trading post situated about two miles northwest of Old Franklin, kept by a white man by the name of PREWITT. The existence of this trading post, and the fact that 'Barclay's and Boone's Licks' had already received their names from the white persons who visited them, show conclusively that this portion of the country had been explored, even before this, by Americans. But no history mentions this trading post, nor does any give the name of Prewitt; hence, we are unable to determine when he came to the Boone's Lick country, how long he remained, and where he went; he evidently left before the year 1808, as Benjamin Cooper, who moved to Howard county in that year, said there was then no settlement in this part of the state." Boone's Lick, from which this region of country took its name, is situated about eight miles northwest of New Franklin, in Boone's Lick township, on section 4, T. 49, R. 17, on land owned by William N. Marshall. This place was visited by Daniel Boone at an early date, - the time not known. Here he found several salt springs, and as such places were frequented by deer and other game, he not only often hunted in the neighborhood, but, according to John M. Peck, who visited the old hunter at his home in St. Charles county, a few years prior to his death, pitched his camp there for one winter and put up a cabin. Mr. Peck does not give the date. The presumption is that he got his information from the lips of the old hunter himself, and he would further suppose that he camped there between the years 1795 and 1807.


Ok........keep in mind that Daniel Boone did not go to MO. until 1799. I suspect the Henry's, Word's, and the Prewitt's were right there with him. Later they migrated to Arkansas. The Federal Land Records show John Henry and John Word buying land in 1827, Hempstead County, believe it or not, only 10 days apart in the month of August. John Henry led a large Methodist congregation from Missouri to Arkansas, and settled in Centerpoint, AR. I'm sure John Word was right with him. The story I read of this migration, says they crossed the river at Little Rock, when the town of Little Rock had not been built yet.

It might be interesting to note that William M. Henry who married Martha Ann Word was a first cousin to Patrick Henry. Patrick Henry was the 4 time elected Governor of the independent State of Virginia. William M. Henry's Great Grandfather was Hugh Henry, and his brother John Henries Henry was the father of Patrick Henry. Patrick Henry first married Sarah Shelton and second married Dorothy Dandridge. Dorothy was a first cousin to Martha Washington. Between the two marriages, Patrick Henry had seventeen children. Patrick was named after his Uncle, Rev. Patrick Henry. He was outspoken in his opposition to British policy towards the colonies, particularly on the subject of the Stamp act(1765), and he made the first speech in the Continental Congress (1774). You can read his most famous speech "give me liberty or give me death" at this website.
Daniel Rice]


HEMPSTEAD CO., ARK., FEDERAL LAND RECORDS
Bureau of Land Management land records and includes Homestead and Cash Entry Patents before 1908 for what is now Hempstead Co, AR.

WORD JOHN 8 11S 25W 80 1827/05/10
WORD JOHN 12 11S 26W 0 1837/08/01
WORD JOHN 12 11S 26W 0 1843/03/01
WORD SAMUEL H 5 10S 26W 161.23 1857/12/01

Song of the Week
You have heard of the one hit wonders. This song, by Jay Ferguson was a big hit, "Thunder Island".

Sketches of Orville Crawford Word

Old Fort Smith, 1817.



Orville Word was my 2nd Great Grandfather.

Orville Crawford WORD was the son of John Word. He was born in Mo or Ky., Oct. 12, 1812. He died in Washburn Valley, Sebastian Co., Arkansas, July 25, 1863. He was buried in the Veteran's Cemetary at Ft. Smith, Ark. and his grave has been lost. O.C. Word ran away from home when he was nine years old, and went to Little Rock, Ark. where he lived with a family named BIRD. He was married at age 17 to a Miss Mary RONE. When she died he married another Miss Drusilla Jane GROVES who was either the cousin or sister of his first wife. They became the parents of a daughter named Grace, who was raised by her grandfather in Pine Bluff, Ark.
O.C. Word was married a third time to Eliza Wilcox Hays, who was the great granddaughter of Daniel Boone. O.C. and Eliza were married in Mexico, Missouri on Sept. 2, 1843. Orville Crawford Word and Eliza Wilcox Hays became the parents of six children. The first two were girls, Emilee and Amelia, who died young. A boy Frank died in Ft. Smith, Ark. and is buried under a magnolia tree near the old house, which was later part of a church. They planted a magnolia tree for each child they had. The other three children were: John Howell, who was born in St. Louis, Feb. 2, 1852 and died April 22, 1922 at Washburn, Ark. He moved to Ft. Smith, Ark. with his parents in 1860. In 1869, he married Mollie Bell of Washburn and they were the parents of four children: Orville Charles Word, John Howell Word, Jr., Jennie (Mrs. Carl Wyman) and Mag (Mrs. Jim Colden) all of Ft. Smith, Ark. William Wade, was born at Ft. Smith, Ark., May 15, 1855, and died there Oct. 7, 1927. He was never married. Albert Pike was born in St. Louis, Missouri and moved to Ft. Smith, Ark. with his parents at age 7 months. His date of birth was Feb. 1, 1857 and he died Oct. 11, 1938 in Elk City, Okla. at age 81. He was married to Nancy Caroline ‘Callie” Gaddy at Greenwood, Ark. in Sebastian Co., July 8, 1883. She was born Sept. 6, 1866 in Newton, Mo. and died Jan. 29, 1946 in Elk City, Okla. at age 80 years. A.P. and "Callie" Word were the parents of Ira Belle Word Rice. They were the parents of seven living children: Sebe Word, born June 30, 1884 in Milltown, Ark., Clint Turner Word, Dec. 26, 1885, in Milltown, Ark., Porter Howell Word, born in Milltown, Ark., July 28, 1888 and died in Portersville, Calif., May 8, 1918. Irabelle Word, born in Milltown, Ark., Sept. 9, 1891, died April 23, 1980 in Okla. City, Okla. Ralph Rogers Word, born in Summers Mills, Bell Co., Texas, Oct. 13, 1895, died Nov. 22, 1938 in Elk City, Okla. Jewell Word, born in Edwardsville, Custer Co., Okla., April 8, 1901. Oaksie Cook Word, born in Elk City, Okla., Aug. 15, 1906. Besides these children Albert Pike and Callie Word lost three children at birth.
(This information from Lloyd M. Rice Jr., Uncle Jack)


Orville Crawford Word owned Trading Post up and along the Santa Fe Trail, first in St. Louis, then later in Fort Smith. Fort Smith was the last stop before entering Indian Territory, was along the Trail of Tears, and was a main route for the Butterfield Stage Co. between the east and west. This was, at the time, an ideal place to start a Trading Post.

Note: According to La Donna Word Woltman, Travis AFB, CA - "Orville Crawford left home and went to Little Rock where he married the Rone girls. He was a wealthy man and owned several stores and other property. In 1860 his personal property was valued at $20,000; real estate at $300,000. My records show Orville C. was born in Kentucky, but on 1860 census it shows he was born in Missouri. He and his wife moved from Missouri to Fort Smith to Missouri then back to Fort Smith. My gggrandfather was born in St. Louis but they moved back to Ft Smith when he was 6 mos old. O.C. married the first time around 17 years of age. I don't know what happened to his first 2 wives."

See below the early settlers of Calloway County, in the Nine Mile Prairie Township.

Calloway County Missouri
The courts divided the county into the following "old" townships from 1821 through 1838. Auxvasse Feb. 12,1821; Cote San Dessein 1821; Round Prairie May 14, 1821; Elizabeth [changed to Fulton 1825 ] May 15, 1821; Nine Mile Prairie May 15, 1821; Cedar November 13, 1824; Bourbon February 21, 1825; Liberty February 24, 1838.

Nine Mile Pairie was erected into a township May 15, 1821 with the following boundaries. "Beginning at the corner of the township line, between 47 and 48, of sections 2,3,34,35, then east in the said township line, until it strikes the western boundary of Auxvasse township, then south with said boundary four miles; then east until it strikes the eastern boundary of the county; then north as far as the jurisdiction of the county extends".

Early settlers in the township included the folllowing families: Anderson; Arnold; Board; Boone; Boswell; Breadwater; Burt; Callerson; Coil; Collins; Cress; Crump; Darby; Dillard; Driskill; Duncan; Everhart; Freeman; Fruite; Grant; Harding; Hamilton; Hays; Hobson; Hughes; Hutts; Jones; Kidwell; Lail; Larch; Manning; Martin; McMahan; Meteer; Overfelt, Palmer; Peters; Robinson; Sayers; Scholl; Todd; Wilburn; Wilkerson; Word; White; Winn and Wren.
Communities in the township included: Shamrock and Williamsburg,

This means that the Word family made the trip with Boone from Boonesborough Ky, or joined his family group somewhere along the way in 1799. Here is what I believe: Daniel Boone settled in Missouri in 1799, John Word would have been about 20 years old, came with his father and the rest of the family. His father would have been 40 to 50 years old at that time. I assume John Word did not marry till he got to Missouri, and may have married someone local. Their are also alot of HOWELL’s , in Calloway county, which may be where Orville and Eliza’s children all got their middle names. I have listed in my files, that Martha Ann, Orville's sister, was also born, 1817, in Missouri. In Uncle Jacks notes, it says of Orville's birth, Ky or Mo. So know one really knew for sure.

The Hays, Wilcox, Howell, Boone, and Word families all intermarried. They all lived together, and were all neighbors.

In 1811 the Indians had committed some outrages in the Boone's Lick settlements, in Howard County, and over near the Mississippi, on the Salt and Cuivre Rivers, in Pike and Lincoln. It was suspected that the perpetrators were the Indians of the Missouri. Gen. Wm. Clark, then in command of this department, made every exertion to detect them, but as the American forces were not yet organized, he did not succeed. Indian forays from the north were repeated, and during the year 1812 from Fort Madison (on the Illinois bank of the Mississippi, a little below the mouth of the Des Moines) to St. Charles, settlers were murdered and their homes destroyed by the savages.
At last Gov. Benjamin Howard went to St. Charles and ordered Col. Kibbe, who commanded the militia of that country, to call out a portion of the men who were in requisition to march at a moment's warning. He organized a company of rangers for continuous service with Capt. James Callaway, a grandson of Daniel Boone, as captain. This company was made up principally of St. Charles county men, all hardy woodsmen, active, skillful and bold. At intervals this company scoured the country from Salt river to the Missouri, and performed invaluable service.
Gov. Howard also established a small fort on the Mississippi in St. Charles County, which was garrisoned by a company of regulars from Bellfontaine under the command of a Lieut. Mason, and for him was called Fort Mason. Fort Clemson, on Loutre Island, was built at the same time. Throughout the settlements the pioneers themselves built a number of block houses, or so called forts. There was Daniel M. Boone's Fort, in Darst's Bottom, St. Charles county; Howell's Fort, on Howell's prairie; Pond's Fort, on the Dog Prairie; Hountz's Fort, eight miles west of St. Charles; Zumwalt's Fort, near O'Fallon; Castillo's Fort, near Howell's Prairie; Kennedy's Fort, near Wright City; Callaway's Fort, near Marthasville, and Wood's Fort at Troy. But for these establishments and that the whites in this part would either have been driven out of the country or exterminated.

"Hell on the Border", Ft. Smith, Arkansas

The scrappy border town of Fort Smith grew up slowly around the walls of a small fort established in late 1817 on a high bluff overlooking the junction of the Arkansas and Poteau rivers. The site was familiar to hunters and trappers because it was the location for annual trade rendezvous' between frontiersmen and Native Americans. Named for General Thomas Smith at the federal garrison in St. Louis, the tiny outpost was originally built to promote peace between the warring Osage and Cherokee Indian tribes.
Because of its unique geographical position - straddling the border between what became the state of Arkansas and what was known then as "Indian Territory" in present-day Oklahoma - Fort Smith by the mid-19th century was feared as "Hell on the Border," the gateway between "civilization" and the untamed West. Through this gate passed trappers canoeing upriver; Cherokee Indians on their fateful "Trail of Tears" journey; Forty-Niners seeking gold in California; the Butterfield stagecoaches linking St. Louis to Santa Fe; Confederate and Union troops skirmishing in the Civil War; outlaws seeking freedom across the border; and even cowboys and ranchers headed for Texas.
During this period, bustling Fort Smith attracted people who later made brief marks on the pages of history - future president Zachary Taylor; Civil War general Benjamin Bonneville; "Hangin' Judge" Isaac C. Parker, the man credited with restoring law and order to the area; his feared hangman George Maledon; outlaws Cherokee Bill, Belle Starr and the Rufus Buck gang; and "Miss Laura" Ziegler, an enterprising frontier "madame."

The First Fort Smith
On Christmas day, 1817, soldiers of the U.S. Army formally established the first Fort Smith. Isolated on the edge of the American Frontier, these men, under the command of Major William Bradford, were charged with keeping the peace between the Cherokee and Osage tribes.
Officially operational for only seven years, the first Fort Smith marked the beginning of Fort Smith's eighty year history as an agent of Federal Indian Policy.

The Second Fort Smith
The second Fort Smith was established by an act of Congress in 1838, two years after Arkansas gained statehood. Unwanted by the army, the fort was initially designed as a massive fortification. Construction of the garrison took eight years due to labor difficulties, budget overruns, and other reasons. When finally completed in 1846, less than half of the original number of structures were built. The fortification wall, intended to be twelve feet high, varied from six to twelve feet in height; cannon platforms at the corners of the fort were never completed, instead several were converted into warehouses.
The second fort gained a purpose in the 1850s as the "Motherpost of the Southwest," supplying military forts further to the West. The fort was a focal point of Civil War operations in the region, as both armies prized the facility and its location.
At the end of the Civil War, the post's operational days were numbered; the facility did not age well, and within five years, both Officer's Quarters were destroyed in fires. In the summer of 1871, U.S. Army troops leave Fort Smith for the final time

The Trail of Tears and Native American History
Fort Smith's history is strongly tied to the history of the removal of the five tribes, better known as "The Trail of Tears." The soldiers of the first Fort Smith were sent West to keep the peace between the incoming Cherokees and the Osage. The stockades fort was abandoned by the army and relocated prior to the forced removal. The second Fort Smith supplied the newly-relocated tribes as well as other military posts in the Indian Territory. The federal court for the Western District of Arkansas had the task of enforcing federal law in the Indian Territory in the decades following the Civil War.


[The following are 1880 census. The Word's, John H. Jr., Eliza, and Albert Pike all lived next door to each other. You will notice that Albert Pike was married first to Mary Faister, born in Ms, they are both 23 years old. He did not marry Nancy Caroline Gaddy till 1863. You will notice that there is a Jane Bowers living with Albert and Mary. I suspect this is Mary's sister. Eliza is watching the 9 year old daughter of Jane, her name is Minnie. Alberts first wife was probably ill at this time and died. It says Jane is 35 years old and widowed, she may have lost her husband in the Civil War. Daniel Rice]



1880 United States Census
Eliza WORD Self W Female W 56 MO Keeping House KY KY
William WORD Son S Male W 25 AR Farming MO MO
Minnie BOWERS Other S Female W 9 AR At School AR AR
LDS Source Information:
Census Place Washburn, Sebastian, Arkansas
Family History Library Film 1254057
NA Film Number T9-0057
Page Number 684A

1880 United States Census
Albert P. WORD Self M Male W 23 MO Farming MO MO
Mary WORD Wife M Female W 23 MS Keeping House --- ---
Jane BOWERS Other W Female W 35 AR --- ---
LDS Source Information:
Census Place Washburn, Sebastian, Arkansas
Family History Library Film 1254057
NA Film Number T9-0057
Page Number 684B

1880 United States Census
John H. WORD Self M Male W 28 MO Farming
Mary WORD Wife M Female W 30 AR Keeping House TN TN
Orville C. WORD Son S Male W 7 AR At School MO AR
Jennie WORD Dau S Female W 5 AR At Home MO AR
John N. R. WORD Son S Male W 3 AR At Home MO AR
LDS Source Information:
Census Place Washburn, Sebastian, Arkansas
Family History Library Film 1254057
NA Film Number T9-0057
Page Number 684A



[ I believe my Great Grandfather, Albert Pike Word, was named after the famous Albert Pike. He can be described as “a pioneer, a crusader for justice for Native Americans, a musician, a reformer, a journalist, a poet, a philosopher, a prominent Washington lawyer, and a Civil War general.” He shaped and directed the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Southern Jurisdiction, USA, for 32 years (1859-1891) as its Sovereign Grand Commander. He published a book in 1871, "Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry", of which I find somewhat controversial. Some of the passages in this book refer to Lucifer, of which I could only raise my eyebrows in disbelief. Albert Pike was a very talented man in many areas. His contribution to our country is monumental. Daniel Rice].

Song of the Week
Why am I playing this song this week. Because it is one of my brothers favorites. Enjoy!!....Vanessa Carlton "A Thousand Miles".

Full Circle....Again!

First there was Hanoi Jane....Notice the anti-aircraft shells that are ready to be used to shoot down American planes by Jane Fonda's foot...July 1972.




US President George W. Bush sits beneath a giant bust of revolutionary hero Ho Chi Minh at the Government Office in Hanoi, Vietnam. I am saddened that our President would take this picture. As a Vietnam Veteran, I am not ready to rub shoulders with a Ho Chi Minh bust. They call Ho Chi Minh a hero, however, there were 5 million Vietnamese that died in that War. I'm sure my 52,000 American brothers that died in Vietnam, are rolling in there graves today.

Like rubbing salt in a old wound........These are the days of our lives!

Song of the Week
J.J. Cale and Eric Clapton have teamed up for their newest album release "The Road To Escondido". Here is one of my favorites off the album called "It's Easy".

Generations of Valor

Caption: "Pearl Harbor surviver Houston James of Dallas embraced Marine Staff Sgt. Mark Graunke Jr. during a Veterans Day Commemoration in Dallas yesterday. Graunke lost a hand, a leg, and an eye when he defused a bomb in Iraq last year."

The emails have been pretty heavy this week leading up to Veterans Day. This picture will forever be in my mind. When it came across my screen, my heart was skipping a beat, and I just stared at it for awhile. A young Marine, once a whole man, now scarred both physically, and mentally from War. The sobbing embrace of a older Veteran, much wiser, that already knows the suffering to follow in his life. I am gritting my teeth so hard for two reasons, first, is why this happen to young Graunke, the other is to hold back my own tears. I wish him well......"Welcome home Soldier"

This song is only appropriate this week, and specific to this picture.

Breathless
Better Than Ezra
Here you are now
Fresh from your war
Back from the edge of time
And all that you were,
Stripped to the bone
I thought you? want to know

That when you feel the world is crashing
All around your feet
Come running headlong into my arms
Breathless
I'll never judge you
I can only love you
Come now running headlong
Into my arms
Breathless

Lay down your guns
Too weak to run
Nothing can harm you here
Your precious heart
Broken and scarred
Somehow you made it through
I only ask that you won't go again

When you feel the world is crashing
All around your feet
Come running headlong into my arms
Breathless
I'll never judge you
I can only love you
Come now running headlong
Into my arms
Breathless

ONE.ORG

A person dies every 3 seconds from starvation.

More than 1 billion people around the world live on less than $1 a day.

Africa has been hit harder by the HIV/AIDS virus than any other region of the world. Last year alone, more than 2 million Africans died from AIDS and another 24 million are infected with the HIV virus, approximately 2 million of whom are children.

Over one billion people do not have access to clean water. Every 15 seconds, a child dies from a disease associated with lack of access to safe drinking water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene.

Africa is home to 80% of the world's 15 million HIV/AIDS orphans.

I have been somewhat taken back to these astounding numbers. It is beyond sad, it is unacceptable, and very hard to believe that we can live in a world of today with such sickness and poverty. Please take the time to browse the ONE.ORG site, and send your declaration, "They do not want your money.......they want your voice". This poverty thing has been on my mind all week........and then today, we get this headline........BEIJING - China launched a sweeping effort Saturday to expand its access to Africa's oil and markets, pledging billions of dollars in aid and loans as dozens of leaders from the world's poorest continent opened a conference aimed at building economic ties.
Go...Go...Go....hey batter...hey batter!!:)....who's on first!

Rosie O'Donnell
Rosie made ABC Nightline this week. You must read about her For All Kids Foundation. What they have done for the Katrina victims is unimaginable. The red tape and beuracracy is enough to make your stomach turn inside out!........I love a woman who can "think" on her feet! She has made the impossible for these people.........POSSIBLE!

Song of the Week
This weeks song is by Bobby Darin and the Richard Wess Orchestra, a song I know your familiar with..."Mack the Knife"(Original).

History of Migration in America

Since the first new settlers arrived in America several centuries ago, people have been coming to the United States for a variety of reasons: to find land to farm, to get an education or better job, to earn money to send home, to practice their religion freely, or to escape famine or war, just to name a few. Others came by force. Whatever the cause or reasons, this immigration is what made America the melting pot that it is today.
It wasn't until the later part of the 1820's that the number of immigrants per year was over 10,000, and from that time on, the numbers kept growing. The first real bursts in immigration came in the 1840's and 1850's, when poor harvests forced people to leave Great Britain and Northern Europe. Most of them came to the United States in order to survive -- there simply wasn't enough food to support the population. So, between 1845 and 1860, more than 3.5 million people arrived in the United States in search of a better life.
In the early years, the influx of immigrants was tolerated, if not altogether welcomed. Immigrants helped populate the growing country, and a majority of them were English-speaking Protestants, so they blended in well with the rest of the population. However, as more and more Irish and European Catholics entered the United States, previous immigrant Americans began to protest. They feared both cheap labor and the possibility that a large Catholic population would increase the influence of the Pope in the United States. This fear spawned the "Know-Nothing" movement, a group of individuals who wanted stricter controls on immigration and naturalization.
By 1870, roughly one-eighth of the population was foreign-born, and the opposition to free immigration continued. In answer to the protests, the U.S. government passed laws to regulate immigration. For example, in 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act disallowed entry of all working-class Chinese. Later laws also barred people who had no money, individuals with certain diseases, anarchists, and individuals who were deemed insane.
The United States government set up quota systems with the National Origins Acts in the 1920's. These quotas heavily favored British and Northern European immigrants over those from Southern and Eastern Europe. At the time, Americans were more accepting of the British and Northern Europeans, while the cultures and cheap labor offered by Slavs, Greeks, Italians, and other Southern and Eastern Europeans seemed more threatening.
The quotas remained in effect until 1965, when the government adjusted them to allow for even more immigration from all countries into the United States. Now, even those quotas are slightly more relaxed. In the post-World War II era, the U.S. government has made exceptions to the quota rules when political situations in other countries such as Cambodia, Vietnam, and Cuba have made it necessary.

The earliest European settlements in the United States were concentrated on the East Coast. However, as the country and population have grown, people have slowly migrated towards the West Coast. In the beginning, people moved west because that's where some of the best and cheapest farm land was. At the time of the Revolutionary War, soldiers were offered free land as payment for their services. Then in the mid-19th century, the government offered free land to homesteaders who would live and make improvements on a piece of prairie land. The government also offered subsidies to railroad builders, who spurred the growth of towns across the United States.
Later, as the importance of agriculture died out, people moved where they could find jobs in the booming industries. Whether it was oil in Texas, cars in Detroit, or movies in California, when an industry died out, families moved to the next booming area.
One notable wave of migration began in the 1920's. As the National Origins Acts effectively reduced the number of foreign immigrants, more labor was needed in Northern factories. Thus, many African-Americans from the South took advantage of these job opportunities and began a new life in the North.
Since the 1960's the main migrations have been towards the West and the South. People have continued moving west for the climate and quality of life. The southerly movement was spawned by retirees who also prefer the more temperate climates, as well as the lower cost of living.


You must realize by now that migration for what was to become America, led from Jamestown, down to Virginia and the Carolina’s. Then when Daniel Boone built the “Wilderness Path “, in to Kentucky, and Tennessee. All of the migration to Missouri came mostly from Kentucky and Tennessee. At that time, part of Kentucky belong to Virginia, before Kentucky became a state in 1797. There are a lot of Rice's in Kentucky, who settled there before statehood. The Rice’s migrated from Virginia, I suspect after the American Revolutionary War.
Military/Pension Land Warrants were used a lot in Kentucky. These warrants were issued to soldiers who fought in the Revolutionary War, instead of pay they got land warrants. Some of the Land Warrants were issued by the British, to those that help them fight the war, as if they really had a right, after that war, to give land away. History will show, that the very reasons that started Wars, those problems, seem to linger long after these Wars had ended. This also led to the War of 1812, when we finally kick the British boot out. These Land Warrants could be sold or given to others, many were given to other family members. They were like cash tender. By 1825, the warrants were no good in Kentucky., and Missouri and Illinois became public-domain, where you could buy 100 acres of land for $4. Sometimes the land would be auctioned off. “Squatters” were people that settled land before a territory had become a state. After statehood, these people were offered to buy the land for $1.25 an acre up to 160 acres, and some of these folks lost their land in auctions.
Once that Daniel Boone cut the "Wilderness Path" to Otter Creek Kentucky., people came not as individuals, but as church congregations. Old family bibles have been found to contain entire list of migrations of individuals from a church group. The whole church would just get up, and move. When they settled, OLE Joe would build the school, and OLE John would build the church. All of the families had 10 to 20 kids, and a lot of these children did not live to adulthood. There were a lot of health concerns, but very little medical assistance. They were just like family, building together, and helping each other, many of these early settlers intermarried with each other’s families. Some of the same families moved with the Boone’s from Pennsylvania to Virginia, then to Kentucky, and even on to Missouri in 1799. All of those families intermarried with each other. You will see that the Boone’s, Hay’s, Collin’s, Wilcoxin’s, Word’s, Howell’s all married together. The Rice’s married into the Bailey family seventy-five times over a one hundred year period.
Folks married much older back then, the men worked the farms with their parents till they had enough money to have there own place, or inherited their parents land. Jonathan Rice was 36 years old when he married Elizabeth Porter, she was 18. Their youngest son Edwin was born in 1860. the same year Jonathan died. There wasn't any law, so they didn't take much to strangers, and handled things, of that sort, the best they knew how.
After you study Genealogy for awhile, you begin to see that every generation since the 1600’s up to the 1800’s had migrated. It was kind of like a family tradition, My father migrated, and now I must do the same thing. Whatever the reason was for migration, pioneer life was not easy.

In the News
This is a heart wrenching article "Doctors struggle to save wounded Marine". The reality of War continues to fill our news. This article proves there are heroes on and off the battlefield. "Semper Fi", Lance Cpl. James W. Higgins.

Song of the Week
John Legend has a new album out this week called "Once Again". This is my favorite "Save Room".

The New 7 Wonders of the World

The commonly known Seven Ancient Wonders of the World were all man-made monuments, selected by Philon of Byzantium in 200 B.C. Today, only the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt remain.

His selection of wonders was essentially a travel guide for fellow Athenians, and the stunning sites were all located around the Mediterranean basin, the then-known world.

The monuments he chose, to be remembered in perpetuity, were:

The Lighthouse of Alexandria
The Temple of Artemis
The Statue of Zeus
The Colossus of Rhodes
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus
The Pyramids of Egypt

All had been built between 2,500 B.C. and 200 B.C.

Now, just as Pierre de Coubertin revived the Olympic Games in 1896 with his modern version of the competition, New7Wonders founder Bernard Weber is seeking to revive the concept of the 7 Wonders of the World with this ambitious global campaign, the New 7 Wonders of the World.
The key difference is that, this time around, they will not be chosen by one man, but rather by millions of people all over the world.

The new wonders that are selected will be the people’s choices, and they will be drawn from the earliest time that humankind walked upon the earth up through the year 2000.

It is, therefore, possible that the only survivor of the original 7 Wonders of the World, the Pyramids at Giza, could be chosen for a second time, taking them well into a third millenium of fame!

The New 7 Wonders of the World will be announced during the Official Declaration ceremony in Lisbon, Portugal on Saturday, July 7, 2007 - 07.07.07.

I have spent most of the week at this website, browsing through, and learning about all 21 structures. How interesting, we can all be a part of history, by voting on something so historical. I have almost made my final 7 decision vote, but I am still researching these structures. I have included a link on the sidebar of this blog for your convenience, and for your own vote. Have fun browsing this site!

In The News
- The whole world is watching to see how we handle the Iraq War. We have called the Generals back in for new strategies, because the first set of strategies, did not include contingency plans in case we fail. This is the most important part of the strategy process, ask any executive, with any Fortune 500 company. Maybe we need to put Donald Trump on contracted labor. If you think that Westpoint Graduates, and Generals have a monopoly on War Strategies, just look in every boardroom with American business. Let's get street smart, and invite some civilians into this strategy. If you think that inviting the "Blood" and the "Crips" to this strategy is outrageous, think again! Im tired of these people, beheading our people, in the name of Allah. Let's get some "meat" behind this next strategy.....Whatta ya say!!....I mean...if we HAVE to be there.......let's get in there, and kick there ASS!
- The "Foley Sex Scandal" has once again reached in to the Catholic Church. Foley's boyhood Priest, says they were naked in a hot bath, there was some fondling going on, but nothing abusive..............because he (Foley) seem to like it..............-------->HELLO....WAKE UP.........HE WAS 13 YEARS OLD!! Is this how the Priest...hood justifies there actions. It is a "Hood" ya know!...sick...sick....sick!
- Our bi-polar friend in North Korea apolgized this week, and has promised, no more Nuke test. China shut off their bank accounts earlier this week. Oh YES, I remember, when my mother used to pinch me in the back of my upper arm. OUCH!....................and I did exactly as I was told.
- Country music star, Keith Urban, has checked himself into Alcohol Rehab. Mr. Urban, recently married Nichole Kidman, after a short romance. My question is this, did she check herself in also? Im not stupid, this was one big party to start with, and he surely doesn't drink and party alone. This is the same thing that happen to Rene Zellweggar, and Kenny Chesney. After six months, honeymoon, and the party is over, now we have to learn to live together. That's right, no matter how much money or fame they have, they have to mature together emotionally, without drugs and alcohol, just like the rest of us. This primal process of every human relationship amazes me! Ain't life a bitch!!
- Once again we are censoring our Artist. NBC has decided they will censor Madonna's up coming concert, "Confessions". They will be censoring the part where she is strapped on a mirrored cross, complete with a thorn crown. Tonight I have included the theme song to the 007 classic movie hit "Goldfinger", by Shirley Bassey. Back then, they did not have ratings, you just went, and watched what you wanted. I guess I was twelve, when in 1964 the movie depicted a character named "Pussy Galore". According to Wikipedia, she was the head of the all Lesbian gang known as the "Cement Mixers". Yes...after watching this classic some 100 times in the last 40 years, my mind is warped with sex and drugs. The thought police are looking for me...............Just the stupidity of such censorship, to question our own intelligence about such matters. I am allowed to think what I want, when I want, quit insulting me, by trying to control the way I think, it makes you want to go make "Toilet Confessions"...........I'm puking Galore!

Songs from the Past

I thought I would include some songs tonight, some more oldies. I have a new link out on the sidebar. It is internet radio 24 hrs a day, Maurice Watts website. Maurice has been a Disc Jockey in Harlem, NY, for almost 25 years. I enjoy listening to his Love Zone station. Give it a try, I think you'll like it too!

Roger Miller - King of the Road (Original Version 1964)

Shirley Bassey - Goldfinger (James Bond 1964)

Ramsey Lewis Trio - The In Crowd (1965)

Have a wonderful week!

Biography of Seth Hays

You like my Halloween Costume? I guess you know by now that Al Gore and I started the internet!!


The story of Orville Word and his father, John Word, is exhaustive. I have spent many hours researching this family. My 3rd Great Grandmother, Eliza Wilcox Hays, who married Orville Word, had a brother name Seth Millington Hays. He is my 2nd Great Uncle. The Boone family, the Hays family, and Orville Word were owners of all the trading post up and down the Sante Fe Trail. Here is the story of Seth hays.



Biography of Seth Hays

In 1839-1844 Seth M. HAYS was living in Westport, now part of Kansas City, Missouri. In 1844-1845 Seth HAYS, about thirty?three years old, followed the Kansas River west into present day Kansas.
April 1845 Charles B. Chouteau and Seth M. HAYS were in charge of Frederick Chouteau's trading post (located on what is now Mission Creek in the westernmost part of Shawnee County, west of Topeka, about two miles from the Kansas Indian Mission that Methodist missionaries had founded in 1835).
In the spring of 1846 the Kansas signed a treaty with the government, ceding their land along the Kansas River in exchange for a new but smaller reservation located along the upper valley of the Neosho River, in what is now Morris County, Kansas. Seth HAYS, perhaps sensing that Chouteau's trading post would soon close its doors, returned to Westport.


April 1847 At Council Grove on the Santa Fe Trail, Albert G. BOONE (grandson of Daniel BOONE, and cousin of Seth HAYS. His parents were Daniel Morgan Boone, son of Daniel and Rebecca, and he married Zerilda Randall) and James G. HAMILTON, of Westport, Missouri, (by virtue of their Kansas Indian trading license) established a trading post on the Kaw reservation. Boone and Hamilton placed bachelor Seth M. HAYS in charge. Seth M. HAYS, a citizen of Westport, Missouri, having obtained a license from the Government to trade with the Indians in "Kansas."
April 1847 Seth M. HAYS was the first permanent white settler in Council Grove. When he arrived in 1847, he brought with him a Mexican teamster, who also was a handyman and interpreter, and a freed black slave (Aunt Sallie).
Seth M. HAYS built a log cabin (trading post) near the west bank of the Neosho River near where the Commercial House later stood. He lived there with Aunt Sallie, his housekeeper.
Mid May 1853 At Council Grove, there is a large, well furnished store (run by Seth M. HAYS), where a constant supply of everything required for the road is kept.
Soon after Kansas Territory was organized in 1854, the government ordered a census of the territory. When census taker James R. McClure arrived in Council Grove the following year, he reported that there were thirty?nine people living there aside from the Indians. He also noted that Seth HAYS operated a well furnished store and "kept for sale all kinds of goods needed by the constant stream of teamsters" who passed through the settlement following the Santa Fe Trail.
1857 The HAYS House, said to be the oldest continuously operating restaurant west of the Mississippi River, was founded by Seth M. HAYS.
The Council Grove Town Company was organized in 1857, with Seth HAYS, Thomas Huffaker, the Chouteau brothers, and a few other residents as stockholders; and in 1858 the territorial legislature approved the incorporation of the town.
February 2, 1858 Hezekiah Brake, Mr A., Louis Boyse reached Council Grove that night, and began our arrangements for the trip to New Mexico. Seth M. HAYS kept a store and an outfitting station at Council Grove at this time. He had in keeping now six small Mexican mules, a good pony, a large wagon, and various other necessary acquisitions to our outfit. It took us four days to get the animals ready and lay in a supply of everything needful for our journey. An freed slave who worked for Mr. HAYS roasted coffee, made cakes, and gave us a keg of pickles and sauerkraut as relishes.
October 1858 The first term of the court was held, and the place of holding it was in the old log cabin built by Seth M. HAYS. The court officers were: William Weir, of Wyandotte County, was prosecuting attorney; L. McCarthy, clerk, and W. B. Harrold acted as Sheriff. The place where the jury deliberated upon their verdict was under the shade of a tree that stood in the yard.
1867 Seth Hays adopted a daughter. This is the same time frame that the Quaker Manual Labor School closed (reopened 1869?1873). His daughter was not Kaw (Morris County Historical Society).


1867 The Seth HAYS home was built of bricks from a local factory and native lumber. Hays slave, Aunt Sallie, lived in the basement and cared for the family until her death in 1872.

1868 The Missouri, Kansas, and Texas (Katy) Railroad, built through Morris County in 1868, passed through and brought citizens to Council Grove. Wagon freighting over the Santa Fe Trail began to decline. Seth HAYS sold out and started a saloon called the Brown Jug. To attract attention in the growing community, HAYS hired a man with a bagpipe to entertain customers. His business prospered, and when members of a church were without a meeting hall, HAYS let them use his saloon. When the church held services, he would remove all evidence of his business and would cover some of the walls and the bar with wagon canvas. The Brown Jug was the first school in Council Grove.
1872 Seth HAYS's housekeeper, Aunt Sallie, died. Her funeral was held in HAYS's home.
1873 Seth Hays died and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery at Council Grove, Morris County, Kansas.
SOURCES: [Ref. Barry, Louise. The Beginning of the West ? Annals of the Kansas Gateway to the American West (1540-1854). Topeka: Kansas State Historical Society, 1972. Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 78172252] [Ref. Dary, David. More True Tales of Old?Time Kansas. University Press of Kansas. 1984]


Seth Hays - Oliver page 267: Unmarried ; adopted daughter: Kittie Robbins Hays



Hays House 1857
112 West Main, Council Grove
Town founder Seth Hays, a grandson of Daniel Boone, opened the Hays House in 1857. Over the years, the Hays House was a gathering place for church services, court trials, bawdy theatricals and politicians' speeches. Among its early patrons were George A. Custer and Jesse James. Today the Hays House is famous as the oldest continuously operated restaurant west of the Mississippi River and the home of fantastic fare. (Order up the marinated brisket, Beulah's Ham, the crispy chicken fried in cast iron skillets, or the fresh peach pie topped with real cream and you'll agree with the rave reviews.)
The town founder, Seth Hays, built this home in 1867. His slave, Aunt Sally, lived in the basement and cared for the family until her death in 1872. Operated as a museum by the Morris County Historical Society, the home is open in the summer on Sunday afternoons and by appointment.
A great deal of the history of Council Grove is embraced in the narrative history of the county, some of which it will be necessary to repeat in order that the history of the organization and growth of Council Grove as a city may be the better understood. The city is located on the Neosho River, and is 170 miles west of the Missouri River. The greater portion of the city, probably three?fourths of it, is situated on the west bank of the stream. The land upon which the city is built was once part of the territory embraced within the Kaw Reservation. The first white person that settled in Council Grove was Seth M. Hays, who came in 1847 to establish a trading post for the purpose of trading with the Indians. The first house built in Council Grove was by him, which was a log cabin, and which stood on the north side of the old Santa Fe Trail, and but a few rods from the west bank of the river. This cabin served the double purpose of being both a dwelling and a store.
Hays Stock Ranch, Near the mouth of Diamond Creek 1854. Established by Seth Hays who also had an Indian Trading Post at Council Grove. Same as Cottonwood Ranch or Station. (Agr. Rept. 1877?8, p. 136; Andreas, p. 1356.)
Seth Millington Hays, of Council Grove, buys the land at the mouth of Diamond creek for a ranch. By a treaty with the Osage Indians the purchase of land by settlers had been provided for. William Harris is put in charge of this ranch.Aside from the Hays ranch at the mouth of Diamond creek there was then no other settlement in the territory of what is now Chase county.
Seth M. Hays, of Council Grove, states that he came to Council Grove in 1844, and shortly after, the Neosho was dry for 18 months. When the land sales were made in 1854, he bought his farm on Osage bottoms, at the mouth of Diamond creek, because more grass grew there than in any other part of Wise county.
Source: Seth Hays-Council Grove on the Santa Fe Trail The Kansas Heritage Server would like to thank Stephen Chinn (Steven.Chinn@Vanderbilt.edu for providing this information

Song of the Week
This is dedicated to the Vietnam Veterans who died and left loves ones behind. Bless you!.........Dixie Chicks "Traveling Soldier".

Funky Soul and a Blast from the Past

I guess you know by now that I am a music fanatic. Yes ......I own a virtual history of music dating back to 1910. I think I have some music from about every year, and from just about every genre. When I was about 15 years old, we used to go camping at Bennett Springs State Park, in Missouri. This was a family thing, and yes we would go about every weekend. When I got older I figured out that this was my fathers way of keeping me out of trouble. But we had fun, lots of fishing, swimming, and meeting new friends, from just about anywhere. The Hawkinsons were from Tulsa, and they were frequent campers, that had kids the same age as me and my brother and sisters. Jim was my age, kind of a weird kid back then, anyway, we used to run together. He had this old phonograph, battery operated, he carried all his albums with him. Keep in mind that this was just shortly before they had boom boxes, cassette tapes, CD's were to come much later. He would walk a mile, and then we would stop under a shade tree, listen to some Jefferson Airplane, then we would walk another mile, we would find another shade tree and stop, and listen to some Cream. This was fun back in those days. We would listen to "Cant Get No Satisfaction" 100 times a day. Now Mick Jagger wants me to pay him .99 cents to download that song. I am patiently waiting for my senior citizen discount.

Somehow I think that things have gotten out of control. Now days, kids have guns for fun. They do unthinkable things, and then blame them on others. The rash of school shootings this past two weeks is unthinkable to me. Where does this hatred come from? Whatever happen to just sitting under a shade tree, listening to the old phonograph?

I thought I would put some tunes up for you tonight. There is a new album just released oct. 2, 2006, its called What it is! Funky Soul and other Grooves, you can read the review at All-Music.Com. This album has some of the oldest Funky style music that I have ever heard. Some of these songs I cant get, because they are so old that folks just dont put them up on a PP network. It is a box set with 91 songs on the set. I love funky music, I know my brother loves funky music too. If Tim and I could have, we would have had Afro haircuts back in the 70's. Some of these are the original off this album and others are remakes. I am going to put a bonus track here too. "Under the Bamboo Tree" Marie Cahill recorded in 1917. So enjoy!

Faze O "Riding High"

Paul Butterfield Band "Get out of my life Woman"

Wilson Pickett "Engine Number 9"

Have a wonderful week!

Daniel Boone was my 5th Great Grandfather

Daniel Boone was my 5th Great Grandfather. His daughter Susannah Boone who married William hays, had a son William Hays Jr.. Willam Hays Jr. married Phoebe Stevens who had a daughter Eliza Wilcox Hays. Eliza married Orville Word. Orville and Eliza are my 2nd Great Grandparents. Their son, Albert Pike Word was my great Grandfather. I must note that by this marriage of Eliza Hays and Orville Word, thier decendents will all be great grandchildren of Daniel Boone.........forever!
Here is the story of Daniel Boone. It is quite interesting that the ancestry of Rebecca Bryan has taken me back to first royalty,and then to Adam and Eve.
These readings are from my book, and this Biography was contributed by LaDonna Word Woltman, April 8, 1974.

BOONES OF PENNSYLVANIA
GEORGE BOONE (born app. 1664), a weaver from the village of CULLOMPTON, near EXETER in ENGLAND, sent his son GEORGE BOONE II, his daughter SARAH, and another son, SQUIRE, to investigate Penn. before 1713. SQUIRE worked on the ship as a cabin boy. They liked the land so GEORGE returned home to get his father. GEORGE returned immediately to Penn. and married an American girl in May, 1713. It was four years before GEORGE I, and the rest of the family came over. They sailed on Aug. 17, 1717, and arrived in Philadelphia on Oct. 10, 1717. In 1718, they moved to OLEY TOWNSHIP, now BERKS COUNTY. GEORGE'S sister, MARY BOONE, married JOHN WEBB in 1719. On July 23, 1720, SQUIRE BOONE and SARAH MORGAN were married. SARAH was the daughter of JOHN MORGAN who lived in GWYNEDD. On Dec. 3, 1728, SQUIRE bought land in NEW BRITAIN TOWNSHIP, BUCKS COUNTY. In 1730, he bought another tract of land in OLEY TOWNSHIP, now BERKS COUNTY. DANIEL BOONE was born there Nov. 2, 1734, the sixth son of SQUIRE and SARAH. HENRY MILLER was a friend of DANIEL's since youth. In 1742, DANIEL's sister was married. In 1747, his brother ISRAEL was married. BOONES and LINCOLNS have always been closely associated, and also the MORGAN BRYANS. SQUIRE and SARAH sold their land on April 11, 1750, and left Penn. HENRY MILLER settled on LINNVILLE CREEK, ROCKINGHAM, VIRGINIA. In late 1751 or early 1752, SQUIRE BOONE reached YADKIN VALLEY in NORTH CAROLINA. On Dec. 29, 1753, he bought land, Earl of Granville (now DAVIDSON COUNTY, N. CAROLINA) near SALISBURY. After fighting in the war, DANIEL was back home with his father in 1757. DANIEL's sister, MARY BOONE, married WILLIAM BRYAN. At the age of 16, REBECCA BRYAN became the bride of DANIEL BOONE on Aug. 14, 1756 (she was born approximately 1740). In 1759, DANIEL and REBECCA moved to CULPEPPER COUNTY, VIRGINIA, near FREDRICKSBURG, for a short time during the Indian uprising. This is where DANIEL met and became friends with GEORGE WASHINGTON. By Oct. 12, 1759, they were back in YADKIN COUNTY. DANIEL had bought 640 acres of land from his father in ROWAN COUNTY. While on his hunting and exploring trips DANIEL had a knack for carving on trees and etc. These are found all over the YADKIN, CLINCH, HOLSTON and WATAUGA VALLEYS east and west of the ALLEGHENIES in NORTH CAROLINA, TENNESSEE and KENTUCKY down the Big Sandy River and etc. In 1763, in Oct., DANIEL and his brother SQUIRE left for Florida; although DANIEL bought land and a house in PENSACOLA, FLA., he disliked the climate and the hunting was poor with practically no trapping so the house was never lived in. Son JAMES began hunting at the age of eight. DANIEL took him hunting and camping in the winter of 1767. Later in 1767, BOONE hunted with BENJAMIN CUTBIRTH, husband of his niece ELIZABETH WILCOXIN, in WATAUGA COUNTY, now a part of TENNESSEE. The same year DANIEL ventured across the BLUE RIDGE, BIG SANDY, on the eastern edge of KENTUCKY, down the Ohio River until they were west of the CUMBERLAND MOUNTAINS, SALT SPRINGS near PRESTONBURG in eastern KENTUCKY. JOHN FINLEY told DANIEL about the land in KENTUCKY. DANIEL and SQUIRE BOONE, brother-in-law JOHN STUART, and JOHN FINLEY, along with three camp-keepers, left May 1, 1769, for KENTUCKY (camp-keepers were JOSEPH HOLDEN, JAMES MOONEY and WILLIAM COOL or COOLEY). By June 7, they reached STATION CAMP CREEK (so called because they built their base camp here). Early in 1773, while exploring, DANIEL occupied his old cave on LITTLE HICKMAN CREEK in JESSAMINE COUNTY. They left in Sept., 1773, for KENTUCKY needing more tools and flour. JAMES BOONE and HENRY RUSSELL (Capt. WILLIAM RUSSELL's son) went back on the night of Oct. 10, 1773. On WALDEN'S CREEK the two boys and two slaves were attacked by Indians, one of the slaves being able to get away into the bushes. The Indians had a great deal of fun torturing them to death. Among the band, JAMES recognized BIG JIM, a Shawnee who often visited with his father. Shivering in terror in his pile of driftwood, the Negro heard JAMES begging his father's friend to spare his life, but the Indians were intent on torture. Again the slave heard JAMES screaming for mercy but this time the only mercy he asked for was to be toma-hawked at once and allowed to die. Again BIG JIM refused. The torture went on until at last the two boys died, their bodies slashed to ribbons, their nails torn out, their palms slashed in futile efforts to turn the blades aside with bare hands. CAPTAIN RUSSELL and a comrade found the boys and sent ahead for DANIEL. REBECCA sent with DANIEL a linen sheet to cover her son and keep the earth from his body. DANIEL also built a cabin with EVAN HINTON in HARRODSBURG, KEN. It was burned down by the Indians in 1777, and he never lived there. March 10, 1775, SQUIRE, STONER, CUTBIRTH and RICHARD CALLAWAY started WILDERNESS ROAD. Around April 19, 1775, they passed through POWELL's VALLEY, CUMBERLAND GAP and WARRIORS' PATH. Moving to HAZEL PATH, ROCKCASTLE RIVER, and on to what is today MADISON COUNTY. In late August, 1775, the BOONES, CALLAWAYS, TODDS, HARRODS, KENTONS and LOGANS came to BOONESBOROUGH. A short time later, SQUIRE and the BRYAN family joined them. In the early summer of 1776 (Sunday, July 7) JEMIMA BOONE, BETSY and FANNY CALLAWAY, went for a ride on a raft and were kidnapped by Indians. A week later, home safe, JEMIMA became engaged to FLANDERS CALLAWAY, although she was only 14. During the next few years, between hunting and scouting, DANIEL worked for the Union selling land. Between the Indian wars and so many people moving into that part of the country, DANIEL decided to move on. He had been hearing a lot about MISSOURI. Like his father and grandfather before him, he sent his sons to see the land. DANIEL MORGAN and NATHAN set out for MISSOURI. It didn't take much to convince them that they should all move. They returned in the early part of 1799. DANIEL and family, friends and neighbors were ready for the move. NATHAN BOONE left the party and went to LIMESTONE where he bought a marriage license and left for LITTLE SANDY, KENTUCKY, to marry OLIVE VAN BIBBER. They married Sept. 26, 1799, and were on their way to MISSOURI by Oct. 1. (Miss VAN BIBBER was said to be the prettiest girl north of the OHIO RIVER). They all met in ST. LOUIS and from there went west to ST. CHARLES, MISSOURI, where they all received land. DANIEL MORGAN BOONE was married on March 2, 1800, in the Parish of St. Charles Borromeo, to SARAH GRIFFIN LEWIS, daughter of JOHN BAPTIST LEWIS and ELIZABETH HARVE. In the next few years, DANIEL was getting more famous than ever. The people of KENTUCKY were stirring - they wanted their hero back. DANIEL said he would never return to KENTUCKY. His wife passed away at the age of 73. DANIEL moved in with his son NATHAN and his wife and children and spent the last few years of his life hunting when he felt like it, and teaching his grandchildren to hunt and fish and tell his stories of the old days. DANIEL passed away on Sept. 26, 1820, at the home of his son NATHAN.
This Biography contributed by LaDonna Word Woltman, April 8, 1974.

[Pioneering was a familiar experience for many of these people. Either they or their parents had already moved several times before reaching the Mississippi Valley. Mark Twain vividly described the kinds of men he had seen while growing up in Hannibal, Missouri: "Rude, uneducated, brave, suffering terrific hardships with sailor-like stoicism; heavy drinkers...heavy fighters, reckless fellows, every one, elephantinely jolly, foul witted, profane; profligal of their money...yet in the main, honest, trustworthy, faithful to promises and duty, and often picaresquely magnanimous." Daniel Rice]

Song of the Week
This song is off the new Alan Jackson album "Like Red on a Rose". This album is produced by Alison Krause who wrote most of the songs on the album. The album is very mellow, unlike Jacksons previous cuts. This tune is a great cut of an oldie written by Leon Russell, "Bluebird".......Oh Bluebird...why did you have to fly away?