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The Family Garden
Notes
Edward Dixon WALKER SR
He attended college for about 3 years in Schenectody, NY. He served in World War II. He married Mary Lucy James on 2 May 1942. They had four children. He later married Lorraine - last name unknown. They had 3 children: Cynthia Lorraine b. 20 Oct 1958, William Walker and Jeff Walker.
*Source: Interview by mail solicited by Maribeth Walker from her Aunt Majory Patton in April 1995.
Localities lived in:
Lake City, King, Washington
Northgate, King, Washington
Seattle, King, Washington
Social secuity number was issued in New York.
SSN: 127-03-2254
*Source: SSI (Social Security Death Index)
Benjamin Franklin HANSON
Benjamin was 33 years old and had been married three times when he married Charlotte Josephine Rogers, 16 years old. All three of his wives had died. The Rogers family, the Huff families, the Hanson families and the Radford families all lived in the same area of PerryCounty, Alabama.
Four of the children of B.F. and Charlotte Josephine Rogers Hanson died with diphtheria:
William Thomas on 20 Oct 1897
Nora Helen on 17 Jan 1899
Bennie on 18 Jan 1899
Stella on 4 Oct 1899
All of these children are buried in the Black Hills Cemetery, northwest of Corsicana. Benjamin is also buried in the Black Hills Cemetery beside his children, Willim Thomas, Nora Helen, Bennie and Stella.
*Source: Personal knowledge of his grandaughter, Edna Lorena Hanson Karnes.
Data from Louise Birchfield, 1996. He died of dysentery.
Documents in my possession for Benjamin Franklin Hanson:
30 Jan 1878 - Abstract of Marriage Record
B. F. Hanson, age 25, and Mary A. McDearman, age 19, White Co, AR
Mary Angeline MCDEARMAN
She died of Measles at age 22 when her son, Orlando was 9 months old. *Source: Her grandaughter, Edna Lorena Hanson.
Documents in my possession for Mary Angeline McDearman Hanson:
30 Jan 1878 - Abstract of Marriage Record
B. F. Hanson, age 25, and Mary A. McDearman, age 19, White Co, AR
Marriage Notes for Benjamin Franklin Hanson and Mary Angeline MCDEARMAN-104
Source: Abstract of marriage Record
John Wesley HANSON
Documents in my possession: Obituary for John Wesley Hanson Suddenly, just before day, John Wesley Hanson - infant son of B.F. & M.A. Hanson; aged five months and twenty-five days. Death, under the most mollifying circumstances, is a bitter cup, and at the time we would gladly go with the loved one; but when it comes without warning in the dead hours of night, when the family is in quiet gentle slumber, and from cause unknown, it is terrible --beyond the power of tongue to tell. Such was the sweet little Johnnie's fate. He was not well, but there was no cause for alarm; for he was simply at times a little restless -- nothing more. Their first pledge of love, his parents watched with anxiety his every movement, both by day and by night;' still, he was snatched from them by that grim monster death, just before day, when they were asleep. They had carefully attended to his every disturbance during night, and slept only when he rested well. Just before day the father asked the mother how the baby was. She immediately examined him, and screamed instantly, "Oh! my god! my child is dead!" How terribly that mother felt then can only be faintly imagined, but not realized, except under similar circumstances. Remember, dear friends, "That the Lord both giveth and taketh away, and that His ways are past finding out; that all of our afflictions are for a good and wise purpose, which in the end, we will fully understand. In the language of the poet, we hear the mother addressing her husband in a whisper, thus:
Hush, Ben, tread softly--Johnny's dead; Gone forever.
See where he sleeps upon the bed, To waken never!
Come closer--look upon his face, For he is fair;
Nor is there sign by which to trace. The soul not there.
Aye kiss-for he loved you much, But me the most.
Oh, death! Why shouldst thou single such, From our life's boat?
Why shouldst thou slay with icy breath, The pure and fair,
When there are thousands craving death, To end despair?
I see him smile--he smiles on me; O, Ben, he smiles!
Oh, I'm maddened with my misery, With words most wild,
I blame the God who gave me birth; My first drawn breath;
I fling mine arms about my boy, Defying death.
Though, with a wild despair I fight, Against my fear;
Till o'er his face the shadow falls, And oh, my God!
He is asleep and all is well With him--but I?
Oh, God--but I.
A Friend, Judsonia, Ark, June 18, 1870
James Levi DODD
1920 Cenus, Iowa Soldiers Home, Marshall County, Iowa
Dodd, James L.
Relation: member
Age: 71
Married
Able to read & write: Yes
Place of Birth: Illinois
Mother Tongue: It is not English, but I can't read what it is.
Father's Place of birth: Illinois
Father's Mother Tongue: Scotch or Dutch?
Mother's Place of Birth: New York
Mother's Mother Tongue: German.
Able to speak English? Yes
Trade, profession: Hogman
Employer, salary or wage worker? Wage
Documents in my possession for James Levi Dodd: Obituary from the newspaper:
James Dodd Dies in Home Hospital
James L. Dodd, who was admitted to the Iowa Soldiers' Home Dec. 31, 1913, from Boone, died Wednesday afternoon at 4:40 in the home hospital, death being due to arteriole sclerosis. He was born June 6,1848, in Miledgeville, Ill. He served in Company A, 34th Illinois infantry, enlisting Feb. 3, 1864, at Sterling, Ill., and being discharged July 12, 1865, at Chicago, Ill. Mr. Dodd is survived byhis widow, Mrs. Emily J. Dodd, of Phoenix, Ariz; three daughters, Mrs. F.M. Nichols and Mrs. O. B. Hanson of Searcy, Ark., and Mrs. E. Herman of Phoenix, Ariz.; one grandson, Earl Nichols, 602 South Eight avenue;one niece, Mrs. Frank Monzluck of Ferguson, 18 grandchildren, 10 great grandchildren, three sisters and a brother. Funeral services will be held Friday at 3 o'clock from the home chapel and burial will be in the home cemetery.
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In 1886, the Iowa General Assembly approved an appropriation of $75,000 for the establisment of the Iowa Soldiers Home "to provde a home and subsistance for all honerably discharged soldiers, sailors and marines who had served in the Army or Navy of the United States, and are disabled by disease, illness or otherwise". The Govenor appointed a commission to determine where the Home should be located. The Home was eventually constructed in 1887 in Marshalltown (sic Iowa).
*Source: http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:2z_gKyp2gjIC:staffweb.legis.state.ia.us/lfb/docs/IssReview/2002/IRRIT001.PDF+%22soldiers+home%22+%2Biowa&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
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Company "A" 34th Illinois Infantry
Name: DODD, James L.
Rank: Recruit
Residence: Jordan
Date of Muster: Mar 5, 1864
Comments: Vet. Rec. M. O. July 12, 1865
(M.O. means mustered out) He was 15 when he enlisted.
*Source: Internet site for the 34th Illinois Infantry
Emily Jane DILLON
Copy of Funeral Remberance (in my possession):
In memory of Emily Jane Dodd, born September 11th, 1848 in Iowa. Lived 94 years, 8 months, 6 days. Services at Memory Chapel, May 19, 1943. Rev. W. H. Hedges, Officiating. Concluding services at Greenwood Memorial Park. Phoenix, AZ.
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From a letter written by her granddaughter, Fannie Lee 1989:
About Grandma Dodd. I don't know very much about her background. I do know that she married at fourteen and had two boys and a girl before she married Grandpa Dodd. I don't know what her first husband's name was. They were all grown up or about when she married Grandpa Dodd. The two boys died soon after they came to Arkansas. Grandma said from swamp fever. The girl's name was Vada. I've heard Mama (*see not below) speak of her, but I know she would be dead by now. Mama used to write to her. I think she lived in Denver, but I'm not sure. I know I never saw her.
Mama was born after her folks moved to Arkansas and she was the oldest of that family by Grandpa Dodd. Mama must have been born about 1878. They first homesteaded where Stuttgart is now, then it was called Gum Pond. It is flat prarie and was swampy. She told me it was nothing to hear panthers hollering at night. It was so unhealthy that they moved. Mama was born at El Paso, AR, north of Searcy. That is on my birth certificate. Then later they moved to Judsonia. That is where they lived when my Mother and Dad were married.
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*note - this must be Clara Flora Dodd's daughter based on the description of her mother's birth year and being the oldest child in the family.
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Found on page 248
*Source: Genealogy of the Ford Family, by Dr. James Ford, 1890, p. 203
Fannie Odette HANSON
Odette was born the 28th of August, 1911 in Searcy, Arkansas. The third child of Orlando B. and Martha Hanson.
She graduated from Searcy High School in 1929. After graduation, she went to Memphis, Tennessee, where she graduated from Tennessee Nursing school in 1937. She taught nursing for serval years in Memphis. She was also nursing supervisor in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She was working in Jefferson City, Missouri, when she met Raymond C. Pound.
They were married in 1948. They moved to Dallas in 1949. Ray worked for a motor freight line until his death in 1964. Odette worked for private Doctors for several years. She died at her home the 27th of Sept, 1974. She is buried beside Ray in Oak Grove Cemetery in Searcy, Arkansas.
Odette was a fun loving person. She enjoyed life and loved to tease people. She could take a joke as well as pull one on somebody. She was fun to be around.
A book could be written about the funny things Odette said and did. She was mischievous and could act totally innocent.
When she was a girl, she was getting ready to go to her geat-Grandmothers funeral and a little neighbor girl asked her if she knew Mrs. McDearman had died, and Odette said, no, but my Grandma died.
Odette was loved by everyone who knew her and has been missed by her family for many years.
*Source: Personal knowledge of Laurie Jeanne Karnes Graves, her neice.
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Obituary from Searcy, Arkansas newspaper:
Former Searcian Dies
Mrs. Odette Pound, 63, of Dallas, Texas, formerly of Searcy, died Thursday, September 26 in Dallas (TX). She was a registered nurse and had been associated with Dr. Jessie Thompson and Associates of Dallas for the last 27 years. Mrs. Pound was a member of the First Christian Church of Duncanville, Texas and was a graduate of the University of Tennessee School of Nursing. Survivors include a stepson, Robert Pound of Manchester, Connecticut; three sisters, Mrs. Edna Karnes of Dallas, Miss Mae Hanson of Searcy and Mrs. Rebecca Correia of Manasquan, New Jersey.
Funeral will be at 11:00 am Saturday, September 28 in the chapel of Daniel Funeral Home with Rev. Bill Crawford of Duncanville officiating. Burial will be at Oak Grove Cemetery by Daniel Funeral Service.
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Documents:
Graduation announcement, Class of June 1937, The Univeristy of Tennessee School of Nursing (in Memphis).
Emily Rebecca HANSON
She was born the 17th of October, 1925 in Searcy, Arkansas. The fifth child of Orlando B. and Martha Hanson.
She graduated from Searcy High School in 1942. She went to Memphis,Tennessee and started nursing training, but only went for two years because she met Toddy Correia and that ended her training!
They were married the 2nd of April, 1947 at the First Methodist Churchin Searcy, Arkansas. They had two children, Odette Hanson Correia,born the 30th of May, 1948 and Elliott Augusto, burn the 14th of June,1951. Both children were born in Newark, New Jersey. They lived inapartments until after the birth of Elliott. Then they decided it wastime to buy a house in Manasquan, New Jersey where they children wereraised. Now, there are grandchildren coming to their house to seethem.
Rebecca met Toddy, so the the story goes, while he was going through Searcy on an Army truck convoy. Rebecca and a girlfriend were standing by the highway waving at the soldiers and Toddy threw his address at the girls. Rebecca picked it up and in due time wrote to him. She went back to Memphis where Toddy was stationed and they met in person. The rest of the story has already been told!
*Source: Notes from my mother, Laurie Jeanne Karnes Graves, neice of Rebecca.
Benjamin Franklin HANSON
Benjamin was 33 years old and had been married three times when he married Charlotte Josephine Rogers, 16 years old. All three of his wives had died. The Rogers family, the Huff families, the Hanson families and the Radford families all lived in the same area of PerryCounty, Alabama.
Four of the children of B.F. and Charlotte Josephine Rogers Hanson died with diphtheria:
William Thomas on 20 Oct 1897
Nora Helen on 17 Jan 1899
Bennie on 18 Jan 1899
Stella on 4 Oct 1899
All of these children are buried in the Black Hills Cemetery, northwest of Corsicana. Benjamin is also buried in the Black Hills Cemetery beside his children, Willim Thomas, Nora Helen, Bennie and Stella.
*Source: Personal knowledge of his grandaughter, Edna Lorena Hanson Karnes.
Data from Louise Birchfield, 1996. He died of dysentery.
Documents in my possession for Benjamin Franklin Hanson:
30 Jan 1878 - Abstract of Marriage Record
B. F. Hanson, age 25, and Mary A. McDearman, age 19, White Co, AR
Unknown (HANSON)
She died of a spider bite from picking strawberries a few months after their marriage. Source: Edna Lorena Hanson
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