Selected Families and Individuals

Notes


Seth MARVIN

1.  20 Sep 1850 Census - Chemung, NY, Southport Pg ? 357/369
     Seth 38
    Jane 29
     Edward 14
    Elizabeth 11
    Lyman 9
     Emma 3
    Adeline 9/12
    Robert Wilson 20 [laborer]


Thomas M. MC MINN

1.  Thomas & Sarah had at least 10 children in Tennessee before moving to Jackson County, Missouri 1850 - 1860.


James "Saint" E. FINCH

1.  Saint was a private investigor for former Governor Cliff Finch.


Katherine "Kate"

1.  On the 1850 Census her name was spelled Katherine and it says she was a 31-year old, who was born in Tennessee.

2.  On the 1860 Census her name was spelled Catherine and it says she was a 41-year old, who was born in Tennessee


William Sherman MADDOX

1.  Stan Maddox reports the following:  William Sherman Maddox was a merchant in Clinton, and he served as the County Sheriff and Tax Collector of Van Buren County, Arkansas from approximately 1890 until approximately 1900.   During the coures of his tenure,  he apprehended two men who were convicted and subsequently hanged for the murder of a local resident, and he apprehended two armed robbers who attempted to rob him and his deputy, Jim Hatchett, as they were returning to Clinton for Scotland, Arkansas, with county tax revenue they had collected there.


Alice Fuha or Phebe [sic] Alice BRADLEY

1.  Alice was orphaned prior to 1870 and she was raised by the family of her uncle, Smith Bradley, at whose home in Clinton, she married William Sherman Maddox.


William Vernon MADDOX

1. Stan Maddox reports that William was always known as “Vernon”,  never married & died of a stroke at age 61.  He was a school teacher, who taught fifth grade at Clinton Elementary School in th 1920’s and 1930’s.  He served on the school board during those same years and continued to for many years afterward.  He eventualy went to work for the US Postal Service and was the Assistant Postmaster in Clinton, Arkansas at the time of his death.


Alma Penzel MADDOX

1.  Stan Maddox reports that Alma Penzel Maddox, always known as "Penzel", worked for the US Welfare Department for 44 years and eventually became the County Welfare Director for Van Buren County.  As a child, she was blinded in one eye when she walked into the path of a watch chain her brother Porter was swingting around in a circle.  Penzel never married & lived to be 96, outliving the last of her silbligs by 15 years.


Myrtle Alice MADDOX

1.  Information from Stan Maddox:   Myrtle Alice Maddox was a school teacher, and the wife of a merchant at Bee Branch, Van Buren County, Arkansas.  After his death in 1936, she moved back to Clinton and spent the rest of her life living with her sister, Penzel Maddox, who never married.