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SOURCE: (1) Dean Yeiser. From Daisy Mae Brown Yeiser's records.
(2) Beverly Yeiser. Correspondence 17 Jan. 1998. This is quoted from paragraph written by Donna Juhline McLeod Thomasson, Richard's daughter. "Dad was born in West Branch, Michigan on July 4, 1909 to Alister (Alec) McLeod and Phoebe Reagan McLeod. Dad had been married before and had three children (two boys and a girl) before he married Mom. They met and married in Louisville. They both enjoyed people and I remember when I was very young they were always having parties and a lot of people were always around. Dad always made his living in sales. He sold everything from sewing machines to cemetery plots! He and Mom owned an appliance store in Louisville before moving to Houston. He sold furniture after moving to Houston but he never gave up looking for that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow - there was always a new and bigger deal just ahead. Dad died in 1963 after a long three-year battle with cancer."
DEATH: Kentucky Death Index 1911-1996 (Ancestry.com), page 06B
SOURCE: (1) Dean Yeiser. From Daisy Mae Brown Yeiser's records.
(2) Beverly G. Yeiser, Sr. Correspondence 17 Jan. 1998.
DEATH: Kentucky Death Index 1911-1996 (Ancestry.com), page 06B
Was the newspaper publisher in Scottsville, KY in 1940's.
Was the newspaper publisher in Scottsville, KY in 1940's.
RESEARCHER: Dianne King [jking95@dellepro.com] wrote T.Mason on 7Jul2001 that Corta Summers Sides of Okemah, OK (grand-daughter of
James C. Pitchford) indicates that Orange Davis Pitchford fought at Chatanooga, TN in Civil War. He was a millionaire before the war. He died when he was 60 of blood poisoning following removal of a molar.
RESEARCHER: Dianne King [jking95@dellepro.com] wrote T.Mason on 7Jul2001 that Corta Summers Sides of Okemah, OK (grand-daughter of
James C. Pitchford) indicates that Mary Agnes Pitchford had some old slaves that helped her raise her children.DESCENDANT: Teresa Mitchell [danielmitchell1@cox.net] sent T.Mason the following on 5 Apr 2003. "Orange Pitchford Jr. was 18 when he joined the Union Army during the Civil War. He was not married at that time and had no children, nor was he a millionaire. He had inherited a plantation or part of one but set all the slaves
free as he was an abolutionist. He did not marry until after the war and I think the birth dates of their children will bear this out.There was one old slave couple who begged Orange not to sell the plantation as they said it was their home and they would have no place to go. He told them they could live with him. They lived with the family much as a grandmother and grandfather. My great grandmother said the woman did most of the cooking and helped with the kids as her mother would go and tend to the sick a lot and sometimes acted as midwife when there was no doctor. According to the stories my great grandmother told me, her mother was very strict but also very loving. There were a couple of times when there were epidemics when she would be separated from the family because she would be caught in a quarintine for a couple of weeks and could not return to the family for fear of infecting them. She was also very active in church and civic affairs, but she did not abandon her children to the slaves.
The fact that the two ex-slaves lived under the same roof (a two-story log cabin) and were buried on the home place indicates to me they were not treated as slaves but family. My great grandmother (Granny) adored the woman but was a little afraid of the man because he had rhematism and tended to groan a lot. He loved horses and that was pretty much his job - seeing to the horses and oiling and mending the tack. She said he got a little testy with the boys if they rode the horses too hard or didn't put the tack back where it belonged. Granny said he didn't much want anyone "messin' with his stuff" as he called it. I'm sorry I don't remember the names their names. I know Granny told them to me, but I've forgotten them."
Died at 3 months
SOURCE: Dean Yeiser. From Daisy Mae Brown Yeiser's records. George
was killed in action on Iwo Jima in WWII.
SOURCE: (1) Dean Yeiser. From Daisy Mae Brown Yeiser's records. (2) Anna Lucille Yeiser. Correspondence 30 Mar. 1998.
SOURCE: Dean Yeiser. From Daisy Mae Brown Yeiser's records.
SOURCE: Dean Yeiser. From Daisy Mae Brown Yeiser's records.