In Memory

American Revolution

John “Jack” Beckham
George Martin Crowell
Jeremiah Benton Files
John Files
John Parker
James Clayton Stribling
Thomas Stribling

War of 1812

David Adams

Civil War

Henry Bertling
George Leonard Brown
George Miller Conquest Crowell
George DeMoss
H.C.F. DeMoss
James DeMoss
Lewis DeMoss
James Lee Little
D.C.A. Moses
James Keith Thomas

World War I

Ross Kelley

World War II

Marvin Leonard Beeman
Elvis “Pete” Brown
Louis Milvern Brown
Walter Everett Haberer
Cecil Holloway
Wilson Mathis Hudson
J.B. Murphy
Raymond Charles Murphy
Charles Goodwin Parker
James “Jake” Parker
William “Bill” Parker
Edward Harvey Sellers
Cecil Gene Young
Vernon D. Young

Korea

Billy Wayne Brown
Raymond Charles Murphy

Vietnam

Billy Wayne Brown
Claude Perry Farris Jr.

People

Samuel L. Brown, 20 months old

Agnes (Meyer) and Pete Brown

Ivar Johannessen

Arne Monsen

Places

Elm Grove, Fayette County, Texas in the 1950s

Hix, Burleson County, Texas in the 1800s

William Adams suffered great tragedy when both his parents, George and Charlotte Adams, died of smallpox in 1862, in Reynolds County, Missouri. George was 56 when he died. Charlotte was 45 when she died. Four of their children died in 1862, most likely of the smallpox as well. Those children who died in 1862 were Eliza, age 26; Richard, age 18; George, age 8; and Daniel, age 3. The loss of six family members in such a short timeframe must have been devastating. George and Charlotte are buried in Rayfield Cemetery, Lesterville, Reynolds County, Missouri.

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Photo courtesy of Carol Prescott

This photo may be James K. Thomas. It was a tin-type photo taken about the same time as the picture of Sidney Thomas according to Carol Prescott, whose mother owned the picture. Kathryn Barnes suggested this is Richard Wallace Hall.

Read the history of the Thomas Family by James’ daughter Cornelia Thomas Hall.

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For more of this family’s photos, see Lewis Clyde Bertling



Douglas and Doris (Wolf) Bertling at their wedding reception. See The Huntsville Item for news of their 60th wedding anniversary.




Francis “Penny” and Winnie Mae (Orsak) Bertling’s wedding photo