12567. Ernest Everett Paris
RELATIONSHIP: It appears from CFA II, p. 390 that, Ernest Everett and Elvin
Paris were twins.
12568. Elvin Paris
RELATIONSHIP: It appears from CFA II, p. 390 that, Ernest Everett and Elvin
Paris were twins.
12570. James Beulah Paris
James Beulah ParisAKA: Buel
12575. Infant Paris
SEX: Male child .
12577. Clara Paris
RELATIONSHIP: Apparently, Clara and Claudia Paris were twins.
12578. Claudia Paris
RELATIONSHIP: Apparently, Clara and Claudia Paris were twins.
8821. Martha Jane Conger
Martha Jane CongerSPOUSE: Martha Jane Conger was the 2nd wife of Samuel Rose Gass.
CHURCH_AFFILIATION: Baptist
Samuel Rose GassMARRIAGE: Samuel Rose Gass and Martha Jane Conger were married on 22 Dec 1881 at John Hunt's in the presence of Obediah Hunt and John H.F. Conger.
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. I, p. 738 - Maxine Crowell Leonard)CHURCH_AFFILIATION: Baptist
12585. Mary Ellen Gass
Mary Ellen GassAKA: Bertie
8822. Letitia Conger
Letitia CongerNAME-CONFLICT: Mary L. Conger.
Charles H. ParisProblem: Was his middle name, Hosea or Henry? CFA I lists both.
8823. James Monroe Conger
James Monroe CongerOCCUPATION: Farmer
8824. Elisha E. Conger
Elisha E. CongerNAME-CONFLICT: Elijah (Elish) Conger, CFA II, p. 118; Elisha E. Conger, CFA II. p. 89; Elijah Conger, CFA I, p. 147.
RESIDENCES: Fort Smith, AR: Cameron, OK; Texanna, OK; Oktaha, OK; Spaulding, OK
Problem: CFA II, p. 118 lists the date of birth as, 17 Nov 1874 and in his account of his life in Oklahoma, Elisha Conger's birth date is listed as Nov 1873.
MOTHER-CONFLICT: In his recollections he lists his mother as, Anna (Harmon) Conger. Based on his date of birth, 17 Nov 1874, it seems more likely that Joanna (Wiley) (Conger) (Harmon) Hunt was his step-mother and that his mother was, Mary E. Felker, who died, 24 Nov 1874, shortly after his birth, probably as a result of complications due to the birth. Of course, Joanna would be the only mother he would have remembered.
RECOLLECTIONS: Elisha Conger Remembers Early Days in Oklahoma Territory I am sixty-four years of age, having been born in November 1873 on a little farm near Fort Smith, Arkansas, and now live on Route 2, Oktaha, Oklahoma.Father: Tom Conger, white man born in Kentucky. Mother: Anna Harmon-Conger, born in Indiana.
I came along with my parents in 1886 from Arkansas and we first settled on a farm in the Sugarloaf mountain region near the town of Cameron, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, and began farming with one mule and a single stock. The next year we moved near Texanna, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory.
The school and church buildings in these localities (The Choctaw and Cherokee Nations) were of native lumber construction and some few were of slab construction, the slabs being set up end-wise. The residences occupied by the Indians and some whites were principally of log construction with rock fire places built of native stone. Roofs were of shaped shingles and some of these cabins had dirt floors and no windows.
The English language was taught in the schools and the church I attended was of the Baptist faith.
We raised cotton and corn. We did not pick cotton in sacks as they do now but we used baskets that held about two bushels. The gin at Cameron was operated by horsepower and likewise the one in Texanna. The man who operated and owned the gin and mill at Texanna was named John Pierce. Cotton seed in the late eighties were of no value. People did not feed them to their stock or send them to a cotton oil mill as they do today to get the lint, hulls, meal and oil.
We gave one-eighth of the corn for toll. Out of two bushels of shelled corn, shelled by hand, with toll out, we would get back a two-bushel sack full of seed.
The cost of ginning cotton, a horse-power gin, we would have to pay three dollars a bale, which included ginning, bagging, and ties. It was tied by hand.
Our social affairs consisted of barbecues, camp meetings, horse racing, foot racing and poker games. Our camp meetings usually would last for two or three weeks at a time. The meetings usually would start along in the fall and we would take our bedding & provisions and just camp near the meeting grounds until the meeting time. There were old arbors. They were constructed of poles, limbs and brush. Seats were usually logs rolled into position.
There were lots of wild berries and fruits such as blackberries, dewberries, hawberries, grapes, plums and a few seedling peach trees. There was plenty of nuts, namely hickory nuts, walnuts, chinquapins and pecans. All kinds of game haunted the sections of these parts of Choctaw and Cherokee Nations, such as black bear, panther, wild cat, wild turkey, deer, quail, rabbit, squirrel, possum and raccoon. The first deer I ever saw was in the big Sugarloaf Mountains, in the now LeFlore County, Oklahoma; and the first black bear was about four miles north of the South Canadian River, near Texanna, now McIntosh county.
All the streams, large and small, were full of all kinds of fish. The Indians used to catch lots of fish and the prize fish among the Choctaws was the Sun-Perch. They would cook them brown and eat them bones and all.
In the now LeFlore County and near the towns of Cameron, Bokoshe and Panama, coal was just beginning to be mined and when the Kansas City Southern Railroad came through that section, little mining camps sprang up every few miles.
There were herds of wild horses in the Sugarloaf Mountain region. They would come down on the plains to graze and take refuge in the mountains. There was lots of wild hogs in the low lands and woods on the South Canadian near Texanna. If a man could show that he had turned out some three or four gilts and a boar he had what they called a hog title and that would permit him to kill a wild hog for food when he so desired. These hogs were never fed by anyone, as they lived on the moss, acorns, hickory nuts, pecans, chinquapins, roots, grass and herbs. They usually hunted and killed these hogs for meat in the late fall for at this time they would be fat on the moss.
There was considerable stock raising, cattle. The market was Fort Smith, Arkansas. However, some were driven north on the Texas road for points in Missouri. The cattle grazed on the open range, herded by cow hands or sometimes called cowpunchers. These cowpunchers were men of very little education, but they were all jolly good fellows, honest and square in all their dealings, and law abiding citizens.
I might say more than law abiding citizens, for their six shooters were the Law. A thief in their midst meant if they knew him to be quilty, that is caught in the act, of rustling cattle or horses, that he be left dangling at the end of a rope tied to the limb of a tree with his body riddled with bullets. They would pull their cow ponies off a few paces after the thief was hung and with their six-shooters and saddle guns, rifles, which they carried to protect themselves, and fire vollies of shots into the body of the thief. The reason they always carried these weapons was not only to protect themselves but to protect their herds from cattle rustlers, coyotes and other wild animals.
The Kansas City Southern Railroad built into what is now LeFlore County in the early '80s. I can't recall the exact year. The old steamboat landing at Skullvill was missed by the railroad and the town of Spiro sprang up, back a few miles from the river. When grading through this section for the railroad hundreds upon hundreds of human bones were excavated, supposedly those of Indians who had died years before from some epidemic as they were buried side by side in long trenches, and it was nothing unsightly to see hundreds of skulls in a pile together that the railroad men would pick up on their shovels and pile back. I never did know why the steamboat landing was called Skullville, but it was a very appropriate name for it for nothing more than the above named reason.
In the early 1900's, I think it was in 1903, the Midland Valley Railroad and the Fort Smith and Western Railroad built through the towns of the present Panama, Bokoshe and Coal Creek and at this period the coal industry was in full blast as these railroads traversed the present large coal fields.
The first and only store for a long time was owned by John Pierce. John Pierce furnished nearly all the Indians as he was the first settler and better known. Months and years he furnished them and individual families owed him thousands of dollars. He depended upon the Indians receiving their government pay and they paying him. I am a white man but I give the Indian credit of being honest for I don't believe that Mr. Pierce lost a single dollar they owed him.
(Source: This interview with Elisha E. Conger was taken for the Indian - Pioneer History of Oklahoma, and is in Indian Archives of the Oklahoma Historical Society - published in The Conger Family of America, Vol. I, p. 147-49 - Maxine Crowell Leonard)NOTE: By Maxine (Crowell) Leonard in CFA Vol. I, p 149.
Elijah's father, Tom, could be Ira T. (Thomas) Conger, 1848, a son of Elisha Conger, 1820, of Crittenden county, Kentucky. Ira T. and his family moved to the Oklahoma Indian Territory. The main question that arises is that there is a marriage record for Ira T. Conger and Mary E. Felker on 22 Dec 1872. This Elijah was born in November of 1873. He stated his mother was Anna Harmon; there were Hammons near the Congers in Kentucky.It is also possible that he could have been the son of Elisha's brother, John, 1820, who had a son, Toby (Thomas?) born around 1856. This family lived at Johnson county, Arkansas, but there is no record of their being in Kentucky.
NOTE: Place Names and Their Locations - By Richard E. Henthorn
The account of life in the Oklahoma Territory was probably written about 1937, if Elisha E. Conger was 64 years old and born in November of 1873. A number of place names in the Oklahoma Territory were mentioned in the piece. To assist the reader in understanding where these places are located they are listed below with the counties in which they lie according to the 1995 Rand McNally Commercial Atlas.Fort Smith, Sebastian Co., AR
Oktaha, Muskogee Co., OK
Texanna, McIntosh Co., OK
Cameron, LeFlore Co., OK
Bokoshe, LeFlore Co., OK
Panama, LeFlore Co., OK
Spiro, LeFlore Co., OK
Coal Creek, LeFlore Co., OK
PARENTS-RELATIONSHIP: By the time of the publication of CFA II in 1992 a good deal more was known about Elisha E. Conger than was known at the time of the publication of CFA I in 1972.Elisha E. Conger was born on 17 Nov 1874 on a farm near Fort Smith, Sebastian Co., AR. His parents were, Ira Thomas Conger, called Tom, born 14 Aug 1848 in Marion, Crittenden Co., KY. Ira Thomas Conger had married, his first wife, Mary E. Felker on 22 Dec 1872. Mary gave birth to, Elisha E. Conger on 17 Nov 1874 and died seven days later on 24 Nov 1874 of the complications of childbirth. As a result, Elisha never knew his birth mother.
Ira Thomas Conger next married Joanna Wiley and they had six children. Their first child, Carrie Lou Conger was born on 22 Nov 1880. Later, Joanna married a Mr. Harmon and had a son, Tom Harmon. Her 3rd husband was James Hunt.
(Written by Richard E. Henthorn, 8 Nov 1998)
8825. Harriet Carrie Lou Conger
Harriet Carrie Lou CongerNAME-CONFLICT: Carrie Lou Conger and (Harriet) Carrie Lou Conger (CFA II, p. 451)
8827. Elizabeth Conger
Elizabeth CongerAKA: Lizzie
8829. Ida Belle Conger
Ida Belle CongerNAME-CONFLICT: Ida Bell Conger, CFA I
12624. Will Burton
AKA: Tad
12625. Elisha Burton
RELATIONSHIP: Elisha and Elijah Burton were twins.
12626. Elijah Burton
RELATIONSHIP: Elisha and Elijah Burton were twins.
8831. Essie Mae Conger
Essie Mae CongerNAME-CONFLICT: Essie May Conger, CFA I, p. 755
Solomon KingNAME-CONFLICT: "Solomon or Simeon" CFA I, p. 755
Luther VaughnOCCUPATION: farmer; miner
SPOUSE: Luther Vaughn was the 2nd spouse of Essie Conger
12629. Nora Mae Vaughn
NEVER_MARRIED: .
12631. Luther Claude Vaughn
AKA: L.C. Vaughn
8832. Joshua Doss Conger
Joshua Doss CongerAKA: Probably called, Doss.
Problem: Was he born at Pleasant, KY or Marion, Crittenden, KY, CFA I. p. 126?
OCCUPATION: 12 years old when his father died, he took up the same type of
business as a young man, except he was a buyer and shipper of cattle and hogs.
(CFA I, p. 152)
OBITUARY: Mattoon News, Mattoon, KY
We are sorry to report the death of one of our beloved neighbors who passed away April the 7th, 1949. Death came on their 46th wedding anniversary. He was born April 11, 1873 and was married to Clara O'Neal on April 7, 1903.He has left to mourn his going, his dear wife, one brother, Albert Conger, one sister, Mrs. Dora Wilcox; three children, Mrs. Corbett Traylor, Mrs. Leamon White, and a son, Melvin Conger; one grandson, Carvel Williams.
The funeral was held at the residence by Rev. R.S. Richardson, with burial at Mt. Zion. Relatives from a distance were: Mrs. Jess Cain and son from Herrin, Ill., Mr. & Mrs. Jess Phelps from Providence, nieces and nephews from Evansville and Sturgis.
Serving as pallbearers were his nephews: Earl Cain, Carl Conger, Leonard Conger, Elvis Phelps, Aubrey Conger and Glenn Phelps.
Flower girls were his nieces: Geneva Clark, Sylvia Jean Clark, Carrie Conger, Wilma Conger, Ruth Conger, and Clara May Conger.
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. I, p. 126 - Maxine Crowell Leonard)
Rosa LongDEATH-HEALTH_HISTORY: Diabetes at age 25.
PARENTS: Father born in England, Mother born in Scotland.
Clara Jane O'NealSPOUSE: Clara Jane O'Neal was the 2nd spouse of Joshua Doss Conger.
OBITUARY: Marion, KY, 15 July 1955
Funeral services for Mrs. Clara Jane Conger, 82, will be held Saturday at 2
p.m. at the Mt. Zion Church with Rev. Ray Wiggington officiating. Burial will
be in the church cemetery. Mrs. Conger died Thursday at her home in Mattoon
community.She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Ines Traylor, Fredonia and Mrs. Reba
White, Marion; one son Melvin Conger, Marion; two sisters, Mrs. Mae Phelps,
Providence and Mrs. Bertha Cain, Herrin, Ill.; two brothers, Jim O'Neal, Marion
Route 4 and Curt O'Neal, Sturgis; one grandson and one great-grandchild.
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. I, p. 126-127 - Maxine Crowell
Leonard)
12634. Reba Ann Conger
RESIDENCES: As of July 1955, Mrs. Reba White, Marion, KY
Leaman T. WhiteProblem: Was his first name, Leaman or Leamon, both listed, CFA I, p. 126. Leamon T. White (CFA II, p. 707)
12635. Melvin Paten Conger
Melvin Paten CongerRESIDENCES: As of July 1955, Marion, KY
SSN:
Individual: Conger, Melvin
Social Security #: 313-18-1466
Issued in: Indiana
Birth date: Jun 28, 1910
Death date: Jan 1968
[Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 1 A-K, Ed. 7, Social Security Death
Index: U.S., Date of Import: Nov 13, 2000, Internal Ref. #1.111.7.54152.38]
8834. Charles R. Conger
Charles R. CongerOBITUARY: Charles R. Conger, 65, died Saturday morning at his Evansville, Ind.
home after a lengthy illness.A native of Crittenden county [, KY a] major portion of his life was spent in
and around Marion. After completing education he entered service in the U.S.
Army and was a veteran of the Spanish-American War and completed three years
military service in the Far East.Familiarly known as, "Charley," [he was a] member of [the] Marion police force
for several years. He retired on advent of ill health several years ago. Death
was attributed to complication of diseases despite treatment and consultation
with foremost physicians. He removed to Evansville about a year ago.According to the obituary his son, Leonard lived in Marion; the others in
Evansville.
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. I, p. 69 - Maxine Crowell Leonard)