2477. Rebecca Spear Conger
Rebecca Spear CongerPARENTS: Eli Martin Conger and Judith Burford
NAME-CONFLICT: Rebecca Spears Conger by Robert Mark Conger
Lycurgus B. BrownQUESTION: Was his middle name, Bonapart, like his son?
5219. Lycurgus Bonapart Brown
COMMENT: Not found in the SSDI
2479. Henry Amos Conger
Henry Amos CongerPARENTS: Eli Martin Conger and Judith Burford
EDUCATION: 1886 graduated of Louisville Medical College, Louisville, KY
OCCUPATION: Physician in Mineola, TX; Was a surgeon with two railroads. Had a very successful medical practice in Duncan, OK. He was also in the drug business, real estate and banking. It has been reported that he became a millionaire by investing in the oil business in Duncan, OK.
RESIDENCES: Mineola, TX; Celeste; Hunt Co., TX; moved to Duncan, OK in 1892
Fanny AndersonNAME-CONFLICT: Fanny Anderson, CFA I, p. 139; Fannie Anderson by Robert Mark Conger.
2480. Dr. Jefferson Davis Conger
Jefferson Davis CongerPARENTS: Eli Martin Conger and Judith Burford
RELATIONSHIP: Siblings Andrew Jackson and Jefferson Davis Conger married
sisters Louzinka Minerva and Jemmie Sallie Haines, respectively.OCCUPATION: Horse and buggy doctor in Quitman, TX
Jemmie Sallie HainesNAME-CONFLICT: Jennie Hayner, CFA I, p. 139; Hyner and Haynes and Hayner on p. 266 of CFA I. Jennie Haynes (CFA II, p. 697)
FATHER: The town of Hainesville, TX was named after her father. CFA II, p. 94
5224. Andrew Washington Conger
Andrew Washington CongerAKA: Pete
MILITARY: WWI veteran, served in Army Air Corp, 2nd Wing Conc Brigade
OCCUPATION: Worked in the oilfields of Texas and South Louisiana
DEATH: 23 Feb 1941 in an automobile accident in Calcasieu Parish, LA
2484. Sion Iliff Conger
Sion Iliff CongerPARENTS: Sion Moores Conger and Rebecca Cordelia Clemantha_Beall Norton
AKA: Called, Illif
BIOGRAPHY:
Sion Illiff Conger was educated at Barnitz school at Tullahoma, Tenn. He entered apprenticeship in the drug business with Dr. S.W. French in 1877. He later learned watchmaking. For a time he was with Spurlock-Neal Co., wholesale drugs of Nashville, and then became a buyer for the University of the South.
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. I, p. 237 - Maxine Crowell Leonard)
RESEARCHER:
Iliff Conger was very active in trying to compile the Conger genealogy and gave much assistance to Charles L. Conger of McIntosh, Minnesota. A letter from him dated, 29 Aug 1906 indicates the organization had been established and a publication was being considered."I have just learned with deep regret of the death of Charles G.B. Conger of the 22d inst., and presume you have also been informed of the sad fatality. The secretary wrote me about it, and I also had a copy of the Washington Star, containing an account of his death.
"The secretary was in favor of returning the subscriptions, and making a settlement with the publishers of the Bulletin, and let the affairs of the Union drop, but am not at all in favor of it. It is a whole lot of trouble to get this sort of work started and some member of the family can undoubtedly undertake to carry on the work that has been inaugurated, and it is my impression that your are the man to do it.
"The addresses of his brothers, as given in the STAR, are Clinton B. Conger, Grand Rapids, Mich, Norman B. Conger of Detroit, and Edmund D.R. Conger, Edenton, NC. I presume that one of these would agree to carry on his work.
"I will write to them and recommend it, and you can specify your willingness to undertake the work, if not permanently, at least until a permanent editor can be found. Make a proper memorial announcement of the death of our Chief in the Sept. number, and we will soon have things in working order."
The next letter from him, dated 13 Sep 1906, indicates that Charles L. [Conger] had accepted the recommendation. In another letter, Iliff, mentioned that he had sketched some trees of the different branches.
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. I, p. 238 - Maxine Crowell Leonard)
RECOLLECTIONS: Sion Iliff Conger wrote the following about his family, "As to a sketch of my grandfather, [Isaac Conger], I am unable to give you very much. My father, Sion Moores Conger, died when I was 12 years of age, and, being the last of his race -- a very modest man, with quiet manner, seldom speaking except when questioned -- it happened that I learned very little from him about his father or antecedents."In speaking of his grandfather, Iliff wrote, "He was an untiring preacher, often preaching 12 to 12 sermons a week, and rarely less than two hours at a time. He died in 1847. He was opposed to slavery, and 'turned his members out of society' for 'trading in black meat.'"
"My father was married at the age of 49. He was a planter, and following the custom of the times, was a slave owner, as was also his aunt, Jane Brown Moores. Being possessed of considerable lands in cultivation, and having inherited the slaves belonging to his aunt as well as his own, he had at the outbreak of the Civil War, perhaps thirty slaves to till his soil."
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. I, p. 472 - Maxine Crowell Leonard)
Willie Moore MaloneBIOGRAPHY: Willie Moore Malone Conger's mother died of yellow fever in Memphis, [TN] in 1878. Her father was a physician and went through the plague. He died about 1889. She lived with relatives in Louisville for some time and began teaching in 1891; then married.
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. I, p. 237-238 - Maxine Crowell Leonard)
2485. Dixie Lamar Conger
Dixie Lamar CongerPARENTS: Sion Moores Conger and Rebecca Cordelia Clemantha_Beall Norton
SEX: Male
EDUCATION: Educated at the Barnitz School, Tullahoma, TN.
OCCUPATION: Was in the drug business for a short time before becoming a farmer in 1885.
RESIDENCES: Dixie Lamar Conger and his brother, Charles Henry Conger, lived at "Beachlawn," the home established, about 1815, by their grandfather, Isaac Conger, near Fayetteville, TN. Their brother, Robert Alonzo Conger, lived on the adjoining farm called, "Eeldon."
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. I, p. 472 - Maxine Crowell Leonard)OBITUARY:
Birth: Feb. 20, 1864, Lincoln County, Tennessee, USA
Death: Apr. 4, 1952, Lincoln County, Tennessee, USADixie L. Conger, Civic Leader, Died At Home April 4 [1952]--
Dixie Lamarr Conger, 88, died at his home in the Mimosa community Friday afternoon.Funeral services were held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Higgins Funeral Home. The Rev. J. E. Wolfe and R. A. Largen officiated. Burial was in Rose Hill Cemetery.
Mr. Conger was a native of Lincoln County. Except for 10 years when he lived in Tullahoma, Tennessee as a young man, he had spent his entire life on his farm at Mimosa. He was the son of Sion M. and Beall Norton Conger. He was a member of the Methodist Church.
He was a former member of the county board of education and was active in the school consolidation movement. He served as Vice President of the Elk National Bank and President of the Lincoln County Electric Membership Corporation for many years. He also served as president of the farm bureau, and helped organize the Producer's Livestock Association, and was a director of the organization for many years.
Mr. Conger was instrumental in obtaining TVA power for Lincoln County and having this county become the first county in the nation to have TVA current.
As long as his health permitted, Mr. Conger was highly active and influential in all civic movements of the county.
Mr. Conger was the grandson of Isaac Conger, the first Methodist circuit rider in Tennessee who built the ancestral home in 1808 where the family resides. He died in the same room in which he was born, as was his father before him and each of his children. The home has always been a landmark in the county and a center for civic and social affairs.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mary Shofner Conger; two daughters, Mrs. Bert Madden, Nashville, and Mrs. Robert Lamb, Darien, Conn.; three sons, Iliff Conger, Knoxville, D. L. Conger, Jr., Chattanooga, and John Conger, Lincoln County; and 10 grandchildren.
(Source: Lincoln County News, Fayetteville, Tennessee, April 10, 1952, found on FindAGrave)
Mary Louise ShoffnerProblem: Was the surname, Shofner or Shoffner? Both listed in CFA I. Mary Louise Shofner Conger on FindAGrave.
2487. Robert Alonzo Conger
Robert Alonzo CongerPARENTS: Sion Moores Conger and Rebecca Cordelia Clemantha_Beall Norton
EDUCATION: Educated at Barntis School.
OCCUPATION: Worked in the drug and jewelry business in Fayetteville, TN; later joined brothers, Dixie and Charles in farming.
RESIDENCES: Dixie Lamar Conger and his brother, Charles Henry Conger, lived at "Beachlawn," the home established, about 1815, by their grandfather, Isaac Conger, near Fayetteville, TN. Their brother, Robert Alonzo Conger, lived on the adjoining farm called, "Eeldon."
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. I, p. 472 - Maxine Crowell Leonard)
RELATIONSHIP: Ola Ashley and Mary Louise Shoffner were cousins.
5231. Bessie Lynne Conger
Bessie Lynne CongerRELATIONSHIP: Bessie Lynne and Jessie Beall Conger were twins.
5232. Jessie Beall Conger
Jessie Beall CongerRELATIONSHIP: Bessie Lynne and Jessie Beall Conger were twins.
5235. Thomas Austin Marshall
Thomas Austin MarshallRESEARCHER: Gary Marshall, member of the Washington, DC, CPAFUG, (PAF User's Group) is the great grandson of Thomas Austin Marshall.
Louisa KennedyNAME-CONFLICT: Louisa Kenney; Louisa Kennedy (CFA I, p. 313)
Catherine HaldermanProblem: Was the surname, Helderman or Halderman? Both listed, in CFA I.
George W. PotterProblem: Was the middle initial, W. or N.?