Mostly Angels in the Sky

Sarah Elizabeth McAfee^1,2

Family

TMG ID:63921, (24 Jun 1845 - 30 Dec 1912)

Father*

John McAfee³ B: c 1824

Mother*

Lina (?)⁴ B: c 1827

Vital Statistics

Born: Sarah Elizabeth McAfee was born on Tuesday, 24 Jun 1845, at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.^1,2
Died on Monday, 30 Dec 1912 at age 67 years, 6 months and 6 days.²
Interred after 30 Dec 1912 at Jefferson Cemetery, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.²

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Sarah Elizabeth McAfee was the daughter of: John McAfee and Lina (?)^3,4

Alias(es)

Name-Married: on Tuesday, 10 Oct 1865, her married name became Mrs. Adcock (née McAfee).

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Tuesday, 10 Oct 1865, Sarah, age 20 years, 3 months and 16 days, and Marshall Elkamak Adcock, age 25 years, 9 months and 19 days, son of: Thomas Adcock and Frances Bowles, were married at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.^1,5

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Tuesday, 10 Oct 1865, Sarah, age 20 years, 3 months and 16 days, and Marshall Elkamak Adcock, age 25 years, 9 months and 19 days, son of: Thomas Adcock and Frances Bowles, were married at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.^1,5

Children of: Sarah Elizabeth McAfee and Marshall Elkamak Adcock

Mary Martelie Adcock+⁷ B: 3 Aug 1870, D: 22 Mar 1937
Lurleana E. Adcock+⁷ B: 22 May 1871, D: 29 Jan 1941
David Laton Adcock+⁷ B: 24 Jan 1874, D: 20 Aug 1937
Thomas Walter Adcock+⁷ B: 7 Apr 1876, D: 19 May 1963
John Marshall Adcock+⁷ B: 7 May 1878, D: 21 Oct 1936
James Mitchell Adcock+¹⁰ B: 15 Nov 1880, D: 8 May 1975
Louie Dovie Adcock+¹⁰ B: 27 Mar 1882, D: 31 May 1953
Octa Elmira Adcock+¹⁰ B: Feb 1885, D: 13 Nov 1981
William Elbert Adcock+⁹ B: 7 Aug 1893, D: 7 Dec 1960

Census Records

Census	Date/Location/Comment	Others Same Household
Census-1850	16 Oct 1850, Civil District #10, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G, residing with Sampson and Hannah Carstalt (?) and daughter. Possibly relatives.	Lina (?) and Charlotte McAfee⁴
Census-1860	18 Jul 1860, Post Office: Smithville, Civil District #07, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G	John McAfee and Charlotte McAfee³
Census-1870	30 Aug 1870, Civil District #07, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G	Marshall Elkamak Adcock, Mary Martelie Adcock, Charlotte McAfee, Sarah (?) and Mary S. (?)⁶
Census-1880	15 Jun 1880, Civil District #07, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G	Marshall Elkamak Adcock, Mary Martelie Adcock, Lurleana E. Adcock, David Laton Adcock, Thomas Walter Adcock and John Marshall Adcock⁷
Census-1900	6 Jun 1900, Civil District #07, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G	Marshall Elkamak Adcock, James Mitchell Adcock, Louie Dovie Adcock, Octa Elmira Adcock and William Elbert Adcock⁸
Census-1910	20 Apr 1910, Smithville and Pin Hook Road, Civil District #07, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G	Marshall Elkamak Adcock, William Elbert Adcock, Marshall Renzo Pinegar, Louie Dovie Adcock, Osie Lee Pinegar and Enoch Dollis Pinegar⁹

Census

Date/Location/Comment

Others Same Household

Census-1850

16 Oct 1850, Civil District #10, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G, residing with Sampson and Hannah Carstalt (?) and daughter. Possibly relatives.

Lina (?) and Charlotte McAfee⁴

Census-1860

18 Jul 1860, Post Office: Smithville, Civil District #07, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G

John McAfee and Charlotte McAfee³

Census-1870

30 Aug 1870, Civil District #07, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G

Marshall Elkamak Adcock, Mary Martelie Adcock, Charlotte McAfee, Sarah (?) and Mary S. (?)⁶

Census-1880

15 Jun 1880, Civil District #07, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G

Marshall Elkamak Adcock, Mary Martelie Adcock, Lurleana E. Adcock, David Laton Adcock, Thomas Walter Adcock and John Marshall Adcock⁷

Census-1900

6 Jun 1900, Civil District #07, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G

Marshall Elkamak Adcock, James Mitchell Adcock, Louie Dovie Adcock, Octa Elmira Adcock and William Elbert Adcock⁸

Census-1910

20 Apr 1910, Smithville and Pin Hook Road, Civil District #07, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G

Marshall Elkamak Adcock, William Elbert Adcock, Marshall Renzo Pinegar, Louie Dovie Adcock, Osie Lee Pinegar and Enoch Dollis Pinegar⁹

Occupation(s)

Date	Location	Occupation/Industry
circa Aug 1870	DeKalb County, Tennessee^G	house keeping⁶
circa Jun 1880	DeKalb County, Tennessee^G	keeping house⁷

Date

Location

Occupation/Industry

circa Aug 1870

DeKalb County, Tennessee^G

house keeping⁶

circa Jun 1880

DeKalb County, Tennessee^G

keeping house⁷

Citations

[S816] RootsWeb.com, online http://tinyurl.com/jnyonle, Errol Bevan (e-mail address), updated as of 3 Jul 2009.
[S826] Find A Grave, online <http://tinyurl.com/5xkq9>. Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.
[S96] 1 Jun 1860, Digital, FamilySearch.org, 35 NW Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, https://tinyurl.com/yayf9d52 Eighth Census of the United States, 1860.
[S80] 1 Jun 1850, Digital, FamilySearch.org, 35 NW Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, https://tinyurl.com/y9393x5q, 1850 Federal US Census. Seventh Census of the United States, 1850.
[S620] FamilySearch.org, online https://tinyurl.com/3m4fuhm, Various (Utah), updated as of Various, Pedigree Resource File.
[S97] 1 Jun 1870, Digital, FamilySearch.org, 35 NW Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, https://tinyurl.com/y9hbo4f7 Ninth Census of the United States, 1870.
[S98] 1 Jun 1880, Digital, FamilySearch.org, 35 NW Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, https://tinyurl.com/y9djv69w Tenth Census of the United States, 1880.
[S117] 1 Jun 1900, Digital, FamilySearch.org, 35 NW Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, https://tinyurl.com/y8l8gl3a Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900.
[S243] 15 Apr 1910, Digital, FamilySearch.org, 35 NW Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, https://tinyurl.com/y9glogje, Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910.
[S3013] RootsWeb.com, online http://tinyurl.com/hohy3hm, Terry Albers (e-mail address), updated as of 21 Jun 2015.

Last Edited

2 Nov 2019

Mary D. Frances Adcock¹

Family

TMG ID:63922, (20 May 1842 - 30 Dec 1902)

Relationship:

6th cousin 2 times removed of Elsie Dora Lewis

Father*

Thomas Adcock¹ B: 9 Apr 1817, D: 30 Aug 1905

Mother*

Frances Bowles¹ B: Mar 1819, D: 1900

Vital Statistics

Born: Mary D. Frances Adcock was born on Friday, 20 May 1842, at Smithville, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.^1,2,3
Died on Tuesday, 30 Dec 1902 at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G, at age 60 years, 7 months and 10 days.^4,2
Interred after 30 Dec 1902 at Young Bend Cemetery, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.²

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Mary D. Frances Adcock was the daughter of: Thomas Adcock and Frances Bowles.¹

Alias(es)

Nick-Name: her nickname was "Mary"⁵
Name-Married: on Thursday, 22 Dec 1859, her married name became Mrs. Pittman (née Adcock).

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Thursday, 22 Dec 1859, Mary, age 17 years, 7 months and 2 days, and David Harlin Pittman, age 22 years and 8 months, son of: Daniel Pitman and Comfort (?), were married at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.^1,4,2

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Thursday, 22 Dec 1859, Mary, age 17 years, 7 months and 2 days, and David Harlin Pittman, age 22 years and 8 months, son of: Daniel Pitman and Comfort (?), were married at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.^1,4,2

Children of: Mary D. Frances Adcock and David Harlin Pittman

Thomas Lucian Pittman+⁵ B: 7 Jan 1861, D: 19 Feb 1912
Green M. Pittman⁵ B: 1865
Marshall Cain Pittman+⁵ B: 8 Jan 1865, D: 10 Oct 1939
Nancy Florence Pittman+⁵ B: 1866, D: 1899
David Harlin Pittman Jr.⁵ B: 25 Feb 1869
Francis P. Pittman⁵ B: 29 Jul 1872
Mary Evelyn Pittman⁵ B: 1873
Sarah Elizabeth Pittman+⁵ B: c 1878
James M. Pittman⁵ B: Apr 1880
William H. Pittman⁴ B: Mar 1886
John Tatum Pittman⁴ B: 27 Aug 1886
Robert Cecil Pittman⁴ B: Nov 1886, D: 9 May 1959

Census Records

Census	Date/Location/Comment	Others Same Household
Census-1880	9 Jun 1880, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G	David Harlin Pittman, Thomas Lucian Pittman, Marshall Cain Pittman, Nancy Florence Pittman, Green M. Pittman, David Harlin Pittman Jr., Francis P. Pittman, Mary Evelyn Pittman, Sarah Elizabeth Pittman and James M. Pittman⁵
Census-1900	1 Jun 1900, Civil District #07, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G	David Harlin Pittman, William H. Pittman, John Tatum Pittman, Robert Cecil Pittman, Stacy L. Pittman, Erby Pittman, Fannie Edna Pittman, William Connie Pittman and Goodney Pittman³

Census

Date/Location/Comment

Others Same Household

Census-1880

9 Jun 1880, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G

David Harlin Pittman, Thomas Lucian Pittman, Marshall Cain Pittman, Nancy Florence Pittman, Green M. Pittman, David Harlin Pittman Jr., Francis P. Pittman, Mary Evelyn Pittman, Sarah Elizabeth Pittman and James M. Pittman⁵

Census-1900

1 Jun 1900, Civil District #07, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G

David Harlin Pittman, William H. Pittman, John Tatum Pittman, Robert Cecil Pittman, Stacy L. Pittman, Erby Pittman, Fannie Edna Pittman, William Connie Pittman and Goodney Pittman³

Occupation(s)

Date	Location	Occupation/Industry
circa Jun 1880	DeKalb County, Tennessee^G	keeping house⁵

Date

Location

Occupation/Industry

circa Jun 1880

DeKalb County, Tennessee^G

keeping house⁵

Citations

[S816] RootsWeb.com, online http://tinyurl.com/jnyonle, Errol Bevan (e-mail address), updated as of 3 Jul 2009.
[S826] Find A Grave, online <http://tinyurl.com/5xkq9>. Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.
[S117] 1 Jun 1900, Digital, FamilySearch.org, 35 NW Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, https://tinyurl.com/y8l8gl3a Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900.
[S620] FamilySearch.org, online https://tinyurl.com/3m4fuhm, Various (Utah), updated as of Various, Pedigree Resource File.
[S98] 1 Jun 1880, Digital, FamilySearch.org, 35 NW Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, https://tinyurl.com/y9djv69w Tenth Census of the United States, 1880.

Last Edited

20 Jan 2016

David Harlin Pittman¹

Family

TMG ID:63923, (Apr 1837 - 22 Feb 1922)

Father*

Daniel Pitman¹ B: c 1800

Mother*

Comfort (?)¹ B: c 1803

Vital Statistics

Born: David Harlin Pittman was born in Apr 1837, at Alabama^G.^2,1,3
Died on Wednesday, 22 Feb 1922 at Smithville, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G, at age 84 years and 10 months.^1,4
Interred after 22 Feb 1922 at Young Bend Cemetery, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.⁴

Obituary & Other Vital Info

David Harlin Pittman was the son of: Daniel Pitman and Comfort (?)¹
Born: David Harlin Pittman was born in Apr 1838, at Alabama^G.⁴

Alias(es)

Nick-Name: his nickname was "Dave"^5,1,6

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Thursday, 22 Dec 1859, David, age 22 years and 8 months, and Mary D. Frances Adcock, age 17 years, 7 months and 2 days, daughter of: Thomas Adcock and Frances Bowles, were married at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.^5,1,4
Marriage	Monday, 13 Aug 1906, David, age 69 years and 4 months, and Florence Alabama Prater, age 27 years, 11 months and 7 days were married at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.⁴

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Thursday, 22 Dec 1859, David, age 22 years and 8 months, and Mary D. Frances Adcock, age 17 years, 7 months and 2 days, daughter of: Thomas Adcock and Frances Bowles, were married at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.^5,1,4

Marriage

Monday, 13 Aug 1906, David, age 69 years and 4 months, and Florence Alabama Prater, age 27 years, 11 months and 7 days were married at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.⁴

Children of: David Harlin Pittman and Mary D. Frances Adcock

Thomas Lucian Pittman+² B: 7 Jan 1861, D: 19 Feb 1912
Green M. Pittman² B: 1865
Marshall Cain Pittman+² B: 8 Jan 1865, D: 10 Oct 1939
Nancy Florence Pittman+² B: 1866, D: 1899
David Harlin Pittman Jr.² B: 25 Feb 1869
Francis P. Pittman² B: 29 Jul 1872
Mary Evelyn Pittman² B: 1873
Sarah Elizabeth Pittman+² B: c 1878
James M. Pittman² B: Apr 1880
William H. Pittman¹ B: Mar 1886
John Tatum Pittman¹ B: 27 Aug 1886
Robert Cecil Pittman¹ B: Nov 1886, D: 9 May 1959

Child of: David Harlin Pittman and Florence Alabama Prater

Bessie Lou Pittman⁴ B: 9 Apr 1909, D: 8 Jul 1938

Other Major Events

Military: on Saturday, 18 May 1861, David Harlin Pittman at age 24, military service, Private, mustered into Co. A, Tennessee 16th Infantry.⁴
Military: on Tuesday, 5 May 1863, David Harlin Pittman at age 26, military service, deserted.⁴

Census Records

Census	Date/Location/Comment	Others Same Household
Census-1880	9 Jun 1880, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G	Mary D. Frances Adcock, Thomas Lucian Pittman, Marshall Cain Pittman, Nancy Florence Pittman, Green M. Pittman, David Harlin Pittman Jr., Francis P. Pittman, Mary Evelyn Pittman, Sarah Elizabeth Pittman and James M. Pittman²
Census-1900	1 Jun 1900, Civil District #07, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G	Mary D. Frances Adcock, William H. Pittman, John Tatum Pittman, Robert Cecil Pittman, Stacy L. Pittman, Erby Pittman, Fannie Edna Pittman, William Connie Pittman and Goodney Pittman³

Census

Date/Location/Comment

Others Same Household

Census-1880

9 Jun 1880, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G

Mary D. Frances Adcock, Thomas Lucian Pittman, Marshall Cain Pittman, Nancy Florence Pittman, Green M. Pittman, David Harlin Pittman Jr., Francis P. Pittman, Mary Evelyn Pittman, Sarah Elizabeth Pittman and James M. Pittman²

Census-1900

1 Jun 1900, Civil District #07, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G

Mary D. Frances Adcock, William H. Pittman, John Tatum Pittman, Robert Cecil Pittman, Stacy L. Pittman, Erby Pittman, Fannie Edna Pittman, William Connie Pittman and Goodney Pittman³

Occupation(s)

Date	Location	Occupation/Industry
circa Jun 1880	DeKalb County, Tennessee^G	farming²
circa Jun 1900	DeKalb County, Tennessee^G	farmer³

Date

Location

Occupation/Industry

circa Jun 1880

DeKalb County, Tennessee^G

farming²

circa Jun 1900

DeKalb County, Tennessee^G

farmer³

Citations

[S620] FamilySearch.org, online https://tinyurl.com/3m4fuhm, Various (Utah), updated as of Various, Pedigree Resource File.
[S98] 1 Jun 1880, Digital, FamilySearch.org, 35 NW Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, https://tinyurl.com/y9djv69w Tenth Census of the United States, 1880.
[S117] 1 Jun 1900, Digital, FamilySearch.org, 35 NW Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, https://tinyurl.com/y8l8gl3a Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900.
[S826] Find A Grave, online <http://tinyurl.com/5xkq9>. Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.
[S816] RootsWeb.com, online http://tinyurl.com/jnyonle, Errol Bevan (e-mail address), updated as of 3 Jul 2009.
[S1027] Tennessee Marriages - 1796 - 1950, online <http://tinyurl.com/ob5hwpo>. Hereinafter cited as TNDeath Records.

Last Edited

20 Mar 2018

William Arthur Jones¹

Family

TMG ID:63924, (29 Apr 1914 - 2 May 2004)

Relationship:

8th cousin of Elsie Dora Lewis

Father*

Jesse Philander Jones¹ B: 14 Oct 1889, D: 7 Jul 1970

Mother*

Roshie Elizabeth Marsh¹ B: 9 Aug 1891, D: 5 Sep 1969

Vital Statistics

Born: William Arthur Jones was born on Wednesday, 29 Apr 1914, at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.^1,2
Died on Sunday, 2 May 2004 at National HealthCare Corporation (NHC), McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee^G, at age 90 years and 3 days.^1,3,2

Obituary & Other Vital Info

William Arthur Jones was the son of: Jesse Philander Jones and Roshie Elizabeth Marsh.¹
An Obituary for William Arthur Jones appeared on Wednesday, 5 May 2004, in The Southern Standard, McMinnville, Tennessee. Obituary
William Arthur Jones, 90, Smithville resident and DeKalb County native William Arthur Jones, 90, died May 2 at NHC Healthcare after a brief illness.

The owner/operator of coin laundries in Sparta and Monterey, after graduation from Dibrell High School, he worked various positions including 24 years with government construction, building the Oak Ridge plant where the atomic bomb was developed. He received a certificate from the U.S. War Department in appreciation of his efforts. He was also dedicated many years in helping support Assembly of God churches located in Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi.

He is survived by his wife of 71 years, Ella Mae Delong Jones; sisters, Etheleon Williamson and Opheleon Williamson, both of McMinnville; nephews, Freddie, Ray, Joel, Doyle and J.F. Williamson, Woody and Royce Davenport, Stanley and David Williams, Ronnie Whitley, Thwaitt and Jack Wall; and nieces, Janice Maynard, Alvida Edelen, Bobbie Harrison, Melba Pedigo, Ann Webb and Lynn Cantrell.

He was the son of the late Jesse P. and Roshie Marsh Jones; and was preceded in death by infant sister, Lila May Jones; nephew, Tyman Hollinsworth; and niece, Betty Smith.

Services will be held at 2 p.m. today at Smithville First Assembly of God with Rev. Glenn Burks officiating. Burial will follow at Keltonburg Cemetery in DeKalb County. Visitation will be held from 11 a.m. until time of service today at the church.

High Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Southern Standard, McMinnville, TN, 5 May 2004.¹

Alias(es)

Name-Variation: He was also known as Arthur^4,5

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	1933, William, age 18 years, and Ella May Delong, age 18 years, daughter of: Jesse Delong and Etta Redmon, were married Related: 6^th cousins, 6^th cousins once removed and 7^th cousins.^1,3

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

1933, William, age 18 years, and Ella May Delong, age 18 years, daughter of: Jesse Delong and Etta Redmon, were married Related: 6^th cousins, 6^th cousins once removed and 7^th cousins.^1,3

Census Records

Census	Date/Location/Comment	Others Same Household
Census-1920	27 Jan 1920, Civil District #06, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G	Jesse Philander Jones, Roshie Elizabeth Marsh, Atha Jones, Artha Lena Jones, Etheleon Jones and Opheleon Jones⁴
Census-1930	11 Apr 1930, Civil District #06, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G	Jesse Philander Jones, Roshie Elizabeth Marsh, Atha Jones, Artha Lena Jones, Opheleon Jones and Etheleon Jones⁵
Census-1940	8 Apr 1940, 1513 Long Avenue, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee^G	Ella May Delong⁶

Census

Date/Location/Comment

Others Same Household

Census-1920

27 Jan 1920, Civil District #06, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G

Jesse Philander Jones, Roshie Elizabeth Marsh, Atha Jones, Artha Lena Jones, Etheleon Jones and Opheleon Jones⁴

Census-1930

11 Apr 1930, Civil District #06, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G

Jesse Philander Jones, Roshie Elizabeth Marsh, Atha Jones, Artha Lena Jones, Opheleon Jones and Etheleon Jones⁵

Census-1940

8 Apr 1940, 1513 Long Avenue, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee^G

Ella May Delong⁶

Occupation(s)

Date	Location	Occupation/Industry
circa Apr 1930	DeKalb County, Tennessee^G	laborer general farm⁵
circa Apr 1940	Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee^G	laborer Halsey Mill⁶

Date

Location

Occupation/Industry

circa Apr 1930

DeKalb County, Tennessee^G

laborer general farm⁵

circa Apr 1940

Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee^G

laborer Halsey Mill⁶

Known Address(es)

Address: on Monday, 1 Apr 1935, William Arthur (age 20) and Ella May (née Delong) (age 20) Jones lived at: 1513 Long Avenue, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee^G.⁶

Citations

[S807] RootsWeb.com, online http://tinyurl.com/jy5c4um, Glenn Merchant (e-mail address), updated as of 24 Dec 2008.
[S85] Social Security Death Index, Master File, Social Security Death Index, Social Security Death Index (http://tinyurl.com/jqkwdlq: RootsWeb, various). Hereinafter cited as SSDI.
[S826] Find A Grave, online <http://tinyurl.com/5xkq9>. Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.
[S244] 1 Jan 1920, Digital, FamilySearch.org, 35 NW Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, https://tinyurl.com/ya4dwjbu Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920.
[S633] 1 Apr 1930, Digital, FamilySearch.org, 35 NW Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, https://tinyurl.com/y73u3s4c Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930.
[S1004] 1 Apr 1940, Digital, FamilySearch.org, 35 NW Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, https://tinyurl.com/y7ojnd8p Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940.

Last Edited

8 Sep 2016

Mary Catherine Adcock¹

Family

TMG ID:63925, (14 Jan 1857 - 26 Mar 1934)

Father*

Henry Adcock Jr.¹ B: 1823, D: Jun 1882

Mother*

Mary P. Jones¹ B: 1825

Vital Statistics

Born: Mary Catherine Adcock was born on Wednesday, 14 Jan 1857, at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹
Died on Monday, 26 Mar 1934 at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G, at age 77 years, 2 months and 12 days.^1,2

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Mary Catherine Adcock was the daughter of: Henry Adcock Jr. and Mary P. Jones.¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Tuesday, 2 Feb 1875, Mary, age 18 years and 19 days, and Anthony Ebeneezer Adcock, age 22 years, 1 month and 18 days, son of: Thomas Adcock and Frances Bowles, were married at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.^1,3

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Tuesday, 2 Feb 1875, Mary, age 18 years and 19 days, and Anthony Ebeneezer Adcock, age 22 years, 1 month and 18 days, son of: Thomas Adcock and Frances Bowles, were married at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.^1,3

Children of: Mary Catherine Adcock and Anthony Ebeneezer Adcock

Purley B. Adcock+⁴ B: 19 Aug 1876, D: 24 May 1951
Wesley Hackney Adcock+⁴ B: 17 Dec 1878, D: 24 Apr 1915
Mary Frances Adcock+³ B: 18 May 1888, D: 18 Jan 1978
Exie Anna Adcock+³ B: 17 Oct 1892, D: 4 Sep 1973
Exie Adcock⁵ B: c 1893

Census Records

Census	Date/Location/Comment	Others Same Household
Census-1880	15 Jun 1880, Civil District #07, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G	Anthony Ebeneezer Adcock, Purley B. Adcock and Wesley Hackney Adcock⁴
Census-1910	20 Apr 1910, Civil District #07, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G	Anthony Ebeneezer Adcock and Exie Adcock⁵

Census

Date/Location/Comment

Others Same Household

Census-1880

15 Jun 1880, Civil District #07, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G

Anthony Ebeneezer Adcock, Purley B. Adcock and Wesley Hackney Adcock⁴

Census-1910

20 Apr 1910, Civil District #07, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G

Anthony Ebeneezer Adcock and Exie Adcock⁵

Occupation(s)

Date	Location	Occupation/Industry
circa Jun 1880	DeKalb County, Tennessee^G	keeping house⁴

Date

Location

Occupation/Industry

circa Jun 1880

DeKalb County, Tennessee^G

keeping house⁴

Citations

[S816] RootsWeb.com, online http://tinyurl.com/jnyonle, Errol Bevan (e-mail address), updated as of 3 Jul 2009.
[S129] Ancestry.com, online http://tinyurl.com/pcf6tp, various (various), updated as of various, bostenn New Auvil D Adcock Ancestry.
[S620] FamilySearch.org, online https://tinyurl.com/3m4fuhm, Various (Utah), updated as of Various, Pedigree Resource File.
[S98] 1 Jun 1880, Digital, FamilySearch.org, 35 NW Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, https://tinyurl.com/y9djv69w Tenth Census of the United States, 1880.
[S243] 15 Apr 1910, Digital, FamilySearch.org, 35 NW Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, https://tinyurl.com/y9glogje, Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910.

Last Edited

10 Dec 2015

Henry Adcock Jr.^1,2

Family

TMG ID:63926, (1823 - Jun 1882)

Vital Statistics

Born: Henry Adcock Jr. was born in 1823, at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹
Died in Jun 1882 at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G, at age 59 years.²

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Born: Henry Adcock Jr. was born on Friday, 6 Aug 1819, at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.²

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	1847, Henry, age 24 years, and Mary P. Jones, age 22 years, daughter of: Amasa Jones and Jane Chenney Canine, were married at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

1847, Henry, age 24 years, and Mary P. Jones, age 22 years, daughter of: Amasa Jones and Jane Chenney Canine, were married at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹

Children of: Henry Adcock Jr. and Mary P. Jones

Martha Jane Adcock+¹ B: Aug 1843, D: 22 May 1910
Mary Ann Adcock¹ B: 1846
Sarah Adcock¹ B: 1849
Margarett A. Adcock¹ B: 1853
John M. Adcock¹ B: 1856, D: 1870
Mary Catherine Adcock+¹ B: 14 Jan 1857, D: 26 Mar 1934

Citations

[S816] RootsWeb.com, online http://tinyurl.com/jnyonle, Errol Bevan (e-mail address), updated as of 3 Jul 2009.
[S129] Ancestry.com, online http://tinyurl.com/pcf6tp, various (various), updated as of various, bostenn New Auvil D Adcock Ancestry.

Last Edited

29 Nov 2015

Mary P. Jones¹

Family

TMG ID:63927, (1825 - )

Father*

Amasa Jones¹ B: 1800, D: 1860

Mother*

Jane Chenney Canine¹ B: 1795, D: 9 Aug 1852

Vital Statistics

Born: Mary P. Jones was born in 1825, at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.²

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Mary P. Jones was the daughter of: Amasa Jones and Jane Chenney Canine.¹

Alias(es)

Name-Married: in 1847, her married name became Mrs. Adcock (née Jones).

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	1847, Mary, age 22 years, and Henry Adcock Jr., age 24 years were married at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.²

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

1847, Mary, age 22 years, and Henry Adcock Jr., age 24 years were married at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.²

Children of: Mary P. Jones and Henry Adcock Jr.

Martha Jane Adcock+² B: Aug 1843, D: 22 May 1910
Mary Ann Adcock² B: 1846
Sarah Adcock² B: 1849
Margarett A. Adcock² B: 1853
John M. Adcock² B: 1856, D: 1870
Mary Catherine Adcock+² B: 14 Jan 1857, D: 26 Mar 1934

Citations

[S129] Ancestry.com, online http://tinyurl.com/pcf6tp, various (various), updated as of various, bostenn New Auvil D Adcock Ancestry.
[S816] RootsWeb.com, online http://tinyurl.com/jnyonle, Errol Bevan (e-mail address), updated as of 3 Jul 2009.

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John M. Adcock¹

Family

TMG ID:63928, (1856 - 1870)

Father*

Henry Adcock Jr.¹ B: 1823, D: Jun 1882

Mother*

Mary P. Jones¹ B: 1825

Vital Statistics

Born: John M. Adcock was born in 1856, at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹
Died in 1870 at age 14 years.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

John M. Adcock was the son of: Henry Adcock Jr. and Mary P. Jones.¹

Citations

[S816] RootsWeb.com, online http://tinyurl.com/jnyonle, Errol Bevan (e-mail address), updated as of 3 Jul 2009.

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Margarett A. Adcock¹

Family

TMG ID:63929, (1853 - )

Father*

Henry Adcock Jr.¹ B: 1823, D: Jun 1882

Mother*

Mary P. Jones¹ B: 1825

Vital Statistics

Born: Margarett A. Adcock was born in 1853, at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Margarett A. Adcock was the daughter of: Henry Adcock Jr. and Mary P. Jones.¹

Citations

[S816] RootsWeb.com, online http://tinyurl.com/jnyonle, Errol Bevan (e-mail address), updated as of 3 Jul 2009.

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Sarah Adcock¹

Family

TMG ID:63930, (1849 - )

Father*

Henry Adcock Jr.¹ B: 1823, D: Jun 1882

Mother*

Mary P. Jones¹ B: 1825

Vital Statistics

Born: Sarah Adcock was born in 1849, at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Sarah Adcock was the daughter of: Henry Adcock Jr. and Mary P. Jones.¹

Citations

[S816] RootsWeb.com, online http://tinyurl.com/jnyonle, Errol Bevan (e-mail address), updated as of 3 Jul 2009.

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Martha Jane Adcock¹

Family

TMG ID:63931, (Aug 1843 - 22 May 1910)

Father*

Henry Adcock Jr.¹ B: 1823, D: Jun 1882

Mother*

Mary P. Jones¹ B: 1825

Father

Henry Adcock¹ B: c 1823, D: Jun 1882

Mother

Mary J. Pike¹ B: 1825

Vital Statistics

Born: Martha Jane Adcock was born in Aug 1843, at Smithville, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹
Died on Sunday, 22 May 1910 at Tennessee^G at age 66 years and 9 months.²

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Martha Jane Adcock was the daughter of: Henry Adcock Jr. and Mary P. Jones.¹
Born: Martha Jane Adcock was born on Saturday, 3 Feb 1844, at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.²
Born: Martha Jane Adcock was born in 1848, at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹

Alias(es)

Nick-Name: her nickname was "Marthy"²
Name-Married: on Sunday, 3 Oct 1869, her married name became Mrs. Rigsby (née Adcock).

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Sunday, 3 Oct 1869, Martha, age 26 years and 2 months, and William Henry Rigsby, age 26 years were married at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Sunday, 3 Oct 1869, Martha, age 26 years and 2 months, and William Henry Rigsby, age 26 years were married at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹

Children of: Martha Jane Adcock and William Henry Rigsby

William R. Rigsby¹ B: 1867
Sarah E. Rigsby+¹ B: Aug 1870, D: 26 Nov 1906
Russel Rigsby¹ B: 1872
D. Rigsby¹ B: 1874
Caldona Rigsby¹ B: 1878

Citations

[S816] RootsWeb.com, online http://tinyurl.com/jnyonle, Errol Bevan (e-mail address), updated as of 3 Jul 2009.
[S129] Ancestry.com, online http://tinyurl.com/pcf6tp, various (various), updated as of various, bostenn New Auvil D Adcock Ancestry.

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William Henry Rigsby¹

Family

TMG ID:63932, (1843 - b 1943)

Vital Statistics

Born: William Henry Rigsby was born in 1843, at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹
Died before 1943.¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Sunday, 3 Oct 1869, William, age 26 years, and Martha Jane Adcock, age 26 years and 2 months, daughter of: Henry Adcock Jr. and Mary P. Jones, were married at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Sunday, 3 Oct 1869, William, age 26 years, and Martha Jane Adcock, age 26 years and 2 months, daughter of: Henry Adcock Jr. and Mary P. Jones, were married at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹

Children of: William Henry Rigsby and Martha Jane Adcock

William R. Rigsby¹ B: 1867
Sarah E. Rigsby+¹ B: Aug 1870, D: 26 Nov 1906
Russel Rigsby¹ B: 1872
D. Rigsby¹ B: 1874
Caldona Rigsby¹ B: 1878

Citations

[S816] RootsWeb.com, online http://tinyurl.com/jnyonle, Errol Bevan (e-mail address), updated as of 3 Jul 2009.

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William R. Rigsby¹

Family

TMG ID:63933, (1867 - )

Father*

William Henry Rigsby¹ B: 1843, D: b 1943

Mother*

Martha Jane Adcock¹ B: Aug 1843, D: 22 May 1910

Vital Statistics

Born: William R. Rigsby was born in 1867, at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

William R. Rigsby was the son of: William Henry Rigsby and Martha Jane Adcock.¹

Citations

[S816] RootsWeb.com, online http://tinyurl.com/jnyonle, Errol Bevan (e-mail address), updated as of 3 Jul 2009.

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Russel Rigsby¹

Family

TMG ID:63934, (1872 - )

Father*

William Henry Rigsby¹ B: 1843, D: b 1943

Mother*

Martha Jane Adcock¹ B: Aug 1843, D: 22 May 1910

Vital Statistics

Born: Russel Rigsby was born in 1872, at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Russel Rigsby was the son of: William Henry Rigsby and Martha Jane Adcock.¹

Citations

[S816] RootsWeb.com, online http://tinyurl.com/jnyonle, Errol Bevan (e-mail address), updated as of 3 Jul 2009.

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D. Rigsby¹

Family

TMG ID:63935, (1874 - )

Father*

William Henry Rigsby¹ B: 1843, D: b 1943

Mother*

Martha Jane Adcock¹ B: Aug 1843, D: 22 May 1910

Vital Statistics

Born: D. Rigsby was born in 1874, at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

D. Rigsby was the son of: William Henry Rigsby and Martha Jane Adcock.¹

Citations

[S816] RootsWeb.com, online http://tinyurl.com/jnyonle, Errol Bevan (e-mail address), updated as of 3 Jul 2009.

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Caldona Rigsby¹

Family

TMG ID:63936, (1878 - )

Father*

William Henry Rigsby¹ B: 1843, D: b 1943

Mother*

Martha Jane Adcock¹ B: Aug 1843, D: 22 May 1910

Vital Statistics

Born: Caldona Rigsby was born in 1878, at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Caldona Rigsby was the daughter of: William Henry Rigsby and Martha Jane Adcock.¹

Citations

[S816] RootsWeb.com, online http://tinyurl.com/jnyonle, Errol Bevan (e-mail address), updated as of 3 Jul 2009.

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Sarah E. Rigsby¹

Family

TMG ID:63937, (Aug 1870 - 26 Nov 1906)

Father*

William Henry Rigsby¹ B: 1843, D: b 1943

Mother*

Martha Jane Adcock¹ B: Aug 1843, D: 22 May 1910

Vital Statistics

Born: Sarah E. Rigsby was born in Aug 1870, at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹
Died on Monday, 26 Nov 1906 at age 36 years and 3 months.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Sarah E. Rigsby was the daughter of: William Henry Rigsby and Martha Jane Adcock.¹

Alias(es)

Name-Married: on Thursday, 20 Jun 1889, her married name became Mrs. Young (née Rigsby).

Union(s)

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Thursday, 20 Jun 1889, Sarah, age 18 years and 10 months, and John Luther Young, age 20 years and 5 months, son of: Weldon Peter Young and Sarah Driver, were married at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹

Children of: Sarah E. Rigsby and John Luther Young

Mary T. Young¹ B: May 1889
William Ervin Young¹ B: Mar 1893
Edgar P. Young¹ B: 18 Nov 1895, D: 31 Oct 1943
Clara Young¹ B: c 1898
Ola Mai Young¹ B: 18 Nov 1901
Fannie Young¹ B: 1905

Citations

[S816] RootsWeb.com, online http://tinyurl.com/jnyonle, Errol Bevan (e-mail address), updated as of 3 Jul 2009.

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John Luther Young¹

Family

TMG ID:63938, (Jan 1869 - 31 Mar 1949)

Relationship:

7th cousin 1 time removed of Elsie Dora Lewis

Father*

Weldon Peter Young¹ B: 1845

Mother*

Sarah Driver¹ B: 1849

Vital Statistics

Born: John Luther Young was born in Jan 1869, at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹
Died on Thursday, 31 Mar 1949 at age 80 years and 2 months.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Born: John Luther Young was born in 1868, at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹
He was the son of: Weldon Peter Young and Sarah Driver.¹

Union(s)

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Thursday, 20 Jun 1889, John, age 20 years and 5 months, and Sarah E. Rigsby, age 18 years and 10 months, daughter of: William Henry Rigsby and Martha Jane Adcock, were married at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹

Marriage

1909, John, age 40 years, and Melissa Mary O. Summers, age 20 years were married at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹

Children of: John Luther Young and Sarah E. Rigsby

Mary T. Young¹ B: May 1889
William Ervin Young¹ B: Mar 1893
Edgar P. Young¹ B: 18 Nov 1895, D: 31 Oct 1943
Clara Young¹ B: c 1898
Ola Mai Young¹ B: 18 Nov 1901
Fannie Young¹ B: 1905

Citations

[S816] RootsWeb.com, online http://tinyurl.com/jnyonle, Errol Bevan (e-mail address), updated as of 3 Jul 2009.

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Weldon Peter Young¹

Family

TMG ID:63939, (1845 - )

Relationship:

6th cousin 2 times removed of Elsie Dora Lewis

Father*

Isaac Young¹ B: 1807, D: b 1880

Mother*

Elizabeth Kennedy¹ B: 1817

Father

James John Young¹ B: c 1780, D: Mar 1866

Vital Statistics

Born: Weldon Peter Young was born in 1845, at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Weldon Peter Young was the son of: Isaac Young and Elizabeth Kennedy.¹

Union(s)

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Monday, 23 Sep 1867, Weldon, age 22 years, and Sarah Driver, age 18 years were married at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹

Child of: Weldon Peter Young and Sarah Driver

John Luther Young+¹ B: Jan 1869, D: 31 Mar 1949

Citations

[S816] RootsWeb.com, online http://tinyurl.com/jnyonle, Errol Bevan (e-mail address), updated as of 3 Jul 2009.

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Sarah Driver¹

Family

TMG ID:63940, (1849 - )

Vital Statistics

Born: Sarah Driver was born in 1849, at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹

Alias(es)

Name-Married: on Monday, 23 Sep 1867, her married name became Mrs. Young (née Driver).

Union(s)

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Monday, 23 Sep 1867, Sarah, age 18 years, and Weldon Peter Young, age 22 years, son of: Isaac Young and Elizabeth Kennedy, were married at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹

Child of: Sarah Driver and Weldon Peter Young

John Luther Young+¹ B: Jan 1869, D: 31 Mar 1949

Citations

[S816] RootsWeb.com, online http://tinyurl.com/jnyonle, Errol Bevan (e-mail address), updated as of 3 Jul 2009.

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A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
— Will Rogers
A fool and his money are soon elected.
— Will Rogers
A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.
— Will Rogers
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
— Will Rogers
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
— Will Rogers
About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.
— Will Rogers
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
— Will Rogers
Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
— Will Rogers
All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
— Will Rogers
America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.
— Will Rogers
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
— Will Rogers
An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
— Will Rogers
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
— Will Rogers
An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.
— Will Rogers
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
— Will Rogers
Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.
— Will Rogers
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
— Will Rogers
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
— Will Rogers
Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.
— Will Rogers
Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
— Will Rogers
Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
— Will Rogers
Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.
— Will Rogers
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
— Will Rogers
Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
— Will Rogers
Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.
— Will Rogers
Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
— Will Rogers
Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
— Will Rogers
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
— Will Rogers
Even though you are on the right track - you will get run over if you just sit there.
— Will Rogers
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
— Will Rogers
Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
— Will Rogers
Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.
— Will Rogers
Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
— Will Rogers
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
— Will Rogers
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
— Will Rogers
I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
— Will Rogers
I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.
— Will Rogers
I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'
— Will Rogers
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
— Will Rogers
I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
— Will Rogers
I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
— Will Rogers
I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.
— Will Rogers
I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.
— Will Rogers
If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.
— Will Rogers
If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.
— Will Rogers
If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
— Will Rogers
If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production.
— Will Rogers
If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.
— Will Rogers
If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.
— Will Rogers
If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.
— Will Rogers
If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.
— Will Rogers
I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
— Will Rogers
In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.
— Will Rogers
In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.
— Will Rogers
Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
— Will Rogers
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
— Will Rogers
It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.
— Will Rogers
It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.
— Will Rogers
It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
— Will Rogers
Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.
— Will Rogers
Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.
— Will Rogers
Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in.
— Will Rogers
Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
— Will Rogers
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
— Will Rogers
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
— Will Rogers
Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.
— Will Rogers
Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
— Will Rogers
Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.
— Will Rogers
Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
— Will Rogers
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
— Will Rogers
One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.
— Will Rogers
One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.
— Will Rogers
Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.
— Will Rogers
People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
— Will Rogers
People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
— Will Rogers
People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
— Will Rogers
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
— Will Rogers
Politics is applesauce.
— Will Rogers
Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.
— Will Rogers
So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.
— Will Rogers
So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
— Will Rogers
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
— Will Rogers
The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.
— Will Rogers
The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
— Will Rogers
The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.
— Will Rogers
The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
— Will Rogers
The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.
— Will Rogers
The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.
— Will Rogers
The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'
— Will Rogers
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
— Will Rogers
The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
— Will Rogers
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
— Will Rogers
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
— Will Rogers
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
— Will Rogers
The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.
— Will Rogers
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
— Will Rogers
The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.
— Will Rogers
The United States never lost a war or won a conference.
— Will Rogers
The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.
— Will Rogers
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
— Will Rogers
There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
— Will Rogers
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
— Will Rogers
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
— Will Rogers
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
— Will Rogers
There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
— Will Rogers
Things ain't what they used to be and never were.
— Will Rogers
Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
— Will Rogers
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
— Will Rogers
This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
— Will Rogers
We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.
— Will Rogers
We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.
— Will Rogers
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
— Will Rogers
We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
— Will Rogers
What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
— Will Rogers
When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
— Will Rogers
When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
— Will Rogers
When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.
— Will Rogers
When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.
— Will Rogers
Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
— Will Rogers
Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.
— Will Rogers
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
— Will Rogers
You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.
— Will Rogers
Every person you will pass on the street today is going to die. Living long enough, each will suffer the loss of friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?
— Sam Harris
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Do one thing every day that scares you.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Do one thing every day that scares you.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Never allow a person to tell you 'no' who doesn't have the power to say 'yes.'
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Work is always an antidote to depression.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do …
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
It's your life-but only if you make it so.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Courage is exhilarating.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!
— Eleanor Roosevelt
As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The giving of love is an education in itself.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
All of life is a constant education.
— Eleanor Roosevelt

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