Mostly Angels in the Sky

Martha P. Caugher¹

Family

TMG ID:70021, (27 Dec 1830 - 6 Feb 1916)

Father*

Asa Cowgur¹ B: 1806

Mother*

Nancy Crabb¹ B: 1811

Vital Statistics

Born: Martha P. Caugher was born on Monday, 27 Dec 1830, at Saline County, Illinois^G.¹
Died on Sunday, 6 Feb 1916 at Orla, Laclede County, Missouri^G, at age 85 years, 1 month and 10 days. Details as recorded: Cause of Death: senility and chronic bronchitis Death Certificate ID: 10897. The informant on the Death Certificate was: Mary Nevada Fike.^1,2

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Martha P. Caugher was the daughter of: Asa Cowgur and Nancy Crabb.¹

Alias(es)

Name-Married: her married name became Mrs. Swan (née Caugher).
Name-Married: on Tuesday, 1 Jan 1856, her married name became Mrs. Fike (née Caugher).

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Martha and (?) Swan were married.¹
Marriage	Tuesday, 1 Jan 1856, Martha, age 25 years and 5 days, and A.I. Fike, age 48 years, 9 months and 4 days, son of: Abel Fike and Rachel Crownover, were married at Saint Clair County, Illinois^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Martha and (?) Swan were married.¹

Marriage

Tuesday, 1 Jan 1856, Martha, age 25 years and 5 days, and A.I. Fike, age 48 years, 9 months and 4 days, son of: Abel Fike and Rachel Crownover, were married at Saint Clair County, Illinois^G.¹

Children of: Martha P. Caugher and A.I. Fike

Malissa Fike¹ B: 23 Sep 1860, D: 14 Mar 1904
Steven A. Douglas Fike+¹ B: 4 Apr 1862, D: 6 Jun 1948
Sarah B. Fike¹ B: c 1867
Mary Nevada Fike¹ B: Sep 1869
Nathan C. Fike¹ B: Oct 1871

Citations

[S897] RootsWeb.com, online http://tinyurl.com/hfrulzt, Chris (e-mail address), updated as of 25 Sep 2005.
[S670] Missouri Death Certificates, online <http://tinyurl.com/ez4uw>. Hereinafter cited as Internet - MO Death Recs.

Last Edited

22 Feb 2013

Asa Cowgur¹

Family

TMG ID:70022, (1806 - )

Vital Statistics

Died at Illinois^G.¹
Born: Asa Cowgur was born in 1806, at Tennessee^G.¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	1832, Asa, age 26 years, and Nancy Crabb, age 21 years, daughter of: Knight Crab, were married.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

1832, Asa, age 26 years, and Nancy Crabb, age 21 years, daughter of: Knight Crab, were married.¹

Children of: Asa Cowgur and Nancy Crabb

Martha P. Caugher+¹ B: 27 Dec 1830, D: 6 Feb 1916
Straud Couger¹ B: 1833

Citations

[S897] RootsWeb.com, online http://tinyurl.com/hfrulzt, Chris (e-mail address), updated as of 25 Sep 2005.

Last Edited

1 Feb 2013

Nancy Crabb¹

Family

TMG ID:70023, (1811 - )

Father*

Knight Crab¹

Vital Statistics

Died at Illinois^G.¹
Born: Nancy Crabb was born in 1811, at Tennessee^G.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Nancy Crabb was the daughter of: Knight Crab.¹

Alias(es)

Name-Married: in 1832, her married name became Mrs. Cowgur (née Crabb).

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	1832, Nancy, age 21 years, and Asa Cowgur, age 26 years were married.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

1832, Nancy, age 21 years, and Asa Cowgur, age 26 years were married.¹

Children of: Nancy Crabb and Asa Cowgur

Martha P. Caugher+¹ B: 27 Dec 1830, D: 6 Feb 1916
Straud Couger¹ B: 1833

Citations

[S897] RootsWeb.com, online http://tinyurl.com/hfrulzt, Chris (e-mail address), updated as of 25 Sep 2005.

Last Edited

1 Feb 2013

Straud Couger¹

Family

TMG ID:70024, (1833 - )

Father*

Asa Cowgur¹ B: 1806

Mother*

Nancy Crabb¹ B: 1811

Vital Statistics

Born: Straud Couger was born in 1833, at Saline County, Illinois^G.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Straud Couger was the son of: Asa Cowgur and Nancy Crabb.¹

Citations

[S897] RootsWeb.com, online http://tinyurl.com/hfrulzt, Chris (e-mail address), updated as of 25 Sep 2005.

Last Edited

1 Feb 2013

Knight Crab¹

Family

TMG ID:70025

Child of: Knight Crab

Nancy Crabb+¹ B: 1811

Citations

[S897] RootsWeb.com, online http://tinyurl.com/hfrulzt, Chris (e-mail address), updated as of 25 Sep 2005.

Last Edited

1 Feb 2013

Malissa Fike¹

Family

TMG ID:70026, (23 Sep 1860 - 14 Mar 1904)

Father*

A.I. Fike¹ B: 28 Mar 1807, D: 17 Jun 1882

Mother*

Martha P. Caugher¹ B: 27 Dec 1830, D: 6 Feb 1916

Vital Statistics

Born: Malissa Fike was born on Sunday, 23 Sep 1860.¹
Died on Monday, 14 Mar 1904 at Montana^G at age 43 years, 5 months and 20 days.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Malissa Fike was the daughter of: A.I. Fike and Martha P. Caugher.¹

Citations

[S897] RootsWeb.com, online http://tinyurl.com/hfrulzt, Chris (e-mail address), updated as of 25 Sep 2005.

Last Edited

1 Feb 2013

Steven A. Douglas Fike¹

Family

TMG ID:70027, (4 Apr 1862 - 6 Jun 1948)

Father*

A.I. Fike² B: 28 Mar 1807, D: 17 Jun 1882

Mother*

Martha P. Caugher² B: 27 Dec 1830, D: 6 Feb 1916

Vital Statistics

Born: Steven A. Douglas Fike was born on Friday, 4 Apr 1862, at Belleville, Saint Clair County, Illinois^G.²
Died on Sunday, 6 Jun 1948 at 1 mile East of, Competition, Laclede County, Missouri^G, at age 86 years, 2 months and 2 days. Details as recorded: 10:30 AM Cause of Death: anemia sever for 4 years Due to: cause undetermined Death Certificate ID: 19964. The informant on the Death Certificate was: Roy Herbert Fike.^2,1

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Steven A. Douglas Fike was the son of: A.I. Fike and Martha P. Caugher.²

Alias(es)

Name-Variation: He was also known as Stephen A. Douglas²

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Sunday, 8 Feb 1885, Steven, age 22 years, 10 months and 4 days, and Nancy Caroline Gardner, age 17 years, 4 months and 27 days, daughter of: William Handcock Gardner and Louisa Lieada Jones, were married at Orla, Laclede County, Missouri^G.²

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Sunday, 8 Feb 1885, Steven, age 22 years, 10 months and 4 days, and Nancy Caroline Gardner, age 17 years, 4 months and 27 days, daughter of: William Handcock Gardner and Louisa Lieada Jones, were married at Orla, Laclede County, Missouri^G.²

Children of: Steven A. Douglas Fike and Nancy Caroline Gardner

Clara Ethel Fike² B: 20 Nov 1885, D: 15 Mar 1912
Clarence Elmer Fike² B: 25 Aug 1887, D: 23 Dec 1960
Carenton Amos Fike+² B: 18 Oct 1889, D: 20 Aug 1919
Homer Lee Fike+² B: 9 Sep 1891, D: 7 Dec 1969
Elbie Clinton Fike² B: 28 Sep 1893, D: 29 Oct 1967
Clifford Ai Fike+² B: 3 Oct 1895, D: 19 Nov 1976
Roy Herbert Fike+² B: 17 Sep 1897, D: 22 Jul 1976
Della Edith Fike² B: 7 Sep 1899, D: 14 Sep 1958
Dessie May Fike² B: 6 Nov 1901, D: 31 Jan 1987
Bessie Elma Fike² B: 1 Dec 1903, D: 21 Jan 1995
Don Glyness Fike² B: 15 Aug 1905, D: 21 Jan 1989
Claud Dennis Fike² B: 24 Mar 1908, D: 10 Jun 1994
Albert Douglas Fike² B: 4 Dec 1909, D: 21 Sep 1976

Witnessed Events & Occasions

Activity	Details
Death	Wednesday, 20 Aug 1919, Steven A. Douglas Fike was the informant on the death certtificate for Carenton Amos Fike.^2,1,3,4

Activity

Details

Death

Wednesday, 20 Aug 1919, Steven A. Douglas Fike was the informant on the death certtificate for Carenton Amos Fike.^2,1,3,4

Citations

[S670] Missouri Death Certificates, online <http://tinyurl.com/ez4uw>. Hereinafter cited as Internet - MO Death Recs.
[S897] RootsWeb.com, online http://tinyurl.com/hfrulzt, Chris (e-mail address), updated as of 25 Sep 2005.
[S826] Find A Grave, online <http://tinyurl.com/5xkq9>, http://tinyurl.com/jlayyjw. Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.
[S1044] Rootsweb.com, online http://tinyurl.com/y94qjtkk, Rick Busig (e-mail address), updated as of 21 Apr 2010.

Last Edited

22 Feb 2013

Nancy Caroline Gardner¹

Family

TMG ID:70028, (12 Sep 1867 - 18 Jan 1958)

Father*

William Handcock Gardner¹ B: 11 May 1832, D: 30 Jan 1921

Mother*

Louisa Lieada Jones¹ B: 25 Dec 1833, D: 24 Oct 1917

Vital Statistics

Born: Nancy Caroline Gardner was born on Thursday, 12 Sep 1867, at Terra Haute, Vigo County, Indiana^G.¹
Died on Saturday, 18 Jan 1958 at Osage Twp., Laclede County, Missouri^G, at age 90 years, 4 months and 6 days. Details as recorded: 04:00 PM Cause of Death: Asian flu for 1 month Other: arteriosclerotic disease Death Certificate ID: 1811. The informant on the Death Certificate was: Elbie Clinton Fike.^1,2

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Nancy Caroline Gardner was the daughter of: William Handcock Gardner and Louisa Lieada Jones.¹

Alias(es)

Name-Married: on Sunday, 8 Feb 1885, her married name became Mrs. Fike (née Gardner).

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Sunday, 8 Feb 1885, Nancy, age 17 years, 4 months and 27 days, and Steven A. Douglas Fike, age 22 years, 10 months and 4 days, son of: A.I. Fike and Martha P. Caugher, were married at Orla, Laclede County, Missouri^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Sunday, 8 Feb 1885, Nancy, age 17 years, 4 months and 27 days, and Steven A. Douglas Fike, age 22 years, 10 months and 4 days, son of: A.I. Fike and Martha P. Caugher, were married at Orla, Laclede County, Missouri^G.¹

Children of: Nancy Caroline Gardner and Steven A. Douglas Fike

Clara Ethel Fike¹ B: 20 Nov 1885, D: 15 Mar 1912
Clarence Elmer Fike¹ B: 25 Aug 1887, D: 23 Dec 1960
Carenton Amos Fike+¹ B: 18 Oct 1889, D: 20 Aug 1919
Homer Lee Fike+¹ B: 9 Sep 1891, D: 7 Dec 1969
Elbie Clinton Fike¹ B: 28 Sep 1893, D: 29 Oct 1967
Clifford Ai Fike+¹ B: 3 Oct 1895, D: 19 Nov 1976
Roy Herbert Fike+¹ B: 17 Sep 1897, D: 22 Jul 1976
Della Edith Fike¹ B: 7 Sep 1899, D: 14 Sep 1958
Dessie May Fike¹ B: 6 Nov 1901, D: 31 Jan 1987
Bessie Elma Fike¹ B: 1 Dec 1903, D: 21 Jan 1995
Don Glyness Fike¹ B: 15 Aug 1905, D: 21 Jan 1989
Claud Dennis Fike¹ B: 24 Mar 1908, D: 10 Jun 1994
Albert Douglas Fike¹ B: 4 Dec 1909, D: 21 Sep 1976

Citations

[S897] RootsWeb.com, online http://tinyurl.com/hfrulzt, Chris (e-mail address), updated as of 25 Sep 2005.
[S670] Missouri Death Certificates, online <http://tinyurl.com/ez4uw>. Hereinafter cited as Internet - MO Death Recs.

Last Edited

22 Feb 2013

William Handcock Gardner¹

Family

TMG ID:70029, (11 May 1832 - 30 Jan 1921)

Vital Statistics

Born: William Handcock Gardner was born on Friday, 11 May 1832, at Jackson County, Indiana^G.¹
Died on Sunday, 30 Jan 1921 at State Hospital Number 3, Washington Twp., Vernon County, Missouri^G, at age 88 years, 8 months and 19 days. Details as recorded: 05:45 PM Cause of Death: chronic myocarditis Death Certificate ID: 3057.^1,2

Alias(es)

Nick-Name: his nickname was "W.H."²

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Divorce	On this date, the divorce between Louisa Lieada (neé Jones) Gardner and William Handcock Gardner.¹
Marriage	William and Syrilda Granham were married.¹
Marriage	1865, William, age 32 years, and Louisa Lieada Jones, age 31 years, daughter of: Charles Jones and Barbary Crose, were married at Indiana^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Divorce

On this date, the divorce between Louisa Lieada (neé Jones) Gardner and William Handcock Gardner.¹

Marriage

William and Syrilda Granham were married.¹

Marriage

1865, William, age 32 years, and Louisa Lieada Jones, age 31 years, daughter of: Charles Jones and Barbary Crose, were married at Indiana^G.¹

Children of: William Handcock Gardner and Syrilda Granham

Children of: William Handcock Gardner and Louisa Lieada Jones

Sarah Catherine Gardner¹ B: 1867
Nancy Caroline Gardner+¹ B: 12 Sep 1867, D: 18 Jan 1958
Martha Emiline Gardner¹ B: 1875

Other Major Events

On this date, the divorce between Louisa Lieada (neé Jones) Gardner and William Handcock Gardner.¹

Citations

[S897] RootsWeb.com, online http://tinyurl.com/hfrulzt, Chris (e-mail address), updated as of 25 Sep 2005.
[S670] Missouri Death Certificates, online <http://tinyurl.com/ez4uw>. Hereinafter cited as Internet - MO Death Recs.

Last Edited

16 Jun 2019

Louisa Lieada Jones¹

Family

TMG ID:70030, (25 Dec 1833 - 24 Oct 1917)

Father*

Charles Jones² B: 1807

Mother*

Barbary Crose² B: 1810, D: 1875

Vital Statistics

Born: Louisa Lieada Jones was born on Wednesday, 25 Dec 1833, at West Liberty, Morgan County, Kentucky^G.¹
Died on Wednesday, 24 Oct 1917 at Lebanon, Laclede County, Missouri^G, at age 83 years, 9 months and 29 days. Details as recorded: not found in Missouri death index.^1,3

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Louisa Lieada Jones was the daughter of: Charles Jones and Barbary Crose.²

Alias(es)

Name-Married: her married name became Mrs. Faith (née Jones).
Name-Married: in 1865, her married name became Mrs. Gardner (née Jones).

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Divorce	On this date, the divorce between Louisa Lieada (neé Jones) Gardner and William Handcock Gardner.¹
Marriage	Louisa and Robert Faith were married.¹
Marriage	1865, Louisa, age 31 years, and William Handcock Gardner, age 32 years were married at Indiana^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Divorce

On this date, the divorce between Louisa Lieada (neé Jones) Gardner and William Handcock Gardner.¹

Marriage

Louisa and Robert Faith were married.¹

Marriage

1865, Louisa, age 31 years, and William Handcock Gardner, age 32 years were married at Indiana^G.¹

Children of: Louisa Lieada Jones and William Handcock Gardner

Sarah Catherine Gardner¹ B: 1867
Nancy Caroline Gardner+¹ B: 12 Sep 1867, D: 18 Jan 1958
Martha Emiline Gardner¹ B: 1875

Other Major Events

On this date, the divorce between Louisa Lieada (neé Jones) Gardner and William Handcock Gardner.¹

Citations

[S897] RootsWeb.com, online http://tinyurl.com/hfrulzt, Chris (e-mail address), updated as of 25 Sep 2005.
[S129] Ancestry.com, online http://tinyurl.com/pcf6tp, various (various), updated as of various, http://records.ancestry.com/…
[S670] Missouri Death Certificates, online <http://tinyurl.com/ez4uw>. Hereinafter cited as Internet - MO Death Recs.

Last Edited

22 May 2016

Robert Faith¹

TMG ID:70031, ( - 1865)

Vital Statistics

Died in 1865.¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Robert and Louisa Lieada Jones, daughter of: Charles Jones and Barbary Crose, were married.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Robert and Louisa Lieada Jones, daughter of: Charles Jones and Barbary Crose, were married.¹

Citations

[S897] RootsWeb.com, online http://tinyurl.com/hfrulzt, Chris (e-mail address), updated as of 25 Sep 2005.

Last Edited

1 Feb 2013

Sarah Catherine Gardner¹

Family

TMG ID:70032, (1867 - )

Father*

William Handcock Gardner¹ B: 11 May 1832, D: 30 Jan 1921

Mother*

Louisa Lieada Jones¹ B: 25 Dec 1833, D: 24 Oct 1917

Vital Statistics

Born: Sarah Catherine Gardner was born in 1867, at Indiana^G.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Sarah Catherine Gardner was the daughter of: William Handcock Gardner and Louisa Lieada Jones.¹

Citations

[S897] RootsWeb.com, online http://tinyurl.com/hfrulzt, Chris (e-mail address), updated as of 25 Sep 2005.

Last Edited

1 Feb 2013

Martha Emiline Gardner¹

Family

TMG ID:70033, (1875 - )

Father*

William Handcock Gardner¹ B: 11 May 1832, D: 30 Jan 1921

Mother*

Louisa Lieada Jones¹ B: 25 Dec 1833, D: 24 Oct 1917

Vital Statistics

Born: Martha Emiline Gardner was born in 1875, at Missouri^G.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Martha Emiline Gardner was the daughter of: William Handcock Gardner and Louisa Lieada Jones.¹

Citations

[S897] RootsWeb.com, online http://tinyurl.com/hfrulzt, Chris (e-mail address), updated as of 25 Sep 2005.

Last Edited

1 Feb 2013

Syrilda Granham¹

Family

TMG ID:70034, ( - b 1865)

Vital Statistics

Died before 1865.¹

Alias(es)

Name-Married: her married name became Mrs. Gardner (née Granham).

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Syrilda and William Handcock Gardner were married.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Syrilda and William Handcock Gardner were married.¹

Children of: Syrilda Granham and William Handcock Gardner

Citations

[S897] RootsWeb.com, online http://tinyurl.com/hfrulzt, Chris (e-mail address), updated as of 25 Sep 2005.

Last Edited

1 Feb 2013

Angie Gardner¹

Family

TMG ID:70035, (1858 - )

Father*

William Handcock Gardner¹ B: 11 May 1832, D: 30 Jan 1921

Mother*

Syrilda Granham¹ D: b 1865

Vital Statistics

Born: Angie Gardner was born in 1858, at Indiana^G.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Angie Gardner was the daughter of: William Handcock Gardner and Syrilda Granham.¹

Alias(es)

Name-Married: her married name became Mrs. Tinsley (née Gardner).

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Angie and J.W. Tinsley were married.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Angie and J.W. Tinsley were married.¹

Citations

[S897] RootsWeb.com, online http://tinyurl.com/hfrulzt, Chris (e-mail address), updated as of 25 Sep 2005.

Last Edited

1 Feb 2013

J.W. Tinsley¹

TMG ID:70036

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	J.W. and Angie Gardner, daughter of: William Handcock Gardner and Syrilda Granham, were married.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

J.W. and Angie Gardner, daughter of: William Handcock Gardner and Syrilda Granham, were married.¹

Citations

[S897] RootsWeb.com, online http://tinyurl.com/hfrulzt, Chris (e-mail address), updated as of 25 Sep 2005.

Last Edited

16 Jun 2019

Leander Joplin Gardner¹

Family

TMG ID:70037, (1860 - )

Father*

William Handcock Gardner¹ B: 11 May 1832, D: 30 Jan 1921

Mother*

Syrilda Granham¹ D: b 1865

Vital Statistics

Born: Leander Joplin Gardner was born in 1860, at Indiana^G.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Leander Joplin Gardner was the son of: William Handcock Gardner and Syrilda Granham.¹

Citations

[S897] RootsWeb.com, online http://tinyurl.com/hfrulzt, Chris (e-mail address), updated as of 25 Sep 2005.

Last Edited

1 Feb 2013

Francis A. Gardner¹

Family

TMG ID:70038, (c 1863 - )

Father*

William Handcock Gardner¹ B: 11 May 1832, D: 30 Jan 1921

Mother*

Syrilda Granham¹ D: b 1865

Vital Statistics

Born: Francis A. Gardner was born circa 1863, at Indiana^G.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Francis A. Gardner was the son of: William Handcock Gardner and Syrilda Granham.¹

Citations

[S897] RootsWeb.com, online http://tinyurl.com/hfrulzt, Chris (e-mail address), updated as of 25 Sep 2005.

Last Edited

1 Feb 2013

Clara Ethel Fike¹

Family

TMG ID:70039, (20 Nov 1885 - 15 Mar 1912)

Father*

Steven A. Douglas Fike¹ B: 4 Apr 1862, D: 6 Jun 1948

Mother*

Nancy Caroline Gardner¹ B: 12 Sep 1867, D: 18 Jan 1958

Vital Statistics

Born: Clara Ethel Fike was born on Friday, 20 Nov 1885, at Orla, Laclede County, Missouri^G.¹
Died on Friday, 15 Mar 1912 at Nebo, Laclede County, Missouri^G, at age 26 years, 3 months and 24 days. Details as recorded: not found in Missouri death index.^1,2

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Clara Ethel Fike was the daughter of: Steven A. Douglas Fike and Nancy Caroline Gardner.¹

Alias(es)

Name-Married: on Sunday, 15 Mar 1908, her married name became Mrs. Nicks (née Fike).

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Sunday, 15 Mar 1908, Clara, age 22 years, 3 months and 24 days, and Albert Gallatin Nicks, age 26 years, 9 months and 5 days, son of: William Newton Nicks and Amanda Bradford, were married at Missouri^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Sunday, 15 Mar 1908, Clara, age 22 years, 3 months and 24 days, and Albert Gallatin Nicks, age 26 years, 9 months and 5 days, son of: William Newton Nicks and Amanda Bradford, were married at Missouri^G.¹

Citations

[S897] RootsWeb.com, online http://tinyurl.com/hfrulzt, Chris (e-mail address), updated as of 25 Sep 2005.
[S670] Missouri Death Certificates, online <http://tinyurl.com/ez4uw>. Hereinafter cited as Internet - MO Death Recs.

Last Edited

22 May 2016

Albert Gallatin Nicks¹

Family

TMG ID:70040, (10 Jun 1881 - 28 Sep 1978)

Father*

William Newton Nicks¹ B: Jan 1855, D: 1922

Mother*

Amanda Bradford¹ B: May 1862, D: 1949

Vital Statistics

Born: Albert Gallatin Nicks was born on Friday, 10 Jun 1881, at Nebo, Laclede County, Missouri^G.¹
Died on Thursday, 28 Sep 1978 at Grove, Delaware County, Oklahoma^G, at age 97 years, 3 months and 18 days.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Albert Gallatin Nicks was the son of: William Newton Nicks and Amanda Bradford.¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Sunday, 15 Mar 1908, Albert, age 26 years, 9 months and 5 days, and Clara Ethel Fike, age 22 years, 3 months and 24 days, daughter of: Steven A. Douglas Fike and Nancy Caroline Gardner, were married at Missouri^G.¹
Marriage	Tuesday, 6 Oct 1914, Albert, age 33 years, 3 months and 26 days, and Lola Elsie Boren, age 19 years, 11 months and 11 days were married at Lebanon, Laclede County, Missouri^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Sunday, 15 Mar 1908, Albert, age 26 years, 9 months and 5 days, and Clara Ethel Fike, age 22 years, 3 months and 24 days, daughter of: Steven A. Douglas Fike and Nancy Caroline Gardner, were married at Missouri^G.¹

Marriage

Tuesday, 6 Oct 1914, Albert, age 33 years, 3 months and 26 days, and Lola Elsie Boren, age 19 years, 11 months and 11 days were married at Lebanon, Laclede County, Missouri^G.¹

Child of: Albert Gallatin Nicks and Lola Elsie Boren

Albert Dora Nicks+¹ B: 20 Nov 1921, D: 1 May 1982

Citations

[S897] RootsWeb.com, online http://tinyurl.com/hfrulzt, Chris (e-mail address), updated as of 25 Sep 2005.

Last Edited

1 Feb 2013

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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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