Mostly Angels in the Sky

Edmond Judkins¹

Family

TMG ID:82061, (c 1805 - May 1850)

Vital Statistics

Born: Edmond Judkins was born circa 1805, at Surry County, Virginia^G.¹
Died in May 1850 at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹
Interred in May 1850 at Dunham Cemetery, Keltonburg, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G. Unmarked grave.¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Edmond and Zilpha Rice were married.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Edmond and Zilpha Rice were married.¹

Child of: Edmond Judkins and Zilpha Rice

Nathaniel Zibi Judkins¹ B: 18 Sep 1834, D: 23 Dec 1907

Citations

[S826] Find A Grave, online <http://tinyurl.com/5xkq9>. Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.

Last Edited

3 Dec 2015

Zilpha Rice¹

Family

TMG ID:82062, (c 1807 - a 1870)

Vital Statistics

Born: Zilpha Rice was born circa 1807, at Stokes County, North Carolina^G.¹
Interred after 1870 at Dunham Cemetery, Keltonburg, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G. Unmarked grave.¹
Died after 1870 at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹

Alias(es)

Name-Married: her married name became Mrs. Judkins (née Rice).¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Zilpha and Edmond Judkins were married.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Zilpha and Edmond Judkins were married.¹

Child of: Zilpha Rice and Edmond Judkins

Nathaniel Zibi Judkins¹ B: 18 Sep 1834, D: 23 Dec 1907

Citations

[S826] Find A Grave, online <http://tinyurl.com/5xkq9>. Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.

Last Edited

13 Apr 2016

Gentry Lee Cantrell¹

Family

TMG ID:82063, (20 Jan 1922 - 5 Sep 1963)

Relationships:

8th cousin of Elsie Dora Lewis
8th cousin 3 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

William Henry Cantrell Jr.¹ B: 9 Feb 1892, D: 17 Dec 1954

Mother*

Ella Belle Redmon¹ B: 29 Mar 1894, D: 9 Dec 1987

Vital Statistics

Born: Gentry Lee Cantrell was born on Friday, 20 Jan 1922, at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.^1,2,3
Died on Thursday, 5 Sep 1963 at age 41 years, 7 months and 16 days.^1,2,3
Interred after 5 Sep 1963 at Keltonburg Cemetery, Keltonburg, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Gentry Lee Cantrell was the son of: William Henry Cantrell Jr. and Ella Belle Redmon.¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Gentry and Elmer Dean Hall were married.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Gentry and Elmer Dean Hall were married.¹

Census Records

Census	Date/Location/Comment	Others Same Household
Census-1940	23 Apr 1940, Civil District #21, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G	William Henry Cantrell Jr., Ella Belle Redmon, James William Cantrell, Opal B. Cantrell and Henry Bernice Cantrell⁴

Census

Date/Location/Comment

Others Same Household

Census-1940

23 Apr 1940, Civil District #21, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G

William Henry Cantrell Jr., Ella Belle Redmon, James William Cantrell, Opal B. Cantrell and Henry Bernice Cantrell⁴

Known Address(es)

Address: on Monday, 1 Apr 1935, Gentry Lee Cantrell was living with William Henry and Ella Belle (née Redmon) Cantrell, at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G. Also living at this address: James William Cantrell, Opal B. Cantrell and Henry Bernice Cantrell.⁴

Citations

[S826] Find A Grave, online <http://tinyurl.com/5xkq9>. Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.
[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.
[S620] FamilySearch.org, online https://tinyurl.com/ycndba9a, Various (Utah), updated as of Various, Pedigree Resource File.
[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

4 Dec 2015

Elmer Dean Hall¹

TMG ID:82064, (14 May 1924 - 15 May 2006)

Vital Statistics

Born: Elmer Dean Hall was born on Wednesday, 14 May 1924, at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.^2,3
Died on Monday, 15 May 2006 at Smithville, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G, at age 82 years and 1 day.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Born: Elmer Dean Hall was born on Sunday, 20 Apr 1924, at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹

Alias(es)

Name-Married: her married name became Mrs. Cantrell (née Hall).¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Elmer and Gentry Lee Cantrell, son of: William Henry Cantrell Jr. and Ella Belle Redmon, were married.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Elmer and Gentry Lee Cantrell, son of: William Henry Cantrell Jr. and Ella Belle Redmon, were married.¹

Citations

[S826] Find A Grave, online <http://tinyurl.com/5xkq9>. Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.
[S620] FamilySearch.org, online https://tinyurl.com/ycndba9a, Various (Utah), updated as of Various, Pedigree Resource File.
[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.

Last Edited

4 Dec 2015

James William Cantrell¹

Family

TMG ID:82065, (3 Mar 1917 - 4 May 1981)

Relationships:

8th cousin of Elsie Dora Lewis
8th cousin 3 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

William Henry Cantrell Jr.² B: 9 Feb 1892, D: 17 Dec 1954

Mother*

Ella Belle Redmon² B: 29 Mar 1894, D: 9 Dec 1987

Vital Statistics

Born: James William Cantrell was born on Saturday, 3 Mar 1917, at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.^2,1
Died on Monday, 4 May 1981 at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G, at age 64 years, 2 months and 1 day.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

James William Cantrell was the son of: William Henry Cantrell Jr. and Ella Belle Redmon.²

Alias(es)

Nick-Name: his nickname was "J.B."¹
Nick-Name: his nickname was "Jim Bill"^2,3

Census Records

Census	Date/Location/Comment	Others Same Household
Census-1940	23 Apr 1940, Civil District #21, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G	William Henry Cantrell Jr., Ella Belle Redmon, Gentry Lee Cantrell, Opal B. Cantrell and Henry Bernice Cantrell²

Census

Date/Location/Comment

Others Same Household

Census-1940

23 Apr 1940, Civil District #21, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G

William Henry Cantrell Jr., Ella Belle Redmon, Gentry Lee Cantrell, Opal B. Cantrell and Henry Bernice Cantrell²

Occupation(s)

Date	Location	Occupation/Industry
circa Apr 1940	DeKalb County, Tennessee^G	farm work laborer²

Date

Location

Occupation/Industry

circa Apr 1940

DeKalb County, Tennessee^G

farm work laborer²

Known Address(es)

Address: on Monday, 1 Apr 1935, James William Cantrell was living with William Henry and Ella Belle (née Redmon) Cantrell, at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G. Also living at this address: Gentry Lee Cantrell, Opal B. Cantrell and Henry Bernice Cantrell.²

Citations

[S620] FamilySearch.org, online https://tinyurl.com/ycndba9a, Various (Utah), updated as of Various, Pedigree Resource File.
[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.
[S826] Find A Grave, online <http://tinyurl.com/5xkq9>. Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.

Last Edited

4 Dec 2015

Opal B. Cantrell¹

Family

TMG ID:82066, (7 Sep 1923 - )

Relationships:

8th cousin of Elsie Dora Lewis
8th cousin 3 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

William Henry Cantrell Jr.¹ B: 9 Feb 1892, D: 17 Dec 1954

Mother*

Ella Belle Redmon¹ B: 29 Mar 1894, D: 9 Dec 1987

Vital Statistics

Interred at Keltonburg Cemetery, Keltonburg, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.²
Born: Opal B. Cantrell was born on Friday, 7 Sep 1923, at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.^1,2

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Opal B. Cantrell was the daughter of: William Henry Cantrell Jr. and Ella Belle Redmon.¹

Census Records

Census	Date/Location/Comment	Others Same Household
Census-1940	23 Apr 1940, Civil District #21, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G	William Henry Cantrell Jr., Ella Belle Redmon, James William Cantrell, Gentry Lee Cantrell and Henry Bernice Cantrell¹

Census

Date/Location/Comment

Others Same Household

Census-1940

23 Apr 1940, Civil District #21, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G

William Henry Cantrell Jr., Ella Belle Redmon, James William Cantrell, Gentry Lee Cantrell and Henry Bernice Cantrell¹

Known Address(es)

Address: on Monday, 1 Apr 1935, Opal B. Cantrell was living with William Henry and Ella Belle (née Redmon) Cantrell, at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G. Also living at this address: James William Cantrell, Gentry Lee Cantrell and Henry Bernice Cantrell.¹

Citations

[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.
[S826] Find A Grave, online <http://tinyurl.com/5xkq9>. Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.

Last Edited

4 Dec 2015

Henry Bernice Cantrell^1,2

Family

TMG ID:82067, (25 Sep 1925 - 20 Apr 2011)

Relationships:

8th cousin of Elsie Dora Lewis
8th cousin 3 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

William Henry Cantrell Jr.¹ B: 9 Feb 1892, D: 17 Dec 1954

Mother*

Ella Belle Redmon¹ B: 29 Mar 1894, D: 9 Dec 1987

Vital Statistics

Born: Henry Bernice Cantrell was born on Friday, 25 Sep 1925, at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.^1,2
Died on Wednesday, 20 Apr 2011 at Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee^G, at age 85 years, 6 months and 26 days.²
Interred on Saturday, 23 Apr 2011 at Keltonburg Cemetery, Keltonburg, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.²

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Henry Bernice Cantrell was the son of: William Henry Cantrell Jr. and Ella Belle Redmon.¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Saturday, 29 Jan 1944, Henry, age 18 years, 4 months and 4 days, and Christine Neely, age 15 years, 1 month and 4 days were married.²

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Saturday, 29 Jan 1944, Henry, age 18 years, 4 months and 4 days, and Christine Neely, age 15 years, 1 month and 4 days were married.²

Child of: Henry Bernice Cantrell and Christine Neely

Michael Cantrell²

Census Records

Census	Date/Location/Comment	Others Same Household
Census-1940	23 Apr 1940, Civil District #21, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G	William Henry Cantrell Jr., Ella Belle Redmon, James William Cantrell, Gentry Lee Cantrell and Opal B. Cantrell¹

Census

Date/Location/Comment

Others Same Household

Census-1940

23 Apr 1940, Civil District #21, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G

William Henry Cantrell Jr., Ella Belle Redmon, James William Cantrell, Gentry Lee Cantrell and Opal B. Cantrell¹

Known Address(es)

Address: on Monday, 1 Apr 1935, Henry Bernice Cantrell was living with William Henry and Ella Belle (née Redmon) Cantrell, at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G. Also living at this address: James William Cantrell, Gentry Lee Cantrell and Opal B. Cantrell.¹

Citations

[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.
[S826] Find A Grave, online <http://tinyurl.com/5xkq9>. Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.

Last Edited

4 Dec 2015

Ophylene Cantrell¹

Family

TMG ID:82068, (15 Apr 1928 - 18 Feb 1929)

Relationships:

8th cousin of Elsie Dora Lewis
8th cousin 3 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

William Henry Cantrell Jr.¹ B: 9 Feb 1892, D: 17 Dec 1954

Mother*

Ella Belle Redmon¹ B: 29 Mar 1894, D: 9 Dec 1987

Vital Statistics

Born: Ophylene Cantrell was born on Sunday, 15 Apr 1928, at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹
Died on Monday, 18 Feb 1929 at Smithville, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G, at age 10 months and 3 days.¹
Interred after 18 Feb 1929 at Keltonburg Cemetery, Keltonburg, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.²

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Ophylene Cantrell was the daughter of: William Henry Cantrell Jr. and Ella Belle Redmon.¹

Other Major Events

Citations

[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.
[S826] Find A Grave, online <http://tinyurl.com/5xkq9>. Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.

Last Edited

4 Dec 2015

Ethylene Cantrell¹

Family

TMG ID:82069, (15 Apr 1928 - 18 Feb 1929)

Relationships:

8th cousin of Elsie Dora Lewis
8th cousin 3 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

William Henry Cantrell Jr.¹ B: 9 Feb 1892, D: 17 Dec 1954

Mother*

Ella Belle Redmon¹ B: 29 Mar 1894, D: 9 Dec 1987

Vital Statistics

Born: Ethylene Cantrell was born on Sunday, 15 Apr 1928, at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹
Died on Monday, 18 Feb 1929 at Smithville, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G, at age 10 months and 3 days.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Ethylene Cantrell was the daughter of: William Henry Cantrell Jr. and Ella Belle Redmon.¹

Citations

[S826] Find A Grave, online <http://tinyurl.com/5xkq9>. Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.

Last Edited

4 Dec 2015

Christine Neely¹

Family

TMG ID:82070, (25 Dec 1928 - 16 Aug 2006)

Vital Statistics

Born: Christine Neely was born on Tuesday, 25 Dec 1928.¹
Died on Wednesday, 16 Aug 2006 at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G, at age 77 years, 7 months and 22 days.¹
Interred after 16 Aug 2006 at Keltonburg Cemetery, Keltonburg, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹

Alias(es)

Name-Married: on Saturday, 29 Jan 1944, her married name became Mrs. Cantrell (née Neely).¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Saturday, 29 Jan 1944, Christine, age 15 years, 1 month and 4 days, and Henry Bernice Cantrell, age 18 years, 4 months and 4 days, son of: William Henry Cantrell Jr. and Ella Belle Redmon, were married.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Saturday, 29 Jan 1944, Christine, age 15 years, 1 month and 4 days, and Henry Bernice Cantrell, age 18 years, 4 months and 4 days, son of: William Henry Cantrell Jr. and Ella Belle Redmon, were married.¹

Child of: Christine Neely and Henry Bernice Cantrell

Michael Cantrell¹

Citations

[S826] Find A Grave, online <http://tinyurl.com/5xkq9>. Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.

Last Edited

4 Dec 2015

Michael Cantrell¹

Family

TMG ID:82071

Relationships:

8th cousin 1 time removed of Elsie Dora Lewis
9th cousin 2 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

Henry Bernice Cantrell¹ B: 25 Sep 1925, D: 20 Apr 2011

Mother*

Christine Neely¹ B: 25 Dec 1928, D: 16 Aug 2006

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Michael Cantrell was the son of: Henry Bernice Cantrell and Christine Neely.¹

Citations

[S826] Find A Grave, online <http://tinyurl.com/5xkq9>. Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.

Last Edited

4 Dec 2015

Iva Maureen Cantrell¹

Family

TMG ID:82072, (4 Mar 1919 - 12 Oct 2001)

Relationships:

8th cousin of Elsie Dora Lewis
8th cousin 3 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

William Henry Cantrell Jr.¹ B: 9 Feb 1892, D: 17 Dec 1954

Mother*

Ella Belle Redmon¹ B: 29 Mar 1894, D: 9 Dec 1987

Vital Statistics

Born: Iva Maureen Cantrell was born on Tuesday, 4 Mar 1919, at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹
Died on Friday, 12 Oct 2001 at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G, at age 82 years, 7 months and 8 days.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Iva Maureen Cantrell was the daughter of: William Henry Cantrell Jr. and Ella Belle Redmon.¹

Alias(es)

Nick-Name: her nickname was "Maureen"²
Name-Married: on Saturday, 13 Feb 1937, her married name became Mrs. Jones (née Cantrell).¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Saturday, 13 Feb 1937, Iva, age 17 years, 11 months and 9 days, and Jesse Eston Jones, age 22 years, 11 months and 30 days, son of: Isaac Columbus Jones and Mary Elisabeth F. Rankhorn, were married at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Saturday, 13 Feb 1937, Iva, age 17 years, 11 months and 9 days, and Jesse Eston Jones, age 22 years, 11 months and 30 days, son of: Isaac Columbus Jones and Mary Elisabeth F. Rankhorn, were married at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹

Children of: Iva Maureen Cantrell and Jesse Eston Jones

Barbara Jane Jones+¹ B: 9 Aug 1938, D: 17 Mar 2007
Jimmy Nelson Jones+¹ B: 12 Nov 1940, D: 30 Aug 2008

Citations

[S620] FamilySearch.org, online https://tinyurl.com/ycndba9a, Various (Utah), updated as of Various, Pedigree Resource File.
[S826] Find A Grave, online <http://tinyurl.com/5xkq9>. Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.

Last Edited

4 Dec 2015

Jesse Eston Jones¹

Family

TMG ID:82073, (14 Feb 1914 - 9 Sep 1990)

Father*

Isaac Columbus Jones¹ B: 5 Jan 1873, D: 30 Jun 1965

Mother*

Mary Elisabeth F. Rankhorn¹ B: 6 Jun 1881, D: 17 Jan 1928

Vital Statistics

Born: Jesse Eston Jones was born on Saturday, 14 Feb 1914, at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹
Died on Sunday, 9 Sep 1990 at age 76 years, 6 months and 26 days.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Jesse Eston Jones was the son of: Isaac Columbus Jones and Mary Elisabeth F. Rankhorn.¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Saturday, 13 Feb 1937, Jesse, age 22 years, 11 months and 30 days, and Iva Maureen Cantrell, age 17 years, 11 months and 9 days, daughter of: William Henry Cantrell Jr. and Ella Belle Redmon, were married at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Saturday, 13 Feb 1937, Jesse, age 22 years, 11 months and 30 days, and Iva Maureen Cantrell, age 17 years, 11 months and 9 days, daughter of: William Henry Cantrell Jr. and Ella Belle Redmon, were married at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹

Children of: Jesse Eston Jones and Iva Maureen Cantrell

Barbara Jane Jones+¹ B: 9 Aug 1938, D: 17 Mar 2007
Jimmy Nelson Jones+¹ B: 12 Nov 1940, D: 30 Aug 2008

Citations

[S620] FamilySearch.org, online https://tinyurl.com/ycndba9a, Various (Utah), updated as of Various, Pedigree Resource File.

Last Edited

4 Dec 2015

Isaac Columbus Jones¹

Family

TMG ID:82074, (5 Jan 1873 - 30 Jun 1965)

Father*

Joseph Jones² B: 25 Dec 1844, D: 16 May 1928

Mother*

America Wright² B: 19 Sep 1844, D: 14 Nov 1910

Vital Statistics

Born: Isaac Columbus Jones was born on Sunday, 5 Jan 1873, at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.³
Died on Wednesday, 30 Jun 1965 at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G, at age 92 years, 5 months and 25 days.³
Interred after 30 Jun 1965 at New Bildad Primitive Baptist Cemetery, Smithville, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.³

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Born: Isaac Columbus Jones was born on Sunday, 5 Jan 1873, at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.²
He was the son of: Joseph Jones and America Wright.²

Alias(es)

Nick-Name: his nickname was "I.C."³

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Isaac and Annie Lee Byars, daughter of: John Watson Byars and Julia Lee Cantrell, were married.³
Marriage	1897, Isaac, age 23 years, and Minnie Walker, age 20 years were married.³
Marriage	1905, Isaac, age 31 years, and Mary Elisabeth F. Rankhorn, age 23 years were married.^1,3

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Isaac and Annie Lee Byars, daughter of: John Watson Byars and Julia Lee Cantrell, were married.³

Marriage

1897, Isaac, age 23 years, and Minnie Walker, age 20 years were married.³

Marriage

1905, Isaac, age 31 years, and Mary Elisabeth F. Rankhorn, age 23 years were married.^1,3

Child of: Isaac Columbus Jones and Minnie Walker

Floyd Jones³ B: 12 Aug 1898, D: 8 Dec 1990

Children of: Isaac Columbus Jones and Mary Elisabeth F. Rankhorn

Jesse Eston Jones+¹ B: 14 Feb 1914, D: 9 Sep 1990
Wade Emerson Jones+³ B: 19 Feb 1918, D: 11 Apr 1970

Census Records

Census	Date/Location/Comment	Others Same Household
Census-1880	9 Jun 1880, Civil District #06, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G	Joseph Jones, America Wright, Franklin M. Jones, William Daniel Jones, Charles Jones, Susanna Jones, Eva L. Jones and Edith O. Jones⁴

Census

Date/Location/Comment

Others Same Household

Census-1880

9 Jun 1880, Civil District #06, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G

Joseph Jones, America Wright, Franklin M. Jones, William Daniel Jones, Charles Jones, Susanna Jones, Eva L. Jones and Edith O. Jones⁴

Citations

[S620] FamilySearch.org, online https://tinyurl.com/ycndba9a, Various (Utah), updated as of Various, Pedigree Resource File.
[S496] RootsWeb.com, online http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi, Kevin L. Bandy (e-mail address), updated as of 19 Nov 2003.
[S826] Find A Grave, online <http://tinyurl.com/5xkq9>. Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.
[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, Page 164A, film number 1255252, Tennessee 1880 Federal Population Census.

Last Edited

6 Nov 2019

Mary Elisabeth F. Rankhorn¹

Family

TMG ID:82075, (6 Jun 1881 - 17 Jan 1928)

Vital Statistics

Born: Mary Elisabeth F. Rankhorn was born on Monday, 6 Jun 1881, at Tennessee^G.²
Interred after 7 Jan 1928 at New Union Cemetery, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.²
Died on Tuesday, 17 Jan 1928 at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G, at age 46 years, 7 months and 11 days.²

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Interred after 17 Jan 1928 at New Union Cemetery, DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.²

Alias(es)

Name-Married: in 1905, her married name became Mrs. Jones (née Rankhorn).^1,2

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	1905, Mary, age 23 years, and Isaac Columbus Jones, age 31 years, son of: Joseph Jones and America Wright, were married.^1,2

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

1905, Mary, age 23 years, and Isaac Columbus Jones, age 31 years, son of: Joseph Jones and America Wright, were married.^1,2

Children of: Mary Elisabeth F. Rankhorn and Isaac Columbus Jones

Jesse Eston Jones+¹ B: 14 Feb 1914, D: 9 Sep 1990
Wade Emerson Jones+² B: 19 Feb 1918, D: 11 Apr 1970

Citations

[S620] FamilySearch.org, online https://tinyurl.com/ycndba9a, Various (Utah), updated as of Various, Pedigree Resource File.
[S826] Find A Grave, online <http://tinyurl.com/5xkq9>. Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.

Last Edited

6 Nov 2019

Barbara Jane Jones¹

Family

TMG ID:82076, (9 Aug 1938 - 17 Mar 2007)

Relationships:

8th cousin 1 time removed of Elsie Dora Lewis
9th cousin 2 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

Jesse Eston Jones¹ B: 14 Feb 1914, D: 9 Sep 1990

Mother*

Iva Maureen Cantrell¹ B: 4 Mar 1919, D: 12 Oct 2001

Vital Statistics

Born: Barbara Jane Jones was born on Tuesday, 9 Aug 1938, at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹
Died on Saturday, 17 Mar 2007 at McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee^G, at age 68 years, 7 months and 8 days.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Barbara Jane Jones was the daughter of: Jesse Eston Jones and Iva Maureen Cantrell.¹

Alias(es)

Nick-Name: her nickname was "Janie"¹
Name-Married: her married name became Mrs. Black (née Jones).¹

Child of: Barbara Jane Jones

Terry Nelson Black¹ B: c 1962, D: 6 Feb 2005

Citations

[S620] FamilySearch.org, online https://tinyurl.com/ycndba9a, Various (Utah), updated as of Various, Pedigree Resource File.

Last Edited

4 Dec 2015

Jimmy Nelson Jones¹

Family

TMG ID:82077, (12 Nov 1940 - 30 Aug 2008)

Relationships:

8th cousin 1 time removed of Elsie Dora Lewis
9th cousin 2 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

Jesse Eston Jones¹ B: 14 Feb 1914, D: 9 Sep 1990

Mother*

Iva Maureen Cantrell¹ B: 4 Mar 1919, D: 12 Oct 2001

Vital Statistics

Born: Jimmy Nelson Jones was born on Tuesday, 12 Nov 1940, at DeKalb County, Tennessee^G.¹
Died on Saturday, 30 Aug 2008 at Murfreesboro, Rutherford County, Tennessee^G, at age 67 years, 9 months and 18 days.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Jimmy Nelson Jones was the son of: Jesse Eston Jones and Iva Maureen Cantrell.¹

Union(s)

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Jimmy and Sonja Jean Keaton were married.¹

Children of: Jimmy Nelson Jones and Sonja Jean Keaton

Darrell Wayne Jones¹ D: b Aug 2008
Randall Jones¹ D: b Aug 2008
Wendall Jones¹ D: b Aug 2008

Citations

[S620] FamilySearch.org, online https://tinyurl.com/ycndba9a, Various (Utah), updated as of Various, Pedigree Resource File.

Last Edited

4 Dec 2015

Sonja Jean Keaton¹

Family

TMG ID:82078, ( - b Aug 2008)

Vital Statistics

Died before Aug 2008.¹

Alias(es)

Name-Married: her married name became Mrs. Jones (née Keaton).¹

Union(s)

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Sonja and Jimmy Nelson Jones, son of: Jesse Eston Jones and Iva Maureen Cantrell, were married.¹

Children of: Sonja Jean Keaton and Jimmy Nelson Jones

Darrell Wayne Jones¹ D: b Aug 2008
Randall Jones¹ D: b Aug 2008
Wendall Jones¹ D: b Aug 2008

Citations

[S620] FamilySearch.org, online https://tinyurl.com/ycndba9a, Various (Utah), updated as of Various, Pedigree Resource File.

Last Edited

4 Dec 2015

Darrell Wayne Jones¹

Family

TMG ID:82079, ( - b Aug 2008)

Relationships:

8th cousin 2 times removed of Elsie Dora Lewis
10th cousin 1 time removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

Jimmy Nelson Jones¹ B: 12 Nov 1940, D: 30 Aug 2008

Mother*

Sonja Jean Keaton¹ D: b Aug 2008

Vital Statistics

Died before Aug 2008.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Darrell Wayne Jones was the son of: Jimmy Nelson Jones and Sonja Jean Keaton.¹

Citations

[S620] FamilySearch.org, online https://tinyurl.com/ycndba9a, Various (Utah), updated as of Various, Pedigree Resource File.

Last Edited

4 Dec 2015

Randall Jones¹

Family

TMG ID:82080, ( - b Aug 2008)

Relationships:

8th cousin 2 times removed of Elsie Dora Lewis
10th cousin 1 time removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

Jimmy Nelson Jones¹ B: 12 Nov 1940, D: 30 Aug 2008

Mother*

Sonja Jean Keaton¹ D: b Aug 2008

Vital Statistics

Died before Aug 2008.¹

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Randall Jones was the son of: Jimmy Nelson Jones and Sonja Jean Keaton.¹

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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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