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Note for: Ambrose Hundley Sevier, 4 Nov 1801 - 31 Dec 1848 Index

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Source: http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=tfconner&id=I14973
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SEVIER, Ambrose Hundley, (cousin of Henry Wharton Conway), a Delegate and a Senator from Arkansas; born in Greene County, Tenn., November 4, 1801; completed preparatory studies; moved to Missouri in 1820 and to Little Rock, Ark., in 1821; clerk of the Territorial house of representatives; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1823 and practiced; member, Territorial house of representatives 1823-1827, serving as speaker in 1827; elected as a Delegate to the Twentieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry W. Conway; reelected to the Twenty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from February 13, 1828, to June 15, 1836, when the Territory was admitted as a State into the Union; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1836; reelected in 1837 and 1843 and served from September 18, 1836, until his resignation on March 15, 1848; served as President pro tempore of the Senate during the Twenty-ninth Congress; chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs (Twenty-sixth and Twenty-ninth Congresses), Committee on Foreign Relations (Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congresses); was appointed Minister to Mexico to negotiate the treaty of peace between that Republic and the United States 1848; died on his plantation near Little Rock, Pulaski County, Ark., December 31, 1848; interment in Mount Holly Cemetery, where the State erected a monument to his memory.

-- Congressional Biography

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Note for: Sedgwick Vance Culver, 1 Jan 1880 - 1 May 1929 Index

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From Tom Blake

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Note for: Thomas Ramsey Horton, 14 Jul 1879 - 29 Mar 1939 Index

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From Tom Blake:
Per World War I draft registration form viewed on line at Ancestry, Thomas Ramsey Horton, was a logger, of medium height and build, blue eyes and grey hair, born July 14, 1879, residing at Aberdeen, WA, with closest relative George Horton of Procter, PA.

Apparently this is the man whose surname is on the grocery store at Ocean Park, Wa around 1940. 10/99 Lillian Culver confirms this - he was her step-dad after her natural dad died in 1929.

Ancestry.com Oregon death index online shows death of a Thomas Horton in Portland, which is where Lillian says he died, March 29, 1939, spouse Mary, certificate #1105.

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Note for: Ed Burkhalter, ABT 1890 - Between 1964 and 1969 Index

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FRom Tom Blake:
Ed has not been found on the Ancestry World War One draft registration database.

Lillian Culver Watson says Ed Burkhalter died before Bess and is buried with her.

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Note for: Henry B. Thompson, Oct 1860 - 9 May 1937 Index

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From Tom Blake:

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Note for: George W. Blake, Between 1867 and 1877 - AFT 1935 Index

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From Tom Blake

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Note for: Elizabeth Kerr, 10 Sep 1910 - 27 Mar 1999 Index

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From Tom Blake:

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Note for: François (Frank) Vuagniaux, 20 Jul 1835 - 7 Mar 1916 Index

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From Leroy Mackinson:
immigrated alone to the USA in 1857
Frank came to America in 1855 and settled in Illinois in bond county where there was at least one other Vuagniaux, possibly a cousin of Frank's. Frank and Adele Pahud were married in 1866. Frank was discharged at the end of the Civil War and at the end of the war had been a prisoner of war in a Confederate prison in Tyler Texas where he spent one year.

Frank and Adele move to Missouri in 1873. In the spring of 1877, they moved to Missouri and Iowa in a covered wagon, with 3 children and crossed the Missouri River on a raft piloted by two men. My grandfather Paul Louis was one of those children. He told me they lived in St Joseph Mo. for a period of time and that he knew the Jesse James family (the famous outlaw) who lived there and that is where Jesse James died , being shot by someone he knew for the bounty money on his head.

Joined army September 5,1862 at Camp Butler, for 3 yrs in Captain Harris unit and mustered in service on Oct 25,1862 by Captain Rathborn at Camp Butler His residence was at that time in Dudleyville, Bond County , Ill. Frank was later transferred to 77th Regiment Ill Volunteers and then to 130th Regiment Ill Volunteers . Prisoner of war and released at the end of the war Captured at battle of Sabine River, Miss. These data from Ill State Archives in Adjudant Generals Office.