Extracts from History of Page County, Iowa. Des Moines:  Iowa Historical Company, 1880.

Bullock, James, farmer, section 28 Colfax Twp., P.O. Blanchard; born October 19, 1811, in the county of Cornwall, Parish of St. Columb, England.  His early life was passed on a farm.  In 1834 he came to America; his first act on reaching this country was to purchase a Bible.  He located in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, remaining until March 1835, when he went to Chenango county, remaining two years.  In 1838 he came to Van Buren county, Iowa.  In 1840 moved to St. Louis, Missouri from which place he returned to Pennsylvania.  Came to Page county, Iowa in 1857.  Was married February 15, 1848 to Miss L. Ballen, a native of England.  They have ten children:  Lavinnia A., Mary J., Loveday A., George W., John T., Charles E., Olive C., Jessie D., William, and Alice.  Owns 320 acres of good land. (p.638)  Under Buchanan Township and the Three Forks Nodaway Baptist church organized 16 May 1848 James Bullock is listed as one of the preachers.  (p.594)

William O. McCord enlisted as a private in Company K of the Fourth Iowa Infantry on 27 Sep 1862.  (p.511)

Cornelius Short listed in first land entries in Page County as Cornelius R. Short, 29 Dec 1853, lot No. 1, section 36, twp 67, range 36, 47 acres. (p.392)

James B. Short, farmer, section 14, P. O. Blanchard; born in Putnam county, Illinois 15 Apr 1835.  He received a more than ordinary education in his native state.  Came to Iowa in July 1856, locating in Page County.  Enlisted in company A, 9th Iowa cavalry, 11 Jul 1863.  He served under Generals Sherman, Thomas and Wilson, having been engaged in many of the battles which those celebrated men fought.  He entered the service as a private, and was mustered out at the close of the war as quarter-master sergeant.  Was married 7 Nov 1861 to Miss Eugenia Noe.  They have four children:  Wallace M., William H., Jessie M. and Frank E. (pp.641-2)  He served on the last board of county supervisors.  (p.481)

John Snodderly, farmer, section 23, P. O. Tarkio, born 2 Nov 1836 in Anderson County, Tennessee.  Went with his parents to Platte County, Missouri, in 1842, remaining until 1853, when he settled in Tarkio towship.  Enlisted 9 August 1862, in company F, 23rd Iowa infantry, fighting bravely in all the battles in which his regiment participated.  Was married to Miss Mary A. Kennel, 20 April 1871.  They have two children:  James W. and Mahala F.  Owns a fine farm. under a high state of cultivation.  (p.772)

J. R. Brewer married Miss Isidora Snodderly, a native of Page County, 4 April 1874.  They have two children:  Guy A. and Maud.  (p.769)

Daniel Basaker, billiard hall, P. O. Coin; was born in Maryland, 27 February 1835.  When two years of age he went with his parents to Miami county, Ohio, remaining until he reached his majority, when he moved to Macon county, Illinois.  Came to Page county in 1879, settling in Coin in November of the same year.  Mr. Basaker was married to Miss Emma Carver, 26 October 1879. 

There are references to Stantons, Ikers, Davisons and Bagnalls which I did not copy.

From Page County History.  Published by Page County Genealogical Society, Page County, Iowa, Printed by Dallas: Taylor Publishing Company, 1984:

MCCORD - CARVER.  Emma Almira Carver was born 16 September 1856 in Nora, Illinois, the fifth child of Niles and Almira Freeman Carver, who were married in Milo, Maine in 1840.  Following the death of his first wife on 20 April 1862, Niles married Mary E. Fuller in September 1864, and the family moved to Lincoln Township in Nodaway County, Missouri, just west of Braddyville in 1869.  On 11 February 1877 Emma married William J. McCord in Page County, Iowa.

William J. McCord was born in Grant County, Wisconsin on 17 February 1853, the sixth child of Gideon Blackburn and Martha Caroline Alexander McCord, who had married in the Bethel Presbyterian Church in Bond County, Illinois on 27 April 1837.  The family moved to Grant County, Wisconsin about 1845 and to Amity Township, Page County, Iowa about 1857.

About 1883 the William McCords moved to Riley County, Kansas several miles southwest of Leonardville, where William's brothers Pinkney Hall and George Rollins had settled before 1870.  William's family shared a homestead with his parents who had also moved to Riley County until William died 3 November 1887.  William and Emma had three children:  Rolla Eugene born 30 January 1880; Lena Pearl born 20 November 1882; and Harry Earl born 6 July 1884.

The Widow McCord and her three children returned to her father's home in Nodaway County and the strong support of the Carver and McCord families; later they moved to College Springs, and here the children lived the rich life they would recall for hours in their reunions.

Grandmother McCord brightened her daughter's Chicago and Glen Ellyn, Illinois homes until her death on 1 August 1924 treasuring the early years of her four grandchildren as well as the companionship of her two sons, who settled in Glen Ellyn to be near her after service in World War I.  She was buried in the Maple Hill Cemetery at College Springs; with the passing years her three children have also come home to this resting place.

Rolla McCord married first Carrie Wilcox; after their divorce, he served in the YMCA in France during World War I, where he met and married Gladys Mary Bullock (born 31 January 1880 in England) on 31 January 1919 in Paris, France.  They had one child Betty Louise Ramsden McCord, born 11 January 1921 in Chicago, Illinois.  Rolla died 20 June 1936; Gladys died 15 January 1946; both are buried in College Springs.

Pearl McCord after teaching in Shenandoah, Iowa and then Highland Park, Illinois married Luther Boone Hill (born 9 May 1877 in Far West, Missouri) on 20 June 1914 in Chicago.  They had three children:  Robert Carver born 31 March 1916; Jean Caroline born 20 August 1917; and Thomas Brumfield born 18 March 1920.  Pearl died at the home of her daughter in Walla Walla, Washington on 31 August 1963, and Luther died in Glen Ellyn, Illinois on 14 January 1943.  They are both buried in College Springs.

Harry McCord was unmarried; served as a Captain in the 141st Field Artillery of the 39th Division in World War I; died 1 December 1939 in Canton, Ohio and is buried in College Springs.  Submitted by Thomas B. Hill. (p.325)

MCCORD - SHORT.   Mary Ellen Short was born 7 October 1846 in Hennepin, Putman County, Illinois.  She and her parents, Catherine and Pryor M. Short, moved to Page County in 1863.  A teacher, she wed John Morrison McCord 7 September 1864.

John Morrison McCord was born 28 July 1838 in Bond County, Illinois, the firstborn of Gideon Blackburn and Martha Caroline Alexander McCord, who moved to Page County in 1857.  He served in the Iowa Southern Brigade, Company A, 4th Battalion and was mustered out 15 October 1862.  He was a music teacher, carpenter, harness maker and Justice of Peace in College Springs.  He died August 1914; Mary Ellen died in 1920 after spending the last year with her daughter, Eva Smith, in Coin.  The family is buried in College Springs with the exception of Maude, who is buried at Elmwood Cemetery in Coin.  Descendants are:

Lora Lorena (1865-1946) wed Granville Clark (1861-1924) of Braddyville, 28 August 1884.  Children: Alice Bernice Blackford (1885-1967); Eva Luella McCown (1888-1951); Alta Fern Bishop (1897-1970); Winona Pearl Stanton (1900-    ); and Elmer Granville (1902-1927).

Bertha Irene (1874-1930) married LaFayette Williams (1874-1945) of Coin.  Children:  Faye Wolcott (1895-1927); Hazel Ferne Carlson (    -1981); Perry McCord (1900-1966); Mabel Estelle Maier (1905-1978); Loren Otis (Mike) (1903-1931); Lillian Pearl McGinnis (1913); and Ralph.

Eva Aletta (1872-1938) married Pat Smith of Coin in  1911.  No children.

Harry Lee (1976-1940) wed Ella Snodderly (1883-1966) 24 December 1901.  They lived in Coin.  Children:  George Joseph (1903-1966); Kenneth Morrison (1904-1955); Harry Andrew (1910-1976); Karl Merlyn (1913-1923); Eva Luellen Forbes (1917); Francis Evelyn Lee Carstens (1919); Clara Beverly Lyden (1923).  Lee divorced and wed Susan Ziegler Mace 31 October 1932.

Frank Romaine (1878-1948) married Lillian Gibson (1880-1962) 3 April 1906.  Residents of College Springs, no children.

Estella Maude (1870-1924) wed Andrew Turner (1879-1941) of Coin.  Children:  J. Marvin (1904-1962); Tal Andrew (1905-1958); Neoma Leora Todd (1909); Eleanor Florence (1915-1935); Byron Morrison (1917-1981); and Pierce Erskine (1919).

Ethel Bernice (1883-1957) wed Hollie Martin Ecker (1879-1955) of Elmo, Missouri 30 December 1903.  Children:  Orie Melville (1905); Marjorie (1907-1924); Pearl Adkins (1909); Thelma Ray (1911); Zelma Hull (1911); Laura Verlie Weland (1913); Grace Carlson (1915); and Geral-dine Richardson (1917.

Adah Catherine (1885-1955) married Arthur Clark (1880-1946) of Braddyville 4 March 1902.  Children:  Ethel Roene Davison (1903-1953; Nellie Irene Davison (1904); Herman Laurence (1906-1966); and Inez Eva Jenkins (1913-1983).  (p.325)

MCCORD-SNODDERLY.  Emma Luella "Ella" Snodderly was born 4 February 1883.  Her father, George Washington Snodderly (1857-1935) farmed near Blanchard.  Her mother Clara Isabel (1864-1893) was the daughter of John and Eliza (Williamson) Clark.  When Ella was ten her mother died and in 1895 George Snodderly married Laura Ellen Mitchell (1873-1963); they farmed near Clearmont, Missouri.  Ella married Lee McCord 24 December 1901 at College Springs.

Harry Lee McCord was the fifth child of John Morrison (1838-1914) and Mary Ellen Short McCord (1846-1920) born 19 September 1876 in College Springs. Lee and Ella lived on farms near College Springs, Braddyvile and Elmo, Missouri until 1922 when they moved to Hillrose, Colorado.  Their sixth son, Merlin, born 1913, drowned there 2 June.  Three of their sons died in infancy.  They returned to Coin in 1924 and Lee worked on farms, painted houses and worked at road construction.

After divorce in 1931 Lee married widow Susan Ziegler Mace, 31 October 1932 and lived in Norwich until his death 15 February 1940.  Burial was in College Springs.  Susan was daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Ziegler; born at Council Grove, Kansas 18 January 1886.  She died 21 December 1955 and is buried near Norwich.

Ella and daughters moved to Shenandoah in 1936 and on to Portland, Oregon in 1940, where she worked in a woolen mill.  She died 3 December 1966 and burial was beside her mother in Blanchard Cemetery.  Six children reached adulthood.

George Joseph (1903-1966) wed Mary Adkins (1903-1975) on 31 March 1923.  They left Page County in 1945 and are buried in Cozad, Nebraska.  Children:  Marilyn Jo Hair born 1929; Jerry Shane born 1933; Hazel Sue Smith born 1938; and Evelyn Lee born 1943.

Kenneth Morrison (1904-1944?) wed Lavina Puckett born 1910 on 12 September 1931.  Both Joseph and Kenneth worked at road construction.  Kenneth moved to Valleho, California in 1945?, and he is buried there.

Children:  Bruce Morrison born 1932 and Kenneth Eugene born 1936.

Harry Andrew (1910-1976) wed Esther Puckett born 1912 on 20 September 1931.  Harry was a grocer.  They left Page County in 1945.  His burial is in Longmont, Colorado.  Children:  Alice Virginia Cooper born 1932; Harry Keith born 1934 and David Stanley born 1936.

Eva Luellen born 1917 wed Forrest Forbes born 1919 of Portland, Oregon on 2 February 1946.  Children:  Terry Louise Ring born 1946; Karen Jo Fitzpatrick born 1949 and Douglas Randolph born 1956.

Frances Evelyn born 1919 wed Jesse Lee 22 March 1942.  They adopted Robert Heinz born 1946 while in the Military in Germany in 1948.  William Dennis was born to them 1949 in San Francisco.  After 1955 divorce Evelyn married Otto Carstens born 1899 on 10 May 1963.  They live in Georgetown, California. 

Clara Beverly, born 1923, wed David Lyden, of Shenandoah, born 1921.  They settled in Sunnyvale, California.  Children:  Eric Randolph born 1946; Kenneth Dickson born 1950 and Bruce Alan born 1958.  Submitted by Marilyn McCord Hair.  (p.326)

HARLEY MCCORD.  David Harland McCord (1866-1957) spent 89 of his 92 years with a Page County address.  He was the son of William Oscar and Cordelia Iker McCord.  His father was a Civil War Veteran who was with Sherman on his march to the sea, and his mother the daughter of John Iker.  They were the first couple married in Colfax Township and Harley was their first child.

Harley and one sister, Alma McCord Morton, grew up on the family farm two miles east of Blanchard.  When not helping his dad on the farm his first love was baseball.  He organized his own team in Blanchard which was called The Cowboys.  Harley was a pitcher and the team played in tournaments all around the country.  They carried their own cook, cook tent, sleeping tent and generally made fair wages playing.  Harley used to tell that when baseball season opened and they needed money to get started all he had to do was solicit the merchants of Blanchard and they would always raise two to three hundred dollars.  Besides his own team, he also pitched for the Western League in St. Joseph, Omaha and Butte City, Montana.

In 1893 Harley and two of his baseball buddies, Roe Kelso and Elihu Hawley, took a covered wagon to the Oklahoma Strip opening.  Rice Brothers Mercantile of Chicago hired them to play ball in El Reno, Okla., as they had merchandise to sell and a ball team was one way to get a crowd.

In 1898 Harley was married to Harriet Deneen McAhan.  Harriet was a hat trimmer for Townsend, Wyatt & Wall of St. Joseph and Blanchard was one of the towns where she would spend a week or more at the millinery store trimming hats for their customers.

Harley and Hattie had three children:  Leroy William, born in 1899, who spent a large share of his life operating restaurants in College Springs and Omaha.  He was married to Eleanor Stanton, daughter of Milo Stanton, who owned Stanton & Son Grocery & Meat Market in College Springs for many years; Dorothy, born in 1901, married Melvin Dunham, who for a number of years worked for Trulock Motor Co. of Northboro; and Gerald David, born in 1914, who was a printer, starting in the Current Press in College Springs, and later working for the Artcraft in Clarinda, with his wife owned a publishing house in Plattsmouth, Nebraska, and worked as a linotype operator for daily and weekly papers in Missouri, Nebraska and Colorado.  He was married to Hazel Baier of Avoca, Nebraska, who was a reporter and feature writer for papers in Missouri and Nebraska.

In 1918 Harley moved to Bayard, Nebraska.  The lack of trees and blue-grass in Nebraska was too much for Harley, so he traded for the Shannon farm, east of College Springs, where he farmed until 1929 when he moved into town and resided there until his death.  Submitted by Jerry McCord. (pp.326-7)

JOHN MORRISON MCCORD.  John Morrison McCord was born in 1836 in Illinois.  His parents were Gideon Blackburn McCord and Martha Caroline Alexander.  Morrison, as he was known, was mustered 15 October 1862, at the age of 23, and served in the Southern Brigade, Company A, 4th Battalion during the Civil War.  On 7 September 1864 he was married to Mary Ellen Short in Page County.  Mary Ellen was born 7 October 1846 in Hennepin, Putman County, Illinois, the eldest daughter of P. M. and Catherine Short.  She with her parents moved to Clayton, Iowa in 1853 and to Page County in 1863.  Her father was a minister.

Morrison and Mary Ellen had 9 children, Lora, Charles, Eva, Bertha, Lee, Frank, Maude, Ethel and Adah.  They also raised a nephew of Mary Ellen by the name of Charles C. Coker.  Morrison is listed in the Amity Township census of 1870 as being a harness maker in College Springs.  He was also a carpenter and music teacher.  His father, Gideon, who was born in Tennessee, lived with them at that time.  Gideon McCord's father was Robert McCord, whose ancestors can be traced back to Chieftain James McCorda on the Isle of Skye in 1689.

Morrison, Mary Ellen and their daughter, Eva, moved to Braddyville in the early 1900s where they ran a hotel and Eva was a seamstress.  The hotel stood on the west bank of the Nodaway River.  The railroad tracks and depot were nearby, and people traveling got room and board there.  During the Braddyville Corn Carnival, entertainers would also stay there.  They moved to Coin later, where Eva ran the switchboard.  Morrison died in August 1914.  Mary Ellen lived with her daughter, Eva, in Coin until her death 16 May 1920.  She was a member of the Congregational Church at College Springs, until that church disbanded, later bringing her letter to the Coin Methodist Church.  They are both buried in the Maple Hill Cemetery at College Springs.  Submitted by Irene Davison.  (p.327)

WILLIAM OSCAR AND CORDELIA IKER MCCORD.  William Oscar McCord was born in Lancaster, Wisconsin 12 May 1845, the son of David Tenney and Euraney Harmon McCord.  His father moved to Page County about 1860 and purchased land there.  David was drowned in the Missouri River in an accident near Peru, Nebraska 9 May 1864 while his two sons were in the Civil War.

Oscar volunteered and was accepted in the 4th Iowa Infantry, Company K.  He was with Sherman and participated in the March to the Sea.  Most of his four dollar-a-month salary was sent home to help buy a piece of land two miles east of Blanchard.

On 23 January 1966 he was united in marriage to Cordelia Levina Iker, whose father, John Iker, was one of the pioneers of Page County.  They were the first couple to be married in Colfax Township.

Oscar and Cordelia had two children, David Harlan and Alma Lillian Morton.  Until 1896 they lived on their farm except for two years when they lived in College Springs while Alma and Harley attended Amity College.

In 1896 their son took over the farm, and the couple moved to Blanchard.  Oscar built a carpenter shop where he was a wheelwright and also built houses.  As this was before electricity was common, all boards in a house had to be planed and cut by hand.  They did have sawmills run by steam and water power, but the lumber was really rough.  Oscar would work two men, take over two years to build a house and sell it for under $2000.  He always called himself a "wood butcher" instead of a carpenter.

Oscar only had two teeth, one above on one side and one below on the other.  He said he ruined them during the war drinking scalding coffee and then cold water to take the burn away.  However, he could eat almost anything anyone else could.  He always chewed Sweet Mist tobacco which was a real fine cut.  His one hatred in life seemed to be dogs, and he could spit tobacco juice and hit one in the eye at thirty feet.  Most dogs that started by the house and saw him sitting on the porch would always look the other way. 

The Blanchard State-Line Herald printed the following at the time of their passing:

Blanchard, Iowa, 12 October 1928.  It is very unusual that death claims the husband and wife so near together as was the case when W. O. McCord passed away at 12:45 Monday afternoon, and Mrs. McCord at 8:50 Tuesday night.  Mrs. McCord had been very ill for several weeks and her death was expected, but Mr. McCord was about as usual as far as everyone knew until about a week ago, when it was found he was seriously ill.  They had lived in Blanchard thirty years.  Burial was in the College Springs Cemetery.

Oscar's only brother, Charles Lawton McCord, died in Washington in 1929 and is buried at Davenport, Washington.  Submitted by Gerald McCord.  (p.327)

WARREN AND WINONA STANTON.  Warren Stanton, called "Darby" was born 15 April 1895 to Milo and Jessie Stanton, one of ten children.  Warren loved sports of all kinds and was good at most of them.  Playing ball was just like eating dinner to this guy.

As a young man he worked on harvesting crews until World War I was getting started.  Being very patriotic he went to defend his country.  After the service he worked in the Dakotas for awhile in a grain elevator.  Being encouraged by his folks to return home, he came back to College Springs to work with his father at the grocery store.

While he worked at the Stanton Store he was still actively involved in sports.  At one time he coached football for Amity College in College Springs.  He also put on minstrel shows, plays and operettas.  One really amazing thing was that he wrote most of his own songs, plays and whatever else!  During his minstrel days, he would paint himself black and sing in a Negro voice--he was the Best!

Warren met Winona Clark at the New Year's Eve part at the Methodist Church in 1920.  Winona Clark was born 6 February 1900 to Lora and Granville Clark.  She was the fourth of five children.  As a girl she had many farm chores and gardening.  She hired herself as a seamstress to the older ladies along the countryside.  She made 10 cents an hour.

They occasionally got to town, Braddyville, Iowa which was then a thriving community with a grocery store, hardware, buggy shop, bank, barbershop, two doctors, two churches and Winona's aunt's seamstress shop.

After meeting Darby they went together for about a year.  In that year nothing much happened since dancing and card parties were against the town law.  As did most young couples in 1921 they went to ballgames.  Winona sat on the side while Darby participated.  After hitting it off so well through all the ballgames they had a simple wedding with family there.

They moved in with Warren's folks.  This was the house in College Springs that Warren and Winona would spend the rest of their married lives.  They had five children:  Betty Jo, Warren, Jim, Walter and Dorothy.

As the kids grew they were all acive in sports, but they each took turns in the store.  Life went on in a light way, the boys as butchers and hayers, the girls at the store, now Stanton's Store as Warren's father had passed on.

After the kids were grown and gone, a new family of kids were there again of grandchildren and now so many great grandchildren.  On 5 April 1976 Warren was hit by a severe stroke and passed away.  Winona is still living today at the Bethesda Care Center in Clarinda, Iowa,

her eyesight fading as well as her memory.  Still we remember the songs and family ballgames that took place at the Old Stanton Homestead.  Submitted by D. Stanton.  (p.434) 

SAMUEL ARTHUR CLARK.  Samuel Arthur Clark, known as "Art", was born 18 June 1880 on a farm west of Braddyville.  His parents were John Carruthers Clark and Eliza Williamson Clark, both born in Ohio.  Eliza's mother came from Ireland when she was two years old.  They came to Page County 1 March 1872 from Ohio, and located on a farm three miles west of Braddyville.  Art was the youngest of their five children.  On 4 March 1902 Art was married to Carrie Adah McCord in the McCord home in College Springs.  They lived on the Clark farm west of Braddyville.

Adah was born 3 April 1885 in College Springs to John Morrison McCord and Mary Ellen Short McCord.  John Morrison was born in Illinois in 1838.  At the age of 23 he was mustered into the Civil War and served in the Southern Border Brigade.  On 7 September 1864 he was married to Mary Ellen Short in Page County.  Mary Ellen's parents were P. M. Short, a minister and Catherine Short.  She was born in Hennepin, Illinois 7 October 1846 and moved with her parents to Page County in 1863.  John Morrison and Mary Ellen lived in College Springs where he was a carpenter, harness maker and a music teacher.  Adah was the youngest of their nine children.

Adah enjoyed playing the organ and singing, and Art called for square dances held locally.  They both enjoyed dancing, and this was their main form of entertainment.  They attended dances at neighborhood homes and at the Blanchard Hall, going by horse and buggy, where they did the Grand March, Cake Walk and schottishes, along with square dancing.  Art's parents were Presbyterian, and Adah's were Methodists, and they attended both churches in College Springs, while growing up.  Later they attended the Christian Church in Braddyville.

Art and Adah had four children:  Ethel Roene, born 25 May 1903 married Roy Robert Davison; Nellie Irene, born 7 November 1904, married Wilber Davison; Herman Lawrence, born 2 July 1906, married Opal Johnson; and Inez Eva, born 29 July 1913, married "Steve" Jenkins.  They lived on the farm west of Braddyville, until 1916 when they moved to a farm four miles northeast of Braddyville and lived there until the early 40's when they moved into Braddyville.  They lived for a short time in Riverton where Adah and Inez ran the telephone switchboard, returning to Braddyville where they lived until Art's death 4 February 1946.  Adah moved to Shenandoah where she lived until her death 1 September 1955.  They are both buried in the Maple Hill Cemetery at College Springs.  Submitted by Irene Davison.  (p.147)

WILBU(E)R AND IRENE DAVISON.  Wilbu(e)r, son of Robert and Mary Anne Laub Davison, was born in 1900 on the Davison homestead in Buchanan Township.  His great-grand-father Samuel came to Iowa in 1850.  They were taught at an early age to get up early and hard hand labor was the order of the day.  This stayed with them all their lives and was instilled in their heirs.  Wilber's mother died when he was fourteen.

I was Irene Clark, daughter of Arthur and Ada McCord Clark, born in 1904 in Amity Township on my grandfather's farm.  Both my sisters and brother were born here as well as my father.  When my parents married they lived with Grandpa John Clark until he died in 1915.  My maternal grandfather, Morrison McCord, built the house on the Clark place where I was born.  He was a carpenter, but in later years ran a hotel in Braddyville where the ball park is now.  When I was small, I would stand on the porch and watch the trains come in.  My father ran the separator on threshing machines and farmed.  I attended Farquhar School and walked a mile and a half morning and night.  After the Clark farm was sold our family moved to Buchanan Township, dad called for square dances so we soon became acquainted with new neighbors and this was how Wilber and I met.  We were married in Clarinda in 1923.  We moved in with Wilber's dad and two brothers on the Davison place.  I cooked for them and washed on a hand washer.  I baked bread three times a week, ten loaves at a time.  Our first two sons were born here.  Wayne in 1924 and Leo in 1925.  Wayne was named by his grandfather.  In 1927 we moved to our own home and that same year Bennie was born.

In 1936 we had been snowed in for so long the neighbors decided to get together and scoop the roads out.  The forecast said another storm was on the way, but they worked all day scooping.  In the night the wind changed and started snowing again.  By morning it was all drifted full, even higher than before.

We milked cows, raised hogs and chickens and had a garden.  Wilbur played the fiddle, and he and the boys played for dances, P.T.A. meetings and other gatherings.  One of the highlights of the year was the annual Shearer Memorial Day service and program.  A basket dinner was held and the neighbors took turns making lemonade for the lemonade barrel.  The year it was our turn we bought a case of lemons and one hundred pounds of sugar and a hundred pound cake of ice.  There were 300 lemons in a case and all were rolled and squeezed by hand.

We celebrated our fiftieth anniversary in 1973.  Wilber died in 1978.  Two characteristics of the Davison family that's been passed down through the generations were the love of race horses and fiddle music.  Wilber had both.  Submitted by Mrs. Wilber Davison.  (p.168)

ROY R. DAVISON.  I was born 20 October 1893 on the Davison homestead in Buchanan Township to Robert and Anna Laub Davison.  I am their oldest living child and I was ninety years old last year (1983).  I was born in the log house my parents moved to when they were married.  Grandparents on both sides of my family were early pioneer settlers in Buchanan Township.  I attended Pine School and have lived all my life within half a mile of my birthplace.  I grew up with several brothers and sisters and remember well the stories my father told of early days.  We milked between twenty-five and thirty cows.  I began milking when five years old.  My first field work was done with a one-horse drill; I was barefoot and would cut my feet on the blades if I took too long a step.  We had a wooden beam breaking plow with a twelve inch cut.  My dad used this on pasture and brush turning it right over.  We had a "Jenny" brand feed grinder that we would hitch a team of horses to and grind ear corn for the milk cows.  Sometimes we would grind all day.  The grinder is still in the family.  Our barn lots had rail fences and we would split rails in eight foot lengths.  We called it a "second rider fence", and I don't know where this name came from.

October 1898 my folks moved into our new house, the snow was knee deep and we moved on a bob sled.  Dad shucked corn that fall with the sled.

Lots of corn was down and had to be pulled out of the snow.

I married Roene Clark, daughter of Arthur and Adah McCord Clark on 23 February 1921 in Clarinda.  My brother and I had a double wedding.  We owned a Model T car together and after we married, he bought my half.  Roene and I drove a top buggy and team for several years.  It would take us about an hour to go to Clarinda.  In 1923 we bought a Model T touring car for $359.00.

When we married, we moved half a mile west of my birthplace into another log house; both our children were born here, Merlin in 1924 and Lucille in 1927.  Merlin married Jean Kendall and has three children.  Lucille married Lester Carter, no children.  We tore our log house down in 1950 and took out seven wagon loads of brick from the old fireplace.  We built a new house and moved in, but Roene died in 1953.  My son and family moved in with me and the house has been remodeled several times.

I have three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.  As far as I know, I am the oldest resident of Buchanan Township.  I still get outside every day and walk around and I want to live to be one-hundred.  Submitted by Roy Davison (p.166).

Only genealogical data given on the following histories:

MERLIN DAVISON. Son of Roy and Roene Clark Davison, born 2 December 1924 on farm east of Braddyville. Sister Lucille born 19 April 1927, married Lester Carter 19 April 1947, died 17 April 1948. Merlin married Jean Kendall 24 August 1949. She was born in Braddyville 17 December 1926 to Guy and Beulah Heller Kendall. First son Allen born 15 October 1950; he married Linda Larabee: two children Christopher Allen and Melissa Sue. Daughter Twyla born 1 February 1956; she married Mark Wiederholt: two children Traci Lynn and Andrew Donald. Third son Greg born 21 July 1962.

BENNIE CHARLES DAVISON. Born to Wilber and Nellie Irene Clark Davison 27 November 1927. Married 2 December 1946 in Clarinda Betty Bernece Wise born 3 March 1928 in Page County to James Oliver and Jennie Martin Wise. Children: Danny Charles Davison born 15 June 1952 East River Township, Page County, married Lois Elaine Johnson. Renee Ann Davison born 20 December 1963, married Mark John Peterson.

LEO EARL DAVISON. Born to Wilber and Nellie Irene Clark Davison 4 April 1925. Married 10 December 1950 in Maryville, Missouri Annabel Slaten born 6 July 1932 in Hot Springs, Arkansas to Edgar and Mattie Jane McClard Slaten. Children: Curtis born 1952, married Carol Wagoner in 1973 has two children Chad and Craig; Diane born 1954 married Bill Edwards in 1974 has four children, Mark, Jennifer, Karl and Cole; Carol born 1951 married Michael Kisicki in 1983; Darrel born 1966.

WILBER WAYNE DAVISON. Born to Wilber and Nellie Irene Clark Davison 1924. Married 1944 in Hiawatha, Kansas to Robbie Jean Morss born to Robert and Freda Lyons Morss in Hamburg, Iowa in 1927. Children: Dennis Wayne born 1946 in Maryville, MO, married Dixie Jo Pike born 1950 in Maryville, MO, December 1969: children, Dinah Gail born 1970 and Denise Ann born 1975; Marvin Scott born 20 August 1953 in Elmo, Missouri married Kathleen Shoemaker 1978: child, Sarah Elizabeth born August 1983.