Florence Lovada (Carroll) Kelley 1899-1996

Florence Lovada Kelley, 97, Dixon, died Monday at Heritage Park Nursing Home, Rolla. She was born April 19, 1899, in Miller County, a daughter of William and Bashaby Elkins Carroll. She was married July 1, 1915, in Big Piney, to Silas Kelley, who died Feb. 21, 1984. A homemaker, she was a member of Ozark Baptist Church, Houston.

Survivors include: one son, Floyd Kelley, Visalia, Calif.; two daughters, Josephine Rose, Dixon, and Magdalene Meentemeyer, St. Louis; one sister, Marie Long, Waynesville; 12 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.

Services will be at 10 am. Wednesday at Birmingham-Martin Funeral Home, Dixon. Bro. Harold Withers will officiate. Burial will be in Hopewell Cemetery, Big Piney.

19 April, 1899 - 4 November, 1996

Leonard Elmer Carroll 1894-1983

Services were held last Sunday for Elmer Carroll, 88, Waynesville, who died Aug. 19. He was born Aug. 30, 1894, at Iberia, a son of Franklin and Bashay Peoria Elkins Carroll.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Zora Carroll. Mr. Carroll was a member of the Iduma Church.

Other survivors: three sons, Chester Carroll, Southerlin, Ore., Lloyd Carroll, Swisshome, Ore., and Hershel Carroll of Big Piney; two daughters, Ozelma Spratley, Jefferson City, and Orpha Wood, Ft. Clayton, Panama; four sisters, Marie Long, Lennis Page, Maggie Carter and Florence Kelley; 21 grandchildren and 28 great-grandchildren.

Burial was in the Hopewell Cemetery in Big Piney.

30 August, 1894 - 19 August, 1983

Mollie (Thompson) Elkins 1883-1957

Mollie Elkins, daughter of John and Laura Thompson, born on January 14 1883 at Spring Creek, Missouri and departed this life on February 13, at the Waynesville General Hospital after being a patient five days. She had been blessed with good health all her life and only failing the last weeks. She is well known in this community having lived her entire life in this vicinity.

In 1902 she was united in marriage to Jasper Atterberry and to this union two daughters and one son were born. Atterberry preceded her in death, January 31, 1925.

In 1927 she was married to Edward Tucker and he passed away in 1943.

She was converted when a young girl and became a member of the Fire Baptised Holiness Church. Since moving to this community she has been very faithful in her attendance to the Gospel Ridge Church and was devoted to church work.

Those left to mourn her passing are two daughters: _____ Claude Hamilton and Mrs. ___Upchurch of Waynesville; one son: Edgar Atterberry of Richland,Missouri; two brothers: ____ Thompson of Muskegon, Michigan, and James H. Thompson of _____flower, Missouri; one sister Julia Laughlin of Waynesville, four grandchildren: Roy Atterberry, Leland Wagner, Carmellia Snodgrass and ____ Wagner. Also surviving four great grandchildren, three step-daughters: Mrs. ___tha Simovic amd Mrs. ____ Rigsby of Springfield, Missouri, Mrs. Neva Campbell of Newburg, four step-sons: Lloyd Lewie Tucker of Bourbon, Donald and Charley of Springfield, Missouri and a number of other relatives and a host of friends.

She was devoted to her family, a kind and loving neighbor and friend, and will be sadly missed by her relatives, ch___, and everyone who knew her.

Funeral services were Friday, February 15 at 2:00 p.m. at the Waynesville Baptist Church with Rev. Henry Pre____ of Newburg officiating. Burial was in the Gospel Ridge cemetery under the direction of Hedges Funeral Home of Waynesville.

Pallbearers were Roy Atterberry, Thomas Wagner, …..

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Stella Cordelia Elkins 1895-1896

This entry is from the J.J. Watts collection. John J. Watts hailed from Warren, Maine and moved to the northern Ozarks of Missouri sometime after the Civil War. He was a circuit-riding Baptist Minister and his territory covered Phelps, Pulaski, and Texas Counties and parts of Maries and Dent Counties. He established a cemetery, Watt’s Lawn, which is located 1 mile West of J Highway, near the Pulaski County-Phelps County line. This collection covers 1882-1912.

Stella Cordelia Elkins, daughter of James M. and Rebecca Elkins, was born in Piney Township, Pulaski County, MO, July 15, 1895 and died at the same place, Aug. 5, 1896, aged 1 yr, and 20 days. A funeral sermon was preached by me at the Ellsworth Church Oct. 11, 1896 at 1 p.m., Sunday, from the text found in Rev. 7X9. Father and Mother and his 7 children survive, and Grand father G.W. Shaw. J. J. Watts

Maranda Elkins 1858-1894

This entry is from the J.J. Watts collection. John J. Watts hailed from Warren, Maine and moved to the northern Ozarks of Missouri sometime after the Civil War. He was a circuit-riding Baptist Minister and his territory covered Phelps, Pulaski, and Texas Counties and parts of Maries and Dent Counties. He established a cemetery, Watt’s Lawn, which is located 1 mile West of J Highway, near the Pulaski County-Phelps County line. This collection covers 1882-1912.

Maranda, wife of James M. Elkins, born in Pulaski Co., MO, Apr. 17th 1858, died in Piney T. Pulaski Co., Feb. 23rd 1894 aged 35 ys, 10 ms, and 6 days. A funeral sermon was preached at their residence, from 1st Thes. 4X13 & 14 verses, by J.J. Watts Feb. 24th 1894 at 11 a.m., after which the remains were taken to the Bradford Cemetery and buried. Husband, 7 children, and mother survives.