Myrtle and Gene Wilson, Parents of Grover Carroll Wilson

Eugene Perry Wilson baby picture.  Son of Anna Belle Simms and Floyd Wiggins.  Floyd jilted

grandma before Eugene was born.  Norman Wilson married Anna Belle Simms when Eugene was

about 2 years old and raised him as his own.   

  

Myrtle Wilson age 17

Grandma Myrtle Wilson.  This is how I remember her,

 This is Myrtle's father, Alvy Newton Johnson with his cousins.  I don't have their names.  I know he has a brother Henry that was a scout for the Army.  Mom said there is a picture of Henry at a museum close to four corners in Colorado.

Myrtle with her great grandson, Anthony (Gloria's son)

They had a big flood of the Missouri River in the 50's  I know Grandma and Grandpa lived under the bridge.  The caption of the top picture says:

"The Mighty MO," reaching over banks to flood lowlands in the County bottoms.  The bank of the river in normal stages is about twenty feet left of the pier at the __ of the picture.  This view is looking south from the Clay County side at about the point of the ___ point down stream, towards the Independence-Liberty bridge on U.S. highway No. 71 by-pass.  

The bottom picture is with Aunt Barbara, (Barbara Jean Wilson). The caption reads: 

"RIVER STAY AWAY FROM MY DOOR" is the plaint of Barbara Jean Wilson, 

10-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Wilson, Route 3, Liberty Mo.  The boat is tied to the steps at the rear of the Wilson home on the north bank of the Missouri river near by-pass 71.

Born Dec. 27, 1906.  Died April 16, 1983

This is a letter to Eugene's mom, Anna Belle Simms Wilson.  

It is from Myrtle. Dated April 21, 197,1 it says: 

Dear Anna,

The house sold for $8,400.  I went as far as I could.  Gene wouldn't let me have any money.  I would have bought it.  

There isn't any thing in ____and it looks like it will be a while before anything come up.  I will let you know tho if there is any thing for rent.  Hope you are better, we had a nice rain yesterday.  There isn't any news so guess I will close.  

as ever

Myrtle.

  

Letter dated Aug 15, 1989 to Buster and Barbara (Myrtle's daughter and husband)  

Dear Buster and Barbara, 

Your letter received last week, I want to thank you both for your offer.  I would love to liver there, I love lots of flowers and shade.  As of now I can't get away.  Gloria and David have no place to go.  I didn't know if I could  pay for that butane for heating.  It's hard to get some times and very costly.  

But I want to thank you sincerely for offering.  I really appreciate it.  I would have been willing to fix it up.  Perhaps some time later.  

I'm fine, but unable to get my groceries, the store delivers here.  Can't walk to good, my feet!

Thanks a million

Love always 

Mom

Floyd Wiggins.  Name is misspelled on the front.  The back says:  This is the only picture of my daddy.  This was Eugene's biological father.  

Grover with his dog

                         This picture is labeled Henry Johnson.  I think this is Alvy Newt's brother. This would                            be Myrtle's Uncle

                                                             Myrtle

Aunt Elizabeth and Uncle Merle

Uncle Merle and Aunt Elizabeth.  These 2 were mom's favorite Aunt and Uncle.  I think they were Uncle Bob and Uncle Richards favorite also.  Mom spoke of them often.  I remember we would go visit them in Brandon, Iowa.  They had a horse name Jinx that would throw us sometimes.  I also remember being in the top of the barn in the hay bales with Larry and Patty.  

Aunt Elizabeth

Uncle Merle and Aunt Elizabeth 

This is actually Mom's (Carol Wilson) first cousin.  She just so happened to be my age.  I did locate her just recently and sent her a message.  She lives in Orlando, Florida and has 2 daughter's Jill and Rachel.  He name on Facebook is Jon Pat Ritchie.  

                                       Aunt Elizabeth and Uncle Merle with Patty.

Kenneth was Margaret E. Orr McKinley's second son and Uncle Merle's 1/2 brother.  He and Russell Orr McKinley are actually son's of Lloyd Andrew's.  You can see the marriage license below.  Margaret was pregnant with Russell and she and Lloyd had 2 children, Russell and Kenneth, before they divorced and Margaret married Albertus George McKinley.  I have never found records that Albertus George McKinley ever adopted Kenneth and Russell.  

  

Lower right entry is for Lloyd and Margaret Orr.  

Lloyd Andrews of the county of Wyandotte in the state of Kansas who is over the age of eighteen years.  Signed the 29th day of April, 1905. 

Margaret was born in 12-1-1886 and died 7-28-1982 and buried in Memorial Park Cemetery and Lloyd was born 4-8-1887.

Lloyd is not Merle's biological father.  This was his mother's first husband. 

This is Lloyd H Andrews obituary.  134 So 17th. Died Tuesday at age 54.  He was born 4-8-1887.  Born Havelock  Pershing auditorium employe  Lincoln resident  seven year member VFW Post 131.  Survivors wife Anna, son, Ronald, Griffith, Indiana, daughter, Mrs Carol Jaquet Chicago, mother, minnie, Lincoln, brothers, Leroy, Wesley, both Lincoln, Marvin, Kansas City, Mo, sister, Mrs Phyllis Marshall, Chicago, two grandchildren.  So we have lots of uncles, aunt, and lots of cousins we were never allowed to know about.  No mention of his first sons with Margaret Ethel Orr McKinley.  Russell Orr and Kenneth Eugene McKinley. They never knew where he lived or when he died.  Russell Orr found out when he went to work on the AlCAN Hiway that Lloyd H Andrews was his father.  

                                                             I thought mom told me this was Uncle Merle but 

his daughter, Pat, said it was not him.  I will have to research more.  

________________________________________________________________________________

This was Aunt Eliabeth's obituary: Obituary found on Find A Grave and the article came from the March 10, 2006 Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier on line newspaper dated March 10, 2006.

Elizabeth McKinley

Independence - Elizabeth L McKinley, 88 years old, of

Independence, Iowa, died Tuesday, March 7, 2006 at the

Buchanan County Health Center In Independence following

a sudden illness.

Graveside services will be held at a later date. Her body

was cremated. White Funeral Home of Independence is

in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. McKinley is survived by her daughter Pat (John) Ritchie

of Metairie, Louisiana, 2 grand daughters, Jill Ritchie and

Rachel Ritchie, 1 sister, Ruth Lund of LaPorte City, Iowa, and

a host of nieces and nephews.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her

parents and 1 sister, Isabelle Robinson.

 

Grover Wilson

This is a picture of Dad's birth certificate.  Grover Carroll Wilson: 

These are pictures of Dad, Grover Carroll Wilson when he was in the service.  His nickname was Lucky.  I have some service stories I will try to list so keep checking.  

This is Grover Wilson.  I know he went to Hawaii and this is probably that ship.  His nickname was Lucky.  I wonder if this was part of his "Lucky" story; going to Hawaii.  

Grover on the right

Grover Squatting.

Grover.  He enlisted when he was 17 into the Marines.  I think looks like a kid dressing up like he was in the service.  He served 4 years.  He went to Hawaii for R&R and I have a lot of those pictures I haven't scanned yet.  

This picture was taken in Hawaii.  

This is just a little write up of the Wilson geneology:

Wilson Side

 

Myrtle Frances Wilson = Mother of Grover Wilson

DOB April 29, 1908 in Holden, Mo

Death August 7, 2001

Hutton & McElwain Funeral Home

Macon, Missouri

Woodlawn Cemetery- Macon, Missouri

Casketbearers:

Harry Rhodes

Eric Halsema

Russell Goosey

David Goosey

 

Eugene Perry Wilson: Father of Grover Wilson

DOB Dec. 27, 1906 in Wakenda

Son of Norman and Anna Belle Simms Wilson

(Real father was Floyd Wiggins who owned a liquor store in Lebonon,  or Joplin. Mo.) His dad’s name might have been Warren).  Grover said he met him once.  Eugene introduced him to Grover when he came home from the service.  He said, “this is your granddad”.  Grover said, “I got a granddad.”  Meaning Norman Wilson.  That was the one and only time Grover met his biological granddad.  

Death April 16, 1983

Resided in Excello, MO where he was in the wholesale fish business

Buried in Mt. Salem Cemetery north of Jacksonville

Myrtle and Eugene were married Mar 17, 1927 in Sedalia, Mo and had 2 children:

Grover Wilson

Barbara Jean Birch- She was married to George (Buster) Murray.  She divorced Buster when he was running around.  Remarried a guy named Birch.  She was his 4^th wife and she thought she was his 2^nd.  So, she divorced him and took Buster back and she took care of him till he died.  He left her everything. 

 

Apparently. Myrtle and Gene didn’t have much of a marriage.  Carol Wilson says she never remembers them being happy.  Mom said Grandma had affairs.  She was going to run off with Dad’s Great? Uncles son.  It was Logan Wilson’s son who was supposedly having the affair.  Norm was Grover’s grandpa but not biological.  Mom was riding with Sam Wilson and his wife in the early “90’s.  They said they were going to run off together.  

 

Mother of Eugene: Anna Belle Simms Wilson

Mother and Father of Anna Belle Simms:  Perry Green Sims- died Mar 23, 1930 and Laura Belle Maddux Simms: died Jan 13, 1911

 

Brothers and sisters of Anna Belle Simms Wilson Born Mar 15, 1886, died April 2, 1974:

Albert Simms

Lizzie Jamerson (Sarah Elizabeth Simms)

Johnnie, Willie, Nellie, Oliver and Eddie all died when they were little

 

Lizzie Jamerson (Sarah Elizabeth Simms)( Parents lived in Wakenda, Mo and her grandfather had been the first telegraph operator):  Married Henry Jamerson, Deepwater. He was reared near Bosworth)

Lizzie and Henry had 5 living children and 3 died in infancy and two were twins: 

Mrs. Nellie Chaney of Deepwater

Forrest Jamerson Of Lone Jack.  One of his son’s was Kenneth Jamerson

Mrs. Katherine Ryan Topeka, Kansas

Mrs. Melba Ralston, Chicago, Ill

Mrs. Madge Baker, Columbia S. C

Baker and Ralston are twins. 

 

 

 

Mother and Father Of Perry Green Simms:  Colonel William Simms and Nancy?

Mother and Father of Laura Belle Maddux:  Joe Maddux and Henrietta White?

Eugene was about 3 year old when Anna and Norman were married.

Norman and Anna were married Feb 18, 1907, but at is written over and looks like 1909.  Eugene Wilson was born Dec. 27, 1906.

William Norman Wilson (born  Sept 28, 1882) was not really related, but his mother and father were Clara Belle Warren Wilson (died July 27, 1935) Henry  Wilson (died Mar 28, 1936 or 1937)

Clara Belle Warren’s father was George Warren

Henry’s Wilson’s father was Peter Henry Wilson and mother was Clara Belle Warren.  Clara Belle Warren Wilson” father was George Warren

Norman’s brothers and sisters were:  Nellie Brookover, Herbert Wilson, Mollie Wintry, Frank Wilson (died single), Oliver Wilson, Logan Wilson

OK Warren was a brother of Clara Belle Warren Wilson.  He was rich and lived around Excelsior Springs. 

Myrtle Frances Wilson’s father and mother were

Alva Robert Newton Johnson (Newt) Born Oct 20, 1864 in Rockford, Indiana and died in Osceola, Missouri, Sept 5, 1948. He may have been Indian or Norwegian.   Grover thinks Newt is ½ Cherokee.  It has been thought that Newt’s mother was Cherokee

Alva Robert Newton Johnson Had a brother named Henry Johnson.  They called him Wild Henry.  He was a scout of the Army and maybe with the Ute Indian.  There is a picture of him in the Indian Museum South of Grand Junction on west side of Highway on the south wall. 

 

Myrtle had 3 sisters:  Sarah was the oldest and died young?

Martha, and May. 

Martha lives in Oregon and must have married someone named Sparks.  She had 4 children:  Lola May, Wilma (raised Apaloosa horses), Jim Sparks, and William (died young?)

Lola May Married Virgil Perry:  Their children are:  Zardi Perry, Betty Jo Austin (died) Mary Margaret (died)

Mother was Rhoda Belle Hubbbard Johnson, born June 20, 1884 in Slater, Mo.  She was French or Spanish. 

Alva (Newt) and Rhoda were married July 27, 1899 in Warrenburg, Mo and she died June 22, 1922 in Carrollton, Mo on N. Folger Street.

Alva’s (Newt) father and mother were Newly Johnson and Martha Myrell Burkhart Johnson.  Alva’s mother died in Osceola, MO.  Their 1^st child was born in Tenn in 1852.  

Rhoda Belle Hubbard Johnson’s father was Frank Hubbard  who died in Salsbury, MO

Rhoda’s mother was May Belle Cox Hubbard and died in Carrollton, MO 

May Belle Cox Hubbard’s father was Edmond Cox and was a state senator of Missouri

Dad Stories (Grover Wilson)

I tried to write some of the stories Dad would tell me.  Here are a few:


1.  Dad told me a story about when he was in his car and some guy came up and pointed a gun on him.  He said he was quick to tell the guy that he had a nice gun.  He kept talking complimenting him until the guy glanced at his gun and nodded and said yeah it was a nice gun.  Then dad said he pulled his gun on him and said, “But not as nice as mine.”



2.  Dad told me that when he was in the service, they used to have to hike a lot with all their gear.  He said one time he carried a light load.  In other words he didn’t take all his gear.  He said it started to rain and everyone was getting their ponchos out.  He said he was pretty nervous and kept fumbling around in his bag and luckily it stopped raining. 



3.  Another story he told me was again about when he was in the service.  He and his friend Paul Brown had to land a plane.  I know Alan and I had our doubts but here is a student pilot certificate I found.  

                                              
                                            This is a story From Alan  
4.  One time dad took me out to find food for Bo, my boa constrictor.   I was probably 15 at the time.  We went down to Pratt Lake and saw a bird up on the telephone wire.  Dad pulls out his rifle and was lining up on it when for some reason I told him that was a mugwump.  Well, he puts up his gun, we get back in the car and head home.  On the way he finally asks what a mugwump was.  I told him it was a bird with his mug on one side and wump on the other.  Tense moment there while dad processed this.  Then he just chuckled.  So we ended up having a good laugh and I survived.  Good times!

5.  Red was Grandma Gray's second husband.  Dad liked Mac (Russell Orr McKinley) but not Red. He also said he didn't like grandma Gray because he said, "she glares at you."  Mom said Red had made a pass at her when she was only 15 or 16 so that's probably why dad didn't like him.  Red asked dad for a ride back to Omaha.  Dad said Red looked over and saw that dad was doing 95mph in his semi and said he just need to get off at St. Jo.  Dad said that was the last time he saw him.

 6.  Uncle Richard and Dad went to pick Uncle Bab up at the airport.  Dad said he never said "hi" and the first this he said was, "where's the topless bar?"  Russell Lee (Uncle Russ) took them to a place that had reclining seats.  He said the dance floor was glass and the bar tender was running around with a flashlight while everyone was dancing looking up the women's dresses.  

7.  Dad said mom called Aunt Nancy the Queen of Sheba.  I remember mom always telling me to stop acting like the Queen of Sheba and that I wasn't the Queen of Sheba etc.  She always said it whenever I didn't like something.  Anyway, apparently Alan overheard this about Aunt Nancy and he asked her one time if she was really a Queen.  

8.  Dad hauled fish for Grandma and Grandpa's fish market.  It was under the bridge in Liberty, MO.  He said he was outside of Wisconsin or Minnesota and the bugs were a foot deep on the bridge.  He dad to wait for a high loader to clear them.  He said it was on the Mississippi river.  The temperature was warm in the day time and since the ground was frozen, the bugs would get on the bridge because it was warmer.  He told me the crickets would get on the highways in California and they would be so thick, the road would be slick. He said he hauled live fish to eastern Kansas.  10,000 lbs at a time.  He also hauled from the Carolinas and Georgia.

9.  Dad worked at the prison in Hutchinson outside the wall working on their vehicles and teaching the inmate about auto mechanics.  He told me that Shane was teasing dad about letting his hair grow.  (Dad was bald).  I don't know if he told Shane this story or not but dad was telling how he fired 400 inmate at the prison.  One time they sent him an inmate that had a nose ring.  He told them to get that guy out.  I guess the guy asked why.  Then he was talking about people with nose rings and piercings and then said, "and they vote."

10.  Before he died dad was admitted to the VA with Afib/aflutter and CHF, and LL edema.  His O2 sat was 74%.  Ph 7.3.  Wt 335
He would tell stories to his nurses or Respiratory therapist.  I heard him tell that he lived with his grandparents and had a wood stove and no electricity.  This was in Johnson County.  No isulation and some of the icicles went clear to the ground.
I heard him say he was stationed in Hawaii for a year.  In Delmar for a year and Pendleton off and on.  H was a supply sergeant for paper, pencils, typewriters, etc.
He said he got in trouble and it took 9 months to get private.  He was considered AWOL one time.  He couldn't get back to base because of the rail strike.  He turned himself in in Olatha and the first think they did was put him in the brig.  He said they called him back during the Korean War.

11.  Dad lived with his grandparents Norman and Annabell Sims Wilson.  His real grandfather's name was Floyd Wiggins.  I could never find any adoption records to show that Norman Wilson adopted Gene Wilson (Grover's father) but Dad always thought of Norman Wilson as his grandfather.  Dad said he overheard his grandpa (Norm) and Herb McCannon having an argument.  Dad said he just figured this out 20 years ago (2002) that Grandpa Norm was having an affair. I don't have a clue who Herb McCannon is or was but dad remembered the name.  

 

 

Norm and Annabelle Wilson (My Paternal Great Grandma)

Great Grandma Annabelle Simms Wilson.  I can see me in the background.  This was taken at our house in Liberty in the dining room after Grandpa Norman Wilson had died and we had moved to Topeka.  You can see our old wallpaper in the dining room.  Also notice the stove behind grandma that we would sit in front of every morning when we were little.  Grandma moved into our house for a short time after we moved

Norman and Annabelle Thanksgiving 1952.  We always went to visit on Thanksgiving.  Grandma would fix a huge meal and let us have whatever we wanted.  We would always try for 2 desserts and she was always willing to accommodate unless mom caught us.  

All family except Madge and Everette sometime during the week of March 24, 1952.  I haven't done my genealogy on Madge and Everette.

The Wilson Brothers.  

Norman Wilson baby picture.  

This was probably taken Thanksgiving 1956 and developed in 1957.  

              Annie Wilson in the middle and Sam Wilson's sisters, Naomi and Annie?

Obituary of James Albert Simms.  

This was Annie Simms Wilson's brother.  I remember her talking about her brother Albert.

  

I also found where a Sam Simms had died.  I don't know how he was related to Grandma, Anna Belle Simms Wilson: 

___ Simms died Mar 21 Monday

burried 26 Mar

Sam Simms

Drown Mar 20, 1938 

Thurs.

Mother

A precious one from us has gone

A voice we loved is stilled

A place is vacant in our home

Which never can be filled

God in His wisdom has recalled

the boda his love had given

and though the body slumbers here

the soul is safe in Heaven

Think I heard he drowned in the pond at their farm.  It was iced over and he fell through.

This picture was taken in our dining room in Liberty, Missouri.  219 Suddarth Street.  After we moved to Topeka, Grandma moved into our old house for a short time.  Anyone remember the wall paper in the background? I don't know who the 2 boys are, but I think they relatives on Norman Wilson's side.  

Annie Wilson picture taken at our house in Topeka on West 28th Street.  Notice the ceramic fish on the end table.  I still have it if anyone is interested.  

     This was taken at our house in Topeka.  I still have the fish ash tray.  I made some of her dresses and I would curl her hair.  This had to be taken maybe around 1966.  Grandma was born in 1886 so she was probably 78-80.  She died in 1974.   

This is Norman Wilson with Great Grandma Annie Wilson at their house in Wakenda, MO.  Wakenda is located in Carroll County.  Grover Carroll Wilson was born on Great Grandma Wilson's birthday, March 15, 1928.  Now you know where dad got his middle name.  Grandma was born Mar 15, 1886.  Dad was born Mar 15, 1928.  Grandma died April 2, 1974 at the age of 88.  Dad died April 5, 2013 at the age of 85.  

Norman Wilson.  I remember this bed being in their living room at their house in Wakenda.  They didn't have a bathroom, just an outhouse.  I remember Larry and I pumping water in a bucket and carrying it in the house. Norm was born in 1882 and died in 1961 at age 79 from Cancer.  He is not our biological grandfather though.  He was 4 years older than Great grandma Wilson.  She married him when Eugene Wilson was about 2 1/2.  Norm raised Eugene as his own, but I never found any adoption papers.  Eugene's biological father was Floyd Wiggins. The family always spoke highly of Norm and Annie Simms Wilson. 

These are the Wilson Brothers

Norman had 2 sisters and 4 brothers: Nellie Wilson Brookover, Herbert Wilson, Mollie Wilson Wintry, Frank Wilson (he died single), Oliver Wilson and Logan Wilson.  Logan had a son names Sam Wilson. Carol Wilson said she was riding with Sam in the early 90;s when he told mom about Myrtle and Logan.  

  

  

                                             Annie and Norman Wilson.  They never had any biological children                                                   together.  

William Norman Wilson: Born Sept 28, 1883 and died June 1961.  

Anna Belle Simms: Born Mar 15, 1886 and died April 2, 1974.  

Norman had 2 sisters and 4 brothers: Nellie Wilson Brookover, Herbert Wilson, Mollie Wilson Wintry, Frank Wilson (he died single), Oliver Wilson and Logan Wilson.  Logan had a son names Sam Wilson.  

This is Annie after Norman Wilson died.  He died of cancer. I remember making dresses for grandma and curling her hair on brush rollers.  She was very very hard of hearing so I don't remember having any conversations with her.  My dad, Grover Wilson and his sister Barbara, always spoke very highly of great grandma.  My dad said they pretty much raised him.  

This was the only picture that existed of Floyd Wiggins in with all of Mom and Dad's pictures.  Below are a few more pictures of Floyd that I found on Ancestry.  Someone misspelled his name on the picture.  This is Gene (Eugene) Perry Wilson's biological father.  Great Grandma Anna Wilson was engaged to him and he jilted her.  So far in my research I found Floyd married a woman named Dessie. I could not read her maiden name.  I found their marriage in the census reports.  Floyd must have given Grandma a ring because  Aunt Barbara said she remembers playing with Grandma's engagement ring from Floyd when she was little.  Aunt Barbara said she lost the ring in the woods.  Gene was 25 1/2 months old when Anna Belle Simms married Norman Wilson.  They never had any children together.  I found Norman Wilson and Anna Belle Simms marriage license, and they lived in Carroll County; but I have never found any adoptions or birth records for Gene that was filed.  Aunt Barbara said Grandma was heart-broken when she was pregnant and abandoned.  Gene was born December 27, 1906.  Anna was 20 years old.  Floyd was 23.  Apparently, Floyd married Dessie in 1906.  Dessie was born in 1888.  According to one of the census, she claimed she was 19 when she got married but Floyd said he was 23.  I noticed that a lot of women lied about their age when they got married.  They were supposed to be 18.  I noticed my mom and her mom both lied on their marriage license.  I would love to find out the entire story about Grandma and Floyd, but I will have to find more info.  One thing for sure is Floyd Wiggins is my biological Great Grandpa.  Poor Grandma; she was such a sweet sweet woman.  I know they usually delivered their babies at home but I don't know any details yet.  I could not find any children listed for Floyd and Dessie on the census of 1920 or 1930.  That is the only 2 census I have found with their names.

I found this record on Ancestry.  Probably a home birth June 1888.  This would have been a brother to Anna Belle Simms.

This is the obituary for Eugene Wilson.  Anna Belle Simms Wilson's only son.  It states he was born in Wakenda to William Norman and Anna Belle Simms Wilson but his biological father was Floyd Wiggins.  Below is Grover Wilson, Eugene's son.  You can see that Grover favors the Wiggins side.  

Grover Carroll Wilson (Mar 15, 1928- April 5, 2012)

Floyd Wiggins

William Edgar Wiggins 1879-1939.  He would be Grover's uncle and Floyd Wiggins brother.

                                                          Grave of Floyd Wiggins

Another picture of Floyd Wiggins

Here are some of Great Grandma Annabelle Simms Wilson's recipes:

                             Baked Apple Pie

                                                         Raw Oatmeal cookies

I just found this in with the recipes.  I have no idea what it means.  

                                      Peanut butter cookies

Marriage license of Norman Wilson and Anna Simms on Feb 18, 1909.  Gene would have been about 2 years plus 6 weeks.   They were married at Valley Memorial Church.  I don't know if that was in Wakenda or not but they lived in Carroll county, MO.   I notice they got their license in Jackson County.  So it is possible the adoption records are there also.  Just needs more research.  

This is Norman Wilson's registration form.  He was 35 years old. He registered Sept 11, 1918.  WWI started July 28, 1914 till November 11, 1918.  

During WWI there were 3 registrations.  The first, on June 5, 1917 for all men between the ages of 21 and 31.  The 2nd, on June 3, 1918, registered those who attained age 21 after June 5, 1917,  (A supplemental registration was held on August 24, 1918, for those becoming 21 years old after June 5, 1918.  This was included in the second registration.)  The third registration was held on September 12, 1918, for men age 18 through 45.  Grandpa Norman Wilson was in this 3rd registration.  It doesn't appear he has ever been drafted.  

Here are some genealogy notes I have taken through the years and from research.  I don't want to be the only one in possession of all the information.  I just wrote what I heard.  If you don't like the stories; all I can say is don't read them.


Wilson Side:



Myrtle Frances Wilson

DOB April 29, 1908 in Holden, Mo

Death August 7, 2001

Hutton & McElwain Funeral Home

Macon, Missouri

Woodlawn Cemetery- Macon, Missouri

Casketbearers:

Harry Rhodes

Eric Halsema

Russell Goosey

David Goosey



Eugene Perry Wilson

DOB Dec. 27, 1906 in Wakenda

Son of Anna Belle Simms Wilson.  Anna Belle was engaged to Floyd Wiggins but he jilted her and broke her heart.  Anna Belle married Norman Wilson when Eugene was 2 years plus 6 weeks old.  

(Real father was Floyd Wiggins who owned a liquor store in Lebonon,  or Joplin. Mo.) Floyd's dad’s name might have been Warren)  Grover (My dad) said he met Floyd once.  Eugene introduced him to Grover when he came home from the service.  He said, “this is your granddad”.  Grover said, “I got a granddad.”  Meaning Norman Wilson.  That was the one and only time Grover met his biological granddad.  I tried to discuss some of my research with my Aunt Barbara.  She was open and talked about losing Grandma's engagement ring and how no one recognized Floyd as a relative or grandfather.  I asked if she had any adoption papers and she did not.  About a week after our conversation I received a letter from Aunt Barbara telling me not to ever contact her again and made sure I knew her daddy was not a bastard.  Just to be clear; I recognize Grandpa Norm Wilson as my grandfather but I am also interested in the facts and the genealogy.  
I know some relatives from the Wiggins family were at Grandpa's (Eugene) funeral.   

Death April 16, 1983

Resided in Excello, MO where he was in the wholesale fish business

Buried in Mt. Salem Cemetery north of Jacksonville

Myrtle and Eugene were married Mar 17, 1927 in Sedalia, Mo and  had 2 children:

Grover Wilson

Barbara Jean Birch- She was married to George (Buster) Murray.  She divorced Buster when he was running around.  Remarried a guy named Birch.  She was his 4^th wife and she thought she was his 2^nd.  So she divorced him and took Buster back and she took care of him till he died.  He left her everything. 



Apparently Myrtle and Gene didn’t have much of a marriage.  Carol Wilson (daughter-in-law) says she never remembers them being happy.  Mom said Grandma had affairs.  She was going to run off with Dad’s Great? Uncles son.  It was Logan Wilson’s son who was supposedly having the affair.  Norm was Grover’s grandpa but not biological.  Mom was riding with Sam Wilson and his wife in the early “90’s.  They said they were going to run off together.  



Mother of Eugene: Anna Belle Simms Wilson

Mother and Father of Anna Belle Simms:  Perry Green Sims- died Mar 23, 1930 and Laura Belle Maddux Simms: died Jan 13, 1911



Brothers and sisters of Anna Belle Simms Wilson who was Born Mar 15, 1886,
 died April 2, 1974:

James Albert Simms: Born Aug 19, 1876 and died at the age of 92 in 1968.  He married Eva Belle West Nov. 24, 1898 and had 8 children.  5 survived.  Elva Harper of Kansas City, Oliver Simms of Carrollton, Thomas Simms of Kansas City,  Randall Simms of Carrollton, and Mable Atherton of Wakenda.   He lost 2 sons and a daughter in infancy.  He was buried at Oak Hill cemetery.  

Lizzie Jamerson (Sarah Elizabeth Simms)  She must have had a daughter that married a Jerry Ryan.  I thought her name was Nola and I babysat for them when I was about 10.

Johnnie, Willie, Nellie, Oliver and Eddie all died when they were infants.



Lizzie Jamerson (Sarah Elizabeth Simms)( Parents lived in Wakenda, Mo and her grandfather had been the first telegraph operator):  Married Henry Jamerson, Deepwater. He was reared near Bosworth)

Lizzie and Henry had 5 living children and 3 died in infancy and two were twins:  I remember hearing the story that when the twins were delivered they were alive but very very small.  Grandma said they just wrapped them up in a newspaper because they couldn’t save them anyway.  She said they were still moving. 

Mrs. Nellie Chaney of Deepwater

Forrest Jamerson Of Lone Jack.  One of his son’s was Kenneth Jamerson

Mrs. Katherine Ryan Topeka, Kansas

Mrs. Melba Ralston, Chicago, Ill

Mrs. Madge Baker, Columbia S. C

Baker and Ralston are twins. 







Mother and Father Of Perry Green Simms:  Colonel William Simms and Nancy?

Mother and Father of Laura Belle Maddux:  Joe Maddux and Henrietta White?

Eugene was just over 2 year old when Anna and Norman were married.

Norman and Anna were married Feb 18, 1907, but at is written over and looks like 1909.  Eugene Wilson was born Dec. 27, 1906.

William Norman Wilson (born  Sept 28, 1882) was not really related, but his mother and father were Clara Belle Warren Wilson (died July 27, 1935) Henry  Wilson (died Mar 28, 1936 or 1937)

Clara Belle Warren’s father was George Warren

Henry Wilson’s father was Peter Henry Wilson and mother was Clara Belle Warren.  Clara Belle Warren Wilson” father was George Warren

Norman’s brothers and sisters were:  Nellie Brookover, Herbert Wilson, Mollie Wintry, Frank Wilson (died single), Oliver Wilson, Logan Wilson

OK Warren was a brother of Clara Belle Warren Wilson.  He was rich and lived around Excelsior Springs.



Myrtle Frances Wilson’s father and mother were

Alva Robert Newton Johnson (Newt) Born Oct 20, 1864 in Rockford, Indiana and died in Osceola, Missouri, Sept 5, 1948. He may have been Indian or Norwegian.   Grover thinks Newt is ½ Cherokee.  It has been thought that Newt’s mother was Cherokee

Alva Robert Newton Johnson Had a brother named Henry Johnson.  They called him Wild Henry.  He was a scout of the Army and maybe with the Ute Indian.  There is a picture of him in the Indian Museum South of Grand Junction on west side of Highway on the south wall. 



Myrtle had 3 sisters:  Sarah (born 1902) was the oldest and died young?

Martha, and May. 

Martha lives in Oregon and must have married someone named Sparks.  She had 4 children:  Lola May, Wilma (raised Apaloosa horses), Jim Sparks, and William (died young?)

Lola May Married Virgil Perry:  Their children are:  Zardi Perry, Betty Jo Austin (died) Mary Margaret (died)

Mother was Rhoda Belle Hubbbard Johnson, born June 20, 1884 in Slater, Mo.  She was French or Spanish. 

Alva (Newt) and Rhoda were married July 27, 1899 in Warrenburg, Mo and she died June 22, 1922 in Carrollton, Mo on N. Folger Street.

Alva’s (Newt) father and mother were Newly Johnson and Martha Myrell Burkhart Johnson.  Alva’s mother died in Osceola, MO.  Their 1^st child was born in Tenn in 1852. 



Rhoda Belle Hubbard Johnson’s father was Frank Hubbard  who died in Salsbury, MO

Rhoda’s mother was May Belle Cox Hubbard and died in Carrollton, MO



May Belle Cox Hubbard’s father was Edmond Cox and was a state senator of Missouri



May Belle Cox Hubbard’s mother was Mary Jane Thomas Cox



Sam Simms drowned in a pond 3/20/1936.  This must be one of Albert Simms sons. 

This was on the back of  what must have been his memory card given by the funeral home:

Mother

A precious one from us has gone

A voice we loved is stilled

A place is vacant in our home

While never can be filled

God in His wisdom has recalled

The bode his love had given

And though the body slumbers here

The soul is safe in heaven