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.  

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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