JAMES WILLIAMSON MILLER
James Williamson Miller
1818–1897
BIRTH 10 JUL 1818 • Fishing Creek, Chester, South Carolina, USA
DEATH 20 MAR 1897 • Santa Bárbara d'Oeste, São Paulo, Brazil
Married: 08 Dec 1847 • Fishing Creek, Chester Co, South Carolina, USA
Sarah Boyd Magill
1824–1889
BIRTH 10 JAN 1824 • Fishing Creek, Chester, South Carolina, United States
DEATH 20 JAN 1889 • São Paulo, Brazil
Daughter of James Boyd Magill and Esther Rodgers
Find A Grave:
Sarah Boyd Magill (1824-1889) was the daughter of the immigrant from Ireland, James Boyd Magill, (1799-1880).
Sarah Boyd Magill1 (dau. of James Boyd Magill), a school teacher, b. 10 Jan. 1824, Fishing Creek section, Chester Co., S.C.; removed with her husband and children in 1868 to Brazil; d. 28 or 29 Jan. 1889 at Santa Barbara, Sao Paulo, Brazil. She was married on 8 Dec. 1847 to Capt. James Williamson Miller, b. 10 July 1818, Fishing Creek section, Chester Co., S.C.; d. 20 March 1897, Sao Paulo, Brazil, the son of Robert H. Miller and Jane Davis.
OBITUARY, Death of Mrs. Miller, from an old Charlotte, N.C. newspaper clipping: "Died on the 28th of Jan., 1889, at her home in Santa Barbara Province, Sao Paulo, Brazil of heart disease. Mrs. Sarah B. Miller, formerly of Chester, S.C. The deceased was a sister to Hon. James R. Magill of Kershaw Co., S.C. and T. R. Magill of this city. In the winter of 1868, she moved to Brazil, where her husband was successful in his business enterprises and liberally used his income on the education of his children, one of whom at the age of 22 years held the responsible position of Vice Consul General of the United States at Rio de Janeiro. Mrs. Miller was educated at a Moravian school located in Salem in this state (North Carolina). She was very zealous in the cause of education and was a consistent member of the Presbyterian church from an early age. She leaves a husband and four children, three of whom are in Brazil and one in South Carolina."
Courtesy of Descendants of James Boyd Magill, 1799-1880 page 30
Children:
1. Esther Jane Miller
2. James Boyd Miller
3. Robert Davies Miller
4. James MaGill Miller
5. Mary Elizabeth Niller
6. Anna Lucina Miller
7. William Baskin Miller
8. Ersoula Miller
9. John Thomas Miller
10. Jefferson Miller
11. Eugenia Margaret Miller
1.
Esther Jane Miller
1848–1854
BIRTH 22 OCT 1848 • Fishing Creek, Chester, South Carolina, USA
DEATH 21 MAY 1854 • Fishing Creek, Chester, South Carolina, USA
Died Young
2.
James Boyd Miller
1849–1850
BIRTH 1849 • Chester, South Carolina, USA
DEATH 1850 • Charleston County, South Carolina, USA
Died Young
3.
James Davies Miller
Second husband of
Teresa Wilson Miller
1860–1929
BIRTH 6 MAR 1860 • Alabama, USA
DEATH 5 OCT 1929 • Eufaula, Barbour County,
Alabama, USA
Daughter of Irvin Louis Miller and Sophia Ferguson
Hunter
Married 1st: 23 Dec 1879
Dr George DeKalb Coulter
1839–1888
BIRTH 25 DEC 1839 • Sevier, Arkansas, USA
DEATH 01 APR 1881 • São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Son of David Reddick Coulter and
Teresa was widowed twice by an early age, both husbands
buried in Brazil. In 1885 she traveled with her father back to Alabama - No children mentioned.
Find A Grave:
Daughter of Sophia F. (Hunter) Miller and I.L. Miller. Teresa Miller married a Miller. Her husband was Robert Davies Miller (buried in Brazil). Robert Davies Miller was born on 2 November 1850, and died in Brazil on 24 June 1885. He is buried in Campo Cemetery, Sao Paulo, Brazil [Findagrave]. The Campo Cemetery is located in Santa Barbara D'Oeste in the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil. This cemetery is the last resting place for many Confederate exiles from the McMullan and Gunter Colonies that left the United States after the Civil War (early 1867). Teresa Wilson (Miller) Miller rests with her parents in the Hunter-Merrill cemetery
Married 2nd
Robert Davies Miller
1850–1885
BIRTH 2 NOV 1850 • Chester County, South Carolina, USA
DEATH 24 JUNE 1885 • Santos, Minas Geraes, Brazil
Died at 34 years of age
Son of ConfederadosJames Williamson Miller and Sarah Boyd Magill
of Chester, South Carolina, USA
(No known relation to Irwin Louis Miller)
4.
James Magill Miller
1853–1854
BIRTH 6 OCT 1853 • Chester County, South Carolina, USA
DEATH 5 JUN 1854 • Chester County, South Carolina, USA
Died Young
5.
Mary Elizabeth Miller
1855–1917
BIRTH 15 AUG 1855 • Chester County, South Carolina, USA
DEATH 28 OCT 1917 • São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Married: 15 Jul 1873 • Santa Barbara, São Paulo, Brazil
Charles Moses Hall
1845–1916
BIRTH 1 JUN 1845 • Columbus, Muscogee, Georgia, USA
DEATH 14 FEB 1916 • Americana, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Son of Confederado Hervey Hall and Jane Catherine Ives
One day in October 1877, eleven years after Hervey Hall, Charles' father, had arrived in this strange land he was shot dead by Jess Wright, the Texas cowboy, in a field near his home. There were no witnesses, but it was surmised that the shooting had followed an argument between the two men. Judith Jones recounts the story that a feud between the two came to a climax over Hall’s shooting of one of the Cowboy's mules that had wandered into Hall’s plantation and was trampling his Cotton fields. In a rage, Wright apparently approached Hall demanding satisfaction. Within minutes Hall lay dead.
After saying goodbye to his family, Wright leg the colony. Before nightfall, a party a Confederados and members of the Brazilian State Guard came looking for him, but Wright had caught a ride on a passing train and was in the port city of Santos, one hundred miles away, by the next morning. From there he caught a ship to New Orleans, safely out of reach.
The Confederates were stunned. They tried to console Hall’s children. Both families were prom-inent. The Wrights had their friends and the Halls had theirs, and the ugly incident marred relations within the colony for many years. Things were especially unpleasant for those who helped Mrs. Wright and the children go to Texas to join her fugitive husband, now employed as a lawman. The belief was that Jess Wright was a gunslinger who had learned to use his six-shooter too well during the Civil War. Charlie, Hall’s eldest son, planned to hunt Wright down in Texas to settle the score. His brother, George, finally persuaded him to drop the matter and let the whole family begin life without their father.
Charlie, an energetic man like his father, took over the enterprise and made it prosper. Like many of the Brazilian Confederados, he raised a large family. As Blanche Weaver wrote of him, “His spacious white-columned house with its wide verandas was the center of social life in the community. Ministers were invited to stay in his house and a church was built on his land. His hospitality served not only to lessen the loneliness of the young missionaries but also to encourage proper matches for his daughter. Five of his nine daughters married missionary preachers from the United States.
Charlie Hall died in 1910 after suffering a fall at his home. The Hall plantation existed until 19717, gradually diminishing in size as the city limits of Americana expanded and finally encircled the property. That year, at the death of Elizabeth, Charlie's wife, the mansion house was sold to Candido Cruz, a prosperous pharmacist in Americana. His wife converted the spacious home into a school, which continues in operation.
Children:
1.
Anna Ives Hall
1873–1874
BIRTH 4 JUN 1873 • Brazil
DEATH 1874 • Brazil
Died young
2.
Mary Dillingham Hall
1875–
BIRTH 7 FEB 1875 • Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH Unknown
3.
Lucy Magill Hall
1877–1956
BIRTH 6 NOV 1877 • Santa Barbara, São Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 3 SEP 1956 • Sanford, Lee, North Carolina, USA
Married: 1900
Rev. Charles Reed Morton
1865–1903
BIRTH 20 MAY 1865 • "Campostella", Charlotte County, Virginia
DEATH 11 APR 1903 • Casa Branca, Araguary, Brazil
Son of William Morton and Margaret E. Watkins
Charles Morton was born on May 20, 1865, in Compostella, Charlotte County, Virginia. He studied at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington and at the Seminary Theological Union, annexed to the Hampden- Sydney College, in the same state, where it was formed in 1894, having been a colleague of the Rev. Carlyle R. Womeldorf. He was ordained by the Presbytery of Roanoke in June 1894. He arrived in Brazil in August 1895, accompanied by his young wife of twenty-one, Mary Thompson Morton. They initially worked in Lavras. In December 1895, they went to Araguari, a field that had been herded by the Rev. Frank Cowan, who died in 1894. In that city, there was a school run by the widow missionary, Kate Bias Cowan, who later went to Santa Luzia de Goiás (now Luziânia).
In 1900, he married Lucy Hall, daughter of a couple of American immigrants residing in Vila Americana. Lucy was born in Brazil and studied with the missionaries in Campinas and Lavras. Four of her sisters also married missionaries and a cousin, Katherine, was the wife of Rev. William Calvin Porter. The Morton couple had a daughter, Elizabeth Margaret Morton, and a son who was born on June 19, 1903, after the death of his father, and received his name.
From Araguari, Morton moved to White House, State of São Paulo, in 1901. He was affected by yellow fever and died in an isolation hospital on 5 April. 1903. He was the last of the missionaries who had been victimized by this disease, by George W. Thompson, John W. Dabney, Edward Lane and Edgar M. Pinkerton. Morton was supported by the Presbyterian Church of Durham, North Carolina, as its pastor missionary. Lucy Morton worked for many years with the Mission West in Araguari, Barretos and other places (1903-1908, 1924-1930. On September 25, 1907, the Revista of the National Missions reported that Lucy had donated to the Church of Araguari a harmonium which she herself played in the services.
According to some authors, the death of the missionary was surrounded by a certain mystery When Morton was affected by yellow fever, the police chief, the enemy of evangelicals, determined his removal to the Holy House, where he died shortly yhereafter. Rev. James R. Woodson reported that, many years after Morton's death, the news broke that that an old black man confessed to having given him a poison remedy.
Children:
1.
Elizabeth Hall Morton
1901–1984
BIRTH 26 JUL 1901 • Santa Barbara, São Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 1 OCT 1984 • High Point, Guilford, North Carolina, USA
Married:
Marion Julian Murray Sr.
1900–1984
BIRTH 29 JUL 1900 • Alamance County, North Carolina, USA
DEATH 9 APR 1984 • High Point, Guilford, North Carolina, USA
Son of Rev. Ephraim Clark Murray and Lilian Norwood Lebby
Children:
1.
Marion Julian Murray Jr
1928–1996
BIRTH 26 OCT 1928 • Arlington,
North Carolina, USA
DEATH 15 OCT 1996 • Johnson
City, Washington, Tennessee, USA
Married: 22 Jun 1957 • Richmond,
Virginia, USA
Ann Elizabeth Bliss
1936–2006
BIRTH 18 APR 1936 • Richmond,
Virginia, USA
DEATH 9 APR 2006 • Richmond, Henrico, Virginia, USA
Daughter of Loren Tyler Bliss and Florence C Jackson
2.
Charles Morton Murray
1932–
BIRTH 26 DEC 1932 • Avery, North Carolina, USA
DEATH Unknown
Married: 17 Aug 1955 • Nashville, Davidson,
Tennessee, USA
Mary Anne Taylor
1933–
BIRTH 15 JUN 1933 • Augusta, Virginia, USA
Daughter of Kyle Houston Taylor and
Bernice Haislip
2.
Charles Read Morton Jr
1903–1912
BIRTH 19 JUN 1903 • Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 8 OCT 1912 • Spotsylvania County, Virginia, USA
Died young
4.
Katherine Eugenia Hall
1879–1968
BIRTH 15 SEP 1879 • Villa Americana, Sao Paulo,
Brazil
DEATH 29 OCT 1968 • Miami, Miami-Dade County,
Florida, USA
Married: 14 May 1902 • Villa Americana, Sao Paulo,
Brazil
Alva Finley Hardie Jr
1873–1955
BIRTH 26 SEP 1873 • Selwood, Talladega Co,
Alabama, USA
DEATH OCT 17 1955 • Miami, Dade, Florida, USA
Son of Alva Finley Hardie Sr and Elizabeth Darby
Mallory
Children:
1.
Lucita Lucy Hall Hardie
1903–1995
BIRTH 19 APR 1903 • Villa Americana, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 21 FEB 1995 • Black Mountain, Buncombe, North Carolina, USA
Married: 9 JUN 1927 • Charlotte, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, USA
Charles Edmund Wait Jr
1896–1959
BIRTH 1 MAY 1896 • Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
DEATH 4 MAR 1959 • Dade County, Florida, USA
Son of Charles Edmond Wait Sr and Harriet Newell (Hallie) Morrison
2
Esther Hall Hardie
1905–1906
BIRTH 16 FEB 1905 • Sao Joao del Rey, Brazil
DEATH 27 JAN 1906 • Villa Americana, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Died young
3.
Hugh Melvin Hardie
1906–1984
BIRTH 28 APR 1906 • Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 05 NOV 1984 • Fort Worth, Johnson, Texas, USA
Married: 9 Feb 1932 • Dallas, Texas, USA
Corinne Mallory
1903–1993
BIRTH 31 OCT 1903 • Terrell, Kaufman, Texas, USA
DEATH 05 OCT 1993 • Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, USA
Daughter of Fielding Udolphus Mallory and Phylinda Alice Stubbs
4.
Elizabeth Helen Hardie
1918–2004
BIRTH 11 OCT 1918 • Americana, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 2004 • Winter Park, Orange, Florida, USA
Married 13 Feb 1943 • Miami, Miami-Dade, Florida, USA
William Harrison Smith Jr
1917–2003
BIRTH 27 OCT 1917 • Canal Zone, Panama
DEATH 24 JAN 2003 • Winter Park, Orange, Florida, USA
Son of William Harrison Smith Sr. and Rosa Lucy Haller
5.
Sarah "Sadie" Miller Hall
1881–1973
BIRTH 4 OCT 1881 • Santa Barbara, Sao Paulo,
Brazil
DEATH 12 NOV 1973 • Charlotte, Mecklenburg,
North Carolina, USA
Married: 27 Apr 1905 • Walker, Georgia, USA
Rev. James Porter Smith
1882–1940
BIRTH 19 AUG 1882 • Recife, Amazonas, Brazil
DEATH 31 JUL 1940 • Richmond County, Virginia, USA
Son of John Rockwell smith and Sarah Miller
James Porter Smith, the son of Rev. John Rockwell Smith and Sarah Miller, was born in Recife on August 19, 1882, after studying at Union Seminary in Richmond, returned to Brazil in 1909. In the same year, he married Sadie Miller Hall, from Vila Americana, and in 1910 was ordained in Sorocaba. He pastored several churches in the Presbytery of São Paulo and taught at the Campinas Seminary from 1918 to 1930, succeeding his parent. He wrote the book An Open Door in Brazil (1925), an account of the missionary work of the South-ern Church in Brazilian lands. Returning to the United States, he became a professor of theology at Union Seminary. He was the last missionary from the Western Mission to leave the Campinas region. He died in Richmond on July 31, 1940.
Children:
1.
Rockwell Hall Smith
1910–1994
BIRTH 4 OCT 1910 • Campinas,
Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 03 SEP 1994 • Mechanicsville,
Hanover, Virginia, USA
Married 1st: 15 Feb 1941 • Orange
County, Virginia, USA
Frances E Roop
1913–1963
BIRTH 3 OCT 1913 • Billings, Yellowstone,
Montana, USA
DEATH 19 JAN 1963 • Richmond City,
Virginia, USA
Daughter of Eldridge Glen Roop and
Landonia (Lannie) Emmaline Simpkins
Married 2nd: 25 Apr 1964 • Richmond
City, Virginia, USA
Pauline Minerva Coates
1923–2001
BIRTH 9 OCT 1923 • Amherst, Cumberland,
Nova Scotia, Canada
DEATH ABT 2001 • Richmond City, Virginia,
USA
Daughter of Otto Arthur Coates and
Kathleen Baird Blenkhorn
2.
James Warfield Smith
1913–1980
BIRTH 7 FEB 1913 • Itu, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 26 OCT 1980 • Richmond, Virginia, USA
Married: 10 Jan 1945 • Richmond City, Virginia, USA
Anne Helen Morton
1919–2009
BIRTH 17 MAY 1919 • Richmond, Virginia, USA
DEATH 10 MAR 2009
Daughter of John Marshall Morton and Annie Jamieson
Children:
3.
Carolyn Miller Smith
1915–2010
BIRTH 24 APR 1915 • Itu, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 26 APR 2010 • Black Mountain, Buncombe,
North Carolina, USA
Married: 6 Jul 1939 • Richmond City, Virginia, USA
Rev. William Bethea Ward
1912–1996
BIRTH 12 AUG 1912 • Timmonsville, Florence, South
Carolina, USA
DEATH 2 DEC 1996 • Buncombe County, North
Carolina, USA
Son of Simon Vivian Ward and Grace M. Bethea
4.
Rev. Charles Emerson Smith
1917–2001
BIRTH 25 JAN 1917 • Itu, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 21 OCT 2001 • Asheville, Buncombe,
North Carolina, USA
Married: 10 Aug 1943 • Richmond City,
Virginia, USA
Alice Wilson McElroy
1921–2015
BIRTH 19 MAY 1921 • Kobe, Japan
DEATH 15 JUNE 2015 • Black Mountain,
Buncombe, North Carolina, USA
Daughter of Isaac Stuart McElroy and
Alice Wilson
13 Nov 1973, Tue • Page 29
1.
Carolyn Warfield Smith
1949–
BIRTH 23 JAN 1949
Married: 19 Oct 1968 • Richmond County, Virginia, USA
James Earl McIntyre Jr
1948–1997
BIRTH 4 MAY 1948 • Richmond County, Virginia, USA
DEATH 15 DEC 1997
Son of James Earl McIntyre Sr and Edith Miles
2.
Kathleen Ives Smith
1958–
BIRTH 12 SEP 1958 • Richmond County, Virginia, USA
Married: 22 Aug 1981 • Hanover, Hanover, Virginia, USA
Frank Courtney Wysor
1958–
BIRTH 5 DEC 1958 • Hampton, Virginia, USA
Son of John C Wysor and Pauline Starke Warinner
3.
Patricia P. Smith
Rev. Alva Hardie was the last Presbyterian missionary to arrive in Brazil in the 19th century.
He was a native of Alpine, Alabama, where he was born on September 26, 1873. His parents
were Alva Finley Hardie and Elizabeth Darby Mallory. When Alva was two years old, family moved to Dallas, Texas, where he did primary and secondary education and then worked in the trade. Feeling the ministerial vocation, he attended Austin College, in Sher-man, where he obtained his baccalaureate in letters (BA) in 1898, and studied theology at Southwest Presbyterian University in Clarksville, Tennessee, graduating in May 1900. He was or-dained by the Dallas Presbytery on July 3, 1900 and soon afterwards embarked in New York to Brazil, arriving in Rio de August 27 of the same year.
He initially worked in the East Mission area while learning the language. It was in Lavras, Minas Gerais, for a period of one year. She went to take care of the field of São João Del King on September 26, 1901, associating for over a year with Rev. Baldomero Garcia in the evangelization of that region. Retired from Rev. Baldomero, Hardie continued for another four years in São João Del Rei. At that time, priests sent boys to stone the house of wor-ship; the leader of these boys was the future Rev. Paschoal Luiz Pitta.
Hardie married on May 14, 1902 with Kate Eugenia Hall, born in 1879, daughter of the couple Charles and Mary Hall, American immigrants residing in Vila Americana, Sao Paulo. Kate, who was the cousin of Katherine Ives Hall, the wife of Rev. William Ca-lvin Porter had been a faculty member of the American College of Natal for two years. At the end of that year, Hardie participated with other colleagues from the organization of the Churches of Saint João Nepomuceno (05-11-1902) and São João Del Rei (07-11-1902). It was
Presbytery of Mines in 1904.
Asheville Citizen-Times
24 Oct 2001, Wed • Page 17
6.
Margaret Bookwalter Hall
1883–1979
BIRTH 7 JAN 1883 • Brazil
DEATH MAY 1979 • São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Married: 16 Jun 1915
Rev. Philip Sheeder Landes
1883–1966
BIRTH 22 JUL 1883 • Botucatu, Estado do Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 27 JUL 1966 • São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Son of Rev George Anderson Landes and Rebecca Margaret
Newell Sheeder
Find A Grave:
Age 83. Son of the Rev. George Anderson and Rebecca
Margaret Newell Sheeder Landes, presbyterian missionaries
in Brazil.
Graduated College of Wooster (1907) and Princeton Theolo-
gical Seminary (1910). Returned to Brazil in 1912 as a
missionary of the Presbyterian Church in the U.SA. Married
in 1915 to Margaret Bookwalter Hall.
Four children.
Source:
https://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-478
Philip Sheeder Landes was born in Botucatu, Sao Paulo, Brazil, on
June 22, 1883. His parents, the Rev. George Anderson and
Rebecca Margaret Newell Sheeder Landes, were missionaries in
Brazil for the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Subsequently, the
family moved to other towns in the south of Brazil, establishing
mission work in such places as Curitiba, Ponta Grossa, and Floria-
nopolis. During the early years, young Philip sometimes accompanied
his father on his missionary travels.
Philip studied at the American School in Curitiba and then at Mackenzie
College in Sao Paulo. He graduated from the College of Wooster (1907)
and Princeton Theological Seminary (1910) in the United States. After
his graduation from seminary, Philip returned to Brazil in 1912 as a mis-
sionary of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A (PCUSA). He made
an extensive journey of missionary exploration with the Rev. Franklin
Graham, across the states of Baia, Goias, and Mato Grosso.
Philip married Margaret Bookwalter Hall, daughter of Charles, and Mary Elizabeth Hall of Americana, Brazil, in 1915. They made their home in Cuiaba, Mato Grosso, for the next fifteen years.
Among the churches that Landes helped to establish are the First Presbyterian Church Cuiaba and the Presbyterian Churches of Rosario Oeste, Pocone, Sao Luiz de Caceres, Guia, and others.
After years in Mato Grosso, Landes became the evangelist at large for the PCUSA Central Brazil Mission, from 1930 to 1935. Then he was assigned to Campo Grande, Mato Grosso, to establish new churches in that region. From 1938 to 1939, Landes returned to Princeton Theological Seminary, where he completed coursework and prepared for his new assignment as a professor of Church History at the Theological Seminary in Campinas, Brazil. There he spent the remainder of his career.
After his retirement in 1953, he and Mrs. Landes went to live in Jandira, Sao Paulo, where the Jose Manoel da Conceicao Institute was located and contributed much volunteer time toward the construction and growth of the local church.
Rev. Landes passed away on July 27, 1966, at the age of eighty-three. He left his wife, Margaret, and four children: Pauline, George, Mary Elizabeth, and Philip. Mrs. Landes died in 1979 in Sao Jose dos Campos, where she had been living with her daughter, Mary Elizabeth Hodgkiss. Mr. and Mrs. Landes are buried in the Protestant Cemetery in Sao Paulo.
Children
Later years
1.
Pauline Hall Landes
1916–2008
BIRTH 26 MAR 1916 • Cuiabá Matto Grosso, Brazil
DEATH 18 AUG 2008 • St Petersburg, Pinellas, Florida, USA
Married: 21 May 1940 • Wayne County, Ohio, USA
Rev. George Chalmers Browne
1915–1987
BIRTH 15 OCT 1915 • Tian Fu Shantung, China
DEATH 28 SEP 1987 • Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, USA
Son of Rev. George Francis Browne and Irene Elizabeth Cowen
2.
George Landis
1919–
BIRTH ABT 1919 • Brazil
DEATH Unknown
3.
Mary Elizabeth Landis
1921–2005
BIRTH 17 JAN 1921 • Cuiabá Matto Grosso, Brazil
DEATH 1 FEB 2005 • Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, USA
4.
Philip Sheeder Landis Jr.
1927–
BIRTH ABT 1927 • Brazil
DEATH Unknown
7.
Julia Montague Hall
1883–
BIRTH 7 JAN 1883 • Brazil
DEATH Unknown
Married: 1904 • Villa Americana, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Francis Howard Hodgkiss
1876–1970
BIRTH 18 MAY 1876 • Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England
DEATH FEB 1970 • Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Son of James Hofgkiss and Hannah Charlotte Jones
Children:
Picture Of Sao Paulo Athletic Club early 1900s Frank Hodgkiss is middle row left hand side. Captain is Charles Miller - middle of bottom
Tampa Bay Times
21 Aug 2008, Thu • Page 2
1.
Joyce Hodgkiss
1906–
BIRTH 1906 • Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH Unknown
Married:
Geoffrey Hilgrove Sewell
1907–
BIRTH 1 SEP 1907 • Lalaguda Secunderabad, India
DEATH Unknown
Son of Louis Helgrove Sewell and Alice Louisa Bolton
Children:
1.
Julian Francis Hilgrove Sewell
1933–
BIRTH ABT. 1933
2.
Ruth Hodgkiss
1910–
BIRTH 21 NOV 1910 • Sao Paulo,
Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH Unknown
Married: 28 Feb 1936 • Tunbridge
Wells, Kent, England
Francis David Leach
1908–
BIRTH 26 SEP 1908 • Woking England
DEATH Unknown
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Basil Leach
Children:
The Kent and Sussex Courier
(Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England)
28 Feb 1936, Fri Page 10
1.
Francis Anthony Jonathan Leach
1940–1978
BIRTH 3 JUN 1940
DEATH 14 AUG 1978 • Kensington, Greater London, England
3.
Francis Hall Hodgkiss
1915–
BIRTH 16 JAN 1915 • Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH Unknown
Mary Elizabeth Landis
1915–
BIRTH ABT 1915 • Brazil?
DEATH Unknown
4.
James Hall Hodgkiss
1917–
BIRTH 22 JAN 1917 • Brazil
DEATH Unknown
Married:
Lillian Helene Louise Read
8.
Roberta Theresa Hall
1886–1976
BIRTH 26 FEB 1886 • Villa Americana, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 12 JUN 1976 • Panama City, Bay, Florida, USA
Married: 1 SEP 1906 • Hall home at Villa Americana, Brazil
Robert Dale Daffin
1881–1960
BIRTH 24 OCT 1881 • Marianna, Jackson, Florida, USA
DEATH 11 OCT 1960 • Panama City, Bay, Florida, US
Son of Robert Dale Daffin and Caroline Belle Alderman
Find A Grave:
Roberta Theresa Hall was born in Villa Americana, Santa Barbara, Sao Paulo, Brazil. She was the daughter of Charles Moses Hall and Mary Elizabeth Miller. She married Robert Dale Daffin, Jr in 1906 in Brazil. They were both Presby-terian missionaries. They retired to the United States and eventually settled in Panama City, Florida.
Find A Grave:
Robert Dale Daffin, DD, was the son of Robert Dale Daffin and Carrie Bell Alderman. He was born in Marianna, Florida. He became a Presbyterian missionary in Brazil and while there met and married Roberta Theresa Hall. They had six children and returned to the United States after twenty-five years of missionary service in 1929. He continued to preach at small churches in Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida and retiring in Panama City, Florida.
Children:
1.
Carrie Alderman Daffin
1907–1985
BIRTH 15 JUNE 1907 • Villa Americana, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 24 JULY 1985 • Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA
Married:
Milton Lafayette Dougherty
1906–1985
BIRTH 20 OCT 1906 • St. Louis City, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
DEATH OCT 1985 • Charleston, Kanawha, West Virginia, USA
Son of James Milton Daugherty and Alma Frieda Theurbach
Find A Grave
Carrie Alderman Daffin was born 15 June, 1907 in Brazil, the oldest daughter of Robert Dale Daffin and Roberta Theresa Hall. She married Milton Lafayette Daugherty in 1930 in Ripley, Mississippi. She and her husband became missionaries in Brazil, just as her parents had been.
Children:
1.
Milton Dale Daugherty
1931–1937
BIRTH 21 OCT 1931 • Richmond, Virginia, USA
DEATH 24 DEC 1937 • São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Died young
2.
Charles Hall Dougherty
1936–2019
BIRTH 27 MAY 1936 • St. Louis City, St. Louis,
Missouri, USA
DEATH 25 FEB 2019 • Huntington, Cabell, West
Virginia, USA
Married: 15 Jun 1961 • São Paulo, São Paulo,
Brazil
Mary Lee Smith
1934–2004
BIRTH 16 SEP 1934 • Charleston, Kanawha,
West Virginia, USA
DEATH 4 DEC 2004 • Charleston, Kanawha,
West Virginia, USA
Daughter of Russell Lowell Smith and Edna Lee Miller
2.
Charles Hall Daffin
1908–1992
BIRTH 23 JUL 1908 • Villa Americana, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 20 DEC 1992 • Panama City, Bay, Florida, USA
Married: 17 May 1939 • Crittenden County, Arkansas, USA
Dorothy Ann "Dot" Larue
1916–2010
BIRTH 27 JUN 1916 • Columbus, Hickman, Kentucky, USA
DEATH 29 AUG 2010 • Panama City, Bay, Florida, USA
Daughter of William Ivan LaRue and Linnie Leigh Gray
Find A Grave
Charles Hall Daffin was born in Villa Americana, Sao Paulo, Brazil, the son of Presbyterian missionaries. His father was Robert Dale Daffin and his mother, born in Brazil, was the daughter of Americans who came to Brazil after the Civil War in the United States. Charles came to the United States at the age of sixteen to attend Palmer College in DeFuniak Springs, Florida. He attended Davidson College and graduated from Sterling College. He then attended and graduated from the University of Tennessee School of Medicine. He interned in Jackson-ville, Florida and served his country in WWII in both the Pacific and European theaters. He returned to practice medicine in Panama City, Florida. He was one of the founding doctors of Bay Medical Center and was a member of the Kiwanis Club.
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Dorothy Ann LaRue Daffin Randall was born June 27, 1916 on Wolf Island, Kentucky, an island in the Mississippi River.
She was the daughter of William Ivan LaRue and Linnie Leigh Gray LaRue. Her early childhood was spent on Wolf Island, Kentucky, and the "Medley Farm" at Wolf Island, Missouri, and in Cairo, Illinois, and Columbus, Kentucky. She completed grade school and high school in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Dorothy attended the Baptist Hospital School of Nursing and the Nurse Anesthetist School at the University of Tennessee, both in Memphis, Tennessee. In Memphis, she met and married Charles Hall Daffin. In 1992, Dorothy became a widow after fifty]three years of marriage. Dorothy married William "Bill" Randall in 1996. Dorothy was a life]long member of the Episcopal Church. She was a charter member and past Regent of the St. Andrew Bay DAR.
Children:
1.
Charles Hall Daffin II
1941–2013
BIRTH 7 NOV 1941 • Petersburg, Fauquier,
Virginia, USA
DEATH 18 JAN 2013 • Charlotte, Mecklenburg,
North Carolina, USA
Married: 20 Oct 1989 • Hidalgo County, Texas,
USA
Rivera Inocencia Lezama
1954–
BIRTH JAN 1954
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Charles was born Nov. 7, 1941, in Petersburg,
Va., to the late Dr. Charles Hall Daffin and
Dorothy LaRue Daffin. He also was predeceased
by his step-father, William Stacey Randall.
Charles is survived by his beloved wife of 23 years, Inocencia Lezama Daffin; a daughter, Wendy Eichenberger and husband, Stephen, along with their child-ren, Hannah and Jacob of Keller, Texas. He also leaves behind to cherish his memory two sisters, Anne Daffin Harris (Carl) of Panama City, Fla., and Melinda Daffin Henningfield (Wayne) of Medford, Ore.; an aunt and uncle, Dr. Sidney E. and Sara Daffin; as well as nieces, nephews and cousins.
Charles moved to Panama City at the age of 4 and was a graduate of Bay High School, Class of 1959. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1961 through 1967 as a submariner. He graduated from Mississippi State University and worked for GE as a nuclear engineer until his retirement.
Following his retirement, Charles became very active in his astronomy club, Carolina Amateur Astronomy Club (CAAC), serving in many capacities in the organization. He and his wife attended many outings but especially loved the Winter Party in Key West.
His greatest love was his photography and he was very active in the Carolina Nature Photographers Association (CNPA), where he won many awards for his photography. He spent many weeks on outings at Wildacres, N.C., in the moun-tains, taking pictures and helping people get started in the art of photography. Over and over the people who would gather at Wildacres for many other organ-izations, such as the Quilters, music, dance, etc., stated that Charles would live on in the pictures he spent hours taking and mounting of the different groups as they worked. He also devoted a lot of time and effort volunteering at the local regional VA outpatient clinic in Charlotte, N.C., taking pictures of veterans and a "Wall of Honor" was started with the pictures he would take one week and then bring back the next week mounted and ready for hanging.
And there always would be copies of the pictures for the veteran and his family.
As a deacon of Mallard Creek Presbyterian Church, he was instrumental in bringing about many new avenues of community service for the church. He started a school for Hispanic children ages 2-4 to be taught English so that when they started school they would not be handicapped for not being able to speak and understand English. At the time of his death, the school had a one- to two-year waiting list for children and also had started classes for adults. He worked with the Presbyterian Bishop of Brazil, South America, to bring bilin-gual ministers to work and start a Hispanic church. The church's annual barbecue fundraiser, where thousands of pounds of barbecue, coleslaw and Brunswick stew was made and sold, was another of the projects that he enjoyed every year, the proceeds going to help fund the church's "Room At The Inn" project for homeless people, a project he spent many nights working with over the years. He left the church with a pictorial directory of the life of the church for the 17 years he was a member.
Charles will be sorely missed by the hundreds of people whose life he touched in so many ways.
A funeral service was held at 2 p.m. Monday, Jan. 21, 2013, at Mallard Creek Presbyterian Church, followed by burial with full military honors in the church cemetery.
Memorials may be made to Mallard Creek Presbyterian Church, 1600 W. Mallard Creek Church Road, Charlotte, NC 28262; or Holy Nativity Episcopal School, 205 Hamilton Ave., Panama City, FL 32401.
Published in Panama City News Herald from Jan. 30 to Feb. 3, 2013
Contributor: Robert Wylie (41741424) • bob.wylie@gmail.com
3.
Robert Dale Daffin III
1909–1984
BIRTH 17 SEP 1909 • Itu, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH SEP 1984 • Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, USA
Married: 17 JUL 1936 • Washington, D. C., USA
Myrtle M. Cook
1902–2000
BIRTH 17 JUL 1902 • Horseheads, Chemung, New York, USA
DEATH 26 AUG 2000 • Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, USA
Daughter of John Everet Cook and Annie Amelia Aulthouse
4.
Elizabeth Miller Daffin
1912–2002
BIRTH 30 JAN 1912 • Marianna, Jackson,
Florida, USA
DEATH 5 FEB 2002 • Hattiesburg, Forrest,
Mississippi, USA
Married: 21 Apr 1935 • Ripley, Tippah,
Mississippi, USA
James Bryan Waltman
1906–1975
BIRTH 9 OCT 1906 • New Hebron, Lawrence,
Mississippi, USA
DEATH 30 APR 1975 • Hattiesburg, Forrest,
Mississippi, USA
Son of James Edward Waltman and
Nancy Lee
5.
Grace Ives Daffin
1915–2001
BIRTH 30 SEP 1915 • Itapetininga, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 2 MAR 2001 • 2 MAR 2001 • Miami, Miami-Dade, Florida, USA
Married: Jul 1958 • Polk County, Florida, USA
Divorced: 19 Dec 1978 • Miami-Dade, Florida, USA
Roger Welles Beadle
1906–1987
BIRTH 30 MAY 1906 • Virginia, USA
DEATH SEP 1987 • Miami, Miami-Dade, Florida, USA
Son of Col. Elias Root Beadle and Louise Osborne Drury Owens
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Grace Ives Daffin was born in Itapetiniga, Sao Paulo, Brazil, the daughter of Robert Dale Daffin, Jr, and Roberta Theresa Hall, Presbyterian missionaries. She came to the United States in 1929 with her family. She received a BA from Maryville College and in 1942 a degree in Library Science at Louisiana State University. During WWII she used her knowledge of Portuguese as a Censor in Miami. After the war, she worked at the Miami-Dade County Public Library until she retired in 1981
6.
Sidney Ely Daffin
1922–2013
BIRTH 14 JAN 1922 • Sao Sebastiano
de Paraiso, Brazil
DEATH 6 DEC 2013 • Panama City, Bay,
Florida, USA
Married: 10 Apr 1947 • Mobile County,
Alabama, USA
Sarah Solomon
1925–
BIRTH 7 AUG 1925 • Alabama, USA
DEATH Florida, USA
Daughter of George William Solomon
and Dorothea L
'Docia' Wiggins
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Sidney Ely Daffin, MD, 91, died at home Fri, Dec 6, 2013. He was born the youngest of 6 children in Sao Sebastiao do Paraiso, Brazil, on Jan 14, 1922, to Rev. Robert Dale Jr.
and Roberta Hall Daffin, who were serving the Lord as missionaries in that country. Sidney attended school in Ripley, MS, and graduated from McCallie Preparatory School in Chattanooga, TN in 1937. He continued his studies at Davidson College in Davidson, NC, where his fondest memories were of playing baseball for the Wildcats! Deciding to further his education in the field of medicine, he was admitted to the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Mem-phis, TN. He served in the US Army Medical Corps from 1942-to 49 with his last assignment being in Sendai, Japan. After his discharge from the Army, Dr. Daffin accepted a position in the OB-OGYN Residency Program at Tampa General Hospital in Tampa, FL. In 1950, he came to Panama City, FL to open his practice in family medicine. Over the next 25 years, he dedicated himself to serving his patients and the community. After closing his practice downtown, he worked in the General Medical Clinic at TAFB for 10 years. He finished his medical career as director of Washington County Public Health. Dr. Daffin was an active member of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, where he served as an Elder; a Sunday School teacher; and in many other capacities.
Sidney is survived by his loving wife of 66 years, Sara Solomon Daffin; his children, Diana "Cissy" Senechal (Peter) of Niceville, FL, Robert "Robbie" Dale Daffin IV (Mary Kathryn) of Panama City, FL, Suki Daffin (Bill Dobbs) of Tallahassee, FL; his grand-children, Major James Senechal MD (Kathryne) of Las Vegas, NV, Capt. Sara Senechal Walker (Scott) of Homestead, FL, Marisa Dale Garrison of Jasper, AL; his great-granddaughters McKenna and Scarlett Garrison of Jasper, AL; and a host of nieces, nephews, and cousins. He was predeceased by his parents; 2 brothers; and 3 sisters.
Visitation will be from 5-7 pm Mon, Dec 9, 2013, at Wilson Funeral Home, 214 Airport Road. A celebration of his life will be at 10 am Tue, Dec 10, 2013, at St. Andrew's Pres-byterian Church with a burial to follow at Greenwood Cemetery.
Panama City News Herald, Sun, Dec 8, 2013
Children:
1.
Robert Dale Daffin IV
1951–
BIRTH 23 MAY 1951
Married 1st: 16 Nov 1976 • Bay, Florida, USA
Divorce: 16 Dec 1980 • Bay, Florida, USA
Rose Marie Morrison
1954–
BIRTH 9 OCT 1954
Married 2nd: 18 Jul 1994 • Bay County, Florida, USA
Mary Kathryn Scoggins
1945–
BIRTH 4 APR 1945
2.
Suki Daffin
1952–
BIRTH 4 DEC 1952
Married:
William Dobbs
3.
Diana "Cissy" Daffin
9.
Ella Kuhl Hall
1888–1979
BIRTH 11 MAR 1888 • São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 4 FEB 1979 • Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA
Married: 11 Sep 1917 • Manhattan, New York, USA
Dr. John Calvin Turner Jr
1888–1962
BIRTH 9 DEC 1888 • Georgia, USA
DEATH AUG 1962 • Dade County, Florida, USA
Son of John Calvin Turner and Rosa Elnora Bennett
Children:
08 Feb 1979, Thu. Page 59
1.
Dr. John Calvin Turner III
1919–1996
BIRTH 7 FEB 1919 • Bainbridge, Decatur, Georgia, USA
DEATH 1 JUN 1996 • Orange County, Florida, USA
2.
Laura Bennett Turner
1920–1966
BIRTH 20 JUN 1920 • Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA
DEATH 26 OCT 1966 • Oxford, Butler, Ohio, USA
Married:
James Edward Fain Jr
1920–2012
BIRTH 12 SEP 1920 • Norman Park, Colquitt, Georgia, USA
DEATH 15 APR 2012 • Savannah, Chatham, Georgia, USA
Son of James Edward Fain Sr and Mary Maude McCalman
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Laura B. Turner, former wife of James E. Fain, editor of the Dayton Daily News.
She graduated from Duke in 1942 and was a graduate student at Miami University, Oxford, working towards her doctorate degree in English. She Worked in Dayton public school system as an 11th-grade teacher for two years.
Former chairman of the Ohio Commission on Aging and former president of Travelers Aid in Dayton and was a member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority and Christ Episcopal Church in Dayton.
She is survived by a son, James E. [Michael?] Fain, Jr., a junior at Yale University; her mother, Mrs. John C. Turner, Winter Park, Florida; a sister, Mrs. R. M. Thom-son, Miami, Florida, and two brothers, Dr. John C. Turner and Dr. Thomas Turner, both of Miami, Florida.
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BIOGRAPHY
Townsend, Ga.
Jim Fain of Sutherland Bluff died on April 15 at St. Joseph's Hospital, Savannah Georgia. He was 91. He died peacefully, but that was not his usual mode. He was intractably passionate and ferocious about many things, newspapers, ballet, the hymn "Whispering Hope". the well-chosen word, and his family and friends.
He was born in Norman Park, Georgia, and though he lived in Ohio, Texas, and then Washington, DC for most of his life, he would instinctively revert to a Georgia drawl when crossing the border. He graduated from Emory University with a degree in journalism, which became his lifelong career and religion. He served in what was then the Army Air Corp in the Pacific during World War ll, General.
He worked on several newspapers in Georgia, including the Albany Herald, and the Columbus Ledger, and in 1949 went to the Atlanta Journal as news editor, before moving on as Editor of the Dayton Daily News, Editor of the Miami News. and then, in 1976, as the publisher of the Austin American-Statesman.
In 1983, he moved to Washington, DC, as the National Correspondent in Cox Newspaper's Washington Bureau. He leaves his partner Gale Dugan of Washington, DC, his wife Cathy Newman, also of Washington, DC, sons Jeb Fain of Washington, DC, Judge Mike Fain of Dayton, Ohio, and three grandchildren Paul, James, and Sophia,
3.
Mary Hall Turner
1922–2009
BIRTH 28 FEB 1922 • Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Florida, USA
DEATH 13 DEC 2009 • Winston-Salem,
Forsyth, North Carolina, USA
Married: 21 Aug 1945 • Dade County,
Florida, USA
Randolph Murray Thomson
1921–2014
BIRTH 6 OCT 1921 • Havana, La Habana,
Cuba
DEATH 24 JUN 2014 • Winston-Salem,
Forsyth, North Carolina, USA
Son of William McKeen Thomson and Mary Louise Wardlaw
4.
Dr. Thomas Ross Bennett Turner
1927–2003
BIRTH 27 MAY 1927 • Miami Dade, Florida,
USA
DEATH 7 AUG 2003 • Tallahassee, Leon,
Florida, USA
Married: 30 Sep 1972 • Miami-Dade County,
Florida, USA
Ailene Patricia Edgeworth
1923–1994
BIRTH 13 MAR 1923 • Dayton, Montgomery,
Ohio, USA
DEATH AUG 1994
Daughter of Thomas W Edgeworth and
May McCormick
10.
George Harvey Hall
1889–
BIRTH 15 SEP 1889 • Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH Unknown
Married: 1919 • Brazil
Aida Faral
11.
Charles Edward Hall
1892–
BIRTH 13 MAY 1892 • Brazil
DEATH Unknown
Married:
Roxy King
Children:
1.
Elena Mamie Hall
1922–2019
BIRTH 14 SEP 1922 • Sao Paulo,
Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 22 MAR 2019
Married 1st: Before 1960
Herman Oliver Kohr
1912–1992
BIRTH JAN 10, 1912 • Allen
County, Indiana, USA
DEATH APRIL 22, 1992 • Fort
Wayne, Allen, Indiana, USA
Son of Francis H "Frank" Kohr and Ada Alberta Lopshire
Children:
1.
William Hall Kohr
BIRTH DEC 1948 • Indiana
2.
Nancy T Kohr
1960–2020
BIRTH 4 OCT 1960 • Huntington, Cabell, West Virginia, USA
DEATH 28 NOV 2020 • Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, USA
The Miami Herald
09 Aug 2003, Sat • Page 76
Married 2nd: 24 Nov 1990 • Poe, Allen, Indiana, USA
Paul Donald Spuller
1920–2016
BIRTH 13 JUN 1920 • Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, USA
DEATH 20 NOV 2016 • Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, USA
Son of James Edward Spuller and Leona Maude Essex
12.
Esther Porter Hall
1896–1899
BIRTH 09 JUN 1896 • Brazil
DEATH 11 SEP 1899 • Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Died young
6.
Anna Lucina Miller
1857–1944
BIRTH 10 JUL 1857 • Chester Co, South Carolina, USA
DEATH 10 AUG 1944 • Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Married: NOV 1884
Leroy King Bookwalter
1852–1900
BIRTH 27 FEB 1852 • Chillicothe, Ross, Ohio, USA
DEATH 17 AUG 1900 • Santa Barbara, São Paulo, Brazil
Son of Joseph Addison Bookwalter and Zelinda Melissa Ross
Children:
1.
Ross Magill Bookwalter
1885–1885
BIRTH 17 FEB 1885 • Santa Barbara, São Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 17 FEB 1885 • Santa Barbara, São Paulo, Brazil
Died young
2.
Elizabeth Bookwalter
1886–1940
BIRTH 12 AUG 1886 • Santa Barbara, São Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 4 MAY 1940 • São Paulo, Brazil
Married: Jun 1906 • Sao Paulo, Brazil
Charlie Sylvester Vaughan
1887–1949
BIRTH 12 OCTOBER 1887 • Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 19 MAY 1949 • Sao Paulo, Brazil
Children:
1.
Mary Elizabeth Vaughn
1911–1994
BIRTH 1911 • Brazil
DEATH 18 JAN 1994
2.
Robert Burton Vaughn
1913–
BIRTH 1913 • Brazil
DEATH Unknown
3.
Agnes Vaughan
1918–1965
BIRTH 27 OCT 1918 • Nova Odessa, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 18 SEP 1965 • Sao Paulo, Brazil
4.
Joseph Addison Vaughan
1923–1945
BIRTH 15 DEC 1923 • ,, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 19 JUL 1945 • ,, Sao Paulo, Brazil
3.
James Miller Bookwalter
1888–1906
BIRTH 14 JUNE 1888 • Santa Barbara, São Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 29 MAY 1906 • Villa Americana, São Paulo, Brazil
Died young at age 18
4.
Mary Bookwalter
1889–1973
BIRTH 21 OCTOBER 1889 • Santa Barbara, São Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 12 MARCH 1973 • Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
5.
Margaret Bookwalter
1891–1976
BIRTH 22 AUGUST 1891 • Santa Barbara, São Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 23 OCTOBER 1976 • Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Married: 1921 • Brazil
Belton Carr
1895–1976
BIRTH 9 JUL 1895
DEATH 24 JAN 1976 • Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Son of James Edward Carr and Leila Brodnax
Children:
1.
Rosa Lee Carr
1927–1987
BIRTH 17 DEC 1927 • Pinhalzinho, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 1987 • Santa Bárbara d'Oeste, São Paulo, Brazil
Married:
José Costa Conti
1925–1997
BIRTH 5 MAY 1925 • Americana, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 1997 • Americana, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Son of Italian Pietro Renier Conti and Clarice Costa
2.
Arthur Belton Carr
1931–1931
BIRTH 1931 • Santa Barbara d'Oeste, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 1931 • Brazil
Died young
3.
Edward King Carr
6.
Katharine Bookwalter
1892–1983
BIRTH 27 NOV 1892 • Santa Bárbara d'Oeste, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 18 NOV 1983 • Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Married: 24 Dec 1924 • Brazil
John Henry Wheelock
1898–1961
BIRTH 21 JAN 1898 • Colfax, Iowa, USA
DEATH 5 MAR 1961 • Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Son of Mortimer Brigham Wheelock and Annie Annabelle Mannington
Children:
1.
Leroy King Wheelock
1925–
BIRTH 22 NOV 1925 • Lavras Minas, Minas Geraes Brasil
DEATH Unknown
Married:
Patricia Ann Jacovina
1933–1988
BIRTH 17 JUL 1933 • New York, United States
DEATH 26 DEC 1988 • Cherry Hill Township, Camden,
New Jersey, USA
Daughter of Rocco Anthony Jacovina and .Elizabeth M Miller
Children:
1
Bryan King Wheelock
1958–
BIRTH 1 SEP 1958 • New York City, New York, USA
2.
Dyanne Wheelock
1960–
BIRTH 26 OCT 1960
Married:
Thomas B Bunnell
2.
John Manington Wheelock
1929–
BIRTH 29 OCT 1929 • Lavras, Minas Geraes, Brazil
7.
Florence Bookwalter
1894–1981
BIRTH 22 SEP 1894 • Santa Bárbara d'Oeste, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 13 NOV 1981 • São Paulo, Brazil
Married: 1918
Robert Emory Pyles
1889–1981
BIRTH 18 SEP 1889 • Santa Bárbara d'Oeste, São Paulo, Brasil
DEATH 5 FEB 1981 • Santa Bárbara d'Oeste, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Son of Ezequiell Belton Pyles and Flemin Margaret McKnight
8.
Leroy King Bookwalter Jr
1896–1961
BIRTH 25 NOV 1896 • Santa Bárbara d'Oeste, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 13 MAR 1961 • Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
7.
William Baskin Miller
1859–1913
BIRTH 21 JUN 1859 • Chester County, South Carolina, USA
DEATH 4 MAR 1913 • Santa Barbara d'Oeste, Sao Paulo, Brazil
8.
Ersoula Miller
1861–
BIRTH ABT 1861 • Chester County, South Carolina, USA
DEATH Unknown
9.
John Thomas Miller
1861–1887
BIRTH 1 MAY 1861 • Chester County, South Carolina, USA
DEATH 28 JUL 1887 • Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Died young
10.
Jefferson Miller
1864–
BIRTH ABT 1864 • South Carolina
DEATH Unknown
11.
Eugenia Margaret Miller
1864–1951
BIRTH 12 JUN 1864 • Chester County, South Carolina
DEATH 23 JUL 1951 • Rock Hill, York, South Carolina, USA
Married: 30 Mar 1892 • Charlotte, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, USA
Joseph Sidney Drakeford
1870–1938
BIRTH 31 AUG 1870 • Kershaw County, South Carolina, USA
DEATH 2 AUG 1938 • York County, South Carolina, USA
Son of Capt. Joseph James Drakeford and Laura Jane Haile
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Margaret Eugenia Miller (dau. of Sarah Boyd Magill and James Williamson Miller), b. 12 June 1864, Chester Co., S.C.; d. 23 July 1951, Rock Hill, S.C.; was educated at International College of Brazil and Collegio Paulistano, Sao Paulo, Brazil, where she later served as an English teacher. While she was in the U.S. on a visit to her relatives here, she was married on 30 March 1892 (at the home of her uncle, Thomas Rodgers Magill, Charlotte, N.C.) to Joseph Sidney Drakeford, b. 31 Aug. 1870, Kershaw Co., S.C.; d. 2 Aug. 1938, Fort Mill (?), S.C. owner and editor many years of The Yorkville, S.C. Yeoman; the son of Capt. Joseph James Drakeford, 1833-1883 and Laura Jane Haile.
Courtesy of Descendants of James Boyd Magill, 1799-1880 page 36
Children:
1.
James Miller Drakeford
1893–1968
BIRTH 28 JAN 1893 • Charlotte, Mecklenburg,
North Carolina, USA
DEATH 23 OCT 1968 • Toledo, Cumberland,
Illinois, USA
Married: 1922 • Bloomington, Wayne,
Ohio, USA
Cecile Marie Yanaway
1895–1969
BIRTH 29 JUL 1895 • Toledo, Lucas,
Ohio, USA
DEATH 20 JAN 1969 • Toledo, Cumberland,
Illinois, USA
Daughter of William J. Yanaway and Gertrude Snyder
Children:
1.
Charlotte Louise Drakeford
1926–2000
BIRTH 10 FEB 1926 • Toledo, Cumberland, Illinois, USA
DEATH 13 DEC 2000 • Cumberland County, Illinois, USA
Married: 21 Aug 1946 • Wood County, Ohio, USA
Berlin Leroy Neese
1924–1971
BIRTH 27 MAY 1924 • Greenup, Cumberland, Illinois, USA
DEATH 4 JAN 1971 • Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, USA
Son of August Riley "Gus" Neese and Syble Josephine Brockett
Married:
Harold Lewis Delp
1927–1997
BIRTH 3 OCT 1927 • Casey Clark, Illinois
DEATH 3 SEP 1997
Journal Gazette Mattoon, Illinois 15 Dec 2000, Fri • Page 8
2.
Dorothy Marie Drakeford
1932–
BIRTH 25 AUG 1932
Married: 30 Jun 1957 • Toledo,
Cumberland, Illinois, USA
Jack Norwood Vick
1932–2004
BIRTH 3 AUG 1932 • Harvard,
McHenry, Illinois, USA
DEATH 16 MAR 2004 • McHenry,
McHenry, Illinois, USA
Son of George Norwood Fredrick Vick
and Evelyn Horn
2.
Mary Jo Drakeford
1895–1964
BIRTH 4 FEB 1895 • York County, South Carolina, USA
DEATH 6 MAR 1964 • Charlotte, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, USA
Retired school teacher
No record of marriage
3.
William White Drakeford
1898–1955
BIRTH 6 SEP 1898 • York County, South Carolina, USA
DEATH 28 NOV 1955 • Durham, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Married: 20 May 1933 • Johnston County, North Carolina, USA
Ruby Leigh Markham
1892–2004
BIRTH 25 JAN 1892 • Durham, Durham, North Carolina, USA
DEATH 29 DEC 2004 • Burnsville, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Daughter of James William Markham and Anna Rebecca Leigh
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Considered North Carolina's oldest resident at the time of her death.
Mrs. Drakeford was a retired schoolteacher and the 10th oldest per-
son in the world. The oldest of six children of James William Markham
and Ianna Rebecca Leigh Markham graduated from Trinity College,
now Duke University, in 1912, the year the Titanic hit an iceberg and
sank. She was just shy of her 12th birthday when the Wright Brothers
flew. According to the Gerontology Research Group at the University of
California at Los Angeles, she was the fourth-oldest documented Ame-
rican and 10th-oldest documented person in the world. The group
said Mrs. Drakeford's age was listed as 8 in the 1900 U.S. Census. She
taught in Mount Olive near Goldsboro and at an elementary school in
Durham until her retirement in 1957. She was a fan of desserts, Western
novels, and The New York Times crossword puzzle.
Above everything else she was truly a lady in every respect. Her husband, William White Drakeford, died in November 1956. Mrs. Drakeford had no children. At 106 she was still able to write letters to her sister, Katharine Markham Johnson of Fuquay-Varina. Mrs. Johnson died in 2002 at the age of 94.
Mrs. Drakeford enjoyed watching the TV game show Jeopardy! at a care home, she lived since 1991. She taught in Mount Olive near Goldsboro for one year before returning to her hometown to teach at Edgemont Elementary School until her retirement in 1957. When Drakeford retired, she spent most of her time at home reading books, playing cards, solving puzzles, and watching television. She enjoyed company, but she never minded being by herself. She always had her readings and puzzles to entertain herself. She was taken to Hillcrest Convalescent Center in 1991 after she was injured in a fall in the backyard of her Durham home. Her doctor said Drakeford died of advanced age and was developing pneumonia. Another likely contributing factor to Drakeford's longevity was that she did not have children.
4.
John Sanders Drakeford
1899–1900
BIRTH JUN 1899 • York County, South Carolina, USA
DEATH AUG 1900 • York County, South Carolina, USA
Died young
5.
Margaret Eugenia Drakeford
1901–1971
BIRTH 16 OCT 1901 • York County,
South Carolina, USA
DEATH 24 SEP 1971 • Fort Mill, York,
South Carolina, USA
