George SEARS

Father: George SEARS
Mother: Priscilla SCROGGINS 

                        _James Brock SEARS _
 _George SEARS ________|
|                      |_Jane D WALKER _____
|
|--George SEARS 
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|                       ____________________
|_Priscilla SCROGGINS _|
                       |____________________
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!MARRIAGE: SEARS NOTES; 1782-1890; June Rayfield Welch, Dallas, TX; p 25; copy in poss of Ray Sears, Duncan, OK ;While everyone was excluded from Bates co. He lived in CO.


I24285: George SEARS

George SEARS

Father: James Brock SEARS
Mother: Jane D WALKER

Family 1: Priscilla SCROGGINS
  1. George SEARS
  2. Oscar SEARS 
                      _John SEARS __
 _James Brock SEARS _|
|                    |_Nancy BROCK _
|
|--George SEARS 
|
|                     ______________
|_Jane D WALKER _____|
                     |______________
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!BIRTH-DEATH: SEARS NOTES; 1782-1890; June Rayfield Welch, Dallas, TX; p 21; copy in poss of Ray Sears, Duncan, OK ; Awarded a walking stick at an old settlers reunion for living there longer than anyone else, he arrived in Bates co on 20 Oct 1838. William Crawford gave land for Altona, which was a trading post in 1860. The first business was established by a Scroggins. George Sears owned a drug store[56-Altona Baptist Church Centennial program, 1969] In 180 Deer Creek twp, Bates co, MO census, George, 31, lived with his mother and Elias and was worth $5,000. Hismotehr had $3,000 in personalty. Joined Confederate Army in AR. After the war he lived ten miles from Clinton, MO. hemoved in 1867 to Bates co, where in the 1870 Grand River twp census, George, 37, had $6,400 realty, $1,500 personalty, Priscilla, was 27, born in MO. Elias, 54, was born in KY, and Jame, 75, TN; neither was literate. George stated:[57-Old Settlers' History of Bates co, MO, Amsterdam, MO: Tathwell and Maxey, 1900]. "my parents came from KY to Saline co, MO, in the yearof 1827. I was born in Saline co, 6 Nov 1831. My parents came to Bates co, (then called Vernon co) in the fall of 1838 and settled on the farm known as the Richey farm, one-half mile northeast of where Altona now is. At that time there was not more than five or six families in that settlement. A M Trueman and J Coffman are all the names I can now remember. "My father broke the first prarie that was broke in that settlement in the soring of 1839. In the fall of 1838 he built a double log house of hewn logs and men came from Clinton, Harrisonville and Warrensburg to help raise it. It was a two story and was a fine house in that day and time. "We then had no school house nearer than Clinton, 25 miles away and no churches to attend on Sunday, therefore we usually spent Sunday at some of the many Indian camps on the creek. "About the second year we were ther the county began settling up slowly, and a school house was buuilt about two and a half miles from our house. The first school was a three months term taught by a Mr Knuckles. "Among thos who came about that time were William Swift, Hiram Edwards, Robert Davis, Joe and Oscar Reeder, Dave Newland and Mose Strong. "At that time we went to Lexington to mill; we would take ox teams and wagons and take our corn, deer skins and venison and trade them for groceries. We would sometimes take as much as 100 bushels of corn at a time, and when we got our meal home we would put it in large boxes and put limestone rock in it to keep it from becoming old and musty before it was used. "When I was about ten years old my father sent me to Johnstown (then called Hardscrabble). twelve miles distant, to get Dr Thornton for a neighbor by the name of Johnson, and, as I had never seen a doctor, I wondered all the way down there what a doctor looked like. "We lived in fopur counties - and did not move once - it was first Van Buren, then Cass, then Vernon and now Bates. "At that time this country was full of deer and turkey and some elk. The elk came from the west and went down in Saline co to the salt pond; my father and others would follow and kill them. I have eaten their meat, but never saw one alive. At that time power and lead were so high and hard to get, and turkeys were so plentiful, that we rarely ever shot at a turkey and would not shoot at a deer, except at short range and when sure of a dead shot. "In the winter of 1848-49 the whole face of the earth wascovered with sleet about eighteen inches thick and slick as glass. The whole country was then alive with deer and wolves, and we could go out with sticks and clubs and find them, and the more they were scared the less they could run, and they were at our mercy. "The first morning after the sleet fell I killed seven deer in the forenoon; my father finally made us stop killing deer, but we killed hundreds of wolves with sticks and clubs. "I hunted deer for about thirty years and I believe I have killed 1,000 deer in sight of where Altona now is. "We attended court at harrisonville until the county was changed to Vernon, and then Pappinsville was the county seat. "I do not remember much about the hanging of Nottingham, but I remember I would have gone to see him hanged if it had not been that I had seen a man by the name of Horton hanged at Clinton for wife murder and I did not want to see another. "In 1849 my father owned 1,000 acres of land in and around where Altona now is. He had paid $1.25 per acre for it, and my brother, Frank, who had gone to CA in 1844, and was at Sutter's Fort when gold was first discovered, wrote father not to fool with his land, but to get an outfit and come right on; so father sold his whole tract to Col William Crawford, for $1.61 per acre, and started with two four-mule teams and two ox teams and got as far as Fort Kearney, where he died of cholera. My mother, two sisters and myself came back to where Altona now is, and we lived in that vicinity until Oct 1861. I then went to Hempstead co, AR, and went in the army and stayed all through the war. "On the second day of Mar 1862 I was married to Miss Precila Scroggins. in 1866 I came back to Henry co, about 10 miles from Clinton; in 1867 I bought the Shaw farm on Peter creek, and moved to it, in Bates co. That fall the wolves would comeand kill our pigs and geese and scratch on the door and try to get in. "Flour was then worth $5.00 per 100 pounds, and we had to go to Warrensburg after it; buter was 25 cents per pound; eggs 20 cents per dozen in the summer; hens $4.00 a dozen; calicoes 15 cents per yard; thread 10 cents per spool. "In an early day this country was a perfect paradise, the prairie was one vast flower bed, most beautiful to behold; the woods were full of wild bees and in the later part of the summer we would cut bee trees and get honey for winter use. And as barrels and other vessels were very scarce, we would cut large linn and hackberry trees, split the logs open and hew out huge troughs to store away our honey in. "The people did not possess wealth, but they were healthy, happy and contented. "Of the counties included in General Order No 11, 25 Aug 1863, Bates was the only one netirely depopulated. Not even a military station was reserved there. "As a result of the Ewing order bates co once again became a tarckless wilderness. The population of 6,000 went to 0."


I24927: George Loren SEARS

George Loren SEARS

Father: James Francis SEARS
Mother: Lauretta Florence ALLEN 

                            _Francis Asbury SEARS _
 _James Francis SEARS _____|
|                          |_Martha Susan FISHER __
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|--George Loren SEARS 
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|                           _______________________
|_Lauretta Florence ALLEN _|
                           |_______________________
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!BIRTH-MARRIAGE: SEARS NOTES; 1782-1890; June Rayfield Welch, Dallas, TX; p 28; copy in poss of Ray Sears, Duncan, OK ;


I24299: George Young SEARS

George Young SEARS

Father: James SEARS
Mother: Anna MEEK

Family 1: Jane SEXTON 
                _John Lewis SEARS _
 _James SEARS _|
|              |_Judith ___________
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|--George Young SEARS 
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|               ___________________
|_Anna MEEK ___|
               |___________________
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!BIRTH-DEATH: SEARS NOTES; 1782-1890; June Rayfield Welch, Dallas, TX; p 37; copy in poss of Ray Sears, Duncan, OK ;


I25859: Givie Gracie SEARS

Givie Gracie SEARS

Father: James Harvey SEARS
Mother: Alice Nina SHIPLEY 

                       _William Harvey SEARS _
 _James Harvey SEARS _|
|                     |_Eliza Seralda HELTON _
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|--Givie Gracie SEARS 
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|                      _______________________
|_Alice Nina SHIPLEY _|
                      |_______________________
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!BIRTH-DEATH: Family group sheet from Doris M Sears Swank, Cedar, KS, to Jim McMenamin; 1853-1987; sheet dtd 04 Jan 1981; ; copy in poss of Ray Sears, Duncan, OK; .


I24771: Granville Perry SEARS

Granville Perry SEARS

Father: Franklin SEARS
Mother: Margaret SWIFT 

                   _James Brock SEARS _
 _Franklin SEARS _|
|                 |_Jane D WALKER _____
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|--Granville Perry SEARS 
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|                  ____________________
|_Margaret SWIFT _|
                  |____________________
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!MARRIAGE: SEARS NOTES; 1782-1890; June Rayfield Welch, Dallas, TX; p 18; copy in poss of Ray Sears, Duncan, OK ;m his cousin Mollie.


I24970: Harry SEARS

Harry SEARS

Father: Thomas Morris SEARS
Mother: Sarah Ellen BROTHERS

Family 1: Maude ALLEGRE
  1. Lillie Mildred SEARS
  2. Nelson SEARS 
                         _John SEARS _______________
 _Thomas Morris SEARS __|
|                       |_Mary Elizabeth STANFIELD _
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|--Harry SEARS 
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|                        ___________________________
|_Sarah Ellen BROTHERS _|
                        |___________________________
INDEX

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!BIRTH-MARRIAGE: SEARS NOTES; 1782-1890; June Rayfield Welch, Dallas, TX; p 32; copy in poss of Ray Sears, Duncan, OK ;


I24938: Henry SEARS

Henry SEARS

Father: Thomas William SEARS
Mother: Mary F 

                         _Francis Asbury SEARS _
 _Thomas William SEARS _|
|                       |_Martha Susan FISHER __
|
|--Henry SEARS 
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|                        _______________________
|_Mary F _______________|
                        |_______________________
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!BIRTH: SEARS NOTES; 1782-1890; June Rayfield Welch, Dallas, TX; p 29; copy in poss of Ray Sears, Duncan, OK ;


I24918: Herbert Leslie SEARS

Herbert Leslie SEARS

Father: James Francis SEARS
Mother: Lauretta Florence ALLEN 

                            _Francis Asbury SEARS _
 _James Francis SEARS _____|
|                          |_Martha Susan FISHER __
|
|--Herbert Leslie SEARS 
|
|                           _______________________
|_Lauretta Florence ALLEN _|
                           |_______________________
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!BIRTH-DEATH: SEARS NOTES; 1782-1890; June Rayfield Welch, Dallas, TX; p 27; copy in poss of Ray Sears, Duncan, OK ;d.s.p.


I25460: Icy Lonia "Lona" SEARS

Icy Lonia "Lona" SEARS

Father: James Leander SEARS
Mother: Sarah Elizabeth STEWART 

                            _Simeon SEARS ___________
 _James Leander SEARS _____|
|                          |_Elizara Frances SHARPE _
|
|--Icy Lonia "Lona" SEARS 
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|                           _________________________
|_Sarah Elizabeth STEWART _|
                           |_________________________
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!BIRTH-SPOUSE-DEATH: Letter from James Sears McMenamin, Louisville, CO, to Ray Sears in Duncan, OK; 1783-1987; Letter dtd 26 Aug 1994; ; copy in poss of Ray Sears;