Randolph County, Missouri Genealogy Trails

Randolph County, Missouri Genealogy Trails

Obituaries

Name of Deceased: Mrs. Isabel Durnil
Newspaper: The Columbia Tribune
Date: Mar. 22, 1967

Obit: Mrs. Isabel Durnil, 87, of Moberly, mother of Mrs. Willie Bell Benner of 418 E. Broadway, died at 1:30 a.m. Tuesday at Maplelawn Lodge in Moberly. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Carter Funeral Home in Moberly. Burial will be in the Moberly City Cemetery.

Date: 1921-07-01; Paper: Kansas City Star
Lived a "Hermit" 90 Years "Aunt Betty" Elliott Died without Ever Having Ridden on Train (News Article)

Lived On Homestead Established by Parents, Randolph County, Mo. Pioneers
She Had Lived Simple Life. Although Possessed of Riches

Macon, Mo.July 1.—Ninety years In the back country of Missouri, without ever having ridden on a railroad train or visited a town larger than Moberly, Huntsville or Macon, was the record of "Aunt Betty" Elliott, whose death occurred Thursday at the home of her sister, Mrs, S. P. Rice, six miles west of Jacksonville.
Miss Elliott was one of a very interesting trio, the other two being her brothers Perry and Jordan Elliott, who died a few years ago. All their lives they had lived upon the land which was taken up by their father, William Elliott, when he came from Kentucky to Northern Missouri in 1816, After the death of their parents and the marriage of the younger children, Miss Elliott and her two brothers lived on the old homestead, carrying on their farming operations and duties about the house in the same primitive manner as was conducted by their parents in the pioneer days.

Had One Ride In A Motor Car
Miss Elliott once enjoyed the experience of riding In a motor car. She said she got as far as College Mound when something about it went dead and they had to hitch on a couple of mules to haul them back home. She never cared much for motor cars since then.
The Elliott brothers developed the estate until it comprised about two thousand acres and, although in the heart of the very richest growing section of Missouri, much of it was rough pasture land. For a great many years the farm was Inclosed with rail fences, which as time went by sank far into the ground.
The fencing around this farm marks almost the last or the old rail fences in Northern Missouri.
None of the three had found time In their busy lives to go to school, but they knew the value of stock and grain, and were as shrewd in their deals as any-body.
Underneath a large part of their land are valuable beds of coal.
Fight shy of doctors and medicine
Have something to interest you and keep going.
Learn to go to sleep easily and don't borrow trouble.
Get out In the air and raise turkeys, ducks and chickens.
Eat hearty and go to bed early."
Such was the rule of "Aunt Betty" Elliott, the last of the Elliott trio of Randolph County. Missouri who died Thursday on the farm an which she was born.
Like a hermit. Aunt Betty lived more than nine decades, helped amass a fortune, the extent of which she never really knew. and died without ever going farther from her home than Macon, Scorned Luxury for Simple Life Fourteen years ago a staff correspondent for The Star visited the Elliott trio and spent a day with" the children of nature" who scorned luxuries to live the simple life of their parents, pioneers of Missouri There the correspondent found a leaky house, built by their parents; a well, which was started the year after the Civil War and never had been completed, and three "children." all more than 70, who never had had time to even think about marriage. The only thing modern on the farm was a nice looking range in the kitchen which
the "boys" had purchased for "Aunt Betty."
Friends? Why "Aunt Hetty" had thousands of them, it seemed. She tossed a few handfuls of corn on the bed of wood chips, which served as a roadway up to the house. Flocks of fowls, turkeys, ducks and chickens immediately clustered about her. "Here are my friends, and you see why I never get lonesome," she told the correspondent Their Rules For Life
And It was an extremely happy family. Late In the evening the two "boys" returned to the house.
All talked in gentle, quiet tones. In brief they outlined their lives as follows:
Never to old to work.
Never had a quarrel with anybody.
Never swapped a horse.
Never owned a dog.
Never used tobacco in any form.
Never belonged to a church, but believed in God.
Never were in a law suit
Never knew the extent of their wealth
Kept their accounts with pins on shingles.
What was good enough for their fore-fathers was good enough for them.
Submitted by Barb Z. -2009

Name of Deceased: Marvin Hudson
County Name: Randolph
State: Mo
Newspaper: Moberly Moniter Index
Date: 1962-1966
Submitters Name: Terry

Obit: Anything about marvin Hudson

Name of Deceased: Millard Turner Johnson
Newspaper: The Moberly Monitor-Index Democrat
Date: Nov. 4, 1979
Submitters Name: Robert King

Obit: Millard Turner Johnson, 74, Moberly, died at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Moberly Regional Medical Center - North. He had been in the hospital about two weeks. He was born July 20, 1905, at Centralia, son of Charles R. and Harriett Allen Johnson. He had lived here the past eight years after moving from Centralia. He was a truck driver for the postal service. Mr. Johnson belonged to the Grace Baptist Church. Surviving are his wife, Nadine of the home; two daughters, Mrs. Rena M. Bird and Mrs. Sue Jilliff, both of Moberly; two sons, Linwood Johnson, St. Joseph and Robert Johnson, Oliveherst, Calif.; four brothers, Milton Johnson, Blue Springs; Finley Johnson, state of California; and David Lee Johnson and Charles Johnson Jr., addresses unknown; 10 grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. Services will be at 1 p.m. Monday at the Million-Taylor Chapel, Moberly, with Rev. Jim McElyea, pastor of Grace Baptist. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens at Marshall. Visitation will begin at 4 p.m. today.

Name of Deceased: Betty Ann McLone
Newspaper: The Moberly Monitor-Index Democrate
Date: Nov. 4, 1979
Submitters Name: Robert King

Obit: Betty Ann McLone, 52, Kansas City, a former Moberlyan, died Friday night at St. Luke's Hospital at Kansas City, where she had been a patient for two weeks. She had been in failing health for two months. Born Aug. 2, 1927, at Moberly, she was the daughter of James McLone Sr. and Marie Young McLone. She attended parochial elementary school at Moberly, and was a graduate of Moberly High School. While at Moberly, she was a member of St. Pius X Catholic Church. She lived at Kansas City the past 25 years, and was a member of the St. Elizabeth Catholic Church there at the time of her death. She was preceded in death by her father. Survivors include her mother, Mrs. Marie McLone, Kansas City; brother, Jim McLone, Moberly; sister, Miss Clara McLone, Kansas City; and five nieces, including Miss Madeline R. McLone, Moberly. Funeral services for Miss McLone will be conducted at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Elizabeth Catholic Church at Kansas City. Visitation at the Freeman Funeral Home at Kansas City was scheduled today from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., with a Rosary at 7:30 p.m. Following services Monday at Kansas City, the body will be brought to Moberly, for graveside services to be conducted at St. Mary's Cemetery at Moberly at 3:30 p.m. throught arrangements made by the Carter Funeral Home.

Mrs. M. M. Denny
Newspaper: The Glasgow Weekly Times, Thursday
Date: April 2, 1857
Submitters Name: Kathy McDaniel

Obit: --Died. On the 15th, Mrs. M. M. Denny, wife of A. F. Denny, of Huntsville, and
daughter of John A. Pitts, Esq., in the 26th year of her age.

George W. Switzler
Newspaper: The Glasgow Weekly Times, Thursday
Date: August 13, 1857
Submitters Name: Kathy McDaniel

Obit: --Death of Geo. W. Switzler.
The readers of the Statesman, we are sure, will be pained to learn that our beloved brother, George W. Switzler, who during the exciting canvass of the past year assisted us in the editorial conduct of this paper, is no more! He died of consumption in Huntsville, in the county of Randolph, at 4 o’clock p.m. on Saturday last, and his remains were interred in the family graveyard near Franklin, Howard county, on Monday. He was born in Howard county--on the 8th day of January, 1834. At the time of his death, therefore, he was n his twenty-fourth year.--[Statesman.

Rev. Addison M. Lewis
Newspaper: The Glasgow Weekly Times, Thursday
Date: September 3, 1857
Submitters Name: Kathy McDaniel

Obit: --Died. In Huntsville, Randolph county, Mo., on Wednesday, August 26, Rev. Addison M. Lewis, in the 68th year of his age.

Mrs. Elizabeth Grimes
Newspaper: The Glasgow Weekly Times, Thursday
Date: January 8, 1857
Submitters Name: Kathy McDaniel

Obit: --Died. In Randolph county, on the 31st ult., Mrs. Elizabeth, consort of Henry
Grimes, in the 58th year of her age, after a lingerling illness, which was borne with Christian resignation. A large circle of relatives and friends sorrow for her sufferings and death.