Dennis,
It's the gedcom file itself (created in 2001) that I'm examining. The section
I'm examining has 259 lines of CONC and CONT, making up the notes for this
person.
I'm inserting the actual gedcom record for the person (James Rufus Wilks) below.
Ed
0 @I3738@ INDI
1 NAME James* Rufus /Wilks/
2 GIVN James* Rufus
2 SURN Wilks
1 SEX M
1 NOTE M: Oddie Elizabeth Day - he was of English descent. Death certificate
2 CONC says - he fell and broke a hip - had uremia (1 week) - hemiplegia (4
2 CONC yrs) - hypertension (10 years) - said he lived 13 days after fracture
2 CONC - says father is William & mother is Ann - info given by John Lewis.
2 CONC Hemiplegia is a stroke. I don't think it had been four years since he
2 CONC had a stroke.
2 CONT They had moved to Aunt Dollie's farm in Iowa after they could no
2 CONC longer stay on the farm. Aunt Dollie was picked because it was closer
2 CONC to what they knew, of course, Oddie was paralyzed with a stroke-since
2 CONC Dec.1947
2 CONT Rufus came to Missouri in the early 1890s, to St. Louis. I guess he
2 CONC was 19. Lowell said he and Marcus were 16. They had no family in
2 CONC Missouri. His brother John came between 1896 and 1899. Rufus settled
2 CONC near Williamsburg and married Oddie at her Aunt Mag Stringer's home,
2 CONC south of Auxvasse, by E.J.Sanderson, Baptist Minister. Rufus lived
2 CONC with an older sister, Aunt Bid (Missouri Evelyn), who had a son named
2 CONC Marcus Wilks, about Rufus' age, after the death of his mother. She
2 CONC must have lived till after 1882, because I have a picture taken then
2 CONC at John's wedding. His father died when Rufus was young. In Virginia,
2 CONC Rufus worked for a man named John Cardwell Ferguson, merchant who was
2 CONC the father of Mrs. T. C. (Annie) Newbill who my children and I visited
2 CONC in 1970 when we were looking for the cabin at Taylor's Store, Franklin
2 CONC County, VA.The cabin was gone, but Annie thought she remembered a
2 CONC young Rufus. Miss Annie was white-haired, in her 80s. Rufus' sister,
2 CONC Missouri Evelyn married a Henry Ferguson. Probably there was a
2 CONC relationship. Taylor's Store was SE of Roanoke, near Rocky Mount and a
2 CONC little town of Wirtz. Booker T. Washington's birthplace is near there
2 CONC also - Burnt Chimney and Boone's Mill. Go out Hiway 220 - Burnt
2 CONC Chimney is closer to home than Taylor's store, which burnt. When we
2 CONC were there, all that was there was an auto garage and a few houses,
2 CONC including Miss Annie's bungalow with oriental carpets and chandeliers.
2 CONC I don't think it is on the map anymore. Rufus lived in Callaway County
2 CONC until 1949, when his health failed. Rufus sold at auction, Fri. Feb,
2 CONC 10, 1950:100 acre farm and Chevrolet Touring car and six rooms of
2 CONC furniture. Rufus could do just about anything in wood: baskets, barn,
2 CONC chairbottoms. When Rufus' children were young they took turns going to
2 CONC town, which Rufus did once a month. Not everyone could go every month,
2 CONC just one at a time, therefore each got to once a year, with 12
2 CONC children. Of course, the older ones were gone by the time the younger
2 CONC ones came up. Lowell told me that story. Lowell used to think that
2 CONC they were poor, but when everyone else was bad off, Rufus still had
2 CONC something. Uncle John, Rufus' brother, never had anything, tho' some
2 CONC of his children went to college. Rufus was shot by a ricocheting
2 CONT bullet ca. 1917 - 1920. They operated on him on the dining-room table,
2 CONC but the doctor said it was too close to the spine to take out, so he
2 CONC took it to his grave. Truman Brown was the one who shot the gun, he
2 CONC was so sorry, he came and nursed Rufus for quite some time. The Browns
2 CONC lived down the road and Truman came to the reunions pretty regularly.
2 CONC He and his brother developed a furnace to put in trailer houses or
2 CONC motels and made a lot of money. Truman was the age of the Wilks
2 CONC children. Rufus' first car was a 1918 Chevy - had it two or three
2 CONC years. Then in the early 20s had a touring car - must be the one in
2 CONC the garage that sold in the sale - 1950. Related by Lowell: Neighbors
2 CONC on the road south and north of Rufus' house (beginning from the
2 CONC hiway): Sam Scott, a colored fellow, nice fellow, after the Book's
2 CONC house.The Books house was in the sharp curve ( curves to the east) -
2 CONC then Hubert Holly - Scott School - (they rerouted the road. It doesn't
2 CONC go directly in front anymore) I think they made it a residence. Then
2 CONC the Dawsons and then Hunts. North from Rufus' house: Shoab (Schobe) -
2 CONC Rand - Elmer Shelton - the Kings (Viola was killed at the hiway (the
2 CONC slab) in a car wreck. Rufus farmed and rented some land farther north
2 CONC of his place. He had about 100 to 200 acres of his own.
2 CONT ===============================
2 CONT Sale Bill:
2 CONT Thursday March 4, 1948, beginning at 12:30 P. M. Public Sale - at
2 CONC auction - 4 miles southwest of Bachelor, and 8 miles southest of
2 CONC Auxvasse, 2 miles north of Highway 40 (now Interstate 70): Livestock:7
2 CONC head of good cows, 3 to 7 years old; 2 black bull calves;
2 CONT 2 black heifer calves; 6 head of black and 1 roan steer calves & 1
2 CONC good horse mule.
2 CONT Farm Machinery:1 high wagon with box; 1 John Deere 6-foot grain
2 CONC binder; 1 McCormick corn binder; 1 corn planter with fertilizer
2 CONC attachment; 1 one-horse corn planter; 1 good 12-inch gang plow; 1
2 CONC 16-inch Janesville sulky plow; 1 14-inch Janesville sulky plow; 1
2 CONT 10-foot smoothing harrow; 1 6-shovel Oliver cultivator; 1 drag harrow;
2 CONC 1 A-harrow; 1 16-inch John Deere breaking plow; 1 16-inch Case
2 CONC breaking plow; 1 14-inch Bradley breaking plow; 2 New Departure
2 CONC cultivators; 1 endgate seeder; 1 corn sheller; 1 600-lb. platform
2 CONC scale; 1 14-inch disc harrow; 2 Janesville disc cultivators; 1 anvil;
2 CONC 1 forge; a lot of tongs; a few carpenter tools; one boring machine; 1
2 CONC set of chain harness; 1 set of tug harness; some horse collars.
2 CONC Feed:about 100 bushels of good corn; 1 stack of lespedeza hay; 1 stack
2 CONC of timothy and clover hay, and other things too numerous to mention.
2 CONT Rufus Wilks
2 CONT =============================
2 CONT They must have quit farming and sold all that after Oddie had her
2 CONC stoke and Rufus' health was not good. There was an old black Victrola,
2 CONC an oak Murphy bed with an oval mirror
2 CONT in the front, fine looking that I think Mother said had come from S.
2 CONC P. Day's things. There was an old settee, I think Mother said it was
2 CONC horsehair, and uncomfortable, in the parlor with the Murphy bed. There
2 CONC was another Murphy bed upstairs in the boys' room, the north bedroom.
2 CONC It was plain. There were two other beds in that room, plus a table,
2 CONC kerosene lamps, an oval shaped flat-topped wood stove. In the summer
2 CONC of 1948, my father, Paul Sherman, and Uncle Merle Bost wired the house
2 CONC for electricity, putting bare bulbs in the ceilings. There was a
2 CONC string from it to the bedstead to turn the light on. There were no
2 CONT closets but a built - in cabinet type thing for clothes. There was a
2 CONC wooden clock on the mantel in Rufus and Oddie's bedroom, which doubled
2 CONC as a living room, especially in the winter, so you didn't have to make
2 CONC a fire in the parlor. Rufus had a chair, like I have never seen except
2 CONC as a beach chair. It was leather or something - black. It had a rod
2 CONC that was moveable in the back. You inserted it in holes along the
2 CONC frame, to raise or lower the back of the chair. His spittoon sat
2 CONC beside the chair. His razor strop hung on the wall. He always shaved
2 CONC with a straight razor. The last person I knew of to own the homeplace
2 CONC was James Stark, Williamsburg
2 CONT ===================================
2 CONT 1965 - Wilks Family Reunion at Auxvasse
2 CONT The annual Wilks reunion was held Sunday at the club house south of
2 CONC Auxvasse. The day was spent visiting, reminiscing and picture taking.
2 CONC It was decided to meet again May 29, 1966. The following were present:
2 CONC Mr. and Mrs. John Lewis and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Lewis and Jesse,
2 CONC Oskaloosa, Iowa, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sherman, Mr and Mrs. Bill Wilkes,
2 CONC Cindy, Connie and Clay, Springdale, Ark.; Mr and Mrs David Herring,
2 CONC John and Mary Jo, Robinson, Ill.; Mr.and Mrs. Rex Carrington and Lisa
2 CONC Ann, Montgomery City; Mr. and Mrs. James Dryden and Jimmy, Mr and Mrs
2 CONC Donald Dryden, Bonnie and Donnie of Chicago,
2 CONT Ill.; Mrs. Juanita Cuno, Glenda and Sandra, Mr. and Mrs. Truman Brown,
2 CONC Mrs. Frank Gebart and Larry Dryden, St. Louis; Ira D. (Judge) Wilks,
2 CONC Mrs. Blanche Kennedy of East St. Louis Ill.; Mrs. Iona Wilkes, Tipton;
2 CONC Mr and Mrs Glenn Maxwell and Mr and Mrs John Barnes of Mexico; Mr and
2 CONC Mrs C.D. Carrington and Glen Maupin of Fulton; Mrs. Ada McGuire, Oscar
2 CONC Wilkes, Mr and Mrs Homer Owen, Mrs. Minnie Miller, Billy Nole, Vicki
2 CONC Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. J.D. Trammell, Diana Kaye and Jana Raye, and Mr.
2 CONC and Mrs. Leo Wilks all of Auxvasse.
2 CONT 1919 - Found a plat -Rufus had about 120 acres- Township 48 north
2 CONC Range 8 West-Sec.3 -Callaway Co, MO - Leo is next door on the 1897
2 CONC plat- the land is listed as the Callaway P.O. on land that belongs to
2 CONC S.P. Gilbert. Probably Rufus bought it from him. There is
2 CONT no residence listed on the plat except one back where Mumford's is.
2 CONC Probably that is the one. How did Rufus get the money to buy?
2 CONT 1920 census Callaway County MO -
2 CONT Rufus J. Wilks - W-422; M-1571; Roll 258 - Vol. 16 or 1b - ED 26 -
2 CONC sheet 8 - Line 43
2 CONT Found a record that says that the Callaway Post Office was run from
2 CONC 1894- 1906
2 CONT The Bachelor P.O. from 1875-1959.
2 CONT 1884 -Bachelor P.O. Jackson Twp. seventeen miles from Fulton, on
2 CONC Chicago & Alton R.R. - mail semi wkly - John W. English is postmaster
2 CONT There was a Post Office at Taylor's Store, Franklin County, Va started
2 CONC - Mar 18 1818. The postmaster was Sparrel Hale. The post office was
2 CONC still operating when the book was printed. which see
2 CONT -------------------------------------
2 CONT Rufus brought some things with him from VA. He brought a quilt that is
2 CONC long gone. He brought the picture frames that I have. He brought
2 CONC knowledge of how to do just about anything to make a home and his way
2 CONC in life. He brought the knowledge of how to do the "jig" [dance] He
2 CONC also brought the expression "hit" for the word "it".
2 CONT ----------------------------------------------------------------------
2 CONC ----------------
2 CONT I have notes that I wrote - don't know when nor from where I got the
2 CONC info but think it is a transcription from an audio tape made at a
2 CONC reunion [probably late 1980s], listening to John Wilkes' daughters:
2 CONT John & Rufus Wilks' parents died when Rufus was 2 and one when he was
2 CONC 10. Your dad's mother [speaking to Marcus' son] was Dad's oldest
2 CONC sister and she raised him. Marcus and Rufus grew up as brothers. The
2 CONC mountain air was so clear that they could holler back to each other.
2 CONC They were 16 when they came to Missouri - both the same age. Marcus
2 CONC stopped in Illinois and Rufus to St. Louis. Marcus saved some money
2 CONC and went back to Virginia but not for long. and they all ended up
2 CONC here. [Callaway County, MO] Marcus worked in St. Louis some until a
2 CONC doctor told him he had to get out of there. Maybe he was there part
2 CONC of the time Rufus was. worked in -- or silver foundry down on the
2 CONC river. Rufus and Marcus worked for Berthen{?} Bridge and Iron
2 CONC Foundry. Rufus, Marcus and Aunt Ollie [sister] moved in a place for
2 CONC themselves. Ollie kept house. Aunt Bid [Marcus' mother, Missouri
2 CONC Evelyn] had made the boys a wool counterpane [beautiful piece of work
2 CONC - Lowell says] Aunt Bidhad carded, spun and woven the wool. Lowell
2 CONC still has Rufus' counterpane. [I have never seen this - Pat
2 CONC McAlister]. Marcus didn't get his - his daughter says - says he never
2 CONC got over not getting it. Lowell says he must have lost it but daughter
2 CONC says no. She [daughter] says she thought that was why he didn't go
2 CONC back to Virginia. He was hurt when he didn't get it. Rufus worked for
2 CONC John Harrison in Callaway County east of town [Auxvasse or Mexico-
2 CONC Don't think Mexico is in Callaway County.-PM] Rufus and Marcus sent
2 CONC back to Virginia and got a five gallon keg of brandy one time. They
2 CONC split it up. Each gave 1/2 gallon to their bosses. Aunt Bid and boys
2 CONC lived in Roanoke VA. Cousin Patty [Ferguson] took us out to where the
2 CONC farm had been and I've heard my dad tell about the fun they used to
2 CONC have in pear trees when they were little kids. Two great big pear
2 CONC trees still stand - big as an oak tree. On the map find Burnt Chimney
2 CONC - country store there that Pete McGuire's sister used to run. and when
2 CONC Lowell first started going back there she was still living. Her son
2 CONC still runs it. Mary -- McGuire opened it originally. Pete McGuire
2 CONC came out here and married Ada Bell Wilkes and Rufus said one time
2 CONC Patty was kind of sweet on Pete or vice versa. Then Joe Penn [J.P.
2 CONC Ferguson] That's the Perkin ? boy that lived at Roanoke's boy. Joe
2 CONC Penn married a widow lady with one girl and Joe Penn [Ferguson] raised
2 CONC her. She to this day thinks there is no one like him and he lived
2 CONC with them till he died. She's still living - but her husband passed
2 CONC away. We see her when we go back there. Swell gal. She asks - heard
2 CONC of Ferrum, south of Roanoke and Dale's Ford - crossing where Rufus was
2 CONC living in Virginia. [Lowell says he has not heard of them]. When the
2 CONC water was high they used stilts to walk across. When Lowell was there
2 CONC the first time Patty [Ferguson] took them out there to the creek
2 CONC [little old [ ?] - no bridge - said he heard talk of when they wanted
2 CONC to cross they would holler and someone with a mule would come to carry
2 CONC them across.
2 CONT Burnt Chimney is closest to where they lived [I thought it was
2 CONC Taylor's Store - PM]. Taylor's Store burned down. We found where it
2 CONC was. Lowell looked around in March but didn't find it. There wasa
2 CONC little church 1/2 mile from where it was. Looked at all the churches.
2 CONC Practically all the people her where we lived [Callaway Co, MO] had
2 CONC migrated here from Virginia or to Kentucky and then to Missouri [found
2 CONC that on the censuses-PM]. Went through the cemetery - names of
2 CONC families for practically every neighbor we had. [MO or VA? - PM]
2 CONC Dudeys and Fergusons - See all the names you'd think you were ar
2 CONC Harmony church [ Auxvasse, MO] One thing I remember was a very little
2 CONC boy [Lowell is talking] Russ [Marcus' boy] and then - was big enough
2 CONC to be smoking cigarettes. course if we kids would have touched tobacco
2 CONC in any way, shape or form - we'd a got our fannies beat off. At any
2 CONC rate Rufus made some remark to Marcus about kids smoking and Marcus
2 CONC said - well - tell you Rufus - I've always advised them against it but
2 CONC never felt like I could tell them they couldn't do something I did
2 CONC right in front of them. {I guess I had the story wrong - I thought it
2 CONC was Rufus that said that-PM]. Marcus' son said that Marcus really
2 CONC hated to know that his boys were smoking. He never said much. They
2 CONC sneaked around at first. Don't see much tobacco in Virginia. They
2 CONC still raise it with a double shovel and a mule like they did one
2 CONC hundred years ago. [They plant in small patches -PM] In Vermont and
2 CONC Connecticutt you see fields. and lots in Canada.They went to Montreal
2 CONC to the fair and saw the fields Rufus and Marcus worked in the tobacco
2 CONC barn as children - kept the fires going at night. Rufus and Marcus
2 CONC raised a little in Missouri. They would pick the worms and suckers off
2 CONC them. The last crop Marcus raised was in 1944. Rufus and Marcus knew
2 CONC how to most anything as children. Rufus could make oak strips -
2 CONC baskets - make hickory barked chair bottoms [I have one of these
2 CONC chairs - PM] Marcus didn't do that. Rufus could do about anything in
2 CONC the way of woodwork. He built the house and barn [1910] Rufus cut the
2 CONC timber on the farm - sawed the wood with their own sawmill. [This
2 CONC could be as simple as a saw with a roof over it.-PM ] They didn't
2 CONC have much formal education but sure had otherwise. Lowell said - used
2 CONC to think we were the poorest kids in the country because the neighbors
2 CONC would have bicycles. We didn't have anything like that. Neighbor kids
2 CONC got to go to town. At our house we took turns. Maybe one child would
2 CONC get to go once a month so that meant each one would go once a year.
2 CONC Lowell used to think those kids were sure lucky, but, you know - when
2 CONC times really got hard my dad was the only one down there that still
2 CONC had a farm. Also, Marcus and Uncle John's kids always felt they were
2 CONC so much better than we were. [Marcus' daughter said maybe it's a good
2 CONC thing they thought it - that's a mean thing to say] Lowell said - I've
2 CONC always wondered why, cause Pet [Ollie Elizabeth] and Tick [probably
2 CONC Oscar, Pet's brother] were both practically mental retards and John
2 CONC never owned anything in his life. They did go to college a semester.
2 CONC I've always figured that must have been it. Jesse and Ada were not
2 CONC that way.
2 CONT End of transcription. Part of what Lowell said might have been later.
2 CONC I taped some as we were riding around the countryside - to the farm.
2 CONT ----------------------------------------------
2 CONT Rufus' horse's name was Tom and the mule was Trouble, which is what
2 CONC Rufus called Opal Jean.
2 CONT ----------------------------
2 CONT I remember My father and Uncle Merle working on wiring Rufus' house
2 CONC for electricity, 1948. Jean Ann remembers her father doing that and
2 CONC Opal says that Uncle Judge helped with that. Must have been a big job.
2 CONC
2 CONT
2 CONT
1 BIRT
2 DATE 30 MAY 1871
2 PLAC Taylor's Store, Franklin Co, VA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 23 OCT 1951
2 PLAC Grinnell, Poweshiek Co, IA
(The record continues with photo album stuff which looks okay)
This is the end of the note, after importing the above:
2 CONC - Mar 18 1818. The postmaster was Sparrel Hale. The post office was
2 CONC still operating when the book was printed. which see
(with the '2 CONC' tags removed, of course)
Ed
> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 12:01:49 US/Central, Ed Barnard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Has anyone seen a problem where not all of the notes get imported when
> reading a
> >gedcom file?
>
> Also, you should take a look at the GEDCOM file to see if it contains
all> the
> notes. It could be an export problem on the sender's end.
>
> --
>
> Dennis M. Kowallek
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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