Francis Marion Hornbeck

 Francis Marion Hornbeck born August 6, 1843 in Indiana to Simpson and Martha Hornbeck.  In 1860, his father moved the family to Paradise, Illinois and in the nearby town of Mattoon, IL, Francis enlisted into the military with the 62nd infantry, where he was assigned to guard the new railroad through Cherokee territory at what is now Muskogee, OK. He did not see any combat and mustered out at 22 years old. According to the records, he was 5 ft 8 inches tall, thick curly light brown hair, light complexion, light eye color. 

He married Hannah Johnson July 3, 1866 then had the following children: 

Albert Hornbeck, Simpson Hornbeck, ES Hornbeck, James Francis Hornbeck, Rosa Belle Hornbeck (married James Hoover), Marth Hornbeck (married P. Hubbard) then his wife Hannah died in 1880. 

Francis married my great great grandmother Susan Beales on September 1, 1881 and he was a postmaster at the Lyons, Indiana post office. They had the following children: 

Chester Arthur Hornbeck, Susan Alice Hornbeck (married Benjamin Waddle), Ransom Cornelius Hornbeck, Maggie Hornbeck (married John Clemmons), Alonzo Lee Hornbeck. Susan Beales died in 1889. 

Francis married Mary Lemmon 1899 and had one daughter Naomi Oma Hornbeck. By this time, he was 57 years old.

Francis moved most of his children with him to Poplar Bluff, Missouri and he lived there until he died February 16, 1923. He is buried besides many of his children, as many of the Hornbecks stayed in Poplar Bluff and Saint Louis.

George Washington Turbyfill and Mary Magdalena Bare

 George Washington Turbyfill was born March 30, 1897 on Buck Mountain Road, Cranberry Township, Elk Park, North Carolina and he lived there until he enlisted in the war. When he came home, he had weak lungs from mustard gas. George went back to his home with his parents after the war and appeared on the 1920 census with his parents. 

In 1923, I find him in West Virginia getting married to Mary Magdalena Bare on July 29th. George was working for the Pocahontas Coal Company. The coal company transferred him to Amonate, Virginia. George couldn’t tolerate the work with his weakened lungs from the war, they moved back to Elk Park and bought land on Elk River Road. There, they had more children. 

1. Georgia Turbyfill, September 4, 1923 in Clifftop,West Virginia, died before 1929. 

Georgia is not found on any cemetery records in North Carolina. Based on that, I assume she is buried in Virginia somewhere. In the 1920s, Virginia did not maintain meticulous records of infant burials. 

2. Frankie Carrie Turbyfill, December 1, 1924 in Amonate, Tazewell, Virginia 

Married Junior Hicks April 18, 1942 

3. Juanita Turbyfill, December 26, 1927 in Cranberry, Avery, North Carolina 

Married John Trivette

4. Lloyd Turbyfill, January 31, 1930 Cranberry, Avery, North Carolina 

Married Ramona Wilhelm 

5. Ruth, May 16, 1932 Cranberry, Avery, North Carolina 

Married Ralph Winters 

6. Nicola, 1934 (living, not publishing her full birthdate) Married Harold Pritchard 

7. Elmer Curtis, February 21, 1937 married Shirley Brown

8. Maynard, 1940 (living) 

9. Roma, 1944 Mary, 1944 I believe these are the same person, a baby that died. 

George farmed on Elk River Road from 1926 to 1979 and he sold his farm to Lloyd Meredith. I believe this is when he moved in with his daughter Nicki across the road from the home he raised his children in. His wife Lena divorced him between 1944 and 1946. As far as I know, he never re-married. 

I remember my Papaw George. He had this chihuahua that was very protective of his lap and we grandkids had to compete for his lap with this scary tiny snarly dog named “Tiny”. There was also Cricket and Popeye, but they were friendly and would get down off his lap if I ran up to him, but that one dog, Tiny… watch out, she’ll bite you if you dare even look at Papaw George.  When I was very small, he would come outside and sit and watch us play in the creek along the front yard, but as the years went by, he stayed inside the house more and more. When I was a preteenager, he stayed in the living room the whole time I visited and then when I was about 12, he would be in his bed all day and I remember helping Nicki get him Ensure to drink.  He loved having his back scratched and rubbed and I would trace words on his back as he nodded off. 

He passed away at 95 years old. 

Mary Magdalena Bare was born January 13, 1905 to Frank Bare and Molly Presnell in Elk Park, North Carolina. Her mother taught her all kinds of folk songs and she kept the tradition going to keep the memory of her mother alive for her siblings. Her mother passed away when she was 7. She especially sang with her sister Loyd. 

 When she was 14, she went to work for a family in Washington State and she came back when she was 16 or 17. She then marries George and has the children listed above. 

She was a folk singer and you can listen to her voice at the following link. 

https://youtu.be/5ax1n2ad5lk  and there’s more information about Lena at this link 

https://www.appalachianhistory.net/2020/09/songcatching-bolakins.html

She then divorces George between 1944 and 1946, then Lena marries Robert Edward Brockwell/Branchwell July 9, 1949. They moved to Detroit in 1951 and then Lena returned to Johnson City, Tennessee in 1957. It is unclear if she is divorced. Lena is in the hospital for injuries from a fall in 1966 and is discharged.  In 1967, her husband (or exhusband) Robert passed away and she moved to Indiana. It’s unclear why. Maybe to live with one of her children. 

Lena died May 9, 1968.

Lena

    George

George Washington Turbyfill's time in World War 1

I found this information in the operations notes on Fold3 and looked for his specific troop and found he was mislabeled as Turbywill, if you want to find it yourself. 

So... George was a farmer from the Appalachian Mountains deep in the Smokies, and he joined the Old Hickory Division on July 30,1917 when he was 20. First he was sent to Fort Sevier, in South Carolina on August 11, 1917.  He was in the 30th Division, 117th Infantry, Company E.   He also had to sign an “anti-swearing” paper where he promised not to curse. 

August 11, 1917-September 2, 1917

 George was taught how to make horseshoes and how to change them on a horse. 

George was taught how to use a machine gun. 

George was taught how to breathe wearing a gas mask. 

September 2, 1917-October 30, 1917

George was to demonstrate proficiency in using his rifles and machine guns and maintaining them.
George was to demonstrate the ability to keep the gas mask on at all times. 

George was taught about how to put on all his gear and move around wearing everything. 

George was taught basic engineering for trench warfare. 

October 30, 1917-December 21, 1917 

George was taught how to dig trenches, spot problems and shoring up existing trenches. 

George was taught how to attend to injuries. 

George was taught how to fix his own shoes and every soldier was responsible for cobbling their own shoes. 

January 1918

George is taught some German. 

George is taught how to dig in the icy soil and maintain a trench that has melting ice. 

He continued to improve on his riflemanship. 

February 1918- May 1918

More of the same things listed above. 

May 3, 1918 Boarded a train to Hoboken, New Jersey. 

May 11 1918 Got on Northumberland ship

May 21, 1918 A German U-boat attacked the Northerumberland ship off the coast of Ireland.  Boat didn’t sink and limped on to Liverpool and trains brought the troops to Folkestone on May 24, 1918

June  Calais, France 

No man’s land at the Somme

Assigned to a relatively quiet section of the line initially, the North Carolina men found themselves relegated to menial labor rebuilding collapsed trenches when they moved on July 16 to support two British divisions south of Ypres. The Tar Heels, who had so enthusiastically answered the call to arms when their nation went to war, resented the work. They came to France and Belgium to fight, not dig. They would get their chance before another month passed by.

July training in Belgium 

August 8- Battle of Amiens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Amiens_(1918)

August 11, deloused and bug bath to kill lice and got clean underwear

 Beginning on August 19, 1918, the North Carolina men would lead the way in the attack. These men took their places in front line trenches and stayed there until the attack ended on September 4. 

August 16, Ypres and Voormezeele 

As night fell on August 30, British commanders believed enemy forces were falling back from trench lines opposite the Old Hickory Division. Scouts, sent to confirm that information the next day, found something entirely different.Infantry sent single platoons out into No Man’s Land early the next morning to conduct a reconnaissance towards the village of Voormezeele. In less than 200 meters they began encountering stiff resistance from machineguns and mortars. At least at this point on the line, Ludendorf’s men seemed determined to make a stand.

September 1 captured Voormezeele and Ypres canal

September 20 moved to the Hindenburg line, digging trenches and creating a tunneling camp system

September 25 set up offensive plan 

George got attacked by mustard gas and his mask failed. George had to be carried out on stretcher and he was brought to the field hospital in Paris. 

Meanwhile, his fellow North Carolinians ventured into no-man's-land to run barbed wire and to prepare paths through the wire for the attacking infantry. At 5:50 a.m. on 29 September, the corps attacked. Due to high casualties, barbed wire entanglements, and smoke from shellfire, the advancing lines lost all sense of organization. Despite the confusion and losses, the North Carolinians of Old Hickory broke through the Hindenburg Line by 7:30 a.m. Nauroy, the objective of the attack, was won by midday. The next day, 30 September, the Americans were pulled out of battle and sent to the rear. Old Hickory's attack was a huge success, and the division was later credited as the first to break the Hindenburg Line. The Thirtieth suffered approximately 3,000 casualties, many of them North Carolinians.

George was shipped back in the sick bay of the U.S.S. Maui to Charleston, SC and he recuperated at Fort Sevier. In October, 1918, George participated in the homecoming parade welcoming the troops home in Johnson City, Tennessee.

USS Northumberland

Camp Sevier 

Signia for 30th Division

117th marching to Hidenburg 

117th succumbing to mustard gas

117th Infantry signia 

The ship George was returned to the US on, in their sick bay.

Old Hickory Company

117th Infantry. I'm not sure which one George is.

Sarah Catherine "Kathy" Gabbert

 My great great grandmother Sarah Catherine Gabbert “Kathy” seemed to just pop up in Arkansas out of nowhere. She was born to Dr. William Gabbert and Caroline Humprheys January 1950 in Blandinsville, Illinois. Then there’s no more records of her until she pops up in Arkansas getting married to Frank Ellingwood in 1884 at 34 years old. That’s unusually old for her, but she was the love of Frank’s life. When she passed away in 1900, her husband remained a widower raising their children alone. 

So I looked up Kathy’s siblings trying to find clues of where she was from birth to age 34 and I found nothing! Her brother Benjamin was a doctor and so was her father and grandfather and uncles. Her sisters stayed in Blandinsville their whole lives, but her brother was all over due to him being a doctor and his services in demand. I found no records of Kathy traveling with her brother. But she is mentioned in her sister’s obituary in 1934, so they knew she had passed away in 1900, meaning they maintained contact. 

Her father William Gabbert went to California shortly after she was born and then to New Orleans to help with the yellow fever epidemic but William himself succumbed to yellow fever and died surrounded by strangers in 1853, but the family back home didn’t seem to get word until years later. That might be a clue in itself- maybe her mother remarried and in 1860, her mother is under a different name and the census taker put down her name as that other name.  

Maybe she got sent to be a maid or something and was accidentally counted as a member of their household. I don’t know. That’s the thing about genealogy. Sometimes questions are never answered. It’s like a frustrating puzzle with a missing piece making me unable to finish the puzzle. 

But I know this… she was important. Without her I wouldn’t exist. And she was a devoted mother while she was able to be.

Frank Ellingwood

 Frank was born in Zenas, Indiana to John Ellingwood and Mary Lenover as Benjamin Franklin Ellingwood on October 3, 1857 He went by Frank E Ellingwood most of his life. Sometime around age 10, he and his brother George ran away from home. First they end up in Dearborn, Illinois, where George is getting married. He then is an apprentice farmer for the Miller family in Milford, Missouri. Four years later, he’s in White County, getting married to Kathy Gabbert. He’s always been very kind to the hobos going through White County, so I wonder if he was himself a teenagered hobo, that would explain how he managed to be all over the map in such a short time. I found stories of other ten year olds running away from home and becoming hobos.  

Kathy must have captured his heart and made him want to settle down in Step Rock, Arkansas the rest of his life. When he was 26, he married Kathy Gabbert on March 2, 1884. They bought a farm and settled down. Frank got busy planting acres after acres of strawberries. 

4 years later, Frank and Kathy welcomed their first daughter May Ellingwood on July 3, 1889. The next child, a daughter, Pearlie was born January 1892.  Their third daughter, Daisy, was born November 8, 1896. 

In 1897, a levee broke, flooding his farm and devastating his crops that year and at that time, Kathy was heavily pregnant with their son James Ellingwood, who was born almost exactly a year after Daisy.  Frank worked hard and rebuilt his farm back up, this time adding some livestock for the family only.  In 1900, their last child was born, Franklin “Muggins” Ellingwood on February 24. Kathy didn’t quite recover from that childbirth and died of an infection on April 14. 

Frank Ellingwood was a widowed father from this point on, to May, 11 years old, Pearlie, 8 years old, Daisy, 4 years old, James 3 years old and baby Muggins. Frank was determined to ensure all his children went to school so he rigged up a baby sling behind his plow to keep baby Muggins with him as he worked the fields. His main crop was still strawberries, but also planted cotton. He declined help from neighbors according to the White County newsletter, he was a proud man and doted on his children.  

Tragedy struck again when his youngest son Franklin “Baby Muggins” passed away March 14, 1901. Muggins was 13 months old. I haven’t found his death certificate, so I have no information on what happened. Frank made up a beautiful large headstone when he buried his son with his wife and put both Kathy and Muggins on the same headstone.  

On July 25, 1902 bandits came upon his fields of cotton and stole his cotton crops. He filed a report for the loss, but the bandits were never captured. After this devastating blow, Frank decided to not grow cotton anymore, going back to strawberries for his market crop. I’m sure he also grew other things for his own personal household.  

July 16, 1905 he gave his eldest daughter May away in marriage to Willard Capps and they gave him the following grandchildren: Edward “Harry” Capps, Otis James Capps, Henley Capps, Maxine Capps, and Lena Capps. 

June 18m, 1908 he gave away his next daughter, Pearl in marriage to Willie Miller and they gave him a granddaughter, Ruby Alice Miller. Pearl’s husband died a year after their daughter was born, so Pearl and Ruby moved back home with their father.  Ruby married again to Arthur “Ott” Hicks and moved to the next town over.  

For the next ten years, he had May and her husband Willard up the road on his land near where the cotton was stolen working that land and sent his two children living at home, Daisy and James to school at Step Rock school. 

In 1918, he gave away his last daughter in marriage to Mike Grimes and he came to build a home on Frank’s land near the road and they gave him six grandchildren- Andrew, Trellis, Almeda, Lowell, Vivian, and Betty Grimes. 

In 1919, his son James married Beulah Pratts and James stayed at home with Frank, bringing his bride home and they had only one son, Franklin James Ellingwood, after their deceased brother. 

1921 Frank Ellingwood paid people to come pick the strawberries in his fields, which included hobos, neighbors, and family from other towns. It was a big production and Frank wasn’t the only strawberry farmer. Many others also had the same thing going. Frank grew a few different varieties of strawberries so they ripened at different times, extending the harvest season. When he had big picking parties, the ladies would get to work setting out a big potluck for the pickers. They picked from sunrise to noon and stopped for the day. 

He spent the next 20 years doting on his grandchildren that were all growing up on his farm. His children all stayed on the farm until his death on January 9, 1943. He was 85 years old. 

Strawberry Picking Party at the Ellingwood Farm  1900
I believe the one with a mustache is Frank, holding Daisy's hand and that might be Kathy behind him, pregnant with James, but I'm not sure. That would make the other two girls besides him Pearlie and May. 

The headstone for Sarah "Kathy" Catherine and baby Muggins 

Picking party at his neighbor's farm, I don't know if Frank is in the picture. 

Frank and baby Muggins 

Willard and May's children 

Mike Grimes and wife Daisy Ellingwood

This map shows the distance between the farm Mike Minor Grimes grew on and the farm that Daisy Arazona Ellingwood grew up on. They are on the census as living in two different towns, but it's actually the same post office. 

 Daisy Ellingwood was born November 8, 1896 to Frank Ellingwood and Kathy Gabbert, the third child. Her two older sisters were Ily Mae and Annie.  Her mother died shortly after her baby brother was born, and her baby brother died the following year. Her other brother James and she were close. Daisy’s oldest sister May married Willard Capps.  Daisy’s neighbors were Morris Hartsell and Byrd Parks.  

I found the location of where the farm that Daisy was born on. https://goo.gl/maps/L5JQQ1CoLEafezC17  Now Dripping Springs Road and Mike grew up on what is now highway 124, they are 8 miles away from each other, but they both went to Step Rock school. The odd thing is they show up in different towns on the census, it’s just because Judsonia Road, now Highway 124 is the border for dividing the townships and Step Rock is right on the spot dividing three different townships. They all used the same post office growing up. They also attended the same revivals. I also found the Capps family near the Grimes family and the other neighbors near the Grimes were Napoleon B Church,  John Huff, John Stolz, Henry Sandford, Alpha Wood, and Icy Wood. 

Daisy walked to school in Step Rock and from this farm, she walked 5 miles to school each way with her sisters and brother. I couldn’t find any pictures of the school building back in its day, but I found a story of it being burnt up by an arsonist on December 6, 1917. Their teacher was Miss Edna Vick.  From 1918 on, the students living in this area had to go across the river to school in Judsonia, which was 14 miles away, including going across a swinging bridge. Thankfully, Daisy had graduated from school three years prior in 1914. Her brother James might have had to do that long trek, though. Mike also walked to school in Step Rock, but his way was 3 miles away down a bigger road. 

Mike and Daisy got married on March 31, 1918 and Mike moved over to Frank’s land, but the land was so big that the 3 houses on it were spread apart- Frank, James, wife Beulah in the original home, Mike and Daisy in a newer home built near the road leading to the farm, and Daisy’s sister May and her husband Willard Capps built their home further back towards the back, extending the driveway a ways back into the land. This property is the same property that all the Grimes children were born on, just by 1934, they now had a Bald Knob address, due to changing borders. That’s why Betty shows a birthplace of Bald Knob, whereas the other children has a birthplace of Step Rock. I thought for a long time they moved, but I was able to figure out this puzzle.  Also, Mike registered for the war draft, but he didn’t get chosen to be sent over. Mike had gray eyes, light brown hair, no marks on body after being given the physical for registering.  

January 9, 1923 The state of Arkansas filed a bill to grant road crews to White County, meaning they would begin to lay out roads throughout White County. The road besides the Ellingwood farm was becoming highway 124. Each of the individual farmers planted their fields by themselves, but come harvest time, they hired each other to have huge picking parties with potlucks, it was a true community. 

The Grimeses, Ellingwoods, Capps, and Altoms all attended a revival on September 9, 1927. On the way home, their neighbors were accidentally killed by 6 unidentified teenagers being rowdy on horses. No charges were filed and as they were young, the sheriff chose to not publish who they were. I wonder if they were our relatives.  At this time, Mike and Daisy had 8 year old Andrew, 7 year old Trellis, and 6 year old Almeda.  James and Beulah had their 1 year old Franklin Ellingwood, Willard and May Capps had Harry Capps, 20, Oatis Capps, 17, Henley Capps, 13, Maxine Capps, 5, and Lena Capps, 3. Solomon Grimes had Ernest, 17, Oran, 15, Barney, 13, Conley, 12, and Helen, 6 years old. Arley and her husband Kemp Chandler had Riley, 15, and Jewel, 14. Cora and her husband Kirby Bickers had Pauline, 7 and Christine, 5. Pearlie and her husband Eugene Altom had Julia, 14, Gladys, 12, Alvin, 9, Conway, 7, Hersey, 5, Lois, 3 and Isom Grimes and wife Oma Wood had Ozella, 5, Jalaw, 3, and Cozette, 1.  The families all grew up around each other and were all each other’s in-laws in one way or other. 

Mike Minor Grimes’s part of the farm had a building for smoking meats, another building for hanging wild game, a chicken coop, and a barn where he kept hay for the livestock. Mike, Frank, James, and Willard handled the crops while Daisy, Beulah, and May handled the home gardens. The combined family sold the market strawberries, peas, potatoes, and watermelons and they kept the hay for their own livestock. They kept only enough livestock to feed themselves, they didn’t raise livestock for market. 

  In Step Rock, they had no electricity yet, so the family used kerosene lamps and a wood stove/oven. They had a spring house for keeping dairy and eggs cool.  Electricity did not make it out to that town until 1943, even though other towns had it sooner. Mike Minor Grimes bought his first truck in 1941 and Mike abandoned the oxen drawn wagons his neighbors continued to use.  Mike Grimes bought new farming technology as they came out. Tractors and such, whereas Frank Ellingwood stuck to the old way of using oxen or horse drawn plows and such. 

In 1929, there was a big flood then a drought from 1933 to 1941. Mike’s farm was failing. The CCC came in to offer assistance to farmers now living in poverty. I am looking for records of if they accepted the assistance or not. I wonder if he sold his farming equipment to his brother in law James Ellingwood, I can’t imagine he would have brought all that equipment to Bergman. 

1940 war registration draft card, Mike had gray eyes, light brown hair, and a scar on his left calf. The previous draft card stated no marks, so this happened between 1918 and 1940. I wonder what happened. 

Mike and Daisy put their children on a horse drawn school bus and their children grew up being called the children from across the river, going to school in Pangburn, Arkansas. They had to walk across a rickety wooden swinging bridge because it couldn’t support the full weight of the loaded down wagon. They then got back on. More information at this site. http://www.argenweb.net/white/wchs/A_Bus_for_the_Kids_Files/A_bus_for_the_kids.htm  

Betty Grimes may not have ridden this bus as by the time she was school age, they moved to Bergman, but the above children of the extended family all rode this bus driven by their uncle Willard Capps. I imagine Willard didn’t want to see the children walk so far to school. 

In 1930, many children in the area had tonsil infections, it was so bad that they had a tonsil clinic on October 17th and Andrew, Trellis, and Almeda; their oldest three, was among the children needing their tonsils removed. 

From 1933 to 1942 They shopped from a grocery store on wheels run by Mr. Siler out of Searcy, Arkansas. They would buy white bread, peanut butter, and such out of the cupboards along the sides of the truck. Mike would supply the family with proteins by going hunting and fishing. He was knowledgeable about how to preserve meats and taught his children how to make things like summer sausage, jerky, smoked hams, bacon, and so on. Mike was the kind of man that could go out in the wilderness with just a gun and be just fine foraging off the land. He taught his children these skills. 

Mike had a temper and Daisy filed for divorce, her reason being cruelty and spousal abuse in 1939, but in 1944, Daisy filed to cancel the divorce. Sometime in between that time, Mike shows up attending Oregon Flat church and bringing the family to church. I wonder if he gave his heart to Jesus Christ and that’s why he was a changed man, making Daisy happy to work things out with him.  

In 1942, they likely read the newspaper article about how the CCC was rehabilitating the land all around Boone County and they already had a nephew living in Harrison, AR (Ernest Grimes) and that’s how they chose Bergman as their next home. 

1943, Frank Ellingwood, Daisy’s father died, then their daughter Trellis died a few months later. Randy Moss, Trellis’ husband took their two granddaughters with him and I don’t think Mike and Daisy got to see their granddaughters Betty Mae Moss and Emma Jean Moss growing up. 

 Mike’s brother Solomon decided to move to Bergman area too. So in 1943, Solomon and wife Luttie moved to Bergman, their children already grown and married- Helen came and settled down in Bergman around 1955, Andrew, Vera, and son Bill moved to Bergman, Almeda moved to Little Rock, Lowell enlisted in the air force and was whisked away overseas.

Now in Bergman, there’s Mike and Daisy Grimes settling down in a new home with only two daughters and Mike’s brother Solomon bought land the next lot over. At this time, they had 12 year old Vivian, and 6 year old Betty. Betty went to Bergman school from 1st grade to 12th grade. Vivian went to Pangburn schools from kindergarten to 4th grade, then Bergman from 5th or 6th grade to high school.  Their nephew Bill Grimes also went to Bergman school his entire school life.  When their youngest daughter Betty graduated high school in 1954, Mike and Daisy moved to Wichita, Kansas. 

While they were in Wichita, Mike worked as a janitor at the Boeing factory. Mike was a janitor there from 1954 to 1960 and while there, they lived at 4500 S. Glenn, Wichita, KS and I found Vivian and husband Doc Drewry living in Wichita too. Maybe that’s why they moved to Wichita.

In 1960 Mike and Daisy bought land off Wooded Hills Road and built a cement block home to be covered with rocks later. Daisy must have been very happy to be back near Luttie, Solomon’s wife. There’s many pictures of them embracing. Luttie and Daisy looked like they were really close. 

Mike and Daisy were 61 and 64 years old. Retirement age.  They doted on their grandchildren and taught their grandchildren their old ways. The documents from this time period aren’t public yet, so I will have to update this in 20 years when that information becomes available. 

Daisy died on Thanksgiving day of 1970, she was 74. Mike died 3 years later on December 16, 1973. He was 74. 

Andrew, Trellis, and Almeda Grimes among children needing tonsils removed. 

Mike, about 1952

Mike and Daisy on the land they just bought in 1960

Mike and Daisy, about 1955

Mike and Daisy with their children, 1953 

Andrew, Almeda, Mike, Daisy (baby Terrie), Vivian, Betty, Lowell

Mike, about 1945

Daisy, about 1935, 

Betty told me this was taken before she was born. 

Daisy and Luttie (Solomon's wife)

Alonzo Hornbeck and his wife Clara.

 Alonzo Lee Hornbeck was born on November 11, 1892 to Francis Marion Hornbeck and Susan Beales in  Vandalia, Indiana. His mother died 4 years later 150 miles to the west in Greenville, Illinois. His father married again to Mary and 4 years later, they’re living in Black River Township, which coincidentally has a county seat called Greenville. 

As of 1900, his household had his dad, his stepmother Mary, siblings Chester, Alice, Ransom, Maggie and a stepbrother Benjamin Waddle. I am still searching for Alonzo on the 1910 Census. I find him in Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri in 1912 getting married to Ethel Clara Snooks. He was 19 and she was 13. 

Ethel Clara Snook was born August 20, 1898 in Pekin, Illinois. When she was two, her family moved to Spring Lake, Illinois, in the same county. In 1908, her parents moved to Poplar Bluff, Missouri, she was ten years old. She appears on the 1910 census with her parents. Then we find her marrying Alonzo on June 4, 1912 when she was 13. They have a daughter the following year. Lillian Hornbeck was born September 13, 1913. Then they had many more children: Martha May Hornbeck (Stephens) 1915, Charles Hornbeck 1917, Leo Edward Hornbeck 1919, Bertie 1921-1921, Mary Hornbeck (Whitmer) 1922, twins Irene and Pauline (both married brothers) 1924, Roy Alonzo Hornbeck 1926, Alta Hornbeck 1928, Alfred Hornbeck 1929, Lloyd Melvin Hornbeck 1931, Rodney Hornbeck 1933, Richard Hornbeck 1936, Susie Hornbeck 1938

Alonzo was employed by the Missouri Works Progress Adminstration. That involves building public structures such as fire stations, police stations, schools, fire towers, and planting the forest back up after being overlooked. He also registered for the draft but did not get sent to war. On the records, it says Alonzo had a large mole on his chest as a distinguishing mark. When the pandemic is over, I will be able to go to the records office to get records of exactly what his tasks were with the WPA.  In 1938, he gets hired by Pearce Company as a transporter. I am not finding clear documentation on what this is. My research shows that the Pearce Company is an architect. Maybe he drove materials to sites? As of 1940, Alonzo, Clara and their children lived at 156 N. E. St, Poplar Bluff, Missouri. That house is no longer there. 

Alonzo and Clara Hornbeck appear in the city directory in 1952 living at 602 Magnolia St, Poplar Bluff, Missouri. The house is also no longer at this site, it is now the back parking lot of a gas station. They appear in the city directory every year from 1953 to 1965 at the same address, with him still employed for the Pearce Company as a transporter.

Alonzo died August 23, 1973 which is when Clara moved out of the Magnolia street home. I believe Clara lived with her son Richard until she passed away on June 13, 1983.