Dear Genie Query Roundup From Linn County Heritage Note
A readers requests genealogical clues and burial details about Hannah and Eli Carson of Western Linn County born 1880. Others seek data on Charles Du Bois family in Manchester 1872, William Knox in Davis County 1870s, John Risdon and Ami Wise Risdon connections, Edna Risdon Neary, James Lockwood burial at Monticello, and Marguerite Heath's queries about siblings and railroad death.
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Genie
Linn County Heritage Society
Iowa
P.O. Box
Cedar Rapids
Hannah
Eli Carson
Western
Linn County
Angeline
Jonathan Smith Carson
Dick Clifford
Box
Keyes
Okla
Charles du Bois
Abram, Jr
Harriet King DuBois
Manchester
Tim Tutton
Howard
John Risdon
Rosina Stevens
Vermont
Edward
Ann
Charles
Catherine Wise
Ami
Waverly
Emma Taylor
Daniel
Raton
N.M
Merrill
Missouri
Rosilla Brown
Emma Taylor Risdon
Edna Risdon Neary
Route 2
Box 320
McKinney
Texas
James Lockwood
Monticello
Jeremiah
Hannah Batchelder Lockwood
Nancy Knapp
Emily
Anna
Marguerite Heath
Bronson
Lock of Hair Costs Teachers $1500 Each
Two white Lenoir High School teachers Thomas Tighe and Clyde McLean admitted telling a black student they would show what white power can do and cut a tuft of his afro. They agreed to pay Harold Battle Jr. $3,000 in an out of court settlement after a $50,000 federal suit was filed.
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Lenoir
N.C
UPI
Lenoir High
Thomas Tighe
Clyde McLean
Betty Battle
Harold Leonard Battle, Jr
McLean
Tighe
R.B. Everett
Battle
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Bloomfield Township
Davis County
William Knox
Minerva J. Bates
Kansas
William
GAR
Joe Matlock
Walnut
Harper
Kan
William C. Hess
Crawford County
Celestia
Etta
Roller
Rolles
Illinois
Martha L. Hess
Atherton Street
Long Beach
Calif
Killians Ore
Pitts
Onite
Pullman
Killians
Jockey
Midway
Power Knit
Iowa City
General News
Cedar Rapids Gazette, Sun
Killian’s
Lindale Plaza
Killian
Lindale