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Thanksgiving holiday notices and social visits in Vernon area
Residents recount Thanksgiving hospitality and a long list of visitors and relatives calling on families in Vernon. Attendees include Meador families, Hanson relatives, Forehand kin, Jarretts, Doolens, and many others from Patoka Vandalia Kinmundy Shobonier Macon and Decatur with news of local club meetings and a joint birthday gathering at the Tillman home.
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Billy Hanson
Radford Hanson
Maron Carl
Macon
Opal
Clarice
Tom
John Barnes
Patoka
John Hanson
Ora ‘Smith
Shobonier
Walter Pruett
Kinmundy
George Rouse
Chillicothe
Harry Rouse
Dorothy Wyman
Amelia McCaslin
Vandalia
Joe
James Johndrow
Alton
Orvel West
John Whitehurst
Billy
Rollin Doolen
Wilburn
Geo. Walton
Gus Pratt
L. E. Green
David Headley
Centralia
Clarence Kerchoefer
Glenn Ehrat
Ned Easley
Wood River
Helen Hathaway
Arthur Day
Assumption
Henry Peddicord
Everett Wernsman
Clinton
Henry Wernsman
Maron
Cox
Mildred Norris
Marie
Juanita Hathaway
Marion Epps
Helen Doolen
Chas. Ehlers
Charles Vernon
J. H. Peddicord
G. C. Betts
J. F. Arnold
Dot Doolen
Beulah Jarrett
Louise
J. M. Meador
Martin Greider
Arewine Willett Jr
Merle
W. J. Jones
Sue Klinge
Sholconier
Lizzie Farmer
J. R. Revis
Robert
Dale
Robert Dunbar
David
Mary Revis
Floyd Walton
Decatur
Lewis Leninger
Guy Jones
J. W. Jones
Gus Protz
Alma
H. O. Tillman
J. J. Betts
Betts
Rose Martin
Anna Morton
Tillman
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