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The Journal and Tribune, Knoxville, Tennessee; Sunday, 19 DEC 1897, p.4 (Newspapers.com):

REEVES - SCALES

Special to The Tribune

Jonesboro, Dec. 19. -- The marriage of Mr. Joseph Hugh Scales, of Newbern, Va., to Miss Elizabeth Wiley Reeves, has been the event of the past week. The wedding took place in the M. E. Church, South, at 3 o.clock on Tuesday afternoon, and was largely attended. The spacious church was inadequate to accommodate the throng which assembled. The church was beautifully and most appropriately decorated with evergreens and flowers which added much to the cheer of the occasion. Rev. Mr. French, who pronounced the marital vows, was stationed within the altar rail, and met the members of the bridal party as they approached the chancel.

The contracting parties were preceded by the attending couples who arranged themselves in a semi-circle in front of the altar. The wedding march of Mendelsohn was played by Prof. C. E. Dilworth.

Mr. Scales, accompanied by his best man, Mr. William P. Reeves, brother of the bride; and the bride, accompanied by her father, passed through the aisles heading to the altar.

The bride wore green satin and novelty brown, which was universally admired. She carried a beautiful bouquet of bride's roses. The maid of honor was arrayed in gray and violet with brown fur trimmings, and carried Marschal Neil roses. The attendants were Miss Katherine Deaderick, of Jonesboro, as maid of honor, and as bridesmaids Miss Kathleen, sister of the bride, Miss Neil Hoss, Jonesboro; Miss Bessie Taylor, Bristol; Miss Alva Watson, Newbern, Va. The gentlemen attendants were R. L. Jordan, Radford, Va.,; W. H. Pepper, Rural Retreat, Va.; Tom A. Davis, Knoxville.

Those acting as ushers were Harvey Dosser, Morristown; E. E. Wiley, H. H. Kirkpatrick and Fred Gresham, Jonesboro. Immediately after the wedding Mr. and Mrs. Scales left for Washington City where they will spend a few days, after which they will be at home to their friends at Newbern, Va. The young lady whom Mr. Scales has claimed as his bride is from one of the representative families of East Tennessee. She is also popular and highly esteemed by all who know her. Mr. Scales is one of Virginia's promising young men. He is at present traveling salesman for a leading hardware establishment of Louisville, Ky., and takes high rank as a business manager.

Obituary -- The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky; Monday, 29 OCT 1945, p.7 (Newspapers.com):

Joseph Hugh Scales, Ex-Banker, Dies at 75

Joseph High Scales, 75, retired vice-president and director fo the Citizens Union National Bank and a Democratic County commissioner for a short period in 1927, died at 3 p.m. Sunday at his home, 1410 Cherokee Road. He had been ill for eight years.

A native of Pulaski, Va., Scales came to Louisville in 1901 and joined the Belknap Hardware & Manufacturing Company as a salesman. He later became credit manager of the company and when illness forced his retirement he was vice-president and director of the company.

He became vice-president of the Citizens Union National bank in 1935 after serving for 20 years as a director. Considered an authority on credit, he was elected vice-president and a director of the National Association of Credit Men.

Scales served as district campaign chairman for Alben W. Barkley when the present Kentucky senator was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor in 1923. He was named a member of the original City Civil Service Board and chairman of the group during the fourth year of his term.

Active In Church Affairs

An elder in Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church, Scales served as superintendent of its Sunday School for more than 15 years. He was chairman of a Presbyterian committee that raised more than $300,000 for benevolences several years ago.

He was a member of the Filson, Pendennis and Louisville County Clubs and the Southern Society of New York.

Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth R. Scales; a sister, Mrs. David Agnew, Leonia, N.J.; a daughter, Mrs. Evelyn Howe Scales; a son, Edward R. Scales, and four grandchildren.

The Johnson City Staff, Johnson City, Tennessee; Tuesday, 12 June 1923; Page 5; (Newspapers.com):

Merrke-Scales (sic)

Jonesboro, June 12. -- Handsomely engraved cards bearing the following have been received by Jonesboro friends: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hugh Scales request the pleasure of your company at the marriage of their daughter Evelyn Howe, to Mr. Robert Herndon Merrke (sic), on Saturday, the twenty-third of June at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, Mocking Bird Valley, Louisville, Kentucky.

The bride-to-be is a granddaughter of the late Capt. Isaac E. Reeve (sic), a prominent lawyer of Jonesboro, and has visited friends here.

no children.

Evelyn remarried to Theodore A. Wacker (1901 - 1957) in 1951 at Punta Gorda, Florida, and was residing at Laurel, FL in 1957 when her mother and husband both passed. Evelyn remarrid a third time to Clement Dwight Shaw (1904 - 1988) in 1963, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, and was divorced from him in 1964.

Obituary -- Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Sarasota, FL;

Tuesday, February 01, 1994; Page: 96; (GenealogyBank.com):

Evelyn S. Wacker

Evelyn Scales Wacker, 93, Venice, died Jan. 30 1994.

She was born June 4, 1900, in Pulaski, Va., and came to Venice 44 years ago from Greens Farms, Conn. She was a portrait artist. She was a member of the Bath Club, Venice Area Art League, Venice Yacht Club and was a Kentucky Colonel.

Survivors include a brother, Edward R. Scales of Sarasota; two nieces; and two nephews.

There will be no services. Ewing Funeral Home is in charge. Memorial donations may be made to Venice Hospital Foundation, 108 Golf Drive, Venice 34285; or to a favorite charity.

Obituary -- The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky; Saturday, 08 September 1928; Page 24; (Newspapers.com):

Memorial For Scales Arranged

Memorial services have been arranged for Sunday, immediately after morning services at the Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church, Fourth and Kentucky Streets, for Joseph Hugh Scales, Jr., 21 years old, son of the vice president of the Belnap Hardware and manufacturing Company, it was announced Friday.

Young Scales, a junior at Princeton University, was drowned with three companions August 12 when a sailboat in which they were returning to Watch Hill, R. I., from Fisher's island, capsized. Neither his body nor the bodies of his companions, John McIlvain and Lloyd Bankson, Philadelphia, and Trowbridge Cottrell, Westerly, R. I., were recovered. John B. Collohan, Jr., East Philadelphia, a fifth member of the party, was rescued.

The Rev. Dr. Charles W. Welch, pastor of the church, is making arrangements for the memorial service.

The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky; Tuesday, 14 August 1928; Page 1 & 2; (Newspapers.com):

Survivor Tells How Scales and 3 Pals Were Lost

Wind Spills Sailboat In Choppy Sea

Five Swim Around for Time and Then Cling to Craft.

Only One Wins Fight

Father and Cousin Leave Here for East to Aid In Search.

Westerly, R.I., Aug. 13 (AP)-- The sole survivor of a quintette of young college men whose fifteen-foot sailboat capsized in Fisher; Sound Sunday night, John B. Colohan, at the Westerly Hospital today told how his four comrades were drowned.

The four men, whose bodies have not been recovered, were Joseph Hugh Scales, Jr., 20 years old, Louisville, Ky.; Trowbridge Cottrell, 20, Westerly; John McIlvain, 19, of Ardmore, Penn., and Lloyd G. Bankson, 21, of Philadelphia,

Colohan and the four other men were spending their vacations at Watch Hill, R. I. Colohan told newspaper men that the quintette left Watch Hill for Fisher's Island about 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon. They went in McIlvain's fifteen-foot Alden type sailboat. The trip over was uneventful. Early in the evening, he said, they started back.

Tipped By Wind

"It was about fifteen minutes before dusk when a sudden gust of wind hit the sail and tipped us over," Colohan said. "I judged we were about half a mile from the entrance to Little Narragansett Bay. We all climbed to the bottom of the boat and tried to right the craft. We got her up once but she went over on the other side. none of us had knives and we couldn't cut the sail off.

"We swam around for a while trying to get her righted, and then we all climbed on the side and hung on as best we could. Cottell was the first to disappear. I don't know just how it was except that all of a sudden he was gone. I think McIlvain started to swim ashore. He was the next to disappear."

After the disappearance of McIlvain, Colohan, clinging to the capsized craft, apparently lost consciousness, for he could not remember much of the night except that waves frequently broke over them and that he saw a searchlight. Later a power boat passed fairly near, but his attempt to hail it failed. He could not recall whether Bankson and Scales lost their grip on the boat or whether they attempted to swim for shore.

Found Delirious.

Ten hours after the boat capsized, George Adams, Noank, Conn., fisherman on his way to the Block Island fishing grounds, saw the Alden floating on her side and a man lying across the hull. He made for the wreck to find Colohan delirious from exhaustion and shock. It was only with difficulty that Adams got the youth aboard his own craft.

The rescue was effected about four miles southwest of Watch Hill Light. Adams took the rescued man into the Watch Hill coast guard station, where Colohan, scarcely able to stand and his arms rigid from their long cramped position, was wrapped in hot blankets. Later he was taken to Westerly Hospital, where he is apparently out of danger.

Coast guard and private boats and airplanes have been searching for the four bodies for hours without success.

Father, Cousin Leave

Joseph Hugh Scales, Sr., vice president of the Belnap hardware & Manufacturing Company, father of Joseph Hugh Scales, Jr., 20, years old, one of four youths believed to have been drowned when their sailboat overturned in heavy seas off Watch Hill, R.I., and Pinkney Reeves Allen, a member of the news staff of The Times, a cousin, left Louisville Monday for the Rhode Island summer colony.

Mr. Scales was first notified of the tragedy by Mrs. W. H. Andrews of Watch Hill, an aunt of John McIlvain, Philadelphia, another of the youths reported lost. Mrs. Andrews later confirmed the message in a long distance telephone conversation with Mr. Scales.

Young Scales was a junior at Princeton University and was [a for]mer student at Louisville male High School and the Lawrenceville, N. J. Preparatory School. His father did not know he was in Rhode island, but supposed he had gone there with friends for the week-end. His mother, a sister, Mrs. Evelyn Scales Mercke, and a brother, Edward Scales, are at Wequetonsing, Mich.

The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky; Sunday,

18 November 1934; Page 28; (Newspapers.com):

Castleman-Scales

Miss Isabelle Muir Castleman and Mr. Edward R. Scales Married Saturday.

The wedding of Miss Isabelle Muir Castleman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel T. Castleman and Mr. Edward Reeves Scales, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hugh Scales, took lace at 4:30 O'clock Saturday afternoon at the Warren Memorial Presbyterian Church,

The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Dr. Horace Cady Wildon, assisted by the Rev. Dr. Charles W. Welch.

The chancel was banked with palms and ferns and white chrysanthemums. The pews for the families were marked with white standards topped with white chrysanthemums. The musical program was in charge of Miss Mary Stuart, organist of the church, assisted by Mr. Karl Schmidt on the violincello and Mrs. J. T. Carlton on the harp. Mrs. J. Edward Jones of Scarsdale, N. Y., sang two solos before the ceremony.

The same church was the scene of the wedding of the bride's parents twenty-four years ago. The same white satin pillows upon which the bride's parents kneeled at their wedding were used in the ceremony Saturday afternoon. Miss Joan Castleman was her sister's maid of honor and Misses Lillian Manger and Isabelle Manger, cousins of the bride from Pelham Manor, N.Y. were the bridesmaids.

Mr. Robert Herndon Mercke was the best man and the ushers were Messrs. Harry Weissinger Castleman, brother of the bride; Keith Spears, Hugh Shwab, Jr., Richard Hilliard, W. K. Brown, Norman Roche, Paul Dow, Marion L. Short of New York, Davis W. Gunter and C. A. Gunter, both of St. Louis.

The bride who was given in marriage by her father, wore her mother's wedding gown of ivory satin, which was made on princess lines with a circular flounce embroidered in bead pearls. The gown was almost covered with priceless point d'Angletierre lace. The court train of satin was attached at the shoulders with ornaments of seed pearls. The headdress was a network of pearls from which fell the veil;, which was made of two wide lace veils joined with tulle and outlined with pearls. The veil fell to the end of the train.

She carried the white prayer book which was used by her mother at her wedding and a lace handkerchief of her great-great grandmother and a small bouquet of white orchids and lilies of the valley.

The maid of honor wore a blue moire taffeta gown made on princess lines with a long flowing skirt and a bateau neckline.

The short sleeves were edged in silver. A silver girdle fell into a short train. On her head she wore a Juliet cap of silver, and carried a French bouquet of pink roses, forget-me-nots and lilies of the valley.

The bridesmaids wore dresses of dusty pink taffeta, with full skirts and short violet velvet jackets, and carried small violet muffs to which were fastened bouquets. They wore small violet velvet hats.

The bride's mother wore a French model in black velvet, with the upper part of gold sequins, and hip length black velvet cape. Her hat of black velvet was turned up at the back with two ostrich tips shot with gold. She wore a shoulder bouquet of yellow orchids.

The bridegroom's mother wore a sapphire blue velvet gown with a hat to match and a shoulder bouquet of gardenias.

Mrs. Julius manger wore a brown silk gown with pink lame sleeves and a hat to match, with a shoulder bouquet of orchids.

Mrs. George Staunton Tiffany wore a brown lame gown with brown velvet hat and sable furs.

The ceremony was followed by a reception at the Pendennis Club given by the bride's aunt, Mrs. Julius Manger and Mr. manger as a wedding present to the young couple. The reception was held in the main dining room. The guests were received at one end of the room before the fireplace, which was banked with green foliage and white chrysanthemums. At the other end of the room was the buffet table? ? which had as its central ornament the five tiered wedding cake, with a miniature bride and groom on the top. The bride cut the first slice of the cake before sitting down at the bridal table.

The bridal table which was placed in the Independence room was decorated in white and silver. In the center of the round table was a silver centerpiece filled with white flowers with two floral end pieces, two tall candelabra and four silver candlesticks bearing white tapirs. At this table were seated Messrs. and Mesdames Edward Reeves Scales, Robert H. Mercke, Keith C. Spears, , Jacob Bond Winston, Misses Isabelle Manger, Lillian Manger, Joan Castleman, Alice Castleman, Marie Castleman, Elizabeth Willett, Elizabeth Gordon, Susan Laurent, Constance Clark, Hise Norton, Mary Chenault, Van Winkin, Emily Owen, Helen Hilliard, Marguerite Borntraeger of Pittsburgh, Messrs. Richard Hilliard, Hugh Shwab, Jr., Arthur Peter, Jr., Irwin Abell, Jr., William K. Brown, Robert Riddell, Norman Rocne, Harry Volz, Henry Weissinger Castleman, Paul Dow, David W. Gunter, C. A. Gunter, Marion I. Short and Muir Humphrey.

Several hundred guests were present at the reception. Among the out-of-town guests were Col. George S. Tiffany and Mrs. Tiffany of New York, Mr. and Mrs. Julius Manger, Misses Lillian and Isabelle Manger of Pelham Manor, N. Y., M. and Mrs. J. Edward Jones of Scarsdale, N. Y., Mrs. Margarite Bor.....ger of Pittsburgh, Mr. John Randolph of Cincinnati, Mr. Marion L. Short of New York, Mr. David W. Gunter and Mr. C. A. Gunter, both of St. Louis, Miss Anna Reeves, Mr. and Mrs. Prentiss Reeves, all of Knoxville, Mrs. Antionette Sutton of Johnson City, Tenn., Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Car... s of S......, N. Y., Mr. and Mrs. Harry Van C...land Fisk of New York, Mr.? ? ....... Hancock of Paris, Ky., Mr. F. M. Pryor of New Castle, Ky,? ? .......................,

Mrs. Rober .......................... .....ville, Va., and Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Gaylord of St Louis

Mr. and Mrs. Scales left after the reception for a stay of several days in New York and will be at home after December 1 at 2222 Lauderdale Road.

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Edward remarried to Lois Condon (1917 - 2008) before 1997. Isabelle remarried to George Raymond Pashley in September, 1963.

Obituary of Lois (Condon) Scales -- Herald Tribune; Sarasota, FL;? ? May 13, 2008; (Internet):

Scales, Lois Condon

Aug. 11, 1917 - May 8, 2008

Lois Condon Scales, Sarasota, died May 8, 2008.

She was born in Chatham, N.J., on Aug. 11, 1917. She moved to Sarasota in 1960, continuing her banking career with National Bank of Sarasota, now Bank of America.

She is survived by her son, Richard J. Hazen, and daughter-in-law, Janet H. Hazen, of Nokomis, Fla.; granddaughters Cienne Dix of Hickory, N.C., and Lura Lentz of Roscoe, Ill.; great-granddaughters Abigail Dix and Ellen Lentz; stepdaughters Margaret Davis of Mountain Brook, Ala., and Elizabeth Green of New Smyrna Beach, Fla; stepson Joseph Scales of New Smyrna Beach, Fla.; and stepdaughter-in-law, Sharon Zell of San Diego, Calif., in addition to numerous loving step-grandchildren and step-great-grandchildren.

Lois was predeceased by her stepson, Samuel Scales, in 1997; and by her loving husband, Edward R. Scales, in 2003.

Services are graveside in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.

In lieu of flowers, the family request donations in Lois' memory to the donor's favorite charity.

Obituary -- (Findagrave.com):

Sarasota Herald-Tribune, April 29, 2003

EDWARD REEVES SCALES died on April 27, 2003 at the age of 91. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky on December 25, 1911. He first came to the Sarasota area in 1932 as a faculty member of Kentucky Military Institute and returned permanently in 1958, retiring from the Sarasota School System in 1983. After graduating from the University of Louisville, he obtained his Masters in Education from Murray State University. He was of the Episcopalian faith.

His wife Lois C. Scales; his four children, Joseph Scales, Margaret Davis, Elizabeth Green and Richard Hazen; and his loving and beloved 19 grandchildren and 28 great grandchildren survive him. He was predeceased by his son, Samuel Scales.

There will be no local visitation or services. His burial services will be held in May 2003 at Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky. Donations in his memory may be made to Hospice or to the charity of your choice.

The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky; Saturday, 30 April 1921; Page 1; (Newspapers.com):

Fire Follows Blast In J. H. Scales Home

Explosion Heard As Flames Burst From Mocking Bird Valley Residence

Residents of Mocking Bird Valley moved pianos, carpets, bric-a-brac and heavy furniture at 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon when the home of Joseph H. Scales, treasure of the Belnap Hardware & Manufacturing Company, caught fire on the third floor and burned slowly downward. The structure of frame and stucco was destroyed. The loss was $25,000. partly covered by insurance. Several pieces of furniture on the second floor, prized as heirlooms, and nearly all the personal belongings of Mr. and Mrs. Scales were destroyed.

Mrs. Scales, her daughter, Miss Evelyn Scales, and her son, Edward Scales, 10 years old, were in the house at the time the fire was discovered. A sound like an explosion was heard, and, as Mrs. Scales began an investigation, neighbors ran in and reported that the third floor of the house was aflame. Mrs. Walter S. Clark, who lives a short distance away, called the Louisville Fire Department.

Through error the firemen took the wrong road and arrived after the structure was doomed. They prevented the spread of the fire to other buildings.

Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Duncan, Mr. and Mrs. Clark and many other neighbors, before the fire descended to the first floor, ran in and out of the building, carrying? ? out household effects and assisting servants in carrying out heavy furniture.

Although he had never driven an automobile before, little Edward Scales saved the automobile of his sister, Miss Evelyn Scales. The automobile was parked alongside of the house, and the flames were beginning to communicate to the top when he got in and drove it to safety.

Members of the Scales family were unable to account for the origin of the blaze. There was no fire in the furnace and no one was upstairs at the time.

The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky; Sunday,

18 November 1934; Page 28; (Newspapers.com):

Castleman-Scales

Miss Isabelle Muir Castleman and Mr. Edward R. Scales Married Saturday.

The wedding of Miss Isabelle Muir Castleman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel T. Castleman and Mr. Edward Reeves Scales, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hugh Scales, took lace at 4:30 O'clock Saturday afternoon at the Warren Memorial Presbyterian Church,

The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Dr. Horace Cady Wildon, assisted by the Rev. Dr. Charles W. Welch.

The chancel was banked with palms and ferns and white chrysanthemums. The pews for the families were marked with white standards topped with white chrysanthemums. The musical program was in charge of Miss Mary Stuart, organist of the church, assisted by Mr. Karl Schmidt on the violincello and Mrs. J. T. Carlton on the harp. Mrs. J. Edward Jones of Scarsdale, N. Y., sang two solos before the ceremony.

The same church was the scene of the wedding of the bride's parents twenty-four years ago. The same white satin pillows upon which the bride's parents kneeled at their wedding were used in the ceremony Saturday afternoon. Miss Joan Castleman was her sister's maid of honor and Misses Lillian Manger and Isabelle Manger, cousins of the bride from Pelham Manor, N.Y. were the bridesmaids.

Mr. Robert Herndon Mercke was the best man and the ushers were Messrs. Harry Weissinger Castleman, brother of the bride; Keith Spears, Hugh Shwab, Jr., Richard Hilliard, W. K. Brown, Norman Roche, Paul Dow, Marion L. Short of New York, Davis W. Gunter and C. A. Gunter, both of St. Louis.

The bride who was given in marriage by her father, wore her mother's wedding gown of ivory satin, which was made on princess lines with a circular flounce embroidered in bead pearls. The gown was almost covered with priceless point d'Angletierre lace. The court train of satin was attached at the shoulders with ornaments of seed pearls. The headdress was a network of pearls from which fell the veil;, which was made of two wide lace veils joined with tulle and outlined with pearls. The veil fell to the end of the train.

She carried the white prayer book which was used by her mother at her wedding and a lace handkerchief of her great-great grandmother and a small bouquet of white orchids and lilies of the valley.

The maid of honor wore a blue moire taffeta gown made on princess lines with a long flowing skirt and a bateau neckline.

The short sleeves were edged in silver. A silver girdle fell into a short train. On her head she wore a Juliet cap of silver, and carried a French bouquet of pink roses, forget-me-nots and lilies of the valley.

The bridesmaids wore dresses of dusty pink taffeta, with full skirts and short violet velvet jackets, and carried small violet muffs to which were fastened bouquets. They wore small violet velvet hats.

The bride's mother wore a French model in black velvet, with the upper part of gold sequins, and hip length black velvet cape. Her hat of black velvet was turned up at the back with two ostrich tips shot with gold. She wore a shoulder bouquet of yellow orchids.

The bridegroom's mother wore a sapphire blue velvet gown with a hat to match and a shoulder bouquet of gardenias.

Mrs. Julius manger wore a brown silk gown with pink lame sleeves and a hat to match, with a shoulder bouquet of orchids.

Mrs. George Staunton Tiffany wore a brown lame gown with brown velvet hat and sable furs.

The ceremony was followed by a reception at the Pendennis Club given by the bride's aunt, Mrs. Julius Manger and Mr. manger as a wedding present to the young couple. The reception was held in the main dining room. The guests were received at one end of the room before the fireplace, which was banked with green foliage and white chrysanthemums. At the other end of the room was the buffet table? ? which had as its central ornament the five tiered wedding cake, with a miniature bride and groom on the top. The bride cut the first slice of the cake before sitting down at the bridal table.

The bridal table which was placed in the Independence room was decorated in white and silver. In the center of the round table was a silver centerpiece filled with white flowers with two floral end pieces, two tall candelabra and four silver candlesticks bearing white tapirs. At this table were seated Messrs. and Mesdames Edward Reeves Scales, Robert H. Mercke, Keith C. Spears, , Jacob Bond Winston, Misses Isabelle Manger, Lillian Manger, Joan Castleman, Alice Castleman, Marie Castleman, Elizabeth Willett, Elizabeth Gordon, Susan Laurent, Constance Clark, Hise Norton, Mary Chenault, Van Winkin, Emily Owen, Helen Hilliard, Marguerite Borntraeger of Pittsburgh, Messrs. Richard Hilliard, Hugh Shwab, Jr., Arthur Peter, Jr., Irwin Abell, Jr., William K. Brown, Robert Riddell, Norman Rocne, Harry Volz, Henry Weissinger Castleman, Paul Dow, David W. Gunter, C. A. Gunter, Marion I. Short and Muir Humphrey.

Several hundred guests were present at the reception. Among the out-of-town guests were Col. George S. Tiffany and Mrs. Tiffany of New York, Mr. and Mrs. Julius Manger, Misses Lillian and Isabelle Manger of Pelham Manor, N. Y., M. and Mrs. J. Edward Jones of Scarsdale, N. Y., Mrs. Margarite Bor.....ger of Pittsburgh, Mr. John Randolph of Cincinnati, Mr. Marion L. Short of New York, Mr. David W. Gunter and Mr. C. A. Gunter, both of St. Louis, Miss Anna Reeves, Mr. and Mrs. Prentiss Reeves, all of Knoxville, Mrs. Antionette Sutton of Johnson City, Tenn., Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Car... s of S......, N. Y., Mr. and Mrs. Harry Van C...land Fisk of New York, Mr.? ? ....... Hancock of Paris, Ky., Mr. F. M. Pryor of New Castle, Ky,? ? .......................,

Mrs. Rober .......................... .....ville, Va., and Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Gaylord of St Louis

Mr. and Mrs. Scales left after the reception for a stay of several days in New York and will be at home after December 1 at 2222 Lauderdale Road.

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Edward remarried to Lois Condon (1917 - 2008) before 1997. Isabelle remarried to George Raymond Pashley in September, 1963.

Obituary of Lois (Condon) Scales -- Herald Tribune; Sarasota, FL;? ? May 13, 2008; (Internet):

Scales, Lois Condon

Aug. 11, 1917 - May 8, 2008

Lois Condon Scales, Sarasota, died May 8, 2008.

She was born in Chatham, N.J., on Aug. 11, 1917. She moved to Sarasota in 1960, continuing her banking career with National Bank of Sarasota, now Bank of America.

She is survived by her son, Richard J. Hazen, and daughter-in-law, Janet H. Hazen, of Nokomis, Fla.; granddaughters Cienne Dix of Hickory, N.C., and Lura Lentz of Roscoe, Ill.; great-granddaughters Abigail Dix and Ellen Lentz; stepdaughters Margaret Davis of Mountain Brook, Ala., and Elizabeth Green of New Smyrna Beach, Fla; stepson Joseph Scales of New Smyrna Beach, Fla.; and stepdaughter-in-law, Sharon Zell of San Diego, Calif., in addition to numerous loving step-grandchildren and step-great-grandchildren.

Lois was predeceased by her stepson, Samuel Scales, in 1997; and by her loving husband, Edward R. Scales, in 2003.

Services are graveside in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.

In lieu of flowers, the family request donations in Lois' memory to the donor's favorite charity.

When Tracy Lynn DeVault was a kid, he was told several times that Henry had left his grandmother shortly after his dad was born. As he grew older, the story changed somewhat. Also, he was able to unearth some heretofore unknown facts. Here is what is now known.

Cecile moved to Bayard with her parents and two brothers some time after 1910. They had been living in Kirkman, Iowa. Cecile's father died in 1913 of appendicitis. His death left the family in a severe financial strait. Cecile was living with her mother when she and Henry were married on May 4, 1915. Cecile was then 21 years old and Henry was 22.

Sometime after they were married Cecile and Henry moved to Des Moines, Iowa. Tracy was told that they moved to Des Moines because Henry could find work there. (Tracy has since learned that Henry did not get along with his dad and that may have been the reason they moved away.) Cecile and Henry were living in Iowa when she became pregnant. The story Tracy's mom was told is that Cecile, being such a small women, caused concern that she might have a difficult delivery. It was decided that she would return to Bayard, so that she could be with her mother when their child was born. William Dallas DeVault (aka Bill) was born on March 7, 1918 (almost three years after Cecile and Henry had married). Apparently the delivery went well, but William became ill shortly after he was born. Within about three months Cecile had returned to Iowa. The story goes on to say that while cleaning their apartment she discovered evidence that a women had been living there while she was in Nebraska. She is supposed to have confronted Henry and he is supposed to have said, "Well, what did you expect would happen if you left me alone for several months?" Cecile then left Henry and returned to Bayard. Cecile told Marvel (Bill's wife) that Henry returned once when Bill was a couple of years old. Henry said he wanted to get back together, but by then Cecile was managing without him, and they apparently had some differences that they could not overcome.

Tracy's biggest problem with this story is that in tracking Henry down, he located the 1920 census for Des Moines, Iowa. It shows Cecile, Henry and his dad (then almost two years old) all living together. He is sure it was Cecile that provided the information to the census taker because his dad is listed as "Dallas". Only Cecile called his dad "Dallas" (Bill's middle name after Cecile's father). Henry called him William (his first name after Henry's father). This means that Cecile and Henry had been together for at least five years. They may have been together even longer than that. It is not known when she returned to Bayard.

In 1933, when Bill was fifteen years old, Cecile wrote to Henry's brother, William Lynn DeVault (aka "Lynn") who was then living in Livingston, Montana. She was out of work and trying to locate Henry. It is doubtful that she was able to locate him.

Letter from Cecile DeVault to her brother-in-law, William Lynn DeVault:

Bayard, Nebr.

Jan 19 - 1933

Dear Lynn:

Do you know where Henry is at this time? We heard he was with you some time ago. I'll tell you why I am asking.

I am out of work just now. Can't seem to get a job at any price, and since Henry hasn't sent Bill a thin dime in the past ten years, I thought he might help him a little now. You know Bill will be fifteen in March, is a "Freshie" this year, also a member of the Boy Scouts, he needs clothes. We have never asked Henry for anything (and never would could I find work) it seems to me it is no more than right for him to at least help some at this time. What do you think?

Would surely thank you a lot, if you help me locate him. We hope you are well, happy and prosperous.

Sincerely,

Cecile & Bill

As for Henry, he eventually moved to Detroit, Michigan. Tracy spoke to the oldest nephew of his second wife. He said that Henry showed up about 1935. He began working at the Chrysler automobile assembly plant on Kurcheval Street. Apparently he worked there until he retired. Shortly after he arrived in Detroit he began dating Josephine Brusso. They were eventually married and lived together until Henry died in 1973. Henry and Josephine owned a small wood frame house that was appraised at $32,000 when Josephine died in 1983. Henry was described as a difficult person to get to know. He worked during the week, had a garden and enjoyed keeping up his yard. On the weekends he would watch television and get mad at the commercials. (Tracy's dad used to watch television and get mad at the news.) Josephine's niece said that Henry had told them that he had been married before and had a son. Henry never talked about his family, but he did talk about farming when he was in the country.

The following story was published in the book Historic Haunted America by Michael Norman and Beth Scott. The introductory paragraph states that the story is "absolutely true."

Maude DeVault, Schoolmarm

Redington was once the liveliest outpost of civilization in Nebraska's western border country. Its reputation was acquired, in part, by tales of a ghost that frequented the scene of a gruesome murder.

On the night of September 30, 1883, Charles Adams was brutally killed. His head was chopped off. There were no clues to the identity of the assailant, but the motive was apparently robbery. A large sum of money was missing from Adams's cabin, along with a diamond shirt stud and other valuables. The search for the murderer was futile and, after the initial excitement had worn off, interest waned.

The community, located about ten miles southwest of Bridgeport on today's State Highway 88, was growing. By 1886 a post office was established and stores and sod houses were being built by the new settlers. The Adams murder took on a new twist, however, when locals said they saw a ghost visiting the little cabin where Adams had lived and died. On the anniversary of his murder, Adams was spied riding a white horse, carrying his head in his hands like the immortal Ichabod Crane. For years the headless horseman returned, frightening everyone who saw him.

The legend grew throughout the region until 1913, when the Redington School's new teacher, an adventuresome young beauty named Maude DeVault, said she'd surely like to meet this phantom horseman. Pranksters heard about Miss DeVault's wish and saw the opportunity for a practical joke. They decided that teacher and ghost should meet.

One young man consented to pose as the ghost, and draped himself and his horse with sheets. He was to conceal himself directly behind the dilapidated Adams Cabin, a mile south of Redington, and at the given signal he was to ride out into the road and gallop away.

At precisely nine o'clock on the night of September 30, 1913, the thirtieth anniversary of Adams's death, the village ghost hunters arrived in front of the cabin to wait and watch. Their patience was soon rewarded; the ghost galloped boldly toward them. The citizens panicked, nearly trampling one another as they tried to flee. That is, everyone but Miss DeVault. She stepped forward, seized the horse by the reins, and demanded and explanation of the rider's periodic visits, punctuating her request with a couple of shots from her trusty revolver.

The frightened horse bolted, crashed into a wire fence and lost its trappings. Spectators peered into the gloom and saw several white sheets float to the ground. The "ghost" had been killed! Women shrieked and fainted and men groaned.

The "ghost's" sister, a formidable figure of nearly 280 pounds, was so stricken with fear that she sprinted toward Redington to spread the news. An automobile sent in pursuit overtook her only with difficulty. Brought back to the scene, the sister discovered it was her brother and not a ghost who rode horseback that night. And her brother was alive and unhurt. She collapsed, and a physician had to be called.

When the episode was finally explained to everyone later that night, Miss DeVault said she had expected plotters to arrange a joke on the schoolmarm and had loaded her revolver with blank cartridges. She earned the respect of everyone.

The Redington post office was abandoned in 1962 and the "haunted Adams Cabin" itself burned in 1974. A church, a rural school, and a cluster of families are all that remain. Yet Redington's distinctions have probably never been matched. This little pioneer community had a legendary ghost, a real live spook, a ghost buster, and a 280-pound lady sprinter - all at the same time. It was probably enough to make the spirit of Charles Adams flee to Omaha.

Bayard Transcript - October 10, 1929

Mrs. C. E. Moberg entertained five girls at a delicious 6 o'clock dinner Friday evening in honor of her daughter, Marjorie Beth, the occasion being her seventh birthday. Games were played and Marjorie Beth received some lovely remembrances from her friends. The guests were June Deal, Erline Vanatta, Bernice Prince, Margaret Fricke and Jean Prideaux.

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Letter from Maude DeVault to her brother, Lynn DeVault

March 28, 1955

Dear Lynn:

I've been told one should never start a letter with an apology, but when I find a letter from you dated August 30, which I'm quite sure I haven't answered and one dated Febr. 2, which I know I haven't, I feel that something like an apology is due. In one of them you mentioned that the years of youth are long, long years, but I'm finding that the years of middle age are short, short years. Time is slipping away from me so fast that soon I will have reached the age of senility and I don't like it at all. So many things I've wanted and intended to do in my life and looking back I find I've realized very few of them.

I scarcely know where to start for if I try to find an answer to all the things you've asked about in these letters, I'll be writing till midnight. First I'll try and tell you a bit about Ada Montgomery Pearson. I'm very sure if you had met her on the street you would have recognized her for I think she's just about the same as the day you all laughed at her in class. She married a Ralph Pearson, whose sister married one of the Einsel boys. And of course you remember Orval Einsel, the sissy one, and I believe he turned out to be a bad one, more or less a criminal. Well any way Ada has two sons, one I think lives in Washington D.C. and one in Chicago. If you remember Ada went to Lincoln to school and belonged to one of the very good sororities (hard to believe, but true). They lived here while her children were small and then moved to Lincoln, and I believe her boys are both university graduates. Her husband died some years ago and she came back to Bayard to live with her mother, the father having died some years before. Mrs. Montgomery died several years ago and Ada is still here, very well to do I think for the Montgomerys never spent any of their money. However Ada works, runs the linotype at the Transcript office, baby sits and various other sorts of small jobs. She combs her hair straight back and coiled in a big knot at the back, and some how I feel that she must dive down in some of her mother's old trunks occasionally and come up with what she calls a new dress. Of course it goes without saying that she's a thoroughly good person, but one that would drive me mad if I had to be around her. She belongs to the church we do and once in a while I get on some committee with her. She uses very good English, but the very flowery type. She's who, instead of saying "I don't know," would say "One doesn't know, does one?" But to make a long story short I would say that Ada had changed very little in forty years.

Yes, Bobby Burns was definitely a horseman. He was a bachelor and as I remember it, he and George Young sort of teamed up together. I haven't any idea what became of him, but George Young married, had a couple of children and the daughter recently married Rufus Knapp who is Dick Knapp's oldest son. I always have remembered hearing Mrs. Dick Knapp tell someone many years ago at a Fourth of July celebration that Dick gave the kids fifteen cents apiece to spend and how mad she was at Dick for so doing.

Strange to say just a few weeks before I got your last letter as I was opening a can of Crisco, I suddenly remembered Cottolene and wondered what became of such products. I would never have thought of the verse again, but it came back very vividly as I read it. And do you remember X-Cel-O, the breakfast food that I think was pretty much like the corn flakes of today. Once upon a time there was a silver coffee service to be given to the one who first found all the letters X-CEL-O in the boxes of breakfast food, there being one letter in each box. We had everything but the E for months and of course there was only one E to be had. Well, low and behold, we got the package with the E in it. Dad kept the service for awhile in one of the drawers of that monstrosity called a bookcase or something and every few days he'd take it out and polish it for hours. He finally sold it to the Soders for five dollars. If you remember the Soders ran a saloon and also had a very smart high stepping horse and red wheeled buggy which was almost as grand as Dolly Morrison's sway back. The Soders started to build a sidewalk from their house out to the street by filling empty whiskey bottles with sand and then burying them bottom up level with the ground, but the Soders left before it was fininshed and the Gilberts bought the place. The first thing they did was dig up the walk. But at any rate the beautiful coffee service left with the Soders and I guess we lost our appetite for X-Cel-O when we didn't get to keep the silver, and so it and Cottolene fade into the past. I best remember that during the time when Joe Hughes used to eat at our house once in a while, and something he said once about Cottolene gravy which very much embarrassed mother for the gravy was made with Cottolene. We didn't get around to talking about Joe. You know he lived someplace close to North Platte for a long time, a ranch I think. He was here about fifteen years ago. I didn't see him then, but Dorothy did. At one time Mrs. Ellis Judd, she and Ellis having separated, kept house for Joe. Have never heard any more about him since he was here.

I am really mad a myself for not clipping a picture of the former Ester Scott which appeared in the Omaha World Herald a few weeks ago. It was taken with her husband and several other people at the Stockmen's Convention. I don't see her very often any more, though we used to be very good friends. After teaching a few years she took nurse's training and used to be at our house quite often during the years when we were first married. But anyway the picture showed Ester to be about as broad as she is long, or a Chris says one of those people that it's just as easy to go over them as it is to go around them. But they have a lot of money for the Coulters never spent much of theirs either. Whether you ever knew it or not, Esther had you marked for her own and was not at all happy when you escaped. This she told me so I didn't just imagine it.

And now we come to Melissa Boyer. Melissa as you probably know married Tom McCann. For quite some years she was just Melissa, fat and coarse like her mother. When people here began to be beauty parlor conscious she decided she'd like to be a beauty operator. Tom said he wouldn't have much money to leave her, but he'd give her a good education so he sent her to Denver to a beauty school. You should have seen Melissa when she came back, dieted down to a perfect figure and while of course being Melissa she could never be beautiful, she had changed and all for the better. Then after Tom had given her all that good education she ups and has an affair with another man and finally leaves Tom and married the other fellow, and as far as I know she lives in California, a Mrs. Markland.

We very much enjoyed the clippings you sent and I have a feeling that there are times when you regret having parted with the Bearcat. I shouldn't be too surprised sometime to hear that it had changed hands again and was back in your garage. And if you remember will you tell me again just where you found the clipping about the Leaches. And by the way do you want these clippings back?

Thanks for your offer of the books, but I imagine we have most of the same books you have. We have all of Francis Parkinson Keys books and as we do not have extra storage space we can't take care of extra copies. This library already has a number of books that once belonged to you. Most of those you left at home. I tore the page out with your name and gave them to the library just a short time before I went to work there. Don't you have a veteran's hospital near you? So many times they are glad to get books. We have both "The Big Sky" and "The Way West" and I have read them both and thought them very fine. If you have not located "Old Jules" yet I should like to mail you our copy. It is old and battered but still read quite frequently, but I wouldn't mind it's being out for several weeks. I am so sure that you would enjoy it and you could return it when you were through with it. It is definitely not the same as "Cheyenne Autumn." That and "The Buffalo Hunters" are her two latest books, Old Jules was her first and much of the material for it she gathered from Old Jules himself before he died in the Alliance hospital. So if you are still wanting it, I would be very happy to loan it to you for a period. And while we are talking about books Chris wonders why you are wasting your time with ours when you should be writing books. He doesn't think A. B. Guthrie or Mari Sandoz has anything to offer that you haven't. I have delved into the past so many times in preparing papers and programs for different things that I belong to that people have told me I should do something about preserving those early day happenings for posterity. But the generation that I got most of my information from is a past generation and most of those people are up on he hill now, and so my source of information is buried with them.

We read such a nice letter that Dorothy had from Sue after the holidays and after Hunter had come and gone again. You will soon have your family together again for the summer. We managed to get through the holiday season and now we are able to say "Just one more Xmas for them over there."

Best wishes to Leris and Sue

Sincerely

Maude

OBITUARY

Bayard Transcript - January 30, 1975

Maude Moberg

Graveside Rites

Tuesday Morning

Graveside funeral services for Maude C. Moberg were held at the Bayard Cemetery at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 28. Mrs. Moberg passed away Saturday, Jan 25 at a nursing home in Gering. She was 79 years of age.

The daughter of William and Elizabeth (Campbell) Davault, she was born July 21, 1895 at Bayard and made this her life-long home.

She was married to Carl E. Moberg on June 20, 1921 at Denver. Mr. Moberg preceded her in death several years ago.

Mrs. Moberg served as librarian in the Bayard City Library for 25 years until her retirement in the late 1960's.

Left to mourn her death are a daughter, Mrs. Marjorie Campbell of Colorado Springs, Colo., and a sister, Dorothy DeVault of Scottsbluff.

The Rev. Frank Hodson officiated at the graveside service Tuesday. Interment was made at the Bayard Cemetery. Plummer-Towne Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangements.

Bayard Transcript - September 5, 1929:

Miss Marjorie DeVault left Friday for Mitchell where she has accepted the position of third grade teacher for the ensuing year.

Poems by Marjorie DeVault

THANKS FOR THESE

Long it has been since I have seen a star,

Or stood at night and gazed at heavens afar;

Long it has been I have been forced to lie

And reach into my memories for pictures of the sky.

Long too, since I have braced the morning breeze

And looked on lanes and roads with rows of lovely trees.

The great outdoors I loved seems very far away

From these four walls where I a prisoner now lay;

A prisoner to pain and aching malady,

But these words I've penned wrong, I should more thankful be.

I have a great companion in a sister kind to me,

And I have many, many friends who keep me company.

All the great out of doors I would not change for these;

God knows I would not trade them for all the earth and seas.

But to you pain-free mortals who gaily walk the earth,

I beg you note the beauties of the out doors - know its worth'

Lest sometime in the future, perhaps you and not I

May need to search your memories for pictures of the sky.

WE THAT MOURN

Could it be that we may over mourn for our beloved dead?

"Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done" in the Lord's Prayer is said.

Is it self pity that makes us think we've so much time for tears,

Makes us forget the blessings God's given us through the years?

When with these many blessing we often failed to pray;

Should we expect that He would have Mercy on us today?

When, only in desperation we view the path we trod,

When, only in desperation we think to pray "Dear God".

Let us lay aside our grief, the dead will rest in peace,

Let's help the sick and dying their sufferings release.

Let's try to serve the Master as he would have us do,

And honor our dead by the beautiful way that we live and follow through.

Note: Did not marry.

DAVAULT-HATCHETT WEDDING

A Very Elegant Affair at the Methodist Church Thursday Morning

When new voyagers set sail under the canopy of Hope with favoring winds, upon the matrimonial sea, friends, tried and true, stand upon the shore and give earnest prayer for their success and welfare; and so the Leader this bright October day bids Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Davault felicitations.

In the Methodist church Thursday morning at 10 o'clock Aylett French Davault and Miss Lella Hatchett were united in marriage by Rev. J. L. Weatherford. The prettily decorated church was filled with invited friends and relatives. There was all the beauty and solemnity of a church wedding. Rev. Weatherford's ceremony was impressive and included the ring service. The organ's soft music added to the dignity of the occasion.

As the wedding party awaited at the door Miss Alma Reily sang "Oh Promise Me." As Mrs. Julia Pfaff, of Jonesburg played Mendelshon's wedding march the party entered, led by the minister, followed by John Knox and Bruce Davault, Miss Emma Davault and Miss Nettie Goddin, R. S. McCall and the groom, Miss Beatrice Hatchett and the bride. During the service Mrs. Pfaff played in low strains "Annie Laurie."

The bride was attired in a brown tailor-made traveling suit; the groom wearing the conventional black. Miss Lella is one of the most charming young women we know; handsome, intelligent, self-reliant, a favorite in society and church circles. She possesses that seldom heard of grace, common sense. Aylett lives in Nebraska and is engaged in sheep raising, though he is a home boy raised in this community. He is a young man in every way worthy to be a good woman's husband. They left on the west-bound train for Grand Island, Neb., where they will reside this winter.

WW II draft registration, or 11 July, per Missouri Birth Records, microfilm image, online at ancestry.com.

Newland was using the DaVault spelling for his surname in 1926 when he married Florence Conner. He mentioned in one letter that his mother told him that his middle name was "Alfred" and his father told him that he didn't have a middle name. In the Oklahoma early marriage records he is listed as N. A. DaVault.

Newland conducted extensive research in the DeVault/DeWald genealogy, and eventually published a 287-page history and genealogy of the descendants of Henrich Dewald in 1975, a year before his death.

; Davault -- Garrett

Wednesday evening Nov. 18th a pretty wedding was solemnized at the cozy home of Mr and Mrs B F Garrett. The contracting parties being their only daughter, Eugenia Brown and Edwin Lee Davault. At 7:30 the bridal party entered the tastefully decorated parlor to the melodious strains of the wedding march rendered by Miss Alice Cardwell. The bride and groom were preceded by four young men, Pate Young, Jack Garrett, T. L. Cardwell Bruce Davault and four you ladies Misses Duffy, Goddin, Emma Davault and Lella Hatchett, who arranged themselves on either side the center of the crowded parlor forming an aisle up which the couple advanced till they stood directly under a handsome wedding bell of ferns and chrysanthemums, the clapper of which swayed to and fro with every breath as though singing out a gladsome prophesy for the future of the young pair. Here they were united by Rev J T McDonald, who in a very brief but impressive ceremony pronounced them man and wife. Without waiting for congratulations the newly wedded pair led the way to the dining room where an excellent supper of three courses were served. While the happy guests, about 70 in number, were satisfying the demands of the inner man with the delicious viands the eye was being feasted upon the beautiful table decorations, consisting of festoons of smilax and white chrysanthemums dropped from the center of the ceiling to every corner of the table on which were arranged pretty doilies, fruits, ferns, etc. The bride always pretty and attractive, never looked so handsome as when attired in an eloquent cloth dress of ashes of roses, trimmed in ribbon and chiffon and holding in her hand a point lace handkerchief and a boquet of white chrysanthemums tied with ribbon, she took the vows of wifehood.

A number of useful presents were received: Set of dishes, Lineaus M Garrett; Dresden clock, Alf Davault and wife, John Knox and wife; marble clock, Charlie Wilson, wife and Pate Young; carving set, Nettie Goddin; table linen, Mrs F Davault table linen, Mr and Mrs Wagoner; silver pick holder, Laura Kirtly; sugar spoon, Mattie Kuhne; silver napkin ring, Lizzie and Emma Davault $5, F Davault; rug, W G Garrett; rug W H Knox and wife; silver berry spoon, Jos McCleary and family; lamp, Joe and Ock Garrett; knives, forks and spoons, B F Garrett: tea spoons, Bruce Davault and Jack Garrett; tea spoons, Abe Davault and family; desert knives, C A Bass and family; cut glass tumblers, Mrs N M Garrett; dolies, Mrs Clark Morris movable clock, W H and J A Garrett; vase, Alice Cardwell; salid fork J F Ball and wife; pearl handle fruit knives, M A Grisham and wife; dresser and wash stand set, Annie Duffy; salt and peppers, Misses Hatchett; cake and pie knife, C A Davault and wife; berry set Annie Janssen; glass tea set, Tillie Millikan; pair towels, Riley Grisham; pair towels, Mrs McDonald: tray cloth, Emma Davault; granite ware, Mr and Mrs Phaff, pitcher, L Phillips; butter knife Grace Gardner and Mary Taylor; fine chickens, Mrs Marlow; flour bin, Mrs B E Wilson. Guests.

WEDDING ARTICLE #2

Ed Davault and Miss Eugenia Garrett Married Wednesday Evening.

A very pretty wedding occurred at the home of B F Garrett's two miles east of this place Wednesday eve, when Miss Eugenia, the only daughter of Mr and Mrs Garrett was united in marriage to Edward L Davault. Rev J T McDonald sealed the weding vows in very short but earnest manner.

The couple was conducted into the parlor by four couples: Pate Young, Lella Hatchett; Jack Garrett, Emma Davault; Bruce Davault, Nettie Goddin; Fayette Cardwell, Anna Duffy. The young men preceeded the young ladies into the parlor, the latter coming in and taking positions aside the young men. Mr. Davault and bride stood beneath a beautiful bell made of ferns and chrysantheums.

Miss Eugenia wore a suit of silver gray trimmed in ribbon of same shade and carried a large bunch of chrysantheums. Mr. Davault was attired in black, gloves and wore a button boquet of chrysantheums.

The dining room and table was very attractively trimmed. The delicacis prepared for the occasion were fully enjoyed.

Ed and wife came to town that night and occupied their home which had been previously prepared for them.

The LEADER only wishes for them the best and brightest side of life.

OBITUARY - The Daily Enterprise, Tuesday, December 17, 1963

DAVAULT - In Riverside, Calif., Dec. 15, 1963. Mrs. Eugenia B. Davault aged 91 years. Late resident of 1833 Seventh St., Riverside, Calif. Mother of Roy Davault of 1833 Seventh St., Riverside, Calif. Services will be conducted Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the M. H. Simons & Co., Chapel. Rev. John P. Boyce officiating. Interment in Olivewood Cemetery. Our parking lot on Orange street for your convenence. If desired, contributions may be made to the charity of your desire.

Note from Cynthia (Averrett) Nieto, Thelma's great-niece:

Both of Thelma's parents lived long lives, as she did. She always had a vegetable garden, even before she died. She loved to sew, made all of her clothing. She did needle point for hours, got this from her mom, Rose Etta (Butler) Averrett. Roy and Thelma collected antiques, but after his death she sold a great deal of them. She belonged to the Christian Science Church for many years, as did her mother and sister. I remember Roy as being of very few words because she did all of the talking. Also, in later years, she did all the driving. She was the "Black Sheep" in her family. She did things her way, or not at all. She was always nice to me, but favored my brother more. She was always reminding me that I was an "Averrett."

Obituary -- Montgomery Standard, Montgomery City Missouri, April 17, 1936:

Catherine Beal (pronouned Bell) DeVault spent her entire life on the same farm 3 1/2 miles southwest of Williamsburg. She died at the age of 65 years, 10 months and 5 days (error). She joined the Methodist Church as a girl. The funeral was held in the Methodist Church with burial at the Williamsburg Cemetery. She is survived by daughters Martha Ellen (Mrs. Hugh Crabtree) of Cascade, Idaho and Catherine (Mrs Gordon Niedergerke) of Fulton, Missouri, grandchild Martha Jo Niedergerke, her husband and her brother Marvin Benson of McCredie, Several nephews and Nieces. Mrs. DeVault was in failing health for a long time having never fully recovered from an accident suffered several years ago.

Stories told to her daughter:

When Martha was about four years old she was hoeing with a toy hoe one evening and flipped a grass stem or small stick into her eye near the pupil. Her parents drove her 15 miles to the doctor in Montgomery City in a buggy. Not really wanting a drink, but frightened and used to stopping at Rock Well for picnics when traveling, she demanded a drink from Rock Well. Rather than cause her to cry, her father stopped in the dark to get her a drink from the spring. The Montgomery doctor arranged for the train to make an unscheduled stop at Montgomery City and he and Martha's mother took Martha to a specialist in St. Louis to remove the stick. This whole business took all night. In the morning Martha and her mother went to Cousin Bell Benson's house and the doctor to friends or relatives in the same general area of St. Louis to rest until catching the afternoon train back to Montgomery City where Martha's father met them with the buggy.

When Martha was about six years old she got a bean stuck up her nose and was again taken to the doctor. The bean came out before the trip was completed though Martha never told anyone because she wanted to see a friend.

The Benson family had been fond of good horses and Martha's mother, Katie (Benson) Davault, had inherited at least one and possibly more horses from her parents or acquired them when she and her husband purchased the Benson homestead. Martha's horse, Beauty, was the half-Tennessee-Walker offspring of Topsy, one of the Benson's high-schooled horses. Her family used Topsy to pull the buggy because she was a bit rough riding. Martha claimed that the high stepping showy Tennessee Walkers of today's show ring have been developed in modern times. The Tennessee Walkers of her day had the smooth distance-eating gaits for the traveler, but held their heads low, the neck level with the back. While she admired show horses and loved to attend horse shows, she always said that to her Beauty was beautiful.

She had many stories to tell involving Beauty. One day Martha was visited by a young man who came calling to impress her with his new horse. Martha was peeved at him for she knew he had called upon another girl on a farm in the vicinity and finding she was not at home made the Davault home his next stop. With showing off as his goal, he suggested they go riding. Beauty's gaits were faultless, nor could she be out-distanced. Martha was enjoying the comparison and by now she was gloating! Frustrated, the young man turned his horse toward a fence and sailed over. At this point, Martha became a little concerned for she had never taken Beauty over a high fence; however she decided that Beauty was smart enough to simply refuse to jump if the fence were too high. Besides, this was a good opportunity to put that fellow in his place! Pretending this was something she did every day and hiding her worry, Martha turned Beauty towards the high fence and sailed over with no hesitation and room to spare. A very cocky young man was thoroughly out-shown and Martha said she wasn't the least bit sorry he never came calling again.

After high school, Martha taught at one-room country schools, living at home and riding Beauty to school each day. At one school, not a great distance from her home, but in a direction she did not regularly travel and therefore did not know the locals, she was warned by the head of the school board of several older boys with the reputation of running off previous teachers with their loutish, bullying ways. This gentleman insisted on going to school with Martha the first day so he could introduce her and lecture the troublesome boys. Martha decided the best thing she could do was to start out as she intended to carry on. When the class was assembled and before the head of the school board could open his mouth, she sized up the potential troublemakers, chose the largest and most swaggering boy; easily a head taller than herself and one she had heard came from a family with livestock and said, "You look like you might know about animals." When the startled boy replied of course he did, he knew all about taking care of animals, Martha told him she was very particular about Beauty but perhaps if he felt he could handle the job he could take care of her horse each day. Not one day of trouble did she have out of the so-called troublemakers.

Martha went to school in Fulton, Missouri as did her sister.

Jackson Benson, Martha's uncle, was said to have hidden a large sum of money somewhere on the old Eden Benson homestead and died without revealing its whereabouts. It was thought by some that the slave, Cicero, may have known where the money was hidden and used the knowledge to better his own position, for he somehow came to have his own cabin after the Emancipation Proclamation. The theories abounded and there were times when family members would return home to find evidence of persons having searched the property. Interest in finding the money carried over to 1920 when Martha's father tore the old house down. The day he tore down the chimneys, a crowd of neighbors gathered to watch, curious as to whether the treasure would be found hidden behind the stones. Even Martha conducted searches when she was quite young. After her father diverted the runoff from the hillside, Martha would ride her horse along the original drainage ravine looking for eroded places along the banks that might expose a treasure box. One time she even pulled the plaster from the wall in her bedroom when she imagined the crack under the window might be widened to allow access to a hiding place. It was empty.

Stories provided by her daughter, Catherine Adele (Crabtree) Cook, 1974.

WW I service -- AS 3913623 Corporal Motor Truck Co. 518, enlisted 5 AUG 1918, served with A. E. F. in France 1918, returned from France on USS Charleston. discharged Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming, 18 AUG 1919.