OH HAPPY DAY

This summer I had the opportunity to visit Missouri where my grandfather, H.E. "Harry" Chenoweth was born. Pineville is a very small town today, but it is still the county seat of McDonald County. As there were no accommodations in Pineville, we had to stay in Neosho, about 20 miles north. One of the things we did in Neosho was to visit the IOOF cemetery where my ancestor, Dr Henry S. Chenoweth was buried, with his wife, Lavina White. We found the cemetery in late afternoon and had no idea where to look among the hundreds of stones there, but my wife, Deanna, suggested a corner which looked older than the rest, and within a few minutes we happened on the right stones. Now that I think back on it, maybe Henry was somehow guiding me from the start, almost 9 years ago, to take up the family genealogy and correct past mistakes.

Some 6 years ago, Peter Chenoweth sent me the will of James (s/o John) in Grant Co. IN. That document shook the Cora Hiatt structure of things. To my dismay, I came to realize that my great great grandfather, Dr Henry S. Chenoweth, of Chillicothe, OH, was misplaced in the two Chenoweth books. The problem was not that Henry was not mentioned in the will, but rather, that the children mentioned were very different from those enumerated in the books. I easily found the right grouping of the children of James misplaced in another part of the book, but the larger mystery has been, where did Henry and his siblings then belong?

I was lucky enough to enlist my uncle, Harry Holt Chenoweth, in this effort and continued to gather what information I could find on the Chenoweth family. Harry, a retired Mechanical Engineering professor at the University of Washington, celebrated his 90th birthday this spring. My uncle and I agreed that the names of Henry's siblings were probably right and that what we were looking for was another James who had children born in Virginia. Harry came up with a solution that subsequent facts seem to fit as the only real possibility. In the last few months that possibility has become more certain with another discovery by Uncle Harry of the Ohio will of Henry Safley.

In brief, there were no instances of the use of the name James within the family until the 4th generation, but in that generation, all born in the middle of the last part of the 18th century, there were 5 male sons bearing the name James Chenoweth. Now that James the son of John of Hampshire Co., VA was eliminated by the discovery of his will, the careful examination of the others really narrowed down to James Francis, b: ca 1774 in Maryland, as suggested by Uncle Harry. And though this seemed like a highly likely possibility there were problems with understanding the story and how it fit. There was also no proof.

Uncle Harry's more recent discovery of the will of Henry Safely has solved the story part of this dilemma. The story, though likely, still has to be proven, but I am certain enough of its validity to now use it. James Francis was the son of a 3rd generation Thomas Chenoweth, one of the 29 grandsons of John Chenoweth, the progenitor who founded the Chenoweth family of America. This Thomas was probably born about 1737 in Baltimore Co., MD, though this is uncertain. He was the son of John Chenoweth, the oldest son of the original family, and Mary Smith his wife. One of his brothers was John, the Hampshire Co., VA father of the James described in error in the Chenoweth books as the ancestor of Henry.

Thomas did something very different from the rest of his 5 brothers. Raised in Virginia, he returned to the Baltimore area where he married Rachel Ruxton Moore in Baltimore Co., MD. Rachel was from a family of some substance, the daughter of James Moore, Jr and Hannah Wilmoth. She and Thomas had four known children before her early death at about age 28. Thomas, with four young children remarried to an Ann Carroll and soon thereafter migrated south to Botetourt Co., VA. This area is located near present day Fincastle and a place where no other Chenoweth family lived. The son, James Francis, married here in 1799 to Rebecca Safley, the daughter of Henry Safley and Margaret Dunlap. In the 1810 Census James and Rebecca were listed as living in Botetourt Co. with 5 children, 2 daughters and 3 sons. Until recently, that was all that the Chenoweth genealogy had knowledge of. The family just seems to have vanished.

The list of children in the 1925 book of Cora Hiatt that were misplaced under James Chenoweth the s/o John were Margaret, Sarah, Thomas, James, Henry S. and John W. The only continuation of these lines given were for Henry and John, both of whom became doctors in Missouri. I am uncertain as to who sent this information in to Cora, her research papers were lost in a fire in 1976. It is the only listing of this grouping of children that we have found, and our assumption has been that it was sent in by descendants of Henry and or John and placed by Cora under the wrong James.

This assumption by Uncle Harry and myself, that Henry and John were indeed brothers, was a key factor that precluded Henry from being the son of the James who died in Grant Co., IN. The will of that James mentions a son, John, who had died, and Henry's brother John was very much alive at the time, dying much later in the 1870s in Texas. Various Missouri records appear to bear this relationship out as both Henry and John lived for a short time together in Greene Co., MO. One record mentions John as an uncle to one of Henry's sons. Another in celebrating early settlers of Greene Co. mentions John and Henry as brothers. In another instance, they are named as co-defendants in a lawsuit.

When we look at the broad question of the cited names of other siblings there appears to be marriages for both a Sarah and Margaret, not previously identified in the Chenoweth books, who are born in Virginia and of the right age. There is a possible candidate for a Thomas who may be a brother. But these children all married in different areas of Ohio and the question became: why would this happen? This was especially puzzling in regards to the two daughters, Sarah and Margaret, both of whom married in Champaign Co., OH. The story was at best awkward .

Recently Uncle Harry found the will of Henry Safley, the father of Rebecca Chenoweth who married James Francis in Botetourt Co., VA. Henry died in December of 1838 and left his will in Champaign Co., OH. In it he mentions his deceased daughter Rebecca Chenoweth and directs her share to go to her unnamed children. This document tells us several things. James Francis and Rebecca had children (confirming the 1810 census), these children were very much alive in 1838 and there was a natural reason for some of these children to have come to Champaign Co., OH. As a tweak to this, the wife of Henry Safley and mother of Rebecca was a Margaret and there was also a daughter Sarah, giving reason to the naming of the two daughters of Rebecca and James, i.e. Margaret and Sarah, that would marry in Champaign Co.

While we will continue looking for evidence, but I am convinced we have found the right lineage. The website database has been corrected from Cora's incorrect JOHN(1) JOHN(2) JOHN(3) JAMES(4) HENRY S(5) to JOHN(1) JOHN(2) THOMAS(3) JAMES FRANCIS(4) HENRY S(5). It is my belief that Henry was actually named Henry Safley Chenoweth after his grandfather.

JAMES FRANCIS4 CHENOWETH (THOMAS3, JOHN2, JOHN1) was born 1774 in Maryland, and died Bef. 1825. He married (1) REBECCA ROBINA SAFLEY August 20, 1799 in Botetourt Co., VA, daughter of HENRY SAFLEY and MARGARET DUNLAP. She was born November 18, 1784 in Rockingham Co., VA and died February 28, 1813 in Botetourt Co., VA. He married (2) NANCY CRAWFORD November 14, 1813 in Botetourt Co., VA, daughter of WILLIAM CRAWFORD. She was born Bet. 1769-1789 and died Unknown.

Children of JAMES CHENOWETH and REBECCA SAFLEY are:

1. THOMAS5 CHENOWETH, b. Aft 1799
2. MARGARET CHENOWETH, b. Aft 1802, Virginia; d. 1853, Ohio; m. BENJAMIN N. THARP, January 10, 1822, Champaign Co., OH; b. Bet. 1787-1804
3. HENRY S. CHENOWETH, b. December 13, 1804, Virginia; d. April 19, 1869, Nesosho, Newton Co., MO; m LEVINA FRANCES WHITE, August 26, 1829, Chillicothe, Ross Co., OH; b. 1811, Ohio; d. May 29, 1889, Newton Co., MO
4. SARAH CHENOWETH, Abt 1806, Virginia; d. Bef. 1900, Missouri; m. JESSE TUTTLE, February 26, 1834, Champaign Co., OH; b. Abt. 1801, Ohio; d. Bef. 1880
5. JOHN W. CHENOWETH, b. December 25, 1807, Virginia; d. October 5, 1874, Grayson Co., TX; m. FRANCES JACKSON RANDLE, September 1, 1831, Madison Co., IL; b. November 20, 1811, Illinois; d. April 24, 1894, Texas.
6. JAMES CHENOWETH, b. Aft 1799.

A Love Story

I first met James Harvey Chenoweth in a church in Newark, NJ. It was late afternoon of an early fall Sunday in 1916. I was practicing the piano, and a lady from the missionary home next door was picking up hymnbooks and straightening the chairs on the speaker's platform in preparation for the evening services. She told me that she was expecting ayoung man named Chenoweth to come in and stoke up the furnace. I think it was the unusual name that first interested me in the young man who presently entered from the street, and was introduced to me.

He was the fourth child, and the oldest son, of William and Elizabeth (Van Houten) Chenoweth. He had three older sisters and a younger brother. I later learned from his mother, that when she told her family that she wanted to marry a man by the name of Chenoweth, they objected strenuously, saying she would be marrying beneath her. This was because the Van Houtens belonged to the descendents of the early Dutch settlers who came to the New World after Peter Stuyvesant's famous bargain with the Indians for Manhattan Island. The Dutch had largely colonized Manhattan, Westchester, and Northern New Jersey. In their way of thinking, "Who were these upstarts with the strange name?"

William Chenoweth died when his son, James Harvey, was four years old. He left Elizabeth with five children and very little money. She went to work for a machinist, a Belgian by the name of Boschman. After about ten years she married him and together they made a home for her five children and two of his own by a former marriage.

In the year following my seventeenth birthday, I became more and more attracted to young Chenoweth. He was then in his twenty-second year, and was beginning to think seriously of becoming a missionary. We were both attending a missionary training school and because I had lived in China, our mutual interests grew.

The year of 1917 was marked by three events: - James Harvey's first proposal of marriage to me; the entrance of America into World War I; and the death of my mother.

The proposal was not accepted, due mainly to the strenuous opposition of my mother that I was too young and the young man was too unstable.

The entrance of America into World War I made James Harvey's future uncertain because of the draft. And when my mother died in the fall, my father began to make preparations to return to China with what was left of his family. This he did in early February of 1918.

Went first to a mission station in Shensi province, where my sister and I spent the summer, while my father and brother went back to Kansu and the Tibetan border. My brother began learning the Tibetan language, making ready to carry out my father's old dream of beginning the evangelizing of Tibet.

In the meantime, my father returned to Central China and my sister and I joined him for the trip back west to Kansu. We got as far as Sian, the capitol of Shensi province, and decided to spend the winter there. We were joined by a young Canadian missionary, Reginald Jamieson, who later married my sister, Margaret. While in Sian we received word of the end of World War I, and also heard that the US Government had granted a passport to James Harvey and that he would be sailing for China in the Spring.

In March came a telegram from Shanghai that said, "I am coming to Sian alone." This told us that his plans to marry a certain young lady had fallen through, and he was still single.

After his arrival in Sian, we started on our long journey to the Tibetan Border. Besides my father, my sister and myself, there were two young men, Jamieson and Chenoweth, and of course several Chinese. This was a journey of mingled hardship and delight � hardship in the rough bumpy motion of the springless mule carts � and delight in the wild mountain scenery, the oncoming spring, with trees and wild flowers beginning to bud and bloom. There were rough rocky roads that made for difficult climbing � and then the breath-taking beauty of mountain-top scenery, a panorama of green valleys and other mountain ranges still to climb. And of course we were young and healthy and romantic. Even those days when the sky was clouded, and the fierce winds blew down from the desert of Gobi, carrying the sands that stung our faces and filled the folds of our clothing with their sharp particles � even then we laughed and sang � and vied with each other to see who could walk the farthest ahead of the caravan of mule carts and reach a wayside Inn where we cold sit on a bench and drink hot tea and wait for the slower travellers to come along.

IN MEMORIAM HONOR ROLL

Age 85 - ALBERT CHARLES10 SPIETH (NELLIE MAY9 STARKEY, MARY EDITH8 SMITH, ELIZABETH JANE7 REIP, EDITH AMANDA6 CHENOWETH, ROBERT T.5, JOHN4, WILLIAM3, JOHN2, JOHN1) was born March 07, 1919 in Lorain Co., OH, and died May 07, 2004 in Lagrange, Lorain Co., OH. He married (1) NAOMI ELLEN HUTCHISON. She was born March 27, 1918, and died July 23, 1997. He married (2) VELMA E. (MOHR) KAFER Private. She was born November 08, 1920, and died April 27, 2000.

Age 90 - LENNIE (ANDERSON) CHENOWETH nee unknown. She was born September 24, 1914 in Dillon Co., SC, and died October 12, 2004 in Zephyrhills, Pasco Co., FL. She married DUANE10 CHENOWETH (HARLAN JAY9, BEEBE8, MARSHALL7, JOHN KITTLE6, WILLIAM PUGH5, JOHN4, WILLIAM3, JOHN2, JOHN1) was born November 21, 1932 in Elkins, Randolph Co., WV, and died October 10, 1994 in Tampa, Hillsborough Co., FL.

Age 71 - EFFEEN CAROLINE CHENOWETH nee unknown. She was born November 05, 1932 in Galveston, Galveston Co., TX, and died September 04, 2004 in Texas City, Galveston Co., TX. She married RICHARD THEODORE8 CHENOWETH (RICHARD JACKSON7, DAVID THEODORE6, ISAAC JACKSON5, ISAAC J.4, ISAAC3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born February 14, 1930 in Orange Co., TX, and died December 29, 1991 in Galveston Co., TX.

Age 94 - MARCELLA H. CHENOWETH nee unknown. She was born January 19, 1910, and died September 24, 2004 in Indianapolis, Marion Co., IN. She married ALFRED 'PETE'7 CHENOWETH (JOHN H.6, EPHRAIM B.5, ABSOLUM4, ABSOLUM3, JOHN2, JOHN1) was born December 24, 1900 in Morgan Co., IN, and died December 24, 1954.

Age84 - CARL VINCENT3 CHENOWETH (JESSE E.2, SAMUEL REED1)* was born May 20, 1920 in Lexington, Cleveland Co., OK, and died October 07, 2004 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Co., OK. He married MARIE WELLS (note though Jesse listed Samuel Reed as his father on his marriage certificate, it is believed he was a ward of Samuel's and actually a son of Samuel's unwed sister, MARTHA EVALINE6 CHENOWETH (JOSEPH5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, JOHN1))

Age84 - CLARK BRADEN 'CLICK'8 CHENOWETH, JR. (CLARK BRADEN7, JOSEPH STEAVEN6, JAMES HACKLEY5, WILLIAM4, WILLIAM3, JOHN2, JOHN1) was born June 11, 1920 in Noble Co., OK, and died September 03, 2004. He married (1) FRANCES HURT. He married (2) SUSAN ?.

Age81 - FRANCES LUE8 CHENOWTH (HOWARD PINCKNEY7, JOHN ADDISON 'GUS'6, JOHN AUGUSTUS5, NICHOLAS4, JOHN3, RICHARD2, JOHN1) was born August 15, 1922 in San Paulo, BRAZIL, and died January 05, 2004.

Age80 - JAMES WILBERT8 CHENOWETH (JAMES NELSON7, GEORGE THOMAS6, GEORGE5, WILLIAM4, RICHARD3, ARTHUR2, JOHN1) was born May 12, 1924 in Baltimore Co., MD, and died October 21, 2004 in Covington, LA. He married (1) DELPHINE ADA BULL She was born July 30, 1926 in Parkton, Baltimore Co., MD, and died July 05, 2002 in Baltimore City, MD. He married (2) DOROTHY VIRGINIA. She was born December 28, 1928, and died May 28, 2001 in Baltimore Co., MD. He married (3) MARGARET KATHRINE SCHMIDT. She was born June 16, 1920 in Baltimore Co., MD, and died October 07, 1996 in Berlin, Worcester Co., MD. He married (4) DELPHINE ADA BULL , a 2nd time

Age59 - JOHN HENRY8 CHENOWETH, JR. (JOHN HENRY CLEMENTS7, CHARLES MILTON6, CHARLES EDWIN 'EDWARD'5, LUKE4, ARTHUR3, THOMAS2, JOHN1) was born September 06, 1945 in Oroville, Butte Co., CA, and died September 19, 2004. He married GLORIA J. ORMAN

Age96 - JOHN THOMAS 'TOM'8 CHENOWETH (WILLIAM OTIS7, ISAAC NEWTON6, ARCHIBALD S.5, NICHOLAS4, JOHN3, RICHARD2, JOHN1) was born August 09, 1908 in Barren Co., KY, and died September 13, 2004 in Glasgow, Barren Co., KY. He married BESSIE JEWEL MILLER 1929. She was born June 16, 1908 in Kentucky, and died September 07, 1991 in Glasgow, Barren Co., KY.

Age66 - PAUL LEE9 CHENOWETH (RAYMOND WILLIAM8, PAUL EARL7, WILLIAM EDWARD6, OLIVER BUCKMAN5, THOMAS4, THOMAS3, ARTHUR2, JOHN1) was born October 20, 1938 in Baltimore City, MD, and died November 14, 2004 in Towson, Baltimore Co., MD. He married SHARON RUTH

Age81 - PHILIP ELLIS8 CHENOWETH (LOUIS CASPER7, CASPER6, WILLIAM5, JOHN4, WILLIAM3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born July 31, 1923 in Galesburg, Knox Co., IL, and died October 2004 in Minnesota. He married SHIRLEY GAYLE SMITH

Age60 - RAYMOND WILLIAM9 CHENOWETH, JR. (RAYMOND WILLIAM8, PAUL EARL7, WILLIAM EDWARD6, OLIVER BUCKMAN5, THOMAS4, THOMAS3, ARTHUR2, JOHN1) was born August 30, 1944, and died September 03, 2004 in Baltimore Co., MD. He married ALICE MARIE BASTA, daughter of ANTHONY BASTA and ALICE CONKLIN.

Age60 - WAYNE GARY8 CHENOWETH (RICHARD JACKSON7, DAVID THEODORE6, ISAAC JACKSON5, ISAAC J.4, ISAAC3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born March 07, 1944 in Galveston, Galveston Co., TX, and died October 04, 2004 in Houston, Harris Co., TX. He married JANICE L. SMITH.

Age86 - WILLIAM BURREL8 CHENOWETH (WILLIAM GUY7, HENRY SEAMAN6, HENRY5, NICHOLAS4, JOHN3, RICHARD2, JOHN1) was born October 07, 1917 in Tulsa, Tulsa Co., OK, and died September 09, 2004 in Albuquerque, Bernalillo Co., NM. He married JO ANNA LYMAN, daughter of PATRICK LYMAN and LULA WALKER.

Age90 - FLORENCE A.9 ZUMWALT nee COPE (MYRTLE EMARINE8 CHENOWETH, WILLIAM LEMUEL7, JOHN HENTON6, JACOB VAN METER5, WILLIAM4, WILLIAM3, JOHN2, JOHN1) was born June 20, 1904 in Langlois, Curry Co., OR, and died October 18, 2004 in Myrtle Point, Coos Co., OR. She married FREDERICK 'FRED' ZUMWALT September 27, 1924. He was born May 12, 1904 in Oregon, and died January 1969.

Age87 - ARIST EUGENA 'SUE'9 BRANNEMAN nee GOBEL (MYRTLE8 WILHITE, LIEUSELY 'LUCILLE'7 JOHNSON, MARY ELIZABETH6 SEATON, ALLEN ROSE5, GEORGE4, RACHEL3 CHENOWETH, JOHN2, JOHN1) was born December 08, 1916 in Morgan Co., IN, and died September 09, 2004 in Clermont, Lake Co., FL. She married JEWEL BRANNEMAN March 12, 1935. He was born January 21, 1910, and died September 1983.

Age86 - MARY IDA CHENOWETH daughter of SAMUEL KUMMER and CLARA MERRITT. She was born July 23, 1917 in Bluffton, Wells Co., IN, and died May 10, 2004 in Corsicana, Navarro Co., TX. She married CLAUDENE RAY9 CHENOWETH July 02, 1938 in Wells Co., IN, (AARON WOODWARD8, JOHN WILLIAM7, ELIAS6, WILLIAM E.5, ELIAS4, JOHN3, JOHN2, JOHN1) was born June 23, 1916 in Wells Co., IN, and died March 02, 1990 in Navarro Co., TX.

Age90 - VONALBADE DANIEL OEHMIG, son of WILLIAM OEHMIG and RUTH DANIEL. He was born September 14, 1914 in Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH, and died October 10, 2004 in Lookout Mountain, Hamilton Co., TN. He married MARGARET ILLGES8 CHENOWETH (BEACH MEAD7, WILLIAM ARTHUR6, JAMES MARELYA5, JAMES S.4, RICHARD3, JOHN2, JOHN1)

Age87 - DORIS JEAN10 KNAPPAGE nee PADGETT (GLADYS ALFARETA9 POE, BERTHA8 EDWARDS, HARRIET ELIZABETH7 CHENOWETH, LEMUEL6, JOHN I.5, JOHN4, WILLIAM3, JOHN2, JOHN1) was born December 01, 1920 in Wichita, Sedgwick Co., KS, and died January 06, 2004. She married ROBERT WILFRED KNAPPAGE May 20, 1942 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., OH. He was born December 31, 1919 in Ramey, Clearfield Co., PA, and died July 02, 1969 in Dallas, Dallas Co., TX.

Age78 - PAULINE O. CHENOWETH nee PALMER. She was born April 01, 1926, and died August 11, 2004. She married Abt. 1944 LEROY DONALD8 CHENOWETH (JAMES WALTON CECIL7, CHARLES SHERMAN6, JAMES WALTON5, ISAAC J.4, ISAAC3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born January 18, 1926 in Los Angeles Co., CA, and died April 18, 2001 in Los Angeles Co., CA.

Age95 - HELEN E. CHENOWETH nee PATTERSON. She was born June 03, 1908 in Mercer Co., PA, and died April 26, 2004 in Mercer Co., PA. She married IVAN EUGENE9 CHENOWETH (THEODORE CHARLES8, GEORGE WASHINGTON7, HICKMAN6, WILLIAM PUGH5, JOHN4, WILLIAM3, JOHN2, JOHN1) was born September 07, 1904 in Smithfield, Wetzel Co., WV, and died June 24, 1995 in Sheakleyville, Mercer Co., PA.

Age85 - OLIVE 'SIS' CHENOWETH, daughter of OLIVER STARR and MARY SNYDER. She was born September 05, 1919 in Gary, Lake Co., IN, and died October 17, 2004. She married August 24, 1940 HARRY WESLEY9 CHENOWETH, JR. (HARRY WESLEY8, WILLIAM ALBERT7, CHARLES WESLEY6, WILLIAM THOMAS5, WILLIAM4, ARTHUR3, ARTHUR2, JOHN1)

Age80 - WILODENE MAXINE9 BERKEY nee WALTERS (ETHEL G.8 HALL, JOSEPHINE A. 'JOSIE'7 CHENOWETH, FRANKLIN P.6, HARVEY R.5, JOHN4, WILLIAM3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born April 16, 1924, and died September 21, 2004. She married (1) DENNIS J. COUCH April 25, 1943. He was born April 19, 1918, and died January 22, 1991. She married (2) unknown BERKEY.

Age73 - DAVID A.9 WHITCOMB (THURMAN A.8, RACHEL MARGARET7 THURMAN, JOSEPH ABSOLOM6, MARY5 CHENOWETH, ABSOLUM4, ABSOLUM3, JOHN2, JOHN1) was born August 25, 1931 in Michigantown, Clinton Co., IN, and died November 01, 2004 in Westville, La Porte Co., IN. He married ESTHER IONA BAIR September 29, 1951, daughter of HUGH BAIR and ESTHER LONG. She was born March 16, 1935 in Valparaiso, Porter Co., IN

Age76 - JOHN THURMAN9 WHITCOMB (THURMAN A.8, RACHEL MARGARET7 THURMAN, JOSEPH ABSOLOM6, MARY5 CHENOWETH, ABSOLUM4, ABSOLUM3, JOHN2, JOHN1) was born June 25, 1928 in Michigantown, Clinton Co., IN, and died September 18, 2004 in Valparaiso, Porter Co., IN. He married BETTY LOU BUZALSKI December 30, 1950 in San Diego, San Diego Co., CA, daughter of ANTHONY BUZALSKI and GENEVA HARNESS. She was born September 10, 1930.

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Age91 - REBA LORENE CHENOWETH, daughter of EDWARD TEAGUE and MARGARET ARNOLD. She was born July 19, 1913 in Atkins, Pope Co., AR, and died August 30, 2004 in Russellville, Pope Co., AR. She married JOSEPH LEONARD 'JOE'3 CHENOWETH (JAMES GARRISON2, JOHN PRICKETT1) was born March 31, 1907 in Pope Co., AR, and died August 31, 1984 in Pope Co., AR.

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Age87 � RONALD3 CHENOWETH (EDWIN JOHN RICHARD2, JOHN CHARLES1) was born September 12, 1916 in Wisconsin, and died August 06, 2004. He married ALICE unknown

Age69 - HELEN CARDELL CHENOWETH nee KELLER. She was born May 03, 1934 in Georgia, and died February 09, 2004 in Florida. She married EDWIN JOHN5 CHENOWETH, JR (EDWIN JOHN "EDWARD"4, FREDERICK3, FREDERICK2, JOHN1) was born December 19, 1938 in Alabama, and died June 01, 1981 in Birmingham, Jefferson Co., AL.

UNRESOLVED LINES: can you help?

Social Security listing for 2004 still unidentified:

• B. J. Chenoweth b: Jun 15, 1913 d: Jun 03, 2004 issued: CA res: TX
• Bobbie N. Chenoweth b: May 01, 1934 d: Apr 02, 2004 issued: IL res: AR
• Mary Chenowith b: Feb 20, 1948 d: May 04, 2004 issued: AR res: AR
• Mary I. Chenoweth b: Jul 23, 1917 d: May 10, 2004 issued: TX res: TX

A Love Story (continued)

No wonder that when we finally reached our destination, the western borders of Kansu, and we found the hills and valleys were covered with the pink and white star flowers, the blue and white flag lilies, and the rosy peonies; and we could go for rides on the hardy little ponies, native to the region, - that the barriers between James Harvey and myself came tumbling down, like the walls of Jericho.

Remembering his former experience with me and "parental consent", he asked me to promise that I would marry him whether or not my father agreed. I gave him the promise, but I felt sure that I could win my father over.

We were married that fall on November 12, 1919 (which was my husband's 24th birthday). We settled in the mission station in the suburbs of the city of Minchow. In due time we (had) three sons. They were Christian Wallace, born on December 11, 1920; James Harvey, Jr, born on February 14, 1922; and William Frank, born on July 29, 1924.

Here is the genealogy as it appears at this point:

William Clawson Chenoweth (17 Apr 1868-1899) married Elizabeth Van Houten (2 Jan 1869-May 1947). They had five children:

• Florence Elaine, born June 8, 1891
• Alice Iona, born November 7, 1892
• Elizabeth May "Betty:, born July 20, 1894
• James Harvey, born November 12, 1896
• Frank Larkin, born November 24, 1897 (Frank is the editor's grandfather)

James Harvey Chenoweth (12 Nov 1896-19 May 1950) married Louise Martina Simpson, November 12, 1919 (13 Jan 1900-18 May 1989). They had three children:

• Christian Wallace, born December 11, 1920, at Minchow, Kansu, China
• James Harvey, Jr, born on February 14, 1922, at Minchow, Kansu, China
• William Frank, born on July 29, 1924, at Minchow, Kansu, China

Editor's Note: James Harvey, Jr is author of "Oddity Odyssey: A Journey Through New England's Colorful Past" and soon to be released "Down Darkness Wide."