A Family Album


	A CHILDERS FAMILY ALBUM ERNEST AND EDNA CHILDERS If you have heard of Sandhill, one of the first towns in Scotland County, you must have heard the names Edna and Ernest Childers, long-time residents of that community. In 1888 Ernest was born in the house, which was to become his lifelong residence. His father, Squire P. Childers, had acquired the farm in 1877. The purchase included several lots of Sandhill town property. Edna's parents, Joseph T. and Docie Puls Matlick lived approximately three miles northwest of Sandhill. Both Edna and Ernest attended Chaney School. They were married in 1915 and began farming the sandy hills with the many springs—a real challenge. They raised a variety of farm animals which received much attention. The neighbors in and around Sandhill formed close bonds of friendship, and Edna and Ernest shared the joys and sorrows of the community. The party line provided information for all who cared to "listen in." For many years Edna's sister Essie McPherson was "central" as the Rutledge operator was called; and she 'phoned every morning to exchange bits of news. Neighbors made a point of listening for a long, two shorts and a long which was the Childers' telephone signal because they knew Essie would report the events of a major portion of the county. Sick friends were always mentioned.

	Edna and Ernest were members of the South Bethel United Methodist Church. They firmly supported the church program and believed that they should be present whenever the church doors were open. They enjoyed basket dinners at the church, the Christmas programs and the ice cream socials, too. Before each meal in their home, a prayer of thanks was offered to God, and Bible reading was a part of their daily schedule. Ash, elm, hickory and oak trees grew rapidly on their land, and they had an abundance of fuel for heating and cooking stoves. Logs were sawed by a community crew composed of neighbors who shared the work. Floyd Swearingen had a wood saw which he moved to neighbors' yards. Huge woodpiles were produced in a few hours as the men and boys all pitched in. The soil at Sandhill is well suited for growing garden produce and fruit trees. Edna and Ernest grew most of their vegetables and shared with neighbors near and far. Edna canned gallons of green beans, blackberries, tomatoes, peaches, etc. For many winters the neighbors would come to the Childers' pond down east of the house and cut ice when the thermometer was zero or below. Horses pulled the sleds loaded with blocks of ice to a building that was filled with sawdust. The men would bury the ice in the sawdust where it would remain until they were ready to make ice cream in the early summertime. Sometime before 1940 they decided to stop this laborious practice and started buying ice as needed. Edna's mother, Docie Matlick, spent much of her later years in the home at Sandhill. Also Scott Matlick, Edna's brother, was there when he was unable to live alone. Edna and Ernest had two children—Lola, now Mrs. Paul Slater, and Victor. Lola and Victor attended Chaney School, and both are graduates of Rutledge High School. Incidentally, Victor was the last R.H.S. graduate. He was the class of 1950! Yes, the only one. Lola lives in Bridgeton, Missouri, and is retired from public school teaching. She was employed for 24 years as a junior high school librarian in St. Louis County. Victor lives in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he is a professor of international business at Indiana University. His assignments have taken him around the world several times, and he has spent much time in Pakistan and Venezuela studying and teaching. His children are Katharine, now Mrs. Larry Martin, and Jean. Presently Katharine is a professional engineer employed in Guam. Jean is an actress and is doing children's theater in various parts of the U.S. Edna died in 1974 and Ernest in 1977. They were buried in the Sandhill Cemetery—just a few yards from their home. Descendants maintain close ties with Sandhill and are there frequently. Floyd and Mary Dean Shelley of Memphis grow vegetables on the hill each summer. (Mary is a niece of Ernest and a granddaughter of Squire P.) Wild turkeys and deer have replaced the domestic animals, and their infrequent appearances delight human visitors. Submitted by Lola Slater WALTER SCOTT CHILDERS My father was born in Scotland County August 15,1885. Courthouse records give his parents as Wade Childers and Sally Wayland. Actually their names were Walter Scott Childers and Sally Bell Whalen. In 1887 the family went to Oregon to stay with Walter's uncle, then to Washington where Walter homesteaded near Almira. Their daughter Nellie, seven, died 1890. Two sons, James and Rex, lived to maturity and another son died soon after birth. Guy married Anna Hoiznagel of Waukon, Washington, and had two daughters, Laura Belle and Virginia. Guy died at Grand Coulee Hospital 1969. Walter's parents were Robert P. and Mary Jane (Williams) Childers. They became ill after making sorghum molasses and died January 1872 and April 1872, respectively. They left Walter and five other minor children.

	1923 - Front row: George Finley Childers, Walter Scott Childers, Eliza (Hearing) Childers with daughter Verda, Sally (Whalen) Childers with granddaughter Laura Belle, Lois Rankin (daughter of Roy and Delia). Back row: Delia (McCoy) Rankin, Roy Rankin, Rex Childers, James Childers, Thelma (Crow) Childers (daughter-in-law of George and Eliza Childers). Sarah Jane, born 1859, married William McCoy, son of Joseph Jasper and Mary Ann McCoy; moved to Almira, Washington. Lucy J., born 1862, married William Henry Jeffries, son of William Jackson and Lucretia Jeffries. Both died circa 1881. Ida Bell, born 1863, married Cashius Merritt, Iowa. Boon F., born 1867, married Maud Hearing, Oregon. George Finley, born 1868, married Eliza Hearing, Oregon. Walter's grandparents settled near Memphis before the formation of Scotland County. Robert Childers, born 1798 in Kentucky, son of Robert and Nancy (Pryor) Childers, and Sarah Landrum, born 1800 in Virginia, daughter of John and Mary (Collins) Landrum, were Baptists. Twelve children are known. Mary Collins, born 1819, married Granville Draper, died 1849, Missouri. James Perry, born 1822, married Mary J. McDowell, daughter of David and Rebecca McDowell, served in the Confederate Army under Stirling Price, moved to Oregon 1865. Elizabeth married Fountain Fox Goldsberry, son of Martin and Rhoda Goldsberry, died circa 1844. Sarah Ann, born 1826, married William Martin McLain, died 1901 Schuyler County, Missouri. Richard, born 1829, died at sea en route to California. William Alien, born 1831, married Ellen Justice, daughter of Joseph and Jane Justice, died 1885 Memphis. Rebecca Evalina, born 1832, married Macajah Wood, Dark County, Missouri. Robert P., born 1834, Kentucky. Martha Ann, born 1836, Missouri, married Newton Childress. John A., born 1838. George W., born 1841, moved to Oregon. Katherine Jane, born 1842, married Joseph Leonard Barker, son of Thomas and Rebecca Barker, lived Bible Grove, Missouri. Submitted by Virginia (Childers) Hanks CHILDRESS FAMILY The name Childers—later Childress—an ancient English surname of somewhat doubtful origin, means literally "son of Childer," the final being an abbreviation of the genitive son. The name appears in ancient English and early American records in the various forms of Childher, Childres, Childris, Chiuldrus, Childrass, Childras, Childer, Childress and Childers, of which the last two are the spelling most frequently found in America in modern times. Abraham Childress II came from Yorkshire, England, to settle near Jamestown, Virginia, in the 1640s. Then his family moved up the James River to settle in Amelia and Amherst counties. From these counties the families migrated west to Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Texas and on to the Northwest Territories of Washington and Oregon.

	Robert Childress, four generations removed from aforementioned Abraham, married Nancy Pryor and raised children: William H., John P., Goolsby, Joseph H., Harmon, Robert P., Henry T., James, Sarah and Nancy. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Harmon Childress - Front row: James, Joshua, Jeremiah and John Jacob. Back row: Nonnie, Louisa Harris, Allie Van Norman and Katherine Mayfield. John Pryor married Catherine Ament of Bourbon County, Kentucky, and raised children: Elizabeth, Robert Harvey, John Milton, William Pryor, Nancy Pryor, Henry Thomas, Jeremiah Harmon, James Findley, Franklin B. and Benjamin. John Milton was first son to come to Missouri, followed by brothers William, Henry Thomas and Jeremiah Harmon. Jeremiah Harmon, called "Harm," returned from the California Gold Rush in early 1850s. He purchased a farm northwest of Fairmont in dark County, Missouri. He then married Mary Ann Fetters of Pleasant Retreat, Missouri, in February 1854, later moving to present Scotland County farm, 11 miles south of Memphis on Hwy. 15. Their children were: John Jacob, Napolean P., Catherine Ann, Wm. Thomas, Louisa Belle, M. Alva (Allie), Jeremiah (Bud), James Fendly, May Nonnie, Ulysses, Caleb and Joshua (Dump). John Jacob married Maggie A. Pettit; Napoleon never married; Catherine Ann married Luke Mayfield; Wm. Thomas married Artie Loury; Louisa Belle married Samuel B. Harris; M. Alva (Allie) married George VanNorman; Jeremiah (Bud) married Louise Anstaett Baker; James and May Nonnie never married. Ulysses and Caleb died as young children and Joshua married Bertha Burrus. The original farm is still owned by descendants of "Harm and Mary Ann" Childress. The family of Earl Childress, son of Wm. Thomas, still own his share of the farm (63) acres. Earl attended Kirksville Osteopathic College and practiced in Durango, Colorado, where his widow Ethel and son Judge James Childress still live. Another son, Thomas, lives in Texas, and daughter Sarah "Sally" and husband David Evans live in California. Catherine Mayfield's share of the original land is now owned and farmed by her grandson L. P. Mayfield, and his brother Kenneth farms east of Rutledge. Two of Louise Harris' grandchildren who live in Gorin retired in Memphis, the late Dean Buford and Vivian Windsor Miller who is still living here. Another grandson, Burleigh Bertram, lives nearby in dark County. John and Vicki Miller Dodge own and operate J's Foods in Memphis and Leon Buford is a nurse at Scotland County Hospital. He is also a minister. There were other preachers in the family. Preacher Bud (see Bible in picture) met his wife Louise while preaching in Kansas and Nonnie Dee Dalan, daughter of Joshua (Dump) and Bertha Burrus Childress, was a well-known evangelist and a speech and debate teacher at Evangel College in Springfield, Missouri. She and most of the Childresses are buried in the cemetery at Greensburg, Missouri, where the older Childresses were active in forming the Baptist Church and Masonic Lodge. Bachelor Bud, who cared for his mother until her death, purchased other children's shares and after marrying Louise built a new home in 1914 across the road from the original house, and this is where Bud's son Lloyd Emerson (Jack) Childress and wife Eyvonne raised their family. Since their deaths the farm is still owned by their four children, Harold and Betty (Frogge) of Memphis, Jerry of Edina and Larry of Brashear. Submitted by Harold Childress "BUD" AND "JACK" CHILDRESS FAMILIES J. M. "Bud" Childress was born December 30, 1866, and died May 25, 1955, living his whole life on the family farm, one mile north of Greensburg, Missouri, in Scotland County, where as a bachelor-farmer-preacher he cared for his aging mother, Mrs. Harmon (Mary Fetters) Childress. While preaching in Kansas Bud met a young widow, Louise Anstaett Baker, a seamstress with two children, Blanche and Clarence Baker. Their father had died of tuberculosis. Bud and Lou were married July 26, 1899, and he moved his new family to the farm. Following his mother's death, they continued to raise a nephew. Earl Childress, an orphan child of Bud's brother Thomas. On June 24, 1902, their only child was born, Lloyd Emerson "Jack" Childress. Lou was born February 24, 1865, of German immigrant parents in New York City. She died October 27,1956. Bud and Lou built a new house in 1914 on the west side of Highway 15 across from the original house. The three-story, prairie architecture style home had a bathroom, a furnace and a dumbwaiter to bring food up from the summer kitchen in the basement. Dale Rice remembered digging the basement with a team of horses and a "man-handled" scraper (scoop). The house still stands on the farm. A kind, religious woman, Lou brought new ideas to northeast Missouri and formed the Greensburg Willing Workers Club, a charitable organization and the first women's club in Scotland County. The club is still active and Lou's granddaugther Betty Childress Frogge is a member. J. M. "Bud" and Louise Childress

	Children of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. "Jack" Childress - Larry, Jerry, Harold and Betty Frogge. Bud spent much time in the study of history, politics and the Bible and once ran for the office of state senator on the Republican ticket. He also was an avid debater. He instilled the love of history and politics in his first grandchild, Harold Childress, a well-known Scotland County Republican who once ran for state representative. It was, and still is, hard for a Republican to win an office in Democratic Scotland County. The children grew up and Earl Childress married Lou's daughter, Blanche Baker, who also had tuberculosis. She and their child, the first Harold Childress, are buried in the family plot in Greensburg Cemetery. Earl went on to become an osteopathic doctor, graduating from Kirksville Osteopathic College, later remarried and practiced in Durango, Colorado, until his death. His wife Ethel and family remain close to Bud's family and still own Doc's inherited acres north of the big house. Clarence Baker married Jenny Fetters and remained in the Scotland-Knox county area until moving to Jacksonville, Illinois, where he retired from the carpet business. He is also buried at Greensburg. His widow now resides in a rest home in Peoria, Illinois, near their daughter Roberta and husband Max Gilbert. At 97 years, Jennie is still in fairly good health. Jack Childress married Eyvonne "Shorty" Fryrear in March 1921. Barely five feet tall. Shorty was a "firecracker" little gal, born on the 4th of July, 1902, a daughter of Scotland Countians, Willis "Bill" and Blanche Pollock Fryrear. She and Jack were a fun couple, loved to dance, he played baseball, both were active in Greensburg Masonic Lodge and Eastern Star, Greensburg Baptist Church and Cemetery Care, Memphis VFW, and, of course, the Willing Workers Club. Jack lived in a small house south of the new one, but later moved into the big house, helping to care for his parents who lived in the basement apartment. Jack purchased the nearby Boley farm, making 640 acres of farm ground. He was never good at keeping up fences and livestock strayed, often causing traffic to slow on that stretch of Highway 15 into Memphis. Sometimes Grandpa Bud would say, "Ah Law! I don't know where that boy came from." Once Jack was forbidden to drive the Model T car into town. To make sure, Bud removed the steering wheel. Story is that Jack drove into Baring steering it with a monkey wrench. Jack continued to plunge into business ventures and made some money. He and Shorty were devoted to Bud and Lou to the end. Besides the farm. Jack built Childress Grain Elevators at Gorin and Baring, along the Santa Fe Railroad, paying top prices for grain when there was no place else to haul it. At one time he had a large hog operation at Baring, a package store and implement business in Memphis and later they built Kahoka Motel at Kahoka, Missouri. Jack was a chain smoker, became a victim of emphysema and died in May 1973 at age 71. Shorty stayed on the farm until her death in 1978. Jack and Shorty were just 19 years old when their son Harold Noel Childress was born December 22, 1921. He married Dorothy Dye of Baring, they had four daughters: Linda, LeAnn, Candice and Michella (Mickey). Living away, Harold's family moved back to Missouri in 1952 to help build Childress Elevator at Gorin. They later built Memphis Lanes and ran other businesses in Mem- phis, retiring there in 1984. Before his marriage Harold attended the Kirksville State Teacher's College. He taught the rural Frogge School the 1940-41 term where his brother Jerry was in first grade. The second of Jack's four children was Betty Lou, born August 30, 1925. She married Wm. Vernon Frogge of Scotland County in a beautiful wedding ceremony held at the big farm house. They had three children, Thomas, Richard and Becke. They helped raise two foster children, Richard Cooper and Donna Taylor. Bill (or Vernon as he is known in Memphis) was an engineer with pipelines, living in many states, returning twice to help with the Childress enterprises—once to run the Gorin Elevator and later to manage the farm where they lived at the time of Shorty's death. Before her marriage Betty was a beautician in Memphis where they retired. A victim of cancer, Vernon died June 3, 1991, at age 67. He was buried in the Frogge family plot in Pauline Cemetery, Rutledge, Missouri. Jerry William Childress was born September 24, 1934, in the heart of the Great Depression. He married Minnie Karhoff of Baring and had two children, a daughter Kelly, age 8, and a son Jerry, age 4, who died in a home fire in March 1969 in Kahoka. They are buried in the Kahoka Cemetery. While living there, Jerry owned Kahoka Bowling Lanes and helped manage the Kahoka Motel. After the fire they moved to Kansas City where they adopted a son, Jay. Jerry also worked as a grain inspector in Louisiana before moving back to Missouri. He had stayed on the farm following high school, helping with the grain business and following Jack's death he bought the elevator at Baring which he and son Jay now operate as Childress Grain. Minnie is the bookkeeper. They live in Edina. Larry Lloyd Childress was born January 22, 1944, in Kirksville Hospital, the only child not born in the farm house. Larry was both a surprise and a joy to his parents who were 43 when he was born, 22 years after his brother Harold. Bud and Lou also enjoyed this baby. Larry stayed on the farm and following his father's death built a new house on the site of the original Childress house on the east side of the highway where he and his mother lived for a while. He helped care for her until her death. While on the farm he started a Roto-Rooter business. Larry first married Donna Dodd of Knox County; they had one son, Brian Childress, the only son to carry on the name. Later he married Jeannie Goings of Kirksville and they had a daughter, Brandi Eyvonne. They farmed and helped raise two foster boys, Frank and William Reckenberg, along with her son Chad. Larry is now married to the former Sharon Reeves of Brashear, where they live and he continues to run the Roto-Rooter business in northeast Missouri. She works in customer relations at the new Hy-Vee Store in Kirksville. All four of Jack and Shorty's children are graduates of Memphis School—now Scotland County High. And, as of the date of this writing, June 14, 1991, they still own the Childress Centennial Farm and Kahoka Motel under the name of Childress Elevators Inc. Submitted by Harold and Dorothy Childress HAROLD AND DOROTHY CHILDRESS Harold Noel Childress was born on the family farm in Scotland County December 22, 1921, a son of Lloyd Emerson "Jack" and Eyvonne "Shorty" Fryrear Childress. Known as Jack Junior, he attended Scotland County schools, graduating from Memphis High in 1938. At age 16 he and a buddy, Harold Summers, rode in the back of a livestock truck going west to find work in the wheat fields. He later hopped a freight train and arrived at his Uncle Shannon Fryrear's in Billings, Montana. Trying to hold his pants up, with 30 silver dollars in his pockets, he came home, attended Kirksville Teacher's College and taught his home rural school. After attending aeronautics school in Kansas City, he went to work at Glen L. Martin Bomber Plant, Baltimore, Maryland. It was 1941—the year of Pearl Harbor—the United States was at war. While in college Harold met Dorothy Dye, born October 22, 1921, a daughter of John Thomas and Flossie Opal Slocum Dye of rural Baring. She had attended Bible Grove High School but graduated from Baring in 1939. Dorothy taught at Fort Donaldson School the 1941-42 term when it was honored as the oldest school in the county during Scotland County's Centennial Celebration. Harold and Dorothy married April 26, 1942, moved to Kansas City where he worked for North American Aircraft, later transferring to Omaha, Nebraska, to work at the new Glen L. Martin Plant. He enlisted in the Air Force but a spinal disability rendered him 4-F. He continued making bombers, once working 13-hour days for 13 weeks with no days off. No one complained, there was a war to be won. He also helped overhaul the famous Jimmy Doolittle plane. The first of the four Childress daughters, Linda Jo, was born, the war ended, plants closed, thousands were out of work, and everyone celebrated. Dorothy's brother, Wayne Dye, survived lighting in the Philippines but many would not return. Staying in Omaha Harold went to work for Cook Paint & Varnish Co., the second daughter, LeAnn, arrived, and Harold went on the road as a salesman for Cook's, moving his family to North Platte, Nebraska, Albia, Iowa, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, where another daughter, Candice Jean, was born. 1952 was a bumper year for soybeans in Scotland County. Harold and Dorothy moved to Gorin and helped his father ship grain on the Santa Fe. This was the beginning of Childress Elevators, built at Gorin and Baring. Harold's also owned Childress Feed and Supply, stored grain, raised broilers at the "old pumping station," joined the Methodist Church, were involved in 4-H, school board. Planned Progress, rebuilt the elevator after it burned, cheered from bleachers as the girls played basketball and loved living in Gorin, Missouri, population 304, where daughter Mickey was born. An avid bowler, Harold then built an eight-lane bowling alley in Memphis. Memphis Lanes opened in August 1961 and the Childresses moved to their present home at 539 N. Main Street, Memphis, Missouri, 63555, in May 1962. This family business prospered. Besides working at the lanes, Dorothy was a substitute teacher for 13 years, a Girl Scout leader and for five years did a newscast, "The Scotland County Report," over Kirksville radio. They sold the bowling alley to Dick and Marion Seppelt in 1972 and began management of the Childress family-owned Kahoka Motel. Harold went into the securities and insurance business, and, at the time of their retirement in December 1984, they also ran the license office in Memphis. Harold ran for state representative and Dorothy ran for Scotland County clerk, on the Republican ticket, in 1970, and he filled an unexpired term as Scotland County circuit clerk and recorder in 1988. At the present, Harold and Dorothy Childress are active in the Methodist Church, Genealogical Society, Industrial Development and tourism projects, Missouri Motel Assn., Masonic Lodge, Women's Clubs, bowling and golfing at the Memphis Country Club. They also go camping and have taught most of their eight grandchildren how to water ski with the old family boat. And the old family car, a 1978 Cadillac that will seat seven passengers, has been dubbed "The Living Room" by the "compact car era" grandchildren. One of the four daughters lives in Scotland County, one in Kansas City, Missouri, one in Kansas and one in Arizona. For information on them, see Harold Childress Family, this book. Submitted by Harold and Dorothy Childress HAROLD CHILDRESS FAMILY Harold and Dorothy Childress, long-time residents of Scotland County and now of Memphis, have four daughters, the last of The Harold Childress Family - Mickey, LeAnn, Harold, Dorothy, Candy and Linda which was born while they lived at Gorin. The girls are scattered now with families of their own. The first, Linda Jo Childress, was born February 7, 1944, in Omaha, Nebraska, attended schools in Iowa, Minnesota, graduated from Gorin High in 1962 and married Gary Kapfer of Wyaconda August 1, 1964. She was a Red Cross swimming instructor-lifeguard at Memphis City Pool, graduated from Northeast Missouri State College as an R.N. with bachelors degrees in science and education. They lived at Lake Ozark, Missouri, where she worked many years for Dr. Robert Mason (a Scotland County boy) at Lake Ozark Clinic, and taught at the Vo-Tech school in Eldon, Missouri, while her husband completed 20 years as Spanish teacher at Eldon High. They now live in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Linda received her masters degree in nursing science from Arizona State University in May 1991. She is now employed as med-surgical clinic educator in the staff development department of Lincoln Health Center in Phoenix, Arizona. They have two daughters: Kolette Rene, born June 26, 1967, in Kirksville, Missouri, graduated from the School of the Osage, Lake Ozark, Missouri, is now a dental assistant and a student at Southwest Missouri State College in Springfield, Missouri; and Heidi Nichole, born April 18, 1975, in Jefferson City, Missouri, now a high school sophomore in Scottsdale, Arizona. Daughter number two, LeAnn Childress, was born April 27, 1946, in Omaha, Nebraska, attended school in Minnesota and Gorin, Missouri, and graduated from Memphis High School in 1964 where she was active in music and sports, averaging 22 points per game (in basketball) her senior year. She graduated from the Gem City Business College, Quincy, Illinois, married Byron William Carl on October 9, 1965. He was from Nora Springs, Iowa, and later lived in Anchorage, Alaska. They lived in Hawaii and in the Springfield, Missouri, area where he was a building contractor. She worked many years as medical staff secretary at St. John's Hospital there, and now lives in Kansas City, Missouri, working as medical staff coordinator at Bethany Hospital in Kansas City, Kansas. Their children are: Kimberly Ann, born June 2, 1966, and Kevin William, born January 6,1970, both born in Springfield, Missouri. Both graduated from Rogersville, Missouri, High School. Kimberly is a graduate of Northeast Missouri State University, Kirksville, with a degree in accounting. She is now a CPA working for the State of Missouri in Kansas City. Kevin just completed his junior year as a business major at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Daughter number three, Candice Jean Childress, born September 14, 1951, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, attended schools at Gorin and Memphis, was a member of the high school band and a cheerleader, before marrying Daryl Hull in January 1969. They graduated that spring from Wyaconda High School. Their three sons are Chris, Ken and Casey Hull. In 1980 "Candy" assisted her father in starting boys Little League baseball in the Wyaconda-Gorin area. Her son Chris, with the U.S. Navy on Desert Storm War "mop up duty" in the Persian Gulf and one of the Little Leaguers, is manager of his ship's baseball team, playing on the desert sands. All of the Hull boys are active in sports. Now married to Mark Humes, Candy lives in Gorin where she served as chairman of the Gorin Centennial in 1989 and is Serin's postmaster. She now has a three year old daughter, Jessica Humes. See "Mark and Candy Humes Family" in this book. Daughter number four, Michella Lynn "Mickey" Childress, was born in Kirksville November 24, 1953, attended school at Gorin, graduated from Scotland County High in the class of 1971 and was drum major in the band. Football had just returned to Memphis and she was the Homecoming Queen that year. She married her high school sweetheart. Mark Schaefer, June 16, 1973. A graduate of Draughn's Business College, Springfield, Missouri, Mickey worked for the Missouri Academy of Family Physicians, later moving to Kansas City, Missouri, where she now travels the United States as director of membership of the American Academy of Family Physicians. Her husband Mark is a 1970 graduate of Scotland County High and a son of "Doc" and Cindy Schaefer, Memphis chiropractor. Mark is a graduate of Southwest Missouri State, Springfield, with a degree in accounting and is manager of income taxes at Hallmark Cards Inc. in Kansas City. Mickey is completing work this year for a degree in business. The Schaefers live in Leawood, Kansas. If we could choose one word to describe the Harold Childress family, it would be "active." The girls are all glad their parents moved them from the big city to rural Scotland County. They are convinced that the lessons and values learned in their 4-H club and Girl Scout years have helped them in their various professions. It has also led them to become active citizens in their respective communities, whether urban or rural. Submitted by the Harold Childress Family