Family Tree of Hixie Clark and Lamar Pittman

Notes


Amazon 'Ammie Burgess' GLASSCOCK

from Virginia settled in Pettis Co., MO 1832. then to
Liberty,
MO 1888 & later Kansas City

operated the John Rickets farm [no known relation to
Thomas]
near Avondale for six years, bought the dairy farm in
rural
Moscow (now Kansas City North) in 1900. Built the
house, barn
and silo in 1914. Also raised plums, cherries and
other small
fruits for sale at the Kansas City farmer's market.

History of Clay County 1920

A. B. Glasscock, a well known and leading citizen of
Gallatin
township, is a native of Missouri and a member of one
of the
early pioneer families of this state. He was born in
Lafayette
County, Missouri, in 1860, and is a son of C. B. and
Rose E.
(Smith) Glasscock.

C. B. Glasscock was born in Virginia in 1830. He is
a son of A.
A. Glasscock, who died in Pettis County, Missouri, in
1878, and
is buried near Sedalia. C. B. Glasscock was brought
from
Virginia to Missouri by his parents, who located in
Pettis
County, Missouri in 1832, when the Civil War broke
out he
enlisted in the Confederate army and served for four
years until
the war closed. He served under General Price and
was at the
battle of Lone Jack and a number of other engagements
in which
General Price's army participated. He has lived in
Kansas
City, Missouri, for the past thirty-two years.
Although now in
his ninetieth year, he is still as active in body
and mind as
the average man many years his junior. His wife is
eighty-four
year old and also remarkably active for one of her
years.

C. B. and Rose E. (Smith) Glasscock were the parents
of the
following children: L. V. lives in California; C.
L.,
Lexington, Missouri; Erna A., married J. W. McClure,
Pettis
County, Missouri; F. D. California; A. B., the
subject of this
sketch; W. L., Lafayette County, Missouri R. L.,
Kansas City,
Missouri; Emma, married C. A. Welch, Kansas City,
Missouri;
Rose, married Charles Decker, Kansas City, Missouri;
and
Shirley, Kansas City, Missouri.

A. B. Glasscock was reared and educated in Pettis
County, and
began farming and stock raising there in early life.
In 1888,
he came to Clay County and for a few years farmed
rented land.
He operated the John Rickets farm near Avondale, for
six years.
In 1900, he bought a place to which he since added
additional
land and is now the owner of a very valuable,
although not a
large farm. His place is well improved. In 1914, he
built a
modern residence and the same year be built a good
substantial
barn and has since erected a silo. He carries on a
dairying
business, keeping from twelve to fourteen cows and
his milk is
shipped to Kansas City, Missouri. He also raises
fruit,
including plums, cherries and other small fruits in
profitable
quantities.

Mr. Glasscock was married to Miss Annie Sissom, a
daughter of
Isaiah Sissom, a prominent early settler of Gallatin
township,
further mention of whom is made in connection with
the sketch of
Alonzo Sissom. To Mr. and Mrs. Glasscock have been
born two
children: Pansy Belle, married Homer Devling, of
Avondale; and
Cecil, married Mida Musgrove. The following are the
grandchildren of the Glasscock family: Robert B.,
Nadine,
Lucile, Marjorie and Edna Devling: and Lorine
Glasscock.

Mr. Glasscock is a Democrat and takes a commendable
interest in
general events and local affairs. He has been a
member of the
local school board in District No. 71 for the past
fifteen
years.

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Anna Belle 'Annie' SISSOM

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Louis Kenneth DAY

1 NAME Louie Occupation: Taxidermist From The Daily
Standard
September 16, 1936 Nadine and Louis Day returned home
from Iowa
City, Iowa spending the summer studing taxidermy and
museum
methods at the University of Iowa.


Liberty Tribune

117-POUND CATFISH AND EYEFUL CATCH

The king of all blue catfish is now 'resting in
peace' in a
public exhibit at Osceola, Missouri where ogling
fisherman for
years to come will ponder the immense size of 'the
one that
didn't get away.'

The 60-inch long 'cat,' weighing 117 pounds, was
caught on a
trotline last July 25 near the Browns Ford bridge in
the Warsaw
vicinity of the Osage River. It has been restored to
real-life
splendor by Louis K. Day, a well-known taxidermist
and a former
Liberty resident. Day, 3551 N. Cleveland, was
commissioned for
the job by the Osceola Chamber of Commerce, and was
paid $80 for
his work.

The fish is conceded by state authorities to be a
world's
record. Its age is still undetermined, but a
detailed
examination of the spine of the carcass will
eventually provide
the answer.

The trotline was set by Azel Goans, a St. Clair
County farmer,
and his two sons. The fish was shipped frozen to Day
who says
it required two day to thaw. The champion suffered a
severe
weight loss in the mounting process and in its
present hollow
state is reduced to 20 pounds.

The taxidermist is the son of the late Mrs. Agnes Day
of
Liberty. He is a graduate of Liberty High School,
attended
William Jewell College and is a graduate of the
School of Museum
Taxidermy at the State of University of Iowa. He is
one of two
practicing taxidermists in the state who make their
living
solely by this profession.

Day is assisted in his shop by his wife, Nadine, who
taught
seventh grade classes for 12 years at the old Munger
school west
of Claycomo. It was Mrs. Day who re-touched the
delicate
greenish-blue and silver shadings on the mounted
titleholder

In Memory of Louis K. Day

Passed Away November 6, 1979

Services 2:00pm Thursday November 8, 1979

McGilley Antioch Chapel Officiating: Dr. William
Link First
Baptist Church, Liberty, Clay, Missouri.

Interment New Hope Cemetery, Liberty, Clay County,
Missouri

Pallbears: Robert J. Devling, Hudson Devling, Harold
Devling,
Alfred Devling, Tyson Devling, Robert Broderick,
Kevin
Broderick, Frank Taggart, Jr., David Taggart, Scott
Taggart,
Paul Taggart, Matt Taggart, Robert Brewer, Kent
Kreiger, Blake
Kreiger

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Frances Nadine DEVLING

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Frank Gould TAGGART Jr.

Excelsior Springs Daily Standard

FRANK TAGGART WEDS N. KANSAS CITY GILR SAT.

Miss Marjorie Devlin (Devling), daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Homer
Devlin (Devling) of near North Kansas City, and Mr.
Frank Gould
Taggart, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Taggart of North
Kansas City
were united in marriage at an informal ceremony
Saturday evening
at 8:00 at the home of the bride's parents. Only the
immediate
families witnessed the ceremony, which was read by
the pastor of
the North Kansas City Presbyterian church.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Taggart are graduates of the North
Kansas City
high school. Mr. Taggart who formerly made his home
in
Excelsior Springs, with his parents, has been
employed for the
past two years at the Chevrolet plant in Kansas City.

The young couple will make their home at an apartment
on Armour
and Paseo boulevards in Kansas City.

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Harold Foster 'Tad' BREWER

died at the home of his Son, Bob Brewer

Tad and his family moved to Merrian, Ind. at six
years old.
Then moved to California in 1921, after a short stay
in
California the family moved back to Indiana. The
Brewer family
moved to Missouri when Tad was in the 8th grade.

Tad served during WW11 with the United States Navy.
He trained
at the Old Downtown Airport, then to Olathe, New
Zealand, New
Guinea, and the Phillipines. Returned home on the
Sagana Bay
Crossing under the Golden Gate Bridge. Worked for
Montgomery
Wards then for Roy Bentleys Appliance Store in North
Kansas
City, Missouri. Two years later he started his own
Appliance
Store in Winnwood--Then to Brewer &Woodward Appliance
in Foxwood
on Vivion Road. Retired in 1972 from Wilson
Distributing.

He met Lucille Devling in NKC High School then
married December
29, 1934 at the home of her parents Homer and Pansy
Devling.

Tad is living in Gower, Clinton County, Missouri
playing on a 20
acre farm and feeding Susan's horses. (at present
1998)

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Erna Lucille DEVLING

1914?

Kansas City Times Tuesday, November 8, 1983

Mrs. Lucille Brewer, 70, of Kansas City, North, a
former
appliance store co-owner, died Sunday at Trunity
Lutheran
Hospital.

Mrs. Brewer was an executive secretary for Bill
Allen Chevrolet
for 21 years before retired in l953. She was
co-owner of Brewer
and Woodward Appliance in Kansas City, North, for 10
years. She
was a member of the Immanuel Presbyterian Church.

She attended William Jewell College and was a mamber
of Zeta Tau
Alpha sorority. She was former president and 1967
Woman of the
Year of the Liberty Belle Chapter of the American
Business
Women's Association. She was a former member of the
advisory
council of the Tri-County Community Mental Health
Center.

Mrs. Brewer was a member of the executive board of
the Kansas
City-Clay County Community Council and chairman of
its plans and
zoning committee. She was a board member of the
Mid-America
Health Systems Association for six years, was a
member of the
association's resources development committee and a
former
member of its nominating credentials committee.

She was a lifelong area resident.

She leaves her husband, Harold 'Tad' Brewer of the
home; a son,
Robert Brewer, and a daughter, Mrs. Susan Houck, both
of Kansas
City, North; her mother, Mrs. Pansy Devling, North
Kansas City;
a brother Robert Devling, Plattsburg, Mo.; three
sisters, Mrs.
Nadine Day and Mrs. Edna Mae Scharz of North Kansas
City and
Mrs. Marjorie Taggart, Hutchinson, Kansas; and a
granddaughter.

Services will be at 1 p. m. Wednesday at the McGilley
Antioch
Chapel; burial in New Hope Cemetery. Friends may
call from 7 to
8:30 p. m. to day at the chapel. The family suggests
contributions to the church.

Pallbearers: Robert Jerome Devling, Lowell Hudson
Devling,
Harold Devling,

Frank Taggart, Jr., David Taggart, Robert Broderick.

FRIENDS FOR 40 YEARS

What started 40 years ago as a friendship among eight
North
Kansas City schoolgirls has blossomed into a
tightly-knit clan,
that today includes 14 children and 18 grandchildren.

The extended family, so large some restaurants cannot
reserve
tables together for them, will celebrate Easter after
church
Sunday with dinner at the U-Smile Stadium Inn, 7901
East U. S.
40. That, too is an old tradition.

'We've never had a quarrel,' observed Mrs. Lucille
Devling
Brewer, of 4811 Northeast Thirty-eighth street. ' I
think it's
because we've had a varity of interests, and we've
never been
competitive. Even with our closeness, we've had
other,
individual friends.'

All third and fourth generation Clay Countians and
North Kansas
City high school graduates, the eight friends enjoyed
pep club,
girls athletics, slumber parties and other social
activities
together in their teens, when the total enrollment at
the high
school was about 500 students.

They double dated often and most married their high
school
sweethearts.

Graduation in 1931 meant parting, but the girls vowed
to
continue their friendship, and promised to meet
monthly the rest
of their lives., recalled Mrs. Brewer. Grandmothers
now, they
still keep that promise.

The group with no officers or formal structure,
shares
activities from birthdays to anniversaries, from
child-rearing
to outings on the Lake of the Ozarks.

As the girls married their husbands willingly joined
their
monthly gatherings. Wanting to share their
children's
achievements but unable to socialize if babies were
brought
along, they decided to leave the youngsters with
grandparents,
but planned a yearly gathering at Easter to included
everyone.

The group has not only shared good times but times of
bereavement, said Mrs. Ruth Hash Beals, of 1916 East
Thirty-ninth street terraace. When Mrs. Berniece
Thomas Samuel
died after a lengthy illness, Mrs. Beals recalled,
the felt they
had lost a sister. After her husband J. K. Samuel
remarried, he
and Mrs. Erma Samuel remained with the group.

The Samuels, who live at 6514 Sterling Street,
Raytown, are
boating enthusiasts and often entertain the group at
their
cruiser in the Lake of the Ozarks, as do T. J. and
Mable Champ
Hudlemeyer at their cabin there. Mrs. Hudlemeyer is
the
energetic organizer of the group, relied upon to make
reservations, call meetings and send flowers.

Mrs. Beals is former womens's state champion in rifle
and pistol
markmanship, a skill taught her by her husband after
their
marriage and since shared as a hobby. Mrs. Erma
Neher Hendrix,
of 4405 Winn road, is an artist, and the groups
favorite
chocolate brownie maker.

Mrs. Brewer, an executuve secretary 20 years, is the
first woman
elected deacon of the Immanuel Presbyterian Church.
She is also
active in the Kansas City- Clay Community council.

Mrs. Anna Mae Hemmelberg Wurzer, of 3613 North Holmes
avenue,
serves as unofficial group counselor.

'She's the type that always has some good advice,'
Mrs. Beals
said. 'You feel if you talk over a matter with her,
what she
tells you, you can pretty well rely on.'

Mr. and Mrs. Kendall Miller, of Cherokee Village,
Ark., and Mr.
and Mrs. LeRoy Powers. St. Louis, two familes
originally in the
group, have moved but keep in touch.

When 42 family members sit down to dinner Sunday,
they begin
their fifth decade of togetherness.

'I think we just enjoy each others company,' Mrs.
Brewer said
of the time-tested friendships. 'We have realized
all along the
the longer we stay together, the more it would mean
to us.'

'Now we're thonking about retirement,' she added.
'We hope to
go on some trips together.'

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