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Alexander Robertson and Martha Jane Gold. Alexander Robertson was born December 29, 1830 according to his family Bible. He was born in Indiana. He married Martha Jane Gold in Martin Co., Indiana on 16 Mar 1851. His war records describe him as being six feet tall. On Oct 10, 1854 Alexander Robertson purchased 80 acres of land at $.12 1/2 per acre, or $10. It must have been poor land because original patent land went for two dollars an acre. He paid in full and signed his name attesting that the land was to be used for the purpose of "actual settlement and cultivation" under the Graduation Act of August 4, 1854. He began residing on this land on December 19 1854. There was a log dwelling house and a quarter acre was cleared and enclosed.
John Kilbourn, his brother in law, attested to the land record. There were five children born to Alexander and Martha Jane: Mary Elizabeth born 12 August 1851 and died 13 October 1852, Parthena (named for Martha's sister) born 13 Nov 1853 and died 28 February 1872 unmarried, James Richard born 3 September 1856 and died 1 December 1867, John William (our ancestor) born 3 Nov 1858 and died 17 September 1902, and Hariet A. born 17 October 1861.
Only Hariet and John lived to be married. Later records proving the legitimacy of these children include testaments of the women who attended Martha Jane Gold in childbirth. When giving birth to Theny in 1853 she was attended to by Mary Hendrickson, born 1786, of Martin County. At the birth of James Richard in 1856 she was attended to by Sarah Blair, born 1800, of Martin County. At the 1858 birth of John William, she was helped by Nancy Chandler Gold, born 1826, her sister-in-law (wife of brother James), and Sarah A. Alford, born 1811. During the birth of Harriet, her sister Theny Gold Edwards, born 1827, and Elizabeth Edwards Potts, born 1826, wife of James Potts.,
Alexander Robertson was a farmer in Daviess Co., Indiana until the time he was mustered into Company E, 18th Regiment of the Indiana Volunteers in the Civil War. He entered the service of the Union on 16 Aug 1861 at Indianapolis, Indiana along with John Gold Jr. and William Gold. Records show he was given a bayonet, belt, musket and strap as his equipment.From Indiana Volunteers:The 18th Regiment was organized and mustered into service at Indianapolis on the 16th of August, 1861 with Thomas Pattison as Colonel and left the state for St. Louis on the 17th of August. From that place it proceeded into the interior of Missouri and participated in Fremont's March to Springfield, and in the return march to Otterville, under General Hunter, after which it moved with Pope's army to the Black Water and there took part in the capture of a large number of prisoners."Among the affidavits filed in the legal proceedings for the guardianship and pension of Alexander Robertson is testimony of Dr. Augustin W. Bingham, "a resident of Daviess County...who declares that he attended Alexander Robinson deceased, who was a private in Company E of the 18th Regiment during his last sickness. That said Robinson was taken sick at Warsaw in the State of Missouri of a disease commonly called Esysipleas and was convey to the Fourth Street Hospital on 4th Street in the city of Saint Louis in the State of Missouri....and that Alexander Robinson died at the hospital aforesaid on the 5th of December 1861 that the disease of said Robinson was contracted while in the line of duty in the service of the United States....that he attended upon him in the capacity of acting Hospital Stewart of the post a Warsaw in the State of Missouri and no surgeon being present at that time acted as acting assistant surgeon of the post and had him transferred to the aforenamed hospital by order of the Surgeon of the 18th regiment while the regiment was on the move to Springfield Missouri."A document entitled "War of 1861...Claim for Minors' Pension with Two Dollars per Month additional" was filed in behalf of Parthenia Robinson, James R. Robinson, John W. Robinson and Harriet A. Robinson, minor children of Alexander Robinson, Private.According to the report "Surgeon General reports deceased as having died Dec 5, 1861 of abscess. Dr. A. W. Bingham acting assistant surgeon at post at Warsaw, Missouri testifies that the disease was contracted in the line of duty and that deceased was taken sick of erysipelas and sent to hospital where he died." While there is more history of this regiment given, Alexander died 5 December 1861 at St. Louis of measles. He probably never saw his last daughter before he died.
Martha Jane Gold kept her family together until she died two years later. At that time, the custody of the children was undertaken by Henry and Thena Edwards. Thena was Martha Jane's sister. Later the children lived with John and Harriet Kilbourn in Martin Co. Harriet was another of Martha Jane's sisters.……………………………
Joseph Allen McCord. The following was taken from History of Knox and Daviess Co.J. A. McCord is the tenth of eleven children, and was born March 6, 1824, son of William and Margaret Allen McCord. The father was a native of Pennsylvania. Our subject was born in Kentucky, where he lived with his mother until the age of fourteen years. He them removed to Daviess County, Indiana, where he has since remained. He engaged in farming, which occupation he followed eighteen years. He obtained his education in the public schools, and was married April 8, 1849, to Emily, daughter of these fourteen children: Helen, Mason, Florian, Sarah, William , Benjamin, Margaret, Joseph, Emily, George, Matthew, Clara, Orleana and Thomas. Mr. McCord is a staunch Republican, and cast his first vote for Taylor. He was elected town trustee in 1873. He has been postmaster of Alfordsville since 1861, with the exception of a short time. He has been a member of the Christian Church since 1865, and has raised his family in that belief. He owns 140 acres of land and has a fine stock of general merchandise. He carries on farming and stock raising and is the most prosperous merchant in his town. From Mary Lou White...Joseph McCordHe was as a storekeeper in Alfordsville. He paid Bill Potts to go to the Civil War for him. The payment was 40 acres of land and a team of mules. Joseph was a widower and had fourteen children to take care of so he paid Mr. Potts to go in his place which was permissible at that time.Joseph McCord was a half brother to Sarah Vannoy (Margaret Allen's daughter by first marriage) and David McCord (William McCord's son by first marriage). He was born in 1825 and was 14 years old when Sarah and David came to Indiana. He came with them also. They came in a covered wagon from Maysville, Kentucky to Reeve twp, Daviess Co. Indiana in 1839. They settled about 2 miles south of Alfordsville. There probably was no town there then. From Joanna Brooks...The Isaac Harris connection certainly helped Joseph Allen McCord. In June 1840, according to Daviess County land records, Harris sold 16 year old J. A. McCord three lots in Alfordsville at the tremendously low price of $15. (In 1872, three lots of similar size cost McCord $540. Even with price index adjustment, Harris' sale gave McCord quite a break.)
In June 1843, Harris sold him an additional $300 of land in Section 34 of Township 2, Range 5--land surrounding Alfordsville. By the time he was 19 years old, J. A. McCord had begun building a sizable estate.J. A. McCord's Land Purchases 1840-1880 Date Price Acre Location June 1840 $15.00 Alf. lots 12, 14, 16 June 1843 $300.00 Section 34-2-5 October 1850 $ 75.00 34-2-5 November 1850 $ 35.00 20 34-2-5 September 20, 1852 $200.00 34-2-5 October 6, 1856 $500.00 36 34-2-5 October 4, 1857 $325.00 39 12-31-36 March 20, 1861 $400.00 34-2-5 August 24, 1864 $100.00 34-2-5 October 8, 1864 $650.00 40 28-2-5 November 25, 1865 $1600.00 34-2-5 July 5, 1869 $1500.00 42 34-2-5 September 6, 1872 $540.00 Alf. lots 34, 63, 64 July 5, 1871 $131.11 Alf. lot 65 December 11, 1871 $500.00 73 37-2-5, 23-2-5 August 13, 1872 $125.00 Undeveloped Daviess August 11, 1873 $3000.00 Lots 42, 43, 44, 53, 54, 55 October 1, 1873 $1000.00 Lots 61, 52, 35, 36 August 11, 1874 $54.74 Lot 68 December 9, 1875 $1000.00 34-2-5 Total Land purchases $12,140.85 (1870 dollars) ($117,337. in 1990 dollars.
When he was 25, in April 1849, J. A. McCord, married Emily Alford, the seventh daughter of the richest man in town. For J. A., Marriage again proved a profitable venture. Between 1850 and 1860, he paid (at reduced rates, either to the Harrises or Emily's family) $1450 for land valued at $4000 during the 1860 census. That same census valued his personal belongings at $300. The 36 year old J. A. McCord already had an estate worth $4300. In Indiana, the per capita valuation of real and personal property in 1850 was only $205. McCords probably avoided the war in order to stay with his rapidly growing family. Emily Alford and J. A. McCord had 14 children together--Helen (1851), Mason (1853), Florian (1854), Sarah (1855), William Jefferson (1856), Benjamin Franklin (1858), Margaret Hannah (1859), Joseph Allen Jr, (1860), Emily (born either December 31, 1861 or January 1, 1862), George (1863), Martha (1865), Clara (1866), Orlena (1868) and Thomas (1869). With the average woman in the 1850-60 period bearing five children and only 27% of women bearing over seven children, Emily certainly did her share with fourteen children. Of Emily's children, two died in infancy--George at five months and Thomas at nine months. In 1865, 205 infant deaths occurred for every live birth, a 20% mortality rate. By only losing two out of fourteen, Emily McCord beat the rate.However, childbirth eventually beat her to death. Emily McCord died three months after the birth of Thomas. When she died, her eldest child was 17. Emily was 41. Her daughters Clara and Orlena probably died from childbirth just as ther mother did--Clara died at 29 and Orlena at 30.
A map of Alfordsville in 1880 describes J. A. McCord as a "Dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, Cutlery, China, Glass and Queensware, Clothing, Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Family Medicines, etc." J. A. McCord died in 1896 at the age of 72. Surprisingly, there is no record of his probate or will in Daviess County.………………….
John Gold (Gould) was born in New York May 2, 1778. During the Revolutionary War his family were Separatists and John Gold came to Indiana and settled in Hindustan, Martin Co. The area around the White River is now a state park. It was once a thriving town on the stage coach road from Louisville, Kentucky, to Vincennes, Indiana. A disease caused the death of almost everyone in the town. John Gold was a Veteran of the War of 1812. Land records dated April 1, 1816 at Vincennes, Indiana shows John Gold of Knox Co., Indiana Territory patenting the SE quarter of Section One in Township two Range Five in the District lands offered for sale at Vincennes...160 acres in all. The cost was two dollars per acres. The total cost was $320. He paid $80 down and promised to pay $80 in February 1818, 1819 and 1820. Another record shows payment on March 11, 1818 of $89.76 toward the purchase of his land.In a land record recorded at Liverpool, Onondaga Co., New York on April 1, 1816 John Gold assigned over the same land to John Smith. The record is witnessed by Frederick Sholtz and Robert Barr, both among the original settlers in Daviess Co., Indiana. Apparently Smith assigned the land over to Frederick Sholts of Martin County in 1819.
He married Mary Cannon, the daughter of James Cannon on May 13, 1817 in Daviess Co. Indiana.Their children were: James (1819) Sarah (1821)William Gold b. 1822 Died at Vicksburg.Harriet Gold (1826) married John Kilbourn and her sister Martha Jane lived with her when she met Alexander Robertson and married him. Parthena Gold (1828) married Henry Edwards and was the guardian for a time of the minor children of her sister Martha Jane and Alexander Robertson from about 1862 until Henry and Parthena moved to Kansas in 1868.
John Gold Jr. (1632-1862) died at Vicksburg in the Civil War. Bolivar Gold (1836) was in the Civil War and fought in some 14 battles and had some close calls. John Gold died February 28, 1848 (age 68 years, 9 months, 6 days) and is buried in Old Union Cemetery in Alfordsville, Indiana. The stone was broken by vandals and not replaced.……………..
James Cannon was born 5 Jun 1755 in Ninety-Six District, South Carolina. From James Cannon's Revolutionary War Pension Application.....He volunteered in December 1775 for 9 months in Capt. Jared Smith's South Carolina Troops during the Revolutionary War. During this period he marched Allison's Fort, to Nabours Creek and to Smith's Station on the frontier of South Carolina about 40 miles from James' residence. He was stationed there for nine months and assisted in guarding the frontier against attacks by the Cherokee Indians who were supposed to be urged to hostilities by the Tories. Indians were also held at Smith's Station during that period.
In May 1777, he volunteered again and served in Capt. James Grear's Company of Col. McCreary's South Carolina Regiment. During this period he marched for about 100 miles to Augusta, Georgia, from there to St. Mary's River in Florida serving for three months. During the march he crosses Rivers Oguchy, Albamahaw and St. Mary's through a principally wilderness country. At St. Mary's River, the regiment joined an army of regular soldiers, numbering about 1500 commanded by Major General Robert Howe. The regulars had come by water up the St. Mary's. The object of this expedition was to attack a Col. Brown, a tory, who had fortified himself with about 500 troops about twenty miles from where he joined the regulars. They camped at St. Marys for about nine or ten days. A small party of the army was dispatched to Brown's fortification and had a skirmish with the Tories and returned. Afterwards, a strong party was sent against Brown, but on coming to his fortification, found it evacuated. A deserter afterwards informed our army that Brown's party had retreated to a great swamp in the neighborhood. Many of the regulars and volunteers became sick, it being a very sickly country and the army returned, the regulars by water and the volunteers by land.
The regiment to which James Cannon belonged was discharged and went immediately home; The company to which he belonged returned under Col. McCrary until they reached the Georgia settlements, when they separated from him, and James Cannon went to his residence is Ninety Sixth District. Directly after crossing the St. Mary's River, James became sick and it was with great difficulty he returned. He received no written discharge, but served the entire three months he volunteered.He volunteered again in December 1778 serving 3 months in Capt. Sexton's Company of Col. James Wilson's South Carolina Regiment. He was directly marched towards Augusta, Georgia, and joined Col. James Williams regiment about ten miles from home at a place called Mudlick. After joining this regiment, James proceeded by forced march to Savannah River opposite August where the regiment took up quarters and remained there nearly three months, during which time General Ash was defeated on Grier Creek about 50 miles from where James was stationed. The said regiment was placed and remained opposite Augusta for the purpose of guarding about 200 prisoners, Tories who had been taken by scouts and placed under the care of his regiment. James recollected that during his stay at this place several companies of volunteers passed their encampment and went to join General Ash. Shortly after the defeat of General Ash, the regiment to which he was attached marched back with the prisoners. At the time he returned a General Court was sitting in Ninety Six and the prisoners being Tories, were tried there before that court for their lives. They were all acquitted except seven violent Tories who were condemned to be hanged and were executed accordingly at Ninety Six. James recollected that among those who were hanged were Aquilla Hall, James Lindley, John Clagg and John Anderson. During the sitting of the Court at Ninety Six, the time of his service expired and shortly thereafter he was discharged and went to his pace of residence in the same district of Ninety Six. He was never in any battle except skirmishes.
He was born in the District of Ninety-six, South Carolina 5 Jun 1755, but has no record of his age except this account from his parents. Shortly after the war he went to North Carolina to see his relatives and there married Montgomery County where he resided until about 1790 when he removed to Lee County, Virginia. After living in Lee County, Virginia for about 20 years, he removed to Indiana territory into the district which now forms Daviess County, where he has ever since resided. James Cannon's first son, John Cannon was born in 1785 in Montgomery Co., North Carolina. He then moved to Lee Co., Virginia where he resided for about 20 years until about 1810. Children William, Mary, Joseph, Zelpha, James and Nelly were probably all born in Virginia. James resided on the border of Martin and Daviess Counties near the town of Alfordsville.
He is buried in Old Union Cemetery in Alfordsville. His tombstone inscription is: James Cannon Died Oct 1849 Aged 95 years, 4 mo., 4 days. He was a soldier of the Revolution, and ever after retained the principals the then fought for.
There is also a plaque put up by the DAR: James Cannon Pvt. South Carolina Troop Revolutionary War........................................PENSION RECORD OF JAMES CANNON, #32186. While residing in Ninety Six District, South Carolina, James Cannon entered in December 1775, for nine months, served in Captain Jared Smith's Company, South Carolina troops, marched to Smith's Station on the frontier of South Carolina, where he was stationed during the whole period for which he had enlisted, engaged in guarding the frontier against the attacks of the Cherokee Indians. He volunteered again in May 1777, served in Captain James Greer's Company, Colonel McCrary's South Carolina Regiment, marched to Augusta, Georgia, from thence to Saint Mary's, Florida, length of this service, three months. Volunteered in December 1778, and served three months in Captain Sexton's company, Colonel James William's South Carolina regiment, was stationed on the Savannah River, opposite Augusta and was engaged in guarding about two hundred Troy prisoners held at that place. Shortly after the Revolution he moved to North Carolina and lived until about 1790, then moved to Lee County, Virginia and lived there about twenty years, thence to Indiana territory. He was allowed pension executed May 11, 1833, while a resident of Daviess County, Indiana. James Cannon, stated that he married while in Mongomery, County, North Carolina, but did not give the date of him marriage or the name of his wife and there is no referrence to children.……………..
James and Hannah Baker Alford,In 1816, the year that Indiana became a state, James Alford resided in Wytheville, Wythe County, Virginia. There he associated himself with a man by the name of Reeder and the family of each occupying the same wagon moved westward. James Alford (called Captain by his friends) and Hannah Baker Alford first settled on the south bank of the White River at Portersville, Dubois County. After a few years they moved northward about 5 miles to a two story hewed log house. This was the first building in what was to be Alfordsville. He gave the land for the first Christian Church, which most of the Alfords attended in Reeve township, Daviess County, Indiana. He also gave the land for the first school house in Reeve Township.,
Hannah (Baker) Alford moved to Chautauqua County, Kansas, with her granddaughter, Orlena Harris Alford and her husband William H. Alford. James Alford had died in 1861 in Daviess County and is buried in the Christian Cemetery at Alfordvsille, Indiana. Hannah was Presbyterian, having a strong religious faith. She was a descandant of ancestors who lived in the highlands of Scotland, migrated to Ireland and were known as Scotch-Irish. After James died, Hannah moved to Chautaugua County, Kansas, and lived with her granddaughter Orlena Harris and William A. Alford.…………………….
Margaret Allen Vannoy McCord Harris
Margaret, the daughter of Joseph and Dorothy Walker Allen, went across the Ohio River to marry John Vannoy in Adams County, Ohio in 1810. Their daughter, Sarah, was born on a trading trip to from Kentucky to Cincinnati in the spring of 1811. The river froze over and they had to stay much longer than they had intended. They had another child Henry and then John Vannoy died sometime before 1820.Margaret brought these two children to her marriage with William McCord in 1822. She bore him three more sons prior to his death in 1834.
Margaret and three sons--Benjamin (then 17), Joseph Allen (15) and Nathaniel (13) moved west to Indiana by covered wagon in 1839. Perhaps they were moving to be with other Allen relatives already established in Daviess Co. Within their wagon party was David McCord and Sarah Vannoy McCord, a daughter from Margaret's first marriage who married William's son David. The family settled two miles south of Alfordsville, Indiana. Margaret Allen McCord first bought 40 acres of land in Martin County, Indiana, on January 14, 1840. After she had re-established her home in Indiana, Margaret Allen McCord met and married Isaac Harris, her neighbor, from Martin County Indiana in May 1840. She was 50 and he was 65. It was Margaret's third marriage. Margaret Allen must have been a shrewd bride, because he marriage to the established land owner, Harris helped her family rapidly set up their own estate in Daviess County. Margaret Allen was buried in Old Union Cemetery just a few feet away from Isaac Harris. In 1981, a visitor found a shallow impression a few feet from Harris' grave which was lying down. He began to dig with a rock and found her stone. It said "Margaret, Wife of Isaac Harris...Gone to Rest."……………..
John William and Emily McCord RobinsonJohn William Robinson was born November 3, 1858, on the family farm in Daviess Co., Indiana, the fourth child of Alexander and Martha Jane Gold Robertson. His father died when he was only 3 years old and his mother died a year and a half later. Only 4 1/2 years old and orphaned, he was initially placed in the home of his Aunt Parthena (Gold) and Uncle Henry Edwards. When they moved to Kansas in 1868, he began to live with Aunt Hariet (Gold) and Uncle John Kilbourn. Finally their guardianship was turned over to John Chandler.
In 1880, he is listed on the US census as a boarder and a merchant with Mason McCord, a son of Joseph Allen McCord. He worked as a clerk in their store in Alfordsville. A year later on March 28, 1881, he married Emily McCord, daughter of Joseph McCord at the Methodist Episcopal Church in Alfordsville by Marion Rose. In September, their daughter Ada Lucretia was born. The family moved a few miles north to Elnora where John continued in the mercantile business. He was also the postmaster of Elnora. On June 7, 1892, Helen Elizabeth was born. Helen recalls her father as a kind and gentle man. She called him Papa. John William Robinson died at the age of 43 at Elnora of pneumonia subsequent to falling in a river. He was buried September 20, 1902 in Alfordsville.From Joanna Brooks...John William Robinson was five years old when his mother died. After working on his aunts' farms for several years, John probably left rural Daviess County and went into Alfordsville in the early 1880's to seek his fortune. In 1880, he boarded in the McCord store with Mason McCord and worked for J. A. McCord. Eventually, John William Robinson met Emily McCord. They married in March 1881. Marriage meant upward mobility for this poor boy. Because orphan John Robinson married the daughter of the richest man in town, he was able to set up estate.
According to Daviess County land records, John Robinson bought a lot in town--lot 68 for $250 in April 1883--from Emily's father, J. A. McCord at a 20% discount. Not only was it a fair price break, it was a great opportunity break for Robinson who had no other connections in town. On that Alfordsville lot, Robinson opened a shoe store. Business went well and the couple's first child, daughter Ada Lucretia was born in 1882. In 1885, Robinson bought land in Clarksburg and 40 acres of rural Alfordsville from Emily's brother Benjamin Franklin McCord in 1885. Around 1892, John and Emily moved 27 miles to Elnora where they bought a quarter of a block in Elnora built a home, and opened a dry goods store and became postmaster. Soon after, Helen was born. Helen was Emily's last child. Perhaps Emily Robinson learned from the tragic death of her mother and decided not to have so many children so close together. In fact, Helen recalled in a 1978 personal interview that she was raised largely by Ada because Emily ran the post office all day long. In the 1890's this was quite out of the norm--only 2% of married women worked. Emily seemed to turn the role models upside down. It was her husband, not her, who attended church with their daughters. Emily was business-like and money-wise, while John is remembered as being more of the sweet parent. It was John that encouraged Helen to take piano lessons, thus developing her remarkable talent. In her 1978 interview, Helen recalled one incident demonstrating John Robinson's tenderness:
"I had red hair and freckles and the kids at school teased me, so I came home crying one day. My father took me aside and told me that God only gave good little girls red hair and freckles and he made me feel better. He was a kind, sweet man."Becoming more and more prosperous, in October 1899, the family bought a plot of land--20 acres valued at $350 in the rural areas outlying Elnora. It was there that they built a large, lovely home. Unfortunately, John Robinson died three years later. John contracted chicken pox, then waded in a river and became very ill with what was believed to be tuberculosis. He died in Elnora in September 1902 at the age of 44, after three months of severe illness including hemorrhaging. He was buried back in Alfordsville, at the Christian Cemetery. There is no record of his will or probate in Daviess County.Emily became postmaster in Elnora and took over the family business. Her deceased sister Orlena's son Johnny McCracken moved in with the family and became Helen's playmate. Emily remarried a Mr. Richardson in 1907. Richardson owned a store in Vincennes, Indiana. Emily was divorced within two years.Emily and her daughter Helen remained in Indiana. Ada was already married when John died and moved away with her husband. Helen graduated from Martinsville High School (near Alfordsville). While in Indiana, Helen played piano to accompany the silent movies. Despite only taking two years of piano lessons, Helen could play beautifully, by ear. This skill landed he several jobs.After high school, Helen began dating a man who was a "trainer of fast horses." According to Helen, Emily though that he was "below her." Emily, worried about the situation, consulted with her brother William and he said that they must pack it up and move as far away as possible--either to Florida or to California to escape this boy. On a coin toss, California won. Helen and Emily moved in 1910. Helen found work in Los Angeles demonstrating pianos at a department store. Later she worked as a telegrapher--first in an industrial area that became too rough for her, then at the Alexander Hotel, which was bad because "everybody wanted to make a date" with her. In 1920 there were only 16860 female telegraphers working, comprising 21% of the industry. Only 50% of single women were working at that time. A friend introduced Helen to Frank Leonis, a dark, handsome Basque man, the only member of his family born in America. Emily McCord Robinson did not like Frank Leonis because he was a dark-looking foreigner. Despite her mother's objections, however Helen married Frank in a tiny wedding at St. Vibiana's in Los Angeles on April 20, 1912.Both Helen and Emily were strong-willed women. Though Emily stood only 4' 11" talk Emily really ruled the roost at the family home. Pearl Leonis remembers that Emily, used to running things and babying Helen, did all of the cooking, took the best room in the house, and read the evening paper first. By habit, Emily was frugal with her finances and clothing. She often remade and refixed dresses and coats.This frugal behavior, though, was unnecessary. Even during the Depression, Emily had a large stash of money from her family - $15,000 to $16,000. With this money, she contributed towards the family home purchase. She also bough Frank Sr. dumptrucks, a hill of decomposed granite and mine for road beds to start him off in the trucking industry with the Belyea Truck Company. Sadly, the trucking business failed during the Depression.
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