Mary Elizabeth Everhart, daughter of
Jacob Everhart and Christina Norricks, was
born 2 August 1860 in
Nodaway Co., Missouri [
note 1],
and died 23 January 1935 in
Maryville, Nodaway Co., Missouri [
note 2].
She married
Cornelius Loman Brackin, son of Richard Brackin and Sarah
Jane McCort, on 1
October 1885, Maryville, Nodaway Co., Missouri. He was born 6
April 1855 in Carroll, Ohio, and died 13 January 1902 in Maryville,
Nodaway Co., Missouri [
note 3].
Biography
of Mary Elizabeth Everhart
and Cornelius Loman Brackin
Mary
Elizabeth (Libby or Lib) Everhart, 3rd child and
oldest daughter
of Jacob
and Christina (Norrick) Everhart was born 2 August 1860 in
Ohio and died
23 January 1935 at age 75 at the home of her son, William
Jacob
Bracken, on a farm East of Maryville, Nodaway County,
Missouri.
According to her Granddaughter, Mary
Christine Brackin/Neff,"
Grandma went outside, stepped on a stick and fell and broke her hip. In
those
days, when you broke your hip, they put you in a cast up to your chest.
Grandma
just laid there and died." Her death certificate says she was 74 years
5
months and 15 days old and died of hyperspleenomegalia, chrrliosis of
the
liver, biliary in origin, abdomenial ascites and pulminary edema
(spelling of
reasons for death are as handwritten on her certificate.) Libby had
moved from
Ohio to Missouri with her family in 1867 when she was about 7 years old.
Cornelius
Loman Brackin,
who was called Loman, was the 3rd child of Richard
and Sarah
Jane (McCort) Brackin. He was born 6 April 1855 and died
13 January 1902
at the age of 47." He died from typhoid fever caused by drinking impure
water," according to Mabel Farmer. According to Charlotte
Bracken, his son William,
age 12, also drank the
water and became very ill with typhoid fever, but recovered." His
daughter
Nellie was age 16 at the
time. Loman
and Libby are buried in the
Miriam Cemetery, Nodaway
County, Maryville, Missouri. Loman’s stone reads C. LOMAN
1855-1902 and Libby’s
stone reads MARY E. 1860-1935, with the family name BRACKIN across the
top.
"A farmer by occupation, he went from Ohio to Iowa in 1879 and from
there
to Maryville, Missouri in 1882" according to Family History
of James
and Anne McCort.
It
is interesting to note that
there is documented
proof that the Brackin and Everhart families knew each other in the
Carroll
County and Harrison County areas in Ohio. According to the Carroll
Historical
Society brochures, "The village of Algonquin, now Petersburg (no one
seems
to know why or when the name was changed), named for the Indian camp,
was
platted on 23 Sept. 1867, by Joseph Tope
and Cornelius Brackin, but
the plat evidently never was
recorded." Jacob Everhart, Sr.’s
wife was Elizabeth Tope.
They were the parents of Jacob
Everhart, Jr., Mary
Elizabeth (Libby) Everhart’s
father. Also a Cornelius Brackin,
age 21, served as a
wagoner in 1864 under Captain Jacob
Everhart (Libby’s
father) in the 157th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company I,
during the
Civil War according to the Ohio Roster Commission Official Roster of
the soldiers
of the state of Ohio 1886-1895. However, the age of this Cornelius
Brackin indicates that he was not Cornelius
Loman Brackin
nor was he Richard Brackin’s
father, Cornelius
Brackin.
Cornelius
Loman Brackin
married Libby 23 September 1885 "…at the bride’s
residence N C 01 Oct,
1885", according to a newspaper article indexed at the Nodaway County
Historical Society. Family history says that Libby had inherited a
160-acre
farm South of Maryville, Missouri from her father, Jacob
Everhart. The Loman Brackin family lived on this farm
until they lost it
during the Great Depression, circa 1932. According to Charlotte
Bracken, "…when Libby turned the farm over to
Pop (her son, William Jacob Bracken)
the judge forgot to dot the i and it
looked like an e. He (the judge) said it wouldn’t matter but
it did, and its
(the Bracken name) been spelled en ever since." Libby remained a widow
the
last 33 years of her life.
Loman and Libby had
two children:
- Nellie
Brackin/Haller– born 5 August 1886
and died 1970, buried in the Miriam Cemetery, Nodaway County,
Maryville, Missouri along with her husband and infant son. Nellie
started her career in 1921. She worked 32 years in the newspaper office
of The Maryville Daily Forum as a bookkeeper and cashier. She also
assisted in the news and advertising departments. She retired in 1953,
and then moved first to Texas then to Maine to live close to her
adopted daughter and family before returning to Maryville, Missouri
where she was living when she died. After returning to Maryville, she
wrote a "gossip" column for the Forum until shortly before her death.
She was an active worker in the Business and Professional
Women’s club and her home served as the workshop for the Doll
club.
Nellie married Guy Haller 21 December 1907.
Guy
was born 19 April 1879 and
died 26 October 1951 of a sudden heart attack in their home in
Maryville, Nodaway County, Missouri.
An
infant son was born 5 December
1908 and died 5 December 1908 in Maryville, Missouri. They adopted a
daughter, Helen, in 1935. She married Verne Arne, circa 1954 and later
divorced. They had 2 sons, Dwight and Larry Arne. Her second husband is
Keith Allen. The family believes they are retired and living on an
island off Maine.
- William
Jacob Brackin (later Bracken) –
born 2 January 1890 and died 25 December 1957 of a cerebral hemorrhage,
according to his death certificate, in his home on a leased farm
between Gentry and Alanthus Grove, Missouri. He was a farmer throughout
his lifetime. He is buried in the Miriam Cemetery, Nodaway County,
Maryville, Missouri along with his wife. William, called Will or Pop by
family members and close friends, married Augusta
Ann Bernoska Rutledge [see
note] (called Gusty by close friends and family) 25 December
1915. Augusta was a registered nurse, according to her death
certificate. She worked at the St. Francis Hospital, Maryville,
Missouri, for many years. After the family moved to the Stanberry,
Missouri area, she served as a midwife and took in foster children.
Augusta died of complications due to diabetes September 8, 1956 after
having both of her legs amputated and spending much of the last 2 years
of her life in the hospital. Both were members of the Stanberry
Methodist Church. William was a member of the Nodaway Lodge No. 470, F
and AM.
Augusta and a twin
brother
were born on
ship as her family migrated from Germany to the United States; her twin
died and was thrown overboard, according to family history. She (age 9)
and her older brother, John
(age 11) were placed in an orphanage, the Fairmount
Children’s Home, Alliance, Ohio in 1895. Their mother had
died and his new wife didn’t want them, also according to
family history. Augusta,
"was contracted with H. Rutledge
and Wife from Algonquin, Ohio for the amount of seventy-five dollars on
January 17, 1899", according to the orphanage’s records as
provided by Brenda McIntee
from the Stark County Department of Job and Family Services December 1,
2000. Augusta was still
living with the Rutledge’s when she married William Brackin
in 1915. H. (Henry) Rutledge’s wife
was the former Rebecca Anne Brackin,
sister of Cornelius Loman Brackin,
who was the father of William Jacob
Brackin. The family has always believed that she was
adopted by them, however, to date I can find no record that she was
ever legally adopted, although they treated her as a daughter, sent her
to nursing school and she used the Rutledge name. After their marriage
at Locust Lawn Farm, Carrollton, Ohio, the couple returned to his
Mother’s farm near Maryville, Missouri and lived with her
there until they lost the farm circa 1932. Libby then moved with them
to a leased farm near Ravenwood, Missouri where she died three years
later. "Pop" and "Gusty" had 4 children:
- Richard
Loman Bracken, born 16 October, 1916 and died
25 September 25, 1991. He married Esther
Basha Hammonds and had 3 daughters: Carolyn
Sue Bracken Queen, Judy Ann
Bracken Cain, and Donna Kay
Bracken Eiberger. Esther continues to live on the family
farm near Stanberry, Gentry County, Missouri. Richard is buried in the
High Ridge Cemetery, Stanberry, Gentry County, Missouri.
- The
second son was Harold Henry Bracken,
born 4
September 1919 and died 30 June 1983. He married Mary
Charlotte Osborn and had 4 children: Osa
Ann Bracken, Diana Lynn
Bracken Palmer, Harold Ray
Bracken, and Billy Roy
Bracken. Charlotte lives in Savannah, Missouri. Harold is
buried in the Greenridge Cemetery, Gentry County, Missouri, between
Gentry and Alanthus Grove, Missouri.
- The
third son was Charles Truman Bracken,
born 5 May
1921 and died 29 April 1997. He married Geraldine
(Jerry) Winiford Evans and had 6 children: Charles William Bracken,
Daniel Lee Bracken, James Douglas Bracken, Stephen Evan Bracken (died
when 3
days old), David Lloyd Bracken,
and Michele Leahann Bracken Buhman.
Jerry died 14 October 2000. Charles and Jerry are buried in the King
City Cemetery, King City, Gentry County, Missouri.
- Will
and Gusty’s
youngest child is Mary Christine Bracken
Neff. She married Marcus
Merrill Neff. They had 2 sons: Samuel
Richard Neff (born 2 March 1947 and died 18 September
1996) and William Robert Neff.
Christine and Marcus live on a farm North of Maryville, Nodaway County,
Missouri.
Besides
raising their 4
biological children, Will and
Gusty cared for several foster children in their home, raising 2,
Thelma Lawson Abrams and Jesse Lawson, to
adulthood.
Nellie
and family, and William and
his wife are buried close to Loman
and Libby in the Miriam
Cemetery, Maryville, Nodaway
County, Missouri.
According
to Charlotte
Bracken,
a violin said to have belonged to Loman
Brackin is in the
possession of her son, Billy Roy Bracken.
Charlotte
said that in her later years, Nellie
Brackin Haller,
daughter of Loman and Libby, became
a member of a church that believed in reincarnation. She gave the
violin to her
great nephew, Billy Roy Bracken
when he was still a small
child, because she thought he was the reincarnation of her father. A
table,
said to have been made by Loman Brackin
is owned by another
son, Harold Ray Bracken.
She thinks she remembers the
family saying that Loman
taught school in addition to
farming. A pocket watch dating from the mid-1880’s and said
to have belonged to
Loman is in the possession
of Harold’s oldest daughter, Osa
Ann Bracken.
Information
provided by "Family History of James and Anne McCort 1760-1921",
Cora M. Hough, Author and
Associate Editor, Emerson Capper,
Historian and Editor, Charles T.
McCort, Publisher, the Nodaway County Historical Society,
Maryville, Missouri,
Mary Charlotte Osborn/Bracken,
widow of Harold
Henry Bracken, Savannah, Missouri, letter from Mabel
Farmer, granddaughter of Sadie
Everhart Davis
dated 9-23-1989, death certificates of Mary
Elizabeth Brackin,
William Jacob Bracken, and Augusta Ann
Bracken [note 4], Ohio Roster Commission Official Roster
of the Soldiers of
the State of Ohio 1886-95, Carroll County (Ohio) Historical
Society
brochures, conversation with Mary
Christine Bracken/Neff,
Brenda McIntee, and the
Miriam Cemetery, Maryville,
Missouri.
Copyright © 2001 Osa
Ann Bracken
Notes
- Ancestry.com,
One World Tree (sm), Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc.,
n.d.,
Online publication - Ancestry.com. OneWorldTree [database on-line].
Provo, UT,
USA: The Generations Network, Inc. [Return
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- op cit. [Return
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- op cit. [Return
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- Interesting
letters to Augusta from Harry Hess may be read here.
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