Where the Rays lived in Lincoln, ILL

Mystery - where exactly is this house located? Who exactly lived there? Any info appreciated.

James Van Scyoc

Carroll County, Arkansas, ca. 1950's. His wife was Elizabeth Menor Van Scyoc. Their line can be found at my Rootsweb entries.

Wedding Day: Curtis R. Hudson and Virginia M. Moore

Wedding photo. Carroll Co., Ark.

Virginia Mae Moore

OBITUARY for VIRGINIA MAE HUDSON

Virginia Mae Moore Hudson, a resident of Berryville, was born Sept. 16, 1926, in the Grandview community of Carroll County, a daughter of Floyd and Elizabeth (VanSyke) Moore. She died Sunday, Aug. 20, 2006, in Eureka Springs at the age of 79.
Mrs. Hudson was a homemaker and a member of the Grandview Baptist Church. She was deeply loved and will be greatly mourned.

She is survived by her daughter Virginia R. Stepp; two sons, Roy Curtis Hudson and Marvin J. Hudson; three brothers, Robert Moore, J.M. Moore and Floyd Roland Moore; a host of grandchildren, great-grandchildren; several nieces, nephews other relatives and friends.

On Sept. 18, 1944, she was united in marriage with Curtis Roy Hudson, who preceded her in death. She was also preceded in death by her parents, two children, and one granddaughter.

Graveside funeral services were to be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006, at the Moreland Cemetery with Rev. Donald Stepp officiating. Interment was to follow in the Moreland Cemetery under the direction of Nelson Funeral Service.

[A version of this original text appeared in the Carroll County News of August 26, 2006]

Obituary for Curtis R. Hudson:

Curtis was born in Bristow, Oklahoma to Jess and Effie Ray Hudson. He died in 1988 and was buried in Calvary Cemetery in Douglas, Cochise, Arizona. He had been preceeded in death by his parents, brother, half-brother, two children and a grand daughter.

Southwest Pipeline Company, Oklahoma

Around Oklmulgee and Bristow, Oklahoma, a. 1920's (before 1929). Jess Hudson pictured.

George W. Hurst

Son of Lucy, grandson of Drury Ray.

Grave of Sarah Farley Van Scyoc Fletcher

Grave in Fremont Co., Iowa.

Sarah Ann Farley married
1)"Ashbin Van Skyhowk and Sarah Ann Farley 9 Jan 1845." Holt Co., MO. Holt Co. and Atchinson Co., MO became later Fremont Co., IA. The last name of Van Scyoc has been creatively spelled on more than one occasion. This man was an early pioneer and military figure in Iowa history. In 1850 they are found in Fremont Co., IA, by 1860 he is most probably dead and she had remarried;

2)A. Fletcher

Her life:

Sarah Ann Farley was the daughter of Thomas & Margaret Ferguson FARLEY (son of Henry Farley).

She had a brother named Jackson.

Sarah died in Fremont Co., IA as Sarah Fletcher (name of her 2nd husband Abraham Fletcher; #1 was, it is believed Ashbel Van Scyoc b. 1808 VA. and d. ca 1859 in IA).

Her children were:

Margaret Van Scyoc SHIRLEY
Franklin Van Scyoc (md a Lucinda A. OAKLEY)
Jackson Van Scyoc
Thomas Benton Van Scyoc (md a CLAPPER)
Almira Van Scyoc BECKWITH


Note on research: I found Franklin in Fremont Co. IA in 1850. The census listed the family as "A.V. Schyhock", aged 42, b. 1807 VA; wife Sarah A. b. in the 1820;s VA and a daughter named Margaret and a son Franklin.

Some event occurs from 1850-1860, death, desertion, etc. Later I find Margaret in the home of another family ; this family has connections to the family of Cornelius Van Scyoc b. 1783 who had children Ruth (MUSTARD),Elizabeth (KEELER), Lorenzo, Mary Ann, Benjamin, Sra, "A.". Van Scyoc, MUSTARD and Keelers are all in the same region of Iowa ca 1880, so it may be assumed that they are all related since Margaret it with them.

This circumstantial fact the children were placed in a family with connections to another Van Scyoc lines may support a familial connection between "A" and the Cornelius line.