• [S65] Jane Oliver, Certificate for Entry of Birth (17 April 1839), Home Office; Identity & Passport Service; General Register Office, United Kingdom.
  • [S87] Missouri Secretary of State, "Missouri State Library/Missouri State Archives/State Historical Society of Missouri," digital images, Missouri State Archives: Missouri Death Certificates, 1910 – 1957, (http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates/ : accessed by Carl Fields Feb 2009), Robert Coffman,.
  • [S137] Bonnie Heenan, Gassville, Arkansas, to Carl Fields, e-mail, "Re: Photos" (concerning death of Lavon Southern aka Nancy Bounds), 20 March 2007; privately held by Carl Fields, Aiken, South Carolina, Computer Files (e-mails, Genealogy, or "Gene," section of Local Folders).
  • [S387] 1870 United States Census, Pennsylvania, population schedule, Mifflin Township, Allegheny County, p 3, Household 24, John McGowan; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed by Carl Fields 8 Jan 2008) , based on NARA Microfilm Publication M593.
  • [S465] 1920 United States Census, Pennsylvania, Mifflin Township (ED 243), Allegheny County, p 3B (Image 365), Household 61, Arthur McGowan (surname indexed as McGown by Ancestry.com); digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed by Carl Fields 1 September 2008) , based on NARA Microfilm Publication T625.
  • [S502] 1880 United States Census, Missouri, population schedule, Martinsville (ED 49), Howell County, p 24, Household 205, Cornelius Collins; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed by Carl Fields June 2007), based on NARA Microfilm Publication T9.
  • [S574] "California Divorce Index, 1966-1984 ," database Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : 22 March 2010), Glendale C Fields and Caroline L Martin, December 1972, Fresno County, California; based on "California Divorce Index, 1966-1984," microfiche, State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics, Sacramento.
  • [S592] Missouri Secretary of State, "Missouri State Library/Missouri State Archives/State Historical Society of Missouri," digital images, Missouri State Archives: Missouri Death Certificates, 1910 – 1957, (http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates/ : accessed by Carl Fields, April 2010), Minnie Doolin (Fields), (20 Dec 1929). State File Number 20979, Registration District 61, Primary Registation District 4107, Registrar Number 34. John A. Fields, died on 13 June 1953 (2:30 pm) at Chambers Hospital, El Dorado Springs, Cedar County, Missouri. Usual residence was 309 North Grand, El Dorado Springs, Missouri. White male, never married, date of birth 4 August 1878 in Lafayette County, Missouri, age 74, (usual) occupation: Boat Operator, parents John Fields and Elizabeth Johnson. No husband/wife, Social Security number is blank, never in US armed forces, informant is Floyd Fields (El Dorado Springs). Death from repiiratory paalysis 5 days after cerebral hemorrhage; no autopsy was performed. Burial in Love Cemetery, El Dorado Springs, Cedar County, Missouri.
  • [S760] "California Death Index, 1940-1997 ," database Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : 4 Feb 2012), Zona Fields, 15 Sep 1987, Fresno County; based on "California Death Index, 1940-1997," State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics, Sacramento.
  • [S787] "Ancestry Public Family Trees," database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), (http://trees.ancestry.com : 10 Sep 2012), WSJTK SMITH TREE 4-09 (10608519), entry for Arizona ("Zona") Collins.
  • [S797] "Obituary: Della M. Fields," Sanger (California) Herald,13 July 1989; microfilm, Fresno County Public Library, Sanger Branch Library, a secondary image was created by photographing the article from the display screen of a microfilm viewer using a digital camera (this image was later edited to improve contrast and to remove nearby articles not of primary interest).
  • [S805] "California Death Records (1940-1997)," database, RootsWeb.com (http://vitals.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ca/death : 17 Sep 2012), Betty Joann Cude, 18 Sep 1996, Tulare County; Source: The California Department of Health Services Office of Health Information and Research Vital Statistics Section, Sacramento. A version of this database also exists on Ancestry.com. The Ancestry.com verison has been "commented/annotated" by an Ancestry.com user to identify her maiden name as Fields.
  • [S806] Cindy Wingate, Alta District Cemetery (Tulare County, California), database (with some images), Jim Tipton (and others), Find A Grave, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 17 Sep 2012), Betty Joann "Joann" Fields Cude, Memorial No. 58596553.
  • [S977] John Ferguson, Galatia Cemetery (Norfork, Baxter County, Arkansas), database (with some images), Jim Tipton (and others), Find A Grave, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 1 June 2013), Eudell Southard, Memorial No. 23900690. The memorial includes a photo of the grave marker.
  • [S978] "Arkansas Marriage Index, 1933-1939," database Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : 1 Jun 2013), Eudell Southard and Mary Funkhouser, 21 Jul 1937, Baxter County, Volume No. 2, Certificate 01003); based on "Marriage Record Index, 1933-1939," State of Arkansas Department of Health, Division of Vital Records, Little Rock; Arkansas Genealogical Society, mircofiche.
  • [S979] "Arkansas Marriage Index, 1933-1939," database Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : 1 Jun 2013), Eudell Southard and Octa Green, 11 Oct 1935, Baxter County, Volume No. 2, Certificate 00803); based on "Marriage Record Index, 1933-1939," State of Arkansas Department of Health, Division of Vital Records, Little Rock; Arkansas Genealogical Society, mircofiche.
  • [S980] "Arkansas Death Index, 1914-1950," database Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : 2 Jun 2013), Earl Southard, 28 Aug 1936, Independence County, roll no. 19341940, pg 3216; based on "Arkansas Death Index, 1914-1950," State of Arkansas Department of Health, Division of Vital Records, Little Rock; Arkansas Genealogical Society, mircofiche.
  • [S1076] Zona (Collins) Fields grave marker, Sanger Cemetery, Sanger, ; read by Carl Fields, approximately 2005. This cemetery is located at 605 South Rainbow Avenue. Sanger is in Fresno County.
  • [S1130] Vera Reeves, to ARIZARD (Rootsweb Arkansas Izard County List), e-mail, "ARIZARD-L Southard, Green" (regarding death of Earl Casey/Southard), 11 Dec 2003 (22:04:17 -600); privately held by Carl Fields, Aiken, South Carolina, Rootsweb List Archives (ARIZARD List, can be located http://rootsweb.ancestry.com ).
  • [S1131] "AnnisJune", to ARIZARD (Rootsweb Arkansas Izard County List), e-mail, "ARIZARD-L Southard, Green" (regarding death of Earl Casey/Southard), 11 Dec 2003 (23:05:45 EST); privately held by Carl Fields, Aiken, South Carolina, Rootsweb List Archives (ARIZARD List, can be located http://rootsweb.ancestry.com ).
  • [S1132] "AnnisJune", to ARIZARD (Rootsweb Arkansas Izard County List), e-mail, "ARIZARD-L Southard, Green" (regarding death of Earl Casey/Southard), 11 Dec 2003 (20:45:02 EST); privately held by Carl Fields, Aiken, South Carolina, Rootsweb List Archives (ARIZARD List, can be located http://rootsweb.ancestry.com ).
  • [S1133] Leisa Pruitt Stephens, Wayland Arbor Cemetery (Dolph, Izard County, Arkansas), database (with some images), Jim Tipton (and others), Find A Grave, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 22 Aug 2013), Earl Southard (aka Earl Casey), Memorial No. 8078064. The marker uses the surname Southard and gives only years: 1913-1936.
  • [S1163] Missouri Secretary of State, "Missouri State Library/Missouri State Archives/State Historical Society of Missouri," digital images, Missouri State Archives: Missouri Death Certificates, 1910 – 1957, (http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates/ : accessed by Carl Fields, August 2013), William Washington Jarman, (18 Mar 1936). State File Number 32756, Registration District 313, Primary Registation District 2001, Registered Number 566. Francis J Dodson, died on 6 October 1918 (4:30 AM) at his home 2238 North Main Street, Springfield, Greene County, Missouri. Usual residence was 2238 North Main Street, Springfield, Greene County, Missouri. White male, married (wife's name given only as Mrs Francis J Dodson), date of birth 25 Dec 1878 in, Missouri, age 38 years, (usual) occupation: cabinet workman, Martin? Piano Company?, parents Thomas Dodson and Ara Ann Fields. Informant is Mr. Dick Watts (R #4, Springfield, Missouri). Death from bronchial pneumonia, no indication autopsy was performed. Burial in Clear Creek Cemetery, Greene County, Missouri.

    This death certificate appears to indicate he was employed by the Martin Piano Company at the time of his death. Several internet searches in July 2013 indicate there was at Martin Brothers piano manufacturing company in operation at around this time (it had apparently earlier been known as the Martin and Martin company and may have specialized in player pianos). However, that company seems to have operated in New York, New York (and possibly also in Boston, Mass). The Martin Piano Company is Springfield Missoouri SEEMS to have more likely been a retailer (and possibly also a wholesaler), rather than a manufacturer. This Springfield "store" may have also have sold sewing machines, phonographs, and perhaps sheet music at various times when it was in existence.
  • [S1164] Missouri Secretary of State, "Missouri State Library/Missouri State Archives/State Historical Society of Missouri," digital images, Missouri State Archives: Missouri Death Certificates, 1910 – 1957, (http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates/ : accessed by Carl Fields, August 2013), Claude Estil Jarman, (30 Mar 1939). State File Number 32756, Registration District 313, Primary Registation District 2001, Registered Number 566. Francis J Dodson, died on 6 October 1918 (4:30 AM) at his home 2238 North Main Street, Springfield, Greene County, Missouri. Usual residence was 2238 North Main Street, Springfield, Greene County, Missouri. White male, married (wife's name given only as Mrs Francis J Dodson), date of birth 25 Dec 1878 in, Missouri, age 38 years, (usual) occupation: cabinet workman, Martin? Piano Company?, parents Thomas Dodson and Ara Ann Fields. Informant is Mr. Dick Watts (R #4, Springfield, Missouri). Death from bronchial pneumonia, no indication autopsy was performed. Burial in Clear Creek Cemetery, Greene County, Missouri.

    This death certificate appears to indicate he was employed by the Martin Piano Company at the time of his death. Several internet searches in July 2013 indicate there was at Martin Brothers piano manufacturing company in operation at around this time (it had apparently earlier been known as the Martin and Martin company and may have specialized in player pianos). However, that company seems to have operated in New York, New York (and possibly also in Boston, Mass). The Martin Piano Company is Springfield Missoouri SEEMS to have more likely been a retailer (and possibly also a wholesaler), rather than a manufacturer. This Springfield "store" may have also have sold sewing machines, phonographs, and perhaps sheet music at various times when it was in existence.
  • [S1166] Missouri Secretary of State, "Missouri State Library/Missouri State Archives/State Historical Society of Missouri," digital images, Missouri State Archives: Missouri Death Certificates, 1910 – 1957, (http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates/ : accessed by Carl Fields, August 2013), Alva Jarman, (3 Dec 1959). State File Number 32756, Registration District 313, Primary Registation District 2001, Registered Number 566. Francis J Dodson, died on 6 October 1918 (4:30 AM) at his home 2238 North Main Street, Springfield, Greene County, Missouri. Usual residence was 2238 North Main Street, Springfield, Greene County, Missouri. White male, married (wife's name given only as Mrs Francis J Dodson), date of birth 25 Dec 1878 in, Missouri, age 38 years, (usual) occupation: cabinet workman, Martin? Piano Company?, parents Thomas Dodson and Ara Ann Fields. Informant is Mr. Dick Watts (R #4, Springfield, Missouri). Death from bronchial pneumonia, no indication autopsy was performed. Burial in Clear Creek Cemetery, Greene County, Missouri.

    This death certificate appears to indicate he was employed by the Martin Piano Company at the time of his death. Several internet searches in July 2013 indicate there was at Martin Brothers piano manufacturing company in operation at around this time (it had apparently earlier been known as the Martin and Martin company and may have specialized in player pianos). However, that company seems to have operated in New York, New York (and possibly also in Boston, Mass). The Martin Piano Company is Springfield Missoouri SEEMS to have more likely been a retailer (and possibly also a wholesaler), rather than a manufacturer. This Springfield "store" may have also have sold sewing machines, phonographs, and perhaps sheet music at various times when it was in existence.
  • [S1170] "New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : 5 Sep 2013), manifest, Baltic, 21 May 1923, manifest page 25, Line 5, Leon Komisaruk; based on National Archives microfilm publications M237 and T715; this information is from NARA T715 microfilm roll 3299.

    The Ancestry.com data based cited above also indicates his name was initially listed on the passenger manifes of the Canopic, which arrived in New Yoork on 23 May 1923, having sailed from Bremen (roll 3300, page 13, Line 3). However, his name is crossed out on that passenger list, indicating he probably never really boarded the ship for that sailing.



  • [S1208] United States Immigration and Naturalization Service, " Passport applications, 1795-1925 ; Indexes, 1830-1831, 1850-1852, 1860-1923," passport applications on microfilm, Cert# 46465, Leon B Komisaruk, issued 3 Jun 1921, Family History Library (FHL) : Salt Lake City, Utah, FHL Microfilm 1673441, filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1985; citing microfilm of original records at National Archives at Suitland, Maryland,, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Series M1490, Roll 1639.

    The file contains the following documents:

    "Application for US Passport (form for naturalized citizens, side 1)," dated 30 Apr 1921, with notation that fee was paid on 2 May 1921, Image (Exhibit) 4667A. "Application for US Passport" is the obvious functional title, the actual title of the form, printed near the top of side 1, is illegible. Form contains several stamped annotations and also several handwritten lineouts and annotations. One handwritten annotation seems to deal with an amendment extending countries to be visited to include Denmark, Latvia, and Lithuania (see below). Other handwritten annotations are illegible. The 30 Apr 1921 date may represent when the form was filled out at the office of the Supreme Court at Binghamton, New York, while the 2 May 1921 date could represent when the form (and the accompanying fee) were received by the US Department of State in Washington, DC.

    "Application for US Passport (form for naturalized citizens, side 2)," dated 30 Apr 1921, Images (Exhibits) 4669A and 4669B.

    Affidavit stating (among other things) Komisaruk will not solicit or advertise for money to bring immigrants into the US, other than members of his immediate family, 27 May 1921, Image (Exhibit) 4670A.

    Note (partly handwritten) from Department of State, Bureau of Passport Control, requesting investigation of Leon Komisaruk, 12 May 1921, Image (Exhibit) 4673A.

    Note from Chief Special Agent, Department of State, to "Mr. Adams," transmitting report "from Binghamton, N. Y.", dated 19 May 1921, Image (Exhibit) 4671A.


    An almost completely illegible document that is apparently the report mentioned in the preceding item. It was a negative image (what is sometimes called a photostat) that did not microfilm very well. It was photographed from a microfilm viewer screen with a digital camera and then digitally converted to a positive image. All that can be determined is that the report appears to be handwritten on letterhead stationary with United States Post Office, Binghamton, New York printed near the top of the page, Image (Exhibit) 4672A.

    Note (handwritten) from Department of State, Bureau of Passport Control, requesting that an amendment be granted for this passport for Denmark, Latvia, and Lithuania, 6 Jun 1921, Image (Exhibit) 4674A. The objective of asking for access to these countries is unclear. The national borders at that time appear to be such that he could not have traveled to Europe by a northern sea route and then entered Romania with access to only the three listed countries (he would have also had to pass through Poland and/or Germany, and possibly other countries). It is possible, of course, that certain countries could be entered without being specifically mentioned on the passport application, or that amendments for other countries were granted, but not mentioned in documents retained in the file at the time it was microfilmed.

    "Report of Amendment of Passport," to allow access to Poland, dated 18 Jan 1922, and completed at American Consular Service at Bucharest, Romania, Image (Exhibit) 4675A.

    The documents in the file are listed here (above) in approximate chronological order. The documents were photographed with a digital camera directly from a microfilm reader viewscreen, then digitally edited to improve contrast, etc. The sequence of Image numbers indicates the order in which they appear in the file. Two versions of side 2 of the April 30 1921 application were made: one with contrast (etc.) optimized to make the photograph relatively clear and the other with settings optimized to make the text relatively clear.

    Three of the documents (Images (Exhibits) 4671A, 4673A, and 4674A) in the file are on small pieces of paper (about 3 inches by 5 inches). The other original documents are approximately 7 inches by 10 inches or 8.5 inches by 11 inches. The images of the smaller notes have, in effect, been digitally enlarged, so their original small size may no longer be obvious.

    Romania is spelled at least two different ways in the various documents in the microfilmed file.

  • [S1225] Wayne Henson, Certificate of Death Local Registration District 1016, Local Certificate Number 1038 (called the Registrar's Number on this certificate), State File Number 72-045835, Reedley, Fresno County, California (4 Apr 1972), unknown repository, unknown repository address.
  • [S1233] "Ancestry Public Member Trees," Ancestry.com, (http://www.ancestry.com
  • [S1249] The Detroit Jewish News is a "newspaper" that has been published since 1942. It is apparently still active as this is written (17 April 2014). It has a web site: (http://www.thejewishnews.com). It seems to have been a weekly newspaper during the portion of Leon Kay's life that it was published (1942-1960). However, it may now have more of a magazine format, which is why "newspaper" appears in parentheses above (and may be published at a different frequency).

    The word "newspaper" in quotes (in the preceding paragraph) because its current formati sunclear. It seems to have been a weekly newspaper during the last portion of Leon Kay's life (1942-1960). However, it may now have more of a magazine format (and may be published at a different frequency -- it's current-day status is unclear).

    An organization called the Detroit Jewish News Foundation (www.djnfoundation.org) is associated with The Detroit Jewish News. The foundation web site contains an archive where they apparently intend to digitize every back issue of the "newspaper" (and may have actually already completed this task as of April 2014).

    A search of the foundation web site for the name "Leon Kay" in April 2014 indicated 759 "hits", with perhaps 40 of these after his death in late September 1960. However, some of these hits were for his wife (usually listed as Mrs Leon Kay) and at least one was for a younger individual (born around 1915) with the same name. As this is written (in April 2014), a systematic survey of these hits has not been performed However, a quick scan suggest the majority are brief articles reporting that he attended (or presided over) a meeting, served on a committee, or attended a social function, items with only limited biographical interest.

    Biographical information was gleaned from the following articles (only the first page is listed for articles that were longer than a single page): "Kay Elected by Congress" (referring to the Detroit Chapter of the American Jewish Congress), May 17, 1944, page 6 (a photo is associated with this article); "National, Local Leaders Pay Tribute to L. Kay's Memory: Plan Memorial at Technion," October 7, 1960, page 6 (this is, in effect, an obituary -- a photo is associated with this article); "Purely Commentary,: October 7, 1960, page 2; "Hillel Day School Memorializes Kay," July 21, 1961, page 19; "Industrialist William Fisher to Mark 80th Birthday," April 5, 1968, page 39; "Fisher Family Portrait and Genealogical Record is Published, August 6, 1982, page 54; "Profile - Reva Usher: JCC Teacher," October 25, 1991, page 104; Bill Carroll, "Oily Rags to Riches: Usher Oil continues a four-generation Detroit Tradition," October 27, 2005, page 86.

    Additional background information (primarily about the various oil companies Kay was associated with) was gleaned from two web page articles: "Traveling Michigan and Gassing Up Before Self-Serve," column for March 20, 2004, (http://home.comcast.net/~steelbeard1/flinn032004.htm : accessed 17 April 2014) and "Max Fisher, Detroit benefactor, dies at 96," March 4, 2005, this is a pdf apparently constructed from a Detroit Free Press web article (http://www.detroitmemories.com/files/newsfromhome/… : accessed 17 April 2014).
  • [S1316] 1940 U. S. Census, Fresno County, Sanger, California, population schedule, Enumeration District 10-111, page 7A, Line 7, Household 154 (visited 12 April 1940), Art Henson -- informant was head of household; digital image, National Archives 1940 Census, Official 1940 Census Website (http://1940census.archives.gov : accessed by Carl Fields 24 July 2014), citing National Archives microfilm publication T627, roll 205, image unknown.
  • [S1318] Jess Long (originally Mike Proffitt), Greenwood Cemetery, Bolivar, Polk County, Missouri, database (with some images), Jim Tipton (and others), Find A Grave, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 23 July 2014), Ora Jarman, Memorial No. 31508396.

  • [S1324] Jess Long, Greenwood Cemetery, Bolivar, Polk County, Missouri, database (with some images), Jim Tipton (and others), Find A Grave, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 27 July 2014), Viola Francis Jarman, Memorial No. 31508496.

  • [S1326] Jess Long, Greenwood Cemetery, Bolivar, Polk County, Missouri, database (with some images), Jim Tipton (and others), Find A Grave, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 27 July 2014), William Washington Jarman, Memorial No. 31567224.

  • [S1327] Larry Boyd, Greenwood Cemetery, Bolivar, Polk County, Missouri, database (with some images), Jim Tipton (and others), Find A Grave, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 27 July 2014), Roy Washington Jarman, Memorial No. 45388564.

  • [S1414] Missouri Secretary of State, "Missouri State Library/Missouri State Archives/State Historical Society of Missouri," digital images, Missouri State Archives: Missouri Death Certificates, 1910 – 1957, (http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates/ : accessed by Carl Fields, 5 Jan 2015), Lola Dodson, (3 Mar 2925). State File Number 08268, Registration District 320, Primary Registation District 5443, Registered Number "5443."
  • [S1455] 1930 US Federal Census, Michigan, population schedule, Detroit (ED 82-1085-124) Wayne County, p 13B (Line 51), Household 59 (Dwelling 35), Samuel Komeschuk; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed by Carl Fields 15 Mar 2015), based on NARA Microfilm Publication T626 (roll 1044, image 296, FHL microfilm roll 2340779). The Dwelling Number and Street Number come from the previous page of the census schedule. The dwelling was apparently a two-family home.
  • [S1465] "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1866-1938 ," indexed database, Family Search (http://www.familysearch.org : 29 Mar 2015), entry for William Komisaruk and Gertrude Eisengart, 22 Oct 1932, Manhattan, New York, New York (FHL Microfilm: 1684695, Ref ID: cn 23020); based information from New York Municipal Archives. Information is from five separate boroughs. Time period varies by borough: New York City (Manhattan) 1795-1949, Bronx 1898-1948, Brooklyn 1847-1949, Queens 1898-1949, and Richmond (Staten Island) 1890-1949.
  • [S1481] "Kansas, City and County Census Records, 1919-1961," database with images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : 11 Jul 2015), entry for Arel Murphy Southard, Enumeration Date: 1 Mar 1948, Residence Place: Hutchinson, Kansas; based on Kansas State Historical Society, Archives Division (Topeka, Kansas), Population Schedules and Statistical Rolls, 1919-1961, Reel Number 16-692; Original Data from (Kansas) State Board of Agriculture, Population Schedules and Statistical Rolls: Cities (1919-1961) and State Board of Agriculture, Population Schedules and Statistical Rolls: Ciounties (1953-1979).
  • [S1482] "U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989," database with images, Ancestry.com, (http://www.ancestry.com : unknown cd. This is a collection of city directories assembled by Ancestry.com into a single database.

    All of the 1949-1963 city directories on the Ancestry.com web site as of July 2015 were published by the division (or branch or office) of the R. L. Polk Company sited in Kansas City, Missouri. That Kansas City "division" had several different addresses over that time span. For example, the address was listed as 1207 Grand Ave., Room 228, in the 1949 directory; 104 E 14th in the 1951, 1953, and 1955 directories; and 600 Keystone Building, 1322 Main, in several later directories.
    Some of these Hutchinson, Kansas directories appear to be composite volumes, containiing several different types of directories (e.g., household -- listed by the name of the head of household, street address, alphabetical -- listed by the name of the head of household, telephone number). Of these, the alphabetical seems to be the most informative, since it often includes occupation and employer or place of business. Thus, any cited page and image numbers normally refer to that alphabetical listing. The Ancestry.com search function will sometimes generate several different searches for the one individual (or household) for the same city and year. These generally correspond to the various types of listings (within the composite directory) that may include the same household.

    In addition, Ancestry.com appears to have obtained two copies of directories (or perhaps two copies of onlly the some of the listings in the composite directories). This also contributes to getting multiple search results for the same household for the same year. It also appears that some of the paper volumes that were microfilmed were "copyright record" copies filed with the Library of Congress. These have what appears to be a date of receipt stamped on the back of the title page. However, it is not clear if this date provides any insight into any differences between the "year" indicated on the directory and the dates during which the information in the directory was collected. For example, the directory "for" 1959 actually bears a 1960 copyright date (year only) and the stamps on the back of the title page (presumably related to when the volume was received and/or cataloged) by the Library of Congress) are in April 1960.
  • [S1515] Carl C Fields, Aiken SC, to Natalie Goff (and many others), e-mail, "Death of Earl Casey"(apparently aka Earl Southard) -- August 1936", 26 June 2015; privately held by Carl Fields, Aiken, South Carolina, Computer Files (e-mails, Genealogy, or "Gene," section of Local Folders, and also in TMG Note-FTM for Eleanor Siegel).

    Partial text of e-mail message follows:

    The two attached clippings are things I found on a trip to Arkansas earlier in June. I was there primarily for a school reunion (June 13th) and to visit family, but I also slipped off to do some library and courthouse research. Note it's school reunion, not class reunion; the school is so small that they hold a reunion every 5 years for everyone who ever attended there (apparently relatively few reunions are held for individual classes).

    The attached clippings are from the Batesville Guard from (I'm pretty sure) issues dated August 28 and 29, 1936 (I wasn't thinking ahead enough to write down or photograph the headings from the top of the newspaper pages, which would have included the date, volume, and issue number). I do remember that both of these stories were on page one of that day's issue of the newspaper.

    Earl Casey (1913-1936) was a son of Mary Jane Fields Casey Southard (1896-1992), by her first husband, Harrison Casey (about whom I have almost no information, other than his name).

    The incident that caused Earl's death apparently took place on the night of 26 August (a Wednesday) near Calico Rock, Arkansas. He died two days later, apparently in a hospital in Batesville. Batesville is about 50 miles southeast of Calico Rock. The community of Rodney, also mentioned in at least one of the clippings, is about 6 miles north of Calico Rock.

    The story in the articles is different from what I've heard via family folklore, but only slightly so. I think I heard Earl had just come out of church when the altercation began, which is possible; Wednesday night bible study classes are not uncommon in Arkansas (at least, that was the case when I was growing up in the 1950s).

    I didn't try to look at subsequent issues to see if any kind of hearing and/or trial was held later. It there was, it would more likely be covered in an newspaper published closer to where the initial incident tool place (probably a Baxter County newspaper, if any papers were published in that county in that era).

    The back issues of the Batesville newspaper are on microfilm in a small library/archive that is part of the Old Independence Regional Museum in Batesville (which is in Independence County; "Old Independence" is a region; back in Territorial days -- and maybe in in the early years of statehood -- Independence County was much larger than it is now, several current-day surrounding counties were split off from it). These images are scanned from paper prints made from a microfilm viewer at the museum library.

    It looks like the newspapers were initially stored bound in books and those "book pages" were later (probably much later) photographed in the process of making the microfilm. Both articles were at the left-hand edge of page 1 of each issue. A few letters along the left-hand edge of the page can't be read. This is probably because they were "clamped" into the device that held the newspaper pages into a book binding. Also, it looks like some ink from an advertisement on the page facing the second article transferred on that article during the years the pages were pressed together (as a "book") before the pages were microfilmed.

    Note that the first story gives his surname as Southard (his stepfather's surname), while the second story corrects this. His death certificate also lists his surname as Southard. I don't know which name he normally went by during his life. The death certificate, incidentally, lists his death as accidental, not the result of a criminal act.

    Eudell Southard, Earl's half-brother, who is mentioned in the second article, died in 2004. His obituary is available on the internet.

    Virgil Eugene Fields, who I believe would have been Earl's uncle, had died in Missouri in circumstances that were also related to an altercation, in May of 1936. I sent out a clipping on that incident to some of you a few weeks ago.
  • [S1517] Bonnie Heenan, Gassville, Arkansas, to Carl C Fields, e-mail, "Re: Death of Earl Casey (apparently aka Earl Southard) -- August 1936" (providing additional information on Earl's wife and child born after his death), 9 July 2015; privately held by Carl Fields, Aiken, South Carolina, Computer Files (e-mails, Genealogy, or "Gene," section of Local Folders, and also in TMG Note-FTM for Eleanor Siegel).

    Text of e-mail message follows:

    Sure wish I could read the article Youth is Held better. I will sit down and look at it better. Earl’s wife was pregnant at the time of his death. Earl had pinned a picture from a magazine on to his wall and said, this is how our baby is going to look. He was so looking to seeing his baby. His wife named the baby Earline. His wife’s maiden name was Octie Rand, her Grandfather’s name was Simp Rand. He had raised her. Her Mother was killed by her jealous husband. I wonder if you could get an alternative source to that. Bonnie.
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    This is revised version of an earlier article whose publication date is uknown, but it was probably published a few years prior to "Bounds" death in 2007. The original article is said to have been published in New Horizons, which appears to be (as of September 2016) a tabloid newpaper published by the Eastern Nebraska Office of Aging. It would appear that the revisons to the original article were primarily to add add a new introductory paragraph (primarily concerning a photograph of "Nancy Bounds" and some changes to what had likely been the first two paragraphs of the to make clear that Ms Bounds was no longer living, but the article had been wirtten at a time when she was living.

    Bonnie Heenah (a neice of Nancy Bounds) sent an e-mail on 7 Sept 2016 commenting on the article.


    The text of the internet version of the Nancy Bounds article follows (several photos appeared in the article - most of them of well-known graduates of the modeling school, only one of the of Nancy herself - the photos have been omitted here, some minor editing has been done to remove "commercial text" that had been on the web site, and some comments added by others at the end of the article have been included).

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    Leo Adam Biga's My Inside Stories
    I write stories about people, their passions and their magnificent obsessions

    Nancy Bounds, Timeless Arbiter of Fashion Beauty, Glamour, Poise
    February 4, 2012 leoadambiga
    Imagine my surprise when I searched for images of the late Nancy Bounds, the subject of this story, and could not find a single one. My surprise stems from the fact that Bounds was a much photographed stylish woman whose entire career was built on image enhancement work with aspiring models and actors. She was a personality and celebrity whose all about town comings and goings were grist for the Omaha society mill pages. She frequently appeared on television, too. So, instead of pictures of Nancy I bring you pictures of one of the talents who came out of her modeling school, indeed the most famous graduate of all -model-actress Jaime King, an Omaha native like me. My search for Nancy Bounds images continues and I expect before long to have her lovely, smiling face and well-outfitted figure gracing this post. For now though, Jaime King is not a bad compromise. If you're into all things fashion and style, you'll find other articles of interest on this blog.
    NOTE: Special thanks to fashion photographer Michael Dar, who got his start under Nancy Bounds in Omaha, for his photo of her.

    Nancy Bounds, Timeless Arbiter of Fashion Beauty, Glamour, Poise
    ©by Leo Adam Biga
    Originally appeared in the New Horizons

    For 40 years, Nancy Bounds was Omaha's saucy arbiter and symbol for good looks and social graces. The owner of a string of modeling/finishing schools bearing her name, she applied her tastemaker's role as television host, magazine columnist, pageant director and self-improvement guru. This former model, singer, dancer and actress best embodied her own beauty ethos. Whatever the gala, she was always the stylish, well-turned-out fashion plate looking like she was poured into her haute-couture designer clothes, which her closets overbrimmed with.

    Bounds shared her story with the New Horizons a few years before her passing. Her reputation preceded her and she proved to be everything and then some that was said about her.

    An expert in the rules of attraction and feminine wiles, Bounds is just what you'd expect from a Southern-born and reared beauty queen. She exudes a soulful, sassy, sweet, sad quality that almost makes you think that at any moment she'll utter Blanche du Bois's famous line from A Streetcar Named Desire. You know the one: "I've always depended upon the kindness of strangers."

    A coquettish charmer with milky skin and sun-dappled hair, Bounds greets visitors to her resplendent Dundee home in the warm honey glow of her broad smile, sparkling eyes and sultry voice. Wearing an antique blue silk ensemble and a pair of high-heeled silver sandals, she's still every inch the fashion maven and beauty diva who's made men weak-kneed at the sight of her since her ingenue days.

    It took all of her cheeky guile to get where she is today, which is a long way from her rural Arkansas roots. It may surprise some that this sophisticated lady, who's the epitome of chic, owns a background closer to Dogpatch than Fifth Avenue.

    Growing up the youngest and brightest of six children, the former Nancy Southard was born, on an undisclosed date, in the Ozarks, where her gentrified father owned land, saw mills and other interests. Despite such backwoods environs, she comes from good stock. She said her mother's family, the Tayloes, are descendants of George Washington and her father's family is related to the Astors of old New York high society. Still, there wasn't much in the way of culture where she lived.

    And her precocious bordering-on incorrigible personality didn't sit well in her "very strict Christian" home that her father ruled with an iron fist. "I was an obstinate, self-confident tigress. I don't know how anyone stood me," she said.

    Her rearing came in a series of small towns - Rodney, Norfolk, Mountain Home - she felt confined in and pined to escape. The rote learning of a small school was torture for a girl bursting with starry-eyed dreams and ideas inspired by the books and magazines she devoured. In class, which she found "boring," she'd either fall asleep or break out in hives or draw the ire of a teacher, and be sent to the principal's office, where she played duplicate bridge and chess with the headmaster. As a young schoolgirl she exhibited an extrovert's expressiveness and a knack for makeup and performing, but had no real outlet for her gifts.

    If not for her astute godmother, Maude Washington Arthur, Bounds may not have broken away from the shackles of that constraining life. A kind of down home grand dowager duchess holding court in a cabin atop a mountain, Maude was an educated, well-traveled woman who saw the potential in Nancy and held out the possibility she could live out her dreams. Nancy lived for a time with Maude, who became her personal finishing school mistress.

    "She somehow picked on me and wanted me to have the sophistication she thought I was lacking at school," Bounds said. "She helped me to choose the good books to read. That lady - she knew I was going to be something in the world. She believed in me. She was my mentor."

    Making a mark is what Bounds wanted more than anything."I didn't have so much a dream. I just knew I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be well-known. I wanted to be a star. It never crossed my mind I was going to fail," she said. "I had more guts than good sense, in some cases, but for some reason there's always been a little star following me around all of my life, and it's always sort of taken care of me." Consumed by a sense of "ambition, wanderlust and loneliness…a lot of loneliness," Bounds just wanted to be free and Maude encouraged her to try her wings. "She kept saying, 'You can do it.' And I knew I could do it."

    So convinced was Bounds that her future lay in the wider world that the first book she bought was "a book on manners," she said. "I wanted to be able to move in whatever kind of society I was ever going to be in." Her intuition served her well, too, as she's lived a storybook life that's found her mixing with everyone from world famous designers, models and entertainers to politicians to royalty.

    Emboldened by Maude and by a grandfather who also recognized her destiny, Nancy one day just packed up and left. She was only 14, but her exasperated parents let her go, knowing she had to try. "That's how much I wanted to get out of Arkansas and to get out where it was happening in the world," she said. Her destination? Springfield, Mo. It was as close to cosmopolitan as she could get. Why Springfield? "I had enough money to get there -$35. I got on a bus. It stopped every 20 minutes and I've never ridden a bus since. That was not going to be my style," said Bounds, who nowadays tools around in a chauffeur-driven limo.

    Without knowing a soul in Springfield, she put on a brave face and made herself up to look older than she was, quickly landing jobs as a waitress and cosmetics clerk. Then, she really showed her brass when she auditioned for a singing slot on a local radio station. She got the gig and sang a few times a week on live broadcasts.

    Then she met a man who looked good in an Air Force uniform. She was 15. They got hitched. Before she knew it, he was off flying Goonie Birds in the Berlin Airlift. "I didn't see him for a year," she said, "and by then I'd forgotten what he looked like." While he was away, she found she was pregnant. She moved back home, where she'd kept the news of her marriage a secret from her father, who'd warned her to stay away from those "hound dogs." After "having it out," she went to Wichita, where family lived nearby.

    On her own again, Bounds made do. A couple of sailors, Ronnie and Jean, befriended her in the weeks leading up to her giving birth. "They both fell in love with me, but they were always like brothers to me. Better than brothers," she said. They were with her when the labor pains began and flagged down a taxi to take her to a military hospital. She was still so young and naive she thought doctors "cut you open to get out your child." To show her undying appreciation to her friends, she named her daughter Ronnie Jean after them.

    When her long-absent husband returned from overseas, she greeted him with, "I'll take you to meet your daughter." The couple's ill-advised union fell apart when he took her to live with his family in Minnesota. After three months, she said, "I had to get out of there. So, I got up and packed at three o'clock in the morning and snuck out with about equal amount the money I had when I left home."

    She fled to the Ozarks. He found his child-bride, but she would not have him back. She filed for divorce and went to Minnesota to get it. "I didn't want anything except the right to my daughter for the rest of my life and that he was never to come near me or her." To her dismay, she learned the state only granted divorces then on the grounds of adultery. "Well, I wasn't about to do that," she said. "So, we picked one of his good friends and he and I sat up all night long and played gin rummy. We came down the next day and he went to court and swore he spent the night with me. Totally staged. But I got my daughter back, which is all I wanted."

    Living back in Wichita with her baby girl, Bounds screwed up her courage and reinvented herself again. "I learned a group was looking for a singer. I auditioned, but I didn't like the group. It gave me an idea, though. Why don't I get my own group? Of course I had no money, but I had the audacity to start doing interviews." Soon, she assembled a pianist, bass player, drummer and saxophonist. She fronted with her vocals. After some Wichita area gigs, her group moved west, landing jobs in Colorado. When band members began bowing to pressures from home, she disbanded the group and went solo. "I had to support my daughter," she said.

    She headlined at a nightclub in Denver and a hotel in Estes Park. What her voice lacked, her sex appeal made up for. "I sang love songs and lots of blues. I had a soulful, smoky sound. There's something about a saxophone that could really turn my voice on. But I was never a fabulous singer. I was a much better performer than I was a singer. I could sell a song. And I had a great bod," she said.

    Her hunger next took her to Chicago, where she variously modeled, sang and danced for a living. She also acted in TV spots. Her growing interest in acting led her to join a repertory summer stock company in Boston, where she appeared in several plays over three seasons. Theater, for her, fed a desire to improve her mind and broaden her knowledge. "I wanted to improve my ability to articulate my feelings," she said. "I learned a lot about the language by doing different parts."

    Back in Chicago, the ever-enterprising Bounds continued her education by hiring a Northwestern University professor as her private tutor. "He was a wonderful guy who wanted to teach me what I wanted to know - everything. He was interested in my life and in my mind and I was incredibly interested in all that he knew. I always called him Webster." With the prof's help, she lost her Southern accent and further refined herself. He was her Dr. Higgins and she his Eliza Doolittle.

    She eventually found romance with a man, Carmen, who became her husband and dance partner. She, her new hubby and her daughter moved to Kansas after her little girl was diagnosed with asthma and doctors advised the child live in a dry climate. Nancy and Carmen were performing as a dance team in Wichita when an agent saw them and recommended her to band leader Xavier Cugat. The Latin maestro signed her up and she happily performed with his band in the Dallas area. "Oh, play me some Latin music and watch this body and hear this voice work it. I've always loved Latin music," she said. Cuggie or Papa, as he was called, became her newest Svengali. "Oh, he was such a puppy dog…the sweetest guy." She recalls him painting surrealistic images in his spare time as she "sat at his feet and watched him" work. "His courage with color was amazing. He said I was a muse for him because I was so enthusiastic about his art. He said, 'When I see you, I see golden…yellows…rainbows.' He painted my personality. I adored him."

    Meanwhile, her marriage to the dancer fizzled. Her life turned again when she bought some Fred Astaire Dance studios in Kansas and fell in love with and married an Air Force colonel, Robert S. Bounds, who gave her her professional name. She wound up in Omaha when he was transferred to Offutt. At first, Nancy thought she "would be happy playing golf, playing bridge and just being an officer's wife. Well, that lasted about three months." Restless, she looked into working for a local modeling school. Instead, she ended up running it. When the owners of another school noticed her business savvy and offered her a 50 percent piece of their place, she held firm for a controlling share. She soon made over the business as her own, moving it into the suave penthouse quarters of the old Fontenelle Hotel.

    Marriage number three ended when the colonel got reassigned and she balked at moving. Besides, she said, he'd run her burgeoning modeling business into the ground after she sold it to him. "It's then I decided it was I who had the brains," she said, "when he had me believing all the time it was him."

    Every time she's started over, Bounds has gritted her teeth and feigned her famous moxie, but it was all a facade. "I felt frightened, but I never let anyone know it. I was scared to death about half the time, but I kept saying, I can do this."

    Do it, she has. A breakthrough for Bounds occurred in the 1970s. Tired of her models being snatched up and under-used, she made elite agents, such as Ricardo Guy in Milan, take note of Omaha as a rich talent pool and launching pad for serious careers in modeling, films and television. As soon as agents learned her models got magazine covers and film-TV roles, her annual graduation show at the Orpheum Theater drew talent scouts from New York, L.A., Milan, Paris and Tokyo. Several of her graduates have gone on to major careers, most notably model-actress Jaime King.

    She feels Nebraska's gold mine of talent springs from something in the water or gene pool here that creates "The Look" everyone's after. Then, too, she adds, "I think I was blessed with good eyes. I start watching them when they're 9 or 10." She said the model standard hasn't changed much in 35 years. "It's just gorgeous, gorgeous and more gorgeous. It's the beauty of the face and the personality. The naturalness." She said one difference is more women of color are now top models.

    As her Nancy Bounds International Modeling Agency and Nancy Bounds Studios thrived, she opened schools in other cities. Helping her grow the company was her fourth husband and business partner, Mark Sconce. "He just believed in me 100 percent," she said.

    Eager to improve the image of the modeling school field, which is plagued with disreputable operators, she formed the International Talent and Model School Association. It was an attempt to create industry-wide standards and practices and, via ITMSA conventions, provide showcases where models from many schools could strut their stuff before top agents. After a rough start, when she "chewed out" school directors, the association proved a success. Then, she said, it all fell apart and the "rip-off" artists took over. It's a long-standing problem, even in Omaha.

    "People enroll and pay some thousands of dollars, and they're taken to these conventions and they're lucky to get five seconds on the runway," she said. "There isn't regulation. Before I got here, you didn't even need a license. There've been 17 schools open and close here since I've been in business."

    She got an improbable ally in her efforts to clean-up the industry when state Sen. Ernie Chambers came to her bristling over modeling schools reneging on promises made to constituents of his. When he asked Bounds - What can we do about this? she said, "We can write some laws." They collaborated on a bill the legislature passed that requires operators be licensed. "She was extremely helpful and professional in guiding me through what was very strange territory for me," he said.

    Bounds is the first to admit that while models are the "X-factor," most of her clients neither expect nor seek a modeling/acting career. Instead, she said, they come in search of personal image development.

    "It's the most exciting thing I do," she said. "The real purpose for me beginning this school is that I had seen so many young people that didn't stand a chance in this world of being successful because they were insecure. You gotta love yourself. And in my opinion the only way you can get self-esteem is to be proud of what you do. It's a total growth process. We start with the facade and then we go deeper and find out who this person really is. We try to give them the best of who they are and, more importantly, we give them things to go out and accomplish."

    She said the training is really about life skills. "We teach kids how to communicate. We teach them manners. We teach them how to order food and what clothes to wear to an interview. We talk about romance and relationships. We have them sing and dance and do anything to pull out their personalities and to get them out of their boxes." Nothing excites her more than seeing kids blossom before her eyes. "It just turns me on," said Bounds, who regards herself a teacher.

    She's honed the image of everyone from aspiring models to corporate execs to politicos. Modeling career or not, grads come away with "great confidence."

    These days, Bounds oversees a modeling empire she's franchised out, but still very much "involved in." She has franchises in Omaha, Norfolk and Kansas City and is now looking to franchise Japan. "I train the teachers and the franchisees, because then I know things are going to be done right under my name," she said. Her decision to franchise came in the wake of a dark period a few years ago when her 29-year marriage to Mark Sconce ended. She took a bad fall at home and suffered pain and depression. "I didn't want to work every day. I became reclusive."

    Single for the first time in awhile, she's not ruling out marriage. "I'm not finished with romance. Romance makes the world go round. Someday I'll run into somebody I care about. I could never become somebody's mistress. That's not the way I do things." As for the men in her life - "There's been so many men in this world that have taken care of me, and I married most of 'em," she said with a laugh. "But I've never had one penny of alimony. Never wanted it."

    All in all, she said, "It's been a fun ride, and I'm not finished yet."

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    February 10, 2012 at 12:42 pm

    Nice story, I'm a Nancy Bounds graduate. I think I learned more about Nancy from your article than I knew about her as a student at her school.

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    May 2, 2013 at 3:39 pm
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    June 25, 2013 at 6:16 am
    I want to know, is there anyway I could find out if there were in a pictures of my mother who modeled for Nancy Bounds? My mother was very beautiful and still is but she is not in very good shape and would just love to see some of the pictures I seen of her when I was a kid. Her name Constance Marie Ahrens

    Marlyn


    September 15, 2014 at 9:03 am
    Scam. No big/quality agent or manager of talent is going to set up shop in Omaha. RE: No motion picture studios, no big brand campaigns are shot there. Only if and when someone is in town on purpose to search for a specific "midwest" look would they cast. Next, no major designers or fashion weeks are there. So, save your $. In larger cities, they DO NOT accept anywhere remotely close to what Nancy Bounds accepts. Also, they DO NOT charge you. They earn money when you earn money by percentage. Move out of Omaha.
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