Mary Frances Elliott Young Reminiscence When my mother died, my husband, my daughter and I drove through to Sedalia. One son was then in military training (Capt. of Ordnance but the Viet War was over before he had to go) the other in University. My Dad was not very well and the boys wanted to see him before his possible death so we went out agian that year. I took them all around the Elliott, Brown, Marshall, Bourn, Funk, Ransdall, etc. territory. Browns Spring was still bubbling in greater force than I remembered. All of what was once Marshall’s woods, completely cut over in my time was regrown and looked as if no one had ever lived there. All the old houses were gone, Ike’s, Bud & Aggie’s, Funks, Ransdalls across from New Bethel, and Ransdalls back of Lake Tebo. The big Crawford house had burned . The Marshall house was pulled down when I was 6 or 7 and Dad brought the big stone which was the doorstep to Ike’s house where it became the back step when I was in my teens. This was the one off the side of what is now 65. We went around the front of it to go to Cousin Fillmore Elliott’s house. Hope H & Kemp Kiery’s Oma lived there. Which Crawford was that? I remember Mrs. Crawford, her parrots Peter & Polly the first parrots I had ever seen and the pea fowl in the front yard. I think I remember Mr. Crawford as he lay dying but I was very small. Of course I remember Grant Crawford. I guess he was Lulie’s uncle. I went every where with my Dad and loved all the old people he visited. There is a note in Aunt Wynona’s papers that says Cousin Bossy Elliott (Wm. Bosser) lived on the original Elliott place. That was west of Anderson School and the road as I remember it went nowhere, coming to an end in a very rocky hillside. Next came Cousin Frank’s way back on a lane, no road, which was Absalom’s home. Next came Cousin Herb’s on Tebo Raod and on south was Ike’s from his father which he willed to his daughter, M.F. Snow, or to Ike Snow after her death. Our place across from Grandfather’s was government land, not inherited. Ike’s home place was Marshall land. The early pictures of Ike were daugerres in those little ornate cases. He had black hair, dark eyes was 5 feet 6 inches tall and was known as a Black Scot. Latour made the picture of Ike and M.F. for their 50th wedding anniversary when I was a few mos. old. I’m sure he did look like Catherine McVey... © Copyright 2007. All rights reserved My note: The rest of this is missing - however, I thought it was significant enough to keep and make available.