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1Personal Knowledge. "Born in the Saint Johns Hospital, Oxnard, California. Personal Knowledge. This person is me."
1Burial Location. "Susan is buried in Section PK Plot 12 Grave 26, Ivylawn Cemetery, Oxnard, Ventura, California."
1History of Tommie Belle Autrey, Original writing by Tommie Autrey Eureka, CA. 11 Oct 1986.. " Copied from an original writing by Tommie Autrey Eureka, CA. 11 Oct 1986.
My name is Tommie (Foster) Autrey. I was born March 5, 1896 near Decatur, Texas, Wise County. My parents were James T. Foster and Louisa Belle Angell. I am the youngest of seven children.
My father grew up in north Texas. He was a rancher amd a cowboy and, made many trips driving cattle from Texas to Abilione, Kansas, over the Chisholm Trail. He was a Texas Ranger in later years.
My mothers family came from Illinois when she was a small girl and settled in north Texas near my fathers family. That is where they met and married. When I was 8 mos old (in Oct 1896) my family moved (in covered wagon) to Lexington, Oklahoma.
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!BIOGRAPHY: Partial Biography for Tommie Belle Foster Born 1896 in Decatur, Texas. Moved to Lexinton, Oklahoma in about 1900. Moved to Chndler, Oklahoma at the age of six years. Moved to Cloverton, Kiowa County Oklahoma, where grandma home steaded. (Grandma married to Marion Kane in Chanler) lived at Kiowa County till age eleven. Grandma seperated from Kane, never divorced. Grandma rented farm and Uncle Bill and Andrew farmed it."
1Obituary for Autrey, Margery B.. " Obituary from the Newspaper in Eureak, California:
Margery B. Autrey: Funeral services will be held Wednesday for Margery B. Autrey who passed away recently in Eureka at age 62. A native of Arkansas, she was a resident of Eureka.
Ms. Autrey was the past president of Soroptimist International of Eureka and had served on the boards of Redwoods United Inc., the Children's Home Society, the Salvation Army, the Friends of the Library, and United Way of Humboldt.
She was a member of the Bank of America Founders' Club and was appointed by then Mayor Gil Trood to the Eureka Parking Commission.
Ms. Autrey is survived by her mother, TommieAutrey of Junction City; her brothers, Thomas Marvin Autrey of Camarillo, and William Andrew Autrey of Modesto; her sister, Ruth Gregson of Oxnard; her nephews and nieces, David Gregson of Somis, Gerald Gregson of Glendora, Joel Gregson of Palmer, Alaska, Glenna King of Weaverville, Dennis Autrey of Camarillo, Vici Johnston of Lancaster, Joyce Spoon of Sonora, James Autrey of Modesto, and Timothy Autrey of Camarillo.
Ms. Autrey will be missed by her many friends here and most especially by her close friend of many years, Frances Allen Rapin. Ms. Autrey was precded in death by her father, Andrew Colvin Autrey, in 1971.
Friends are invited to attend funeral services at Pierce Mortuary Chapel in Eureka on Wednesday, June 12 at 10 am. Elder Mark Anderson of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints will officiate. Concluding services will be held at the Weaverville Cemetery with interment following. Honorary asketbearers are Roy Fanucchi, Evo Fanucchi, Craig Spjut, George Rapin, Phil Andrews and Helen Andrews. Arrangements are under the direction of Pierce Mortuary Chapels/Pierce Chapel in Eureka. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Humboldt. PO Box 3611, Eureka, Ca. 95502."2History, for Autrey, Margery B.. "Margery Graduated from Randsburg High School, California on May 31, 1940. She attended Bakersfield Junior College and Graduated from UCLA in 1944. She entered the United States Army 27 March 1944 working in Intelligence at the Petagon in Washington DC. She received a Honorable Discharge in 7 April 1946."
1Obituary for Leslie W. Ball: Oxnard Press Courier, Oxnard, Ca.. "Obituary for Leslie W. Ball: Oxnard Press Courier, Oxnard, Ca.: Leslie William Ball, 61, former longtime Oxnard barber, died Saturday after a long illness in Los Angeles at the home of a brother he was visiting.(Raymond Ball)
!Born Feb. 14 1904, in Louisville, Nebraska, Mr. Ball came to California in 1924, and to Oxnard in 1927. ! He opened the Okay Barber Shop on South A Street, and operated the shop until 1955. At the same time, his wife, Alice May, a beautician, owned and operated Alice May's Beauty Room in Oxnard.
!In 1955, the Balls moved to Junction City, Ca. Mr. Ball was an active member of the Oxnard Elks Lodge, transferring his membership to Redding when he moved to Junction City.
!Besides his wife he is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Donna Autrey, Port Hueneme; brothers, James M. Ellsworth and Grant of Los Angeles, Charles of Orangevale and George of Harbor City; sisters, Mrs. Hattie Kindred and Mrs. Myrtle Collins, both of Los Angeles; and three grandchildren; Dennis Scott Autrey, Vici Lanell Autrey, Timothy Kevin Autrey of Port Hueneme.
!Bishop E. Stephen Savage of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints will officiate at the funeral services at l p.m. Wednesday in the James A. Reardon Funeral Chapel, Oxnard. Internment will be held at Ivy Lawn Cemetery. ( and Burial we be at Conejo Mountain Memorial Park Cemetery in one year when the new Park opens) Friends desiring may perpetuate his memory through the American Cancer Society."2Burial for Ball, Leslie W.. "Leslie W. Ball is buried at Conejo Mountain Memorial Cemetery in Camarillo, California:
Section: Santa Cruz I, Plot 120 Grave A:."
1By Phil Nelson, Trinity Journal, Weaverville, CA, Trinity Journal 25 July 1990 Article on Alice M. Ball,Olsen. " By Phil Nelson, Trinity Journal, Weaverville, California 25 July 1990 Article on Alice M. Ball,Olsen.
"NEWSPAPER ARTICLE OF 25 JULY 1990 IN THE TRINITY JOURNAL
BY PHIL NELSON ENTITLED DOWNRIVER
"DOWNRIVER" BY PHIL NELSON 25 JULY 1990.
"I first5 met Alice back in 1977. I had just moved up to Trinity County and a neighbor asked if I would be willing to help him milk a couple of cows for the Olsens downriver. It seems that George Olsen of Junction City had broken his leg and was bedridden. I said sure. (George broke his leg kicking the cow)
Now it had been a long, long time since I had milked a cow and even then I never could get the hang of it. There's nothing to milking a cow using a milking machine but when it came time to strip the critter by hand Ill be darned if I could get any milk to come out. That's when I met Alice.
Alice was a lender white haired lady of 70 who proceeded to show me how it was done. It took a while but I eventually was able to get milk from those cows. After straining an putting the milk in the cooler I was invited in for coffee where I met George.
It soon became a routine: after milking we would sit at the kitchen table drinking coffee and talking. Alice would usually get up and busy herself in the kitchen leaving George to continue our conversation. Sometimes I would stay and have breakfast.
Alice May Ball Olsen is originally from Salt Lake City, Actually she lived a mile from the streetcar line out in the "boonies" They lived next to the railroad tracks and that's where she met her first husband, Leslie Ball.
Leslie and his friend were walking down the tracks past Alice's house. Alice's step sister, who was a " little bit forward," according to Alice, called Leslie and his friend over to the front gate and made a date to meet at the schoolhouse.
The schoolhouse was located across the track from Leslie's home which was a mile down the track from Alice's house. Alice was 14 at the time and refused to go.
Well, Leslie didn't give up. He phoned Alice and started coming over and the two started dating. A year later, 1922, Alice was 15 and Leslie 18, they were married. A year after the wedding they moved to California. Leslie went to California a couple of months ahead of Alice to find a job. Then while Alice worked for the Creamery Leslie went to Barber College, Leslie then in turn, worked at several Barber Shops putting Alice through Beauty School. In 1930 they moved to Oxnard where Leslie opened up a barber shop in 1937 of his own after working for Mr. Winters OK Barber Shop. Alice then opened up her own Beauty Shop (Alice May Beauty Room).
When Alice was working for the telephone company in Oxnard she worked with and was a friend with Lottie Morgan, who later moved to Junction City and whose husband was a justice court judge for Junction City.
Leslie and Alice would visit the Morgans and it wasn't long before they bought their place in Junction City. It was 1950 and they bought 42 acres on Dutch Creek Road. It was to be their vacation home only. "But Leslie wanted to move up so bad", says Alice. So in 1955 Leslie and Alice sold their businesses and home in Oxnard and moved to Junction City.
"I hated it that first year," says Alice, " I had a large beautiful home in Oxnard and our house here was just a shell."
Alice continues, "We had to hand pump and bucket water from the spring: no electricity: there were no conveniences, I was used to the city." After the first year of Leslie "just hunting and fishing", he went to work for Dean Davenport's barber shop in Weaverville. (The hop was located in what is now the Gold Rush Jewelry store.) Alice opened her beauty shop in their home in Junction City also a year after moving up to Junction City.
And that's the way it was for the next eight years. One year Leslie became ill and after a year of sickness, in 1965, passed away from Cancer.
Well, Alice put the place up for sale and one day a man came to the door to inquire about buying the place. His name was George Olsen.
"I couldn't get rid of him," Alice said George, a 60 year old bachelor who had never been married, started hanging around.
George, who in his heyday was an Oakland Bay Bridge painter who hung 500 feet in the air above the Bay in a boatswains chair; a high rise riveter and a farmer in Montana, was retired and living in Alameda. But not for long. He started coming up and visiting Alice quite often and on June 29, 1966 George and Alice were married.
It was with George that the place became a mini-farm. They put in a large garden,
built out buildings and bought two cows - Alice's first experience with a cow.
"It was a pleasant experience," says Alice, "I taught myself to milk and with George's help learned to make cheese and butter." They also grew vegetable for the senior citizens through the Green Thumb Program.
Over the years my visits with the Olsens became less frequent. One year I photographed Alice in their huge garden for the newspaper but generally we only saw one another picking up our mail at the post office where we would stop and chat for a while.
George became more stooped as the years passed but Alice never seemed to grow older. In July 1989 George's heart stopped and he passed away. He was 83.
Again the property was put on the market for sale and this July Alice moved to Weaverville. "Its a smaller and easier place to take care of, "said Alice
At 83 Alice still belongs to the North Fork Grange. She is very active in the Canasta club that years ago started with ladies and now has 12. "I'm the only old timer lift," Alice said. Only this last year Alice didn't renew her beauticians license.
I drive by George and Alice's old place just about every day to and from town. There used to be a sign at the entrance to their driveway that said, "The Olsens, George and Alice." (Before that the sign use to read "The Balls Breezeway") The signs are down now and I feel a little sad for the change. That's the way it goes, I guess, nothing ever stays the same. So, welcome to the new people and Alice May Ball Olsen. I hope to see you around."."2Death Certificate for Ball, Burner, Alice May. "Death Certificate for Alice May Krogh, Ball, Olsen, Burner:
State of California Certification of Vital Records, County of Shasta 26 50 Breslauer Way, Redding, Caliofnria 96001 Local Resistration Number 3 2000 45 000397:
Date of Death March 19, 2000: Date of Burial March 21, 2000."3Single Town, Shasta Co. CA., Headstone for Alice May Alice May Krogh,Ball Ogburn-Inwood Cem.Shingletown, Shasta County, CA. "1st Marriage Leslie Ball 40 years: 2nd Marriage George Olsen 20 years: 3rd marriage to Donald Burner 4years:.". "Rose on the Side: " In Loving Memory" "Alice May Ball, April 2, 1907 to March 19, 2000, Wife, Mother and Grandmother"
Ogburn-Inwood Cem.Shingletown, Shasta County, CA."
11860 Census Sangamon Co., Illinois. "Age 16 on the 1860 Census of Sangamon Co. Ill. Page 276. Born in New York.". " Information taken off the 1860 Census of Rochester, Sangamon Co. Ill. Page 276.4-9-93.
Age 16. born 1844 in New York."21900 Census for Morgan Co. IL., Jacksonville Township for John C. Noe Family and brother Milton H. Noe. "1900 US Census, Illinois, Morgan Co, Jacksonville City (part of) South Hardin Ave. Dwelling# 398; Family# 420 Noe, John C. Head W M Mar 1844 56 Wd New York New Jersey New Jersey PaperHanger --- Milton H. Brother W M Jan 1859 41 Wd New York New Jersey New Jersey Painter same home; Family# 421 Winchester, Mary Head W F Dec 1852 47 S New Jersey Scotland Scotland House Servant ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Notice that Wife Emily was not with them, She died 24 Jan 1895 age 47 in Morgan Co. IL."31910 Census Illinois, Vermillion Co, Danville Tnshp, 5-wd, District 151 for John C. Noe and New Wife Margaret.. "1910 US Census, Illinois, Vermillion Co, Danville Tnshp, 5-wd, District 151 Noe, John C. Head M W 66 M2 New York New Jersey New Jersey Paper Hanger ---- Margaret wife F W 62 M2 Ohio Virginia Ohio none the census indicates that they have been married for 7 yrs. ____________________________________."
4Civil War for John C. Noe. "Military Civil War: Personal Characteristics: Residence Taylorville, Christian CO, IL. Age 18 ,,Height 5'6", Hair Light, Eyes Blue, Complexion: Light. Marital status, Single: Occupation: Farmer, Nativity, Staten Island, NY.
John C. Noe Regiment Name 33 Illinois Infantry : Union Side, Company D: Soldier's Ranke In Pvt. Out Pvt. Film Number M539 roll 67.
Service Record: Joined when: Aug 16, 1861, joined at Christian CO, IL: Joined By Whom H H Pope Period 3 Years.
Muster in Aug 28, 1861, Muster in Where: Camp Butler, IL. Muster In By Whom N/A Muster Out Nov 24 Nov 1865, Muster Out Where, VICKSBURG, MS Muster Out By Whom, LT ROZIENE,
Remarks, Deserted at Patterson MO Nov 20, 1862, Returned To CO Jan 26 1865, Discharged Given."5History of Macon County, Illinois 1880. ""History of Macon County, Illinois", 1880 PLEASANT VIEW TOWNSHIP Blue Mound-- Present Business Houses--Of the town may be seen in the following list: ...Painters--Duconig and Clements, J.S. Reeves, J.C. Noe.... _____________________________________."
61860 Census Town of Rochester,Sangamon Co., Illinois . Cyrenus Noe Family. "Cyrenus Noe and wife Jane and 4 children living in Rochester, Sangamon Co.Ill 1860 Census. He is listed as a Physician(Doctor): Children John Age 16 born NY: Alice 7 Born ILL. Milton age 2 born Ill.".
71870 Census Iowa, Pottawattamie Co, Council Bluffs Ward 6. "John C. Noe and Emily Family.". "1870 US Census, Iowa, Pottawattamie Co, Council Bluffs Ward 6 Family# 232, living with Calvin and Susan Walburn and their children:Noe, John C. 26 M W labour Massachusetts--- Emily 22 F W keeping house Illinois--- William 1 M W "--- Charles 3 M W "."
81880 Census, Blue Mound, Macon Co. IL John C. Noe and Emily Family. "1880 United States Census Census Place Blue Mound, Macon, Illinois Family History Library Film 1254229 NA Film Number T9-0229 Page Number 566A Name Rel Mar Stat Gender Race Age Birth Occup Father Birth Mother Birth John C. NOE Self M Male W 35 NY Painter NJ NJ Emily NOE Wife M Female W 31 IL Keeping House NJ NJ Charles NOE Son S Male W 13 IL At Home NY IL William NOE Son S Male W 11 IL At Home NY IL Mitton NOE Brother S Male W 28 IL Painter NJ NJ."
9Illinoise Marriage Index. "NOE, JOHN C. COMPTON, EMILY SANGAMON 10/06/1866 / 00002192 Marriage Liscense No.". "NOE, JOHN C. COMPTON, EMILY SANGAMON 10/06/1866 / 00002192 Marriage Liscense No."
1Ilinois STatewide Death Index. "Emily died at age 47,Jacksonville Morgan County, Illinois. Old Settlers association Necrological Lists ."
2Illinoise Marriage Index. "NOE, JOHN C. COMPTON, EMILY SANGAMON 10/06/1866 / 00002192 Marriage Liscense No.". "NOE, JOHN C. COMPTON, EMILY SANGAMON 10/06/1866 / 00002192 Marriage Liscense No."
11880 Census Blue Mound Township, Macon Co. IL.... "1880 US Census, Illinois, Macon Co, Blue Mound Township, p. 566A Born about 1867, IL."