William Thomas Herring and Annie L. Meloy Headstone Photo, Mount Carmel Cemetery

William T. Herring, Feb. 3, 1860 - June 10, 1926, Annie L. Herring, His Wife, Sep. 15, 1870 - July 10, 1948. Sweet Rest Be Thine. William Thomas Herring was a son of Dabney Carver Herring and Mary Francis Simco. He was a grandson of John Herring and Lucy Carver, and Reuben Brooks Simco and Sarah Cowherd Hill. He was my 1st cousin 3 times removed. On 23 Feb 1891 in Callaway Co., Missouri, he married Annie Lydia Meloy. They were the grandparents of Helen Herring Stephens, the 1936 Olympic Gold Medal track star. Annie Meloy was a daughter of Everette Oles Meloy and Polly Pauline Mirts.