Mary Leona Wilks b. 25 Mar 1900 Bachelor, Callaway, Missouri, USA d. 20 Feb 1957 Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, USA: Albemarle to Callaway, a Herring Family Journey

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Birth 25 Mar 1900 Bachelor, Callaway, Missouri, USA

Gender Female

Obituary Thursday, February 21, 1957 Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, USA

Fulton Daily Sun-Gazette

Mrs. Carrington Dies At Hospital; Rites Saturday
Mrs. Carson (Jack) Carrington, 409 Bluff Street, died about 10 o'clock last night at the Callaway hospital, just one week after suffering a stroke.
Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Maupin Funeral Home. The Rev. Karl W. Tuttle will officiate and internment will be in Callaway Memorial Gardens Cemetery.
Pallbears will be George Carrington, Joe Carrington, William Maddox; Henry Millard, Woodrow Millard, and John Millard.
A native and life- long resident of Callaway County, Mrs. Carrington was born on March 25, 1900, a daughter of Rufus and Oddie Day Wilks, she was married on Dec. 23, 1919 to C.D. (Jack) Carrington, who survives.
Also surviving are one son Rex Owen Carrington, stationed with the U.S. Navy at Pensacola, Fla, and now home on leave; a daughter, Mrs. Iris Nadine Herring, Robinson, Ill. and the following brothers and sisters. Mrs. Iris Bost, and Miss Lucille Wilks, both of Hobbs N.M.; Mrs. Virginia Sherman, Russellville, Ark.; Mrs. Dollie Lewis, Oscaloosa Iowa; Paul Wilks, U.S. Navy; Ira Wilks East St. Louis Ill.; Lowell Wilks, Scotsbluff, Neb.; Mrs. Bessie Owen and Leo Wilks, both of Auxvasse. Two grandchildren, John Carson Herring and Mary Jo Herring also survive.
A son, Carson, was killed while on Air Force duty overseas 1944, and a brother, Linwood, and a sister, Francis, preceeded her in death.

Died 20 Feb 1957 Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, USA

Cause: acute cerebral hemorrhage

Buried 23 Feb 1957 Callaway Memorial Gardens, Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, USA

Person ID I136 Herring Family of Callaway County, Missouri

Last Modified 10 Mar 2011

Father James Rufus Wilks, b. 30 May 1871, Taylor's Store, Franklin, Virginia, USA , d. 23 Oct 1951, Grinnell, Poweshiek, Iowa, USA

Mother Oddie Elizabeth Day, b. 19 Mar 1876, Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, USA , d. 17 Sep 1952, Grinnell, Poweshiek, Iowa, USA

Married 2 Jan 1894 Auxvasse, Callaway, Missouri, USA

Marriage 50th Wedding Anniversary

Family ID F116 Group Sheet

Family Carson Dillard Carrington, b. 5 Apr 1901, , Callaway, Missouri, USA , d. 28 Jun 1978, Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, USA

Married 23 Dec 1919 Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, USA

Marriage license dated December 23, 1919, C.D. Carrington of Fulton, Callaway Co., Missouri, who is under the age of 21 years, and Mary Wilks of Bachelor, Callaway Co., Missouri, who is over the age of 18 years. Mrs. N.D. Carrington mother of C.D. Carrington gives her assent to this marriage. Witness my hand as Recorder of Deeds, with the seal of office hereto affixed at my office in Fulton, this 23rd day of December, 1919, J.C. Owen, Recorder of Deeds.

This is to certify that the undersigned Presbyterian Minister did at Fulton in said county on the 23rd day of December, A.D. 1919, unite in Marriage the above named persons. Eugene F. Abbott.

Hand written note attached:
I here by permit C.D. Carrington to get lisense to the Marriage of Miss Wilks.
Mrs. N.D. Carrington.
(copy of this note filed with license on my website, albemarle-callaway.com)

Children

	1. Carson Wilks Carrington, b. 24 Oct 1921, Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, USA , d. 23 Sep 1944, Venlo, , Limburg, Netherlands
>	2. Iris Nadine Carrington, b. 14 Feb 1923, Auxvasse, Callaway, Missouri, USA , d. 4 Sep 1995, Robinson, Crawford, Illinois, USA
>	3. Living

Last Modified 05 Apr 2009

Family ID F44 Group Sheet

Photos		Carrington Family 1928 Carson Dillard "Jack" Carrington, Mary Leona Wilks Carrington, children Carson W. and Iris Nadine Carrington, picture taken 1928. My grandparents, my mother, and my uncle.
		Wilks, Mary Leona My mother's mother, Mary Leona Wilks. Picture taken in 1912, Bachelor Missouri.
		Wilks, Mary Leona My grandmother. Picture taken about 1917, Bachelor, Missouri. She was a daughter of James Rufus Wilks and Oddie Day.
		Carrington Family 1955 Mary Leona Wilks Carrington, John Carson Herring and Mary Jo Herring. My brother and me, with our grandmother in Fulton Missouri, 1955.
		Carrington, Mary Leona Wilks Mary Leona Wilks Carrington, 1900 - 1957, d/o James Rufus Wilks and Oddie Elizabeth Day, w/o Carson Dillard Carrington. My grandmother. 1945, Fulton, Missouri.
		Carrington Family 1937 Mary Leona Wilks Carrington and two of her children, Iris Nadine and Carson Wilks Carrington. Picture taken 1937 in Fulton, Callaway Co., Missouri.

Headstones		Mary Leona Wilks Carrington Mary L. Carrington, Mar 25, 1900 - Feb 20, 1957. Mary Leona Wilks was a daughter of James Rufus Wilks and Oddie Elizabeth Day. She was a granddaughter of Sanders Perfect Day & Permelia Frances Overton. A great granddaughter of Benjamin Francis Overton & Ann S. Holt, and, Truman Day & Eliza Clendennen. She married Carson Dillard "Jack" Carrington…

Marriages		Marriage, Carrington - Wilks 1919 Marriage license for Carson Dillard "Jack" Carrington and Mary Leona Wilks Record of marriage, C.D. Carrington of Fulton county of Callaway state of Missouri who is under the age of twenty-one years and Mary Wilks of Bachelor in the county of Callaway state of Missouri who is over the age of eighteen years. Mrs. N.D. Carrington mother of C.D.…
Marriages		Marriage, Carrington - Wilks 1919a Application for marriage license, Carson Dillard "Jack" Carrington and Mary Leona Wilks. I here by permit C.D. Carrington to get license to the marriage of Miss Wilks. Mrs. N.D. Carrington. Permission slip written by Mrs. N.D. (Eliza Herring) Carrington for son Carson to marry at age 18. My grandparents.

Death Certificates		Death Certificate of Carrington, Mary Leona Wilks 25 Mar 1900 - 20 Feb 1957. She was my grandmother.

Notes	Notes from Pat McCallister Mary was born in the log house- buried in Callaway Memorial Gardens - Fulton, MO 18 April 1917 - Mary graduated from the 8th grade - Callaway Co -Scott School - a mile or two down the road, south from her father's house. M: Carson Dillard Carrington - 23 Dec 1919 - Fulton. They lived at 409 Bluff Street in Fulton most all their married life. The house was old when they lived there and on the bluff. Now there is a bridge crossing the expanse there. Mother always told me the story about how Mary left home - but there is the picture of all the children, made at the farm about 1927. Mary is in the picture. The story goes that Mary and Iris were going to Columbia in the car with a young man, about 1919. Iris backed out and Rufus told Mary that she could not go alone with that man in the car by herself. Mary said there was nothing wrong with it and she was going. Rufus said that if she went, not to come back. She went and she did not come back. She married Jack, the young man. She would come to the farm and Rufus would go out to the barn or something. He wouldn't talk to her. This went on for years, until Linwood died, 1943. Rufus and Oddie went to Mexico to get on the train to go to Higginsville to the funeral. Mary and Rex [born 1938] were there also. When it was time to get on the train, Rufus picked up Mary's luggage and put them all on the train. That was the end of that. Mary was the one that took the most care of Rufus and Oddie. Then there is the picture made in about 1933/35 of all of them. Did my mother steer me wrong. I don't think I remember the story wrong. Was Rufus just cool to Mary? Did she really not come home that night. Mother would have been 11 or 12 years old. Did she have selective memory? **************** Note from Mary Jo Herring Hubbard Mary Wilks was my grandmother, I was named for her and for my father's mother Josephine Carter Herring. I do not have very clear memories of her, I was 5 when she died. I do remember going to the old bluff street house. It was very small, kitchen dining room living room and bedroom downstairs, and two small bedrooms in the attic. I remember her being in the kitchen all the time. I remember when she died and the whole family came, that little house was overflowing with people. Note, Oct. 2007, we drove by the house, 409 Bluff St., Fulton, and someone is restoring the house, but they've pretty much torn down everything except the outside walls. There's not much there, don't know if they are going to actually fix it or just tear it down. Over the years since my grandfather moved out, the house had been deserted and fallen into terrible disrepair. From her death certificate: She died in the Callaway Hospital after a stay of one week. Her usual address was 409 Bluff Street, Fulton. Her husband, Jack Carrington, gave the information for her death certificate. She died of acute cerebral hemorrhage which occurred one week before her death. She had hypertension and arterosclerosis for years. She died at 9:35 p.m. The attending doctor was Henry Durst, MD. He last saw her alive on Feb. 20, 1957, he had been her doctor since March 1936. She was buried on Feb. 23, 1957 in Callaway Memorial Gardens, Fulton, Maupin funeral home, Fulton, was in charge of the funeral.

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Event

	Birth - 25 Mar 1900 - Bachelor, Callaway, Missouri, USA
	Married - 23 Dec 1919 - Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, USA
	Obituary - Fulton Daily Sun-Gazette - Thursday, February 21, 1957 - Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, USA
	Died - Cause: acute cerebral hemorrhage - 20 Feb 1957 - Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, USA
	Buried - 23 Feb 1957 - Callaway Memorial Gardens, Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, USA

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