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William Henry Herring was born about 1859 in Callaway Co., Missouri. He my great granduncle, a son of George Washington Herring and Hester Ann Kemp..
On March 9, 1888 in Callaway Co., Missouri, he married Naomi Blumfield Dorsey. She was born about 1869 in Callaway Co., Missouri, and died between 1895 and 1900 probably in Callaway Co. Missouri. She was the adopted daughter of James H. Dorsey and Sarah Willing. Her birth name was Blumfield. She also went by the name of Nevada Dorsey.
This family seemed to fall apart after the death of the mother. The children were boarded out with relatives and others. As far as I can tell, they never lived together again after her death.
William Henry Herring and Naomi Dorsey had three children:
- George Wesley Herring b: June 5, 1890, Callaway Co., Missouri, d: Dec. 6, 1966, Mexico, Audrain Co., Missouri. Buried in Centralia Cemetery, Centralia, Boone, Missouri.
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1st Married Oct 7, 1912 Mary Florence Pasley, b: June 14, 1893, Bachelor, Callaway Co., Missouri, d: Oct 17, 1925, Nine Mile Prairie Twp., Callaway Co., Missouri. Buried Nine Mile Presbyterian Church, Williamsburg, Callaway Co., Missouri. She was a daughter of Elvin Price Pasley and Martha M. Kemp, and was my 4th cousin twice removed.
- children:
- Mildred Louise Herring b: Apr. 30, 1916, Williamsburg, Callaway Co., Missouri, d: Feb. 11, 1999, Columbia, Boone Co., Missouri, buried Williamsburg cemetery, Williamsburg, Callaway Co., Missouri. She lived with her Pasley grandparents after her mother's death.
- Married June 20, 1935, Fulton, Callaway Co., Missouri, Alf Knipmeyer, b: June 16, 1912, Williamsburg, Callaway Co., Missouri, d: Dec. 14, 2002, Columbia, Boone Co., Missouri, buried Williamsburg cemetery, Williamsburg, Callaway Co., Missouri.
- Children:
- Mary Beverly Knipmeyer, b: Aug. 31, 1937, Fulton, Callaway Co., Missouri. d: Aug. 31, 1937, Fulton, Callaway Co., Missouri, buried Williamsburg cemetery, Williamsburg, Callaway Co., Missouri.
- living daughter
- Russell P. Herring b: Mar. 13, 1919, Callaway Co., Missouri, d: May 28, 1967, buried Elmwood Cemetery, Mexico, Audrain Co., Missouri. In 1930 he was living with his Pasley grandparents. He was a veteran of W.W.II.
- Married, Hellen E. unknown, b: abt. 1919, d: 1974, buried Elmwood Cemetery, Mexico, Audrain Co., Missouri.
- 2nd married, Grace Cleo Antrim, b: Aug. 20, 1901, Indiana, Marion Co., Iowa, d: Mar. 19, 1951, Mexico, Audrain Co., Missouri, buried Centralia cemetery, Centralia, Boone Co., Missouri.
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3rd Married Pauline Burks, Nov. 28, 1951. She had 3 daughters and 1 son by a previous marriage. Burks was her married name not her maiden name.
- Jessie F. Herring b: Oct 10, 1893, Callaway Co., Missouri, d: Apr 15, 1906, Callaway Co., Missouri. Buried Dunlap Private Cemetery, Callaway Co. Missouri.
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On the 1900 census, Jessie F. Herring, age 7, living as a boarder on the William Snyder farm. I cannot connect the Snyder family to any Herrings,. They are next door to Mary Francis Simco Herring.
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She is buried next to Robert A. and Anna Eliza Herring Dunlap in the Dunlap Private Cemetery, Callaway Co., Missouri. In the 1900 census, they were taking care of her brother George.
- Claude Herring b: Nov 1894, Callaway Co., Missouri.
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On the 1900 census, Claude Herring, age 6, is living with Clarence and Susan Lamar Craighead. Claude is listed as a ward. Claude was Clarence Craighead's third cousin once removed. In 1910, Claude was living with his father and his 18 year old stepmother. I have found no other records of Claude. There is another Claude Herring, also born in 1894, who was a son of John Milton Herring and Cassander Woods. These two Claude Herrings are not the same person, they were 2nd cousins.
On the 1900 census, Wm. Henry Herring is living with his 1st cousin, Silas Herring family as a farm laborer.
In 1910, he has married again. Elsie Alice Farris, born abt. 1892 in Missouri, a daughter of George W. Farris and Susan Craighead. She was my 3rd cousin once removed. They married about 1909 when she was 17 years old. Wm. Henry is 50 years old.
Wm. Henry and Elsie Herring have 2 children:
- Clarine Herring b: 1909, Callaway Co., Missouri
- Henry Herring b: 1913, Callaway Co., Missouri, d: 1987, Callaway Co., Missouri, buried Callaway Gardens Cemetery, Fulton, Callaway Co., Missouri.
He is found as Henry Herring on the 1920 census, listed as working as a mine labor, living in Fulton, divorced. He is seperated or divorced and his wife, Elsie Alice Farris Herring, and their two children in 1920 are in Jefferson City, Cole Co., Missouri, living with her grandmother, Arminda Farris.
Elsie Alice Farris Herring later married James Willard Nevins, b: July 20, 1867, Callaway Co., Missouri, d: Dec. 14, 1926, Cole Co., Missouri. He was a son of Lockwood U. Nevins and Phoebe Ellen Long.
- Children: Jewell O. Nevins, b: Nov. 4, 1925, Jefferson City, Cole Co., Missouri, d: Aug. 25, 1999, Fulton, Callaway Co., Missouri, buried Callaway Memorial Gardens, Fulton, Callaway Co., Missouri.
- Married, July 11, 1953, Fulton, Callaway Co., Missouri, Della Jo Bellamy, b: Dec. 17, 1930, Callaway Co., Missouri, d: Jan. 5, 2009, Fulton, Callaway Co., Missouri, buried Callaway Memorial Gardens, Fulton, Callaway Co., Missouri. She was a daughter of Edward Bellamy and Clara Della Day and was my 2nd cousin twice removed.
William Henry Herring died July 6, 1927 in the county infirmary in Hams Prairie, Callaway Co., Missouri. He was buried in the cemetery of the infirmery, which no longer exists. The county infirmary was a part of the county poor house.
Obit - Fulton Sun Gazette, July 8, 1927
Henry Herring Is Dead
Henry Herring, 67 years of age, a lifelong resident of Callaway county, died at Hams Prairie at 10:00 o'clock, Wednesday night, after an illness of several months. Burial was Thursday at Hams Prairie.
He leaves four children to mourn his passing, none of whom live here and one sister and one brother, Mrs. Nat Carrington of Fulton and John Herring, of Hannibal. He is a brother of James G. Herring, who died in Fulton, this week.
note: Obituary did not mention either wife.
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