Anna Margaret Tucker

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(The following is from the website, zoominfo.com - 6 Oct 2013.)

«i»Anna Margaret Stroud of Lakehills, formerly of Moberly, Missouri died at her residence on Sunday, Aug. 24, 2003.

She was born on Dec. 24, 1916, in Fostoria, to the Rev. H.D. Tucker and Kathleen M. Tucker. She was the wife of the late Thomas B. Stroud, Public Administrator of Randolph County who died Dec. 9, 1978. She was appointed by the governor to finish her husband's term of office as Public Administrator. She received an award from the Missouri House of Representatives for her outstanding service as Public Administrator.

She attended the University of Missouri-Columbia and also worked for the university. She was a graduate of Moberly Junior College with an associate's degree.

She was a well-known genealogist, the President of the Randolph County Democratic Club; served on boards of American Cancer Society, Historical Society and Railroad Museum.

Before moving to Lakehills in 2000 to live with her son, Michael and wife Barbara, she was an active member with the Trinity United Methodist Church in Moberly, Mo. for 50 years. She served on various boards and was very active with the youth program. After moving to Lakehills, she transferred her membership to the Lakehills United Methodist Church.«/i»
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Anna was christened in the First Methodist Church, Dallas, Texas by Bishop W. N. Ainsworth in Nov 1918. She belonged to the Trinity United Methodist Church.

She lived at 824 West Rollins in Moberly, Missouri. She also lived in Tesas and Columbia, Missouri.

She attended Daniel Baker College, Brownwood, Texas and graduated with an Associate Degree in Education from Moberly Junior College in May 1983. She also attended the University of Missouri.

Her husband, Tom, served 4 years in the US Air Force and was stationed in England and France for two years. He helped build the first airstrip on the Normandy Beachhead during World War II.

He graduated from the University of Missouri in 1947 in Business Administration. He traveled for Stowe Hardware and Supply, Kansas City, Missouri until he became Public Administrator of Randolph County, Missouri for 3 terms. After his death, Anna Margaret was appointed by Governor Joe Teasdale to finish his third term.

When Anna retired from her post as Pubilc Administrator of Randolph County, the Missouri State Legislature passed a resolution thanking her for her public service. The resolution reads in part "Mrs. Stroud performed the duties of the Office of Public Administrator with dignity, honor, efficiency and high ability, earning the respect and admiration of all who know her."

While her husband was overseas during World War II, Anna worked at the University of Missouri in the Auditing Department where she handled personnel records and the minutes of the Board of Curators meetings.

She taught school in the Moberly, Missouri area for five years and served as a teacher's aide in the Social Science Department of Moberly High School four and one-half years.

Anna served as director of the Moberly, Missouri Railroad and Historical Museum and has served as president of the Delphian Study Club and Randolph County Women's Democratic Club. She has also served as Vice President of the Randolph County unit of the American Cancer Society. Her hobbies include collecting personal letters from famous people (she has well over 200 of them), boating, fishing, traveling, crossword puzzles, football and walking. She has won awards with her poetry including an Outstanding Achievement in Poetry presented in 1996 by the National Library of Poetry.

Ref: Clan Munro files - Stroud, Anna Margaret

Ref: Clan Munro files - Munro, Henry Dallas - GEDCOM file HMUNRO.GED dated 9
Oct 1996

Died:
Anna died at her home.

Anna married Thomas Bartlett Stroud on 21 Nov 1940 in Columbia, Boone Co., Missouri, USA. Thomas was born on 18 Jul 1913 in New Orleans, Orleans Par., Louisiana, USA; died on 9 Dec 1978 in Columbia, Missouri; was buried in Dec 1978 in Oakland Cem., Moberly, Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Living

Notes:

Ref: Clan Munro files - Munro, Henry Dallas - GEDCOM file HMUNRO.GED dated 9 Oct 1996

Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA

Henry married Kathleen Estelle Munro on 21 Sep 1913 in Aldrich, Jasper Co., Texas. Kathleen (daughter of William Harvey Munro, Jr. and Anna Judson Pennington) was born on 6 Sep 1896 in Olive, Hardin Co., Texas, USA; was christened in in Prob., Olive, Hardin Co., Texas; died on 21 Mar 1984 in Nashville, Davidson Co., Tennessee, USA; was buried on 25 Mar 1984 in Memorial Park, Columbia, Boone Co., Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Kathleen lived in Woodville, Fostoria, Dallas, Arlington, Malone, Waco, El Paso, and Brownwood, Texas, and in Columbia, Missouri. The home address on her death certificate is I 70 NW Drive, Columbia, Missouri.

She graduated from Beaumont High School, Beaumont, Texas.

In 1916, Kathleen's husband was a store salesman, but in 1919 he and his family moved to Dallas, Texas where he entered Southern Methodist University and became a Methodist Minister. He served 25 years in 10 charges in Texas and Missouri including Missouri United Methodist Church and Wilkes Blvd. United Methodist Church in Columbia, Missouri. (His sermons can be found at Southern Methodist University.) He was the son of James Sterling and Margaret Christain (McKee) Tucker. He was chairman of the Boone county chapter of the American Red Cross for two years, having previously conducted the annual Red Cross fund drive for three years, and directed publicity for four years.

He also headed the War Chest drive in 1944 and was appointed chairman of the Community Chest drive in Columbia that year. In addition, he served as executive secretary of the Missouri conference board of evangelism, adult director of the Fayette district, youth director of the Columbia zone of the Fayette district, chairman of the religious education committee of the Columbia schools , secretary of the ministerial alliance, and a member of the board of the Campfire Girls.

Rev. Tucker was a dynamic speaker, a dedicated pastor, and very popular with his congregations. He loved greatly, and was greatly loved in return. He died of heart disease 10 Jan 1947.

In spite of a debilitating stroke at age 29, Kathleen served as a pastor's wife and sang in the choir. She had a beautiful singing voice. For many years she was a soloist. She was a member of the Wilkes Blvd. United Methodist Church.

She lost her father when she was 2, her mother when she was 9 (in a tragic accident). She lost her first born - a beautiful 2 year old boy. She lost all her possessions when her home burned. When she was 49, she lost her beloved husband and was left with a 7 year old son and a son in high school.

Against her family's wishes, for the first time in her life, she went to work -- she worked in print shops, washed dishes in restaurants, boarded University students, and babysat. She helped put her youngest son through the University of Missouri.

She never had any of the world's riches, but she thought she was rich. She never complained or asked for anything, because she was a giver. She loved everyone. She never felt sorry for herself. She was fiercely independent. She owed no one a penny. She was very intelligent and wise, yet she was always a child at heart. She did not believe in thinking old.

All who knew her loved her so very much. Her family and friends will miss her.

She died at St. Thomas Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee of bacterial sepsis as a consequence of leukemia. She was 87 years old.

Ref: Clan Munro files - Stroud, Anna Margaret
- Munro, William Barton

Ref: Clan Munro files - Munro, Henry Dallas - GEDCOM file HMUNRO.GED dated 9 Oct 1996

Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA

Notes:

William worked as a clerk and bookkeeper in a hotel in Beaumont, Texas around 1880. After he married Anna, the daughter of Stephen Randolph and Julia Elizabeth (Everett) Pennington, they moved to Olive, Texas where William got a job at the Olive-Sternenberg Company, a sawmill. William also worked with the Santa Fe Railroad in Woodville. One reference says they also lived in Edna, Texas.

William's favorite passtime was fishing. He was out fishing when a cold norther blew in with icy rain. He developed pneumonia which became a lingering illness and took his life in 1898. Later, Anna, his widow, married F. J. Lewis, a chief engineer of the Beaumont Irrigation Company. On 2 Oct 1905, Anna was accidently shot through the heart and killed by her new husband in a hunting accident. One reference says she died in Treadway, Texas.

One reference gives William's name as Willie Harry Munro.

Ref: Clan Munro files - Munro, Henry Dallas - GEDCOM file HMUNRO.GED dated 9
Oct 1996
- Stroud, Anna Margaret
- Munro, William Barton

Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA

William married Anna Judson Pennington on 13 Feb 1883 in Woodville, Tyler Co., Texas, USA. Anna was born on 7 Dec 1867 in Miller Co., Georgia, GA; died on 1 Oct 1905 in Beaumont, Jefferson Co., Texas, USA; was buried on 3 Oct 1905 in Magnolia Cem., Woodville, Tyler Co., Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Ref: Clan Munro files - Munro, Henry Dallas - GEDCOM file HMUNRO.GED dated 9
Oct 1996
- Stroud, Anna Margaret
- Munro, William Barton

Notes:

William was born about 1837 in Williamsburg, Dundas County, Ontario, Canada and was christened there in the St. Peters Lutheran Church on 16 Jul 1837.

His ancestor, Captain John Munro, had fought on the side of the British in the American Revolutionary War, and had been banished to Canada with many other Loyalists.

Family tradition says that William Harvey immigrated from Scotland. It is said that he arrived in his kilts and had papers to a castle in Scotland, but the papers were lost in the 1900 Galveston flood. In view of other evidence, this tradition is not likely.

He spent his childhood in Williamsburg and is found there on the 1851 census where he is listed as a 13 year-old laborer living with his parents. This would place his birth in about 1838. He is also found in the 1861 Williamsburg census as being 24 years old, placing his birth in about 1837.

William seemed to lack a sense of focus as a youngster. He moved from his parents' home in Williamsburg and went to Russel Township, Ontario and found work as a carpenter. He is listed there on the 1861 census, but he must have left shortly after the census was perpared because on 2 Feb 1862, he married Julia Elizabeth Potter in Galveston, Texas. Julia was the daughter of Albert M. and Elizabeth (Tuttle) Potter. Their first child, William Harvey Munro, Jr., was born in Galveston on 18 Jan 1863.

Texas didn't hold his interest very long either. Possibly as early as 1869, William and his wife took their young son and made the long trek to Corinne City, Territory of Utah and settled there. Their second child, Gertrude, was born there on 15 Oct 1869. Since Corinne City was settled in Mar 1869, William must have been one of the founding fathers of that community.

William first worked as a grocer in this infant settlement and with hard work and good luck, his fortunes began to brighten. He quickly became an influential businessman and community leader serving as Councilman (1869-1870 and 1873-1874), Mayor (3 Mar 1870-3 Jul 1872), and member of the Board of Trade (1871). He was one of the managers of a benefit to help build the new Episcopal Church in 1869, and he was an active member of this church.

The following is the text of an article that appeared in a local Corinne newspaper on 6 Jul 1871:

"Last night at the hour of 12 o'clock as Mayor Munro and family were retiring, his attention was attracted to something stirring outside. Promptly opening the blinds, a man was discovered crouched close to the house, when quick as thought our worthy executive bounded through the casement and gave chase to the stranger, who had, upon discovery, fled from the place. Over the fence flew the fleet pursuer and then the race ended, for the prowler was caught fast in the Mayor's grip. Mr. Munro started to take the rascal to jail, but the chilly night reminded him that the rainment he then had on was too thin for the hour, whereupon, with a dozen well directed kicks he let the marauder off, pledged never to be seen on Colorado street again. The adventure will have the effect of making housekeepers more watchful of nights."

Also in 1869, he formed a partnership with John Creighton and founded the firm of Creighton and Munro, wholesale and retail grocers. His business grew to be one of the largest of its kind west of Omaha, Nebraska, and he owned a huge warehouse at the corner of Montana and 6th Streets which often contained nearly a million pounds of freight awaiting shipment. By 1871, when he sold his interest in the firm to his partner, he was the general western agent for the Far West Fast Freight Line Company and began to enjoy awesome success. He became known as "The Merchant Prince West of the Rockies."

He served as Secretary of the Corinne Steam Navigation Company, which built a steamboat 130 feet long and three stories high to carry ore from the mines on the south shore of the Great Salt Lake to the smelters at Corinne. It was named "The City of Corinne" and was a very famous boat during that time (1871).

An 18 Jun 1870 census of Corinne City, Box Elder County, Territory of Utah, shows William as 30 years old and working as a grocer. Also included in his household is his wife, Julia age 27, William age 7, Gertrude age 8 months and Annie Frew, age 18, a domestic servant from Scotland.

William was not all work and no play. He owned a horse named "Sheep" which he enjoyed entering in local harness races. He also played third base on the town baseball team. He served on the reception and transportation committee for the Independence Day celebration in 1870, and was floor manager of the Christmas dance held 25 Dec 1869.

After his third child, George, was born in Apr 1873, things seemed to begin falling apart for William. He moved his family back to Galveston, Texas, where in 1879, his wife, Julia, filed for divorce accusing William of neglect and drinking. The divorce was granted in Jan 1880. William received custody of their son, William, Jr. and their daughter, Gertrude, with 6 year old George going to Julia.

Shortly after the divorce, William moved to Beaumont, Texas, where he lived in a boarding house and worked as a bookkeeper. William, Jr. worked as a hotel clerk and Gertrude, now 10 years old, attended school and boarded with George Stovall, a school teacher. All three are found on the 1880 census of Beaumont. By 1881, he had moved again, this time to Woodville, Texas, where he found a job as an agent for the East Texas Railroad.

Nothing more is known about William Harvey Munro, wanderer, pioneer, merchant, entrepreneur.

References:

(1) Clan Munro files - Stroud, Anna Margaret - letter from Marian Danielson,
recorder of Corinne City, Utah dated 6 Jul 1988

(2) Clan Munro files - Muro, William Barton - "Yellowed Pages", Vol. 23, No. 2,
Summer 1993, p. 34

Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA

William married Julia Elizabeth Potter on 2 Feb 1862 in Galveston, Galveston Co., Texas, USA, and was divorced. Julia was born on 24 Aug 1845 in , Steuben Co., New York, USA; died on 21 Mar 1920 in Flatonia, Fayette Co., Texas, USA; was buried in Mar 1920 in Flatonia, Fayette Co., Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

References:

(1) Clan Munro files - Munro, Henry Dallas - GEDCOM file HMUNRO.GED dated 9
Oct 1996

Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA

Buried:
Julia was buried at the Flatonia Cemetery.

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Married:
William and Julia were married at the Saint Petersburg Luthern Church.