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| James D. Hall Blue Springs Missouri |
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| Letha Nowlin Hall wife of James D. Hall Blue Springs, Missouri |
| Letha Hall Bridges lived and died in Carthage, Missouri |
| Mattie Hall Selvey, Iva Selvey Faubion, Eldeva Faubion and Letha Nowlin Hall Bridges |
| ROBERT R. SELVEY was born February 6, 1858, in Jackson Co. Missouri, second child to John and Ann Elizabeth Crawford Selvey. He was married to MARTHA ANN HALL of Blue Springs on July 25, 1880, and the following year moved to Barton County Missouri. Mattie was 17 years old when they were married. Robert attended school when he was young but when his mother died he quit school and never returned. As a young man Robert Selvey living near Blue Springs, worked on the railroad when it came through town. Ray Selvey remembered him telling stories how he drove a pair of mules and worked with the Irish immigrants that were working there at the time. The wagons were all loaded by hand. The drivers would drive up to an area, dirt was shoveled in by hand, then hauled to where they needed it and the handwork would start all over again. The railroad was called the C. and A. Railroad and the tracks were north and east of the old town of Blue Springs. Years later the town moved closer to the tracks, a depot was built, and that�s the old part of Blue Springs today. Martha Ann Hall was the daughter of my 2nd Great grandmother LETHA JANE NOWLIN and JAMES DANIEL HALL of Jackson Co. Missouri. James Hall was born Aug. 10, 1839 in a log home on the same piece of property that he made his home for most of his 86 years near Blue Springs, Missouri. John Bridges, LETHA NOWLIN HALL�S second husband, had been a good stepfather to both Martha Hall and her sister Mary, but he disliked Robert Selvey when they first met. She thought him to be an awfully bold and brass fellow. He didn't really have anything against "Bob," it was just the way he was courting Mattie. When Robert "came courting" he always brought two horses for them to ride, to John, this didn't seem quite cricket. My Grandmother Ethel Selvey Joyce, and daughter of Mattie and Robert's as she was relating this story to me paused a moment, and then said, �I don't know why he thought that way, I'd think it would have been worse if they had been courting on just one horse.� At the time of their move to Barton County ROBERT R. SELVEY and MARTHA ANN HALL, SELVEY had one child, a daughter Iva Selvey. They settled on a farm near Bethany, the old Henry Nowlin farm, and although they lived the rest of their lives in Barton County, they did return in 1906 to live one year again in Jackson County�s Lee�s Summit area. The Robert and Mattie Selvey family first lived north of the Bethany Church, east of Lamar or southwest of Milford, between the years of 1883 and 1902. From an old 1886 map of Barton Co. Robert Selvey lived in Lamar Township 3 miles north and 3 miles east of Lamar. Section 2, Township 32, Range 30, they owned 120 acres. From the old map, they lived on the west side of the road, half mile north of the School (No. 1) which stood on the northwest corner of section #12. One mile west of Robert and Mattie Selvey was the residence of John M. Nowlin, Mattie�s uncle. Section 3 T32 R30. John Nowlin owned 245 acres. Neighbors of Robert and Martha Selvey were M. Vincent to the north, T. Dobson on the south, back of them on the west were the Lybers and the Fosters, and Isaac Harness lived across the road east. While living in the Bathany area, northeast of Lamar, Robert and Mattie raised seven children... Iva L. born 1881 in Jackson Co. Missouri, Myrtle Letha born 1884, my Grandmother Ethel Susie Selvey born 1887, Roy R. born 1890, Floyd John born 1892, Leland Ira born 1895, Ocie Mary born 1899. All except Iva were born in Barton County, Missouri. In a directory of Barton County 1911, Robert and Mattie�s address was RR 3, Lamar, Missouri. The farm they bought had a barn, a couple of out buildings, and a log house. Daughter, Ethel Selvey Joyce said, � It was log on the outside but was very nice and clean on the inside.� Myrtie and Ethel were both born in the log house then the new house built and the rest of the kids were born in the new house. Grandma said the old log house stood there for a long time after the new house was built and they used it for storage and one thing or the other. Her mother, when she made soap, would hang the soap from the log beams that were exposed. One day my Grandmother, while playing around the old house kept looking at the soap hanging there and it looked so nice. In fact it looked good enough to eat, so Ethel found herself a box, something to stand on and untied a cake of the soap and tasted it. She said her mouth burned for a long time, she never did that again. Lye soap was made from the wood ashes left over from the cook stove. The next place they lived, 1902 through 1904, was called the George Lilley Place near Jasper, Missouri. This farm was in the Blue School neighborhood about a mile south of Hwy. 126. (Section 31 or 32). From 1904 through 1906 Robert and Mattie Selvey lived west of Lamer, about 2 miles on what is now 160 Hiwy. This house burned, Robert and Mattie lost everything. After the fire the family constructed a tent and lived for months in the tent while a new house was being built. In 1906 they returned to Jackson Co. and bought a farm west of Lee�s Summit. When they returned to Barton Co. everything was loaded on the train, furniture in one car and the horses and cows in another. Roy and Floyd Selvey had to ride in the car that held the horses to keep them settled. Property was acquired in the City View area. They bought the farm Henry Nowlin owned, north of Lamer, and the first road south of Nie Cemetery, then east. They lived at this location until WW I, then moved to Lamer. |
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