Susan E. East

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Census: 1860 Polk Co MO book p 12 w/parents: Bailey & Salena W. East
1870 Polk Co MO book p 98 w/parents
1880 Polk Co MO book p 133
1900 Polk Co MO ED 131, Sh 4, p 157 (3 ch born; -0- living)

MARRIAGE: Polk Co MO B-446

Had foster child named Celia Thayer.

Per Tom Hughes: her middle name = Eldaline

Buried Mt. Gilead Cemetery; Cem. Dir. of Polk Co MO

Susan married Joseph Henry Heydon on 24 Apr 1871 in Polk County, Missouri U.S.A.. Joseph (son of William Heydon and Martha Ann Mitchell Devin) was born on 03 Apr 1851 in Missouri U.S.A.; died on 08 Oct 1926 in Liberty, Clay, Missouri, U.S.A.; was buried in Mt. Gilead Cemetery, Polk Co Missouri, U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]

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Foster daughter of Joseph Henry Heydon & Sue East.

Source of the following obit is unknown - possibilities are "The Bolivar Free Press" or "The Bolivar Herald:"

Seeley Thayer McKinney was born in Polk Co., MO, Sept. 22, 1877; died Dec. 3, 1915, age 38 years, 2 months and 11 days. She was married to Lester McKinney, Jan. 7, 1900. To this union were born four children, Albert, Gertrude, Lillian, and Edgar.

She was taken at the age of 3 ½ years by Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Heydon, who reared and cared for her until her marriage.

Rev. S. S. Pike preached her funeral at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church, Sat., Dec. 4. A large concourse of friends and relatives gathered to pay the last tribute of respect to this good wife and mother.

Seely was the birth daughter of Corp. Elias L. Thayer Jr. and Lovina Seely Hunter. Elias died in 1881, and Lovina gave away some of her younger children to various Polk County families, including Seely.

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Buried Mt. Gilead Cemetery; Cem. Dir. of Polk Co MO