Phoebe Frances FERGUSON

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• Census: 1930, Living with parents in Nameoki, Madison Co., Illinois
• Census: 1940, Living with husband in Granite City, Madison Co., Illinois

Phoebe married Harold KNECHT before 1940. Harold was born about 1919 in Illinois . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1920, Living in Richwoods, Miller Co., Missouri
• Census: 1930, Living in Nameoki, Madison Co., Illinois
• Census: 1940, Living in Nameoki, Madison Co., Illinois

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Funeral services were held this morning for Sherman R. Ferguson, 81, of Rural Route Six, Edwardsville, a retired General Steel Company employee, who died at 9:30 p.m. Friday at Belleville Memorial Hospital following an illness of two years.

Born at Iberia, MO, Mr. Ferguson lived in this area 54 years and retired from General Steel in 1962, following 35 years service as a coremaker. He was a member of Bethel Chapel Pentecostal Church of Granite City.

Survovors include his wife, Mrs. Maggie Ferguson; four sons, Lowell of Granite City, Raymond of Colliinsville, Ralph of Joplin, MO, and Robert of Maryville; three daughters, Mrs. Ernest (Dorothy) Aldridge of New Athens, Mrs. Harold (Phoebe) Knecht of Placerville, Calif., and Mrs. Donald (Ruth) Hayes of Thayer, MO; two brothers, Glen Ferguson of Springfield, MO, and Walter Ferguson of Tulsa, Okla.; a sister, Mrs. John (Maude) Tatum of Granite City; 19 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.

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Sherman married Maggie Elizabeth SLAWSON. Maggie (daughter of Charles Robert SLAWSON and Phoebe Caroline BLYZE) was born on 03 Dec 1898 in Iberia, Miller County, Missouri; died on 2 Apr 1984 in Glen Carbon, Madison Co., Illinois; was buried in Sunset Hill Cemetery, Glen Carbon, Madison Co, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1900, Living with parents in Tavern, Pulaski Co., Missouri
• Census: 1910, Living with parents in Richwoods, Miller Co., Missouri
• Census: 1920, Living with husband in Richwoods, Miller Co., Missouri
• Census: 1930, Living with husband in Nameoki, Madison Co., Illinois
• Census: 1940, Living with husband in Nameoki, Madison Co., Illinois

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Mrs. Maggie (Slawson) Ferguson, 86 of 2440 St. Clair Ave., died at the Eden Village Care Center in Glen Carbon (Ill.) at 4:45 a.m. today, April 2, 1984. She was a resident of the care center since October 1983. Mrs. Ferguson was born December 3, 1898 in Miller County, MO, and moved to this area 59 years ago. She was a member of Bethel Chapel Pentecostal Church. Her husband, Sherman Ferguson, died in 1977.

Survivors include four sons, Lowell Ferguson, Granite City, Raymond Ferguson, Collinsville, Robert Ferguson of Maryville and Ralph Ferguson of Joplin, MO; three daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Aldridge, Fairview Heights, Mrs. Harold (Phoebe) Knecht, Placerville, Calif. and Mrs. Donald (Ruth) Hayes of Thayer, MO; a brother Everett Slawson of Crocker, MO; one sister, Mrs Albert (Blanche) Alexander of Dixon, MO; 19 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren.

Visitation will begin at 4 p.m. Wednesday at Davis Funeral Home, 21st Street and Cleveland Boulevard. The Rev. Clifton Galiher will conduct services at 10 a.m. Thursday, April 5, at Bethel Chapel Pentecostal Church, 25th Street and Ohio Avenue, with burial in Sunset Hill Cemetery, Edwardsville Township.

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Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1880, Living with parents in Richwoods, Miller co., Missouri
• Census: 1900, Living in Tavern, Pulaski Co., Missouri
• Census: 1910, Living in Richwoods, Miller Co., Missouri
• Census: 1920, Living in Richwoods, Miller Co., Missouri
• Census: 1930, Living in Richwoods, Miller Co., Missouri
• Census: 1940, Living in Richwoods, Miller Co., Missouri
• Residence: 1951, RR 2, Iberia, Miller County, Missouri

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The Iberia Sentinel, October 11, 1951
Relatives and friends were shocked when the sad news reached here that Charles R. Slawson of
the Madden community died suddenly of a heart attack last Friday at a bus depot in Kansas City while
getting ready to return home from a visit with relatives. Mr. Slawson was a well known_____ father
having spent his entire life in the Madden community south of Iberia. He passed away at the age of 77
years.
Funeral services were held in Iberia at the Methodist Church, of which he was a member, Sunday
afternoon, the Rev. Bennet Holt officiating. A large crowd of sorrowing relatives were present to pay
their last respects. Interment was made in the Madden Cemetery. Funeral arrangements were under
direction of Hedges Funeral Service of Iberia.
Charles Robert Slawson, son of Joseph and Emma Slawson, was born Aug 10, 1874 and departed
this life Oct. 4, 1951 at the age of 77 years, 1 month and 24 days. On Aug. 18, 1895, he was united in
marriage to Phoebe Blyze and to this union ten children were born. Three passed away in infancy. His
wife preceded him in death in April 1940. Since that time he had made his home with his children and in
the Jobe Kinder home.
In 1912 Mr. Slawson united with the Madden Methodist Church and remained true in this faith all
his life.
Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Maggie Ferguson of Edwardsville, Ill., Mrs. Bessie Hancock
of Crocker, Mrs. Blanche Alexander of Dixon; four sons, Sherman and Everett of Crocker, Melvin of
Kansas City, Kans., and Glen of Iberia; five brothers, Wes of Iberia, Frank of Swedeborg, George of
Bristow, Okla., Jim of Corpus Christi, Texas, and Claude of Louisberg, Kans.; one sister, Mrs. Mae
Morrow of Iberia; 25 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren, and many other relatives and friends

Charles married Phoebe Caroline BLYZE on 18 Aug 1895 in Crocker, Missouri. Phoebe was born on 26 Mar 1877 in Miller County, Missouri; died on 20 Apr 1940 in Iberia, Miller County, Missouri; was buried on 21 Apr 1940 in Medden Cemetery, Iberia, Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter fo James and nancy (Beard) Blyze
• Fact: Daughter of James Blyze and Nancy Jane Beard
• Medical Cond'tn: Pneumonia
• Census: 1900, Living with husband in Tavern, Pulaski Co., Missouri
• Census: 1910, Living with husband in Richwoods, Miller Co., Missouri
• Census: 1920, Living with husband in Richwoods, Miller Co., Missouri
• Census: 1930, Living with husband in Richwoods, Miller Co., Missouri
• Census: 1940, Living with husband in Richwoods, Miller Co., Missouri