Charles Robert SLAWSON

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• 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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• 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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Obituary:

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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Family/Spouse: Sherman Robert FERGUSON. Sherman was born on 15 Apr 1896 in Iberia, Miller County, Missouri; died on 13 May 1977 in Belleville, St. Clair 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: 1930, Living in Richwoods, Miller Co., Missouri
• Census: 1940, Living in Richwoods, Miller Co., Missouri

Sherman married Ethel Sherman MARTIN on 15 Feb 1920 in Iberia, Missouri. Ethel was born on 22 Feb 1898 in Iberia, Miller County, Missouri; died on 10 Apr 1957 in California, Moniteau County, Missouri; was buried on 12 Apr 1957 in Madden Cemetery, Miller County, Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Medical Cond'tn: Coronary heart disease
• Census: 1910, Living with parents in Richwoods, Miller Co., Missouri
• Census: 1920, Living with parents in Richwoods, Miller Co., Missouri
• Census: 1930, Living with husband in Glaze, Miller Co. Missouri
• Census: 1940, Living with husband in Ceres, Stanislaus Co., California

Bessie married Guy HANCOCK in Oct 1922 in Iberia, Missouri. Guy was born on 26 Sep 1902 in Missouri; died on 2 Oct 1971; was buried in Madden Cemetery, Miller Co., Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1910, Living with parents in Richwoods, Miller Co., Missouri
• Census: 1920, Living with parents in Richwoods, Miller Co., Missouri
• Census: 1930, Living in Glaze, Miller Co., Missouri
• Census: 1940, Living in Richwoods, Miller Co., Missouri

Everett married Clara Mabel MCDOWELL on 22 Nov 1927 in Iberia, Missouri. Clara was born on 20 Mar 1911; died on 19 Jun 1976; was buried in Hawkeye Cemetery, Hawkeye, Pulaski Co., Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1910, Living with parents in Richwoods, Miller Co., Missouri
• Census: 1920, Living with parents in Richwoods, Miller Co., Missouri
• Census: 1930, Living in Richwoods, Miller Co., Missouri
• Census: 1940, Living with parents in Richwoods, Miller Co., Missouri

Melvin married Cleo Edna THORNTON on 20 Mar 1930 in Iberia, Missouri. Cleo was born on 21 Apr 1910 in Brumley, Miller Co., Missouri; died on 7 Apr 1970; was buried in Madden Cemetery, Miller Co., Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1910, Living with parents in Richwoods, Miller Co., Missouri
• Census: 1920, Living with parents in Richwoods, Miller Co., Missouri
• Census: 1930, Living with parents in Richwoods, Miller Co., Missouri
• Census: 1940, Living with husband in Miller, Maries Co., Missouri

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Miller County Autogram Sentinel, April 1989
Blanche Alexander, 79, of Dixon, was born on Jan. 15, 1910, at Iberia in Miller County, a daughter of Charles Robert and Phoebe Carolyn Blyze Salwson. She died on Saturday, April 15, 189, in the Phelps County Regional Medical Center in Rolla. Mrs. Alexander had been in failing health for the past several years.
She was united in marriage on Sept. 24, 1930, at Tuscumbia to James Albert Alexander who died on July 16, 1985.
Mrs. Alexander was a member of the Burnett Christian Church of Dixon and prior to her retirement in 1968, she was employed in the fitting room for 18 years at Brown Shoe Company in Dixon.
Surviving her are three daughters, Mrs. Betty Raines of Springfield, Mrs. Lois Beydler of Canyon City, Calif, and Mrs. Cleta Colley of Dixon; one brother, Everett Slawson of Crocker; seven grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted for Mrs. Alexander at 2 p.m., on Monday in the Dixon Chapel of the Birmingham-Martin Funeral Homes with the Rev. Earl Jones of Dixon officiating. Interment was in
the Dixon Cemetery.

Blanche married James Albert ALEXANDER in Sep 1930. James was born on 18 Oct 1906; died on 16 Jul 1985; was buried in Dixon Cemetery, Dixon, Pulaski Co., Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1920, Living with parents in Richwoods, Miller Co., Missouri
• Census: 1930, Living with parents in Richwoods, Miller Co., Missouri

Glen married Opal Anne STONE in Feb 1935 in Iberia, Missouri. Opal (daughter of John Samuel STONE and Elsie L. RICHARDS) was born on 17 Dec 1917 in Iberia, Miller Co., Missouri; died on 16 May 1985 in Columbia, Boone County, Missouri; was buried in Madden Cemetery, Miller Co., Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]