Posts about Zimmerman, Story, Deweese, and Pryor families.
My great grandfather Parker L. Zimmerman married three times. After a couple of months marriage to Victoria Harris during 1897 in Franklin County, Missouri, Parker moved to Bollinger County, Missouri to be closer to his family. His parents, Samuel and Sarah Zimmerman, lived in Dongola, Bollinger, Missouri. On March 31, 1902, 27-year-old Parker married his second wife, 22-year-old Mellie Bollinger. […]
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William Rueben Zimmerman, known in the family as Rueben, to distinguish him from his namesake and uncle William Lee Zimmerman, was born on August 4, 1905. Rueben was the second child and son of Parker Zimmerman and his second wife, Mellie Bollinger. Mellie tragically lost her life in a wash day accident in December 1909. Mellie and her mother were […]
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My great grandmother Lydia Margaret “Dollie” Story Zimmerman’s youngest sister Hattie May Story was born on August 20, 1896. Hattie was Dollie’s half-sister as she was the daughter of George Washington Story and his second wife Margaret Sweat. Dollie’s mother was George Story’s first wife Malinda Davis. Hattie’s mother Margaret either died in giving birth to Hattie or passed away […]
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Gilford Dudley Story (1797 – 1870) is my third great-grandfather. There are six generations between the two of us. I have just recently been able to find information on the Story family, one of the branches of the family my research had not turned up as much information on. For years, I could not find my great-grandmother Dollie Zimmerman nee […]
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My grandfather Frank O. Zimmerman’s oldest brother was Robert Harold “Harry” Zimmerman. They had a four older half-brothers and sisters and a deceased half-sister but Harry was the first child of Parker L. Zimmerman and his third wife Dolly. Grandpa would be born May 28, 1913. Harry is a bit of a mystery as he died around the […]
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Lydia Margarete “Dollie” Story was born on June 23, 1886, in Whittington, Illinois,to George Washington Story and Malinda Davis. I recently found my great grandmother’s death certificate, which helped fill in blanks within my family history. Dollie was my great grandfather Parker Zimmerman’s third wife. Parker had a short first marriage that ended after one or two months. Parker married […]
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My second great-grandfather George Washington Story was born in August 1843 to Gilford Dudley Story and his second wife Nancy Jane Story nee Womack. George was born in Shawneetown, Gallatin County, Illinois, USA. He was the fourth of Dudley’s and Nancy’s nine children. George Washington Story married his first wife and my second great-grandmother Malinda Davis on November 26, 1863, […]
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Many Zimmermans always believed my great-grandfather Parker L. Zimmerman was married five times. However, Parker was married three times to Victoria Harris, Mellie Bollinger and Lydia Margaret “Dollie” Story. It was actually Parker’ sister-in-law Amanda Isabelle “Mandy” Story, who was married five times. Mandy was born in Illinois on July 16, 1877 to George Washington Story and Malinda Davis although […]
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My second great-grandfather John Riley Deweese served as Welch Township Republican Committee Chairman in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri for most of his adult life. Besides holding party caucuses in his home, John Riley served as Road Commissioner in the 1910s. Residents mostly traversed the roads by horse and buggy. One of the mechanisms governments used to collect fees for road […]
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Despite the fact that William Zimmerman and his brother Parker, who was my great grandfather, were the first two Zimmermans to call what is now Scott City, MO their hometown, it has become the ancestral home land for my generation of Zimmermans. It was “the country” that we often visited from the big city of St. Louis, MO and its […]
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