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     Stephen married Rebecca Robertson.²

          George Bullock was born in Missouri.²
     George married Lucinda "Cinda" Mason, daughter of Stephen Mason and Rebecca Robertson.¹
     George died before 1875.¹

          Edna Elizabeth Roberson, daughter of William "Wid" Roberson and Lucinda "Cinda" Mason, was born on 19 July 1879 in Maries County, Missouri.^1,2,3
     Edna married Joshua Columbus Sneed (his second marriage) , son of William Joshua "Bud" Sneed and Lucinda Roberson, on 28 February 1900.^1,3
     Edna and Joshua Columbus Sneed lived in 1912 at Dry Creek Township in Maries County, Missouri. Residing with them were.²
     Edna married Baylis Copeland on 4 August 1945.⁴
     Edna died on 19 June 1959 at age 79.³ She was buried in June 1959 in Kenner Cemetery in Dixon, Pulaski County, Missouri.⁵

     Thomas C. Sneed and Joshua Columbus Sneed were twins.²      Joshua Columbus Sneed, son of William Joshua "Bud" Sneed and Lucinda Roberson, was born on 13 November 1869.^4,3
     Joshua married Hattie Mae Doyle (her first marriage), daughter of William Doyle and Tabitha F. Perkins, on 21 January 1897 at Maries County, Missouri.⁴ Joshua Columbus Sneed and Hattie Mae Doyle were divorced on 7 April 1898 at Missouri.⁴
     Joshua (his second marriage) married Edna Elizabeth Roberson, daughter of William "Wid" Roberson and Lucinda "Cinda" Mason, on 28 February 1900.^1,3
In 1912 Joshua Columbus Sneed farmed in Missouri.⁵
     Edna and Joshua Columbus Sneed lived in 1912 at Dry Creek Township in Maries County, Missouri. Residing with them were.⁵ Joshua had five known children as of 1913 (four living).⁵
     Joshua died on 1 April 1937 at age 67.³ He was buried in April 1937 in Kenner Cemetery in Dixon, Pulaski County, Missouri.⁶

     
     Joseph married Mary A. "Polly" Parker, daughter of Henry Parker and Martha Roberson.¹

     
     (?) married William Parker, son of Henry Parker and Martha Roberson.¹

     
     William H. was one of the old-time linemen for the Western Union Telegraph Company.¹
     William married Malinda Parker, daughter of Henry Parker and Martha Roberson, on 3 July 1865.¹
     William died circa 1908 in Maries County, Missouri.¹

     Edward Spratley lived in Maries County, Missouri.¹

     Charles Spratley lived in Maries County, Missouri.¹

     
     William married Maggie (?).¹      William Spratley, son of William H. Spratley and Malinda Parker, was born on 1 April 1873 in Dixon, Pulaski County, Missouri.²
     William died on 23 August 1928 at Frisco Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, at age 55.² His obituary was published in the Maries County Gazette Newspaper on 30 August 1928.² His obituary stated:

He was buried on 26 August 1928 in Vienna Public Cemetery in Vienna, Maries County, Missouri.²

     
     Alfred died in 1918 in Oregon in a flu epidemic.¹

     
     Lydia married Albert Curtis.¹

     
     Maggie married William Spratley, son of William H. Spratley and Malinda Parker.¹

     
     Stormy demise of dirigible shocked many Ohioans
The Navy dirigible Shenandoah with 43 aboard was ripped apart during a thunderstorm on Sept. 3, 1925, splitting into three sections near Caldwell in the southeastern part of our state. Fourteen men were killed; 29 survived.
The violent storm, with its 70-mile-per-hour winds, tore loose the airship’s control cabin, which plummeted earthward like a boulder. Lt. Cmdr. Zachary Lansdowne and seven crew members in it were killed. Others died in the tail section.
The bow section, still buoyant and carrying seven men, remained aloft. Authority Lew Gray, who is scheduled to address the Lakewood Kiwanis Club next month, had this to say about it:
“As the ship’s broken bow passed over farmland near the small Ohio town of Sharon, the men in it yelled down to a farmer, Ernest Nichols, to grab the trail ropes. There were two attached to the nose.
“Nichols caught one of them and snubbed it around two tree stumps. When the crewmen jumped out of the nose to safety, they asked the farmer to fetch a rifle so they could puncture the bow’s helium gas cells to bring down the remainder of the section.”
According to Nichols’ son, Stanley, who today is a retired chiropractor in Caldwell, his father got two shotguns and the deed was done.
Gray also cited an incident that happened just before the derelict bow section reached the Nichols farm.
“It clipped the top of a tree, yanking off a Navy rigger from Massachusetts named Frank McCarthy,” he said.
“McCarthy broke two collar bones and was knocked unconscious when he fell to the ground. He woke up in a Marietta hospital two days later and eventually recovered.”
Gray, a former Columbus school teacher who has authored a book about the crash called “Ill Wind,” will speak to the Lakewood Kiwanians at their non luncheon on Nov. 6 as part of a Veterans Day observance.
A week after the 1925 tragedy, the Lakewood Post ran an editorial supporting World War I flight commander William (Billy) Mitchell’s remarks relative to the disaster. Fearless Mitchell, a colonel then, blamed old-fogey, non-flyer generals in Washington for not knowing anything about aviation and caring less.
Oldsters recall the beauty of the craft after it was launched in 1923. Covered with an aluminum-painted fabric, it looked like a huge silver whale in the sky. It was 680 feet long and weighed 36 tons. It could 55 tons and carry enough fuel to cruise 5,000 miles at an average speed of 65 miles per hour.
The Shenandoah took its name from an Indian word meaning “Daughter of the Stars,” and was the first airship to use non-flammable helium instead of flammable hydrogen.
This article by Dan Chabek appeared in the Lakewood Sun Post October 25, 1990. Reprinted with permission.

The Navy dirigible "Shenandoah" left Lakehurst, New Jersey, on September 2, 1925, at approximately 4:00 P.M., headed for St. Louis and Detroit. Lieutenant Commander Zachery Lansdowne was in charge, with approximately 36 men on board. They were traveling over Ohio when they flew into a severe electrical storm, at approximately 4:00 A.M. The crew changed course almost a dozen times -- moving between altitudes of 1,800 and 7,000 feet. However, the air pressure and twisting were so great that the ship broke. The control car that was attached to the underbelly of the airship fell to the ground. Fourteen people died, including Lansdowne. This panorama shows the nose, which continued its flight for 12 miles, landing in Sharon, Ohio. It was believed that the accident could have been avoided if meteorological information had been available.
     Howard died on 3 September 1925 in the wreck of the dirigible Shenandoah.¹

     
     Freda married (?) Fiesler.¹

     
     (?) married Freda Spratley, daughter of William Spratley and Maggie (?).¹

     
     Albert married Lydia Spratley, daughter of William H. Spratley and Malinda Parker.¹

     
     William married Mary Capehart, daughter of George W. Capehart and Drusilla Roberson.¹

     Nancy Dodds and Daniel Roberson moved from Maries County, Missouri to Oakland, Laclede County, Missouri.¹
     Nancy married Daniel Roberson, son of Reverend William J. Roberson and Mary M. "Polly, Pop" Lambeth.¹
     Nancy died in Fairfield, Oklahoma.¹