The Miller County Autogram-Sentinel from Tuscumbia, Missouri • 16

4 The Miller County Autogram-Sentinel Tiiscumbia Mo Thursday Jan 23 1992 Page 16a 'fsifjjt jJstcvs JELLYl1 SMACKERS sETpmCKMOoBl 22 THRU JAR 28 We Hwerw ithoi mu i Uamifacturer Coupons But Hwv 54 South Eldon M0 Phone 392-0643J ll OPEN 9-7 MON-SAT I WE WELCOME: Person Checks -Food Stsm 9MB 912 0Z Oscar Bobinson was the oldest of seven children born to Seth and Elizabeth (Whittle) Bobinson including: Oscar 1880 Ida Lb 1881 SylviaM 1883 Edgar A 18835 LoisE 1888 Nancy 1893 and Walter Euell (1899-1901) Oscar married Emma A Patton on March 17 1904 and they were parents of live children: Hazel (Mrs LafeKing) Fern (Mrs Homer Biy ant) Bethel (Mrs Ted Stamper) Faye (Mrs Grewe) Wayman Bobinson and Wilford Bobinson Emma his wile of 46 years died in 1951 and Oacar married his second wife Edna Suit Owen in 1953 He was a member of the Brumley Christian Church and was a member of Masocni Lodge 203 for 58 years Oscar lived to reach the advanced age of 95 years and was in remarkable health almost to the end At age 90 years in 1970 the Autogram-Sentinel ran a wonderful story about him taking a three-mile early-morning walk on Ids 90th birthday He was a descendant of strong hearty Kentucky and Tennessee ancestors Oscar diedon August 25 1975 and was buried at Gott Cemetery NOTE: The lives of Oscar's grandparents the Bobinson and Whittles ran parallel in events oven though they did not know each other until they came to Miller County Both grandfathers in their early 30s left their Miller County farms to light in a terrible war and had to leave their wives and young children to carry on with the farm work at home both fought on the side to abolish slavery both left young wives who were pregnant with their fourth child neither soldier returned from that war so never saw their last child By Peggy Smith Hake Rt 1 Box 52 St Elizabeth Mo 65075 Oacar Robinson waa born near Brumley on Feb 29 1880 (a leap year baby) a son of Seth Bobinaon and Elizabeth Whittle He waa a grandaon ofGeorgeWBobinaon (1830-1863) and Elizabeth Reed a832-1810) with paternal roots in Kentucky and Tennessee His great-grandparents were Phillip and Margaret (Moore) Bobinaon who came to Miller County from southeast Missouri (Cape Girardeau County in 1849 and settled in Glazie Township His grandfather George Bobinson died in 1863 and his grandmother Elizabeth married John I Hoskins in 1868 and alter his death married a third time to Walter Hobbs in 1879 Grandfather George Bobinson was a Civil War soldier serving with the Union army in Company of the 33rd Missouri Volunteers He was a casulty of that war dying of measles on board a riveiboat between Memphis and New Orleans Oscar's maternal ancestors were John Levi Whittle and Nancy Keeth natives ofEdmonson County Kentucky They came to Miller County in the mid 1840s settlingin southwest Bich woods Township His grandfather Whittle was also killed in the Civil War on Aug 29 1862 at the "Elsey farm about 4 miles east of Iberia He was in the Union forces under the command of Capt Long's Company Enrolled Militia and was the only Union soldier killed in that battle Both of Oscar's grandfathers were killed in the Civil War lighting lor the North G0LD-N-KIBBLES DOG FOOD ETTUCE YELLOW INI0NS 50 LB BAG LB WvW a A-S i "I i Ti y't i A I Fi I ijila iJuiuiTUUnc MILKH0USE CHEDDAR MOZZARELLA 0N 80Z IHREDDED 1 GINGER EVANS PANCAKE MIX 32 0Z BOX RALSTON SALTINE CRACKERS 0 OBDPS receives BARE grant CHEESE 16 0Z ffsi ceived no contact on the funding of the position and therefore did not put the position into the 1992 budget ArlynePageis currently serving as the city's ARE officer but is providing the services on a part-time basis "This will provide crime prevention DAILE and public relations into one grant" Trautman said Applications will be taken for an officer to provide these services Trautman said adding that when the school year began he had turned down about six requests for DAJRE dasses By Loris Kiso The Osage Beach Department of Public Safety(OBDPS) has received state and federal grant monies to implement a full-time Drag Abuse Rem stance Education DAB program next year The grant will run from Feb 1 of this year until January of 1993 aldermen learned from Boland Trautman OBDPS director The city will receive $18750 in state and federal monies and will have to provide a 25 percent match of $6250 Trautman saidhe applied for the grant in August of 1991 but re Shop-The -GLASSHFEBB- FRESH CNIC STYLE1 RK ROAST LB is TTT FOR ALL YOUR INSURANCE NEEDS SEE Naught-Naught Insurance Hi SWS SS 1 6 LB STICK 392-7141 392-4044 Southgate Park Next to Wal-Mart Hwy54 South Eldon APPROX 10 LB BAG FRYER (0 REAST OLDHAM WHOLE HOG SACK SAUSAGE LB LB.