President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump welcome Britain’s King Charles and Queen Camilla on the day of an afternoon tea on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C, April 27, 2026.
Dear Mr. King. You need to – GROW UP! How dare you bring that queen to America. She’s not even – A GROWNUP! Diana Spencer – was a grownup. She knew there was a Rich American in her family tree. Did her grandfather meet Jeanette Jerome?
Here is the video I made a hour ago. I talk about taking that special step – into the void – that can make you great, or, destroy you. Queen Elizabeth took that step, and so did Rena Easton when she was put on a plane when she was nine moths old – and thrown away by her mother! She was sent to live with her grandmother. There was no turning back. She had to know, had to comprehend what took place. If she expected her mother to – REAPEAR – it did not happen. Consider Moses.
I predict Mr. King has really stepped in it. I appoint Megan Windsor to…
COME TO HIS RESCUE!
It’s time tpo grow up, and do the right thing. For…..
GOD AND COUNTRY!
John ‘The Nazarite King Maker’
P.S. I suspect there is mass blackmailing going on. The look in Charle’s eyes says so. Those eyes are saying he is loyal to the cover-up. Camille has rereated to the age of two. She is playing…..”I am with child! Leave me out of it!”
This may be the greatest video ever made! You can hear me eating potato chips while insulting the heads of the royal family. I wish I had the fish to go with!
Early life
Jeanette Jerome was born in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn in 1854,[7] the second of four daughters (one died in childhood) of financier, sportsman, and speculator Leonard Jerome and his wife Clarissa “Clara”,[8] daughter of Ambrose Hall, a landowner. Jerome’s father was of Huguenot extraction, his forebears having emigrated to America from the Isle of Wight in 1710.[9] Hall family lore insists that Jennie had Haudenosaunee ancestry through her maternal grandmother;[10] however, there is no research or evidence to corroborate this.[11] She was raised in Brooklyn,[c] Manhattan, Paris and London. She had two surviving sisters, Clarita (1851–1935) and Leonie (1859–1943). Another sister, Camille (1855–1863) died when Jennie was nine.[12]
2/28/2014
The Lost Rosamond Graves
In 1971 I called Rena in Grand Island Nebraska and asked her for a picture of her profile. She said this to me;
“I love you more afar, than near.”
I knew this seventeen year old wanted to experience and own all the power she could acquire. She was at her grandmother’s during the summer break. She had broken up with her artist boyfriend whose name I wished I owned. I also wished I had bought a camera at Goodwill ad shot rolls of film of our time together.
But, what is our time together? I believe we have not been apart in spirit for forty-four years. This idea is appalling to Rena because she has resigned to spend the rest of her life with her ex-husband who wants little to do with her. She wants to be Rosamond’s Muse, more that my Muse. But, what is being revealed I am the progenitor of the Rosamond legend. Rena and my relationship is one of the most profound in Art History, for it proves there is a Timeless Creative Connection that brings certain players to a divinely creative stage.
Here is the hunt for lost Rosamond graves in South Carolina and Mississippi. Rosemary Rosamond is the real Scarlet O’Hara. Rosemary Rosamond was a real witch! I wish they had met.
The name Rosamond may have come from Rougemont Switzerland. A man who marries a woman named Rose, can use Rosamond as a surname.
I want Rena to marry me. Our work together is not finished. Stop running away from your destiny. Already another world has been created in our separation.
The last time I touched Rena was in a dark movie theatre in Lincoln.
“I’m getting fat. Feel.” and after telling me this lie, she took my hand and placed it under her green velvet cape, on her flat stomach, where I kept it till the movie ended.
We fell asleep this way, every night in our tent, my beautiful fingers spread over her exquisite abdomen. When I see Christine and the Phantom in a similar embrace, I am in heaven.
Jon Presco
Copyright 2014
The Sergeant’s son Thomas Rosemond is said to have arrived in South Carolina with his wife Sarah and two year old son Samuel in 1740. No record of their arrival in South Carolina has been located. One deed found in the South Carolina State Archives shows that there was a tract of land that bordered on the property of a Thomas Rosamond in a SC county somewhat distant from Abbeville County where the Rosamond family is known to have lived. This is the only record of a Thomas Rosamond having lived in South Carolina in colonial times. Thomas and Sarah’s son Samuel is Captain Samuel Null Rosamond, a well documented South Carolina Revolutionary War soldier and plantation owner.
The given name of the third alleged son of Sergeant Rosemond is unknown. One researcher claims that this son’s name was William and that he too came to the colonies, but only stayed for five years before returning to Ireland. This son of Sergeant Rosemond had at least one son who was named James. This James Rosemond is documented in County Leitrim and a number of his numerous children came to America where they settled in the northern states and southern Canada
http://www.carolana.com/SC/Revolution/patriots_sc_capt_samuel_rosamond.html
THE ROSAMOND GENEALOGY
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AN UPCOMING TRIP TO SOUTH CAROLINA
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FALL 2000, Final Weekend of September
We are planning a trip to Abbeville, South Carolina the last weekend of September and all Rosamond and related cousins are invited. We haven’t yet decided on where we will be staying, or the exact itenerary for the visit, so all suggestions are welcome. One of the definites for the trip will be a cleanup of the cemetery described in the email below from Gwen Rosamond Forrester. If you plan to come contact me at jrosamond@prodigy.net, or any of the Rosamond researchers listed on the OTHER RESEARCHERS page. I will be posting details online as they become available.
The following email was sent by one of the Rosamond cousins, Gwen Rosamond Forrester to the rest of the research cousins:
Hey Y’all,
Mark and I just got back from a trip to Halan Co., Ky., and Lee Co., Va., where his folks settled after leaving NC. We had a very successful trip with finding graves of his ancestors and meeting a relative. Since we were only about 200 miles from Abbeville, SC, we drove down there to look around, and guess what, we asked a couple of gentlemen, David Higgon’s and Mr. Richie (believe his name was Walter) in Ware Shoals, if they knew where the Walnut Grove Baptist Church was. (The church our Rosamond’s, Hill’s, Hodges, and Graham’s attended in the early 1800’s)
Sure enough, they both knew where it was. David lead us to it, and he lead us to the few graves on Mulberry Creek that mark the original site of the church that was organized in 1826. Talk about luck! This was so exciting!!! We were so lucky to have ran into these two gentleman.
These graves are right along a paved road in the woods (I mean, the stones are right along the road). This cemetery is in bad shape. No one is taking care of it. It is over grown in weeds, trees and with poison oak and ivy everywhere. David, Mark and I ventured out into the cemetery a little ways. Couldn’t go to each stone because the poison oak & ivy is soooo thick. There aren’t many stones. Some graves are marked with field stones and doesn’t have any writing on them, and some of the field stones looked as those they had been chiseled on but you couldn’t read it. There are Mays buried there and one stone was a Williams. Stones are in bad shape, you can hardly read them. They have black mildew, moss or what ever from the trees, all over them. There is one stone laying on the ground in perfect condition. No mildew or anything on it. You can read it clearly. It is the marker of Lucrete Mays born Dec 14, 1797 died Feb 14, 1845. Y’all, this is probably Sarah “Sally” Mays Rosamond’s mother. What do you think?
I couldn’t hardly leave there without looking at each stone, but the poison oak was to bad. Mark and I are highly allergic to these plants. I knew though, that we are all going to be there next year, or whenever and we can be better prepared to tackle this adventure. As soon as David left, Mark and I changed jeans, socks and shoes right there by the car on the side of the road. Pretty picture! That poison oak and ivy will go through your clothes if you give it time. We were very lucky, we were o’k the next morning. Only one car passed on that road the whole time we were at the cemetery, so it isn’t a busy one.
When we go there next year, or whenever, those of us allergic to these plants, will need to wear at least knee high rubber boots. We will also need to do some tombstone rubbings to be able to read the stones. Does anyone in this group know how to do tombstone rubbings? A lady in Lee Co., Va., showed me how by using paper and a pencil. She said you could also use colored chalk that children use at school. It wont hurt the stones at all. When it rains, it will wash the chalk off.
David told us the Walnut Grove Church has tried to put a book together about the History of the Church. He said this book is at the church. We were there on Monday, and no one was there. David said the original church (1826) on Mulberry Creek was a brush arbor, which was posts with brush on top to protect them from rain. They were having Church service when it stated to rain. Had a flash flood that swept the brush arbor away. Everyone was scramming to get to higher ground, scared the horses so bad they all ran away. That’s when they moved the Church to higher ground. It was built next to where the Walnut Grove Church stands today.
Ruth, do you know the History of Walnut Grove Church, and do you know who is buried in the original cemetery?
Abbeville is a beautiful Old Historic town. It takes you back in time. Has a lot of old beautiful two story homes. I have a pamphlet listing the motels in the Old 96 District when we get ready to make reservations. If we stay in Abbeville, there is a Belmont Inn on town square that would be perfect for us to stay in, if y’all like this sort of thing. The Belmont Inn was built 1902-03 as the Eureka Hotel to accommodate “drummers” of the textile trade, patrons of the Opera House, traveling salesmen of the day, and the railroad men who had layovers in Abbeville. It’s listed on the National Register of Historic places in Abbeville. It has 25 newly remodeled, decorated rooms. They let Mark and I walk through it. The rooms that didn’t have occupants in them, they leave the doors open so we were about to view them. They are furnished with old antique furniture, some rooms have large pieces of furniture. It has wooden floors and looks like bedrooms in antebellum homes, only a bit smaller. It is nice and very clean. Really takes you back in time. Prices are very reasonable. More on that later.
The Belmont Inn is next door to the Opera House and two doors from the court house. The Library is one block away. If yall had rather stay in a motel there are three motels around Abbeville, but the nicer ones are in Greenwood, which is only 15 miles away. Mr. Richie told me the Library in Greenwood was better than the one in Abbeville. I only got to spend a couple of hours at the Library in Greenwood. They have a lot of old books for research, made several copies, but don’t think I found too much of what we don’t already have. Haven’t had a chance to look it over.
Something else we might want to think about. This pamphlet I have says Edgefield County, (which we all know is part of Old 96 District) has D.A. Tompkins Memorial Library. It serves as a genealogical and historical research center focusing on the Old 96 District. It is the headquarters for the Courtesy Center and Archives. If we have time, we might want to check this out.
…
Your Cousin,
Gwen Rosamond Forrester
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Uncle Frank went to Oklahoma to work in the oil fields, Uncle Ed and family soon followed him. Uncle Jim died in 1915, in a train wreck while working for the railroad. Grandpa Fred and Uncle Sam stayed in Newton County all of their lives. I don’t know of any of them that left the country.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~edgmon/lurrosmur.htm
Yates started shooting through the door and killed Mr. Rosamond and wounded his wife. After this incident, one of Mr. Rosamond’s sons was passing by a field where General Standridge was plowing. He thought that General was Yates and shot him through the shoulder. Yates assured General that it would not happen again, but General carried a pistol for the rest of his life. I understand that Mr. Rosamond son left the country shortly after this. Yates was a prisoner and was part of the convict labor that helped build the waterworks dam at Russellville.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~edgmon/lurrosmur.htm
William Thomas Rosamond |
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| Birthdate: | circa 1860 |
| Birthplace: | Mississippi |
| Death: | (Date and location unknown) |
| Immediate Family: | Son of Samuel Rosamond and Frances C. Morrison Husband of Mildred A. Rosamond and Ida Rose Father of <private> Rosamond; <private> Rosamond and Frank Wesley “Royal” Rosamond Brother of Laura Rosamond; Benjamin F. Rosamond; John J. Rosamond; Nonimus Nathaniel Rosamond and Frances J. Rosamond |
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116.Noniamus Nathaniel Rosamond, born July 1853 in Lowndes County, Mississippi; died January 01, 1908 in Newton County, Arkansas.He was the son of 232. Samuel Rosamond and 233. Frances C. Morrison.He married 117. Rosalie Augusta Bennett October 08, 1878 in Chicago, Illinois. 117.Rosalie Augusta Bennett, born 1853; died 1925 in Newton County, Arkansas.She was the daughter of 234. E.T. Bennett. Notes for Noniamus Nathaniel Rosamond: Gwen Rosamond Forrester one of our cousins who also descends from Benjamin F. Rosamond and Susannah Hill, provided the follwing info. Earlier this year my husband Mark and I with three of my sisters, Sarah Jo, Evelyn and Gail drove to Newton County, Arkansas to meet Vernon Rosamond and his family.Virl Rosamond drove up from Dardanelle, AR., Shirley Rosamond and sister Rose Cotner of Oklahoma drove over to Vernon’s house to meet with us too.We all had the most enjoyable day. That afternoon they took us around the countryside and showed us the location where Nonimus’ home place was where he was killed and the Rosamond Cemetery where he is buried and the Tarleton Cemetery. Shirley stated that Nonimus was living in Chicago, Illinois in 1878 when he married Rosalia “Rosie” Augustus Bennett.They later moved to Bradleyville, Taney County, Missouri where in Nov 1892 Nonimus homesteaded 120 acres.It was located near Swan Creek near Forsyth, Missouri.On March 12, 1894, Nonimus and Rosie sold this 120 acres to Joe Fletcher for $145.00.All Nonimus’ children were born in Missouri, except Shirley didn’t know about the first two, Zora and Sarah Frances. It is believed that Nonimus and his family moved toNewton County, Arkansas in 1899 – 1900.They first settled on Highway 16 toward Ben Hur from Pelsor.Samuel, son of N.N., and his wife Delia both were barely 15 years old when they got married.The built a little cabin in a hollow in the woods near Nonimus’ home.It became known as the Sam Rosamond Hollow.Virl contracted to cut timber in Sam’s hollow. Samuel later moved to Lurton and built a log house there, I believe Virl said this is the cabin Nonimus lived in when he was murdered.(I’ve got to get my tapes out again and listen to them). The story your grandmother told about the murder of Nonimus is basically the same story that Virl told us, except he didn’t mention Yates trying to burn the house.Virl stated that Flora, who was 11 years old at the time of the murders, was living with her father andgrandmother Mrs. Overtruf.They lived about a mile over the hill from Nonimus.There was a trail that went from their place to the Rosamonds.Mrs. Overtruf and Flora had went over to spend the night with the Rosamonds the night before the murders.Flora was raised by her father until she married Fred Rosamond (Nonimus’ son). Virl said he was about one year old when his mothers, Flora, father died. Vernon and Virl said they remember seeing the bullet holes in the door and staircase (two hit the staircase).A Prince Albert Tobacco cans was flattened out and nailed over the holes in the door. This is such a sad thing that happened to this family.So sad! In the fall of 1986, Sherri and I went to Grandma and Grandpa Nichols house to visit. Sherri had a family tree project for school that she needed to do. She was in first grade, so really it was a project for the parents to do. In getting the information on the grandparents from Grandma Nichols, when we got to Noniamus Nathaniel Rosamond she told me he was murder. Then started telling me the story. I grabbed some more paper to write it down exactly as she told it. When I started getting confused with all the Grandpa’s and Grandma’s I stopped her to ask questions. This is the story she told. Yates Standridge, he was a wildcat whiskey maker, had a still out in the woods. The law had caught him 2 to 3 times. Late in the evening, there were no cars at that time, the law was on horseback, the county seat jail was 27 miles and they couldn’t make it back before dark. They stayed with a family their name was Hamm (George Hamm). The law asks if they could stay all night in Lurton. Sometime during the night, Yates got up and climbed out the window, went home in his nightclothes. The next morning he sent his wife Divinah to get his clothes and told her if she didn’t bring them back he would kill her. She knew that he would because he was a mean man.Divinah went to the Rosamond Home, she asks for a place to stay. They told her she could stay at their house. When his wife didn’t come back with his clothes the next morning he sent an old lady (Old Lady Savage) to see where his wife was. Old Lady Savage went to Mr. Ham’s house and went all through the house looking for Yates wife. When she couldn’t find her there she stopped at Grandpa and Grandma Rosamond’s house and ask if Yates wife Divinah was there. Old Lady Savage asks her to come out and talk to her. Old lady Savage asks Divinah to home with her but she wouldn’t. Old Lady savage went back and told Yates that Grandpa and Grandma Rosamond had his wife handcuffed and chained to the floor. The next morning was New Years Morning 1908. Yates came to Grandpa and Grandma Rosamond’s and hid behind the smokehouse until the kids went to school. Grandpa and Grandma Rosamond had bought the house from Grandma Overturf, she hadn’t moved out yet, was still staying with them. Mom didn’t go to school that morning. She was staying with her Grandma. Mom went to the spring for a bucket of water. Yates followed her to the spring and ask her who all was at the house. He then told her not to follow him back or he would kill her. There was a rail fence that ran from the spring to the back of the house. . When Yates got out of her sight she climbed over the fence and went to the house. Grandpa Rosamond had owed and ran a sawmill in Lurton. That morning he was sick and didn’t go to work. Yates hollowerd Hello, Grandpa thinking it was someone to see about some lumber opened the door and stepped one foot outside. Yates shot him through the leg it cut the main artery. Mom went in the back door at the same time Grandpa Rosamond was shot.He turned and shut the door and said, “He’s killed me” and fell to the floor and bled to death. The women folks were trying to see who it was. Yates could see them through some cracks in the door. When he started shooting, Divinah took her baby and hid behind a bed. He shot one shot and killed Grandma Overturf, then he shot two more shots and hit Grandma Rosamond at the elbow leaving just a little piece of skin on both sides holding her arm on. He tried busting down the door, but couldn’t, he want in but they wouldn’t let him in. So he tried to set fire to the back of the house, but it wouldn’t burn. Then he tried to set fire to the roof, it was covered with shingles that were real dry and they wouldn’t burn. So he went back and tried busting down the door again, he did bust down the door and went in. Grandpa was lying there with his eyes open, they hadn’t had time to close them yet. Yates drawled up his gun to shot him again. Grandma Rosamond grabbed the gun. He jerked her up and down on her knees out into the yard. He told someone if she would of held on a minute longer she would of taken it away from him. So he left, the law caught up with in and he was sent to prison for possibly 20 years. Question I ask Grandma at the time. Why were the Rosamond’s and Grandma Overturf living together? Figuring out that Flora was only 12 years old at that time did not think her and Fred were married yet. Martha Overturf had sold the house to the Rosamond; she had not found a place to live yet. Flora was staying with her Grandma until her Grandma found a new house. Things I have found with my Rosamond Family research. A story about the murder written in a book by CL Boyd. This was a book written on the Standridge Family. I talked to CL Boyd on the phone asking about the story. He stated it was most likely folklore, had no facts proving the story. The story goes as follows: There has been much publicity given to Yates Standridge as an escape artist and all of his trouble with the law for various offences. How much time was actually spent in jail is not known. Various county records seem to indicate that some of his earlier problems were entirely his fault. Some say that Yates was as good as neighbor as you could ask for, but just didn’t put up with any foolishness. NN Rosamond was a Justice of the Peace, when the law was after Yates for one of his charges. Some of the law took Yates wife and children to the Rosamond house, either for safekeeping or to draw Yates out of hiding. Yates found out where they were and went after them. When Mr. Rosamond wouldn’t let him have his wife and children, Yates started shooting through the door and killed Mr. Rosamond and wounded his wife. After this incident, one of Mr. Rosamond’s sons was passing by a field where General Standridge was plowing. He thought that General was Yates and shot him through the shoulder. Yates assured General that it would not happen again, but General carried a pistol for the rest of his life. I understand that Mr. Rosamond son left the country shortly after this. Yates was a prisoner and was part of the convict labor that helped build the waterworks dam at Russellville. One day, one of the guards went to sleep and Yates was starting to sneak up on him, when another guard stopped him. He yelled, “What do you think you are doing?”Yates just grinned and said “if that so in so is going to sleep on the job, I’m going to trade jobs with him and hold his gun while he sleeps.”Yates did escape from there later and walked to Prices Grove, where he had a man the he knew, to take a chisel and cut off the ball and chain the he dragged from Russellville. I have been told that NN Rosamond’s wife was Yates mother in law from a previous marriage to Mr. Dixon. After Yates shot her and Mr. Rosamond, word was received at Marshall, that Yates had been in Searcy County, so the sheriff started gathering a posse to try and arrest Yates. One old timer, who was asked to join the posse, wanted to know what Yates had done this time. Upon being told that Yates had shot his mother in law, the old timer replied “Aw hell, any feller ought to be able to shoot his ole mammy in law without the law giving him a hard time over it. I ain’t going.” Arewine Yates Standridge died August 8, 1940 in Sallisaw, Oklahoma, killed in ambush by George Ellis. On January 1, 1908 Yates shot through a door and killed NN Rosamond and also Martha T. Overturf, wife of FM Overturf (parents of Rachel Overturf Taylor in Newton Co. Arkansas). He was in Jackson County Arkansas prison on the 1910 census for this killing. Searching for the facts, I did find a lot of mistakes. In almost every story that I have found on the Rosamond – Overturf murder, it states that Martha T. Overturf was Flora’s Mother. Flora’s mother was M.Viola Slape; Flora’s father was Eli Overturf. I have found their marriage in Newton County, Arkansas. I also researched further and found Martha T. Overturf and found her surname was Blessing. I also found her husband Francis M. Overturf, they were married in Franklin County, Il., Francis M. and Martha T are buried in the Sexton Cemetery, FM Overturf grave must be unmarked, it is not listed but Uncle Virl told me he is also buried there.I found 2 children born in Franklin County Il, and a birth date for Rachel listed in the story above. I was not able to find a birth date for Eli. Trying to prove that Rosalie Augusta Bennett was married prior to NN Rosamond. I was completely unable to find any facts on Rosalie beyond her father’s name E.T. Bennett (provided by Jimmy Dale Rosamond.) Rose Cotner supplied me with a marriage date & Location for NN Rosamond and Rosalie Bennett. It was a family story that Rosalie worked as a maid in a hotel in Chicago at the time of the Great Chicago fire 1871. I was able to verify the marriage of Rosalie A Bennett and Nonimus N. Rosamond in the Chicago, Illinois marriage records 1850 to 1900. Rose told me that Rosalie was born in Indiana. (Dixon) being the surname in question. Divinah father was Rev. John Dixon. He was living in Newton County Arkansas at the time of the murders. Yates Standridge was born in 1881; Rosalie had her 2nd child in 1881 with NN Rosamond.NN Rosamond and Rosalie had been married 3 years prior to his birth. By the time Yates was old enough to marry, they had all of their children. I don’t believe that Rosalie was ever married to Mr. Dixon.
| Notes for Rosalie Augusta Bennett: Information on the children of Noniamus Rosamond and Rosalie Bennett came from the Bible of Rosalie Bennett. Copies made by Rose Cotner: All birth dates and the early death dates were also provided by Rose. Rose is the daughter of Edward Madison Rosamond and Dullie Woodard Rosamond. Rose Cotner 17130 South 89th West Ave Mounds, OK 74047 918-827-6535 Rose gave me alot of information, both times that I talked to her. She told me that her father was never able to talk about his father’s murder, he always became very upset. She also stated that she had went to the Jasper Court house and made copies of newspaper clippings about Yates Standridge inditment for the murder 1st degree on NN Rosamond & Martha Overturf, & assult with intent to kill inditment for Rosalie Rosamond. Filed July 1908 circuit county court records of Newton County, Arkansas. Witness: Flora Overturf, Elizabeth Stacey, Mrs. NN Rosamond, Dr. George Yates, Dr, TT Fowley and Dr. J.E. Blackwood.She told me Uncle Frank went to Shawnee Oklahoma to work in the oil fields, her familly also went to Oklahoma. Sam and Fred stayed in Arkansas. She told me that James had died thought maybe in a train accident, but could of been her husbands Uncle Jim who died in a train accident. |
Children of Noniamus Rosamond and Rosalie Bennett are:
| i. | Zora Bernice Rosamond, born July 22, 1879; died September 21, 1879. | |||
| ii. | Sarah Frances Rosamond, born February 18, 1881; died September 09, 1881. | |||
| iii. | Mary Alice Elizabeth Rosamond, born January 29, 1883 in Bradleyville, Taney County, Missouri; died January 16, 1900. | |||
| iv. | Samuel Erastus Rosamond, born April 16, 1885 in Bradleyville, Taney County, Missouri; died June 1960 in Newton County, Arkansas; married Jean | |||
| v. | James Nathaniel Rosamond, born March 13, 1888 in Bradleyville, Taney County, Missouri; died July 09, 1915. | |||
| vi. | Louie Franklin Rosamond, born March 18, 1890 in Bradleyville, Taney County, Missouri; died February 1970 in Pottawatomie, OK; married Lilly | |||
| vii. | Edward Madison Rosamond, born October 30, 1891 in Bradleyville, Taney County, Missouri; died November 1985 in Tulsa, OK; married Myrtle Dulcinia (Dullie) Woodard; born 1897 in Newton County, Arkansas; died 1985 in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. | |||
| 58 | viii. | Frederick Addison Rosamond, born October 30, 1891 in Bradleyville, Taney County, Missouri; died June 04, 1975 in Newton County, Arkansas; married Flora Edith Overturf 1912 in Newton County, Arkansas. |
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Uncle Frank went to Oklahoma to work in the oil fields, Uncle Ed and family soon followed him. Uncle Jim died in 1915, in a train wreck while working for the railroad. Grandpa Fred and Uncle Sam stayed in Newton County all of their lives. I don’t know of any of them that left the country.
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Yates started shooting through the door and killed Mr. Rosamond and wounded his wife. After this incident, one of Mr. Rosamond’s sons was passing by a field where General Standridge was plowing. He thought that General was Yates and shot him through the shoulder. Yates assured General that it would not happen again, but General carried a pistol for the rest of his life. I understand that Mr. Rosamond son left the country shortly after this. Yates was a prisoner and was part of the convict labor that helped build the waterworks dam at Russellville.
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William Thomas Rosamond |
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| Birthdate: | circa 1860 |
| Birthplace: | Mississippi |
| Death: | (Date and location unknown) |
| Immediate Family: | Son of Samuel Rosamond and Frances C. Morrison Husband of Mildred A. Rosamond and Ida Rose Father of <private> Rosamond; <private> Rosamond and Frank Wesley “Royal” Rosamond Brother of Laura Rosamond; Benjamin F. Rosamond; John J. Rosamond; Nonimus Nathaniel Rosamond and Frances J. Rosamond |
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116.Noniamus Nathaniel Rosamond, born July 1853 in Lowndes County, Mississippi; died January 01, 1908 in Newton County, Arkansas.He was the son of 232. Samuel Rosamond and 233. Frances C. Morrison.He married 117. Rosalie Augusta Bennett October 08, 1878 in Chicago, Illinois. 117.Rosalie Augusta Bennett, born 1853; died 1925 in Newton County, Arkansas.She was the daughter of 234. E.T. Bennett. Notes for Noniamus Nathaniel Rosamond: Gwen Rosamond Forrester one of our cousins who also descends from Benjamin F. Rosamond and Susannah Hill, provided the follwing info. Earlier this year my husband Mark and I with three of my sisters, Sarah Jo, Evelyn and Gail drove to Newton County, Arkansas to meet Vernon Rosamond and his family.Virl Rosamond drove up from Dardanelle, AR., Shirley Rosamond and sister Rose Cotner of Oklahoma drove over to Vernon’s house to meet with us too.We all had the most enjoyable day. That afternoon they took us around the countryside and showed us the location where Nonimus’ home place was where he was killed and the Rosamond Cemetery where he is buried and the Tarleton Cemetery. Shirley stated that Nonimus was living in Chicago, Illinois in 1878 when he married Rosalia “Rosie” Augustus Bennett.They later moved to Bradleyville, Taney County, Missouri where in Nov 1892 Nonimus homesteaded 120 acres.It was located near Swan Creek near Forsyth, Missouri.On March 12, 1894, Nonimus and Rosie sold this 120 acres to Joe Fletcher for $145.00.All Nonimus’ children were born in Missouri, except Shirley didn’t know about the first two, Zora and Sarah Frances. It is believed that Nonimus and his family moved toNewton County, Arkansas in 1899 – 1900.They first settled on Highway 16 toward Ben Hur from Pelsor.Samuel, son of N.N., and his wife Delia both were barely 15 years old when they got married.The built a little cabin in a hollow in the woods near Nonimus’ home.It became known as the Sam Rosamond Hollow.Virl contracted to cut timber in Sam’s hollow. Samuel later moved to Lurton and built a log house there, I believe Virl said this is the cabin Nonimus lived in when he was murdered.(I’ve got to get my tapes out again and listen to them). The story your grandmother told about the murder of Nonimus is basically the same story that Virl told us, except he didn’t mention Yates trying to burn the house.Virl stated that Flora, who was 11 years old at the time of the murders, was living with her father andgrandmother Mrs. Overtruf.They lived about a mile over the hill from Nonimus.There was a trail that went from their place to the Rosamonds.Mrs. Overtruf and Flora had went over to spend the night with the Rosamonds the night before the murders.Flora was raised by her father until she married Fred Rosamond (Nonimus’ son). Virl said he was about one year old when his mothers, Flora, father died. Vernon and Virl said they remember seeing the bullet holes in the door and staircase (two hit the staircase).A Prince Albert Tobacco cans was flattened out and nailed over the holes in the door. This is such a sad thing that happened to this family.So sad! In the fall of 1986, Sherri and I went to Grandma and Grandpa Nichols house to visit. Sherri had a family tree project for school that she needed to do. She was in first grade, so really it was a project for the parents to do. In getting the information on the grandparents from Grandma Nichols, when we got to Noniamus Nathaniel Rosamond she told me he was murder. Then started telling me the story. I grabbed some more paper to write it down exactly as she told it. When I started getting confused with all the Grandpa’s and Grandma’s I stopped her to ask questions. This is the story she told. Yates Standridge, he was a wildcat whiskey maker, had a still out in the woods. The law had caught him 2 to 3 times. Late in the evening, there were no cars at that time, the law was on horseback, the county seat jail was 27 miles and they couldn’t make it back before dark. They stayed with a family their name was Hamm (George Hamm). The law asks if they could stay all night in Lurton. Sometime during the night, Yates got up and climbed out the window, went home in his nightclothes. The next morning he sent his wife Divinah to get his clothes and told her if she didn’t bring them back he would kill her. She knew that he would because he was a mean man.Divinah went to the Rosamond Home, she asks for a place to stay. They told her she could stay at their house. When his wife didn’t come back with his clothes the next morning he sent an old lady (Old Lady Savage) to see where his wife was. Old Lady Savage went to Mr. Ham’s house and went all through the house looking for Yates wife. When she couldn’t find her there she stopped at Grandpa and Grandma Rosamond’s house and ask if Yates wife Divinah was there. Old Lady Savage asks her to come out and talk to her. Old lady Savage asks Divinah to home with her but she wouldn’t. Old Lady savage went back and told Yates that Grandpa and Grandma Rosamond had his wife handcuffed and chained to the floor. The next morning was New Years Morning 1908. Yates came to Grandpa and Grandma Rosamond’s and hid behind the smokehouse until the kids went to school. Grandpa and Grandma Rosamond had bought the house from Grandma Overturf, she hadn’t moved out yet, was still staying with them. Mom didn’t go to school that morning. She was staying with her Grandma. Mom went to the spring for a bucket of water. Yates followed her to the spring and ask her who all was at the house. He then told her not to follow him back or he would kill her. There was a rail fence that ran from the spring to the back of the house. . When Yates got out of her sight she climbed over the fence and went to the house. Grandpa Rosamond had owed and ran a sawmill in Lurton. That morning he was sick and didn’t go to work. Yates hollowerd Hello, Grandpa thinking it was someone to see about some lumber opened the door and stepped one foot outside. Yates shot him through the leg it cut the main artery. Mom went in the back door at the same time Grandpa Rosamond was shot.He turned and shut the door and said, “He’s killed me” and fell to the floor and bled to death. The women folks were trying to see who it was. Yates could see them through some cracks in the door. When he started shooting, Divinah took her baby and hid behind a bed. He shot one shot and killed Grandma Overturf, then he shot two more shots and hit Grandma Rosamond at the elbow leaving just a little piece of skin on both sides holding her arm on. He tried busting down the door, but couldn’t, he want in but they wouldn’t let him in. So he tried to set fire to the back of the house, but it wouldn’t burn. Then he tried to set fire to the roof, it was covered with shingles that were real dry and they wouldn’t burn. So he went back and tried busting down the door again, he did bust down the door and went in. Grandpa was lying there with his eyes open, they hadn’t had time to close them yet. Yates drawled up his gun to shot him again. Grandma Rosamond grabbed the gun. He jerked her up and down on her knees out into the yard. He told someone if she would of held on a minute longer she would of taken it away from him. So he left, the law caught up with in and he was sent to prison for possibly 20 years. Question I ask Grandma at the time. Why were the Rosamond’s and Grandma Overturf living together? Figuring out that Flora was only 12 years old at that time did not think her and Fred were married yet. Martha Overturf had sold the house to the Rosamond; she had not found a place to live yet. Flora was staying with her Grandma until her Grandma found a new house. Things I have found with my Rosamond Family research. A story about the murder written in a book by CL Boyd. This was a book written on the Standridge Family. I talked to CL Boyd on the phone asking about the story. He stated it was most likely folklore, had no facts proving the story. The story goes as follows: There has been much publicity given to Yates Standridge as an escape artist and all of his trouble with the law for various offences. How much time was actually spent in jail is not known. Various county records seem to indicate that some of his earlier problems were entirely his fault. Some say that Yates was as good as neighbor as you could ask for, but just didn’t put up with any foolishness. NN Rosamond was a Justice of the Peace, when the law was after Yates for one of his charges. Some of the law took Yates wife and children to the Rosamond house, either for safekeeping or to draw Yates out of hiding. Yates found out where they were and went after them. When Mr. Rosamond wouldn’t let him have his wife and children, Yates started shooting through the door and killed Mr. Rosamond and wounded his wife. After this incident, one of Mr. Rosamond’s sons was passing by a field where General Standridge was plowing. He thought that General was Yates and shot him through the shoulder. Yates assured General that it would not happen again, but General carried a pistol for the rest of his life. I understand that Mr. Rosamond son left the country shortly after this. Yates was a prisoner and was part of the convict labor that helped build the waterworks dam at Russellville. One day, one of the guards went to sleep and Yates was starting to sneak up on him, when another guard stopped him. He yelled, “What do you think you are doing?”Yates just grinned and said “if that so in so is going to sleep on the job, I’m going to trade jobs with him and hold his gun while he sleeps.”Yates did escape from there later and walked to Prices Grove, where he had a man the he knew, to take a chisel and cut off the ball and chain the he dragged from Russellville. I have been told that NN Rosamond’s wife was Yates mother in law from a previous marriage to Mr. Dixon. After Yates shot her and Mr. Rosamond, word was received at Marshall, that Yates had been in Searcy County, so the sheriff started gathering a posse to try and arrest Yates. One old timer, who was asked to join the posse, wanted to know what Yates had done this time. Upon being told that Yates had shot his mother in law, the old timer replied “Aw hell, any feller ought to be able to shoot his ole mammy in law without the law giving him a hard time over it. I ain’t going.” Arewine Yates Standridge died August 8, 1940 in Sallisaw, Oklahoma, killed in ambush by George Ellis. On January 1, 1908 Yates shot through a door and killed NN Rosamond and also Martha T. Overturf, wife of FM Overturf (parents of Rachel Overturf Taylor in Newton Co. Arkansas). He was in Jackson County Arkansas prison on the 1910 census for this killing. Searching for the facts, I did find a lot of mistakes. In almost every story that I have found on the Rosamond – Overturf murder, it states that Martha T. Overturf was Flora’s Mother. Flora’s mother was M.Viola Slape; Flora’s father was Eli Overturf. I have found their marriage in Newton County, Arkansas. I also researched further and found Martha T. Overturf and found her surname was Blessing. I also found her husband Francis M. Overturf, they were married in Franklin County, Il., Francis M. and Martha T are buried in the Sexton Cemetery, FM Overturf grave must be unmarked, it is not listed but Uncle Virl told me he is also buried there.I found 2 children born in Franklin County Il, and a birth date for Rachel listed in the story above. I was not able to find a birth date for Eli. Trying to prove that Rosalie Augusta Bennett was married prior to NN Rosamond. I was completely unable to find any facts on Rosalie beyond her father’s name E.T. Bennett (provided by Jimmy Dale Rosamond.) Rose Cotner supplied me with a marriage date & Location for NN Rosamond and Rosalie Bennett. It was a family story that Rosalie worked as a maid in a hotel in Chicago at the time of the Great Chicago fire 1871. I was able to verify the marriage of Rosalie A Bennett and Nonimus N. Rosamond in the Chicago, Illinois marriage records 1850 to 1900. Rose told me that Rosalie was born in Indiana. (Dixon) being the surname in question. Divinah father was Rev. John Dixon. He was living in Newton County Arkansas at the time of the murders. Yates Standridge was born in 1881; Rosalie had her 2nd child in 1881 with NN Rosamond.NN Rosamond and Rosalie had been married 3 years prior to his birth. By the time Yates was old enough to marry, they had all of their children. I don’t believe that Rosalie was ever married to Mr. Dixon.
| Notes for Rosalie Augusta Bennett: Information on the children of Noniamus Rosamond and Rosalie Bennett came from the Bible of Rosalie Bennett. Copies made by Rose Cotner: All birth dates and the early death dates were also provided by Rose. Rose is the daughter of Edward Madison Rosamond and Dullie Woodard Rosamond. Rose Cotner 17130 South 89th West Ave Mounds, OK 74047 918-827-6535 Rose gave me alot of information, both times that I talked to her. She told me that her father was never able to talk about his father’s murder, he always became very upset. She also stated that she had went to the Jasper Court house and made copies of newspaper clippings about Yates Standridge inditment for the murder 1st degree on NN Rosamond & Martha Overturf, & assult with intent to kill inditment for Rosalie Rosamond. Filed July 1908 circuit county court records of Newton County, Arkansas. Witness: Flora Overturf, Elizabeth Stacey, Mrs. NN Rosamond, Dr. George Yates, Dr, TT Fowley and Dr. J.E. Blackwood.She told me Uncle Frank went to Shawnee Oklahoma to work in the oil fields, her familly also went to Oklahoma. Sam and Fred stayed in Arkansas. She told me that James had died thought maybe in a train accident, but could of been her husbands Uncle Jim who died in a train accident. |
Children of Noniamus Rosamond and Rosalie Bennett are:
| i. | Zora Bernice Rosamond, born July 22, 1879; died September 21, 1879. | |||
| ii. | Sarah Frances Rosamond, born February 18, 1881; died September 09, 1881. | |||
| iii. | Mary Alice Elizabeth Rosamond, born January 29, 1883 in Bradleyville, Taney County, Missouri; died January 16, 1900. | |||
| iv. | Samuel Erastus Rosamond, born April 16, 1885 in Bradleyville, Taney County, Missouri; died June 1960 in Newton County, Arkansas; married Jean | |||
| v. | James Nathaniel Rosamond, born March 13, 1888 in Bradleyville, Taney County, Missouri; died July 09, 1915. | |||
| vi. | Louie Franklin Rosamond, born March 18, 1890 in Bradleyville, Taney County, Missouri; died February 1970 in Pottawatomie, OK; married Lilly | |||
| vii. | Edward Madison Rosamond, born October 30, 1891 in Bradleyville, Taney County, Missouri; died November 1985 in Tulsa, OK; married Myrtle Dulcinia (Dullie) Woodard; born 1897 in Newton County, Arkansas; died 1985 in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. | |||
| 58 | viii. | Frederick Addison Rosamond, born October 30, 1891 in Bradleyville, Taney County, Missouri; died June 04, 1975 in Newton County, Arkansas; married Flora Edith Overturf 1912 in Newton County, Arkansas. |
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