Walter Frances Sample and Emily Ann Hanks

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Husband Walter Frances Sample ¹

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           Born: 6 Jan 1870
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           Died: 23 Mar 1937
         Buried: 

       Marriage: 30 Aug 1900 - Greenbriar, Bollinger County, MO

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Wife Emily Ann Hanks ¹

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            AKA: Sample
           Born: 11 Aug 1885 - Murphysboro, Illinois
       Baptized: 
           Died: 11 Feb 1937 - rural Poplar Bluff Missouri
         Buried: 

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         Father: John Thomas Hanks 1
         Mother: Flora Burkey 1

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Children

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1 M John Thomas Sample ¹

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           Born: 14 Jun 1901 - rural area of Poplar Bluff, MO
       Baptized: 
           Died: 20 Sep 1942 - Poplar Bluff, MO
         Buried: 

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2 F Ruby Fanny Florence Sample ¹

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            AKA: Anderson, Florence Sample
           Born: 31 Oct 1903 - rural area of Poplar Bluff, MO
       Baptized: 
           Died: 25 Jan 2006 - Poplar Bluff, Butler Co., MO
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3 M Ross Raymond Sample ¹

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           Born: 30 Oct 1905 - rural area of Poplar Bluff, MO
       Baptized: 
           Died: 5 Sep 1967 - Michigan
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4 F Myrtle Bertha Sample ¹

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            AKA: Brown
           Born: 17 Nov 1908 - Rural Poplar Bluff, Missouri
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           Died: 21 Mar 1996 - Poplar Bluff, Missouri
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Ray Revere Brown 1
           Marr: 23 Aug 1924 - Rural Poplar Bluff, Missouri

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5 M Theodore Fredrick Sample ¹

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           Born: 21 Sep 1913
       Baptized: 
           Died:  - rural Poplar Bluff, MO
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6 M Delbert Glenn Sample ¹

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           Born: 1 Apr 1920 - rural area of Poplar Bluff, MO
       Baptized: 
           Died: 2 Feb 1983
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General Notes: Wife - Emily Ann Hanks

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== Biography ==Emily lost the sight in one eye in a childhood accident. Her mother, Flora (Burkey) Hanks, died on Jan. 25, 1897, when Emily was 12 and her brother, Frederick was only 5 years old. So their father, John, hired a housekeeper, Nannie Boatright. Eventually, Nannie became John's second wife. They had two sons. Joseph & John Hanks.
My grandmother, Myrtle Bertha (Sample) Brown, daughter of Emily, told me that Nannie Boatright, the 2nd wife, treated her stepchildren (Emily & Frederick) badly. So, at the age of 15, Emily married Walter F. Sample, who had worked for her father, and took her little brother, Frederick, with her to raise in her home in rural Poplar Bluff, Missouri, where Walter farmed because Emily did not want to move around any longer like she had with her father. Sister and brother, Emily and Frederick, were very close and both spent the rest of their years in or around Poplar Bluff, Missouri.
When Emily's husband, Walter, got trampled by their horse, Queen, andwas left an invalid the rest of his life, Emily had to earn an incomefor the family. She started growing a huge garden and selling all ofher produce in town to all of the well off families. This meant that Emily had to ride 20 miles each way to Poplar Bluff, MO in a horse cart over a very rough and sometimes virtually impassible dirt road in order to put food on the table for her family. This was all before Social Security or Medicare. Families received absolutely nothing from anyone except the potential charity from their family members when they were in dire straights.
My mother, Elsie Ruth (Brown) Sparkman, and her mother, Myrtle Bertha(Sample) Brown told me about all of the lovely picnics they would have at Emily's home where they would churn ice cream & eat hot dogs. They said that Emily was the kindest, sweetest and hardest working personthey ever knew, and that she was a favorite throughout the rural areawhere they lived and to all of her clients who purchased her fancy garden produce.
Emily died of a stroke at the age of 52 and is buried by her husband,Walter, in the Bay Springs Baptist Church cemetery in rural Poplar Bluff, Missouri.

== Sources ==
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* Myrtle Bertha (Sample) Brown
* Elsie Ruth (Brown) Sparkman
OBJE: PLAC Poplar Bluff, MO
OBJE: PLAC Poplar Bluff, Missouri

Sources

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1. WikiTree Wolverton Family.

1 WikiTree Wolverton Family.

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