DICKSON, TENNESSEE
Joanna WOOD KINSLOW & James Monroe KINSLOW Family
Narrative and group picture of the KINSLOW Family Florence Ola Kinslow and James Davis Proctor are my grandparents.
Exerpt about Florence:
I rec'd on 5 Feb 1994 from her dau Ola Elizabeth Proctor Doyle an update on death place as Nursing home Poplar Bluff Mo. From Ola E Doyle "She, her Mother, was very active in her Church, The Assembly of God in Granite City IL she taught Sunday School, visited the sick, etc. Everyone knew "Ma Proctor". She and a very dear friend, Mrs Kaiser started an orphan home in Maryville IL they worked very hard on it. The State took it over in later years. In her own words "Soon after I married I moved to St Louis Mo, in May 1903 so I can't tell you anything about the folks in Okla".Exerpt about Joanna Wood:
"JoAnna (Wood) Kinslow was a housewife and mid-wife. JoAnna was quick tempered, the opposite of her husband, carried on two or three jobs at one time and was always planning a trip somewhere at the same time. She went all over the county delivering babies. Her transportation was a horse and buggy. She was the matriarch and boss of the whole clan".Exerpt James Monroe Kinslow:
James Monroe AKA Mont3 Kinslow (Sr), born 12 Apr 1855 in Clarksville RR, Montgomery, Tennessee; died 26 Sep 1936 in Cromwell, Seminole, Oklahoma; buried 29 Sep 1936 in Schoolton Cem, Seminole, Oklahoma, son of John Adam Kinslow and Tennessee (Chaudoin) Kinslow. He married Joanna Wood on 21 Mar 1879 in Charlotte, Dickson Co., Tennessee.He was a farmer.Boundout at about age 9 to Henderson Proctor he lived as slave, received mule and set free at about 18. He was 6`2" tall appeared at least part Indian. He and his Father were separated for approximately 40 yrs. His Mother, a Cherokee Indian, had left him in Tennessee and had gone back to her people.
In an effort to locate his Father he bought, 100 one penny, post cards and mailed them to general delivery at various locations, one of which was Thackerville, Indian Territory. The postmaster gave the card to John Adam Kinslow, his Father. JAK went to Clarksville, TN to see his son and family and helped in the sale of his son's farm animals and all households goods etc and helped the family move to Indian Territory.
Their journey was by barge down the Cumberland River to the Ohio, then Mississippi River then up the Arkansas River to Fort Smith then by train to present day Earlsboro Ok. Arriving in Mar 1903. I don't know how much education he had, but he loved to read and could write. Our family dearly loved Grandpa. He was kind, gentle, and had the patience of Job. He wore a black hat and long underwear year round as he got older.
This Information was donated by Kaywin Davis, a generous Dickson Contributor
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