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[Bill's Nutt.FTW] THE NUTT FAMILY THROUGH THE YEARS, by Merle C. Nutt states: "The home of Henry and Salina Nutt was a long log structure, located one-half block off the square (North) on Wood St. The site is just south of the present (1990) Congregational Church of Neosho. A parking lot now occupies the site. It was in this house that my father, Claude Franklin Nutt eldest child of Thomas Franklin Nutt was born on 7 Sept. 1893. 'Old' Doc Lamson attended this birth and his son, Dr. Roy, was able to recall the event for birth certificate records in 1940, because it was the first birth where he assisted his father in a delivery. Dr. Roy was just graduated from medical school at the time. This is the famous Dr. Roy who was Neosho's family doctor until he was past 90 years of age - and who sustained the town on his famous 'green' pills. Thomas and Etta Nutt were living on their homestead at the time, but came to town for the birth of their first child. " THE CLAUDE FRANKLIN NUTT FAMILY Jesse By their daughter Maryruth My father, Claude Franklin Nutt, first child of Thomas Franklin and Etta Orvilla Griffith Nutt, was born, according to the birth record compiled in 1940, Sept 7, 1893 at the home of Henry and Celena Nutt in Neosho, Mo. The date of his birth, according to the WWI Army record in Sept 7, 1894. His parents lived at that time, on their homestead, Bonnie Crest, south of Neosho, but Etta was taken to town because a difficult and complicated birth was feared. "Old" Doc Lampson and his son Doctor Roy, both were present. Dad grew up in Neosho where he attended Benton School and the old Central High School. He apparently enjoyed early Neosho. He related many escapades he and his buddies enjoyed. They formed a 'Last Man' club, which met in the cave in the Big Spring Park. Dad 8 was the last man. Halloween was their big night. No privy remained upright: they even took a buggy apart and re-assembled it on the stage at the High School. Dad was paid to box a bear on the square, which he did in spite man of his mother's pleas. He said the fight was fixed because the bear was trained in certain moves and responses. He was told how to give it directions. Of course, the bear won Dad was the star football player for the Black and Gold Neosho Wildcats. He continued an active interest in sports, playing both baseball and basketball in the industrial leagues until he was in his fifties. Dad was on the debate team and flrst met mother at a school debate at the Valley Mills schoolhouse. He took her home and they continued dating for eleven years before they married. During his high school years, dad was paid to take another's place in the Army. Grandmother protested this too, but he went anyway. He was with Co. "M", 2nd Regiment, inducted Sept 7, 1909 and mustered out in March 1915. He was with Gen John Pershing on the Texas border, stationed at Ft. Bliss. During his high school years, at about age sixteen, he was employed as a 'grunt' for Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. This was the time the toll leads were being strung throughout Southwest Missouri. He said he swam the rivers, where there were no bridges, with the wires tied around his waist. When discharged from the army, he returned to Neosho and the Bell Co. as a full time employee. He proposed to mother at that time; but she refused to marry him unless he graduated from high school - so he continued to work full time and did graduate in May, 1916 at age twenty-two. He finished some two years of college later. Southwestern Bell transferred him to Lyons, Ks, then to Wichita, Ks and then he was, again, inducted into the Army from Wichita and served in the 412th Telegraph Batallion, lOth Signal Corps during WWI and remained in France and Germany with the Army of Occupation, stringing downed wires. On June 9, 1919 he married my mother, Jeanette Addie Cushman, his school day sweetheart, at the Spring Street Methodist Episcopal Church, Neosho, Mo.. Moher was a direct descendant of Robert Cushman, the Pilgrim, who received the Charter from King James I for Plymouth Plantation, chartered the Mayflower and was principle agent for the stock company formed to finance the colony. She was a college graduate, attended National Training School in K.C. and completed her education at Springfield Nprmal School. Prior to their marriage she was a deaconess in the church and during the 1930's she became a social worker for the Federal Government. Mother died unexpectedly in 1961 following surgery. I, Maryruth Nutt, their daughter was born Nov 26, 1921, in Wichita, Kansas. At the time of my birth, dad was Wire Chief for Southwestern Bell in Wichita, Kansas...this was the tlme the toll lines were being strung west out Wichita. He resigned from Bell and took a job with Sanger Bros. at a better salary. He said this was the biggest mistake of his life because Sanger's Wichita Div. went bankrupt. My family moved to Neosho at this time, where dad was a shoe cobbler. He built and operated Adam's Shoe. Adam was his boyhood nickname, usually pronounced A-dam. Dad joined the National Guard, Btry. C, 203 anti-aircraft coast artillery, also known as the "Houn Dog Regiment", Jan 13, 1933, in Neosho. This was the first unit drawn out of the fishbowl by Pres. F. D. Roosevelt on Sept 16, 1940. Again, he was 'IN THE ARMY NOW'. He was stationed at Camp Hulen, Texas, near Palacios. He was discharged in 1942 and he and mother returned to Wichita, Ks. Dad worked for Boeing Aircraft during the building of B-17 and B-29 planes. After the war, he became a partner in Grey Transfer and Storage. He later sold his partnership but remained with the firm until age 76. In 1969 he retired and moved to Kansas City, Mo where he died on July 19,1980 after suffering a stroke.
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