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R/RFHA Newsletter, March 1992 P.4
From
Wilma Rawlings, P.O.Box 3066, Shawnee, OK 74802
More information
on the GEORGE HENRY RAWLINGS who founded the RAWLINGS SPORTING GOODS COMPANY of
St. Louis, Missouri. Wilma has done a tremendous job in seeking out descendants
from whom she gathered much data. Some is as follows:
Father:
GEORGE SHEPARD RAWLINGS, b. 1823, Wales, Great Britain; d. Jan.27, 1872, St.
Louis, MD. Buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Block 22, Lot 1041.
Wife:
SARAH PAVEY, b. Nov. 27, 1827, London, England; d. Sept.16, 1924, St. Louis,
MO. Buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Block 311, Lot 4504.
Children:
1. SARAH LOUISE, b. Feb. 24, 1853, London England; d. March 6, 1942, St. Louis.
m. (1) Charles Guthrie; (2) Charles Stone Alderman; (3) Geo. W. Dudley
Children:
Edna G. Guthrie who m. Samuel Elleard Heffern
Myrtle A.
Alderman, who-married George Neuhoff.
2. GEORGE
HENRY, b. Sept. 30, 1855, St. Louis, MO.; d. Jan.18, 1909, St. Louis. buried
Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Block 311, Lot 4504 m. Ella Blanche Mann,
Oct. 18, 1877, St. Louis.
Children:
GEORGE ALFRED, m. Ethel A. Lindly, March 14, 1907
ALICE
BLANCHE, m. Newton J. Fitzhugh, Nov. 6, 1900
3. EDWARD
WILLIAM, b. April 7, 1858, St. Louis; d. March 20, 1909, St. Louis. buried
Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Block 311, Lot 4504 Married Mary B.____.
After EDWARD's death, Mary married twice more.
4. ALFRED
H., b. Aug. 19, 1859, St. Louis; d. May 23, 1918, St. Louis buried
Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Block 311, Lot 4504 m. Bessie L. ____. Had 1
child, LEX H. RAWLINGS.
5. EMMA
KATE, b. Nov.3, 1862, England; d. July 29, 1944, St. Louis. Buried
Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Block 311, Lot 4504 Married Wm. DeCourcy,
and had 2 children, neither of whom married.
6. ANNA
KATHERINE, b. Aug. 12, 1868, St. Louis; d. Aug. 25, 1935, St. Louis. buried
Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Block 311, Lot 4504 Married Tecumseh
Teuscher, had 2 children.
7. ARTHUR
D., b. ___ ;d. ___ buried
Married
Oralee ____
Children:
ERWIN W. who married Virginia W. ____
LUCIUS A.
who married Catherine J. _____; had son LUCIUS JR.
RICHARD
L. who married Lillian ____
Wilma
believes she may have found another son of EMMA KATE's. He was 21 when he died
but was not buried in the family plot. She has written for the death
certificate.
RESEARCH
SOURCES: Bellefontaine Cemetery, Carol Resch, Secretary
St. Louis
Post-Dispatch; Mike Marler, Reference
St. Louis
Public Library; History & Genealogy Dept.
St. Louis
Genealogical Society, Herman Radloff
In the
St. Louis Business Directory, 1860:
GEORGE
SHEPARD RAWLINGS is found with Wilson, RAWLINGS & Company, a firm listed as
U.S. Land Agents. GEORGE died in 1872 of meningitis.
When the
children of GEORGE SHEPARD and SARAH (Pavey) RAWLINGS married, they lived in
the area called Forest Park. The World's Fair of 1904 was held in Forest Park
in St. Louis. As of this date Wilma has located 23 living descendants of GEORGE
SHEPARD and SARAH RAWLINGS. They are the Hefferns and Neuhoffs from the
marriage of SARAH LOUISE RAWLINGS, oldest daughter of GEORGE and SARAH. Samuel
E. Heffern and George Neuhoff operated the Heffern-Neuhoff Jewelers for over 50
years in downtown St. Louis. Samuel died in 1951 and George died about 1960.
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