Anna Melinda (Haddock) Proctor (abt. 1867 - abt. 1895)

Born about 1867 in Bethpage, McDonald, Missouri, United States

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Died about Jan 1895 at about age 28 in Pineville, McDonald, Missouri, United States

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Anna was born about 1867. She passed away about 1895.

Anna is listed as a13 year-old single female in the 1880 Census of Elkhorn, McDonald Co, Missouri, in the household of her parents, John T. (65), a carpenter, and Julia A. (44) Haddock. Siblings are listed as Warren T. (16), Mary E. (21, listed out of age-order?), William (11), Silas A. (10), Allen G. (7), and Viola R. (10 months). Her father was born in Kentucky, and her mother in Missouri. Both grandfathers were born in Kentucky. Her older brother Warren, was born in Kansas, and all other children were born in Missouri. Next door is a young family headed by Christopher Haddock (26), probably an older child of this family.

Anna Melinda Haddock Proctor's gravestone indicates she was born in 1867, died in 1895, and was the? wife of Thomas". Nearby is a gravestone for Thomas Frazier Proctor.

Note: Anna Melinda Haddock b: 1867 in Anderson, McDonald Co., MO d: 1895 in McDonald Co., Missouri Burial: Union Cemetery, McDonald Co., MO +Thomas Frazier Proctor b: April 1849 in Greene County, Missouri m: 1893 in McDonald Co., Missouri d: January 25, 1895 in McDonald Co., Missouri Burial: Union Cemetery, McDonald Co., MO.

Anna Proctor is buried at Union Cemetery, McDonald Co., MO. Thomas Proctor stated in 1900, he was a widow and Anna's stone reads she died in 1895.

Anna died in January 1895 in Pineville when her clothes caught fire as she was by the fireplace. There is an article in the McDonald County Republican dated 1-25-1895. It states her two little girls tried to help her. She had two little boys and a little girl, my grandma, Ida May Proctor Jones. Her brothers were Warren Christopher Columbus Proctor and John Wylie Proctor. My grandma, Ida May Proctor Jones, was married to Seba Allen Jones in McDonald County, MO on January 24, 1909. They had ten children, Bertie Alvin, Ola Pearl, Clyde William, Emma May, Melvin Leroy, Opal Nadine, Stella Warren, Vandella Rosemond, Treva Fern, and Norman Darrell Jones. From the family research files of Charlotte Williams Bunn.

Sources

• Year: 1880; Census Place: Elk Horn, McDonald, Missouri; Roll: 701; Page: 249D; Enumeration District: 094

• Ancestry.com. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.