Maggie Elizabeth SLAWSON

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• Census: 1900, Living with parents in Tavern, Pulaski Co., Missouri
• Census: 1910, Living with parents in Richwoods, Miller Co., Missouri
• Census: 1920, Living with husband in Richwoods, Miller Co., Missouri
• Census: 1930, Living with husband in Nameoki, Madison Co., Illinois
• Census: 1940, Living with husband in Nameoki, Madison Co., Illinois

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Mrs. Maggie (Slawson) Ferguson, 86 of 2440 St. Clair Ave., died at the Eden Village Care Center in Glen Carbon (Ill.) at 4:45 a.m. today, April 2, 1984. She was a resident of the care center since October 1983. Mrs. Ferguson was born December 3, 1898 in Miller County, MO, and moved to this area 59 years ago. She was a member of Bethel Chapel Pentecostal Church. Her husband, Sherman Ferguson, died in 1977.

Survivors include four sons, Lowell Ferguson, Granite City, Raymond Ferguson, Collinsville, Robert Ferguson of Maryville and Ralph Ferguson of Joplin, MO; three daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Aldridge, Fairview Heights, Mrs. Harold (Phoebe) Knecht, Placerville, Calif. and Mrs. Donald (Ruth) Hayes of Thayer, MO; a brother Everett Slawson of Crocker, MO; one sister, Mrs Albert (Blanche) Alexander of Dixon, MO; 19 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren.

Visitation will begin at 4 p.m. Wednesday at Davis Funeral Home, 21st Street and Cleveland Boulevard. The Rev. Clifton Galiher will conduct services at 10 a.m. Thursday, April 5, at Bethel Chapel Pentecostal Church, 25th Street and Ohio Avenue, with burial in Sunset Hill Cemetery, Edwardsville Township.

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Created by: Nancy Arnold Thompson

Family/Spouse: Sherman Robert FERGUSON. Sherman was born on 15 Apr 1896 in Iberia, Miller County, Missouri; died on 13 May 1977 in Belleville, St. Clair Co., Illinois; was buried in Sunset Hill Cemetery, Glen Carbon, Madison Co., Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1920, Living with parents in Richwoods, Miller Co., Missouri
• Census: 1930, Living with parents in Nameoki, Madison Co., Illinois
• Census: 1940, Living with husband in Granite City, Madison Co., Illinois

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Kurrus Funeral Home, Belleville, Ill., August 2011
Dorothy E. Aldridge, nee Ferguson, 94, of Fairview Heights, Ill., born Sunday, Nov. 12, 1916, in Miller County, Mo., died Sunday, Aug. 14, 2011, at her residence.
Mrs. Aldridge was the owner and operator with her husband Ernest, of Dor-Maru Shores Mobile Home Park in New Athens, Ill. She was a member of First Baptist Church in Fairview Heights, Ill., Republican Women's Club and past president and secretary for Belleville Women's Club.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Ernest Aldridge; parents, Sherman R. and Maggie, nee Slawson, Ferguson; son Bill Aldridge; brothers Lowell, Raymond and Robert Ferguson; and sister, Phoebe Knecht.
Surviving are her son, Richard Aldridge, of Nashville, Tenn.; brother, Ralph Ferguson of Carthage, Mo.; sister, Melba Ruth (Don) Hayes of Thayer, Mo.; dear friend, Bonita Miller of Swansea, Ill.; and many loving nieces and nephews.
Memorials may be made to the First Baptist Church in Fairview Heights. Visitation: Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011, at Kurrus Funeral Home, Berlleville, IL. Funeral:
Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011, at Kurrus Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Bryan Webb officiating. Interment will follow at Valhalla Gardens of Memory, Belleville, Ill.

Dorothy married Ernest ALDRIDGE before 1940. Ernest was born on 13 Oct 1915 in Aldridge, Union Co., Illinois; died on 13 Nov 1978 in Belleville, St. Clair Co., Illinois; was buried in Valhalla Gardens of Memory and Mausoleum, Belleville, St. Clair Co., Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1920, Living with parents in Richwoods, Miller Co., Missouri
• Census: 1930, Living with parents in Nameoki, Madison Co., Illinois

Family/Spouse: Ida PASSETTI. Ida was born on 18 Jan 1925; died on 26 Jul 1998; was buried in Sunset Hill Cemetery, Glen Carbon, Madison Co., Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1930, Living with parents in Nameoki, Madison Co., Illinois
• Census: 1940, Living in Granite City, Madison Co., Illinois

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Raymond E. Ferguson, 85, of Collinsville, Ill. died Monday, at Anderson Hospital in Maryville, Ill.

Mr. Ferguson was a retired switchman for the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis, and was a World War II Navy veteran. He was a former member of Masonic Lodge 712, in Collinsville; the Scottish Rite Bodies, and Ainad Shrine Legion of Honor. He was a past associate guardian of Job's Daughters, Bethel #42, and past chapter advisor of Ascalon Chapter Order of Demolay.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Geraldine Rose (Swigert) Ferguson - his first wife, Marjorie L. (Bennett) Fuller - his parents, Sherman R. and Maggie E. (Slawson) Ferguson - two brothers, Lowell, and Robert Ferguson, and a sister, Phoebe Knecht.

Surviving are three daughters and three sons. They are Judy Commire & husband, Bob, of Sebring, Fla; Janet Bright and husband Jim, of Excelsior Springs, Mo; Ed Ferguson & wife Lynn, of E. Falmouth, Mass.; Danny Ferguson of Westland, Mich.; Mary Humphrey & husband Gary,of Colliinsville, Ill., and Alan Ferguson of Monticello, Wis. Two sisters:
Dorothy Aldridge of Fairview Heights, Ill., and Ruth Hayes of Thayer, MO. One brother: Ralph Ferguson, of Joplin, MO. A step-daughter Linda Fleming & husband Paul, of Hamel, Ill., a step-son Paul Bilyeu & wife Jane, of Casselberry, Fla. A special friend, Emma Kamm, of Collinsville,
Ill. Nine grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.

Memorials may be made to the Collinsville Memorial Public Library, Collinsville, Ill.

Burial will be in Sunset Hill Cemetery in Glen Carbon, Ill.

HERR FUNERAL HOME, Collinsville, Ill.

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Created by: Juanita Sloan Lowrance

Family/Spouse: Marjorie L. BENNETT. Marjorie was born about 1920. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Geraldine Rose SWIGERT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1930, Living with parents in Nameoki, Madison Co., Illinois
• Census: 1940, Living with husband in Granite City, Madison Co., Illinois

Phoebe married Harold KNECHT before 1940. Harold was born about 1919 in Illinois . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1930, Living with parents in Nameoki, Madison Co., Illinois
• Census: 1940, Living with parents in Nameoki, Madison Co., Illinois

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1930, Living with parents in Nameoki, Madison Co., Illinois
• Census: 1940, Living with parents in Nameoki, Madison Co., Illinois

Family/Spouse: Mary E. MINCEMEYER. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]