CARROLL'S CORNER

WASHINGTON CO. MO.

GENEALOGY / HISTORY

SOUTHEAST MO.

GENEALOGISTS ARE ANCESTRALLY CHALLENGED...........GENEALOGY IS LIKE PLAYING HIDE & SEEK ~ THEY HIDE, I SEEK..............I WANT TO FIND ALL OF THEM ~ SO FAR I ONLY HAVE A FEW THOUSAND!

This Memorial Day weekend please remember all of our fallen soldiers.
Below is the url for the true & tragic story of one of those soldiers:

CARNAGE AT THE CROSSROADS
The true story of Sgt. Cecil J. Cash
197th AntiAircraft Artillery
Automatic Weapons Battalion

By: Esther M. Ziock Carroll � 2 May 2012

A III part series ~ With background sound

PROLOGUE: 17 December marks the anniversary of what was considered to be the worst WAR CRIME committed against American soldiers in the western European Theatre of WWII. Much has been written & published about this incident but only a very few authors have included mention of my relative. So I am writing his story & giving him the full recognition he deserves. This story provides a detailed account of T/4 Sgt.Cecil J.Cash's tragic demise when he along with 80+ other American soldiers were brutally murdered by Nazis on the second day of the Battle of the Bulge 17 December 1944. This is the TRUE story of Sgt. Cash of the 197th Anti-Aircraft Artillery, Automatic Weapons Battalion. Sgt. Cash of St. Francois County, Missouri, USA, is my step-father by way of being the first husband of my mother Pearl Martin Cash Ziock Foree of Washington County, Missouri. Sgt.Cash's military history begins at Jefferson Barracks in St. Louis & covers his two year tour of duty through five states, two continents, & six countries. The story includes excerpts from Sgt. Cash's personal correspondence with his wife as he forges his way through France, Belgium & Luxembourg with thousands of other American soldiers liberating Europe from Hitler's evil Nazi Regime & bringing an end to the Holocaust & the Third Reich.

http://www.carrollscorner.net/CarnageAtTheCrossroads.htm

Esther M. Ziock Carroll has been doing genealogy research since 1971 and has compiled quite an extensive and interesting family history with trails going to the countries of: Canada, France; England; Ireland; Scotland; Germany, Italy, India, Egypt, Labrador, Mosquito Coast Of Nicaragua, & The Caribbean Islands Of St. John, St. Thomas & St. Croix. Esther's and Gene's ancestors include medieval knights; soldiers from the French and Indian War, the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812 and the Civil War; Clan chiefs, a Lord, Barons & a Baroness, a sheriff, a marshall, weavers, farmers, plantation owners, merchants, preachers, Moravian missionaries, moonshiners, a gangster and ancestral associations with such well known historical figures as, George Washington, President John Adams, Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, Joseph Smith & Brigham Young, Gens. Wm. T. Sherman & Ulysses S. Grant, Gen. Sterling Price, Sam Hildebrand, Wm. Clarke Quantrill and Jesse James. This site is frequently updated as new information is always being added. So kick back and visit a spell........you never know who you might find at Carroll's Corner!

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FRENCH

Michaud; Pensonneau dit LeFleur; LeBoeuf dit LaFlamme, Leber; Fricon/Prignon, DeLorne, Duclos; Perault/Perrot; Gueneau; LeFrance; Duclos; LeCours; Lefebvre; Barette dit Courville; Chamois;

BRITISH

Horrocks; Law;

Certificate of
Tennessee Ancestry

Past Genealogy Instructor
Mineral Area College

Certificate of
Illinois Ancestry

WASHINGTON COUNTY MISSOURI
IN THE CIVIL WAR

Researched & written 1992-1994 & published 1994 in the Daughters of Union Veterans history book entitled Missouri - Our Civil War Heritage. Provides exciting, adventurous, graphic accounts of Civil War incidents & battles in Washington County, Missouri including Price's devastating raid in 1864. Originally written in three parts: FIRST BLOOD; WASHINGTON COUNTY PAYS THE "PRICE"; & MISCELLANEOUS MENTIONABLES. On this website more sections/pages have been added: Introduction; The Officers Quarters; The Barracks; More Miscellaneous Mentionables; When The Boys In Blue Are Gone; Pictures of Local Civil War Sites; & Links To Other Civil War Sites

THE MOST OUTRAGEOUS CRIME EVER COMMITED
IN WASHINGTON COUNTY MISSOURI

Horrible Murder & Butchery - Five Persons Brutally Massacred
The Bodies Mutilated & Burned To Cinders

This was considered the most horrible crime ever committed in Washington County and the entire state of Missouri. True story of the Lapine family who was murdered by Charlie Jolly & John Armstrong in the year 1870. Published in three parts: The Crime, 16 November 1995; The Trial, 23 November 1995; The Execution, 30 November 1995 (Two of my ancestors, Brad Dicus & Robt. Dickey, served on jury)

HAUNTED
HALLOWEEN
Poem about Lapine family
murder written by Esther M.
Carroll & published 30 October 1997

WARNING:
Visit this page if you might,
If you think you can stand the fright.
Lock the doors & windows tight,
And don't read this story late at night

Missouri Spooky Stuff
By: The Ozark Haint Hunters

The Tombstone Technique
Reading Illegible Tombstones

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