Edwin Beryl Thurman was the son of Edward Franklin Thurman and Netta Ann Evans-Thurman. He lived and died under the name of Edwin B.Thurmon as his social security number reflected as did some other family members going by the name of Thurmon. He had 9 Thurman half brothers and 1 brother and 4 sisters. One sister Beulah Angela Thurmon married Lawrence Weeks and Ola Thurmon married John Sinclair and after he passed she married Meredith Parker and Ollie Thurman who died in her twenties. There was another half sister named Margaret Bennie Fern Hunter, who was married to a banker named King,although lived in separate homes.
Edwin was a restaurant owner in Carthage,MO. for twenty five years. He was 6ft 3in and had Strawberry blonde hair like his mother and he had blue eyes. His mother had gray eyes. His word was his bond. He wore a Stetson hat like President Truman. He had a stroke but recovered his speech and movement of his limbs. Several years later He died from lung cancer. He had one child. A daughter Marie E.Thurman/Thurmon.
He lived in Carthage, MO.
He passed away in Mount Vernon Lawrence County, Missouri.
He received the name his brothers called him - Sweet-The younger children went to school by way of riding their horses to school and one day in the winter my father was 12 years old and returning home fording the river on horseback before the government acquired it by Imminent Domain, now calling it Clearwater Lake. At this time,Next to Clearwater Dam there is a small place called Thurman Park named after his father. It is at the point where they crossed. He fell off and was soaked and very cold so he stopped at the closest house in order to get warm. This family got his wet clothes off of him however they only had a girl and they sent him home in a blue dress. One of his older brothers saw him and there was a song out at the time called "Sweet Alice Blue Gown" and they started to call him by that name but finally let up on him shortening it to just Sweet. Many people when He was older called him Sweet. His mother called him Babe, I always heard his mother called him Babe when she spoke to him.
They were a wonderful family as a whole having so much respect for one another. A curse word like damn was not in their vocabulary. An uplifting family, I never heard one of them ever lift their voices in anger to one another.
Edwin was a restaurant owner in Carthage,MO. for twenty five years. He was 6ft 3in and had Strawberry blonde hair like his mother and he had blue eyes. His mother had gray eyes. His word was his bond. He wore a Stetson hat like President Truman. He had a stroke but recovered his speech and movement of his limbs. Several years later He died from lung cancer. He had one child. A daughter Marie E.Thurman/Thurmon.
He lived in Carthage, MO.
He passed away in Mount Vernon Lawrence County, Missouri.
He received the name his brothers called him - Sweet-The younger children went to school by way of riding their horses to school and one day in the winter my father was 12 years old and returning home fording the river on horseback before the government acquired it by Imminent Domain, now calling it Clearwater Lake. At this time,Next to Clearwater Dam there is a small place called Thurman Park named after his father. It is at the point where they crossed. He fell off and was soaked and very cold so he stopped at the closest house in order to get warm. This family got his wet clothes off of him however they only had a girl and they sent him home in a blue dress. One of his older brothers saw him and there was a song out at the time called "Sweet Alice Blue Gown" and they started to call him by that name but finally let up on him shortening it to just Sweet. Many people when He was older called him Sweet. His mother called him Babe, I always heard his mother called him Babe when she spoke to him.
They were a wonderful family as a whole having so much respect for one another. A curse word like damn was not in their vocabulary. An uplifting family, I never heard one of them ever lift their voices in anger to one another.
Edwin Beryl Thurman was the son of Edward Franklin Thurman and Netta Ann Evans-Thurman. He lived and died under the name of Edwin B.Thurmon as his social security number reflected as did some other family members going by the name of Thurmon. He had 9 Thurman half brothers and 1 brother and 4 sisters. One sister Beulah Angela Thurmon married Lawrence Weeks and Ola Thurmon married John Sinclair and after he passed she married Meredith Parker and Ollie Thurman who died in her twenties. There was another half sister named Margaret Bennie Fern Hunter, who was married to a banker named King,although lived in separate homes.
Edwin was a restaurant owner in Carthage,MO. for twenty five years. He was 6ft 3in and had Strawberry blonde hair like his mother and he had blue eyes. His mother had gray eyes. His word was his bond. He wore a Stetson hat like President Truman. He had a stroke but recovered his speech and movement of his limbs. Several years later He died from lung cancer. He had one child. A daughter Marie E.Thurman/Thurmon.
He lived in Carthage, MO.
He passed away in Mount Vernon Lawrence County, Missouri.
He received the name his brothers called him - Sweet-The younger children went to school by way of riding their horses to school and one day in the winter my father was 12 years old and returning home fording the river on horseback before the government acquired it by Imminent Domain, now calling it Clearwater Lake. At this time,Next to Clearwater Dam there is a small place called Thurman Park named after his father. It is at the point where they crossed. He fell off and was soaked and very cold so he stopped at the closest house in order to get warm. This family got his wet clothes off of him however they only had a girl and they sent him home in a blue dress. One of his older brothers saw him and there was a song out at the time called "Sweet Alice Blue Gown" and they started to call him by that name but finally let up on him shortening it to just Sweet. Many people when He was older called him Sweet. His mother called him Babe, I always heard his mother called him Babe when she spoke to him.
They were a wonderful family as a whole having so much respect for one another. A curse word like damn was not in their vocabulary. An uplifting family, I never heard one of them ever lift their voices in anger to one another.
Edwin was a restaurant owner in Carthage,MO. for twenty five years. He was 6ft 3in and had Strawberry blonde hair like his mother and he had blue eyes. His mother had gray eyes. His word was his bond. He wore a Stetson hat like President Truman. He had a stroke but recovered his speech and movement of his limbs. Several years later He died from lung cancer. He had one child. A daughter Marie E.Thurman/Thurmon.
He lived in Carthage, MO.
He passed away in Mount Vernon Lawrence County, Missouri.
He received the name his brothers called him - Sweet-The younger children went to school by way of riding their horses to school and one day in the winter my father was 12 years old and returning home fording the river on horseback before the government acquired it by Imminent Domain, now calling it Clearwater Lake. At this time,Next to Clearwater Dam there is a small place called Thurman Park named after his father. It is at the point where they crossed. He fell off and was soaked and very cold so he stopped at the closest house in order to get warm. This family got his wet clothes off of him however they only had a girl and they sent him home in a blue dress. One of his older brothers saw him and there was a song out at the time called "Sweet Alice Blue Gown" and they started to call him by that name but finally let up on him shortening it to just Sweet. Many people when He was older called him Sweet. His mother called him Babe, I always heard his mother called him Babe when she spoke to him.
They were a wonderful family as a whole having so much respect for one another. A curse word like damn was not in their vocabulary. An uplifting family, I never heard one of them ever lift their voices in anger to one another.
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