7879. Lawrence Clair Trim SISSON (Julius Sylvanus , Wilson Crandall , Daniel Higby , John , John , Giles , Thomas , George , Richard ) was born 21 Apr 1888. He died 6 Jul 1948.

Lawrence Trim Clair Sisson and his family were mentioned in grandfather Wilson Crandall Sisson's 1922 obituary. They lived in Manville, then in the early 1920s in Guernsey, Wyoming, where he prospected for minerals. Lawrence was a plumber. He obtained a contract to supply dirt for the Ogallah Dam in western Nebraska. He is buried in Guernsey, Wyoming.

Lawrence married Kate GRADY.

7880. Arthur Franklin SISSON (Julius Sylvanus , Wilson Crandall , Daniel Higby , John , John , Giles , Thomas , George , Richard ) was born 23 Sep 1890 in Cameron, Missouri. He died 14 Apr 1924 in St Joseph, Buchanan Co., Missouri.

Arthur Franklin and his parents' family moved to Maysville, Missouri, in 1890. He grew to be 6 feet 2 inches tall. Arthur found work with the county bridge gang. He was a surveyor and about 1916 county engineer for two years. In 1924 he was mayor of Maysville. Arthur was planning to move to Guernsey, Wyoming, but he was shot on election day at the southeast corner of the square, and died sixteen days later. The assailant Newman Estes and Arthur had nominated each other for mayor and police judge and were in the Ku Klux Klan until Arthur saw its increasingly lawless influences. His unfortunate reply as to whom he supported in that day's election was he "sure wasn't voting for any damned Ku Kluxer." He left a wife and two children.

Arthur married Myrtle ASHER in 1911. Myrtle was born 7 May 1894. She died 29 Dec 1964.

7881. Howard Roosevelt SISSON (Julius Sylvanus , Wilson Crandall , Daniel Higby , John , John , Giles , Thomas , George , Richard ) was born 3 Aug 1906 in Maysville, Missouri. He died 5 Dec 1965 in St Joseph, Missouri.

Howard operated the first "talking picture projector" in St Joseph, Missouri. His presence in 1930, when both of his parents died from complications associated with the flu, was most fortunate, as other family members lived afar and were bound by their own obligations. For a time, his father's brother, Lee, of Kansas City, occupied the home under Howard's guardianship. Howard sold the house after Lee's death there and a subsequent fire removed all tangible trace of the Van Sisson family, parents and four sons who had lived 50 years in Maysville. Howard's son Ray has managed the insurance and realty company in St Joseph since Howard's and Wilma's deaths in the mid-1960s, within one year of each other.

Howard married Wilma JONES. Wilma was born 4 Jul 1909. She died 8 Feb 1966.

7882. Bonnidell SISSON (Thomas Eddy , Wilson Crandall , Daniel Higby , John , John , Giles , Thomas , George , Richard ) was born 5 Dec 1886 in Winnemucca, Nevada. She died 1962.

Bonnidell graduated from Baker University, Baldwin, Kansas, with the degrees of Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts, and took graduate courses at Columbia University while her husband was completing his law and Master's degrees there. Bonnidell then completed her own Master's degree at the University of New Mexico.

Bonnidell married Newton William ROBERTS, son of Judge M. A. ROBERTS, on 14 Jun 1910 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Newton was born 6 Jul 1881 in Hancock Co., IN. He died Dec 1974 in Ottumwa, Wapello Co., Iowa.

Newton was educated at Baker University, Baldwin City, Kansas; Columbia University in New York City; and Iowa Wesleyan.

Newton was an attorney in Ottumwa, Iowa, from 1912 through the rest of his life. He was County Attorney for two terms, from 1919 to 1923. He was also well-known for his fine paintings, and had one-man shows in Ottumwa, Des Moines, and Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Newton enjoyed reminiscing about a year and a half early in his college years when he rode box cars and saw the world from Albuquerque to Juarex, Mexico, to St. Louis.

7883. Raymond Hurst SISSON "Ray" (Thomas Eddy , Wilson Crandall , Daniel Higby , John , John , Giles , Thomas , George , Richard ) was born 2 Mar 1889 in Mason Valley, Nevada. He died 29 Sep 1943 in Mongomery, Alabama and was buried in Masonic Memorial Cemetery, Mongomery, Alabama.

Ray was educated at Henry Kendall College in Tulsa (now Tulsa University) and at the University of Oklahoma. He was captain of his college team and quarterback on the Varsity in 1913, 14, and 15. He took a position as Cashier in a bank in Sparksburg, Iowa, in 1916. He then took a position as Assistant Cashier in a bank in Brighton, Colorado.

Ray was commissioned, on Nov. 11, 1919, as a Lieutenant in Field Artillery, after officer's training in Jacksonville, Florida.

After the war he worked for Shell Oil Company in New Orleans and in Mobile, Alabama. In 1941, he and Eunice started the Southern Hospitality Service, a newcomer-advertising service in the Deep South.

Ray married Hannah Eunice HALL on 6 Jul 1917. Hannah was born 5 Sep 1895 in Van Wert, IA. She died 11 Sep 1984 and was buried in Oakwood Annex Cemetery, Montgomery, Alabama.

Eunice played the violin in the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra.

7884. Lois Belle SISSON (Thomas Eddy , Wilson Crandall , Daniel Higby , John , John , Giles , Thomas , George , Richard ) was born 21 Oct 1893 in Denver, Arapahoe Co., Colorado. She died Jan 1971 in Decatur, IL.

1930 US Census, Decatur Township, Macon Co., IL
household 340/360, 429 North Summit Ave.
Sylvester H. Nelson, age 35, married at age 24, LA, AL, LA, mechanical engineer for railroad
Lois Belle Nelson, age 35, CO, IA, KS
Griffin T. Nelson, age 4 7/12, IL, LA, CO

7888. Mary Elizabeth WEHE (Lottie SISSON , Wilson Crandall , Daniel Higby , John , John , Giles , Thomas , George , Richard ) was born 7 Apr 1894. She died 18 Nov 1975 in Topeka, Kansas.

Mary married Algot Ephraim ANDERSON, son of Johann Alfred ANDERSON, on 7 Oct 1916. Algot was born 30 Nov 1892. He died 21 Oct 1977.

7889. William Schuyler WEHE (Lottie SISSON , Wilson Crandall , Daniel Higby , John , John , Giles , Thomas , George , Richard ) was born 1896. He died 17 Feb 1965.

William's birth occured probably in 1896.

7890. Winifred WEHE (Lottie SISSON , Wilson Crandall , Daniel Higby , John , John , Giles , Thomas , George , Richard ) was born 1890. She died 8 Apr 1990 in Reno, Nevada.

7905. Fred J. COWGER (Malinda Clara BOWMAN , Jane Mary SISSON , Daniel Higby , John , John , Giles , Thomas , George , Richard ) was born 9 Sep 1883.

Fred married Bertha SHEPHERD on 26 Feb 1905. Bertha was born 26 Feb 1887.

7906. Grace Arvilla COWGER (Malinda Clara BOWMAN , Jane Mary SISSON , Daniel Higby , John , John , Giles , Thomas , George , Richard ) was born 21 Nov 1885.

Grace married Jess at the home of her parents in Harveyville, Kansas. They moved to Montana.

Grace married Jess SHAW. Jess died 10 Apr 1950.

Jess is buried in Billings, Montana.

7907. Vern COWGER (Malinda Clara BOWMAN , Jane Mary SISSON , Daniel Higby , John , John , Giles , Thomas , George , Richard ) was born 22 Dec 18xx in Phillipsburg, Kansas. He died 11 Aug 1952 in Red Lodge, Montana.

Vern married Jessie Edna WETZEL on 13 Sep 1911 in Olathe, Kansas. Jessie died Feb 1963.