Dr. Samuel C. Ayres, Sr.
Son of Samuel Ayres & Mildred Roper Schonse
Dr. Samuel C. Ayres, Sr. was born in June 1857 in Danville, Boyle County, Kentucky.
He was the fourth child of Samuel Ayres and Mildred Roper Schonse.
Samuel married Stella Hobbs on December 22, 1885, probably in
Kentucky. Samuel was 28 years and Stella was 20 years old. Stella
was born in February 1865 in Indiana.
Samuel and Stella made their home in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri. They had two children, with only one surviving to adulthood. Their surviving child is:
Nannie Louise Ayres born and died around 1888
Samuel
C. Ayres, Jr. born
January 3, 1893
Practicing medicine was a tradition in the Ayers family.
Samuel’s father was a dentist, Samuel was a General Physician, and his son,
Samuel Jr., pursued a medical career as well. Dr. Samuel C. Ayres,
Sr., eventually became the chief surgeon of the Kansas City Southern and a
practicing physician in Kansas City, Missouri.
Stella died sometime between 1900 and 1910. In 1910, Samuel
was living in Kansas City, Missouri with his son, Samuel Jr. He was
listed as a widower on the census.
On May 27, 1910, Samuel married again, to a woman named Elsie P.
Wilson. Elsie was born in December 1875 in Iowa, the daughter of John and
Lydia Wilson.
Elsie died just nine years later on June 28, 1919 in Kansas City, Missouri.
Samuel married a third time on May 22, 1920, to Nadine
A. Nevius Boggess. Nadine brought two children from a previous
marriage. She had married Montrose Mortimer Boggess in 1912, but they
divorced a few years later. Nadine’s children are:
Martha
Caroline Boggess born in 1913
Edward Boggess born in 1915
Nadine A. Nevius Boggess Ayers died eight years later on March 13, 1928 in
Kaw Township, Kansas City, Missouri. She passed away from a complication
resultant from inflammation of the brain. She was buried on March 14,
1928 in Elmwood Cemetery, Kansas City, Missouri. She was 37 years old at
her death.
By 1930, Nadine’s children were living with their father, who also lived in Kansas City, Missouri.
Eight months after the death of his third wife, Samuel married
again. He married Mildred C. Lawson on November 7, 1928 in Kansas City,
Missouri. She was 36 years old and he was 71 years. Mildred was born in October 1892 in
Moorsville, Livingston County, Missouri, the daughter of Gregory Hall Lawson
and Mary Frances Allbritian.
In 1930, Samuel and Mildred were living in a home on East 55
Terrace in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri. They also had a maid and a butler in their
household.
Dr. Samuel C. Ayres, Sr., died on August 6, 1936 in Rochester,
Olmstead County, Minnesota. He was
buried in the Edgewood Cemetery in Chilliclothe, Livingston County, Missouri. He was 79 years old at his death.
In 1940, Mildred, now a widow, was living in her home in Kansas
City, along with her maid.
Mildred C. Lawson Ayres died on November 18, 1964 in Kansas City,
Jackson County, Missouri. She was buried
alongside her husband in the Edgewood Cemetery in Chilliclothe. She was 72 years old at her death.
Notes for Samuel C. Ayres
Birth & Death: Ancestry.com. U.S., Find A Grave Index,
1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations,
Inc., 2012.
Original data: Find A Grave. Find A
Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi.
Residence & Occupation in 1910: Year: 1910;
Census Place: Kansas Ward 4, Jackson, Missouri;
Roll: T624_785; Page: 14B; Enumeration District: 0057;
Image: 1189; FHL Number: 1374798.
Marriage to Stella: Year: 1900;
Census Place: Kansas City Ward 11, Jackson, Missouri;
Roll: T623_864; Page: 15B;
Enumeration District: 121.
Marriage to Elsie: Missouri Marriage Records. Jefferson City, MO, USA:
Missouri State Archives. Microfilm.
Marriage to Nadine: Missouri Marriage Records. Jefferson City, MO, USA:
Missouri State Archives. Microfilm.
Marriage to Mildred: Missouri Marriage Records. Jefferson City, MO, USA:
Missouri State Archives. Microfilm.
Residence in
1930: Year: 1930; Census Place: Kansas City,
Jackson, Missouri; Roll: 1197; Page: 23A; Enumeration District: 0115; Image:
299.0; FHL microfilm: 2340932. Ancestry.com.
1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002.
Notes for Elsie P. Wilson
Birth: Year: 1900; Census Place: Kansas
City Ward 4, Jackson, Missouri; Roll: T623_861; Page: 2B;
Enumeration District: 35.
Death: Ancestry.com FamilyTree
Notes for Mildred C. Lawson
Birth & Death: Ancestry.com.
U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
Original data: Find A Grave. Find A
Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi.
Residence in 1900: "United States Census, 1900," index and images,
FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M3ZK-4BT : accessed 23
February 2015), Mildred C Lawson in household of Gregory H Lawson, Mooresville
Township, Livingston, Missouri, United States; citing sheet 5B, family 109,
NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and
Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,240,872.
Residence in 1910: "United States Census, 1910," index and images,
FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M2BS-B91 : accessed 23
February 2015), Mildred Lawson in household of Gregory S Lawson, Mooresville,
Livingston, Missouri, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 110,
sheet 5A, family 87, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington, D.C.: National
Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,374,809.
Residence in 1920A: "United States Census, 1920," index and images, FamilySearch
(https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M84B-P7K : accessed 23 February 2015),
Mildred Lawson in household of Gregory Lawson, Mooresville, Livingston,
Missouri, United States; citing sheet 2A, family 41, NARA microfilm publication
T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL
microfilm 1,820,919.
Residence in 1920B: "United States
Census, 1920," index and images, FamilySearch
(https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M8H8-DHW : accessed 23 February 2015),
Mildred Lawson in household of Frederick M Anelury, Kansas City Ward 12,
Jackson, Missouri, United States; citing sheet 7A, family 148, NARA microfilm
publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records
Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,820,924.
Residence in 1940: Year: 1940; Census Place: Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri; Roll:
T627_2172; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 116-368. Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal
Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
