Mary Melinda Taylor Heard

Mary married Gerald W. Koethe [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: Vanderbilt College Nashville TN; MS Vanderbilt
• Military Service: USAF Col during WW II

Notes:

OBITUARY

WADE HEARD MERRITT ISLAND Wade Coleman Heard, 84, a retired broker with Trafford Realty in Cocoa, died Sunday, Jan. 30, at Indian River Center in West Melbourne. Mr. Heard was born in Itta Bena, Miss. He came to Brevard County in 1949 from Eglin Air Force Base. He was a 23-year veteran of the Air Force. Lt. Col. Heard was a member of St. David's by the Sea Episcopal Church in Cocoa Beach. Survivors include his wife, Ann Heard of Merritt Island; son, Hampton Heard of Cocoa Beach, Melinda Koethe of Seattle; sister, Sarah Heard of Santa Ana, Calif.; and one granddaughter. No calling hours are scheduled. Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at St. David's by the Sea Episcopal Church. South Brevard Funeral Home in Melbourne is in charge of arrangements. Donations may be made to The Boggy Creek Gang, 30500 Brantley Branch Road, Eustis, FL 32736 or to a charity of choice.

Clipped from Florida Today, 02 Feb 2000, Wed, Page 39

Wade married Ann Flack on 20 Aug 1938 in Davidson, Tennessee, United States. Ann (daughter of Jesse James Flack and Louella Lenora Lucas) was born on 1 Nov 1916 in MS; died on 20 Nov 2014 in Merritt Island FL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: Vanderbilt College Nashville TN; MS Vanderbilt
• Married Name: Heard
• Residence: 1920, Baxterville MS; In 1920 Census, Flack household w/ Jesse James as head, Saw Boss, Logging Company

Notes:

ANN FLACK HEARD OBIT : Published 11/25/2014

1916 - 2014 (Age 98)

Merritt Island, FL

Ann Flack Heard, 98, passed away Thursday, 20 November 2014 at Wuesthoff Hospice and Palliative Care House, Rockledge, FL. Mrs. Heard was born to Miss Louella and Jesse James Flack, 1 November 1916. She attended Moorhead Sunflower Jr. College, and graduated from Peabody Teachers' College/Vanderbilt. After marriage in 1938, she became a teacher at GA Southwest Junior College. Twice moving to Brevard County as an Air Force wife, she became headmistress of St. Mark's Episcopal Church School in Cocoa and continued on the faculty until her retirement 18 years later in 1979. Ann was determined to find joy in every minute of her life. After retirement from the field of education, she became a highly competitive bridge player, and an avid tennis, basketball, and football fan. She read extensively until macular degeneration prevented her from doing so. She delighted in her family and friends.

Ann was predeceased by her husband, Wade C. Heard; a sister, and two brothers. Survivors include her daughter, Melinda Koethe (husband Jerry); her son, Hampton Heard (wife Virginia) with daughter, Carolyn Szabo (husband Stephen) and their children, Katie, Andy, and Miss Ellile.

Edward married Sarah Belle Heard. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: 12th grade - home-schooled
• Residence: 1907, Newbern, Dyer TN; J.J. was orphaned at age 14 (Margaret Bruce died Abt 1901) and moved in his half-brother's family John Elisha Flack [listed as household member in 1900 Census] until he finished school. By another telling [see "Flack Family History"], J.J. moved into his nephew's house, J.P. Flack who was 20 and married. At 16 years old [according to his son Jim, but 21 according to daughter Ann], J.J. took a "horse, saddle, gun and a bag of money and headed south along the Mississippi River." [Ann Flack Heard's family history]
• Residence: 1920, Baxterville MS; In 1920 Census, Flack household w/ Jesse James as head, Saw Boss, Logging Company

Jesse married Louella Lenora Lucas in 1909. Louella (daughter of John Franklin Lucas and Frances Eugenia Mangum) was born in 1891 in Mount Olive, MS; died on 23 Mar 1975 in Pascagoula MS; was buried on 26 Mar 1975 in Jackson County Memorial Park, Pascagoula MS. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: 8th Grade Public School
• Married Name: Flack
• Residence: 1920, Baxterville MS; In 1920 Census, Flack household w/ Jesse James as head, Saw Boss, Logging Company

Notes:

Death Certificate has Louella Lenora's ("Nora") mother as "Caroline Lucas" (provided at her death by son James M. Flack), yet FamilySearch.org has "Frances Eugenia Mangum" as her mother.

According to "Chapters, Ann Heard family history" Frances Mangum (Lucas) died in childbirth with Nora. It's likely aunt Caroline Lucas (1853-1929) helped brother John Franklin Lucas (1882-1825) raise "Nora" and 6 other siblings --earning "grandmother" love from JMF. If true, Caroline was JMF's "great aunt".

Source for Frances E. Mangum:
"Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:9CDZ-KDD : accessed 20 December 2019), entry for Frances Eugenia Mangum; file (2:2:2:MM9R-Q2H), submitted 3 November 2002 by rassr2752696 [identity withheld for privacy].

Notes:

John Yancey Flack
BIRTH 4 Oct 1820
Guilford County, North Carolina, USA
DEATH 18 Oct 1890 (aged 70)
Dyer County, Tennessee, USA
BURIAL
Hurricane Hill Cemetery
Dyer County, Tennessee, USA
MEMORIAL ID 175860803

Stone is missing

Served with Co.E 45th Reg. Infantry Rockingham Co NC, Civil War
He enlisted 28 August 1862

JOHN YANCY FLACK
Born 1821 - Died after 1880

John Yancy Flack was born 1821 in Guilford County, N.C. He married Priscilla Apple August 17, 1839 and they were the parents of nine children. John Yancy enlisted in the Civil War in 1862, age 41. He enlisted for three years or the length of the war.

We have several muster sheets showing:

Wounded at Gettysburg August 23, 1862.
In Hospital July 18, 1863.
Wounded in Battle May 5, 1864.
At home sick August 28, 1864.
Captured Strausburg October 19, 1864.
Paroled Prisoner of War May 11, 1865.

Priscilla died October of 1872. John Yancy and family soon moved to Tennessee where the youngest daughter, Martha Lavina Katheryn Flack, married Be Alexander Howell Carrell in March, 1874. She was seventeen at the time. One of their children was Solomon Jocephas Carrell, father of Wilma Elta, Vera Lou, and Thelma Katherine.

Source: Thelma Carrell Jones
https://gardenofpraise.com/photo8.htm

John married Margaret Bruce on 26 May 1874 in Dyer County TN. Margaret (daughter of James Bruce and Nancy Arrene Stanley) was born est 1839 in Sumner Co TN; died about 1901. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

ALTERNATE LAST NAME: Bince

Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002
Name: Margaret Bruce
Spouse: J Y Flack
Marriage Date: 25 May 1874
Marriage County: Dyer
Marriage State: Tennessee
Source: Ancestry.com Marriage records courtesy of June Stewart
Jim Flack - 25 Mar 2009 flackgenealogy.com

Notes:

JOHN FRANKLIN LUCAS
Son of Robert Lucas and wife, Sarah, according to Eugendia Chrestien of 736 San Jule Ct, Apt C, Sunnyvale, CA 94806. As John Franklin a brother to Caroline Lucas that married William H. "Billy" Mangum, a brother to Frances Eugenia. Original source that John F. married Eugenia Mangum: Mrs. Margie Mangum Smith of Route 3, Box 314, Magee, MS 39111, in letter dated 19 Dec 1986.

Source: under "Notes 1"
"Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:9CDZ-KZG : accessed 20 December 2019), entry for John Franklin Lucas; file (2:2:2:MM9R-Q2H), submitted 3 November 2002 by rassr2752696 [identity withheld for privacy].


On abt 18 Jul 1891, John Franklin Lucas's wife Frances died in childbirth with Louella Lenora "Nora" (according the "Chapter's, Ann Heard's family history).
It's likely that Caroline Lucas helped raise her brother's 7 children, to the point that Nora's children considered her their grandmother, apparent when James M. Flack listed Caroline as Nora's mother on her 1975 death certificate. Amazingly, Caroline had 10 children of her own with William H. Mangum. There's no evidence that John Lucas re-married.

John married Frances Eugenia Mangum in 1874. Frances (daughter of Henry Lee Mangum and Nancy Ann May) was born in 1857; died on 18 Jul 1891 in Mount Olive, MS. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died in childbirth with Louella Lenora abt 18 Jul 1891.
Source: "Chapters, Ann (Flack) Heard's Family History"