Family:John Vest and Mary Starkey (1)

In 1920, the family's recorded residence is in Warrenton, Marshall County, Alabama.^S1

Mary died in 1928 from an apparently accidental gunshot wound from a shotgun wielded by her husband.^S4 According to Betty Vest (wife of Mary's son Robert W. Vest, Sr), John Ed is said to have served some time for the shooting, but was eventually released and remarried.^S2

In 1930, John and Mary's children are recorded as living with relatives. Lewis with his uncle (John Ed's brother) Tom Pink Vest, and Johnny, Frances, and Bob with their paternal grandmother, Matilda Eubanks, who lived two houses away from Tom, on Georgia Mountain in Marshall County, Alabama.^S1

1916 marriage license

1928 article

1928 article

1928 article

1946 - John Ed Vest with his three youngest children and daughter-in-law. John Ed, Frances (Vest) Seeley, John Henry Vest, Bob and Betty. The little girl to the right is unknown.

1. ↑ Descendants of Hans Schorr I, in Genealogy.com.

   http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/v/i/c/Dawna-J-Vicars-CA/GENE18-0051.html

2.   Testimony of Betty June Vest.
3. ↑ Descendants of Johannes Schor Or John Shore, in Genealogy.com.

   http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/m/i/Linda-M-Smith/GENE15-0026.html

4.   John Vest Slays wife at Honey Landing, in Guntersville Advertiser and Democrat
   April 24, 1928.