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Facts and Events
| Name[1] |
Mabel Hannah Gieseck |
| Gender |
Female |
| Birth[2] |
14 Jan 1890 |
Monroeville, Huron Co., Ohio |
| Confirmation[11] |
4 Oct 1903 |
Mount Zion Episcopal church, Monroeville, Huron Co., Ohio |
| Residence[12] |
1908 |
Cherry Valley, Cross Co., Arkansas, United States |
| Occupation[13][14] |
1915 |
Lansing Wheelbarrow Company, Parkin, Cross Co., Arkansas, United Statesas assistant to help manage a 11,000 acre farm together with the Eligaand Agnes Parks. As the timber supply shortened the land was turned intofarms for sharecropping. Her office was located in a 2 story brick at75s and Industrial Park roads, across from a water tower on the southside of town |
| Residence[15][25] |
6 Jan 1922 |
Parkin, Cross Co., Arkansas, United States |
| Occupation[16] |
1930 |
a manager of a grill |
| Residence[17][18][26] |
11 Apr 1930 |
110 Parkins Ave., Parkin, Cross Co., Arkansas, United States |
| Death[3][4][20] |
11 Aug 1956 |
Parkin, Cross Co., Arkansas, United States |
| Burial[5][21] |
1956 |
St. Peter cemetery, Oxford, Lafayette Co., Mississippi |
| Other[19][27] |
Aug 1956 |
Obituary |
| Other[22] |
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Anecdote |
| Other[8][23] |
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Anecdote |
| Other[9][10][24] |
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Anecdote |
| Physical Description[6] |
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a warm hearted and generous woman with height of 5 foot 4 inches. She hada small build but slightly more stout than her sister, Emma. Mabel wasloved by the entire community and her funeral was largely attended bymany, both black and white friends |
| Physical Description[7] |
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with Roy Eagle, probably in Monroeville |
| Reference Number |
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23339 |
References
- ↑ Bonnye Sisk. Hughes Gieseck family information, Interviewer: Kristina Kuhn Krumm,Informant Address: Parkin, Arkansas (2). (March 2004)
fact sheet she sent to me. - ↑ Obituary. (further information available upon request).
- ↑ Rufus Ralph Hughes II, via telephone. Hughes Gieseck family information, Interviewer: Kristina Kuhn Krumm,Informant Address: Little Rock, Arkansas. (March 2004).
- ↑ Bonnye Sisk. Hughes Gieseck family information, Interviewer: Kristina Kuhn Krumm,Informant Address: Parkin, Arkansas (2). (March 2004)
fact sheet she sent to me.
- ↑ Hughes Gieseck family information, Record Type: Map of Hughes cemeteryplot, Subject: David Lee and Carrie (Smith) Gieseck. (scanned in May 2004).
- ↑ Rufus Ralph Hughes II, via telephone. Hughes Gieseck family information, Interviewer: Kristina Kuhn Krumm,Informant Address: Little Rock, Arkansas. (March 2004).
- ↑ Hughes Gieseck family information, Record Type: Family Photos, Subject:David Lee and Carrie (Smith) Gieseck and descendants. (scanned in May 2004).
- ↑ Bonnye Sisk. Hughes Gieseck family information, Interviewer: Kristina Kuhn Krumm,Informant Address: Parkin, Arkansas (2). (March 2004).
- ↑ Eda Claire Lake. Hughes Gieseck family information, Interviewer: Kristina Kuhn Krumm,Informant Address: Parkin, Arkansas. (March 2004).
- ↑ Rufus Ralph Hughes II, via telephone. Hughes Gieseck family information, Interviewer: Kristina Kuhn Krumm,Informant Address: Little Rock, Arkansas. (March 2004).
- ↑ Hughes Gieseck family information, Record Type: Family Photos, Subject:David Lee and Carrie (Smith) Gieseck and descendants. (scanned in May 2004).
- ↑ Bonnye Sisk. Hughes Gieseck family information, Interviewer: Kristina Kuhn Krumm,Informant Address: Parkin, Arkansas (2). (March 2004)
fact sheet she sent to me.
- ↑ Rufus Ralph Hughes II, via telephone. Hughes Gieseck family information, Interviewer: Kristina Kuhn Krumm,Informant Address: Little Rock, Arkansas. (March 2004).
- ↑ Obituary. (further information available upon request).
- ↑ Newark Daily Advocate: newspaper, Location: Newark, Ohio
page ten, Notice to settle her grandmother's estate.
- ↑ United States. 1930 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T626).
- ↑ United States. 1930 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T626)
ED# 19-11; sheet 17A; image 33.
- ↑ Bonnye Sisk. Hughes Gieseck family information, Interviewer: Kristina Kuhn Krumm,Informant Address: Parkin, Arkansas (2). (March 2004).
- ↑ Bonnye Sisk. Hughes Gieseck family information, Interviewer: Kristina Kuhn Krumm,Informant Address: Parkin, Arkansas (2). (March 2004)
clipping source unknown.
- ↑ from a heart attack (she smoked)
- ↑ Lot 66
- ↑ Mabel purchased 1000 acres of farm land seven miles south of Parkin,Arkansas and this area was named Gieseck, Arkansas after her. There isnot really a town there not even a sign, but it is on the map. Presentlyit is a mere intersection with her Gieseck Cotton Gin building stillstanding as a automobile junk yard
- ↑ In the back of the home above the carport was one room built for theblack servant, Faye Moore, who began service for the family doing allthe cleaning and cooking as a young girl. She was there until the deathof Mabel. In the photo you see the stairs she would climb to go to bedafter a long day's work for Mabel and the Parks'
- ↑ Mabel never married or had children, but she did have a small dog thatshe dearly loved. Her next door neighbor once remarked how fine it wouldbe to be treated as well as Mabel treated her pet. She was most oftenseen atop her horse wearing wide legged britches with a gun on her hipand a Winchester rifle in her saddle, for hunting game as she inspectedthe land she managed. Mabel also enjoyed playing poker with the boys onFriday nights
- ↑ in the paper it is listed as "Parker" Arkansas
- ↑ age 40 born in Ohio; living as a lodger with Eliga and Agnes Parks. Mabelcontinues to live in this home until her death. Ownership passes intothe hands of her nephew, David Hughes and the property is then sold byhim in 1963 to the current owner for $9,000, it was built in 1905, hastall ceilings and is decorated as a fine plantation home of the area
- ↑ "Mrs. Mabel Dies Hearts Heavy Around Parkin - Woman Who Managed 11,000Acres Had Thousands of Friends - Parkin, Arkansas-- Mrs. Mabel is goneand with her passing goes a friend of white and black in EasternArkansas. Miss. Mabel Gieseck died of a heart attack after 41 years infarming and related fields in the Parkin area. Miss Gieseck moved toCherry Valley in 1908 from Monroeville, Ohio, with her family. She onlyhalf interest in the plantation and Cheery Valley, "Park and Gieseck"near Wynne Arkansas, where she delighted to raise fine Aberdeen Anguscattle. She could never bear to sell any for slaughter however. Theherd multiplies in peace. As secretary and manager of Parkin-LansingCorp., a farming corporation involving 11,000 acres in the Parkin area,Miss Gieseck found her life's work, really, was in personal help toothers, particularly the Negroes with whom she came in contact infarming.
Known To All- One Negro woman is a self supporting member of thecommunity today because of an eye operation arranged and financed byMiss. Mabel, as she was known to everyone. Miss Mabel stood forprogress. She built what was possibly the first real fire-proofbuilding in Eastern Arkansas when she built the Gieseck Gin. DuringWorld War II a German prisoner of war worked on the farm for Miss Mabel.Afterward he wrote her from Germany and asked help in bringing hisfamily to the U.S.. Largely through Miss. Mabel's efforts a man, hiswife and son gained a new life in the states and are today a successfulfamily in Arkansas. One of Miss Mabel's many friends summed up herinterest's as love of farming, community and Negroes who were dependedon the farm for a livelihood.
Civic Leader- Miss Mabel was secretary treasurer of the Cross CountryFair and a member of the Arkansas Welfare Commission. In the MethodistChurch at Parkin a special section was set aside for Miss Mabel's Negrofriends. They had inquired when they could go up to say "a few prayersfor Miss Mabel". The service was conducted by Rev. Fred V Knelpp,Episcopal rector of West Memphis. The Methodist congregation offereduse of their Church at Parkin because there is no Episcopal churchthere. The church was filled to overflowing. Burial was in Oxford,Miss., Monday. Miss Mabel was aged 66. She leaves one sister, Mrs.Rufus R. Hughes and 1 nephew, David Green Hughes, both of Parkin; twogreat nephews, James Hughes, who is in the army at Fort Belvoir nearWashington D.C., and Rufus Hughes, a student at Georgia Tech University.
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