Handwritten By Rossie Carrie Gaines Doom (dated 1967)
Transcribed by Sharon Lowe McDonnell
I have not spent, but very little money for this Scrap Book of the descendants of my branch of the Doom History, but I have many years collecting these pictures, paper clippings etc. These clippings were from the Lyon County Herald Paper, Eddyville, Kentucky. Also one from Sun - Democrat, Paducah, Kentucky.
My paternal grandma, as I called her, was Charlotte Doom Gaines, and my maternal grandmother was Margaret Doom Duckworth. Grandmother Margaret died in 1881, before my mother Mary Robert Duckworth, married my father W. T. (Will) Gaines.
My beloved Grandma Charlotte Doom Gaines, was blind for fourteen (14) years, before her death Jan. 1, 1919. She had a stroke fourteen (14) months and broke her hip, and never walked again before her death. Her daughter-in-law (my mother) ministered to her needs, all these many years. Grandma left her estate to my mother. I gave my legacy of this property to my sister Dixie Gaines Doom, wife of Ben Wesley Doom. She still has the old home place, which has been improved by my father and Dixie.
Charlotte Doom, daughter of Jacob Doom, married J. P. Gaines, a blacksmith in Kuttawa Kentucky. Children were W. T. Scobia, Jeff, Jim, Mary C. (Duss), Maggie, Lottie, Ellen and Sarah who died young.
W. T. married Mary Robert Duckworth, granddaughter of Harvey Doom, and daughter of Margaret Doom Duckworth. Children: James, William, Kitty, all died young. Lola, Dixie and Rossie Carrie. My grandfather Robert Duckworth died of T.B. during the Civil War.
Dixie married Ben Wesley Doom, son of John Ben, son of Benjamin Doom. They have one son Ben William and he has one son Douglas Ray.
Rossie Carrie married Marcus T. Doom (Mark), son of Charlie Champion and Pat. Charlie is a son of Benjamin Doom. They have one daughter, who married James Pruitt Morehead, children: Rossie Mae, Janie Anne and James Marcus, a talented musician. He is in Navy. Rossie C.'s father W. T. and Lola are talented musicians.
Lola married Hubert Wadlington. Children: Mary Anna Lingner, Ialene Cruce, Virginia Kalfas, Hardy, Malcolm and James Edward, who teaches in a Florida college. He also taught at the University of Kentucky.
Mary Anna had no children. Ialene one son Stephen who has two children.
William Hardy has several children, Malcolm three children, James one son. Virginia Kalfas children: Shirley, Lola, Don and William Dennis, a talented musician and won national award for his composition "Intermezzo" (music). Lola attends college in Arizona majoring in music and drama.
Mary C. (Duss) Gaines married M. P. (Polk) Yates. Children: Scobia, Jeff, Walter, Mary Strickland, Ellen Rogers, Arthur who drowned 1928, William (Will) and Lesley, who died of flu in France, during World War I. Eleven years later, he was brought back and buried in Doom Cemetery. Also Edward Yates. S of Affie
William - one daughter Sallie Mae Rogers, a talented musician, and teaches piano music in Lyon County High School.
Maggie married James Nathaniel Doom, son of Robert C. Doom (Little Bob). Children: Carl, Virgia Lowe (deceased), Jimmie Ammerman (talented musician), Lawson (musician and artist) one son George (a Baptist minister); George has a girl and boy.
Virgia Lowe's children: James, Chuck, Ira, Jean Bradshaw and Glennadine Knowles.
Jimmie Ammerman's children: Frank Jr., Virginia Lee Bowke and William W.
J. D. (Jeff) Gaines married Minnie Butler; children: Lottie, Lovie, Mae, Flossie, Jeff Jr., Wilford, Harry and Robert.
Ellen Gaines Dingington's children: Mary, Henry, Mae, Albert and Russell.
Scobia Gaines married Lucy Tolar. Children: Nobel and Carrie Berryman (both musicians). Noble one son and Carrie two girls.
Lottie Gaines married Murray Haney; several children.
My father W. T. (Will) Gaines was a blacksmith and general repair man, in Kuttawa, Kentucky. He played many musical instruments, but majored in violin and voice. All of his brother and sisters were musicians, except Mary C. (Duss) Yates.