Mr Ed, as he was called, was the oldest child of Mathew Frances and Josephine Brent McDill. After the death of his mother in childbirth (1892) he took in and raised his three youngest brothers Claud, Earnest and Guy. In 1897, his only living sister also died as a results of child-birth, and he also took in her two sons, Herbert and Elston Drennon, and for several years, their father Louis Wiley Drennon.
He was born 01 August 1877 in Garrison Landing (now known as Moscow) Jefferson/Lincoln County AR. The area went through several name changes, but was referred to by most as Goat Shed. Rumor has it that the name came from the fact that just before Prohibition, Mr Ed brought up all the whiskey he could and stored it in his "goat shed" to sell later.
He was a good man, raising five boys from infants to adulthood, even sending two of them to college. (One of them, Herbert, taught at Vanderbilt and later became head of the English Department at Mississippi State.) Mr Ed is mentioned on page 159 of Robert McDill Woods' Book, McDills in America.
He was born 01 August 1877 in Garrison Landing (now known as Moscow) Jefferson/Lincoln County AR. The area went through several name changes, but was referred to by most as Goat Shed. Rumor has it that the name came from the fact that just before Prohibition, Mr Ed brought up all the whiskey he could and stored it in his "goat shed" to sell later.
He was a good man, raising five boys from infants to adulthood, even sending two of them to college. (One of them, Herbert, taught at Vanderbilt and later became head of the English Department at Mississippi State.) Mr Ed is mentioned on page 159 of Robert McDill Woods' Book, McDills in America.
Mr Ed, as he was called, was the oldest child of Mathew Frances and Josephine Brent McDill. After the death of his mother in childbirth (1892) he took in and raised his three youngest brothers Claud, Earnest and Guy. In 1897, his only living sister also died as a results of child-birth, and he also took in her two sons, Herbert and Elston Drennon, and for several years, their father Louis Wiley Drennon.
He was born 01 August 1877 in Garrison Landing (now known as Moscow) Jefferson/Lincoln County AR. The area went through several name changes, but was referred to by most as Goat Shed. Rumor has it that the name came from the fact that just before Prohibition, Mr Ed brought up all the whiskey he could and stored it in his "goat shed" to sell later.
He was a good man, raising five boys from infants to adulthood, even sending two of them to college. (One of them, Herbert, taught at Vanderbilt and later became head of the English Department at Mississippi State.) Mr Ed is mentioned on page 159 of Robert McDill Woods' Book, McDills in America.
He was born 01 August 1877 in Garrison Landing (now known as Moscow) Jefferson/Lincoln County AR. The area went through several name changes, but was referred to by most as Goat Shed. Rumor has it that the name came from the fact that just before Prohibition, Mr Ed brought up all the whiskey he could and stored it in his "goat shed" to sell later.
He was a good man, raising five boys from infants to adulthood, even sending two of them to college. (One of them, Herbert, taught at Vanderbilt and later became head of the English Department at Mississippi State.) Mr Ed is mentioned on page 159 of Robert McDill Woods' Book, McDills in America.
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Son of M. F. & Josephine
