Later after the house burned down, Willa moved her family into Sedalia. When the youngest daughter, Mildred Beatrice, desired to enter high school, she went to Sedalia and lived with her older sister, Almeda,who had married Thomas Brown. The following year, James who had worked several years after grade school also went to Sedalia to attend high school, but this year James and Bea lived with their brother, Alpha, who also lived in Sedalia. Finally in 1921 with no one left to help him on the farm, Milton sold the farm and bought a house at 423 South New York Avenue in Sedalia. Jim and Bea moved back with their parents and finished their high school living at home. Florence continued her industry of quilting and weaving rag rugs for customers in Sedalia. In the city Milton joined a nearby Assembly of God church, and planted a garden and fruit trees, raised chickens and milked a cow. After moving to the city Florence is said to have'most appreciated electric lights so she could work over her quilting frames in the evenings. In 1936 Milton and Florence began collecting a monthly pension of thirteen dollars each, and with their frugal life style and some help from their children they managed to get along. Milton died at age eighty three on January 15, 1939 as a result of a series of paralytic strokes at his home in Sedalia. He was buried in Olive Branch Cemetery two miles north of Beaman. After Milton's death Florence gave up her home in Sedalia and lived with her four daughters and two sons who still lived in Pettis County. She stayed a month with one of her children and then moved to the home of another. This continued until she died on January e, 1945. Florence was buried beside Milton in Olive Branch Cemetery. Her children all praised Florence for her faithfulness and devotion to her husband and her children, and they all recognized her for the tireless worker and provider she had been.
Oswald Kidd was the son of William Burgess Kidd and Sarah Daniels. He was born on November 17, 1800 in Urbanna, Middlesex County, Virginia. Oswald's family had their roots in Scotland and may have belonged to the same clan from which came the infamous Captain Kidd of pirate fame. During the revolutionary war the Kidd family had been loyal to the crown, and as a result after the war Oswald felt obliged to seek his fortunes farther West. So he journeyed to Kentucky, and lived for a time with the James Marshall family in Clark County. It may have been here that Oswald first met Margaret Marshall. However Kentucky marriage records show that Oswald married Sarah Ann Hazelrigg on May e, le26. Oswald stayed in Kentucky long enough to raise four children, but as with so many the availability of cheaper western land attracted him to Missouri. Oswald next appears in the 1840 census listing of Pettis County, Missouri with his wife, Sarah, five children and two slaves, one female age 24-30 and a male age under 10, possibly a mother and son. Oswald had acquired land and settled in what became known as Georgetown about five miles