Schell Family - Pioneers of Missouri
Schell Family - Pioneers of Missouri

Author: Gayle Foster

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2015-11-09

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13: 9781502745101

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SCHELL FAMILY - PIONEERS OF MISSOURI - Descendants and Ancestors of Henry Schell and Elizabeth (Yocum) Schell. Henry Schell (1810-1863) and Elizabeth Yocum (1819-1900), were born in early Missouri Territory, married in 1835 and started a trading post at the base of a small hill or "knob" along the White River. The town of Shell Knob, Missouri grew from this early settlement and was named after them. About 1845 they moved further west, and built a mill and trading post along Big Sugar Creek in what is now McDonald County, Missouri. Henry and Elizabeth had twelve children that lived to adulthood. Their many descendants have spread across the United States and include many surnames. This family history helps the reader look beyond the names and dates and imagine their ancestors and their life experiences as they really were. This well-researched and documented family history traces the DESCENDANTS of Henry Schell and Elizabeth Yocum Schell, as well as providing the ANCESTORS of the Schell and Yocum families. The book is over 500 pages and includes more than 3,500 individuals. A name index assists with locating an individual or surname. Extensive source documents, such as probate, census, land records and patents, military records, church and family records, birth, marriage, death and obituary records, support this family history. A photo appendix includes many early day photos. The author, Gayle Foster, is a descendant of Henry Schell and Elizabeth (Yocum) Schell. As a child, she was fascinated by the family stories told by older family members. She recalls visiting the grave of Henry Schell at the old Schell home place in McDonald County, hearing the story of Henry Schell's murder during the Civil War by bushwhackers, and being fascinated by the legend of the Yocum Silver Dollars. These early experiences sparked her life-long interest in family and local history.

The Turquoise Table
The Turquoise Table

Author: Kristin Schell

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 2017-06-06

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1400311411

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Loneliness is an epidemic right now, but it doesn't have to be that way. The Turquoise Table is Kristin Schell's invitation to you to connect with your neighbors and build friendships. Featured in Southern Living, Good Housekeeping, and the TODAY Show, Kristin introduces a new way to look at hospitality. Desperate for a way to slow down and connect, Kristin put an ordinary picnic table in her front yard, painted it turquoise, and began inviting friends and neighbors to join her. Life changed in her community, and it can change in yours too. Alongside personal and heartwarming stories, Kristin gives you: Stress-free ideas for kick-starting your own Turquoise Table Simple recipes to take outside and share with others Stories from people using Turquoise Tables in their neighborhoods Encouragement to overcome barriers that keep you from connecting This gorgeous book, with vibrant photography, invites you to make a difference right where you live. The beautiful design makes it ideal to give to a friend or to keep for yourself. Community and friendship are waiting just outside your front door.

My Old Home
My Old Home

Author: Orville Schell

Publisher: Pantheon

Published: 2021-03-09

Total Pages: 625

ISBN-13: 0593315820

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A uniquely experienced observer of China gives us a sweeping historical novel that takes us on a journey from the rise of Mao Zedong in 1949 to the Tiananmen Square uprising in 1989, as a father and his son are swept away by a relentless series of devastating events. It’s 1950, and pianist Li Tongshu is one of the few Chinese to have graduated from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Engaged to a Chinese-American violinist who is the daughter of a missionary father and a Shanghai-born mother, Li Tongshu is drawn not just by Mao’s grand promise to “build a new China” but also by the enthusiasm of many other Chinese artists and scientists living abroad, who take hope in Mao’s promise of a rejuvenated China. And so when the recently established Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing offers Li Tongshu a teaching position, he leaves San Francisco and returns home with his new wife. But instead of being allowed to teach, Li Tongshu is plunged into Mao’s manic revolution, which becomes deeply distrustful of his Western education and his American wife. It’s not long before his son, Little Li, also gets caught up in the maelstrom of political and ideological upheaval that ends up not only savaging the Li family but, ultimately, destroying the essential fabric of Chinese society.

Schell
Schell

Author: C. Denissen

Publisher: Рипол Классик

Published:

Total Pages: 111

ISBN-13: 1176960164

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Schell, or, Researches after the descendants of John Christian Schell and John Schell.

The Art of Game Design
The Art of Game Design

Author: Jesse Schell

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2008-08-04

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 0123694965

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Anyone can master the fundamentals of game design - no technological expertise is necessary. The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses shows that the same basic principles of psychology that work for board games, card games and athletic games also are the keys to making top-quality videogames. Good game design happens when you view your game from many different perspectives, or lenses. While touring through the unusual territory that is game design, this book gives the reader one hundred of these lenses - one hundred sets of insightful questions to ask yourself that will help make your game better. These lenses are gathered from fields as diverse as psychology, architecture, music, visual design, film, software engineering, theme park design, mathematics, writing, puzzle design, and anthropology. Anyone who reads this book will be inspired to become a better game designer - and will understand how to do it.

My Best Man
My Best Man

Author: Andy Schell

Publisher: Kensington Books

Published: 2002-11-01

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780758203175

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A rollicking and hilarious novel follows Harry Ford who, even though he wants to meet Mr. Right, gets ready to marry his roommate Amity Stone so that he can inherit a fortune, but temptation and destiny arrive in the form of tantalizingly sexy Nicolo Feragamo. Reprint.

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Author: Jonathan Safran Foer

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780618329700

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Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history. What he discovers is solace in that most human quality, imagination. Meet Oskar Schell, an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, pacifist, correspondent with Stephen Hawking and Ringo Starr. He is nine years old. And he is on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York. His mission is to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. An inspired innocent, Oskar is alternately endearing, exasperating, and hilarious as he careens from Central Park to Coney Island to Harlem on his search. Along the way he is always dreaming up inventions to keep those he loves safe from harm. What about a birdseed shirt to let you fly away? What if you could actually hear everyone's heartbeat? His goal is hopeful, but the past speaks a loud warning in stories of those who've lost loved ones before. As Oskar roams New York, he encounters a motley assortment of humanity who are all survivors in their own way. He befriends a 103-year-old war reporter, a tour guide who never leaves the Empire State Building, and lovers enraptured or scorned. Ultimately, Oskar ends his journey where it began, at his father's grave. But now he is accompanied by the silent stranger who has been renting the spare room of his grandmother's apartment. They are there to dig up his father's empty coffin.

The Shell Family
The Shell Family

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13:

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William Shell (1802-1883) was born in Burke County, North Carolina to John Shell, Jr. and Margaret MaCall. William was a great-grandson of German immigrant Johann Casper Schell, who settled in Pennsylvania 1742. William married Cynthia Elvira Davis (1804-1885), and had thirteen children. They lived mainly in North Carolina and Tennessee. Both William and Cynthia died in Little River Township, Caldwell County, North Carolina. The Shell (Schell) family has some members who have Cherokee bloodlines. Some ancestors, descendants and relatives also lived in Ireland, Japan, Switzerland, Florida, Texas and Virginia. Focus is mainly on the Civil War heritage of William and Cynthia's family in Caldwell County, North Carolina during the Nineteenth-Century.