In 1906, after Albert Harold Muffley of Quincy (pictured above) eloped with Edna Una Jagger of Galesburg, they initially lived in Quincy, Illinois. Albert and Edna Jagger Muffley (my grandparents) lived at 317 Paris Ave., Hannibal, Missouri, in 1909, and he worked for City Electric Light. Their first home (1910-1912) was rather basic. Their 3 kids were born in Hannibal: Mary Louise in 1909, Robert Pierce Muffley (my father) in 1911, and Kenneth Muffley in 1913. Albert worked at the Electric Light Company in subsequent city directories. The family lived at 804 N. 6th (1911-1912) pictured below on left, then rear of 1008 Paris Ave. (1912-1913), and finally 830 Hazel (1914-1918)- pictured below on the right. Incidentally, Hannibal had been the boyhood home of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) and was the inspiration for the fictional town of St. Petersburg in the Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn stories.
Meanwhile, Joe & Emma Muffley resided in Kansas City, and then in St. Louis. In 1907, Joe & Emma initially roomed at 1233 Pennsylvania in Kansas City, Missouri. Joe was a harness maker at Velie Saddlery. Stephen Velie Jr., founder of the saddlery, was a grandson of John Deere. Velie Saddlery had a charging bull logo (pictured). The address for the saddlery appeared in 2001 to be at the site of an FBI building. Joe continued employment at Velie all during the Kansas City years, although Joe and Emma moved a number of times. They lived at 1817 Pennsylvania from 1908-1911; that location appears to be at a current Interstate site. Their residence in 1912 and 1913 was at 1819 Washington, and there is now a house there which might be of that age. Joe & Emma Muffley moved from Kansas City to St. Louis, and in 1914 (to 1917) lived at 2340 Louisiana
Ave., the first of their 4 homes in St. Louis.In 1918, the Albert & Edna Muffley family moved from Quincy to Gary, Indiana. However, the Muffley presence in Hannibal was not at an end. Albert’s Uncle Franklin Biddle Muffley and Aunt Cannie Tyrer Muffley had children (Frank Raymond and Ora Vivian Muffley) who had put down roots northwest of Hannibal. Franklin Biddle and Cannie Tyrer Muffley retired to the farm there by 1925. I occasionally correspond with my cousins from this line.
