Ambrose REHAK / Margaret JIRIK

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[39] Leonard Charles Rehak, 86, of Sedalia, died Friday, March 26, 2004, at the Four Seasons Living Center.

He was born June 11, 1917, in Sedalia, a son of Ambrose and Margaret Jerik Rehak. On Oct. 1, 1946, in Sedalia, he was married to Mildred Brosch, who survives of the home.

Mr. Rehak was a 1935 graduate of Smith-Cotton High School. He was an Army veteran of the 99th Infantry Division, serving in World War II. He retired from the United States Postal Service after 25 years as a letter carrier. He was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Letter Carriers Branch 106, Elks Lodge #125 in Sedalia, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post #2591, and the National Association of Retired Federal Employees.

Survivors also include two nephews and one niece, Loretta Kendrick of Sedalia. He was predeceased by one brother, Albert Rehak, and one sister, Louise Grinstead.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m., Monday at Sacred Heart Church, with the Rev. Tom Albers officiating. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery with full military honors conducted byVFW Post #2591.

Pallbearers will be Harold Woodall, Dave Johnson, Fred Mark, Larry Grinstead, Jon Grinstead and Everett Koechner.

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The exact cause is unknown, but pancreatic cancer is more common in smokers and people who are obese. Pancreatic cancer is slightly more common in women than in men. The risk increases with age.

A small number of cases are related to genetic syndromes that are passed down through families.

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James TEMPLE / Mary CRAIG

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[124] Bio of Oliver Perry Temple
President of the Scotch-Irish Society, 1900-1901
Thomas Temple, the remote paternal ancestor of the subject of this sketch, of Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England, died about 1593, leaving ten children. Among his grandsons were, it is believed, William Temple, of Coombs Lane, Parish of Atworth or Bradford-on-Avon, the ancestor of the Temples of Chester County, Pa., and of William Temple of Tithing Wick, the ancestor of the Virginia family of Temples.William, of Coombs Lane, was the father of Thomas Temple, who was born in England in 1694, and was living in Chester County, Pa., in 1721, and died in 1775.
Maj. Temple, one of his sons, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in Pennsylvania in 1736. He married Mary Kennedy, of Pennsylvania, and in 1766 they moved to Mecklenburg, N. C, where he lived at the time of the battle of King's Mountain, in which he took part. In 1786 he moved to Greene County, Tenn., and settled not far from Greeneville, near the future site of Greeneville College. Maj. Temple had five sons and one daughter. The family became prominent in Greene County, as well because of its property as by reason of its virtues. James Temple, who was born in North Carolina and who intermarried with Mary Craig, was the father of Oliver P. Temple.
Mary Craig was born in South Carolina and was the daughter of Capt. Samuel Craig and Jane limes Burns. The latter was the daughter of John Burns and Mary McCoy, natives of Scotland, who emigrated to South Carolina sometime before the American revolution. John Burns was a soldier in the revolution.
Samuel Craig served for six years as captain in the revolution in the Continental line from Pennsylvania. After the close of the war he moved to South Carolina, from which State, after his marriage with Jane Innes Burns, he moved to Greene County, Tenn., about 1790. He belonged to the large Craig family, which sometime before the revolution came over from Ireland and settled in a body not far fromEaston, Pa., forming what was called the "Irish Settlement."
This family was prominent at that early day, as many of its descendants have been ever since. One of them was a colonel in the war for independence, one a major, and five of them were captains. One ofthese five was Samuel Craig, the grandfather of Oliver P. Temple. The latter was born in Greene County, Tenn., near Greeneville College, January 27, 1820. After attending the old field schools in theneighborhood until he was fourteen or fifteen years of age, he entered Greeneville College, then Tusculum College, and finally Washington College, all in East Tennessee, from the latter of which he was graduated in 1844.
In September, 1846, he was licensed to practice law, having studied in the office of Robert J. McKinney, afterwards an eminent member of the supreme court of the State. In 1847, ten months after obtaining his law license, at the age of twenty-seven, he became a Whig candidate for Congress against Andrew Johnson, and after a heated canvass of three weeks, the usual majority of Mr. Johnson in the district was reduced from about 1,500 to 314 votes.
In 1848 Mr. Temple moved to Knoxville, where he became the partner in the practice of law with the Hon. William H. Sneed, one of the ablest lawyers of his day. In 1850, in conjunction with Col. Charles S. Todd, of Kentucky, and Hon. Robert B. Campbell, of South Carolina, he was appointed by President Fillmore, under a special Act of Congress, a Commissioner to visit the Indian tribes in the territories then recently acquired from Mexico, to inquire into their wants and complaints, and negotiate treaties and conciliate them by presents. In 1851 he was married to Miss Scotia C. Hume, daughter ofDavid Hume and Eliza Saunderson, his wife, both natives of Scotland. In 1860 he served as Elector on the presidential ticket of Bell and Everett, and cast his vote for them in the Electoral College. In November of that year he made the first Union speech delivered in Tennessee after the election of Mr. Lincoln. During the exciting times of 1861 he was prominent as a Union leader and speaker, and remained true to the Union throughout the civil war.
In July, 1866, Mr. Temple was appointed Chancellor of the Chancery Division in which he lived; and by virtue of this appointment and a subsequent election, he held this office for twelve years. In 1874, by virtue of an appointment by President Grant, lie was a visitor at the Military Academy of West Point. In 1881-85 he was postmaster at Knoxville. In 1885 he retired from the bar and all active duties. In 1897 he published a book entitled The Covenanter, the Cavalier, and the Puritan, and in October, 1899, when within four months of eighty, he published a history entitled East Tennessee and the Civil War. He has another work on the same subject within three months of completion, but its publication in his lifetime, or at all, is problematical.
In addition to the foregoing, Mr. Temple has been a trustee of the University of Tennessee for forty-five years.

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