Ida Dyer Sheets and Morris Edrington Sheets My paternal great-grandparents were Morris Edrington Sheets and Ida May Dyer Sheets. They were both from early pioneer families to Lincoln County, Missouri. Both of their grandparents moved here about 1840. Back row: John, Martin Front row: Frank, Claudean and Vest Both Morris and Ida were born near Moscow Mills, Missouri, Morris 1853 and Ida in 1858. They married in Lincoln County in April of 1880 and raised five children: Claudean, John, Martin, George and Francis (Frank). "Aunt Claude" married Oscar A. Gordon, a Baptist minister; they lived in Troy and had no children. John graduated from the Washington University School of Medicine and became a doctor who practiced in "The Hill" neighborhood of St. Louis. He was on staff at Missouri Baptist Hospital. He married Emma Hogan and they had one daughter, Arleen. Uncle John and Aunt Emma are buried in St. Louis. Martin married Lucy Gill and they had one daughter, Nor
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