tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53538410270561441242024-03-13T07:16:43.243-07:00The Old Trunk in the AtticLaura Mattinglyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522056774465727386noreply@blogger.comBlogger383125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353841027056144124.post-59130064753608087382023-12-19T16:15:00.000-08:002023-12-19T16:15:08.360-08:00Christmas Decoration Hand-Me-Downs<p> </p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">My house is decorated for Christmas (as much as it's going to be). Several of the decorations I have came to me from my Grandma Doris Menke. She's been gone 6 years now, I can't help but think of her when I hang these things.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">She made some of these tree ornaments, others may have been made by other relatives or she bought them at craft fairs. The most memorable decorations she used on her tree were gold ball ornaments and a gold garland that my sister has now.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhecUfMru_xdzVqdj7ai3pv2z6xpMTXaOE7cBdn89iOOCjxPIWkR4f-_jJpOrQDqqiA02-UTgboUxChVpb25oBZthSiFcHgHYdJfxmUrMO5mu4GlY2t86VdCXIC9GvPluR8eKrh8ZfeUtIw8SNEgObbMpGFap8fC_QXi7t6NyoWUMQSbZJhNkkiGyNzBO2j/s2048/GmaMenkesOrnaments.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhecUfMru_xdzVqdj7ai3pv2z6xpMTXaOE7cBdn89iOOCjxPIWkR4f-_jJpOrQDqqiA02-UTgboUxChVpb25oBZthSiFcHgHYdJfxmUrMO5mu4GlY2t86VdCXIC9GvPluR8eKrh8ZfeUtIw8SNEgObbMpGFap8fC_QXi7t6NyoWUMQSbZJhNkkiGyNzBO2j/w300-h400/GmaMenkesOrnaments.jpeg" width="300" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Grandma made the Christmas goose and Grandpa made the reindeer. I think Grandpa made several deer, I'm likely not the only grandkid to have one. But I'm pretty sure this goose is the only one.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBoS9R1tnwqW23LJILpIsztLwiiYpTdzK9uhktBU0MOjmvvoutqNZpLQZ-Ktxg01PVgkXN0Wcx-hXptjHckO1H6fYCv2MowcESzVLqHfbwY8LbljpFFBSDfrrZxC5vJTJoXFR07LfFgyyldYotbF_SqxBt7_d6qbO6cJU3BsVcWfn2-a6X8jyx91qAnank/s1536/Goose_Deer2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBoS9R1tnwqW23LJILpIsztLwiiYpTdzK9uhktBU0MOjmvvoutqNZpLQZ-Ktxg01PVgkXN0Wcx-hXptjHckO1H6fYCv2MowcESzVLqHfbwY8LbljpFFBSDfrrZxC5vJTJoXFR07LfFgyyldYotbF_SqxBt7_d6qbO6cJU3BsVcWfn2-a6X8jyx91qAnank/s320/Goose_Deer2.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmolKkVRWPlYJt03EoODdrtcUsJvglTjHX0BKJOejw0mXE3mHhb3EsBhIXCFdBpV9ZIN2Ei4m6Pzvj1clB3uyqkKVD5kKJEFOg5A4Ao98kFua9QifV_qcrGteSm4nnBrWB1upQorIYCJtfYOVq1KX2Y5wmYociLSZqDrqSCMTtkdX3Yhl7dpxRFglcNvI8/s1939/NOEL.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1939" data-original-width="1293" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmolKkVRWPlYJt03EoODdrtcUsJvglTjHX0BKJOejw0mXE3mHhb3EsBhIXCFdBpV9ZIN2Ei4m6Pzvj1clB3uyqkKVD5kKJEFOg5A4Ao98kFua9QifV_qcrGteSm4nnBrWB1upQorIYCJtfYOVq1KX2Y5wmYociLSZqDrqSCMTtkdX3Yhl7dpxRFglcNvI8/s320/NOEL.jpeg" width="213" /></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Ordinary Christmas decorations to anyone else, but through these I can still smell the food my Aunts are getting ready in the kitchen. I can hear the men laughing and cussing as they sit around card tables playing pitch. I can hear my cousins (mostly boys) getting rough with each other and getting told to settle down by someone. No opening gifts until the dishes were done! The cards being passed out (with money in them) were the highlight of the day for everyone over the age of about 12. All joking with each other about how much they got (when each generation got the same amount). </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Very often, one or more of Grandma's sisters would stop by to see us all while we were there. In my very young years, we would go to Grandma's parents where many, many people were gathered in a 2 bedroom house. My memories of that are only vague.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Grandma's Snow Village - pieces to it were a great Christmas gift! I don't have any of the them, but whoever does should check on their value before getting rid of them! </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipRE_F10lEyXMZM6Je1zZVvsyek3_RwCZ651j9CgxR7ajXbCafniskFljca_K0cwbR99tUS0-VgK-yIdHltfKii083GseK52igK8piUD7YbZHQDXSEue1lo9Mz-x797CofR5st9xhLP16e77rchMgwAh0iIkn_KdWvfdX0AqtA9dWqEwTPj-Rg7On1wYaY/s1416/The%20Village.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="990" data-original-width="1416" height="448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipRE_F10lEyXMZM6Je1zZVvsyek3_RwCZ651j9CgxR7ajXbCafniskFljca_K0cwbR99tUS0-VgK-yIdHltfKii083GseK52igK8piUD7YbZHQDXSEue1lo9Mz-x797CofR5st9xhLP16e77rchMgwAh0iIkn_KdWvfdX0AqtA9dWqEwTPj-Rg7On1wYaY/w640-h448/The%20Village.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Those really were the good old days.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguvEZJYVIPLdLnVD496qaORc70D-uIXD5OY_BkYWUnAuPnK2HOSD5e42C7V3RnxEo_WV0sl79QbfpbGAxWiGZg67Jmc5FdGRLBAFkcxRuh9lNnEhnrip7JFljHgmQVCOqya9yYYyhX5eRv2FcFkjMKCbsWqsxT3SYzqHH7oNWfhr7RmtTRF073UIjyVzO-/s650/GmaMenke.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="257" data-original-width="650" height="127" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguvEZJYVIPLdLnVD496qaORc70D-uIXD5OY_BkYWUnAuPnK2HOSD5e42C7V3RnxEo_WV0sl79QbfpbGAxWiGZg67Jmc5FdGRLBAFkcxRuh9lNnEhnrip7JFljHgmQVCOqya9yYYyhX5eRv2FcFkjMKCbsWqsxT3SYzqHH7oNWfhr7RmtTRF073UIjyVzO-/s320/GmaMenke.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><i>May you have a memorable Christmas!</i></span></p><br />Laura Mattinglyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522056774465727386noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353841027056144124.post-89674287639976659492023-05-28T14:30:00.000-07:002023-05-28T14:30:06.948-07:00Brothers in Service<p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Memorial Day is to honor and remember those who did not return from military service. Fortunately for my family, the majority of my ancestors who served in any war came home. These are final payment sheets for two of my great uncles, brothers Virg & Orville McGrath, who served during World War II. Click on the images to enlarge enough to read.</span></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGDTiewfFmuhFpHo6nqTajF76Eawk0nCVH6pKARwa-T53j-USAhcInR4b-Dy21EdEDMsNgRu87aBhqMO4Hc55rPTvI_pQOYj7ScYK_QZrRN6T6Dek25arYG9HG4yspWWnPz1qiflqg3mR4L5mATleEXrKdAb3MP-rFP2E3qfzVr0ah-4QDTYkIOr5n7w/s9975/McGrath%20Virgil%20OMPF36471.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="7875" data-original-width="9975" height="506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGDTiewfFmuhFpHo6nqTajF76Eawk0nCVH6pKARwa-T53j-USAhcInR4b-Dy21EdEDMsNgRu87aBhqMO4Hc55rPTvI_pQOYj7ScYK_QZrRN6T6Dek25arYG9HG4yspWWnPz1qiflqg3mR4L5mATleEXrKdAb3MP-rFP2E3qfzVr0ah-4QDTYkIOr5n7w/w640-h506/McGrath%20Virgil%20OMPF36471.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Virg was discharged on December 4, 1945 at Ft Logan in Colorado WDPC (Western Data Processing Center). He came back to Aurora, Nebraska where he spent the rest of his life. He died July 5, 1982 at the age of 72.</span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIeKHOqKdcwAt8jcliTFfD5FDxMhOwXzVTGl_SSXfGHT7RyMDbBxn2Os-a2d0YkP-5iEjr13kAksMKZGsUN095UwCWggX9JbGR3oDDsy0qtAxcP6JFx4trIRUy-9kLio_jSnsXVURTiY5Y-i7dawu2AI1QY3r2k7t1Ttchkb_4WLo1n2KircgevpdX1Q/s6390/McGrathVirg_AuroraNewsReg_1945Fri_Dec7_home.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4669" data-original-width="6390" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIeKHOqKdcwAt8jcliTFfD5FDxMhOwXzVTGl_SSXfGHT7RyMDbBxn2Os-a2d0YkP-5iEjr13kAksMKZGsUN095UwCWggX9JbGR3oDDsy0qtAxcP6JFx4trIRUy-9kLio_jSnsXVURTiY5Y-i7dawu2AI1QY3r2k7t1Ttchkb_4WLo1n2KircgevpdX1Q/w400-h293/McGrathVirg_AuroraNewsReg_1945Fri_Dec7_home.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPN73_OSVCKjI5pVe9pnk0aXOahNHKJ5p5Q07Y5U6QjhpRsIs5fLifL2e-BTlVS3tkLtvaR3kCOpYCMeKZYGVN_8xXosZBYgAeOf-WshAIYmXOCWMor0FmTreqdOiaF9D7eVjsSKyxvGOT8kv8h6WoAZZF5mZEVqZ_gKCl34POxI04Znp7rGe1knyMIw/s9984/McGrath%20Orville%20-%20WWII%20OMPF36471.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="7759" data-original-width="9984" height="498" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPN73_OSVCKjI5pVe9pnk0aXOahNHKJ5p5Q07Y5U6QjhpRsIs5fLifL2e-BTlVS3tkLtvaR3kCOpYCMeKZYGVN_8xXosZBYgAeOf-WshAIYmXOCWMor0FmTreqdOiaF9D7eVjsSKyxvGOT8kv8h6WoAZZF5mZEVqZ_gKCl34POxI04Znp7rGe1knyMIw/w640-h498/McGrath%20Orville%20-%20WWII%20OMPF36471.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Orville was discharged on February 16. 1946 at Fort George G Meade in the Baltimore area of Maryland. On August 23rd of that year, Orville married Ethel Jaeschke in Baltimore. They later moved to Denver, Colorado where Orville worked for the US General Accounting office there. He died October 9, 1969 at age 55.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1_wZ8B9VFeL9YNGo5TAFOYblQwPPHo0hpSIjuy1cKn3jQ9RvsnMvVAdko9i8VUvqnF3JCld00JCrlHX6YXHZXpvVW3lK1EsyRzjtVvjxG9p3CbWhZW4DUmBqyiPkONyfg1OKlY8Rnj_exuDGinXP71bo01C2bq4HvQh4GeP19wPN3r_Ynskx7xUz6LQ/s2438/McGrathBrothers_Orville%20Virg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1779" data-original-width="2438" height="468" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1_wZ8B9VFeL9YNGo5TAFOYblQwPPHo0hpSIjuy1cKn3jQ9RvsnMvVAdko9i8VUvqnF3JCld00JCrlHX6YXHZXpvVW3lK1EsyRzjtVvjxG9p3CbWhZW4DUmBqyiPkONyfg1OKlY8Rnj_exuDGinXP71bo01C2bq4HvQh4GeP19wPN3r_Ynskx7xUz6LQ/w640-h468/McGrathBrothers_Orville%20Virg.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Orville on the left, Virg on the right.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div></div>Laura Mattinglyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522056774465727386noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353841027056144124.post-42408660938089032272023-04-30T06:45:00.001-07:002023-04-30T06:45:46.964-07:00Old Time Religion<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">One way of practicing my typing when I was learning that skill was to type up the lyrics to my favorite songs. I would record the song off the radio, play it back line by line, over and over making notes until I was sure of the lyrics. Then type a nice final copy. I guess Sadie and Alice didn't have a typewriter.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Handwritten lyrics to old church songs or religious folk songs were </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">found i</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">n the old trunk in the attic. I've said before that I think my Great Grandma Sadie Negley and her sister Alice were <a href="http://oldtrunkintheattic.blogspot.com/2019/11/sadies-lost-ring.html#comment-form" target="_blank">Sunday School teachers</a>. They must have liked music, but I don't know if either of them could play piano or any other instrument.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Not knowing if these were real songs, I Googled each one of these and was surprised to find most of them.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBbd1Dni6D3jBYtCCGS0ueos1N8Ki91ZJIh52mIovTSfA18jVm9seLVjz6JFuGKfX-MwfmxtUz2vKALupUT9j1Qphk8oo6WIz5irqQ9F_rplW7OvjUckjzi86gT4C6a9LecxYZHEp7pHRLii7qp4mDToaLyDPK45h5nY973OgGVJm9oJRFSSygvLsP-w/s5198/Songs_LetJesusComeIn.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5198" data-original-width="3484" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBbd1Dni6D3jBYtCCGS0ueos1N8Ki91ZJIh52mIovTSfA18jVm9seLVjz6JFuGKfX-MwfmxtUz2vKALupUT9j1Qphk8oo6WIz5irqQ9F_rplW7OvjUckjzi86gT4C6a9LecxYZHEp7pHRLii7qp4mDToaLyDPK45h5nY973OgGVJm9oJRFSSygvLsP-w/w429-h640/Songs_LetJesusComeIn.jpg" width="429" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"<i>Let Jesus Come Into Your Heart"</i>, written by Lelia N Morris (1862-1929).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">There are </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">YouTube videos of this song being sung by Patti Page, the First Baptist Church of Pacific Beach, George Byrd and more. <a href="https://hymnary.org/" target="_blank">Hymnary.org </a> has a printed copy of the music and lyrics from as early as 1890. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz1Hqd1wm7DuMd6Bw8Jg8zb1QVHpqdkxGojYcQy--Ulw_tDsCXljqCPT3s5BXBKCRBQ8yf5LDR52rQ1pqCM63us-l5kJ9ilYvH60E3mQ7HBEEect5sBptdsa6zJjIe9an1gGnZtEqKVv7PwS9Nb0sgKxKDYvZ2MdlYJcKFbKAYmtLPBxZv2eCwfCtI2g/s7128/Songs_DontStopPraying.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5572" data-original-width="7128" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz1Hqd1wm7DuMd6Bw8Jg8zb1QVHpqdkxGojYcQy--Ulw_tDsCXljqCPT3s5BXBKCRBQ8yf5LDR52rQ1pqCM63us-l5kJ9ilYvH60E3mQ7HBEEect5sBptdsa6zJjIe9an1gGnZtEqKVv7PwS9Nb0sgKxKDYvZ2MdlYJcKFbKAYmtLPBxZv2eCwfCtI2g/w400-h313/Songs_DontStopPraying.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"<i>Don't Stop Praying</i>", </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">written by Edna Randolph Worrell (1873-1961). A copy of this music is on her Find A Grave memorial. Edna wrote a long list of songs, "while she did her housework". The oldest copy of the music on the Hymnary website is from 1908.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"<i>Never Alone</i>", by Eliza Edmunds Hewitt (1851-1920). On YouTube there are a few different videos of church choirs singing a song with this title, but somewhat different lyrics than these. Again, oldest copy found on Hymnary is from 1890.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Other handwritten song lyrics include:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>"A Picture No Artist Can Paint"</i>, author unknown (<a href="http://balladindex.org/#gsc.tab=0" target="_blank">Ballad Index</a>). Apparently there are two different songs with this same title. Artists like Bobby Darin and the Leake County Revelers recorded a song by this title, but with different lyrics (found on YouTube).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: georgia;">"Never Pass Them By"</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">, lyrics found in a Latter Day Saints publication called Autumn Leaves, Vol 21, p 181 in 1908 (Herald Press, Lamoni, IA), without music, found on Google Books. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman";" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>"Take Good Care of Mother"</i>, by F Harding, copyright 1887. <a href="https://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/songster/17-you-will-never-know-a-mothers-love-again.htm" target="_blank">Traditionalmusic.co.uk</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>"Singing of His Love"</i>, I couldn't find anything about these lyrics. The handwriting of this one is not like the others, but the paper is just as old. The first verse goes:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "Happy as the songs that the birdies sing; are the songs of love, to the Savior King; </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Singing of his love makes our hearts so glad, We would never more be sad".</span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">One song sheet was written in ink on linen-like paper and the handwriting is different. </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"<i>Life's Railway to Heaven"</i>, was written by Charlie DD Tillman (1861-1943), J R Baxter and M E Abbey. A copy from 1890 is on Hymnary. </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Johnny Cash recorded this song and a video can be found on YouTube.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKbnFPfemg2nZ2kkX8ImA5SC4092TQ4b3oD5QBAx7e04MHUqtHscphgKiScu1piWwZAHhDogsJtvG4u7sehq7aG6LeoHxI5dRvAr8pdZEkBW2ZPp6W5oz4Y-gAwDAbfPTJJYGlOLMsenwVrKhOjq-ktfmFvnF68nGUPS_w5-FFD6uGPsFA5MPbleK5Zw/s6998/Songs_RailwaytoHeaven01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5529" data-original-width="6998" height="506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKbnFPfemg2nZ2kkX8ImA5SC4092TQ4b3oD5QBAx7e04MHUqtHscphgKiScu1piWwZAHhDogsJtvG4u7sehq7aG6LeoHxI5dRvAr8pdZEkBW2ZPp6W5oz4Y-gAwDAbfPTJJYGlOLMsenwVrKhOjq-ktfmFvnF68nGUPS_w5-FFD6uGPsFA5MPbleK5Zw/w640-h506/Songs_RailwaytoHeaven01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">We must make the run successful, from the cradle to the grave. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><p></p>Laura Mattinglyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522056774465727386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353841027056144124.post-87636612021620258602023-03-06T18:15:00.000-08:002023-03-06T18:15:06.842-08:00William Mann's Parents<p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">There are so many men named William Mann who came from England, it's a difficult name to research. Without any mention of his birthplace or parents' names in any records I had found, I was lost on my Second Great Grandfather's ancestry. Until someone posted the record of his second marriage on the Family Search website.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQWT9uBNz7efhRDrBJsKeZFPwc7KL92w65NiJXAdqN_KCkkPKBAOWGThN2X0ni_Xh7mJ-pHOXKZdTbqovWO8Jf7PokWnAlIuFgGVYTdLMXnIU8Fiv_vr6Fcd96jZUd5egpWTSWB4q41UT8a629IwOkV5_LosGHXssr8DuZEUBbcY8zvA4x_rN1aBZ-9A/s1140/Mann_Armstrong_1866_Marriage_pre1916_register_Combd.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="639" data-original-width="1140" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQWT9uBNz7efhRDrBJsKeZFPwc7KL92w65NiJXAdqN_KCkkPKBAOWGThN2X0ni_Xh7mJ-pHOXKZdTbqovWO8Jf7PokWnAlIuFgGVYTdLMXnIU8Fiv_vr6Fcd96jZUd5egpWTSWB4q41UT8a629IwOkV5_LosGHXssr8DuZEUBbcY8zvA4x_rN1aBZ-9A/w640-h358/Mann_Armstrong_1866_Marriage_pre1916_register_Combd.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This page of a marriage register from Peoria county, Illinois for the year 1896 shows "William Mann" of "Harbine, Jefferson Co. Neb", a "farmer" age "66" who was born in "Forncett, Norfolk" is the son of "Robert Mann and Elizabeth Groomes". This is</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> definitely the marriage of "my" William to Mary Armstrong, his second and her first marriage. I've edited the image above to show it all on this page. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">So, it's exciting to learn his parents' name and birthplace, but...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Also posted is this record of a baptism for "William, bastard son of Elizabeth Mann." The Baptism occurred on February 22, <b>1829</b> in Forncett, St Peter, his mother listed as a spinster. William Mann's birth date is consistently listed as February 12, <b>1830</b> in every other record I have, but for various reasons dates can be incorrect.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgON5lpcp-PxlBypxwVioiMBmdz1Dz51ePA9lS8qEvFE_VQp8niU3Pq1fSePRyQ7Chr2q24wgSICd9JZmYNC3mjVoZ0oBNjb5to79pTzwo5pEl_DTZ888CCsinQ4qcOmi9cl8jJ9R2KP9TvfgQNVROfjSkB4-omm4rttSAFyG2VdpFCec2SdR2DoQEu4g/s1773/MannWm_1829Bapt_soElizabeth_bastard_cropd.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1570" data-original-width="1773" height="566" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgON5lpcp-PxlBypxwVioiMBmdz1Dz51ePA9lS8qEvFE_VQp8niU3Pq1fSePRyQ7Chr2q24wgSICd9JZmYNC3mjVoZ0oBNjb5to79pTzwo5pEl_DTZ888CCsinQ4qcOmi9cl8jJ9R2KP9TvfgQNVROfjSkB4-omm4rttSAFyG2VdpFCec2SdR2DoQEu4g/w640-h566/MannWm_1829Bapt_soElizabeth_bastard_cropd.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p></p><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">The heading on this record reads:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Baptisms in the Parish of Forncett, St Peter in the County of Norfolk in the Year 1829</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">The last line reads:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Col 1 When Baptized: </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">1829 February 22nd No. 228</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Col 2 Child's Christian Name: William Bastard son of</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Col 3 Parents Name, Christian: Elizabeth</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Col 4 Parents Name, Surname: Mann</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Col 5 Abode: Forncett St Peter</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Col 6 Quality, Trade, or Profession: Spinster</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Col 7 By Whom the Ceremony was performed: (not sure) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Forncett is about 110 miles northeast of London, and 10 miles southwest of Norwich. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Peter%27s_Church,_Forncett" target="_blank">St Peter's</a> is a church parish located there. Click on the link for more information and a photo of this historic church on Wikipedia.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">So, did Robert Mann exist? Should I look for a Robert Groomes? Another record posted on Family Search for Elizabeth Mann shows her burial in the year 1847 at the age of 60. This would mean in 1829, she was about 42 years old. She lived in a Union Workhouse in Forncett, I need to find out more about that place. More research on these names might turn up some other records. Could this be why little information can be found about William Mann's heritage? </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtrYT9QNYg_Zs7A6ojrxNyjkRV06D45_Xz3UrlSKS7ChmHg7jT3VMkBgvCn8h3rzRZK3Bok9BlqWQadkaFEsBqDtGguhCigdsU2G-FKXyfbiC5Oio258jT_Fbb38YOm6ymavkhCjM04zuAlf1TMO5bg50ILWFCAaey6gcQoRLEK6-DONR9Nu1SMxgKnA/s1741/MannElizabeth_1847Death_register_comb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="919" data-original-width="1741" height="338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtrYT9QNYg_Zs7A6ojrxNyjkRV06D45_Xz3UrlSKS7ChmHg7jT3VMkBgvCn8h3rzRZK3Bok9BlqWQadkaFEsBqDtGguhCigdsU2G-FKXyfbiC5Oio258jT_Fbb38YOm6ymavkhCjM04zuAlf1TMO5bg50ILWFCAaey6gcQoRLEK6-DONR9Nu1SMxgKnA/w640-h338/MannElizabeth_1847Death_register_comb.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Whatever the case, William Mann traveled to America on his own, married a widow with a young daughter, raised her and seven children of his own, was married to his first wife for 33 years, became a successful farmer and left a legacy to be honored. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div>Laura Mattinglyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522056774465727386noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353841027056144124.post-70773686620361280752023-02-01T17:45:00.000-08:002023-02-01T17:45:06.864-08:00Centenarian Eliza Menke<p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFt2Q6LJkyD4abzh7iqpjqJXSbVSDP9L-cb1zguDxcUPHrAki4Zz2iRfA1L7bUbM14Tiz0yAOQycEszG85Y-tW1odrQCl4D1OQf48yw5VVJy5C8m4ZEJTiN8F9B1MuoZbaiMBJ4iTHBoEh7ftalkrIAHfdouijZsSMMVZjHfVGuZAEs85gxrhNCMzDQw/s2570/MenkeElizaKnapp_100thBday.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2103" data-original-width="2570" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFt2Q6LJkyD4abzh7iqpjqJXSbVSDP9L-cb1zguDxcUPHrAki4Zz2iRfA1L7bUbM14Tiz0yAOQycEszG85Y-tW1odrQCl4D1OQf48yw5VVJy5C8m4ZEJTiN8F9B1MuoZbaiMBJ4iTHBoEh7ftalkrIAHfdouijZsSMMVZjHfVGuZAEs85gxrhNCMzDQw/w400-h328/MenkeElizaKnapp_100thBday.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Eliza (Knapp) Menke</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">A few months ago, I notice this photo of Eliza Menke posted on Family Search by Laura Quimby. It was possibly taken at her 100th birthday party, but I can't say that for sure. I want to share this great picture with my Menke relatives. Below is an article I wrote for the Nebraska State Genealogical Society's quarterly publication, "<i>Nebraska Ancestree</i>" (Vol 44-1, 2021)</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A Century of Eliza</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Born near Wurttemburg, Germany in 1841, she left with her family before the revolution of 1848. She died in Nebraska in 1944 while members of her family were fighting a war against her home country. In between, she "<i>led a life of feverish activity."</i></span><a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote1sym" name="sdfootnote1anc" style="font-family: georgia;"><sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></sup></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Heinrich & Caroline (Schukky or Schocke) Knapp welcomed Elizabeth, their first baby girl on May 15, 1841. Their two sons, Frederick and Lewis were still toddlers, and another son, Heinrich Ernst, was born a few years later. Because of the economic hardship and political unrest in Germany, Heinrich & Caroline made the decision to take their family to America. Eliza was just 4 years old when she spent eleven weeks sailing at sea in 1845. They passed port inspections in New York City, and traveled on to Scioto County, Ohio, where father "Henry" got work in the mines. Four more children were born in Ohio between 1848 and 1857 - Mary, Hannah, August and George. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">On January 13, 1867 in Scioto County, Eliza became the wife of 34 year-old widower Henry Menke, as well as mother to his four children. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">At that time, Mary Ellen "Emma" was 9, John Frederich was 6, Henry Jr 3 and "Lizzie" was 1. Their own children started filling their home in 1868 with a daughter Ann Caroline. In 1869 a son, John, was born and died. A string of daughters started in 1870 with Mary, in 1872 Mathilde, 1874 Katharine, 1877 Eliza and in January of 1879, Rosa.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In 1878, Henry took a tour of western states and made the decision to move his family to Nebraska in the spring of 1879. Eliza's parents may have seen her for the last time that spring. Traveling by boat down the Ohio river to Cincinnati, then they boarded a train bound for Atchison, Kansas. From there likely by wagon, they headed northwest to Gage County. The family, minus the oldest daugher Emma who stayed with relatives in Ohio, settled on a farm two miles south and one mile west of Clatonia, in Section 33. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">A son, George Edward, was the first to be born in Nebraska in 1881, followed by daughter Nettie in 1883, son Lewis who was born and died in 1885. At age 45, Eliza gave birth to her eleventh and final child, Charles Albert in 1886.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">A lifelong Christian, Eliza had a pious upbringing in the United Brethren church with her parents. Her husband Henry was also devoutly religious and occasionally served as a local preacher. Prior to his death in 1915, Henry arranged his own funeral text and songs himself. "<i>Together, they established a church in the home, where services were held." </i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote2sym" name="sdfootnote2anc" style="font-family: georgia;"><sup>2</sup></a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">They were members of the German Methodist Church and later Eliza united with the Methodist Episcopal Church of Clatonia where she still held membership at her death.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Soon after getting settled in Clatonia, Eliza started planting flowers and vegetable gardens. Over the years, she became known for her beautiful gardens. She took a serious interest in their orchard, and she taught herself how to develop different species of fruits from seeds. Her fondness of birds and love of nature in general were a characteristic to be admired in her.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Eliza Menke is credited with having one of the first mechanical chick-incubators and brooders in her part of the country</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">.</span><a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote3sym" name="sdfootnote3anc" style="font-family: georgia;"><sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></sup></a><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Articles in several Nebraska newspapers in February of 1897 are touting the "<i>latest thing in the chicken business is the electric incubator"</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">.</span><a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote4sym" name="sdfootnote4anc" style="font-family: georgia;"><sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></sup></a><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">The 1885 agriculture census shows Eliza had 110 chickens and 200 dozen eggs were produced in 1884. Those numbers likely increased around 1900. Eliza was also one of the earliest people in the area to operate a sorghum mill. She was a pioneer in the truest sense of the word, and as matriarch of the family was likely an inspiring roll model.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Education, science and religion were topics that were held in high regard in the Menke household. Henry Menke, Jr graduated from the Peru Normal and later the University of Chicago. He designed and patented a revolving fan in 1885. He also became an ordained Minister of the Gospel and preached in Iowa, Missouri and Michigan. Eliza's other step-son John Frederich ran a successful grocery business for over 30 years after he moved back to Portsmouth, Ohio. Eliza's son George Edward also became a U.S. Patent holder in 1912 for a railroad loading device, and later invented a corn sheller he called a "Little GEM" (his initials). Daughter Mathidle was a switchboard operator for the telephone company she and her husband ran.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">With Eliza's large family, many big family reunions were held at her home. She was known for her hospitality and visitors were always well entertained. Besides her own children, she had many nieces and nephews in Nebraska, some nearby and others out west. Her sister Mary became Mrs John Boggs and they raised their family near Tobias. Another sister Hannah and her husband Conrad Smith were residents in Garden County. In 1988, 72 descendants of these three sisters gathered for a reunion in Firth.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The
Menke farm in Section 33 was home to Eliza until after her 90</span><sup style="font-family: georgia;">th</sup><span style="font-family: georgia;">
birthday and she celebrated her 100</span><sup style="font-family: georgia;">th</sup><span style="font-family: georgia;"> birthday at the
place she helped build and knew for 62 years. She was able to live by
herself until after that milestone. In her final year and a half on
earth, as her health began to fail, the Anna Rohe Nursing home in
Lincoln became her home. Her strong heart kept going for 102 years, 8
months and 17 days, then beat for the last time on February 2, 1944.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Descendants of Eliza & Henry Menke are: Ann Caroline "Carrie" & Louis Kloepper; Mathilde & WilliamH Daubendiek; Katharine & John Henry Wayman; Eliza Jane & Richard Kiene; Rosa & Lewis Wayman; George E & Kathryn (Detmer) Menke; Nettie & Franklin Steinmeyer; Charles Albert & Charlotte "Lottie" (Roscoe) Menke and their many children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and a continuing line of generations to come. Eliza had outlived her husband, all of her siblings, her four step-children, five of her own children and eight grandchildren. The Menke farm was sold at auction on August 5, 1944 sixty-five plus years after Henry & Eliza first set foot on the land.</span></div><div>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote1anc" name="sdfootnote1sym">1</a><span>“</span><i>Obituary,
Eliza Knapp Menke</i><span>”, The Beatrice Times for Women, February 16,
1944 pg 1</span></span></p>
<div id="sdfootnote2"><p class="sdfootnote"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote2anc" name="sdfootnote2sym">2</a>Ibid.</span></p>
</div>
<div id="sdfootnote3"><p class="sdfootnote"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote3anc" name="sdfootnote3sym">3</a>“<i>Obituary,
Eliza Knapp Menke</i>”, The Beatrice Times for Women, February 16,
1944 pg 1
</span></p>
</div>
<div id="sdfootnote4"><p class="sdfootnote"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote4anc" name="sdfootnote4sym">4</a>“<i>Something
New in Incubators</i>”, Seward Weekly Reporter, February 18, 1897,
pg 1</span></p><p class="sdfootnote"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="sdfootnote"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p>
</div><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span><p></p></div></div>Laura Mattinglyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522056774465727386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353841027056144124.post-43591617456333077832023-01-01T07:00:00.000-08:002023-01-01T07:00:02.694-08:00Rock, Paper, DAR<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYMs9_0rZxdTuNgrLhrA-0KYfFN9-JHSQ5wEqmzCH2aoe4HDzr6Tnqq1sFDrx4yhhoRi6y2Ua4jpzIthyK9NeAokvlcZodeiAqaXAautwrRzhKEYXkvbjQEgzmrd1hzo1k75S0tkXc1AX9p7FY_QXpGLVrutXXV1NqH5CqGHLBklsGcsMEp-09-iTJ7A/s3300/SimmonsLibbeus_Spotlight.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3300" data-original-width="2550" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYMs9_0rZxdTuNgrLhrA-0KYfFN9-JHSQ5wEqmzCH2aoe4HDzr6Tnqq1sFDrx4yhhoRi6y2Ua4jpzIthyK9NeAokvlcZodeiAqaXAautwrRzhKEYXkvbjQEgzmrd1hzo1k75S0tkXc1AX9p7FY_QXpGLVrutXXV1NqH5CqGHLBklsGcsMEp-09-iTJ7A/w309-h400/SimmonsLibbeus_Spotlight.jpg" width="309" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>The Daughters of the American Revolution as a lineage society is well-respected for it's devotion to accuracy. </span><span>The DAR requires documentation of each link in a family’s lineage to a Revolutionary War Patriot.</span><span> The connections of each generation in the line must have approved documentation to support the relationships.</span></span><p></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Joining the DAR for me was a way of validating my genealogy skills.</span><span> When I found I connected to a Patriot through each of my Grandparents, I made it my goal to prove each line through DAR and to honor each of them with their proven lineage to a Patriot. My paternal Grandparents are descendants of Asa Corbin and Stephen Bliss. My maternal Grandfather is a descendant of John Adair, Sr (and Jr). My maternal Grandmother is a descendant of Libbeus Simmons, Sr, but after many years of searching, my application was denied due to lack of documentation for two of the links in two generations. DAR had the Scissors to my Paper.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Family notes told me my 2<sup>nd</sup> Great Grandparents were John McGrath and Rachel Simmons, Rachel was born somewhere in Pennsylvania. Searching for Rachel in the 1850 Pennsylvania census, when she was a young girl, I found an 8 year old Rachel with parents Lebius and Ruth Simmons. Then I found a Libbeus Simmons listed as a Revolutionary War Patriot. Seeing some information that the Patriot had a son named Lebbeus, who was too old for the father of Rachel, led me to believe there was a line of 3 men named Lebbeus Simmons. Exact spelling having no significance, I am sure of this line of men. The problem is finding any documentation to prove this - a Rock I'm up against.<u></u></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>The records I need fall into a time period where record keeping was sparse in the locations they were living. Births, marriages and deaths may have been recorded at the time, but those records did not survive until they were compiled and published. </span><span>I have always tried my best to be accurate with my family history research, including finding actual documentation to link each person through the generations. The records I need here just don't seem to exist anymore. </span><span>There is no contradicting information, nothing that doesn’t make sense. </span><span>Awritten analysis of the connection between two generations is allowed only once. I wrote an analysis for the link between Rachel and her father Lebius III to no avail. </span><span>Can there be any prophecy in my naming this blog “<i>Old Trunk in the Attic?</i>”</span><u></u><span> What I need might have to come from someone's personal stash of very old papers, if they have kept them this long. Does anyone have a Simmons Family Bible from the early 1800's? </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Until I can cover the Rock with a Paper that the DAR will accept, the DAR takes this one. But we're going best of 3. </span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /></p>Laura Mattinglyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522056774465727386noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353841027056144124.post-31059350213929805362022-12-01T16:00:00.000-08:002022-12-01T16:00:48.818-08:00December Anniversaries in the Family Tree<p> </p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjik_z5Cc8oA48-6i8uJBTB1FV5ftl5P5j1EJber2Q8--tx2rjjDOrxzfP5XYN5Su9UIci2XYQigaFNg6VyVHE1dRs4BMgx70xmyz4xL1mV42gWN7661S9enNkZRZvITZJQzj6b6qXoCjGeEAMBSy7SjI75unYJM260NF4qAs3nzzio_xE9o5Iz-Ag_Fg/s906/CalendarDEC.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="906" data-original-width="596" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjik_z5Cc8oA48-6i8uJBTB1FV5ftl5P5j1EJber2Q8--tx2rjjDOrxzfP5XYN5Su9UIci2XYQigaFNg6VyVHE1dRs4BMgx70xmyz4xL1mV42gWN7661S9enNkZRZvITZJQzj6b6qXoCjGeEAMBSy7SjI75unYJM260NF4qAs3nzzio_xE9o5Iz-Ag_Fg/w264-h400/CalendarDEC.jpg" width="264" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">and December trees are brown</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><u>December</u></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Bell family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">15th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Benjamin Franklin Spann died 1901, age 74</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">29th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - John Silas Bell died 1878, age 64</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>McGrath family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">7th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Josiah Foster Negley born 1846 (son of John & Ruth Negley)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">8th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - John Negley died 1884 age 76</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">27th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Ruth (Foster) Negley died 1895, age 87 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">31st</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Charles Lee died 1861, age about 41</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Menke family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">4th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Henry Menke born 1832 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">11th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Mary Crosby Fero born 1836 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">17th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Caroline Schukky born 1813 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">25th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Heinrich Knapp born 1805</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Mann family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">20th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Anna (Rich) Gaisford died 1882, age 64 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">22nd</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - John Potter Smith died 1903, age 78</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Mattingly family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Boone family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> </span><b style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><u>Tunk Spalding family ancestors</u></b></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">27th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Mary Louisa (Abell) Spalding died 1900, age 68</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Hutt Spalding family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">2nd</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Cora Lula Spalding born 1889 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">3rd</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Mary Jane Abell born 1817</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">18th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Ann Melvina (Simms) Spalding died 1911, age 80</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br />Laura Mattinglyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522056774465727386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353841027056144124.post-22991703220865919412022-11-02T03:30:00.001-07:002022-11-02T03:30:00.161-07:00November Anniversaries in the Family Tree<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg50oz2Gh0fzL0cHDK1Ug82ZIaQ0xn2-ZMlcS6ECo_zqNR1xtvtlgsc5o-2Ea06MIr08CBS1SrxCr2AogRLoOQVWW3Au03iDCIKEj0dYl-QDTOz8QOlSij9NX-CinqAF8G7DrxNzncH8hI_amrIEa-ItSGI5U1gHiAtSdSShpfddHZEansnghw9jDUTqg/s912/CalendarNOV.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="912" data-original-width="584" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg50oz2Gh0fzL0cHDK1Ug82ZIaQ0xn2-ZMlcS6ECo_zqNR1xtvtlgsc5o-2Ea06MIr08CBS1SrxCr2AogRLoOQVWW3Au03iDCIKEj0dYl-QDTOz8QOlSij9NX-CinqAF8G7DrxNzncH8hI_amrIEa-ItSGI5U1gHiAtSdSShpfddHZEansnghw9jDUTqg/w256-h400/CalendarNOV.jpg" width="256" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">When November's leaves fall faster...</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><u>November</u></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Bell family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">3rd</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Martha Eveline Bell born 1842</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">4th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Martha Eveline Bell died 1928, age 86</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>McGrath family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">24th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Rachel Jane Simmons born 1841</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">26th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Susannah (Case) Lee born 1822 </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Menke family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">2nd</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Ole Jorgenson & Caroline Magrethe Peterson married 1866</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">7th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Charles Albert Menke born 1886</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">19th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Kenneth Charles Menke & Doris Darle Mann married 1938 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">28th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Kenneth Charles Menke born 1917 </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Mann family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Mattingly family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">20th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Joseph Hamilton "Ham" Mattingly & Harriet Elizabeth "Lib" Spalding married 1934 </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Boone family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">2nd</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - John G Ballard & Elizabeth Nally married 1814 </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Tunk Spalding family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">7th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Joseph T Spalding & Harriett Elizabeth "Bettie" Thomas married 1879</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">9th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Joseph Abner Abell II & Martha Nancy Mills married 1819 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">13th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Robert S Thomas born 1803 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">20th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Harriet Elizabeth "Lib" (Spalding) Mattingly born 1911 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">26th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Harriett Elizabeth "Bettie" (Thomas) Spalding died 1896, age 37 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">? </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">- Mark Theodore Thomas born 1834</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Hutt Spalding family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">28th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Elizabeth (Beaven) Luckett died 1850, age 65 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">24th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - John Hudson "Hutt" Spalding & Mary Susan Isabelle "Belle" Luckett married 1874 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>Laura Mattinglyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522056774465727386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353841027056144124.post-65181870558927379652022-10-02T01:00:00.001-07:002022-10-02T01:00:00.179-07:00October Anniversaries in the Family Tree<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQn2Fk7bS7H9CoEf7casflXYBeMrN6-Pu1ybN87TXlaC_GiZ6-BWh4oOz1ol1KKDFG86fq53YlmKAWofOJ2YOTMm3GLG3VlhKnoeFn7iHuYXkobozGwE2RG_R-wWvyGWiAl5jp3LK9XabIcawAddx--mi4HDt4zUjDy1MEGTdY2D2zCDitECDKh6y63g/s921/CalendarOCT.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="921" data-original-width="542" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQn2Fk7bS7H9CoEf7casflXYBeMrN6-Pu1ybN87TXlaC_GiZ6-BWh4oOz1ol1KKDFG86fq53YlmKAWofOJ2YOTMm3GLG3VlhKnoeFn7iHuYXkobozGwE2RG_R-wWvyGWiAl5jp3LK9XabIcawAddx--mi4HDt4zUjDy1MEGTdY2D2zCDitECDKh6y63g/w235-h400/CalendarOCT.jpg" width="235" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">for October's golden crown...</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><u><br />October</u></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u>Bell family ancestors</u></b></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">18th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Benjamin Franklin Spann born 1827 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">20th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - James Stanley Bell died 1970, age 63</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">29th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Abner Decker & Mary "Polly" Garner married 1816 </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>McGrath family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">8th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Arthur Levi McGrath & Sadie Ellen Negley married 1908 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">11th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Sarah Maria Matilda (Lee) Negley died 1927, age 78</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">17th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Arthur Levi McGrath born 1876</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">25th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Ruth Marie (Smith)(Simmons) Webb died 1863, age about 44 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">31st</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Charles Lee born 1820 (possibly 1813) </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Menke family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">3rd</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Lena M (Jorgenson) Roscoe died 1949, age 91 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">18th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Charles Albert Menke & Charlotte Isabelle "Lottie" Roscoe married 1906 </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Mann family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">3rd</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - James Gaisford born 1820 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">18th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Clarence Lemuel Mann died 1968, age 90</span></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Mattingly family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">14th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Joseph Hamilton "Ham" Mattingly died 1990, age 81 </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Boone family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">2nd</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Christopher Boone & Ann Rhodes married 1824 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">9th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Walter Boone & Mildred Edelin married 1783</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Tunk Spalding family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">10th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Joseph Abner Abell II born 1795</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">18th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - William Thomas "Tunk" Spalding born 1818 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">21st</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Mary (Fenwick) Abell died 1886 or 1888, age 74 or 76</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Hutt Spalding family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Laura Mattinglyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522056774465727386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353841027056144124.post-72587787034327530222022-09-01T10:30:00.000-07:002022-09-01T10:30:05.418-07:00September Anniversaries in the Family Tree <p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2JNf6GsYSQy0w6GG0LaG5yHMDkdx5OezdBcBPcIhd621WAKUhEFcvKnp9o2QHYFrfEQlXvj136jwklR5hDTPhdAksaKgKpIe2OqYsJ0tJxGRXqDMfCqSr-9KmpLoZ_FXXZATbMcLbOQdVGsaRVz2tuHRkqMd5AFuB7EVAU-p5BAYFiNF1E3DSbdpqvQ/s858/CalendarSEP.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="858" data-original-width="566" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2JNf6GsYSQy0w6GG0LaG5yHMDkdx5OezdBcBPcIhd621WAKUhEFcvKnp9o2QHYFrfEQlXvj136jwklR5hDTPhdAksaKgKpIe2OqYsJ0tJxGRXqDMfCqSr-9KmpLoZ_FXXZATbMcLbOQdVGsaRVz2tuHRkqMd5AFuB7EVAU-p5BAYFiNF1E3DSbdpqvQ/w264-h400/CalendarSEP.jpg" width="264" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">When September finds the aster...</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><u><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">September</span></u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Bell family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">24th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - James Stanley Bell & Violet Jennivee McGrath married 1938</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">26th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Mary "Hiley" Ann (Decker) Spann born 1836 </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>McGrath family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">15th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - John Negley & Ruth Foster married 1836</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">19th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Violet Jennivee (McGrath) Bell born 1917 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">28th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Sadie Ellen (Negley) McGrath died 1958, age 78 </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Menke family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">2nd</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - William Harlow Roscoe died 1947, age 88</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">4th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Caroline (Schukky) Knapp died 1895, age 81</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">16th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Charles Albert Menke died 1965, age 78 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">17th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Caroline Magrethe (Peterson) Jorgenson died 1910, age 63 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">20th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Henry Menke died 1915, age 82</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">20th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Charlotte Isabelle (Roscoe) Menke born 1887 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">29th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Ole Jorgenson died 1908, age 71</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Mann family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">3rd</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Henrietta Abigail (Smith) Gaisford born 1848 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">14th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - William Mann & Nancy Jane Climie married 1861 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">18th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Doris Darle (Mann) Menke died 2017, age 97</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Mattingly family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Boone family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> 1st</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Elizabeth (Nally) Ballard born 1785</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">28th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Mary Frances Charlotte "Lottie" Boone died 1962, age 84 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Tunk Spalding family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">7th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Richard Augustine Spalding died 1850, age 73</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">15th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Martha Nancy (Mills) Abell born 1798 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">22nd</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Marcus Thomas Spalding born 1886 </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Hutt Spalding family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Richard Augustine Spalding is the common ancestor of the "Tunk" and "Hutt" Spalding lines.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Laura Mattinglyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522056774465727386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353841027056144124.post-2913822881503520752022-08-14T13:15:00.000-07:002022-08-14T13:15:04.663-07:00Spann photo: Do You See What I See?<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I am possibly looking for the first time at the faces of 3 of my direct ancestors!</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9YiAAvEL4IDWaiMcO00P1TLVk7zFzoMmOQsNOepTMAoDaPvn0nAyPHZDTY3d9I8Lt2TlZWs_bNiKXZ1ZaiVPcQ_ATuhmeSu3V5a1uggMk-VK-mmacWBtUQP98jKUVumaomCU29f_tisyGegZGMcdyMm2wWAN2BGoeSiQY0cL4Gcfj6Xz0VU2Rj3Ud-w/s1024/SpannBenjaminFranklin_Watermark.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="838" data-original-width="1024" height="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9YiAAvEL4IDWaiMcO00P1TLVk7zFzoMmOQsNOepTMAoDaPvn0nAyPHZDTY3d9I8Lt2TlZWs_bNiKXZ1ZaiVPcQ_ATuhmeSu3V5a1uggMk-VK-mmacWBtUQP98jKUVumaomCU29f_tisyGegZGMcdyMm2wWAN2BGoeSiQY0cL4Gcfj6Xz0VU2Rj3Ud-w/w640-h525/SpannBenjaminFranklin_Watermark.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">Photo courtesy of Beth Spann Curtis</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Recently, a comment on another post here led to an email exchange with a distant cousin, Beth Spann Curtis, which led to her sharing with me this incredible photo. Her father, Herbert Spann, was the youngest son of Marrion Spann. Marrion was the youngest son of Benjamin Franklin Spann and his first wife Hiley Ann. This photo had come to Beth's father from a woman named Opal, who I believe was Opal Peers Spann, the wife of James Kenneth Spann. James was a son of William Henry Spann, who was a son of Ben and his second wife, Mattie. Opal's daughter, Linda had also contacted me a few years ago and shared some photos her mother had, but not this one. All of those people are gone now, leaving Beth & I wondering who the people are in this photo.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>"Benjamin Franklin" is written on the bottom of the copy, if "Spann" was once written there also, it has been cut off. I don't know who wrote that or when it was written there. I don't know the date this was taken or the format of the original photo. </span><span>I have only a digital copy, and Beth does not have the original. She believes that Opal had it and where it is now is unknown.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>My eyes</span><span> immediately saw all the girls in the photo. I knew that Ben & Hiley Ann Spann had eight daughters, the second youngest is my Great Grandmother Allie (Spann) Bell. The girl that strikes me most as having a possible resemblance to other photos I have of Allie (by the shape of her face) is the girl standing directly behind the bearded man. There are 8 females over the age of say 10 in the picture. The young girl standing next to the bearded old man, looks like about 5 years old, and there are 3 infants. Then the four males, one a young boy I'd guess to be about 10. </span></span></p><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>Ben, who died in 1901, was married twice.</span><span> </span><span>Hiley Ann, his first wife, died in 1884 at age 47, two years after Marrion was born. Ben & Hiley Ann were married in Wayne County, Kentucky and raised their family there. Their children and their birth year were Abner, born 1854, Amanda, 1855, Telitha, 1858, Juda, 1860, Polly, 1863, Margaret, 1866, Tranquilla "Trannie", 1870, Allie, 1871, Etta, 1878 and Marrion, 1882. </span><span>Marrion was 11 years younger than Allie. </span></span></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Ben's second wife Mattie died in 1893 along with twin sons. At that time, they had other children, Lewis, born 1887, William Henry, born 1889, Stacy, born 1891 and Bertha, born 1892.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">At first, I was looking at the boy in the picture to be Marrion, and the bearded man as Ben with his wife Mattie and their young children, but I couldn't place the young girl. Ben and Mattie had 2 boys before 2 girls. When Marrion was born, four of his oldest siblings were already married, so I considered Ben's grandchildren could be included. Abner had 4 boys between 1874 & 1879. There were no girls near the age of 5 to explain the young girl.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Beth said that she thought she remembered someone saying that Ben was a baby in the photo. Ben was born in 1827, too early for this photo. But, what if Marrion is a baby? Marrion was born in January of 1882. What if he is the infant on the lap of the man on the left? What if that man is Benjamin Franklin Spann? What if his wife Hiley Ann is sitting next to him? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Looking at everyone as if it is late 1882, the young girl standing next to the bearded man could be Etta, about 5. The girl behind the bearded man then could really be Allie, age 12.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">So, from the left side, the young boy could be explained as one of Abner's boys, likely his oldest, John Franklin, age 8, with Abner standing next to him. The daughters would all range in age from 27 to 12, so it's hard to say who is who for sure. Looking closer at the woman seated next to the bearded man, she looks to me like she might be the oldest of the females. She might actually be Hiley Ann. She may be holding a granddaughter - Juda had married in 1879 to James Brammer and had daughters Rosalia in 1880 and Viola in February of 1882. It could be Juda holding the infant on the far right.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">With all of this as a possibility, could the bearded man be Ben's father, Hartwell Spann? My Third Great Grandfather?! Hiley Ann's father, Abner Decker, died in 1860. Hartwell was born in 1801 and would be 81 years old. He is living in the 1880 census there in Wayne County. He is first noted on the 1850 census record as being blind. Looking at the eyes of the bearded man makes me wonder. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>The things I can't explain are: Where are Abner's other boys? They are all too close in age for any of them to be an infant. </span><span>The missing spouses of those who were married by 1882 could be explained if they chose to include only the blood relatives, no spouses. People do that.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I'm very grateful to Beth for sharing this photo with me and allowing me to share it with the rest of my family. We may never know for sure who is who, but this seems to me to be the family of Ben & Hiley Ann Spann. Have I just put faces to the names of my Second Great and one Third Great Grandparent?! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Laura Mattinglyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522056774465727386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353841027056144124.post-53606012245268171462022-08-01T03:00:00.001-07:002022-08-01T03:00:00.172-07:00August Anniversaries in the Family Tree <p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvfANBRFn4GAnnll0K1fvqX7moIbOvbeWx1xcnw0L9xAIUFjIyd0p83pNv5RKj5Co8lRfcFpJo06gfbDX4bYJIy9j_R4520a-eRQFUxkxKrY9we96g16rKtj7X7VQ39d_f8YpdLo6QUCYItAKrhkxhDDTL3k_lWU7nKuaHYuRS9y8zWYTLXO8--OYdZQ/s858/CalendarAUG.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="858" data-original-width="573" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvfANBRFn4GAnnll0K1fvqX7moIbOvbeWx1xcnw0L9xAIUFjIyd0p83pNv5RKj5Co8lRfcFpJo06gfbDX4bYJIy9j_R4520a-eRQFUxkxKrY9we96g16rKtj7X7VQ39d_f8YpdLo6QUCYItAKrhkxhDDTL3k_lWU7nKuaHYuRS9y8zWYTLXO8--OYdZQ/w268-h400/CalendarAUG.jpg" width="268" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">and August lilies blaze...</td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><u>August</u></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Bell family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">1st</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - James Stanley Bell born 1907</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>McGrath family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Menke family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Mann family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">29th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Mary Jane (Hull) (Clemie) Jones born 1816 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">29th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - William Mann died 1905, age 75 (son-in-law of Mary Jane (Hull) (Clemie) Jones) </span></p><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Mattingly family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">28th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - William Alfred Bryant Mattingly & Mary Frances Charlotte "Lottie" Boone married 1900 </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Boone family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> 1st</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Robert I Boone born 1837</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Tunk Spalding family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">13th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Joseph Abner Abell, II died 1863, age 67 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">13th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Mark Theodore Thomas died 1919, age 84</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">22nd</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Martha Nancy (Mills) Abell died 1875, age 76 (wife of Joseph Abner Abell, II) </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Hutt Spalding family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">18th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Mary Susan Isabelle "Belle" Luckett died 1908, age 51</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">20th </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - John Simms died 1879, age 72 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>Laura Mattinglyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522056774465727386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353841027056144124.post-81089362212791792272022-07-01T03:00:00.001-07:002022-07-01T03:00:00.176-07:00July Anniversaries in the Family Tree<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvDolEoF7Hu0_f5MZvaMdVihPui4rkU5v8yUL4oII0dHdhO9xgoLBvvIW-H7fT0sjb9RSvN_FFi7cyIm1jMe1Q4o6zQB8dziBBNCI3E1Fcpn_GHMm7TzmpJ7GEGHnr_iHpMJIVp5iir6LmYWe85NhtVcTstg09dVQDdddM7pUIeEjMkg8HmKk7oknHNA/s923/CalendarJUL.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="923" data-original-width="593" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvDolEoF7Hu0_f5MZvaMdVihPui4rkU5v8yUL4oII0dHdhO9xgoLBvvIW-H7fT0sjb9RSvN_FFi7cyIm1jMe1Q4o6zQB8dziBBNCI3E1Fcpn_GHMm7TzmpJ7GEGHnr_iHpMJIVp5iir6LmYWe85NhtVcTstg09dVQDdddM7pUIeEjMkg8HmKk7oknHNA/w258-h400/CalendarJUL.jpg" width="258" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">when July suns are glowing...</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><u>July</u></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Bell family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">1st</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> - Mary "Hiley" Ann (Decker) Spann died 1884, age 47</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>McGrath family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">4th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Ruth (Foster) Negley born 1808 </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Menke family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">5th</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="font-family: georgia;">- David A Roscoe born 1823</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Mann family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">4th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Cora Mabel (Gaisford) Mann died 1971, age 89 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">5th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Clarence Lemuel Mann & Cora Mabel Gaisford married 1899 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">28th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Mary Abigail (Bliss) Smith born 1829 </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Mattingly family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">24th</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> - Gabriel Mattingly & Ann Juliette Molohon married 1810 </span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Boone family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> 24th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Charlotte "Lottie" (Ballard) Johnson born 1823</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">? </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">- James Matthew Johnson born 1824 (husband of Charlotte "Lottie" (Ballard) Johnson</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Tunk Spalding family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">4th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Anna Louisa (Abell) Thomas born 1837</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">11th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Mark Theodore Thomas & Anna Louisa Abell married 1854</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Hutt Spalding family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Laura Mattinglyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522056774465727386noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353841027056144124.post-43413796732031414252022-06-01T16:45:00.000-07:002022-06-01T16:45:08.554-07:00June Anniversaries in the Family Tree<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6XelC4OE2-SFApBNxxpcZWlvd8bma-L6jMIFxW3cZ833JCsG5i__Jx7QXuf6momtDsLjjCsOZlTljWRV8pRJMzIMG1GS3MbzDaDsG3WxrhN7okwpUP719Bt_X9aqTqPa76EtCmOcc5z2L3BXIBM1yQvo3-z1tGFiUxPJymfw7lxmkkwgNXUDsYtfRRQ/s929/CalendarJUN.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="929" data-original-width="599" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6XelC4OE2-SFApBNxxpcZWlvd8bma-L6jMIFxW3cZ833JCsG5i__Jx7QXuf6momtDsLjjCsOZlTljWRV8pRJMzIMG1GS3MbzDaDsG3WxrhN7okwpUP719Bt_X9aqTqPa76EtCmOcc5z2L3BXIBM1yQvo3-z1tGFiUxPJymfw7lxmkkwgNXUDsYtfRRQ/w258-h400/CalendarJUN.jpg" width="258" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">When June shows leafy ways...</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><u>June</u></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Bell family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">29th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Cicero Bell born 1869 </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>McGrath family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">14th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Rachel Jane (Simmons) McGrath died 1896, age 54</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">16th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Charles Lee & Susannah Case married 1845 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">18th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Violet Jennivee (McGrath) Bell died 1991, age 73</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">19th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Arthur Levi McGrath died 1965, age 88 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">24th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - John McGrath born 1831? </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Menke family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Mann family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">2nd</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Mary Abigail (Bliss) Smith died 1866, age 36 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">8th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Doris Daryle (Mann) Menke born 1920 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">18th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Clarence Lemuel Mann born 1878 </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Mattingly family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">15th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Gabriel Mattingly born 1777 </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Boone family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Tunk Spalding family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">7th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Mary (Fenwick) Abell born 1812</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">9th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Henrietta (Thompson) Spalding died 1826, age 40</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">28th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Anna Louisa (Abell) Thomas died 1893, age 55</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Hutt Spalding family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">11th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Mary Jane (Abell) Luckett died 1871, age 53 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">17th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Henry Luckett & Elizabeth Beaven married 1805 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">24th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - John Hudson "Hutt" Spalding born 1852 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">30th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Mary Elizabeth (Wathen) Simms died 1876, age 74</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Henrietta (Thompson) Spalding is the common ancestor of both the "Tunk" and "Hutt" Spalding lines. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>Laura Mattinglyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522056774465727386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353841027056144124.post-72747125931161684942022-05-01T15:45:00.002-07:002022-06-21T18:33:06.847-07:00May Anniversaries in the Family Tree<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggX05PSe1JlharRVkJDY-8kzs37o1J6DcxPaXCY90p_C32XStHSsn6kYWm2orGRidWNxJk-NEQNCEnbvaUI383X8EcxgO4ukkRsHlZNepUNOR2R4kz_2yuGbPk0yRU4TKxgjmkUA9AUFPSXk6WGcDJ2faTm2UUYkD7ZSntfuv7Y4tNHNJcE42piZXXAw/s901/CalendarMAY.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="901" data-original-width="588" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggX05PSe1JlharRVkJDY-8kzs37o1J6DcxPaXCY90p_C32XStHSsn6kYWm2orGRidWNxJk-NEQNCEnbvaUI383X8EcxgO4ukkRsHlZNepUNOR2R4kz_2yuGbPk0yRU4TKxgjmkUA9AUFPSXk6WGcDJ2faTm2UUYkD7ZSntfuv7Y4tNHNJcE42piZXXAw/w261-h400/CalendarMAY.jpg" width="261" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When May sets blossoms blowing...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><u>May</u></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Bell family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">3rd </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - John Silas Bell & Rutha Simpson married 1838</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">5th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Benjamin Franklin Spann & Mary "Hiley" Ann Decker married 1852</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">19th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Allie Lucinda (Spann) Bell born 1871</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>McGrath family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Menke family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">4th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - William H Roscoe & Lena M Jogenson married 1882 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">13th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - David A Roscoe died 1884, age 60</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">14th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Caroline M (Peterson) Jorgenson born 1847 (wife of Ole, step-mother of Lena) </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">15th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Elizabeth (Knapp) Menke born 1841 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">16th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Ole Jorgenson born 1837 </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Mann family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">23rd</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Charles Gaisford & Henrietta Smith married 1867</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">23rd</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Henrietta (Smith) Gaisford died, age 83</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">29th </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">- Mary Jane (Hull) Climie (Jones) died 1854, age 37 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Mattingly family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">? </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">- John Baptist Mattingly died in 1817, age 87</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Boone family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Tunk Spalding family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">15th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Aloysius Abell born 1801 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">24th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Matilda (Spalding) Thomas died 1838, age 32 (mother of Marcus Thomas) </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">30th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Marcus Thomas "Markie Tunk" Spalding died 1950, age 63</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Hutt Spalding family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">1st</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Ann Melvina (Simms) Spalding born 1831</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">2nd</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Cora Lulu (Spalding) Spalding died 1970, age 80</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">13th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Elizabeth (Beaven) Luckett born 1785</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">26th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - John Austin Spalding died 1913, age 86</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">27th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - John Austin Spalding born 1826 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">27th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - John Austin Spalding & Ann Melvina Simms married 1851 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Laura Mattinglyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522056774465727386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353841027056144124.post-67321955152187421082022-04-03T15:30:00.001-07:002022-10-22T12:16:25.428-07:00April Anniversaries in the Family Tree<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjLMjAjELXPPivV7YiLLSltvod8rdgUp4QaUaT8gio-bn_hmoEi2SfM1I1z7nCCOxC80j_An-6kWHpPw12zGAFYm1Rhng97ScZqFKAgwjW1ioHTomXk4KunZwZOrWNz1b6VGmCJYkKRlnBYtF7yLJbRFW7ibJht3gIZO6uyApNu9YcW2C4nr_tmpQOpyQ=s903" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="903" data-original-width="609" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjLMjAjELXPPivV7YiLLSltvod8rdgUp4QaUaT8gio-bn_hmoEi2SfM1I1z7nCCOxC80j_An-6kWHpPw12zGAFYm1Rhng97ScZqFKAgwjW1ioHTomXk4KunZwZOrWNz1b6VGmCJYkKRlnBYtF7yLJbRFW7ibJht3gIZO6uyApNu9YcW2C4nr_tmpQOpyQ=w270-h400" width="270" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">When April buds the haws...</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: center;"> <b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><u>April</u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Bell family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">4th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Cicero S Bell died 1944 age 74 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">11th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Rutha (Simpson) Bell died 1907 age 84</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">22nd</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Rutha (Simpson) born 1822</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>McGrath family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">14th </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">- John McGrath died 1912 age 80</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">15th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Josiah Foster Negley died 1922 age 75</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">24th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Susannah (Case) Lee died 1851 age 28</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Menke family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">6th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - David A Roscoe & Mary C Fero married 1854 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">10th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Lena M (Jorgenson) Roscoe born 1858</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Mann family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">21st</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - James Gaisford died 1905 age 84</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Mattingly family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">10th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Joseph Hamilton Mattingly, Sr born 1909</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">16th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Harriet Elizabeth "Lib" (Spalding) Mattingly died 1993 age 81</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">25th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Barnard Mattingly & Priscilla Cash married 1808 </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Boone family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Tunk Spalding family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">11th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Henry Luckett born 1777 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">16th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Richard Augustine Spalding born 1777 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">20th</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> - <span style="font-size: medium;">Aloysius Abell died 1845 age 43</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">20th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Mary Louisa (Abell) Spalding born 1832 (3rd cousin once removed of Aloysius Abell) </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">23rd</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Harriett Elizabeth "Bettie" (Thomas) Spalding born 1859 </span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Hutt Spalding family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Richard Augustine Spalding is the common ancestor of the "Tunk" and "Hutt" Spalding lines.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>Laura Mattinglyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522056774465727386noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353841027056144124.post-15125135793492156052022-03-02T18:45:00.000-08:002022-03-02T18:45:01.549-08:00March Anniversaries in the Family Tree<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh8tTUrP3G1yiYsbhG3_h8geWvkacFVFmoa5afF4QFuWSHtlLTSZo0xxNMelEilQGBhNNFvEEnN2cFRCzeJXYn6vca6hPSkKy_ozScPzxbQWTKmY3Pi1YwXD_n89g45BR4tCZPMds9u4Ym6jpTyVhTRgOvkLqpFtNvz-3qB6OCCyQ19J-c0JSic3J51hQ=s930" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="930" data-original-width="541" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh8tTUrP3G1yiYsbhG3_h8geWvkacFVFmoa5afF4QFuWSHtlLTSZo0xxNMelEilQGBhNNFvEEnN2cFRCzeJXYn6vca6hPSkKy_ozScPzxbQWTKmY3Pi1YwXD_n89g45BR4tCZPMds9u4Ym6jpTyVhTRgOvkLqpFtNvz-3qB6OCCyQ19J-c0JSic3J51hQ=w233-h400" width="233" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">When March blows up her breezes...</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><u>March</u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Bell family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">17th</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> - Cicero Bell & Allie Spann married 1901 (Cicero also married his first wife Mittie Ramsey on March 17, 1891 and his son with Allie, Edward Bell, was born on March 17, 1905) </span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>McGrath family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">3rd</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Sadie Ellen (Negley) McGrath born 1880 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">5th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Sarah Maria Matilda (Lee) Negley born 1849</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">5th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Josiah Foster Negley & Sarah Maria Matilda Lee married 1871 </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Menke family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">6th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - William Harlow Roscoe born 1859 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">8th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Heinrich Knapp & Caroline Schukky married 1839 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">15th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Mary Crosby (Fero) Roscoe died 1923 age 86</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">24th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Charlotte Isabelle (Roscoe) Menke died 1975 age 87</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">26th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Kenneth Charles Menke died 2003 age 85</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Mann family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">18th</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">- Nancy Jane (Climie) Mann born 1938 </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">28th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - James Gaisford & Anna Rich married 1838 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Mattingly family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">27th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - William Alfred Bryant Mattingly born 1850 </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Boone family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Tunk Spalding family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">2nd</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Robert S Thomas died 1886 age 82</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">6th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - William Thomas "Tunk" Spalding died 1881 age 59</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">14th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Joseph T Spalding born 1858 </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Hutt Spalding family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">19th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Lewis Austin Luckett died 1886 age 77</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>Laura Mattinglyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522056774465727386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353841027056144124.post-73223257056352590322022-02-02T18:00:00.001-08:002022-02-26T13:11:01.464-08:00February Anniversaries in the Family Tree<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhi6OEqhV1lftKpauQbpGajALZL171_KxRjyp2j1GDcNkiwt5ML2iNIwXRgMuxeKm0CCEYmN8gAJSJVtKdT_BsyccQA-6IPstHRDDA4akhy_Z7grJGjtQwMoLoamD47y126ipJfAr5V6C9ocWyAKzMzAhCYgRt_vhFkhFsNJswX91dNya0ogG65fYiGFw=s898" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="898" data-original-width="564" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhi6OEqhV1lftKpauQbpGajALZL171_KxRjyp2j1GDcNkiwt5ML2iNIwXRgMuxeKm0CCEYmN8gAJSJVtKdT_BsyccQA-6IPstHRDDA4akhy_Z7grJGjtQwMoLoamD47y126ipJfAr5V6C9ocWyAKzMzAhCYgRt_vhFkhFsNJswX91dNya0ogG65fYiGFw=w251-h400" width="251" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">When February thaws...</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><u><br />February</u></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Bell family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>McGrath family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Menke family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">2nd</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Elizabeth (Knapp) Menke died 1944 age 102</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Mann family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">4th</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">- Cora Mabel (Gaisford) Mann born 1882</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">11th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Nancy Jane (Climie) Mann died 1894 age 55</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">12th </span><span style="font-size: medium;">- William Mann born 1830</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Mattingly family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Boone family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">2nd</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - John G Ballard died 1836 age 50</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">3rd</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Robert I Boone & Elizabeth Johnson married 1874 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">10th </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">- Robert I Boone died 1900 age 62</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">26th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Mary Frances Charlotte "Lottie" (Boone) Mattingly born 1878 (daughter of Robert I & Elizabeth Boone) </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Tunk Spalding family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">3rd</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Matilda (Spalding) Spalding born 1806 </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Hutt Spalding family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">2nd</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Henry Luckett died 1864 age 86</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">14th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Mary Elizabeth (Wathen) Simms born 1802 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">16th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Mary Susan Isabelle "Belle" (Luckett) Spalding born 1857 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">24th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - John Hudson "Hutt" Spalding died 1915 age 62 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>Laura Mattinglyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522056774465727386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353841027056144124.post-76545854426257389132022-01-08T10:30:00.003-08:002022-02-26T13:02:20.402-08:00January Anniversaries in the Family Tree<p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgq4v6zD0rHWqXpXa01YD3lrtfsicRIskx-7Y5UKAR_nJNljSRZ0uIvVLZ3SNH1TejN6WiGAGoWkgdq6lLmwFsA9CJe2S1G8LrlBvf0BRmo3Xi9H2PWa-zbNI8euiKElH8REeuqz9Gk5cFoOS8wUE6wUm-B9Lt8gUFYUU-42hajVSkoWbfgtNhjHDztPQ=s864" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="864" data-original-width="570" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgq4v6zD0rHWqXpXa01YD3lrtfsicRIskx-7Y5UKAR_nJNljSRZ0uIvVLZ3SNH1TejN6WiGAGoWkgdq6lLmwFsA9CJe2S1G8LrlBvf0BRmo3Xi9H2PWa-zbNI8euiKElH8REeuqz9Gk5cFoOS8wUE6wUm-B9Lt8gUFYUU-42hajVSkoWbfgtNhjHDztPQ=w264-h400" width="264" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"When January freezes..."</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><u>January</u></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Bell family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">19</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">th - Allie Lucinda (Spann) Bell died 1959 age 87</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>McGrath family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">23</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">rd - John Negley born 1808</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Menke family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">13</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">th - Elizabeth "Eliza" Knapp & Henry Menke married 1867</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">15</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">th - Heinrich Knapp died 1892 age 86 </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Mann family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">17</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">th - John Potter Smith & Mary Abigail Smith married 1847</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">25</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">th - Charles Gaisford died 1920 one day short of his 78th birthday</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">26</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">th - Charles Gaisford born 1842</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Mattingly family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">26</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">th - James Raymond Mattingly born 1814</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">26</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">th - Julia Ann (Mattingly) Mattingly died 1889 age 77 (wife of James Raymond)</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">?</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - William Alfred Bryant Mattingly died 1910 age 59</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Boone family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">13</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">th - Charlotte "Lottie" Ballard & James Matthew Johnson married 1844</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">15</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">th - James Matthew Johnson died 1901 age 76</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">17</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">th - Elizabeth (Johnson) Boone died 1933 age 78 (daughter of James Matthew & Lottie Johnson) </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Tunk Spalding family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">6</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">th - Joseph T Spalding died 1945 age 86</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">10</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">th - Marcus Thomas Spalding & Cora Lula Spalding married 1910 </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">11th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Aloysius Abell & Mary Fenwick married 1829 </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">20th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Richard Augustine Spalding & Henrietta Thompson married 1817</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">24th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - Robert S Thomas & Matilda Spalding married 1824 </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">31st</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> - John Simms born 1807 </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Hutt Spalding family ancestors</u></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Cora Lula Spalding is in the "Hutt" Spalding line</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Richard Augustine Spalding & Henrietta Thompson are the common ancestors of the "Tunk" and "Hutt" Spalding lines</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span></p>Laura Mattinglyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522056774465727386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353841027056144124.post-82865307656916942682021-12-08T19:45:00.001-08:002021-12-10T05:02:05.416-08:00Imagining Christmas 1890<div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNFU04MKMBOaIpDAQhdcTKCmn7zjOUcPTKgwoZdaUQxai56vFw54DYJgv1FIMFAkOlTnCCzqTCn2RkvpqzCd6uXVYMoJuxVj_-1qXoBUhEgH1hEm8Ltv0RJayVW0_bSYwE3Qd6T9Tx0UQlmtBRSV34qxIXL7B4-H6B9hwVwY2pm0jzkKycdEaQbEMEgA=s2048" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNFU04MKMBOaIpDAQhdcTKCmn7zjOUcPTKgwoZdaUQxai56vFw54DYJgv1FIMFAkOlTnCCzqTCn2RkvpqzCd6uXVYMoJuxVj_-1qXoBUhEgH1hEm8Ltv0RJayVW0_bSYwE3Qd6T9Tx0UQlmtBRSV34qxIXL7B4-H6B9hwVwY2pm0jzkKycdEaQbEMEgA=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div>I can only imagine what my ancestors' Christmas was like in 1890. Most of my Great Grandparents were still children living with their parents, all but two of them in Nebraska. Before the end of their lifetimes, a few of them would be a part of my Christmas celebrations. </div></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Christmas in 1890 was on Thursday. Historic n</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">ewspapers indicate that while in Nebraska the weather was nice that year, a heavy snow storm was causing a lot of problems nearly everywhere from Chicago to the East Coast. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The price of a postage stamp to mail a Christmas card was .02 cents. Believe it or not, that is right in line with today's price of .58 cents. I can't say for sure whether any of my ancestors traveled, or sent Christmas cards or baked cookies, or decorated their homes. But from what I do know, I can come up with some brief scenarios of what their Christmas might have been like in 1890.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Albert Menke, youngest son of Henry & Eliza Menke, was 4 years old living in Clatonia with his siblings Matilde, Katharina, Eliza, Rosa, George and Nettie. Living nearby, his oldest sister Caroline was married with a baby boy. Henry & Eliza were both born in Germany and likely there were some German Christmas traditions carried out in their home. Albert's maternal Grandparents Henry & Caroline Knapp lived in Portsmouth, Ohio along with other extended family he may not have known. He had cousins he could play with in Tobias, where his mothers sister Mary Boggs lived with her family. Another sister of Eliza, Hannah Smith, was out in western Nebraska.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Down the road in DeWitt, Lottie Roscoe was just 3 years old living with her parents, William and Lena, and her siblings Laura, Cleve and baby brother Frank. Her paternal Grandmother, Mary Roscoe, may have also lived with them. Lena's parents, Ole & Caroline Jorgenson, natives of Denmark, were living in Peotone, Illinois. The Roscoe family had been in America for several generations. Lottie had a few cousins close by to play with, but both her parents siblings were spread around the midwest. They may have gotten cards from relatives in Iowa, Illinois and Colorado.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Twelve year old Clarence Mann was living in Jefferson County with parents William and Nancy and siblings William, Horace, Oscar and Effie. Two older sisters were married with children near his age. His Grandparents were all deceased as far as I know. His mother had two brothers and some half-siblings living in Iowa. His cousins there were all older and I doubt he saw them very often. English, Irish and Scottish Christmas traditions may have influenced the celebrations in his family. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhoUmk4DLAkWgpnbUYEOp2nLSKO2tKtwVO4SlE36GjJvzvW6Wq3Gx4ZiWWwrdrhL8XIGhjSfImBrT0RkQvRyPZW4qFB4pWOR2qhj2bE5UfPbAId-s8T5f7DBy5OaAJNWpaPu0FC9TR1JiAtdhVNcMnEFBclkBWYUh6hmiEGQjtB_f2UTiH3YI-DgSpDRA=s1257" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="943" data-original-width="1257" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhoUmk4DLAkWgpnbUYEOp2nLSKO2tKtwVO4SlE36GjJvzvW6Wq3Gx4ZiWWwrdrhL8XIGhjSfImBrT0RkQvRyPZW4qFB4pWOR2qhj2bE5UfPbAId-s8T5f7DBy5OaAJNWpaPu0FC9TR1JiAtdhVNcMnEFBclkBWYUh6hmiEGQjtB_f2UTiH3YI-DgSpDRA=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cora & Clarence Mann, Christmas, 1962</td></tr></tbody></table>Cora Gaisford was 8 years old, living with her parents Charles and Henrietta in Jefferson County. Also in the household were her siblings Charles, Maime, Anna, Emma, Carrie, Nellie, William, Gertrude and baby sister Gladys. Cora's maternal Grandfather, John Potter Smith, lived in Massachusetts, I'm not sure if she ever met him or any of her mothers siblings. Her Grandfather James Gaisford was living in central Illinois. Cora had Aunts, Uncles and Cousins living in Illinois, Iowa and also nearby in Gage and Jefferson counties. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Had they all been able to get together, it would have been a large crowd. Something Cora knew well when in her later years. I was among the crowd of some big celebrations with Clarence & Cora Mann's family.</span></div><div><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></div></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In 1890 Art McGrath was 14, living in Dawson County with his parents John and Rachel McGrath. He never knew either set of his Grandparents. His two sisters, Becky and Minnie, were older and married with children all younger than him, but not by much. His nieces and nephews included Lizzie, Andrew, and Clara Smith, of Stockham in Clay County and Rebecca, Lenora, John Robert, Hayden, Marguerita and Daniel Patterson of Cozad in Dawson County. Art's mother's sister, Ruth Pettit and husband William were living with their eight children not far away near Callaway, Custer County, Nebraska. Great Grandpa McGrath and I may have celebrated a few Christmases together, but I have no memory of him.</span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Sadie Negley, 10-year-old daughter of Josiah and Sarah, was living in Eldorado with her 4 siblings, George, Alice, Will and Cal. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Sadie's maternal Grandparents were both deceased, but her Uncle George W Lee, his wife Christine and 3 older cousins lived within traveling distance in Clay County at that time. Sadie's</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> paternal Grandfather was also deceased, but</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> Grandmother Ruth Negley was living in Decatur, Iowa. Several Aunts and Uncles and cousins lived in Iowa. I couldn't say if they did or not, but it wouldn't have been impossible for Josiah to take his family over the Missouri River and through southern Iowa to Grandmothers house for a visit.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Cicero Bell was at home in Wayne County, Kentucky, age 21. His Grandmother Rutha Bell was the matriarch of the family, his Grandfather John Silas was deceased. If Rutha had her entire family for Christmas dinner, there could have been Cicero, his mother Martha and his 2 younger siblings John and Laura; Rutha's son Ira Garner & wife Martha with 2 sons; Rutha's daughter Elizabeth Stringer, her husband John and 3 children; and possibly daughter Emily (I don't know her death date). Rutha's son Leish and wife Rebecca may have been in Texas by that time. Daughter Ursula had died in August leaving a husband and 3 children.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">At 19, Allie Spann was living with her father Ben and step-mother Mattie in Wayne County, Kentucky. Her mother had died six years earlier. She had two siblings at home, Etta and Marrion, and two young step-brothers. Allie's other siblings were married with at least 15 children among them, most of them living in Kentucky. Her Grandparents were all deceased, but her extended family included Aunts, Uncles and cousins living in the area, too. She was likely acquainted with them, if not a part of their holiday celebrations.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Wishing everyone young and old, near and far, a very Merry Christmas!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div></div>Laura Mattinglyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522056774465727386noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353841027056144124.post-17095356973751263542021-10-31T07:15:00.002-07:002021-10-31T07:15:21.772-07:00$6.00 in Real Estate<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Six spaces for $6.00 at the Harvard Cemetery. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In August of 1887, Josiah Negley lost his son Newton to lockjaw and buried him in the Harvard Cemetery. It wasn't until June 18, 1888 that he made the purchase of the cemetery plot official. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Mary Negley, at just 1 year old, used the next space in 1908. She was George & Lena Negley's daughter, granddaughter of Josiah and Sarah Negley.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Josiah, Sarah and their daughter Alice took the next spaces in 1921, 1927 and 1962 respectively. Josiah David Calvin Negley, who was born just 36 days after the death of his brother Newton, was laid to rest in December of 1967, 79 & 1/2 years after the plot was purchased.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n0HBQGmvG0w/YX1ItJbs8YI/AAAAAAAAQCk/1zoYWo5N278vOa0buPrdpvzaeroFvHw-ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Negley_CemeteryDeed001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1684" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n0HBQGmvG0w/YX1ItJbs8YI/AAAAAAAAQCk/1zoYWo5N278vOa0buPrdpvzaeroFvHw-ACLcBGAsYHQ/w526-h640/Negley_CemeteryDeed001.jpg" width="526" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">DEED</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">This Indenture, Made this [ 18 ] day of [ June ] 18[ 88 ] between the town of Harvard, in Clay County, State of Nebraska, of the first part, and [ J F Negley ] of [ Clay ] County, Nebraska, of the second part, </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Witnesseth, that the party of the first part, in consideration of the sum of [ -- six --- ] Dollars, in hand paid, by said party of the second part, has hereby Sold, Granted, and Quit-claimed, and by these presents do Sell, Grant, and Convey for burial purposes, unto said party of the second part, the following described Real Estate, situate in Clay County, State of Nebraska, to=wit: [ N West ] Lot, Block No [ 3 ] in the Cemetery Grounds belonging to said Town of Harvard.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">In Witness Whereof, [ G W Updike ] Chairman, and [ James D Hume ] Clerk of said Board of Trustees, have signed and countersigned the same the day and year first above written.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> [ G W Updike ]</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Town of Harvard</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">[ James D Hume ]</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Clerk of the Board of Trustees of the Town of Harvard.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">In presence of</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">[ Will Payne ] </span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8qoNupE9-KE/YX1Is1GW-YI/AAAAAAAAQCg/cbPeKkqEu3symYYxvVOj_HbEFHfV1-6KQCPcBGAYYCw/s2845/Negley_CemeteryDeed002.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1106" data-original-width="2845" height="248" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8qoNupE9-KE/YX1Is1GW-YI/AAAAAAAAQCg/cbPeKkqEu3symYYxvVOj_HbEFHfV1-6KQCPcBGAYYCw/w640-h248/Negley_CemeteryDeed002.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Harvard, June 18th, 1888</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Received of [ J F Negley</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">--- Six --- ] DOLLARS</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">[ in full for lot in cemetery (not signed by G W Updike as he is not at home today </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">J D Hume ]</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">$6.00</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>Laura Mattinglyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522056774465727386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353841027056144124.post-77351695604760290972021-09-29T19:30:00.000-07:002021-09-29T19:30:07.873-07:00Negley Brothers Store Ads<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">After having worked as a section foreman for the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, William Dean Negley purchased the general store in Eldorado, Nebraska in M</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">arch of 1914. He was age 30, his brother Cal was 27, and their sister Alice at 37 was likely involved in some way. A year later, Bill was </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">named Post Master. Here are a couple of advertisements and an article for the store I found in old newspapers.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i></i></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>"We have purchased the Fifield store and have moved it into Iliff's north store building where we are closing it out at a small fraction of its value. We bought it cheap and will give you the benefit of our bargain. We will positively sell out this stock in the next few days and have made prices that will make it go quick. Come and see what we have to offer. We have just received an entirely new stock of groceries, meat and fruit and solicit your trade in that line. We will treat you right. Highest prices paid for farm produce. This poster is not near large enough to give a full list of our bargains but here are a few samples."</i></span></p></blockquote><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0LCBQPcVmHU/YVNRhs1o44I/AAAAAAAAQBY/Z2C1KpmQHmgE19yPVYdpAZbDvNPe290FACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/NegleyWD_HarvardCourier_1914Sat_Apr4.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1412" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0LCBQPcVmHU/YVNRhs1o44I/AAAAAAAAQBY/Z2C1KpmQHmgE19yPVYdpAZbDvNPe290FACLcBGAsYHQ/w442-h640/NegleyWD_HarvardCourier_1914Sat_Apr4.jpg" width="442" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Harvard Courier, April 4, 1914</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">With a population of no more than 100, it's hard to imagine Eldorado with a roller skating rink. I wonder if they did the Limbo.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VXKTKihraFs/YVNRvryjYeI/AAAAAAAAQBc/MqIwf71UjeMlnIyIDJl1mdUyHWiOUXasgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/NegleyWD_HarvardCourier_1916Fri_Dec29_RollerSkating.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1059" data-original-width="2048" height="206" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VXKTKihraFs/YVNRvryjYeI/AAAAAAAAQBc/MqIwf71UjeMlnIyIDJl1mdUyHWiOUXasgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h206/NegleyWD_HarvardCourier_1916Fri_Dec29_RollerSkating.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Harvard Courier, December 29, 1916</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The store had its share of trouble.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f-T5cbxatt8/YVNR5rAzPxI/AAAAAAAAQBk/hAXKrzL16ZsulEQE4AczEz4fOaCrXmC8QCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/NegleyWD_HarvardCourier_1931Thu_Nov26_StoreRobbed.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1606" data-original-width="2048" height="314" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f-T5cbxatt8/YVNR5rAzPxI/AAAAAAAAQBk/hAXKrzL16ZsulEQE4AczEz4fOaCrXmC8QCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h314/NegleyWD_HarvardCourier_1931Thu_Nov26_StoreRobbed.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Harvard Courier, November 26, 1931</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Bill retired at age 54 in 1937 from both the store and as Post Master. He had <a href="http://oldtrunkintheattic.blogspot.com/2020/04/at-auction-april-24-1962.html" target="_blank">invested in some land.</a></span></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NrNqQjQRQaU/YVOkppWGLSI/AAAAAAAAQBw/98b-KfG25FgOXJ-u9FdRpvK1sj9iUi6JQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1530/NegleyBrosStore.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1530" height="376" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NrNqQjQRQaU/YVOkppWGLSI/AAAAAAAAQBw/98b-KfG25FgOXJ-u9FdRpvK1sj9iUi6JQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h376/NegleyBrosStore.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Undated photo (possibly around 1914)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div>Laura Mattinglyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522056774465727386noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353841027056144124.post-4401327473886076142021-07-25T14:30:00.000-07:002021-07-25T14:30:14.604-07:00Uncle Bill Vickrey & the Chicks<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Well the chicks were more his wife's business, he was a partner.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">John William Vickrey was born May 18, 1899 in Wayne County, Kentucky the son of William (maybe John William) Vickrey and Allie (Spann) Vickrey. His father's estate was inventoried on January 24, 1899, He never knew his father. William's estate was valued at at least $1681, the last page or two of it was missing so that was not the final account.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In 1901 Allie remarried to Cicero Bell, who was a widower with two sons. The three boys were joined by four more boys who all grew up together in Kentucky and later Kansas. About 1926 the parents and nearly adult boys moved to Giltner, Nebraska.<br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="278" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0bYiU0i38yE/VF0afCWDpnI/AAAAAAAAA9U/SDwA6M9Mim0kBzPX-RbSKLMBcmA9GsteACPcBGAYYCw/w400-h278/Bellboys.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Photo taken at Cicero's funeral, April 1944. <br />Back: Bill, Frank, Oren; Front: Virgil, Ben, Stan, Ed</span><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In 1920 Bill opened a restaurant in Ionia, Kansas "<i>to give the town a cold drink parlor</i>". He sold it within a year. Throughout his young adult life he worked odd jobs helping farmers with harvest in Kansas, Iowa, Colorado and Nebraska, as well as working his own farm. Bill married Roberta Emery, a school-teacher, in 1931 at Washington, Kansas. He was 32 and she was 38. He was a</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> big sports fan as he was occasionally noted in the papers for going to baseball and Nebraska football games. </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xn5cCAPsCso/YP2FT9p3PMI/AAAAAAAAP_U/kpkby26BXRgWIOYK2z5dTxblZmPHZis4wCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/GiltnerGazette_1931Thu_Aug27_Vickery_Emery.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1612" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xn5cCAPsCso/YP2FT9p3PMI/AAAAAAAAP_U/kpkby26BXRgWIOYK2z5dTxblZmPHZis4wCLcBGAsYHQ/w315-h400/GiltnerGazette_1931Thu_Aug27_Vickery_Emery.jpg" width="315" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Giltner Gazette, August 27, 1931</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Bill and Roberta lived in Washington County, Kansas until at least 1943.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In January of 1939, Roberta became the operating manager of a hatchery in Fairbury. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">On today's roads it's a 30 minute drive from Washington, Kansas to Fairbury, Nebraska. In 1944, they bought property in Fairbury. </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_rMIy0sRWGg/YP2H941-N3I/AAAAAAAAP_c/wXShfRzUcoo7M6tK-EdW355vepPrJgU6ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/FairburyNews_FairburyGazette_19398Thu_Dec8_VickreyBill.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1892" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_rMIy0sRWGg/YP2H941-N3I/AAAAAAAAP_c/wXShfRzUcoo7M6tK-EdW355vepPrJgU6ACLcBGAsYHQ/w370-h400/FairburyNews_FairburyGazette_19398Thu_Dec8_VickreyBill.jpg" width="370" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Fairbury Gazette, December 8, 1938</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In 1945, it was reported the hatchery's capacity was 46,000 eggs making it the second largest hatchery in Fairbury open at that time. There are many advertisements in the Fairbury newspapers for the Jefferson County Hatchery. This one may show the type of incubator they had. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LUae1Z033lo/YP2g-dBdYiI/AAAAAAAAP_8/N4kw3u6slOMsZVQcdi_M2FtgY0iNdndDwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Fairbury_Journal_1942Thu_Mar26_VickreyHatchery.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1822" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LUae1Z033lo/YP2g-dBdYiI/AAAAAAAAP_8/N4kw3u6slOMsZVQcdi_M2FtgY0iNdndDwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Fairbury_Journal_1942Thu_Mar26_VickreyHatchery.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Fairbury Journal, March 26, 1942</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Bill farmed as well as helping to manage the hatchery. On October 16, 1947 there was an auction of his farm property. I don't believe he sold the land at this time.</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G_uvrvAB45k/YP2JRfs7eXI/AAAAAAAAP_s/RmjPU-Y-nM49X98rnr_x8qgKdPApwMELQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/VickreyBill_FairburyDailyNews_1947Mon_Oct13.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1225" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G_uvrvAB45k/YP2JRfs7eXI/AAAAAAAAP_s/RmjPU-Y-nM49X98rnr_x8qgKdPApwMELQCLcBGAsYHQ/w382-h640/VickreyBill_FairburyDailyNews_1947Mon_Oct13.jpg" width="382" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Fairbury Daily News, October 13, 1947</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vuPu7y6R_4c/YP2JbWJxMEI/AAAAAAAAP_w/NMqwdDA9HeQNUbP4GnhbVqB06PdMjjhtgCLcBGAsYHQ/s695/VickeryBill_Roberta.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="551" data-original-width="695" height="318" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vuPu7y6R_4c/YP2JbWJxMEI/AAAAAAAAP_w/NMqwdDA9HeQNUbP4GnhbVqB06PdMjjhtgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h318/VickeryBill_Roberta.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Roberta and Bill Vickrey, undated photo<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The chicks were a big part of their lives. Bill and Roberta didn't have any children. They remained in Fairbury until Bill's death on July 22, 1988 at the age of 89. He was </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">buried in the Fairbury Cemetery. Roberta died in Wilbur, Nebraska at the age of 99 on July 29, 1992 and is buried in Formosa, Kansas with her family.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div></div>Laura Mattinglyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522056774465727386noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353841027056144124.post-25240714240962324062021-06-26T09:00:00.000-07:002021-06-26T09:00:06.489-07:00William & Nancy & Mary<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wg_2KEZbzqY/YNc6NxkMryI/AAAAAAAAP-I/96cD6Zn2wXwq7c58uprJrQt3Mt65npLNACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/MannWm_Bible.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wg_2KEZbzqY/YNc6NxkMryI/AAAAAAAAP-I/96cD6Zn2wXwq7c58uprJrQt3Mt65npLNACLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/MannWm_Bible.jpeg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Copy of Bible Record, property of Doris Menke, date created unknown.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Written in a Bible record, printed in an obituary and etched on his tombstone, the date of February 12, 1830 is recorded as the birth of William Mann. He was born somewhere in England, but I have not found any bread crumbs to the exact location. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">If he had any siblings, he seems to have not had any contact with them. His parents remain a mystery. He told the 1900 census taker that 1852 was the year he immigrated, but I don't find a William Mann in any ships passenger lists for 1852. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The first definite record I've found of my Second Great Grandfather William Mann in America is an 1865 listing of voters in Princeville Election District in Peoria county, Illinois. An 1873 map with a list of settlers in Princeville precinct, Peoria County, Illinois indicates that William Mann had settled there in 1854.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">In 1860, only one William Mann is listed in census for Peoria county. He is 48 years old living with a Smith family and no one else named Mann. His age would be too old for William and too young to be his father. Our William should be 30 years old, but he might be the man listed in Van Buren county, Iowa living with the Thomas Rain family. That man's age is given as 23 which is too young. But it's interesting because this William worked as a miner and Van Buren county happens to be the same place that Nancy (Climie) O'Brien, a widow with a one-year-old daughter, lived. Her husband had been a miner and was killed in an accident before June 1st, the date of the census. The daughter, Nancy Jane, was born July 23, 1859. William and Nancy were married on September 14, 1861, but I haven't found the location. They spent some time in Macon county, Missouri before William took her back to Princeville, Illinois by 1865. Did William go to Iowa to work in the mines to earn money, try out Macon, Missouri, then go back to Illinois to farm?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">When a cousin gave me this photo of William Man and wife several years ago, she said she didn't know which wife was with him. After finding a photo posted online (below) of Nancy's half-sister Jane, I see a strong family resemblance between the two women.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LXldHYWGN0E/Uk2mYGlNbwI/AAAAAAAAASw/TmigPuP3SbQEgISCYAPzB0NQgDKghtPHQCPcBGAYYCw/s1220/WmMaryMann.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="823" data-original-width="1220" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LXldHYWGN0E/Uk2mYGlNbwI/AAAAAAAAASw/TmigPuP3SbQEgISCYAPzB0NQgDKghtPHQCPcBGAYYCw/s320/WmMaryMann.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wvciA0RZg2A/YLt-wu1l16I/AAAAAAAAP8U/aIBoQiNqwFAK6SIdLcm9BhYlNjuuVZx_ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1164/Clemiesisters.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="931" data-original-width="1164" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wvciA0RZg2A/YLt-wu1l16I/AAAAAAAAP8U/aIBoQiNqwFAK6SIdLcm9BhYlNjuuVZx_ACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h320/Clemiesisters.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sisters Jane Jones Vandermark and Nancy Climie Mann, date unknown</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Nancy </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">was born in Canada to Thomas Climie/Clemie who was originally from Scotland and Mary Jane Hull an immigrant from Ireland. She had two older brothers, Andrew and Robert. Some people believe Thomas Climie died shortly after Nancy was born, others believe he left his family and married another woman. At any rate, her mother Mary Jane got remarried to Edward Jones and later moved to Van Buren county, Iowa. Together Mary Jane and Ed had four girls and one boy. Mary Jane died when the boy was born in 1854. At age 16, Nancy was likely the caretaker for those children. Two years later her step-father remarried and had two more children. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Nancy married John O'Brien in 1858, had her daughter Nancy Jane, and then was a widow within two years. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Eleven children were born to William and Nancy in Princeville, four died as infants. The only record of them </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">comes from the Bible record.</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> No marked graves for these infant children have been found or recorded.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">From the Bible record, the children of William and Nancy:</span></p><p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Ada, born July 10, 1862</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span> Corean, born February 16, 1864, died at birth</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span><span> Lafayette, born January 13, 1866</span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span><span><span> William B, born October 25, 1867</span></span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span><span><span><span> Stephen A, born August 25, 1869, died in infancy</span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span><span><span><span><span> Horace M, born July 28, 1870</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> Marvin Oscar, born November 15, 1872</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> Carrey, born January 11, 1875, died in infancy</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> Effa, born March 8, 1876</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> Clarence L, born June 18, 1878 </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> Elsie, born August, 1880, died at birth</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li></ol><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Between 1880 and 1881, William and Nancy moved their family to Jefferson county, Nebraska. In December of 1881, they lost their oldest son Lafayette. I haven't found the cause of his death at age 15. Nancy died on February 11, 1894, just a day before William's 64th birthday. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">By 1885, William owned 880 acres of land in Jefferson Precinct, Jefferson County, Nebraska. His </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">farm was worth $4650 according to the agricultural census taken that year. He grew corn, oats, wheat & a little rye and livestock included cattle, hogs, chicken and horses.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Mary Armstrong was the daughter of another early Princeville, Illinois setter James Armstrong and his wife Margaret. Mary was a pioneer school teacher in Brimfield and Princeville townships. She was </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">a faithful worker in the church, taught Sunday School and was a member of the Womens Christian Temperance Union. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">She and her sister Margaret were known all over the northern part of Peoria county where they raised flax and prepared it for cloth themselves. Starting this endeavor during the Civil War, they carded and spun wool and wove it into blankets and rugs for many years. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">It would be interesting to know if William Mann went back to Princeville with the intention of marrying Mary Armstrong, or if Mary had come to Nebraska and they got reaquainted. It's very likely they had known each other during the 1860's when William lived in Peoria County. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">She and William Mann were both 66 years old when they married in 1896, but I don't know where. It was Mary's first marriage. They lived at 715 Grace Street in Beatrice, William died there on August 29, 1905. Mary died January 17, 1912 and was buried in Coin, Iowa near a niece. </span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Laura Mattinglyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522056774465727386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353841027056144124.post-11119621457622215362021-05-28T19:00:00.000-07:002021-05-28T19:00:04.244-07:00Equally Divided to all My Lawful Heirs<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">William Mann wrote out his last will and testament on May 1st, 1903. Just over two years later he passed away from heart failure on August 29, 1905 at age 75. Surviving him were his second wife Mary and seven adult children. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The lots mentioned in his will in Milliken's Subdivision, Beatrice, Nebraska were located between Scott and Linn streets to the North and South, and Sumner and Bluff streets East and West. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">$500 in 1905 is the equivalent of over $14,500 today. When the estate was settled two years later his children received an additional $175 each, which would compare to nearly $5000 today</span><a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote1sym" name="sdfootnote1anc"><sup>1</sup></a><span style="font-family: verdana;">. His step-daughter Nancy may have felt things were not exactly "equally divided", but there were no legal objections. A transcription of the will follows the images.</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3BdB3-UjlyQ/YK7ROj2FY9I/AAAAAAAAP7Y/4pfyn3LE-5ANIswI4fy88quY2ufaouxsgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Will_MannW_007%2B-%2BCopy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1183" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3BdB3-UjlyQ/YK7ROj2FY9I/AAAAAAAAP7Y/4pfyn3LE-5ANIswI4fy88quY2ufaouxsgCLcBGAsYHQ/w370-h640/Will_MannW_007%2B-%2BCopy.jpg" width="370" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3u0qgQbLGTY/YK7RUr6qhEI/AAAAAAAAP7c/JMRVSCrtkHoz7MBFyX5cknt11WwSx7wrgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1896/Will_MannW_008%2B-%2BCopy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1896" data-original-width="1232" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3u0qgQbLGTY/YK7RUr6qhEI/AAAAAAAAP7c/JMRVSCrtkHoz7MBFyX5cknt11WwSx7wrgCLcBGAsYHQ/w416-h640/Will_MannW_008%2B-%2BCopy.jpg" width="416" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><i style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">"William Mann of Beatrice Gage County and State of Nebraska, being of sound mind and memory, do make, Publish, and declare this to be my last Will and testament, here by revoking all former Wills by me at any time heretofore made, and as to my worldly Estate and all the Property, Real Personal, or mixed, of, I shall die seized and Posessed or to which I shall be entitled at the time of my decease, I devise, bequeath and dispose thereof in the manner following, to wit - </i></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>My Will is, that all my just debts and furnal expences shall by paid my Executors herein after named, to be paid out of my possessions whatever it may be Money or otherwise as soon after my Decease as shall by then be found convenient</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>I give devise and Bequeath to my Beloved Wife Mary Mann all my Household goods my Horse and Buggy and Buggy Harness, and also my City Property as follows, Situated in Millikens Subdivision an addition to the City of Beatrice Gage County and State of Nebraska - containing two (2) Lots 53, and 39, with its improvements to have full use and all profits from said property, as long as she may live or until her Death, after her death - the Property shall be sold and equally divided to all my lawful heirs. I give to my Beloved Wife Mary Mann five hundred Dollars 500.00 in Cash - then in the following manner I give to my Daughter Effie Camp five hundred Dollars in Cash 500.00 I give to my Daughter Ada Johnson five hundred Dollars 500.00 Cash I give to my Son Clarence Mann five hundred Dollars $500.00 in Cash my son William B Mann and Son Horace Mann have received each $500.00 beforehand</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>I give to my Son Oscar M Mann two hundred and fifty Dollars $250.00 in Cash having had two Hundred and fifty beforehand - I wish to give my Stepdaughter Mrs Jane Camp two hundred Dollars $200.00 in Cash all the and residue of my Estate real personal and mixed of which I shall die seized and possessed or to which I shall be entitled at my decease I give devise and bequeath, to be equally divided between all my lawful Heirs, please understand me in this (Will) I have let my conscience guide me to the best of my understanding and lastly I do nominate and appoint my said Son William B Mann, and my Son in Law W H Camp to be my Executors of this my last Will and Testament, In witness whereof, I the said William Mann have to this my last Will and Testament, consisting of one sheet of paper subscribed my name and affixed my Seal this first day of May One Thousand Nine Hundred and Three,</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Signed, Sealed, Published, and declared by the said William Mann</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>William Mann, as and for his last Will and Testament, in the presence of us, who at his request and in his presence, and in the presence of each other, have subscribed our names as Witnesses thereunto.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>William Mann {Seal}</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>George W Heikes Residing at Beatrice, Gage County, Nebr</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Edwin J Maxwell Residing at Beatrice, Gage County, Nebr "</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>__________</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small;"><a class="sdfootnotesym" href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5353841027056144124/1111962145762221536#sdfootnote1anc" name="sdfootnote1sym" style="font-family: verdana;">1</a><a href="https://westegg.com/inflation/" style="font-family: verdana;">https://westegg.com/inflation/</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Inflation calculator by Morgan Friedman, accessed 5/28/2021.</span></span></p><p><i> </i></p>Laura Mattinglyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522056774465727386noreply@blogger.com0