tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66884811878085083512024-03-14T03:17:55.106-04:00Rattling Old BonesRattling Old Bones: Writing a Family History
<p>"Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations" (Psalms 90:1).</p>ztnoblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12192494474879562468noreply@blogger.comBlogger156125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6688481187808508351.post-67039897629797899702022-09-07T08:41:00.001-04:002022-09-08T18:35:49.837-04:00 Revolutionary War Patriot Ancestors #6 and #7: Aeneus Campbell, Sr. and Jr.<p>“A generation goes and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever” (Ecclesiastes 1:4).</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZDvddOApylHm6oBMZ6U1c9xEF-AgEY3KN2GehZCiihhJB290zh5Y28GWd4YXyM2FHWKaIbyLI2MsX18hErNLfxl12Dh94SbHdeJLo_ea7aZpBExGRzEpeeEkN-_TubzoFPvoM7WcKrSYTNnKQ1j3vY0nxu88pAiAsktL__6OAoAM2jGGlGDd22KUj/s150/Rev%20war%20guy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="150" data-original-width="150" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZDvddOApylHm6oBMZ6U1c9xEF-AgEY3KN2GehZCiihhJB290zh5Y28GWd4YXyM2FHWKaIbyLI2MsX18hErNLfxl12Dh94SbHdeJLo_ea7aZpBExGRzEpeeEkN-_TubzoFPvoM7WcKrSYTNnKQ1j3vY0nxu88pAiAsktL__6OAoAM2jGGlGDd22KUj/s1600/Rev%20war%20guy.jpg" width="150" /></a><br /></div><p>In the late 1980s I helped Dad compile information for a Troutman family history. When we finished, my mother asked me, “Now that you’re finished with the Troutman ancestors, will you see what you can learn about my McIntyres?” I was delighted to do it, and it’s been a different kind of adventure. Dad’s were mostly German immigrants; Mother’s were Scots. Turns out, my mother has as many or more Revolutionary War patriots as my Grandma Mary. Wish she were here today for me to share about them. But then, maybe she has met them in heaven.<br /><br />With the help of a Campbell cousin in North Carolina, I learned about Aeneus Campbell (#A018526), a 5x great-grandfather. There are actually two men, father and son, with the same name, both who served in the war. The elder Campbell is the first patriot I found for my mother. He and the others are all ancestors of her mother Fannie Mae Myers: Me > Lois McIntyre > Fannie Mae Myers > Omie Allen Deal > Jane Campbell > Belt Campbell > Aeneas Campbell, Jr. (#A204644) > Aeneas Campbell, Sr.</p><p><br />Aeneus, Sr. was born in Scotland about 1730. Haven’t found a record for his arrival in the colonies, but he first lived in St. Mary’s County, Maryland. From there, he moved to Loudon County, Virginia about 1755 where he became the county’s first sheriff. His son Aeneus, Jr. was born in Loudon County in 1757. He also came just in time to serve the Fairfax Company as lieutenant during the French and Indian War. He bought a plantation called Raspberry Plain (it’s still there, Google it), which had a jail in the yard, a 12-foot-square brick building, conveniently located for the sheriff.<span style="font-size: x-small;">(1)</span> He also built the first courthouse and was among the first trustees of the town of Leesburg. In 1760, he sold Raspberry Plain to Thomas Mason and moved back to Maryland, and from there he served in the American Revolution. He helped raise a company of men in Frederick County called the First Maryland Battalion of the Flying Camp.<span style="font-size: x-small;">(2) </span>He is credited with raising and supplying the company at his own expense.<span style="font-size: x-small;">(3) </span><br /><br />The Flying Camp and the Maryland Battalions were heavily involved in the bloody battle of Brooklyn Heights during which Washington’s army suffered heavy casualties.<span style="font-size: x-small;">(4) </span><br /><br />Aeneus Campbell, Sr. first married Lydia (surname uncertain), who was the mother of three known children: Esther, Aeneus Jr., and Ann, as proven by descendants who submitted DAR applications. Lydia died about 1768. Later, Aeneus married Henrietta Cheney, 24 Dec 1793.<span style="font-size: x-small;">(5) </span> It’s likely that he had another wife between Lydia and Henrietta, but I haven’t seen the evidence. Input from those who have sources is welcome. Aeneus Sr. died in 1812 in Montgomery County, Maryland. <br /><br />Aeneus, Jr. was born 3 October 1757 at Raspberry Plain. He served during the American Revolution as a lieutenant in the militia in Captain Harwood’s Company, Upper Battalion of Montgomery County.<span style="font-size: x-small;">(6) </span> He first married Sarah Hickman in 1778.<span style="font-size: x-small;">(7) </span> They had one known daughter, Mary born about 1781. Sarah died about 1790, and Aeneus, Jr. second married Eliza Ann Belt, 25 Feb 1791. They had nine known children: Thomas, Elijah, Humphrey, Esther, Asa, Ruth, Belt, Elizabeth, and David.<span style="font-size: x-small;">(8) </span> Aeneus, Jr. moved his family to North Carolina about 1796, as did the Belt and Turner families from Maryland, with whom the Campbells had intermarried. Aenaus Jr. died in Iredell County, NC on 15 Oct. 1828.<span style="font-size: x-small;">(9) </span><br /><br />Other men from the Maryland-to-North Carolina families from whom my mother descended—the Belt, Turner, and Dent families—also served in the Revolution. It’s a pleasure to share them with you. More to come. </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/AVvXsEjvSQoD_G0goxDdVqwmLj4tuSy28P8yDfGaHKU5mZSGwk97ItAVmXYMqMXfB80YZvd7pm5vTYV-znvhLFoF-0mK9EMGf8AGC_wIFZNB3hzkdD0-tGpaWAbDZVwiPu1ElKaIakCEDyC4tJMKVPihlLHLtytk9oPn9HhFZfYvU03jBQHom9slEGsBZox_/s640/Campbell.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="360" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvSQoD_G0goxDdVqwmLj4tuSy28P8yDfGaHKU5mZSGwk97ItAVmXYMqMXfB80YZvd7pm5vTYV-znvhLFoF-0mK9EMGf8AGC_wIFZNB3hzkdD0-tGpaWAbDZVwiPu1ElKaIakCEDyC4tJMKVPihlLHLtytk9oPn9HhFZfYvU03jBQHom9slEGsBZox_/s320/Campbell.jpg" width="180" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Campbell cousins at grave of Aeneus Campbell, Jr., Iredell Co., NC<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>____________________ <br /></p><p>1. Harrison Williams, Legends of Loudon (Richmond, VA: Garrett & Cassie, Inc. 1938), p. 102. This book may be viewed online, full text: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/38130/38130-h/38130-h.htm</p><p>2. Williams, p. 103.</p><p>3. Williams, p. 104.</p><p>4. For more on the Flying Camp and 1st Maryland Regiment: https://revolutionarywar.us/continental-army/maryland/ . Also, to learn more about the Battle of Brooklyn, see https://www.battlefields.org/learn/revolutionary-war/battles/brooklyn . Also, for an engaging account of the battle, read Patrick O’Donnell’s The Indispensables.</p><p>5. Maryland Marriages, 1655-1850, Frederick County, 24 Dec 1793, Henrietta Cheney and Aeneus Campbell, Ancestry. </p><p>6. R1627V (pension file); Archives Of Maryland, Vol 16, p 373; Archives Of Maryland, Vol 18, p 49.</p><p>7. U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900, David Campbell; Ancestry.</p><p>8. Ibid.</p><p>9. Ibid.<br /></p>ztnoblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12192494474879562468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6688481187808508351.post-4575465079257433522022-08-30T13:35:00.002-04:002022-08-30T13:35:27.000-04:00NSDAR Patriot Ancestor #5: Thomas Dunn #A132948<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://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Sd2s0-RwZD-nqpgpSTvi4xvOFETDMSe2vch9cr4Vv-kzSmX3VCXkwrX9rR5CJeBkGuTBbnkHlsH7pzOWPTo0GdAlCp_WDTHbZ36io7dbamg4QOtg3uSrqh6n3hy2t-JHUbHRrFgBYHhFfc3T33kEnFJ9lB0HkIHFDUwy206dMt0NLyI6TBDNSYYJ/s4032/Map%20Harman%20New%20River%202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Sd2s0-RwZD-nqpgpSTvi4xvOFETDMSe2vch9cr4Vv-kzSmX3VCXkwrX9rR5CJeBkGuTBbnkHlsH7pzOWPTo0GdAlCp_WDTHbZ36io7dbamg4QOtg3uSrqh6n3hy2t-JHUbHRrFgBYHhFfc3T33kEnFJ9lB0HkIHFDUwy206dMt0NLyI6TBDNSYYJ/s320/Map%20Harman%20New%20River%202.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thorn Spring and Crab Creek were Dunn locations</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br />Grandma Mary’s pioneer ancestors flourished in southwestern Virginia. I wonder if she had any inkling how deep and firm her roots grew there. This time it’s 5x great-grandfather, Thomas Dunn: Me > Verne Troutman > Mary Waggoner > Eli P. Waggoner > Anna F. Harman > Henry Harman > Mary “Polly” Dunn > Thomas Dunn.<br /><br />Thomas Dunn was born before 1745, place is uncertain. Some researchers think he was born in Ireland, others think it was northern Virginia. I haven’t found proof of either place. Numerous men named Thomas Dunn in Virginia make it difficult to pinpoint his parents. Some Ancestry trees connect him to Thomas Dunn and Lucy, but this man’s will does not include a son named Thomas.<span style="font-size: x-small;">1 </span> <br /><br />Our Thomas married Mary Fickle, daughter of Michael and Margaret Fickle.<span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span> To them were born seven known children: Thomas Dunn II, Mary Polly (my ancestor), Rachel, Elizabeth, Esther, John, and Margaret.<span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span><br /><br />The Dunn, Harman, and Thompson families were closely associated. Their children and grandchildren intermarried. <br /><br />In 1755, when Shawnee attacked the Ingles family killing Colonel Patton and others, and capturing Mary Draper Ingles among others, family lore claims Thomas Dunn to have been among the men who set out to track the kidnappers. <br /><br />In March 1769, William Preston surveyed 320 acres of land for Thomas Dunn on “Macks Run, corner Col. Patton.”<span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span> Thomas Dunn also received a deed for land on a branch of Crab Creek.<span style="font-size: x-small;">5 </span>In addition, he bought land on Thorn Spring, which was in court in dispute, years later.<span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span><br /><br />During the Revolution, Dunn served in the Montgomery County militia in Thomas Ingles’ Company and later as a juror.<span style="font-size: x-small;">7</span> During that time, jurors had much more responsibilities than they do today, including questioning the defendant and doing their own research, even questioning the lawyers and judges.<span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span> <br /><br />When he died, Thomas Dunn owned a sizeable estate of 2,115 acres to be divided among his seven children.<span style="font-size: x-small;">9</span><br /><br />My supplemental application for Thomas Dunn has been submitted but not yet verified. So we’ll see if I provided sufficient proof of lineage. It’s always a challenge. <br /><br />Interested in learning how to join Daughters of the American Revolution? Send me a message. It's a great service organization.</p><p><u>________________________ <br /></u></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span> Alabama Surname Files, Expanded, 1702-1981, n.p., Thomas Dunn, Jr., Ancestry.</p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span> Frederick County, Maryland, Probate Administration Accounts Liber A-1 folio 385: Will of Michael Fickle, written 20 Nov 1770, probated 3 Jan 1771.</p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span> Mary B. Kegley and F. B. Kegley, Early Adventurers on the Western Waters, abstract of Wythe County Deeds, 1809: Partition Deed of 7 parts to heirs of Thomas Dunn.</p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span> Kegley and Kegley, p. 41-42.</p><p> <span style="font-size: x-small;">5</span> Ibid, p. 183. This deed resulted in a lawsuit years later regarding the rightful owner of the land.</p><p> <span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span> August County, Virginia, Chancery Records, transcribed by Eric D. Ausmus, posted on Ancestry, 22 Dec 2012. </p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"> 7</span> Summers, Annals of Southwest Virginia, Vol. 1, p. 734; Virginia Magazine of History & Biography, Vol. 47, p. 35. Sources listed on DAR.org > GRS > Thomas Dunn #A132948.</p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span> David Barton, "Courts of Justice," <i>The Founders Bible</i> (Newberry Park, CA: Shiloh Road Publishers, 2012) p.330.</p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">9</span> Augusta County, Virginia, Chancery Records.<br /></p>ztnoblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12192494474879562468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6688481187808508351.post-71429664618802897132022-08-18T08:32:00.001-04:002022-08-18T08:32:45.725-04:00NSDAR Patriot Ancestor #4: Adam Waggoner #A133663
<h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span><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/AVvXsEhT32atRtYDzmZUNm5mXiDO_O0f8xHTRvlyLyrK9Ug9QewS4MmnAZgghD_zHQik96BvklyFgriYauzs2fv3W-_ov4kEZJnVNjSCAkVPF8ROsbdBro0dZouDaeOzXNoqLgYJC4Hje7P0ZvYfkG3DEabXEIgO4-5kpxYL5zGQoP74UuHR4ZrRsxPwD_w2/s555/Waggoner_Adam_portrait.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="posted on Ancestry. Attempt was made to get permission from original owner, but no reply." border="0" data-original-height="555" data-original-width="397" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT32atRtYDzmZUNm5mXiDO_O0f8xHTRvlyLyrK9Ug9QewS4MmnAZgghD_zHQik96BvklyFgriYauzs2fv3W-_ov4kEZJnVNjSCAkVPF8ROsbdBro0dZouDaeOzXNoqLgYJC4Hje7P0ZvYfkG3DEabXEIgO4-5kpxYL5zGQoP74UuHR4ZrRsxPwD_w2/w229-h320/Waggoner_Adam_portrait.jpg" title="Adam Waggoner, photo of 1790 portrait." width="229" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Purported to be Adam Waggoner, c. 1790.*<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal">Another of my paternal grandma Mary’s pioneer ancestors is 5<sup>x
</sup>great-grandfather, Adam Waggoner: Me > Verne Troutman > Mary
Waggoner > Eli P. Waggoner > Jacob Waggoner > Elias Waggoner > George Waggoner > Adam
Waggoner, probably born before 1730 in Germany. Name spellings vary from
Waggoner/Wagoner/Wagner/Waganer/Wegener, and probably more. It’s spelled Adam
Wagner in the DAR database. My grandmother used the Waggoner spelling, so
that’s what I prefer. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But it’s Adam <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Waganer</i>
on a list of Palatines arriving in Philadelphia on the ship <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nancy</i>, on September 14, 1754.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a></span>
Following that is a list of signers of an oath to the British Crown, which
includes the name Johann Adam <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Wagner</i>:
same ship, same day, same man, two name versions. He is said to have arrived
with a wife, name unknown, and two sons, Jacob and George.<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span></span></a></span></span> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Children born in America were Margaret,
Daniel, David, Christina, Sarah, Rebecca, Elizabeth and Mary. Later to wife #2,
known only as Jane, were born Anne and Susannah. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All but Margaret, Elizabeth, and Mary were named
in his 1785 will.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a></span>
The date of his exit from Germany coincided with an exodus of Moravians
escaping persecution, but whether he was Moravian or not is uncertain. Later
his children affiliated with the Methodists.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Adam’s whereabouts and activities are unknown until his name
appears in a land record in Augusta County, Virginia on 18 December 1769. To
get there, he had surely followed the Great Road through the Valley of
Virginia. He purchased several properties in and around the area and lived in
Montgomery County during the American Revolution. Records indicate that he was
educated, and in his will he left provision for his minor children to be
“schooled.” When he died in March 1796, he left substantial land holdings to
his children.<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[5]</span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As patriotic service, he supplied certain items needed by
the colonial army. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the military
confiscated people’s property for military use, the owners were given a voucher
to turn in later to be reimbursed. Adam submitted his voucher, and it was duly
recorded.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[6]</span></span></span></span></a></span> He
claimed the Washington County militia took one steer valued at <span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">£</span>3.
Also, he “provided 13 diets at 13/, pasturage for 11 horses of the Montgomery
County militia at 19/, and a mutton, the total being <span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">£</span>5.12.10.”<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[7]</span></span></span></span></a></span> Whether
he ever received compensation for his losses is unknown. Also, in Montgomery
County, he took the oath of allegiance and is listed on a militia company
roster led by Captain McCorkle.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[8]</span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<div style="mso-element: footnote-list;"> </div><div style="mso-element: footnote-list;">*Posted on Ancestry, this appears to be a photo taken of a portrait, as there was no photography in 1790. An attempt was made to contact the person who originally posted it to authenticate it, but no reply. So if JeanRoot97 sees it here and objects to my using it, just let me know and I will remove it. Comparing to photos of two of A. W.'s great-grandsons, sons of Elias, the likeness is striking.</div><div style="mso-element: footnote-list;"> </div><div style="mso-element: footnote-list;"><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/AVvXsEjxWVPXqdsJ5he8wx5ubU0MEiWRA4SMB5li00zrJR0aCa_E75b-iN8pdliaEf1mqQRhjCbFwjeyBGsXbjlzljHS2-TTHd07pW1Y4ZrlgmfcnyqxZcWwuZWZGCYL-vJwCqyMasGvc5oUPH7rrbSW4_QQS-p9MXQfpzg1ZcYGiFib8ck-onbfluqHEQxk/s4032/Waggoner_David_photo.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxWVPXqdsJ5he8wx5ubU0MEiWRA4SMB5li00zrJR0aCa_E75b-iN8pdliaEf1mqQRhjCbFwjeyBGsXbjlzljHS2-TTHd07pW1Y4ZrlgmfcnyqxZcWwuZWZGCYL-vJwCqyMasGvc5oUPH7rrbSW4_QQS-p9MXQfpzg1ZcYGiFib8ck-onbfluqHEQxk/s320/Waggoner_David_photo.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">David N. Waggoner, H. & N. p. 14.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><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://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhljamNTA5bz3JkxBPPFhG4dA4b2bvlNKxW-7T-nMLsj2mniqYkHHDS3-6kF536stbkEahvfULFVOCiwsGkZ8iu6gER-sYJ8POx8UkrVZsusZcO7uuUhFzBJ6M0gdXwhn8FdVZM6MqrwgVlDq4q8A2nPsbKHmKLvCSWyGkW_FMaX671xYh-8Iyo1lBv/s4032/Waggoner_Adam_photo.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhljamNTA5bz3JkxBPPFhG4dA4b2bvlNKxW-7T-nMLsj2mniqYkHHDS3-6kF536stbkEahvfULFVOCiwsGkZ8iu6gER-sYJ8POx8UkrVZsusZcO7uuUhFzBJ6M0gdXwhn8FdVZM6MqrwgVlDq4q8A2nPsbKHmKLvCSWyGkW_FMaX671xYh-8Iyo1lBv/s320/Waggoner_Adam_photo.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adam E. Waggoner, H & N, p. 43.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </div><div style="mso-element: footnote-list;"><br clear="all" />
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a>
Ralph Berger Strassberger, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pennsylvania
German Pioneers: A Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of
Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> (Norristown [PA]:
Pennsylvania German Society, 1934), Vol. 1, p. 591, 593. Can be viewed on Hathi
Trust.</span></p>
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<div id="ftn2" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a>
Thomas C. Hatcher and Nancy Nash, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Adam Waggoner Family of Tazewell and Montgomery Counties Virginia, 1750-1996</i>
(place n/a: publisher n/a, 1996) p. ii, 1.</p>
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<div id="ftn3" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a>
Virginia, <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Montgomery County, Will Book B (1720ca-1786ca), p. 80,</span>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">will of Adam Waggoner</span></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span></span></span></a>
Hatcher and Nash, pp. 190-196.</p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[5]</span></span></span></span></a>
Hatcher and Nash, p. 176.</p>
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<div id="ftn6" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[6]</span></span></span></span></a> Abercrombie
& Slatten, VA Rev Pub Claims, Vol. 2, pp. 685, 687.</p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[7]</span></span></span></span></a>
Hatcher and Nash, p. 346, as qtd. from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Early
Adventures on the Western Waters</i>, by Mary B. Kegley, p. 764). </p>
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Ibid., p. 1.</p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style>ztnoblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12192494474879562468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6688481187808508351.post-73398904677042379692022-08-11T06:29:00.000-04:002022-08-11T10:25:51.857-04:00NSDAR Patriot Ancestor #3: Andrew Thompson #A113833<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/AVvXsEjT8t552s0GK6gWj2V2uFfWprB-GV_ED6y-jjDh-xIXTqnHtHod-Rsu2MytlNpDcopWaGSfbNBdIASg6SaQ6Ilce9E_DxN0AmCJOmlX8aB_2huf79WaPijQh__CO65JBlRLWL7rkjlMrEhI2YMufkgUj2YzIiU61udSUK20fAQiGFgzTsAQq1dzU_Sn/s3264/Point%20Pleasant%20bridge.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT8t552s0GK6gWj2V2uFfWprB-GV_ED6y-jjDh-xIXTqnHtHod-Rsu2MytlNpDcopWaGSfbNBdIASg6SaQ6Ilce9E_DxN0AmCJOmlX8aB_2huf79WaPijQh__CO65JBlRLWL7rkjlMrEhI2YMufkgUj2YzIiU61udSUK20fAQiGFgzTsAQq1dzU_Sn/s320/Point%20Pleasant%20bridge.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Point Pleasant rail bridge over Kanawha River, 2014.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table> </p><p class="MsoNormal">My 4<sup>x </sup>great-grandfather, Andrew Thompson, is
another of my paternal grandma Mary’s pioneer ancestors: Me > Verne Troutman
> Mary Waggoner > Rachel Havens > Mary Jane Thompson > Bryant
Thompson > Andrew Thompson.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Census records suggest that Andrew Thompson was born between
1751 and 1760.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a></span> A
Bible record says he died in 1840 at age 90.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a></span>
Some claims on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry</i> give his
middle name, his parents’ names, and his birthplace in Ireland, but I haven’t
seen proof of any of it, so if my readers have sources, please share your
bounty. About 1774, Andrew married Nancy Anna (possibly Reed, but not proven
that I know of). An 1849 deed recorded in Wythe County, Virginia made by John,
Andrew, Amos, and Bryant Thompson of Wythe County, Virginia, and Francis
Thompson of Lee County refers to land inherited from their father, Andrew
Thompson, Sr. In addition to the sons named above, his estate settlement names
daughters <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mary Helvey, deceased, to her
children, and Nancy, who married Charles Havens.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">During the American Revolution, Andrew lived in Montgomery
County, Virginia. His service during the war included the rank of ensign in the
Battle of Point Pleasant and appointment as a Justice of the Peace in
Montgomery County.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">[4]</span></span></span></span></a></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the western regions of the colonies, where Andrew
Thompson lived, the American Revolution often centered on battles with Indians
resulting from unrest in the east and unresolved issues from the French and
Indian War (or Seven Years War). Summers notes John Adams’ assertion that the
Revolution actually started in 1760 when the Britain imposed taxes that the
colonists deemed unfair and lacked their representation. In 1764 they organized
against this oppression in Boston (and in North Carolina, I might add; see my
previous post). In 1765, the Stamp Act was passed and the Sons of Liberty
organized against it. In 1766 the Brits taxed tea; in 1768 they sent troops to
Boston. About that time, Virginians passed an agreement not to import. In 1770
the Boston Massacre happened. In England, parliament remained determined to
thwart all opposition to taxation in the colonies, which set colonists’ minds
to further resistance.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">[5]</span></span></span></span></a></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">In
order to distract colonists from problems in the east, the British promised the
Shawnee that if they allied with them against the colonists in western
settlements, the King would keep the colonists from crossing the mountains
into Indian territories. This action, the Brits contended, would also impress
the colonists with their need to depend on the Redcoats to protect them from
attacks on their settlements. So at the same time the Brits allied with the
Indians against the colonists, they were attempting to convince the colonists
that they were their protectors against Indian attacks. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dunmore’s War and the Battle of Point Pleasant was an
example of this duplicity.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">[6]</span></span></span></span></a></span> In
short, Governor Dunmore commanded Colonel Andrew Lewis to raise an army of 1000
men from the western counties of Virginia to fight against a huge Shawnee force
led by Cornstalk gathering on the Kanawha River at Point Pleasant. Meanwhile,
he told Lewis that he would take a contingent of British regulars from northern
Virginia to meet up with him and assist in the battle. Dunmore dawdled and
delayed and never arrived, leaving Lewis’ outnumbered colonists to wage the
battle on their own. After a hard fight with many killed on both sides,
including several of Lewis’ officers and his brother, the battle ended at
nightfall with the colonists holding the field. Cornstalk and his men left. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Summers asserts that the underrated Battle at Point Pleasant
on October 10, 1774 was the first full-scale battle of the war. It greatly
reduced the threat of Indian attacks on the western frontier and allowed the
colonists to focus their fight against the British army in the east.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thankfully, Andrew Thompson survived or I wouldn’t be here
today.</p>
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1830 U.S. census, Wythe Co, VA, p. 360, line 5, Andrew Thompson Sr.; NARA
series M19, roll 200. Also, 1840 U.S. census, Wythe Co, VA, p. 118, line 20,
Andrew Thompson; NARA series M(n/a), roll 579.</p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a>
Records taken from Thompson Family Bible, notarized 15 Sep 1831, J. E. Wagner,
Notary Public, Mercer County, WV.</p>
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<div id="ftn3" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a> Wythe
County, Virginia Will Book #6, pp. 69-70, 373-376; Office of the Clerk,
Courthouse, Wytheville.</p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span></span></span></a>
Livia Simpson-Poffenbarger, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Battle of
Point Pleasant</i> (Point Pleasant, VA: The State Gazette, 1909) p. 94. Also,
L. P. Summers, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Annals of Southwest
Virginia</i> (Abingdon, VA: L. P. Summers, 1929), vol. 1, p. 683. The DAR
recognizes four levels of service to qualify someone as a patriot ancestor:
military, public, civil, and oath of allegiance. Thompson’s service was both
military and civil. The full text of these sources can be found on Hathi Trust
(hathitrust.org). </p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[5]</span></span></span></span></a>
Simpson-Poffenbarger, p. 12, 18.</p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[6]</span></span></span></span></a>
Ibid., p. 13.</p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>ztnoblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12192494474879562468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6688481187808508351.post-85718117252366625342022-08-04T09:53:00.002-04:002022-08-04T09:59:13.990-04:00NSDAR Revolutionary War Patriot Ancestor #2: Melchior Trautman A202410<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsrOwfea_GD4SaMYQGhD-FIAvk9ns0xhKmHvqVxl281Q1P1vrKbcVOokhrta8ALDSaKgnfe1-LiAPXDtMh0raqxYcehCasMqnnQ9CdnEl6LlfL8wtFR2BUAaVwnG7Y8rPmi1sWqVXRVBt7UhWpCrFjejEcnvwsQEbLpp8HMgUsjVyOzSRYToqcZLUE/s4032/Organ_Lutheran_Ch_Cem.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsrOwfea_GD4SaMYQGhD-FIAvk9ns0xhKmHvqVxl281Q1P1vrKbcVOokhrta8ALDSaKgnfe1-LiAPXDtMh0raqxYcehCasMqnnQ9CdnEl6LlfL8wtFR2BUAaVwnG7Y8rPmi1sWqVXRVBt7UhWpCrFjejEcnvwsQEbLpp8HMgUsjVyOzSRYToqcZLUE/s320/Organ_Lutheran_Ch_Cem.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIKOG0awBUxCU0VzPmmtkWZ-S0W13AZhiHWfD9k2isaBvswCedO-hgLZTCLsfvCNv6ez1lP_LitJ2tb2Xx5zeDaihT-vVgHukovL5OvIykEVGP_K3mW-fd3AB4nBDuKUfCxjgZAGzNdZr6C0NuE7Nz3d5FyLHrzsQaJIQc5bJbAni-AA65SlSJxMuc/s4032/Organ_Lutheran_Ch_Sign.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIKOG0awBUxCU0VzPmmtkWZ-S0W13AZhiHWfD9k2isaBvswCedO-hgLZTCLsfvCNv6ez1lP_LitJ2tb2Xx5zeDaihT-vVgHukovL5OvIykEVGP_K3mW-fd3AB4nBDuKUfCxjgZAGzNdZr6C0NuE7Nz3d5FyLHrzsQaJIQc5bJbAni-AA65SlSJxMuc/s320/Organ_Lutheran_Ch_Sign.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">At the same time my 5x great-grandfather Henry Harman lived
in Rowan County, North Carolina and served on the Committee of Safety
(1774-1775), my 3x great-grandfather, Melchior Trautman lived there, too. I
wonder if they were acquainted. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">This is Melchior’s story. He is my father’s direct line male
ancestor: Dad Verne Troutman > Grandpa Clint Troutman > G-grandpa Daniel
A. Troutman > GG-grandpa Henry Troutman > GGG-grandpa Jacob Troutman >
GGGG-grandpa Melchior Trautman.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">After the death of his father, Adam Trautman, a tailor in a
Bavarian village called Gross Gumpen, Melchior immigrated to America in 1751
with his mother, Anna Margaretha (Hartmann) Trautman and his half-brother Peter
Trautman and Peter’s young family on the ship Neptune. On arriving in American,
the Trautman men and all German immigrants were required to take an oath of
allegiance to the British monarch. Melchior’s name is found on a list of oath
takers “at the Court House of Philadelphia” dated 24 September 1751. He signed
with an X.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a></span> <br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Either on the ship or shortly after arriving Melchior
married a woman named Anna. No record remains of this marriage, but family
tradition says her surname was Heist; the Neptune ship’s manifest lists several
Heist men. Not until years later were women and children named. The 1767
baptismal record of a Lutheran Church in Northampton County, Pennsylvania of
their son, Jacob, names his parents “Melcher Troutman [and] Anna” and provides
evidence of their residence and religious affiliation.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">After about twenty years in Pennsylvania, Melchior and Peter
moved their families, probably via the Great Road through the Valley of
Virginia, to Rowan County, North Carolina. The Great Road, sometimes called the
Great Wagon Road, wasn’t so great for wagons. It was a narrow footpath indigenous
peoples had trod, probably following buffalo trails through the valley. That’s
how the Harman family found it in 1745. By the time the Trautman family came
after 1770, it hadn’t improved much. The additions were that more settlements
along the way warranted organized efforts to keep the path cleared. Certain
landowners were designated “overseers of the road” for the section passing
their property. Nonetheless, only packhorses and folks on foot or horseback
could navigate the path, not wagons, not yet. An important stopover place along
the way was Fort Chiswell in Wythe County, Virginia. From there, some folks headed
westward on the Wilderness Trail and some turned south over the mountains into
North Carolina.<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span></span></a></span></span> The
Troutman families turned south. It was a long and tiring journey.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">During the 1760s as conflict with the British arose over
taxation in New England, so it did in North Carolina. The southerners also were
soon divided into pro- and anti-British camps. In the outlying regions of North
Carolina a contingent of men dubbed “Regulators” objected to excessive fees and
taxes and corrupt government officials. The conflict lasted from 1764-1771 when
the Regulators were defeated and sent packing. Interestingly, the men who
fought against the Regulators later became loyal to the patriot cause and most
of the Regulators became Tories.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span></span></span></a></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Henry Harman was surely aware of it all, but where he stood
is unknown. Melchior Trautman and family arrived in the aftermath, in time for
the start of the Revolutionary War. Having taken an oath of Allegiance to the
British crown when they arrived in Philadelphia in 1751, it’s probable that
Melchior and Peter Trautman were conflicted over what they should do. As the
Committee of Safety (see last week’s post) took control of governing Rowan
County, Salisbury’s jail became the place to confine Tories and British
prisoners of war. Melchior and Peter’s son, also named Melchior, served
the patriot cause by guard duty at the Salisbury Jail.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[5]</span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">The town certainly became the center of action after the
Battle of Cowpens in early 1781 when Brigadier General Daniel Morgan’s
Continentals marched through with hundreds of prisoners. Morgan was soon
followed by General Cornwallis and his Redcoats, who camped about the town. You
can read more about this excitement here: https://amrevnc.com/salisbury/ . For history lovers, Salisbury is a great place to see the sites and learn about
events of the Revolutionary War in North Carolina (also the Civil War). </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Melchior, however, didn’t live to witness these events. He
died 9 November 1778 and was buried south of Salisbury in the cemetery at Organ
Lutheran Church where he was a member; his grave is unmarked. </p><p class="MsoNormal">And about that spelling problem, the first descendant of Melchior's to submit a DAR application spelled the name Melchoir, so that's what he gets in the DAR database. Sort of makes me grit my teeth. Clearly, his early records spelled it "Melchior."<br /></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a>
Ralph Beaver Strassburger and William John Hinke, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pennsylvania German Pioneers</i>, Vol. 2, ( Norristown, PA:
Pennsylvania German Society, 1934) p. 551. This book can be found full text on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hathi Trust</i>.</p>
</div>
<div id="ftn2" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a>
St. Paul’s [Blue] Church, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Church Records</i>
(Upper Saucon Township, Lehigh County, PA, transcribed from a copy in Easton
Library, 1948), p. 30. This church was and is Lutheran.</p>
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<div id="ftn3" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a>
See Mary B. Kegley, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Finding Their Way
From the Great Road to the Wilderness Road, 1745-1796, </i>(Wytheville, VA:
Kegley Books, 2008), pp. 7-12. </p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span></span></span></a>
Regulators of North Carolina, United States History, Britannica; https://www.britannica.com/topic/Regulators-of-North-Carolina</p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[5]</span></span></span></span></a>
North Carolina: Digital Collections, Home > Troop Returns > Guards of
Salisbury Jail [1];
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<p></p><p class="MsoNormal">During the summer of 2014, a course I took in professional
genealogy presented me with a challenge. One of the lessons focused on lineage
societies. I knew I had at least one ancestor with a Revolutionary War record,
for I had been to his grave and had seen a marker placed by the Daughters of
the American Revolution. Hmm. I wondered if I could prove my lineage to satisfy
the requirements of this particular lineage society. Why not try? So I did. That
ancestor was Henry Harmon, Ancestor #A050817.<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In many families, the spelling of the name can create
controversy. This family consists of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">O</i>
Harmons and the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A</i> Harmans. The first
person to prove lineage for DAR to Henry Harmon used an O. But during my
research, all records I found spelled it with an A. Somewhere down the years,
the spelling changed. I prefer the old spelling even though DAR uses the more
recent one. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As the story goes, Henry or Heinrich was born on the Isle of
Mann in 1726 to Heinrich Adam and Louisa Katrina Herrmann (the old German
spelling) as they made their way to America from the Palatinate region of
present day Germany. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Adam Harman kept meticulous records of the births of his
children in his Bible, all in German, of course. This ancient tome is housed at
the Virginia Historical Society, Richmond. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Adam settled his family in Pennsylvania and left records in
the form of quitrents, but soon they were headed southwestward through Virginia
on the Great Wagon Road. Their youngest son Mathias was born at Strasburg,
Virginia in 1736. By 1745, Adam had established a settlement on the New River. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">By 1755, the Indian allies of the French were attacking
settlements in southwestern Virginia, and life became precarious for the
settlers. Several Harman family members were killed, not to mention friends and
neighbors. Many of the families in these outposts fled toward Salem, North
Carolina where a more thickly populated area including Moravians offered
safety. Harman family members are mentioned in numerous Moravian daily diaries.
Here’s one among many: “1762, October 3. Our neighbor, Henry Hermann, and his
brother-in-law, Ulrich Richards, brought their children to us for baptism, and
we could not refuse their request, so at noon Brother Ettwein baptized little
Daniel Hermann, and Brother Groff baptized little Anna Richards” (qtd. in John
Newton Harman, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Harman Genealogy,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Southern Branch) with Biographical Sketches
and Historical Notes, 1700-1924, p. 319).</i> The Harman families stayed in
North Carolina about 20 years. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In Rowan County, Henry Harmon’s name can be found in a list
of original members of the Committee of Safety formed in 1774. The Continental
Congress had urged the colonies to form these Committees of Safety, which
served to promote independence from Britain. By 1775, <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the Rowan Committee
of Safety “regulated the economy, politics, morality, and militia of their
individual communities. After December 1776 they came under the control of a
more powerful central authority, the North Carolina Council of Safety” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowan_County_Committee_of_Safety).
Henry’s service with the Committee of Safety validates him as a patriot
ancestor.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For more info on Henry Harman, read my
earlier blogpost: <a href="https://rattlingoldbones.blogspot.com/search?q=henry+harman">https://rattlingoldbones.blogspot.com/search?q=henry+harman</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Note: For years I have been curious as to why Henry Harman's grave marker says he served in Virginia, yet his service record with DAR is in North Carolina. Recently on Ancestry, I found a request for military tombstone for Henry Harman. The request shows that it was first made for North Carolina, which was crossed out and Virginia written above it. Googling Captain A[lexander] Osborne, I found that he served on the Committee of Safety in Rowan County, as well. So that's a mistake on the grave marker. Should be North Carolina, not Virginia.<br /></span></p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal">As Sarah's son Martie McIntyre was entering his mid-teens, World War I began raging in Europe. When the United
States joined the war in 1917, Sarah’s family felt the effects. Against his
mother’s wishes and desiring to follow in Gould’s footsteps, Martie
enlisted in the Navy on August 2, 1918. His military records describe him as
5’9” tall, 153 pounds, with brown eyes, black hair, and ruddy complexion.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn1" name="_ednref1" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">1</span></span></span></span></a></span> Prior to this time when men enlisted in the Navy, they served four years, but
as an incentive to get recruits for the war effort, they were allowed to enlist
for the duration of the war. This was Martie’s choice. When Germany signed an
armistice with the Allies on November 11, 1918, the war officially ended, but
Martie served several more months. By special order of the Secretary of the
Navy, he was honorably discharged on April 17, 1919.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn2" name="_ednref2" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">2</span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Seven months after Martie returned from the Navy, Sarah made
room for a daughter-in-law in the home. On November 15, 1919, Martie married
Fannie Mae Myers (1902-1925), daughter of Jacob A. Myers, a magistrate and
teacher in Smyth County, and his wife Oma Allen Deal Myers, a teacher and drama
coach. Fannie’s dimpled smile and gentle ways added cheer to the McIntyre home.
Within a year (August 10, 1920), Fannie gave birth to Sarah’s first grandson,
Woodrow Wilson McIntyre, and twenty-three months later (July 16, 1922) to a
granddaughter, Norma Lois McIntyre. By this time in her life, Sarah must have
learned not to take good times for granted. A year or so after the birth of her
second child, Fannie was diagnosed with “consumption,” a term used at that time
for tuberculosis, and sent to Catawba, a tuberculosis sanitarium near Roanoke,
Virginia. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Fannie’s treatments failed to cure her of the disease. After
she returned home, she began to keep a diary. Her first entry was dated Dec.
27, 1924, and the last entry was penned in May 1925. Within the pages of this
slim volume, she recorded her hopes and dreams and the events of her life. She
often mentioned her mother-in-law, mostly in terms of illness or work: “Mrs.
McIntyre is sick today,” or “Mrs. McIntyre is ironing.” Fannie also noted
friends and family members who visited her, among them two women evangelists,
Mayo Moses and Mabrey Evans. Fannie wrote glowingly of her affection for them.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">February [1925], Sunday—1</p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0in;">Mayo has been here I love Mayo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I know she is a good girl.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
old world we’re living in is very hard to beat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We get a rose with every thorn, But aren’t the roses sweet. . . .</p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="line-height: normal;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Monday—16</p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent2" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">Mayo has been here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She brought Miss Evans. They are such nice
girlies and are doing a good work. . . .</p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent2" style="margin-left: 0in;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Tuesday—24</p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent2" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">It is cloudy to day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t feel good at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The meeting is still in progress, and will be
this week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mayo has not been here since
Sat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wish she’d come.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">3</span><a href="#_edn3" name="_ednref3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;"></span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent2"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">When Fannie died on September 7, 1925, five days before her twenty-third
birthday, Martie and Mayo stood on opposite sides of her bed holding her hands.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Once again, motherless children were left in Sarah’s care,
but this time at age sixty-five she was suffering from poor health. Unlike John
Chapman, who seldom visited Gladys and Lorene, Martie took responsibility for
his children. Life went on in the McIntyre household. Martie bought property
farther up the hillside in Allison Gap and began construction on a new house.
Later, Allie built a barn on the property and continued to keep a large garden.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Though she was just a young teenager, Lorene carried much of
the responsibility for the care of Lois and Woodrow. Gladys had moved to
Hopewell where her Uncle Gould lived and found a job. Though Sarah’s health
began to fail, she kept in touch with her “adopted” children, Gould and Gladys.
A few letters to Gladys remain. These letters illustrate Sarah’s devotion to
these young people whose lives were entrusted to her care as children. That she
often signs her letters “Mother” illustrates the way she regarded them. Though
she did not record the year, indications are that these letters were probably written
in 1926, about two years before Sarah died.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Saltville Va</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">January 23</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">dear daughter</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;">it is with great Pleasure to night
that i will try and drop you a few lines to let you</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">Know that i have not forgotten
you<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>gladis they all well here but me and
i dont get no better nor never will. . . .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>hope those few lines will find you all right</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">Lorene is at home she is lots of
help to us<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>thire is a 20 days singing
school agoing on here now Lorene is going all the time<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>we don’t want her to miss none of it for it
is good<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>well gladis thire is lots of
Sickness and deaths here<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>thire was Some
one buried nearly every day last week Mr Charley Surber and his brother died at
McCrady Gap<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mrs lineberry Anie Haynes<span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span>
mother and anie die is dead </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">. . . .</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">So be good and take good care of
your Self for thire is so many girls kidnapped i am uneasy about you so be
carful<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>this from your Mother to her
daughther</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">So good night<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sarah McIntyre</p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">________</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">April the 5, [1926]<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn5" name="_ednref5" style="mso-endnote-id: edn5;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">5</span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">dear gladis</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">ithought i would try and drop you a
few lines<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>i would have rote sooner but
have not been able . . . . the children got thir baskets was well Please<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>gladis if i could get out of the house i
would have sent you a Ester Preasant but just as soon as i can get out i will send
you something nice </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">Well gladis we had a surprise Party
Come in on us last Friday night at Eleven oclock<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>i know you cant guess so i will tell you<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>your aunt dealy and and uncle billy and
Ribern Arnell and Earnest and his wife<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn6" name="_ednref6" style="mso-endnote-id: edn6;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">6</span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they Stayed all night and went on the first
train<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they come to See your aunt Em<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn7" name="_ednref7" style="mso-endnote-id: edn7;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">7</span></span></span></span></a></span>
and then come to See me<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>i Sure was glad
to see them all<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>when you come home Marti
Said that he would take us all down there </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">Well Lorene has not missed a day in
school. . . . Gould has got a big boy<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn8" name="_ednref8" style="mso-endnote-id: edn8;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">8</span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they call him junior<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>i forgot to tell you that Dell and Hugh and
francis was here last Saturday<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn9" name="_ednref9" style="mso-endnote-id: edn9;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">9</span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they come and we was not looking for
them<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>well the old Gap is just the same
only worse<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>there is moore meanness than
ever was Know before<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>i Sure was glad
that you got out<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>i am a going to try and
get Loren out just as soon as we can<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is no fitten place for a deacent girl to Stay<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>i am so sorry that Marti come back<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>if i could get out to night i sure would go<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn10" name="_ednref10" style="mso-endnote-id: edn10;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">10</span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>i am well Pleased with you that you are
holding yourself up. . . .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>well I will
close now will rite more next time<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>don’t
fail to rite to me<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>i will rite just as
often as i can<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">this from Mother </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">so good by my little girl<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>be a good girl<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">_______</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">August the 5</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">dear daughter</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;">After a long delay I thought i
would drop you just a few lines to let you Know</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">how we all are all well as comen
but me<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>i have not been able to do
nothing sience you was here<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>well i Seen
fransias batten<span style="font-size: x-small;">11</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She Said to tell you to come back just as
soon as you can for She Shur did enjoy you company while you was up at her
home<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>you Said that you was coming home
in September hop you will come<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>well Mrs.
Myers and Charles and fred<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn12" name="_ednref12" style="mso-endnote-id: edn12;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">12</span></span></span></span></a></span>
is all down with tyfoied fevor. . . .</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">Allie said for you to go and send
her them samples of t woolen dress goods and she will Pick her out one and Send
the mony . . . for it so dont fail to do that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>the children<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn13" name="_ednref13" style="mso-endnote-id: edn13;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">13</span></span></span></span></a></span>
has gon to bed<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Marti is down at times
has just come in from the store so I so I don’t know of any thing more to rite
at Preasant<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>will give you all the news
next time</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">Hope to hear from you soon
gladis<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>don’t fail to rite to me often
for Part of the time I can rite to you<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>and you must not fail to rit often<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>so I will close </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;">for to night so be
good </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;">and take good care
of your Self</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;">So good night my
little daughter</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;">this from Mother</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;">rite soon</p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">________</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">Oct 25 [1927]<br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Dear daughter</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;">ithought i would drop you a few
lines this morning as aunt Marry Collins is</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">waiting on me to take it to the
Post office<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>i would have rote sooner but
have not been able to go half my time gladis what has become of Lorene<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>don’t hear from her<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gladis Hizzie<span style="font-size: x-small;">14</span>
was awful Proud of her dress<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it Sure is
nice goods<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>well Virgie Tallor<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn15" name="_ednref15" style="mso-endnote-id: edn15;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">15</span></span></span></span></a></span>
run of the other day and got married<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>India Haynes<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn16" name="_ednref16" style="mso-endnote-id: edn16;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">16</span></span></span></span></a></span>
is Married<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they both married men from
Marion<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t know know their
names<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>well I have not time to rite mutch<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>will give you all the news next time<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>when do you think you are coming . . .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I sure do want to see you</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">So I will close for this time<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>this leaves all well as comen<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>hope this will find you the Same</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span>So
good by for this time</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span>be
a good little girl</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span>this
from Mama </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 2in; text-indent: 0.5in;">to her daughter </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 2in; text-indent: 0.5in;">rite soon</p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">________</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The next year, Sarah learned, inadvertently, that on August
24, 1927, Martie had secretly married Mayo Moses (1898-1988), the lady preacher
and Fannie’s friend. They slipped off from a Church of God camp meeting at
Christiansburg and were married at Appomattox. As a featured evangelist at the
camp meeting, Mayo was afraid her marriage would divert attention from the
purpose of the camp meeting—to win souls for Christ—hence the secret ceremony.
The couple planned to hand out marriage announcements after the last service, but
Martie’s mother discovered one of the announcements as she searched Martie’s
pockets preparing to launder his clothes. The secret was out. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mayo was a Tennessee girl, the daughter of a tenant farmer,
William Moses, and his wife, Martha Oody Moses. At age sixteen, she had been
converted during a revival meeting near Loudon, Tennessee, by Church of God
evangelist, the Reverend A. G. Riddle. So impressed were the Riddles by Mayo’s
zeal for the Lord that they took her into their home at Atkins, Virginia, to
tutor her in Bible study and Church of God teachings.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn17" name="_ednref17" style="mso-endnote-id: edn17;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">17</span></span></span></span></a></span>
After her education with the Riddles and a time at Berea College in Kentucky,
Mayo began a preaching ministry with another woman evangelist, Mabrey Evans.
Mayo and Mabrey held revivals in communities throughout Southwest Virginia,
including Atkins, Marion, Christiansburg, and Saltville. Mayo also took interim
pastorates at Elliston and Chatham Hill, and for a few years she pastored the
new congregation at Allison Gap. Mayo’s strong voice carried across the
congregation and out through the windows to the surrounding hillside homes in
powerful prayers and sermons, and she ministered in many homes praying for the
sick. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In contrast to Mayo’s strong voice, Martie was soft spoken
and modest. He had learned compassion and generosity from his mother. By this
time, he was working in the Matheson company store as a grocery clerk. The
Matheson Alkali Works had come to Saltville in 1893, and the company owned much
of the town. Martie often helped the poor by giving them goods they needed and
charging his own bill. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">When Mayo joined the McIntyre family, she gained not only a
husband, but also two small children (Lois and Woodrow), a teenager (Lorene), a
mother-in-law (Sarah), and “Aunt Allie.” She ran an organized and efficient
household and continued Sarah’s tradition of housing and feeding guest
preachers. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Within a year of Martie’s marriage to Mayo, Sarah died on 23
May 1928.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn18" name="_ednref18" style="mso-endnote-id: edn18;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">18</span></span></span></span></a></span>
And so the earthly life of an ordinary woman of Southwest Virginia came to an
end. Her life exhibits traits upon which communities thrive. She overcame many
tragedies: early loss of both her parents, the stigma of her father’s defection
from the Confederate army, early loss of her husband, loss of two stepchildren
and a daughter-in-law as young adults, and more. With dignity and with her
friend Allie by her side, she used what little resources she had to make a
living for herself and for the children entrusted to her care. With her modest
resources, she helped establish the Church of God in the area by housing and
feeding visiting evangelists. Beyond her own neighborhood, Sarah McIntyre was unknown.
However, in her determined and humble way, she represents many women who faced
the hardships of life with determination and courage. They taught their
children to honor God and country, to continue the work ethic modeled for them,
and to be compassionate, contributing citizens. Thus Sarah Geer McIntyre and
countless women like her helped to weave the social an economic fabric of their
communities for the good.</p><p class="MsoNormal"></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/-hmo8hFQMie0/YMj1oVKzZSI/AAAAAAAAFik/dfokJBLLJk8JqPSwmRy0iehRUTCCXCcVgCLcBGAsYHQ/s807/MartieNavy1918.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="807" data-original-width="582" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hmo8hFQMie0/YMj1oVKzZSI/AAAAAAAAFik/dfokJBLLJk8JqPSwmRy0iehRUTCCXCcVgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/MartieNavy1918.jpg" />s</a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Martin "Martie" McIntyre, U. S. Navy 1918.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></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/-2EG_kRwr3yc/YMj03uKe1wI/AAAAAAAAFiY/ngZSXx-l7zEJW06fqqjGFpDKvE0XHx7GACLcBGAsYHQ/s441/Woodie__Charlie_and_Fannie.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="441" data-original-width="389" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2EG_kRwr3yc/YMj03uKe1wI/AAAAAAAAFiY/ngZSXx-l7zEJW06fqqjGFpDKvE0XHx7GACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Woodie__Charlie_and_Fannie.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fannie McIntyre, her son Woodrow (r) and bother Charles (l), c. 1921.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><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/-79Dbf9juXQI/YMj2q8UWR8I/AAAAAAAAFiw/dBG7NN92eDMAwYaQXg-lza0tGvoarYb_ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1016/Mc_Sar_Wood_Lois.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="629" data-original-width="1016" height="248" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-79Dbf9juXQI/YMj2q8UWR8I/AAAAAAAAFiw/dBG7NN92eDMAwYaQXg-lza0tGvoarYb_ACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h248/Mc_Sar_Wood_Lois.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">L. to r. back: Mr. Moore (a cousin of Sarah's), Sarah McIntyre, Charles Myers (Fannie's youngest brother); l to r. front: Woodrow McIntyre, Lois McIntyre, and the little blondie is an unknown granddaughter of Mr. Moore's, c. 1925 or '26.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><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/-MQiOZrNqJeQ/YMj6f7ZXSpI/AAAAAAAAFi4/DWgBSYjOYNYISTmFG0Z4al9cMuWSUdk0ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1076/Mary%2BMayo%2BMoses..jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1076" data-original-width="761" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MQiOZrNqJeQ/YMj6f7ZXSpI/AAAAAAAAFi4/DWgBSYjOYNYISTmFG0Z4al9cMuWSUdk0ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Mary%2BMayo%2BMoses..jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The lady preacher, Mary Mayo Moses, c. 1925.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<p align="center" class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;">Acknowledgments</p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in;">Thanks to
my mother, Lois McIntyre Troutman, for telling me stories and for saving all
the letters and photos. Thanks to Harry Haynes at the Museum of the Middle
Appalachians for introducing me to <i>The Smithfield Review</i> and for
answering my many questions about Saltville, Allison Gap, and the people who
lived there long ago. Thanks to Hugh Campbell and others at <i>The Smithfield
Review</i> for their comments and suggestions to improve the clarity of this
manuscript, which was originally published in that journal in 2007, Vol. 11.
(As I adapted the article to this blog, I corrected a few errors I found. Nothing is perfect.) From readers, I welcome any additional information that might shed light on the
life of Sarah McIntyre and her family and the people she knew.</p>
<div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><br clear="all" />
<hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" />
<div id="edn1" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">1</span></span></span></span></a> Enlistment papers are in the possession of the author.</p>
</div>
<div id="edn2" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref2" name="_edn2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">2</span></span></span></span></a> Discharge papers are in the possession of the author. The family story about
Martie’s WWI service is that he was underage when he enlisted, and Sarah was
able to get him discharged for that reason. However, on finding Martie’s
enlistment papers, I discovered this not to be the case. He was 20 years old
when he enlisted. The only possible reason for this story that I can think of
is that maybe Martie tired to enlist in the Navy at age 17, and Sarah was able
to get him out at that time, but there is no record of such an event.</p>
</div>
<div id="edn3" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref3" name="_edn3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">3</span></span></span></span></a> Fannie Myers McIntyre. Unpublished diary. 1925. This book is in the possession
of the author.</p>
</div>
<div id="edn4" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref4" name="_edn4" style="mso-endnote-id: edn4;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">4</span></span></span></span></a> Annie Haynes was the wife of David Haynes and the mother of India Haynes
mentioned in Sarah’s Oct. 25<sup>th</sup> letter. Annie’s mother had died. </p>
</div>
<div id="edn5" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref5" name="_edn5" style="mso-endnote-id: edn5;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">5</span></span></span></span></a> The year can be inferred from the reference to the birth of Gould C. McIntyre,
Jr., born in 28 Feb 1926.</p>
</div>
<div id="edn6" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref6" name="_edn6" style="mso-endnote-id: edn6;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">6</span></span></span></span></a> Aunt Dealy was Cordelia McIntyre Arnold, sister to Martin McIntyre (Sarah’s
husband); Uncle Billy was William Ector McIntyre, of Abingdon, brother to
Martin McIntyre; Ryburn and Earnest Arnold, were sons of Cordelia McIntyre
Arnold.</p>
</div>
<div id="edn7" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref7" name="_edn7" style="mso-endnote-id: edn7;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">7</span></span></span></span></a> Aunt Em refers to Emmaline McIntyre Stanfield, sister to Martin McIntyre.</p>
</div>
<div id="edn8" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref8" name="_edn8" style="mso-endnote-id: edn8;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">8</span></span></span></span></a> This would be Gould C. McIntyre, Jr., born in 28 Feb 1926.</p>
</div>
<div id="edn9" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref9" name="_edn9" style="mso-endnote-id: edn9;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">9</span></span></span></span></a> Adelle (Stanfield) Bolton, her husband Hugh and daughter Frances. Adelle was
daughter of Martin McIntyre’s sister Emmaline who married James M. Stanfield.</p>
</div>
<div id="edn10" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref10" name="_edn10" style="mso-endnote-id: edn10;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">10</span></span></span></span></a> Whatever was going on in the “Gap” that caused Sarah’s desire to see the family
leave there is not certain. Despite this, the family stayed in Allison Gap home
until 1992, when Gerald McIntyre died and the house was sold. Martie believed
in the people of Allison Gap; he rejoiced whenever a “Gap boy” made good. He
encouraged children to do well in school; he gave to the poor. At his funeral
in 1966, his good deeds, stories the family didn’t know, were told repeatedly
by people of the Gap, people who had been recipients of Martie McIntyre’s
compassion and generosity.</p>
</div>
<div id="edn11" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref11" name="_edn11" style="mso-endnote-id: edn11;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">11</span></span></span></span></a> This refers to Frances Bateman who was principal of the Allison Gap School at
one time.</p>
</div>
<div id="edn12" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref12" name="_edn12" style="mso-endnote-id: edn12;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">12 </span></span></span></span></a>These people are the mother and brothers of Fannie Myers McIntyre, Martie’s
deceased wife.</p>
</div>
<div id="edn13" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref13" name="_edn13" style="mso-endnote-id: edn13;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">13</span></span></span></span></a> “The children” are Martie’s children, Lois and Woodrow<i>.</i></p>
</div>
<div id="edn14" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref14" name="_edn14" style="mso-endnote-id: edn14;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">14</span></span></span></span></a> Hizzie is a nickname for Allie Rumbley.</p>
</div>
<div id="edn15" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref15" name="_edn15" style="mso-endnote-id: edn15;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">15</span></span></span></span></a> Virgie Taylor, daughter of Rush Taylor, married John Mays.</p>
</div>
<div id="edn16" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref16" name="_edn16" style="mso-endnote-id: edn16;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">16</span></span></span></span></a> At age 17, India Haynes married Lynn Wassum, as noted in the 1930 Census,
Smyth, Virginia; Roll: 2461; Page: 8B;
Enumeration District: 3; Image: 627.0. Ancestry. She was 20
years old at the time the census was taken on April 30, 1930. One can infer,
then, that this letter was written in 1927.</p>
</div>
<div id="edn17" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref17" name="_edn17" style="mso-endnote-id: edn17;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">17</span></span></span></span></a> My mother, Lois McIntyre Troutman, often told me this story, but it is also
recorded in the following book: Berny Berquist and Maxine McCall. <i>Posthumorously,
Berk</i><u> </u>(Drexel, NC: C & M Resources, 2000), 77.</p>
</div>
<div id="edn18" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref18" name="_edn18" style="mso-endnote-id: edn18;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">18</span></span></span></span></a> Virginia, U.S., Death Records, 1912-2014, citing Sarah A. McIntire, 23 May
1928; Ancestry.</p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Continued from May 20, 2021. . . <br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">At the time Sarah sent the Christmas box, her cooking at the
Palmer Inn was locally famous. She had also opened her home and her table to many
traveling Church of God evangelists preaching in the area, including A. G. Long and
M. P. Rimmer (part 2, May 13). Like nameless widows in the Old Testament who fed the prophets, Sarah
fed these preachers from Allie’s vegetable garden and from hogs they raised. .
. . In this humble way, she helped to establish a Church of God congregation
in the area.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn1" name="_ednref1" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">1 </span></span></span></span></a></span>By 1909, construction of a church building had begun. The same year, she and
Allie purchased a house<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn2" name="_ednref2" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">2</span></span></span></span></a></span>
in an area of Allison Gap called The Pines.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A letter from Sarah illuminates Allie’s importance to the family. Written in pencil, the letter contains no punctuation, and
capitalization is random. The letter is not dated, but one might infer that the
year falls between 1911 and 1916 because Sarah states that Martie and Gould,
her son and stepson, “are working.” During those years, Martie would have been
between 13 and 18, old enough to hold a job. Having served four years in the
United States Navy, Gould had returned some time after 1910.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn3" name="_ednref3" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">3</span></span></span></span></a></span>
He left the area around 1916 and moved to Hopewell, Virginia. The visitor
“fannie” is most likely Fannie (Rumbley) Allison, Allie’s sister. Lily Conkan
and Mrs. Keith are neighbors. Nicknamed “Hize,” Allie was staying at an unknown
location at this time. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">August the 26</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Saltville Va</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">Dear Allie,</p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent2" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">i have just received your
letter<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>. . .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>glad to hear all is well<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are . . . getting a long all rite<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Martie and Gould is working. . . . they both
wonder when hize will com home<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Martie
said last night Mama I have almost forgot how hize looks<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>he said i want to see her so bad i had to cry<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Allie he is the best thing to me on
earth<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gould has got all that pine wood
cut up and in the wood house and has engaged 6 moose wagon loads<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gould is so good to. . . . he wants me to
hire someone to stay until you come back<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>well Allie the cow is all rite<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She give about 2 gallons at a milking<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We give the calf half of the milk<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The hogs is growing rite a long<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>fannie<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was down here yesterday .
. . and stayed all eaving with me for i was so lonesome<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for God sakes hurry and come home<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>well me and lily Conkan is coming over this
next Thursday if nothing happens<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cant
you meet us at the train<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>now i will tell
you how i got disapointed yesterday<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>i
thought by me not getting word a Saturday you . . . would be here yesterday . .
. so i thought i heard a hack coming at 10 oclock<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I run to see and when i found that I was
mistaken i just took me a good old fashion cry<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>fannie laugh at me harty but i could tell she was hurt to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well Allie are you coming before I come over
there or not<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent2" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"> </p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent2" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">i got Mrs. Keith to do the
work for me to come. . . . i will come on the first train if nothing
happens<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Martie wants you to have him
some ripe pears<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well I will close for
this time into soon<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it is raining
hard<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>love to all</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">Sarah McIntyre</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sarah’s letter spills over with affection, not just for
Martie and Allie, but also for Gould. Obviously, Allie is an important and
loved member of the family. The references to the wood-cutting, the cow, the
milking, and the hogs also offer a glimpse into the life of the family.</p>
<p class="MsoHeader" style="tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On 11 February 1913, Sarah’s father, William E. Geer, died in Wisconsin. Two
months later, her stepmother, Julia, wrote these letters in pencil:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Maiden Rock Wis April 22 [1913]</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">Dear daughter<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it is Such a lonesome day thought I would
write you a few lines<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was So Sorry to
hear you were Sick<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>hope you are better
now. . . .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have been So lame<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel some better to day<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess I worked to hard<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I cleaned house and I have had . . . big
washings<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sickness makes lots of work my
but I do miss him . . . .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it is So
lonesome but I Stay alone I don’t feel contented any where else<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am So glad I have my home<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have been to the grave yard twice I was up
last Sunday and put flowers on the grave<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I feel So much better when I can go and look at his grave. . . .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it does Seem Sometimes as if he will come
back but he never will. I See So many things to remind me of him but it has to
be and I must make the best of it<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God
knows what is best for us<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think of it
every day he don’t have to live and Suffer<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I think he is at rest.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">I have not got any pension yet. . .
.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wish I could for I need it So
bad<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have not got my debts paid
yet<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>wish you would write and tell me
when your Birthday is and how old you are<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I don’t want you to try to do any thing if you are not able. . . .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>wish I lived where I could help you when you
are sick. . . .</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">Well I . . . will write more next
time<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tell uncle Tom<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn4" name="_ednref4" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">4</span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have not forgotten him and Aunt Hannah<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn5" name="_ednref5" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">5</span></span></span></span></a></span>
and Martie how I do wish I could See you all<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>write Soon </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Love to all from your</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Mother Julia Geer.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">Maiden Rock Wis April 26 [1913]</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Dear daughter</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 12pt;">Received your letter
. . . this morning I appreciated your kindness<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>when I get my pension I will try to remember you<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tell Martie I wont forget him he is a good
boy, I am afraid you rob yourself<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>you
have to work hard<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>one of those papers
you will have to send back<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want you to
let me know what it costs and I will pay it<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I think what you send me will help me more than anything<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was married to your father in April 25<sup>th</sup>
1868 and your father died Feb 11 1913. . . .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sarah don’t try to send a box<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
have to work so hard and you don’t feel well<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I want to send a box after a little<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I have some things I want to send uncle Tom & want to send the watch
to Martie. . . .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your father said he
wanted him to have it and he shall<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am
going to close </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">write soon </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">love to all </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">your Mother </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Julia Geer</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Julia’s affection toward a “daughter” she had never met is
heartwarming. It seems that Sarah endeared herself to her stepmother through
acts of kindness alluded to in Julia’s letter.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">About that time, Sarah’s stepson Gould wrote this letter to
Sarah revealing some difficulties the family was facing:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Bluefield W. Va.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">204 Reese St.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">April 11<sup>th</sup> 1913</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">Dear Mama:--</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;">just a few lines to let you know
that I am well. hoping that this will find you all </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">the Same. well Mama work is very
dull out here<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>. . . but I think that it
will get better in a few days. if not I am going to leave this place about pay
day which is on the 24<sup>th</sup>. I marked up for duty last Monday and have
just made one run which didn’t make me but three dollars. . . . if I should
take a notion to leave this place I have been thinking of sending my trunk home
so don’t be a bit surprised if you see it coming in<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by the way Mama I wish that you would look in
the vase on the dresser and get the letter that Rush<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn6" name="_ednref6" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">6</span></span></span></span></a></span>
gave me to bring to Bluefield and send it to me. if you can’t find it have Rush
to write another one. . . . tell Me how is Lizzie and the children getting
along. if they . . . need of anything let me know at once. I am going to send
you a little Money Pay day and I want you to pay five dollars to uncle Jim<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn7" name="_ednref7" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">7</span></span></span></span></a></span>
for rent for if I send it to Lizzie she might keep it and then aunt Emma would
think that I was trying to beat them out of the rent<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>tell me if they have repaired the house yet?
now I am going to do all that I can to help Lizzie. but if that dirty tramp
comes back and she lives with him I will never help her again. and futhermore
they will have to get out from there. for I think that you have been imposed on
a little to much. . . . I am going to send you some money for your troubles for
you have been awfull good to Me and I am not the kind of a man to forget. tell
Hise to give the little cow <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn8" name="_ednref8" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">8</span></span></span></span></a></span> some
sugar. ha. give Mart a wallop for me. with love to all</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 6;"> </span>Your
loveing Son</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 7;"> </span>Gould
McIntyre</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Gould’s letter exudes his protective feelings
for Sarah and for his sister Lizzie. The “dirty tramp” mentioned in the letter
was Lizzie’s husband, John Chapman, who apparently had deserted Lizzie at this
time. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Some time later, John Chapman returned to Lizzie and
together they moved to Dante, Virginia, where he likely worked in a coal mine.
Whether their move had anything to do with Gould’s threat is unknown. A
postcard addressed to “Mrs. John Chapman, Dante, Va.” reveals the tension Sarah
felt over Lizzie’s situation: “March 4, 1914 Dear lizzie What is wrong with you
that you don’t write Mama is awful worried about you all please write and let
us know if Gladas is with you all don’t foget to write at once.” </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Fifteen months later, another blow to Sarah’s life came when
Lizzie died in childbirth on June 13, 1915 at age 25. The child died also. Caring
for two small daughters became too much for John Chapman. He soon left them in
the care of Sarah McIntyre and Allie Rumbley. Once again, Sarah became the
caretaker of motherless children.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </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/-wFZfD34pEmE/YL-9G2qgeEI/AAAAAAAAFhw/1EwdHAIeVc8v2l-EBLlC2CrLAVyaC6e2ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/McI_Rumbley_house%2Bin%2BPines.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1451" data-original-width="2048" height="284" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wFZfD34pEmE/YL-9G2qgeEI/AAAAAAAAFhw/1EwdHAIeVc8v2l-EBLlC2CrLAVyaC6e2ACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h284/McI_Rumbley_house%2Bin%2BPines.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Home of Sarah McIntyre and Allie Rumbley in the Pines, Allison Gap. L to r. Lizzie, Allie, Aunt Hannah, Martie, and Sarah, about 1903.<br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </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/-Giryj_AFVKg/YL-97KPSJiI/AAAAAAAAFh4/pEpGVUEUdPwQ0oyccI0ewFbvqXXMOVwJACLcBGAsYHQ/s1801/McI_Rumbley_house%2BChurch.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1221" data-original-width="1801" height="271" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Giryj_AFVKg/YL-97KPSJiI/AAAAAAAAFh4/pEpGVUEUdPwQ0oyccI0ewFbvqXXMOVwJACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h271/McI_Rumbley_house%2BChurch.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The early Allison Gap Church of God congregation met in the home of Allie Rumbley and Sarah McIntyre (pictured with Martie at right in front) until a building was erected a the entrance road to Cardwell Town. Later a larger church was built at the crossroads to Lickskillet, "down the Valley and up the Valley." And even later, a new church was built "up the Valley." <br /></td></tr></tbody></table><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/-B0K6y4JS2m0/YMCwUTF-CQI/AAAAAAAAFiA/PswybQwvuC45xZsWxwfqCm1vpciYq8JUQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1744/McI_Gould_Rush_Allison.tiff" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1060" data-original-width="1744" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-B0K6y4JS2m0/YMCwUTF-CQI/AAAAAAAAFiA/PswybQwvuC45xZsWxwfqCm1vpciYq8JUQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/McI_Gould_Rush_Allison.tiff" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">L. to r.: Rush Taylor, a friend, and Gould McIntyre, c. 1905.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><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/-DatUEfTky3g/YMCw4ZSPgPI/AAAAAAAAFiI/RdOQQitzVMIEY1zYZIZ1K5RAfKXgv7FTgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2038/McI_Lizzie_n_friend.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2038" data-original-width="1154" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DatUEfTky3g/YMCw4ZSPgPI/AAAAAAAAFiI/RdOQQitzVMIEY1zYZIZ1K5RAfKXgv7FTgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/McI_Lizzie_n_friend.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">L. to r.: Sallie Cardwell and Lizzie McIntyre, c. 1905. Sallie was probably a cousin of Lizzie's.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><p></p>
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<div id="edn1" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">1</span></span></span></span></a> <u>The Tie That Binds</u>, p. 4. </p>
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<div id="edn2" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref2" name="_edn2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">2</span></span></span></span></a> <u>Smyth County Deed Book 35</u>, p. 238.</p>
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<div id="edn3" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref3" name="_edn3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">3</span></span></span></span></a> 1910 United States Census, Camp Gregg,
Pangasinan, Philippines, Military and Naval Forces;
Roll: T624_1784; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 40;
Image: 20, <u>Ancestry.com</u>. In this census, Gould is listed with a
group of men serving in the Pholippines. A story about Gould’s return from the
Navy as it was passed down through the family might be of interest here. When
Gould came home, he found his young half-brother Martie being spoiled by the two
women raising him and being picked on by bullies at school. He decided Martie
needed to become a man and learn to defend himself, so he taught him some
boxing moves and even gave him brass knuckles. Gould told Martie to take care
of those bullies, which Martie promptly did. </p>
</div>
<div id="edn4" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref4" name="_edn4" style="mso-endnote-id: edn4;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">4</span></span></span></span></a> William Geer’s brother, Thomas Geer.</p>
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<div id="edn5" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref5" name="_edn5" style="mso-endnote-id: edn5;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">5</span></span></span></span></a> Hannah Moore Allison, sister to Margaret Moore Geer, Sarah’s mother.</p>
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<div id="edn6" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref6" name="_edn6" style="mso-endnote-id: edn6;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">6</span></span></span></span></a> Possibly, Rush Taylor, a friend and mentor of Gould's. <br /></p>
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<div id="edn7" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref7" name="_edn7" style="mso-endnote-id: edn7;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">7</span></span></span></span></a> Uncle Jim and Aunt Emma were James Stanfield and his wife Emmaline McIntyre
Stanfield, a sister of Martin McIntyre, Sarah’s deceased husband. They lived
above Plasterco west of Saltville in Washington County.</p>
</div>
<div id="edn8" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref8" name="_edn8" style="mso-endnote-id: edn8;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">8</span></span></span></span></a> According to Lois McIntyre Troutman, granddaughter of Sarah McIntyre, the
“little cow” is a reference to Lizzie’s baby Lorene, who was a big child.</p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal">Continued from Part 2, published May 13, 2021.<br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal">Meanwhile, from 1865 until his death in 1913, Sarah’s
father, William E. Geer, made a life for himself in Wisconsin. On April 26,
1868, he married Julia Trumbull, the foster daughter of Maiden Rock’s founder
and leading citizen, John D. Trumbull, and his wife, Betsy Lyon Trumbull. Julia
was 18 years old at the time of her marriage to William, who was 38. They had
no children.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If William ever considered returning to Virginia, he must
have pushed the idea further and further back in his mind as the years passed.
Did he receive an occasional letter from his mother with word about Sarah? Was
he plagued by feelings of guilt for not returning to see them? Did Sarah feel
abandoned by him? Did the pain of his mother’s letter telling him not to come
home continue to trouble him? He left no record to answer these questions.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Evidence from the <i>Maiden Rock Press</i> indicates that
William’s life in this tiny village on a bluff above Lake Pepin was busy and
full. For a time, he apparently operated a restaurant and saloon. When he sold
his business, the <u>Pierce County</u> (Wisconsin) <u>Herald</u> ran this
notice on the March 29, 1877:</p>
<p class="MsoHeader" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Religion, since the decision of the
Commission, seems to occupy a permanent place in the thoughts of the sedate
people of the “Rock.” Mr. Wm. Geer, who has been keeping a restaurant and
saloon in the village, experienced a change of heart and immediately sold out.
Ed Eldridge will fill the vacancy.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn1" name="_ednref1" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">1</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoHeader" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Some time later, William began delivering
mail. His mail runs took him from Maiden Rock to six other towns in the area
around Lake Pepin. After William had carried the mail for ten years, he
calculated his total miles traveled. He gave these figures to the <i>Maiden
Rock Press</i>:</span>
<p class="MsoHeader" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The following<b> </b>is the distance
traveled by our mail carrier, Mr. W. E. Geer, in a period of ten years: From
Maiden Rock to River Falls, in three years, 9,984 miles; from Red Wing to
Reed’s Landing, in three years, 12,480 miles; from Maiden rock to Rock Elm in
one year, 1,664 miles; from Maiden Rock to Lake City in three years, 7,488 miles;
from Maiden Rock to Frontenac, 730 miles; from Maiden Rock to Ellsworth in
three years and three months, 7,006 miles; from Maiden Rock to Hersey in three
years and four months, 18,712 miles; making a total of 65,542 miles travel in
ten years.</span> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn2" name="_ednref2" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">2</span></span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoHeader" style="margin-left: .5in; tab-stops: .5in;"> </p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The <i>Press</i> also reported that
William was instrumental in chartering a post of the Grand Army of the
Republic. He had found camaraderie with a group of war veterans in Maiden Rock,
and together they organized Grand Army of the Republic Post 158. William
enjoyed planning Memorial Day programs at the Maiden Rock Cemetery. Eventually,
because of his active participation, his loyalty, and his story of sacrifice
for the Union, the post was named for him. To this day, it retains the name,
“W. E. Geer American Legion Post 158.”</span>
<p class="MsoHeader" style="tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Highlights in the lives of the village’s
citizens inevitably ended up in the <i>Maiden Rock Press</i>. In December<i> </i>of
1905, a momentous occasion for William received the headline, “An Old Soldier’s
Romance”:</span>
<p class="MsoHeader" style="tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">W. E. Geer received what was probably as
greatly appreciated a Christmas</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">remembrance as was received by any
one in town. It was a box from his daughter, who lives near Saltville, Va., and
contained numerous pictures of his daughter and her son, their home and a
bird’s-eye of the salt works; also of the village in the “Gap.” In the last
picture he can easily locate the homes of his daughter and of his sister; also
the old stone spring-house where he drank many a refreshing draught of cool
water in his early days.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">Among other presents was a cake, a
portion of which Mr. Geer divided among his</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">friends. Ye editor received a
liberal portion, and we can testify that it was fine. The reception of the box
brought up a flood of remembrances of former days.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">Mr. Geer has not seen his daughter
since he left her, a motherless child, 1½ years</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">old, in the care of his mother,
when he was compelled to leave home in 1862, because of his strong northern
ideas. He was first taken as a conscript, in the year above mentioned, and was
compelled to join Co. G, 48<sup>th</sup> Virginia regiment. But, on July 3,
1863, at the battle of Gettysburg, he and his brother Tom, escaped and made
their way to the Union lines. The brothers became separated that day and have
never met since.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">Mr. Geer fell in with a company of
Union soldiers, and later enlisted in Co. G, 1<sup>st</sup> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; text-indent: -.5in;">Connecticut
cavalry, as a teamster. Later he was promoted to wagon master—a position </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; text-indent: -.5in;">he held till the
close of the war.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">When Grant took command, Co. G
(made up largely of southern men) was ordered to Ft. Snelling to fill a
vacancy. After being mustered out of the service, Mr. Geer received word from
his mother that it would be unsafe for him to return to the home of his
boyhood; so he remained in the north. After spending a few years around St.
Paul, Prescott, and other places, he came to Maiden Rock, where he has since
made his home. He has often thought of visiting the old home, but his health
will not permit the journey.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">Thus, at this season of good cheer,
was he remembered by the daughter he has not seen for 43 years; and to say that
he was pleased is but a mild expression of what he felt when he opened his
Christmas box.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn3" name="_ednref3" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">3</span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This “Christmas box” initiated a correspondence between
Sarah and her stepmother, Julia Geer, a correspondence that lasted until
Sarah’s death in 1928. In her letters, Julia addressed Sarah as “Dear Daughter”
embracing her as the daughter she never had, and Julia even specified in her
will that Sarah should receive all her earthly belongings.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn4" name="_ednref4" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">4</span></span></span></span></a></span>
Unfortunately, Julia never revised her will after Sarah’s death. Therefore,
none of Julia’s estate, worth about $400.00, could be passed on to Sarah’s son
Martie because he was not related to Julia by blood. Instead, Julia’s estate
reverted to the state of Wisconsin.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn5" name="_ednref5" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">5</span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
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<div id="edn1" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">1</span></span></span></span></a> According to Lelynn Trumbull, a nephew of Julia Geer, “The ‘decision of the
Commission’ . . . probably was a pre-Prohibition restriction of the sale of
alcohol.” Lelynn Trumbull. Personal note attached to newspaper article sent to Lois
Troutman, 8 Feb. 1991. </p>
</div>
<div id="edn2" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref2" name="_edn2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">2</span></span></span></span></a> <u>Maiden Rock Press</u>. N. dat. N. pag.</p>
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<div id="edn3" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref3" name="_edn3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">3</span></span></span></span></a> “An Old Soldier’s Romance,” <u>Maiden Rock Press</u>, February 1905, n. pag.
After searching Civil War records, I have found that parts of this story are
not true: (1) Wm. E. Geer volunteered in 1861; he was not taken as a conscript
in 1862, although he was forced to return to service after he left without
leave in 1862. (2) William and his brother did not “[escape and make] their way
to Union lines” during the Battle of Gettysburg. Records show that William was
actually captured on July 5, 1863, during a dramatic retreat from Gettysburg
and imprisoned at Fort Delaware. He signed the oath of allegiance on Oct. 1,
1863, and joined the Union army then. Thomas continued his Confederate service
until the end of the war, in spite of being captured on May 12, 1864, at
Spotsylvania and imprisoned at Point Lookout, Md., and Elmira, N. Y. (Chapla,
p. 124).</p>
</div>
<div id="edn4" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref4" name="_edn4" style="mso-endnote-id: edn4;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">4</span></span></span></span></a> A copy of the will is in the possession of the author. The original is in a
Will Book at the Pierce County Court House, Ellsworth, Wis.</p>
</div>
<div id="edn5" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref5" name="_edn5" style="mso-endnote-id: edn5;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">5</span></span></span></span></a> A copy of the Petition for Probate of Will for Julia E. Geer and a copy of The
Final Account and Petition for Assignment of Estate is in the possession of the
author. The originals are in the Pierce County Court House, Ellsworth, Wis.</p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: small;">More to come . . .</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"></div><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"></div><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"></div><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"></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/-PJUK2zjR0_Y/YJ2YaXZjLVI/AAAAAAAAFdQ/Kx4LVwmdTPgkfEOzAIt4P4XclpenB3JggCLcBGAsYHQ/s1445/WEGeerHouse.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1023" data-original-width="1445" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PJUK2zjR0_Y/YJ2YaXZjLVI/AAAAAAAAFdQ/Kx4LVwmdTPgkfEOzAIt4P4XclpenB3JggCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/WEGeerHouse.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">William E. Geer in front of his home in Maiden Rock, WI, c 1910.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><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/-a1FmUNtghaQ/YJ2mIguIQPI/AAAAAAAAFdY/Y_jUO6Uz9EMUizXEBv6QDmu98pjt8kiHACLcBGAsYHQ/s1931/WEGeer%2526Julia.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1931" data-original-width="1242" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a1FmUNtghaQ/YJ2mIguIQPI/AAAAAAAAFdY/Y_jUO6Uz9EMUizXEBv6QDmu98pjt8kiHACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/WEGeer%2526Julia.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Julia and William E. Geer, c. 1880.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><br clear="all" />
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<div id="edn1" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">1</span></span></span></span></a> According to Lelynn Trumbull, a nephew of Julia Geer, “The ‘decision of the
Commission’ . . . probably was a pre-Prohibition restriction of the sale of
alcohol.” Lelynn Trumbull. Personal note attached to newspaper article sent to
Lois Troutman, 8 Feb. 1991. </p>
</div>
<div id="edn2" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref2" name="_edn2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">2</span></span></span></span></a> <u>Maiden Rock Press</u>. N. dat. N. pag.</p>
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<div id="edn3" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref3" name="_edn3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">3</span></span></span></span></a> “An Old Soldier’s Romance,” <u>Maiden Rock Press</u>, February 1905, n. pag.
Records show that parts of this story are not true: (1) Wm. E. Geer volunteered
in 1861; he was not taken as a conscript in 1862; however, he was forced to
return to service after he went AWOL in 1862. (2) William and his brother did
not “[escape and make] their way to Union lines” during the Battle of
Gettysburg. Records show that William was actually captured on July 5, 1863,
during a dramatic retreat from Gettysburg and imprisoned at Fort Delaware. He
signed the oath of allegiance on Oct. 1, 1863, and joined the Union army then.
Thomas continued his Confederate service until the end of the war, in spite of
being captured on May 12, 1864, at Spotsylvania and imprisoned at Point
Lookout, Md., and Elmira, N. Y. Source: John D. Chapla, <u>48<sup>th</sup>
Virginia Infantry</u> (Lynchburg, VA: H. E. Howard, Inc., 1989), p. 124.</p>
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<div id="edn4" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref4" name="_edn4" style="mso-endnote-id: edn4;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">4</span></span></span></span></a> A copy of the will is in the possession of the author. The original is in a
Will Book at the Pierce County Court House, Ellsworth, Wis.</p>
</div>
<div id="edn5" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref5" name="_edn5" style="mso-endnote-id: edn5;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">5</span></span></span></span></a> A copy of the Petition for Probate of Will for Julia E. Geer and a copy of The
Final Account and Petition for Assignment of Estate is in the possession of the
author. The originals are in the Pierce County Court House, Ellsworth, Wis.</p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style> <br /></p>ztnoblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12192494474879562468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6688481187808508351.post-74889130192042014152021-05-13T08:44:00.001-04:002021-05-13T08:44:16.554-04:00Sarah Geer McIntyre: The Courage to Carry On, Part 2<p>
</p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Continued from previous post. . .</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Little is known of Sarah Geer’s
life between the end of the Civil War and her marriage to Martin McIntyre in
1897; no censuses recorded where she lived or with whom. She likely lived with her mother's sister Hannah Allison and her large family, although the 1870 and 1880 censuses of Smyth County, Virginia do not include her in the Allison household. Family tradition says that her dark complexion earned her the nickname
“little black Sally,” and she was said to be “black Dutch,” a term commonly
applied to Melungeons, a group of people of mixed ethnic ancestry first noted
living in northeastern Tennessee and southwestern Virginia.1 At this writing, however, there is no proof of Melungeon ancestry.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">There is no uncertainty,
however, that Sarah’s lifelong best friend was Sarah Alice (“Allie”) Rumbley.
Allie’s pale blue eyes, blonde hair, fair skin, and round face contrasted
sharply with Sarah’s brown eyes, black hair, dark skin, and bird-like features.
Family tradition says that Sarah and Allie met while they worked at the Palmer
Inn in Saltville, where Sarah was the cook and Allie was the housekeeper.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn2" name="_ednref2" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference">2</span></span></span></a> </span>Earliest written evidence suggests that their friendship began possibly before
1888. A note in a small account book written by Allie in her even and carefully
slanted script describes important events in their lives:
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sarah Alice Rumbley was borned
June 6, 1858<span> </span>was convicted of sin Feb 14
1877. Sunday the 18, candidate for membership. May Thursday 2<sup>nd</sup> 1878
professed faith in Christ. First prayer in public July Thursday 25 1878 amersed
september Thirsay 6 1883.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sarah A. Geer convicted November
21 1888 converted the 22<sup>nd</sup> and received in the church.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn3" name="_ednref3" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference">3</span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Another page identifies the church as Methodist.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Between the time Allie says she felt “convicted of sin” and
the time she “professed faith in Christ,” she wrote the following letter to an
“Absent Friend” entreating that person’s prayers for her:</span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">By the request of a friend</span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Woodland, Virginia</span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">July 7<sup>th</sup>, 1877</span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">My Absent Friend</span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I hardly know how
to address you, as I have never bin blessed with an</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">oppertunity of forming your
acquaintance, but by the halls of God’s Spirit, and the influence of your
earnest prayer I will endever to address you in the best way and manner that I
know how. In the first place I must confess how greatly your request surprised
me; and at the same time I thank God for ever giving me such a friend here in
this selfish world to take such a deep interest in my soul’s eternal welfare.
O, that true Christians would a wake to the deathless interest of poor
perishing sinners; ever remembering that he that converteth the sinner from the
error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of
sins. My friend don’t think me presumptuous or unkind when I endever to impress
upon your mind the request of an increased interest in your prayers, for freely
you have received and freely give. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Oh, pray earnestly till I have
received that good potion which can never be </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">taken from me. I do thank God for
the impression that secret prayer has made on my heart, for often I feel
happiness unspeakable.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Excuse me if I have bin two plain,
for thoughts welcome to my bosome, may</span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">make yours bleed. My friend you
will do me a great favor by keeping those few illcomposed lines in secret—let
them be as though they had never bin written, and as if the occasion for them
had never arisen.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">To the only wise God our Saviour,
be glory and majesty, dominion and power,</span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">both now and ever. Amen.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span> </span>I
remain most affectionately and respectfully yours,</span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span> </span>Sarah
A.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Both Allie and Sarah could have signed a letter Sarah A.,
but the handwriting is Allie’s uniformly slanted script. By contrast, Sarah’s
handwriting looks haphazard, angling this way and that, like a river meandering
through the countryside. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Allie’s letter reveals the religious language commonly used
during that day, phrases such as “my soul’s eternal welfare” and “wake to the
deathless interest of poor perishing sinners.” Her words are elegant and
passionate: “I do thank God for the impression that secret prayer has made on
my heart, for often I feel happiness unspeakable.” The “ill-composed lines” she
references, we shall never know. This letter reveals a passion for God that
continued with Allie and Sarah throughout their lives, a passion they passed on
to Sarah’s son, stepchildren, nieces, and grandchildren. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Other than her conversion at age 28, no other record exists
of Sarah’s activities for another nine years. In 1897, at age 37, Sarah would
have been labeled a spinster or an “old maid” when she was married on June 16,
1897<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn4" name="_ednref4" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference">4</span></span></span></a> </span>to Martin McIntyre, a laborer and widower with four children. Allie Rumbley and
Sarah’s cousin Rachel Allison, daughter of Hannah and John Allison, witnessed
the marriage.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn5" name="_ednref5" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference">5</span></span></span></a>
</span>Martin’s first wife, Susan (neé Chapman) McIntyre, had died the previous summer
(July 13, 1896).<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn6" name="_ednref6" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference">6</span></span></span></a></span></span></span>
</p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Whether Sarah was acquainted with the McIntyre family before
Susan’s death is unknown. The marriage may have been one of convenience for
Martin who surely needed a cook and housekeeper and caretaker for his children:
Katie (16), Stephen (14), Gould (12), and Elizabeth, or Lizzie, (7).7<a href="#_edn7" name="_ednref7" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"></span></span></span></a>
On the other hand, Katie was old enough to step in as cook and housekeeper, so
his marriage to Sarah may have been a love match. Existing evidence does not
answer this question.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Whatever the case, tragedy struck less than eight weeks later
when Martin suffered a sudden heart attack and died on August 7, 1897, as he
was splitting wood.<a href="#_edn8" name="_ednref8" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference">8</span></span></span></a>
Suddenly, Sarah was left a widow with four stepchildren in her care—and she was
pregnant. At Martin’s death, Sarah’s friend Allie immediately came to her aid.
Eight and a half months after Martin died, Sarah gave birth to a son on April
30, 1898. She named the child John Martin and called him Martie. By the time
the 1900 census was taken, Allie Rumbley was living with Sarah,<a href="#_edn9" name="_ednref9" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference">9</span></span></span></a>
and Martin’s children were scattered, as often happened with the death of
parents. Gould lived in Kentucky,10<a href="#_edn10" name="_ednref10" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"></span></span></span></a>
Lizzie lived with Sarah and Allie,<a href="#_edn11" name="_ednref11" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference">11</span></span></span></a>
and the whereabouts of Kate and Stephen is unknown.<a href="#_edn12" name="_ednref12" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference">12</span></span></span></a>
Allie and Sarah supported their family by their work as cook and housekeeper at
the Palmer Inn.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">About 1905, a Church of God preacher from Norton, Virginia,
named M.P. Rimmer traveled <span> </span>to Allison
Gap and held a revival. Influenced by Rimmer’s sermons and those of other
evangelists, such as A. G. Riddle of Atkins, Virginia, and W. P. Long and W. A.
Sutherland, both of Greenville, Tennessee,<a href="#_edn13" name="_ednref13" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference">13</span></span></span></a>
Sarah and Allie left the Methodist Church and became followers of the Church of
God movement.<a href="#_edn14" name="_ednref14" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference">14</span></span></span></a> Through this association, they would later play a part in establishing a Church
of God congregation in Allison Gap. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> More later. . . . <br /></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"></span>
<div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" />
<div id="edn1" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">1</span></span></span></span></a> For more on the Melungeons, see The Melungeon Heritage Association web site at
http://www.melungeon.org/.</p>
</div>
<div id="edn2" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref2" name="_edn2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">2</span></span></span></span></a> This version is according to Lois McIntyre Troutman. Other family members
assert that Sarah and Allie started working at the hotel after Sarah’s husband,
Martin McIntyre, died.</p>
</div>
<div id="edn3" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref3" name="_edn3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">3</span></span></span></span></a> Booklet is in the author’s possession in Anderson, Indiana.</p>
</div>
<div id="edn4" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref4" name="_edn4" style="mso-endnote-id: edn4;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">4</span></span></span></span></a> McIntyre Bible. This Bible was in the possession of Mayo Moses McIntyre in
about 1985 when family historian, Carol Noonkester, visited with Mrs. McIntyre.
Carol transcribed the information from the Bible, but the whereabouts of the
McIntyre Bible is unknown today.</p>
</div>
<div id="edn5" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref5" name="_edn5" style="mso-endnote-id: edn5;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">5</span></span></span></span></a> Ibid.</p>
</div>
<div id="edn6" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref6" name="_edn6" style="mso-endnote-id: edn6;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">6</span></span></span></span></a> Arnold Family Bible. Cordelia McIntyre Arnold was a sister to Martin McIntyre.
This Bible is in the possession of Sarah’s granddaughter NH of Saltville.</p>
</div>
<div id="edn7" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref7" name="_edn7" style="mso-endnote-id: edn7;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">7</span></span></span></span></a> Ibid.</p>
</div>
<div id="edn8" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref8" name="_edn8" style="mso-endnote-id: edn8;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">8</span></span></span></span></a> This story has been passed down through the family. The piece of wood Martin
was said to be splitting is in the possession of a great-granddaughter of
Sarah’s, St. Charles, MO.</p>
</div>
<div id="edn9" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref9" name="_edn9" style="mso-endnote-id: edn9;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">9</span></span></span></span></a> 1900 Census; Rich Valley, Smyth, Virginia;
Roll T623 1728; Page 13A; Enumeration District 83.</p>
</div>
<div id="edn10" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref10" name="_edn10" style="mso-endnote-id: edn10;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">10</span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;"> 1900 Census; Black Oak, Whitley,
Kentucky; Roll T623 555; Page 10B; Enumeration District 142.</span></p>
</div>
<div id="edn11" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref11" name="_edn11" style="mso-endnote-id: edn11;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">11</span></span></span></span></a> 1900 Census; Rich Valley, Smyth, Virginia;
Roll T623 1728; Page 13A; Enumeration District 83.</p>
</div>
<div id="edn12" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref12" name="_edn12" style="mso-endnote-id: edn12;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">12</span></span></span></span></a> According to Arnold Bible records, Stephen died Feb. 18, 1901.</p>
</div>
<div id="edn13" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref13" name="_edn13" style="mso-endnote-id: edn13;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">13</span></span></span></span></a> <u>The Tie That Binds</u>. Compiled by the Women’s Missionary Society, Allison
Gap Church of God, Dec. 1970. p. 4. Republished and updated in July 2005 as <u>A
History of the First Church of God, Allison Gap, Saltville, Va</u>, by Jack
Barbrow, Geneva Louthen, Thelma Swartz, and Saundra Wassum.</p>
</div>
<div id="edn14" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref14" name="_edn14" style="mso-endnote-id: edn14;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">14</span></span></span></span></a> According to <u>The Tie that Binds</u> (compiled by the Allison Gap Church of
God Women’s Missionary Society, 1970)<i>,</i> a history of the First Church of
God of Saltville, VA, the Church of God movement dates to 1825-30 when the Rev.
John Winebrenner of Harrisonburg, Pennsylvania, began preaching the following
points as the basis of the organization:</p>
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>1)
Under the Divine order, believers in any given place are to constitute one
body.</p>
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>2)
Division into sects and parties under human names and creeds is contrary to the
spirit of the New </p>
<p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Testament.</p>
<p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">3) Believers in any community
organized into one body constitute God’s household, and should be known </p>
<p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as the Church of God.</p>
<p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">4) The scriptures, without
rote or comment, constitute a sufficient rule of faith and practice, while
creeds </p>
<p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and confessions tend to division and sects.</p>
<p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">5) Binding upon all believers
are the ordinances of baptism by immersion in water, in the name of the </p>
<p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trinity—Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; the
washing of the saints’ feet; partaking of breads and wine in</p>
<p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>commemoration of the suffering and death of
Christ. (p. 3)</p>
<p class="MsoEndnoteText">Daniel S. Warner, from Ohio, influenced by these tenets
and by the holiness movement spreading across the country, began preaching the
importance of the work of the Holy Spirit in people’s lives. This eventually
created a split between Warner the leaders of the Winebrennarian Church of God.
Warner began publishing his convictions in a periodical called <i>The Gospel
Trumpet</i>. At the time that Church of God preachers began spreading their
teachings in Southwest Virginia, <i>The Gospel Trumpet</i> was being published
in Moundsville, West Virginia. However, in 1906, the entire publishing company
moved to Anderson, Indiana. In 1917, the company started a Bible school, which
developed into what is now Anderson University. The headquarters of the Church
of God remains in Madison County, Indiana, today.</p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style> <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/-FLeQ0U9izpk/YIxIJQM_HiI/AAAAAAAAFcs/kuw75jkMnJsypusRXUoUJOsyTzCZxRikwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2001/Sarah_Allie_Tom_Mart.tiff" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1385" data-original-width="2001" height="442" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FLeQ0U9izpk/YIxIJQM_HiI/AAAAAAAAFcs/kuw75jkMnJsypusRXUoUJOsyTzCZxRikwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h442/Sarah_Allie_Tom_Mart.tiff" title="Allie, Sarah, and Martie at grave of Martin McIntyre" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">This shows Allie, Sarah, and Martie at the grave of Martin
McIntyre, Elizabeth Cemetery, Saltville, VA, c. 1905. The man is Tom
Geer, Sarah's uncle. On the back of the photo, Sarah wrote, "This is the
graveyarde[.] here is Mr. Mctyre grave [.] Uncle Tom is at the foot[,]
me and martie at the head and a lady that is living with us by the name
of Allie Rumbley[.] </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">This the old Elizabeth grave yard [.] </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sarah Mctyre</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Aunt Nonay is burried here too[.]"</span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><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/-1Ke3KSKR6ZI/YIyY80cKUmI/AAAAAAAAFc4/hB45WM7K9BUvnQBH3ux1WwZ1UrLxJxRngCPcBGAYYCw/s2048/Allie%2BRumbley-1..jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1532" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1Ke3KSKR6ZI/YIyY80cKUmI/AAAAAAAAFc4/hB45WM7K9BUvnQBH3ux1WwZ1UrLxJxRngCPcBGAYYCw/w299-h400/Allie%2BRumbley-1..jpg" width="299" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Allie Rumbley, about age 16.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p>ztnoblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12192494474879562468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6688481187808508351.post-51378833567509664592021-04-28T14:03:00.001-04:002021-04-28T14:05:25.477-04:00Sarah Ann Geer McIntyre: The Courage to Carry On
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Only child, orphan, traitor’s daughter, bride, step-mother, widow,
single mom, bff, cook, housekeeper, caretaker, Christ follower—all these names fit my maternal
great-grandmother, Sarah A. Geer McIntyre. My mother called her Mammy
McIntyre. She died many years before I was born, but I heard stories.</span></p><p class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sarah A. Geer<span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span> was born on
January 4, 1860<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;">2</span></span></span></span></a></span>
in Smyth County, Virginia, to Margaret Ann Moore Geer (1838-1860), daughter of
Samuel and Elizabeth Moore<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn3" name="_ednref3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;">3</span></span></span></span></a></span>, and William
E. Geer (1830-1913).<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn4" name="_ednref4" style="mso-endnote-id: edn4;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;">4</span></span></span></span></a></span>
Though the couple had been married five years, Sarah was their first known
child.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn5" name="_ednref5" style="mso-endnote-id: edn5;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;">5</span></span></span></span></a></span> The couple’s
joy at Sarah’s birth turned much too soon to sorrow, for Margaret died just
eight days later of “child bed fever.”<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn6" name="_ednref6" style="mso-endnote-id: edn6;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;">6</span></span></span></span></a></span> The early loss
of her mother was the first in a number of tragedies Sarah would face
throughout her life.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p><p class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p><p class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">By April 1860, Sarah, age 4 months, lived at Seven Mile Ford with
her father, William E. Geer, age 29, a wagoner, and with her grandmother, Celia
Geer, age 57. They lived in the home of Henry L. McLure, his wife Lear, and
their two children.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn7" name="_ednref7" style="mso-endnote-id: edn7;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;">7</span></span></span></span></a></span>
The relationship between the McLures and the Geers is unknown.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn8" name="_ednref8" style="mso-endnote-id: edn8;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;">8</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p><p class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sarah’s grandmother Celia was herself a single mother. Whether she
was widowed or not is a mystery, as is the identity of her children’s father. In
1850 Celia and her two sons, William, age 19 and Thomas, age 12, lived in
Washington County, Virginia. Celia was farming.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn9" name="_ednref9" style="mso-endnote-id: edn9;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;">9</span></span></span></span></a> </span>Perhaps some
of Celia’s resourcefulness in the face of difficult circumstances was passed on
to her granddaughter, Sarah.</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p><p class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">On June 20, 1861,<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn10" name="_ednref10" style="mso-endnote-id: edn10;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;">10</span></span></span></span></a></span> when Sarah was
eighteen months old, her father left her with his mother and traveled to
Abingdon, Virginia, with his brother-in-law, Theophilus Moore,<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn11" name="_ednref11" style="mso-endnote-id: edn11;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;">11</span></span></span></span></a></span> and signed
with the 48<sup>th</sup> Virginia Infantry, Confederate States of America. In
1863 he was captured on the retreat from Gettysburg and imprisoned at Fort
Delaware on Pea Patch Island, Delaware. After ten weeks, William signed the
“yellow dog contract,” as the Rebels called the oath of allegiance, and he was
assigned to the United States Army’s 1<sup>st</sup> Regiment Connecticut
Cavalry,<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn12" name="_ednref12" style="mso-endnote-id: edn12;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;">12</span></span></span></span></a></span> Company G.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn13" name="_ednref13" style="mso-endnote-id: edn13;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;">13</span></span></span></span></a></span> When the war
ended, William’s mother wrote to him that it was unsafe for him to return home.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn14" name="_ednref14" style="mso-endnote-id: edn14;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;">14</span></span></span></span></a></span> Consequently,
when he was mustered out of the service in Minnesota where he was stationed in October
1865, William stayed there, eventually making his home in Maiden Rock,
Wisconsin.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn15" name="_ednref15" style="mso-endnote-id: edn15;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;">15</span></span></span></span></a></span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p><p class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p><p class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Back home in Smyth County during the war, Celia took care of
little Sarah. Family tradition suggests that Sarah’s maternal aunt, Hannah
Moore Allison, wife of John P. Allison, Civil War veteran and farmer, probably
kept Sarah after Celia’s death, prior to 1870. During the war, Smyth County
endured two battles, one at Saltville (1864), resulting in the destruction of
the salt works, and another battle at Marion. How these events affected Sarah
and her family can only be imagined. Although specific events of Sarah’s
childhood are unknown, it is easy to surmise that a little girl whose father
was considered a traitor faced scorn.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="#_edn16" name="_ednref16" style="mso-endnote-id: edn16;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;">16</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"> </div><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;">More to come. . .</div><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"></div><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"></div><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"></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/-zbsDZR5oo14/YImg56h_hXI/AAAAAAAAFcg/D7g3RsnyJ24vcZaw6UvFL8KbX_ZSmpo2QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1110/McIntyre_Geer_Sarah_pic.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1110" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zbsDZR5oo14/YImg56h_hXI/AAAAAAAAFcg/D7g3RsnyJ24vcZaw6UvFL8KbX_ZSmpo2QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/McIntyre_Geer_Sarah_pic.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sarah A. Geer, c. 1900<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><br clear="all" />
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<div id="edn1" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">1</span></span></span></span></a> Sarah’s birth certificate states her name as Sarah A. Gear. In the 1860 census,
her name is listed as Sarah Ann, and it is recorded as Sarah Ann in the
McIntyre Family Bible, but the name on her tombstone, chiseled by her son, John
Martin McIntyre, is Sarah Alice. As for the spelling of her last name, in
documents prior to and during the Civil War, the name is spelled G-e-a-r. After
the war, it is spelled G-e-e-r. So too, the spelling of McIntyre varies in
records: McIntire, McEntire, MacEntire, and McIntyre.</p>
</div>
<div id="edn2" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref2" name="_edn2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">2</span></span></span></span></a> <u>Smyth County (Virginia) Register of Births Book 1</u>, p. 15. The spelling
of the name in the record is Gear.</p>
</div>
<div id="edn3" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref3" name="_edn3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">3</span></span></span></span></a> For Margaret death date: U. S. Federal Census Mortality Schedule, 1850-1880,
Smyth Co, Virginia, p. 571, l. 22, citing Margaret A. Geer, 12 Jan 1860; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry</i> (NARA, T1132 Roll 5).</p>
</div>
<div id="edn4" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref4" name="_edn4" style="mso-endnote-id: edn4;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">4</span></span></span></span></a> The year of William’s birth is unconfirmed. The 1850 census records his age as
19, and the 1860 census records his age as 29, which would indicate that he was
born in 1831. However, his enlistment in the U.S. army on October 1, 1863,
records his age as 33, and the newspaper in Maiden Rock, Wisconsin, reports
that his wife, Julia, threw him a 75<sup>th</sup> birthday party on January 31,
1905, his birthday, both of which would indicate that he was born in 1830.</p>
</div>
<div id="edn5" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref5" name="_edn5" style="mso-endnote-id: edn5;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">5</span></span></span></span></a> The marriage date of Margaret Moore and William E. Geer is unconfirmed. The
only record of their marriage I have found to date is actually a record of
their application for a marriage license dated Jan. 4, 1855, located at the
Washington County Historical Society, Abingdon, Virginia, STA VA WA 3.1, p. 22.</p>
</div>
<div id="edn6" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref6" name="_edn6" style="mso-endnote-id: edn6;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">6</span></span></span></span></a> <u>Smyth County Register of Deaths, Book 1, 1857-1896</u>.</p>
</div>
<div id="edn7" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref7" name="_edn7" style="mso-endnote-id: edn7;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">7</span></span></span></span></a> 1860 U. S. census, Smyth Co, VA, p. 888, dwelling 165, family 165, Henry S. McLure,
see Sarah Ann Gear; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry</i> (NARA,
M653, Roll 1377).</p>
</div>
<div id="edn8" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref8" name="_edn8" style="mso-endnote-id: edn8;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">8</span></span></span></span></a> Some family researchers have assumed that Lear McLure was William’s sister, but
further research of the McLure family revealed no relationship. Henry and Lear
were both born in North Carolina, and Lear’s maiden name was most likely</p>
</div>
<div id="edn9" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref9" name="_edn9" style="mso-endnote-id: edn9;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">9</span></span></span></span></a> 1850 U. S. census Washington Co, VA, p. 70B, family 35, Celia Geer; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry</i> (NARA, M432 Roll 980)</p>
</div>
<div id="edn10" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref10" name="_edn10" style="mso-endnote-id: edn10;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">10</span></span></span></span></a> John D. Chapla, <u>48<sup>th</sup> Virginia Infantry</u> (Lynchburg, VA: H. E.
Howard, Inc., 1989), p. 124.</p>
</div>
<div id="edn11" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref11" name="_edn11" style="mso-endnote-id: edn11;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">11</span></span></span></span></a> Ibid., p. 142.</p>
</div>
<div id="edn12" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref12" name="_edn12" style="mso-endnote-id: edn12;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">12</span></span></span></span></a> Ibid.</p>
</div>
<div id="edn13" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref13" name="_edn13" style="mso-endnote-id: edn13;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">13</span></span></span></span></a> Veterans Records, Union, Ist Connecticut Cavalry, Company G, Muster Roll, 1
Oct. 1863.</p>
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<div id="edn14" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref14" name="_edn14" style="mso-endnote-id: edn14;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">14</span></span></span></span></a> “An Old Soldier’s Romance,” <u>Maiden Rock Press</u>, Dec. 1905, n. pag.</p>
</div>
<div id="edn15" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref15" name="_edn15" style="mso-endnote-id: edn15;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">15</span></span></span></span></a> Ibid.</p>
</div>
<div id="edn16" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref16" name="_edn16" style="mso-endnote-id: edn16;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">16</span></span></span></span></a> Several years ago, I met a descendant of Thomas Geer, William’s brother. When I
told her I was descended from William, she said, “Oh! He was the traitor.” That
remark made 120 years after the fact opened my eyes to how difficult it must
have been for Sarah to have grown up in a community where people viewed her
father to be a traitor.</p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style>ztnoblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12192494474879562468noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6688481187808508351.post-36534778475775014172021-03-08T13:39:00.000-05:002021-03-08T13:39:49.796-05:00Answering Liberty's Call: A Colonial Woman's Perspective on War<p>Historical fiction has captured my imagination since childhood--especially if based in early American history. As we dive into Women's History Month, I'm delighted to introduce guest writer, <b>Tracy Lawson</b>, author of <i>Answering Liberty's Call: Anna Stone's Daring Ride to Valley Forge</i>. <br /></p><p>From Tracy Lawson:<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MsJQhkETFuo/YEZlistFvVI/AAAAAAAAFaY/NJSaesVZ8GYJqIqdzBKN7iQX_RqiWCVLgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Lawson_AnsweringLibertysCall_CVR%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="355" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MsJQhkETFuo/YEZlistFvVI/AAAAAAAAFaY/NJSaesVZ8GYJqIqdzBKN7iQX_RqiWCVLgCLcBGAsYHQ/w236-h355/Lawson_AnsweringLibertysCall_CVR%25281%2529.jpg" width="236" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Women
played no formal role in the American Revolution, yet they were hardly passive
observers in the conflict. They took part in public demonstrations against
British policies alongside their husbands and brothers and were elemental in
the most important protest of all—boycotting British manufactured goods.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The American Revolution changed these women’s lives
irrevocably. With their men off to battle, many shouldered the responsibility
of running family farms and businesses. They managed their homes, raised
children, and mobilized on the home front.</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Eschewing manufactured cloth from England, women brought
their spinning wheels out of storage, and spinning bees became so popular that
they drew spectators. The Boston <i>Evening Post</i> reported on one such
event, saying, “the ladies…may vie with the men in contributing to the
preservation and prosperity of their country and equally share in the honor of
it.” </span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If honor and glory drove men to the battlefield, the fight for
independence must also have ignited women’s pride, tempered thought it was by
the pain of loneliness and loss.</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Anna Stone, the protagonist of <i>Answering Liberty’s Call</i>,
dislikes the long separation from her soldier husband, Benjamin, even as she shares
his desire for independence. It is her faith in him, in the cause of liberty,
and in the military’s leadership that bolster her sense of duty and patriotism:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I didn’t protest when Benjamin joined the Culpeper Minutemen
in the fall of 1775, for it was every able-bodied man’s duty to serve in the
militia. He was delighted—far more than I, to be honest—when the Virginia
Assembly called the Minutemen to defend the arsenal at Williamsburg just before
Christmastide. When he returned three months later, he was restless. Even
though Governor Dunmore’s expulsion from the colony restored peace to Virginia,
Benjamin would not be content until the unrest in all the colonies was
resolved. </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Though he spent long days in the fields or the orchards, he
often rode off after supper to spend a few hours at Edwards’ Ordinary in nearby
Fauquier Court House. There, he and his fellows followed the news of the
continuing rebellion in the north and rejoiced in the daring exploits of the
Sons of Liberty. </span></i><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Unsure how to make him understand my worry, I settled for
pointing out it did not look well when a preacher spent more time in the
ordinary than in church.</span></i><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Between Benjamin’s return from the Culpeper Minutemen’s
triumph at the Battle of Great Bridge in December 1775 and his departure with
the Third Virginia in October 1776, the focus of the conflict shifted. Once the
Continental Congress declared the colonies’ independence from Great Britain, a
return to the status quo was no longer an option. The prospect of fighting to
establish an independent new nation must have been both exhilarating and
terrifying. Anna recalls her range of emotions on the Sunday Benjamin read the
Declaration of Independence aloud to his congregation: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Brothers and sisters, surely there is more that binds us as
Americans than drives us apart. I ask you, what would you be willing to
sacrifice to secure a future free from Crown rule for yourselves and your
children?</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“It is written, in Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians,
‘For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one
body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.’</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“In Thomas Paine’s Epistle to the Quakers, he asserts that
all men dislike violence and want peace, but there comes a time when violence
is inevitable.”</span></i><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He unrolled the parchment. “This is a copy of our
Continental Congress’s Declaration of Independence. The original is on its way
to England and King George. I am privileged to be the one to share this message
with you.</span></i><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“‘In Congress, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of
the thirteen United States of America: When in the Course of human events, it
becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have
connected them with another …’”</span></i><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As he read, I scanned the faces of the people in the congregation
and saw the dawning excitement I experienced a few months before. But now, fear
overshadowed my excitement. What would independence from England and Crown rule
mean? What would it cost to gain it? </span></i><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As I watched my husband stand before his congregation, I
could almost see the fresh flames burst forth from the smoldering coals of his
ideals.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Now, as then, a military spouse clings to a sense of
patriotism to make a loved one’s service and sacrifice more tolerable. As Anna
journeys from her home in Virginia to Valley Forge, she sees firsthand
disorganization and corruption within Congress and the army, forcing her to
confront complex issues that threaten her sense of patriotism and her support
for the cause. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;">If you wish to purchase Tracy's book<b><i> Answering Liberty’s Call: Anna Stone’s
Daring Ride to Valley Forge</i></b>, here are a few links:<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;">Unison Books online: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.unisonbooks.com/answering-libertys-call-anna-stones-daring-ride-to-valley-forge/&source=gmail&ust=1615306307914000&usg=AFQjCNHJ1jOaDyP6MhbM4VwQLBvEusoT3A" href="https://www.unisonbooks.com/answering-libertys-call-anna-stones-daring-ride-to-valley-forge/" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">https://www.unisonbooks.com/<wbr></wbr>answering-libertys-call-anna-<wbr></wbr>stones-daring-ride-to-valley-<wbr></wbr>forge/</a><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;">Barnes & Noble online store: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/answering-libertys-call-tracy-lawson/1138253125?ean%3D9781735428512&source=gmail&ust=1615306307914000&usg=AFQjCNF8LCV78cl7gz422Fmh1usL68NzFw" href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/answering-libertys-call-tracy-lawson/1138253125?ean=9781735428512" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">https://www.barnesandnoble.<wbr></wbr>com/w/answering-libertys-call-<wbr></wbr>tracy-lawson/1138253125?ean=<wbr></wbr>9781735428512</a><span></span></p>
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Books A Million! online store: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.booksamillion.com/p/Answering-Libertys-Call/Tracy-Lawson/9781735428512?id%3D8066809411021%23overview&source=gmail&ust=1615306307914000&usg=AFQjCNEMKVo3mKcURHYEJ1f_KxGV_WIcDA" href="https://www.booksamillion.com/p/Answering-Libertys-Call/Tracy-Lawson/9781735428512?id=8066809411021#overview" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">https://www.booksamillion.com/<wbr></wbr>p/Answering-Libertys-Call/<wbr></wbr>Tracy-Lawson/9781735428512?id=<wbr></wbr>8066809411021#overview</a><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;">Amazon: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/dp/1735428515&source=gmail&ust=1615306307914000&usg=AFQjCNGqzokUCGopNJimjTxtmL1LYgqX_A" href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1735428515" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/dp/<wbr></wbr>1735428515</a><span></span></p>
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For more information about Tracy’s research: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://tracylawsonbooks.com/answering-libertys-call-the-research-and-genealogy/&source=gmail&ust=1615306307914000&usg=AFQjCNHi7S3QDuAOwZcP0LpvnGMkFQE07w" href="https://tracylawsonbooks.com/answering-libertys-call-the-research-and-genealogy/" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">https://tracylawsonbooks.com/<wbr></wbr>answering-libertys-call-the-<wbr></wbr>research-and-genealogy/</a><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Also a bonus! Tracy has created a</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> series of six short videos about colonial cooking, music,
and fashion. Four of them are demonstrations you'll love of Tracy creating Anna's 1767
wedding ensemble. </span>Here's the link to the playlist: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list%3DPLvLGHmUltuuihwLFo4OcI333d35Y7VGcq&source=gmail&ust=1615306307901000&usg=AFQjCNFUlx5OK94EAGBB3nNr5a43cfSaAg" href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvLGHmUltuuihwLFo4OcI333d35Y7VGcq" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/<wbr></wbr>playlist?list=<wbr></wbr>PLvLGHmUltuuihwLFo4OcI333d35Y7<wbr></wbr>VGcq</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
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collection. They were addressed to
Mayo Moses, some sent to Battle Creek, Michigan where she worked for a
time. One was sent to her in 1923 at Elliston,VA, c/o Mr. E. J. Grice,
and one was sent to her in Tennessee. One card comes from the collection
of my father-in-law, Ethod Noble. Merry Christmas, 1920s style!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nT9itDcdpvQ/X-JZszF1UjI/AAAAAAAAFWA/UvhCiyQJ76Y6_eKDkfMh_BqZjwvCWG53gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1102/C-mas%2Bcard%2BSanta.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1102" data-original-width="690" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nT9itDcdpvQ/X-JZszF1UjI/AAAAAAAAFWA/UvhCiyQJ76Y6_eKDkfMh_BqZjwvCWG53gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/C-mas%2Bcard%2BSanta.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D8yBpEgDnaY/X-JXk0ReE-I/AAAAAAAAFVQ/bl_0dED0-2wApQxEpJt_u6uS2PgKxW6TQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1078/C-mas%2Bcard%2BYuletide.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1078" data-original-width="664" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D8yBpEgDnaY/X-JXk0ReE-I/AAAAAAAAFVQ/bl_0dED0-2wApQxEpJt_u6uS2PgKxW6TQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/C-mas%2Bcard%2BYuletide.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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My father taught me to wash my hands. I spent my formative
years living on a farm in northeast Nebraska in the late 1940s and 1950s. If you’ve never seen
or smelled farmers in from cultivating or planting or feeding cattle or
harvesting, then you need to know, they are often covered in dust and grime of
all sorts and they smell like sweat and hay and maybe grease or manure, and there's also an aroma, or aura, of the outdoors.
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Dad’s washing routine sticks in my mind. At the Stanton farm, we had a basement
with an outdoor entrance and a mud sink. Dad would trot down the steps, doff his coveralls and boots, and roll up his sleeves. Then he would bend over the sink,
turn on the water and grab a bar of soap. He would lather his hands until soap bubbles dripped from them, then he would hold them under the running
water and rub them together, fronts and backs in a swiping, rotating motion,
and scrub his arms up to his elbows. Next he would cup his hands
under the flowing water and splash it on his face, washing off the dust from his face and ears and neck. Then he would straightened up, grab a towel and dry
his face and neck, swipe the towel through his hair, and dry his hands and arms. Now he was presentable for the table. I learned my hand washing
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He also taught me to wash my hands and face first thing in
the morning. He would say, “Wash the sandman out of your eyes.” The Sandman
came to visit us in the night, you see. We knew because he left sand deposits
in the corners of our eyes. So my morning bathroom routine, after relieving
myself, has forever been to wash my hands and splash water on my face, Dad's method.</div>
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For many years, I thought everyone did that. Children often think what
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Imagine my surprise a few years ago, while traveling, when I
began seeing signs in restaurant and gas station restrooms with instructions on how to wash
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Now in this COVID19 crisis, we are given detailed
instructions on how to wash our hands. I look at those instructions and think,
thank you, Dad.</div>
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thirty-five-year stakes in Indiana and moved to Pennsylvania to live closer to
our children and grandchildren.
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Moving is an exhausting adventure. It took months to find
a house to buy and settle into. Then there was adjusting to our new place:
finding a new church (a happy find), new doctors (iffy on this one), new
barber/hairdresser (always a problem); getting new license plates, new drivers
licenses (ugh!); making new friends and finding our niche in our new community
(fun times). Living near our grandchildren meant giving time to them on a
weekly or bi-weekly basis, something we didn’t have to think about in Indiana
because they were so far away. Then I agreed to proofread and edit a manuscript
my brother was writing, which turned out to be a monumental, time-consuming
project. On and on it goes. Thus, the blog went by the wayside.</div>
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For months, I have debated with myself on how to resume.
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me at a standstill. Yep. Writer’s block--or rather, blogger's block.</div>
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Today, I am cautiously resuming my family history blog on a
different tic—for the time being. Part of a family history is the spiritual
heritage. Where did my parents' strong faith originate? I've wondered. I have found hints from the far past and have reflected often on the example of faith they set for us. Lately, I’ve been thinking about my
mother, Lois McIntyre Troutman, who died August 6, 2008, ten years ago today. If she were still living, she would
have celebrated her 96<sup>th</sup> birthday last month on July 16. So she has
been on my mind, especially a few days ago as I read this post on
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Mom would have embraced this motto. Whether she ever saw the
idea expressed exactly in that way, I do not know, but she lived it. She
particularly applied it to family. Her fierce loyalty to all of us—her siblings,
especially—no matter what we did is legendary in the family. If you said
anything negative to her about a family member, she would jump to that person’s
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What would happen if one of your family members slighted you
and your brothers and sisters? An act that might have been lawsuit worthy,
even? And you probably would have won. This happened in my mom’s family. What
did my mother and her brothers and sisters do? They forgave and forgot. Never
heard them mention the incident again. They went on with life as if it had
never happened. Family unity and loving relationships were of utmost importance
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What better legacy could a mother give her children? Proverbs 19:11 asserts, “It is to one’s glory to overlook an
offense.” Mom, you are glory. Thank you for seeing the best, forgiving the
worst, forgetting the bad, and never losing faith in God.<br />
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</style>ztnoblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12192494474879562468noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6688481187808508351.post-76960324066277582562017-06-08T10:58:00.000-04:002017-06-08T10:58:08.110-04:00A Nebraska Farm Girl in Puerto Rico, 1940
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Even the drive from the hotel in San Juan to a home in
Arecibo intrigued Virginia. The ride in a car with two other teachers cost her
$1.00, but she had to send her trunk and another bag by express, so she was
expecting a bill for that, too. The road, lined with trees on both sides, wound
through the hills and valleys. Along the way, she saw “people walking
everywhere, some carrying things on their head, some pushing a wheelbarrow
filled with avocados, payayas, etc. some leading a skinny old horse loaded down
with green bananas.” She saw dilapidated looking “houses built up on stilts,
pineapple and sugar cane fields—double yokes of oxen pulling walking plows.”<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">1</span></span></span></span></a></span>
Nothing looked like Nebraska.</div>
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The home where she stayed was spacious and comfortable,
however. She wrote to her parents: “What a lucky girl am I! I came over to
Arecibo yesterday morning and am now comfortably settled in a nice Puerto Rican
home,” the home of Juan and Carmen Garcia who owned a store in town. Others in
the home included the Garcia’s two teenage daughters Rina and Zorita; their
niece, also named Virginia, a home demonstration agent who worked with 4-H
clubs; and a married couple, also Puerto Rican.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">2</span></span></span></span></a></span> </div>
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Besides our Virginia, the “Americanos” in the house included
Alexander “Al” Sullivan, an English teacher from Worcester, Massachusetts who
was entering his second year of teaching on the island.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">3</span></span></span></span></a></span>
The Garcias were expecting two additional teachers and a social worker to
arrive soon to add to the number of boarders. “And if that isn’t enough,”
Virginia writes, “I might mention the colored servants,” four of them. The
house was large enough that it didn’t seem crowded.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">4</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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The piazza in front of the house particularly fascinated
Virginia. It teemed with “little ragged dark-skinned urchins running everywhere
playing in the narrow dirty streets – beggars and street venders going up and
down in front of open shacks crying out in Spanish. Some of them barefooted
with big straw hats and some of the urchins absolutely naked. Then again you
see Puerto Rican men and women very well dressed carrying their umbrellas,
going shopping, etc.”<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">5</span></span></span></span></a></span> It
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She described her first breakfast with the Garcias: “Puerto
Rican cheese and crackers and a big soup bowl full of oatmeal, but you would
never recognize it as oatmeal.” She took time to find out how it was made:
“They take oats, soak them, pound them up and run them through a sieve until
they get a starchy juice. Then they add sugar and milk and cook it. It tastes
like custard with an oatmeal flavor.” She liked it better than oatmeal at home.
To top it off she was served “a tall glass of iced peach juice and a cup of hot
chocolate.”<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">6</span></span></span></span></a></span>
Not bad at all.
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On Sunday, she attended high mass with the Garcia women and
Al Sullivan. Afterward, they went to the casino. Back at the house, guests
filtered in and out all afternoon, and two of the anticipated boarders arrived.
Later in the evening they went dancing where drinks were served. “Imagine me
getting away with a Cuba Libre / Coca Cola and rum. And then ready for school.
Oh me! Oh my!” she wrote in a daily diary.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">7</span></span></span></span></a></span>
She wouldn’t dare put that in a letter to her parents.</div>
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She met Mr. Andras, her superintendent who assured her that
if she got homesick for American food, she could come to his house and bake her
favorite pie. Andras explained that there were two schools, Jefferson and
Roosevelt, but they didn’t know for sure which would be her assignment.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">8</span></span></span></span></a></span> </div>
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The day before Virginia was to start teaching in Arecibo,
she didn’t know what school, what grade, what subjects, nor even the time of
day school started. She felt apprehensive. Sullivan tried to reassure her that
there wasn’t much to do the first week and “as much as you see fit to do
thereafter.”<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">9</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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The next day, she faced her students. “Imagin[e] . . . my feeling
of helplessness,” she writes, “being led into a room with eighty black eyes
peering at you and being told, ‘This is your room.’ No paper, no pencils, no
books, no chalk and pupils whose knowledge of English is limited . . . to a few
nouns. Well one must start someplace. . . .” Later she went to the store and purchased
notebooks, ink pens, and a clock. After supper, she worked on her class roster.
“My heart goes out to the poor little creatures . . .,” she writes, “and I’m
afraid I’m falling for a little fellow who is very striking in black and white,
Victor by name.”<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">10</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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The next day went a little more smoothly. She had one boy in
the class, Raymond Cliville, who had lived in New York and spoke English well.
At 3:30, Sullivan stopped by and they walked to the Garcia home together. Her
books arrived that evening and she began making plans to teach English
vocabulary building. She was teaching the slower learners and they were rowdy.
Other teachers told her there wasn’t much she could do with them. That was
discouraging, but Virginia was determined.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">11</span></span></span></span></a></span>
Even visiting Sullivan’s classroom was discouraging. It was much nicer than
hers, and he seemed to be taking everything in stride.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">12</span></span></span></span></a></span>
On Friday, she lost her self-control with the children. She didn’t tell exactly
what happened, but she was hoping nothing came of it, and she was she very glad
it was Friday.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn13" name="_ftnref13" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">13</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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That evening, Gallega, a new friend, invited her on a
planned weekend trip to El Yungue, a popular mountain recreation area. “It
should be an experience,” she writes. “100 sandwiches, 72 bottles of Coca Cola,
and 9 quarts of rum which all adds up to ??”<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn14" name="_ftnref14" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">14</span></span></span></span></a></span>
That should be a great stress reliever. </div>
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On Saturday, after laundry and ironing, the group left for
the mountain in two cars. She rode in Felix’s car with the other Virginia, Marian,
and Sullivan. In the second car, with Gallega driving, rode Julio, Paco,
Thelma, Willie, and Margot. They arrived after dark and hauled their gear using
flashlights along a path and across a river. They spread out a blanket and
shared their food and drinks. At a restaurant nearby, they enjoyed more
drinking and dancing. Exhausted and a little tipsy, they finally went to their
cabins, one for the men and one for the women, and slept.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn15" name="_ftnref15" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">15</span></span></span></span></a></span> </div>
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On Sunday, they swam and socialized in much the same way.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn16" name="_ftnref16" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">16</span></span></span></span></a>
</span>On Monday, they piled into their cars and drove back down the mountain. They
stopped at Luguillo Beach, where Virginia swam in the ocean for the first time
in her life.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn17" name="_ftnref17" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">17</span></span></span></span></a></span> All
in all, it was a rowdy and refreshing weekend for a Nebraska farm girl in
Puerto Rico.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Post Card depicting El Yungue (from booklet)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Virginia's note on back of post card.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">1</span></span></span></span></a></span>
Virginia Troutman, Arecibo, Puerto Rico, to Mrs. Clint Troutman, letter, 24
August 1940;<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>relates news from her
adventures in Puerto Rico, her new home, people she met, and teaching
responsibilities; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Troutman Letters</i>,
CD compiled by Leo W. Nelsen, Jr., <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">copy privately held by Z. T. Noble, </span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE]</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Anderson, Indiana.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">2</span></span></span></span></a></span>
Ibid.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">3</span></span></span></span></a></span> Ibid.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">4</span></span></span></span></a></span>
Ibid.</div>
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Ibid.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">6</span></span></span></span></a></span>
Ibid.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">7</span></span></span></span></a></span>
Virginia Troutman, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Record</i>, diary, 25
August 1940; contains daily entries from 10 August 1940 through December 1940;
original privately held by L. W. Nelsen <span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">[ADDRESS
FOR PRIVAE USE], </span>St. Louis, Missouri; scanned copy sent to the author.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">8</span></span></span></span></a></span>
Virginia Troutman, Arecibo, P. R., to Mrs. Clint Troutman, letter, 24 August
1940.</div>
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Ibid.</div>
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Virginia Troutman, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Record</i>, 26 Aug.
1940.</div>
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Ibid., 28 Aug. 1940.</div>
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Ibid., 29 Aug. 1940.</div>
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Ibid., 30 Aug. 1940.</div>
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Ibid.</div>
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On Thursday, 15 August 1940, my dad’s sister, Virginia Troutman,
age 24, “bid Miss Liberty ‘Goodbye’ promptly at 5:00 o’clock,” two hours later
than scheduled,<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">1</span></span></span></span></a></span> from
the deck of the ship SS Borinquen,<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">2</span></span></span></span></a></span> a
passenger liner built in the United States in 1931.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">3</span></span></span></span></a></span> The
names on the passenger manifest were mostly Puerto Rican, with the exception of
eleven, including Virginia, whose address in San Juan was “Department of
Education.”<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">4</span></span></span></span></a></span>
Apparently, Puerto Rico’s Department of Education had been recruiting teachers
from the United States. But that was not the only factor for Virginia. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A
former teacher from Winside High School named Ashford lived there with
his wife and children and taught in one of the schools.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">5</span></span></span></span></a></span></span> He had likely encouraged her to come.</div>
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That boat ride was rough. She wrote to her parents that she
and her fellow passengers “enjoyed their supper immensely,” but “only a few
good sailors held on to theirs.”<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">6</span></span></span></span></a></span> She
was not a good sailor. “From then until about two I thought I’d die,” she adds.
“Then I went up on the deck hung my head over the rail and let the wind and the
rain beat down upon ‘poor sick me.’” She had apparently gotten a recent perm
for her hair, for she adds parenthetically, “(You should have seen the new
permanent the next day.)”<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">7</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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After her stomach was sufficiently emptied, she collapsed
into a deck chair. Then help came. “The night steward found me . . .” she
writes,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“and made me comfortable with
pillows, blankets, and ice cold lemonade.” Shortly, other sick passengers began
to filter to the deck. She wasn’t able to eat the next day, but by Saturday and
Sunday, she was adjusting to the motion of the ship, and food was looking
appetizing again.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">8</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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On Saturday during a life-saving drill, Virginia learned the
difference between first- and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>second-class
travelers. The former enjoyed access to a “swimming pool, sports deck, tea
room, ball room and what not.” As second-class passengers, she and the other
teachers were crowded into the back of the ship with no amenities. That was
disappointing to learn.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">9</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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The ship docked in “the quaint old city”<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">10</span></span></span></span></a></span>
of San Juan, Puerto Rico on Sunday, August 19.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">11</span></span></span></span></a></span>
Virginia expressed relief to have solid ground under her feet again, although
she still felt the rolling of the ship. She drew a wavy line to illustrate.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">12</span></span></span></span></a></span> </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Virginia's first letter home from the Palace Hotel, San Juan, P.R.</td></tr>
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The teachers were soon ensconced into rooms in the Palace
Hotel where Virginia roomed with Idamay Demmors, age 23, a teacher from Boonton,
New Jersey, whom she found to be “very nice.”<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn13" name="_ftnref13" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">13</span></span></span></span></a></span>
Their room was “huge [with] two large beds, clothes closet, desk an [sic] bath.
. . , large balcony windows and no screens. . . . And of course we have huge
mosquito nets over our beds.”<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn14" name="_ftnref14" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">14</span></span></span></span></a></span> This
was a far cry from the farmhouse room she shared with Neville in Nebraska where
many families still had outdoor toilets.</div>
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The best news was her teaching assignment in the city of
Arecibo, population about 13,000, which was a “choice assignment.” She felt
relieved to learn that she would not be the only American teacher there.
Idamay’s assignment was good, too, but in the mountains.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn15" name="_ftnref15" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">15</span></span></span></span></a></span> Virginia
felt a little apprehensive about being the only teacher who didn’t have a four
year college degree, but her five years experience must have given her the
confidence she needed. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Envelope of letter to Neville, 22 Aug. 1940, 3 cent stamp.</td></tr>
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She and the other teachers spent the first week in San Juan
seeing the sites. She notes that American soldiers and sailors stationed there “can
be seen most any place and any time of the day.” She adds, “A homesick kid from
N.C. took us through the old fort of San Cristobal yesterday.”<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn16" name="_ftnref16" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">16</span></span></span></span></a></span> The
teachers would leave for their teaching assignments on Friday.</div>
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Virginia’s adventures were just beginning.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Appendix</b></div>
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Besides Virginia and Idamay, the other Anglo-American
teachers bound for Puerto Rico traveling on the SS Bourinquen from the U. S. included
the following<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn17" name="_ftnref17" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">17</span></span></span></span></a></span>:</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Page </b></div>
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Martin Dubner</div>
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23</div>
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New York</div>
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New York</div>
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Robert Friend</div>
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Brooklyn</div>
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New York</div>
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9</div>
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Joseph Kavetsky</div>
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New York</div>
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New York</div>
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10</div>
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Helen Louise Murphy</div>
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Natick</div>
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Massachusetts</div>
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10</div>
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Martha Rowinkel</div>
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Chicago</div>
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Illinois</div>
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Margaret Roeb</div>
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27</div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal">
Butte</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal">
Montana</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal">
11</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 7;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal">
Mary Cornelia Roberts</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal">
26</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal">
St. Louis</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal">
Missouri</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal">
11</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 8;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal">
Martha M. Robinson</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal">
35</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal">
Fall River</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal">
Massachusetts</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal">
11</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 9;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal">
Eugene W. Robinson</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal">
26</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal">
Brockton</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal">
Massachusetts</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal">
11</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 10;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal">
Dorothy Marie Soully</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal">
21</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal">
New Haven</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal">
Connecticut</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal">
11</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 11;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal">
Helen Vrabel</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal">
24</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal">
Bayonne</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal">
New Jersey</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal">
11</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 12; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal">
Katherine Sarah Yeagle</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal">
25</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal">
Kansas City</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal">
Missouri</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal">
11</div>
</td>
</tr>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
Virginia noted that several Puerto Rican teachers from the
States were included in their number on the Borinquen,<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn18" name="_ftnref18" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">18</span></span></span></span></a></span>
but their names are difficult to distinguish from other Puerto Rican passengers
since their addresses do not include the designation “Department of Education.”</div>
<div style="mso-element: footnote-list;">
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<hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" />
<div id="ftn1" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">1</span></span></span></span></a></span>
Virginia Troutman, San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Clint Troutman, letter, 20 August
1940<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">, relates news of her travels
to Puerto Rico, the voyage, her living conditions and placement for teaching; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Family Letters</i>, CD compiled by Leo
Nelsen, Jr.; copy privately held, by Noble </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Anderson, Indiana.</span></div>
</div>
<div id="ftn2" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">2</span></span></span></span></a></span>
“Puerto Rico, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1901-1962,” citing Virginia Troutman;
digital image <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry.com</i> (http://www.ancestry.com
: accessed 27 May 2017).</div>
</div>
<div id="ftn3" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">3</span></span></span></span></a></span>
“Borinquen (1931),” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Wikipedia</i> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borinquen_(1931
: accessed 30 May 2017).</div>
</div>
<div id="ftn4" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">4</span></span></span></span></a></span>
“Puerto Rico, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1901-1962,” citing Virginia Troutman,
15-19 August 1940; digital image Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com :
accessed 27 May 2017).</div>
</div>
<div id="ftn5" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">5</span></span></span></span></a></span>
Virginia Troutman, San Juan, P. R. to Neville Troutman, letter, 22 August 1940,<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> sends birthday greetings, a gift and
several postcards, and tells about meeting with Ashford and his family; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Family Letters</i>, CD compiled by Leo
Nelsen, Jr.; copy privately held, by Noble </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Anderson, Indiana.</span> She never
mentions a second name for Ashford.</div>
</div>
<div id="ftn6" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">6</span></span></span></span></a></span>
Virginia Troutman, San Juan, P. R., to Clint Troutman, letter, 20 August 1940.</div>
</div>
<div id="ftn7" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">7</span></span></span></span></a></span>
Ibid.</div>
</div>
<div id="ftn8" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">8</span></span></span></span></a></span>
Ibid.</div>
</div>
<div id="ftn9" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref9" name="_ftn9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">9</span></span></span></span></a></span>
Ibid.</div>
</div>
<div id="ftn10" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref10" name="_ftn10" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn10;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[10]</span></span></span></span></a>
Ibid.</div>
</div>
<div id="ftn11" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref11" name="_ftn11" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">11</span></span></span></span></a></span>
“Puerto Rico, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1901-1962,” citing Virginia Troutman,
15-19 Aug. 1940, p. 11.</div>
</div>
<div id="ftn12" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref12" name="_ftn12" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">12</span></span></span></span></a></span>
Virginia Troutman, San Juan, P. R., to Clint Troutman, letter, 20 August 1940.</div>
</div>
<div id="ftn13" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref13" name="_ftn13" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">13</span></span></span></span></a></span>
Ibid. Also, “Puerto Rico, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1901-1962,” citing Idamay
Demmors, 15-19 Aug. 1940, p. 9.</div>
</div>
<div id="ftn14" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref14" name="_ftn14" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">14</span></span></span></span></a></span>
Virginia Troutman, San Juan, P. R., to Clint Troutman, letter, 20 August 1940.</div>
</div>
<div id="ftn15" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref15" name="_ftn15" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">15</span></span></span></span></a></span>
Ibid.</div>
</div>
<div id="ftn16" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref16" name="_ftn16" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">16</span></span></span></span></a></span> Virginia
Troutman, San Juan, P. R. to Neville Troutman, letter, 22 August 1940.</div>
</div>
<div id="ftn17" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref17" name="_ftn17" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">17</span></span></span></span></a></span>
“Puerto Rico, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1901-1962,” citing names and page
numbers noted chart, 15-19 Aug. 1940.</div>
</div>
<div id="ftn18" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref18" name="_ftn18" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">18</span></span></span></span></a></span>
Virginia Troutman, San Juan, P. R., to Clint Troutman, letter, 20 August 1940.</div>
</div>
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After Virginia’s stressful experience with her first
teaching job, she went back to Nebraska State Normal School and Teacher’s
College at Wayne<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">1</span></span></span></a></span> where
she lived in Pile Hall<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">2</span></span></span></a></span>
with a good friend, Irene Dangberg.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">3</span></span></span></a></span> She
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Upon completing her teacher certification, Virginia secured
a job at District 24, Wayne County, Nebraska, where she taught four years.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">4</span></span></span></a> </span>During
this period in the summer of 1937, she and Neville traveled to Virginia to
visit their brother Verne (See <a href="http://rattlingoldbones.blogspot.com/search?q=sisters+find+virginia+roots">“Sisters.
. .”).</a> While there, a tall, slender young man named Raymond DeBord<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">5</span></span></span></a></span> caught
Virginia’s eye, and she caught his.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">6</span></span></span></a></span>
But they lived far apart and a summer visit was too short to make life-changing
decisions. Nonetheless, they wrote letters. </div>
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In 1939, Winside schools hired Virginia to teach in the
intermediate room.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">7</span></span></span></a></span>
Not only had Virginia been a top student herself, but also she encouraged her
students to excel.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">8</span></span></span></a></span>
She taught at Winside for one year.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">9</span></span></span></a></span> </div>
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Then her adventurous spirit prevailed. She applied for and was hired to teach
in Puerto Rico.</div>
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And off she went, first by train: the Pacemaker, New York
Central’s “premier all coach service” between Chicago and New York.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">10</span></span></span></a></span>
In a letter to her parents, she raved about her good nights sleep, the boy
scouts in her car who entertained the passengers, and the sights of the Hudson
River from Albany to New York City: West Point Academy, Sing Sing Prison, and
the Palisades of the Hudson.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">11</span></span></span></a></span> She
complained about having to pay $3.00 a night for a room at the Commodore Hotel,
and she felt astounded by the fact that she could walk for blocks from building
to building “and never be out on the sidewalk with the sky above [me].”<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">12</span></span></span></a></span></div>
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After settling into her room, resting, and freshening up,
Virginia set out to find a place to eat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I knew the food was
above my style here at the hotel so I walked down to the lower level of Grand
Central and spotted an air-conditioned restaurant that didn’t look so ritzy.
But lo and behold when I got to the door there was the head waiter to show me
to a table. I almost collapsed when he brought me a menu. The cheapest thing I
could get was a sandwich for 75<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">¢</span>. So I ordered a tuna fish sand. Then
the darn waiter asked what I’d have to drink and I ordered a glass of milk. The
tuna fish sand. filled a dinner plate. I got 13 slices of bread—5 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>different kinds, three slices of tomato, half
of a hard-boiled egg, half a head of lettuce and a whole can of tuna. When I
asked for my check, would you believe it when I told you that I had to pay 20<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">¢</span>
extra for the glass of milk. I gave them a dollar and said <u>Good Night</u>!”<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn13" name="_ftnref13" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">13</span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She had learned her
lesson. The next day, she found a dime store lunch counter on Fifth Avenue and
paid five cents for her lunch. Her favorite, though, was an innovative method
of getting food that she had never before seen: the Automat. “They are
cafeterias where you can get anything from soup to nuts by putting a nickel in
a slot," she writes. “All food except steamed dishes are behind little glass
doors all along the walls. You put in your nickel and the door flops open. What
won’t they think of next?”<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn14" name="_ftnref14" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">14</span></span></span></a></span></div>
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That night she went to Radio City Music Hall to see “Pride
and Prejudice,” which was “swell.” But what dazzled her beyond words was the “floor
show . . . . presented by the R. C. A. symphony orchestra, ballet, and glee
club.”<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn15" name="_ftnref15" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">15</span></span></span></a></span></div>
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And so after two days in New York City, the little Nebraska
farm girl reported to her parents that she felt like “one of these New Yorkers
who seem to like no one quite so much as themselves. I’ve learned to strut down
5<sup>th</sup> Avenue and Broadway, crowd at every corner, speak as if you were
commanding an army, keep your eyes straight ahead and look at no one unless
it’s a cop.”<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn16" name="_ftnref16" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">16</span></span></span></a></span>
She had adapted.</div>
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The next leg of her journey took her by boat to Puerto Rico.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">1</span></span></span></a></span>
The name of State Normal School and Teacher’s College was changed in 1949 to
Nebraska State Teacher’s College at Wayne and then in 1963 to Wayne State
College.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">2</span></span></span></a></span>
Mary Troutman, Winside, Nebraska, to Virginia Troutman, letter, 26 March 1935;
relates information about a teaching job opportunity and cousin news; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Troutman Letters</i>, CD compiled by Leo W.
Nelsen, Jr., <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">copy privately held by Z. T. Noble, </span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE]</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Anderson, Indiana.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">3</span></span></span></a></span>
“The Bride’s History: To be Opened on Their Silver Wedding Anniversary,” not
dated, but the bride married 27 Oct. 1946; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Troutman
Letters</i>, CD.</div>
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Ibid.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">5</span></span></span></a></span>
Raymond DeBord and Virginia Troutman were actually third cousins, but they
probably didn’t know it. Their common ancestors were their
great-great-grandparents, Oliver Pratt and Mary Fulks Pratt. Their
grandmothers, America Ann Pratt and Susan Marion Elizabeth Pratt were first
cousins.</div>
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“The Bride’s History . . . “</div>
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Ibid.</div>
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Ibid.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref9" name="_ftn9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">9</span></span></span></a></span> F.
M. Jones and F. J. Dimmel, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The History of
Winside, Nebraska</i> (no place: no publisher, 1942), 97.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref10" name="_ftn10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">10</span></span></span></a></span>
“The Pacemaker,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">AmericanRails.com</i> (http://www.american-rails.com/pacemaker.html
: accessed 24 May 2017).</div>
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Virginia Troutman, New York City, New York, to Clint Troutman, letter, 14
August 1940; relates details about train ride to New York City and her
impressions of the big city; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Troutman
Letters</i>, CD.</div>
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Ibid.</div>
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ztnoblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12192494474879562468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6688481187808508351.post-51946305930981132992017-05-19T07:22:00.000-04:002017-05-19T07:22:43.208-04:00A Letter: Stories of Homesteading<style>@font-face {
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Letters. For many years after I married, I used to spend Sunday afternoons writing letter to my parents 500 miles away and to my siblings scattered here and there.
Regularly, for years, my aunts and my mother penned letters to each other. My
mother kept all the letters and now I have some of them. Many of those letters have
helped me piece together the family history. Being a genealogist, family
history is my passion and letters are crucial. It pains me that people no
longer write letters. Yes, they communicate other ways, but the beauty and
intimacy of letters are gone.</div>
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Once in a while, the impact of letters takes my breath away.
This past week it happened again when I received an e-mail message from my
cousin, Jill. She had found a letter among her mother’s papers that she found
fascinating. The writer, Edith Hillier, had been a close friend of Jill’s and
my grandmother, Mary Troutman. Gracefully worded and filled with stories of the
Hillier family’s adventures homesteading in Montana, the letter is a treasure.
Jill wondered if we could locate Edith’s descendants to see if they would like to have the
letter. </div>
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Well, you know I took the challenge. </div>
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Since Edith had been my grandmother’s friend, I figured, I
ought to be able to find her living in Wayne County Nebraska at some point in
time. And, I did. She lived in Brenna Precinct in 1920, same precinct where my
grandparents lived. She was age 37 (about four years older than Grandma Mary), married
to W. R. Hillier; they had two children, Anabel, age 11, and Ralph, age 9. Mr.
Hillier was working as a hired man for W. K. Dobeneker.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">1</span></span></span></a></span> </div>
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I found that Edith Irene Hall had married William R. Hillier on 20 June
1907 in Hennepin County, Minnesota,<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">2</span></span></span></a></span>and that’s where they lived in 1910. They had a one-year-old daughter Laura A.
(for Anabel?). William worked as a carpenter.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">3</span></span></span></a></span> </div>
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When William registered for the World War I draft, the
family lived in Hennepin County, Minnesota, his next of kin: Edith Irene
Hillier.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">4</span></span></span></a></span>
Doesn’t that appear as if they have lived in Minnesota for at least eleven
years, then moved to Nebraska between 1918 and 1920?</div>
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But no. In telling the homesteading stories, Edith says
children are three and four years old.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">5</span></span></span></a></span>
That sets this homesteading tale at about 1913-14.</div>
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Without this letter, would the family know Edith and William had homesteaded?
Maybe there were stories. Maybe Edith entertained her grandchildren with
homesteading tales. But, maybe, not. What a treasure the letter could be for
the family!</div>
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So I built a Hillier family tree on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry</i> and posted a scanned copy of the letter for the Hillier
descendants to find. I hope they enjoy it.</div>
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Here is an excerpt:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Excerpt from Edith Hillier letter to Neville Troutman, 1957.</td></tr>
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Edith also tells about a horse falling through the roof of
her dugout henhouse where she kept “a lovely bunch of Buff Orpingtons” she had
“raised by hand.” The roof of the dugout was covered with boards and straw.
Foraging for food on a snowy winter night when temperatures dipped below zero,
the horse found the straw and his hind legs fell through the roof. Edith tried
to free it, but it was too frightened.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">6</span></span></span></a></span></div>
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She hitched her horse to a buggy, wrapped her children in
blankets, loaded them into the buggy and set out to get help. She tells about
driving her horse through snow up to its belly and taking hours to go four
miles. She was terrified her children would freeze, but she made it to a
neighbor’s homestead, and the man set off to town two miles away to get Edith’s
husband.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">7</span></span></span></a></span></div>
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When the family returned to the homestead the horse was
dead. They couldn’t get it out of the henhouse, so they just buried it there in
the hillside. She moved her prize chickens into the family’s shanty (temporarily,
I hope). She added, “That was one of the many things that made me tough.”<span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Buff Orpington, photo by Rebekah Noble, used with permission.</td></tr>
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The letter also revealed tidbits about my Aunt Neville’s
family, but I’ll save that for later.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">1</span></span></span></a></span> <span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1920 U. S. census, Brenna precinct, Wayne
County, Nebraska, population schedule, enumeration district [ED] 218, p. 4-B,
dwelling 288, family 300, William R. Riley family; digital image <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry.com</i> (http://www.ancestry.com :
accessed 15 May 2017); NARA microfilm publication T625, roll 1003.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">2</span></span></span></a></span>
“Minnesota/u002C Marriages Index/u002C, 1849-1950,” database, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry.com</i> (http://www.ancestry.com :
accessed 15 May 2017), entry for William R Hillier and Edith I Hall, 20 June
1907; citing Hennepin County.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">3</span></span></span></a></span> <span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1910 U. S. census, Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minnesota, population schedule, enumeration district [ED] 205, p. 13-B,
dwelling 70, family n/a, W. K. Dobenecker, see W. R. Hillier and Edith Hillier;
digital image <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry.com</i>
(http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 15 May 2017); NARA microfilm publication
T624, roll 706.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">4</span></span></span></a></span> <span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“U. S. World
War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918,” images <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry.com</i> (http://www.ancestry.com, accessed 15 May 2017), card
for William Riley Hillier, serial number 3481, Local Draft Board, Hennepin
County, Minnesota.</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">5</span></span></span></a></span> Edith
Hillier, Atkinson, Michigan, to Neville Lamson, letter, 17 October 1957;
relates information about homesteading in Montana and other news about her
family; <span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">privately held by Jill Gran </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE]</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> Pierce, Nebraska.</span></div>
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Ibid.<br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">8<span style="font-size: small;"> Ibid.</span></span> </div>
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ztnoblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12192494474879562468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6688481187808508351.post-60980146854133197422017-05-12T10:47:00.000-04:002017-05-12T10:47:01.732-04:00Aunt Virginia Versus the School Board
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My Aunt Virginia was no less adventurous than her sister,
Neville—maybe a bit more so.</div>
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Fall, 1934. After only one year at Nebraska State Teacher’s
College, Wayne, Virginia took a teaching position at a small country school in
Wayne County—District 63, a school that was already embroiled in controversy.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">1</span></span></span></span></a></span> She
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During the 1933-34 school year at District 63, the teacher
and two board members had expelled ten-year-old boy Bobbie Johnson,<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">2</span></span></span></span></a></span>
the youngest son of Swedish immigrants Nels J. and Hilma V. Johnson<span style="font-size: x-small;">.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">3</span></span></span></span></a></span> As
young teenagers Nels Johnson and Hilma Vennerberg<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">4 </span></span></span></span></a></span>had
immigrated to America with their respective parents about 1888-1890. They likely
met in the U. S.; they married about 1900, probably in Nebraska.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">5</span></span></span></span></a></span> Their
children were all born in that state starting in 1901 with Russell.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">6</span></span></span></span></a></span> By
the time the trouble started at the school, Nels had been farming in Wayne
County since before 1910.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">7</span></span></span></span></a></span>
Most likely, all the Johnson children had attended District 63.</div>
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For many years, one-room schoolhouses were the norm for
children of farm families in Nebraska. Children in grades one through eight
were taught in the same room. By the 1930s teachers had at least a year of
teacher training, and some more. With better roads and transportation, some families sent their children to high school in town, but the formal
education of many farm children ended with eighth grade, which was typical of most
of the Johnson children.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">8</span></span></span></span></a></span> By this time, the one-room school was being questioned, but still in 1930,
Nebraska ranked number two in the nation for one-room schools.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">9</span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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Bobbie was the youngest of the Johnson children. Eight years
younger than the next sibling, he was born about 1923 when his mother was 47
years old. As a small child, Bobbie experienced a serious ear and gland infection
(possibly measles) and ran a high fever, which left him mentally disabled.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">10</span></span></span></span></a></span>
In those days, children with disabilities were not <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>welcome in public schools. They slowed down
the classroom for other students, people said. Bobbie was accused of being
unruly in other ways, as well, so the teacher and board members expelled him. </div>
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Bobbie’s father sued, and the issue went to court. Mr.
Johnson claimed that Bobbie had been expelled without due process, that the
only reason the teacher expelled him was that he had asked her about gossip he
had heard about her at home. The Johnsons won the first round when the court
ordered that Bobbie be allowed to attend school.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">11</span></span></span></span></a></span>
The teacher resigned.</div>
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That’s when Virginia accepted a teaching position at
District 63 with the stipulation that she accept Bobbie as a student.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">12</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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Nonetheless, the controversy continued. Some parents didn’t
want Bobbie in the school. One of the board members took his four children out
of District 63 and insisted they be allowed to attend at another district. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The board pressured Virginia to expel Bobbie, but she stood up to them. She
apparently had more confidence in the boy’s ability to learn than did others. When
she refused, they fired her and hired another teacher who agreed to expel the boy.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn13" name="_ftnref13" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">13</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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The controversy continued for years. In 1943, Bobbie’s
father sued the two school board members for slandering Bobbie, for causing him
great distress, depression and other problems. He asked for $10,000.00 in
damages. Virginia and her father, my grandpa Clint Troutman, were subpoenaed
along with several others. Eventually, Mr. Johnson dropped his suit and had to
pay court costs. The court record does not offer an explanation. Virginia was
paid $4.90 witness fee in the case.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn14" name="_ftnref14" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">14</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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Wondering about the fate of Bobbie Johnson, I contacted a family member through Ancestry.com. I learned that
he had been killed when hit by a car in August of 1950 while riding his
bicycle. He was 27 years old.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn15" name="_ftnref15" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">15</span></span></span></span></a></span>
I’m sure this was a sad day not only for Bobbie’s family but also for Virginia.</div>
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Wayne County, Nebraska, District Court Files, Case number 4526, Bobbie Johnson,
a minor by his father and next friend Nels J. Johnson vs. Iver Prince, et al.,
20 Jan. 1934, County Clerk’s Office, Wayne.</div>
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Wayne Co., NE, District Court Files, Case no. 4526, Bobbie Johnson, a minor by
his father Nels J. Johnson vs. Iver Prince, et al., 20 Jan. 1934, County
Clerk’s Office, Wayne.</div>
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1930 U. S. census, Wayne County, Nebraska, population schedule, Chapin
township, p. 598 (penned), enumeration district [ED] 90-02, sheet 5-B, dwelling
105, family 106, Nels J. Johnson family, see Bobby G. ; digital image <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry.com</i> (http://www.ancestry.com :
accessed 10 May 2017); NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 1295.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></div>
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For Hilma’s maiden name, see “U. S. Social Security and Claims Index,
1936-2007,” database <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry.com</i> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">(http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 May 2017);
citing </span>Helen R. Johnson. This index includes mother’s maiden name. Also,
U. S. Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Employment Records, 1935-1970, database
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry.com</i> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">(http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 May 2017); citing Clarence
Dale Johnson. This record also includes maiden name of mother.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">5</span></span></span></span></a></span> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1910 U. S. census, Chapin township, Wayne
County, Nebraska, population schedule, enumeration district [ED] 209, p. 4-B,
dwelling 77, family 78, Nels Johnson family; digital image <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry.com</i> (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 May 2017); NARA
microfilm publication T624, roll 767. </span></div>
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1930 U. S. census, Wayne Co., NE, population schedule, Chapin tnshp, p. 598, ED
90-02, sheet 5-B, dwell. 105, fam. 106, Nels J. Johnson.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">7</span></span></span></span></a></span> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1910 U. S. census, Chapin twnshp, Wayne Co., Ne,
pop. sched., ED 209, p. 4-B, dwell. 77, fam. 78, Nels Johnson.</span></div>
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1940 U. S. census, Chapin precinct, Wayne County, Nebraska, population
schedule, enumeration district 90-2, sheet 1-B, visit no. 19, Nels J. Johnson
family; digital image <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry.com</i> (http://ancestry.com
; accessed 11 May 2017); NARA microfilm publication T-627, roll 2268. Also,
1940 U. S. census, Allen precinct, Pierce County, Nebraska, population
schedule, enumeration district 70-1, sheet 1-B, visit no. 19, Russell A.
Johnson; digital image <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry.com</i>
(http://ancestry.com ; accessed 11 May 2017); NARA microfilm publication T-627,
roll 2260.</div>
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Jim McKee, “The One-room Schoolhouse in Nebraska,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lincoln Journal Star</i>, 5 May 2013 (<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://preview.tinyurl.com/mazuvvh<b> </b>: accessed 11 May 2017).</span></div>
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“Parashont” to “ztnoble,” private message, 4 May 2017, “Johnson Family”;
“Messages,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry,com</i> (http://www.ancestry.com
: accessed 11 May 2017), private use only.</div>
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Wayne County, Nebraska, District Court Files, Case number 4615, Bobbie Johnson,
a minor by his father and next friend Nels J. Johnson vs. Iver Prince and Artie
Fisher, 29 Oct. 1934, County Clerk’s Office, Wayne.</div>
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Ibid. Letter from Clerk of the District Court, Wayne, NE, to Clint Troutman, 23
Feb. 1943,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>included in case file, asks
Clint to forward the check to Virginia who is in Washington, D.C.</div>
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“Parashont” to “ztnoble,” private message, 4 May 2017, “Johnson Family”;
“Messages,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry,com</i> (http://www.ancestry.com
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For previous posts about Mrs. Nedd see <a href="http://rattlingoldbones.blogspot.com/2017/03/who-was-mrs-nedd.html" target="_blank">"Who Was Mrs. Nedd?</a>," <a href="http://rattlingoldbones.blogspot.com/2017/03/mrs-nedds-second-marriage.html" target="_blank">"Mrs. Nedd's Second Marriage," and "</a><a href="http://rattlingoldbones.blogspot.com/2017/04/gaynelle-moritz-nedd-brown-marries.html" target="_blank">Gaynelle Moritz Nedd Marries a Third Time</a>."<br />
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We left Gaynelle in Houston, Texas, married to Paul B. Wagenseller to whom she had been married about 14 years. The last record of their being together was a 1932 Houston City Directory. When the marriage ended is unknown.<br />
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And then, somehow, Gay and her first husband, Earl J. Nedd, got together again.
They remarried in Denver, Colorado on 17 January 1937.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1</span></span></span></span></a></span>
The next year, Paul Wagenseller took off for a trip to Europe.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">2</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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How romantic for the two young lovers to reunite after thirty years! you might think so, but no. Apparently, the second marriage between Earl and Gay didn’t fare
any better than the first. By 1940, Gay Nedd, manager of the guesthouse where
my aunt Neville stayed in 1939, was divorced.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">3</span></span></span></span></a></span> Earl
Nedd was married to Helen and living in San Francisco again with his daughters,
Shirley and Patricia, and two of Helen’s sons. Earl was manager of the meat
packing company.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">4</span></span></span></span></a></span> </div>
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Finding more details about Gaynelle after 1940 is difficult without
going to the various places where she lived. She seems to have been an
attractive and enterprising woman, not content to live with someone who didn’t
suit her. She likely never married again, for the name Nedd is on her tombstone. When she lived on her own, she was self-sufficient and enterprising. The husbands she
chose were men of some means who went on to lead financially successful
lives. Evidence indicates that her son Louis and his family lived near her much
of his life. Eventually, she returned to Houston, Texas, lived to the age of 84 and succumbed to lung disease on 20 February 1975. She was buried in Forest Park Lawndale
Cemetery. Her devoted son Louis supplied the information for her death certificate.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">5</span></span></span></span></a></span> </div>
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1. When Earl Joseph Nedd registered for the World War II
draft in 1942, he lived in San Francisco and was employed by the South
San Francisco Packing & Provision Company. He named his daughter, Mrs. R.
G. Davey, as the person who would always know his whereabouts.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">6</span></span></span></span></a>
</span>Earl died at age 66 on 22 July 1952 in San Mateo County, California, and was
buried at Holy Cross Cemetery.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">7</span></span></span></span></a></span><br />
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2. Harry Boyd Brown lived for a time in Germantown,
Pennsylvania. On his World War II draft registration, he named Miss Jeanne
Brown of Pikesville, Maryland, as the person who would always know his
whereabouts.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">8</span></span></span></span></a></span>
Was she his daughter? After an illustrious career of twenty-two years with
Philco, part of that time as National Advertising Manager,<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">9</span></span></span></span></a></span> in
demand as a speaker for advertising conventions, and writing for industry
magazines, he retired in 1950. But he wasn’t finished working. He became
president of the Kenya Gem Corporation<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn10;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> 10</span></span></span></span></a></span>
and copyrighted a couple of advertising slogans. He died at age 84 in Dade,
Florida in 1968.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn11;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">11</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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3. Eventually, Paul Brandom Wagenseller had his own law
practice in Houston, Texas. On his World War II draft registration, he named
his father as the person who would always know his whereabouts.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn12;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">12</span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span>At some point, he remarried. He died 2 May 1971 and was buried next his "beloved wife,"
Grace (n<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">è</span>e
Tatters), at Forest Park East Cemetery, Webster, Harris County Texas. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn13" name="_ftnref13" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn13;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">13</span></span></span></span></a></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Paul B. Wagenseller's signature from his WWII draft registration.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wagenseller, Paul & Grace, Find A Grave photo by "Taterhands."</td></tr>
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Online research can reveal much about our ancestors and anyone else who intrigues us. My effort to answer the question "Who was Mrs. Nedd?" was piqued by my aunt Neville Troutman's statement in a letter from Denver, Colorado to her sister Virginia in Winside, Nebraska that she liked Mrs. Nedd, her landlady and employer at a rooming house there. Aunt Neville didn't like just anyone and everyone. Something about Mrs. Nedd must have impressed her. I wanted to know more. Through records on <i>Ancestry.com</i>, <i>FamilySearch.org</i>, <i>Newspapers.com</i>, <i>Hathi-Trust.org</i>, <i>Findagrave. com</i>, and Google, I have learned much about the life of this intriguing woman and the people surrounding her. If she were my ancestor, I would go into more depth with research in the places where she lived, but this much has satisfied my curiosity.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1</span></span></span></span></a></span>
Arapahoe County, Colorado, “County Marriages and State Indexes, 1862-2006,” digital
image <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">FamilySearch.org</i> (http://www.familysearch.org
: accessed 21 March 2017); <span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">entry
for Earl J. Nedd and Gaynelle M. Wagenseller, 17 January 1937.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">2 </span></span></span></span></a></span>“New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957,” digital <span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">images <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry.com</i> (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 21 March 2017),
citing Paul Wagensellar, arriving New York, from Southampton, England on the
Champlain, 13 October 1938.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">3</span></span></span></span></a></span> 1940
U. S. census, Denver, Denver Co., Co., pop. sched., ED 16-21, sheet 10-A, no.
135, Gay Nedd household.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">4</span></span></span></span></a></span> 1940
U. S. census, San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, population
schedule, enumeration district 38-378, sheet 5-A, visit no. 4, Earl Nedd
household; digital image <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry.com</i>
(http://ancestry.com ; accessed 27 March 2017); NARA microfilm publication
T-627, roll 312.<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">5</span></span></span></span></a></span>
“Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982,” digital image <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry.com</i> (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 21 March 2017),
for Gaynelle M. Nedd, 29 February 1975.<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">6</span></span></span></span></a></span> <span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“U. S. World
War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942,” digital images <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry.com</i> (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 21 March 2017),
card for Earl Joseph Nedd, serial number 2552, Local Draft Board, San Francisco
County, California.</span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">7</span></span></span></span></a></span> “<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">San
Mateo California Colma Cemetery Index, 1887-2001,” database </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ancestry.com</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 24
March 2017), citing Earl J. Nedd, 1952.</span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">8</span></span></span></span></a></span> <span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“U. S. World
War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942,” digital images <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry.com</i> (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 21 March 2017),
card for Harry Boyd Brown, serial number 2149, Local Draft Board, Allegheny
County, Pennsylvania.</span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref9" name="_ftn9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">9</span></span></span></span></a></span>
Harry Boyd Brown, “Mystery Control Will Deliver the Radio Prospects of America
to the Philco, Dealers,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Radio Today</i>,
July 1938, p. 8 (http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Radio-Today/30s/Radio-Today-1938-07.pdf :
accessed 22 March 2017).<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref10" name="_ftn10" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn10;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">10</span></span></span></span></a>
</span>Anne Haywood, “Your Career,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shamokin</i>
(Pennsylvania) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">News-Dispatch</i>, 16 Dec.
1958, p. 4, col. 2; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Newpapers.com</i> (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/10218755/h_b_brown_career/ :
accessed 27 March 2017)<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">. Searching <i>Newspapers.com</i> for "Harry Boyd Brown" results in numerous article about him and his career in advertising.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref11" name="_ftn11" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn11;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">11</span></span></span></span></a> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Social Security Administration, “U. S. Social
Security Death Index, 1935-Current,” database <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry.com</i> (http://www.ancestry.com, accessed 24 March 2017),
entry for Harry Boyd Brown, 1968, SSN </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">--- -- -061.</span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Also, for the advertising slogan copyright: Library of Congress, <i>Catalog of Copyright Entries</i>, Ser. 3, pt. 11B, v. 13-15, 1959-1961, Labels (Washington, U. S. Government Printing Office, 1891- ) 42; <i>Hathi-Trust</i> (http://www.hathi-trust.org : accessed 11 April 2017) search words: "'Harry Boyd Brown' copyright".</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref12" name="_ftn12" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn12;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">12</span></span></span></span></a></span> <span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“U. S. World
War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942,” digital images <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry.com</i> (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 21 March 2017),
card for Paul Brandom Wagenseller, serial number 4463, Local Draft Board, Harris
County, Texas.</span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref13" name="_ftn13" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn13;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">13</span></span></span></span></a></span> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Find A Grave</i>, database with images
(http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 24 March 2017), photograph, memorial <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">#
131971537, </span>Paul Wagenseller (1893-1971), Forest Park East Cemetery, Webster,
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The first two parts of Mrs. Nedd's story were posted previously. If you need to catch up with the story, go to <a href="http://rattlingoldbones.blogspot.com/2017/03/who-was-mrs-nedd.html" target="_blank">"Who Was Mrs. Nedd?"</a> and <a href="http://rattlingoldbones.blogspot.com/2017/03/mrs-nedds-second-marriage.html" target="_blank">"Mrs. Nedd's Second Marriage"</a>.</div>
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Brief overview: Gaynelle Moritz, age 16 (she claimed she was 19) married
Earl Joseph Nedd, age 22, in Davenport, Iowa on 15 July 1907. She filed
for divorce in Omaha in January 1909. In 1910, she and her two-year-old
son, Louis, were living with her parents in Omaha. Earl Nedd lived in
Centralia, Washington. Gaynelle remarried to businessman Harry Boyd Brown later that year. Their marriage had dissolved by 1913, but during this marriage, evidence suggests that Gaynelle may have developed her own business enterprise.</div>
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In 1918, Gay remarried. This time, she chose Paul Brandom
Wagenseller, a Decatur, Illinois native son. Paul and Gaynelle ran off to
Boston, Massachusetts, to get married<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">1</span></span></span></a></span> (another
destination wedding!). Paul’s parents were Blanch Brandom and Charles Newton
Wagenseller,<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">2</span></span></span></a></span> a former
newspaper man and partner in Mueller Manufacturing in Decatur. In fact, Paul's uncle George Wagenseller owned <i>The Decatur Herald</i>.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">3 </span></span></span></span>Perhaps that's the reason I found many articles including information about the Wagenseller family. <br />
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About three years younger than Gay<span style="font-size: x-small;">,<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">4</span></span></span></a></span> Paul
was a musician in high school who had sung in the Glee Club and played a flute in the orchestra.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">5</span></span></span></a></span> After
high school, he had gone to law school in Chicago and made visits home to see
his father as noted several times in the society columns of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Decatur Herald</i>.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">6</span></span></span></a></span> By
1916, Paul had joined the 1st Field Hospital Corps, I. N. G. serving in Texas. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Decatur Herald</i> ran several articles
on him and other hometown boys who joined the same unit.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">7</span></span></span></a></span> Light
haired, gray-eyed Paul was still single when he registered for the World War I
Draft in 1917.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">8</span></span></span></a></span> </div>
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The next year Paul married Gay. With Gay living in Omaha and Paul in Chicago, how
they met is a mystery. Perhaps, Gay's association with the Madame
Josephine Boyd company took her to Chicago more often than simply the trip to marry Harry Boyd Brown.<br />
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By 1920, Paul, Gay, and eleven- year-old Louis had moved
to Houston, Texas and were living with Gay’s parents and her brother Ralph. The elder Moritz
was working for the railroad, Paul Wagenseller was an accountant, and Ralph
Moritz was a salesman for a newspaper.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">9</span></span></span></a></span> Gay’s
brother Carl Ray and his family had also moved to Houston, where Carl was the
proprietor of a restaurant.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">10</span></span></span></a></span> </div>
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Meanwhile, Gay's first husband, Earl Nedd and his second wife Mynie had added two children to
their nest: Stewart, age 7, and Shirley, a baby. In San Francisco, Earl was a
salesman for a meat packing plant.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">11</span></span></span></a></span></div>
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Gay’s marriage to Paul Wagenseller lasted longer than her
first two marriages, for she and Paul were still together in Houston in 1930. Living in the same city at
age 21, Gay’s son Louis, worked as a salesman for a retail grocery and was married to
Margaret, a stenographer for an auto parts store.
Paul and Gay were still together in the 1932 city directory for Houston, Texas.
Paul was an accountant.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">12</span></span></span></a></span></div>
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Meanwhile, 1930 found Earl Nedd still in San Francisco, but
tragedy had struck his family. His wife Mynie had died in November 1929.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn13" name="_ftnref13" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">13</span></span></span></a></span>
The census shows that two more children had been added to his nest: Jerome H.,
age 8, and Patricia M., a baby. Did Minnie die in childbirth? Earl was working
in the “executive department” of a “produce company.”<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn14" name="_ftnref14" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">14</span></span></span></a></span></div>
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Apparently, Gay and Paul Wagenseller divorced sometime between
1932 (the city directory date) and 1937, the year Gay married for a fourth time. Next week. </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">1</span></span></span></a></span>
“Massachusetts Marriage Index, 1901-1955 and 1966 – 1970,” database <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ancestry.com</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 21
March 2017), citing Paul B. Wagenaeller and Merta G. Nedd (Mority), 1918.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">2</span></span></span></a></span>
“Texas Death Certificates, 1903-1982,” digital image <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry.com</i> (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 12 May 2014), Paul
Wagenseller, 2 May 1971. This names his parents and includes his mother’s
maiden name, Brandom.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">3</span></span></span></a></span>
“Mueller Exhibit Best Displayed,” <i>The Decatur Herald</i>, 1 July 1909, p. 18, col.
3; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Newspprs.com </i>(https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9733677/charles_n_wagenseller/:
accessed 22 March 2017). Also, “Wag Is Dean of Herald’s Staff,” <i><span style="font-size: small;">The Decatur
Herald</span></i>, 5 October 1930, p. 46, col. 2: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Newspapers.com
</i>(https://www.newspapers.com/clip/</div>
<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
9733816/the_decatur_herald/: accessed 22 March 2017).</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">4</span></span></span></a></span> <span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“U. S. World
War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918,” digital images <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry.com</i> (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 21 March 2017),
card for Paul B. Wagenseller, serial number 677, Local Draft Board, Decatur
County, Illinois.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">5</span></span></span></a></span>
“High School Notes,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Decatur Herald</i>,
29 Nov. 1906, p. 3, col. 4; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Newspapers.com</i>
(www.newspapers.com/clip/9713353/p_wagenseller_flute/ : accessed 22 March
2017). Also, “High School Boys Glee Club,” photo, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Decatur Herald</i>, 13 April 1910, p. 8, cols. 1-4; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Newspapers.com</i> (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9713851/</div>
<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
with_glee_club_p_wagenseller/: accessed 22 March
2017). </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">6</span></span></span></a></span>
“Twenty-five Years Ago Today,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Decatur Herald</i>, 26 Dec. 1936, p. 6, col. 2; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Newspapers.com </i>(https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9713602/law_school/
: accessed 22 March 2017).</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">7</span></span></span></a></span>
“Paul Wagenseller Enlisted,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Decatur
Herald</i>, 22 June 1916, p. 3, col. 2; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Newspapers.com
</i>(https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9713432/the_decatur_herald/ : accessed 22
March 2017). Also, “Paul Wagenseller Praises Treatment,” 24 May 1917, p. 3,
col. 3; (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9713653/the_decatur_herald/).</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">8</span></span></span></a></span> <span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“U. S. World
War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918,” card for Paul B. Wagenseller,
serial number 677, Local Draft Board, Decatur Co., Illinois.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref9" name="_ftn9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">9</span></span></span></a></span> <span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1920 U. S. census, Houston, Harris County,
Texas, population schedule, enumeration district [ED] 90, p. 13-B, dwelling
242, family 282, William Moritz household; digital image <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry.com</i> (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 21 March 2017);
NARA microfilm publication T625, roll 1814. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref10" name="_ftn10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">10</span></span></span></a></span> <span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1920 U. S. census, Houston, Harris County,
Texas, population schedule, enumeration district [ED] 90, p. 4-A, dwelling 29,
family 51, C. R. Martz [Moritz] household; digital image <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry.com</i> (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 21 March 2017);
NARA microfilm publication T625, roll 1813.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref11" name="_ftn11" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">11</span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> 1920 U. S. census, San Francisco, San Francisco
County, California, population schedule, enumeration district [ED] 147, p. 1-A,
dwelling 1, family 7, E. J. Nedd household; digital image <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry.com</i> (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 21 March 2017);
NARA microfilm publication T625, roll 136.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref12" name="_ftn12" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">12</span></span></span></a></span>
Houston Texas, City Directory, 1932, “U. S. City Directories, 1822-1925,”
digital images Ancesty.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 22 March 2017),
citing Paul B. Wagenseller (Gaynelle).</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref13" name="_ftn13" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">13</span></span></span></a></span>
“Town Talk,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Chehalis Bee-Nugget</i>,
15 Nov. 1929, p. 7, col. 1; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Newspapers.com</i>
(https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9712653/minnie_nedd/ : accessed 22 March
2017).</div>
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1930 U. S. census, <span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">San Francisco, San Francisco
County, California</span>, population schedule, enumeration district [ED]
38-231, sheet 8-B, dwelling n/a, family n/a, Earl J. Nedd family; digital image
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry.com</i> (http://www.ancestry.com
: accessed 21 March 2017); NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 203.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> The names of this family and all the info on
them have been crossed out on the census. Yet, it has all been transcribed.</span></div>
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The first part of Mrs. Nedd's story was posted last week. If you haven't read it, go to <a href="http://rattlingoldbones.blogspot.com/2017/03/who-was-mrs-nedd.html" target="_blank">"Who Was Mrs. Nedd?" </a></div>
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Brief overview: Gaynelle Moritz, age 16 (she claimed she was 19) married Earl Joseph Nedd, age 22, in Davenport, Iowa on 15 July 1907. She filed for divorce in Omaha in January 1909. In 1910, she and her two-year-old son, Louis, were living with her parents in Omaha. Earl Nedd lived in Centralia, Washington.</div>
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Two days after the census was taken, 21 April 1910, Earl, age 24,
married Mynie Mae Hoard, age 19.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1</span></span></span></span></a></span> By
this time, Earl’s parents had also moved to the northwest, to Portland,
Oregon. The elder Louis was general manager for an excavating company.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">2</span></span></span></span></a></span> </div>
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Soon, Gay also remarried. She really was 19 this time. She chose a
tall, slender man with blue eyes and brown hair, Harry Boyd Browne. Born in
Michigan about 1884 and living in Douglas County Nebraska with his mother in
1910, Harry worked in the mail order beauty and women’s health products business.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">3</span></span></span></span></a></span> The
company was called the Madame Josephine Boyd system of Chicago, which had an office in
Omaha; Harry was one of the owners.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">4</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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Gay and Harry ran off to Chicago (another destination
wedding) and tied the knot on 16 July 1910.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">5</span></span></span></span></a></span> In
1911, Harry’s company was sued for $5,000.00 by Mrs. Lillian Bell, “a beautiful <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">divorcee</span></span>,” for using her photograph in their advertising without her permission.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">6</span></span></span></span></a></span>
Lillian was awarded $1.00 for her efforts.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">7</span></span></span></span></a></span><br />
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Gaynelle
may have assisted Harry with his business during this time, for ads using her
maiden name ran in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">St. Louis
Post-Dispatch</i> and the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Philadelphia
Inquirer</i>:<br />
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“LADIES CAN MAKE at least $5 daily at home evenings, no
canvassing; experience unnecessary; nothing whatever to buy. Particulars free.
Gaynelle Moritz, Omaha, Neb.”<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">8</span></span></span></span></a></span><br />
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On the other hand, these ads may have represented Gay's own business, for she apparently obtained a <span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: small;">copyright </span>on a "system of fat reduction and general health."<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">9</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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This second marriage lasted not much longer than the first
one, but no record of a divorce has been found online, as yet. Certainly, it had ended by 25 August 1913 when Harry remarried in Oceana
County, Michigan to Agnes Gabrielson.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn10;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">10</span></span></span></span></a></span> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn11;" title=""></a></span></div>
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Meanwhile, Earl and Mynie Nedd had moved to San Francisco,
California by 1917 when Earl registered for the World War I draft.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn12;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">12</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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Who was Gaynelle's third husband? Next week.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1</span></span></span></span></a></span>
Lewis County, Washington, “Marriage Records, 1824-2014,” digital image <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry.com</i> (http://www.ancestry.com :
accessed 20 March 2017); <span style="font-family: "times new roman";">entry for
Earl J. Nedd and Mynie Mae Hoard, 21 April 1910.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">2</span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">1910 U. S. census, Portland, Multnomah
County, Oregon, population schedule, enumeration district [ED] 217, p. 16-B,
dwelling 20, family 19, Louis W. Nedd household; digital image <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry.com</i> (http://www.ancestry.com :
accessed 20 March 2017); NARA microfilm publication T624, roll 1289.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">3</span></span></span></span></a></span> <span style="font-family: "times new roman";">1910 U. S. census, Dundee, Douglas
County, Nebraska, population schedule, enumeration district [ED] 98, p. 4-B,
dwelling 102, family 105, Jane Browne household, see Harry B. Browne; digital
image <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry.com</i> (http://www.ancestry.com
: accessed 20 March 2017); NARA microfilm publication T624, roll 845. For
Harry’s physical description: </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“U. S.
World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918,” digital images <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry.com</i> (http://www.ancestry.com :
accessed 21 March 2017), card for Harry Boyd Brown, serial number 16, Local
Draft Board, Cook County, Illinois.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">4</span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span>“One Beauty Doctor a Man,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Omaha Daily
Bee</i>, 27 October 1911, p. 5, col. 5; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Newspapers.com</i>
(https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9728124/omaha_daily_bee/ : accessed 22 March
2017).</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">5</span></span></span></span></a></span>
Cook County, Illinois, “Marriages Index, 1871-1920, database <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry.com</i> (http://www.ancestry.com :
accessed 20 March 2017); <span style="font-family: "times new roman";">entry for
Gaynelle Nedd and Harry Boyd Browne, 16 July 1910.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">6</span></span></span></span></a></span>
“One Beauty Doctor a Man,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Omaha Daily
Bee</i>, 27 Oct. 1911, p. 5, col. 5.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">7</span></span></span></span></a></span>
“Lillian Bell Gets $1.00 Verdict,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Omaha
Daily Bee</i>, 2 Nov. 1911, p. 5, col. 4; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Newspapers.com
</i>(https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9728081/omaha_daily_bee/ : accessed 22
March 2017).</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">8</span></span></span></span></a></span>
“Salesladies Wanted,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">St. Louis
Post-Dispatch</i>, 18 Feb. 1912, p. 40, col. 4; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Newspapers.com </i>(https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9730823/gaynelle_moritz_ad/
: accessed 22 March 2017). Also, “Personals,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Philadelphia Inquirer</i>, 22 Oct. 1911, p. 38, col. 5; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Newspapers.com </i>(https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9730862/gaynelle_col_5/
: accessed 22 March 2017).</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref9" name="_ftn9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">9</span></span></span></span></a></span>
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 1. [B] Group 2 Pamphlets, Etc. New Series.
1911:3; (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1911), 1123; digital image <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hathi Trust</i> (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924112597723;view=1up;seq=1157
: accessed 23 March 2017), Moritz, Gaynelle, co. Omaha, Neb.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref10" name="_ftn10" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn10;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">10</span></span></span></span></a></span>
Oceana County, Michigan, “Marriage Records, 1867-1962,” digital image <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry.com</i> (http://www.ancestry.com :
accessed 21 March 2017); <span style="font-family: "times new roman";">entry for
Harry Brown and Agust [Agnes] Gabrielson, 25 August 1913.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref12" name="_ftn12" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn12;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">11</span></span></span></span></a></span> <span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“U. S. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918,”
card for Earl Joseph Nedd, serial number 145, Local Exemption Board, San
Francisco County, California. Names wife: Mynne Hoard Nedd.</span><br />
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Sometimes my curiosity lures me down rabbit holes, you might
say. A name pops up in a letter: “Mrs. Nedd,” Aunt Neville’s employer and
landlady in Denver. “I like the lady we work for,” Neville had written<span style="font-size: x-small;">.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">1</span></span></span></a></span> Who
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The 1940 census divulges a lot: Gay Nedd, age 49, was manager
of a guesthouse in Denver, Colorado. Her daughter-in-law, Margaret Nedd, age
30, was her assistant, and her only child Louis Nedd, age 31, worked as a
salesman for an auto retail supplier. Margaret and Louis had two sons:
nine-year-old Louis H. and five-year-old William. Gay had an eighth grade
education. Twenty-two guests lived in the house—two married couples, one
divorced woman, and the rest singles—eleven men and eleven women. Divorced, Gay
had married the first time at age 16 and had been married more than once.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">2</span></span></span></a></span> Who
were her husbands? Five years earlier, Gay had been living in Huston, Texas.
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Gay was born Merta Gaynelle Moritz in Superior, Nebraska, on
15 September 1890 to William H. Moritz, a “house carpenter,” and Minnie Belinda
(n<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">ée</span>
Ray) Moritz,<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">3</span></span></span></a></span> who
had migrated to Nebraska from Pennsylvania. Gaynelle had two brothers: Carl Ray,
three years older, and Ralph H., seven years younger. In 1900, the family lived
in Falls City, Richardson County, Nebraska’s farthest southeastern county.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">4</span></span></span></a></span> </div>
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Seven years later when Gay married, the family lived in
Omaha. At age 16 (she claimed she was 19), Gay was married 15 July 1907 to Earl
Joseph Nedd, age 22. Gay and Earl ran off across the state of Iowa to Davenport,
to get married,<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">5</span></span></span></a></span> a
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Tall and slender with black hair and grey
eyes,<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">6</span></span></span></a></span> Earl
was a “travelingman,” an only child born in Nebraska, to Louis Joseph Nedd and
Mabel Margaret King.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">7</span></span></span></a></span> The
elder Nedd was involved in the real estate business in Omaha.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">8</span></span></span></a></span></div>
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The marriage lasted less than two years. Gay filed for
divorce in January 1909 claiming cruelty and desertion.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">9</span></span></span></a></span> In
1910, she and her two-year-old son, Louis Joseph Nedd, named for his paternal grandfather,
were living with Gay’s parents. She was designated a widow,<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">10</span></span></span></a></span>
but Earl Nedd was alive and well and living in Centralia, Lewis County,
Washington. His marital status was divorced, and he was working as a “commercial
traveler” for a packinghouse.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">11</span></span></span></a></span> </div>
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Neville Troutman, Denver, Colorado, to Virginia Troutman, letter, 18 June 1939;
tells about her work and activities in Denver; Family Letters CD, <span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">privately held by Z. T. Noble, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE]</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> Anderson, Indiana.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">2</span></span></span></a></span> 1940
U. S. census, Denver, Denver County, Colorado, population schedule, enumeration
district 16-21, sheet 10-A, visit no. 135, Gay Nedd household; digital image <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry.com</i> (http://ancestry.com ;
accessed 9 March 2017); NARA microfilm publication T-627, roll n/a.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">3</span></span></span></a></span>
Texas Death Certificates, 1903-1982, digital image <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry.com</i> (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 20 March 2017)
entry for Gaynelle M. Nedd, 20 Feb. 1975. Also, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Find A Grave</i>, database with images (http://www.findagrave.com :
accessed 20 March 2017), photograph, memorial <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"># 82994747, </span>Gaynell
M. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Moritz</i> Nedd (1890 – 1975), Forest
Park Cemetery, Houston, Harris County, Texas; gravestone photographed by “Moon
Child.”<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">4</span></span></span></a></span> 1900
U. S. census, Falls City, Richardson County, Nebraska, population schedule, enumeration
district [ED] 139, sheet 8-B, dwelling 177, family 182, William Moritz
household, see Merta G. Moritz; digital image <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry.com</i> (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 20 March 2017);
NARA microfilm publication T623, roll 938.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">5</span></span></span></a></span>
Ibid.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">6</span></span></span></a></span> <span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“U. S. World
War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918,” images <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry.com</i> (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 21 March 2017),
card for Earl Joseph Nedd, serial number 145, Local Exemption Board, San
Francisco County, California. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">7</span></span></span></a></span> <span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Scott County, Iowa, “</span>Iowa Marriage
Records, 1880-1937<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">,” </span>digital image <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry.com</i> (http://www.ancestry.com :
accessed 20 March 2017); <span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">entry for Earl Joseph Nedd
and Merta Gaynell Moritz, 15 July 1907. Also, Scott County, Iowa, “Iowa Select
Marriages Index, 1758-1996, database </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry.com</i>
(http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 20 March 2017); <span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">entry for Earl Joseph Nedd and Merta Gaynell Moritz, 15 July 1907.
This source gives Louis J. Nedd’s birth place as Granada, Mississippi, but
numerous other sources cite Nebraska, including record of marriage to his
second wife: “Washington, Marriage Records, 1854-2013,” </span>digital image <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry.com</i> (http://www.ancestry.com :
accessed 20 March 2017); <span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">entry for Earl J. Nedd and
Mynie May Hoard, 25 Apr. 1910.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">8</span></span></span></a></span>
“Messrs. Hall and Stout. . .,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Omaha
Daily Bee</i>, 27 September 1905, p. 5, col. 4; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Newspapers.com</i> (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9773885/louis_j_nedd_1/
: accessed 24 March 2017). Also, “Articles of Incorporation,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Omaha Daily Bee</i>, 20 November 1887, p.
11, col. 7; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Newspapers.com</i> (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9773903/louis_j_nedd_2/
: accessed 24 March 2017). Several other articles citing Louis J. Nedd and his
business in Omaha can also be found by searching his name on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Newpapers,com</i>.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref9" name="_ftn9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">9</span></span></span></a></span>
“Cruelty and Nonsupport,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Omaha Daily Bee</i>,
8 January 1909, p. 5; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Newspapers.com</i>
(https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9712962/nedd_divorce/ : accessed 22 March
2017).</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref10" name="_ftn10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">10</span></span></span></a></span> <span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1910 U. S. census, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska,
population schedule, enumeration district [ED] 56, p. 9-A, dwelling 148, family
174, William Morritz household, see Gay Nedd; digital image <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry.com</i> (http://www.ancestry.com :
accessed 20 March 2017); NARA microfilm publication T624, roll 844.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6688481187808508351#_ftnref11" name="_ftn11" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">11</span></span></span></a></span> <span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1910 U. S. census, Centralia, Lewis County, Washington,
population schedule, enumeration district [ED] 133, p. 3-B, dwelling 66, family
72, Joseph M. Jones household, see Earl J. Nedd, lodger; digital image <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry.com</i> (http://www.ancestry.com :
accessed 20 March 2017); NARA microfilm publication T624, roll 1666.</span></div>
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