Sunday, December 18, 2022

Cousins December 17, 2022

 Truman's bunch had a birthday party at Alpena, December 17, 2022.  Birthdays were Frankie 80 years Dec 25, Stella 80 years Dec 28, Virginia Lee 79 years Dec 26.  The 'kids' of the birthday cousins hosted the party.  



Jimmy Powell, Donnie Powell, Bob Knight, Frankie Powell, Bob Rudd, Francis Sue Rudd King, Fleta Aday, Mary Ellen Rudd Forney, Betty Renfroe, Virginia Lee Montgomery.


Stella Powell, with her sister Pat Arnold's daughter to her left, her daughter Laura to her right. Standing Stella's SIL Jack Villines [husband of Angie] and two of Stella's relatives that I did not get their names.


Unidentified cousins.  Not sure why these three were cosen for a close up.


Voted most beautiful cousin.


Escorts for most beautiful cousin,











Friday, November 18, 2022

Howard Edward Schilling 1925-2022

Myrtle Lavey Schilling on her wedding day.




Howard Schilling will be laid to rest today.  Eric and Laura made it to Minnesota.  RIP

Preceded in death by wife, Myrtle Lavey; brothers, Harold, Floyde, Miles, and Stanley; sisters, Leanida Weikert, Edna Wilkie, Lila Shields, and Florence Lamb. Survived by many nieces and nephews. Life member – 50 plus years of Painters Local 61. Life member and charter member of Roseville VFW Post 7555 and member of color guard. Member of Rose Town American Legion Post 542. Life member of the 3rd Marine Div. Association. Retired from City of St. Paul Parks and Rec. after 24 years. A member of P.E.R.A. Served in USMC in WWII – wounded in action on Iwo Jima. Funeral service 11am on Friday, November 18 at Roseville Memorial Chapel, 2245 Hamline Ave N with a visitation one hour prior. Burial at Fort Snelling National Cemetery following the funeral service. In lieu of flowers, memorials preferred to Ronald McDonald House.






Eric and his cousin Barbara Jamarillo.  Her mother was Myrtle Lacey’s sis Margaret.

 

Sunday, October 23, 2022

Hart Goldman Millican pages

 A website for a Hart descendant of Charles Hart 1st and Klera Goldman with interesting data.

https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~texlance/genealogy/my/millican/CharlesHart.htm

BLACKWELDER / CLINE family of Cabarrus County, NC

 Trees and records on Ancestry.


https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/183137745/person/192382235534/facts


Blackwelder descendants married to Cline in this tree.

Leah Cline married Caleb Blackwelder

George Cline married Esther Blackwelder

 Daniel Cline married Leah Blackwelder maybe not in this tree but in marriage records of Cabarrus County.

Saturday, October 22, 2022

Blackwelders in America by Mark B. Arslan at his website http://arslanmb.org/blackwelder/blackwelder.html

 Blackwelders in America researched by Mark B. Arslan

 

His website is here

http://arslanmb.org/blackwelder/blackwelder.html

 

Preface

Most, if not all, of the white Blackwelder families in the USA trace their ancestry to John Blackwelder (Johannes Schwarzwalder) and Elisabetha Maushardt. This web site is intended to be a compendium of the research done on this Blackwelder family. Much has been published on this family in various historical books and family histories, some of it accurate, some not so accurate. As is often the case with family histories, once something is in print, it often is considered to be "gospel". It is my hope that this web site will facilitate a critical examination and discussion of the facts, legends, and myths surrounding this Blackwelder family and enable us Blackwelder researchers and descendants to learn more about our origins and our relatives' contributions to early America. The best way to separate fact from fiction and to resolve conflicting information is to go back to the primary sources (see Documenting Your Genealogy Research - Guide to Citing Sources). These include records of marriages, births, deaths, and burials, census listings, Bible records, tax lists, probate and land records, etc. The information in the descendant listings on this web site will include documentation of the primary sources as much as possible, and transcriptions of many of those sources will be presented in links below. This is a working document and not necessarily definitive, since much of it is based upon information found on the Internet or in published secondary sources. It will be modified and (hopefully) improved as more researchers provide input and, most importantly, evidence.

 

 

 

Historical Narrative

The immigrant ancestor of most of the Blackwelder families in America was John Blackwelder, who was born Johannes Schwarzwalder on 29 January 1684 in Monchweiler, Wurttemberg, Germany. His parents were Jacobus Schwarzwalder and Margaretha -----. Monchweiler was in Germany's Schwarzwald (or Black Forest). On 27 November 1708, in Durrn (a town in Wurttemberg, about 60 miles north-northeast of Monchweiler), Johannes Schwarzwalder (a wheelwright) married Elisabetha Maushardt. Elisabetha, a daughter of Andreas Maushardt and Barbara -----, was born in 1688 (possibly in Lienzingen, a few miles to the east of Durrn).

 

Johannes and Elisabetha had at least six children, three of whom survived infancy: Johann Adam (born 30 September 1719), Gottlieb (born 8 November 1722), and Anna Margaretha (born 29 Oct 1725). The Schwarzwalder family were members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Durrn. Elisabetha died in Durrn on 27 March 1734. Johannes remarried there on 7 May 1737 to Christina, widow of Johannes Keller.

 

Not longer after his marriage to Christina, they applied to leave Germany for America and, on 29 March 1738, were granted a permit to do so. They sailed in the ship Friendship, which arrived in Philadelphia on 20 September 1738. Not long after arriving, they anglicized the surname from Schwarzwalder to Blackwelder. According to the declaration of importation found in Brunswick County, Virginia Order Book 3, p. 27, dated 3 April 1746, "John [Johannes] Blackwelder made oath that he imported himself, his sons, John [Johann Adam] and Caleb [Gottlieb] and daughters Elisabeth and Margaret [Anna Margaretha], and his sister Catherine Blackwelder directly from the Marquisite of Durlach of Germany into the Province of Pennsylvania . . ." There was no mention of his wife Christina and it is not known if she made the trip to America or if she died after their arrival. No record of a daughter Elisabetha has been found in the Durrn church records nor is anything else known about her.

 

On 25 August 1742, in Williams Township, Bucks County (the part of which became Northampton County in 1752), a Johannes Schwarzwalder married Elizabeth Bernhardt, daughter of William Bernhardt. It is not known whether this Johannes Schwarzwalder is of the same family that immigrated to Pennsylvania in 1738.

 

The Blackwelder family next appeared in Brunswick County, Virginia in 1744. A patent of land granted to Martin Phifer dated 16 June 1744 described the land as "adjoining Blackwelders". Martin Phifer (son of Caspar Pfeiffer) married to John Blackwelder's daughter Margaret on 1 October 1745. According to Virginia Land Patent Book 26, pp. 159-160, John Blackwelder was granted 290 acres of land on 12 January 1747 "in the County of Lunenburg on both sides of Horsepen Branch of Allen's Creek". (Lunenburg County was formed from Brunswick County in 1746. The part of that county in which the Blackwelders lived was subsequently divided into present-day Mecklenburg County, Virginia in 1764.) John Blackwelder, Caleb Blackwelder, and Martin Phifer appeared in tax lists of Lunenburg County from 1748 to 1752. (John Adam Blackwelder's name did not appear in these tax lists.)

 

On 7 September 1756 (see Lunenburg County, Virginia Deed Book 4, p. 313), John Blackwelder conveyed his 290 acres of land on Horsepen Branch of Allen's Creek to Caleb Blackwelder. The deed was signed by John and Margaret M. Blackwelder. The date of John's marriage to Margaret M.is not known. Nor is the date of John's death. There was a marriage of a Margaret Blackwelder in Cumberland County, Virginia on 26 November 1763 to Thomas Wilks, so presumably John died in southern Virginia between 1756 and 1763.

 

Margaret (Blackwelder) Phifer and her husband Martin moved from Lunenberg County, Virginia to Anson (now Cabarrus) County, North Carolina around 1757. Martin Phifer was living on Cold Water Creek as early as 1758. On 29 October 1760, he was granted 278 acres of land on Cold Water Creek (see Mecklenburg County, North Carolina Deed Book 1, p. 152). (Meckleburg County was formed in 1762 from Anson County. Then, in 1792, Cabarrus County was formed from the part of Mecklenburg County where Martin Phifer lived.) Martin died in 1791; his wife Margaret in 1803. They had at least four children.

 

Caleb Blackwelder deeded the land received from his father to William Philps on 19 January 1760 (see Lunenburg County, Virginia Fiduciary Book 4, p. 41). He then moved with his wife Betsey Phifer to Anson County, North Carolina around 1760. Caleb and his family belonged to the Dutch Buffalo Creek Lutheran Church, formed in 1745. This was later known as St. John's Lutheran Church, now located near Mount Pleasant in Cabarrus County, a few miles east of Concord. Caleb died 1794. He and his wife Betsey are buried at St. John's Lutheran Church. They had at least eight children. Most of the Blackwelders of Cabarrus County are descended from Caleb Blackwelder and Betsey Phifer.

 

 

Gravestones of Caleb Blackwelder & Betsey (Phifer) Blackwelder

 

Not much is known about John Adam Blackwelder. He married Catherine ----- (probably in Virginia in the 1740s). On 24 June 1762, he received a grant of 156 acres of land in Anson County North Carolina (in an area that soon became Mecklenburg County and then Cabarrus County in 1792). They had sons John and Charles, and possibly a son Christian, as well as a daughter Mary. (I am still seeking proof that Mary was a daughter of John Adam.) Mary was married around 1769 in Mecklenburg (now Cabarrus) County, North Carolina to John Shaver. (These are my 4th-great-grandparents and their descendants can be found on my John Shaver website.) On 26 September 1794, John Adam Blackwelder and his wife Catherine deeded the 156 acres of land on Little Cold Water Creek (which he was granted in 1762) to their son Charles. The date of John Adam's death is not known, but letters of administration were ordered in Cabarrus County for the estate of his wife Catherine on 16 April 1805. Sale of the property was held in July 1805.


Friday, October 21, 2022

CHARLES POWELL DIED 1744 STAFFORD COUNTY VIRGINIA IS NOT A SON OF ROBERT POWELL AND SARAH TAYLOR, WITH RECEIPTS

 

Charles Powell died 1744 Stafford County VA is not a son of Robert Powell & Sarah Tayor.

Robert’s son Charles Powell was deeded land from his father in Carolina County, VA. 6/1/1735. On 5/8/1741 Charles Powell and his wife SARAH Powell sold that land to Mordecai Throckmorton. 

In 1731, 1733, 1735, 1736, 1740, 1744 our Charles Powell is recorded on the Overwharton Parish Register of Stafford County, Virginia as fathering children with wife Elizabeth (sometimes the name is Betsy)

Charles Powell of Stafford County, VA and Charles Powell of Carolina County, Virginia are 2 completely different individuals with different wifes.

6/13/1735, Robert acknowledged 4 deeds to sons Benjamin, Charles, John, and Ambrose. (S) CCOB, 1732-1740, PP297-8. [Indirect evidence of relationship: other records establish that the 4 were a generation younger, all moved to Orange Co. about the same time, and Culpeper Co. records show Benjamin and Ambrose were brothers.]

 

viii. Charles Powell, born ~1708 in VA.
Charles married Sarah per land record 05/08/1741
5/8/1741, Charles and wife Sarah sold land to Mordecai Throckmorton.
8/27/1741, Charles purchased land in Orange Co.
1/1743, Charles sold the land in Orange Co.

Biography

 

Web search for Charles Powell, son of Robert Powell & Sarah Taylor

 

http://www.teachergenealogist007.com/2010/03/bell-328-329.html

 

Robert Powell & Sarah Taylor {… VA}

1669, Robert born in Old Rappahannock Co., VA; s/o 656. John Powell & 657. Mary Coghill.
6/30/1676, Sarah born in Hare Forest, New Kent Co, VA; d/o 658. James Taylor & 659. Frances Walker.
1690 Essex Co., VA deed from Charles Walker and John Sothorn of the Parish of Farnham to Jonathan Fisher of St. Stephens Parish, New Kent Co., VA of 300 acres in (Old) Rappahannock Co., VA in Farnham Parish. Witnesses: James Taylor, Robert Powell, and James Taylor, Jr. (S) Essex Co., VA, OB–1, P273.
1696 in Orange Co., VA, Robert married Sary. [Recorded in 1740’s deposition of Caroline Co. Chancery Court – see No. 658.]


4/1698, Sarah’s father and 3 sons died within weeks of each other.
11/18/1719, Will of Thomas Pettit of Southfarnham Parish in the County of Essex: “… Unto my son Thomas all that tract and parcel of land situate in King and Queen County beginning on the river in Collo. ... to one Robt Woolfolks corner tree ... line of one Robert Powell ... containing 500 acres …”.
1724, Robert’s homestead in St. Margaret’s Parish, Caroline Co. is “400 acres on South River begin at mouth of creek”. It is adjacent to the property of his son James.


11/2/1726, Robert granted 580 acres ”in the fork of the South River beginning on the North side of the South River at the mouth of the North Creek.


1727, Robert Powell, 580 acres on South Fork of South River adjoining the earlier grant.
2/26/1730, “For Zach Martin, 306 acres in St. Margaret’s Parish, near Paul Pigg, Robert Powell, ….” (S) Caroline Co., VA - Survey Book.


1732-1745, Robert twice a juror in Caroline Co.
1732 in Caroline Co., Robert sued Charles Durrett for assault and battery.


6/13/1735, Robert acknowledged 4 deeds to sons Benjamin, Charles, John, and Ambrose. (S) CCOB, 1732-1740, PP297-8. [Indirect evidence of relationship: other records establish that the 4 were a generation younger, all moved to Orange Co. about the same time, and Culpeper Co. records show Benjamin and Ambrose were brothers.]


By 3/1740, Robert died in Caroline Co., VA. His will was presented by son James, and witnessed by Erasmus Taylor and Esubius Stone. (S) CC WB 1741-1746, P20. ???


Aft. 3/29/1745, Sarah died in VA. (S) She testified in the case Baylor vs. Powell – see Family notes.
(S) The Powell Families of VA and the South, Lucas, 1969, Section 8.

Family notes:
• Caroline Co., VA, lawsuit entitled “John Baylor v. James Powell”: depositions recorded in the Caroline Co. Court Order Book, 1746-1754, Part 1, PP28-31. “March 29, 1745, John Baylor Gentleman, planter, and James Powell, defendant; Mary Stone, wife of John Stone of Caroline County, aged 68 years, states she knew James Taylor, the elder, also John Powell and Robert Powell, deceased sons of Robert Powell and grandsons of said James Taylor; said Robert Powell, the father and his wife said they had lost a young child and her husband went to said Robert Powell’s house and found sons John and Robert Powell sick and that these sons died soon after. At their burial a letter came to Mrs. Powell their mother (said John and Robert Powell) that her father the said James Taylor was like to die and that Mrs. Powell visited her father and that he died several days later. That at the time the only other child of Robert Powell and wife alive was said James Powell, defendant. Mary Baile of Essex County, about 67 years of age said she took the said James Powell who was then a child, home with her to take care of him at the time; that Robert Powell the father and James Taylor, the elder, lived about 22 miles distant from each other. Mary Thomas of Caroline County aged about 80 years says her former husband James Taylor, the elder, died after his two grandsons, John Powell and Robert Powell (about 1 week later.) October 6, 1746, Mary Stone of Caroline County, aged about 70 years, she lived near Robert Powell, late of this county, deceased, that Robert Powell (Jr.) was his 3rd son and died on day after son John Powell; the children died in April. Mrs. John Sutton was James Powell’s daughter.” The deposition of Mary Thomas, age 80, former spouse of James Taylor, was taken on 28 March 1745 at the house of Roland Thomas of Caroline County. She referred to going “down” from Robert Powell's to James Taylor's house. 16 Dec 1748, Mercy Puett aged about 70 years gave a deposition in which she said and she was at James Taylor burial and she asked Mrs. (Sarah) Powell how her family did and she answered very well, the next day they bought a coat from her for their youngest child and a short time thereafter she learned that the two youngest children of Robert and Sarah Powell had died. On 11 January 1749, Mary Cook aged 88 years gave a deposition for this case in Orange Co., VA before George Taylor and Henry Towne in which she said that she saw Robert and Sarah Powell on their way to visit Sarah's father, Mr. James Taylor, and James Taylor was not dead and Robert and Sarah Taylor said that their two sons, Robert & John Powell were dead.

Children of Robert and Sarah:
(S) See Family notes No. 658.

i. Robert Powell Jr, born ~1694 in Culpeper Co., VA.
4/1698, Robert died as a child.

ii. John Powell, born ~1695 in Culpeper Co., VA.
4/1698, John died as a child.

iii. Unnamed son, born ~1697 in VA.
4/1698, Unnamed died as a child.

iv. James Powell, born bef. 4/1698 in Culpeper Co., VA.
1724, James’ homestead of 436 acres was in St. Margaret’s Parish, Caroline Co., “on branch of Polecat” … begins at Robert Powell’s line.
1732-1745, James 5 times a juror in Caroline Co.
3/29/1745, James was the defendant in a lawsuit that establishes his lineage through James Taylor and his daughter Sarah. (S) see Family notes.
1761, Thomas Callawn vs. James Powell.
By 1762 James died; estate administered by James Hubbard.
Children:
Unk Powell, born?.
She married John Sutton.

v. Benjamin A Powell ( 164) born ~1702 in VA.

vi. John O Powell, born ~1704 in VA.
John married Judith ?.
1739, John and wife Judith sold land to William Throckmorton.

vii. Robert Powell II, born aft. ~1706 in VA.
By 1766 Robert died; estate administered by Richard Woolfolk.
Children: [3 minor children identified in the estate papers.]
Robert Powell, born bef. 1752 in VA.
Ambrose Powell, born aft. 1752 in VA.
1773, his older brother Robert was assigned as his guardian.
Rachel Powell, born ?.

viii. Charles Powell, born ~1708 in VA.
Charles married Sarah per land record 05/08/1741
5/8/1741, Charles and wife Sarah sold land to Mordecai Throckmorton.
8/27/1741, Charles purchased land in Orange Co.
1/1743, Charles sold the land in Orange Co.

Biography

Thursday, October 20, 2022

Knox County Indiana Goldman tree at Ancestry

 The definitive Goldman starting with Charles Ray Goldman [1921 1997] in Arkansas 

Knox County Indiana Goldman tree

goes back to our original Conrad Goldman immigrant...

Years of research documented within this tree.

And here is a PDF of Crawford Co. Indiana genealogy newsletter with this Goldman family genealogy

Goldman Family History Crawford Co. Indiana

Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Mississippi Goleman / Goldman trees on Ancestry

 Trying to sort out DNA connections to the Mississippi Henry Goleman, Beady Goleman, Bailey Goleman.


George Martin Goldman abt 1732 to 1826 Mississippi could be the father of some of the Mississippi gang

https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/161111798/family?cfpid=202216024599

The tree and some others link George Martin Goleman to Conrad Goldman, son of our original Conrad...

I don't get how he goes from Pennsylvania, to NC, to Knox County Indiana, to Mississippi, but maybe so....


Here is Knox Co, Indiana from Ancestry.







 


Saturday, October 1, 2022

DNA matches to our three Charles Powell family lines

 The 3 sisters have proven our ancestrial line to Charles Powell and Leah Goldman thru DNA results at Ancestry.com.

Joe B. Powell's DNA matches to Chalres and Leah are:

Sarah Powell Taylor 2 matches

Lewis Powell 11 matches

David Powell 21 matches

John Powell 5 matchers

Cyrus Powell 21 matches

James Walton Powell 15

Elijah Powell 1 matches

Elisha Powell 7 matches

That is a 83 matches and counting.

Plus 105 matches to our Henry Powell.


Joe B. Powell's DNA matches to Charles Powell and Sarah Gholson are:

Lucy Powell Warren 8 matches

Rhoda Powell Cole 4 matches

Lewis Powell 5 matches

Mary Ann Powell Puritt 14 matches

Sarah Jane Powell Bottoms 8 matches

That is 39 matches plus 33 matches to our Charles Powell Jr. line


Joe B. Powell's DNA matches to Charles and Elizabeth are:

John Powell 3 matches

Elizabeth Powell Owens 1 match

Martha Powell Goldsmith 1 match

That is 5 matches, plus 33 matches to our Charles Powell  / Sarah Gholson line.


Joe B. Powell's DAN matches to Anthony Gholson, father of Sarah Gholson Powell are:

John Gholson 4 matches

Joseph Gholson 9 matches

Dabney Gholson 12 matches

That is 25 matches plus 42 matches to our own Sarah Gholson Powell line.


Through a DNA match with a descendant of Elijah Powell, son of Charles Powell we have further DNA proof of our Powell ancestry.

Elijah's Great-Grandson's DNA matches to Charles Powell and Leah Goldman Powell are:

Sally Powell Taylor 3 matches

Lewis Powell 23 matches

Henry Powell [our line] 44 matches

John Powell 15 matches

David Powell 26 matches

James Walton Powell 17 matches

Elisha Powell 16 matches

That is 144 matches and counting.


Elijah's Great-Grandson's DNA matches to Charles Powell and Sarah Gholson Powell are:

Lucy Powell Warren 19 matches

Anthony Powell 3 matches

Rhoda Powell Cole 15 matches

Lewis Powell 16 matches

Mary Ann Pruitt 18 matches

Sarah Jane Powell Bottoms 7 matches

That is 93 matches, and counting.


Elijah's Great-Grandson's DNA matches to Chrles Powell and Elizabeth of Stafford County, Virginia are:

John Powell 9 matches

Martha Goldsmith Powell 1 match

That is 10 matches plus 43 matches to our Charles Powell Jr. line.


Thursday, September 29, 2022

The Rebels, Henry, John, & Cyrus Powell

 A small cavalry brigade was to distract Blunt at Cane Hill. At 3 A. M. December 7, the Confederate infantry, with Clark's Regiment including Henry and John Powell, was ordered to advance toward Prairie Grove and Herron's forces. Hindman stopped when he reached Prairie Grove Church, on a ridge overlooking Illinois creek. Hindman placed Frost's and Parsons's Missourians (with Clark's regiment under command of B. G. Roan placed behind Frost as reserves), Stand Watie's Indians, his Arkansas and Texas troops, and Marmaduke's cavalry, eight thousand men in all, along a two-mile line on the ridge to await Herron's six thousand weary marchers. Blunt, with at least eight thousand more Federals, was only eight miles away. 

As Herron's artillery reached Illinois Creek, Hindman's first shell burst over them. Herron correctly assumed Blunt would hear the bombardment and come running. Private Eli Cooper, our Great-Great-Grandfather, rode with the Eighth Missouri Cavalry in Herron's Army. Now facing the united armies, Hindman was hopelessly out numbered and out gunned. Blunt and Herron inflicted heavy damage with their superior artillery. 

The battle raged fiercely with many charges and retreats, but nightfall found the Confederates still in command of the ridge. A few last shells blazed across the night sky catching several haystacks on fire. Wounded men had crept into them for warmth, only to parish in the flames. Hindman reported, "There was no place of shelter upon the field...During five hours, shell, solid shot, grape and canister, and storms of bullets swept the entire ground." 

Under cover of darkness, a truce was arranged and, with blankets wrapped around his cannon wheels to muffle the sounds, Hindman retreated. His hungry soldiers had not eaten for a whole day and were almost out of ammunition. Dawn found only a small burial detail of Confederates including Shelby's horsemen on the field while the main army was well down the road to Van Buren. Some of Herron's men, exhausted from their long march, had died of exposure in the December cold, but the worst horror was the burnt bodies in the ashes of the haystacks. 

Hindman withdrew to Van Buren with his weary troops. Marmaduke's cavalry was sent one hundred miles east to Lewisburg, near the present site of Morrilton. The starving, ragged and unpaid Confederate troops were deserting in great numbers. The records of Clark's regiment show many who deserted or were captured, some seemly on purpose, during this time. 

On December 27, at three o'clock in the morning, General Herron and General Bunt marched on Van Buren. Three steam-boats of Confederate supplies were burned. Hindman's main army camped on the other side of the river at Fort Smith, without rations and ammunition, retreated down the Arkansas River. Clark's unit lists man after man left wounded at the hospital in Fort Smith December 27. Rain soaked the roads and chilled the hungry men. Ten days later the remnant of Hindman's army reached Little Rock. 

Henry and John Powell both survived severe hardships to appear on the muster roll of Co. B of Clark's Regiment in Little Rock in March and April 1863. But the war proved too much for Henry. The record states: I certify that I have carefully examined the said Henry Powell of Captain Bond's Co. and found him incapable of performing the duties of a soldier because of extreme old age and impaired vision. The said soldier is now in his sixty-first (61st) year and is of no benefit to the service. Discharged this 25th day of March 1863 at Fort Pleasant Ark. Brig? Clark's Regt. Ark. Signed, W. C. Boon (Surgeon) 

On his discharge, Henry drew pay from 23 August 1862 to 26 March 1863 "being 7 months and 3 days at eleven dollars per month" ($78.10), for "traveling from Fort Pleasant Ark. the place of discharge to Scotland County, Mo. the place of enrolment, being six hundred and fifty miles at ten cents per mile" ($65.00), and "for clothing not drawn in kind" ($38.07). He received $181.17 total, but this was likely Confederate Script that would have been worthless after he left Little Rock. 

Henry had to travel on foot through Federal lines subsisting off the land the 650 miles back to his family in Schuyler County. Surely by this time he was sick of war. When he returned home, we think he took his family to Nebraska until after the war ended. 

While Hindman camped at Little Rock, Marmaduke and Shelby lead a series of raids along the border zone into Missouri, but the Confederacy never again marshalled enough strength to wage a full-scale attack on the Federals in Arkansas and Missouri. 

The April muster roll for Clark's Regiment is the last record we have for John Powell. Many soldiers in Clark's unit are listed as deserters, captured, dying of disease including typhoid, cholera and camp fever, wounded and killed. John Powell's record gives no indication of his fate--nothing about desertion, disease, capture or death. 

On August 23, 1863, General D. M. Frost, commanding officer of Confederate forces defending Little Rock, Arkansas requested permission of General Sterling Price to move Clark's Brigade to a new location. When Little Rock fell to Federal forces on September 10, Clark and his men were guarding the road by Shoal Ford from Redoubt No. 1. Since there is no mention of the fate of John Powell in his record, I believe he was still with this unit at the fall of Little Rock. 

In the ensuing confusion of yet another Confederate retreat, the fate of John Powell is left to speculation. The one certainty is that he did not make it home like his father. Sometime between April 1863 and the end of the war he perished, either as a result of disease or a casualty of war. We have yet to find an official record of his death. 

The hardships and cruelties of war that Henry and John Powell endured together help explain the responsibility Henry showed toward Sarah Powell, John's widow after the war. 

In May, 1865, Cyrus Powell took the Amnesty Oath. The record states he surrendered May 23, 1865 at Lexington, Missouri. He says he was a Private in Shelby's Brigade and that his residence before the war was Schuyler County, Missouri. There is no record of the date he enlisted, but it is likely he was with Shelby at Prairie Grove. Cyrus survived to tell his children the thrilling tales of the life of a Rebel riding in Shelby's Iron Brigade on raid after raid against Union forces. 

When first looking for Civil War records of our Powell family, I expected to find them in the ranks of the Union Army because they lived so far north. When I learned they fought for the Confederacy, I expected to find reluctant soldiers pulled into a fight against their will. The actual Confederate records of Henry, John and Cyrus Powell shattered all those illusions. Henry was sixty years old with eye sight too poor to site a rifle when he and John volunteered. Together they faced the rigors of cold, hunger, and long forced marches, with insufficient clothing and shoes, to fight a horrendous battle over six hundred miles from their home. When Henry asked to be excused from service because of his old age, John fought on --to the death. Cyrus didn't give up until the bitter end, when there was no other choice. These are not the records of casual soldiers drawn into a fight against their will. These are the records of Rebels to the core. However much we today may disagree with their ideas, these are the records of men fighting for a cause they believed in--a cause they were ready to die for. The record speaks--Henry, John, and Cyrus Powell, Rebels heart and soul. 


Copyright © 1996 Fleta Aday

Our Henry Powell Story [born 3 May 1802 in Washington or Mercer County, Kentucky - died after 1890 Bates County, Missouri] son of Charles Powell, Jr. and Leah Goldman Powell

 Leah Goldman Powell's death left her children in hard situations. She and her son Henry had entered into an agreement to purchase land. She had paid two horses down on this purchase. At the time of her death Henry was probably living on this land.


Lewis Powell was also placed in distress by Leah's death. When his brother, Charles Jr., died in 1819, Lewis signed a bond for Leah Powell to purchase a considerable portion of her dead husband's estate. Lewis was now going to pay for this kind act.


Charles Hart, Jr., son of Charles Hart, Sr., was administrator of Leah's husband's estate. He had not collected the money from Leah on the bond with which she purchased her husband's property, but now that Leah was dead he was going after Lewis Powell for the money.


Lewis, anticipating Charles Hart, Jr.'s next move, seized Leah's property and held a public sale, keeping the money for himself. His intention was to protect himself from Charles Hart, Jr. By 1828 Lewis Powell and Charles Hart, Jr. are deeply involved in lawsuits against each other. Henry Powell is called on again and again to testify in the courts.


In June of this year Henry is asked if his Uncle Lewis did not intend for him and his brothers to purchase his mother's effects at the sale. He answers, "They selected me and my brothers to purchase the property and become paymasters to Hart." Leah's children, falling back on their mother's strong spirit, do not take the bait. They will remain free and strong and poor and their mother's property goes to the neighbors at the sale. Lewis Powell walks away with the money from the sale, but still battling with Charles Hart, Jr. in the courts.


On May 13, 1830 Henry is again called on to testify. This time they ask about the land he and his mother purchased. They ask "Did you or your mother pay for the land." He answers "She paid part." They asked "Did you or not sell said land." "The land was to be hers when paid for and further saith not" came the reply.


By September, 1829 Henry had finished paying for this land. The purchase price was recorded as $195. Two months later he sold the land for $370. He made $175 profit above the recorded purchase price.


Now, Henry knows Lewis Powell has the money from his mothers things and surly either Lewis or Charles Hart, Jr. is going to get the money from her land. He is Leah's son, and vows this will not be.


Henry gathers up his wife, not yet twenty years old, and their three young sons, the oldest not yet five. He shakes the dust of Kentucky from his heals and heads for the wilds of Illinois. Barely hesitating in Illinois he heads on to Iowa Territory. Here on the wild plains of frontier America he starts a new life, follows his mother's example, and raises many strong sons.


Those sons spread their descendants from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the borders of Canada to the edge of Mexico. Today, I am numbered among those descendants, sons of the sons of the sons of Henry Powell.


Copyright © 1996 Fleta Aday


This story written for our Powell family website has been lost to us.  Today it was found and placed here for safekeeping.  Henry Powell was our 3rd Great Grandfather, born 1802 in Mercer County, Kentucky, a son of Charles Powell, Jr. and Leah Goldman Powell.

Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Bilyeu - Lander Family Photo from Mildred Roden ca 1916

 Found this on Ancestry.  Placing it here for save public keeping.



Shared by a descendant of Mildred Lander Roden...

1. Susie (Bilyeu) Lander holding Mildred F Lander 2. Delia (Ball) Bilyeu holding Linza 3.Lou (Andoe) Edwards holding Ola 4. Slina (Bilyeu) Meadows 5. Sanford (Bud) Meadows. 1x Allie (Meadows) McCullough 2x Rissia (Meadows) Brisco 3x George Meadows. Left of Bud Meadows Oma Edwards & Florence Meadows. Children in front to left: Left to right: Roy Edwards, Lulu Lander, Maggie Lander (little girl) Frankie Bilyeu, Bessie Lander Children in front to the Right, right to left Johnnie Meadows, Elmer Edwards, Willie Edwards.


Thursday, July 28, 2022

Copied from Betty comment to Sister Patsy March 2006...

 Bored at work & trying to find something interesting to read.

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23019010&postID=114161976132818524&isPopup=true

Well, I don't want to blog. I am uninteresting. I just want to comment. To post on here, you have to sign up. I have been resisting signing up...because I don't want to blog. But I can't respond to Old Sister, unless I sign up. You see I am the compulsive sister. I don't want to blog, but what if Old Sister, the philosopher, says something and I want to comment. I can't comment...because I won't sign up. Because I don't want to blog. I don't want you to know about me. I am Sister Three--the Sweet Sister. First, there was Old Sister, the Philosopher. Then second, came Smart Sister--the one who got all the brains. Also, woman of few words. Then came me--Sweet Sister. I "get along". You had to when you were in the Middle--between Old Sister, the philosopher, and Smart Sister--who had all the brains. Last came Final Sister--Baby Sister. She got the clean genes. When you look at her blog you can see--her house is clean. The clean genes came from our Mother. Old Sister got the slob genes--look at her yard, look at her house--you can see the slob gene. Sweet Sister--me--I got the slob gene too. But I "get along" I don't want you to see my chicken pen--yes--I have one. I don't want you to see my house. None of that "home party" stuff is on my walls. They are bare and  books are piled in the floor. I am the compulsive one. And I do not want to blog--but I want to comment. I want to say sweet things to Old Sister the philosopher. 

On the slob gene--which Old Sister, Smart Sister and Sweet Sister all have--there is a mutation called the "love to read" strand. All the slob sisters, love to read--now not fiction--but real stuff like a good biography. I am compulsive and I don't want to blog. I don't want to "sign up", but I want to have my say. I want to say sweet things to Old Sister! I can't unless I sign up.

You will know the Sisters if you read this blog. First, Old Sister, the philosopher, next, Smart Sister--woman of few words, then me, Sweet Sister, and finally Baby Sister, the one who got the only clean gene in our DNA chart.

I am compulsive--if I give in and sign up---I will be blogging. It will be long. No one will want to read it. I want to "get along". I want to comment to Old Sister and Baby Sister.

I am not going to sign up. I am not going to blog. I am going to keep quiet. Old sister is crazy. Who reads this stuff? I am not going to comment. I am not going to sign up. I will not blog. I will not let you see I have the slob gene.

Oh, don't mess with Old Sister or Baby Sister. We are like a wolf pack. We may steal the other Sister's next meal--but we will attack if any of the Sisters are threatened in any way. With our variety of genetic make-ups, we are dangerous...we have the wisdom, Old Sister. We have the brains, Smart Sister. We can type fast, Sweet educated Sister. We can clean up a mess and no one will ever know what happened--Baby Clean Sister.

Oh, I am not commenting. I will not sign up. I will not blog. I will not!! Don't expect me to say anything. I will not get hooked on this blogging thing.

I will not sign up.

Saturday, July 9, 2022

Sunday, June 12, 2022

He Has a Name


 Henry H. Hilton—right time and right place in this universe to connect me to my cousin Shelby 160 years later.


Battle of Booneville

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Battle of Booneville

Part of the American Civil War

Date

July 1, 1862

Location

Booneville, Mississippi

Result

Union victory

Belligerents

 United States

 Confederate States

Commanders and leaders

Henry W. Halleck
Philip Sheridan

P.G.T. Beauregard
James R. Chalmers

Strength

4,700

Casualties and losses

1 killed, 24 wounded, 16 missing

65 killed

The Battle of Booneville was fought on July 1, 1862, in Booneville, Mississippi, during the American Civil War. It occurred in the aftermath of the Union victory at the Battle of Shiloh and within the context of Confederate General Braxton Bragg's efforts to recapture the rail junction at Corinth, Mississippi, 20 miles (32 km) north of Booneville.

Battle

After the Union Army victory at Shiloh, Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck moved his forces slowly toward Corinth, an important rail center. By May 25, 1862, after traveling 5 miles (8.0 km) in three weeks, Halleck was positioned to lay siege to the town. But on May 29, the Confederate forces under General P.G.T. Beauregard slipped away undetected and moved toward Tupelo, Mississippi. In late June, Halleck ordered his forces south and learned that the Confederates, by then under Bragg, were advancing toward Corinth. The 31-year-old Union Col. Philip Sheridan established a fortified position to the south at Booneville on June 28 to await the Confederate attack.

Lead elements of 4,700 troops under the Confederate Brig. Gen. James R. Chalmers, who was also 31 years old, encountered Sheridan's pickets on the morning of July 1, three and 1.8 miles (2.9 km) to the southwest of Corinth. The pickets fell back and established a sound defensive line at the intersection of the roads from Tupelo and Saltillo. Aided by the superiority of their new Colt revolving rifles, the line withstood the initial Confederate assault before withdrawing to a backup position 2 miles (3.2 km) closer to the town.

Chalmers' effort to turn the left flank of this new line was thwarted when Sheridan's main force joined the battle. The bulk of the Union force stayed on the defensive while Sheridan sent the 2nd Michigan Cavalry under Capt. Russell Alexander and the 2nd Iowa Cavalry under Lt. Col. Edward Hatch to attack the Confederate rear and left flank, respectively. The cavalry forces pushed Chalmers to retreat and Sheridan called off the pursuit after 4 miles (6.4 km), when his fatigued troops encountered swampy terrain.

Aftermath

Sheridan estimated that Chalmers lost 65 troops killed in the battle; Federal casualties were one dead, 24 wounded, and 16 missing. Due to the battle, Bragg delayed his offensive strategy for Corinth, allowing Halleck additional time to unite his troops.


Booneville is in Prentiss County, Mississippi, directly below Corinth, Alcorn County, Mississippi where Hilton was discarged because of a disibility in August 1962.

This was all part of the Grant's efforts to sieze Vicksburg, the major Mississippi port. 

The Morton family at this time was in Yazoo County, Mississipp down by Vicksburg. 



Here http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai/emancipation/text5/hughes.pdf
Is a link containing excerpts from a slave's account of living in the Corinth area during the time Henry Hilton was there with the Union Army.



Searching for the unnamed...

 Sister Betty and I have been trying to help an new found African-American search for her family history.  This is our first experience extensively searching ancestry for African-American records.  Records prior to 1870 rarely list any identifying information for Black families, not even their names.  

Here are some ways we have found to search Ancestry.com for records prior to 1870.

https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/catalog/?title=slave

will search records that have the word slave in the name of the record

https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1944/

This will search records of the slave narratives.  I am guessing 1944 is the year.  There do not seem to be other years included in these scans... 

Here https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/about-this-collection/

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Friday, April 1, 2022

1950 Good News/Bad News

 The good news is, if you know where your ancestor lived in 1950, you can go right now, today, and look at their 1950 census image at our National Arcives website, here https://1950census.archives.gov/ .

The website is quick and efficeint.

The bad news? My family, Daddy, Mamma and there children are not on this census. When I looked at the map of Coin Township at Ancestry, I did not see our house marked.  I find the neighbors, Watson Leathers and Flint Stone, but the road to our house is not marked on the map.



The large yellow circle is the main road out by Dan Norton's. The two houses on this road are Watson Leathers and Flint stone.  The orange dot is the location of our house that I added.

The small yellow circle is Melton and Gerty Powell.  They are on the census living on Powell Road.


If you want to have some fun, go look for your family in 1950. I hope your luck is better than mine.




Thursday, March 31, 2022

1950


 Tomorrow is a big day for all interested in genealogy.  The 1950 census will be released and several of us will be listed.   According to the "72-Year Rule," the National Archives releases census records to the general public 72 years after Census Day. As a result, the 1930 census records were released April 1, 2002, and the 1940 records were released April 2, 2012. The 1950 census records will be released in April 2022.   72 years was considered an average lifespan, but in 2020 the average in the United States was over 78 years.  Our country has been conducting censuses every 10 years since 1790.  All this data still exits.  The 1890 census was destroyed by fire and that record is gone.  The 1950 census collected the following information from all respondents:  address, whether house is on a farm, name, relationship to head of household, race, sex, age, marital status, birthplace, if foreign born, whether naturalized, employment status, hours worked in week, occupation, industry and class of worker.

My family is living in the area I painted red.  I think I my kicking in my Mother and not yet born.

Sunday, March 20, 2022

Vinnie Aday Houston Childhood Stories - Written 1984

 My Childhood

By

Vinnie Aday Houston Karp

August 28, 1984

I was born in Stone County, Missouri, April 1st, 1908 at Grandfather Dave Williams’ house, right by Little Indian Creek. There was a narrow valley, no more than a quarter of a mile across. Little Indian Creek ran through it. There were two tall popular trees that grew in his yard. I can still see those two trees in my imagination. There is a mountain on each side of the narrow valley. They look just about straight up. The mountains there are low but very steep. I have climbed them many a time. They are covered in timber. Ginseng grows there, and huckleberries, hickory nuts, black walnuts and a few white walnuts wild grapes. The spring where Grandpa got their water is called the Eureka Spring and just above it grew a lot of hazel nuts. I would go there in the fall and get them. They were delicious. I would love to go to the Eureka Spring once more. Indians had chipped out a little basin in the rock. One could dip up as much as a half gallon bucket of water. It was cold and good tasting water. I had to be on the lookout for rattle snakes and copperheads. Indian arrowheads were thick on Grandpa’s place when I was a little girl. There had once been a lot of them there before they were driven out.

Our post office for the little Indian Creek country was Nauvoo, Missouri; just a country post office and small grocery store ran by a man named Horace Cole. Tom Benton had a blacksmith shop and a little gristmill. He ground corn for meal. Back in them days people, or most people, ate more corn bread than they did flour. They didn’t grow wheat in the rocky Ozarks and had no mill to grind it on either. The ground corn meal in those days had to be sieved. It was half bran, but it really made good corn bread. People gave the bran to their chickens or hogs.

I never went back to Missouri many times after I was 11 years old, but I well remember a lot. Once we went to Oklahoma to pick cotton, me being the eldest of 5 children. I was 10 years of age. Papa was old and not well. Maggie was a baby. I mostly watched her, but Papa could do so little bit of work he took over taking care of Sister Maggie. So it was Mama and me and Marvin picking cotton. Marvin was only seven years old. We couldn’t do any good as they paid so cheap for picking cotton. I believe it was 50 cents a hundred, and it takes a lot of cotton to weigh 100 pounds. It rained a lot and we all got sick from being on the cold, wet ground. We went back to Indian Creek, Missouri.

I would show my cousins how I had to walk on the train. The train rocked and rattled. One could barely stand up. They got a kick out of that. They had never ridden a train at that time, and it was my first time on a train. I suppose I had it down pretty pat. At that age, I remembered everything as it was all new to me. I think I told them a pretty interesting story.

After I was 5 years of age, we moved to my Grandfather Aday’s place. It was 8 miles from Little Indian Creek and 1 mile from Nauvoo Post Office, and one half mile from Big Indian Creek. We lived there a few years. I believe that was the happiest time of my childhood days. We couldn’t see the creek from our house, but I would go over in the creek bottoms where the big black walnuts grew and hull as many as I could carry back home and put them out to dry. I kept that up until I had a lot of them. I was so small I couldn’t carry many at a load. I would put in all day at it, until I thought I had enough. They were extra large walnuts and food was scarce, especially in winter. They were like eating meat. I remember having some on top of a shed drying and I saw a rain cloud coming up. I was up on the shed trying to get my walnuts in a sack so I could take them to a dry place and I slipped and fell and cut a hunk of meat out of the back of my leg. It was sore for a long time and I still have the scar.

It was odd how people built their houses. Grandfather Aday’s house was where he raised his family and they were all grown and gone and Grandpa was dead when we moved there. The house, or the main house, was one real big log room down stairs with a fireplace and a big room same size upstairs. Then off a ways was another house, two rooms, a kitchen and dining room with a side room the length of the kitchen and dining room.

We only used the main house with the one big room downstairs. Mama cooked on the fireplace. She had an iron Dutch Oven she baked bread in and iron pots she stewed food in. Mama said the Adays used both houses. Some slept in the other house. In them days, country people didn’t have living rooms and dens and so on. They slept wherever they had rooms for beds.

We would do a lot of what we called browsing around through Spring, Summer and Fall. Lots of edibles grew wild. There was black walnuts, hickory nuts, hazel nuts, chinquapin nuts, papaws, persimmons, wild grapes, blackberries, dewberries, wild strawberries, and wild cherries and many, many kinds of wild greens to eat.

I once lived in the Desert state of Nevada. There was none of these things growing wild there. Pinion nuts, or some called them pine nuts, grew in some areas of the desert. Not an extra large tree, either.

In 1920, when Sister Arletha was a baby, we went back to Oklahoma around Shawnee, Oklahoma. Papa’s brother Ike Aday lived on a little farm there. They had a large family, 10 children. Most were grown and gone when we went there. They were not able to help us but very little, and we couldn’t make it picking cotton. I was 12 years old by then.

They decided that all they could so was take us back to Eureka Springs, Arkansas to the orphans home and leave us until they could some way get us back, if they ever got able to support us. I don’t blame Mama or Papa either one over this. Papa was too sick to work with heart trouble and poor Mama was uneducated. Besides, there was no work to be got, only maybe a few days now and then during the Summer at 50 cents a day.

I’ll never forget the last night we were together. We were in an old house somewhere around Shawnee, Oklahoma. I don’t remember what mama and Papa talked about, but I understood enough to get it that the next morning we were leaving, going somewhere that we would be separated from Mama and Papa. I never slept a wink that night. The house was near a pond or a wet, marshy place that water frogs croaked all night. Oh how lonesome I was and could never stand to hear them water frogs again. They would bring back memories of that last night we were all ever together.

Before daylight the next morning, a man came in a wagon to take us to the railroad station to catch the train back to Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Papa didn’t go with us. That broke my heart. I believe it changed me forever. I was never very happy anymore. We went on in to the orphanage. I don’t know where Mama went, but I believe she went over on Little Indian Creek where her people lived. She kept Arletha for she was just a little baby. Maybe they wouldn’t take babies at the orphanage.

Mama almost grieved herself to death. It seems like a long time before she got back to see us and when she came she looked so bad I didn’t know her. All of it together left a mark on me that I never really ever got over.

After two and a half years, Mama met and married Ben Pinkley, a well respected man and then she got the children back. All but me. Lee Floyd, the man that founded the orphanage turned it over to somebody else and left taking me with him and his wife and the three Libby sisters. He had adopted the Libby girls and told me he adopted me. I never knew the difference until I went home to Mama and Ben. He tired to adopt me but Mama and Papa wouldn’t sign the papers. When he left Eureka with us, we went to Russellville, Arkansas. He rented a farm and bought horses and cows and chickens. Before long he seemed to get really scared up about something. He sold everything he bought and said we would have to leave there and go to Texas. He took me to his sister near Harrah, Oklahoma. He said he would come back and get me when they got located. He came back in 3 months or so after me but his sister wouldn’t let him take me. I think he got scared up about taking me because he knew he had no lawful right to take me.

Mama got Ben to get Tom Morris, the Sheriff of Carroll County, Arkansas to look me up. So Ben sent me money to come home on and Tom Morris the Sheriff wrote Fergusons, the people I was living with, giving

them so many days to put me on the train and send me home or else the law would come and get me and put them to some trouble. Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson were both crying when I left. They took me to the train station at Harrah, Oklahoma and stayed until I got on the train. I couldn’t understand then why they were crying, but it was because they didn’t want me to leave. They had become attached to me. I was with them some over two years. I don’t remember them ever saying one cross word to me. I never heard either one of them say a cuss word or a vulgar word and at that time they weren’t Church members. Me and their oldest child, John, went to Sunday School when weather permitted

I never heard my father and mother quarrel and I was 12 years of age when they separated. I could well have remembered had I ever heard them quarrel. Mama was always jolly. She would laugh a lot, always happy to see our neighbors and got along good with everyone, but something happened to her later. I have always thought it was because she had to take us children to the orphanage. She grieved so much over us that it changed her completely. After we were all back home, I have heard her talking to herself and she would say, Oh my poor children. She never got over it. She loved us dearly and she blamed Papa in it all. She said he was lazy and no account. Well, he was a sick man but a good man. I don’t believe a better man ever lived. He was so harmless. Would not harm anybody in any kind of way. He was as kind and decent a person as ever lived.

All I am writing is the truth in my last days on earth. I wouldn’t write anything unless it was true. I don’t believe Mama ever realized how sick Papa was and grieved so much over giving us up. She really thought Papa was to blame.

Papa was 18 years older than Mama. My father John Aday was born January 16, 1861 and died August 5, 1931. Mama, Tempie Armenta Williams was born January 3, 1879 and died July 7, 1977. They grew up about a mile apart and knew each other all their life near Nauvoo, Missouri. That was a poor, rocky, hilly country, very hard to make a living. No work for wages. The only way to make it was own a little farm, have a team of horses or mules. A cow or two, some pigs and chickens. One had to grow their living. Try to grow their potatoes, pick wild berries and can everything they could get a hold of or dry it. Fruit such as apples, peaches, pears and so forth were very scarce and some years frost or freeze got it all.

My Grandfather, Mama’s father, was David Arnold Williams born September 22, 1849 and died March 5, 1922. His wife, Grandma Williams, was born January 3, 1848 and died April 4, 1906. They all grew up over there along Indian Creek in Missouri. Oh, Yes, her name was Elizabeth but she was called Betty. Her maiden name was Bilyeu. She died of cancer.

Papa’s father, Grandpa Aday died at age 70 from pneumonia fever. Grandmother Aday died at age 48 from heart trouble. Her name was Amanda Jane Walters before marrying Grandpa Aday.

So ends the story of Vinnie’s childhood days as she wrote it. Vinnie Aday Houston Karp died September 3, 1994 in California.

Submitted by

Tanna Robinson, Vinnie’s daughter

Stockton, California