tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79231605423699020072024-03-13T20:50:30.036-07:00Pattillo Thornally AncestorsChris Pattillo, FASLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704980567217692969noreply@blogger.comBlogger110125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7923160542369902007.post-3418495145753596742022-09-04T11:30:00.003-07:002022-09-09T16:15:32.914-07:00Daniel Stover Sr. 1776 – 1849 My 4th Great Grandfather on My Father's Side<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNQn9PbcGXK0vSusdCIQAOiP-9R1G_7MRZX2OozfQWafyN1iPWcRW7RAjlNrJCKL9xOfdW7loTnjcndiaqT-GhO2vp3Vqx5wjMnJeBobj66xncux9Om7hKA0GNkAWAbJOTxtiUO5BglwkZJeYjfGwhdewBY6mUOQpkhRp0vgSTyygPf3km3YjO6ukI/s2560/Stover,%20Daniel%20Sr%20property%20P4080015.JPG" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1920" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNQn9PbcGXK0vSusdCIQAOiP-9R1G_7MRZX2OozfQWafyN1iPWcRW7RAjlNrJCKL9xOfdW7loTnjcndiaqT-GhO2vp3Vqx5wjMnJeBobj66xncux9Om7hKA0GNkAWAbJOTxtiUO5BglwkZJeYjfGwhdewBY6mUOQpkhRp0vgSTyygPf3km3YjO6ukI/s320/Stover,%20Daniel%20Sr%20property%20P4080015.JPG" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Home of Daniel Stover with Robert<br />Nave in 2012</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">Daniel
Stover was born in Pennsylvania on April 10, 1776 – the same year that the
American colonies declared independence from Britain.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr.docx#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
He was the son of Christian Stover and Sarah Limbaugh. “When the first census
was taken in 1790 Daniel was recorded only as a tic mark in the column headed
“Free white males under the age of 16. Daniel was 14 at the time. This was the
Dauphin, Pennsylvania census.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr.docx#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
At the age of 18 he married Phoebe Ward on September 7, 1794 and the couple
settled in Carter County, Tennessee. Phoebe, born on August 12, 1772, was the
sixth of seven daughters of William Ward and Sarah Bryant. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">Daniel
and Phoebe had eleven children. The eldest William Ward Stover, born in 1795,
was my third great grandfather. William was followed by Mary Lincoln 1796-1860,
Jemima 1798-1876, Isaac Lincoln 1801 – unknown, Thurzy 1804-1847, Susannah 1806
- , Lavisa 1808- , Solomon Hendrix 1812-1889, Delilah 1814-1902, Sarah 1816 - ,
and Daniel Stover Jr. 1820- 1838 (not to be confused with Col. Daniel Stover
who was the brother of my 2<sup>nd</sup> great grandfather David Lincoln
Stover.)<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr.docx#_edn3" name="_ednref3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">Like his
father, Daniel was involved in community, civic and church affairs throughout
his lifetime so records from those various sources tell us quite a bit about
who he was and the life he lived. A church record tells us that Daniel was
already a leader in his Baptist Church as early as 1794. He was a member of the
Sinking Creek Baptist Church. The name refers to the fact that a nearby a creek
ended by seeking into the ground. Sinking Creek broke off from Buffalo Ridge
Church and was one of the most influential Baptist churches in the area.
According to Frank Merritt’s <i>Early History of Carter County</i>, two
preachers, Jonathan Mulkey and Reese Bayless, and three laymen, Solomon
Hendrix, Alfred Carr and Daniel Stover were the most outstanding members in the
history of the church. Daniel was appointed clerk and deacon of the Sinking
Creek Baptist Church at the age of 27 in 1803 and held the position at least
until 1820.</span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgifJQdYynEDz-JcDVCI-HvM4cB_5GDQ5K09-93Yq1N0aporD0udz6PJB2fcHOR9op7VM8xcor6jDxrOXIRD8SQN4qUlAvaM3bOKAbyRJ4_-dRETqpwzX7LyksNBYRUTjNOLAEhG56apKQVSPE3HgcH2L3eBPEzlHeJ8r1IkUi0w9XIdxs602VHIU9s/s2192/Elizabethton%20Patriat%20Monument%20P8040034.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2192" data-original-width="1646" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgifJQdYynEDz-JcDVCI-HvM4cB_5GDQ5K09-93Yq1N0aporD0udz6PJB2fcHOR9op7VM8xcor6jDxrOXIRD8SQN4qUlAvaM3bOKAbyRJ4_-dRETqpwzX7LyksNBYRUTjNOLAEhG56apKQVSPE3HgcH2L3eBPEzlHeJ8r1IkUi0w9XIdxs602VHIU9s/s320/Elizabethton%20Patriat%20Monument%20P8040034.JPG" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Patriot monument in Elizabethton</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">Mrs. Nancy Tipton
Johnson, said that “as a girl she often went to Daniel Stover's home to
preaching, and at times they would often build arbors to preach under. There is
no doubt that the Baptists were pioneers here and were hunting a place where
they could worship without molestation.” She went on to say, “Daniel Stover’s
home was an assembling place for the Baptist ministers. He possessed a bible,
and there were but few Bibles in those days, so the Baptist clans would gather
to hear him read the Word.”<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr.docx#_edn4" name="_ednref4" style="mso-endnote-id: edn4;" title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iv]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">Daniel appeared on
the Carter County tax list as early as 1796. The book <i>Historical
Reminiscences of Carter County</i> notes that he was the seventh person named
as settling in Siam Valley of Elizabethton in Carter County. On January 8, 1807
he was appointed administrator of his father-in-law’s estate.</span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">Road Projects<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">In 1805
he was charged with making and laying off a road in his community. This was a
common responsibility of land owners during that era. In June of 1820 the court
appointed Daniel to “view, mark and lay off a road from A.N. Carter’s ironworks
on Stoney Creek by Rubin Brook’s and Christian Carriger’s mill fence crossing
the Watauga at Nave’s Ford. From there the road was to go by Henry Bowers and
Daniel’s own fence, whichever was nearer and the best way to intersect the
public road near William B. Carter’s on the Doe River.” He was also told to
make a report at the next court.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">Two
years later Daniel was again ordered to “lay off a road from Alfred M. Carter’s
forge to Scott & Johnston’s forge. That is to say, that part of the road
running through the plantation of Abraham Nave – the divining line between
Daniel’s and Nave’s land, to intersect with the old road.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">Daniel
was involved in another road project in 1824 that involved figuring out the
best route from Caleb Smith’s and across the mountain to Zachariah Campbell’s.
The recommended route would “avoid the many bad fords across the Doe River and
also save the expenditure of the money to be given to William Lindsey Esq. to
make the road around the Dripping Rock Ford on said Doe River.” This record
went on to propose “the drawing of a lottery to raise money to assist in
opening the public road from Elizabethton to North Carolina.”</span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9JxiKpNPhI2VSvYcEDECRVo0E0-USwKj2jdKrtBFzVxMxyAJhxyEcK_S8dK2Heb-AyEt6B4QzyCM-eKJ_xSxo1sPpZUSMiTmkjIiQ5zVgxcwGAZ7YY-pkxugx0eG9Iq-LT41nW0-owJxReMtWjxOZjeXSTF9bWSD8hB6K5jqjilvRGOHU3_O_HGgs/s2560/Elizabethton%20Courthouse%20P8040019.JPG" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9JxiKpNPhI2VSvYcEDECRVo0E0-USwKj2jdKrtBFzVxMxyAJhxyEcK_S8dK2Heb-AyEt6B4QzyCM-eKJ_xSxo1sPpZUSMiTmkjIiQ5zVgxcwGAZ7YY-pkxugx0eG9Iq-LT41nW0-owJxReMtWjxOZjeXSTF9bWSD8hB6K5jqjilvRGOHU3_O_HGgs/s320/Elizabethton%20Courthouse%20P8040019.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Historic courthouse in Elizabethton</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">Era
of Property Acquisitions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">Daniel
and Phoebe purchased fifty acres, adjacent to land owned by Leonard Bowers, from
Abraham Nave for $300. That was on August 10, 1807. The deed stipulated that
the purchase included “all the woods, ways, water, water ways, profits,
commodities and appurtenances and the rivers in and riverines and rents. “<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr.docx#_edn5" name="_ednref5" style="mso-endnote-id: edn5;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[v]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 2022, historian Robert Nave told me
that Daniel Stover’s home was probably built about 1809. He thought it was
possible that Abraham Nave built the original log home that was later boarded
over. Originally it had a limestone chimney that was removed in the 1960s when
Dale Hamilton owned the property. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">In 1808
or 1809 Daniel purchased a two-year old Bay Mare from John Daniel for $16.25,
and on March 23, 1810 he received a gift of four-year old Ruth – a slave from
Isaac Lincoln.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr.docx#_edn6" name="_ednref6" style="mso-endnote-id: edn6;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">After
living as a renter for several years Daniel purchased the home he was living on
and a 149-acre property for $1000 from Isaac Lincoln. The date of the deed was
February 18, 1812. This home was still and in good condition when I visited
Tennessee in 2012.</span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO6HGBkz0bp6MjI4bSV77j4Pzutk-_y6c28kZTQ0Sbna3UlJ9ldnjaIan_DobZe8CWIilC1IjfoGdF33gqb8_mD_AppE_uPTDkCclSefJIDdJaixDD-jwU4NmDz6E_dwfXOY4zr-l0R0d7aey-E0BStaijuRMeTr4QcfF71nFTbdW5KKvVLjjw4A12/s1213/Stover,%20Daniel%20Sr%20War%20of%201812%20marker_1_cropped.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1213" data-original-width="859" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO6HGBkz0bp6MjI4bSV77j4Pzutk-_y6c28kZTQ0Sbna3UlJ9ldnjaIan_DobZe8CWIilC1IjfoGdF33gqb8_mD_AppE_uPTDkCclSefJIDdJaixDD-jwU4NmDz6E_dwfXOY4zr-l0R0d7aey-E0BStaijuRMeTr4QcfF71nFTbdW5KKvVLjjw4A12/s320/Stover,%20Daniel%20Sr%20War%20of%201812%20marker_1_cropped.JPG" width="227" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A bad photo of a monument to<br />Daniel's service during the war <br />of 1812 from Mr. Nave</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;"><br /><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">Military
and Civic Service<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">Daniel
was a sergeant during the War of 1812 when he was 36. He served in Colonel Wear’s
1<sup>st</sup> Regiment East Tennessee Volunteers as a substitute for Thomas
McQueen. It was not uncommon for men to pay for a substitute to serve in their
place as Daniel did. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">From his
late twenties to early fifties Daniel served on several juries which was a very
common practice at that time. The earliest such record I found was dated 1804. While
today many of us complain when we receive a jury summons, at that time all land-owning
men – not women – were expected to sit on juries routinely. This was true for
many, if not all, of our male ancestors. I found records from ten different
cases he was involved with during 1822. In one case a Robert Blevins charged
Daniel with something not explained in the record. Daniel was found responsible
and was fined $2.00. In a separate dispute with John Orland, Daniel was charged
$10. A third case on the same day between Daniel and James I. Tipton favored
Daniel but the fine was only $0.50.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">Daniel
was a member of the jury for a case against John Arnold on May 14, 1822. The
defendant was found guilty and was “taken to the whipping post to receive three
lashes on his bare back well laid on after half past six in the evening.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">The 1830
census is the first that listed Daniel by name but little additional
information was provided other than tic marks indicating that there were 3
white males and 4 white females in his household that would have been his wife Phoebe
and their children.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3yqhxODNKGILVf5TSmDan_DR89ojhBDnTEISLRmxJNUoLmm9BZETS1asq_aka4GnOvgJrpRiBGvBKb_qtF8o1BG0CxuD9KHVx_-CP1SIS5-eECa2vFP-nBKsziXQe0WIFcv5VRotfPnT2Vso3wMczUyR2nMyBgfGxOciqvVLaMZdq9XsGUIq8xQG0/s2564/Stover,%20Daniel%20&%20Antonette%20Williams%20TennesseeStateMarriages17802002_65695109%5B1%5D.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1780" data-original-width="2564" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3yqhxODNKGILVf5TSmDan_DR89ojhBDnTEISLRmxJNUoLmm9BZETS1asq_aka4GnOvgJrpRiBGvBKb_qtF8o1BG0CxuD9KHVx_-CP1SIS5-eECa2vFP-nBKsziXQe0WIFcv5VRotfPnT2Vso3wMczUyR2nMyBgfGxOciqvVLaMZdq9XsGUIq8xQG0/w400-h278/Stover,%20Daniel%20&%20Antonette%20Williams%20TennesseeStateMarriages17802002_65695109%5B1%5D.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Marriage record for Daniel and Antoinette Williams</td></tr></tbody></table><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">Second
Marriage</span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">Daniel’s
wife Phoebe died on August 8, 1839 at the age of 66. She is buried in the
Nave-Hess Cemetery also known as the Stover Cemetery on Wilbur Dam Road in
Elizabethton, Tennessee. Slightly less than a year later Daniel married
Antoinette Williams on July 19, 1849. Antoinette was the daughter of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Elisha Williams. She was born in Virginia on
August 10, 1810 so was considerably younger than Daniel – 34 years younger.
Then on February 11, 1857 she married Elijah D. Hardin whom she divorced
sometime before her death.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr.docx#_edn7" name="_ednref7" style="mso-endnote-id: edn7;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">Daniel
and Antoinette had six children together. They were: Lorina born March 3, 1841,
Rhoda July 27, 1842, Samuel January 17, 1844, Eliza Isabella December 5, 1845,
Elizabeth April 3, 1847, and Margaret Ann December 21, 1848.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr.docx#_edn8" name="_ednref8" style="mso-endnote-id: edn8;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[viii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
All of these children appeared with Antoinette on the 1850 census for the 9<sup>th</sup>
Civil District of Carter County. </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwSwWwODNd1XtU7YpXIOX21Rvcs6vYVMngB9IZrCIckaUniNMXSB5aFxRtjo-7skicO9ltPDqY_olU0R-zfM5ZLuznrfgNTLRZsxGJtKPxSNCp-shOa-RRPEJpxMNTGNyFvYWWkB1fGziqCzcRwXTXeplab_cC0FvajgIyNxbNzQ12JwoW3c6bUvZU/s97/Williams%20Antoinette%20Stover%20Hardin%20widow%20of%20Daniel%20Stover.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="97" data-original-width="92" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwSwWwODNd1XtU7YpXIOX21Rvcs6vYVMngB9IZrCIckaUniNMXSB5aFxRtjo-7skicO9ltPDqY_olU0R-zfM5ZLuznrfgNTLRZsxGJtKPxSNCp-shOa-RRPEJpxMNTGNyFvYWWkB1fGziqCzcRwXTXeplab_cC0FvajgIyNxbNzQ12JwoW3c6bUvZU/w303-h320/Williams%20Antoinette%20Stover%20Hardin%20widow%20of%20Daniel%20Stover.jpg" width="303" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Antoinette Williams, Daniel's 2nd wife</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">The 1840
census was similarly minimal. Daniel was listed with 2 other white males and 2
females. From the slave census taken that same year we know that he owned four
slaves – one male and three females. His son William is listed separately on
the same page.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">In 1846 Daniel
donated a one-acre lot in Carter County for a school. It was known as the
Stover School and served the community for forty years. Daniel was the first
school teacher, and he and Matthias Vinhos were trustees.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr.docx#_edn9" name="_ednref9" style="mso-endnote-id: edn9;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ix]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
The site of the school was adjacent to property owned by Daniel and David
Bowers. Tice VanHusk, Christian E. Carriger and Daniel S. Bowers, built a log
house that served as the school and as a church. When the public school system started,
they tore down the log structure and built a frame structure which lasted long
enough for Robert Nave to attend school there. According to Robert, “In 1872 a
church was built next to the school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That was torn down and replaced by the existing stone church in 1934 or
35.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To do so they had to go to court
because the land had originally been donated for a school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The court ruled to allow the church to be
built, on the basis that there were too many Stover descendants to get
permission from all of them.”<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr.docx#_edn10" name="_ednref10" style="mso-endnote-id: edn10;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[x]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
In 2021 the site was the location of the Siam Baptist Church. </span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQWSNaIMYxIN0ygedMrB4f-7lBXx0IDa3cTzYVBLJ1YVliQ3BLVXl8ZIKmyZQuA62YuwA7Ex1ZruVEe7SLnvuWVRaq73qzP3voxr1ho4LMOUyGXU3ZYI9DauYJK8K_pXc8sI0qMIALZmzMfuz3yq_wcbkOFEC53pQUYDcM2UvRj2cL5jsPx3nKA5jr/s2560/Stover,%20Daniel%20Sr%20donated%20land%20P4080020.JPG" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1920" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQWSNaIMYxIN0ygedMrB4f-7lBXx0IDa3cTzYVBLJ1YVliQ3BLVXl8ZIKmyZQuA62YuwA7Ex1ZruVEe7SLnvuWVRaq73qzP3voxr1ho4LMOUyGXU3ZYI9DauYJK8K_pXc8sI0qMIALZmzMfuz3yq_wcbkOFEC53pQUYDcM2UvRj2cL5jsPx3nKA5jr/s320/Stover,%20Daniel%20Sr%20donated%20land%20P4080020.JPG" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Siam Baptist Church, 2012</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">Daniel’s
Death and Will</span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">Daniel
died on May 24, 1849 in Elizabethton at the age of 73. He is buried with his first
wife Phoebe in the Nave-Hess Cemetery. Robert Nave purchased and had a new
headstone installed at Daniel’s home in Siam. Robert explained that he’d done
so in order to prevent the cemetery from being developed and lost. He also told
me that after Daniel’s death his son Samuel, from his second marriage, had a
moonshine still on Daniel’s property after the Civil War. He said that, “most
people in the area were proud Baptists and found this upsetting because Daniel
had been such a pillar of the church. So, the neighbors harassed Samuel and got
him to move away.” Next the house was owned by John Grindstaff who sold it to
the Harden family, and they sold it to Porter Nave. Porter plowed up the Stover
cemetery in about 1915. Nave said, “there used to be a large cemetery with
several graves.” Now only the headstone for Daniel Stover that Robert installed
remains.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr.docx#_edn11" name="_ednref11" style="mso-endnote-id: edn11;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Mr. Nave said, “the original headstone for Daniel was installed by the
Daughters of 1812 and he believed that the arrangements were made by Mary
Stover, daughter of Solomon Hendrix Stover.” This would have been in about
1940. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">In his
will dated May 9, 1849 Daniel left everything to his wife Antoinette and the
children they had together.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr.docx#_edn12" name="_ednref12" style="mso-endnote-id: edn12;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
The will made no mention of this children from his marriage to Phoebe. Each of
his daughters were to receive the equivalent of the “value of one horse, one
cow, one breeding sow, one ewe, one bed and bed clothes, and some cupboard
furniture such as plates, dishes etc. as they arrive at age or marry.” He left
his slaves to his wife “in trust” so she could use the proceeds from their work
to support their children. When his son Samuel reached the age of 21, he would
inherit the slaves. Daniel made this stipulation so that, if Antoinette
remarried, her new husband would not get the slaves. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">His son
Samuel inherited all the land. That was about 150 acres on the Watauga River
and included the family home, but the home and land was left in trust to
Antoinette until Samuel reached 21 at which time Antoinette was to “surrender
to him (Samuel) the possession of the lands aforesaid and then my said son
Samuel is hereby required to support his mother comfortably during her life.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">Daniel’s
slave Nathen was left to Samuel while Ruth was left to Antoinette and upon Antoinette’s
death Ruth was to be allowed to “live with any one of my children that she
prefers and should it so happen that she becomes a charge, then I require my
son Samuel to support her during her life.” Daniel’s remaining slaves and their
children were to be divided among his daughters. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">Daniel
appointed Elijah D. Hardin as the executor of his will and he requested that
the court not require a security from Hardin. Makes you wonder if Daniel
intended for Antoinette to marry Hardin.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-ygiM1OC_qip0Gvif6OpZdEJpr95J0DwqUXknM6dRON01vmVLfBkiRAzSEocWqGMMoM3hyligkQ6O30OgHTEDX62uj_3__U7IpwckWDGO2vcof8K2yVOUfmwcILraL4K_7cog4kbmWC27gUoByiBfnMQUsBNh6g3hx_YSNRK08pYRH95kOo414wrO/s2560/Stover,%20Daniel%20Sr%20grave%20P4080013.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1920" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-ygiM1OC_qip0Gvif6OpZdEJpr95J0DwqUXknM6dRON01vmVLfBkiRAzSEocWqGMMoM3hyligkQ6O30OgHTEDX62uj_3__U7IpwckWDGO2vcof8K2yVOUfmwcILraL4K_7cog4kbmWC27gUoByiBfnMQUsBNh6g3hx_YSNRK08pYRH95kOo414wrO/s320/Stover,%20Daniel%20Sr%20grave%20P4080013.JPG" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the headstone that Robert Nave purchased<br />and had installed by the DAR for Daniel Stover. <br />It is located adjacent to his home.</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;"><br /> <o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><!--[if !supportEndnotes]--><br clear="all" />
<hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" />
<!--[endif]-->
<div id="edn1" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr.docx#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> A paper listing the descendants of Daniel Stover. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<div id="edn2" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr.docx#_ednref2" name="_edn2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
1790 Dauphin, PA, NARA Series M637, roll 8 p. 203; image 392 on film 0568148.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<div id="edn3" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr.docx#_ednref3" name="_edn3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Family Group Sheet prepared by Robert Nave, Carter, TN.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn4" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr.docx#_ednref4" name="_edn4" style="mso-endnote-id: edn4;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
William Montgomery Clemens Editor, Genealogical, Historical and Biographical, <i>The
Lincoln Family Magazine</i>, New York, 1916-17, p. 20<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn5" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr.docx#_ednref5" name="_edn5" style="mso-endnote-id: edn5;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[v]</span></span></span></span></a> Deed
Book for Carter Co., Images 370-80, pgs. 110-111,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<div id="edn6" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr.docx#_ednref6" name="_edn6" style="mso-endnote-id: edn6;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Vickey L. “Morrow” Hutchings, <i>Tennessee Deed Books A-B July 1796 – Oct. 1815
Vol. 1</i>, , Carter Co TN Deeds, Image 447 p. 243-44. 23 March 1810.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn7" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr.docx#_ednref7" name="_edn7" style="mso-endnote-id: edn7;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Family
Group Sheet prepared by Robert Nave, Carter, TN.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="edn8" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr.docx#_ednref8" name="_edn8" style="mso-endnote-id: edn8;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[viii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Ibid.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<div id="edn9" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr.docx#_ednref9" name="_edn9" style="mso-endnote-id: edn9;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ix]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Mildred Kozsuch, <i>Historical Reminiscences</i> of Carter County, TN Johnson City,
Overmountain Press.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<div id="edn10" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr.docx#_ednref10" name="_edn10" style="mso-endnote-id: edn10;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[x]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Told to the author by Robert Nave in 2012.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<div id="edn11" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr.docx#_ednref11" name="_edn11" style="mso-endnote-id: edn11;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> A
post by Janice Holzer wrote, “Near by the house were servant quarters and at
one time there were markers on the property to mark the graves of slaves.” Her
source was an article by Rozella Hardin in the Elizabethton Star, 23 July 1995.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<div id="edn12" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr/STOVER%20Daniel%20Sr.docx#_ednref12" name="_edn12" style="mso-endnote-id: edn12;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[xii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Will Book 1, p.411-414, Carter, TN.<o:p></o:p></p>
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</div>Chris Pattillo, FASLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704980567217692969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7923160542369902007.post-52856811949169487952022-02-23T12:30:00.002-08:002022-02-23T12:39:35.118-08:00Mary J. Stover 1854-1913 My Great Grandaunt on My Father's Side<p><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjP73pMpEtZ6SRYKWtP89xfx-NX2ET5_vY9DlIDnZvHYcU1OYda8MijXGioMK6t9HAjxktJKfe-qBDPyjHAUYYOYrQyde502rQhozEO2jTaO1xQWfjlbMVggXiJ3S1BY4VpI3Foo27vTC0rmqbocgoDoJYMjkX1FWbeFsJP0aQlGtNb9u_e52wc-nLX=s237" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="237" data-original-width="179" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjP73pMpEtZ6SRYKWtP89xfx-NX2ET5_vY9DlIDnZvHYcU1OYda8MijXGioMK6t9HAjxktJKfe-qBDPyjHAUYYOYrQyde502rQhozEO2jTaO1xQWfjlbMVggXiJ3S1BY4VpI3Foo27vTC0rmqbocgoDoJYMjkX1FWbeFsJP0aQlGtNb9u_e52wc-nLX" width="179" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mary J. Stover ca. 1890</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;">Mary
Stover was my great grandmother’s sister. She was born on April 5, 1854 - the
fourth child born to David Lincoln Stover and Joanna Gaines. She had two older
sisters, including Sarah E. Stover and my great grandmother Carrie Brooks
Stover (see my blog posts dated Nov. 25, 2017 and July 19, 2021). Mary also had
an older brother Win, a younger brother David Gaines Stover and a younger
sister Elizabeth W. Stover.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">When Mary
was one year old her family was living on the Blue Spring Branch in District 9
of Elizabethton in Carter County, Tennessee. Mary’s father died when she was only
four years old, but in his will, David made several references to the care of
his children. He specified “It is my will and desire that my wife should remain
on my lands and raise and educate my children from off the proceeds of same. In
the management of the farm and in the education of my children I desire my wife
to consult and be guided by advice of my brothers S.M. and D. Stover. I do not
specify any particular mode but would prefer private teaching.”<br />
<br />
Even though David died three years before the Civil War began, he must have had
a premonition of what was to come because his will stipulated that, “In case my
brothers, S.M. and D. Stover or either of them sells and relocates to another
place or state and my wife desires to go and take my family with them, I give
her and my executors full power to sell all my lands without any reservation
and all other property that will not be of use. I will and desire that the
moneys arising from the sale of my lands in this event shall be invested in
Negroes and the lands, or lands alone, and I will that my children shall all
share equally in the same at the death of their mother or at her marriage.” Given
that David and Joanna had four daughters and three sons, it seems somewhat
remarkable that he wanted his daughters to share equally in his estate.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Mary/STOVER%20Mary%20J.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> </span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgRRhkXhW1FjpUPyIq15y7uJlRK3OUKuVLag8dNVLU6DXfzWnW28FtIuG3Z52gp_VhxcJxLr-I8xy1mixcLXC9sUtvFu8lr3JjIF6bXlUM-o5ReFtTsFt1PGG_X5-OomeO4uxDU--4H7n3fZAddvdhPYPBn9wprJFn9SfFR64N2U8eAA4C6hHItHSmH=s960" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="585" data-original-width="960" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgRRhkXhW1FjpUPyIq15y7uJlRK3OUKuVLag8dNVLU6DXfzWnW28FtIuG3Z52gp_VhxcJxLr-I8xy1mixcLXC9sUtvFu8lr3JjIF6bXlUM-o5ReFtTsFt1PGG_X5-OomeO4uxDU--4H7n3fZAddvdhPYPBn9wprJFn9SfFR64N2U8eAA4C6hHItHSmH=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Downtown Elizabethton early 1900s</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">Sadly,
Mary’s brother Win died when Mary was six years old. He would have been ten or
eleven. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">When the
1860 census was taken the family was living in Elizabethton. Mary’s mother
Joanna was 35, her sister Sarah was 11, Carrie 7, Mary 6, David 4 and Elizabeth
was 2. They were living next door to Mary’s aunt and uncle Samuel and Caroline
Stover and their four children. Ten years later Mary’s family was still living
in Elizabethton but her aunt, uncle and cousins had moved to Sullivan County,
Tennessee.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">Ten
years later on July 13, 1870 when the census taker stopped at the house
Joanna’s age was recorded as 43 not 45, Sarah was 21, Carrie 17, Mary 15 and
David was 14. The youngest, Elizabeth did not appear so must have died sometime
before 1870. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">Mary’s
older sister Sarah was married in November of 1870, and on February 22, 1876
Mary married William McFarland Cameron – also a native of Elizabethton. He was
born on March 1, 1856, the son of Dr. James McLin Cameron (1833-1906) and Mary
Elizabeth Adeline Neilson Tipton (1834-1907). </span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiyf3TjT-ot9absMwTtkP7kSFs5IwX_TLs_Eev4cKnj1Wm1WZOqtGTO252QlekVkLhGKNZnGZjUzstXzg5rlnH1QreLPWpw3mtefF-KjH4KKhGCVrZTXFoKiToNaJ1M-J5Yq6EUxyWoAQ4RQ6VmestDPoXGh_V1dNBHj2AFrXPoM8BGfrzZBZrSnbq-=s237" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="237" data-original-width="179" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiyf3TjT-ot9absMwTtkP7kSFs5IwX_TLs_Eev4cKnj1Wm1WZOqtGTO252QlekVkLhGKNZnGZjUzstXzg5rlnH1QreLPWpw3mtefF-KjH4KKhGCVrZTXFoKiToNaJ1M-J5Yq6EUxyWoAQ4RQ6VmestDPoXGh_V1dNBHj2AFrXPoM8BGfrzZBZrSnbq-" width="179" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">William Cameron from Dawn<br />Cameron collection</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">When the
census was taken in 1880 the Cameron family was living in house number 25 in
Elizabethton. William was 24, Mary 26 and their daughter Bessie was nine
months. William was listed as a dry goods merchant.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">Mary and
William had eight children<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Mary/STOVER%20Mary%20J.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>.
The names of the known children were Bessie, born August 22, 1879, Clarence
born in 1881, James Macklin born June 9, 1883, Claude born in 1885, Frances G.
born in 1889 and Joanna born February 5, 1892.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">Shortly
after Joanna was born, the family moved to Los Angeles, California which is
where they were when the 1900 census was taken. They were living at 440 Vernon
Avenue in central Los Angeles. The 1900 census is difficult to read but it
appears that William was employed as a farmhand. Mary and William’s son Claude died
in 1902 as did Mary’s mother Joanna. Sadly, the following year William died on
July 26, 1903 at the age of forty-seven leaving Mary to raise two teenage daughters
on her own. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">On
September 24, 1903 the <i>Los Angeles Evening Post</i> ran a small notice that
Mrs. Mary J. Cameron had applied for a building permit to have a frame cottage
built at 1794 E. Vernon Avenue. Four days later there was a similar notice in
the <i>Los Angeles Daily Times</i> that said “Mrs. Mary J. Cameron is having
built for her own home a cottage at No. 1794 East Vernon Avenue.” Then on March
5, 1911 the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> ran this ad under Building Permits, “Dwellings
five rooms each, 1784-88 East Vernon Avenue: Mary J. Cameron. </span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhavGBlq4lrX9rkWmz8DVfh61tln9Jle0N_0YXAAFh2Ek4J2Hqjss48RLj8iwf9z6dvdoaZyUit39o1Fvs7R51x0mUBpNNHvacwD9u3f05CUONHKxB1plluvu4uHawLkH2mGZwx601A472NjK5nUz0TmH9ohn38FsWKNc1BjVr6mpCV55t1fdZqxbag=s331" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="331" data-original-width="228" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhavGBlq4lrX9rkWmz8DVfh61tln9Jle0N_0YXAAFh2Ek4J2Hqjss48RLj8iwf9z6dvdoaZyUit39o1Fvs7R51x0mUBpNNHvacwD9u3f05CUONHKxB1plluvu4uHawLkH2mGZwx601A472NjK5nUz0TmH9ohn38FsWKNc1BjVr6mpCV55t1fdZqxbag=s320" width="220" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mary's son James M. Cameron</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">On the
1910 census Mary’s address was listed as 1786 Vernon Avenue which may mean that
she <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>moved, or more likely the street was
renumbered. Mary was identified as the head of the household and widowed at the
age of 56. She was living with her son James aged 26 who was working as a
teamster for the electric railroad. Twelve-year-old Grace Owens from Nebraska was
also living with them and was identified as a “companion”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">Mary
died from bronchial pneumonia on March 2, 1913 and is buried with her husband in
Angelus Rosedale Cemetery in Los Angeles. </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiRXN1Y9hR8OLegsTeqGWa6DX5PAmQvbtwUmEW5WGdlbSa7dG8fi9Vmihvv7B-zmZ1LY5z84LVKFX5tFNHRJZeGdR0wW7LvqpuhUGFmoEqYrA024o8VvDFUQDFSJkmfNnDshB7JyLnrxApBG-d2Q5hWa5XYY7aOlIgvo6AwEBLXyEYuE5_S080e8FtD=s2056" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2056" data-original-width="1368" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiRXN1Y9hR8OLegsTeqGWa6DX5PAmQvbtwUmEW5WGdlbSa7dG8fi9Vmihvv7B-zmZ1LY5z84LVKFX5tFNHRJZeGdR0wW7LvqpuhUGFmoEqYrA024o8VvDFUQDFSJkmfNnDshB7JyLnrxApBG-d2Q5hWa5XYY7aOlIgvo6AwEBLXyEYuE5_S080e8FtD=s320" width="213" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Marriage record for Mary and William 1876</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;"><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/a/AVvXsEhukO4eLVZLUM1jnhVGMlqjJvKK0sOlEfC_USIu8JxbTkH8AkxBzqXwnNKWu6Qc3E2aZR4QHcQwp-JvHNjOAnJnQeMCr1Tr46JrYv325nZiS9O9R9rMCN1577lBJ6kmEZTbUuHOJTF3mRVckvk-acQZdFf6YIREKZ6G6QH4PKPOi0ZTmdd9swm2b_nr=s2784" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2784" data-original-width="1702" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhukO4eLVZLUM1jnhVGMlqjJvKK0sOlEfC_USIu8JxbTkH8AkxBzqXwnNKWu6Qc3E2aZR4QHcQwp-JvHNjOAnJnQeMCr1Tr46JrYv325nZiS9O9R9rMCN1577lBJ6kmEZTbUuHOJTF3mRVckvk-acQZdFf6YIREKZ6G6QH4PKPOi0ZTmdd9swm2b_nr=s320" width="196" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another marriage record for Mary and William</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/a/AVvXsEifAoHAqigrty7hlKRSrY0OYVPkmfD5ZMWeiRwDM-gEX_e1vaBP4u3HCj_NVcD73F0vZaHcFqPilwmMGMfCsDnuvymcmRHI10qtcBV72SNmxz7WoV3fadmresr92gkrz_2aNcsHhiWRpYDwn4y5Ml2gL3rIAY1zMvV9Xtz0su1U4xCnzrpk4Lo9zrxN=s1512" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1005" data-original-width="1512" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEifAoHAqigrty7hlKRSrY0OYVPkmfD5ZMWeiRwDM-gEX_e1vaBP4u3HCj_NVcD73F0vZaHcFqPilwmMGMfCsDnuvymcmRHI10qtcBV72SNmxz7WoV3fadmresr92gkrz_2aNcsHhiWRpYDwn4y5Ml2gL3rIAY1zMvV9Xtz0su1U4xCnzrpk4Lo9zrxN=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Death record for William M. Cameron</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/a/AVvXsEiiVch_wt-Gj7SbkcdSDotLB4Y3dWayPHTSi8wX8PF43QY4AS8LWsN_yTMiWB2iFNk-uds2fs7QARHTH9qZ6pZQj_LhGAabRcCzuAhRcKfkfCJBzZDCRuqkYuGAdyjN9UhmE2EBe6Kn1XYswNuszRpetvV877MILYS6lKgKgUyQ424x2YIKL-Twj03P=s438" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="438" data-original-width="375" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiiVch_wt-Gj7SbkcdSDotLB4Y3dWayPHTSi8wX8PF43QY4AS8LWsN_yTMiWB2iFNk-uds2fs7QARHTH9qZ6pZQj_LhGAabRcCzuAhRcKfkfCJBzZDCRuqkYuGAdyjN9UhmE2EBe6Kn1XYswNuszRpetvV877MILYS6lKgKgUyQ424x2YIKL-Twj03P=s320" width="274" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mary and William's daughter Frances Gena Cameron Swallow</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
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<div id="ftn1" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Mary/STOVER%20Mary%20J.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Though
neither of David’s brothers chose to leave Tennessee, his wife Joanna and her
children did leave the state a few years after the Civil War. They relocated to
Tarrant County, Texas. David’s son David and his eldest daughter Sarah remained
in Texas but Mary and her sister Carrie both moved to California.</span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><o:p> </o:p><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Mary/STOVER%20Mary%20J.docx#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
The total number of children and those still living was recorded on the 1910
census.</p></div><div id="ftn2" style="mso-element: footnote;"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><o:p></o:p></p>
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</div>Chris Pattillo, FASLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704980567217692969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7923160542369902007.post-84888495407339008222021-12-23T10:18:00.000-08:002021-12-23T10:18:28.746-08:00Rodger McGowan My 2nd Great Grandfather on my Mother's Side<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvCTNR_LCCENnWzF3Jh48BYNbRHx4aGzrcqaQ4gNu9ZxwP3_vOiYrzvWpNucEbV3CDkL9eR78H38VndKpI27abLjgd7qakwCy22-5VZ65QtK0rtY2A25GceX9dR35hpyBUBntGZkQDNPrBHBUCUZSVGAxxLvS-e4VCeNB19oIEYXDvjHlRCFZP4MKt=s957" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="670" data-original-width="957" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvCTNR_LCCENnWzF3Jh48BYNbRHx4aGzrcqaQ4gNu9ZxwP3_vOiYrzvWpNucEbV3CDkL9eR78H38VndKpI27abLjgd7qakwCy22-5VZ65QtK0rtY2A25GceX9dR35hpyBUBntGZkQDNPrBHBUCUZSVGAxxLvS-e4VCeNB19oIEYXDvjHlRCFZP4MKt=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aghanlish former National School built in 1885<br />very close to the farm where Rodger lived</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">I know
very little about my second great grandfather Rodger McGowan. A baptism record
for his daughter Mary Anne McGowan, my great grandmother, provides his name and
that of his wife Catheline Garry. Based on Mary’s birth I estimate that Rodger
was born about 1820 but I have not found any records to substantiate this date.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">I know
that Rodger was Irish – most likely born and died in Ireland. Irish records are
hard to come by and the name McGowan is a very common name in Rossinver Parish where
he lived. In fact, it is by far the most common surname of the top ten surnames
in that parish. Fortunately, there are very few Rodgers, and the only other
Roger spelled his name without the “d”.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgNGu5yZT8SYEJe3m6-HTdTt1BT5ydB7oz0K1SW7NzN4Cn1dSzDjJ0YT4eqbhZD5TrNbSqRrBBP9cXsUeXeKqyUH_3thLNTdYTHMGMjRmuErYYsShchnl9bkCce-ACfh9oAc0tqQPmbKEqRpLWozCiw1ZkEcGoA44QBq6nv1PXDt45Frsg-1JEWOit5=s1061" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="566" data-original-width="1061" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgNGu5yZT8SYEJe3m6-HTdTt1BT5ydB7oz0K1SW7NzN4Cn1dSzDjJ0YT4eqbhZD5TrNbSqRrBBP9cXsUeXeKqyUH_3thLNTdYTHMGMjRmuErYYsShchnl9bkCce-ACfh9oAc0tqQPmbKEqRpLWozCiw1ZkEcGoA44QBq6nv1PXDt45Frsg-1JEWOit5=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The land that Rodger farmed is lot 22 in<br />the middle of this plot map</td></tr></tbody></table></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;">Rodger
and Catheline likely married around 1845 because they had a son John McGowan</span><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/MCGOWAN/Roger%20McGowan.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[1]</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;">
that was born about 1846. My great grandmother Mary Anne was born February 6,
1851. You can read more about her from my blog poste dated August 9, 2015. Mary
had a younger sister Catherine “Kate” McGowan</span><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/MCGOWAN/Roger%20McGowan.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[2]</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;">
born in June of 1853, and my second cousin Sue Tucker shows two additional
girls born in 1852 and 1854.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">Catheline
Garry was the daughter of John Garry and his wife Catheline. Daughter Catheline
was baptized on December 4, 1829 at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Dublin,
Ireland.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/MCGOWAN/Roger%20McGowan.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">So, I
know that my ancestor was living in Aghanlish townland in 1856 when the
Griffiths valuation was recorded<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/MCGOWAN/Roger%20McGowan.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>.
At that time, the family was living on Lot 22 and Rodger was identified as the
farmer. He held the lease in common with Owen McGuire who was a cottager.
Rodger’s portion of the land contained his house, plus one or more outbuildings
for his animals, pasture and some land for crops that he grew. Owen’s portion
had his house and a vegetable garden.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhCTVLXj-bSInjpLBHBIQp44HdXA52uEuYP1bP-kFM5aOH313D6g1KPzBJCj9tnSqKcS1vZvh-2YsmUCWLtWQLpwg_eRQi0YS5DTldOGDjgqwkmcHnYMPxa8RcsENONwE5v4u605JcXsDU09oe6NcFvustIKHcuvILGo7aHqs2ADbwiv8UvNlBgjMPG=s1587" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="764" data-original-width="1587" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhCTVLXj-bSInjpLBHBIQp44HdXA52uEuYP1bP-kFM5aOH313D6g1KPzBJCj9tnSqKcS1vZvh-2YsmUCWLtWQLpwg_eRQi0YS5DTldOGDjgqwkmcHnYMPxa8RcsENONwE5v4u605JcXsDU09oe6NcFvustIKHcuvILGo7aHqs2ADbwiv8UvNlBgjMPG=w400-h193" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This Google screen shot shows the west half of Rodger's <br />farm where the house was</td></tr></tbody></table></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">Rodger
and Owen leased their land from a landlord named Loftus A. Tottenbam. Records
show that the taxable annual valuation of the land was ten shillings and the
buildings had the same value. The total valuation of taxable property was one
pound – which seems remarkably little. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">Aghanlish
townland was in the Rossinver civil parish and the church parish of Kinlough.
Kinlough is part of Leitrim County which is in the barony of Rosclogher and the
poor union of Ballyshannon. All of this is similar to our neighborhood, city,
county, state and country designations except Ireland is much smaller than the
United States. According to Google Ireland is six times smaller than the State
of California – so the divisions are quite small. The townland of Aghanlish is
982 acres.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0SHG1XSkEgFRSwpCBb8RjuLAEXqWVp9oKQVNdW9Lt7JWFQo9BVVwwHXfeYFEzh9kYGx-0ngKvsi85ofG9KYYi38d0F8zAJCNFhr8s4x4THHSsV4cjs00HpAIS5371RsG-XIfmTAiF93t8lNHMLzOS1rQu2rWfxnIxWXT0SbA7skY6PjT2C8TKS9Rh=s632" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="416" data-original-width="632" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0SHG1XSkEgFRSwpCBb8RjuLAEXqWVp9oKQVNdW9Lt7JWFQo9BVVwwHXfeYFEzh9kYGx-0ngKvsi85ofG9KYYi38d0F8zAJCNFhr8s4x4THHSsV4cjs00HpAIS5371RsG-XIfmTAiF93t8lNHMLzOS1rQu2rWfxnIxWXT0SbA7skY6PjT2C8TKS9Rh=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aghanlish landscape found on Google</td></tr></tbody></table></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">Other
McGowans living in Aghanlish when Griffith’s valuation was done include Daniel
McGowan, Thomas McGowan, a Mary McGowan (not my grandmother), Bartholomew
McGowan and Francis McGowan. Some or all may or may not be related to our
Rodger McGowan. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">I have
not found a death record, nor any other information about Rodger. Maybe publishing
this blog post will spark some other researcher to find more about this
ancestor.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjfx9lc9p_eBxfUJ7b2EcWVTSwaCSV9nkh_qVWuhyP7P3l08lMVcbPzgRN92hPywIbBF_ipYL9Gj0VZjPA910N5gylzvr01FkPGRb9uaNYUqYkD56rhlUBoIWOCyyX3RPCmT9EySKjdn2lqzY57roTulXBw1gTm2IulDQh9koZKQlm6Tki6e8TXpGzH=s2360" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2360" data-original-width="1704" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjfx9lc9p_eBxfUJ7b2EcWVTSwaCSV9nkh_qVWuhyP7P3l08lMVcbPzgRN92hPywIbBF_ipYL9Gj0VZjPA910N5gylzvr01FkPGRb9uaNYUqYkD56rhlUBoIWOCyyX3RPCmT9EySKjdn2lqzY57roTulXBw1gTm2IulDQh9koZKQlm6Tki6e8TXpGzH=w289-h400" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The page of the Griffiths Valuation that lists Rodger<br />He is the 19th entry</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgIPdAw841bBZcBcrvJ2il45lrvmJFn4r4O-ZSZBCQaFKvj3D0hXo-21jbqW1poU4SN-8x7FJnd1ufUBOcXbFX5XpL58p0fLtDO_N_cJnH9QgyOki9gpOrA5M9Y6Tk8Bhbn0BDADa5BJx_zfpMLPB0cYUMHSUpuVEMg_KrakbWPHVV2-rkiS2q5GBYj=s1189" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="731" data-original-width="1189" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgIPdAw841bBZcBcrvJ2il45lrvmJFn4r4O-ZSZBCQaFKvj3D0hXo-21jbqW1poU4SN-8x7FJnd1ufUBOcXbFX5XpL58p0fLtDO_N_cJnH9QgyOki9gpOrA5M9Y6Tk8Bhbn0BDADa5BJx_zfpMLPB0cYUMHSUpuVEMg_KrakbWPHVV2-rkiS2q5GBYj=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The small square below 23A was Rodger's house<br />on Lot 22. This map shows the National school.<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <o:p></o:p></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/a/AVvXsEiUhf9lvRgGGSvTCJqPkFEuME8OVT5N5n0kamHGH3a9SIiKajUpEjq6-jsbHxdk0P2dOwsmYSuku0iMlOFxzRQab7in4eCpzIk4JZUjKER6T5HflblSYAv5z8kR6woDQTijQzztv5Drr69mujVGCtBeONy6vvUQpLN2FzN89Z5nDb7wxonPZmR7X_JF=s1284" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="868" data-original-width="1284" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiUhf9lvRgGGSvTCJqPkFEuME8OVT5N5n0kamHGH3a9SIiKajUpEjq6-jsbHxdk0P2dOwsmYSuku0iMlOFxzRQab7in4eCpzIk4JZUjKER6T5HflblSYAv5z8kR6woDQTijQzztv5Drr69mujVGCtBeONy6vvUQpLN2FzN89Z5nDb7wxonPZmR7X_JF=w400-h270" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The red outline shows the location of Aghanlish and its proximity<br />to Lough Melvin</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiDrxgruyCkVittn77BBZerqBydLsQm5BKrUXl3yUrrgrXl5202GFTy0dO3cLGYOq5sYb0cyC0OWhokb3L95QdyVgolz4RnIIfyaMQpxhu3oi_oiSm6wfWM5mIj6b1-DfQkMmfzqHDVdSBQQPEhtqGc2JIN8dI_TSjvAPEfSKvKouwlFE5_bhibvtzG=s1393" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="839" data-original-width="1393" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiDrxgruyCkVittn77BBZerqBydLsQm5BKrUXl3yUrrgrXl5202GFTy0dO3cLGYOq5sYb0cyC0OWhokb3L95QdyVgolz4RnIIfyaMQpxhu3oi_oiSm6wfWM5mIj6b1-DfQkMmfzqHDVdSBQQPEhtqGc2JIN8dI_TSjvAPEfSKvKouwlFE5_bhibvtzG=w400-h241" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Historic map of Kinlough showing the location of the Catholic Church<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEizMQuF05ezgtjqI2w5v_LgmISM1i9wsWMGFF2Svfam2MaNOzFU_JzJrFJ7YYZfYUoto10AT8Pl1IXNd3Tx2wF3tQxXTkklGh-F4gS2nIyXrNVxLrLkgfGY2LAa6khULd5W-NJQElcMy8C_kyWWMbJGygFCwoiSReT2lqbeOECXDS0WxUzv_PdMcGEM=s541" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="541" data-original-width="431" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEizMQuF05ezgtjqI2w5v_LgmISM1i9wsWMGFF2Svfam2MaNOzFU_JzJrFJ7YYZfYUoto10AT8Pl1IXNd3Tx2wF3tQxXTkklGh-F4gS2nIyXrNVxLrLkgfGY2LAa6khULd5W-NJQElcMy8C_kyWWMbJGygFCwoiSReT2lqbeOECXDS0WxUzv_PdMcGEM=w319-h400" width="319" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Map of Ireland showing the location of Kinlough - the small area in red<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><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/a/AVvXsEi6m2wiWWuEvXOaCZ2Jwhp7ENkGwRBnd5yXnKZVtENx78i539bHVv1Xo1Zopu2vqeFrc1bLGg89f63JIJKUb0FxNWAwi5QUV1PSxdQMJ2SteUm_Q3KuXWBro9jv_Lzl8c4s8p75-LtJhHsYz50J6igqZnmm0o9FFXaQPPqufU4__CWdvgaeHnfO0K5v=s925" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="925" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi6m2wiWWuEvXOaCZ2Jwhp7ENkGwRBnd5yXnKZVtENx78i539bHVv1Xo1Zopu2vqeFrc1bLGg89f63JIJKUb0FxNWAwi5QUV1PSxdQMJ2SteUm_Q3KuXWBro9jv_Lzl8c4s8p75-LtJhHsYz50J6igqZnmm0o9FFXaQPPqufU4__CWdvgaeHnfO0K5v=w400-h295" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><br /><br /><br clear="all" />
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/MCGOWAN/Roger%20McGowan.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Source is the Ancestry tree of Sue Tucker.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/MCGOWAN/Roger%20McGowan.docx#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Source is the 1900 census.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/MCGOWAN/Roger%20McGowan.docx#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Irish Catholic Parish Registers 1655-1915, Register of children baptized at the
Roman Catholic Church of St. Mary’s Parish, Dublin.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/MCGOWAN/Roger%20McGowan.docx#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Valuation of Tenements, Parish of Rossinver, Townland of Aghanlish. Rodger is
the 19<sup>th</sup> person listed on Lot 22.<o:p></o:p></p>
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</div><br /><br /><br />Chris Pattillo, FASLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704980567217692969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7923160542369902007.post-90243369674810916492021-11-08T16:59:00.006-08:002021-11-08T19:36:34.222-08:00Samuel Murray Stover 1824-1897 My 2nd Great Granduncle on My Father's Side - Part 1<p><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TcoC4Dz-WsU/YYnFZGF9CeI/AAAAAAAAFHo/DRrPTgpJ_lsH3llAjngNgthAMxOBcG3JACLcBGAsYHQ/s835/Stover%252C%2BSamuel%2BMurray_crop.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="835" data-original-width="663" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TcoC4Dz-WsU/YYnFZGF9CeI/AAAAAAAAFHo/DRrPTgpJ_lsH3llAjngNgthAMxOBcG3JACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Stover%252C%2BSamuel%2BMurray_crop.jpg" width="254" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr. Samuel M. Stover</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Samuel
Murray Stover was the second son of William Ward Stover and Sarah Murray Drake.
He was born on May 10, 1824 in Elizabethton, Carter County, Tennessee. His
older brother David Lincoln Stover was my second great grandfather. Samuel also
had a younger brother Col. Daniel Stover. There were no other children in this
family that I know of.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Samuel
was born when his father was 29 and actively involved in civic affairs. The
Stover family was comparatively well off in that William owned land and several
slaves. Though I have not found any records for Samuel dated prior to 1849, I think
it is reasonable to assume that he and his brothers received some education and
that as young men they worked on the family farm. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Cross
County Travels to California During the Gold Rush<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">The
first record I have for Samuel is a copy of the diary he kept from May to
September of 1849 as he traveled cross country to California during the Gold
Rush. The diary was published by his grandson H.M. Folsom in 1939 and was
reprinted in three issues of the WAGS Bulletin in 2012 in volume 39-40. The
original is held by Milligan University in Elizabethton.<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Samuel%20Murray/Samuel%20Murray%20Stover.docx#_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></a></span></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="3144" height="127" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zLw8z2nanD0/YYnF43GO7zI/AAAAAAAAFII/wRlP9n5EqVMqEoUBW_bx8y6RkLJKYN28QCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h127/pioneers%2Band%2Bminers%2Bcrop.jpg" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Miners Pioneer Ten Commandments of 1849<br />Scenes When Crossing the Plains in 1849<br />Lithograph by Kurz & Allison, 1887<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Samuel
traveled as part of a group called the Tennessee Company. The other members of
the group included William Carter Taylor, John E. Brown, Charles Mason and John
Edwin T. Harris. They began their journey from Independence Missouri and
Samuel’s first dairy entry was logged on May 1, 1849. He wrote, “We have agreed
to each furnish an equal share of the outfit, to mine together and to and make
an equal division of the proceeds of our labor, at the end of twelve months
after our arrival at the diggings in California.”</span><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Samuel%20Murray/Samuel%20Murray%20Stover.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 12pt;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[2]</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 12pt;">
He made journal entries every day commenting on the weather, the people they encountered,
the landscapes they were traveling through and the health problems of fellow
travelers. On May 6</span><sup style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> he noted that three or four immigrants had
died of cholera. On May 26</span><sup style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> a member of their party, H.A. Wood died
from cholera. As he continues, he made several notes about graves they passed.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">On
May 10<sup>th</sup> he wrote, “Today I am 25 years of age. How fast the years
glide by. Youth and old age, what a short span between them! Went to Wilson’s
camp, not yet ready to start. I killed a prairie hen eighty yards offhand.
Returned to camp, all well.” On May 13<sup>th</sup> he had dinner with his aunt
Deborah Stover whom he hadn’t seen for twenty years.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Samuel%20Murray/Samuel%20Murray%20Stover.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2JjUVV4FVEU/YYnGb428ESI/AAAAAAAAFIQ/h18W1MfAES0cfHMW2NirCbHgIL731-RJACLcBGAsYHQ/s1539/prospecting%2B2%2Bcrop.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1198" data-original-width="1539" height="249" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2JjUVV4FVEU/YYnGb428ESI/AAAAAAAAFIQ/h18W1MfAES0cfHMW2NirCbHgIL731-RJACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/prospecting%2B2%2Bcrop.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lithograph by Kurz & Allison</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">On
May 19<sup>th</sup> he wrote about an encounter with one of the local Indians,
“… a fine looking Indian came and inquired if I was a doctor. He wanted me to
go and see his father. …I took some medicines …. and came to the cabin of the
sick Indian. He was an old man and was evidently in the last stages of cholera.
His squaw was a fine looking woman of about 35 years of age. They had two very
handsome little Indian children. I gave him some medicines and directed the
young Indian on how to give them.” This event took place while they were
traveling through Kansas. He made several notes about encounters with the
Pottawattomie Indians that he noted were very friendly and warned them that the
Pawnee would steal from them. On June 8<sup>th</sup> they encountered a large
group of Sioux Indians that he described as “fine looking men”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">By
June 1<sup>st</sup> they had travelled two hundred miles. Several in their
party were sick and unable to continue so the group decided to rest for a day.
Some in their group decided to return to their homes in Kentucky. </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QjEb8djAdt8/YYnGzU-ABrI/AAAAAAAAFIY/U85y6MyC4OgbUDa-9EAtQ0vstmUHb-SgACLcBGAsYHQ/s2041/start%2Bof%2Bgold%2Brush%2Btrip.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1091" data-original-width="2041" height="214" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QjEb8djAdt8/YYnGzU-ABrI/AAAAAAAAFIY/U85y6MyC4OgbUDa-9EAtQ0vstmUHb-SgACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h214/start%2Bof%2Bgold%2Brush%2Btrip.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Route map that Samuel's party took from the Watauga Bulletin, Vol. 39</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Samuel’s
June 9<sup>th</sup> commentary made me laugh. He wrote, “A very pretty young
lady at Fort Kearney (in Nebraska) sold us some milk. Smiled very gratefully
and looked as though she thought she was an object of admiration. I thought her
quite handsome, but it may be that not having seen a young lady for a month
might have added to her charms.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Most
of Samuel’s entries are matter of fact but on some days, he was more poetic –
June 13<sup>th</sup> he offered, “These hills are very beautiful and
picturesque at a distance, resemble the waves of the ocean, looks like they had
been thrown up by the ebb and flow of the waters. Some of them raise almost perpendicular
and fall as suddenly.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">From
June 16<sup>th</sup> to July 14<sup>th,</sup> he traveled along the Platte
River through Kansas and into Colorado. Several of his journal entries talked
about herds of buffalo that they saw and hunted. He continued to mention
encounters with the native Americans and on June 20<sup>th</sup> he described a
serious gunshot wound to one of his fellow travelers that he helped to treat.
Ultimately the party took the injured man to Ft. Laramie. Most days he noted
how many miles they traveled which typically ranged from 12 to 25 miles each
day.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QbgEmwhwPC8/YYnHN1CinII/AAAAAAAAFIg/xySFfXrbLBsh3MEVLbLWZAIBH2ZnzR45wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1391/Gold%2BMiners%2BEl%2BDorado%2BCounty%2Bfrom%2BLOC.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="716" data-original-width="1391" height="206" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QbgEmwhwPC8/YYnHN1CinII/AAAAAAAAFIg/xySFfXrbLBsh3MEVLbLWZAIBH2ZnzR45wCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h206/Gold%2BMiners%2BEl%2BDorado%2BCounty%2Bfrom%2BLOC.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gold Miners of El Dorado County from the Library of Congress collection</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 12pt;">In
July he encountered two immigrants that were from Tennessee – a Mrs. Vestil
“treated me to a fine supper of buffalo meat, biscuits and coffee.” The
following day they met Mr. Bridleman from Sullivan, Tennessee and eight
Virginians. Occasionally, Samuel commented on the number of travelers for
example on July 11</span><sup style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> he noted that they’d seen “some two or three
hundred wagons.” On the 15</span><sup style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> he again mentioned “Several hundred
wagons passed during the day and the creek again is white with wagons and tents
and the bottom is alive with stock.”</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">July
17<sup>th</sup> brought reports of Indians killing whites in Oregon and reassurance
that gold was abundant in California. On July 24<sup>th</sup> he reported that
their mules had stampeded. This reminded me of the Western movies we used to
watch on television in the late 1950s and 60s. It’s odd to realize my second
granduncle actually experienced these things in person.</span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_1ky2iN8VIw/YYnHlblTmBI/AAAAAAAAFIo/E-EHFmxcfa0bqGYNFQoZQJ8uy5WBBL8lACLcBGAsYHQ/s786/STover%2BSM%2Barticle%2Bre%2BSir%2BFrancis%2BDrake.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="786" data-original-width="545" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_1ky2iN8VIw/YYnHlblTmBI/AAAAAAAAFIo/E-EHFmxcfa0bqGYNFQoZQJ8uy5WBBL8lACLcBGAsYHQ/w278-h400/STover%2BSM%2Barticle%2Bre%2BSir%2BFrancis%2BDrake.jpg" width="278" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">News clip that mentions our supposed<br />connection to Sir Francis Drake</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Finding
water and grazing for themselves and their animals was a constant need. For
most of the route they found abundance but on August 22<sup>nd</sup> he wrote,
“No grass except here and there a bunch. Not enough for an animal to live upon…..
found the stream was so small and so much stock around it that we could not get
a drop for our animals…..Had great trouble at night on account of the dead and
tired oxen that had fallen in the road ….. we slept until morning when we were
aroused by the gnawing of our horses which had become so famished that they had
begun to eat up our wagon, to gnaw off their blankets and bridle rein.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Friday,
August 31<sup>st</sup>, “Today we crossed the Sierra Nevadas. … when we came to
the top a beautiful forest of tall and stately pines that burst upon our vision
… nothing could be more welcome than the shores of the Pacific.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">The
last published entry was dated September 12<sup>th</sup>. Regrettably, I’ve not
found anything about whether the Tennessee Company found success in the gold
fields nor any report about the return trip to Eastern Tennessee. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">I
am not certain but strongly suspect that another accounting of Samuel may be in
the <i>History of Sonoma County</i> by J.P. Munro-Fraser published in 1880. The
book includes a chapter about Nicholas Carriger who moved to Sonoma County,
California from Elizabethton, Tennessee. The Stover and Carriger families were
associated in Tennessee. In this book the author mentioned that a Dr. Storer
was included in a party of men who took “a drove of cattle to Trinity County …
the party being composed of Mr. Carriger, his two brothers, Solomon and Caleb,
and Dr. Storer, with eleven Indians …. and remained there until June in 1850.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Samuel%20Murray/Samuel%20Murray%20Stover.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>”
I believe this mention of a “Dr. Storer” is actually about Dr. Samuel M.
Stover.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qVOsXOUftiA/YYnH4xYod5I/AAAAAAAAFIw/FYwTEhjgy9ApU3sIgxkHXq5N--mBQW1fACLcBGAsYHQ/s415/STOVER%2BSamuel%2BM.%2Bon%2Bwill%2Bof%2BAbraham%2BDrake.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="88" data-original-width="415" height="85" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qVOsXOUftiA/YYnH4xYod5I/AAAAAAAAFIw/FYwTEhjgy9ApU3sIgxkHXq5N--mBQW1fACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h85/STOVER%2BSamuel%2BM.%2Bon%2Bwill%2Bof%2BAbraham%2BDrake.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Samuel's signature from the will of his grandfather<br />Abraham Drake</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<div style="mso-element: footnote-list;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><br clear="all" />
<hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" />
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<div id="ftn1" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Samuel%20Murray/Samuel%20Murray%20Stover.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Another
copy of the diary is held by the Bancroft Library at the University of
California, Berkeley campus.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn2" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Samuel%20Murray/Samuel%20Murray%20Stover.docx#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
WAGS Bulletin Vol. 39 (2) 2010 p. 146.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn3" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Samuel%20Murray/Samuel%20Murray%20Stover.docx#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Robert Nave and Margaret Hougland researched the names of the people that
Samuel mentioned in the journal and added footnotes to explain who each was. <o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn4" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Samuel%20Murray/Samuel%20Murray%20Stover.docx#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <i>History
of Sonoma</i> County p.675.<o:p></o:p></p>
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</div>Chris Pattillo, FASLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704980567217692969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7923160542369902007.post-43910427012986195042021-11-08T16:46:00.004-08:002021-11-08T19:37:23.265-08:00Samuel Murray Stover 1824 -1891 My 2nd Great Granduncle on My Father's Side - Part 2<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">1850
and Marriage to Caroline Brooks</span></b></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jH3fzCrbDyA/YYm_3VJaiuI/AAAAAAAAFFY/MN-N-4fBiSofA-D4efzvWmW8bNIoA95fwCLcBGAsYHQ/s128/Brooks%252C%2BCaroline%2BCalhoun%2BStover.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="128" data-original-width="88" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jH3fzCrbDyA/YYm_3VJaiuI/AAAAAAAAFFY/MN-N-4fBiSofA-D4efzvWmW8bNIoA95fwCLcBGAsYHQ/w275-h400/Brooks%252C%2BCaroline%2BCalhoun%2BStover.jpg" width="275" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Caroline Calhoun Brooks</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;">When
the census was taken in Elizabethton in August of 1850 Samuel was living with
his parents and maternal grandmother Eliza Murray Drake. He was twenty-nine
years old and his profession was shown as a physician. The value of the real
estate he owned was $1000.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Samuel
married Caroline “Carrie” Calhoun Brooks in Abbeville, South Carolina ca. 1851<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Samuel%20Murray/Samuel%20Murray%20Stover.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>.
Carrie was the daughter of William Butler Brooks (1806-1868) and Almena McGehee
(1810-1877). She was born on September 3, 1833 in Abbeville. Abbeville is 150
miles south of Elizabethton – as the crow flies – a considerable distance in
1860 and two states away. I’d love to know how these two families got connected.
Samuel’s brother David also married a woman from Abbeville. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">On
April 14, 1852 Samuel and both of his brothers inherited land from their
father. This was land that William Stover had received in the will of Mary
Lincoln Stover. Samuel was twenty-seven at the time. At the same time William
sold several slaves to Samuel for $5700. Their names were Betsy aged 27, Landon
19, Lucas 16, Mason 15, Mariah 12, June 10, Elen 9, and Alexander 8 months.
Samuel subsequently sold Lucas to his brother David for $500.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Samuel%20Murray/Samuel%20Murray%20Stover.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[2]</span></span></span></a></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5z0TCH-0UwM/YYnA4q61RKI/AAAAAAAAFGo/AHyOWRjFvEspZ0dx_SAvejPsMXE27bhJQCLcBGAsYHQ/s250/Stover%2BAlmena%2BM%2BBondurand%2Btombstone.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="188" data-original-width="250" height="188" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5z0TCH-0UwM/YYnA4q61RKI/AAAAAAAAFGo/AHyOWRjFvEspZ0dx_SAvejPsMXE27bhJQCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Stover%2BAlmena%2BM%2BBondurand%2Btombstone.jpg" width="250" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Almena McGehee "Minnie" Stover</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">In
January of 1853 Samuel purchased three tracts of land from David Nave. All were
located on the north side of the Watauga River – they totaled 225 acres. His
brother David L. Stover was a witness to this deed along with Godfrey Nave.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Samuel%20Murray/Samuel%20Murray%20Stover.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Samuel
and Carrie’s first child, a daughter named Almena McGehee Stover was born on
August 1, 1854. Belvadora “Bell” Stover was born a little more than a year
later on October 1, 1855, and Amelia Lincoln Stover arrived on August 19, 1857.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">On
September 27, 1854 the <i>Loudon Free Press</i> in Tennessee published a letter
submitted by Samuel M. Stover that recorded his observations about the state of
the local crops and prices of hogs, cattle, horses and mules.</span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CGQuWJmtOGc/YYnAmyxp5kI/AAAAAAAAFGI/HwR6ltG0rtwd5Oq7idXRGOkogLnP3hCngCLcBGAsYHQ/s859/Stover%2BSamuel%2BM%2Bnews%2Bclip%2Babout%2Bcrops.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="859" data-original-width="575" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CGQuWJmtOGc/YYnAmyxp5kI/AAAAAAAAFGI/HwR6ltG0rtwd5Oq7idXRGOkogLnP3hCngCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Stover%2BSamuel%2BM%2Bnews%2Bclip%2Babout%2Bcrops.jpg" width="214" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Article Samuel wrote about<br />crops and livestock</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Samuel
bought another tract of land for the woods and mineral rights from Benjamin C.
Foster for $300 in December of 1854.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Samuel%20Murray/Samuel%20Murray%20Stover.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
The following year he acquired a tract on the south side of Holston Mountain
from William B. Carter and James P.T. Carter who were the executors of the
estate of A.M. Carter. This parcel was also purchased for the woods and mineral
rights at a cost of $17.76, and the following year William B. Carter sold
Samuel another tract for $27. David L. Stover witnessed this deed as well.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Samuel%20Murray/Samuel%20Murray%20Stover.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">In
1857 Christian Carriger sold two tracts on the south side of the Watauga River, near the foot of Lynn Mountain, that was
adjacent to the land owned by David L. Stover. This was a 170-acre parcel. The
other parcel was 55 acres that had been owned by John Carriger. Isaac Nave and
Jacob Cameron were the witnesses. Then in 1858, Silas Ritchie sold Samuel an 88-acre
tract on the south side of Stony Creek for $5. In May of 1858 Christian
Carriger sold Samuel another parcel on Stony Point on Lynn Mountain. This was a
13 ½ acre parcel that Samuel paid $10 for. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">The
following year Samuel’s older brother David Lincoln Stover died at the age of
53. Samuel’s first son, William Butler Stover was born on February 26, 1859,
and a second son Samuel “Sammie” was born April 1, 1860.</span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oaskuF1Cvb4/YYnBPKnGi1I/AAAAAAAAFGw/Ss190NWmTCw_oaJs4ogWAeRob7dO3xVOACLcBGAsYHQ/s434/Stover%2BSammie%2B1860-1867.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="434" data-original-width="250" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oaskuF1Cvb4/YYnBPKnGi1I/AAAAAAAAFGw/Ss190NWmTCw_oaJs4ogWAeRob7dO3xVOACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Stover%2BSammie%2B1860-1867.jpg" width="184" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sammie Stover 1860-1867</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">In
September of 1859 Samuel formed a partnership with A.J. Tipton and James A. Burrows.
He invested $300 of capitol into Tipton& Burrows, a retail business that in
Elizabethton “to buy and sell all sorts of goods and merchandise.” Tipton and
Burrows would operate the store and draw a salary while all three would share
equally in the profits.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Samuel%20Murray/Samuel%20Murray%20Stover.docx#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Following
his father’s example, Samuel helped to raise funds to build a parsonage for the
First Presbyterian Church in town. It was to be built on land owned by Jack
Smit. Samuel and other men of the community raised $274.15, as recorded on
April 28, 1860. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">When
the 1860 census was taken Samuel and Carrie were living in Elizabethton in
house number 228, next door to his brother David’s widow and children. Samuel
was 36, Carrie, listed as Caroline was 26, and their four children ranged in
age from 1 to 5. Rather than being listed as a physician Samuel was identified
as a farmer owning $12,500 worth of real estate and a personal estate valued at
$15,000.</span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-js-iF2Aa4mw/YYnB7u0eEMI/AAAAAAAAFG4/LAGhygIdz7ANXjd41ti1YKwujFnYjk68gCLcBGAsYHQ/s509/Presbeterian%2Bchurch%2BElizabethton.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="509" data-original-width="481" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-js-iF2Aa4mw/YYnB7u0eEMI/AAAAAAAAFG4/LAGhygIdz7ANXjd41ti1YKwujFnYjk68gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Presbeterian%2Bchurch%2BElizabethton.jpg" width="302" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First Presbyterian Church in Elizabethton</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">The
year after the 1860 census a daughter named Sarah Drake “Sallie” Stover was
born and was named after her grandmother Sarah Murry Drake Stover. Sallie was
the sixth child born to Samuel and Carrie.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">In
August of 1860 Samuel sold a one ninth interest he owned in a slave named Jo to
Samuel W. Williams for $125.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Samuel%20Murray/Samuel%20Murray%20Stover.docx#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
Two months later he purchased another parcel from William C. Carter on the
south side of Holston Mountain that was adjacent to land owned by H.C. Nave,
Benjamin C. Foster, William Duncan and John Nave.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Samuel%20Murray/Samuel%20Murray%20Stover.docx#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">On
December 5, 1861 he sold a 93-acre tract on the Doe River to Samuel B. O’Brien
who was from Knox County, Tennessee, and he received a payment of $1100. This
parcel adjoined land owned by Abraham Tipton and Thomas Johnson.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Samuel%20Murray/Samuel%20Murray%20Stover.docx#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[9]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">M.J.
Morton sold Samuel two tracts in April of 1862. These were lots No. 1 and 2 and
were 13 ¾ and 13 2/3-acre parcels. Samuel paid $450 for both. Previously they
had been owned by William Hardin and Henry Hardin.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Samuel%20Murray/Samuel%20Murray%20Stover.docx#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[10]</span></span></span></a></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4jiJ2u5L74c/YYnCwMWlsUI/AAAAAAAAFHE/-zJNdVpoKyUW5QP--VQo3Sy4f1oy7FS-gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1440/Stover%2BAmelia%2BFolsom%2Bheadstone.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="806" data-original-width="1440" height="179" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4jiJ2u5L74c/YYnCwMWlsUI/AAAAAAAAFHE/-zJNdVpoKyUW5QP--VQo3Sy4f1oy7FS-gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Stover%2BAmelia%2BFolsom%2Bheadstone.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Amelia Lincoln Stover</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Samuel%20Murray/Samuel%20Murray%20Stover.docx#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><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/-VrcoblS4kDc/YYnC3jWlzcI/AAAAAAAAFHI/sw9zhuUxbjILTLqK-LTMWYUf5JNWJbaLQCLcBGAsYHQ/s840/SMITH%2BBelvadora%2BStover.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="840" data-original-width="634" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VrcoblS4kDc/YYnC3jWlzcI/AAAAAAAAFHI/sw9zhuUxbjILTLqK-LTMWYUf5JNWJbaLQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/SMITH%2BBelvadora%2BStover.jpg" width="242" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Belvadore "Belle" Stover</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/-3IQlsOF3NWs/YYnCwE-eYdI/AAAAAAAAFHA/_-iePHcjhxsQzV7DwrRD7rxu4UCDWVzhACLcBGAsYHQ/s746/Farming%2BImplements%2BBrownslow%2527s%2BKnoxville%2Bpaper.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="746" data-original-width="561" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3IQlsOF3NWs/YYnCwE-eYdI/AAAAAAAAFHA/_-iePHcjhxsQzV7DwrRD7rxu4UCDWVzhACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Farming%2BImplements%2BBrownslow%2527s%2BKnoxville%2Bpaper.jpg" width="241" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An ad from the day Samuel was<br />mentioned in the Brownlow's Press</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
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South Carolina, US compiled Marriage Index found on Ancestry. I have one source
that says they were married in June of 1851 and another showing 1854. Their
first child was born in August of 1854 so either could be correct.<o:p></o:p></p>
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147 Deed Book L or M, 15 April 1852.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Aug 1853, DB M pg. 401-02<o:p></o:p></p>
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Deed registered 29 March 1855, DB N, p. 98.<o:p></o:p></p>
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March 1856<o:p></o:p></p>
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Sept 1859, registered on the 10<sup>th</sup> in DB O p. 3. James L. Bradley,
Clerk, John W. Cameron, Deputy Clerk.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Samuel%20Murray/Samuel%20Murray%20Stover.docx#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> 6
Aug 1860, DB O, p. 198<o:p></o:p></p>
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Registered 13 July 1861 DB O, p. 331.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Registered 5 Dec. 1981, DB O, p. 367.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Registered 11 April 1862 DB O, p. 402 </p>Chris Pattillo, FASLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704980567217692969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7923160542369902007.post-56505917434490431712021-11-08T16:46:00.003-08:002021-11-08T19:36:53.397-08:00Samuel Murray Stover 1824-1897 My 2nd Great Granduncle on My Father's Side - Part 3<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ijl0m65qnWs/YYm4ix81GyI/AAAAAAAAFDA/-AmKVRceUqURyD5zuNGyug0koz-V2c1QwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/STOVER%2BSamuel_Fold3_23.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1580" data-original-width="2048" height="247" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ijl0m65qnWs/YYm4ix81GyI/AAAAAAAAFDA/-AmKVRceUqURyD5zuNGyug0koz-V2c1QwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/STOVER%2BSamuel_Fold3_23.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div>This is one of several documents found on Fold3<br />about Samuel's contributions during the Civil War</div></td></tr></tbody></table><b>Role
During the Civil War</b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Between
1861 and 1864 Samuel supported the confederate army during the Civil War. On
September 2,1861 he was paid $947 for six mules, two horses and a wagon.
Between 1862 and 1864 he received an additional $1165 for 334 pounds of beef,
150 pounds of pork, an unspecified amount of bacon, 210 bushels of corn, 5000
pounds of hay, and 300 pounds of iron. The iron likely came from the Speedwell
Bloomary Forge on Stoney Creek that was owned by his father William Stover.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Samuel
served as a physician under Robert E. Lee in Clarkson’s Battalion with the
Independent Rangers. Pvt. Co. C. He was also a Commissary Officer and worked
with quartermasters of Vaughn’s Brigade, 8<sup>th</sup> Virginia Cavalry and
Morgan’s Men. One of the slaves he owned, Robert Stover accompanied Samuel when
he went to Virginia. Robert served as a cavalry teamster. Apparently, Robert
was the only known black soldier to serve the Confederacy from Carter County.
Robert was awarded a pension from the State for his service.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Samuel%20Murray/Samuel%20Murray%20Stover.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">During
the war the Stover family suffered the deaths of the family patriarch, William
Stover and Samuel’s younger brother Daniel who was serving with the Union Army
as a colonel with the 4<sup>th</sup> Regiment of Volunteers.</span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FJMUiF3ISW0/YYm7hq6A1II/AAAAAAAAFEA/W7gT-7Hfk4E411TlR7w-jMEoij5_lF59gCLcBGAsYHQ/s4896/Stover%2BInfant%2BSon%2Bb%2B%2526%2Bd%2BMay%2B1868.JPG" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4896" data-original-width="3672" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FJMUiF3ISW0/YYm7hq6A1II/AAAAAAAAFEA/W7gT-7Hfk4E411TlR7w-jMEoij5_lF59gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Stover%2BInfant%2BSon%2Bb%2B%2526%2Bd%2BMay%2B1868.JPG" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">H.L. Stover May 1868</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Shortly
after the Civil War ended Charles Daniel Stover was born on October 25, 1865.
Next was H.L. Stover, a son born in May of 1868. </span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-USprRHtcDbc/YYm7F5N1i8I/AAAAAAAAFD4/x35d1SoQrXUhq1bwO5q1jVmmPu7cFzfLQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Stover%2BCharles%2BDaniel%2Bheadstone%2Bfrom%2BFind-A-Grave.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1269" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-USprRHtcDbc/YYm7F5N1i8I/AAAAAAAAFD4/x35d1SoQrXUhq1bwO5q1jVmmPu7cFzfLQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Stover%2BCharles%2BDaniel%2Bheadstone%2Bfrom%2BFind-A-Grave.jpg" width="198" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charles Daniel Stover<br />1865-1897</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">More
Land Transactions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Jacob
Taylor and Pleasant Willams sold Samuel a 7-acre parcel on the south side of
Stony Creek for $2000 in 1863. This parcel had been owned by Samuel’s father in
1857 when the meets and bounds were recorded in deed book N on page 483.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">In
1865 Samuel sold 170 acres on the Watauga River to Charles P. Toncray of Carter
County for $7500. This was the parcel he had purchased that was adjacent to his
brother’s land. He also sold the parcel on Stony Point on Lynn Mountain as part
of this transaction.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Samuel%20Murray/Samuel%20Murray%20Stover.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
The following month Samuel sold an additional tract to David J Nave for $800.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Samuel%20Murray/Samuel%20Murray%20Stover.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
These two sales were likely driven by the need to cover heavy taxation that was
imposed after the Civil War.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">In
September of 1865 Samuel purchased another quarter interest in the 5000-acre
parcel of land that had previously been owned by his father, from Pleasant
Williams.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Samuel%20Murray/Samuel%20Murray%20Stover.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">The
final land transaction I have found for Samuel occurred in May of 1866 when he
sold a 50-acre parcel on the Watauga River for $1500 to William A.J. Pearce and
John T. Pearce.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Samuel%20Murray/Samuel%20Murray%20Stover.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> In
total Samuel purchased twelve tracts of land during his lifetime (that I found
records for) totally more than 1785 acres. All were located in Carter County –
most in district 9 and a couple in district 10.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Late
1860s and the 1870s<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Two
news articles from 1867 demonstrate that Samuel continued to be actively
engaged in civic affairs of the times. On May 17<sup>th</sup> the <i>East
Tennessee Union Flag</i> ran a story headlined “Convention of the Radical
Unionists of Carter County”. In this column Samuel Stover was listed as a
delegate from the 9<sup>th</sup> District and as such attended a convention
held at the Court House in Elizabethton to help nominate a representative for
the county, and a candidate for senator in the first District of the State. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">In
July of the same year the <i>Brownlow’s Knoxville Whig</i> reported that Samuel
Stover again represented the 9<sup>th</sup> District from Carter to nominate a
floater to represent Johnson and Carter counties in the representative branch
of the next legislature. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">A
ninth child and last son, Henry Tucker Stover was born in November 1869 when
the family was living in Sullivan County, Tennessee.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1DYQFNEi6Cs/YYm8LLkwX2I/AAAAAAAAFEI/JL81jrNgmHkJY5lxxL5gKRtWNonjQ6L8gCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Stover%2BHenry%2BTucker%2Bheadstone%2Bfrm%2BFind-A-Grave.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1613" data-original-width="2048" height="252" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1DYQFNEi6Cs/YYm8LLkwX2I/AAAAAAAAFEI/JL81jrNgmHkJY5lxxL5gKRtWNonjQ6L8gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Stover%2BHenry%2BTucker%2Bheadstone%2Bfrm%2BFind-A-Grave.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Headstone for Henry Tucker Stover</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 12pt;">On
the 1870 census Samuel was listed as S. Murray Stover which is unusual</span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 12pt;">in most records he is listed as Samuel M.
Stover. He and Caroline were living in house number 105 along with their 6
children including Minnie 15, Belle 14, Amelia L. 12, William B. 11, Sallie D.
9 and Charles D. 4. Samuel’s mother Sarah M. Stover, 76 was living with them as
was Charlotte Stewart 21 who was employed as a housekeeper. I cannot figure out
why their youngest child Henry T. Stover was not listed on this census. On this
census Samuel was identified as a physician but his assets had declined
substantially – likely due to the Civil War. Their real estate value was shown
as $2800 and personal estate as only $956 – a combined loss of $23,744 since
the 1860 census. Also interesting to note is that all of the real estate was
listed under Caroline’s name. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7yvIcrCRN-E/YYm8lhGLkII/AAAAAAAAFEQ/Brf_FT25oLgEkjfKAetWn8NPus4L8LloACLcBGAsYHQ/s1908/STOVER%2BSamuel%2B_Fold3_17.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1908" data-original-width="1261" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7yvIcrCRN-E/YYm8lhGLkII/AAAAAAAAFEQ/Brf_FT25oLgEkjfKAetWn8NPus4L8LloACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/STOVER%2BSamuel%2B_Fold3_17.jpg" width="211" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another Civil War record</td></tr></tbody></table></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 12pt;">In
May of 1873, the Bristol news ran an interesting article as follows: “A
Curiosity - Dr. S.M. Stover has laid upon our table, a very rare curiosity,
being a couple of iron ore specimens, which would ordinarily be pronounced
petrifactions. In reality, they are beautifully exact imitations of oak roots,
showing the bark, with every wrinkle and prominence. Evidently the wooden
particles have been replaced by this pure article of brown hematite ore. They
are one and a half inches in diameter, and show the peculiar internal structure
of the wood in the most minute manner. They were obtained from the center of a
solid rock which had been rent asunder. They were taken from Stover's Ore Bank
on Stony Creek, Carter Co. Tenn., eleven miles from Elizabethton.”</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">On
July 27, 1873 Samuel and Caroline had their last child – a daughter named Emma
Brooks Stover. According to the Social Security Death Index, this child lived
to the age of 93 and died in Knoxville in 1967. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Samuel’s
beloved mother Sarah died while living with Samuel and Caroline on May 21,
1874. She is buried in the Drakes Cliff Cemetery in Elizabethton beside her
husband.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Caroline’s
Death and Marriage to Amanda Hopkins<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">In
January of 1875 Samuel’s wife Caroline died at the age of 41 leaving him with
three young children. He did not remarry until October 29, 1878 at which time
he married Amada Hopkins, also a native of Tennessee. Amanda was the daughter
of James F. Hopkins and Sarah J.E. Hopkins.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Samuel%20Murray/Samuel%20Murray%20Stover.docx#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Claude J. Stover was born March 24, 1880 when
Samuel was 55.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rJ5t3sfIwAo/YYm81xwWVBI/AAAAAAAAFEY/X3iKBmw1lwYZvycbrmVNzWlTeL16vN7TgCLcBGAsYHQ/s496/Stover%2BCarrie%2Bd%2B1879.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="496" data-original-width="250" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rJ5t3sfIwAo/YYm81xwWVBI/AAAAAAAAFEY/X3iKBmw1lwYZvycbrmVNzWlTeL16vN7TgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Stover%2BCarrie%2Bd%2B1879.jpg" width="161" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Carrie Stover's marker</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The
1880 Carter County census was taken in June. Samuel age 56 and Amanda age 20 were
living at Stoney Creek with their son Claude age 1. Samuel was again listed as
a physician. Later that year on June 12</span><sup style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> the </span><i style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Bristol News</i><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 12pt;">
reported that the Samuel Stover family had returned to Sullivan County,
Tennessee, “having bought the 1900-acre Palmer sawmill tract from Mr. M.L.
Blackly, and the adjoining Hoffman-Blevins tract of 750 acres. He now has the
finest forests of white pine and other timber in the county.” The reporter
added, “I am glad he comes back to the neighborhood of Bristol. Our people
always liked him and I am no exception to that rule. He is within eight miles
of us.”</span><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Samuel%20Murray/Samuel%20Murray%20Stover.docx#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[7]</span></span></span></span></a><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Samuel
lived to see at least five of his children be married. Almena in 1871,
Belvadora in 1873, Amelia and William in 1884, and Charles in 1890. His son
John Murray Stover was born February 6, 1889, and another son William Hopkins
Stover was born November 6, 1895. </span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kuDFKUVhbsc/YYm9FuUmzeI/AAAAAAAAFEg/06KqrZDFI78TXgwhac2A12GmdSLQWykcgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Stover%2BSamuel%2BMurray%2Bheadstone%2Bfrom%2BFind-A-Grave.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1346" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kuDFKUVhbsc/YYm9FuUmzeI/AAAAAAAAFEg/06KqrZDFI78TXgwhac2A12GmdSLQWykcgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Stover%2BSamuel%2BMurray%2Bheadstone%2Bfrom%2BFind-A-Grave.jpg" width="210" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Samuel's original headstone.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Samuel
died on March 20, 1897 at the age of 72. He is buried in the Drakes Cliff
Cemetery in Elizabethton along with several of his children, his parents, one
brother and Robert Stover, the former slave who accompanied Samuel during the
Civil War.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hT6X_EWns_c/YYm9i2XIWcI/AAAAAAAAFE4/6IDTWy_gkQgm8VJMziJ1xd5RwPsbsOcbACLcBGAsYHQ/s1960/Stover%2BWilliam%2Bdeath%2Brecord%2Bfrom%2BFS.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1682" data-original-width="1960" height="275" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hT6X_EWns_c/YYm9i2XIWcI/AAAAAAAAFE4/6IDTWy_gkQgm8VJMziJ1xd5RwPsbsOcbACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Stover%2BWilliam%2Bdeath%2Brecord%2Bfrom%2BFS.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">William Stover death certificate showing<br />Samuel and Amada as parents</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><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/-xa03ifI8vWw/YYm9ihb90vI/AAAAAAAAFE0/yVpTCWl73oU6NAicR5zJ6PGd88gvNbdaACLcBGAsYHQ/s863/Stover%2BSamuel%2Band%2BAmanda%2Bmarriage%2Brecord.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="863" data-original-width="518" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xa03ifI8vWw/YYm9ihb90vI/AAAAAAAAFE0/yVpTCWl73oU6NAicR5zJ6PGd88gvNbdaACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Stover%2BSamuel%2Band%2BAmanda%2Bmarriage%2Brecord.jpg" width="192" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Samuel and Amanda marriage</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/-sP2Z54gRKaA/YYm9h8FXCPI/AAAAAAAAFEs/nOPxjXVBPCQ2u0sFmVEm1qz5eqCfsOu8gCLcBGAsYHQ/s867/Stover%2BJohnMurray%2Band%2BWilliam%2BHopkins.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="867" data-original-width="718" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sP2Z54gRKaA/YYm9h8FXCPI/AAAAAAAAFEs/nOPxjXVBPCQ2u0sFmVEm1qz5eqCfsOu8gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Stover%2BJohnMurray%2Band%2BWilliam%2BHopkins.jpg" width="265" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Murray Stover and William Hopkins<br />Stover, sons of Samuel and Amanda</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3v5GW_EbHZg/YYm9iCDG4SI/AAAAAAAAFEw/jvfEDeAd2JYkDpCarQSifEcYXdWR_ftNACLcBGAsYHQ/s1827/Stover%2BJohn%2BMurray%2Bheadstone.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1144" data-original-width="1827" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3v5GW_EbHZg/YYm9iCDG4SI/AAAAAAAAFEw/jvfEDeAd2JYkDpCarQSifEcYXdWR_ftNACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Stover%2BJohn%2BMurray%2Bheadstone.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eRF6tfLi6W8/YYm9hr8c0SI/AAAAAAAAFEo/f386AygZu5AyOfJ9H9eBltTdPbNN4oYZgCLcBGAsYHQ/s306/STOVER%2BClaude%2Bfrom%2BAncestry.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="306" data-original-width="290" height="306" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eRF6tfLi6W8/YYm9hr8c0SI/AAAAAAAAFEo/f386AygZu5AyOfJ9H9eBltTdPbNN4oYZgCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/STOVER%2BClaude%2Bfrom%2BAncestry.jpg" width="290" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Claude J. Stover 1880-1939, Samuel <br />and Amanda's son</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/-nfd8MngxcjQ/YYm9jjzp9LI/AAAAAAAAFE8/YQSRawB6bgA2WOH8QAVaKRZEiW5fqXZTACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/DSC01579.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1720" data-original-width="2048" height="269" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nfd8MngxcjQ/YYm9jjzp9LI/AAAAAAAAFE8/YQSRawB6bgA2WOH8QAVaKRZEiW5fqXZTACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/DSC01579.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Robert Stover, the African American who<br />accompanied Samuel during the Civil </td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <o:p></o:p><p></p>
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Information provided by W.C. Hicks, a Carter County history and Civil War buff.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Registered in DB O, P. 570, 17 Aug. 1865<o:p></o:p></p>
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Registered in DB O, p. 581<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Samuel%20Murray/Samuel%20Murray%20Stover.docx#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> 21
September 1865, registered in DB N, p. 485.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Registered 7 May 1866, DB O, p. 647.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Samuel%20Murray/Samuel%20Murray%20Stover.docx#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> 1880
Census Sullivan, TN. US marriage records for Tennessee 1780-2002, p. 225 found
on Ancestry. Tennessee compiled marriages 1851-1900.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Samuel%20Murray/Samuel%20Murray%20Stover.docx#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <i>On
The Sidewalk</i>, society news column Bristol News, 12 June 1880.</p></div></div><p></p>Chris Pattillo, FASLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704980567217692969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7923160542369902007.post-7886605027778530012021-08-22T17:00:00.000-07:002021-08-22T17:00:39.184-07:00Lottie's Photos: Cousins 1954<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-txSzZerZ4Sw/YSLkbj-OCEI/AAAAAAAAE_w/RBvTf_tSwyE9J6DI6MFlDevW_UFk-K9lQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1059/PATTILLO_Anna%2BMarge%2BPat%2BLottie%2BChris_LAWRENCE_Elma%2BLaine%2BKaren_GAUGER_Sue_1954.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1059" data-original-width="1051" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-txSzZerZ4Sw/YSLkbj-OCEI/AAAAAAAAE_w/RBvTf_tSwyE9J6DI6MFlDevW_UFk-K9lQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/PATTILLO_Anna%2BMarge%2BPat%2BLottie%2BChris_LAWRENCE_Elma%2BLaine%2BKaren_GAUGER_Sue_1954.jpg" width="318" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">This
is one of my favorites of my mother’s photos because it depicts a group of
family members that she very rarely captured. It was taken in 1954 not long
after my parents had completed building our new family home in Castro Valley.
From left to right are Jeanette Frink (Jo Pattillo’s daughter and my father’s
cousin), Anna Pattillo, Marge Pattillo holding 2 ½-year-old Pat, Lottie with
Laine Lawrence at 9 or 10 standing in front of her, Judy Gauger, 15 (Jeanette’s
daughter), and Karen Lawrence, 16. I am standing in front of Judy and would
have been 4 when this photo was taken.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">The
giant camellia that now fills the corner behind where they are standing either
hadn’t been planted or it was very small. Our grandfather developed hybrid
camellias and he gave several plants to our parents for their new home.
Unfortunately, he failed to convey how large they would grow so mom and dad
were forever brutally pruning them back so we would be able to walk around the
side of the house. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">No
one knew at the time this photo was taken that Laine and I would both develop a
passion for family history and that our
connection and friendship would develop many years later. One of the highlights
of my genealogical research was an afternoon Mom and I spent with Laine and her
mother Elma at their home in Brentwood. It was at that time that Elma told me about our great
grandmother Carrie Brooks Stover and our connection through her to the White
House. At the time it seemed rather fanciful but years later when I found documentation
that proved the story, I knew it was true. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p><br /></p>Chris Pattillo, FASLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704980567217692969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7923160542369902007.post-35748330179574086572021-07-19T16:05:00.001-07:002021-07-19T16:05:52.819-07:00Sarah E. "Sallie" Stover 1848-1926 My Great Grandaunt on My Father's Side - Part 1<p><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qFZohcb8gEA/YPYA1g0KwgI/AAAAAAAAE5c/PY1f6_7xdoEVJaxXusSVgszPlSrOnWcVACLcBGAsYHQ/s507/Sarah%2BStover%2BTipton.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="507" data-original-width="458" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qFZohcb8gEA/YPYA1g0KwgI/AAAAAAAAE5c/PY1f6_7xdoEVJaxXusSVgszPlSrOnWcVACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Sarah%2BStover%2BTipton.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I believe this is a photo of Sarah E. Stover<br />If anyone seeing this bio can confirm my<br />identification I would like to hear from you</td></tr></tbody></table>Sarah
E. Stover</span><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[1]</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">
was the eldest child of David Lincoln Stover and Joanna Gaines. She was born on
November 15, 1848 in Elizabethton, Tennessee.</span><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[2]</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">Sarah was one year old when her brother
William “Win” was born and two when the 1850 census was taken. Sarah was three
when my great grandmother, Carrie Brooks Stover was born, five when their
sister Mary was born, seven when David “Bud” Gaines Stover was born, and ten
when her youngest sibling, Elizabeth was born. That same year their father died
on November 28, 1858 of an unknown cause.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">According
to the <i>Lincoln Family Magazine</i> Sarah spent time at the White House as a
young girl when Andrew Johnson was president. She and her siblings apparently
visited regularly to play with their cousins, the children of their uncle Daniel
Stover who had married Mary Johnson, daughter of Andrew Johnson. According to
Sarah’s obituary “She lived in the White House at Washington during President
Johnson’s Administration, living with her aunt, Mrs. Mary Stover, daughter of
the President. She was a young woman in her teens at the time and was popular
with the White House fold, friends here said…. The days she spent in the White
House were exciting ones, according to Mrs. A.G. Wilmore, Oklahoma City, Mrs.
Tipton’s daughter.”<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"> <a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></a></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">When
the 1860 census was taken the family was living in the same place in Elizabethton
– on the family farm and next door to Sarah’s aunt, uncle and four of her cousins.
Sarah was 11 and her mother, now a widow, was 35 years old. Her brother Win had
died thus was not listed on the census.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iNavT3z9npU/YPYBNaXdcYI/AAAAAAAAE5k/7kphAj4NApcrPLKdIPAwvRN9FGN16tvngCLcBGAsYHQ/s2025/Covered%2BBridge%2Bin%2BSnow%2Bby%2BBrooks.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1452" data-original-width="2025" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iNavT3z9npU/YPYBNaXdcYI/AAAAAAAAE5k/7kphAj4NApcrPLKdIPAwvRN9FGN16tvngCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Covered%2BBridge%2Bin%2BSnow%2Bby%2BBrooks.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elizabethton covered bridge draped in snow</td></tr></tbody></table></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Ten
years later, Sarah now twenty-one was still living at home, with her mother who
mysteriously had only aged 8 years according to the census record that showed
her as being 43. The youngest child, Elizabeth was not listed on the 1870
census – presumably she had died as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Marriage,
Children and Move to Handley, Texas<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Later
that same year, Sarah married Winfield “Wynn” Scott Tipton on November 15, 1870.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
Wynn was the son of Isaac Perry Tipton and Ann Pricilla Powell. He was born in
Elizabethton on April 25, 1847. Prior to marrying, he served in the Civil War with
the Confederates.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Sarah
and Wynn had three children – Maude P. Tipton born on December 12, 1871, Eugene
Tipton born March 14, 1873 and Robert Wheeler Tipton born July 11,1874. All
three of their children were born while they were living in Elizabethton.
Shortly thereafter the family moved to Handley which is in Tarrant County,
Texas in 1877, one year after the Texas and Pacific Railway extended a line to the
town.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
They built the first home in Handley and
Wynn established a mercantile business.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
Wynn’s obituary noted that he and his brother-in-law, David Gaines Stover had
gone to Tarrant County prior to having the rest of the family join them.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
According to the obituary they “were held up in
a stagecoach robbery … believed to be by the outlaw Sam Bass.” A
separate obituary explains that part of the reason the Tiptons chose to move to
Texas was to avoid the disputes that arose in Tennessee after the Civil War.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[8]<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/-AsujDP1qrTQ/YPYBk1CC4ZI/AAAAAAAAE5s/Dti1hVLEyAsu-AIEPF2vOOHH4J7EBQvPwCLcBGAsYHQ/s938/West%2BHandley%2Btrain%2Bstation.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="629" data-original-width="938" height="269" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AsujDP1qrTQ/YPYBk1CC4ZI/AAAAAAAAE5s/Dti1hVLEyAsu-AIEPF2vOOHH4J7EBQvPwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h269/West%2BHandley%2Btrain%2Bstation.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">West Handley Train Station</td></tr></tbody></table></span></span></span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">According
to the Handley website, the town was a thriving community settled when the
Texas and Pacific railroad came to town. It was named after James Madison
Handley who was a Confederate soldier in the Civil War and owned a very large
plantation east of Handley. Handley is located east of Fort Worth and is now
part of Fort Worth. They chose Handley in part because they guessed that it
would eventually outgrow Fort Worth but such was not the case. Today, Handley
is a small community within Fort Worth. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Sarah’s
sister Carrie either went with them or joined them in Handley about the same
time because she married James W. Pattillo in Handley in November of 1879. The
Tipton family moved ninety miles west to Stephens County, Texas in 1879, so
that Wynn could start a ranching business with his brother-in-law David Gaines
but after a three-year drought Winfield gave up ranching and returned to Fort
Worth in 1886.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[9]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Stephens
County, Texas<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">On
the 1880 Stephens County census Wynn was listed as 33 years of age and a
farmer. Included in the household along with Sarah were their three children,
Sarah’s mother and brother David, who was shown as a “stock raiser”, and a
boarder named William Morrel who helped on the farm. James Pattillo was also
involved with cattle when he was in Tarrant County, so I wonder if Carrie was
introduced to her future husband by her brother David. During the time they
were in Stephens County their sons attended school there and their daughter Maud was a teacher in
the Albany School District.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yglyuRPLcXM/YPYB9e3J2MI/AAAAAAAAE50/S_Ck04_TyKwvzkEQl78-NNK1C1O-7gHoQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Flatbed%2BWagon%2B1890_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1316" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yglyuRPLcXM/YPYB9e3J2MI/AAAAAAAAE50/S_Ck04_TyKwvzkEQl78-NNK1C1O-7gHoQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Flatbed%2BWagon%2B1890_2.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stephens County, Texas 1890</td></tr></tbody></table></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;">In
1887, when Sarah was 39, her household was directly impacted by a major event
that likely disturbed everyone in the household. On January 23</span><sup style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;">rd</sup><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> the
people riding on the Texas-Pacific Railroad were victims of a daring train
robbery. It was a well-executed theft that began with two men approaching the
engineer with pistols and demanding that he stop the train on a high trestle
bridge where six more masked men were able to board. They forced the engineer
to give them the key to the train’s safe and stole the contents which was
reported to be worth between $10,000 and $15,000. From there they moved to the
mail car on the train where Winfield and his colleagues H.M. Price and Richard
Griffin were busy hiding pieces of register mail among the mail bags. They
estimate that there were 66 pieces of such mail of which all but 25 they succeeded
in keeping from the thieves. The news reports include a detailed account of the
thieves’ brazenness, “They (the train’s mail staff) had only one revolver among
them, and the command, "open up" given in an elevated animated tone,
was promptly obeyed. As the door flew open the tall, thin man remarked:
"Boys, you might as well give up: I have been in two or three affairs of
this kind, and while I never killed anybody, I'll be G___d d___d if I am afraid
to do it. The order was quickly obeyed, and the tall, thin man held up his hand
for a light, at which Price remarked: "See here, don't you think it is a
little tough to have to pull a man into your car to rob it?" "That's
all right," replied the robber, "Pull me in," and he was pulled
in, Mr. Tipton as he entered taking off his hat and remarking: "How do you
do, Sir?" As the robber was going through the car he was asked, "You
do not seem to be much afraid. Why do you not work with a mask?" One of
his companions replied: "You see, the captain don't live around here, and
he is not in danger of being recognized." The tall, thin man was then
asked if his gang proposed to rob the passengers, and he replied: "No, the
sons of B-----s have had time to hide away everything.”</span><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[10]</span></span></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Zd6FOi7rlHs/YPYC8Oux7NI/AAAAAAAAE58/iJvsrEUGZ7owbFAslcpC851RdBMcHoaRACLcBGAsYHQ/s4896/Albany_TX%2BCourthouse%2BDSCAAABM.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Zd6FOi7rlHs/YPYC8Oux7NI/AAAAAAAAE58/iJvsrEUGZ7owbFAslcpC851RdBMcHoaRACLcBGAsYHQ/w320-h240/Albany_TX%2BCourthouse%2BDSCAAABM.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Albany park and courthouse, Stephens County, TX</td></tr></tbody></table></span></span></span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Thanks
to the Portals of Texas History website and the intrepid reporters for <i>The
Albany News</i>, I can report that Winfield paid a visit to his family living in
Albany, Texas on June 27, 1889. That would have been his brother-in-law, David “Bud”
Gaines and his wife Nancy “Nannie” Williams Stover who owned a ranch in Stevens
County, Texas. There were similar snippets of news about family visits on October
17 and November 14<sup>th</sup> in 1890. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Also
found on the Portals website were multiple promotional ads for McAllister's Red Front Shoe
Store. They ran several large print ads promoting their give-away programs.
Each of these ads stated that Mr. W.S. Tipton had already won a Wheelock Piano
valued at $500 with his winning ticket number 17,981. The ads also noted that
Mr. Tipton was an employee of the Railway Service.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[11]<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/-uF9gVWE7ELE/YPYDPp2gf1I/AAAAAAAAE6E/X9I9YgmlKK0f43WTQYMM3RlprZGkGvmIwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1245/The%2BLucky%2BMan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="679" data-original-width="1245" height="219" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uF9gVWE7ELE/YPYDPp2gf1I/AAAAAAAAE6E/X9I9YgmlKK0f43WTQYMM3RlprZGkGvmIwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h219/The%2BLucky%2BMan.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">McAllister's Red Front Shoe Store Ad</td></tr></tbody></table></span></span></span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">At
the 1891 Railway Postal Clerks Convention, held in Fort Worth, W.S. Tipton was
elected Vice President of the organization.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[12]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
A July 3, 1891 article in the <i>Fort Worth Gazette</i> noted that Winfield’s
salary as a Clerk in Charge for the Railway Mail Service on the Texarkana and El
Paso line was $1300. In 1891 I presume that was their annual salary – not monthly.<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/-h78SszbBSnc/YPYETjvRwjI/AAAAAAAAE6M/O1J3C67-YQsTaU87pB26Wej-mldf3w_WQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Tipton-Stover%2Bmarriage%2Brecord%2BTN%2BMarriages%2BDec%2B1796-Feb%2B1879%2Bfound%2Bon%2BAncestry.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1410" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h78SszbBSnc/YPYETjvRwjI/AAAAAAAAE6M/O1J3C67-YQsTaU87pB26Wej-mldf3w_WQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Tipton-Stover%2Bmarriage%2Brecord%2BTN%2BMarriages%2BDec%2B1796-Feb%2B1879%2Bfound%2Bon%2BAncestry.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sarah and Winfield's marriage record</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
Some family trees show her as Sarah Murray Stover but I think they are confusing
her with her grandmother, Sarah Murray Drake Stover. She was listed as Sarah E.
on the 1850 census, Sarah E.M. in 1860, just Sarah in 1870,1880 and 1910, and
on her death certificate, Sallie S. in 1900, and Sarah S. in 1920 – where the
“S” probably refers to “Stover”.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
Sarah’s birth year is consistent on the 1850, 1860 and 1870 censuses as being
1848. Her death certificate shows 15 November, 1848 as her date of birth but
her engraved headstone shows 20 November 1848.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
Obituary for Mrs. W.S. Tipton “Grandniece of Ex-President Buried Here”, 14
April 1926 p.8 <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> Tennessee
Marriage Records Dec 1796-Feb 1879 found on Ancestry.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> W.S.
Tipton Obituary, <i>Fort Worth Star-Telegram</i> 31 Dec 1941 p.15.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" title=""><span style="font-size: 8.0pt;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 8.0pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[6]</span><!--[endif]--></span></a><span style="font-size: 8.0pt;"> </span>The year they moved to Texas is from Mary
Wallace, a descendant of Sarah Stover Tipton. Ms. Wallace believes that Sarah’s
brother David and their mother moved to Texas with the Tiptons in 1877. This
date is also noted in Wynn’s obituary, and the obituary for Mrs. W.S. Tipton
“Grandniece of Ex-President Buried Here”, 14 April 1926 p.8 <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> I
believe that Winfield and Sarah as well as Sarah’s siblings David and Carrie
and their mother all moved to Texas at the same time. The only other living
child of David and Joanna Stover, Mary Stover left Tennessee and moved to Los
Angeles in about 1900.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> <i>Albany
News,</i> Jan. 8, 1942, Vol. 57 “Former Resident Dies at Ft. Worth”.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftnref9" name="_ftn9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[9]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
Winfield’s obituary. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftnref10" name="_ftn10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[10]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> <i>Galveston
Daily News,</i> Jan. 24, 1887, p. 2 and The Dallas Herald Vol. 2 same date.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<div id="ftn11">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftnref11" name="_ftn11" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[11]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> <i>Fort
Worth Gazette,</i> May 2, 1890, Vol. 14.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<div id="ftn12">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftnref12" name="_ftn12" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[12]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> <i>Fort
Worth Daily Gazette </i> “The Postal
Clerks: A Division Association Formed Here Yesterday”, 2 Sept 1891, p. 2<o:p></o:p></p>
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</div>Chris Pattillo, FASLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704980567217692969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7923160542369902007.post-65224273383096494542021-07-19T15:44:00.001-07:002021-07-19T16:18:36.303-07:00Sarah E. "Sallie" Stover 1848-1926 My Great Grandaunt on My Father's Side - Part 2<p><br /></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YVeROr8jZGc/YPX6khs7JiI/AAAAAAAAE4U/ZYaz_uLV6zUac6FtceQhUjaVwXzKpBa-gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1289/3800%2BMattison%2BAve%2BFort%2BWorth.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1289" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YVeROr8jZGc/YPX6khs7JiI/AAAAAAAAE4U/ZYaz_uLV6zUac6FtceQhUjaVwXzKpBa-gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/3800%2BMattison%2BAve%2BFort%2BWorth.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the Tipton home at 3800 Mattison in the <br />Arlington Heights neighborhood of Fort Worth</td></tr></tbody></table><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">Fort
Worth, Texas</span></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">On
September 18, 1891 the <i>Fort Worth Gazette</i> ran a short article announcing
that Mr. and Mrs. W.S. Tipton had moved from Albany, Texas to Fort Worth three
weeks earlier. This article mentioned that Mrs. Tipton was a cousin of City
Attorney Powell. It also mentioned her time spent at the White House during
President Johnson’s administration noting that she was known as the “Little
Fairy of the White House”. The piece described Sarah as, “refined and modest,
but proud of her White House days.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2eJzZ2cyfPc/YPX61ZUE5WI/AAAAAAAAE4c/0vLqtnia7NwRY8_9xj6BzGACNd0shtokQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1227/3804%2BMattison%2BAve%2BFort%2BWorth%2BTX%2Bwhere%2BSarah%2Band%2BWynn%2Blived.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="890" data-original-width="1227" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2eJzZ2cyfPc/YPX61ZUE5WI/AAAAAAAAE4c/0vLqtnia7NwRY8_9xj6BzGACNd0shtokQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/3804%2BMattison%2BAve%2BFort%2BWorth%2BTX%2Bwhere%2BSarah%2Band%2BWynn%2Blived.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This home is at 3804 Mattison - the address given<br />on some of the Tipton documents</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">Sarah
visited her brother Bud Stover at his Stephen’s County ranch the week of August
25, 1893.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
Several similar visits were reported by <i>The Albany News</i> in 1898,
1899 and 1900. During these trips she sometimes
went alone and on other trips she took one of her sons with her or both she and
Winfield went together.</span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">An
1895 directory shows Sarah and Wynn living at 1101 Burnett Street in Fort Worth.
Wynn and their son Eugene were both working as clerks for the Railway Postal
Service.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
When the 1900 census was taken, they were at the same location. On this census
Sarah was listed as “Sallie S. Tipton”. Their son Robert was living with them –
he was 24 and still single. They had two black female servants. Grandville
Nelson, age 20 was from Mississippi, and Beatrice L. Snooker of Texas was 22.
There were also two white boarders in the household – Clinton J. Taylor and
Frank H. Hurt. Wynn was employed as a clerk for R.M. Sevier as was Clinton. The
other boarder was a railroad postal clerk, and their son Robert was listed as a
stenographer. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">Also
in 1895, I found an article headlined “The South was Slighted” that reported
that few southerners were represented in the Republican caucus. In the article
it reported the group would support Gen. Henderson of Illinois for the position
of clerk and W.S. Tipton of Tennessee as sergeant-at-arms.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
It is hard to know for certain that this reference is of our W.S. Tipton. A similar
topic was covered in 1900 with the headline, “The Split Occurred – Tennessee Republican
Convention Followed Time Worn Precedent”. In that article W.S. Tipton was
nominated for railroad commissioner. <span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftn4" title=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[4]</span></span></a></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="899" data-original-width="609" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_pst7ybHsCQ/YPX7a3KCP8I/AAAAAAAAE4k/WCrVqVx0mv4UAdMIIwPsUzdB0h-pH-WpgCLcBGAsYHQ/w271-h400/Personal%2Bregarding%2Barrival%2Bin%2BFort%2BWorth.jpg" width="271" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Article describing the Tipton's move <br />to Fort Worth from Albany, Texas</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">I
found an article from 1898 promoting the Washington Hotel in Galveston, Texas
that described how it had undergone a major renovation costing $5000 and now boasted
of having “one of the handsomest dining rooms in the state with excellent
service. Rates $2.00 a day.” One of the recent arrivals at the hotel was none
other than W.S. Tipton.</span><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[5]</span></span></span></a><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">There
was a short snippet in the <i>Fort Worth Star-Telegram</i> in 1904 that noted
that Sarah had “returned home from a trip to Chicago, St. Louis and Niagara
Falls.” It included no explanation for why she apparently made the trip alone.
Given that Niagara Falls was part of her itinerary suggests that this was a
vacation rather than a trip to visit family. In 1906 Sarah’s son Robert move to
Los Angeles, California to take a position with the Illinois Central Railroad.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
He left his position with the Fort Worth and Denver Railway where he had served
as Passenger and Ticket Agent for four years and was Secretary of the Fort
Worth City Passenger Agents’ Association.<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftn7" title=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[7]</span></span></a></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="390" data-original-width="609" height="256" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q37_e6kKktc/YPX_us-45-I/AAAAAAAAE5U/mj3uTPUCOWgS-4YJqTeB4zUaky_M1m-cACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h256/Tarrant%2BCo%2Bcourthouse%2BFort%2BWorth%2B1880.jpg" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">On
August 3, 1900 </span><i style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">The Albany News</i><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> reported that “Mr. and Mrs. T.S. Tipton
spent last Friday in Albany on their way home after spending two weeks at their
ranch near Crystal Falls.”</span><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[8]</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">
A separate article explained that when they moved to Fort Worth, they retained
their ranch property in Stephens County until Winfield died. Three months later
in November of 1900 Sarah and her son Eugene spent time at her brother’s ranch
which was also near Crystal Falls.</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">Sarah
would have been 52 in 1900 when her daughter Maude married Arthur G. Wilmore.
Amazingly, this event did not seem to make the newspaper – at least I have not
found anything about it which I imagine was well celebrated at the time. The
following year Sarah’s son Robert married Jennie Emerson Pearson. In March of
1902 Sarah’s mother, Joanna Gaines Stover died and was buried in the Tipton Family
Cemetery. In December of 1905 son Eugene married Emily Caroline Colston.</span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ORPob4YvIQA/YPX7x4sw5lI/AAAAAAAAE4s/B2PecCUhoaU5sy3zbEr_1EplkKzQr47ZQCLcBGAsYHQ/s853/Tipton%2BEugene.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="801" data-original-width="853" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ORPob4YvIQA/YPX7x4sw5lI/AAAAAAAAE4s/B2PecCUhoaU5sy3zbEr_1EplkKzQr47ZQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Tipton%2BEugene.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eugene Tipton is on the left in this photo<br />from the Fort Worth Sun-Telegram, 1953</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">Winfield
was part of a week-long fishing party in 1904. He went deep sea fishing with a
group of railway mail service men in Galveston, Texas. Their objective was to
catch tarpon and sharks.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[9]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">The
Tipton family moved to the Arlington Heights neighborhood of Fort Worth in 1907
and that is where they were when the 1910 census was taken. They were shown living
at 175 Arlington Heights Road on the census. Wynn was 62 and working as a
Superintendent for the railroad. His son Robert was living with them and was an
auditor for the railroad. Sarah was 61. Robert’s wife Jennie P. and their three
children Winnie R. 7, A.W. (Arthur Wilmore Tipton Jr.) 5 and J.P. (John Pearson
Tipton) 2 were also living with Wynn and Sarah. According to the Fort Worth
directory they had a telephone at this home. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">While
they lived in Fort Worth Sarah was actively engaged in community affairs. She
was mentioned in the society column of the <i>Fort Worth Star-Telegram</i> on
November 10, 1912 as having been a guest at the T.A.G. Club.</span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QMhGDkYtK_Y/YPX8oKJO3UI/AAAAAAAAE40/d_QOSLmMx1ExRfpgvQlZeD3ToInd0mV9wCLcBGAsYHQ/s971/Tipton%2BMrs%2BEugene%2B4th%2Bfrom%2Bleft.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="764" data-original-width="971" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QMhGDkYtK_Y/YPX8oKJO3UI/AAAAAAAAE40/d_QOSLmMx1ExRfpgvQlZeD3ToInd0mV9wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Tipton%2BMrs%2BEugene%2B4th%2Bfrom%2Bleft.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mrs. Eugene Tipton, second from the right<br />Fort Worth Sun-Tribune, 1928<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br /> <o:p></o:p></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">In
1916 Sarah suffered the loss of her younger sister Carrie, my great
grandmother, who died in Los Angeles, California. Sarah was 67 at that time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">On
January 6, 1920 Wynn and Sarah were living with their son Robert and
grandchildren at 1108 W. 5<sup>th</sup> Street in Fort Worth. At that time Robert
was widowed and there were four children in his household – a daughter Wynne
17, Wilmore 14, John 12 and a daughter Sarah L. age 8.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">A
city directory lists Winfield S and Sarah residing on Mattison Avenue in
Arlington Heights in 1923. According to Wynn’s obituary, their home was one of
the first three homes built in the new neighborhood. In 2021, Arlington Heights
is still considered one of the nicest neighborhoods in Fort Worth. Their son
Robert, who was working as a carpenter, was living with them and their son
Eugene, a clerk at RMS, and his wife Emily were living nearby in Arlington
Heights. When the 1925 directory was published it showed their street address
as 3804 Mattison Avenue. That is where they were living when Sarah died on
April 12, 1926 from stomach cancer. She was 77.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">Sarah
was buried at Greenwood Cemetery in Fort Worth, having lived in Texas for 49
years and in Fort Worth for 40 years. Services were held at St. Andrew’s
Episcopal Church.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[10]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
At the time of her death her sons were living in Texas and her daughter Maude
was residing in Oklahoma City. “Mrs. Tipton’s four grandsons and two nephews were
pallbearers. They are Wilmore, John, Colston Tipton , and John L. Cassell,
grandsons and Howard and Sidney Oates nephews, all of Fort Worth”.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[11]</span></span></span></a></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x8MfqRIITmo/YPX9BNE02LI/AAAAAAAAE48/X5SAeSRWTj0JqSOesZhNzOAtMAjYp7_SACLcBGAsYHQ/s757/Tipton%252C%2BSarah%2BStover%2Bheadstone.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="399" data-original-width="757" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x8MfqRIITmo/YPX9BNE02LI/AAAAAAAAE48/X5SAeSRWTj0JqSOesZhNzOAtMAjYp7_SACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Tipton%252C%2BSarah%2BStover%2Bheadstone.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sarah S. Tipton Nov. 20, 1848-Apr 12, 1926</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">Sarah’s
daughter Maude died five years later. She was 60 years old and died while
living at 3800 Mattison Avenue, so at some point she apparently had returned to
Fort Worth from Oklahoma City.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-urcjAPzVsjk/YPX9Qq-roaI/AAAAAAAAE5E/beNwnizO43gIVgOTYJbwA_xF0ZnrhocxQCLcBGAsYHQ/s250/Tipton%2BMaude%2BP%2B12%2BDec%2B1871%2B-%2B22%2BMayt%2B1931%2Bgreenwood%2Bmem%2Bpark%2Bfort%2Bworth%2BTX.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="126" data-original-width="250" height="162" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-urcjAPzVsjk/YPX9Qq-roaI/AAAAAAAAE5E/beNwnizO43gIVgOTYJbwA_xF0ZnrhocxQCLcBGAsYHQ/w320-h162/Tipton%2BMaude%2BP%2B12%2BDec%2B1871%2B-%2B22%2BMayt%2B1931%2Bgreenwood%2Bmem%2Bpark%2Bfort%2Bworth%2BTX.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Maud P. Wilmore, Dec. 12, 1871-May 22, 1931</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">Fifteen
years later Sarah’s husband Wynn was laid to rest with her at Greenwood
Cemetery. Winfield Scott Tipton died on December 30, 1941 at the age of 94. According
to his obituary Winfield was “survived by two sons, Eugene Tipton of Fort
Worth, assistant division superintendent of the Railway Mail Service, and R.W.
Tipton of Breckenridge.” He had six grandchildren and eight great
grandchildren.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_E21PYxDjgI/YPX97iLn3aI/AAAAAAAAE5M/c4R0wNb5n2kCkWLCylka7Q_lTYLZU3gywCLcBGAsYHQ/s827/Tipton%252C%2BWinn.S.%2B%2Bheadstone.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="407" data-original-width="827" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_E21PYxDjgI/YPX97iLn3aI/AAAAAAAAE5M/c4R0wNb5n2kCkWLCylka7Q_lTYLZU3gywCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Tipton%252C%2BWinn.S.%2B%2Bheadstone.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">W.S. Tipton, Apr 25, 1847 - Dec 30, 1941</td></tr></tbody></table><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/-g2jjbLcmiqM/YPYGNYDHhZI/AAAAAAAAE6g/vSJ-zxR112EfHmmHpmT7xjjXct-n-GVGACLcBGAsYHQ/s1577/Tipton%2BSarah%2BStover%2Bdeath%2Bcertificatet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1311" data-original-width="1577" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-g2jjbLcmiqM/YPYGNYDHhZI/AAAAAAAAE6g/vSJ-zxR112EfHmmHpmT7xjjXct-n-GVGACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Tipton%2BSarah%2BStover%2Bdeath%2Bcertificatet.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sarah Tipton's death certificate</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/-n9Pz7lY8An8/YPYGY_Cg9wI/AAAAAAAAE6o/ZUN5geKyoMkQgd_wbvHMSX0pmHNo0woXACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Tipton%2BWinfield%2BS%2Bdeath%2Bcertificate%2B1941%2BFort%2BWorth%2BTX.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1702" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n9Pz7lY8An8/YPYGY_Cg9wI/AAAAAAAAE6o/ZUN5geKyoMkQgd_wbvHMSX0pmHNo0woXACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Tipton%2BWinfield%2BS%2Bdeath%2Bcertificate%2B1941%2BFort%2BWorth%2BTX.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Winfield S. Tipton death certificate</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/-jg2ffTxfORA/YPYG_fQpBPI/AAAAAAAAE60/iTz5zj-_6f0kmV-K41glbSPJz5qtDPUSQCLcBGAsYHQ/s491/3%2BSisters.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="228" data-original-width="491" height="186" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jg2ffTxfORA/YPYG_fQpBPI/AAAAAAAAE60/iTz5zj-_6f0kmV-K41glbSPJz5qtDPUSQCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h186/3%2BSisters.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stover Sisters. I am confident of the identification of Mary and Carrie<br />Stover. The question is whether the third image is of their sister Sarah.<br />I would be grateful to anyone who can confirm this.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><div id="ftn1"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
Albany News, Vol. 10.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn2">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> On
20 February 1915, Eugene and eight others filed a suit against the Railway
Postal Clerks’ Investment Association in the District Court of Tarrant County.
The case was appealed in 1914 – Tipton v. Railway Postal Clerks’ Investment
Company, but the appeal was denied.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<div id="ftn3">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> <i>Fort
Worth Gazette</i>, Nov. 29, 1895, Vol. 20.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn4">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
Houston Daily Post, April 21, 1900, vol. XVI.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<div id="ftn5">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> <i>Galveston
Tribune,</i> July 4, 1898, p. 4<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn6">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
“Tipton in California”, <i>Fort Worth Star-Telegram</i> 13 July 1906.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
“Passenger Men Esteem Tipton: City Ticket Agents Present Letter to Former
Associate”, <i>Fort Worth Star-Telegram,</i> 21 June 1906.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn8">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> <i>Albany
News</i>, Aug. 3, 1900, p. 6<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn9">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftnref9" name="_ftn9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[9]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> <i>Galveston
Tribune,</i> May 26, 1904, Vol. 24.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div id="ftn10">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftnref10" name="_ftn10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[10]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
Tipton – Mrs. W.S. Tipton obituary <i>Fort Worth Star-Telegram</i> 13 April
1926.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<div id="ftn11">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Sarah%20E/Stover%20Sarah%20E%20Sallie.docx#_ftnref11" name="_ftn11" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[11]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
Obituary for Mrs. W.S. Tipton “Grandniece of Ex-President Buried Here”, I 14
April 1926 p.8 <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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</div>Chris Pattillo, FASLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704980567217692969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7923160542369902007.post-37576275300510650502021-05-17T10:12:00.002-07:002021-05-21T07:37:08.541-07:00Lottie's Photos: Chris 1950<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/-PtMqq8FJ8vA/YKKh1P1VlVI/AAAAAAAAEvg/gigBSzuFBTMpLr-hmLD3YFf3UVgiI2fmgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1251/PATTILLO_Chris%2BAnna%2BLewis_christening_Apr%2B1950.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1251" data-original-width="918" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PtMqq8FJ8vA/YKKh1P1VlVI/AAAAAAAAEvg/gigBSzuFBTMpLr-hmLD3YFf3UVgiI2fmgCLcBGAsYHQ/w235-h320/PATTILLO_Chris%2BAnna%2BLewis_christening_Apr%2B1950.jpg" width="235" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Anna and Lewis Pattillo holding Chris, <br />Christening Day<br /></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">This
photo is from volume two of Lottie’s ninety-four photo albums. It covers the
period April 1950 to August 1957. Volume one started in January of 1938 and
stopped in October of 1949. So, there is no photographic evidence of what
happened during the two months before my birth until three months after I was
born. Sadly, Mom’s written journals also stopped in 1947, so we’ll probably
never know how she felt about my conception or birth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">The photo was taken on April 1, 1950 – the day I was christened. I love the hat my
grandmother Anna is wearing and that four-inch-wide tie looks like something Grandpa might have purchased at the San Francisco World Fair. Grandpa Lewis has a
pocket watch on a chain that is looped over a button and hanging down from that
is what looks like a mechanical pencil or a plumb bob. Anyone know what that
is?</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MnXZv-SJXYY/YKKiLb8TgoI/AAAAAAAAEvo/IhOMALp1Cpsvgz6HR08m_v5J6xG_oJaZQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1250/THORNALLY_John%2BEmma%2Bw%2BChris_Apr%2B1950.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="920" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MnXZv-SJXYY/YKKiLb8TgoI/AAAAAAAAEvo/IhOMALp1Cpsvgz6HR08m_v5J6xG_oJaZQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/THORNALLY_John%2BEmma%2Bw%2BChris_Apr%2B1950.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Emma & John Thornally, my <br />maternal grandparents</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Here
I am with my maternal grandparents Emma and John Thornally. Grandpa seems to be
bursting out of his pants and Gramma is wearing the pair of glasses I had
remade and wore during the 1970s while attending college at UC.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fvDlFL5qVac/YKKih2OTMyI/AAAAAAAAEvw/lFWAcMnsHKEZ_PPrsISg_RiOAqX_LajggCLcBGAsYHQ/s1247/PATTILLO_Lottie%2BChris%2BEd_Christening_Apr%2B1950.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1247" data-original-width="923" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fvDlFL5qVac/YKKih2OTMyI/AAAAAAAAEvw/lFWAcMnsHKEZ_PPrsISg_RiOAqX_LajggCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/PATTILLO_Lottie%2BChris%2BEd_Christening_Apr%2B1950.jpg" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Just
three months after I was born and mom is looking very slender in her glamorous
dress – no doubt one of her own creations. Dad looks pretty spiffy in his white
shirt and suspenders. Mom was 30 and Dad nearly 37.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZyWvs6h9TS0/YKKiyBvMS5I/AAAAAAAAEv4/ONqrd0CbOhYV57YsLSaywpR4Jv0qRMCdACLcBGAsYHQ/s1237/PATTILLO%2B%2526%2BMCTIGUE_Bill%2BChris%2BDorothy_Apr%2B1950.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1237" data-original-width="903" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZyWvs6h9TS0/YKKiyBvMS5I/AAAAAAAAEv4/ONqrd0CbOhYV57YsLSaywpR4Jv0qRMCdACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/PATTILLO%2B%2526%2BMCTIGUE_Bill%2BChris%2BDorothy_Apr%2B1950.jpg" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">These
are my godparents – Dorothy Menge and her husband Bill McTigue. Mom was very
close to all her cousins – particularly Dorothy and Marion. In her diary she
wrote about going out dancing with Dorothy, they're having a fight that lasted
several days, Dorothy asked Mom to be one of her bridesmaids, then she
threatened to elope but instead had a church wedding on November 5<sup>th</sup>
1937. When Dorothy was pregnant Mom hosted a baby shower. Mom wore Dorothy’s veil
when she was married and after she and Dad were married, they continued to
socialize with Dorothy and Bill and spent time with them at Ben Lomond.<o:p></o:p></span></p><br />Chris Pattillo, FASLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704980567217692969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7923160542369902007.post-83330198800891326002021-05-04T20:00:00.001-07:002021-07-11T14:41:02.031-07:00Mary Lincoln Stover 1796 - 1859 My 3rd Great Grandaunt<p><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fbmSLI9Fk4I/YJIAyAORN2I/AAAAAAAAEtY/eYAP8kEqXE0bXoSG8c80LN0v6yro8tYCACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Daniel%2BStover%2BHome%2BIMG_AAAE.JPG" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1529" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fbmSLI9Fk4I/YJIAyAORN2I/AAAAAAAAEtY/eYAP8kEqXE0bXoSG8c80LN0v6yro8tYCACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Daniel%2BStover%2BHome%2BIMG_AAAE.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Daniel Stover Sr. home where Mary grew up</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">Mary
Lincoln Stover was the second child of Daniel Stover Sr. and his wife Phoebe
Ward. She was one of seven sisters of my third great grandfather, William Ward
Stover. Mary was born on January 20, 1796 in what was then considered the
Southwest Territory and today is part of Carter County, Tennessee.</span><p></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">When
Mary was nineteen, she married John Teter Bowers on February 3, 1815<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Mary%20Lincoln/Mary%20Lincoln%20Stover%20dau%20of%20Daniel%20Stover.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>.
John was also born in the Southwest Territory on January 27, 1792. He was the
son of John Leonard Bowers and Rebecca Nave. John enlisted in the Tennessee
militia on January 5, 1814 and was discharged on May 18, 1814. This was during
the War of 1812. He served as a private with Captain Adam Winsel’s Company.</span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LPo9WAve_qs/YJIBK79a0MI/AAAAAAAAEtg/lB88QvYqPwgYJbiK_BjgtY5zuWwR7xQdwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/1812%2BPension%2Bdocument.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1387" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LPo9WAve_qs/YJIBK79a0MI/AAAAAAAAEtg/lB88QvYqPwgYJbiK_BjgtY5zuWwR7xQdwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/1812%2BPension%2Bdocument.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pension application for War of 1812 service</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;">Mary
and John had ten children. They were Mary Lincoln Bowers born ca. 1815, Daniel
Stover Bowers b. ca 1817, David B. Bowers b. 1820, William Carter Bowers b.1823,
Teter Nave Bowers b.1826, Jemima Bowers b.1829, Rev. John Leonard Bowers b.1830,
Christian Nave Bowers b.1836, Isaac Stover Bowers </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">b.1839 and Samuel Murray Stover Bowers b. ca.
1841.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">In
1850 Mary appeared on the census for Carter County. She was fifty-four at the
time and was living with John 58 and four of their children. The children were
listed in this order on the census form: Christian 14, Isaac 11, and Murry 7,
followed by John 19, Mary 21 and Isaac N. one month. Since their daughter Mary
Lincoln Bower would have been 35 in 1850, I believe the Mary listed below their
son John Leonard was his wife and the one-month-old Isaac N. was John L. and
Mary’s son – John Teter and Mary L. Stover’s grandson.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7YUHKNB3S9E/YJIBa4FzgbI/AAAAAAAAEto/zf_8KW8FJkg2G13ZXhKNW3_dXxZlrUdrgCLcBGAsYHQ/s3000/1850%2Bcrop.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="904" data-original-width="3000" height="120" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7YUHKNB3S9E/YJIBa4FzgbI/AAAAAAAAEto/zf_8KW8FJkg2G13ZXhKNW3_dXxZlrUdrgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h120/1850%2Bcrop.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John T. and Mary Bowers on the 1850 census</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">John
Tater was identified as a “Collier” in the occupation column whereas every
other male aged 15 or older on the page was identified as a farmer. A collier
is a coal miner.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">According
to Robert Nave, a Carter County historian, Mary and John were divorced <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- a somewhat unusual occurrence for the time. Then
on April 20, 1856, John Bowers married a second time to Mary Jane E. Crawley,
the widow of Griffin Pearce. John T. Bowers and his wife Mary (Crawley) applied
for a pension based on John’s service during the War of 1812. John died
sometime before 1870 in Carter County.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Mary%20Lincoln/Mary%20Lincoln%20Stover%20dau%20of%20Daniel%20Stover.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rQT2VU3MgSM/YJIBx7zu0BI/AAAAAAAAEtw/Xsud2HLKBiMW1kFG9epmW6PfxUg2_C9NACLcBGAsYHQ/s1296/Bowers%2BPearce%2Bmarriage%2Bdocument.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="981" data-original-width="1296" height="303" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rQT2VU3MgSM/YJIBx7zu0BI/AAAAAAAAEtw/Xsud2HLKBiMW1kFG9epmW6PfxUg2_C9NACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h303/Bowers%2BPearce%2Bmarriage%2Bdocument.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bond for John's marriage to Mary Crawley</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">Most
records suggest that Mary Lincoln Stover Bowers died in Elizabethton in Carter
County in 1859 at the age of 64.</span><br /></p><br />
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Tennessee US Marriage Records 1780-2002, TN State Library and Archives shows
this marriage date as 3 Feb 1811. Other sources show 1814. The 1815 date comes
from Robert Nave’s book on <i>Teter Nave </i>whom I trust.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/STOVER/STOVER%20Mary%20Lincoln/Mary%20Lincoln%20Stover%20dau%20of%20Daniel%20Stover.docx#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Dale Jenkins, a descendant of Solomon Hendrix Stover, one of Mary’s brothers, says
John died after 1871 but Nave says before 1870.<o:p></o: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/-O1WiXG7RY9s/YJIF8__bH0I/AAAAAAAAEu4/aFTAbtfNEvEc7WBrb6h1orTRrjLDlMIHQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Stover%2BBowers%2Bmarriage%2Brecord.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1515" data-original-width="2048" height="296" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O1WiXG7RY9s/YJIF8__bH0I/AAAAAAAAEu4/aFTAbtfNEvEc7WBrb6h1orTRrjLDlMIHQCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h296/Stover%2BBowers%2Bmarriage%2Brecord.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Bowers and Mary Lincoln Stover marriage record</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><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/-YsUExfTcyiM/YJIFnB3bn3I/AAAAAAAAEuw/pSYMHsI_-9Qkccbt2ejcJWal_tnfJhM_QCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Stover%2BBowers%2Bmarriage%2Brecord.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1515" data-original-width="2048" height="296" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YsUExfTcyiM/YJIFnB3bn3I/AAAAAAAAEuw/pSYMHsI_-9Qkccbt2ejcJWal_tnfJhM_QCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h296/Stover%2BBowers%2Bmarriage%2Brecord.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Bowers and Mary Pearce (Crawley) marriage record</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><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/-bXV3mTf6yHs/YJIE2CNsPDI/AAAAAAAAEuk/yIsOE8Bn51IdzAaXixZvk3ayKJOwpj-rACLcBGAsYHQ/s299/Bowers%2BDave%2BB%2Band%2Bwife.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="214" data-original-width="299" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bXV3mTf6yHs/YJIE2CNsPDI/AAAAAAAAEuk/yIsOE8Bn51IdzAaXixZvk3ayKJOwpj-rACLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Bowers%2BDave%2BB%2Band%2Bwife.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">David B. Bowers and his wife. Two of his brothers below</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cOydEWkUhak/YJIEtWF9TnI/AAAAAAAAEug/xjos1ZJil2YE4NdbDPNzhw-UNeHimRDswCLcBGAsYHQ/s442/Bowers%2BRev%2BLeonard.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="442" data-original-width="310" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cOydEWkUhak/YJIEtWF9TnI/AAAAAAAAEug/xjos1ZJil2YE4NdbDPNzhw-UNeHimRDswCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Bowers%2BRev%2BLeonard.jpg" /></a></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VvRYVZzIqu8/YJIEc7jYY9I/AAAAAAAAEuY/EZ3RwB8qMeslsEAforuuLuDPssYuOJYXQCLcBGAsYHQ/s507/Bowers%2BTater%2BNave%2B1826-1907.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="507" data-original-width="307" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VvRYVZzIqu8/YJIEc7jYY9I/AAAAAAAAEuY/EZ3RwB8qMeslsEAforuuLuDPssYuOJYXQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Bowers%2BTater%2BNave%2B1826-1907.jpg" /></a></div><b>Sources for this Post: </b>1850 Census, Teter Nave East Tennessee Pioneer His Ancestors and Descendants bu Robert T. Nave and Margaret W. Hougland, War of 1812 Pension document, Carter marriage records, FamilySearch, Ancestry, Google, Watagau Historical Association, a family history of Phoebe Ward, a page from the family bible of Daniel Stover Sr. (given to me by Robt. Nave), and correspondence with Dale Jenkins.Chris Pattillo, FASLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704980567217692969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7923160542369902007.post-19309467452798176712021-04-16T16:44:00.006-07:002021-04-16T17:03:39.355-07:00Christian Wilhelm Menge My third Great Grandfather on my Mother's Side<p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, serif;"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wjLWE-rLefU/YHoerq77OlI/AAAAAAAAEsM/iLgSSx7XNz0xgJ03D7Iv37022692tBdTgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1200/Alfeld%2BCity%2BHall%2Bno%2Battribute%2Bfrom%2BGoogle%2Blarger%2Bfile.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wjLWE-rLefU/YHoerq77OlI/AAAAAAAAEsM/iLgSSx7XNz0xgJ03D7Iv37022692tBdTgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Alfeld%2BCity%2BHall%2Bno%2Battribute%2Bfrom%2BGoogle%2Blarger%2Bfile.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alfeld City Hall from Google</td></tr></tbody></table>Christian Wilhelm Menge is my third
great grandfather. I estimate that he was born about 1779 in Germany, probably
in Alfeld, but have yet to prove either of these suppositions. Wilhelm was the son of Casper Heinrich Ludolph Menge. According to a
note on his son’s marriage document, Wilhelm was a white tanner in Alfeld. A
white tanner works with high-quality soft leather, which would have been
suitable for making gloves. Wilhelm’s son Heinrich Christian was a glove maker,
so I think it is likely that Wilhelm also made gloves and possibly other
products from his leather. Historically, the profession of tanner had a
negative connotation, because the processing of leather involved working with
animal hides and various chemicals to treat the leather. These were odoriferous
and potentially harmful to workers’ health. But by the 19th century, power-driven machines were being used to complete most of the noxious tasks, and less toxic chemicals were being used, so the profession was more well regarded.<div><br /></div><div>Tanning is a multi-step process that starts with receiving hides from the butcher, scraping off the fat and blood, tanning with chemicals, drying, smoothing, dressing and applying oils and color All this is completed prior to cutting and stitching each pair of gloves.<br /><p class="NormalNoSpacing">According to the FamilySearch tree, Wilhelm married Johanna Sophia Vos, the daughter of Ernest Friedrich Vos. Sophia was born in Bad Pyrmont, Niedersachsen, Germany. They had at least one child, Heinrich Christian Menge in 1809.</p><p class="NormalNoSpacing">Wilhelm lived during the American Revolution when Germany
sent troops to America to support the British, and during the French Revolution
when France invaded Germany. Wilhelm was a young man at the end of the Holy
Roman Empire during the Napoleonic Wars. The Holy Roman Empire existed from 962
to 1806. During that time the Kingdom of Germany was the largest territory.</p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qxba8Cz0C6c/YHoe-i51ChI/AAAAAAAAEsY/VcXPDj1hNPwe6bBDN3f1vtjQEob_gMknwCLcBGAsYHQ/s330/Old%2BLatin%2BSchool%2Bin%2BAlfeld-now%2Ba%2Bmuseum.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="248" data-original-width="330" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qxba8Cz0C6c/YHoe-i51ChI/AAAAAAAAEsY/VcXPDj1hNPwe6bBDN3f1vtjQEob_gMknwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Old%2BLatin%2BSchool%2Bin%2BAlfeld-now%2Ba%2Bmuseum.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Old Latin School in Alfeld, now a museum</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="NormalNoSpacing">Alfeld
is 20 miles southwest of Hildesheim on the Leine River and is the second
largest city in the District of Hildesheim in Lower Saxony. The town was
founded in 1214 and for many years was a small village. It prospered from trade
in beer, hops, linen and yarn, and grew `before the Thirty Years’ War in the 1600s.
The town is known for the octagonal tower on its town hall, which was built in
1586; the Church of Saint Nicolai; the Fillerturm, a medieval watchtower; and
the Fagus Factory, which was listed on the UNESCO World Heritage site in 2011. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="NormalNoSpacing"><b>Sources for this Post: </b>Wilhelm's son's marriage record, FamilySearch tree, and online research.</p><p class="NormalNoSpacing"><br /></p><p class="NormalNoSpacing"><o:p></o:p></p></div>Chris Pattillo, FASLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704980567217692969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7923160542369902007.post-49921659114118541812021-04-12T11:37:00.002-07:002021-04-12T11:37:10.643-07:00Lottie's Photos: Cute Photos of Terry and Kathy 1946<p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0GEEFOphlAI/YD1BMQUbXlI/AAAAAAAAEpQ/ScuI-DVG4zEipOoyO18Javyj0FmBIK7NQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1376/PATTILLO%2BKathy%2B%2526%2BTerry_first%2Broll%2Bof%2Bcolor%2Bfilm_1946.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="974" data-original-width="1376" height="284" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0GEEFOphlAI/YD1BMQUbXlI/AAAAAAAAEpQ/ScuI-DVG4zEipOoyO18Javyj0FmBIK7NQCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h284/PATTILLO%2BKathy%2B%2526%2BTerry_first%2Broll%2Bof%2Bcolor%2Bfilm_1946.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Terry and Kathy holding hands in the garden</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">Taking
photographs was a life long hobby and pleasure for my mother. It all began when
my father gave her a camera for their first Christmas together in 1938. That
was when Mom started to document our family life. Not only did she take the
photos and have them developed, she dutifully pasted them into photo albums and
annotated each volume with captions and later she added stories that explained what
was happening in our lives. She gave detailed accounts of holidays and family
trips – where we went, when and what we saw. </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">All the photos I’ve
used to illustrate this blog series so far have been from volume one of her massive
collection of albums. This photo of Terry and Kathy is one of very few in the
album that is in color. This photo is one of the images she captured on her
first roll of color film. It was taken in 1946. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">This album
includes several photos of my two siblings as infants and toddlers and includes
many wonderful shots of the two of them together looking incredibly cute and
angelic. I scanned nearly 200 photos from volume one. Terry and Kathy are the
stars of 33 of those shots and most notable to me is that in ten of those shots
– nearly one third the two of them are holding hands. Now, how cute is that?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">Volume one
covers the period 1938 to 1949 and is my favorite of all my mom’s photo albums
despite the fact that I’m not included in it. I cherish this book because it
depicts my ancestors and many of my parent’s friends during the earliest
years of their marriage. Volume two covers 1950 – 1957 – a seven-year period
compared to eleven years in volume one. Volume three covers 1957 – 1961 – only four
years. That pattern continues and in later years some volumes are devoted
exclusively to one major trip that took place during a single year. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">Working on her
photo albums gave mom a lot of pleasure. Sometimes she took an album with her
on a motorhome trip when she would have time to sit beneath a tree by some
California lake and put her latest batch of pictures in her album. Near the end
of her life, she would ask my brother Terry to retrieve one of her older books
and then she would enjoy looking at her photos and reminiscing about all the things
that she and my father enjoyed together. Now, these albums give me pleasure and hopefully,
they will continue to delight Lottie’s descendants via this blog. <o:p></o:p></span></p>Chris Pattillo, FASLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704980567217692969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7923160542369902007.post-63894888302276334742021-04-02T19:28:00.000-07:002021-04-02T19:28:26.700-07:00Elizabeth "Lizzie" Vetter Wallace 1890 - 1965 My Grandaunt on my Father's Side<p><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MejreG2Jw4k/YCnk8sqVd2I/AAAAAAAAElA/vP22G3N_GcEGQMbdP60zbHT16Io5JQfOQCLcBGAsYHQ/s362/Vetter%252C%2BLizzie.tif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="362" data-original-width="328" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MejreG2Jw4k/YCnk8sqVd2I/AAAAAAAAElA/vP22G3N_GcEGQMbdP60zbHT16Io5JQfOQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Vetter%252C%2BLizzie.tif" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elizabeth Vetter as a young woman</td></tr></tbody></table>Elizabeth
“Lizzie” Vetter was the fourth daughter born to George and Katherine Vetter. Lizzie<br />
also known as Rosie was born on February 22, 1890 when her family was living at
1328 W. 20</span><sup style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;"> Street in Chicago, Illinois. She had two older sisters
Kate and Mary, one having died at 5 months, and two younger sisters Emma and
Anna, my grandmother.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">When
Lizzie was ten, she appeared on the 1900 census with her family. At that time,
they were living at 409 21<sup>st</sup> Street in Chicago and Lizzie was
attending school. About four years later they left Chicago and moved all the
way across the county to settle in Los Angeles. Shortly after arriving in California
Lizzie’s mother Katherine died at the age of 57 leaving Lizzie, age 14, and her
sisters alone with their father George. Apparently, George struggled as a
single parent because, as my grandmother told it, she was mostly raised by her
older sister Kate. Each of the girls left school early and went to work or got
married and their father remarried in 1910.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I-8vTJvLyCc/YCnlWaQ-B2I/AAAAAAAAElI/D9LErq-SuG0nF81TpJ4kgH3WCpnh0fvwACLcBGAsYHQ/s1268/Vetter%2BAnna%2BLizzie%2BEmma%2BMary.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="908" data-original-width="1268" height="286" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I-8vTJvLyCc/YCnlWaQ-B2I/AAAAAAAAElI/D9LErq-SuG0nF81TpJ4kgH3WCpnh0fvwACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h286/Vetter%2BAnna%2BLizzie%2BEmma%2BMary.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">L-R Anna, Elizabeth, Emma and Mary Vetter</td></tr></tbody></table></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;">Lizzie
attended elementary and two years of high school – leaving school when she was
sixteen. At nineteen she married Paul Clifford Wallace in Los Angeles on June
5, of 1909. Her sister Emma was a witness at their wedding. Paul was the son of
George W. Wallace and Mary Adella McGuire. He was born on July 20, 1884 in Cincinnati,
Ohio and was a machinist working in Los Angeles at the time they were married.
The following December their first child was born – a son named Robert Leroy
Wallace, followed by Helen Pauline Wallace born in 1911, and Paul Wilbur
Wallace in 1917. All three children were born in Los Angeles.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_h7gEHQPuAE/YCnl9c5OQRI/AAAAAAAAElU/7_qDnTkMqf0M1QXxEmNntpO5MQhRMOD_QCLcBGAsYHQ/s500/WALLACE%2B%252C%2BPaul%2BClifford.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="366" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_h7gEHQPuAE/YCnl9c5OQRI/AAAAAAAAElU/7_qDnTkMqf0M1QXxEmNntpO5MQhRMOD_QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/WALLACE%2B%252C%2BPaul%2BClifford.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Paul Clifford Wallace</td></tr></tbody></table></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">Lizzie’s
son Robert married Helen McCollum and they had six children. In 1940 they were
living in Oakland on Melrose Avenue. Robert died in Tracy which may be why his
mother is buried there. Helen married George Wellman, had at least two sons and
died in Calaveras County, California. I don’t know much about their youngest
son Paul Jr. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">When the
1910 census was taken the Wallace family was living at 3851 N. Broadway in Los
Angeles. Paul was employed as a machinist at an ironworks plant – the same type
of work that my grandfather John Roger Thornally did. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">In 1920
the family was still in Los Angles living at the corner of Arthur and Orchard Streets.
Lizzie registered to vote as a Republican in 1922 at which time she was living
at 3032 Tom Street and identified herself at a housewife. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">By 1930
they were living at 3816 High Street in Oakland in a rented home. Paul was
identified as being employed as a Chief but it did not say in what industry. The
census showed that Lizzie’s daughter Helen was 18 and employed as a saleslady
and Paul Jr. was 15. In 1938, Lizzie’s voter registration showed that she was
living at 2916 Courtland Avenue in Oakland.<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/-nGZHk8ovWzc/YCnmaNkcC7I/AAAAAAAAElc/-hxasvKvLuMcSvy15fubROWsY5RnBfOWgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/WallaceElizabethVetter%2B1890%2Bbirth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1148" data-original-width="2048" height="224" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nGZHk8ovWzc/YCnmaNkcC7I/AAAAAAAAElc/-hxasvKvLuMcSvy15fubROWsY5RnBfOWgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h224/WallaceElizabethVetter%2B1890%2Bbirth.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Birth record for Rosie Elizabeth Vetter</td></tr></tbody></table></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;">When the
census was taken in 1940 Lizzie and Paul were living with their son Paul in
Castro Valley, California at 19185 Center Street which is very close to where my
parents lived starting in 1949. Paul senior was working on a goat farm and their
son was employed as a mechanic. In the mid1960s Lizzie was living in Oakland
again at 3844 14</span><sup style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;"> Street. She died at Stockton State Hospital – a psychiatric
facility on July 21, 1965 at the age of 75, and is buried at Tracy Memorial
Cemetery in San Joaquin County, California.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><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/-tFGTICeQWRs/YCnnbaGHxJI/AAAAAAAAEl8/63y2wre2xxMSC3-R6_KwyVLMViVa35zzwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Vetter%252C%2BLizzie%2BDeath%2BCertificate%2Bfrom%2BChris%2BDixon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1581" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tFGTICeQWRs/YCnnbaGHxJI/AAAAAAAAEl8/63y2wre2xxMSC3-R6_KwyVLMViVa35zzwCLcBGAsYHQ/w309-h400/Vetter%252C%2BLizzie%2BDeath%2BCertificate%2Bfrom%2BChris%2BDixon.jpg" width="309" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lizzie's Death Certificate</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I1oQGg4vP28/YCnm0lxj3ZI/AAAAAAAAElo/6q6Flv-ZaeQtu2bNcgkBwa_jYB5EJYbvwCLcBGAsYHQ/s608/Stockton%2BState%2BHospital%2BFemale%2Bward.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="393" data-original-width="608" height="259" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I1oQGg4vP28/YCnm0lxj3ZI/AAAAAAAAElo/6q6Flv-ZaeQtu2bNcgkBwa_jYB5EJYbvwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h259/Stockton%2BState%2BHospital%2BFemale%2Bward.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Historic postcard depicting the Stockton State Hospital<br />found on Google<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/-PW60BOZ2g10/YCnoDuRZmWI/AAAAAAAAEmM/j3B0HykPMhYNs5q7ovAEZrqFHb9Oq4Z4wCLcBGAsYHQ/s931/2916%2BCourtland%2BOakland.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="723" data-original-width="931" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PW60BOZ2g10/YCnoDuRZmWI/AAAAAAAAEmM/j3B0HykPMhYNs5q7ovAEZrqFHb9Oq4Z4wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/2916%2BCourtland%2BOakland.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2916 Courtland home in Oakland</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-po7s8oydGic/YCnoLlN5bfI/AAAAAAAAEmQ/62SLFrWM5gU66C0Ij2TsOmXLx-Kp8G6EgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1386/19186%2BCenter%2BStreet%2BCastro%2BValley.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="945" data-original-width="1386" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-po7s8oydGic/YCnoLlN5bfI/AAAAAAAAEmQ/62SLFrWM5gU66C0Ij2TsOmXLx-Kp8G6EgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/19186%2BCenter%2BStreet%2BCastro%2BValley.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">19186 Center Street, Castro Valley</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><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/-6mCj9Afuv4E/YCnqD_s6pxI/AAAAAAAAEmk/lmSHL9ZDe08acAHSSeZx2QDwNi-sHikVACLcBGAsYHQ/s1031/3816%2BHigh%2BStreet%2BOakland.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="688" data-original-width="1031" height="268" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6mCj9Afuv4E/YCnqD_s6pxI/AAAAAAAAEmk/lmSHL9ZDe08acAHSSeZx2QDwNi-sHikVACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h268/3816%2BHigh%2BStreet%2BOakland.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">3816 High Street in Oakland</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VTkcCEdJpbI/YCnqpdRCwTI/AAAAAAAAEms/QzK_3c6VZOwxy6WW_Zh-lNhsIMLao--6wCLcBGAsYHQ/s2046/Wallace%2BElizabeth%2B1890-1965%2Bfrom%2BFred%2BR%2BWallace.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1237" data-original-width="2046" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VTkcCEdJpbI/YCnqpdRCwTI/AAAAAAAAEms/QzK_3c6VZOwxy6WW_Zh-lNhsIMLao--6wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Wallace%2BElizabeth%2B1890-1965%2Bfrom%2BFred%2BR%2BWallace.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Chris Pattillo, FASLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704980567217692969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7923160542369902007.post-72656867419659495852021-03-01T11:30:00.001-08:002021-03-02T08:50:25.531-08:00Mary Vetter Low Lock 1888 - 1970 My Grandaunt on my Father's Side<p><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L6Kr7cm1b-s/YDGQG4SDJ2I/AAAAAAAAEnA/jkci7JUHqJ88EyTVpSe2EPwEZc65LHfEACLcBGAsYHQ/s746/Anna%2Bw%2Bsister%2BMary.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="746" data-original-width="431" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L6Kr7cm1b-s/YDGQG4SDJ2I/AAAAAAAAEnA/jkci7JUHqJ88EyTVpSe2EPwEZc65LHfEACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Anna%2Bw%2Bsister%2BMary.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mary Vetter right with her<br />sister Anna</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;"><i>Note: This is the last of my 16 grandaunts and granduncles that I've written a biography for on this blog.</i></span><div><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;">Mary was
born November 2, 1888 in Chicago, Illinois when her family was living at 1328
20</span><sup style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;">th </sup><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;">Street. She was the third daughter born to George and Katherine
Vetter. Mary’s middle name Augusta is the same as their first-born daughter who was named Augusta Elizabeth. Clearly, the name Augusta had significance
for George and Katherine but I have yet to figure out why – I don’t find the
name among their siblings or parents or grandparents. Augusta died before Mary
was born but Mary did have one older sister Kate. She was one when her sister
Lizzie was born, three when Emma was born, and four when my grandmother Anna was
born.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 333.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">Mary
was twelve when the 1900 census was taken and was attending school. That is
when they were living at 409 21<sup>st</sup> Street in Ward 10 of Chicago. She
was fifteen when her mother died in 1904 shortly after the family had moved
from Chicago to Los Angeles. Two of her sisters, Anna and Emma, were married
when Mary was twenty. A year later when the 1910 census was taken Mary was living
at 1449 Valencia Street in Los Angeles and she was working as a maid in the
household of Jacob and Frieda Joseph with their two children Lillian age nine
and Paul, seven.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aWcFrChzdQ4/YDGQe6llCCI/AAAAAAAAEnI/eKLatgRYOxoyuqpQwUIDqCjQkgIY9gCcgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/1910%2BVetter%2BMary%2BLosAngeles.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1379" data-original-width="2048" height="269" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aWcFrChzdQ4/YDGQe6llCCI/AAAAAAAAEnI/eKLatgRYOxoyuqpQwUIDqCjQkgIY9gCcgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h269/1910%2BVetter%2BMary%2BLosAngeles.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1910 Census when Mary was living with the Joseph family</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;">Mary
was the last of the five Vetter daughters to marry on May 25, 1912. At the time
she was living at 221 W. 51</span><sup style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;">st</sup><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;"> Street when she married Fred Mason Low.
Fred was the son of James M. Low and Josie Lathrop of Los Angeles. He was born
in Kingman, Kansas but grew up in Los Angeles. Fred’s WWI draft registration
dated June 5, 1917 shows a residence at 128 Oak Street in Porterville which is
in Tulare County, California. Mary and Fred had a daughter Doris in 1917 who
appeared on the 1920 census when the three of them were living at 3244 Alta
Avenue in Fresno, California and Fred was working as a plaster installer. They
were living at the same location in 1930 and their son Leonard had joined the
family. Doris was fourteen and Leonard was nine according to the census. Mary
was twenty-four in 1913 when her father died.<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/-mM_wh9euz_s/YDGQ7T2Nu8I/AAAAAAAAEnU/UFt2-VA8-msd5ew83laxOoUt-DVbb5ypwCLcBGAsYHQ/s932/Lewis%2B%2526%2BAnna%2BMary%2B%2526%2BHusband%2BFred%2BLow.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="627" data-original-width="932" height="269" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mM_wh9euz_s/YDGQ7T2Nu8I/AAAAAAAAEnU/UFt2-VA8-msd5ew83laxOoUt-DVbb5ypwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h269/Lewis%2B%2526%2BAnna%2BMary%2B%2526%2BHusband%2BFred%2BLow.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">L-R Lewis and Anna Pattillo with Mary and Fred Low</td></tr></tbody></table></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;">In
July of 1930 Lottie and Ed Pattillo went to Fresno to visit with Mary and Fred
and their children Doris and Leonard. Doris took them to Roeding Park and led a
tour of the sights in Fresno while her mother and aunt Anna gossiped about
their eldest sister Kate whom they did not get along with. In 1939 Lottie wrote
that the Low family had plans to leave Fresno and move to Oakland.<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/-y8ELcdfKW40/YDGRVIX97NI/AAAAAAAAEnc/lwZrq-lPkxs9JCduxbYHvqV2CG7ZMVUewCLcBGAsYHQ/s920/Vetter%2BAnna%2B%2526%2BLewis%252C%2BMary%2B%2526%2Bhusband%2BFred%2BLow.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="920" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y8ELcdfKW40/YDGRVIX97NI/AAAAAAAAEnc/lwZrq-lPkxs9JCduxbYHvqV2CG7ZMVUewCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h266/Vetter%2BAnna%2B%2526%2BLewis%252C%2BMary%2B%2526%2Bhusband%2BFred%2BLow.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The same foursome - Lewis, Anna, Mary and Fred</td></tr></tbody></table></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;">Fred
died on March 12, 1964 when he was living in Alameda County, California. Three
years later on August 24, 1967 Mary married for a second time to, Ernest Alvin
Lock. Ernest was born in Chariton, Iowa and worked as a barber. Previously
Ernest was married to Isabel Williams with whom he had three children. Mary was
78 when she married Ernest. Sadly, this marriage did not last long because Mary
suffered a heart attack and died on January 13, 1970 at the age of 81. Mary is
buried in Clovis Cemetery in Fresno. Ernest died in 1977 and is buried in Arbor
Vitae Cemetery in Madera County with his first wife.</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 333.8pt;"></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/-jKrKwYwC644/YDGRm6lLB9I/AAAAAAAAEnk/NcK7VEdx4mE-Gixah08Jcb1hG9iAxrmDQCLcBGAsYHQ/s920/Vetter%2BAnna%2B%2526%2BMary%2B2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="920" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jKrKwYwC644/YDGRm6lLB9I/AAAAAAAAEnk/NcK7VEdx4mE-Gixah08Jcb1hG9iAxrmDQCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h266/Vetter%2BAnna%2B%2526%2BMary%2B2.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Anna and Mary on a picnic or camping trip</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;"><br /></span><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/-K_h52vsgHmE/YDGSBwh8UUI/AAAAAAAAEns/cAa-AYeP-koAfGs4DjANrfJnMv7Ubi3pwCLcBGAsYHQ/s802/Vetter%2BAnna%2B%2526%2BMary%2BI%2Bthink.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="802" data-original-width="620" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K_h52vsgHmE/YDGSBwh8UUI/AAAAAAAAEns/cAa-AYeP-koAfGs4DjANrfJnMv7Ubi3pwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Vetter%2BAnna%2B%2526%2BMary%2BI%2Bthink.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mary and Anna ca. 1940<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/-nY8A6n7FsPg/YDGSVS0SadI/AAAAAAAAEn0/qesCeoLG_uAl6aOPI4O8yVAwEEQBLtxAwCLcBGAsYHQ/s805/Vetter%2BAnna%2B%2526%2BMary.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="544" data-original-width="805" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nY8A6n7FsPg/YDGSVS0SadI/AAAAAAAAEn0/qesCeoLG_uAl6aOPI4O8yVAwEEQBLtxAwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Vetter%2BAnna%2B%2526%2BMary.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Anna and Mary ca. 1939</td></tr></tbody></table><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/-VS00TL2UiBU/YDGSiYD_AQI/AAAAAAAAEn8/TF4e4u1MUw47nQESGK_LR2nn9jsh74KtQCLcBGAsYHQ/s920/Vetter%2BMary%2B%2526%2BLewis%2BPattillo.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="618" data-original-width="920" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VS00TL2UiBU/YDGSiYD_AQI/AAAAAAAAEn8/TF4e4u1MUw47nQESGK_LR2nn9jsh74KtQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Vetter%2BMary%2B%2526%2BLewis%2BPattillo.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mary and Lewis Pattillo ca. 1940</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hDxeQAQOFzs/YDGSvOB9rdI/AAAAAAAAEoE/TpDBWr8J_AYe0F2Hmz6ke2jwc7ax0b58ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1456/LOWE_Leanord%2BBetty%2BJim%2Bwho%2Bown%2BLyon%2BLiftall%2BMfg%2Bin%2BReno_1975.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1041" data-original-width="1456" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hDxeQAQOFzs/YDGSvOB9rdI/AAAAAAAAEoE/TpDBWr8J_AYe0F2Hmz6ke2jwc7ax0b58ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/LOWE_Leanord%2BBetty%2BJim%2Bwho%2Bown%2BLyon%2BLiftall%2BMfg%2Bin%2BReno_1975.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mary's son Leonard with his wife Betty and their<br />son Jim</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><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/-_el80tqYPbw/YDGTG6L4RfI/AAAAAAAAEoU/UzHe1WiJ08MLyMErYu7gbdL3pul5w_HxgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Mary%2BAugusta%2BVetter%2Bbirth%2Brecord.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1323" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_el80tqYPbw/YDGTG6L4RfI/AAAAAAAAEoU/UzHe1WiJ08MLyMErYu7gbdL3pul5w_HxgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Mary%2BAugusta%2BVetter%2Bbirth%2Brecord.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mary's birth record 1888</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4jSvvYgnNvc/YDGUtHZa7SI/AAAAAAAAEoo/fvJP6vTcf1Eqi6VNJcDsy1J0n6vn_yHOgCLcBGAsYHQ/s638/Low%2BDoris%2BRoosevelt%2BHS%2BFresno.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="638" data-original-width="427" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4jSvvYgnNvc/YDGUtHZa7SI/AAAAAAAAEoo/fvJP6vTcf1Eqi6VNJcDsy1J0n6vn_yHOgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Low%2BDoris%2BRoosevelt%2BHS%2BFresno.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Doris Low's Roosevelt High School<br />photo, Fresno, age 16</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JbAFTFRJMZI/YDGU9uO25SI/AAAAAAAAEow/Hds-tYaRGaAi1YO7TCsRP84OiJhKZsYHwCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/Ernest%2BA%2BLock%2Bheadstone.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="481" data-original-width="800" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JbAFTFRJMZI/YDGU9uO25SI/AAAAAAAAEow/Hds-tYaRGaAi1YO7TCsRP84OiJhKZsYHwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Ernest%2BA%2BLock%2Bheadstone.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ernest A Lock headstone</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><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/-rnF32MTcICU/YDGVIBbzfrI/AAAAAAAAEo0/BuoqxB-DNiQR6SAr9YMPUm1McNDDvbxHwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1024/Vetter%2BMary%2BLow%2BLock%2Bheadstone.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rnF32MTcICU/YDGVIBbzfrI/AAAAAAAAEo0/BuoqxB-DNiQR6SAr9YMPUm1McNDDvbxHwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Vetter%2BMary%2BLow%2BLock%2Bheadstone.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mary Vetter Low Lock headstone, Clovis, California</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">Sources
for this Post:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;"> Birth
and marriage records, 1900 – 1930 censuses, FindAGrave record, BillionGraves,
Anna Vetter Pattillo’s bible notes, Lottie Pattillo’s journal notes,
FamilySearch and Ancestry websites.</span></p></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/-Xwx4JCnyxQQ/YD5sFuxl5hI/AAAAAAAAEpY/b67fnEP0JIAQFUS-HvuhW_NE4QlEn7XtwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1040/PATTILLO%2BEd%2B%2526%2BDoris_Roeding%2BPark%2BJapanese%2BGarden_1938.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="1040" height="285" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Xwx4JCnyxQQ/YD5sFuxl5hI/AAAAAAAAEpY/b67fnEP0JIAQFUS-HvuhW_NE4QlEn7XtwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h285/PATTILLO%2BEd%2B%2526%2BDoris_Roeding%2BPark%2BJapanese%2BGarden_1938.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ed Pattillo with his cousin Doris at Roeding Park, 1938</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Chris Pattillo, FASLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704980567217692969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7923160542369902007.post-17678126193767371862021-02-14T13:53:00.000-08:002021-02-14T13:53:21.024-08:00Emma Vetter DeMarco 1891 - 1965 My Grandaunt on my Father's Side<p><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-b7j-gIhYyI0/YBxnX8Cq5dI/AAAAAAAAEic/27dZPN_xMhM-MB9Y0Oc_ip-9j8WeANvsgCLcBGAsYHQ/s365/Vetter%252C%2BEmma.tif" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="365" data-original-width="304" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-b7j-gIhYyI0/YBxnX8Cq5dI/AAAAAAAAEic/27dZPN_xMhM-MB9Y0Oc_ip-9j8WeANvsgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Vetter%252C%2BEmma.tif" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Emma Vetter as a teen</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">Emma
was the closest in age to my grandmother Anna of the five Vetter sisters. She was the fifth </span>daughter born to George Vetter and Katherine Neumeyer. Emma was
born November 9, 1891 after the family had moved to 1328 West 20<sup style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">
Street in Chicago, Illinois.</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">When
the 1900 census was taken Emma was a student in the Chicago school district as
were two of her older sisters Mary and Elizabeth “Lizzie”. Emma attended school
through the fifth grade. Then like her older sister Kate, Emma took a job while
still in her teens. She was only twelve when her mother died in 1904 which
undoubtedly impacted Emma’s life and forced her to grow up fast.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">At
twenty Emma married Anthony “Tony” DeMarco on December 6, 1911. They were
married in Los Angeles by a Justice of the Peace with Emma’s sister Mary as one
of the witnesses. At that time Emma was living at 1037Albany Street and she was
employed as a housekeeper while Tony was living at 850 East 32<sup>nd</sup>
Street and working as an elevator operator.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AMtyFhP4aiM/YBxn_NJgdzI/AAAAAAAAEik/Bnywn2fIu7QVuCQWoNQ7gkkxvyhVAWSVACLcBGAsYHQ/s923/Lewis%2B%2526%2BAnna%2Br%2BEmma%2B%2526%2Bhusband%2BGeorge%2BDeMarco%2Bleft.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="656" data-original-width="923" height="284" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AMtyFhP4aiM/YBxn_NJgdzI/AAAAAAAAEik/Bnywn2fIu7QVuCQWoNQ7gkkxvyhVAWSVACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h284/Lewis%2B%2526%2BAnna%2Br%2BEmma%2B%2526%2Bhusband%2BGeorge%2BDeMarco%2Bleft.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Emma and Tony left with Anna and Lewis</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">Tony
was born in Los Angeles in 1889. He was the son of Donato DeMarco and Rose
Gagliano. Tony worked for the City of Los Angeles for much of his life and was
working as a truck driver when the 1940 census was taken.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">Emma
was twenty-one when her father died and twenty-four when her first child was
born – a daughter Rose DeMarco who was born in 1915, followed by a son George
Denota DeMarco in 1917, Irene DeMarco in 1922, and another son John Gene
DeMarco in 1927. The family lived in Los Angeles during the time the children
were born. Then by 1930 they had moved to 8415 South San Pedro Street – also in
Los Angeles County, and they were still at the San Pedro address ten years
later when the 1940 census was taken.</span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i6ftJjjy95c/YBxoXtInwGI/AAAAAAAAEis/QWW84OK8P8kTyJdChMULVaT1gZALKo-SgCLcBGAsYHQ/s802/Vetter%2BAnna%2B%2526%2BEmma%2BI%2Bthink%2Bw%2Brifles.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="802" data-original-width="620" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i6ftJjjy95c/YBxoXtInwGI/AAAAAAAAEis/QWW84OK8P8kTyJdChMULVaT1gZALKo-SgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Vetter%2BAnna%2B%2526%2BEmma%2BI%2Bthink%2Bw%2Brifles.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Emma and Anna with rifles -<br />wonder what they were up to</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;">Rose
DeMarco was my grandmother’s favorite niece. I remember our going to visit Rose
and her husband Nick Spindler at their farm in Greenfield in Monterey County,
California. I was 13 at the time and Rose told me I could go into the barn and
collect the chicken eggs. I distinctly recall feeling uneasy about this
assignment – fearing the chickens might resist but I managed to accomplish the
task unharmed.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">Emma
survived the death of two of her sisters and her husband, and the marriage of
at least one of her children before she died at the age of 73 from a heart
attack on May 18, 1965. She is buried somewhere in Los Angeles but I don’t know
exactly where. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">Sources
for this Post:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">
1900 – 1940 censuses, birth, marriage and death records for Emma, Chris Dixon,
my mother’s photos, my grandmother Anna’s bible notes, MyHeritage, Ancestry and
FamilySearch websites.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wG6hcxcNMP0/YBxou_3DuEI/AAAAAAAAEi4/mT8wKJ75QgkkyD8jERA1DB1_ykB3VfKvACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Emma%2BVetter%2Bfrom%2BChris%2BDixon%2BB%2526W.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1396" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wG6hcxcNMP0/YBxou_3DuEI/AAAAAAAAEi4/mT8wKJ75QgkkyD8jERA1DB1_ykB3VfKvACLcBGAsYHQ/w273-h400/Emma%2BVetter%2Bfrom%2BChris%2BDixon%2BB%2526W.jpg" width="273" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Emma Vetter portrait from Chis Dixon's collection</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br /> <o:p></o:p></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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EKEBe4S-JTE/YBxpmBubNnI/AAAAAAAAEjQ/x0lbh8bobdgGnWYaOrB7klD9JcRTlra3gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1210/Nick%2B%2526%2BRose.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="948" data-original-width="1210" height="314" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EKEBe4S-JTE/YBxpmBubNnI/AAAAAAAAEjQ/x0lbh8bobdgGnWYaOrB7klD9JcRTlra3gCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h314/Nick%2B%2526%2BRose.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rose and her husband Nick Spindler<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/-saeaaG2jh2w/YBxp5BzlkII/AAAAAAAAEjY/Ql2pMvkh2PMeoshkWTmxNJ4VPhrDDER5gCLcBGAsYHQ/s387/Nick%252C%2BRose%2B%2526%2Bson.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="387" data-original-width="316" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-saeaaG2jh2w/YBxp5BzlkII/AAAAAAAAEjY/Ql2pMvkh2PMeoshkWTmxNJ4VPhrDDER5gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Nick%252C%2BRose%2B%2526%2Bson.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nick and Rose with their son who was <br />killed in a truck accident.</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/--UOCjIMx3nU/YBxqPvgmPpI/AAAAAAAAEjg/9IKuvrlyKx0hWV-G0WuaCik0MoLX_LLxwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1504/PATTILLO_Kathy%2BAnna%2BChris_gathering%2Beggs%2Bon%2BSpindler%2BFarm_1963.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1050" data-original-width="1504" height="279" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--UOCjIMx3nU/YBxqPvgmPpI/AAAAAAAAEjg/9IKuvrlyKx0hWV-G0WuaCik0MoLX_LLxwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h279/PATTILLO_Kathy%2BAnna%2BChris_gathering%2Beggs%2Bon%2BSpindler%2BFarm_1963.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Emma's sister Anna with her two granddaughters Kathy and<br />Chris Pattillo. Anna holding the freshly gathered eggs. Taken<br />at Rose and Nick Spindler's home in Greenfield, CA.</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/-nQknHA3n6QE/YBxqyL9PtNI/AAAAAAAAEjs/HH55asAWhyYv_RMKMV2EG1RJKFLlmH7AACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Emma%2BVetter%2BBirth%2Brecord.jpg.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1335" data-original-width="2048" height="261" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nQknHA3n6QE/YBxqyL9PtNI/AAAAAAAAEjs/HH55asAWhyYv_RMKMV2EG1RJKFLlmH7AACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h261/Emma%2BVetter%2BBirth%2Brecord.jpg.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Emma's birth record</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><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/-L7iNy86DPwY/YBxrc3ZTwEI/AAAAAAAAEj0/jhwdDlJg-nAybqcglrgo0x2EYVj5FddPQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Vetter%2BEmma%2Band%2BDemarco%2Bmarriage%2BFamSearch.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1305" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L7iNy86DPwY/YBxrc3ZTwEI/AAAAAAAAEj0/jhwdDlJg-nAybqcglrgo0x2EYVj5FddPQCLcBGAsYHQ/w255-h400/Vetter%2BEmma%2Band%2BDemarco%2Bmarriage%2BFamSearch.jpg" width="255" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Emma and Tony's marriage record</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/-X7389ixqPvo/YBxr7F-KbsI/AAAAAAAAEj8/EsUQ27uyCW4y0lrrfqF0ljRUL6hMJ3yHwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1514/SPINDLER_Rose%2B%2526%2BNick_on%2Btheir%2Bfarm%2Bwith%2B30%2Bcattle_1963.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1514" data-original-width="1052" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-X7389ixqPvo/YBxr7F-KbsI/AAAAAAAAEj8/EsUQ27uyCW4y0lrrfqF0ljRUL6hMJ3yHwCLcBGAsYHQ/w278-h400/SPINDLER_Rose%2B%2526%2BNick_on%2Btheir%2Bfarm%2Bwith%2B30%2Bcattle_1963.jpg" width="278" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rose and Nick 1963</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><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/-rgCG8MvBy2A/YBxsXKZ0gCI/AAAAAAAAEkI/yMxMwPoZRbM5xG4ngFoctkfNYhyrseniwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1933/Vetter%2BMary%2BAnna%2BEmma.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1431" data-original-width="1933" height="296" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rgCG8MvBy2A/YBxsXKZ0gCI/AAAAAAAAEkI/yMxMwPoZRbM5xG4ngFoctkfNYhyrseniwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h296/Vetter%2BMary%2BAnna%2BEmma.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">L-R Mary, Anna and Emma Vetter</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><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/-tdfNflHqt0M/YBxso0ZUBeI/AAAAAAAAEkQ/I5CmwtGVNcs0nIGvo6RFOIQf0dBz_eqqgCLcBGAsYHQ/s867/Vetter%2BSister%2BEmma%2B%2526%2Bhusband.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="867" data-original-width="628" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tdfNflHqt0M/YBxso0ZUBeI/AAAAAAAAEkQ/I5CmwtGVNcs0nIGvo6RFOIQf0dBz_eqqgCLcBGAsYHQ/w290-h400/Vetter%2BSister%2BEmma%2B%2526%2Bhusband.jpg" width="290" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Emma and Tony DeMarco</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Chris Pattillo, FASLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704980567217692969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7923160542369902007.post-14095712582426163192021-02-04T13:27:00.000-08:002021-02-04T13:27:04.219-08:00Kate Vetter Cordes 1885 - 1953 My Grandaunt on My Father's Side<p><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dblvDDkdr0E/YBd6RKRvYXI/AAAAAAAAEgY/OTS77PRkKTI2ZEpY0VIwgQJpkXtGl5TqACLcBGAsYHQ/s370/Kate%2Bheadshot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="370" data-original-width="348" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dblvDDkdr0E/YBd6RKRvYXI/AAAAAAAAEgY/OTS77PRkKTI2ZEpY0VIwgQJpkXtGl5TqACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Kate%2Bheadshot.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kate Vetter as a young woman</td></tr></tbody></table>Katherine
“Kate” Vetter is one of those larger-than-live relatives. I don’t think I ever
met her in person.<br /> I might have met her but I would have been too young to
remember her. I was three when Kate died. Everything I know about Kate is from
stories my grandmother, her youngest sister, told me or from photographs I have
of Kate. From what I’ve gleaned from researching Kate online it appears she led
an interesting life. At least it appears that way from the variety of places
she lived.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Kate,
like all of her five sisters, was born in Chicago. She was the eldest born on
July 16, 1885 when the family was living at 500 Halstead Street. It was just
two years after her parents immigrated from Mainz, Germany and when her father
George was working as a stonecutter in Cook County, Illinois. What an
experience that must have been. They probably spoke German at home so for a
time Kate and her younger sisters may have been somewhat multi-lingual. The
family would have been struggling to adapt to life in a new, big American city.</span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Tghkw2oz1Bs/YBd6gcRGv0I/AAAAAAAAEgc/UZU3c5rBmScHj9BxsSSu5ZCQtHifO3b4ACLcBGAsYHQ/s794/Vetter%2BKate%2Bas%2Bchild.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="794" data-original-width="562" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Tghkw2oz1Bs/YBd6gcRGv0I/AAAAAAAAEgc/UZU3c5rBmScHj9BxsSSu5ZCQtHifO3b4ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Vetter%2BKate%2Bas%2Bchild.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kate as a toddler</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Kate
was actually the second daughter born to George and his wife Katherine
Neumeyer. Their first child a daughter named Augusta Elizabeth Vetter was born
in Chicago on May 13, 1884 and died seven months later on December 16, 1884.
Augusta is buried in St. Boniface Cemetery in Chicago.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Between
1888 and 1893 Kate’s four younger sisters were born. Mary in 1888, Elizabeth
“Lizzie” in 1890, Emma in 1891 and my grandmother Anna in 1893. The entire
family appeared on the 1900 census living in a rented house at 409 21<sup>st</sup>
Street in Chicago, Illinois. Of the 100 individuals listed on that census page 91
of them had both parents born in Germany. The parents of the remaining 9
individuals had parents who were born in England. No person on the page had
American born parents. So, the Vetter family was immersed in a neighborhood of
newly arrived immigrants strongly dominated by Germans.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Kate
was fifteen when the 1900 census was taken and somewhat to my surprise she is
listed as a “laborer” as was her father. Her sisters Mary, Emma and Lizzie were
all attending school but Anna who was seven was not in school. In 1870 one out
of every eight children was working. By 1900 the rate had increased to one in
five children. Girls often worked in mills. Others worked at home making things
like clothing.<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/VETTER/VETTER%20Kate/Kate%20Vetter%201885.docx#_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title="">[1]</a> <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/-lm_Pvh-tNfE/YBeATJJ57WI/AAAAAAAAEiE/06mFWgjRgUsjmnWXuEof8Va2Hy4uMWpZwCLcBGAsYHQ/s744/Girls%2Bworking%2Bin%2Ba%2Bmill%2Bfrom%2BLOC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="449" data-original-width="744" height="241" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lm_Pvh-tNfE/YBeATJJ57WI/AAAAAAAAEiE/06mFWgjRgUsjmnWXuEof8Va2Hy4uMWpZwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h241/Girls%2Bworking%2Bin%2Ba%2Bmill%2Bfrom%2BLOC.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo of girls working in a mill from the Library of Congress site</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gq77U4ZiZRM/YBd626CKMVI/AAAAAAAAEgo/rRpp3zqCkCMH_NwrbgK91fp6S7TRjzWxACLcBGAsYHQ/s1512/Kate%2BVetter%2Bfrom%2BChris%2BDixon%2Bcropped.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="1175" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gq77U4ZiZRM/YBd626CKMVI/AAAAAAAAEgo/rRpp3zqCkCMH_NwrbgK91fp6S7TRjzWxACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Kate%2BVetter%2Bfrom%2BChris%2BDixon%2Bcropped.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kate as a young woman, from<br />Chris Dixon</td></tr></tbody></table></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Four
years later Kate’s mother Katherine died from heart disease. She was only 47,
and Kate who was nineteen assumed responsibility for taking care of her younger
sisters. Katherine is buried in Angeles Rosedell Cemetery in Los Angeles. The
family continued to be listed in Chicago directories in 1901, 1902 and 1903, at
the same address on 21<sup>st</sup> Street, so they must have left Chicago in
late 1903 or early 1904. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">When
Kate was twenty-three her sister Lizzie married Paul Wallace in June of 1909.
Three months later Kate married Ernest Cordes on September 8, 1909. Earnest was
the son of C.H. Cordes from Germany and Margaret Gender from Ohio. Ernest was
born in Pennsylvania in 1879. Seven months after they married Kate and Earnest
appeared on the 1910 census living in Rhyolite, Nevada where Ernest was working
as a miner. Kate’s youngest sister Anna, my grandmother, was thirteen years old
and was living with Kate and her husband in Rhyolite. You can read more about
that adventure in the blog post about Anna that I posted on February 12, 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Kate’s
father remarried in 1910 followed by the marriages of her other three sisters –
Anna in 1910, Emma in 1911 and Mary in 1912. Sadly, George’s second marriage
didn’t last long because he died in 1913 before Kate’s daughter Irene Cordes
was born on November 24, 1916. Irene married Norman Fritz Beuchel in 1939 – the
same year that my parents were married, and lived in Venice, California where
Norman worked at Lockheed Aircraft. Irene died on February 7, 2001 in Clark
County, Nevada but she is buried in Whittier which is in Los Angeles County.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UUuk6IdlxPA/YBd7NMY4B8I/AAAAAAAAEgw/1MZ_isGDdEsSO-X-x6RuuihhJLxRHUW-gCLcBGAsYHQ/s566/Kate%2B%2526%2Bhusband%2BEarnest.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="566" data-original-width="367" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UUuk6IdlxPA/YBd7NMY4B8I/AAAAAAAAEgw/1MZ_isGDdEsSO-X-x6RuuihhJLxRHUW-gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Kate%2B%2526%2Bhusband%2BEarnest.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kate and Ernest</td></tr></tbody></table></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">When
the 1920 census was taken Kate, Ernest and Irene were living at 2423 Washington
Boulevard in Santa Monica – a posh place in Los Angeles County. They were at
the same location ten years later as recorded on the 1930 census. Ernest was
working as a police officer in Santa Monica. Two years later their daughter
Margaret was born in Shasta County, California on August 12, 1921. Margaret
married Frederick Bertandt Espe on June 25, 1938 in Santa Monica and they lived
in Glendale. Fred also worked at Lockheed as a mechanic. In 1940, Fred and
Margaret were living at 3340 Durango Avenue in Venice, California and they had
a three-month-old daughter Beverly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Earnest
died when Kate was fifty – too young to be a widow. After his death Kate occasionally
visited her sister Anna in Oakland but as my grandmother tells it, she and her
sister Kate did not get along. Anna claimed to not get along with any of her
sisters. I think my grandmother was a bit irascible though so I suspect she was
the primary source of the problem. From reading my mother’s diaries I know that
she and her mother-in-law conflicted with each other the entire time they knew
each other.<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/-_RxDUDYwfEE/YBd7hzKTWRI/AAAAAAAAEg4/OXBL0vo03i8pKk8AVDLhtAoCZpf_kLE1wCLcBGAsYHQ/s914/Vetter%2BKate%2B%2526%2Bchild.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="611" data-original-width="914" height="268" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_RxDUDYwfEE/YBd7hzKTWRI/AAAAAAAAEg4/OXBL0vo03i8pKk8AVDLhtAoCZpf_kLE1wCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h268/Vetter%2BKate%2B%2526%2Bchild.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kate during one of her family visits</td></tr></tbody></table></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">Kate
made a trip to Honolulu, Hawaii on December 10, 1948. I know this because I found
her listed on the S.S. Lurline ship’s passenger list which noted that the ship
arrived on December 15</span><sup style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">. Kate was sixty-three at the time and appears
to have traveled alone. I presume it was a vacation and not an extended stay.
Kate died at 68 on December 26, 1953 and is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in
Santa Monica.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Sources
for this Post:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">
US censuses, marriage record, birth records, directory listings, voter
registration, Ancestry.com, FamilySearch, death certificate, ship passenger
list, Find-A-Grave website, and my Grandmother’s bible notes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<div id="ftn1" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/VETTER/VETTER%20Kate/Kate%20Vetter%201885.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""></a>1 Michael Schuman, <i>History of Child Labor in the United
States Part 1: Little Children Working</i>, Monthly Labor Review, Jan. 2017.<o:p></o:p></p>
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</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/-3EbM9AOMdnI/YBd9KPqCvnI/AAAAAAAAEhg/b1G3VvWgQVsftxAVAxE0NovXfF00pnlMACLcBGAsYHQ/s1856/VetterAugusta%2B1884death.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1128" data-original-width="1856" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3EbM9AOMdnI/YBd9KPqCvnI/AAAAAAAAEhg/b1G3VvWgQVsftxAVAxE0NovXfF00pnlMACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/VetterAugusta%2B1884death.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Augusta Elizabeth Vetters death certificate</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/--Qt50OKHMr4/YBd9Iwdx2mI/AAAAAAAAEhc/aP9OxInRCGUdP9F9oe2JWRqRmff3lhlHACLcBGAsYHQ/s698/Vetter%2BKathe%2Bbirth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="698" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--Qt50OKHMr4/YBd9Iwdx2mI/AAAAAAAAEhc/aP9OxInRCGUdP9F9oe2JWRqRmff3lhlHACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Vetter%2BKathe%2Bbirth.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kate "Kathe" Vetter birth certificate</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/-Vd_q6uqifwk/YBd9ISB1FbI/AAAAAAAAEhY/6A8Cn3pTKdoQZanaskZtZimR4UEYlu4GQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1268/Vetter%2BKate%2BLizzie%2BEmma%2BMary%2BAnna.adj.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="892" data-original-width="1268" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Vd_q6uqifwk/YBd9ISB1FbI/AAAAAAAAEhY/6A8Cn3pTKdoQZanaskZtZimR4UEYlu4GQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Vetter%2BKate%2BLizzie%2BEmma%2BMary%2BAnna.adj.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kate on the right with her four sisters</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/-gy0iwzlYAKA/YBd9FnGfA0I/AAAAAAAAEhQ/5ssaHvI8xmYUG7Af43hK5Dd4_aVHH8cTwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2024/Vetter%2BKate%2BCordes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1082" data-original-width="2024" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gy0iwzlYAKA/YBd9FnGfA0I/AAAAAAAAEhQ/5ssaHvI8xmYUG7Af43hK5Dd4_aVHH8cTwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Vetter%2BKate%2BCordes.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kate's tomb</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/-BvjkhFylhCk/YBd9EismyUI/AAAAAAAAEhM/gvFewWhPn-An7sVtfJR9AWO8bS3_wUKbwCLcBGAsYHQ/s381/Vetter%2BKate%2BCordes%2B%2526%2Bdog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="381" data-original-width="253" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BvjkhFylhCk/YBd9EismyUI/AAAAAAAAEhM/gvFewWhPn-An7sVtfJR9AWO8bS3_wUKbwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Vetter%2BKate%2BCordes%2B%2526%2Bdog.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kate in Rhyolite, Nevada</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/-h9oRmp9Cais/YBd9KrMsfYI/AAAAAAAAEhk/smvC4ZUP1jErWEacCAX7l4YzdLiHq-HvwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Vetter%2BKate%2Band%2BCordes%2Bmarriage%2Brecord%2BFamSeach.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1381" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h9oRmp9Cais/YBd9KrMsfYI/AAAAAAAAEhk/smvC4ZUP1jErWEacCAX7l4YzdLiHq-HvwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Vetter%2BKate%2Band%2BCordes%2Bmarriage%2Brecord%2BFamSeach.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kate and Ernest's marriage record</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/-mlueQAGLz1k/YBd9F-BB5lI/AAAAAAAAEhU/v7fBjojKSUQp8xlxys7Kk2cqXUHQXnYagCLcBGAsYHQ/s933/Vetter%2BAnna%2B%2526%2BKate.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="933" data-original-width="825" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mlueQAGLz1k/YBd9F-BB5lI/AAAAAAAAEhU/v7fBjojKSUQp8xlxys7Kk2cqXUHQXnYagCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Vetter%2BAnna%2B%2526%2BKate.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Anna and Kate in Rhyolite</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/-XyuEyV_dPVc/YBd9D9bezvI/AAAAAAAAEhI/BXe4cBJunJ0haHmNlTJyQvDFZuIjaYqEwCLcBGAsYHQ/s250/Margaret%2BCordes%2Bwedding%2Bannouncement.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="125" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XyuEyV_dPVc/YBd9D9bezvI/AAAAAAAAEhI/BXe4cBJunJ0haHmNlTJyQvDFZuIjaYqEwCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Margaret%2BCordes%2Bwedding%2Bannouncement.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Margaret Cordes Wedding announcement</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/-97-GpptG3gs/YBd9D0QzyAI/AAAAAAAAEhE/UPVoXJyI_fctkHPHlOW9FROZma4fgEIGACLcBGAsYHQ/s679/Beuchel%2BIrene.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="443" data-original-width="679" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-97-GpptG3gs/YBd9D0QzyAI/AAAAAAAAEhE/UPVoXJyI_fctkHPHlOW9FROZma4fgEIGACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Beuchel%2BIrene.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Irene Cordes Beuchel marker on her grave</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/-DZo51IKCp5o/YBd9LCToLqI/AAAAAAAAEho/q-CZUxAoeR0n1BLc6WTKqPmMGHnC71WCgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/1910%2BVetter%252C%2BKate%2BCordes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1438" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DZo51IKCp5o/YBd9LCToLqI/AAAAAAAAEho/q-CZUxAoeR0n1BLc6WTKqPmMGHnC71WCgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/1910%2BVetter%252C%2BKate%2BCordes.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1910 Census when they were living in Rhyolite, Nevada</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Chris Pattillo, FASLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704980567217692969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7923160542369902007.post-31659548839165587292021-01-29T13:27:00.000-08:002021-01-29T13:27:01.307-08:00Louisa Prelle 1822 - Aft. 1879 My 2nd Great Grandmother on My Mother's Side<p><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EjJrDr1dzxE/YBR5z7I1XII/AAAAAAAAEfg/Wu0rBthyiAEId6XESro75tQYbEwT9H3oQCLcBGAsYHQ/s750/Market%2BChurch%2Bwhere%2BHeinrich%2Bwas%2BBaptized.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="511" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EjJrDr1dzxE/YBR5z7I1XII/AAAAAAAAEfg/Wu0rBthyiAEId6XESro75tQYbEwT9H3oQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Market%2BChurch%2Bwhere%2BHeinrich%2Bwas%2BBaptized.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Market Church where Louisa<br />was baptized</td></tr></tbody></table>Louisa Prelle was born Johanna Louisa
Wilhelmina Christiane Prelle on March 9, 1822. She was the daughter of Johann
Christoff Andreas Prelle and Johanna Elisabeth Carolina Henriette Kratzenstein.
She was one of five children. She had an older sister Henriette Prelle born
December 26, 1817 and an older brother Fritz Christoph Prelle born October 25,
1819. She also had two younger sisters Johanna Henritta Prelle born September
22, 1823 and Johanna Christiane Caroline Prelle born August 19, 1825.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Louisa and her family lived at 777
Goslar in Germany. She was baptized at Market Church in Goslar on March 21,
1822. Strangely, the only witness listed on her birth record was a man named
Theuerkauf. Traditionally the baby is named after the persons present at his or
her birth but this was not the case for Louisa.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="NormalNoSpacing"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Louisa married Heinrich Christian Menge on
October 27, 1840 when she was 18, and gave birth to 12 children. They Were:</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="NormalNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Johanna Sophia
Christianne Menge</span></b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">,
who was born April 2, 1841. Johanne Christoph Prelle, her maternal grandfather,
and Johanna Sophia Menge (who was likely her paternal grandmother though she
was not identified as such) were present at her birth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">I</span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">t was the custom at that time for the
new child to be given the names of the witnesses. This explains the multiple
names for each child.</span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Sophia
was baptized on April 25, 1841, in Market Church in Goslar. This is the town’s
Catholic church. She married Johanne Friedrich Carl Eilmann.</span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> <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/-NnxUnBM8MqE/YBR6eAAD3xI/AAAAAAAAEfo/PzR6DZuJkDIvShJClNAk52wBVRfjjtzWwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1466/Market%2BChurch%2Band%2BStephan%2BChurch%2Bon%2BBreite%2BStreet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="862" data-original-width="1466" height="235" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NnxUnBM8MqE/YBR6eAAD3xI/AAAAAAAAEfo/PzR6DZuJkDIvShJClNAk52wBVRfjjtzWwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h235/Market%2BChurch%2Band%2BStephan%2BChurch%2Bon%2BBreite%2BStreet.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This screenshot from Google Earth shows the location of<br />Market Church at one end of Breite and Market Streets<br />on the left and Stephans Church at the other end</td></tr></tbody></table></span><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Louise Henrietta
Menge</span></b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">,</span><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">born August 27, 1842, and baptized on
September 11, 1842, at Market Church. The only witness recorded at her birth
was her father, which was very unusual</span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> in Germany at that time.</span></p>
<p class="NormalNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Anna Frederika
Menge</span></b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">was
born on May 20, 1844. One of the two witnesses at her birth was Friedrich
Menge, who was probably an uncle, but I don’t know that for certain. Sadly, Anna died six months later, on
November 15.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XytOLXX_UiY/YBR68wcuyWI/AAAAAAAAEfw/cF0oV0P6j409vg_K3FcLSg9LJmShk0p5gCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/Goslar%2Bcityscape%2BT%2BHenze.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XytOLXX_UiY/YBR68wcuyWI/AAAAAAAAEfw/cF0oV0P6j409vg_K3FcLSg9LJmShk0p5gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Goslar%2Bcityscape%2BT%2BHenze.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A detail shot of Goslar from Thomas Henze's<br />Facebook page</td></tr></tbody></table></span><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="NormalNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;"><b>Anna Henrietta
Christianne Menge</b></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">,
born in 1845. Two witnesses were listed at Henrietta’s birth, but I don’t know
who they are yet. One was Mrs. Joh. Christiane Br</span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">ön</span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">necke, nee Dammayer. Br</span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">ön</span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">necke is a
family name on Henrietta’s maternal side of the family. The other witness was
Mrs. Sophia Henrietta Bach, nee Rosenkranz. Both were probably aunts. Henrietta
was baptized at Market Church on July 21, 1845.</span></p>
<p class="NormalNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Heinrich
Gottlieb Otto Menge</span></b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">was
born on November 22, 1847. His father and August Gottlieb Menge, a white tanner
from Alfeld, were listed as witnesses. August Gottlieb may have been an uncle,
a brother of his father. Gottlieb was baptized on Christmas day in 1847.</span></p>
<p class="NormalNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Christian
Hermann Menge</span></b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">
was born on May 20, 1849, and baptized on August 6, 1849. The only witness at
his baptism was Christian Menge, identified as a master miller from Alfeld, so
he was likely another brother of Heinrich Christian Menge and an uncle to
Hermann. The baptism was performed by Pastor Ernst Bendeler, the same pastor
who performed some of the ceremonies for the other children.</span></p>
<p class="NormalNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Heinrich
Friedrich (Henry) Menge</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">, </span></b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">my great grandfather</span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> was the next child. </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">You can read his biography on
this blog. I posted it July 20, 2014.</span></p>
<p class="NormalNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">A daughter</span></b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> was born in
June of 1854. Unfortunately, her first names are not legible on the birth or
baptism records. She was christened on September 11, 1854, by Pastor Bendeler.
Two witnesses are listed, but only one name is legible — that of Karl Prelle,
her uncle on her maternal side.</span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8oxzA-8CXa4/YBR8pfn_PkI/AAAAAAAAEgI/vad5dYhj1hUf2eRWlF5LlfDJMPTd91h3wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1350/Goslar%2B2020-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8oxzA-8CXa4/YBR8pfn_PkI/AAAAAAAAEgI/vad5dYhj1hUf2eRWlF5LlfDJMPTd91h3wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Goslar%2B2020-4.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The town of Goslar from Thomas Henze</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p>
<p class="NormalNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Emma Marie
Hermine Menge </span></b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">was
born on July 3, 1856, and baptized on September 15, 1856. The two baptism
witnesses were Hermann Becker from Vienenburg and Marie Cassebaum. There were
also two “representatives,” a Karl (?) Prelle, Miller from Goslar, and
Christian Müller. </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">A
</span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">small
cross marked on the original record, indicat</span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">es</span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> that Emma Marie died young.</span></p>
<p class="NormalNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">The
tenth child was </span><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">August Heinrich
Albert Menge</span></b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">,
who was born on July 15, 1858, and baptized on September 9, 1858. His witnesses
were August Menge from Alfeld; Anton Menge, a cooper from Goslar; and a third
witness that </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">is
not legible</span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">.
The priest who performed the baptism was Father Lohmann. This child also died
young, on January 25, 1860.</span></p>
<p class="NormalNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Johanna Ottilia
Alwina Menge</span></b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">
came into this world on April 4, 1862, and was baptized by Father Siever on
April 28. Heinrich Becker from Vienenburg and her older brother Heinrich Otto
Gottlieb Menge were present at her birth. Unfortunately, this child also died
young, when she was two months and fourteen days old, on June 19, 1862.</span></p>
<p class="NormalNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">The
last child born to </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">Louisa</span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> Menge was </span><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">another son</span></b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">, who lived only six days, from October
2nd to the 8</span><sup><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> in 1862. He was
not baptized. </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">Louisa
</span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">would
have been 41 when he was born.<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/-k1Nvv20R2d8/YBR7T5CQ0SI/AAAAAAAAEf8/Hj_2xTm8m681lxf8HwZ9bq61ru36zkHJgCLcBGAsYHQ/s923/Prelle%2BJoanna%2Bbirth%2Band%2Bname%2Bof%2Bher%2Bparents%2Bin%2BGerman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="812" data-original-width="923" height="353" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-k1Nvv20R2d8/YBR7T5CQ0SI/AAAAAAAAEf8/Hj_2xTm8m681lxf8HwZ9bq61ru36zkHJgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h353/Prelle%2BJoanna%2Bbirth%2Band%2Bname%2Bof%2Bher%2Bparents%2Bin%2BGerman.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A copy of the original church record of Louisa's birth<br />and baptism, 1822. Found by Thomas Henze</td></tr></tbody></table></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">She
died sometime after 1862 but I have not yet found a record of her death. A
marriage record for her son Heinrich Menge, my great grandfather, includes a
reference to both of his parents noting that they were living in Goslar,
Germany. This note, in the present tense, suggests that Louisa was living at that
time, August 15, 1879, when she would have been 57 years old.</span></p><p class="NormalNoSpacing"></p><p class="NormalNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Sources
for this Post:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">
Heinrich Menge’s journal and his marriage record; baptism and marriage records
for Louisa found by Thomas Henze; Google; FamilySearch and Ancestry</span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;"></span><p></p>Chris Pattillo, FASLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704980567217692969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7923160542369902007.post-31920885338082812612021-01-23T11:54:00.001-08:002021-01-23T12:10:15.869-08:00Martin Phillips 1724-1781 My Fifth Great Grandfather on My Father's Side<p><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8fsBO1WAHVQ/YAx3_MyX7_I/AAAAAAAAEeg/NzL1O0G778wPv6E_sc485jhnelzQ3PpAwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Home%2Bof%2BField%2BJefferson%2Bbuilt%2B1751%2BMecklenburg%2BVA.JPG" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8fsBO1WAHVQ/YAx3_MyX7_I/AAAAAAAAEeg/NzL1O0G778wPv6E_sc485jhnelzQ3PpAwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Home%2Bof%2BField%2BJefferson%2Bbuilt%2B1751%2BMecklenburg%2BVA.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This house built in Mecklenburg in 1751 may be<br />the type of home inhabited by Martin Phillips<br />and his family.</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Martin Phillips was the
father of Pettus Phillips. He was born about 1724 in King and Queen County,
Virginia. The county formed in 1691, and in 1728 a portion of the county, along
with portions of King William and Essex counties, was carved out to form Caroline
County. Records show that Martin lived in Caroline County near Williamsburg
prior to 1766 at which time he moved south to Mecklenburg County. </span> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">None of the research I’ve done has provided any clues as to who Martin’s
parents were. According to Katherine B. Elliott, a prolific researcher from
Mecklenburg County where our Pattillo ancestors are from, “most of the records
of King and Queen County were destroyed during the Civil War.” </span><a href="https://d.docs.live.net/8163fca405c21f52/Documents/martin%20phillips%201724.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[1]</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">.
Elliott notes that “all of the early deed and will books of Caroline County
were destroyed in 1865.” So, it is very unlikely that I will ever know who his
parents were.</span><a href="https://d.docs.live.net/8163fca405c21f52/Documents/martin%20phillips%201724.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[2]</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">Martin
married Anne Pettus in about 1750 when he would have been about twenty-six. He
and Anne had seven children that were recorded in the <i>Ancestry of the Land
Family</i> written by Samuel B. Land and researched by Katherine Elliott. They were
Mary, Dabney, Nancy (Anne), Sarah, Pettus, Elizabeth and William Phillips.
According to Samuel Land all the children were born in Virginia between about
1752 and 1768. The only child I’ve researched thoroughly is Pettus, my fourth
great grandfather.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NHiOXLkkNDo/YAx8JjmETWI/AAAAAAAAEes/sq-INKuw1_g3NQCOqaPFCCsPUXXHa5TagCLcBGAsYHQ/s4896/Boydton%2BHomes%2BDSC00002.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NHiOXLkkNDo/YAx8JjmETWI/AAAAAAAAEes/sq-INKuw1_g3NQCOqaPFCCsPUXXHa5TagCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Boydton%2BHomes%2BDSC00002.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A similar style home after restoration from<br />Mecklenburg in 2017.</td></tr></tbody></table>Martin
married Anne Pettus in about 1750 when he would have been about twenty-six. Anne
was the daughter of Dabney Pettus of James City County, Virginia. Dabney was
the son of Captain Thomas Pettus of Littleton in James City County.<a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/PHILLIPS/Martin%20Phillips/martin%20phillips%201724.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
Thomas Pettus married Elizabeth Dabney – the source of this uncommon family
name. Anne was born about 1730 in King and Queen County and died before March
17<sup>th</sup>, 1794 in Mecklenburg County, Virginia.</span></p><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">I
found deed records for five land transactions involving Martin between October
1765 and February of 1781. The earliest was his purchase of two hundred acres
in Mecklenburg County from a William Sandefer. Martin paid 120 pounds for a
parcel of land lying on both sides of the Long Branch of Allens Creek. One of
his neighbors was the Brame family with whom we have a connection. Elizabeth
Brame Hutcheson was the second wife of Robert C. Land who is my third great
grandfather.</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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-exDxbbOClp4/YAx8chulo1I/AAAAAAAAEe0/NRetR0c6X18YR2Fs444FFtuvDc83UpMCgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1112/Long%2BBranch%2BAllen%2BCreek.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="774" data-original-width="1112" height="279" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-exDxbbOClp4/YAx8chulo1I/AAAAAAAAEe0/NRetR0c6X18YR2Fs444FFtuvDc83UpMCgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h279/Long%2BBranch%2BAllen%2BCreek.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This topo map shows the location of the Long Branch of<br />Allen Creek between the towns of Boydton and Baskerville</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">Three
years later Martin acquired an additional one hundred acres nearby paying fifty
pounds to William Hatsel. Then in 1775 Martin made a large purchase – five
hundred acres on the Reedy Branch of Allens Creek adjacent to land he already
owned. This purchase was from John Rufin for two-hundred and fifty pounds. In
1777 he sold twenty-nine acres to John Goode for forty pounds and three
shillings. A few months before he died, he gave his son Dabney nearly three
hundred acres of the parcel on the Reedy Branch. In his will Martin left his
plantation to his wife Anne and stipulated that his youngest son William would
get it upon Anne’s death. The will also left some property to his son Pettus. He
signed his will on July 26, 1781.<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/-M6CbUH4-P8M/YAx812N-yMI/AAAAAAAAEe8/iY8oGTPkyNQjow4MUyJQI0htKcbWOLv7wCLcBGAsYHQ/s4896/Clarksville%2BMuseum%2BDSCAAAAN.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M6CbUH4-P8M/YAx812N-yMI/AAAAAAAAEe8/iY8oGTPkyNQjow4MUyJQI0htKcbWOLv7wCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h300/Clarksville%2BMuseum%2BDSCAAAAN.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Phillips household kitchen likely looked something<br />like this kitchen from the Clarksburg Museum in Mecklenburg, Virginia</td></tr></tbody></table></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">Other
records for Martin include a couple of examples of his having witnessed a land
deed and two records dated April 8, 1776 of his having supported candidates to
serve as delegates for Mecklenburg. I have found one record that Martin
supplied bacon and cattle to support the Continental Army during the American
Revolution. Though this seems highly probable it needs further study and
documentation.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">Martin
Phillips died before September 10, 1781. He would have been about fifty-seven
years old.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8wjkL3BnzT0/YAx9TcjKwMI/AAAAAAAAEfE/p70pVFW8XZ88-QAlPIWqPSK5REs6KdmOgCLcBGAsYHQ/s4896/Clarksville%2BMuseum%2BDSCAAAAS.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8wjkL3BnzT0/YAx9TcjKwMI/AAAAAAAAEfE/p70pVFW8XZ88-QAlPIWqPSK5REs6KdmOgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h300/Clarksville%2BMuseum%2BDSCAAAAS.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another photo of a bedroom from the Clarksville Museum</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Sources for this Post</b>: Mecklenburg land records, Early Settlers of Mecklenburg by Katherine Elliott, The Land Family History by Samuel Land, the Pettus Family History compiled by A. Boher Rudd, the will and probate documents for Martin.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://d.docs.live.net/8163fca405c21f52/Documents/martin%20phillips%201724.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <span style="color: black;">Katherine B. Elliott, <i>Early Settlers of Mecklenburg Co.
VA Vo. II</i> (South Hill, VA: Republished Southern Historical Society Easley,
South Carolina 1983, 1965).</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://d.docs.live.net/8163fca405c21f52/Documents/martin%20phillips%201724.docx#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; 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: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> I
found Martin Phillips on the Phillips surname DNA group and he is far back as
it goes. It shows Anne Pettus as his wife and Pettus Phillips as a son. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="file:///C:/DATA/BLOG%20Pattillo-Thornally/PHILLIPS/Martin%20Phillips/martin%20phillips%201724.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">[1]</span></span></span></a><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"> A. Bö</span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">hmer Rudd, The Pettus Family, Published in Washington D.C., 1957.</span></p>
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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</div>Chris Pattillo, FASLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704980567217692969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7923160542369902007.post-90285686064419544712021-01-12T16:29:00.000-08:002021-01-12T16:29:33.720-08:00Lottie's Photos: Friends Who Got Away 1933 - 1946<p><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><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/-ytXAF4wV_A4/X_4-R404MTI/AAAAAAAAEd0/AwoR9uHY8QUsSEURLbxaxm2SD3VKIiyTgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1098/THORNALLY%2BLottie_Connie%2BNeal%2Bleft_Micky%2BRisoli%2Bcenter_%2BUnknown_in%2BBrookdale_1938.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1098" data-original-width="866" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ytXAF4wV_A4/X_4-R404MTI/AAAAAAAAEd0/AwoR9uHY8QUsSEURLbxaxm2SD3VKIiyTgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/THORNALLY%2BLottie_Connie%2BNeal%2Bleft_Micky%2BRisoli%2Bcenter_%2BUnknown_in%2BBrookdale_1938.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">L-R Connie Neal, Mom & Mickey <br />Risoli, and Mollie</td></tr></tbody></table><br />This
is a rare photo because it depicts two women who were friends of Mom’s that she
did not maintain a friendship with for the rest of her life as she did with so
many other friends. Mom first wrote about Connie on April 11, 1933 when the two
of them hiked to Lake Chabot. Mollie first appeared in Mom’s journal on June
12, 1936 the last day of school. That day Mom and a group of friends including
Mollie “crashed” the movie theater to see a movie with Fred McMurry. Connie was
mentioned 11 times in Mom’s writings while Mollie earned 21 mentions. How is it
neither of these friends was ever mentioned or invited to our home while I was
growing up?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">These
friendships involved several hikes together, at least three trips to Brookdale,
going to the movies, shopping together, and regular dance outings – in fact, mom
was with Mollie at the German House the night she met dad for the first time. She
was also with Mollie on June 4, 1938 when she wrote, “I got myself practically
engaged to Ed. He wants to get me a ring. I asked him not to. I don’t want to
be engaged to anyone.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She and Mollie
went to check out a class in <i>power</i> <i>sewing </i>at a local trade school.
On another day she taught Mollie how to play bridge. Mollie and Connie both attended
the Valentine’s Day party mom hosted in 1938.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Mom
did a lot of sewing for Connie and for Connie’s mother Mrs. Neal. I think she
made more clothes for Mrs. Neal than any other client. Connie was interested in
our Uncle Bert but the feeling was not mutual. The last reference about Connie
was in April of 1946 when Mom gave her a baby shower. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">It
is obvious that Mollie and Connie were very close friends – like Rosemary, the
two Mickey’s, Jessie and Gracie but somehow these two friends got away – very curious.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Chris Pattillo, FASLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704980567217692969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7923160542369902007.post-8651190454355555562021-01-05T13:54:00.003-08:002021-01-05T13:54:15.035-08:00Pettus Phillips 1762-1821 My 4th Great Grandfather on my Father's Side<p><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7ZuALbeV1Tg/X_TcLr1GuFI/AAAAAAAAEcw/uiJXJ7NzucA8-18f9UB5bK2Ax-fa9OkdgCLcBGAsYHQ/s4896/Tobacco%2BGold%2Bnea%2BJames%2BH%2BPattillo%2Bfarm%2BDSC00015.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4896" data-original-width="3672" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7ZuALbeV1Tg/X_TcLr1GuFI/AAAAAAAAEcw/uiJXJ7NzucA8-18f9UB5bK2Ax-fa9OkdgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Tobacco%2BGold%2Bnea%2BJames%2BH%2BPattillo%2Bfarm%2BDSC00015.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A tobacco field near Baskerville<br />where I belive Pettus Phillips lived</td></tr></tbody></table>Like
his father-in-law Cluverius Coleman, Pettus Phillip’s name combines his
mother’s maiden name <br />with his father’s surname. Pettus was the son of Martin
Phillips and Anne Pettus. He was born in Caroline County, Virginia on October
8, 1762. This date was recorded in his son’s family bible. Caroline County is
in Eastern Virginia bounded by the Rappahannock River. The county was formed
from portions of Essex, King and Queen, and King William Counties in 1728 – long
before the American Revolution.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Pettus
was the fifth child born to Martin and Anne. He had three older sisters Mary,
Nancy and Sarah and one younger sister, Elizabeth. Plus one older brother
Dabney and a younger brother William. I don’t yet have exact birth dates for
Phillip’s siblings but believe they were all born between 1752 and 1768. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">In
1765, when Pettus was three, his father acquired 200 acres in Mecklenburg
County and moved the family south where he continued to expand his holding with
several more land purchases.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">At
nineteen Pettus was appointed to serve as a juror in Mecklenburg during the
fourth quarter of 1782. At twenty he was one of the delegates supporting Samuel
Goode to represent Mecklenburg County. He was also a delegate for Col. Lewis
Burwell. Given his young age, I suspect his elevated stature in the community
was based in part on his father’s status.</span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YGPrSGgTVF8/X_TcbzFEJCI/AAAAAAAAEc4/bFvjh9nUQOoa7f7lB9A7R481FhkyHPODwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1417/Colman%2BPettus%2BPhillips%2Bmarriage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1417" data-original-width="1295" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YGPrSGgTVF8/X_TcbzFEJCI/AAAAAAAAEc4/bFvjh9nUQOoa7f7lB9A7R481FhkyHPODwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Colman%2BPettus%2BPhillips%2Bmarriage.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Marriage document for Pettus and Rebecca</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">On
September 4, 1784, Pettus was a witness to a land transaction executed by
Cluverius Coleman. Less than four years later Pettus married Coleman’s daughter
Rebecca. Their marriage bonds were dated March 6, 1788, so they would have
married a few days after that in Mecklenburg. None of the records I have found
so far include clues about where in Mecklenburg Pettus and Rebecca lived. His
father owned land along the Reedy Branch – a stream that runs between
Baskerville and Antler. It is very likely that Pettus lived in the same
vicinity, east of Boydton. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Pettus
and Rebecca had at least three children who were named in his will. They were
Sally Coleman Phillips, my third great grandmother, John Cluverius Phillips and
Nancy Pettus Phillips. In his will Pettus left half of his property to his wife
Rebecca and the other half to his son John. Upon Rebecca’s death, John was to
receive her half of the land. Pettus also stipulated that Rebecca should
receive eleven Negroes, and as much furniture, livestock, and utensils she
would need to operate the plantation. The word “plantation” indicates that he
owned more than 1000 acres at the time of his death. Given that he was in
Mecklenburg and that he owned several slaves, it is reasonable to assume that
he grew tobacco.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wI3Ib2RrK8w/X_TcytDlEBI/AAAAAAAAEdE/pWn92jOQjxoRcBhWBXz50LaspaBwQl3YgCLcBGAsYHQ/s546/Caroline%2BCo%2BVA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="546" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wI3Ib2RrK8w/X_TcytDlEBI/AAAAAAAAEdE/pWn92jOQjxoRcBhWBXz50LaspaBwQl3YgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Caroline%2BCo%2BVA.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The red highlight shows the location of<br />Caroline County where Pettus was born</td></tr></tbody></table></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;">His
daughter Sally received one Negro and $400 and daughter Nancy received the same
amount. Everything he left to Rebecca and the rest of his estate were to be
equally divided among his three children when she died. Pettus’s will was
witnessed by Edward Delany, Wright King and a Pettus Phillips, Jr. His son John
Phillips was his executor. Pettus Phillips, Jr. was probably a nephew though I
have yet to pin down this relationship.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Pettus
signed his will on April 15, 1821, and it was recorded on May 21<sup>st</sup> of
the same year so Pettus probably died between those two dates.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cj19isAsiuc/X_TdVTJ5oCI/AAAAAAAAEdU/c7UG5Omkcf8mTT3o93HzlL0nXfmVVavBACLcBGAsYHQ/s693/Phillips%2BPettus%2BSignature.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="155" data-original-width="693" height="90" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cj19isAsiuc/X_TdVTJ5oCI/AAAAAAAAEdU/c7UG5Omkcf8mTT3o93HzlL0nXfmVVavBACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h90/Phillips%2BPettus%2BSignature.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HJgViCOAOLM/X_TdElZTZYI/AAAAAAAAEdM/UDgiZ9QJwsIZYKWZFzwT0sdRWHnUStKkwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Phillips%2BPettus%2BLast%2BWill%2B0000001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1785" data-original-width="2048" height="349" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HJgViCOAOLM/X_TdElZTZYI/AAAAAAAAEdM/UDgiZ9QJwsIZYKWZFzwT0sdRWHnUStKkwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h349/Phillips%2BPettus%2BLast%2BWill%2B0000001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the first part of the will of Pettus Phillips<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p><b>Sources for this Post:</b> Marriage document, the Will and another probate document,<i> The Land Family </i>by Samuel B. Land researched by Katherine B. Elliott, Mecklenburg deeds, <i>Revolutionary War Record</i>s by K. Elliott, Mecklenburg County Deeds by TCL Genealogy, <i>Marriage Records of Mecklenburg</i> by K. Elliott, <i>Early Settlers of Mecklenburg</i> by K. Elliott, Will Book 9 for Mecklenburg, Melba Crosse's Pattillo book, Rootsweb, FamilySerach, and Ancestry.com</o:p></span></p>Chris Pattillo, FASLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704980567217692969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7923160542369902007.post-30383429269037117442020-12-26T14:38:00.000-08:002020-12-26T14:38:44.796-08:00Lottie's Photos: Christmas 1939<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/-s7c_dTiBjeA/X-e6XnoUsbI/AAAAAAAAEcE/T6zu7oxMFgE0Qv_Ej31xxATw9Qc6iUDfgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1104/PATTILLO%2BLewis%2BAnna%2BLottie%2BMarge%2BBert%2BTHORNALLY%2BJohn%2B%2526%2BEmma_24%2BDec%2B1939.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="831" data-original-width="1104" height="301" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s7c_dTiBjeA/X-e6XnoUsbI/AAAAAAAAEcE/T6zu7oxMFgE0Qv_Ej31xxATw9Qc6iUDfgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h301/PATTILLO%2BLewis%2BAnna%2BLottie%2BMarge%2BBert%2BTHORNALLY%2BJohn%2B%2526%2BEmma_24%2BDec%2B1939.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Back: Lewis, John and Emma<br />Front: Anna, Mom, Marge and Bert</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">It’s Boxing Day –
the day after Christmas and I feel a sense of relief. Celebrating Christmas in
our family was a double-whammy because my mother Lottie was born on Christmas
day in 1919. So, there was always a lot of excitement and later a lot of
pressure to make it extra special for everyone but especially for my mother. For many years I've felt a tremendous sense of relief when Christmas, and all its preparations, was over.</span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">This photo was
taken the first Christmas after my parents were married and long before I was
born. I like this photo because it shows all four of my grandparents and my
only aunt and uncle. I have that necklace that mom is wearing in this photo. It
opens to reveal a photo of Mom and Dad. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">That year Mom
and Dad hosted the family on Christmas Eve. Everyone arrived at 6 PM and they
served Tom and Jerry’s. Then they opened their packages. Our family always
opened gifts on Christmas eve which I thought was great – one less day to wait.
Mom wrote, “They went home about 11 PM. I was tired as heck, but terribly happy.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">The following
day Dad went to mass with Mom – something he did on occasion when they were
first together. Dinner was at Gramma and Grandpa Thornally’s. Gramma served
turkey and carrot pudding. The Pattillo’s spent Christmas at Dad’s cousin Jo’s
home in Brentwood but they stopped by on their way home. <o:p></o:p></span></p>Chris Pattillo, FASLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704980567217692969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7923160542369902007.post-86689268689198570822020-12-19T15:36:00.001-08:002020-12-19T15:36:44.972-08:00Caspar Stolte 1821-1875 My 2nd Great Grandfather on my Mother's Side<p><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VPktZ07EeiU/X96KWZtYHJI/AAAAAAAAEa8/oW76cjLKq8MLfRZbZW4fyET_wG5IoEdKwCLcBGAsYHQ/s801/Stolte%2Bhome%2BFeb%2B2020.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="801" data-original-width="422" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VPktZ07EeiU/X96KWZtYHJI/AAAAAAAAEa8/oW76cjLKq8MLfRZbZW4fyET_wG5IoEdKwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Stolte%2Bhome%2BFeb%2B2020.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Home of Caspar Stolte</td></tr></tbody></table>Caspar Arnoldius
Aloysius Antonius Stolte was the eldest son of Gottfried Edmund Stolte and
Gertrudis Sophia Hohmeister. He was born on February 6, 1821, in the family
home at Kehrwieder 1057 in Hildesheim, Germany. He had two brothers Anton and Fredrick
and three sisters Marianna, Theresia and Josephina. His long name comes from his
godparents who were present at his birth — so the name Caspar was after Caspar
Müller and Arnoldius was after Arnoldius Becker. I don’t yet know how these two
men are connected to our family, but it is very likely that they are relatives
of some sort. There were two other men present, Henrius Coffa and Henrius
Ohlenrozt. It is not apparent from Caspar’s birth record where the names
Aloysius or Antonius came from. So far, none of these four names have appeared
in other records.</span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Caspar was
baptized by Pastor Brandeis on February 11, 1821, at St. Godehard’s Catholic
Church. He likely attended school for a few years and then entered an
apprenticeship program to become a bottchermeister, or cooper master, which
means he learned to make barrels and kegs. That is the occupation recorded in
my great grandfather’s journal and what is shown on the birth records of Caspar’s
children. This is how he made his living and supported his large family.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VwcFIdB_fyA/X96KkcDFxEI/AAAAAAAAEbA/Z2H6jGZDJKYndE0vy3jnMEt2vHqB9eQkACLcBGAsYHQ/s1162/Historic%2BMap%2BHildesheim%2BEinum%2BAchtum.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="752" data-original-width="1162" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VwcFIdB_fyA/X96KkcDFxEI/AAAAAAAAEbA/Z2H6jGZDJKYndE0vy3jnMEt2vHqB9eQkACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Historic%2BMap%2BHildesheim%2BEinum%2BAchtum.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Historic map showing the location of <br />Hildesheim in relation to Achtum and Einum</td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p>W</o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">hen he was 26,
Caspar married Louisa Brönneke, on July 18, 1847, in St. Godehard’s Basilica.
The wedding ceremony would have been a grand affair inside the spectacular
cathedral. Imagine walking down a long aisle between massive columns as family
and friends watched from the pews, then standing beneath a giant circular
gilded chandelier to profess your vows.</span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">Caspar
and Louisa had twelve children, of which nine survived.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Caspar
was the eldest son of Gottfried and Gertrudis, he was able to buy the family
home when his parents were ready to sell it. Traditionally, the workshop for
his barrel making business would have been on the ground floor of the home and
the living quarters on the upper floors. The home at Kehrwieder 1057 was still
standing in 2020 and in active use. The street address has been changed to
Kehrwieder 37, and what had been the workshop has been converted to a café.<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/-qE_2adFTl-k/X96K_u3X0zI/AAAAAAAAEbM/P13DqDpNvsEuhBVJ9RZMON8DNcAwdT3jwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1006/Stolte%2BCasper%2BBirth%2BInformation.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="719" data-original-width="1006" height="286" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qE_2adFTl-k/X96K_u3X0zI/AAAAAAAAEbM/P13DqDpNvsEuhBVJ9RZMON8DNcAwdT3jwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h286/Stolte%2BCasper%2BBirth%2BInformation.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Original birth record in German for Caspar Stolte</td></tr></tbody></table></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">Caspar died from
tuberculosis on his birthday in 1875 at the age of 54, and was buried in
Hildesheim two days later. Pastor Kruger officiated at his funeral service.
Unfortunately, graves are re-used in Germany every few years, so unless someone
is notable or wealthy it is very unlikely that a grave could ever be found for
Caspar or any of our German ancestors.<br /></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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KInQQihPffQ/X96M4zUXB8I/AAAAAAAAEbw/75wP9S6b0zMhOB7udoV5GuYQLPUjauNHgCLcBGAsYHQ/s959/Stolte%2BCasper%2BFuneral%2Brecord%2Bin%2BGerman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="790" data-original-width="959" height="330" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KInQQihPffQ/X96M4zUXB8I/AAAAAAAAEbw/75wP9S6b0zMhOB7udoV5GuYQLPUjauNHgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h330/Stolte%2BCasper%2BFuneral%2Brecord%2Bin%2BGerman.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Death record for Caspar Stolte in German</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/-YL4mXUPRRNQ/X96L-tyW53I/AAAAAAAAEbk/_tbFzcZCzzgBnfyz6sQLRp9THipaNQFVgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1004/Stolte%2BCasper%2BDining%2BRoom%2BStolte%2Bhome.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="661" data-original-width="1004" height="264" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YL4mXUPRRNQ/X96L-tyW53I/AAAAAAAAEbk/_tbFzcZCzzgBnfyz6sQLRp9THipaNQFVgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h264/Stolte%2BCasper%2BDining%2BRoom%2BStolte%2Bhome.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Interior of Caspar Stolte's home. Photo taken by Thomas Henze<br />in 2019.<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><b>Sources for this Post:</b> My great grandfather's journal, Birth, marriage and death records for Caspar and for his children. Information provided by Thomas Henze, and FamilySearch website.<br /><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><o:p></o:p></p>Chris Pattillo, FASLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704980567217692969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7923160542369902007.post-15208664395765968482020-12-02T13:44:00.002-08:002020-12-03T17:08:44.966-08:00Louisa Brönneke 1828–1893 My Second Great Grandmother on My Mother’s Side<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wp_NkRWmJf0/X8gHHEaavWI/AAAAAAAAEZo/cmwNrqzR9DUB8DhOOPXztm_9JD997_A2ACLcBGAsYHQ/s960/Hildesheim%2BFeb%2B3.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wp_NkRWmJf0/X8gHHEaavWI/AAAAAAAAEZo/cmwNrqzR9DUB8DhOOPXztm_9JD997_A2ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Hildesheim%2BFeb%2B3.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A historic home in Hildesheim, Germany</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">Louisa’s full name was Louisa Sophia Magdalena Brönneke. She
was the daughter of Heinrich Brönneke and Gertrude Budde. Louisa was born on
April 18, 1828, at house number 841 in Hildesheim. She was baptized two days
later by Pastor Brandeis, the same church official who baptized her future
husband. She had three godmothers present at her birth: Louisa Bogershausen, Sophia
Budde and Magdelena Brönneke. These are the sources of Louisa’s full name.</span><div><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><br /></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">Hildesheim where
Louisa was born and where she and her husband lived and raised their children
is one of the largest cities in Germany. It is located in a valley 24 miles
southeast of Hanover, on the banks of the Innerste River, a small tributary of
the Leine River, and is surrounded by hills.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">Historically,
Hildesheim was known as the cradle of art. Today, Hildesheim is one of the most
important places for Romanesque art in Germany. One of the most important
historic buildings is St. Godehard’s Basilica, which was originally constructed
between 1133 and 1172. The building was restored between 1848 and 1863 and is
considered one of the finest Romanesque buildings in the world<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">. </b>Another is St. Michael’s Protestant
Church which was built by Bishop Bernward. Both of these buildings are
designated World Heritage Sites.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v7Z-gUJN-zE/X8gHb4m0k5I/AAAAAAAAEZw/kHNrW_bG2dsId3DLMF-IxbaYNr5rUzq_wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1446/Bronneke%2BLouisa%2BMagdalena%2Bbirth%2Brecord%2B18%2BApr%2B.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="439" data-original-width="1446" height="121" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v7Z-gUJN-zE/X8gHb4m0k5I/AAAAAAAAEZw/kHNrW_bG2dsId3DLMF-IxbaYNr5rUzq_wCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h121/Bronneke%2BLouisa%2BMagdalena%2Bbirth%2Brecord%2B18%2BApr%2B.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The original birth record for Louisa that Thomas Henze<br />found and sent to me.</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">Hildesheim is a
quaint and picturesque town with many very old homes. A large percentage of
these buildings and homes were either destroyed or damaged during the last two
months of World War II, but many have been restored or reconstructed to match
the original design.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3Fo5NNyQNRU/X8gJ8lwLYaI/AAAAAAAAEaM/94kbLnK2jcMyqJGvBfYo_g6kPPOa4l1-gCLcBGAsYHQ/s130/Stolte%252C%2BLouise%2BBremecke.tif" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="130" data-original-width="130" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3Fo5NNyQNRU/X8gJ8lwLYaI/AAAAAAAAEaM/94kbLnK2jcMyqJGvBfYo_g6kPPOa4l1-gCLcBGAsYHQ/w320-h320/Stolte%252C%2BLouise%2BBremecke.tif" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This portrait was among my grandmother's things. <br />I think it is a photo of her grandmother but<br />I am not certain. If anyone recognizes this photo<br />and can tell me who it is please contact me.</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">Louisa was nineteen when she married Caspar and twenty when
their first son, Friedrich Joseph, was born. Her second child, another son,
died just six days after his birth. Her fourth child and first girl was my
great grandmother Gertrude Elizabeth Stolte, who was born in 1853. Louisa
continued to give birth every couple of years until she was 41 years old.
Sadly, of her last two children, one died at five months and the last died at
birth. Then her husband Caspar died five years after their last child was born,
and Louisa was left a widow at the age of 46. Here is a list of Casper and
Louisa’s twelve children.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AjUyT2sxajs/X8gHt9m_2XI/AAAAAAAAEZ4/cYegnT-3c0IPGp77WdlOIRmwdQi2Xtw6ACLcBGAsYHQ/s995/Bronneke%2BLouise%2BSophia%2BMagdelena%2Bbaptish.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="643" data-original-width="995" height="259" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AjUyT2sxajs/X8gHt9m_2XI/AAAAAAAAEZ4/cYegnT-3c0IPGp77WdlOIRmwdQi2Xtw6ACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h259/Bronneke%2BLouise%2BSophia%2BMagdelena%2Bbaptish.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Louisa's baptism record in German found by Thomas</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">Friedrich Joseph Stolte</span></b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> born August 14,
1848</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">Friedrich Carl Heinrich Stolte</span></b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;"> born March 6,
1851, and died March 12, 1851<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">Friedrich Heinrich Stolte</span></b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;"> born March 4, 1852.
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">Gertrude Elisabeth Stolte</span></b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;"> (my great
grandmother) born October 21, 1853<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">Johanna Maria Stolte</span></b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;"> born October
23, 1855 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">Heinrich Wilhelm Stolte</span></b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;"> born February
15, 1858 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">Gertrude Stolte</span></b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;"> born January 10, 1860<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">Magdelena Stolte</span></b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;"> born November 24, 1861<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">Carl Heinrich Stolte</span></b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;"> born July 1,
1863<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">Maria Gertrude Stolte</span></b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;"> born October
30, 1866. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">Georg Friedrick Stolte</span></b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;"> born on February
8, 1868. King George V was listed on his birth record as the godfather.
Unfortunately, George died on July 25<sup>th</sup> of the same year.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt;">Their twelfth
and <b>last child</b> died at birth on
March 31, 1870. </span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EBIoIsU2zWU/X8gH_L3LT-I/AAAAAAAAEaA/a-EoW5FOuXctJ_ZyvlUQs4RrXfrCBZ1WwCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/Basilica%2BSaint%2BGodehard%2BT%2BHenze.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EBIoIsU2zWU/X8gH_L3LT-I/AAAAAAAAEaA/a-EoW5FOuXctJ_ZyvlUQs4RrXfrCBZ1WwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Basilica%2BSaint%2BGodehard%2BT%2BHenze.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Interior of the Basilica of St. Godehard's <br />where Louisa was baptized and married.</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 11pt;">Somehow Louise managed to survive after her husband’s death and
raise their children. She died on September 15, 1893, at the age of 65. She too
was buried in Hildesheim, probably with her husband and the children who had
died before her.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>Sources for this post:</b> Birth, baptism and marriage records found by Thomas Henze, FamilySearch website, and my great grandfather's personal journal.</span></p><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><p></p></div>Chris Pattillo, FASLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704980567217692969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7923160542369902007.post-77017938805152662752020-11-26T11:40:00.001-08:002020-11-27T09:03:16.277-08:00Lottie's Photos: Thanksgiving Gatherings<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/-2_Gktws7Gig/X8ADhpWy-iI/AAAAAAAAEZM/WY4BIlbSlawAXlPktm_0qkGvp-vqA-qFwCLcBGAsYHQ/s920/PATTILLO_Ed%2BLottie%2BBert%2BMarge%2BAnna%2BLewis%2BChris%2BTom_Bert%2527s%2Bbirthday%2Bdinner%2Bat%2BLews%2B%2526%2BAnna%2527s%2Bhome_1952.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="911" data-original-width="920" height="396" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2_Gktws7Gig/X8ADhpWy-iI/AAAAAAAAEZM/WY4BIlbSlawAXlPktm_0qkGvp-vqA-qFwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h396/PATTILLO_Ed%2BLottie%2BBert%2BMarge%2BAnna%2BLewis%2BChris%2BTom_Bert%2527s%2Bbirthday%2Bdinner%2Bat%2BLews%2B%2526%2BAnna%2527s%2Bhome_1952.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our family gathered on Louis and Anna's front porch.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">While
I was growing up the tradition in our family was that Mom and Aunt Marge shared
responsibility for hosting Thanksgiving dinner, and whoever did not host would
then be responsible for hosting that year’s Christmas dinner. It worked out
well for decades. Both celebrations always included three generations of our
combined families. Occasionally, someone would be added like Marge’s parents or
a current boyfriend.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">From
reading mom’s diaries, I learned that when she was a girl, she and her parents
typically had Thanksgiving dinner with Gramma’s brother’s family Henry Menge, so
mom was with a gaggle of her female cousins. In 1933 they all went to Henry’s cabin
in Ben Lomond for Thanksgiving dinner. They were with the Menges again in 1936.
That year mom and her cousins strategized about how to convince Martin McTigue
to take mom to the senior ball.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">Dinner
was at the Menges again in 1938 but by then Mom had met Dad so after dinner the
two of them went to San Francisco with some friends. Anna and Louis hosted in
1939 and included Emma and John Thornally at their table since Mom and Dad were
engaged to be married by then.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">1940
was the first time Mom hosted Thanksgiving dinner. She planned it well ahead
because on November 13<sup>th</sup> she wrote that she had asked her mother to
help her prepare the meal. Afterward, she noted that dinner was fine. The following
year Marge offered to host the combined family at her parent’s home and she
asked everyone to contribute $2 towards the meal. In 1942 Anna Pattillo hosted.
Emma Thornally had the honor in 1944 and served a roast chicken!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">The
last diary entry about Thanksgiving was for 1946. That year Marge offered again
to host at her family home but the ante was only $1. Despite the reduced
charge, Mom was fed up and refused to attend, and instead she decided to host
her own dinner and invited the Pattillos who declined saying they felt they
should accept the earlier invitation from Marge.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype",serif;">I started hosting Thanksgiving dinner at my home in 1977.</span></p>Chris Pattillo, FASLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704980567217692969noreply@blogger.com0