tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12039212633918584272024-03-19T01:00:32.441-04:00Leaves & BranchesLeaves & Branches: Genealogy, Research & Family HistoryColleen G. Brown Pasqualehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402783115333431440noreply@blogger.comBlogger1205125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203921263391858427.post-56607973918706537162024-03-19T01:00:00.058-04:002024-03-19T01:00:00.242-04:00Letters from the Past – July 1901 Gruissy - Moore Letter<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><i style="font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">My family has letters from our Mark/Gruissy family. My paternal aunt, Genevieve A. Brown Wieland Schaperjahn shared those letters with me. This was written from one half - sister to another. </span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This letter was written to my great grandmother<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://leavesnbranches.blogspot.com/2014/02/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-week-8-n.html" style="font-family: georgia;">Nancy Regina Victoria (Gruissy) Mark</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(39, 78, 19); color: #274e13; font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">31 Jan 1879 Medina, OH - 24 May 1959 Medina, OH<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Daughter of <a href="https://leavesnbranches.blogspot.com/2014/05/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-week-19.html">Augustus Ceaser Gruissy</a> & <a href="https://leavesnbranches.blogspot.com/2013/07/sepia-saturday-bibles.html">Esther Barbara Wolf</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Wife of <a href="https://leavesnbranches.blogspot.com/2014/02/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-week-7-thomas.html">Thomas Kenneth Mark</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This letter was written by <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">Caroline Louise Gruissy Moore</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">23 Oct 1863 OH - 15 Apr 1936 OH<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Daughter of Augustus Ceaser Gruissy & Mary Ann Everett<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Wife of Peter Jonathan Moore<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><b>Caroline & Regina were half - sisters.</b></i></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">The punctuation in this letter is mine to make it a little easier to read.</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">In the same envelope was a letter from Caroline's daughter, Vera.</span></i></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></i></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i></i></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVNhYeqIWYjl4ywX6FFiLV3p4k_Y4T3qOUlngCayBQeufHLvwHywoy1ebf706_-yTHzLs6pfmGw7IOTXV_9K2KdNy9yArRsOZL77wlEqXh4bOzrWsQyd-yhDEXMXQItYxhF823VKB5vEYpfxG5QXYeRfiP7vO6WZj87K0jA9qTel4N3kVcNwLe7J34QbJS/s1132/1901%20letter%20from%20Caroline%20to%20Regina%20envelope%20001%20copy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="725" data-original-width="1132" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVNhYeqIWYjl4ywX6FFiLV3p4k_Y4T3qOUlngCayBQeufHLvwHywoy1ebf706_-yTHzLs6pfmGw7IOTXV_9K2KdNy9yArRsOZL77wlEqXh4bOzrWsQyd-yhDEXMXQItYxhF823VKB5vEYpfxG5QXYeRfiP7vO6WZj87K0jA9qTel4N3kVcNwLe7J34QbJS/s320/1901%20letter%20from%20Caroline%20to%20Regina%20envelope%20001%20copy.jpg" width="320" /></a></i></span></span></div><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">To: Miss Regina V. Gruissy, St. John’s, Clinton Co., Michigan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">From: Caroline Louise Gruissy Moore<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Postmarked: 1901 OH<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">lergy [early] july the 29<sup>th<o:p></o:p></sup></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt;"><sup><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></sup></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">dear sister I will try and rite a few lines to let you know that we are well and hope these few lines will find you well. was glad to hear from you and that you got there all right. have you seen Emma yet and how is she getting along? I will try and tell you the news … Mrs hanes has got a new house [horse?]. they paid Ma hundred for it. You aught [sic] see hear said [?]. McFarlands got theirs. Miss Moyer has got a porch on this end of her house. Oli has gone to seville [sic] to narh [?] as barc [?] Fred. I see him go by and look lonely. I gess [sic] his mind is far away. I feel so sorry for him but I cant [sic] reach him bass [?] bellow [?] Mary and Albert<a href="applewebdata://E6709C1C-D29F-4B4F-95FC-FEB7C2A0F196#_edn1" name="_ednref1" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;">[i]</span></span></span></a> was well the last time I saw them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Cousin Albert and -?- was up and stayed a night with me. We had a nice time. We had a real nice rain this morning. It has been real -?- this summer. Have you heard from Bill since you went out there? Poor fellow. I wonder if you have time in his dreams. Well how many hear -?- you washed since you went out there.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> rita [sic] has got back from the farm. she sayes [sic] it was fine. They have got Mr. Moyer out of jail. he [sic] forged a note. the ladies are to give a shosl [?] next saturday evening in the parish. they had the meeting out in the yard last evening. it was so warm in the church. peter<a href="applewebdata://E6709C1C-D29F-4B4F-95FC-FEB7C2A0F196#_edn2" name="_ednref2" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;">[ii]</span></span></span></a> has gone to Wadsworth to market brick laying. They are putting up a large building there. I will close from yur [sic] Carrie Moore rite [sic] soon<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br clear="all" /></span><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="edn1"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="applewebdata://E6709C1C-D29F-4B4F-95FC-FEB7C2A0F196#_ednref1" name="_edn1" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;">[i]</span></span></span></a> Mary Magdalene Gruissy Lutz, half – sister to Regina, was born 23 November 1865. She married Albert Lutz 3 July 1889. In 1900 they were living in Westfield Township, Medina County, Ohio. They had no children. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="edn2"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="applewebdata://E6709C1C-D29F-4B4F-95FC-FEB7C2A0F196#_ednref2" name="_edn2" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">[ii]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Peter J. Moore, born March 1857 in Ohio. Husband of Caroline Louise Gruissy</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikZqaKw1loR-9fIIANPW6RUZ6xB_mG0LAgZ6bytVBREcFcd6vHMKSfKvlcpGD2TG9zqPmBoYLrAt1Gn51oS-pEua-Mk9lq8L8col1kzyqOcWZv6Np3HtxZS3O9HU8n2iXWJgGC_-LfoDGxdnDg-R5UV2pbt1CUunbQyRzwVxKtX3Ic3tk0ynEsL8gLbcuK/s1560/1901%20letter%20from%20Caroline%20to%20Regina%20001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1560" data-original-width="1047" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikZqaKw1loR-9fIIANPW6RUZ6xB_mG0LAgZ6bytVBREcFcd6vHMKSfKvlcpGD2TG9zqPmBoYLrAt1Gn51oS-pEua-Mk9lq8L8col1kzyqOcWZv6Np3HtxZS3O9HU8n2iXWJgGC_-LfoDGxdnDg-R5UV2pbt1CUunbQyRzwVxKtX3Ic3tk0ynEsL8gLbcuK/w269-h400/1901%20letter%20from%20Caroline%20to%20Regina%20001.jpg" width="269" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">This is how the first page of the letter looks.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Cz9WLYVSOZBmtADNq7abJpAZlFsJ6h86zBgHh6OpWjefAH0T7csmnxfFaAMN23RSS7oROHA5PPWTNtMi_oDQhY9Pe2EOpyIl6iWiPVrJM3xXRSGcrVb8H9QQUxh1tebRrbIhIhuL6VHOhGfwWmZpYUilmvUNfNoiaUnN9fMIKBwulkPIoU9iyyxwj6CS/s4622/Hourglass%20Chart%204.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4622" data-original-width="3490" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Cz9WLYVSOZBmtADNq7abJpAZlFsJ6h86zBgHh6OpWjefAH0T7csmnxfFaAMN23RSS7oROHA5PPWTNtMi_oDQhY9Pe2EOpyIl6iWiPVrJM3xXRSGcrVb8H9QQUxh1tebRrbIhIhuL6VHOhGfwWmZpYUilmvUNfNoiaUnN9fMIKBwulkPIoU9iyyxwj6CS/w484-h640/Hourglass%20Chart%204.jpg" width="484" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">Related Post:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: start;"></p><p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><ul style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; list-style: outside; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em; text-align: start;"><li style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(39, 78, 19);"><a href="https://leavesnbranches.blogspot.com/2024/02/letters-from-past-1896-gruissy-letter.html" style="color: #7d171d; text-decoration: none;">1896 Gruissy letter</a>, from a teacher</span></span></li><li style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://leavesnbranches.blogspot.com/2024/02/letters-from-past-1899-gruissy-letter.html" style="color: #7d171d; text-decoration: none;">1899 Gruissy Letter</a>, from a beau </span></li><li style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://leavesnbranches.blogspot.com/2024/03/letters-from-past-jan-1901-gruissy.html">Jan 1901 Gruissy Letter</a></span></li></ul><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></span></div></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></p></div></div>Colleen G. Brown Pasqualehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402783115333431440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203921263391858427.post-56841838128341260862024-03-16T01:00:00.064-04:002024-03-16T01:00:00.244-04:00Irish: In my Roots & In my Heart<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>As March 17 nears each year I feel a strong connection to my Irish family. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>So here is an Irish post with pictures I took in Ireland in April 2012.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWDK3R-0i0MKa-k50fh9vigs2AjPxTak2JKcVJNJ4vZajH8hwAdmepOowk-xbZmJg-R24XF1SwI-sorNDd02UtivsKFERpLscSspXbbzprgjAtnCPhPVsl9ZpHjZRgAbWFJqGPcS5WHtj2UZEOJUy4IQdz6ABqOsHYrZsm0U6qbBoz4D_xWW49vr0aX34N/s3008/2012%20Ireland%20170.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="3008" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWDK3R-0i0MKa-k50fh9vigs2AjPxTak2JKcVJNJ4vZajH8hwAdmepOowk-xbZmJg-R24XF1SwI-sorNDd02UtivsKFERpLscSspXbbzprgjAtnCPhPVsl9ZpHjZRgAbWFJqGPcS5WHtj2UZEOJUy4IQdz6ABqOsHYrZsm0U6qbBoz4D_xWW49vr0aX34N/s320/2012%20Ireland%20170.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Saint Patrick's Well</span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">County Tipperary, Ireland 2012</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfmqV7NPH9_lEZ4bn3NtYnrnSn7_CozXAv9Ae9VFx1natFPPOTRKDHY8zz7aks2297P-KzBaXYMk3DT67CqBVuu1X0gJvhYCAIHJbfggrn-e9Lj2w-zychZKOk88yBQ2_TZEMEMl-GQlYzbiUsroEYUDIPmJZ5PJPijf5eLaHJIQVciIWYPrpP5QIc1-wV/s3008/2012%20Ireland%20167.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3008" data-original-width="2000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfmqV7NPH9_lEZ4bn3NtYnrnSn7_CozXAv9Ae9VFx1natFPPOTRKDHY8zz7aks2297P-KzBaXYMk3DT67CqBVuu1X0gJvhYCAIHJbfggrn-e9Lj2w-zychZKOk88yBQ2_TZEMEMl-GQlYzbiUsroEYUDIPmJZ5PJPijf5eLaHJIQVciIWYPrpP5QIc1-wV/s320/2012%20Ireland%20167.JPG" width="213" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Wishing you always...</i></span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Walls for the wind, </i></span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>A roof for the rain</i></span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>And tea beside the fire.</i></span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Laughter to cheer you, </i></span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Those you love near you, </i></span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>And all that your heart may desire.</i></span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5vDbF5OSOWBujZoC97RqEi5Y6VtyUVd_ZNqxN2aslxwQNFaUvplGhCOjymgfW0GH4r-zedYHBShlzOxdneX_X8cWjLJHQEAGWAADPwf3sb06PvfSTvhRU_9722qp8ceqnnN0HniHL_FtAlkNdujkupRZaOLXRE-EbfveeDj2nYI-4OKOwtrZldXC0E5rB/s3008/2012%20Ireland%20165.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="3008" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5vDbF5OSOWBujZoC97RqEi5Y6VtyUVd_ZNqxN2aslxwQNFaUvplGhCOjymgfW0GH4r-zedYHBShlzOxdneX_X8cWjLJHQEAGWAADPwf3sb06PvfSTvhRU_9722qp8ceqnnN0HniHL_FtAlkNdujkupRZaOLXRE-EbfveeDj2nYI-4OKOwtrZldXC0E5rB/s320/2012%20Ireland%20165.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A few of my Irish ancestors:</span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://leavesnbranches.blogspot.com/2014/03/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-week-11.html">Michael Coyle</a></span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><a href="http://leavesnbranches.blogspot.com/2014/03/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-week-12-mary.html"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mary Josephine Mullane Coyle</span></a></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://leavesnbranches.blogspot.com/2014/06/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-week-23-daniel.html">Daniel Mullane</a></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://leavesnbranches.blogspot.com/2014/10/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-week-41-thomas.html">Thomas Brady</a></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://leavesnbranches.blogspot.com/2014/01/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-week-4-helen.html">Helen F. Coyle Gardner</a></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif">An Irish Blessing for you </span></span><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f;">on St. Patrick's Day, </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f;">my birthday!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: start;"></span><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div style="font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif">Colleen</span></span></i></div></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Colleen G. Brown Pasqualehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402783115333431440noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203921263391858427.post-47930264073202364662024-03-14T01:00:00.005-04:002024-03-15T07:29:55.994-04:00 Forget Me Not: Annie McClendon Simmons, 1942<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia;"><i>Annie was a "pioneer citizen" according to her obituary. Those words grab my interest and make me wish I could have sat down and heard stories from the past.</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 24.533335px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">Annie Idelia McClendon Simmons</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 24.533335px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">18 November 1864 – 10 July 1942<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Daughter of David Jackson McClendon & Eliza Jane Smith<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Wife of Edward Alexander Simmons<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">My 1<sup>st</sup> Cousin 3x removed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdVhoSfgjGphERM2yGLZOE9JqqBI8UNFmFqjlpIDa8xK5nBU7mSt70jkSiCtsnYDxZaD3tcvurrGMKYRjzNjSXOEBW4zJ6AUXQcYrHBnoUSwlYx0DDYr6ZqyLX9n6pt4tg1MYTMMR1knhx4wSPbU1QOU9z-uPZSUMF6hyphenhyphenm9K140FiAwYnFpZ7uUx1eF2f0/s964/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-11%20at%207.47.14%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="656" data-original-width="964" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdVhoSfgjGphERM2yGLZOE9JqqBI8UNFmFqjlpIDa8xK5nBU7mSt70jkSiCtsnYDxZaD3tcvurrGMKYRjzNjSXOEBW4zJ6AUXQcYrHBnoUSwlYx0DDYr6ZqyLX9n6pt4tg1MYTMMR1knhx4wSPbU1QOU9z-uPZSUMF6hyphenhyphenm9K140FiAwYnFpZ7uUx1eF2f0/s320/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-11%20at%207.47.14%20AM.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">County Loses Pioneer Citizen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Funeral For Mrs. Simmons to be Held Saturday Morning<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The community lost another of the pioneer citizens when Mrs. Annie McClendon Simmons, age 77, widow of the late Edward A. Simmons of the Progress community, passed away at 5:30 a. m., Friday at a local hospital here.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The funeral will be held from the Progress Baptist church at 11 a. m. Saturday, and interment will follow in the church cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Mrs. Simmons had spent practically all her life in Progress community, where she was a long time member of Progress Baptist Church. About a year ago, due to feeble health and advancing age, she became a member of the household of her daughter, Mrs. C. V. Webb, of Fernwood. About two weeks ago she became ill and was moved to the hospital.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The survivors include two sons, W. W. Simmons of Cleveland, Miss., and George E. Simmons, of Magnolia, one daughter, Mrs. C. V. Webb of Fernwood; two sisters Mrs. A. E. McGee of Franklinton La., and Mrs. A. S. Fortenberry of Denver; six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Davis Funeral Home in charge.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Enterprise - Journal, McComb, MS</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">10 July 1942, page 6</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Newspapers.com</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7Ywg4MotVqg-XLBkj2ugu1rzjbiXvw92PpwCWsydvL5peMAicWiWIKIPtKvmb8Z7NHXddLwr3SFOaT5I3OeL1_fnGkF_U4jCaNmZ3AdSsnnvmUesToXdKT_d42VQXsOM-zvCJdjQBiVyeGdcSFTY7tJGVCRPjSRMbywqp3hHLxk1TjGKLs9m5cp-t7y-u/s4664/Vertical%20Pedigree%20Chart%20%2010.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2286" data-original-width="4664" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7Ywg4MotVqg-XLBkj2ugu1rzjbiXvw92PpwCWsydvL5peMAicWiWIKIPtKvmb8Z7NHXddLwr3SFOaT5I3OeL1_fnGkF_U4jCaNmZ3AdSsnnvmUesToXdKT_d42VQXsOM-zvCJdjQBiVyeGdcSFTY7tJGVCRPjSRMbywqp3hHLxk1TjGKLs9m5cp-t7y-u/w640-h314/Vertical%20Pedigree%20Chart%20%2010.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p>Colleen G. Brown Pasqualehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402783115333431440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203921263391858427.post-3490517552072330562024-03-09T01:00:00.050-05:002024-03-09T01:00:00.245-05:00Stray Horse, 1838 MS<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i> This little clipping is interesting. It looks like Edward's horse wandered away from home. I wonder if the horse was ever found.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJN3zb1kwPRG2pnD3-dRMEkt8oU78tFhulFBXiqlq11rXu1JsIlUBKbyAEfmHzxp8sbUnXXd-yDX7x9L5rNHMY9DLZdXC9ljXpW82BfwYwRp-L0on93jl7bUtTOqX2MhJbyr8G-_oAPU2lRg5Q8Kx7Z7ADswW5D2OrjKE0xMiWDsJ7YBUlRVDzEJLK-uo0/s778/Image%203-8-24%20at%209.41%E2%80%AFAM.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="514" data-original-width="778" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJN3zb1kwPRG2pnD3-dRMEkt8oU78tFhulFBXiqlq11rXu1JsIlUBKbyAEfmHzxp8sbUnXXd-yDX7x9L5rNHMY9DLZdXC9ljXpW82BfwYwRp-L0on93jl7bUtTOqX2MhJbyr8G-_oAPU2lRg5Q8Kx7Z7ADswW5D2OrjKE0xMiWDsJ7YBUlRVDzEJLK-uo0/s320/Image%203-8-24%20at%209.41%E2%80%AFAM.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://leavesnbranches.blogspot.com/2014/06/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-week-25-edward.html">Edward Stewart Brown</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">26 Jul 1806 Liberty GA - 7 May 1856 MS</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Son of Moses Brown & Sarah Robertson </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">My 3x great grandfather</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF45oxgcZHh0kj_gwEE_zjZ8c6o9bopg1sRwmipNrvNpR0j7qTpY_QB7h7l7d1qZVr2tLmSMpbZw_StBEX2D9i9_fApPUdECAvEvDjALO8UOuldiwVnOrf0OEcdU76RveEbtpzSwqXr8AOshAaiBJm5JVnlXTo7b0szNXp5L3y9gF8u2jlFf-ebreLPJMX/s1474/Screenshot%202024-02-13%20at%206.47.41%E2%80%AFPM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1128" data-original-width="1474" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF45oxgcZHh0kj_gwEE_zjZ8c6o9bopg1sRwmipNrvNpR0j7qTpY_QB7h7l7d1qZVr2tLmSMpbZw_StBEX2D9i9_fApPUdECAvEvDjALO8UOuldiwVnOrf0OEcdU76RveEbtpzSwqXr8AOshAaiBJm5JVnlXTo7b0szNXp5L3y9gF8u2jlFf-ebreLPJMX/w400-h306/Screenshot%202024-02-13%20at%206.47.41%E2%80%AFPM.png" width="400" /></span></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Piney Woods Planter (Liberty, Mississippi) · 12 May 1838, Sat · Page 3</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Newspapers.com</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLEK0xua2YKoLNa8Bifg5WzHxbyEubg-aLhklA_7WF_Tc8C9xdYW0vBtWGR9L5u4aGwvxpfziq9AF0zJuSIWxTBCCfzHVTHJrNsAxkEajy2h0lr1MWfrT8zwIPfZZX8alqkZYBEkiMND92i23Vlk4JR2o1k-bmhVtDPNEGERw0-Z1llAAGLeCLgUaJ01z6/s3514/roy%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1845" data-original-width="3514" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLEK0xua2YKoLNa8Bifg5WzHxbyEubg-aLhklA_7WF_Tc8C9xdYW0vBtWGR9L5u4aGwvxpfziq9AF0zJuSIWxTBCCfzHVTHJrNsAxkEajy2h0lr1MWfrT8zwIPfZZX8alqkZYBEkiMND92i23Vlk4JR2o1k-bmhVtDPNEGERw0-Z1llAAGLeCLgUaJ01z6/w640-h336/roy%202.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Related Post:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://leavesnbranches.blogspot.com/2023/08/stray-horse-of-moses-hollis-1767-sc.html">Stray Horse of Moses Hollis</a></span></li></ul></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p></div></div></div>Colleen G. Brown Pasqualehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402783115333431440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203921263391858427.post-26060828050685180862024-03-05T01:00:00.057-05:002024-03-05T01:00:00.145-05:00Letters from the Past – Jan. 1901 Gruissy Letter<p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: center;">My family has letters from our Mark/Gruissy family. My paternal aunt, Genevieve A. Brown Wieland Schaperjahn shared those letters with me.</span><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> I am happy that she shared these letters & I am happy they had been saved and handed down to the future.</span></span></span></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This letter was written to my great grandmother<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://leavesnbranches.blogspot.com/2014/02/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-week-8-n.html" style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nancy Regina Victoria (Gruissy) Mark </span></a></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">31 Jan 1879 Medina, OH - 24 May 1959 Medina, OH<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Daughter of <a href="https://leavesnbranches.blogspot.com/2022/09/forget-me-not-c-gruissy-1915-oh.html">Augustus Ceaser Gruissy</a> & <a href="https://leavesnbranches.blogspot.com/2014/05/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-week-20-esther.html">Esther Barbara Wolf</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Wife of <a href="https://leavesnbranches.blogspot.com/2014/02/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-week-7-thomas.html">Thomas Kenneth Mark</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"></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/AVvXsEgjPSB3thaxi70OvrcYACX4Swy975odxvEE2Ha1GAM4u-xxjv7BR0gEk0K4OvGUVYUcFONi2ZnnxqNSRPODSD5RqcQ3jI7u5aQ98NiB8VwhYFM0XK3MOZlFUOXr3mS-E5DCuRVm2xKnynKAOxZNYGy8gHFxHrExM3Rw55o-7xw_gsoYjfcFJ1oKdbrtXUg-/s1044/Gruissy.%20Regina%20Gruissy.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="N. Regina Gruissy Mark" border="0" data-original-height="1044" data-original-width="762" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjPSB3thaxi70OvrcYACX4Swy975odxvEE2Ha1GAM4u-xxjv7BR0gEk0K4OvGUVYUcFONi2ZnnxqNSRPODSD5RqcQ3jI7u5aQ98NiB8VwhYFM0XK3MOZlFUOXr3mS-E5DCuRVm2xKnynKAOxZNYGy8gHFxHrExM3Rw55o-7xw_gsoYjfcFJ1oKdbrtXUg-/w234-h320/Gruissy.%20Regina%20Gruissy.jpg" width="234" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">N. Regina Gruissy Mark</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"></span></div><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><br /></span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This letter was written by</span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Emily Catherine Morrison</span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">b 15 Jan 1866</span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Daughter of William Hiram Morrison & Emily Banner</span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Sister of Seth Banner Morrison</span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Regina was the half - sister of Seth's wife, Margaret Jane Gruissy Morrison</i></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">To: Miss Regina Gruissy, Leroy, Medina Co., OH<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">From: E. Morrison, Sullivan, OH<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Postmarked: 17 Jan 1901, Sullivan, OH<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Dear friend regina I suppose you will think strange to get a letter from me But I am worrying aBout [about] seths<a href="applewebdata://3F21C1C9-D3C6-496A-8E77-9AB8F752B648#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="line-height: 16.866667px;">[1]</span></span></span></a> I have lookt [looked] and lookt [looked] But I ant heard one word from them since they went away I don’t know what is rong [wrong] I allways [always] tride [tried] to do all I could for them wall [well] if you have heard eny [any] thing from them will you plas [please] let me no [know] if you pleas [please]and I will do as much for you if ever Can I hope to find you all well excuse mis taks [mistakes] and poor wrightin [writing] from a friend E Morrison<a href="applewebdata://3F21C1C9-D3C6-496A-8E77-9AB8F752B648#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="line-height: 16.866667px;">[2]</span></span></span></a> to regina Ancer [answer] soon and all the news goodby [goodbye]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Anser [answer] soon as you can<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">My love and Best wishes for you<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">Note: This letter was written in pencil on lined paper. There are many spelling errors & no periods in this letter.</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br clear="all" /></span><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="ftn1"><p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="applewebdata://3F21C1C9-D3C6-496A-8E77-9AB8F752B648#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="line-height: 15.333332px;">[1]</span></span></span></a> Regina’s half sister was Margaret Jane Gruissy b 26 Dec 1861. Margaret married Seth Morrison. In 1900 they were living in Sullivan Twp., Ashland Co., OH. In 1910 they lived in Medina County. This letter may refer to their move.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="ftn2"><p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="applewebdata://3F21C1C9-D3C6-496A-8E77-9AB8F752B648#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="line-height: 15.333332px;">[2]</span></span></span></a> E Morrison was most likely Emily Morrison, sister of Seth B. Morrison.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">Related Post:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt;"></p><p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><ul style="line-height: 1.4; list-style: outside; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><li style="border: medium; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(39, 78, 19);"><a href="https://leavesnbranches.blogspot.com/2024/02/letters-from-past-1896-gruissy-letter.html" style="color: #7d171d; text-decoration: none;">1896 Gruissy letter</a>, from a teacher</span></span></li><li style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #274e13; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://leavesnbranches.blogspot.com/2024/02/letters-from-past-1899-gruissy-letter.html">1899 Gruissy Letter</a>, from a beau </span></li></ul><p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></div></div>Colleen G. Brown Pasqualehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402783115333431440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203921263391858427.post-81301574859110453592024-02-29T01:00:00.000-05:002024-02-29T01:00:00.134-05:00 Forget Me Not: George W Wolf, 1920 PA<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i> When I read an obituary there is often something special included that I stop and read again. George was "the last surviving member of a family of nine children." </i></span><span style="color: #38761d;"><i><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> We can read that he had a wife, </span></o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">children, grandchildren,... but his siblings had all died before him. I wonder if that was painful </span></i></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 118, 29);"><i>for him. </i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">George Washington Wolf</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">10 Oct 1842 - 19 Jun 1920 PA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Son of Frederick Wolf & Louisa Goetz<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">My 1<sup>st</sup> cousin, 4x removed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWqHsEzSHe85bSWRAaizW8cbGBuCmDxPjc7spfOWroOv6j7cRTGy6HboQiOShYXRFSpVAw7CPnkwvxQ37XOltxhgiQCiZvmXx04WWYUuY_Cmlu4WgsJsUaDjmnWfDkkBL_YnHyHr1CbjVMSAH8z3ULp4Q44jOFafFkeuKeVSf4QO8VDildRWjWzVjyIQ/s490/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-11%20at%207.46.57%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="336" data-original-width="490" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWqHsEzSHe85bSWRAaizW8cbGBuCmDxPjc7spfOWroOv6j7cRTGy6HboQiOShYXRFSpVAw7CPnkwvxQ37XOltxhgiQCiZvmXx04WWYUuY_Cmlu4WgsJsUaDjmnWfDkkBL_YnHyHr1CbjVMSAH8z3ULp4Q44jOFafFkeuKeVSf4QO8VDildRWjWzVjyIQ/s320/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-11%20at%207.46.57%20AM.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">Death of George W. Wolf</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Abbottstown, June 24. – George W. Wolf, of this place, died last Saturday morning of a complication of diseases, aged 78 years, 1 month and 9 days.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">He was the last surviving member of a family of nine children of the late Frederick and Louisa Wolf. Surviving him are his wife, Ida L. Wolf, and the following children: Ray Wolf, of York, and Mrs. Samuel Nagle and Mrs. Wilbur Haines, of this place. He is also survived by the following grandchildren: Irma and George Nagle, Mrs. Elmer Bitt, Virginia, Maude and Elinor Wolf, George and Grove Haines; and two great – grandchildren, Grace and Ervin Butt.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Funeral was held from his late home Tuesday afternoon, Rev. John W. Keener officiating. Interment in Mt. Olive cemetery. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Adams County Independent<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Littlestown, PS, 25 June 1920, page 7<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">Newspapers.com</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></i></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></i></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr-5DzoATuCFrscDVXsqCBhqzLx1T2pEkx3ZDHcfRWKKuq702u1LjrLbmIoIrm7hMIas7oLg5olRERVu22c58qM6n407Iq93g2oRQmWcQl5JUpIyC1A6hMPG0ildL5unDqkYQvJlymkLZFnLyb56HS6Cws7TM53VxOlWQopqqGviS8ZNZXoEH3GM388Q/s5934/GW%20Wolf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3589" data-original-width="5934" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr-5DzoATuCFrscDVXsqCBhqzLx1T2pEkx3ZDHcfRWKKuq702u1LjrLbmIoIrm7hMIas7oLg5olRERVu22c58qM6n407Iq93g2oRQmWcQl5JUpIyC1A6hMPG0ildL5unDqkYQvJlymkLZFnLyb56HS6Cws7TM53VxOlWQopqqGviS8ZNZXoEH3GM388Q/w640-h388/GW%20Wolf.jpg" width="640" /></a></i></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></i></span><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>Colleen G. Brown Pasqualehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402783115333431440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203921263391858427.post-13327694833325929122024-02-23T07:41:00.001-05:002024-02-23T09:56:35.278-05:00Ann Palilla Pasquale, born 100 years ago<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>My mother - in - law was born 100 years ago today. She was 99 when she left us. However, we are left with many happy memories and her love remains with us.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglji3Drf3YBf6KIUtRnUS8eKxgYz-lrQN5Htp_IgpYnAxxLC6fMKTvC-bB_Bd1gv5g4LP4n7QYkqqrsa54VVxXF_roIVgdOfX_yWapI3IGlt6vybaWMhtaoM54jjdI-Q69b6kNknLXAXOd3dBOnlBw7jByrUrrkRVVm9GnpS6B3xFlyidbaG9Bcf9YNkwP/s4000/Ann34.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2667" data-original-width="4000" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglji3Drf3YBf6KIUtRnUS8eKxgYz-lrQN5Htp_IgpYnAxxLC6fMKTvC-bB_Bd1gv5g4LP4n7QYkqqrsa54VVxXF_roIVgdOfX_yWapI3IGlt6vybaWMhtaoM54jjdI-Q69b6kNknLXAXOd3dBOnlBw7jByrUrrkRVVm9GnpS6B3xFlyidbaG9Bcf9YNkwP/w400-h266/Ann34.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Grace Angelina 'Ann' Palilla Pasquale</span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">23 February 1924 NY - 17 April 2023 OK</span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Daughter of Charles Palilli & Grace Brigandi</span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Wife of Thomas F. Pasquale</span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Mother of two children</span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Grandmother of Five children</span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Great Grandmother of Eight children</span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLpozHBZJYcvS-sItibiqnX9rT3QHx-AAgrqWajk9b8sx8_QLRaaBh87T8PSSCeyB-iS4lsLUmFawenXJEhpu8Qx7IE7YET5UHKrIuh4oYWpw7UYJspMQgn36LNEU_9dmjtdmW-2wMu5EqNY4-6zgYyWM-KyjN2V0Ey74sp9AmxtDBejNynwJzOMrGGdq7/s2670/047.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="2670" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLpozHBZJYcvS-sItibiqnX9rT3QHx-AAgrqWajk9b8sx8_QLRaaBh87T8PSSCeyB-iS4lsLUmFawenXJEhpu8Qx7IE7YET5UHKrIuh4oYWpw7UYJspMQgn36LNEU_9dmjtdmW-2wMu5EqNY4-6zgYyWM-KyjN2V0Ey74sp9AmxtDBejNynwJzOMrGGdq7/s320/047.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Happy Birthday, Ann!</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Learn more by reading <a href="http://leavesnbranches.blogspot.com/2023/04/forget-me-not-ann-pasquale-2023.html">Ann's Obituary</a>.</span></div></div><p><br /></p>Colleen G. Brown Pasqualehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402783115333431440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203921263391858427.post-17771618829459711282024-02-20T01:00:00.029-05:002024-02-20T01:00:00.139-05:00Letters from the Past – 1899 Gruissy Letter<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><i>My family has letters from our Mark/Gruissy family. My paternal aunt, Genevieve A. Brown Wieland Schaperjahn shared those letters with me. I would like to share transcripts of those letters with anyone who may be connected to this family or anyone who is interested into a look into the past.</i></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><i><br /></i></span></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><i>Regina was 20 years old at the time this letter was written. There are no family stories of this suitor for my great grandmother’s affections. We do know that W H Ackerman did not become the husband of Regina. </i></span></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This letter was written to my great grandmother <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://leavesnbranches.blogspot.com/2014/02/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-week-8-n.html" style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nancy Regina Victoria (Gruissy) Mark </span></a></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">31 Jan 1879 Medina, OH - 24 May 1959 Medina, OH<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Daughter of <a href="https://leavesnbranches.blogspot.com/2022/09/forget-me-not-c-gruissy-1915-oh.html">Augustus Ceaser Gruissy</a> & <a href="https://leavesnbranches.blogspot.com/2013/07/sepia-saturday-bibles.html">Esther Barbara Wolf</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Wife of <a href="https://leavesnbranches.blogspot.com/2023/10/vintage-photograph-1930-oh-mark-family.html">Thomas Kenneth Mark</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEindqgLL20DNmrcrYTQrnQZhGF3gY_IjeCG8QjyBHCSIX059MUOPgTGTlK2NWgkywHQRbS8Z7eBAxYOcLVjE_VFJA9S_3RO7-_vjsO0owl0e3Fd38hY6R3nvJA3mGncxLIecsd8NTuP_GzOhG3L89K9GzXwP_HThoz8yuL5aBZ8B9OR8916zcvKKmjk3mCn/s207/Gruissy.%20Regina%20Gruissy%20Mark.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="207" data-original-width="200" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEindqgLL20DNmrcrYTQrnQZhGF3gY_IjeCG8QjyBHCSIX059MUOPgTGTlK2NWgkywHQRbS8Z7eBAxYOcLVjE_VFJA9S_3RO7-_vjsO0owl0e3Fd38hY6R3nvJA3mGncxLIecsd8NTuP_GzOhG3L89K9GzXwP_HThoz8yuL5aBZ8B9OR8916zcvKKmjk3mCn/s1600/Gruissy.%20Regina%20Gruissy%20Mark.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></div><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">To: Miss Regina Nancy Gruissy, 708 west Fourth St., Canton, OH<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">From: W H Ackerman<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Postmarked: 9 AM 11 Jul 1899, Beach City, OH<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Miss Regina N. Gruissy, Canton, O.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Dear friend. I will take the pleasure of writing to you this evening. Well Regina I was up to Massillon Sunday night. I went up on the 4 o’clock train and came home on the 8.51 train. But I did not see any girls I cared about. But of course no body else loves you. You say but I don’t think so.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Now Regina you know what I always said I loved you and you know it. If you knew you that letter hurt me you would never write that again. You know Regina I love you above all others. When you think I don’t care for you any more you can just stop writing to me.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I am also sorry to hear that you are not well hope you are better by this time. From Your Dear Beloved Friend, Walter. Ans. Soon<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Another thing I always have used you like a lady best I know how. I remain as ever yours Truly, W H Ackerman. Ans Soon<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Note: This letter was written in pencil on lined paper. It had a 2 cent stamp.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Related Post:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: left;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(39, 78, 19);"><a href="https://leavesnbranches.blogspot.com/2024/02/letters-from-past-1896-gruissy-letter.html">1896 Gruissy letter</a></span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_JBwy6zE7m8a1PubjJNjx9pKdTo2RXNA2WpyqIsv75Nplmd0FxrI6Sgoj0-CYYR294OypUlVwTjarbpZQ7iES4WUQf93x5xqgzmGbZKryE9pIQmIVPta_qyrmP-xO5GAwyJI5Gafxgrlq75onIJy1Wtllgdmyr5uQ40Bph2y4eQM-R478jHjMG2MKjMKh/s5790/Vertical%20Pedigree%20Chart%20%206.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4879" data-original-width="5790" height="540" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_JBwy6zE7m8a1PubjJNjx9pKdTo2RXNA2WpyqIsv75Nplmd0FxrI6Sgoj0-CYYR294OypUlVwTjarbpZQ7iES4WUQf93x5xqgzmGbZKryE9pIQmIVPta_qyrmP-xO5GAwyJI5Gafxgrlq75onIJy1Wtllgdmyr5uQ40Bph2y4eQM-R478jHjMG2MKjMKh/w640-h540/Vertical%20Pedigree%20Chart%20%206.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /><i><br /></i></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></p>Colleen G. Brown Pasqualehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402783115333431440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203921263391858427.post-87424005043518947612024-02-15T01:00:00.015-05:002024-02-15T01:00:00.152-05:00 Forget Me Not: Samuel Wolf, 1894 PA<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia;"><i>Samuel Wolf led and interesting life. He was at times a Sheriff, the owner of an inn, sold clothing, had an insurance business and was a farmer. He sounds like someone who liked to try new things. </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">Samuel Wolf </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">4 November 1827 PA – 24 August 1894 PA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Son of Frederick Wolf & Louisa Goetz<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">Husband of Susanne Metzger</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">My 1<sup>st</sup> cousin, 4x removed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7akLL9suo-Vtg4zaNNmb404iM7PoZUXoB4iQKdhNrR_VCdis_cScUdM4K2_4PSNRGnojTvCn7eghZwnIkdEHZfaFGs6NWFgZUYC3sjbXGtl_HjkScUtTM9cm5uMmDvDmplukTDPOaYYZA1b5Wcjo2DT6ZYx8La7iKSWODnsProQu3lZhfuUVoSIm5kg/s1078/Screen%20Shot%202023-04-11%20at%208.25.56%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="674" data-original-width="1078" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7akLL9suo-Vtg4zaNNmb404iM7PoZUXoB4iQKdhNrR_VCdis_cScUdM4K2_4PSNRGnojTvCn7eghZwnIkdEHZfaFGs6NWFgZUYC3sjbXGtl_HjkScUtTM9cm5uMmDvDmplukTDPOaYYZA1b5Wcjo2DT6ZYx8La7iKSWODnsProQu3lZhfuUVoSIm5kg/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-04-11%20at%208.25.56%20PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">On Friday evening, after a lingering illness, ex – Sheriff Wolf died at his residence on York street, this place, aged 66 years, 9 months and 10 days. In April he had a slight stroke of apoplexy which led to other complications, causing a protracted illness. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The deceased was born in Abbottstown, this county. In 1860 he was elected Sheriff of Adams county, filling the office with credit to himself and satisfaction to the people. At the expiration of his term he purchased the Globe Inn and conducted it a number of years, selling out to the present proprietor, F. S. Ramer. He engaged in the clothing business for several years, but for the past twenty years has lived a retired life, devoting his time to farming his lots in and near town and in the insurance business. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">He leaves a widow, his second wife, and five children:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">J. Nevin Wolf, of Pullman, Ill.;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Mrs. T. J. Stahle, of this place;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Mrs. C. B. Dyson, of Chambersburg;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Mrs. J. E. Weigand, of this place; and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Mrs. Rev. C. W. Baker, of Davenport, Nebraska.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">During his long and useful life he took an active part in politics and in the general interests of the town, serving for three years as Councilman from the 1<sup>st</sup> ward. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">His remains were interred in Evergreen Cemetery yesterday afternoon, the funeral being attended by many relatives and friends, by all of whom he was held in the highest esteem. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Gettysburg Compiler<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Gettysburg, PA, 28 Aug. 1894, page 3<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">Newspapers.com</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></i></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;"></span></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgjJeRw-pzM0_wNd3ePyd3dwpMYaWyuPXnWPVEWHc7hoBMN6jY_sUj3RlMvRlSBhFmGvTI_I2nQTgZZ2l8r25a2Z-fkG_Zb987DkKjDm6OtTs6TTIUsQzgru39zBqn9YgZ4S8j5K-xPG3ca9uFkayJWnzSfWk9nkvV-GmFjsa0KJzKr1b38pbR7h55S9w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2435" data-original-width="4330" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgjJeRw-pzM0_wNd3ePyd3dwpMYaWyuPXnWPVEWHc7hoBMN6jY_sUj3RlMvRlSBhFmGvTI_I2nQTgZZ2l8r25a2Z-fkG_Zb987DkKjDm6OtTs6TTIUsQzgru39zBqn9YgZ4S8j5K-xPG3ca9uFkayJWnzSfWk9nkvV-GmFjsa0KJzKr1b38pbR7h55S9w=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></span></i></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /><br /></span></i></span><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>Colleen G. Brown Pasqualehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402783115333431440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203921263391858427.post-51116851902063230242024-02-09T01:00:00.058-05:002024-02-09T01:00:00.180-05:00 Wedding: Brumfield & Pittman, 10 Feb. 1934, MS<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>This couple began their married life with excitement at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. My husband & I have visited that wonderful city, </i></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 118, 29);"><i>but never at Mardi Gras. It must have been a fun tale to tell for the almost 60 years they were married.</i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">Norine Brumfield</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">13 November 1902 MS – 31 March 1993 MS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Daughter of <a href="https://leavesnbranches.blogspot.com/2021/11/forget-me-not-frank-r-brumfield-1960-ms.html">Frank Richard Brumfield</a> & Julia Gardner<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">&</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">Harry Ernest Pittman</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">11 Feb 1890 MS – 2 April 1980 MS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Wedding Day<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">10 February 1934 MS</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr6Qs_wRQBvoMgP0oxIkAyn4GoLk7bJhX-UCpmteZ5hlEoXjqxn8_BWdP6fHBEPKOnrHTE0ZFcoCQBSe-tALUg2vDNy68nZEiui8cIOn0zXXMlAVOFaIh65nHhQC-k3EUJYp9mC3A15I7TVq4fuXR3kyKqDkW61vVsJ-iTKEIwEdV2P0HzpuhOPnPBmA/s590/Screen%20Shot%202023-03-16%20at%209.40.12%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="590" data-original-width="482" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr6Qs_wRQBvoMgP0oxIkAyn4GoLk7bJhX-UCpmteZ5hlEoXjqxn8_BWdP6fHBEPKOnrHTE0ZFcoCQBSe-tALUg2vDNy68nZEiui8cIOn0zXXMlAVOFaIh65nHhQC-k3EUJYp9mC3A15I7TVq4fuXR3kyKqDkW61vVsJ-iTKEIwEdV2P0HzpuhOPnPBmA/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-03-16%20at%209.40.12%20AM.png" width="261" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">Magnolia Teacher Weds H. E. Pittman</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Of interest to Pike countians and others in Southwest Mississippi is the wedding last Saturday of Miss Norine Brumfield to Mr. Harry E. Pittman.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The ceremony was performed in the home of Rev. T. W. Green, pastor of the Magnolia Baptist church, who officiated.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Immediately after the ceremony, bride and groom went to New Orleans, where after witnessing the Mardi Gras exhibitions, they went to the gulf coast to visit relatives of the bride.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brumfield of Leggett. During the past five years, she has been a member of the faculty of Magnolia high school, and deservingly, one of the most popular young women in Pike county.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The groom is a prominent young farmer and merchant living east of Fernwood. He is, also, an employee of the Fernwood, Columbia and Gulf railroad.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Semi – Weekly Journal<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>McComb, MS, 15 Feb 1934, page 4<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">Newspapers.com</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></i></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></i></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzPVytHtJpYRVKe2ZZzIVZ-Fc51XxFJ_gvRwA7zxp0HjiS-IrrPThpzyTijTsagxGiHLiFzm30R87Zq8DtA2fl7M977c1RA8BdhCV5QmbO7OtF3pxppgvxHfuPwzAm57Q8lVjKrPUz-ljtSOn0geuEPijaIUZ2L6P5GKc8x8vqbsahmV6f1IHbYfywhg/s3279/norine.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2404" data-original-width="3279" height="470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzPVytHtJpYRVKe2ZZzIVZ-Fc51XxFJ_gvRwA7zxp0HjiS-IrrPThpzyTijTsagxGiHLiFzm30R87Zq8DtA2fl7M977c1RA8BdhCV5QmbO7OtF3pxppgvxHfuPwzAm57Q8lVjKrPUz-ljtSOn0geuEPijaIUZ2L6P5GKc8x8vqbsahmV6f1IHbYfywhg/w640-h470/norine.jpg" width="640" /></a></i></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></i></span><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>Colleen G. Brown Pasqualehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402783115333431440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203921263391858427.post-17270031551950401562024-02-06T01:00:00.033-05:002024-02-06T01:00:00.139-05:00Letters from the Past – 1896 Gruissy Letter<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">My family has letters from our Mark/Gruissy family. My paternal aunt, Genevieve A. Brown Wieland Schaperjahn shared those letters with me. I would like to share transcripts of those letters with anyone who may be connected to this family or anyone who is interested into a look into the past.</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></i></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: medium;"><i>This letter was written by Regina's teacher, asking Regina to stay in school. My paternal grandmother, Ivy (Mark) Brown who was a daughter of Regina did not think that her mother returned to school as the teacher had advised. Ivy said, “She [Regina] was the youngest. Her parents were getting pretty old and she went out to work.”</i></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: medium;"><i>Watch for more letters.</i></span></span></p><div><span style="font-family: georgia; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This letter was written to my great grandmother <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;"><a href="https://leavesnbranches.blogspot.com/2014/02/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-week-8-n.html">Nancy Regina Victoria (Gruissy) Mark </a></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">31 Jan 1879 Medina, OH - 24 May 1959 Medina, OH<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Daughter of <a href="https://leavesnbranches.blogspot.com/2014/05/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-week-19.html">Augustus Ceaser Gruissy</a> & <a href="https://leavesnbranches.blogspot.com/2014/05/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-week-20-esther.html">Esther Barbara Wolf</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Wife of <a href="https://leavesnbranches.blogspot.com/2014/02/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-week-7-thomas.html">Thomas Kenneth Mark</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7_BKlsHUU3rNO5k-CvZPSdEeSW3BUXMtk2Yyx40VFVnblLxaGRLbdkFznnarkZuxOLr-eyNmkkMkxD41Kxqorl2mAdH-XgfwkLOQCPKZWdi1zHJws1ok8oG8HyiQz8GNmPMzOSsDqjpAG9Njlbi2ycNzqlMegUuK5bdphD4MluXFLzRJMLtXR2OoABlz-/s646/Mark.%20Regina%20Mark%20with%20Ivy%20and%20Wava.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="602" data-original-width="646" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7_BKlsHUU3rNO5k-CvZPSdEeSW3BUXMtk2Yyx40VFVnblLxaGRLbdkFznnarkZuxOLr-eyNmkkMkxD41Kxqorl2mAdH-XgfwkLOQCPKZWdi1zHJws1ok8oG8HyiQz8GNmPMzOSsDqjpAG9Njlbi2ycNzqlMegUuK5bdphD4MluXFLzRJMLtXR2OoABlz-/s320/Mark.%20Regina%20Mark%20with%20Ivy%20and%20Wava.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">N. Regina Gruissy Mark</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">with daughters (left to right) Wava A. Mark Braun & Ivy R. Mark Brown</span></span></div><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">To: Miss Regina Nancy Gruissy, Canton, Ohio<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">From: J. Alida Helureich, Canton Ohio, Sept 10, 1896<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Dear Regina,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">We miss you in the Seventh Grade. Surely you are not thinking of quitting school. Remember that now is your only time for gaining an education and, if you allow the golden opportunity to pass by unheeded. It can never return. And remember how much better your advantages are than hundreds of boys and girls who can not attend except at night and then have only two hours of instruction while you are having five hours in the open day-time and can have your regular rest at night.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I hope to see you at school next Monday with a determination to, at least finish the Dueber School if you do not want to go any further, but, I would like to see you graduate and have your Diploma framed and hanging in your parlor at home.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">With much love, I am<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Your affectionate teacher<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">J. Alida Helureich<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Note: This letter was written in blue ink with very neat handwriting. It had a 2 cent stamp.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i> </i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLX9TXUarqrx0kWV3SA5dnQ6I3bqT4dO4klUHhlMop-jrNjoOtH5yxgbcjQHsAtqriQgEEddPdQVyVXNsFX_ctLLG8JsxmD2pUoxhE55Ekd6hY9HdZ8Ji-ZdZzeC01oI4yCAKasWs9lT4MbNTpFGMdymwu43c1tx0_c4OYbHruUsbS9hGKnP8bsU8Uk-jU/s5790/Vertical%20Pedigree%20Chart%20%206.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4879" data-original-width="5790" height="540" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLX9TXUarqrx0kWV3SA5dnQ6I3bqT4dO4klUHhlMop-jrNjoOtH5yxgbcjQHsAtqriQgEEddPdQVyVXNsFX_ctLLG8JsxmD2pUoxhE55Ekd6hY9HdZ8Ji-ZdZzeC01oI4yCAKasWs9lT4MbNTpFGMdymwu43c1tx0_c4OYbHruUsbS9hGKnP8bsU8Uk-jU/w640-h540/Vertical%20Pedigree%20Chart%20%206.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /><i><br /></i></span></span><p></p>Colleen G. Brown Pasqualehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402783115333431440noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203921263391858427.post-20629627560148432572024-02-02T01:00:00.012-05:002024-02-02T01:00:00.359-05:00 Wedding: Brumfield & Sibley, 5 Feb. 1972 MS<p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>This newspaper account of the wedding of James & Melissa has many lovely details.</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">James Edward Brumfield</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">B 26 July 1949<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Son of Joe Reid Brumfield & Ouida Belle Varnado<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">Melissa Louise Sibley</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Daughter of Al Sibley<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">Married 5 February 1972 MS</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjswrDemS1r8Wpj_2iB7m3kDU_NyyAlXE5gNN3Sq0Eo7PXuqvtN9A3EGxs0Sf6fVAsTBUO-QllSVi6NS0zUtcSmIt6kLSEgz53uFiqEm5idDRx0JNmPrdHuHA2P0I-IkYgJKL_tAuheIUcTlICmYrWVyvCYarTXFdKpvqj1-a0eJE0HaFKDfa_VYO2V3CQQ/s948/Screenshot%202023-05-03%20at%2010.07.58%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="606" data-original-width="948" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjswrDemS1r8Wpj_2iB7m3kDU_NyyAlXE5gNN3Sq0Eo7PXuqvtN9A3EGxs0Sf6fVAsTBUO-QllSVi6NS0zUtcSmIt6kLSEgz53uFiqEm5idDRx0JNmPrdHuHA2P0I-IkYgJKL_tAuheIUcTlICmYrWVyvCYarTXFdKpvqj1-a0eJE0HaFKDfa_VYO2V3CQQ/s320/Screenshot%202023-05-03%20at%2010.07.58%20AM.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Couple Says Vows in First Baptist Church<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Miss Melisa Louise Sibley became the bride of James Edward Brumfield in a ceremony at 11 a. m. Feb. 5 in the First Baptist Church in McComb.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Al Sibley of McComb and the bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe R. Brumfield of McComb.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Dr. John Lee Taylor officiated at the vows said at an altar holding candelabra with white tapers and entwined with ivy placed in front of a bay window. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Given in marriage by her father, the bride wore a street length princess dress of white crepe with long bell sleeves and a funnel neckline. A crown of crepe embroidery held her white tulle veil and she carried a nosegay or red rose buds surrounding white for-get-me-nots.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Miss Maggie Price was maid of honor and her dress was identical to the bride’s but was in red crepe. She carried a nosegay of red and white rose buds.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Jerry Brumfield, brother of the bridegroom, was best man.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Hal Sibley, brother of the bride, lighted the candles and Mrs. Warren Williamson Jr., pianist, presented a program of nuptial music and accompanied Miss Deborah Wood as she sang “The Wedding Song.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Mrs. Sibley chose for her daughter’s wedding a yellow gold dress with long sleeves and a white orchid corsage and Mrs. Brumfield wore pink knit with long sleeves and a white orchid.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Attending form out of town were Dr. and Mrs. Riley Sibley, New Orleans, La.; Mrs. Barry C. Sibley, grandmother of the bride, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Alford, Hammond, La.; Mr. and Mrs. DaltonBurch, Meridian; Mr. and O. A. Varnado, Hattiesburg and Mrs. Clyde Varnado Magnolia.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Enterprise – Journal, McComb, MS, 15 Feb 1972 page 4<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Newspapers.com<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfbvzxOUjDiYdCW1IChte6tOzK8xLzHhEL7ujBb9eq4MdeOzPncJBL0ZY9TZe9BiGjt1vcgD0lXHTbsB1CkoKhIvIZZ6v0DDPy_sDgB4iz2zLGU6SIQKHd432ETAsdrDqL-XJB6e_ksqaReCIs3eUXdnYbk5sirCk7NZTA3R2LYKWLkM1JPab58oqO7Ed8/s3807/Vertical%20Pedigree%20Chart%20%208.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2296" data-original-width="3807" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfbvzxOUjDiYdCW1IChte6tOzK8xLzHhEL7ujBb9eq4MdeOzPncJBL0ZY9TZe9BiGjt1vcgD0lXHTbsB1CkoKhIvIZZ6v0DDPy_sDgB4iz2zLGU6SIQKHd432ETAsdrDqL-XJB6e_ksqaReCIs3eUXdnYbk5sirCk7NZTA3R2LYKWLkM1JPab58oqO7Ed8/w640-h386/Vertical%20Pedigree%20Chart%20%208.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p>Colleen G. Brown Pasqualehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402783115333431440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203921263391858427.post-31193755678738983472024-01-26T01:00:00.035-05:002024-01-26T01:00:00.150-05:00 Forget Me Not: Joseph Wolf, 1902 PA<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>I frequently drive through Pennsylvania on my way to visit my daughter and her family in Virginia. I like knowing that my family was in the area many years ago.</i></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">Joseph Wolf </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">19 Jan 1831 PA – 23 July 1902 PA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Son of <a href="http://leavesnbranches.blogspot.com/2023/09/forget-me-not-frederick-wolf-1891-pa.html">Frederick Wolf</a> & Louisa Goetz<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">Husband of Almeida Flickinger</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">My 1<sup>st</sup> cousin, 4x removed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2XomSBjKrZ2dCbd2HP9mBWPWFu0Qwstk2r35yies8X-5F5rpxY09nDqMuOKOyWeJaupSDVqtBYl1Fu86tqpYuG1-ezjS2sHxlVR8CxQtiqZGsFOZxvSv6FNVLLrBrvm7M9icuLxch3PnEzAn5kYzdSmDUNd0KqsPsBxYT-gBpDZetTodcRoZTYrcnNQ/s856/Screen%20Shot%202023-04-11%20at%208.24.50%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="544" data-original-width="856" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2XomSBjKrZ2dCbd2HP9mBWPWFu0Qwstk2r35yies8X-5F5rpxY09nDqMuOKOyWeJaupSDVqtBYl1Fu86tqpYuG1-ezjS2sHxlVR8CxQtiqZGsFOZxvSv6FNVLLrBrvm7M9icuLxch3PnEzAn5kYzdSmDUNd0KqsPsBxYT-gBpDZetTodcRoZTYrcnNQ/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-04-11%20at%208.24.50%20PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> </span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Joseph Wolf, one of Abbottstown’s most influential citizens and business men, died last Wednesday night from dropsy and kidney trouble, aged about 72 years.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The deceased was a son of the late Frederick Wolf, of Abbottstown. He was a tanner by trade and conducted a tannery in his native town up until the time of his death. Mr. Wolf was a life – long Democrat. He was united in marriage about 40 years ago to Miss Almeida E. Flickinger, daughter of John and Catherine Flickinger, of Hanover. The widow, together with three daughters, survives him. The daughters are Mrs. Beulah Atland, Mrs. Katie March and Miss Lillie Wolf, all of Abbottstown. He is also survived by two sisters and two brothers – Mrs. Emma McClure, of York, and Miss Louisa Wolf, of Abbottstown, and Dr. F. O. Wolf, of East Berlin, and George Wolf, of Abbottstown. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Mr. Wolf was a director of the Berlin Branch Railroad, and at frequent times held offices of honor and trust in the community in which he resided. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The funeral was held last Sunday afternoon at the house, the services being conducted by Rev. Paul Spangler, of East Berlin, and Rev. R. H. Clare, of Abbottstown. Internment in Abbottstown cemetery. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Gettysburg Compiler</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Gettysburg, PA, 29 July 1902, page 3</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Newspapers.com</i></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyCBWKGd3Gn1PirYm6whtlEX72KQOfQHqul1g3n68GNXDPGaVBZLOOGztYESCKoO2r4Ez6Ym40AiaEC6tXfg7pr3MFwfgxUG5eJTpI2E0CfbMc3FGB4TcLjuhVys1S2bbvPl12b4JNy2VNByd-9TBiqGqaodllN6sqiF5vuSW0UxQfDSywTngnw69l7Q/s3350/joseph.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2457" data-original-width="3350" height="470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyCBWKGd3Gn1PirYm6whtlEX72KQOfQHqul1g3n68GNXDPGaVBZLOOGztYESCKoO2r4Ez6Ym40AiaEC6tXfg7pr3MFwfgxUG5eJTpI2E0CfbMc3FGB4TcLjuhVys1S2bbvPl12b4JNy2VNByd-9TBiqGqaodllN6sqiF5vuSW0UxQfDSywTngnw69l7Q/w640-h470/joseph.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>Colleen G. Brown Pasqualehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402783115333431440noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203921263391858427.post-2960620469300356972024-01-22T01:00:00.000-05:002024-01-22T01:00:00.154-05:00Vintage Photograph: Elma Patrick<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLZEq-Fu9fvVLPjCFBpddfQFxiHUbWACJGFzDxw0jWG6rUSxnDBfOq2SCtb1VyvMulWbZ2aH1r9Vu3J_FZyAZ0okvR3lfO2XTih2nf3Rfmi7-8nMsXnGIBwFMUN6eZsqfOsxOmy0pn-l03ZsIAEyITLoPw2Cn5G5Zakieti-LldUwg74DO0_nLrp8_hw/s3174/Elma%20Patrick%20Aug%201883.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3174" data-original-width="2506" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLZEq-Fu9fvVLPjCFBpddfQFxiHUbWACJGFzDxw0jWG6rUSxnDBfOq2SCtb1VyvMulWbZ2aH1r9Vu3J_FZyAZ0okvR3lfO2XTih2nf3Rfmi7-8nMsXnGIBwFMUN6eZsqfOsxOmy0pn-l03ZsIAEyITLoPw2Cn5G5Zakieti-LldUwg74DO0_nLrp8_hw/w506-h640/Elma%20Patrick%20Aug%201883.jpeg" width="506" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="-webkit-standard" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Photo from Patrick Family Photograph Album, 1880's, </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In possession of this blogger.</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Elma A. Patrick</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Apr 1846 Michigan - 1925 Michigan</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Daughter of Samuel Patrick & Amanda Brown</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbfwv2WxHol1H6FYbhBzzI8Fy7xoBjGiMj7txlWnKST9X3d0jtA0Ru9z_l4UPSs1LyjFIWLpt0Ny-QBwonv1WcV99hAD7a63RSmn_bIGRk4yJTboz_UYDlHugKsbgXd3tPA3MdQDkGVyQSJj2apc1P7vtGXUtrqG-FQfZQnOppTnDaLbO1L3lSDrowOw/s3556/elma.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2401" data-original-width="3556" height="432" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbfwv2WxHol1H6FYbhBzzI8Fy7xoBjGiMj7txlWnKST9X3d0jtA0Ru9z_l4UPSs1LyjFIWLpt0Ny-QBwonv1WcV99hAD7a63RSmn_bIGRk4yJTboz_UYDlHugKsbgXd3tPA3MdQDkGVyQSJj2apc1P7vtGXUtrqG-FQfZQnOppTnDaLbO1L3lSDrowOw/w640-h432/elma.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><br /><p></p>Colleen G. Brown Pasqualehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402783115333431440noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203921263391858427.post-62575892794533889322024-01-15T01:00:00.004-05:002024-01-15T01:00:00.151-05:00 Wedding: Brumfield & McSpadden, 1957 GA<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>The descriptions of this wedding are lovely. We are fortunate to have a photograph of the bride in her wedding gown. It sounds like it was a special day to be long remembered.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(56, 118, 29); color: #38761d; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On a genealogical note it is interesting that the groom, Robert Hugh Brumfield, has almost the same name as his brother, Robert White Brumfield. I have not see that before, two brothers with the same first name.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">Robert Hugh Brumfield</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Son of Robert Hugh Brumfield & Ann Rimes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">&<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">Martha Ann McSpadden</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Daughter of S. R. McSpadden<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjKN3Vrq89SsRmvYrFDidWEBtMx4uiDLKbirZmqEvfPquy5Z25fxIP1OEAX_4Zp9eediS7pXCqExqDgN502VuayNhjifllSRCjRH5SN37R-ELdhtVEeMImfNCdIDZZBSjlOYXd3m4PnCPes0Ny3gsqI_pCYm_3y5CMpkqqMVTWkRObiWYhPTGj33bmD0A" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1244" data-original-width="904" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjKN3Vrq89SsRmvYrFDidWEBtMx4uiDLKbirZmqEvfPquy5Z25fxIP1OEAX_4Zp9eediS7pXCqExqDgN502VuayNhjifllSRCjRH5SN37R-ELdhtVEeMImfNCdIDZZBSjlOYXd3m4PnCPes0Ny3gsqI_pCYm_3y5CMpkqqMVTWkRObiWYhPTGj33bmD0A" width="174" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">Married 31 August 1957 GA</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhPoAcWKKelJoRMzH2QyLZWYIaVrCguQpvVumbBHdbEDM2V1GKzFVSSxtlacZcfI6b-AET4i5Klu6sWjgpkSmJc5tvhukCrAxkqkmo5tKtFoq8XplewO390vifWlMrMiQnkhAKwTRFaluDR7j5sJMpLk1VCeAg4Kj5SwXcU_KWkQDMPJWs90tsbFS04Fg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="970" data-original-width="630" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhPoAcWKKelJoRMzH2QyLZWYIaVrCguQpvVumbBHdbEDM2V1GKzFVSSxtlacZcfI6b-AET4i5Klu6sWjgpkSmJc5tvhukCrAxkqkmo5tKtFoq8XplewO390vifWlMrMiQnkhAKwTRFaluDR7j5sJMpLk1VCeAg4Kj5SwXcU_KWkQDMPJWs90tsbFS04Fg=w260-h400" width="260" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Miss Martha Ann McSpadden, Rome, Ga., and Robert Hugh Brumfield Jr., were married at 4:30 p. m. Aug. 31, in St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Rome.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. R. McSpadden, and Brumfield is the son of Dr. and Mrs. R. H. Brumfield Sr., McComb. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Arrangements of white chrysanthemum, stock and snapdragons flanked the altar, which was banked with palms. Pews were marked with white chrysanthemums. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Paul Herman, Chattanooga, Tenn., played organ preludes including Beethoven’s “Ich Liebe Dich” and “Dawn of Promise.” Also included was Shubert’s “Ava Maria.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The bride, given in marriage by her father, wore a gown of white chantilly lace over taffeta. The fitted bodice had a sweetheart neckline and long sleeves.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Her full skirt, alternating rows of lace and tulle, extended into a chapel train. The matching coronet was trimmed with sequins and held a veil of illusion. The bride’s bouquet consisted of white roses and lilies – of – the – valley.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Attendants. Maid of honor was Miss Sylvia McSpadden, with bridesmaids Misses Judy De Frese, Jane Stefall, Ann Carol White and Jane McSpadden. Miss Janet Margaret Brumfield, niece of the bridegroom, was flower girl. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The attendants of the bride wore identical gowns of light aqua peau de soie with full skirt featuring a bustle and back panel of a deeper shade. Their bouquets were of off – white chrysanthemums. The flower girl carried a nosegay bouquet.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Robert White Brumfield served as his brother’s best man.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Usher – groomsmen were Jerry Schenken, Omaha, Neb.; Eddie Lamperez, New Iberia, La.; Al Beacham, Magnolia; and James Lloyd Williams, McComb.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Reception Held. Following the ceremony, Mr. and Mrs. McSpadden entertained with a reception in the parish house.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Guests attending from this area were: Mrs. George Gulley, Brookhaven and Dr. and Mrs. R. H. Brumfield, Miss Janet Margaret Brumfield, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Brumfield, Mr. and Mrs. John H. White Jr., and Mr. and Mrs. J. J. White, all of McComb.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">After a 10 – day wedding trip, the couple are residing at 5325 St. Charles Ave., New Orleans.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Enterprise - Journal<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>McComb, MS, 12 Sept 1957, page 6<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Newspapers.com</i></span><span style="font-family: Adobe Garamond Pro, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEizjFUdkfbsHJbM0oRxK_iBzYEKIwSCXha9uXwaZctwQdsIuVPCTXUuUL3Skz12Gk5IdtJBxcAbG4SZpFfDdmxqZxkElftCycPWJr4UBwC9Ml3B1d-Iknk3QXzWzOP29_jadoYFqJ8zysFRvyn5CWrpyq8GPOer_Mwd8IPy78-OWEOwKlmp4xX_UMospg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2487" data-original-width="3146" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEizjFUdkfbsHJbM0oRxK_iBzYEKIwSCXha9uXwaZctwQdsIuVPCTXUuUL3Skz12Gk5IdtJBxcAbG4SZpFfDdmxqZxkElftCycPWJr4UBwC9Ml3B1d-Iknk3QXzWzOP29_jadoYFqJ8zysFRvyn5CWrpyq8GPOer_Mwd8IPy78-OWEOwKlmp4xX_UMospg=w400-h316" width="400" /></a></i></span></div><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /><br /></i></span><p></p>Colleen G. Brown Pasqualehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402783115333431440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203921263391858427.post-57790633614813597682024-01-11T01:00:00.068-05:002024-01-11T01:00:00.138-05:00Wedding: Mark & Braun, 11 January 1941 OH <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i> My great aunt and uncle were always very kind when I visited their farm in Ohio. During my genealogy research trips to Ohio they shared their stories and their big farmhouse with my children and me. </i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKdoZ-kJasJ1LbDJRvJG1GxGu9UNd0sIgK6pXi7J4MiEr4d7oIr_uOHc6siTbO9zh1bVN6P6-aSH7X2meJOMGiZElE6E27ruUsYm6bu-Z_fpEBRi0823-5OdiVd5nXLCHtRYJPf9PG-lGl8k3an899wvrlPPBtTSjWNBwWAwumNtW98qPtA4I85njJFTaG/s1274/Screenshot%202023-11-07%20at%206.57.21%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1274" data-original-width="964" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKdoZ-kJasJ1LbDJRvJG1GxGu9UNd0sIgK6pXi7J4MiEr4d7oIr_uOHc6siTbO9zh1bVN6P6-aSH7X2meJOMGiZElE6E27ruUsYm6bu-Z_fpEBRi0823-5OdiVd5nXLCHtRYJPf9PG-lGl8k3an899wvrlPPBtTSjWNBwWAwumNtW98qPtA4I85njJFTaG/w303-h400/Screenshot%202023-11-07%20at%206.57.21%20AM.png" width="303" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">From: </span><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: start;">The Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, Ohio) · 13 Jan 1991, Sun · Page 25</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: start;">Newspapers.com</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Wava Alice Mark Braun</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">22 Jan 1919 Sharon, Medina OH - 15 Apr 2011 OH</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Daughter of Thomas Kenneth & N. Regina V. (Gruissy) Mark </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">My Great Aunt</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">&</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Alvin Henry Braun</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">18 Aug 1915 Kent, Portage, Ohio - 4 Jun 2000 OH</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Son of Frederick Herman & Alvina Wilhelmina Albertina (Klagge) Braun</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqTFUapvGzVvtKPMRsW7m4G0Zbe75UGZy5HpfFAfXKUMgqee9O97ZNG0ArIErVvl7WkTtR8LR9xhfn6omdI80G-ey36EwLF8kLrFk_YMoLUokn3jtu__lhqse1rLKkzJZ9qbXWJqPlFLHP0iG1sKwuN_oM3zlXQwSprz0b4weXy3iowBvv0lOpoJVT0tXh/s570/1981%20Jan%2011%20Braun%20Alvin%20and%20Wava%2040th%20Anniversary%20001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="390" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqTFUapvGzVvtKPMRsW7m4G0Zbe75UGZy5HpfFAfXKUMgqee9O97ZNG0ArIErVvl7WkTtR8LR9xhfn6omdI80G-ey36EwLF8kLrFk_YMoLUokn3jtu__lhqse1rLKkzJZ9qbXWJqPlFLHP0iG1sKwuN_oM3zlXQwSprz0b4weXy3iowBvv0lOpoJVT0tXh/s320/1981%20Jan%2011%20Braun%20Alvin%20and%20Wava%2040th%20Anniversary%20001.jpg" width="219" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Married 11 January 1941 Wadsworth, OH</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDL1ErGeAYkqqWtn99HDJtBz9P_4OTLkpN6XdnBuHwzNL47Hd0CsX-i4VrVZxyOxfDW5vFdy8taxlJtJIIpEPnmHnb4XwsoHLBPb-GufNe0uhw0-yS-SYExysI6TirK3NY_OjbxLYN58zUxZZjyzDuMB0IsiU1K0tlqea0YCjy7g1jY_WhdZSscPOSXbL8/s7215/Vertical%20Pedigree%20Chart%20.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3031" data-original-width="7215" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDL1ErGeAYkqqWtn99HDJtBz9P_4OTLkpN6XdnBuHwzNL47Hd0CsX-i4VrVZxyOxfDW5vFdy8taxlJtJIIpEPnmHnb4XwsoHLBPb-GufNe0uhw0-yS-SYExysI6TirK3NY_OjbxLYN58zUxZZjyzDuMB0IsiU1K0tlqea0YCjy7g1jY_WhdZSscPOSXbL8/w640-h268/Vertical%20Pedigree%20Chart%20.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p><br /></p>Colleen G. Brown Pasqualehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402783115333431440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203921263391858427.post-80343172115855058942024-01-05T01:00:00.000-05:002024-01-05T01:00:00.152-05:00Vintage Photograph: Helen Coyle Gardner<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>My Nana was one of the most important people in my life. I knew her as my mother's mother. She loved my brothers and me immensly. Looking at vintage photographs like this one I get a glimpse at her life before my mother or I were born. I love her lacy dress and those huge bows in her hair. </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>I am posting this for her birthday. </i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGV7KWiG6PIEYRrxWJQaXlvFUhOMaW7efJ0jnXF9DU85QQ1ru21rsKX0z7eKbk8tSFXzrrqA2ypyX4qvlpBZ75aVp7OsTp59C2x5tc2FErZX1T7iUxDwCmMvssrz_SJiVmugwoTHhiJ9LsmTBEfjLLi6KNtXK80VaFaNGFBWCaC3OYpaqWYiSyic2Qiw/s1438/Coyle%20Helen%20F%20Coyle%20NYC.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1438" data-original-width="921" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGV7KWiG6PIEYRrxWJQaXlvFUhOMaW7efJ0jnXF9DU85QQ1ru21rsKX0z7eKbk8tSFXzrrqA2ypyX4qvlpBZ75aVp7OsTp59C2x5tc2FErZX1T7iUxDwCmMvssrz_SJiVmugwoTHhiJ9LsmTBEfjLLi6KNtXK80VaFaNGFBWCaC3OYpaqWYiSyic2Qiw/w410-h640/Coyle%20Helen%20F%20Coyle%20NYC.jpg" width="410" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Helen Frances Coyle Gardner</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">9 Jan 1897 New York City - 13 Oct 1965 Columbia County, NY</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The oldest child of Michael Coyle & Mary Josephine Mullane</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">My Nana</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Related Posts:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://leavesnbranches.blogspot.com/2014/01/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-week-4-helen.html">My Nana</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://leavesnbranches.blogspot.com/2011/10/1915-school-notebook.html">Helen's 1915 Notebook</a></span></li><li><a href="http://leavesnbranches.blogspot.com/2020/04/1918-influenza-pandemic-in-ny-city-my.html"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">1918 Influenza Pandemic</span></a></li></ul></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p><br /></p>Colleen G. Brown Pasqualehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402783115333431440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203921263391858427.post-30353137389742180702023-12-27T01:00:00.070-05:002023-12-27T08:10:54.737-05:00December Birthday, Johann Jonas Wolf, 1739 PA<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(39, 78, 19); color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Johann Jonas Wolf</span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(39, 78, 19); color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">27 December 1739, PA - </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Died 21 September 1787 PA</span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Lived 47 years</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Son of Johan Jacob Wolf & Anna Barbara Orth</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Husband of Appollonia Dick, married 1761</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: georgia; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia;">My 5th Great Grandfather</span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Lived in Beriwck Township, York, PA</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://leavesnbranches.blogspot.com/2015/06/military-monday-lt-johann-jonas-wolf.html">Revolutionary War Soldier, York Co Militia PA</a> </span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjdIBTdnR8BNFAwueC3WwNmVe5p0BUHKbRpgCVh45hWl0jjOsH8qZTktfMj7YzD0C6FYY2DWsTAdPTvwbZAUntqN0CCztw9iQraF4t-PWG6CGkuJpJGa_WYAcKXaT-g-SSsHqNe6GXzcBxqt2PJ_DyPz-MgKJOWxHZoNENNMh8CvEtH4pCbZa_u5FTityb/s1024/Screenshot%202023-05-03%20at%205.20.31%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img border="0" data-original-height="646" data-original-width="1024" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjdIBTdnR8BNFAwueC3WwNmVe5p0BUHKbRpgCVh45hWl0jjOsH8qZTktfMj7YzD0C6FYY2DWsTAdPTvwbZAUntqN0CCztw9iQraF4t-PWG6CGkuJpJGa_WYAcKXaT-g-SSsHqNe6GXzcBxqt2PJ_DyPz-MgKJOWxHZoNENNMh8CvEtH4pCbZa_u5FTityb/s320/Screenshot%202023-05-03%20at%205.20.31%20PM.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">Father of 10 children:</span><br /><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Jacob Wolf, 1762 - 1810</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Appollonia Wolf, b 1763</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">John Wolf, 1767 - 1851</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Catherine Wolf Becker, b 1770</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Adam Wolf, 1773 - 1865</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Johan Jonas Wolf, b 1775</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Christianna Wolf, b 1776</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://leavesnbranches.blogspot.com/2014/05/on-road-to-ngs-conference.html">John Frederick Wolf</a>, 1779 - 1872</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Maria Elizabeth Wolf, b 1782</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Andrew Wolf, 1787 - 1867</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">Johann Jonas Wolf</span><span face=""Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""> died In September 1787 in Berwick Township. An inventory was made of his “Estate, Goods, Chattles, Rights and Credits”. The extensive listing included “The Dwelling Plantation, Consisting of 83 Acres and Allowances of Land, Another Plantation and tract of land Consisting of 120 acres, more or less.” Reading through the inventory gives a clear view of life in 1787, the time of his death.<span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><i><span face=""Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">A Sermon Book; Two Hymn Books; 2 Old Spelling Books, and Primer; Great – Coat; Four Coat, Jacket, Breeches and Hat; 4 pair of Trouzers </span></i><span face=""Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">[sic]<i>, & 1 pair of Leggins; 2 Shirts, and one pair of stockings; 1 pair of old boots, 1 pair of Shoes, Buckles; A watch and 3 old Shirts; A wagon; A Plough and Irons; 2 black horses; A Sorrel; A Black Mare; A Colt; A brindled Cow; A Spotted Heiffer </i>[sic]<i>; A brown Steer; A red Steer; A black Heiffer; 3 Heiffer Calves; 2 other Calves; 17 head of Sheep; A Wind Mill; A Waggon Cloath </i>[sic]<i>; A Cutting Box and Knife; The Geers </i>[sic]<i> and Stones of an Oil Mill; A Quantity of Wheat at 4/6 Bushels; A Quantity of Rye at 2/9 Bushels; A Quantity of Oats at 1/6 Bushels; Hay; 2 Dung forks, and hook; A hay – fork, 2 Rakes and 2 flails; 2 old casks and trough; A Quantity of Flax, unthreashed; A Quantity of Hemp, unwatered; 5 Cow Chains; A Pair of Hay – Ladders; 8 Planks; An Old Wheel – barrow; A Log – Chain; One Still – Door; A Harrow; Stretch Chains; A Sleigh; A sled; 4 Hogs; 2 Shovels; A grindstone; A pair of Hobbles; A Man Saddle, and Saddlebags; An old Saddle, and Saddlebags; A stallion chain; 2 Augers; A pair of Pincers, Chizzel </i>[sic]<i>, Gouge, and Spike; A half – Bushel; A hand saw, and draw knife; Two pieces of Iron & a door hinge; A whip; A Cake – Iron; An old Sythe </i>[sic]<i> & piece of Gin Barrel; A Pot Trammel; A quilling – Wheel and Swifts; A Sythe </i>[sic]<i> and Craddle </i>[sic]<i>; 2 Spinning Wheels; A warping Bar, Wouk, and 22 spools; A weavers Loom; Reeds and Geers </i>[sic]<i>; 2 Gums with some Salts; A covered Straw Basket and dried apples; An old cask with some Sope </i>[sic]<i> and Fat; Riddles & Straw; An Old cask with some Lime; 2 Baskets and old Iron; A Bag with feathers; A pruning saw and Whip Stalk; Some Onions and old Sive </i>[sic]<i>; An empty Hogshead with straw cover; 2 straw baskets and some beans; A flour Barrel; An Axe and three rakes; A big Wheel, Reel and Swifts; A hair – sifter and Rope; A Dough Trough; A Side – saddle and Bridle; A pair of Steel yards; 9 Bags; A Chest and Box; A bed and Bedstead; 2 Razors 7 Strap; Table Clothes; An old Half Bushel and 7 Bread Baskets; A table; A Looking Glass; A Cupboard; Wool; Woolen Yarn; A Stone Jug; 2 little Tubs; 3 Pails; An Iron Pot; 2 pewter Basins, 4 Plates, 7 spoons & 8 Tea spoons; Tea tin, Coffee pot, Funnel, 1 Quart, 2 Pint & half pint cups; 5 Delf </i>[sic]<span style="font-style: italic;"> Plates; 10 pairs of cups & saucers, 2 tea pots, and a Sugar Pot; A glass and earthen bowl & salt Box; 1 lamp and Candlestick; A Coffee – Mill & Spice Box; 2 Bottles; 6 Knives and 10 Forks; A Kitchen Dresser; A Shelf</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">Source:<i style="font-weight: bold;"> </i></span><span face=""Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"" style="line-height: 18.4px; text-align: start;">Estate Files for Johann Jonas Wolf</span><span face=""Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"" style="line-height: 18.4px; text-align: start;"> and Appollona Wolf of Berwick</span><span face=""Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"" style="line-height: 18.4px; text-align: start;"> Township, Pennsylvania; Held at the York County</span><span face=""Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"" style="line-height: 18.4px; text-align: start;"> Archives, 150 Pleasant Acres Road, York, Pennsylvania.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"" style="line-height: 18.4px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdBjWPN4TcB-WamBc-ZhUeBRJOCd_T9Wd-oDjmXYgodhZ3vZZieOtTardVhZ6-Mh1MLXDYC0N5ju8RhmXNMaWhu2sC4vMpE1_g8Q9YRBLEKzMRWj8uGJ1CaSLCyJ2vAeiobWmpVVfQGzQN_MOat9lg0VeRuWW4nVae3KWw5A265qKSChQYDd99SQP3c9bw/s3018/Vertical%20Pedigree%20Chart%20%203.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1809" data-original-width="3018" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdBjWPN4TcB-WamBc-ZhUeBRJOCd_T9Wd-oDjmXYgodhZ3vZZieOtTardVhZ6-Mh1MLXDYC0N5ju8RhmXNMaWhu2sC4vMpE1_g8Q9YRBLEKzMRWj8uGJ1CaSLCyJ2vAeiobWmpVVfQGzQN_MOat9lg0VeRuWW4nVae3KWw5A265qKSChQYDd99SQP3c9bw/w640-h384/Vertical%20Pedigree%20Chart%20%203.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>Colleen G. Brown Pasqualehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402783115333431440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203921263391858427.post-38081306135906906712023-12-23T01:00:00.006-05:002023-12-23T01:00:00.133-05:00Merry Christmas, 2023<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaOF7byPkbUwK7FVK49SKJXfCNV9CAXUw7fyUaesTViYyRunlLIfrMKXctRj8JUgabbx-U5hiwpX9pJK8Er8UIiQQ02aKBBZYC_yHgk3-y_nA39nlXzTWNlHowx_F9hrOnWIQqceIJ53EaYWdknDQEnPbUFhmU6L_ZOvHk8xG2MHkDJ1IIoSHy53V4Cca4/s1750/Screenshot%202023-11-10%20at%207.47.41%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1264" data-original-width="1750" height="462" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaOF7byPkbUwK7FVK49SKJXfCNV9CAXUw7fyUaesTViYyRunlLIfrMKXctRj8JUgabbx-U5hiwpX9pJK8Er8UIiQQ02aKBBZYC_yHgk3-y_nA39nlXzTWNlHowx_F9hrOnWIQqceIJ53EaYWdknDQEnPbUFhmU6L_ZOvHk8xG2MHkDJ1IIoSHy53V4Cca4/w640-h462/Screenshot%202023-11-10%20at%207.47.41%20AM.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;"><i>Merry Christmas!</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;"><i>Colleen</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Colleen G. Brown Pasqualehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402783115333431440noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203921263391858427.post-72006568533756178132023-12-16T01:00:00.029-05:002023-12-16T01:00:00.243-05:001964 Christmas Greetings<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>My father, <a href="https://leavesnbranches.blogspot.com/2018/07/1928-july-27-2018-happy-birthday-dad.html">Delbert Keith Brown</a>, operated a Shell gas station in Hudson, NY for many years. This is one of the ads he ran in the local newspaper. His reasons </i><i>for staying closed on Christmas are the names of my mother, my brothers & myself.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy9pA7tmGyq6ytbkPWCvoA2v_czX1cGtTzTj8znV8LnO5uQh3My0hAkJ13Kp25p3V1uys_Rvmab9J_gfvM9k6itoCxDp7OL2nv19kWnNR26eEtvwe596sm_u0kHZgdLPdqd61hgMMw5u8AVdAJL-H-qW1-_YWxZC6dd6z6po04nN2V0PE1X-BGTg_Pyo8E/s1156/1964%20December%20Hudson%20register%20Star%20Hudson%20NY.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1156" data-original-width="784" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy9pA7tmGyq6ytbkPWCvoA2v_czX1cGtTzTj8znV8LnO5uQh3My0hAkJ13Kp25p3V1uys_Rvmab9J_gfvM9k6itoCxDp7OL2nv19kWnNR26eEtvwe596sm_u0kHZgdLPdqd61hgMMw5u8AVdAJL-H-qW1-_YWxZC6dd6z6po04nN2V0PE1X-BGTg_Pyo8E/w434-h640/1964%20December%20Hudson%20register%20Star%20Hudson%20NY.jpg" width="434" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">1964 Hudson Register Star, Hudson NY</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Clipping from my scrapbook</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Colleen G. Brown Pasqualehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402783115333431440noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203921263391858427.post-11946250665142510282023-12-08T01:00:00.015-05:002023-12-08T01:00:00.133-05:00Christmas Memories<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i> <span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-align: center;">Here is a Christmas Tree Memory from my paternal grandmother,</span></i></span></p><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Ivy R. (Mark) Brown</span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> 1908 OH – 2003 NY,</span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">daughter of Thomas K. & N. Regina (Gruissy) Mark<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Wife of Roy Jessie Brown</span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #262626;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Fw_XjlkpPeg_vqcmV3M3nzkj8WILP6rhN7_S-cVL0JnHmeX0w5VNKv7_edG5NF8-TsYsmuOaANukCgg4aA3P3M3oxBi56rBVG_u1up1jGTNHPjhseFSfZWViycC-iwq-JLfc-EG-cE2LEPFxkP77fVHlwNEbNhTAzkRT4qHslSpRg4vubXA97G3iwR8p/s409/Mark.%20Ivy%20Mark%20BRown.%20Ohio.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="409" data-original-width="280" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Fw_XjlkpPeg_vqcmV3M3nzkj8WILP6rhN7_S-cVL0JnHmeX0w5VNKv7_edG5NF8-TsYsmuOaANukCgg4aA3P3M3oxBi56rBVG_u1up1jGTNHPjhseFSfZWViycC-iwq-JLfc-EG-cE2LEPFxkP77fVHlwNEbNhTAzkRT4qHslSpRg4vubXA97G3iwR8p/s320/Mark.%20Ivy%20Mark%20BRown.%20Ohio.jpg" width="219" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In 1994 she talked to me about Christmas in Ohio when she was a little girl.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Some years it was kind of spare. Some years we had a tree and we had candles, wax candles. The night before we took the tree down Dad would get a couple buckets of water and put it by his chair and light all the candles. We would all sit around and sing Christmas Carols and look and watch the candles burn, Dad keeping a sharp eye on the tree.</span></span></i></blockquote><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq6DuiyQnAaj9C_KgSes9pR7R02Rh8rkINftmrSiYIV3NFZpl4Kgii7AQoBWma_wLz9eQlI0bqULXBaDq5F_eF8hzypRSlCEhEtP2U7UX_ex7k9UyBhpUj3fswaqqxidTeOuPxCqumB9g2tyBYhghdZ9aomkB6PkZursLe2nGLBNrpkz_cnre5XQNBLp1q/s7233/Vertical%20Pedigree%20Chart%20%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2984" data-original-width="7233" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq6DuiyQnAaj9C_KgSes9pR7R02Rh8rkINftmrSiYIV3NFZpl4Kgii7AQoBWma_wLz9eQlI0bqULXBaDq5F_eF8hzypRSlCEhEtP2U7UX_ex7k9UyBhpUj3fswaqqxidTeOuPxCqumB9g2tyBYhghdZ9aomkB6PkZursLe2nGLBNrpkz_cnre5XQNBLp1q/w640-h264/Vertical%20Pedigree%20Chart%20%202.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"></span></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Colleen G. Brown Pasqualehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402783115333431440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203921263391858427.post-47774132131898110552023-12-01T01:00:00.060-05:002023-12-01T01:00:00.146-05:00 Wedding: Brumfield & Rodgers, 26 Dec. 1937, MS<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>This wedding notice is brief but, besides giving me some family information I did not have before I read it, includes some charming details. I like the way the wedding was "quietly solemnized." I am guessing that means it was a small gathering rather than a big </i><i style="caret-color: rgb(56, 118, 29);">event. I like that George has "farming interests." I assume this is an elegant way to say he was a farmer. The reporter used some </i><i>wonderful</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(56, 118, 29);"> words to describe the beginning of a new marriage.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(56, 118, 29);"><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 118, 29);"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2R8UbP1H_gBNdkShshAujTa3yHGLOPDggvS-snIGlf_yBc1TPOpBNZjMOzt-V2-fTxLdTXqwPj2Na1kle9xoN76ut3gbdI3GTZnT906zHdMoKP6VCGxnD4HA-incEj2kemW84Oqpeorv65PviJS8sJvpItqmzY3nTDtSZKtv6W1wct1Mq9BKFeKKbEQ/s854/Screen%20Shot%202023-03-16%20at%208.14.18%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="678" data-original-width="854" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2R8UbP1H_gBNdkShshAujTa3yHGLOPDggvS-snIGlf_yBc1TPOpBNZjMOzt-V2-fTxLdTXqwPj2Na1kle9xoN76ut3gbdI3GTZnT906zHdMoKP6VCGxnD4HA-incEj2kemW84Oqpeorv65PviJS8sJvpItqmzY3nTDtSZKtv6W1wct1Mq9BKFeKKbEQ/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-03-16%20at%208.14.18%20AM.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">George Henry Brumfield</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">4 December 1911 MS – 1 March 1993 MS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Son of John Benjamin Brumfield & Mary Ellen Gent<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">&</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">Ada Rodgers</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">22 May 1906 MS – 18 January 1992<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Wedding Day<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> 26 December 1937 MS</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM7WvW2t1wIiqtiUSbR7sZboY5-F270R79URsmDOJ3CdxZPtn39LIuIIB2NemCFk9A8FOAmukC9_YN12FIv8Mple-D3cAhBDKs7Rc9eVxSD0paoWA-lerCJ1fCRwxTnaxCDUV5iopGHRO4aqcEEC7FK_US6a4cqCezUP2FjdeAGLkT69V5SzfYkfhTXA/s908/Screen%20Shot%202023-03-16%20at%208.03.41%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="908" data-original-width="592" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM7WvW2t1wIiqtiUSbR7sZboY5-F270R79URsmDOJ3CdxZPtn39LIuIIB2NemCFk9A8FOAmukC9_YN12FIv8Mple-D3cAhBDKs7Rc9eVxSD0paoWA-lerCJ1fCRwxTnaxCDUV5iopGHRO4aqcEEC7FK_US6a4cqCezUP2FjdeAGLkT69V5SzfYkfhTXA/w418-h640/Screen%20Shot%202023-03-16%20at%208.03.41%20AM.png" width="418" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Clarion - Ledger</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Jackson, MS, 18 Jan 1938, page 5</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Newspapers.com</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu4Amq04MiNoS16xhTefbfa2Ubt4bKJVNE60bOI5lEJz-0YTsqxkfi4AmQHbMHrNxeZPvoidc148B8ePmaLgt1fQs5IOKV3DfWMX39vz4nZkIL7J4g1YEOvriKQB2ohloCA0veRXK4-sQz1n0Wqa53_lLyxCPYuBSXI8OdcQfLV9o3IGyL09zyIe9TFA/s4083/george.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3115" data-original-width="4083" height="488" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu4Amq04MiNoS16xhTefbfa2Ubt4bKJVNE60bOI5lEJz-0YTsqxkfi4AmQHbMHrNxeZPvoidc148B8ePmaLgt1fQs5IOKV3DfWMX39vz4nZkIL7J4g1YEOvriKQB2ohloCA0veRXK4-sQz1n0Wqa53_lLyxCPYuBSXI8OdcQfLV9o3IGyL09zyIe9TFA/w640-h488/george.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />Colleen G. Brown Pasqualehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402783115333431440noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203921263391858427.post-39678127325232596742023-11-27T01:00:00.002-05:002023-11-27T01:00:00.139-05:00 Forget Me Not: Baxter Edwin Brumfield, 1963 <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>An obituary for one of our country's veterans is always special. We owe much to each and every veteran. </i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">Baxter Edwin Brumfield </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">13 June 1912 – 18 March 1963 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Son of John Edward Brumfield & Ada Beatrice Fortenberry<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">World War II Veteran</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkNAkLqI4F8Uhd0STVvhsH0c9X6oD0qytk1FXEcfknJBZNZIvqtB2MKa0so3oBd_sqw7u89pTiN_ErUKLL7rJOPvBKnDvPGbEk6akUljZJEp6asIOXMgD-H6b3AI5-fOCobzDfyJZTHUY_Me2LqEczUhRmgC_TaRr2p_e-uW12wC318qd4ROGMNfLKcw/s696/Screen%20Shot%202023-04-11%20at%208.24.05%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="696" data-original-width="566" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkNAkLqI4F8Uhd0STVvhsH0c9X6oD0qytk1FXEcfknJBZNZIvqtB2MKa0so3oBd_sqw7u89pTiN_ErUKLL7rJOPvBKnDvPGbEk6akUljZJEp6asIOXMgD-H6b3AI5-fOCobzDfyJZTHUY_Me2LqEczUhRmgC_TaRr2p_e-uW12wC318qd4ROGMNfLKcw/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-04-11%20at%208.24.05%20PM.png" width="260" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">My first cousin, 2x removed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">Funeral Held for Baxter Brumfield</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Funeral services conducted for Baxter Brumfield, age 50 years, from the Ginn Funeral Home Chapel in Tylertown Wednesday afternoon. Interment followed in the Silver Springs Cemetery. Rev. W. M. Bowman officiated at the religious services.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Brumfield, who was a service station operator in Franklinton, and a former resident of Walthall County, Mississippi, died Monday night.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Brumfield’s parents were John E. Brumfield and Ada Fortenberry Brumfield. He was a World War II veteran.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Johnnie Lee Guess, New Orleans; <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">three sisters, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Mrs. Ollie Holmes, Tylertown<span style="color: #274e13;"> [Fannie Charlotte Brumfield]</span>; <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Mrs. Elmo Fortenberry, Clarkston, Ga.<span style="color: #274e13;"> [Claudia Martha Brumfield]</span>; <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and Mrs. John Pittman, New Orleans <span style="color: #274e13;">[Olgee Shelina Brumfield]</span>; <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">four brothers, Albert Brumfield and John Brumfield, McComb, Miss.; Selwin Brumfield, Magnolia and Windell Brumfield, Tylertown, and one grandchild.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Pallbearers were Tylertown American Legionnaires: John W. Wood, Cecil Conerly, Billy Beard, Willie J. Guy, Andrew Jones and Russell Slater.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Ginn Funeral Directors of Tylertown was in charge of arrangements.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>The Era Leader<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Franklinton, LA, 21 Mar 1963, page 1<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">Newspapers.com</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></i></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></i></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiewhCJVDCwUkHsngyHPEkr1n8NQuBfGmWEp6FaQ66UGoEf76jHRCIL836XUeVYOggs0AX3wYMYPy1b6NsmIID-TpE9ocNMudSGzhOHppfmsSsn-VN0teL76npt-VucTG2ZT_iu9E1oFEXw5mmWonmCia9Gbg4_J07iZ6k1_cgnLoLcY4Mai3SlS5Y_8A/s7163/Baxter.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2446" data-original-width="7163" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiewhCJVDCwUkHsngyHPEkr1n8NQuBfGmWEp6FaQ66UGoEf76jHRCIL836XUeVYOggs0AX3wYMYPy1b6NsmIID-TpE9ocNMudSGzhOHppfmsSsn-VN0teL76npt-VucTG2ZT_iu9E1oFEXw5mmWonmCia9Gbg4_J07iZ6k1_cgnLoLcY4Mai3SlS5Y_8A/w640-h218/Baxter.jpg" width="640" /></a></i></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></i></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>Colleen G. Brown Pasqualehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402783115333431440noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203921263391858427.post-35431786954715358882023-11-21T01:00:00.001-05:002023-11-22T19:34:07.055-05:00Thanksgiving<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia;"><i> Over the years, our Thanksgiving celebrations have changed. Our family has grown and spread across the country. My brothers celebrate with their children & grandchildren. Our children live in various states. This year, in Illinois, we will walk the Turkey Trot and help our daughter prepare a delicious meal. We will gather around the table with our daughter and friends to count our blessings and share some laughs. </i></span><i style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia;"> I will enjoy the day and remember Thanksgivings from days gone by. </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia;"><br /></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi410bJBPgWSxOchl4gqVbCp99lzhSwWZR1XMmKW4kl8Rx2FomDOQQg076EnfTi92rXvQT-85ePcm5T7H5CYrzyVRrghnbHLUzK_ucxL080GLGiOhrSy6mezd1mJm45SUVcEs72D0NwngnOXh7h5qbv-sIEK_ja1PKRQQLFQ4KrlzFVekdasZnYyw0LvFIu/s1600/Fall%20Colors%20002.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi410bJBPgWSxOchl4gqVbCp99lzhSwWZR1XMmKW4kl8Rx2FomDOQQg076EnfTi92rXvQT-85ePcm5T7H5CYrzyVRrghnbHLUzK_ucxL080GLGiOhrSy6mezd1mJm45SUVcEs72D0NwngnOXh7h5qbv-sIEK_ja1PKRQQLFQ4KrlzFVekdasZnYyw0LvFIu/w400-h300/Fall%20Colors%20002.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thanksgiving is spatulas & spices & the family china;</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Tables pushed together, folding chairs & mismatched glassware.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thanksgiving is answering the ringing doorbell; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Children chasing and hiding;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Hugs & surprises; Jokes & smiles.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thanksgiving is aprons & appetizers & the family recipes;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Multicolored paper turkeys, crayoned pilgrims & pinecone centerpieces.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thanksgiving is squeezing around the table;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Passing the mashed potatoes;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Candles & napkins; Gravy & cranberries.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thanksgiving is cameras & cousins & the family traditions;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Posing in front of the fireplace, smiling on cue & laughter all around.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thanksgiving is playing favorite board games;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Telling tall tales of holidays past;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Uncles & babies; Memories & plans.</span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Thanksgiving is Family.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Colleen G. (Brown) Pasquale</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Happy Thanksgiving!</i></span></div></div><p><br /></p>Colleen G. Brown Pasqualehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402783115333431440noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203921263391858427.post-89329300992231344262023-11-14T01:00:00.014-05:002023-11-14T01:00:00.137-05:00 Forget Me Not: Clifford Peter Morrison, 1968 OH<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: medium;">Note: I have seen this name as both Peter Clifford & Clifford Peter. </span></i></span><i style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: medium;">I am uncertain which is correct.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">Clifford Peter Morrison</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">8 November 1902 MI – 27 March 1968 OH<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Son of Seth Benner Morrison & Margaret Jane Gruissy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">Husband of Amanda Werth</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUFYFgnI_oRp-qG9X0ey4eHkpMGPg4dZl6qyairzNQ2nYBCVkOMPraKeHBQ30qcVU8NesOH54GHoCZD09hgxnun_sjPwK-UerFpYNKFS94d1EjCvHM106rsju9AVuJTOeitup_QeAgxp3QzBktbWsaY1CXGe5mkBxQjnOyP4qE35fBtAJ35Ra32phBfw/s639/Paul%20Albert%20&%20Clifford%20%20Morrison.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="639" data-original-width="466" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUFYFgnI_oRp-qG9X0ey4eHkpMGPg4dZl6qyairzNQ2nYBCVkOMPraKeHBQ30qcVU8NesOH54GHoCZD09hgxnun_sjPwK-UerFpYNKFS94d1EjCvHM106rsju9AVuJTOeitup_QeAgxp3QzBktbWsaY1CXGe5mkBxQjnOyP4qE35fBtAJ35Ra32phBfw/w291-h400/Paul%20Albert%20&%20Clifford%20%20Morrison.jpg" width="291" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Brothers: Paul, Albert & Clifford Morrison</span></i></div></span><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">Clifford P. Morrison</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Barberton – Clifford P. Morrison, 65, of 1898 Caroline st., a machinist in the Akron area 40 years, died suddenly Saturday in Barberton Citizens Hospital.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">He was born in Ithaca, Mich. At the time of his death he was employed at American Verified Products, Co. in Akron. He was a Jehovah’s Witness. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">He leaves wife, Amanda; sons Wilbur of Copley, and Robert, Donald and Richard, all of Barberton; daughters Mrs. Ernest Sarka, Columbus, and Mrs. John Mason both of Barberton; brother, Albert, Creston, O.; sisters Mrs. Pauline Maurer, Akron, and Mrs. Mona Hurd, Iona, Mich., and 21 grandchildren.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Services will be at 2:30 p. m. Tuesday in the Myers funeral home. Burial will be in Greenlawn cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 tonight and Monday afternoon and evening.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>The Akron Beacon Journal<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Akron, OH, 24 Mar 1968, page 60<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">Newspapers.com</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibNLt3_Q0PLH8oXrwuLSGoLIFIPDg5tzx3auohzADLWcAuZZ-BZNh__FXNKYk5pT4BHn0evfB-5gOCA03nlMZ7YnLv0fUEqUdCED8SzrfUFsiLmHcKt_G1hHyVjJfiQ4H9_s39cVG0rOHTcXeZRtmxsqOxSqBMhLMGHiE1QrlmF-RfPaM9BaKZEfHdWw/s3545/peter.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2981" data-original-width="3545" height="538" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibNLt3_Q0PLH8oXrwuLSGoLIFIPDg5tzx3auohzADLWcAuZZ-BZNh__FXNKYk5pT4BHn0evfB-5gOCA03nlMZ7YnLv0fUEqUdCED8SzrfUFsiLmHcKt_G1hHyVjJfiQ4H9_s39cVG0rOHTcXeZRtmxsqOxSqBMhLMGHiE1QrlmF-RfPaM9BaKZEfHdWw/w640-h538/peter.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>Colleen G. Brown Pasqualehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16402783115333431440noreply@blogger.com3