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2005
DatePersons       Additions and Revisions       
13 Oct 2005:    4384     1) Added Elsie Nita Jenkis as the second spouse of Clement W. Hitchcock.  His first spouse was N. Gertrude Dowd and they were either divorced or she died before May 1951 when he married Elsie Jenkis.  This second marriage information was found in the records of the Davenport Public Library, while attempting to find the date and location for the first marriage, which is known only from the 1930 census.  2) Added death information for Frank Hitchcock, son of Albert C. and Jane Pabodie (Stanley) Hitchcock, after finding his death notice in the Davenport Democrat and Leader.  That notice idicated he died in 1922 in Sacramento, California, and a wife and children survived him.  Then I found the date of his death, in the California Deaths Database, the wife Rhoda (--?--) and children in the 1920 census of Santa Barbara Co., California, their children's births were in the California Birth Index, which showed that his wife's maiden name was Rhoda Webb.  3)Revised most vital facts for Ida M. (Kimball) Hitchcock, second spouse of Fred Allen Hitchcock, after finding her obituary in the Davenport Democrat and Leader.
11 Oct 2005:    4382     1) Revised details for the death and burial of Emily C. (Deming) Pingrey, as the result of obtaining a replacement copy of her obituary from the West Liberty Public Library (Iowa), which I had misplaced.  2) Added date and location for the death of Roy Hubbard Hitchcock, based on finding his obitituary in the Davenport Democrat, 1950-1955 Obituary Index, in the Davenport Public Library.
7 Oct 2005:    4382     Revised information for the spouse of Esper V. Jackson.  She was known to me as Clara S. (--?--) from censuses, but based on correspondence with a Maddux researcher she is now known to have been Clara S. Maddux and was married to Esper V. Jackson in Leavenworth, Kansas on 6 Nov 1912.  The family of her parents was also found in the 1900 census of Johnson Co., Kansas, which provided better information on her date and location of birth.
5 Oct 2005:    4382     Revised date of death for Rev. George B. Hitchcock, based on recently discovered sources.
29 Sep 2005:    4382     Corrected, updated and added sources.
27 Sep 2005:    4382     Added and revised details for the children of Darius and Emily C. (Deming) Pingrey, based mainly on finding the obituary of their son, Frank Deming Pingrey, published in the Ida County Pioneer Record, Ida Grove, Iowa, 22 Jan 1953.  This obituary indicated that he was survived by two sisters and one brother.
15 Sep 2005:    4382     Added Mary Elizabeth O'Driscoll, who was the first spouse of Judge John Gray of Montrose, Colorado.  His second spouse was Charlotte Juliet Stuart, who was a daughter of Jasper Newton Stuart and Prudence Isabel (Muir) Stuart.  Also revised and added details about these persons, their two marriages and the endings of these marriages.  This information comes primarily from correspondence with a living great granddaughter of Judge John Gray and Mary Elizabeth (O'Driscoll) Gray.
6 Sep 2005:    4381     Revised and added details and sources primarily for the family of Frank D.[Deming] Pingrey and his wife, Bessie (--?--) [Louisa Bessie Watkins].  Information is mainly as a result of correspondence with a living granddaughter of Frank and Bessie Pingrey.
5 Sep 2005:    4381     Revised and added details and sources primarily for the families of Albert Cullen Hitchcock and his first two wives, Jane Pabodie Stanley and Wilda Estella Kerr.  Information as found in databases of the Kansas State Library and censuses of Scott Co., Iowa.
2 Sep 2005:    4381     Revised and added details and sources primarily for the family of Mary Inez Benedict (Mrs. Joseph Guy Braley) and her parents.  This information as found in databases of the Midwest Historical and Genealogical Society of Wichita, Kansas, and the 1880 census of New Sharon, Mahaska Co., Iowa.
30 Aug 2005:    4381     Revised and added details and sources primarily for the family of William A. Hosman and Barbara Ellen (Johnson) Hosman as a result of receiving several source documents from a living great granddaughter.
27 Aug 2005:    4381     Deleted Thomas Gray, b. abt. 1862 in Indiana, as the spouse of Charlotte Juliet Stuart because I discovered it was a mistake, she was not his spouse.  Added Judge John Gray of Montrose, Colorado as her only spouse.  This is as found in her obituary published in the Nashua Reporter, Nashua, Iowa, 2 Feb 1949.  Additional information found in 1900 and 1910 censuses of Montrose, Colorado, and in the Jasper County Iowa Cemeteries, Silent City publication of the Jasper County Genealogical Society.
26 Aug 2005:    4381     Revised some details regarding the birth of Prudence Isabel Muir and her marriage to Jasper Newton Stuart.  Primarily due to finding her, age 9, and her sister, 7, apparently orphans, living in the James H. Mitchell household in the 1850 census of Johnson Twp., Ripley Co., Indiana, not far from Jasper Newton Stuart, 10, and his parents.
24 Aug 2005:    4381     Added Patricia M. Hosey as the second spouse of Dr. Burdette M. Berens.  Lorna Marcel Deming was his first spouse.  Provided some details for his second marriage as found in censuses and newspapers from Michigan, and his burial as recorded by the Kalkaska Genealogical Society, Kalkaska Co., Michigan. 
22 Aug 2005:    4380     Minor revisions primarily for the family of Henry Kettell and his two wives, (1) Josephine Marian Deming and (2) Diantha C. Peninger, and the children of Josephine (Deming) Kettell.  These revisions based on finding this family in additional censuses.
17 Aug 2005:    4380     1) Found that the death of Merle Palmer Braley and his son Charles Palmer Braley were both recorded in Calhoun Co., Iowa, where they may have died in Manson, which was their residence at the time of their deaths.  They are both buried in Britt, Hancock Co., Iowa, which is where I had thought they died.  2) Found that Frank Titus Braley, single, was living with his sister, Julia B. (Braley) Mahan, and brother-in-law, George Arthur Mahan, in Rock Creek Twp., Jasper Co., Iowa in the 1885 Iowa State census.  This showed that he could not have been married as early as March 1885 as indicated in Braley Genealogy, which also incorrectly identified her and where they were married.
6 Aug 2005:    4380     Added Steven Hasse who was the father of Grace Hasse, she married 21 Sep 1620 Thomas Granger in Kent, England.  Thomas and Grace Hasse Granger were immigrants to Plymouth Colony and were the parents of Elizabeth Granger who married Nov 1656 John Booth in Marshfield, Plymouth Colony.  Also added details and sources for the family of John Booth, all as found in John Booth of Marshfield and Scituate, Massachusetts: Servant and Planter, an article by Malcolm A. Young, published in the NEHGS Register, July 2005.
26 Jul 2005:    4379     Added and revised some some details and sources, primarily for the family of William Horsman/Horseman and Rachel Pickering and their children.
20 Jul 2005:    4379     Added and revised some sources, minor changes.
11 Jul 2005:    4379     Revised the details for Laurinda Towne and her two spouses, Ansel Doud and Francis F. Foley.  This information comes from a book Edson family history and genealogy by Carroll Andrew Edson, that contains the genealogy of Laurinda Towne's mother's family. It is online at Heritage Quest Online.  This information was also confirmed by finding the official records of her two marriages and the deaths of Francis F. and Laurinda Foley in the NEHGS database, Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910.
10 Jul 2005:    4379     Added details for the family of Loren G. Fuller and Mary Hatch Royce as found in the book Genealogy of some descendants of Thomas Fuller of Woburn by William Hyslop Fuller that is online at Heritage Quest Online.
9 Jul 2005:    4379     Added John Vinton, III, and his wife Charlotte Lamb, who were the parents of Charles L. Vinton, born 1817.  Added Joseph Flint, and his wife Anna Bass, who were the parents of Sarah V. Flint, who was the wife of Charles L. Vinton.  This information came from two books, The History of Braintree, Vermont by H. Royce Bass, and Descendants of Deacon Samuel & Ann Bass by Charissa Taylor Bass, both are available from Heritage Quest Online.  That information was supplemented by several censuses of Orange and Addison Co., Vermont.
8 Jul 2005:    4375     Added details for Ira Parshley and his wife Sophia (Nutter) Parshley, who were the parents of William E. Parshley, the spouse of Alice Victoria Braley.  This information was found in the 1850 through 1880 censuses of Pittsfield, New Hampshire.
6 Jul 2005:    4375     Added the first 5 children of Charles L. Vinton and his wife Sarah V. (Flint) Vinton.  This information came from the the 1850 and 1860 censuses of Granville, Addison Co., Vermont and the 1910 census of Somerville, Massachusetts.
4 Jul 2005:    4370     Added Charles L. Vinton and his wife Sarah V. (Flint) Vinton who were the parents of Charles L. Vinton, who was the spouse of Fannie Laurinda Webb.  This information as found in the 1840 through 1880 censuses of Addison and Orange Co's., Vermont, as well as the book The History of Braintree, Vermont by H. Royce Bass.
3 Jul 2005:    4368     Added details about Charles L. Vinton who was the husband of Fannie Laurinda Webb.  She was the widow of Charles Vinton in the 1900 census of Braintree, Orange Co., Vermont with two sons.  Charles L. Vinton was listed in the 1888 directory of Braintree, in the Gazetteer of Orange County, Vt., 1762-1888 by Hamilton Child, and he was most likely the Charles Vinton, 13, living in Granville, Addison Co., Vermont, not far from Fannie L. Webb, 14, and her parents, and probably attending the same school.
2 Jul 2005:    4368     Added details about the children of Fannie Laurinda Webb and her husband, Charles Vinton.  Added the known spouses of Lucius Webb Vinton and Harold K. Vinton and two known spouses of Francis W. Vinton.  This information as found in several censuses, California Deaths Database and the Social Security Death Index.
30² Jun 2005:    4364     Added the 3 spouses of DeWitt C. Webb, Clarence K. Webb and Mary Sophia Webb, who are all children of Lucius Webb, Jr. and Emogene R. Fuller.  This information as found in Dunham Genealogy, correspondence with a living descendant and several censuses.
30 Jun 2005:    4361     Added more details about the descendants of Sophia M. Dunham and Lucius Webb.  Added Charles Theodore Webb, who is a son of Charles Adin Webb and Clara Luella Willey.  Added Charles Vinton as the spouse of Fannie Laurinda Webb, and their 3 sons, Webb, Harold and Francis Vinton.  Most of this information as found in the book Dunham Genealogy: Deacon John Dunham of Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1589-1669, and His Descendants that is online at Heritage Quest Online.
29 Jun 2005:    4356     Added 2 spouses of Charles A. Webb and a spouse and child of Lucia Jane Webb, both are children of Lucius Webb and Sophia M. (Dunham) Webb.  This information was found in the Recollections of Love A. (Webb) Braley, Vermont in The Civil War website, several censuses and the California Deaths Database.
28 Jun 2005:    4352     Added details and sources for Lucius Webb and Sophia M. Dunham because of receiving copies of photographs of their gravestone in Roxbury Cemetery, Roxbury, Vermont.  Also corrected about 85 sources that were inadvertently screwed up.
27 Jun 2005:    4352     Added details and sources primarily for the family of Whitfield Harral and his two wives.  His second wife was Mrs. Mildred (--?--) Tillar, probably a widow, and they were married in DeSoto Co., Mississippi, in 1855.
25 Jun 2005:    4352     Realized that if Philadelphia Beard was the granddaughter of Captain Thomas Stuart Monteith, as indicated in the biography of Dr. Robert W. Walmsley, he must have been the father of one of her parents.  Her father was Dr. C. C. Beard and his father's surname was Beard. Her mother's father must have been Thomas Stuart Monteith, and while she is not in the 1850 census of his family, she is probably working as a servant in another household.  Changed her surname from Unknown to Monteith and added her parents as found in the 1850 census of Canandaigua, New York.
23 Jun 2005:    4350     Added Louisa (--?--) Harral, who was the first wife of Whitfield Harral and the natural mother of Jared A. Harral.  Malinda/Melinda (--?--) Harral was the second wife of Whitfield Harral and the step mother of Jared A. Harral.  This information comes from finding the family of Whitfield and Louisa Harral, with son Jared, in the 1850 census of DeSoto Co., Mississippi.
21 Jun 2005:    4349     Added the probable parents of Jared A. Harral and the parents of Lydia Eliza (Strong) Harral, completing the three generations of ancestors of Rear Admiral Brooks Jared Harral.  This information as found in the 1860 census of Gonzales, Texas, and the 1850 census of Selma, Alabama.
19 Jun 2005:    4345     Added a portion of three generations of ancestors and ancestral relatives of Rear Admiral Brooks Jared Harral, husband of Sarah Augusta Mumma.  This information as found in several censuses of New Orleans, Louisanna, several Louisanna US GenWeb online databases, and other sources.  Researched with the assistance of a Harral researcher.
16 Jun 2005:    4319     Discovered that the maiden name of Marion E. (--?--) Rice, wife of George F. Rice, was Greenwood.  This became apparent when their daughter Gertrude, age 23, was found living with her grandparents, James and Emma B. Greenwood, in the 1930 census of Saint Johnsbury, Vermont.  Apparently Gertrude's parents had died between 1920 and 1930 because they are not found in the 1930 census.  Also added the parents of Marion E. (Greenwood) Rice.
15 Jun 2005:    4317     Added three spouses of children of Ira and Caroline (Samson) Roys and the parents of two of those spouses, who were sisters.  This information as found during a June 2005 visit to the Roxbury Cemetery, in Roxbury, Vermont, several censuses and biographies.
13 Jun 2005:    4312     1) Added Laurinda Towne as the spouse of Ansel Doud, and their two children.  Ansel Doud was the son of Amos Doud and Sophia M. Dunham, and he was the step-son of Lucius Webb, Sr. after his father died.  Ansel married and relocated his family to Missouri before 1858, where he was killed in one of the first battles of the Civil War.  2) Added Francis F. Foley as the second spouse of Laurinda (Towne) Doud.  This information is from correspondence with a living desendant of Lucius Webb, Jr. who was one of Ansel Doud's half brothers, and several censuses.
11 Jun 2005:    4308     Added several sources unintentionally omitted for previous update.
10 Jun 2005:    4308     1) Added Willard A. Rice, spouse of Betsey L. Royce, their 3 sons and his parents, and a second spouse of Willard A. Rice.  Also added Winfield W. Webb who was a son of Lucius Webb, Jr. and Emogene (Fuller) Webb.  This information as found in the genealogy work of DeWitt Webb, who is the granduncle of a recent correspondent, gravestones from Roxbury Cemetery, Roxbury, Vermont, and several censuses.  2) Changed the name of the spouse of Kate M. Tracy, from Frank W. Ohare to Frank W. Chase because I discovered that I had misread his surname in the 1900 census of Northfield, Vermont, as OHARE, which was indexed as CHARE, but should have been CHASE, as shown by two supporting sources.
6 Jun 2005:    4300     Revised the dates of birth and birth order for a few of the children of Silas Royce and Lois (Graves) Royce, added the 7 children of Ira Royce/Roys and Caroline (Samson) Royce/Roys, and added the life information and parents of Caroline Samson.  All of this information as taken or derived from the Biography of Ira Roys in the book Gazetteer of Washington County, Vt., 1783-1889, p. 456, and several censuses of Roxbury, Washington Co., Vermont.
4 Jun 2005:    4291     Added the probable parents of Mary P. Capwell and revised the dates of birth for her and her spouse, John L. Jackson, based on analysis of their ages in several censuses and their ages at death.
3 Jun 2005:    4289     Added two children of Marcus Minor Royce/Rice and Caroline Elizabeth (Lewis) Royce/Rice as found in the 1880 census of Saint Albans, Vermont, and in Ancestral Files of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  Added the parents of Caroline Elizabeth Lewis as found in the 1850 census of Northfield, Vermont.  Also revised some facts and cited additional sources for the members of this family.
1 Jun 2005:    4285     Added details for several persons associated with Love Amelia (Webb) Braley, wife of Alden Braley, as taken from her manuscript Recollections of Love A. (Webb) Braley.
30 May 2005:    4285     Added the 1870 census of the Carlton Braily/Braley household of Kellogg, Iowa, as a source for the fact that Edgar Rice Braley was the first child of Carlton and Eliza Ann (Royce) Braley to be born in Iowa.
25 May 2005:    4285     Added details of births, deaths, and burials from gravestone photographs of three Royce/Rice families of Washington Co., Vermont.  Photographs were taken by a cousin who is a descendant of Titus and Louisa Royce/Rice.  Added details and sources primarily for descendants of Joseph Braley and Julina Graves.
21 May 2005:    4285     Added details and documentation primarily for members of the family of John Braley and Mary (Streeter) Braley.
17 May 2005:    4285     Changed the place of birth of the first two children of John Braley and Mary Streeter from Chesterfield, New Hampshire to Rhode Island, based on finding them in the 1850 and 1860 censuses of Vermont.  Also added details about spouses of several other children of John Braley and Mary Streeter from Vermont censuses.
15 May 2005:    4285     Added descendants of Titus Royce/Rice and Louisa (Jones) Royce/Rice:  1) Found that the full name of C. Alonzo Tracy was Charles Alonzo Tracy, he was the spouse of Ellen J. (Royce/Rice) Tracy and he died between 1880 and 1900. Also found that their daughter, Kate M. Tracy married about 1882 Frank W. Ohare/O'Hare and that they had a daughter, Edith E. Ohare, both were added. This information from the 1870 and 1900 censuses of Northfield, Vermont.  (Revised: 10 Jun 2005)  2) Added Minerva (--?--) as the spouse of Franklin/Frank L. Royce/Rice and two of their children.  Added Marion E. (--?--) as the spouse of George F. Rice, son of Frank L. and Minerva Rice, and two of their children.  This information from the 1870 census of Northfield, Vermont, and several later censuses of Caledonia Co., Vermont.  3) Added William W. Doolin as the spouse of Maud (Rice) Doolin and their two children.  This information from the Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Books, for Maud Rice Doolin, #46039, and the 1900 and 1920 censuses of Saint Albans, Vermont.
14 May 2005:    4274     Satisfied myself that it is very likely that Louisa (Jones) Royce was the daughter of Benjamin "Bard" Jones and his wife, probably Mary (--?--) Jones.  Therefore, I have revised my database to show them as her parents.  The supporting information and conclusion is explained in this file: Parents of Louisa (Jones) Royce.
11 May 2005:    4274     Found the record of the 28 May 1892 marriage of William A. Parshley to Carrie M. Trickey in the USGenWeb Archives for Merrimack Co., New Hampshire: Marriages, Pittsfield, NH, 1892.  That record shows that Carrie M. Trickey was the daughter of William O. Ring of Pittsfield and his wife Nellie Miller of Sherbroke.  Sherbrooke is one of two towns in Canada, one in Nova Scotia and another in Québec.  The 1910 census of Pittsfield shows that Carrie's marriage to William A. Parshley was her second and that her mother was born in Canada.  Carrie M. Trickey was actually Mrs. Carrie M. Trickey, either a widow or divorced from a Mr. Trickey, when she married William A. Parshley.  Therefore, I changed her maiden name to Carrie May Ring, added ? Trickey who was her first spouse and their marriage some time prior 28 May 1892.  Also added the parents of Carrie May Ring as found in the marriage record and the 1920 census of Pittsfield, New Hampshire.
10 May 2005:    4271     1) Added Melville Berry, the son of Moses Nason Berry and his wife Emeline (Braley) Berry.  Also added details, not previously known, about Moses Nason Berry.  This information was found in the 1850 through 1880 censuses of York Co., Maine.  2) Added details, not previously known, for the families of Alice Victoria Braley and her spouse William E. Parshley, and their son William Adelbert Parshley and his first and second spouses, Carrie May (Ring) [Trickey] Parshley and Bernice A. (--?--) Parshley.  This information as found in several censuses of Pittsfield, New Hampshire.  (Revised: 11 May 2005.)
9 May 2005:    4269     Update to add death information for Dale Arthur Braley, who died 11 March 2005.  Information as found in the Social Security Death Index and in a death notice published in the Des Moines Register, Des Moines, Iowa.
8 May 2005:    4269     Added Lena F. (--?--) Hall as the first spouse of Clifford C. Hall, who apparently died or they divorced between 1910 and 1920.  Added Percy H. Woods as the first spouse of Love Beatrice Braley, whom she married about Dec 1909, probably in Crookston, Minnesota.  He also died or they divorced between 1910 and 1920.  By 1920 Clifford/Clifton C. Hall and Love Beatrice (Braley) [Woods] Hall are married, and living in the household of her father in Crookston, Minnesota.  Information for this update came from the 1910 census of Burlington, Vermont, and the 1910 and 1920 censuses of Crookston, Minnesota.
5 May 2005:    4267     Added and enhanced sources primarily for the family of Alden Braley and Love Amelia (Webb) Braley.
3² May 2005:    4267     Found out that Sophia M. Dunham was first married Jan 1835 to Amos Doud in Otis, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts, and that he died 6 Feb 1838.  Their son Ansel Doud/Webb, born about 1836, was first found in the Lucius Webb household in 1850.  Therefore, added Amos Doud as the first spouse of Sophia M. Dunham and moved Ansel Doud/Webb from the Lucius Webb family to the Amos Doud family.  The information for this update was found in the Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850, an online database of the NEHGS.  (Revised: 8 May 2005.)
3 May 2005:    4266     1) Added four children of Loren G. Fuller and his wife Mary Hatch (Royce) Fuller.  Mary H. Royce was a sister of Eliza Ann (Royce) Braley.  One of these children was Emogene Fuller who married Lucius Webb, Jr., who was a brother of Love Amelia (Webb) Braley.  Also added Robert A. Silver who was a spouse of Nellie M. Fuller, one of the added daughters.  2) Added five children of Lucius Webb (Sr.) and Sophia M. (Dunham) Webb.  One of these children added was Lucius Webb, Jr.  3) Added three children of Lucius Webb, Jr., and Emogene (Fuller) Webb.  The information for all three additions came primarily from censuses of Vermont; and also from History of the Town of Northfield, Vermont, by Hon. John Gregory and Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850, an online database of the NEHGS.
2 May 2005:    4253     Added Loren G. Fuller, who was the spouse of Mary Hatch Royce/Rice, and added Clifford C. Hall, who was the spouse of Love Beatrice Braley in the 1930 census.  This information is from a living descendant of Loren G. Fuller and Mary Hatch (Rice) Fuller, whose daughter married a brother of Love Beatrice Braley's mother, Love Amelia (Webb) Braley; and from the 1930 census of Los Angeles, California, and several censuses of Vermont.
27 Apr. 2005:    4251     Several minor revisions, but most significantly, deleted all references to Devonshire when referring to the County of Devon in England.  It's official name has been Devon since the Norman Conquest of England in 1066.
21 Apr. 2005:    4251     Added Darius Davis, who was the spouse of Arathusa Holden, who was a daughter of Sawtell and Hannah (Cook) Holden.  This information as found in a history of Bradford Co., Pensylvania, and in The Holden Genealogy by Eben Putnam.
11 Apr. 2005:    4250     Added Richard Hall Stuart and his wife Jane (Collins) Stuart who were the parents of Jasper Newton Stuart.  This information as found in his obituary, and several censuses of Ohio and Indiana.
9 Apr. 2005:    4248     Revised details for the death and burial of Jasper Newton Stuart as a result of finding a second obituary for him in the Nashua Reporter that was a report of his death in the newspaper for Nashua, Iowa, where his son, Dr. P. E. Stuart, resided.  This account gave the actual dates of his death and of the funeral.
7 Apr. 2005:    4248     Removed the surname Cool or Kool from Jacob Arents/Arentsen.  He was the father of Barent Jacobsen who began using the surname Cool or Kool after he immigrated to New Netherland Colony in the early 1630s.  His father never used any surname, his only name was from the old patronymic naming system.
5 Apr. 2005:    4248     Added the name and life details of the first wife of Christian Peter Rasmussen, who was Anna Hansen.  Added death details for Harold L. Rasmussen, who was the second son of Christian Peter Rasmussen and his second wife, Anna Marie Jacobsen.  Also added some additional details for a few other persons associated with this line.  Most of this information came from recent correspondence with a living spouse of a descendant, Iowa WPA Grave Registrations database and several censuses of Iowa.
4 Apr. 2005:    4248     Added and revised details and sources especially for the families of Frank Titus Braley and his three wives.
28 Mar. 2005:    4248     Added death information for Mary J. (May) [Estes] Brooks, whose death was reported in The Chanute Times, newspaper of Chanute, Kansas, on 27 Oct 1881.  She was identified only as Mrs. T. A. Brooks in the newspaper, her identity as the May Brooks, wife of Thomas Brooks in the 1880 census of Tioga Twp., was confirmed by the poster of that issue of the newspaper.
26 Mar. 2005:    4248     Added Francis Estes, an older brother of Lydia Alice Estes, and additional details about their father, Rufus Estes, as a result of finding their family in the 1865 Kansas state census of Neosho Co.  Also added Ira Brooks, a younger half brother of Lydia Alice Estes, who was born to her mother, Mary J. (May) [Estes] Brooks and her second husband, Thomas A. Brooks.  This family was found in the 1880 census of Tioga Twp., Neosho Co., Kansas.
25 Mar. 2005:    4246     Added Thomas L. May and his wife Lydia (--?--) May, who were the parents of Mary J. May.  Mary J. May's first spouse was Rufus Estes and they were the parents of Lydia Alice Estes, who was the spouse of Edgar Rice Braley.  This information was found in several censuses of Missouri and Kansas.
19 Mar. 2005:    4244     1) Added Sarah E. (--?--) Gould wife of Charles J. Gould, son of Joseph, Jr. and Julina (Braley) Gould, and their three children.  Information as found in the 1895 Iowa State Census of Marshall Co. and the 1910 census of Poweshiek Co., Iowa.  2) Added a Mr. Tassell who was the second husband of Clara Julina (Gould) Meyer.  Added Sophia Key, the first spouse of William Lyman Gould and their seven children, and his second spouse, Mary Etta Skaggs.  This information as obtained from correspondence with a living descendant, the California Deaths Database, and the 1900 census of Coleman Co., Texas.
17 Mar. 2005:    4230     Added details regarding the dates of death and burials of Maude J. (Daily) McCament, Soren Peter Jacobson, Sidse P. (--?--) Jacobsen and Anna Marie (Jacobsen) Rasmussen.  This information from the California Deaths Database and the Iowa WPA Cemetery Records.
15 Mar. 2005:    4230     1) Added an unnamed first wife of Christian Peter Rasmussen, and their son Christian P. Rasmussen, born in Wisconsin.  Added Harold L. Rasmussen who was the second son of Christian Peter Rasmussen and his second wife, Anna Marie Jacobsen.  Also added the living wife of living grandson of Christian Peter Rasmussen.  All of these are as found in various census of Iowa and correspondence with living descendants of Christian Peter Rasmussen.  2) Added a ? Pooler, who was the first husband of Ruth Eliza Braley and a daughter, Janet E. Pooler, of that union.  Also added two children from the marriage of Ruby May Braley, Ruth's sister, and Ernest S. Christensen.  This informatation is from censuses of Pasadena, California and the California Births Database.
10 Mar. 2005:    4222     1) Added Ruth Grandstaff as the wife of Jere Braley Stair, and their daughter, Nancy Ruth Stair.  As found in the 1930 census of Azusa Twp. of Los Angeles Co., California and the California Birth Database.  2) Added details for the Dec 2004 death of Nelda Pearl (Fisher) Seberg, from her obituary.  She was the mother of a Braley family researcher (my 4th cousin) who has been very generous in sharing her work with me.
9 Mar. 2005:    4220     1) Added Elizabeth A. (--?--) Mott, who was the spouse of Albert R. Mott, and their children, who lived past infancy.  This information as found in the 1900-1930 censuses of Adams Co., Nebraska.  2) Corrected the gender of Robert James Stuart, which somehow was female in error.
8 Mar. 2005:    4217     1) Added the four spouses and eight children of siblings of Noel Anupole Valero, our daughter's husband.  Most of this information comes from the California Births Database and correspondence with our daughter.  2) Added details found in the Calfornia Deaths Database about Virgil Stuart, brother of Isabel (Stuart) Ricker, whose full name was Virgil Newton Stuart and he died 7 Jan 1953 in San Bernardino Co., California.  This negates the need to wait for a copy of his SS-5 application for a Social Security Number, as mentioned in the update of 1 Mar. 2005, because he did not have one.
7 Mar. 2005:    4205     1) Added Thomas Harold Tracy as a son of Harold Tracy and Reba Clara (Braley) Tracy.  He was born in 1937, after the death of his grandmother, Clara E. (Weigand) Braley, and was not mentioned as a grandson in her obituary.  His birth was found in the California Births Database.  Also found the date of birth of two of his first cousins, Wilbur Thomas Ebersold and Joan Hertenstein, from the same source.  2) Added Emma M. Weaver, wife of John H. Mott, and their daughter, Vivid Mae Mott, whose death record in the California Deaths Database provided the surname of her mother.  This as found also in censuses of Nebraska, Washington and California.
5 Mar. 2005:    4202     Added Jean Stuart Ricker as a daughter of Kepford Ricker and Isabel (Stuart) Ricker.  She and her brother Kepford Ricker were the two grandchildren who survived Isabel's adoptive mother Alice (Braley) Stuart as reported in her obituary.  Kepford was previously known from his death record from the Social Security Death Index, the birth of both Jean and Kepford are also shown California Births Database.
4 Mar. 2005:    4201     1) Added three children of John T. Mott and Elizabeth A. (--?--) Mott, who are siblings of Jennie (Mott) Stuart, because one of those children (John H. Mott) died in California, and the California Deaths Database record of his death tells me that his mother's maiden name was Weaver.  2) Added three chidren of Charles F. Ricker and Melissa J. (Haskin) Ricker, who are the siblings of Amos Leroy Ricker.  3) Added four children of David Kepford and Mary (Robertson) Kepford, who are the siblings of Jessica V. Kepford.
2 Mar. 2005:    4191     1) Added John T. Mott and his wife, Elizabeth A. (--?--) Mott, who were the parents of Jennie (Mott) Stuart, and grandparents of Virgil and Isabel Stuart.  This information as found in the 1880, 1885, 1900 and 1910 censuses of Hall Co., Nebraska.  2) Added David Kepford and his wife, Mary (Robertson) Kepford, who were the parents of Jessica V. (Kepford) Ricker, and grandparents of Eleanor and Kepford Ricker.  Kepford Ricker was the husband of Isabel Stuart.  This information obtained from the obituary of Jessica (Kepford) Ricker, several censuses of Iowa and the Iowa Marriages, 1851 - 1900, online database.
1 Mar. 2005:    4187     Deleted the specific date of birth and date and location of death for Virgil Stuart as obtained from the Social Security Death Index, because I am not sure that this is a record for the correct person.  I wrote for a copy of his SS-5 to make sure.
28 Feb. 2005:    4187     Added L. Faye (--?--) Stuart as the wife of Virgil Stuart, as found in the 1930 census of Toledo, Lucas Co., Ohio.  This was difficult to find because he was indexed as Vergil N. Stuart.  Also discovered from other censuses that Virgil remained with his father, Alfred H. Stuart, in Hall Co., Nebraska, until sometime after 1910.
27 Feb. 2005:    4186     Cited additional sources for facts regarding the descendants of Jasper N. Stuart.
26 Feb. 2005:    4186     1) Corrected my error of the previous update.  James Frederick Stuart never married and died 1917 in Victor, Iowa Co., Iowa.  The wife, --?-- Mott, whom I supposed he had, was actually the wife of Alfred H. Stuart, she was Jennie Mott, and they were the natural parents of Isabel Stuart. Jennie (Mott) Stuart probably died shortly after the birth of Isabel Stuart and Alfred asked his brother to raise the infant.  2) Added seven more children of Jasper Newton Stuart and his wife Prudence I. (Muir) Stuart, their spouses and all their grandchildren and their spouses.  That is 14 individuals added.  Sources for this information are many censuses, biographies, obituaries, Kellogg burials and articles from the Nashua Reporter, newspaper of Nashua, Iowa.
23 Feb. 2005:    4172     Added James Frederick Stuart and his wife --?-- (Mott) Stuart, who were the natural parents of Isabel Stuart, who was born 1904 in Nebraska, and was adopted by William Hall Stuart and Alice Amanda (Braley) Stuart after James and his wife died before 1910.  This information comes from several censuses, the California Death Index and largely from the obituary of Jasper Newton Stuart, father of William Hall Stuart and James Frederick Stuart, and grandfather of Isabel Stuart.  This is another obituary from the Stewart Library, Grinnell, Iowa.  To see all the obituaries I have obtained from that source, including the latest one, click this link.
20 Feb. 2005:    4170     Added and revised details for the family of John M. Plum and his wife, Martha Ann (Hayward) Plum, based on finding her obituary in the Stewart Library, Grinnell, Iowa, Obituary Database.  To see all the obituaries I have obtained from that source, including the latest one, click this link.
18 Feb. 2005:    4170     Added and revised details about the children of Thomas Hayward and Harriet (Desmond) Hayward.  1) Added Sarah Emma Crozier as the spouse of their son James Hayward, their marriage, her 1903 death in Sac Co., Iowa, and his 1918 death in Los Angeles Co., California.  This information as found in several censuses and the California Deaths Database, as well as from a living descendant.  2) Added Joseph Hollingsworth as the spouse of their daughter Mary Elizabeth Hayward who were married in Johnson Co., Iowa and lived in Iowa and Nebraska.  This information from Iowa Marriages, 1851-1900, database on Ancestry.com, the 1880 census of Johnson Co., Iowa, and the 1870 census of Lancaster Co., Nebraska.
5 Feb. 2005:    4168     Added 8 grandchildren of Harlan Justin Failor and Agnes Florence (Braley) Failor; 5 are children of Carroll Justin Failor and Florence (Stewart) Failor; and 3 are children of Carlton Braley Failor and Agnes H. (Van De Wall) Failor.  Information as obtained from correspondence with a living descendant and from several articles from the Sheboygan Press, newspaper of Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
30 Jan. 2005:    4160     1) Revised details for Carlton Braley Failor, including the full name of his wife, Agnes H. "Peggy" Van De Wall, her birth and death, and their marriage.  Information as found in the Sheboygan Press report on their 50th wedding anniversary celebration, 1930 census of Sheboygan Co., Wisconsin, and the Social Security Death Index.  2) Revised details for Carroll Justine Failor, including the full name of his wife, Florence Edith Stewart, her birth and death, and their marriage.  Information as obtained from correspondence with a living descendant.
22 Jan. 2005:    4160      Revised additional details for the children of Sawtell/Sartile Holden and Hannah (Cook) Holden, including adding John W. Sweet as the spouse of Lydia Prescott Holden, as found in The Holden Genealogy and the databases of the Bradford Co., Pennsylvania GenWeb Site.
20 Jan. 2005:    4159     1) Changed death location for Guy H. Hitchcock and location of first marriage of Charles R. Hitchcock, following discovery of articles from Davenport, Iowa, newspapers that provided details that I had not known.  2) Revised details for the family of Reuben C. Holden and his two wives, as found in The Holden Genealogy, except that I kept him as a son of Julius Sawtell Holden.
18 Jan. 2005:    4159     Added Charles D. Snover as the spouse of Cynthia C. Hitchcock, daughter of Jared Beecher Hitchcock and Lucy (Hubbard) Hitchcock.  This information was found in obituaries for Cynthia's parents and her brother, Albert C. Hitchcock.  Also changed the date of death of Lucy (Hubbard) Hitchcock from 18 May 1898, as shown in the Iowa WPA gravestone records, to 18 March 1898, as found from the dates of two obituaries for her.
17 Jan. 2005:    4158     Added details about the deaths and burials of Sawtell Holden and Hannah (Cook) Holden and most of their children, as found in databases of the Bradford Co., Pennsylvania GenWeb Site.
12 Jan. 2005:    4158     Changed the birth date of Seth Morton Tucker from 7 Sep 1830 to 6 Sep 1829 because he was counted in the 1830 census of Barnard, Vermont and the records of Barnard, Vermont, show the 1829 date.  Also the 1840 census of Union Co., Ohio shows him as between age 10 and 15, i.e. born between Jun 1825 and Jun 1830.  His 1879 biography, 1880-1910 censuses and his obituary have his birth in 1830, probably because he claimed to have been born in 1830.
10 Jan. 2005:    4158     1) Changed the birth date of Mabel Clare Jackson from 7 Oct 1880 to 7 Oct 1879 because she was counted in the 1880 US Census of Iowa.  2) Revised birthplace of Eva Marjorie Jaynes, a.k.a. Mrs. William Benjamin Londeree, Sr. to Shinnston, West Virginia, which is not spelled correctly in my source.
7 Jan. 2005:    4158     1) Revised details about the family of George Edwin Mumma and his first wife, Leonora Kimball, based on finding both of their obituaries, as well as information from the Florida Death Index.  Also found the obituary of the woman whom I thought was his second wife, Dorothy (Robbins) [Pilcher] Mumma, but that obituary showed that it was for Dorothy (Rennison) Mumma who was not the second wife of George Edwin Mumma, so I deleted the incorrect information about Dorothy (Robbins) [Pilcher] Mumma.  I think that she is likely still living since I have not found a record that I know to be of her death.  2)Added a Mr. Pilcher who was the first husband of Dorothy Robbins and was the natural father of two Pilcher children mentioned in the obituary of Major George Edwin Mumma.
2 Jan. 2005:    4157      1) Added information about the death and burial of Carmen Evelyn (Braley) Mumma, a.k.a. Mrs. Albert G. Mumma, which occurred during the last few days of 2004.  Information as provided by a living son.  2) Added information about the family of Ethel Maxine (Braley) Smith as provided by a living brother of her first husband, Stanley A. Smith.  This information includes the fact that their daughter, Sally (Smith) Griffin, had just two known children, who replace the "Five Children Griffin" that I had been incorrectly told she had.