Humphrey's Brother George

Second thoughts

After I posted the information on George, I realized that I hadn't paid enough attention to some of the information from RalphInLA.

While re-looking at what I had posted, I realized that George was born around 1809, but his children were born in the late 1840's to 1860's!  That is not the norm.  Fortunately, I have the 1901 census for him, showing his age as 90 and his son John as age 42, and his son's wife Elizabeth as age 24, and their son George H as 11 months old.  So according to the 1901 census he was 48 years older than his son, and his son was older when he married and had a child.  

©2019 Linda C Robinson

Humphrey’s Brother George

Ralph shows George Gilmore of Stonehall being born before 1828, and having one child, Jane Gilmore who married John Iriwn.  He also shows George Gilmore of Carrinageenah and Stonehall, (son of Hugh); born before 1826, married to Margaret Pettypiece on July 13, 1846 and having a daughter Rebecca Gilmore of Stonehall born in 1867.

Marvin has his birth around 1810, and I found an Irish census for 1901 showing his age as 90, that would make his birth about 1820.  He died in Sligo around 1904.  His wife Margaret was born around 1826 and died around 1899 in Sligo, Ireland.  (In case you are confused, James Gillmore’s daughter Margaret Gillmore married a Thomas Pettipiece, and this George married Margaret Pettypiece; I imagine there is a relationship, but I haven’t researched it).

I have found information on 8 children: Anne born in Sligo in 1847, Jane born in Sligo in 1849, John born in 1855, Maria born in 1858 in Sligo, Sarah born in 1865, Rebecca born in 1867 in Stonehall, Sligo, and Eliza, and Margaret.

Eliza died unmarried according to Marvin’s letters.

Margaret married William Lockhart and had no children as of 1894. 

Anne was born about 1847 in Stonehall, Sligo, Ireland.  She died in 1919 in Sligo, Ireland.  She married John Sherlock, 1830-1905.  They had 6 children:

     John Sherlock, 1878-1902, Sligo

     George Sherlock, 1880-1919, Sligo

     Rebecca Sherlock, 1882-1932, Sligo

     Sarah Anne Sherlock, 1885-1947, Sligo

     Emily Jane Sherlock, 1887-1958, Sligo

     Fanny Florence Sherlock, born abt 1891, Sligo, died in

1957, Toronto, Canada.  She came to Canada in 1920, after her mother’s death. She married Albert Hamilton in 1920, in York, Ontario, Canada.  They had two children, John and Margaret.  Margaret had a daughter, and we are a DNA match.  Which is great, because it

supports my research on this branch of the Gilmore’s.

Jane born abt 1850 in Sligo, was living in 1901 in Sligo.  She married John Irwin.  In 1894, they had 8 children and one grandchild. 

     Lizzie Irwin born abt 1872, Sligo

     Robert Irwin 1874-1944, Sligo

     Margaret Irwin 1876

     James Irwin 1879, Sligo

     Sarah Jane Irwin, 1879

     George Irwin, 1883

     Rebecca Irwin, 1886

     Minnie Irwin, 1888, married Michael Lindsay

John born abt 1855, died 1908, married Elizabeth.  They had three children.

     George H Gilmore born abt 1900 died 1945, Sligo

Charles William Gilmore, born abt 1904, married and

had a daughter.

Annie Elizabeth Gilmore, born abt 1906.

Maria born abt 1855, Sligo, died abt 1892, Chicago.  She married Fred D Earll abt 1879, in Chicago.  They had one son.

     Walter Earll was born abt 1886, in Chicago.

Sarah, 1866-1942, Sligo, married Gilbert Mitchell in Sligo in 1886.  They had 4 children.

     Gilbert Mitchell, born abt 1888, County Laois, Ireland

     Thomas Archey Mitchell, born 1889, Tralee, Ireland,              died 1913, Sligo.

     Louise Mitchell, born 1891, Co Kerry, Ireland

     Rebecca Mitchell, born 1893, Co Galway, Ireland, died            1946, Stonehall, Sligo, Ireland.

Rebecca born 1867, died 1940 in Sligo, married in 1895 Thomas Craig 1806 to 1917, Sligo.  They had three living children and two stillborn.

     Robert Craig, 1896-1954, Sligo, married Veitch Noble.

     Walter Craig, 1898-1968, Sligo, married Ellen Winfred            Noel Gregg.

Mary Ann Craig, born 1906, Sligo, married George                 Alexander Carnegy.

© 2019 Linda C Robinson

Jackson Family Pictures

Among my mother’s things, I found 3 wonderful pictures of the Jackson family, but they are almost useless, since I have no idea who the people are.  I can identify my mom and dad, myself and my brother, but no one else.  These are professional pictures, taken by a photographer in Manitou Springs, Colorado.  There are Christmas decorations on the wall, so likely taken at a family Christmas party.  I am most likely just over a year old, so the pictures would have been taken in December of 1949 (maybe 1950).  I have some vague memory of a Christmas party at my father’s cousins, so I assume that these are Jacksons.   I would love to be able to identify these people and would appreciate anyone who knows who they are to please contact me with the information.

I have scanned the pictures and numbered all the people in them.  I didn’t make any attempt to give the same numbers to the same people in each picture, so each person may have 3 different numbers.

Picture Number One seems to be couples with their children:

 In picture number one, my father, Floyd Dana, is #12, my mother Estella is #6, my brother is #17, and #18 is me, Linda Dana.  I pity my mother having to deal with me!

Picture Number Two is all women and mostly female children:

In picture number two, my mother Estella Dana is #11 and I am #12

Picture Number Three is all men and boys, no babies:

In picture number three, my father, Floyd Dana is #10 and my brother is #18.

I'm really hoping that someone (s) can help identify these people as they are great pictures, and would mean a lot to the family if we know who they are!  Thanks for your help.

©Linda C Robinson 2019

Humphrey’s brother WILLIAM

Ralph didn’t have anything on this William.  Marvin recorded his graves and those other people in that plot, while on a visit to Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago, looking for some people who had raised his father.  Marvin thought William might be a brother of Robert Allingham Gillmore, but because of the birthdate I believe this is very probably Humphrey’s brother William.   This William Gilmore (wife Margaret Sadler) and MAY NOT BE the brother of Humphrey Gillmore, he might be a cousin, but I have included them here because there was supposed to be a brother named William.  And per Marvin Gilmore's letters they are definitely relatives.  George’s daughter Maria (Gilmore) Earll was living with William’s daughter Rebecca (Gilmore) Welsh in the 1880 US census.  And Maria’s will in 1894 was witnessed by Susan (Gilmore) Gilbert, William’s daughter.  He was in Canada in 1835, and he had come to the United States before 1842.  With some clues from other parts of Marvin’s correspondence and lots of research, I was able to figure out who these people were and how they were related to each other.  Further research filled out the family further.

William was born in Sligo, Ireland in 1802 (possibly as late as 1808), and married Margaret Sadler in Quebec in 1835.  She was born in Ireland around 1815.  Their children were all born in Chicago starting in 1842, and, with the possible exception of Emma, they all seem to have stayed in Chicago.  He died in1875, she in 1891.  They are both buried in Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago.  They had seven or eight children that I know of.

Hugh James Gillmore was born around 1841 and died in 1865.

William Gillmore was born around 1846 and died in 1907.

Emma Gillmore was born about 1851, and was living in Chicago in 1860 and 1870.

Another child name and gender unknown, possibly Emma, died on April 8, 1871.

Margaret Gillmore was born in Chicago, Sept 1842.  In 1860, she was living with her parents, and in 1870, she was living with them, but with the last name of Brown, so she must have married between 1860 and 1870 and either divorced or was widowed, possibly because of the civil war.  In 1874, she married Samuel Polkey.  He was born about 1834 in England and died in Chicago in 1903.  Margaret died in Chicago on 8 Nov 1928.  Their children were Samuel William Polkey, born 1875, died 1918, unmarried according to WWI draft registration; Hugh J Polkey, born 1878, died 1936.  He married Bertha Cadden in 1923, he was a physician, doesn’t seem to have any children; Unnamed child born March 1880, died before 1900; and May R Polkey, born 1883, died Sept 1962 in Florida.  May married Walter Carpenter Butler in 1911.  I didn’t find any children for them.

Elizabeth Gillmore was born in 1844 and died in 1919.  She married Peter Reid in 1870.  Their children were Elizabeth J Reid, born about 1871; Arthur P Reid, born about 1871, married Celia O Schiesswohl in 1912; May Reid born about 1878; Emma N Reid born about 1879; Edith G Reid, born May 1881; Marguerite Reid, born March 1886, died in April of that same year; Mabel S Reid was born about 1876.  She may have been married to someone named Wennemer, and this Mabel Reid may have been married to Frederick Julius Tower in 1896.  If this is correct, they had two children, Arthur F and Ruth E Tower.

Susan Gillmore was born in 1850 and died in 1904.  She married John Gilbert in 1870.  John was born in England in 1844, and died in Chicago in 1924.  They had 3 children.  William Gilbert was born in 1873.   Rebecca M Gilbert was born in 1876 and died in 1965.  George J Gilbert was born in 1874, and died in 1936.  He married Ruth D Montgomery.  She had been previously married and had a son, Irvin Charles Rodin.  She and George had a daughter Susan Ruth Gilbert, born 1926, died 1985.  Susan married Norman Berquist and may have had 3 children.

Rebecca Gillmore was born 1854 and died in 1938.  She married David H Welsh (1852-1925) in 1876.  They had the following children: 

William Harry Welch, 1878 till after 1947.

John G Welch, 1879-1929.

Josephine Rebecca Welch, 1890-1976.

David G Welch, 1892-1937.

Edward Gilmore Welch, 1893 to unknown.

George S Welch, 1881 to unknown.  George married Clara Preussman, born in 1886.  They had 3 children; David George Welch, Jan-March 1921; William G Welch born about 1924; and Marline C Welch about 1927.

©2018 Linda C Robinson

Humphrey’s brother JAMES

On page 13 of Marvin’s correspondence he states that James is a brother of Humphrey and has at least three children, Henry, Humphrey, and Margaret.  Ralph doesn’t list James as a brother of Humphrey, but he does account for James in his “Gillmores of Sligo County” as James of Stonehall, and lists two of his children, Henry and Margaret.

According to Ancestry.com, Ireland, Catholic Parish Registers, James Gillmore married Mary Kearns on 11 Nov 1836, Killenummery, Sligo and Leitrim, Ireland.  The same source shows that their daughter Margaret’s parents are James Gillmore and Mary Kearns.  James would likely have been born before 1817.

I haven’t found any information on their son Humphrey.

Ralph shows their son Henry Gillmor of Stonehall, born about 1837.  He married Elizabeth Jenks on September 18, 1862 in Sligo, Ireland.  Elizabeth was born circa 1844 in Ballysadare, Sligo, Ireland.  Ralph shows they had two children William born in Stonehall, Ballysadare, Sligo, Ireland on September 4, 1865, and Humphry Gillmore of Stonehall born in Stonehall, Ballysadare, Sligo, Ireland on November 10, 1867.  Marvin’s information, page 13, lists Hannah’s siblings “Henry Simpson Gilmore and Henrietta Gilmore, still living there around the old place; plus three brothers in Australia; and a sister in England; and a sister living “in Wicklow”. My own further research shows that Henry first married Elizabeth Jenks and had:

William Born in 1865, died in Australia in 1930.

Humphry Born Sligo, 1867, died in Australia in 1955, married Jane Mary Meredith, and had two boys, Robert Henry 1903 to 1958, and William Meredith 1904 to Unknown.

Hessie 1870 and Eliza 1872, and John 1875 and Jane 1877.

Henry’s wife Elizabeth died in 1878 and he married Sarah Jane Sleator in1881.  They had Fanny 1884, Hannah 1886, Lillie 1888, Henry Simpson 1890, and Henrietta in 1893.

Ralph shows that James’ daughter “Margaret Gilmore was born in Ballysadare, Sligo, Ireland before 1841.  She married Thomas Pettipiece on June 3, 1858 in Callooney, Ballysadare, Sligo, Ireland.  Thomas was born before 1838 in of Cloonacurrah, Ballysadare, Sligo, Ireland.  Further research shows that they had one son James Pettipiece born in 1858, and his mother, Margaret died in 1866.  Thomas Pettipiece remarried Fanny Irwin and they had at least six children.

©2017 Linda C Robinson

Marvin Gilmore’s Correspondence

About Humphrey Gillmor

And The Gillmore/Gilmor Family

Of Sligo, Ireland

When I started researching my Gillmore ancestors, I found Ralph Clark’s genealogy web site.  It was very well documented and had a lot of new information that I didn’t have previously.  Imagine my surprise a few years later when I found a treasure trove of correspondence from a Marvin Gilmore among my grandmother’s things.  He originally wanted to know about his father’s family, and then expanded to wanting to know about the extended Gilmore/Gillmore families.  He wrote to people worldwide that he knew to be family and pushed and prodded them to send him family information.  Evidently, my grandmother gave him quite a lot of information, and contacts, and they corresponded for a number of years about his search for the Gillmores.  What I found were the letters he had written to my grandmother.  There are over 50 pages of letters, diagrams, charts, and copies of letters he had received and borrowed from family members concerning the Gillmores.  The information in the correspondence expanded my Gillmore tree beyond belief!  I wish I had my grandmother’s side of the correspondence as well.  Some of the information seems to conflict with what Mr Clark has on his website, but in many cases I have been able to use Marvin’s information to do more research and expand on what he had discovered.   Shortly after I found this correspondence, I tried to contact Ralph Clark, but was unsuccessful, so I have set it aside for several years, debating about what to do with it.

Genealogy nut that I am, I have taken a couple of DNA tests.  I don’t do much with them, but I do look at the trees of matches, who have people that match mine in our online family trees.  I don’t even look at the matches who don’t have matching people in our family trees.  I occasionally get inquiries from people in the latter group, wondering if I can find a match anywhere.  Generally, I can’t and send them a short reply to that effect.  Imagine my surprise this summer, though, when I was given a little information about someone’s family, and I was able to go to my tree, and right away find where we matched!  This person is a grand or great grandchild of my great great grandfather Humphrey’s brother!  Without the information from Marvin’s correspondence and the additional research I had done, I would never have been able to find our relationship!  Ralph Clark didn’t show any siblings of Humphrey.

This event of the DNA match, got me moving, and I realized that it was imperative that I share the information from Marvin’s correspondence.  I don’t imagine that it is always correct, and it isn’t complete, but being able to find the DNA match that easily, proved to me that his information is at least a valid starting point for more of the Gillmore family genealogy.

I spent a lot of time going over all the information again, correcting mistakes I had made, finding even more family members, and now that I am about ready to start putting the information on my blog, I am finding more questions about some of the material.  I will try to point out differences between Ralph’s information and Marvin’s.  There are some longstanding family questions, that I have tried to explore and in doing that I have, without proof, inserted some people into the family tree.  There are a couple of family groupings that I believe Marvin had wrong, i.e. brother’s not cousins or uncles.  In all these cases I will provide my reasoning.  The information in Marvin’s correspondence is in most cases not able to be “proven”, with birth, death, marriage or other information.  Most of his information is from family members or friends of the family, and is likely to be incorrect at times, but I have been able to build on his information in ways that make sense to me, so I feel the information is generally valid.

I am certain that my great grandfather is Robert Allingham Gillmore.  This information has been passed down to me by my mother and her mother.  Ralph Clark shows Robert’s father as being Humphrey.  There are two citations, one a book, and the other Robert’s death certificate, that might show Humphrey as Robert’s father, but I don’t have access to either of these items.  My mother wrote a story about her grandfather Robert Gillmore and names his parent’s names as Humphrey and Margaret (Allingham), but I don’t know when she wrote the story, and I think it was after Marvin had shared some information with my grandmother.  From Marvin’s correspondence it sounds like my grandmother wasn’t sure about the name of Robert’s father, but in October of 1945 Marvin wrote “I now find that my great grandfather (your grandfather) was neither Hugh, nor Hamp, but Humphrey.  His first wife was undoubtedly Margaret, nee Allingham, but his second wife was very definitely one Jane Gilmor Gillmor.”  He had gotten this information from some letters that a relative had loaned him.  The letters were written to Robert N. Gilmore around 1906 and referenced Humphrey’s estate.  A will mentioning Robert’s sister Rebecca further proves this association.

Ralph names Humphrey’s parents as William and an unknown woman.  Again, I don’t have access to his citations to prove or disprove this fact.  On page 13 of Marvin’s correspondence he was told that Humphrey’s parents were Hugh and Anne (Lawson) Gilmore.  There is a record that might give more insight into whether it was William or Hugh, but again I am unable to access the record.  I did find a record showing that Humphrey’s second wife’s father was named Hugh.  Again, this is information from people who knew or were related to the Gillmores in Ireland and they may have been hazy in their recollections.

To recap, my 3 times great grandfather was probably William (or Hugh) Gillmore and his wife was likely Anne Lawson.  Based on Humprhey’s age they would have been born around 1780, possibly in Sligo, Ireland.

Ralph doesn’t list any siblings for Humphrey, but on page 13 of his correspondence Marvin writes “This Hannah’s grandfather was James Gillmor, which gives us the name of another Humphrey Gillmor brother to go with George and William.”  In a letter from Rebecca (Gillmor) Craig, she writes “My second son is called Walter after W.E.”  I don’t have any proof, but added a Walter as another brother of Humphrey.  So far, I can’t find anything at all on a Walter, so this is likely wrong.  As to George, he is the grand or great grandfather of the person who contacted me with matching DNA!

 

There were probably sisters as well, but I haven’t found any information to that effect.

There was evidently a long running discussion between my grandmother and Marvin as to the correct spelling of Gillmore.  Grandma spelled it with 2 l’s.  Marvin had grown up with one l.  I have found it both ways during my research, and often in Ireland the e was left off.  For the most part I am going to use the ll with an e for convenience.
© 2017 Linda C Robinson

Gillmore DNA

Genealogy nut that I am, I have taken a couple of DNA tests.  I don’t do much with them, but I do look at the trees of matches, who have people in their family tree that match mine in our online family trees.  When there is a match to someone on Ancestry.com, you can also see other people who are DNA matches to both of you.  I don’t even look at the matches who don’t have matching people in our family trees.  I occasionally get inquiries from people in the latter group, wondering if I can find a match anywhere.  Generally, I can’t and send them a short reply to that effect.  Imagine my surprise this summer, though, when I was given a little information about someone’s family, and I was able to go to my tree, and right away find where we matched!  This person is a grand or great grandchild of my great-great-grandfather Humphrey’s brother!  Unfortunately, there weren’t any other people who had matching DNA to both of us.

One of the longstanding brick walls of my genealogy research is the “nieces” who were living with my great grandfather Robert A Gillmore at the time my great-great-grandmother Flora Turner came to Colorado to stay with her brother.  I have been able to track their lives later on, but I cannot with certainty be sure who their parents were or where they came from.   Or when they came to live with Robert.   There have been times that I have wondered if they were really cousins.  I have a lot of new information about the Gillmore family, but I can’t prove anything about their parentage.  Maybe they were children of friends who died in the mining camps, and not really his nieces?  Unfortunately, because one of them who married, married a Turner, there is very little chance of DNA proving that they are Gillmores, because most of the known Gillmores are Turners as well.  That is why I was disappointed that there weren’t any other people matching the person mentioned above.

I have a lot of new information on the Gillmore family because I found a large amount of correspondence from a Marvin Gilmore to my grandmother.  This event of the DNA match, got me moving, and I realized that it was imperative that I share the information from Marvin’s correspondence.  I don’t imagine that it is always correct, and it isn’t complete, but being able to find the DNA match that easily, proved to me that his information is at least a valid starting point for more of the Gillmore family genealogy.

I’ve been working on this for a couple of months now, reverifying information that I had found several years ago, and finding new information and family connections.  AND a couple of nights ago, while doing some more research, I found a descendant of Robert’s brother John that I was a DNA match to!  And John’s descendants wouldn’t have had any Turner blood!  And when I checked to see if there were people who we both had DNA matches with in common there were.  AND several of those trees showed one of Robert’s nieces as an ancestor!  The “nieces” really were his nieces.  They are Gillmores!  Of course, I still can’t prove who their parents were or how they came to be with Robert. 

I was going to wait until I had everything completed before I started putting up the information, but there is so much, it needs to be put up a little at a time.  The recent DNA revelation has convinced me to get started sharing this information, so I will soon begin putting this information up on my blog.  I hope you enjoy and can make use of it. 

© 2017 Linda C Robinson

Melvin Rudolph Turner

Melvin was born on February 19, 1853, in Lincoln, Penobscot, Maine, the son of Luther Turner and Anceline (Hawes) Turner.  He lived there until sometime in the 1870’s, when he “went west” to Colorado.  Two of his brothers went around the same time.  In 1880, he was living in Rio La Plata, La Plata, Colorado, single, working as a mail carrier.  In 1900, he was living in Indian Creek, San Juan, Utah, working as a farmer.

Later in life, at age 50, he married Maggie Dresser [Gresser] (Margaret Rachel Rohwer [Rohner]) on the 11^th of July, 1901.  They had one son, Willard Howard Turner, born in Durango, La Plata, Colorado, on October 18, 1903.  They must have separated, because in 1910, 1920, and 1930, he was living apart from her in Paradox, Montrose, Colorado.  In 1930, he was living with his son’s wife’s parents.

He died on September 6, 1932, in Pueblo, Pueblo, Colorado.

Unfortunately, that is all the information I have on Melvin.  Mostly I have followed his trail in census records.  Sometime in  2009, I decided to track down my great-great grandfather’s descendants.  The family had already been tracked back to him, but I had NO information on any of his children except my great grandmother Flora.  Thanks to census information, family pictures, letters, and other research I was able to fill in Flora’s brothers and sisters, their children and grandchildren and a little further in some cases.  I was fairly satisfied and left it at that.  Most of the family was back in Main and Massachusetts or Utah, and western Colorado.

In September of this year, I took a road trip to Colorado for a high school reunion, and visited friends and cousins along the way.  My first stop was in Fowler, (EASTERN) Colorado to visit my cousin.  While there we went by the Fowler cemetery so I could take pictures of the family gravestones.  He showed me the gravestone of Melvin R Turner, and told me that he had been down and out and died in Pueblo, Colorado, and that the family had been located and they brought him to Fowler to bury him near his sister Flora, and had provided a marker.

What?!  My great-great uncle Melvin buried in Fowler?  Died in Pueblo, likely a drunk?  That didn’t make sense.  He had been living in Utah and WESTERN Colorado for his adult life!  What was he doing in Pueblo? 

When I got home, I did into a Google search for Melvin’s name.  I found an article on the “Telluride Blanket” which had a pamphlet online!
http://www.telluridemuseum.org/exhibits/   
My great-great Uncle, Melvin Turner, FOUND the “Telluride Blanket”!  The pamphlet also had quite a bit of information on Melvin, including the fact that he had been badly injured in a horseback riding accident in the early 1900’s.  Evidently, he had received severe head injuries, and had been treated with opium.

According to the pamphlet about the Telluride Blanket, he’d been taken to a hospital in Montrose shortly before his death.  I still don’t know how or why he ended up dying in Pueblo, but at least there is a possible explanation for his appearing to be destitute and a drunkard.

There was a page missing from the pamphlet, so I called the Telluride Museum the next day, and they kindly sent me a full pdf of the pamphlet.  They have, evidently, been looking for relatives of Melvin for many years and came up empty.  Until I called them and told them I’m related, although very distantly.

I won’t be too much help to them, but I do have some good quality pictures of Melvin, and maybe I have enough research on some of the Utah family that they might have something to go on to find closer relatives.

I have found a short article about his death among my mother’s things.  Evidently, he did visit his sister Flora fairly often.

I wonder how far reaching his discovery was in shaping some of her family’s future……Flora’s daughter Ellen dabbled in unearthing Indian artifacts near her home in Nepesta.  Ellen’s oldest son became a Park Ranger and became the Superintendent at Mesa Verde.  Ellen’s oldest daughter married an avid archaeologist.  Several of Ellen’s grandchildren collect Indian pottery and other objects.  Was Melvin the inspiration for their interests? 

I wasn’t too far away from Telluride on my way home from Colorado.  I wish I had known about this then so I could have visited the museum and seen the blanket.  Good excuse to go back to Colorado sometime soon.

I have a newspaper clipping with a picture showing Melvin and his brother Hiram as using river boats on the Colorado River at some point in time, and I have found a letter from his sister Ella asking my grandmother if she knows any more about the circumstances of his death.
© Linda C Robinson 2016

Thomas Ewing

Among my Grandmother’s things, I found an obituary for Thomas Ewing.  I don’t think there is a family connection, but I would guess that he was a friend and neighbor of my great grandfather JR Thomas, when they were living in Harvey County, Kansas.  I don’t know the paper or the publication date, but it would likely be a Halstead paper around the time of his death, prior to March 1910.

It has quite a bit of information on him, so I copied the article and will post it here, in case any of his descendants can use the information.

He was born in Johnston, Scotland, March 18, 1837 and died shortly before his 73^rd birthday.  He married Katherine Kelly on Dec 13, 1857.  They had 12 children, eight died before their father.

He came to America in 1864, and lived in Illinois until they moved to Kansas in 1870.

They had a farm 4 miles of Halstead, and lived there until about 3 years prior to his death.

His wife, Katherine and 4 children, Mrs WP Akins (Halstead), James Ewing (Wichita), William Ewing (Newton), and Mrs Ella Shuler (Manhattan) survived him.

©Linda C Robinson 2014

Earl Leroy Owens

Earl Leroy Owens, born April 24, 1888, was the seventh and youngest of Owen’s children. He was in Santa Cruz in 1900, and I was able to find him in the 1930 census in Vallejo, Solano, California. He died March 1965, and was married to Naomi and/or Myrtle. I was not able to find out much about him.

Orville M Owens

Orville M Owens was Owen’s sixth child. Orville was born August 20, 1884 in Iowa. He lived in Santa Cruz during the 1920’s, and sometime after 1918, he married Lucile. He was a merchant, and on his WWI draft registration it says he owned a Billiard and Cigar Stand.

Grace B Owens

Owen’s fifth child was Grace B Owens. She was born November 12, 1880, and in 1900 she was single, living with the family in Santa Cruz, and working as a bookkeeper. By 1910, she was married to Julius Streib, a baseball player, and the lived in Santa Cruz, Seattle, and finally in that year emigrated to Canada, where Julius had a career until his death in Calgary, May 10, 1935. After her husband’s death, Grace returned to Alameda County, California, where she resided until her death on April 25, 1966. They don’t appear to have had any children.

Clark Owens

Owen’s fourth child was Clark Owens, born May 11, 1878 in Linden, Iowa. He was single and still living with the family in Santa Cruz in 1900, working as an electric car motorman. It appears that he married Elizabeth “Bessie” Scott Morgan. Scott is her mother’s maiden name, and often she is listed as Elizabeth or Bessie M Owens, which I believe was probably for her maiden name of Morgan. The WWI Draft lists his wife, and they are married and living in Oakland, Alameda, California in the 1920 census. On that census there are Reichhold and Tuttle families as well, and Clark and Bessie have three children all over the age of ten. The 1930 census shows them as first married about 1903, and Bessie’s sister Gladys living with them. And the 1910 census is where I go crazy. Clark and Bessie have a story to tell, but I don’t know what it is. I sincerely hope that someday I will be able to contact some of their descendants who know what was going on.


I found Clark on the 1910 census, as a lodger, who was married and had been married for seven years. That fits with the 1930 census. He was a lodger with the MORGAN family, of whom Bessie is one of the children and is listed as SINGLE. I’d put that down as a census error, but the 1920 census shows three children all over the age of ten. They should have been listed with their parents, but they aren’t there!!! And I can’t find them elsewhere with any relatives in California. I just can’t think of a scenario that makes sense.

Clark and Bessie’s oldest child is Helen L Owens. She was born December 16, 1904 and died November 29, 1997. The info from the California Death Index lists her Father’s last name as Owens, and her Mother’s maiden name as Morgan. Helen married Clarence Frederick Reichhold, and they had two sons, Jack and Lawrence Morgan. Jack married Marge, and they had a boy and a girl in the early 1950’s.

Their second child was Merle Ruth Owens, born March 19, 1908, died September 5, 1983. Both her birth and death info list her mother’s maiden name as Morgan. The 1920 census lists her incorrectly as a Male. She married Robley Day Gilbert.

Their third child was Morgan Clark Owens. He was born January 4, 1907 and died August 5, 1978 in Contra Costa, California.

Arthur C Owens

Owen’s third child was Arthur C Owens. He is listed as Arthur D in the 1880 census, but other census years and the World War I Draft registration show him as Arthur C. Arthur was born September 15, 1875. There is an Arthur C Owens in the 1910 census in San Francisco that may be this Arthur. He was a salesman for Wholesale Cigars. And he was widowed. He was not living with his parents, and I couldn’t find any other Arthur C Owens that seemed to fit. The 1930 census shows that Arthur was first married at age 31, about 1906. His wife at that time, Grace, was first married at age 30, about 1914, so it appears that Arthur had been married prior to his marriage to Grace, and tends to verify that the 1910 census assumption is correct. I was not able to locate them in the 1920 census, and I have not found any evidence that they had any children. He lived for a while in San Francisco, and during the 1930’s and 1940’s he lived in Alameda County, Calfornia. He died there on September 9, 1956.

Nellie Agnes Owens

Owen’s second child was Nellie Agnes, born September 9, 1872 in Rio, Knox, Illinois. Owen must have moved his family to California before 1983, because Nellie married Orra V Dubbs in Santa Cruz on May 10, 1893. Nellie and Orra were cousins, and according to another Owen’s family member it caused quite a row, so Nellie and Orra moved back to Nevada, Ness, Kansas by 1895. Orra Dubbs, Orra Dubbs, did I say Orra Dubbs? Isn’t there a picture that I thought said Orrie Dibbs? Yes!! There is. It’s labeled Mr and Mrs Orrie Dubbs. Another picture identified!!

Nellie and Orrie continued to live in Kansas until her death on June 3, 1930. Orrie passed away on April 29, 1937. They had eight children.

Ruth M Dubbs (1897-1981) married Charles Leroy Harkness. They had two sons. Vance Bradley (1918-1957) married Lois Wyrill. Keith (1920-2007) married Janelda D Brown, and they had three girls.

Grace K Dubbs (1899-unk) married Mr Petty.

Opal Vera Dubbs (1900-1985) married Paul Huxman. They had two boys, RD and RG, maybe twins born about 1924.

Dora Irene Dubbs (1903-1990) married Lawrence Lloyd Tuttle. They had at least one daughter.

Maye Dubbs (1906-1999) married John E Schertz.

Beth L Dubbs (1908-unk).

Owen H Dubbs (1911-unk).

Dale Dubbs (1913-2003) married Ida Sadie Meek. They had a son Dwight Kay Dubbs, born 1943 in Tulsa, who passed away in May 1967.

John Ayer

“John Ayres of California, Chester’s Cousin” is written on the back of this photograph, and the photographer is in Santa Cruz, California. That wasn’t a name in my family tree, and was just too generic to be able to find with certainty, so I had given up figuring out why it was in my grandmother’s pictures.

“Chester’s cousins, Ray 7 years, Gladys 5 years” was on the back of this photo taken in Santa Cruz, California. No help at all. There weren’t really any cousins on Chester’s side of the family that I knew of at the time I scanned these pictures, so this was doomed to remain a mystery as well.

A couple of month’s ago I was looking at this picture and decided to try a first name search for Gladys in Santa Cruz. Amazing!! I found her and her brother Ray, in the 1910 census, and they were with their parents, Jennie and John Ayers! The two pictures are related to each other.

Is the Ayers Family related or are they just friends? I started a family tree for them to see where it would lead. Most of the time the family name was Ayer, not Ayers. I soon found the California Death Index for Gladys, which gives her mother’s maiden name as Owens. John Ayer had married Jennie Owens, the oldest daughter of Owen M and Sara Catharine Sara Hommon. They are related!

Jennie May Owens was born December 1870 in Illinois and lived with her family in Iowa. She married John Chester Ayer in 1892, and by 1900 they were living in Santa Cruz, California. In 1910 they were living in San Mateo, and in 1920 they were living in Monterey. In 1930 they were back in Santa Cruz, and probably lived there until John died April 5, 1955. I have been unable to find when Jennie died. John and Jennie had the two children in the picture.

Ray Harland Ayer was born December 18, 1892 in Santa Cruz. He was a farmer most of his life. He married Henrietta Maria Carlsen, and they had two girls, Ellen Bernice who married Henry Dick, and Violet. Ray died January 3, 1971 in Stanislaus, California.

Gladys G Ayer was born November 23, 1894 in Santa Cruz. During the 1920s, she married and divorced Charles Melvin Rhoades. In 1930 she was back living with her parents, and did not have any children living with her, so I assume that she never had any children. She passed away in Santa Cruz September 16, 1955.

Owen M Owens

David and Jane’s youngest son was Owen M Owens. He was born February 7, 1839 near Bala, Merionethshire, Wales. He came to the United States with his family in 1842, and settled with them in Newark, Licking, Ohio. I have not been able to find any information on whether or not Owen served in the civil war, but he married Sara Catherine Hommon in 1869. In 1870 they were living in Henderson, Knox, Illinois, where he was a miller. In 1880 and 1885 they were living in Linn, Dallas, Iowa where he had purchased a mill and was farming. By 1900 he had retired to Santa Cruz, California. He lived in Santa Cruz until his death on February 23, 1923. Sara Catharine died in 1937.
Owen and his wife had seven children, Jennie May, Nellie Agnes, Arthur C, Clark, Grace B, Orville M, and Earl Leroy.

Edna Mabel Owens

THREE GENERATIONS

BORN IN

THREE CENTURIES

Robert Owens and his wife, Vania, had one child, a daughter, Edna Mabel Owens.
Edna’s grandfather, David Owens, was born about 1799.
Her father, Robert Owens, was born in 1838.
Edna Mabel was born January 10, 1902.

Edna was born in Nepesta, Colorado. When she was young her family moved back to Newark, Licking, Ohio. She married Orval Francis Thompson on June 2, 1933 in Morgantown, WV. They had two sons. She was living in Mount Vernon, Ohio, when she died in February of 1971.

Robert Owens

David and Jane Owens third son was Robert Owens, born on 2 March 1838 in Wales. He came to the United States with the family in 1942, and lived with them in Licking, Ohio through 1860. I am unable to prove or disprove whether or not Robert served in the Civil War. By 1870 he was living near Pueblo, Colorado Territory. He farmed in Nepesta, Colorado for many years. I wasn’t able to locate him in the 1910 census, but his obituary says that he returned to Newark, Licking, Ohio about 1912 where he lived until his death March 22, 1920.

Robert was single for many years, but around 1901, he married Vania A Lane. Vania was born in Arkansas, February 1878. Her parents were John H and Winnie M Lane, and she had two brothers, William and John. According to the Newark newspaper, she died November 25, 1948.

Jerry William Owens

Jerry William Owens was the youngest of David D and Francis Owens’ children, and the only one to stay in Missouri. He was born September 6, 1875 in Jasper, Missouri, and was listed as Jerimiah in the 1880 census. He was not living with his parents in the 1900 census, and I haven’t found him anywhere else that year. He married Clyde Minnie Umbarger on March 10, 1909, and by 1910 they had settled in Springfield, Greene, Missouri. Jerry was evidently involved in politics and was a Missouri delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1948. He was an insurance agent for Penn Mutual.


He died in Springfield September 3, 1948. His wife died in Springfield, February 8, 1965.

Their children were Mary Frances Owens, born in Missouri on 10 Jan 1911, died 22 Sept 1998 in Michigan, married to Glen Maxwell Wingo, and David Allen Owens born January 1, 1913.