On This Day - August 14th

On This Day...

1747 - Birth: Rhoda Hubbell, Sheffield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts

1758 - Death: Elizabeth Pridham, Westmoreland County, Virginia

1758 - Death: Joseph Day,

1842 - Marriage: Jonathon Batman and Mary Ann Rider, Crawford County, Indiana

1846 - Death: Andrew Kinkade, Cass County, Missouri

1895 - Death: Elijah Roberson,

1896 - Death: Frances America Gresham, Dodson, Winn Parish, Louisiana

1898 - Birth: Chester Erskins, Louisiana

1904 - Marriage: Clyde Taylor Dillman and Arminthia Belle Wiseman, Crawford County, Indiana

1907 - Birth: Maude Sanders, Louisiana

1939 - Death: Morton Fulkerson, Daviess, Kentucky, United States

1956 - Burial: Margaret M. Steichen, Saint Benedictine Cemetery, Saint Joseph, Stearns County, Minnesota

1976 - Death: Elizabeth Christine Watry, Colma, California

"A day late and a dollar short..." was the phrase used when I was in the Navy to express disappointment with someone's failure to perform to expectations.  This post is coming out a day late due to my forgetting, and no other reason.  Sorry!




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On This Day - Jan 14th

On This Day...

1617 - Alternate Birth: Elizabeth Foote, England

1618 - Baptism: Elizabeth Foote, St. James Parish Church, Colchester, Essex, England

1620 - Birth: Sarah Burt, Harberton, Devon, England

1660 - Death: Thomas Welles, Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut

1730 - Alternate Death: Thomas Day, Colchester, New London County, Connecticut

1738 - Birth: Joannes Steichen, Kehlen, Capellen, Luxembourg

1780 - Birth: Elizabeth Higginbotham, Amherst County, Virginia

1838 - Birth: Mathias I. Beaudreau, Canada

1844 - Birth: Thomas Jefferson James, Lawrence County, Mississippi

1852 - Birth: Mary Ann Payne, Wabash County, Illinois

1861 - Birth: Anna Gertrudis Pflueger, Wallenborn, Eifel, Germany

1873 - Death: Ann Eliza Austin, Sheffield, Lorain County, Ohio

1883 - Death: Joannes Pflüger, Wallenborn, Eifel, Germany

1885 - Birth: Archie Davis Williams, Indiana

1908 - Death: William Landiss,

1910 - Birth: Elga L. Sikes, Gaar's Mill, Winn Parish, Louisiana

1916 - Death: Wiley Washington Boyett, Louisiana

1941 - Death: Rebecca Frances Denbo, Dubois County, Indiana

1965 - Death: Theresa Theisen,

1967 - Death: Clyde Taylor Dillman, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky

1969 - Death: Susan Weber, Spring Valley, California

1979 - Death: William Perkins Wright, Jackson, East Feliciana, Louisiana, United States of America

Clyde Taylor Dillman, the 1967 entry above, was my paternal great grandfather.  I never met him, in fact he abandoned his family back in about 1920, which lead to a huge rift.  Anecdotal family history says he came back at one point and tried to visit, but was run off. 



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Fearless Females - Tragedy!

March 11 — Did you have any female ancestors who died young or from tragic or unexpected circumstances? Describe and how did this affect the family?
 

 I would venture to say that virtually every family has had someone die early, from tragic or unexpected circumstances.  And of those, I would bet considerably more than half were female, for the simple reason that childbirth before modern medicine was a very hazardous thing, for both the mother and the infant.  We all have examples of children born dead, or dying soon after birth.  There are entire sites devoted to tombstones of such children. 

My own example is my paternal great-grandmother, Arminthia "Belle" Wiseman, about whom I've written before.  She was married to Clyde Taylor Dillman, the pivotal figure in my paternal line.  Born in April of 1886, she married Clyde Taylor Dillman on 14 Aug 1904 at age 18.  Like most young newlyweds of the time, they got pregnant very soon after, and Orville Wayne Dillman was their first child.  Estel Elmer was next, my paternal grandfather, followed by Clyde Landis, Howard Carter and Reva, the last being born 26 Sep 1916.  All of them have now passed away.  Arminthia herself passed away on 01 Feb 1920, aged not quite 34 years, when little Reva was only three and a half years old.  Vague notes indicate she may have died of influenza, a common cause of the time.  Now it gets murky.  It looks like Clyde Taylor Dillman left the family with another family named Sackesteder to be raised by them.  The 1930 US Census shows Clyde Taylor living across the river in Louisville, Kentucky, where he died in 1967.  Clyde no longer figures in family photos and notes after that point.  Estel considered the Sackesteders to be family, and had numerous photographs of them, one even labeled "Mother" (see my post on Estel's Navy Log for more on that).  It looks like Belle's death broke the family apart. 

This is not a huge surprise, given Clyde Taylor's own tragic childhood!


In honor of National Women’s History Month, Lisa Alzo of The Accidental Genealogist blog presents Fearless Females: 31 Blogging Prompts to Celebrate Women’s History Month.

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Go For A Better Google Search

Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings presents another Saturday Night Genealogy Fun:

Your mission - should you decide to accept it, is to:

1)  Go to genea-blogger Ramdy Majors website ( http://www.randymajors.com/).

2)  Add his blog to your RSS reader, if you don't have it already.

3) Read his blog post AncestorSearch using Google Custom Search - BETA.  See the link at the top of the page that says "AncestorSearch using Google Custom Search - BETA?"  Click on it.

4)  Test out his Custom Google Search form to help you find online information about your ancestors, especially for their marriages. 

5)  Tell us about your results - was this useful? Did you find something new?  How can Randy improve it?

6)  If you like Randy's Custom Search, add it to your Bookmarks or Favorites.

Thank you, Randy Majors, for creating a useful search capability and sharing it with all of us.  May your site receive many hits, and RSS subscriptions!

I tried this with my anchor couple, Clyde Taylor Dillman and Arminthea "Belle" Wiseman, married in Crawford County, Indiana in 1904.  This search widget really does filter the results!  I had to tweak a couple of times to get any hits at all, and then I did find one link to a website of a related line that includes part of mine.  One link.  And the information on this site is stuff I'd already had for many years.  Okay, this is my anchor couple, that I've been researching for a long time, I guess I didn't expect to find new data.

I tried again with my current most frustrating brick wall, Oscar Holt Williams and India (McQueen or Sandel/Sandahl) married in 1902 in Louisiana.  This one turned out to be a total stumper any way I could tweak the search input.  Well, nothing ventured, nothing gained.  I didn't expect to find anything on this couple, although I was hoping.

I tried a number of other couples, with virtually no useful results.  I hope you've had more luck with this than I have, but for me it's been a very frustrating experiment.  Even people I have already well documented were not found.  A few results turned out to be things I'd posted here and there.  I may give this another shot at some point, but for tonight I'm giving up on it.

Wordless Wednesday - Clyde Taylor Dillman

Clyde Taylor Dillman (b. 21 Apr 1886, d. 14 Jan 1967)

Wordless Wednesday – a great way to share your old family photos! Create a post with the main focus being a photograph or image. Some posters also include attribute information as to the source of the image (date, location, owner, etc.). Wordless Wednesday is one of the longest running “memes” in the blogosphere and is an ongoing series at GeneaBloggers.