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Maggie Mae Riley

21 Thursday May 2020

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Maggie Mae Riley was born May 21, 1889 in Texas. She was one of  nine children born to William Marshall Riley and Flora Dare.  Shortly after her birth, the family moved to Elk City, Oklahoma where they settled into farming. Maggie’s siblings included Alma, Robert, Bessie, Maudie and Lillie. Bessie lived to the tender age of four and the three other siblings died in infancy.

On April 11, 1909, Maggie married Jesse Cooper in Beckham County, Oklahoma, and set up house in North Fork Township.  They raised a family with six children, all who lived well into adulthood:  Blanche, Tina, Janie, Frankie, Charlie, and Noel.  In 1943, Jesse died at the age of 58.  Maggie continued to live in Beckham County after his death, watching her children raise families of their own.  She died in October 1971 and was laid to rest beside her husband.

 

Maggie Mae Riley was my 3rd cousin, 3 times removed on my dad’s side.

REFERENCES

  • United States Census: 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940
  • Oklahoma County Marriages
  • Find a Grave website
  • The Daily Oklahoman,  October 25, 1971 via Newspapers.com

James Eli Ishmael

20 Wednesday May 2020

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James Eli Ishmael was born on May 20, 1863 to John Ishmael and Mary Hunt in Fleming County, Kentucky.  Mary was John’s second wife.  From his first marriage, John had seven children (John, Laura, Rosanna, Samuel, Margaret, Nancy and an unnamed infant girl).  John and Mary added seven children (Margaret, Nancy, John Thomas, Martha, George, Sara and Minnie) in addition to James Eli.  The family’s main source of support was farming.

James married Lovisa Anderson around 1891.  Together they had six children: Arthur, Evie, James, William, Louzella, and Pat.  Lovisa died in 1907, leaving James to raise their family on his own.  He remarried in 1909 to a woman named Rebecca.  She lived until sometime in the 1920s, leaving James a widower twice over.  In his later years, James shifted from farming to working as a store clerk to support himself and youngest daughter Louzella who kept house for him.  James lived to the age of seventy-seven.  He died on January 22, 1941 in Flemingsburg after battling influenza which ultimately led to pneumonia. He is buried with Lovisa in Elizaville, Kentucky.

 

James Eli Ishmael was my 2nd cousin, 4x removed on my dad’s side.

REFERENCES

  • United States Census: 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940
  • Kentucky Death Records
  • Find a Grave Website

 

Jean Baptiste Cardinal

19 Tuesday May 2020

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Jean Baptiste Cardinal was born on May 19, 1728 to Jeanne Duguay and Jacques Jean-Baptiste Cardinal,  and was baptized at the Basilique Notre-Dame in Montreal. He was one of nine children which included two sisters named Jeanne, and brothers named Jacques, Joseph, Nicolas, Jean-Baptiste, Pierre and Charles.

On April 8, 1755 in Detroit, Jean Baptiste married Marie-Anne Maillet.  Their first two children, Jeanne-Marie and Marie-Anne, are believed to have been born in Canada.  At some point between 1758 and 1761, the family migrated southward and settled at Fort Vincennes.  Four more children were born to the couple over the next decade: Jacques, Genevieve, Jean-Baptiste, and Celeste.

Fort Vincennes played a pivotal part in the battles on the western front of the Revolutionary War.  The fort changed hands several times between the British forces, which were based in Detroit, and the American forces who made allies of the French Canadians who lived in the area.  Jean Baptiste supported the cause against the British by signing the Oath of Allegiance to Vincennes in 1778 and fighting in the militia under George Rogers Clark.  In 1780,  it is believed that Jean Baptiste marched with Augustin de la Balme in an attempt to take Detroit.  Along the way, La Balme took an unoccupied British and Indian trading post near present day Fort Wayne, Indiana.  When his expected reinforcements did not show up, he took some of his men to capture another post along the Eel River.  The local Indians were unhappy with the outsiders intruding and attacked.  After a lengthy battle, most of the men, include Jean Baptiste Cardinal, perished along the Eel River.

 

Jean Baptiste Cardinal was my 7th great-uncle on my mom’s side.

REFERENCES

  • Canadian Genealogy Index
  • Quebec Vital Church Records (Drouin Collection)
  • Quebec, Genealogical Dictionary of Canadian Families (Tanguay Collection)
  • “De La Balme’s Defeat” – Revolutionary War and Beyond website

May Lennington

18 Monday May 2020

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On May 18, 1863, Thomas S. Lennington and Anna R. Pierson welcomed their only daughter, May,  into this world in Licking County, Ohio.  Thomas supported the family as a farmer and served in the Civil War during 1864.

May married Marvin Custer, a nephew of General George Custer, on August 29, 1881 in Licking County.  They immediately started a family with their son George Armstrong Custer being born in 1882 in Iowa.  The small family returned to Ohio where they added a daughter Marie in 1885.

May’s father passed away in 1888, and her mother moved in with Marvin and May.  Anna resided with them until her death in 1912.  Marvin supported the family as a railroad engineer, having worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad for twenty-seven years at the time of his retirement.  Just shy of his sixtieth birthday, Marvin was suddenly stricken with a heart attack and died at his home on September 8, 1915.

Both of their children, George and Marie, married and had families.  Marie’s life was cut short at the age of thirty-five due to pregnancy complications.  May carried on, eventually living with George and his family.  She died at home on February 11, 1933 at the age of sixty-nine.

 

May Lennington was my 4th cousin, 5x removed on my dad’s side.

REFERENCES

  • United States Census, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1930
  • Ohio County Marriages
  • Find a Grave website
  • The Newark (OH) Advocate, Feburary 13, 1933, via Newspapers.com
  • Ohio Deaths
  • Lancaster Eagle-Gazette, September 9, 1915, via Newspapers.com
  • United States Civil War Draft Registration Records

 

Charles Cardinal

17 Sunday May 2020

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Charles Cardinal was one of at least 5 children born to Pierre Cardinal and Madeleine Cesar.  He came into this world on May 17, 1718 at Lachine, Quebec, Canada.  He had at least two brothers, Jean Baptiste and Francois, and two sisters, Marie Angelique and Marie Joseph.

Charles was married twice. His first wife was Marie Catherine Deniau and they were married on January 19, 1750 in Lachine.   No children have been identified from this union and it is likely Marie Catherine perished just a few short years after their marriage.

Charles married his second wife Susanne Amable Massiot on 20 January 1755 in Lachine.  To this marriage was born at least six daughters and one son: Suzanne-Catherine, Charles, Marie, Marie-Josephe, Suzanne, Marguerite, and Archange.  Suzanne-Catherine and Marguerite both died as infants and Marie-Josephe perished at the age of ten.

Charles is thought to have died himself in or around 1770, although documentation has not yet been located.

Charles Cardinal

Charles Cardinal was my 2nd cousin 8x removed.

REFERENCES

  • Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection)
  • Quebec, Genealogical Dictionary of Canadian Familes (Tanguay Collection)

Thomas Duncan Piety

16 Saturday May 2020

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Thomas Duncan Piety was one of thirteen children born to Thomas Piety and Mary Duncan.  He was born on May 16, 1801 in Shelbyville, Kentucky.  Among his brothers is James Duncan Piety whom we’ve previously discussed. His other siblings included Austin, Elizabeth, Sarah, Robert, Margaret, Samuel, Nancy, Ann, William, Susan, and Polly.

Thomas married Nancy Faught on March 6, 1823 in Bartholomew County, Indiana.  Much of the Piety family migrated to northern Knox County in the 1820s and settled in Busseron and Widner Townships.  Census information from 1830 and 1840 for Thomas and Nancy’s household would indicate the following children were born to the couple:

  • Boy, born between 1820 and 1825
  • Boy, born between 1825 and 1830
  • Girl, born between 1825 and 1830 – Barbara Ann
  • 2 Girls, born between 1830 and 1835 – Lucinda M

The 1850 census has two of the girls still living with their parents as indicated above in blue.  The identity or fate of the remaining three children is not clearly known.  It is likely that one of the sons is Samuel Duncan Piety (1826-1864).  He married in 1849.  Both Thomas and Samuel are buried in the same cemetery and their headstones are of the same style which could be a clue to their relationship.  The remaining son and daughter have not yet been identified or located.

Thomas’s wife Nancy perished at some point between 1850 and 1860.  Barbara Ann married John Adkins in the mid-1850s as well.  Lucinda remained at home, keeping house for her father until his death March 18, 1865.  He is buried in Oaktown, Indiana.

 

Thomas Duncan Piety was my 1st cousin 6x removed.

REFERENCES

  • United States Census, 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860
  • Indiana Marriages
  • Find a Grave website

Marianne Adelaide Bayard

15 Friday May 2020

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On May 15, 1932, Marianne Bayard was born to John F Bayard and Marianne Bonneau in Vincennes, Indiana.  She was the fifth of nine children to the couple.  Her brothers and sisters included Samuel, Susan, Mary Louise, John Jr, Eleanor, Joseph, Mary Elizabeth and Margaret.  Her father was originally from France and her mother’s family was one of the first families to settle in the Vincennes area.

In 1850, a young grocer named Marcel LaCroix was living with the family.  Three years later, just months after her father’s death, Marianne married Marcel at the Old Cathedral in Vincennes. Marcel continued to work hard and eventually owned a well-respected mercantile in town.  He and Marianne had four children: John, Anna, Adele, and Helen.  All of them lived long lives.  In December 1876, Marcel was stricken with paralysis and passed away on December 4 of that year.  Marianne continued to raise the children as a single parent.  As she reached her senior years, Marianne resided with John and his wife Mary until her death.  On March 12, 1911, Marianne succumbed to pneumonia at the age of seventy-eight.  She was laid to rest in Mt. Calvary Cemetery.

 

Marianne Bayard was my 4th cousin, 5x removed on my mom’s side.

REFERENCES

  • United States Census, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910
  • Indiana Death Certificates
  • Indiana Marriage Index
  • Find a Grave website
  • Vincennes Weekly Sun, December 8, 1876.

Florence Thompson

14 Thursday May 2020

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Florence Thompson was born on May 14, 1859, the first child of Stewart Thompson and Margaret Jones.  The new family was living in Madison Township in Pike County, Indiana in 1860, so it was likely Florence was born there.  She had five younger sisters and two brothers: Alice, Eleanor, Thomas, Nancy, Maggie, William, and Emma.  Alice, Nancy and Maggie died as children.

By 1870, Stewart had relocated the family to Johnson Township in Knox County where they continued to farm.  On September 2, 1879, Florence married John Leveron and they set up their household near Decker.  Over the next twenty years, they would build a family of eight children, seven of which lived to adulthood: sons Shirley, Levi , and Stewart and daughters Margaret, Annie, Ruth, Grace and Hilda.  Grace died shortly after her first birthday in 1898.

In March 1904, Florence’s father died at the age of seventy-one from tuberculosis.  Seven years later, at the age of sixty-nine, her mother died apoplexy.  Florence and John continued to raise their family in the Decker area, only for John to succumb to kidney failure in December 1917.  Shirley, Levi, and Stewart continued to help work the farm; Levi going so far as to be separated from his wife and seven children in Vincennes to assist.

On September 26, 1933, Florence passed away at home from a cerebral hemorrhage after several weeks of poor health.  She is buried at the Warth Cemetery in Decker Chapel next to her husband.

 

Florence Thompson was my 1st cousin 4x removed on my mom’s side.

REFERENCES

  • United States Census – 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1920, 1930
  • Indiana Death Certificates
  • Indiana Marriage Collection
  • Find A Grave website
  • Princeton Daily Clarion, September 27, 1933 via Newspapers.com
  • Vincennes Sun Commercial, September 27, 1933

Joanna DeMoss

13 Wednesday May 2020

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Joanna DeMoss was born on May 13, 1813 in Fleming County, Kentucky.  She is believed to be the daughter of William and Polly DeMoss.  She had several siblings including Lewis, Polly, William J, Elizabeth and Sarah.  Joanna was one of the youngest of the DeMoss children.

Joanna married John G Wilson around 1832 likely in Kentucky.  Since most single families did not relocate alone, but rather in a group, it is likely that the Wilsons migrated to Daviess County, Indiana at the same time as her brother William and her sister Polly, who was married to Thomas Harmon.  These families can all be found in Reeve Township living fairly close together in 1850.

Joanna and John are thought to have had seven children: Minerva (m. John Scales), Nancy (m. Frank Malray), James, Sarah Jane (m. Phillip Scales), Rebecca, Deborah (m. Joseph Armes), and Indiana (m. Charles Mattingly).  John died just days before his daughter Indiana was born in October 1852.  It is speculated that Rebecca perished in the mid-1850s since she was missing from the 1860 census.

Joanna continued to work the farm near Alfordsville until her death on March 10, 1867.  She was fifty-three.

 

Joanna DeMoss was my 5th great aunt on my dad’s side.

REFERENCES

  • United States Census, 1850, 1860
  • Find a Grave website

Ruby Jewell Jones

12 Tuesday May 2020

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Ruby Jones

On May 12, 1913, a daughter was born to Cleburn Jones and Ruby Sims in Oklahoma.  She was named Ruby Jewell.  Because she shared her first name with her mother, some documents refer to her as Jewell, especially during her adult years.  A couple years later, Jewell was blessed with a sister, Estella, however, their father died suddenly while in Ft Worth, Texas.  The girls were raised by their mother, with the help of her Sims grandparents.  They mostly lived in the Beckham County, Oklahoma area, however, they did spend a few years in Kerrville, Texas, around 1930.  They returned to Oklahoma when the elder Ruby married John C Jones in 1934.  John was Cleburn’s younger brother.

It was in Washita, Oklahoma, where Jewell met Jesse Vernon Keas and they were married on October 28, 1938.   Jewell and Jesse started a family and raised their children to adulthood.  Jewell’s mother died in 1954.  The couple lived out their lives in Oklahoma until Jewell’s death on September 26, 1995.

Ruby Jones

Ruby Jewell Jones was my 4th cousin 2x removed on my dad’s side.

REFERENCES

  • United States Census – 1920, 1930, 1940
  • Oklahoma County Marriages
  • Find a Grave website
  • United States Social Security Death Index
  • Texas Death Certificates