Family Friday: Christopher Colbert "Col" Chappell & Wife Cornelia Josephine "Puss" Stanley Chappell

This double portrait of Col Chappell and his wife was posted to her tree by a distant Freeman cousin who's an Ancestry DNA match.* Since my family tree has quite a few Chappells in it, including my 3X great grandmother Sarah Heath Chappell, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Col is also related to me through his father's line.**

Col was born in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, in 1849 and that's where he and Puss were married. They remained in Alabama (where five of their eventual twelve children were born) until about 1882 when they removed to Texas where they lived out their days.

Puss died on 1934 and Col survived her by three and a half years. They are both buried in Lakeview Cemetery in Hall County.

[Posted by their descendant KathyWhitaker51 to her Ancestry family tree]

Here's how we're related:

[Ancestry.com]

*As a 5th - 8th cousin
**I'll have to research his lineage to find out.


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Family Friday: Johnnie Belle & Brice Norvill McDonald - About 1908

Johnnie (1894-1984) and her brother Brice (1901-1986) are several more of my distant Freeman cousins.*

[J.B. and Brice N. McDonald shared to Ancestry.com by jimkelly1803]

Johnnie attended the University of Texas, Austin, from about 1915 through 1920. Here's a group photo which includes her from the 1919 yearbook:

["U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012"; Year: 1919. Ancestry.com. U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-1990 (database on-line).

Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.]

In 1925 Johnnie went to Europe although we don't know when she left the U.S. or what countries she visited. The only record I was able to find for her was this returning passenger list showing that she sailed from Rotterdam (on the S.S. Rotterdam) and arrived in New York on September 10th.

[Ancestry.com. New York, Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820-1957 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data: Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1820-1897. Microfilm Publication M237, 675 rolls. NAI: 6256867. Records of the U.S. Customs Service, Record Group 36. National Archives at Washington, D.C. Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1897-1957. Microfilm Publication T715, 8892 rolls.]

[Ancestry.com. Passenger Ships and Images [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.

Original data: Various maritime reference sources.]

A year later she was teaching history at Central High School in South Houston, Texas.

["U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012"; Year: 1926. Ancestry.com. U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-1990 (database on-line).

Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.]

She and Samuel Charles Ballard (1892-1981) were married on June 24, 1928 and the 1930 U.S. Census found them living with her parents in Neches, Anderson County, Texas. Johnnie was teaching high school while Samuel clerked in her Mcdonald family's general store. Ten years later the couple were living in their own house, Johnnie still a teacher and Samuel was working as a salesman in a grocery store managed by another of the McDonald clan.

As far as I can find out, the couple never had any children.** They remained in Anderson County for the rest of their lives. From findagrave.com we learn that Johnnie was "[k]nown to be active in the East Texas Historical Commission and United Daughters of the Confederacy, John H, Reagan Chapter."

[Samuel Ballard and Johnnie Bell McDonald, photo shared to Ancestry.com by amreece1]

Samuel died in 1981 and Johnnie survived him by three years. They are both buried in the Neches Cemetery.



Here's how we're related:

[Ancestry.com]

**Her brother Brice named his daughter for her.


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Family Friday: Some Distant Cousins (Through the Porter Line)

John Graves Shedd (1850-1926) married Mary Roenna Porter (1853-1942), a paternal third cousin, three times removed,* in New Hampshire in 1878. The couple had two daughters, Laura Abbie Shedd Schweppe (1879-1937) and Helen May Shedd Reed (1884-1978). This newspaper photo of their children was taken a year after their grandfather's death.

[27 Mar 1927, 151 - Chicago Tribune at Newspapers.com]

John Shedd's obituary explains why he's referred to here as "the late merchant prince of Chicago."

[22 Oct 1926, Page 1 - Battle Creek Enquirer at Newspapers.com]

He was a noted philanthropist, donating $2 million to the creation of Chicago's Shedd Aquarium. He also supported the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Shedd-Porter Memorial Library in New Hampshire.



*Here's how we're related:

[Ancestry.com]

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Family Friday: Augusta Ewing Haugh Hardy & Her Sons

Augusta married James Daniel Hardy* in 1928. The couple had two children, James Daniel Hardy Jr. and George Frederick Hardy.

[Augusta Hardy & Sons, New York, Fall 1938. George Hardy (age 1 1/2), Augusta Hardy, James Hardy Jr. (age 4 1/2).

Posted to the Hardy Family Tree  on Ancestry.com by Charles Hardy]

I just realized that today isn't actually Friday--for some reason I've been a day ahead all this week.



*Who is one of my paternal second cousins, twice removed, and someone whose career merited a biographical memoir published by the National Academy of Sciences. (We'll look at him in a later post.)


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Family Friday: Ethel Imogene Nash & John Washington Hill

I've found two portraits of Ethel, one of my distant Moore/Matthews cousins)* and her husband John posted by a grandson of the couple who were married in the mid-1930s. As far as I can tell, they always lived in Christian County, Illinois.

["Grandpa Johnny and Grandma Ethel" posted to his Ancestry.com family tree by Kent_Hutchings]

["Grandpa Johnny and Grandma Ethel" posted to his Ancestry.com family tree by Kent_Hutchings]

Here's how we're related:

[Ancestry.com]

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Family Friday: Rosie Joslin McGowan & Ed McGowan

Emma Rosettabelle Joslin, better known as Rosa or Rosie, is one of my maternal first cousins, three times removed. She was born in Fairview Township in Jones County, Iowa, in 1871 and married Edward Calvin McGowan (1870-1949) there in 1890 which is probably when this portrait was taken.

[Scanned photo taken from album owned by Hilda Maxine (Ellison) Willison

found on Ancestry.com]

Here's Rosie's 1943 obituary in the Anamosa Journal from the Digital Archives of the Jones County Library:

[The Anamosa  Journal,  Thursday, December 9, 1943, page 4]

And here's how we're related:

[Ancestry.com]

*We had found a portrait of Rosie taken when she was a baby in my great great grandmother's photo album during our scanning session in 2011:

[Rosa Joslyn, cousin of Nora Webb, from Floral Album of Webb family photos,

courtesy of Olive Slater-Kennedy]

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Family Friday: Emma Maria (Worden) & Madison Kuder

Emma is one of my maternal third great aunts--she's the sister of my great great grandfather Dick Worden. I've already shared a family portrait of Emma, Madison and four of  their seven children.

[Madison & Emma Kuder-=Waterville, Douglas, Washington.

Originally posted to her public Ancestry.com family tree by FrancesGilmore45]

After Emma's marriage to Madison Monroe Kuder in Iowa in 1884, the couple moved to the Dakota Territory briefly before returning to Iowa where they remained until about 1898 when they re-located to Waterville, Washington.




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Family Friday: Amanda J. (Hardy), George Bartley & Family - 1895

Amanda is one of my paternal second cousins, three times removed. Our common ancestor is John H. Hardy.*

[Mandy (Hardy) Bartley is standing. Her husband George Bartley is seated holding their daughter, Hazel. The boys, left to right, are Willie and Chester Bartley.   The photo was taken at the Brady and Medaris Studio in Monticello, Illinois, in early 1895. Posted by lorenandkathy on a public Ancestry.com family tree]

This branch of the Hardys left North Carolina for Illinois and that's where Amanda was born in 1869. She married George Bartley in 1887 and together they had four children, one of whom died soon after birth.

Amanda died in Piatt County, Illinois, in 1960, having survived George by 38 years. They are buried in Bement Cemetery in Piatt County.


*Here's our relationship:

[Ancestry.com]

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Family Friday: Pauline, Bernice & Kenneth Brown - About 1909

I love this studio portrait of Hattie Pauline (1903-1981), Lillian Bernice (1905-2004) and William Kenneth Brown (1907-1979) who are some of my maternal third cousins, three times removed.* They were born in LaGrange County, Indiana and appear to have lived in that state their whole lives.

["Top to Bottom: Pauline, Bernice, Kenneth Brown about 1908-1910." 

Added to her Ancestry.com family tree by elynn7.]

*As you can see we're related through the Worden line.

[Ancestry.com]

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Family Friday: Seth & Ashtabula (Lyle) Thomas at Home

Another great family photo shared on Ancestry.com by VickieHill56, this one shows Seth and Ashtabula with two of their children, Jason Milton Thomas (1889-1981) and Faye Elizabeth Thomas (1894-1954).

[Left to right: Son Jason with horses, Seth, daughter Faye, and Ashtabula - about 1920. Cheshire, Gallia, Ohio, USA]

Jason and Fay never married and after their parents' died we find them living together on the farm in Cheshire according to the 1940 U.S. Census.

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Family Friday: Anna & Eli Lockhart

This double portrait of siblings Anna Pherebe Lockhart (1840-1897) and her brother Elial Lockhart (1832-1861) was added to their Ancestry.com profiles by "debbiemcl" who is one of my paternal DNA matches.*

[Anna and Eli Lockhart, found on the Ancestry.com tree of debbiemcl]

Anna married Abdy Park Hampton (1836-1902) in Russell County, Alabama, shortly after the start of the Civil War. She and her husband moved to Florida** shortly after the wedding and went on the have six children. They both died in Tampa.

Eli, who never married, died in Tampa in 1861.




*The common ancestors we share are John H Hardy/Elizabeth Ward

[Ancestry.com]

Eli and Anna (using her middle name) were named in an 1857 list of the heirs of John H. Hardy.

["Alabama Estate Files, 1830-1976," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9RGV-32B?cc=1978117&wc=MX5T-7N1%3A314239401%2C315421601 : 24 August 2018), Russell > Hardy, John H (1854) > image 42 of 51;

county courthouses, Alabama.]

**This branch of the Lockhart clan appear to have relocated to Florida as early as 1850.


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Family Friday: Rosie, Winnie, Polly & Lula

Fortunately someone noted the full names of this quartet so we don't have to guess who's who:
                       Rosie McGowan nee Joslin (my first cousin, three times removed)
                                Winnie McGowan Northrup (Rosie's sister-in-law)
                              Polly Worden Joslin (my third great aunt)
                                  Lula Northrup (presumably Winnie's daughter)

[Posted to her ancestry.com public tree by jeanandorf (who's not related to me

but manages two DNA tests of distant Worden cousins]

The location isn't mentioned but it's almost certainly in Jones County, Iowa.

I've posted pictures of Polly before that were shared with my by another cousin.



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Family Friday: Allen & Cora (Crossett) Taylor

If I have it right, Allen is one of my maternal first cousins, three times removed.* A life-long resident of Iowa, he and Cora were married on November 25, 1897, and had five children together. According to census records he was a carpenter.

[From the Ancestry.com family tree of bsutlery]

[20 Apr 1931, Page 8 - Iowa City Press-Citizen at Newspapers.com]

He's buried in the Wellman Cemetery in Washington County, Iowa. Cora survived him by eight years and is buried near him.

[Ancestry.com]

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Family Friday: Mary Jane Peebles (1829 - 1915)

Who are these people? And which one is Mary Jane?

The oldest person in this family portrait is Mary Jane Peebles Calhoun, one of my maternal first cousins, four times removed. She and I are both descendants of Isaac Webb and his wife Jane Kennedy. Her mother Jane Webb married Joel C. Peebles and Mary Jane was their second child. She and her husband Thomas Calhoun had eight children together, three of whom (Mary, Edith and John Alexander) are in this picture along with grandson William Henry Calhoun, his wife Dora and their baby John. 

Photo taken abt 1908 from left to right standing Edith Calhoun Haberman, Dora May Helsel Calhoun, William Henry Calhoun, Mary Calhoun Luehm. Seated left to right John Alexander Calhoun, Mary Jane Peebles Calhoun with John Calhoun on her lap and Sarah Jane Edmundson Calhoun. vivkifretz originally shared this to Ancestry.com on 02 Feb 2017

A life-long resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Mary Jane survived her husband by 22 years, her accidental death in 86th year was the result of burns caused by a gas stove that set her skirts on fire.

[Ancestry.com. Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1966 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: Pennsylvania (State). Death certificates, 1906–1963. Series 11.90 (1,905 cartons). Records of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Record Group 11. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.]

Like many of my Allegheny County relatives, Mary Jane is buried in the McKeesport and Versailles Cemetery.

A reminder of how we're connected:

[Ancestry.com]

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Family Friday: Harold Delbert Currey Junior & his Hat

 The captions to these two photos tell it all.

Junior was born in 1923 so he would have been eight in the next picture.

[All from my personal collection]

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Family Friday: Mary Jane (Peebles) Calhoun and Family

Mary Jane Peebles, the daughter of Joel C. Peebles and my 4th great aunt Jane Webb, was born in Lincoln Township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, in 1829. She married Thomas Calhoun (1828-1893) in 1851 and was the mother of eight children including John Alexander Calhoun (1858-1927) who is the man seated on the left in the family portrait below. Mary Jane is seated in the center, holding John Calhoun, one of her great grandchildren.*

[Photo taken about 1908 from left to right standing Edith Calhoun Haberman, Dora May Helsel Calhoun, William Henry Calhoun, Mary Calhoun Luehm. Seated left to right John Alexander Calhoun, Mary Jane Peebles Calhoun with John Calhoun on her lap and Sarah Jane Edmundson Calhoun. Shared on her public Ancestry.com family tree by vivkifretz.]

As far as I can tell, Mary Jane never moved out of Allegheny County and died in McKeesport in 1915.

As you can see from this chart, she is my first cousin, four times removed. While I sometimes find a family resemblance in cousins' photos I don't see it in this family portrait.

[Ancestry.com]

*Baby John's parents are standing behind him--William Henry Calhoun and his wife Dora May Helsel Calhoun.


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Family Friday: Perego/Newhard

The couple in these photos are my 1st cousin 3X removed Ida M. Perego (1867-1959) and her husband Marcus James Newhard (1865-1950) who were married in Jones County, Iowa, on January 26, 1885.*

[From the public Ancestry.com tree of Dmacness]

[From the public Ancestry.com tree of Dmacness]

Here's how Ida is related to me:

[Ancestry.com]

*The infant in the first photo is their son DeVere Eugene Newhard (1885-1929)


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Family Friday: Katheryn Madeline Matthews Dutton and her Family, About 1930

Growing up with adoptive parents I was certain that I would never (knowingly) meet any of my biological kin, but I'm happy to have been proven wrong. My mother's family, the Slaters, have been particularly welcoming and the stories and photos they've shared with me have been a great help in tracing my ancestry.

It's still exciting for me to find a family resemblance in someone's family photo like this one posted by another Matthews descendant on his public Ancestry.com tree. Katheryn, my second cousin, twice removed, and I share as our most recent common ancestors Eli Matthews (1804-1864) and his wife Susan Hanon (1805-1884).

[Courtesy of jimwhite1184, who is undoubtedly some kind of cousin even if the

relationship doesn't appear on Ancestry.com ]

I definitely see a likeness between myself and her oldest daughter Mary Catherine (1923-2007).

[From my personal collection]

And there are times when I see a similar likeness in my grandson Marc. I guess we're just being Matthews.



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Family Friday: Currey - Seacliff State Park, 1948

Here we are--Dad (Currey) and I cavorting in the surf at Seacliff State Beach.

[From my personal collection]

I was probably a little over a year old at the time, so of course I don't remember this at all.



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Family Friday: The Conners, the Marks (and Some Curreys) - 1948

Dad Currey had a hard time fitting all the names of the people in this color slide from July, 1948, taken at the Marks residence in Reedsport, Oregon. Actually he only noted their first names but fortunately that was enough for me to be able to supply their surname from my childhood memories.

Left to right we have (in back) Eben Conner, his wife Ada (Couzens), his sister Gwen Marks,* son Monte,** (un-named boy - probably Gwen's son Darrell, and (in front) Mother***and me, Eben's daughter Cecelia and Gwen's daughter LeVonne Marks.

[From my personal collection]

*I wrote about her husband George in this post from last year.
**Full name Eben LaMonte Conner, Jr.
***Though of course Dad calls her "Min"



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