Monday Is for Mothers: Aunt Ann?

I believe the woman in this portrait from my great grandmother's photo album is Elizabeth Anna Worden Peregoy (1839-1887) because there's a note that says "Aunt Ann" and she's the only relative that I know of who could be called that. If I'm right she's one of my maternal third great aunts--her brother Dick Worden* is my great great grandfather.

[Courtesy of Olive Slater-Kennedy]

Originally born in New York State, she moved to Iowa with her parents in the early 1850s and married Stephen W. Peregoy (1836-1883) in Brown Township, Linn County, in 1862.

Stephen enlisted in Company G, Iowa 4th Infantry Regiment just after the birth of their second child C.J.** in 1864 in Fairview, Jones County and served about seven months before he was mustered out on May 31, 1865.***

By the 1870 federal census the Peregoy family, with the addition two more children, were living in Richmond Township, in Ray County, Missouri. Ten years later they had moved on to Bourbon County, Kansas, with their five surviving children.***

Records indicate that Stephen died in Fairview in 1883 and his wife survived him by almost five years, although we don't know the exact date or place she died.



*I've written about my ancestor's Civil War experiences on this blog, starting here.
**We only know his initials and C.J. died in 1867.
***Given that date and that he was in Washington DC at the time, it's very likely that he had marched in the Grand Review of the Armies a week earlier.
****Their daughter Rachel, born in 1866 died at the age of 11.

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Monday Is for Mothers: Anna Delilah Webb Slater (1891 - 1973)

This 1957 snapshot of my maternal grandmother Annie Slater with her first granddaughter (and my first cousin) Sue* appears to have been taken in her backyard in Niwot, Colorado.

Sue sent a message correcting the location: "At my parents' home in Glen Burnie, Maryland."

[Courtesy of Olive Slater-Kennedy]

*Actually I was her first grandchild (and was 10 years old at this time) but that's a secret that, as far as we know, my mother never shared.



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Monday Is for Mothers: Rockhounding on the Oregon Coast

I'm guessing that this picture of Mother and me was taken at Merchant's Beach, Oregon, in about 1960.

[From my personal collection]

I wonder what the joke was.




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Monday Is for Mothers: Mary Delaney Groves Joslin Perego (1833 - 1920)

This third great aunt's given name seems to have been Magdalena, but she's always referred to as Mary Delaney which sounds like an Irish surname and confused me at first because her parents were Frederick Groves and Leah Bixler.*

This 1920 piece about her first vote gives us a good overview of her life:

[Page  1 of The Anamosa Eureka, published in Anamosa, Iowa on Thursday, November 11th, 1920.

Source: Jones County Genealogicl Society Digital Library]

The article refers to her "rather feeble health" and she died just six weeks later on December 24, 1920.



*However if you sound it out, you can see how Magdalena could be transposed into Mary Delaney.


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Monday Is for Mothers: Myrtle Ruby Worden (1882 - 1962)

Myrtle is one of my maternal first cousins, three times removed--her father Schuyler Colfax Worden was one of my great great grandfather Dick Worden's brothers.* She was born in Iowa, was taken to Nebraska as an infant by her parents and at the age of 21 married John Davison (1873-1949) there.

By 1919 the Davison family had relocated to Siskiyou County, California, but by the 1930 U.S. Census they had finally settled in Oregon.

This photo of Myrtle, her grandson Cecil Vernon Davison (1944-1992) and his mother Lorine Marjorie (Wells) Davison was probably taken in 1945/46.

[Originally shared by Ardis Patton to her Ancestry.com family tree]

Here's her obituary that Christine found in the Albany, Oregon, newspaper:

[Newspapers.com - Albany Democrat-Herald - 4 Dec 1962 - Page 2]

*Another child of Porter and Hannah (Leonard) Worden.



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Monday Is for Mothers: Emma Maria Worden (1861 - 1939)

While working on last Friday's post I realized that we have a portrait of young Emma that hasn't been shared here. It was probably taken in Jones County, Iowa, sometime before her marriage to Madison Monroe Kuder in 1884.

[Courtesy of Olive Slater-Kennedy]

This picture from my great grandmother Elnora Worden Webb's photo album that we scanned during the epic session with Cousin Sue and her husband Bob at her mother's house in 2011.




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Monday Is for Mothers: Notre Dame Shrine - Cour Mirabeau, Aix-en-Provence, France - October 22, 2018

Shrines dedicated to Notre Dame (Our Lady) on secular buildings are common in France. This one on the corner of a building on Cour Mirabeau in Aix caught my eye this afternoon because it was larger than usual and more artfully sculpted than most. Also Mary is often depicted holding her son but in this case I don't know what she's doing.

[From my personal collection]

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RePost: Monday Is for Mothers: Hannah M. Leonard & her Mother, Jemima White

This is the first post for Monday Is for Mothers way back on October 13, 2013. (I don't think we know any more about Hannah and her mother than we did then.)

Here is a portrait of my great great great grandparents, Porter Worden and Hannah M. Leonard; the earliest of my ancestors that I've seen a photograph of. Both of them were born in New York State in the second decade of the 19th century, where they got married in 1838. It was most likely taken in Iowa, where they moved in 1853 and where they are to be found in subsequent censuses, although they apparently also lived in Missouri and Nebraska at times.

[Photo courtesy of Olive Slater-Kennedy]

From the style of her dress, I think this photo was taken in the early 1860s (or possibly the late 1850s). Although her husband looks like he just showed up for the photographer, Hannah has taken some pains to look her best. She's wearing a broach with three white stones or pearls attached to her stiff white collar; her earrings are hoops that may have something longer hanging from them; there appears to be a ring on one hand and a handkerchief or gloves held in the other.

Probate records have confirmed that Hannah's father was Isaac Leonard who was born in Montgomery County, New York, about 1780 and died in Jefferson County, New York, near the end of 1862 and whose will is recorded there.

[Source: Seeking Michigan website, owned and operated by the Michigan History Foundation, all rights reserved]

It's her mother that's been the mystery here because she appears to have died before the 1840 U.S. Census and of course never appeared as more than a tick mark in those earlier censuses. From the death certificate of one of her other daughters, Cynthia (Leonard) Belcher, we learned that her name was Jemima White, always assuming that the information written there is correct. (I would like to confirm the name through other sources, but haven't been able to.)




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Monday Is for Mothers: Sarah Elizabeth Chappell (1830 - 1917)

Sarah's father Abram Heath Chappell was the brother of Sarah Heath Chappell Hardy (my great great great grandmother) which makes her one of my first cousins, four times removed.

[Posted to her Ancestry.com family tree by suzannepatton1]

Sarah was born in Cotton Valley, Macon County, Alabama, and that's probably where she met and married James Campbell Gambill Russell Patton*who had begun his teaching career there and that's where the couple's first child was born in 1851. 

Sarah and J.C.G.R. had six children, only three of whom lived to maturity. After her husband's death in 1912 Sarah moved from her home in Grandview, Johnson County, to Waco, McLennan County, Texas, where her youngest son Abram Chappell Patton had established himself as a successful business man and community leader. 

The abbreviated biography in the first paragraph of Sarah's obituary doesn't completely agree with existing information we have for her husband.**

[31 Mar 1917, Page 11 - Waco Morning News at Newspapers.com]

She's buried with J.C.G.R. in Grandview Cemetery.

[Findagrave.com memorial #31497872; photo added by Judi W #46932124]

Here's how we're connected:

[Ancestry.com]

*He's always referred to as J.C.G.R. Patton.
**As you can see he was a well-respected teacher and Methodist Episcopal minister.

[From manuscript at Layland Museum in Cleburne Texas "The Churches of Grandview" and clipping from article written by Al Smith published in the "Texas Christian Advocate," and information given by Mrs. Virginia Heath Freeman, Cleburne.
Posted to her Ancestry.com family tree by suzannepatton1 ]

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Monday Is for Mothers: Ashtabula Lyle Thomas (1857 - 1937)

Courtesy of VickieHill56 here are three more pictures of Ashtabula, first as a young girl:

[Ashtabula Lyle Thomas - Probably taken in the mid 1870's.

from the collection of VickieHill56]

And after her marriage:

[Ashtabula Lyle Thomas - from the collection of VickieHill56]

Finally, as an old woman, probably in the 1930s:

[Ashtabula Lyle Thomas - in front of her house in Cheshire, Gallia County, Ohio -from the collection of VickieHill56]

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Monday Is for Mothers: Sarah Talcott (1735 - 1809)

Sarah was only ten when her father John Talcott died in 1745. She and Obediah Willcox married in Hebron, Hartford County (now Tolland County), Connecticut* in February of 1749/50 when she was only thirteen.

[Title: Mack Genealogy : The Descendants of John Mack of Lyme, Connecticut.

Ancestry.com. North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:

Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.]

The couple had 13 children, the last six of them, including my ancestor Lydia Wilcox (Porter), were born after the family removed to Surry in Cheshire County, New Hampshire. Sarah and Obediah are my fifth great grandparents.

[Ancestry.com]

Sarah died a year before her husband and they are buried next to each other in the Surry Village Cemetery.

[Photo added to findagrave.com memorial of Sarah Willcox #63426137 by Cheshire #47921031]

*This link from the Hebron Historical Society shows a map of Hebron in 1744 with the homesites of early residents marked, including those of Talcot[t] and Wilcox.


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Monday Is for Mothers: Adella "Della" E. Webb Earnshaw - 1864 - 1958

While my branch of the Webbs moved from Pennsylvania to Iowa and then Texas* there were some who chose to go no farther west than Ohio. Della Webb Earnshaw, one of my maternal second cousins, three times removed, may have made Ohio her home but that doesn't mean she didn't travel out of the state (and country) during her long life. This photo is from her 1923 passport.

[Found on an Ancestry.com public tree belonging to lisaraines2003_1]

Della married Joseph "Joe" Henry Earnshaw in 1887.

[12 Oct 1887, Page 4 - The Summit County Beacon at Newspapers.com]

In 1901 Joe's passport application included his wife Della.

[Ancestry.com. U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007.

Original data: Selected Passports. National Archives, Washington, D.C.]

We know they landed in Liverpool June of 1901 (since the application is dated May 31st). They had traveled in style as "Saloon" or first class passengers. I haven't found a record of their return home.

[Ancestry.com. UK, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008. Original data: Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and successors: Inwards Passenger Lists. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA). Series BT26, 1,472 pieces. Data imaged from the National Archives, London, England.]

Della and Joe's only child, Elizabeth Webb Earnshaw, was born in 1902 and the family traveled abroad several times.

Here's their return from England in 1906 aboard the S.S. Carmania:

[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.]

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

Original data: Various maritime reference sources.]

For their 1916 trip, the Earnshaws returned home just over a month after the beginning of World War I via Quebec, Canada, on the S.S. Laurentic** as we can see from this border crossing document:

[Ancestry.com. U.S., Border Crossings from Canada to U.S., 1895-1960 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, RG 85. Washington, D.C.:

National Archives and Records Administration. ]

[GG Archives]

And here's the record of their return from London in 1923 on the S.S. Minnewaska.

[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.]

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

Original data: Various maritime reference sources.]

I've run of out time this evening to continue with the rest of the trips Della took but I promise I'll cover them in a later post.

Here's how Della and I are related:

[Ancestry.com]

*My great great grandfather Abner Webb who died there in about 1861.
**On January 25, 1917, the Laurentic, taken over by the British Navy to serve as a merchant cruiser, was sunk when it hit two German mines off the North Irish coast.


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Monday Is for Mothers: Bernice Evangeline (Grenfell) Currey - Encanto, 1930

This snapshot of Mother shows her standing in their Encanto backyard next to a little sailboat they had bought for their son in 1930, when Junior would have been about seven. 

[Photos from my personal collection]

All the time the Currey family spent on the water made the son an excellent swimmer and sailor. Dad said Junior's nickname around the docks was "Scully" because he could propel a row boat with one oar off the stern faster than most people could do with two.


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Monday Is for Mothers: Mary Meyer/Myer/Meier (1726 - 1786)

Just about everything I know about this maternal sixth great grandmother can be found on the front and back of the file card reproduced below.

[Ancestry.com. Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Mennonite Vital Records, 1750-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data: Genealogical Card File. Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.]

She was about eleven years old when her family left Ibersheim, an estate in Germany which had been leased since about 1650 by Mennonites fleeing from religious persecution in their native Switzerland. In Pennsylvania, the Myers would have joined other Mennonite families who had begun arriving there as early as 1719.

Mary and Peter's oldest child was born about 1745 which gives us an idea of their marriage date. Here's how I'm related to her:

[Ancestry.com]

Later this week I'll be transcribing her father John Myer's will but here's how he described her:

["Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G99B-KCR8?cc=1999196&wc=9PM8-FM9%3A268493601%2C270202601 : 3 July 2014), York > Wills 1749-1779 vol A-D > image 103 of 647;

county courthouses, Pennsylvania.]

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Monday Is for Mothers: Sarah Coye Slater (About 1825 - ?)

William Tiller Slater, my third great uncle, married Sarah Coye (or McCoy) on Valentine's Day in 1843 in Lawrence County, Illinois. The couple, residents of Shelby County by 1846, had seven children together--two of whom, Julia and Thomas, were under age when William died on September 10, 1870.

Here's the family listing in the 1870 U.S. Census which was taken less than a month before William's demise.

[Year: 1870; Census Place: Oconee, Shelby, Illinois; Roll: M593_277; Page: 149B; Family History Library Film: 545776.Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1870 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: 1870 U.S. census, population schedules. NARA microfilm publication M593, 1,761 rolls. Washington, D.C.]

William died intestate so Sarah petitioned the Court and was named administratrix of her late husband's estate.

["Illinois Probate Records, 1819-1988," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939V-WHHP-Y?cc=1834344&wc=SFKB-DP6%3A162590401%2C162612401 : 20 May 2014), Shelby > Administrator's record 1869-1871 vol B > image 44 of 64;

county courthouses, Illinois.]

Four years later Sarah petitioned the Court to appoint a friend, neighboring farmer Milton Lowe, as the guardian of Julia and Thomas which was approved on April 5, 1876.

["Illinois Probate Records, 1819-1988," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939V-WHHP-Y?cc=1834344&wc=SFKB-DP6%3A162590401%2C162612401 : 20 May 2014), Shelby > Administrator's record 1869-1871 vol B > image 44 of 64

 county courthouses, Illinois.]

By the time of the 1880 U.S. Census Sarah's household included her son Thomas and her granddaughter Ida B. Haller (the oldest child of her daughter Margaret Jane who died some time previously).*

[Year: 1880; Census Place: Oconee, Shelby, Illinois; Roll: 251; Page: 142B; Enumeration District: 190. Source Information: Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. 1880 U.S. Census. Original data: Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. (NARA microfilm publication T9, 1,454 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.]

Here's  my relationship to Sarah:

[Ancestry.com]

*Julia married John Brock in 1878 and they were living in Fayette County, Illinois at this time. Their second son's name was Albert Tiller Brock--a middle name carried down through the Slater line.


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