Maybe I'm Missing Something? Legacy 9 and Hashtags

One of my many 3rd cousin twice removed, Elsie Mae Harnden (my Tibbetts side).  This is the only way I can figure to show all the hashtags pertaining to one person.  Print Screen, then edit in Paint 3D.  This seems awfully time consuming.  It doesn't even let you copy/paste, since the hashtags only appear when the mouse hovers over the # symbol.

I was hoping the Chronology view might provide some way to display the hashtags, but to no avail.

If you choose just one tag/hashtag, you can print out a list of people sharing that tag (in this case a list of people on my tree so far who, like Elsie, were golfers).  But I want to do the opposite--print out one person with all their hashtags.  Surely I shouldn't have to do "prt sc sysq" (print screen) every time?

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Some Notes on Mrs. Henrietta Dunn Tibbetts

"Neighborhood News - Viola, "The Post and Record (Rochester, MN), 22 Oct 1909, page 6, col 2; Minnesota Digital Newspaper Hub (http://www.mnhs.org/newspapers/lccn/sn90060314/1909-10-22/ed-1/seq-6 : accessed 25 Sep 2018).

Oh, I had such plans for a post today and ended up spinning my wheels on a cousin's wife's maiden name--my 4th great uncle Martin Luther Tibbetts, 1833-1916, married Edwin Dunn's widow, Henrietta.  What I know about Henrietta:
born: 23 Feb 1840 Columbia County, New York
died: 26 Apr 1923 likely Watertown, Jefferson, New York

She married Edwin Dunn (1834-1901) in about 1855, possibly in Brooklyn, New York. They had one known child, Clara Viola, who died in 1861 at 5 years old.

Edwin was a Civil War veteran and they both were involved in Minnesota politics in the latter part of the 19th century.

She married M. L. Tibbetts in 1909, and after he died in 1916 she reverted back to the last name Dunn.

Two separate records (NY State 1905 Census and 1920 Federal Census) show her living with the Charles Fairchild and Adeline (Mitchell) Fairchild household.  The first was in 1905 in Richfield, Otsego, NY (she was listed as a widowed boarder), and in 1920 in Watertown, Jefferson, NY as a widowed aunt to Charles (or possibly Adeline).

So far I have done some work on the Fairchild's ancestries, but no luck on Henrietta's maiden name yet.



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Oliver W. Tibbetts and His Violin

A rare Gaurneri violin (image from an NPR article about the violins, from Matthew Tolzmann)

I came across an interesting tidbit about one of my 1st cousin 4x removed, Oliver Whitfield Tibbetts (1853-1941).  Six years ago I had added a note for him, informed by Tibbetts family historian May (Tibbetts) Jarvis or Dick Dunlop:

Amateur violinist: According to Dunlop/Jarvis, one of his daughters remembered him owning seven Guarnerius violins, made about 1715.

While looking for Oliver's obituary today I found some information similar to this:

NewspaperArchive.com
La Crosse Tribune And Leader Press (La Crosse, Wisconsin)
Sunday, January 15, 1939
page 14, col 4.
[excerpted from a longer article 

Dakota's oldest pioneer today is Oliver W. Tibbetts.  He was born in Linn county, Ia. Dec. 28, 1853, coming here with his parents when a small lad.  He was married to Miss Alice Wilson, daughter of J. G. and Sarah (Brown) Wilson, who passed away several years ago.  Their oldest daughter, Ethel, now married, lives in Iowa.  Their other two children, Mrs. William Stanton and George, live in this vicinity.  Two grandchilden, Mrs. Harry Aiken and Jerry Tibbetts, reside in La Crosse, Wis. 

Mr. Tibbetts enjoys good health and is active despite his advanced age.  He has always manifested an interest in the welfare of the community.

Mr. Tibbetts' hobby is his violin, and nothing gives him more pleasure.  One of his most prized possessions is a Guarnerius, one of seven instruments made by Joseph Guarnerius in Cremonia, Italy.  The one in the possession of Mr. Tibbetts was made in 1715.  Mr. Tibbetts says that the whereabouts of only five of them are known.  One is in a British museum in London, one is owned by a Miss Astor of New York, another by a Corby family in Milwaukee and the other by the king of Italy.  The former owner of the Tibbetts violin claimed it had been in his family for more than 100 years.

I suspect the Joseph Guarnerius mentioned was probably Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri (1666-1740).  According to Wikipedia:

Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri, better known as Giuseppe filius Andrea Guarneri (25 November 1666–c. 1739/1740) was a violin maker from the prominent Guarneri family of luthiers who lived in Cremona, Italy.

There seem to be many more way than seven Guarneri violins.  Depending on the condition you can get them for 100's or 1,000's of dollars (from a quick look at eBay).

I share Oliver's grandparents and 4 great grandparents.  His father Jeremiah Tibbetts was a younger brother of my 3rd great grandfather Henry Charles Tibbetts.(1826-1902).

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The Importance of Ephemera

My 2nd cousin 3x removed cousin Besse Pearl (Greene) Modesitt's funeral card, thanks to Ancestry user robpower11.

I found this gem while I was straightening up my Tibbetts relations.  There was little information available online for Besse Greene, daughter of Samantha Eva Tibbetts.  I couldn't find her obituary in the three newspaper databases I subscribe to, and her death date was only available as 1969 (FindAGrave). 

But thanks to another Ancestry user I was able to fill in her death date and place.

I share George Tibbetts, Mary Burnight, John Hill Messinger, and Mary Martha Miller with Besse Pearl (Greene) Modesitt.

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A List of Relatives Buried at Harlington Cemetery, Bremer, Iowa

Harlington Cemetery -
8th Avenue Southwest
Waverly IA 50677 USA

Produced by Legacy
RIN Name
15560 Boveia, Ethel Ada
7284 Brechner, Sophia
10648 Bruns, Albert Luther
10646 Bruns, Albert Theodore "A. T."
10645 Bruns, Carlos "Carl" Grant
10652 Bruns, Eva Maye
10651 Bruns, Florence Elvira
15552 Bruns, Gerald Allen
10654 Bruns, Heinrich Friedrich Anton
15540 Bruns, Richard Allen
10649 Bruns, Robert Cooper
15553 Bruns, Verlyn Carl
15544 Cook, Elmer Henry
15542 Cook, Mildred Louise
7298 Dicken, Alta Elpha
7303 Dicken, Carrie B.
7302 Dicken, Elsie A.
7300 Dicken, Floren Marie
7305 Dicken, Stephen Monroe
16576 Duvall, Charles
15541 Fortsch, Alice Ida Sophia
10655 Hyatt, Scott Everett
10656 McQueen, Leslie L. (Fiance to Mae Tibbetts)
16695 Moore, Lurena Elizabeth
15536 Moyer, Donald Bruns
15537 Moyer, Herman Glen
15535 Moyer, Roger Allen
10640 Seward, Burtis Ira
10638 Seward, Cora Martha
7059 Tibbetts, Charles Louis
7279 Tibbetts, Ella Esther
7282 Tibbetts, Florence Gertrude
7257 Tibbetts, Gertrude B.
7281 Tibbetts, Mae
7072 Tibbetts, Nancy Ann
7283 Tibbetts, Viola Capitola "Cappie"
7280 Tibbetts, William Luther
15556 Waggett, Dorothy Anna
15554 Williams, Lucille Odra
16712 Woodruff, Donald W.


The above list of my Tibbetts relatives (and their spouses) buried at Harlington Cemetery in Waverly, Bremer, Iowa was copied and pasted from a .PDF I created in Legacy 9.  I think I will end up with quite a few more people on the list by the time I am done***.

This is a big reason for my purchasing the Legacy software.  I can create lists, so if I am ever in a place where my relatives are buried I can see at a glance who they are.  I have yet to figure out a way to include plot numbers, birth/death dates, etc. in this report, but it is a start and I'm still learning. Can't do this in Ancestry.com!


***haha, like I'm ever going to be done!



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Harvey Houses - Early American Fast Food

Richard Watson Tibbetts, 1919, in France. Image courtesy of Patricia Huffman on Ancestry.

Richard Watson Tibbetts (1896-1980), one of my 2nd 3x removed cousins, worked for a number of Harvey Houses in the first half of the 20th century.  He even left his first wife for one of the Harvey Girls!

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Finally, Jeremiah Tibbetts' 3rd Wife's Maiden Name! Edith Mary Eisenhart

The subscription newspaper databases continue to get bigger, shedding more and more light on former mysteries.

My own post from almost 6 years ago concerned one of my 2nd great granduncles, Jeremiah "John" Wellie Tibbetts (1859-1937), apparently a love 'em and leave 'em traveling salesman, cook, and miner.

Re: TIBBETTS in Wallace
 CManczuk (View posts)
Posted: 28 Dec 2012 09:02PM
Classification: Query
Edited: 28 Dec 2012 09:55PM
Surnames: Tibbetts, Lingenfelter, Dull, Ellis, Raup

Did some more work on Jeremiah "John" Wellie (my 2nd great grand uncle) and discovered that he had at least TWO wives before ending up in Idaho, where he had 2 more wives.  

First wife was Elizabeth "Lizzie" Lingenfelter, who he married in the Indianapolis area in 1876. They got married very young (both 17) and they had two children (Mabel and Clyde). (About Lizzie and those children: Lizzie went on to marry Anthony Kuhry and they lived out their remaining years in San Diego. Her daughter Mabel Tibbetts married Edward Everett Horton and lived in San Diego the rest of her life (no children). Son Clyde Tibbetts married Blanche Smee in Long Beach, CA and was working in January 1912 as a "launch engineer"/tour guide off the coast from Rancho Palos Verdes/Los Angeles harbor, when he was washed away by a large wave/swell and was never found (he did save the tourists though!). He had an infant son by then, Paul Ellis Tibbetts, and an unborn daughter Dortha who was born after his death.) 

Anyway, I'm assuming Jeremiah then left Lizzie about 1879, and immediately took up with Flora Dull in Bremer County, Iowa, having a child (Leta) with her within a year of son Clyde's birth. Jeremiah and Flora were part of the Tibbetts family that left for San Diego, California abt 1882/1883. Jeremiah had 4 children with Flora (Leta, Mabel, Carl Oscar, and Glenn Haven, the first three in San Diego) and then left her sometime after she became pregnant with Glenn in 1888. She remained back in Iowa until the 1910's, when she came to live with Glenn in Seattle where she died in 1918. 

By 1894 his first wife Lizzie had come to San Diego and sued him for divorce on the ground for failure to provide. So he was either a bigamist or lived "in sin" with Flora. 

I think I've figured out 3rd wife/woman Edith M Ellis--she was the 2nd wife/widow of Civil War vet Daniel Dodge Ellis, and after her marriage to Tibbetts was over she went back to being called Edith Ellis (collecting civil war pension). I don't know her maiden name. She died in Marion County, Oregon in 1934, so if anyone wants to get that death cert it might have her maiden name on that. 

4th woman/wife was Myrtle Katherine Edwards, divorcee of Edward Raup. Her brother Frank J Edwards was kind of a business bigwig in Shoshone County, Idaho during that time. Not sure how legit that marriage really was, as it is not entirely clear to me that she divorced Edward Raup or was just separated, as she was back with Edward in 1920 (but then married James Bailey in 1921??). I guess Wellie met his match with that lady lol

So I knew when and where this Edith M. lived and died (born 1867 in Oregon - died 9 October 1834 in Salem, Marion, Oregon), but I didn't know her maiden name.

Well, what did I find yesterday but this lovely mention of Mrs. Edith Ellis' sister Mrs. Charles Marquess (Tallien Marie Eisenhart b. 1876) receiving news of her death.  A little more research in census and city directories in Oregon and I discovered Edith M. was originally Edith Mary Eisenhart, daughter of Lawrence Eisenhart and Mary W. Hutton.

The News-Review
(Roseburg, Oregon)
17 Oct 1934, Wed (Newspapers.com) Page 4

Olalla 

Mrs. Charles Marquise [Marquess] received word Thursday of the death of her sister, Mrs. Edith Ellis, who went to a hospital in Salem [Marion County, Oregon] last week after having spent the summer here at the home of Mrs. Marquise.

I always feel it is a minor triumph when I can figure out a woman's maiden name.


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My Cousin, Mary Margaret Strong, aka Margaret De Patta, Mid-Century Jewelry Artist

"De Patta with her second husband, Eugene Bielawski, in 1957. Courtesy of the Margaret De Patta Archives (Bielawski Trust)." http://www.eichlernetwork.com/blog/margaret-de-pattas-house-sale-and-her-influence-shows

My 2nd 2x removed cousin, Mary Margaret Strong (1903-1964), was a jewelry designer in the San Francisco Bay area.  I knew nothing about her until I found her in my genealogy, but she made some very cool jewelry (that I can't afford lol). 

Her original name was Mary Margaret Strong.  She married Sam De Patta (1900-1967), a hat salesman, in 1928, and although she later remarried she kept his last name.  Her second husband, Eugene Bielawski (1911-2002), was also an artist.

Accoring to Wikipedia:

Margaret De Patta (née Strong; 1903–1964) was an American jewelry designer active in the mid-century jewelry movement.[1] Her innovative jewelry was influenced by the "Bauhaus school, constructivism, and democratic ideals".[2] Her work is collected in many major museums including the Smithsonian American Art Museum[3] and the Oakland Museum of California.[4] The first major retrospective of her work, Space-Light-Structure: The Jewelry of Margaret De Patta, opened at the Museum of Arts and Design in 2012.[1]

Her obituary named her as Margaret DePatta Bielawski:

San Francisco Chronicle
Sunday, Mar 22, 1964
Page: 30
from GenealogyBank.com 

Bielawski - In Oakland, March 19, 1964, Margaret DePatta Bielawski, beloved wife of Eugene Bielawski and sister of Mrs. Benjamin Ginsburg of Van Nuys, Mrs. William, J. O'Brien of Oakland and Harold Strong Jr. of San Diego; aunt of Mrs. M. Mathans of Escondido, Mrs. Charles Carter of Santa Maria and Miss Diane O'Brien of Oakland.  A member of the Metae[sic] Arts Guild, the Designers Craftsmen of California, and the American Craftsmen Council.  A native of Tacoma, Washington. 

Private services were held Saturday afternoon, March 21, in Oakland.
(Albert Brown Mortuary)

Margaret's grandmother was a sister of my 2nd great grandmother Mary Jane (Tibbetts) Hartley.

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Robert M. Tibbetts Finds An Old Stone Mill in Borrego Valley

My 3rd great uncle Robert Nelson Tibbetts (1848-1926), older brother of my 2nd great grandmother Mary Jane (Tibbetts) Hartley, with his third wife Mary Cristina Garcia (1866-1952) and four of their children: Juanita "Jennie" Pauline Tibbetts (1885-1964), Harvey Henry Tibbetts (1887-1970), Robert M. Tibbetts (1889-1938), and Adelia "Dee" Belle Tibbetts (1892-1979). The picture was taken about 1895, very likely in the Otay Mesa area.  I suspect the standing center boy is Robert M. Tibbetts.  Image courtesy of Ancestry user Danielle Hanson.

My 1st 3x removed cousin, Robert M. Tibbetts, was a butcher and oil worker, and apparently a miner as well.  He found an old stone mill (likely of Cahuilla origin?) in the Borrego Springs/Santa Rosa Mountains area and donated it to the Serra Museum when it was at Presidio Park (the museum and the collections are now part of the San Diego History Center in Balboa Park).  As his own maternal grandmother's people were Chumash he was probably interested in keeping the local archaeology local and not dispersed to the highest bidder, as was common then.

I tried to locate the object at the San Diego History Center through their online catalog and website, but their object collections are not searchable or view-able online.  I am curious if it is still in their holdings.

I don't know what the stone mill looked like, but I'm assuming it looked like this:

Image of grindstones from user ddozier at Palomar College.

San Diego Union (San Diego, CA)
Thursday, February 11, 1932
Page: 11, col 1
from GenealogyBank.com 

Museum Library Gets Additions 

Wangenheim Contributes Diary of H.M.T. Powell; Old Stone Mill Put on Display.
...
Robert M. Tibbetts of El Cajon brought in a stone mill, found in six parts in Borego valley while he was prospecting for the Yaqui mine.  The mill has attracted the attention of many antiquaries, and other museums had bid generously for its posession [sic] but Mr. Tibbetts prefers to have it remain in this county where it belongs.

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Mrs. Mary Jane Hartley, 'Mother' of North Park, Dies

Mary Jane "Jennie" (Tibbetts) Hartley, 1852-1940.  Image courtesy of HermitInTheValley (Ancestry user).

My final Hartley obituary related to my great grandfather George Henry Hartley (1878-1949) is his mother, Mary Jane "Jennie" Tibbetts":

San Diego Union (San Diego, CA) from GenealogyBank
10 Dec 1940
page 24 

Mrs. Mary Jane Hartley, 'Mother' of North Park, Dies 

Mrs. Mary Jane (Grandma) Hartley, 88, often referred to as "Mother" of the North Park district, died yesterday morning at her home, 3827 Thirty-first st.  She is survived by four children--Mary C. Reed, George H. and Paul Hartley, all of San Diego, and Mrs. Maude McDougall, of Berkeley. 

Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at the Plymouth Congregagional church, with the Revs. William Forshaw and N. C. Wallin officiating.  The Lewis mortuary will have charge.  Burial will be in Mt. Hope cemetery. 

Native of Iowa 

Mrs. Hartley was born in Waverly, Ia., in 1852, and her husband was James M. Hartley, who died here in 1904, after he had a far-seeing vision of the development of the North Park district, that is now populated by more than 25,000 persons. 

The Hartleys took a homestead at Dehesa.  Five of their children grew up there.
It was in 1894 that they bought 40 acres in the North Park district.  About the only living thing there then was sagebrush and jackrabbits. 

City Grows Rapidly 

It wasn't long until San Diego began having "growing pains," as Grandma Hartley used to tell friends.  Mr. Hartley said he would take up the lemon trees and put on a tract development.  He started it and the family knew his vision, and after his death a son, the late J. C. (Jack) Hartley, continued the development. 

Town lots were put on the market and homes began springing up as sage brush disappeared.  San Diego pioneers have regarded the North Park growth as one of the most remarkable in the city. 

Recalls 'Hard Times' 

In a birthday interview given eight years ago, Grandma Hartley said:
"People may think they are having hard times now, but should have been here back in '98.  We really did have a desperate struggle trying to make a livelihood.  But we got along all right, just kept smiling and did the best we could." 

Grandma Hartley led an extremely active life, and when there was a big civic gathering in the North Park district, she always was given a prominent place at the speakers' table.  High tribute was paid to her at such gatherings and friends and neighbors spoke of her in most affectionate terms. 

Enjoyed Three Hobbies 

She had three hobbies--flowers, her grandchildren and piecing quilts.  In one year she pieced 25 quilts that she gave to her children and grandchildren.  She was a member of the San Diego Pioneer society and the Women's Relief corps.  All her life in San Diego Mrs. Hartley was interested in social and philanthropic work.  She donated generously her time and money to charity work. 

Survivors listed 

There are three surviving sisters--May Jarvis, Olive Puryear and Jessie Lamb, all of San Diego.  Mrs. Dee Stevens, a daughter of Mrs. Hartley's, died two years ago.  There are 13 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren. 

When the Hartleys settled in the North Park district and set out their lemon trees, they built a ranch house on almost the identical spot of the house in which Grandma Hartley died.

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Delia Hartley Stevens....useful life ends

3 generations: Mary J. (Tibbetts) Hartley, granddaughter Dorothy (Stevens) Dunlop, and daughter Delia (Hartley) Stevens. Mary J. Hartley's son George Henry Hartley (not pictured) was my great grandfather. Courtesy of HermitInTheValley (Ancestry).

On Saturday I posted the obituary for my 2nd great aunt Mary Hartley Read.  I've been neglecting my Hartley side for a while and thought it might be good to review them.  Here is the obituary for Mary's sister Delia (Hartley) Stevens, who was a teacher, like Mary.

San Diego Union (San Diego, CA)
Friday, 25 Nov 1938
page 16, col 7
from GenealogyBank 

Delia Hartley Stevens....useful life ends 

S.D. Pioneer, Teacher, Dies 

Delia Hartley Stevens, who taught in little red schoolhouses at Julian, Jamul, Chollas valley and El Cajon many years ago, died Wednesday night at her home, 3506 Arizona st.  She was the wife of William Jay Stevens, North Park business man. 

Mrs. Stevens was born in Des Moines, Ia., coming here with her parents, pioneers, in 1882, when eight years old.  The family settled in Dehesa valley where Delia and her two brothers and sisters grew to high school age.  Then they came to San Diego where the children graduated from the old Russ High school. In 1892 Mrs. Stevens and her sister, now Mary Read, graduated from the State Normal school, Los Angeles.  For nine years Mrs. Stevens taught school in San Diego county. 

AIDED DEVELOPMENT 

In 1901 Delia Hartley was married to Will Jay Stevens and lived in El Cajon valley for several years, later moving to San Diego where Mr. Stevens entered the real estate business.  In the North Park district, where Mr. Stevens' mother now resides, Mr. and Mrs. Stevens were active in developing that section of the city.  Mrs. Stevens was active in San Diego chapter D.A.R.  She was beloved by everybody in the North Park district, because before her long illness began she was prominent in all civic affairs in that rapidly growing section of San Diego.  She inherited her admirable North Park spirit from her parents, as did other members of the Hartley family.  Her mother, affectionately known as Grandma Hartley, is referred to as the "mother of North Park." Jack Hartley, another prominent figure in the North Park district and a brother of Mrs. Stevens, died Nov. 5, 1937. 

HUSBAND SURVIVES 

Besides her husband, Mrs. Stevens is survived by a daughter, Dorothy Dunlop, and a grandson, Richard Davis Stanley; also her mother, Mary J. Hartley; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Read and Mrs. Maud MacDougall; two brothers, George and Paul Hartley.
Services will be held this afternoon at 1:30 at Bonham Brothers' mortuary.  The Rev. William Forshaw, La Jolla, formerly of the North Park district, will officiate.

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Related on Both Sides

Harry Tibbetts (born in Wyoming in 1915) and his siblings are apparently related to me through both my Hartley and Slater sides.

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Bremer County, Iowa is a Genealogical Hotspot for Me

Bremer County's location compared to major cities in the Midwest.  Image taken from City-Data.com's entry on Bremer County, Iowa.

This is Waverly (filmed in 1961 for the Chamber of Commerce).

WAVERLY: Bremer Co. Historical Society Museum (from KGAN CBS 2)

As I am straightening out my ancestral locations, I come back over and over again to places in Bremer County, Iowa (including the towns of Waverly and Waterloo), where my Tibbetts and Messingers settled in the early 1850s after leaving the Indianapolis area about 1845.  Although my direct ancestors left the area by the 1870s, I still have distant cousins living there.


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Cousin Jonathan Edward Tibbetts Spent Some Time in a Montana prison for Forgery

Jonathan E Tibbetts shares his paternal grandparents with me (my 5th great grandparents Benjamin Tibbetts and Hannah Snow) through Jonathan Snow Tibbetts (brother of my 4th great grandfather George Tibbetts, not shown).

My 1st cousin 5xs removed Jonathan Tibbetts (1856-1930) was quite difficult to track after he was last found as a clerk in Portand, Oregon in 1887.

Montana State Historical Society (Helena, MT), Prisoner Descriptions: Edward Tibbetts, 30 Apr 1910; digital image, Montana, Prison Records, 1861-1968 (http://www.ancestry.com : 17 Aug 2017).

Apparently he was quite busy (on the description above he was both a Civil Engineer and a Barber), and he also eventually ended up convicted for forgery in Great Falls, Cascade, Montana, and sentenced on April 28, 1910:

"...Held on a charge of forgery, Edward Tibbetts was arraigned before Judge Leslie yesterday afternoon, and entered a plea of not guilty.  He will be tried at the next term of the district court.  Tibbetts is alleged to have passed a bogus check for $40 on George Cor, a local saloon keeper on March 18, 1910.  The check was drawn on the First National bank and was signed "J. E. Hammond, secretary." When the check was presented for payment the bank turned it down and the matter was reported to the police.  Tibbetts was arrested on March 23, on Central avenue, by Chief of Police Pontet.

Pending his trial, Tibbetts is langusihing in the Cascade county jail."***

Definitely him--he has two sisters, Mrs. A. J. Knot and Elizabeth Hamblin (his older sisters Mary Eliza Tibbetts and Elizabeth Jane Tibbetts) in East Portland, which is where they lived.  I prefer more formal portraits, but any time I can catch a glimpse of an ancestor or kin I'll take it.  Montana State Historical Society (Helena, MT), Prisoner Descriptions: Edward Tibbetts, 30 Apr 1910; digital image, Montana, Prison Records, 1861-1968 (http://www.ancestry.com : 17 Aug 2017).

I find it interesting that he was using a name, "J. E. Hammond" which I will use to look up more records for him. After 1910 he was mentioned in a sister's will in 1915 as living in Los Angeles, and he died in Riverside County, California, in 1930, and I can't find any other records of him during that time [not him, see comment].

The Montana State Prison was designed by the architectural firm Link and Haire in the Romanesque style, and was built in Deer  Lodge, Montana in 1871.  From "A view of Tower 7 with Cellblock in the background of the Old Montana Prison," by Wikipedia user Tanankyo.

***"Alleged Burglar and Check Forger Are Arraigned Before Judge Leslie," Great Falls Tribune (Great Falls, MT), Saturday, 16 Apr 1910, p. 5, col 1; digital image, Newspapers.com (http://www.newspapers.com : 17 Aug 2017).



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Three Hartley Family Portraits

James and Mary (Tibbetts) Hartley, with their children in the early 1890s.  Clockwise from left: Delia Hartley, John "Jack" Hartley, Mary Catherine Hartley, and George Hartley (my great grandfather) in the center. Maud Hartley is at the bottom.  From my personal collection.

The first portrait was likely taken before James and Mary's last son, Paul Hartley, was born in 1894 (an eleven year difference from their last child, Joey, who died as an infant in 1883).  The picture was likely taken in either Los Angeles, where they were in the early 1890s, or in San Diego.

Hartleys about 1901.  Unfortunately I do not have a better resolution picture so making it bigger makes it more blurry.  My dear cousin Sarah sent this to me recently and I was very excited because it appears that my great grandfather George Hartley's first wife, Jane Denby, is in the picture (back row far left, next to my great grandfather).  I'm not sure where this was taken.

About 1904, almost certainly in their citrus grove in North Park, San Diego.  James Monroe Hartley (1846-1904),seated, would die by July, most likely from cancer.  John "Jack" Hartley (1876-1937) is crouched beside his father, little brother Paul Hartley (1894-1969), stands behind him.  Mary Jane (Tibbetts) Hartley (1852-1940) is resting her hands on James.  I'm unsure who the three women on the right of her are, likely Delia, maybe Jane Denby, and  Mary Catherine??.  My great grandfather is in the center back holding his first son, James Denby Hartley, and  it is likely Ella (Dodge) Hartley, Jack's wife, holding their first child, Marian.  Courtesy of dear Hermit in the Valley (Ancestry), who has countless images of Mary Jane Tibbetts' relations.

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"An Exciting Game": Why Some People are Hard to Track in the Records

Robert Ellis Standen is descended from Henry Tibbetts through Henry's son Robert's daughter Grace Tibbetts (1879-1907).

Yesterday I was shoring up and expanding through newspapers what I knew about the descendants of my 3rd great grandfather, Henry Charles Tibbetts (1826-1902), and came across this passage about one of his great grandsons, Robert Ellis Standen (1906-1971, a second cousin 2x's removed of mine), a sailor and itinerant writer and, at least initially, a hard-to-track person.  For years it seems he bounced around between the West coast and Florida.

Ogden Standard Examiner (Ogden, UT) (from NewspaperArchive.com)
May 9, 1943
page 9-B, col 8

[except from a longer article on Charles Hyde Pratt's magazine, "Florida Magazine of Verse" and the post office.]
The magazine's most spectacular find is Robert E. Standen, who had a poem in the first issue.  The contribution was postmarked Winter Park.  He finally visited the office--in paint-daubed jeans.  His shock of yellow hair was uncombed, his tongue salty with irony.  It developed he was carpenter, painter and night watchman, rolled into one.  He said he had played an exciting game for many years with ill health, unemployment and starvation.

The last line made me laugh out loud.  Definitely seems like a smart aleck relation of mine.



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To the Cousin Who Contacted Me A While Back About Tibbetts and the Mayflower....

From the Simpsons Wiki.

Respond to this post if you see this.

I'm bad enough at keeping up with my email.  Now I realize that I can't figure out all the ways someone can contact me via Google+.

A cousin (or husband of a Tibbetts cousin) contacted me via Google+ about a month (?) ago about just discovering a Tibbetts connection and now I can't find that message to save my life.  I do want to see what I can do to help answer your question, and take a look at the newspaper you mentioned!  I believe the person made a comment somewhere if not a message.

Stupid Google+ lol



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My 3rd Cousin 3xs Removed: Howard "Jim Clinkstock" Clinkscale (1904-1944), Professional Wrestler

"Jim Clinkstock, Cherokee Indian, Heap good wrestler come from Oklahoma!" Actually born in Kansas to Edna Tibbetts and Walter Dillard "Dill" Clinkscales.  Art from Remembering "Canada's greatest cartoonist by Conan Tobias.

Following the pro wrestling theme this week (see Minnie Nosler Enjoyed Watching Professional Wrestling), I thought I'd mention my 3rd cousin 3x removed Howard Clinkscale, aka Jim Clinkstock or Big Jim, was a professional wrestler from the mid-1920s until his death in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1944 of heart failure.

Howard (or "Jim") was a descendant of Benjamin Tibbetts and Hannah Snow, and a cousin to Minnie Nosler's first husband, George Henry Hartley.

Must have been pretty entertaining!  "Amusements. Wrestling Convention Hall," Kansas City Star (Kansas City, MO), Sunday, 24 January 1926, pg 74, col 5; digital image, GenealogyBank (http://www.genealogybank.com: 3 Sep 2016).

His life appeared to be as violent as his profession:

Even more troubles would follow "Jim" as his father Dill and little brother A.C. both died the next year in 1935. "Wrestler Accused of Fatal Beating," Augusta Chronicle (Augusta, GA), Thursday, 1 November 1934, section A, pg 6, col 6; digital image, GenealogyBank (http://www.genealogybank.com: 3 Sep 2016).

When he died in a strange rampage at a dentist's office (extensively covered nation-wide by looks of the result hits in GenealogyBank), it was finally concluded that he died of a heart attack.  He was only 40.

"Parker and Sikes Cleared in Death of Jim Clinstock," Greensboro Record (Greensboro, NC), Wednesday, 1 March 1944, pg 11, col 6; digital image, GenealogyBank (http://www.genealogybank.com: 3 Sep 2016).

He had been living at the Mecklenburg Hotel. North Carolina, Mecklenburg County, Charlotte. North Carolina State Board of Health Certificate of Death, Jim C. Clinstock, certificate 9, 29 January 1944.; digital image, Ancestry's North Carolina, Death Certificates, 1909-1976 (http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1121: 3 Sep 2016).

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Portrait of Phoebe Worrall (1785-1863)

Phoebe Worrall, born in Marple Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, is my 5th great grandmother (on my father's side) and wife to Jeremiah Burnight.  Their daughter Mary Burnight (1803-1863) is my ancestress who married George Tibbetts (1798-1855) and mother to Henry Charles Tibbetts.

After Jeremiah died in Indiana in 1839 Phoebe moved with her children to Iowa, where she married widower Thomas Graffort, who died a year after Phoebe.

This image was pasted into all of May Jarvis's genealogy books on the Tibbetts.  I am not sure who has the original or what kind of photography this was, although possibly tintype or daguerreotype?  A photo sleuth could probably analyze the date due to her clothing, but I am assuming it was taken in the early 1860s and most likely in Jones or Dubuque county, Iowa.

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Invitations to the Tibbetts Family Association Meetings

May (Tibbetts) Jarvis, my Tibbetts genealogist 2nd great grandaunt, was involved with the Tibbetts Family Association for years, evidenced by photostat copies she kept of numerous invitations to the meetings:

The yellow pushpins mark the places where the Association met, according to May's invitations and the newspaper article shown below.

I am not sure if May made it to this meeting.  Some more info on Charles W. Tibbetts here.  This and the following photostat images from a copy of the Tibbetts family lent to me by a cousin.  Courtesy of Katherine Rainey.

I think of Maine as being so cold, but then, I have never been there.  Apparently Ogunquit Beach is a popular beach resort, especially during the hot, humid summers.

Modern transportation map of the Ogunquit area.

A bathing scene from a postcard, about 1910.  From Wikipedia.

The next year the meeting was held in Sanford, Maine.

More on the Casino, Central Park, in Somersworth, New Hampshire here.

By 1939, George W Tibbetts and secretary Rosa Shorey were still going strong in the group.  A chicken dinner and cake sounds nice!

The following year May Jarvis had her work on display for the association, which met back at Ogunquit Beach:

Part of the article on the Tibbetts Association meeting in 1940.  From Biddeford Daily Journal, September 12, 1940, Page 5 (NewspaperArchive).  

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