Saturday Night Genealogy Fun

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:

It’s Saturday Night again –
time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Here is your assignment, should you decide to accept it (you ARE reading this, so I assume that you really want to play along – cue the Mission Impossible music!):

1) What was your first foray into genealogy social media on the computer?

When I first read the question, I was thinking in terms of social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. With that in mind, my answer would be My Space. Do you remember My Space? While I was a My Space user, it wasn’t for genealogy. Instead, it was job related.

However, when I read Randy Seaver’s answer to the question, I realized he was using a broader definition of ‘social media’. So, I looked it up. According to Wikipedia, social media

are interactive technologies that facilitate the creating and sharing of information, ideas, interests, and other forms of expression through virtual communities and networks

Investopedia identifies six types of social media

• Social newtorking
• Bookmarking
• Social News
• Media sharing
• Microblogging
• Online forum sites

While Randy mentions AOL, CompuServe and Prodigy those were ‘big city’ applications. Because the connectivity in rural America was slower to develop, these services did not take off in my area.

If I go back to the definition of social media and look at ways in which information was shared with the technology available in my rural area at the time, then mailing lists and listservs would have been my first foray into using ‘social media’ for genealogy. Thankfully, different entities were willing to allow their Internet servers to be used for some of these listservs. As the Internet evolved, most of those listservs were consolidated on RootsWeb. One could subscribe and unsubscribe from these listservs at will. A wide variety of listservs existed including surnames, locations and genealogy software. Thankfully, Facebook groups have evolved to replace these now unsupported listservs.

About the same time that listservs were popular, two web sites had online forums or message boards where genealogists could place queries: Ancestry and Genealogy.com. While the website, genealogy.com, is no longer active, the forum has been preserved. I was able to find one of my posts from 2001.

Like the genealogy.com forum, Ancestry message boards allow Ancestry users to post queries.

In the late 1990s a movement took off in the genealogy community encouraging genealogists to connect via websites. This collection of websites was called GenWeb. Many of these sites hosted a ‘page’ where researchers could post queries.

Many of these county GenWeb sites also created a bibliography of sources for the county. Associated with the GenWeb sites was an archive site where records were transcribed and shared.

While a web site is not usually considered ‘social media’, my personal web site has allowed me to share my research. Over the years, I have used a variety of (mostly free) sites to host my research. This has included GeoCities, and RootsWeb. As I learned to use The Master Genealogist, I also started using the software Second Site to generate a web site from my genealogy file. That’s when I started using Family History Hosting to host my genealogy web page.

When I switched to RootsMagic, I switched to using RootsMagic to generate and host my data. I continue to share my research in a variety of ways:

• this blog
• Ancestry public tree
• WikiTree profiles
• Uploading events, memories and sources to FamilySearch profiles

When it comes to my current social media usage, I’m working on connecting to Instagram, Reddit, LinkedIn and Mastodon, but my ‘go to’ sites are still Facebook and Twitter.

Thank you Randy for this walk thru Internet history!

Saturday Tidbits

Recently, the Nemaha County Historical Society received a copy of pages 1 and 2 of the November 11, 1946 issue of the Courier Tribune. While this copy of the paper was in poor condition, we were able to piece it back together for display in the Military Museum of Honor.

This issue of the paper was unique in that it identified those from the county who were killed during World War II, provided details about their death and often included a picture.

Since tomorrow is Memorial Day when we honor those who have died while serving their country, I thought it would be appropriate to interrupt the transcription of draft records to recognize these individual who gave their all during World War II. This week’s post contains those service men and women featured on page 1 of the paper. Next week, those featured on page two will be covered. Unfortunately, the photos in the digital copy of the newspaper are of low quality. Thus, they will not be used in this post.

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The Courier-Tribune
November 11, 1946

A Memorial Issue Today
For Armistice

Today’s paper will have special interest to all of Nemaha county, for it contains as many photographs as it was possible to collect of young people from the county who gave their lives in World War II.
A short sketch taken from files of the paper and from other information at hand is given with each.
This was a global war. It will be noted some gave their lives in the far Pacific, some in Germany, some in Italy, some in France, some at almost all points where the Stars and Stripes were carried in battle — in the air, on land and on the sea.
This issue lists one young woman, 43 young men who gave their lives. It is hoped that no omissions were made. If so, the paper will feature photographs that are turned in, and the V.F.W. and Legion will make pictures to go with the group of photographs in the V.F.W.-Legion room.
The paper thanks those whose regular advertisements were moved from the second page to make way for the service section.
A number of extra papers are being printed for families who may wish to have a few additional copies.

Capt. Dorothy Swart Tatum
Dorothy L. Swart, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Swart, now of Oakley, was born Dec. 25, 1917, entered the Women’s Auxiliary Corps in 1942, and was one of the first two WACs to join the European theater of operation. Served in communications in the Eigth air force. She was married to John M. Tatum of Mississippi in England. Returned to the states in 1945. Died at Mitchell Field hospital, New York, Feb. 12, 1946 from illness believed contracted in war work underground.

Lieut. Ernest Swart
Son of Mr. and Mrs. George M. Swart of Oakley, born Jun 11, 1919, near Seneca. Entered army service Feb. 19, 1941, joined air corps in 1943 and trained to pilot B-24’s. Served with the Flying Tigers in China and flew the “hump.’ Killed instantly Jan. 18, 1945 when engine trouble forced abandonment of plane.

George E. Guilford and William E. Guilford
Two sons were lost in World War II by Mr. and Mrs. Harvey D. Guilford, Centralia, now living at Sulphur Springs, Arkansas.
George E. Guilford, born July 22, 1921, was a cadet engineer in the Maritime Reserve. His death was October 14, 1942 in the Pacific area.
Private William E. Guilford, born Jun 8, 1925, served in the infantry and met his death near Aachen, Germany, on Sept. 16, 1944.

Private Adrian Rettele
Adrian Rettele, born May 5, 1922, died in a cave-in at Camp Carson, Colo., April 26, 1943 where he was serving with the 64th Medical Training Battalion. He entered service in November, 1942. Besides his mother, Mrs. Theresia Rettele, Centralia, Pvt. Rettele left his wife, the former Betty McCaig and a son eight months old. His burial was at Centralia.

Pvt. Paul Donald Boeding
Mr. and Mrs. August Boeding, Seneca, had four sons in service. Paul lost his life Oct. 3, 1944 in a truck accident near Dinant, Belgium. He was born Feb. 11, 1925, was nearing 20 years of age. He served with an infantry division.

Sgt. Roy L. Fund
Sgt. Roy L. Fund of Goff enlisted at Holton with the National Guards, which were called into camp at Little Rock in January of 1941. Sergeant Fund served with the 137th Infantry, E Company, 35th division; gave his life at Normandy, July 14, 1944. Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Fund.

Pvt. Joseph A. Enneking
Joseph A. Enneking lost his life October 13, 1944, in the European theater. He had been overseas only a few months and was believed to have gone directly to France from the United States. He had been in service two years and was in an infantry division of the army. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Enneking, Kelly.

Staff Sgt. Francis A. Kokenge
Staff Sgt. Francis A. Kokenge, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Kokenge of Seneca, was killed October 15, 1942, in a flight from Sedalia airport at Warrensburg, Mo., to Chicago, the plane crashing near the Chicago municipal airport. A heavy fog and high tension wires were believed to have contributed to the accident. A snapshot of Francis was made into a nice picture and is placed in the Legion-V.F.W. room but it was not thought a newspaper plate could be made.

St. Sgt. Lawrence Winderscheidt
Lawrence Winterscheidt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wintersheidt of Seneca, entered service in July 1942 and was radioman on a B-25 with the Fifth Air Forces under General Douglas MacArthur. He was killed in action near Jaoquinot Bay, New Britain Island on January 16, 1944. Lawrence was born Dec. 17, 1919, near Fairview.

S Sgt. Elgin Strahm
Staff Sergeant Strahm was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed B. Strahm of Sabetha. He entered service in 1042 and was in the Amphibious boat service of the U.S. army. He lost his life in action in the Southwest Pacific on July 1, 1943. He was born January 3, 1919.

Pvt. George A. Weeks
George A. Weeks, the only son of Mr. and Mrs. George E. Weeks, Sabetha, formerly of the Baileyville community, was killed in action, November 9, 1944 in France. Was in army about seven months and never had a furlough before going overseas.

Sgt. Virgil F. Brown
Sgt. Virgil F. Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs. Will Brown, Sabetha. He was an engineer on a B-24 Liberator Bomber. He failed to return from a bombing mission to Brunswick, Germany about 150 miles from Berlin, Feb. 20, 1944.

Sgt. Frank Schafer
Sgt. Frank Schafer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Schafer of Seneca, was killed in action January 25, 1945 in southern France. He was commander of a tank. He was holder of the Purple Heart and commendations before he met death.

Pvt. Bernard Schultejans
Bernard Schultejans, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Schultejans, Kelly, died December 26th in action in Luxembourg. He was 20 or 21 years old, and had been overseas only a few months and in action one month. Bernard was with the Third Army.

Corporal Cyril P. Nolte
Corporal Cyril P. Nolte, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Nolte of Seneca, lost his life somewhere in France on Sept. 8, 1944. He was born Feb. 21, 1910. He was in service two and a half years and was in one of the first infantry divisions to enter France.

to be continued

Friday Find

As I’ve been updating my THOMPSON family research, I’ve come across several sets of handwritten notes from a visit to the Iowa Historical Society in Des Moines. One set of notes is for Wapello County, Iowa marriage records.

Fortunately, I wrote down enough of the information about the book to locate a copy of the original work on FamilySearch.

Armed with my original notes, I located the entries in the books.

• Image 363 – start of 1850 records
• Image 365 – page 6 with Benjamin F. Thompson marriage information and marriage of Henry Evans to Mary Thompson

• Image 378 – 1853 Records
• Image 382 – Thomas Jefferson Thompson Marriage
• Image 386- Thompson James H to Isabell Crise
• Image 396 – Thompson Thomas B to Elizabeth Ellen Fairchild
• Image 406 – Thompson David R to Mary E McKinny
• Image 407 – Thompson W. J. to Saah J. Eyre
• Image 412 – Thompson Wm to Idra E Smith
• Image 413 – Thompson Wm to Juliett Mateine

John Thompson

John Thompson was born on 4 Mar 1797 in Kentucky. [1–4]

In Sep 1810, he was a  apprenticed to George Brown in Ohio County, Kentucky. [5]

In Nov 1810, he was a released from apprenticeship to George Brown in Ohio County, Kentucky. [6]

In May 1811, John was an apprenticed to John Taylor to learn the art of a blacksmith in Ohio County, Kentucky. [7–8]

He was listed on the tax rolls in 1820 in Ohio County, Kentucky. [9]

He married Sarah Iglehart on 1 Feb 1820 in Ohio County, Kentucky. [10–16]

He lived with 1 male 16-25 and 1 female 16-25 who was listed as John Thompson in Ohio County, Kentucky in Jun 1820. [17]

John was the father of William T. Thompson who was born on 29 Dec 1820 in Ohio County, Kentucky, [3,18–19]

He was listed on the tax rolls in 1821 in Ohio County, Kentucky. [20]

He was listed on the tax rolls in 1822 in Ohio County, Kentucky. [21]

John was the father of Jacob Thompson who was born on 17 Aug 1822 in Ohio County, Kentucky, [3,22–23]

He was listed on the tax rolls in 1823 in Ohio County, Kentucky. [24]

He was listed on the tax rolls in 1824 in Ohio County, Kentucky. [25]

John was the father of Benjamin Franklin Thompson who was born on 12 Mar 1824, [3,26]

He was the father of Levi I. Thompson who was born on 8 May 1826, [3]

He lost a child, Levi I. Thompson, on 4 Jul 1828. [3]

John was the father of Martha Jane Thompson who was born on 5 Dec 1828, [3]

He purchased land being the Northwest quarter of section twenty five in Township five south on 20 Sep 1829 in Warrick County, Indiana. [27]

He was the father of Andrew J. Thompson who was born on 10 Feb 1832, [3]

John was the father of Mary Elizabeth Thompson who was born on 7 Apr 1834, [3,28]

He was the father of John Lowe Thompson who was born on 6 Mar 1836 in Indiana, [3,29–37]

He made final payment of fifty dollars and cents being in full for the north west quarter of the south of range number nine west containing forty acres on 11 Apr 1836 in Warrick County, Indiana. [38]

John purchased land being the Northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section number twenty five in township number five South of Range number nine west estimated to contain fifty acres on 8 Sep 1836 in Warrick County, Indiana. [39]

He purchased land being the east half of the south west quarter of section twenty five in township five south of range nine west containing eighty acres on 3 Dec 1836 in Warrick County, Indiana. [40]

He filed certificate for the purchase of the Northwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section twenty three in township five south of range nine west on 5 Aug 1837 in Warrick County, Indiana. [41]

John filed a certificate for the purchase of the Southwest quarter of section 25 in township 5 South of Range 9 West on 7 Nov 1837 in Warrick County, Indiana. [41]

He was the father of Francis Marion Thompson who was born on 16 Apr 1838 in Warrick County, Indiana, [3,29,42–46]

He was the father of Sarah Ellen Thompson who was born on 17 Feb 1841, [3]

John was the father of James Allen Thompson who was born on 17 Feb 1841 in Indiana, [3,47]

He lived in Wapello County, Iowa in 1844. [18]

He lost a child, Sarah Ellen Thompson, on 16 Jul 1844. [3]

John sold land being the West half of section number 25 and the Northwest quarter of Southeast quarter of section number 23 in township 5 south of range nine west containing 360 acres on 11 Apr 1845 in Warrick County, Indiana. [48]

He lived in Wapello County, Iowa in 1846. [49]

He lived in Wapello County, Iowa in 1847. [50]

John lost a child, Martha Jane Thompson, on 4 Apr 1848. [3]

He sold land being the West half of section no twenty five (25) and also the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section no twenty three all in township no five (5) South of Range No nine (9) west on 19 Jun 1850 in Warrick County, Indiana. [51]

He lived at District 13 in Wapello County, Iowa on 19 Oct 1850. [52–53]

John lived in Wapello County, Iowa in 1852. [54]

He lived in Competine Township, Wapello County, Iowa in 1854. [55]

He lived in Wapello County, Iowa in Jul 1856. [56]

John lived in Adams County, Iowa in 1857. [18]

He died on 14 Aug 1857 at the age of 60 in Adams County, Iowa. [1–4,18,34]

He was buried at Forest Hill Cemetery in Mount Etna, Adams County, Iowa. [1,3–4,57]

ENDNOTES:

1. Find a Grave, database and images, Find a Grave (www.findagrave.com : viewed online November 2016), memorial for John Thompson (1797-1857), Find a Grave Memorial no. #27423393, created by Irish Eyes are smiling, citing Forest Hill Cemetery, Mount Etna, Adams County, Iowa; accompanying photograph by Cindy Baldogo, John Thompson.

2. Works Project Administration, “Iowa, Cemetery Records, 1662-1999,” database online, Graves Registration Project, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : viewed online November 2016), John Thompson.

3. Adams County History Book Committee, History of Adams County, Iowa 1984 (Corning, Iowa: Corning Departmental Club and Civic Department, 1984), p. 554-555 John and Sarah Thompson.

4. The Adams County Iowa Cemeteries, Compiler, Adams County Iowa Cemeteries (Prescott, Iowa: The Adams County Genealogy Society, 1986), p. 64; digital images, FamilySearch, familysearch.org viewed online 11 May 2023.

5. Kentucky, Ohio County. Order Books 1799-1904.  Film #1912998 DGS 7646780. John Thompson, Sept 1810; Book 3: page 39; digitized images, FamilySearch http://www.familysearch.com : viewed online May 2023.

6. Kentucky, Ohio County. Order Books 1799-1904.  Film #1912998 DGS 7646780. John Thompson, Nov 1810; Book 3: page 50; digitized images, FamilySearch http://www.familysearch.com : viewed online May 2023.

7. Kentucky, Ohio County. Order Books 1799-1904.  Film #1912998 DGS 7646780. John Thompson, May 1811; Vol. 3: page 82; digitized images, FamilySearch http://www.familysearch.com : viewed online 30 April 2023.

8. Michael L. Cook and Bettie A. Cummings Cook Ohio County Kentucky Records Volume 1 (Evansville, IN: Cook Publications, 1986), page 242.

9. Kentucky, Ohio County. Tax Books, 1799-1845.  Film #Film #007834494. John Thompson, 1820; image 469; digitized microfilm, Family Search https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007834494?cat=156804 : viewed online December 2018.

10. Bettie Cummings Cook, Ohio County Kentucky Records Volume I (Evansville, IN: Cook Publications, 1986), p. 94 (Thompson.KY.004)

11. Dodd, Jordan, “Kentucky Marriages, 1802-1850,” database online, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : viewed online November 2016), John Thompson / Sarah Ingleheart.

12. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 database, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com). : viewed online 11 May 2023.

13. Kentucky, County Marriages, 1783-1965, Sarah Iglehart, 1 February 1820; database with images, Ancestry.com http://www.ancestry.com : viewed online November 2017).

14. Kentucky, County Marriages, 1783-1965, John Tomson, 1 February 1820; database with images, Ancestry.com http://www.ancestry.com.

15. Ohio, Kentucky, Marriage Bonds, V. A-F 1808-1865:Vol. A page 39, image 74, John Tomson – Sarah Iglehart, 1 Feb 1820; digital image, Clerk of the County Court, Morgantown, Kentucky. film 494956 DGS 6463424. digital image. Family Search (www.familysearch.org:  accessed Sept 2018).

16. “The Family Tree,” The Ohio County Times (Hartford, Kentucky), 6 April 1972, page 15; digital images, Ohio County Times News Newspaper Archive (tnh.stparchive.com : viewed online 8 June 2021).

17. 1820 U.S. Census, Ohio County, Kentucky, population schedule, Ohio County, Kentucky, page 126, Image 7 of 9, John Thompson; digital image, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : viewed online November 2016); NARA Microfilm Publication M33

18. Portrait and Biographical Album of Wapello County, Iowa: Containing Full Page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County (Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1887), page 479 – W. T. Thompson; Digital copy, Archive.org, https://archive.org/details/cu31924050414295/page/n5/mode/2up viewed online 27 July 2022.

19. Find a Grave, database and images, Find a Grave (www.findagrave.com : viewed online June 2017), memorial for William T Thompson (1820-1898), Find a Grave Memorial no. #88989671, created by Donna Wells, citing Ottumwa Cemetery, Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa; accompanying photograph by llanggin, William T Thompson.

20. Kentucky, Ohio County. Tax Books, 1799-1845.  Film #Film #007834494. John Thompson, 1821; image 494; digitized microfilm, Family Search https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007834494?cat=156804 : viewed online December 2018.

21. Kentucky, Ohio County. Tax Books, 1799-1845.  Film #Film #007834494. John Thompson, 1822; image 533; digitized microfilm, Family Search https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007834494?cat=156804 : viewed online December 2018.

22. Find a Grave, database and images, Find a Grave (www.findagrave.com : viewed online November 2017), memorial for Jacob Thompson (1822-1905), Find a Grave Memorial no. #45064652, created by tjvon, citing Burns Cemetery, Burnes, Harney County, Oregon; accompanying photograph by tjvon, Jacob Thompson.

23. “Harney County, Oregon, Cemetery Records,” database, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : viewed online 19 March 2023), Jacob Thompson.

24. Kentucky, Ohio County. Tax Books, 1799-1845.  Film #Film #007834494. John Thompson, 1823; image 568; digitized microfilm, Family Search https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007834494?cat=156804 : viewed online December 2018.

25. Kentucky, Ohio County. Tax Books, 1799-1845.  Film #Film #007834494. John Thompson, 1824; image 596; digitized microfilm, Family Search https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007834494?cat=156804 : viewed online December 2018.

26. Find a Grave, database and images, Find a Grave (www.findagrave.com : viewed online September 2018), memorial for Benjamin Franklin Thompson (1824-1875), Find a Grave Memorial no. #17132974, created by Burt, citing Gowrie Township Cemetery, Gworie, Webster County, IA;, Benjamin Franklin Thompson.

27. Warrick County, Indiana, Book 2: page 96, Hinman to John Thompson; FHL microfilm Film #1443659 DGS #929115.

28. Find a Grave, database and images, Find a Grave (www.findagrave.com : viewed online September 2018), memorial for Mary ElizabethThompson Evans (1834-1917), Find a Grave Memorial no. #9398861,

29. Adams County History Book Committee,  History of Adams County, Iowa 1984 (Corning, Iowa: Corning Departmental Club and Civic Department, 1984), p. 555; .

30. 1900 U.S. Census, Adams County, Iowa, population schedule, Washington Township, Adams County, Iowa, ED 11, Sheet 12A, Image 23 of 26, family 241, Tompson John L; digital image, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : viewed online September 2018)

31. “Iowa, Cemetery Records, 1662-1999,” Ancestry.com,  (www.ancestry.com : viewed online (September 2018), John L Thompson; Works Project Administration. Graves Registration Project.

32. Find a Grave, database and images, Find a Grave (www.findagrave.com : viewed online September 2018), memorial for John Lemmon Thompson (1836-1917), Find a Grave Memorial no. #28927349,

33. “Iowa, Deaths and Burials, 1850-1990,” Family Search, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : viewed online (September 2018), John L. Thompson.

34. “Death Honored Resident,” Adams County Free Press (Corning, Iowa), 15 December 1917, p. 4; digital images, Newspapers.com (www.newspapers.com : viewed online September 2018).

35. “Obituary,” Adams County Free Press (Corning, Iowa), 19 December 1917, page 2; digital images, Newspapers.com (www.newspapers.com : viewed online September 2018).

36. “Iowa, U.S., Armed Forces Grave Registrations 1835-1998,” Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : viewed online (7 May 2023), John L Thompson.

37. Cemeteries, Adams County Iowa Cemeteries, page 53.

38. Warrick County, Indiana, Deed Book 5: page 549, Thompson final payment; FHL microfilm Film #1443660 DGS #8219116.

39. Warrick County, Indiana, Book 2: page 172.

40. Warrick County, Indiana, Book 2: page 262.

41. Warrick County, Indiana, Book 6: page 638-639.

42. Cemeteries, Adams County Iowa Cemeteries, p. 68.

43. “Iowa Civil War Soldier Burial Records,” Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : Sept 2018 (viewed online), Francis M Thompson.

44. “Iowa, Deaths and Burials, 1850-1990,” Family Search, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : Nov 2017 (viewed online), Francis Marion Thompson.

45. Find a Grave, database and images, Find a Grave (www.findagrave.com : viewed online September 2018), memorial for Francis M. Thompson (1838-1921), Find a Grave Memorial no. #27423472,

46. “Obituary,” Adams County Free Press (Corning, Iowa), 12 January 1921, page 2; digital images, Newspapers.com (www.newspapers.com : viewed online September 2018).

47. Find a Grave, database and images, Find a Grave (www.findagrave.com : viewed online September 2018), memorial for James A Thompson (1841-1868), Find a Grave Memorial no. #35201033,

48. Warrick County, Indiana, Book 6: page 348.

49. Iowa, State Census Collection, 1836-1925, John Thompson, 1846; database with images, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : viewed online October 2018). Original Source: State Historical Society of Iowa.

50. Iowa, State Census Collection, 1836-1925, John Thompson, 1847; database with images, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com.

51. Warrick County Indiana, Deed Book 9: page 240, John Thompson and Sarah Thompson to Samuel C Bradford; FHL microfilm film 1443662 DGS 8219118.

52. 1850 U.S. Census, Wapello County, Iowa, population schedule, District 13, Wapello County, Iowa, Image 102 of 204, household 692, John Thompson; digital image, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : viewed online November 2016).

53. 1850 U.S. Census, Wapello County, Iowa, Agriculture Schedule, District 13, Wapello County, Iowa, page 821, Image 8 of 24, John Thompson; digital image, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : viewed online October 2018)

54. Iowa, State Census Collection, 1836-1925, John Thompson, 1852; database with images, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com.

55. Iowa, State Census Collection, 1836-1925, John B Thompson, 1854; database with images, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com.

56. 1856 Iowa Census, Wapello County, Iowa, Iowa state census, Dahlonega, Wapello County, Iowa, p. 155, Image 19 of 20, household 107, John Thompson; digital image, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : viewed online November 2016); State Historical Society of Iowa

57. Works Project Administration, “Iowa, Cemetery Records, 1662-1999,” database online, Graves Registration Project, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : viewed online November 2017), John Thompson.

Black Sunday

Going back to my notebook of items received from Mildred Barby is an interesting article that has nothing to do with BRILES genealogy. However, it tells of an event that greatly impacted the western parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas.

Black Sunday

Worst of Dust Bowl’s storms was 50 years ago

Guymon, Okla (AP) Rain comes grudgingly to the Oklahoma Panhandle, where farmers of the 980s coax startling grain and livestock production from the dry land.

But nature had the upper hand 50 years ago when Guymon was at the hub of a historical disaster that gave its name to a region and a decade — The Dust Bowl.

Among the hundreds of dust storms that raked western Oklahoma and parts of Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas from 1933 to 1937, one stands out to those who stayed with their beloved land.

April 14, 1935, dawned as a warm, clear Palm Sunday, It became instead the day of the Black Blizzard — Black Sunday.

It was intense darkness. As dark as could be,” said Laurence Drake, 78, who was caught in the middle of an alfalfa field. “It scared us. We didn’t know what was going to happen next.”

The storm threw the farmers’ native abuse of the fragile plains back into their faces.

It definitely woke a lot of people up that we were misusing the land,” said Drake, who has spent a lifetime farming the Panhandle and working for soil and water conservation.

Settlers who squatted in the Panhandle before the turn of the century, when it was known as “No Man’s Land,” were joined by thousands more before Oklahoma became a state in 1907. Over the decades, they plowed up the soil’s protective grass and, when the rains stopped, the wind began to lift the fine dirt.

“The one-way plow was the worst thing we could do,” Drake said.

By 1935, dust storms had become a familiar and costly inconvenience for farmers and ranchers. the Oklahoma Panhandle, a row of three block-shaped counties with an area about that of Connecticut, was rattled by a dust storm on average every five days in the worst of the “dirty ’30s.”

But April 1835 was the cruelest month. In a region that averaged 19 inches of rain a year, little or no rain fell that month. The Panhandle reported heavy to moderate dust on 20 of 30 days, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture weather bureau.

In the week before April 14, blinding dust forced schools to close. A southeastern Colorado store ran out of sponges, which people used as dust masks. IT took a 100-man search party to find tow Vanceville, Kan., youngsters who lost their way in the swirling dust on a hunt for Indian arrowheads.

On April 10, according to newspaper accounts, 36 truckloads of furniture were counted moving west out of Guymon. Some were farmers giving up on the land, identified in the parlance of the day as “exodusters.” Most were migrants passing through the devastated Dust Bowl on their way to California.

The term “Okie” eventually was applied to all displaced people making their way west. The aging jalopy burdened with possessions became an icon of the era, an image burned into the national consciousness by thousands of pictures made by federal photographs, by John Steinbeck’s 1939 novel, “The Grapes of Wrath,” and by the movie, starring Henry Fonda, a year later.

On Thursday, April 11, a minor league baseball game in Oklahoma City was suspended because of heavy dust. On Friday and Saturday the dust began to clear. By Sunday, Oklahomans were looking forward to a clear day and a break from the dust.

It was Laurence Drake’s 28th birthday. He and a helper were taking advantage of the good weather to work an irrigation canal running form the Cimarron River to a “little patch of alfalfa” on land his family had settled 50 years before.

“I looked up and noticed this terrible black cloud int he northwest,” said Drake, who still framers near Gate, where the Panhandle is attached to the rest of the state.

“About half the sky, I guess,” he recalled. “It looked like a terrible rainstorm.”

Racing an estimated 40 mph ahead of a cold front pressing down from Colorado and Kansas, the storm was upon the men in seconds. The darkness was complete except for static electricity arcing eerily within the roiling dust.

Through the blackness, Drake shouted to his co-worker. Using their shovels as blind men use white canes, they edged along the canal. When they were within arm’s reach, the intense darkness still kept them invisible to each other.’

Elsewhere, motorists out for Sunday drives had to halt their Model Ts in the middle of roads. Farmers fell to their hands and knees and crawled to their houses. Their wives stretched dampened sheets across windows in a futile attempt to keep out the choking dust.

Families lit kerosene lanterns against the entombing darkness and waited.

Thousands of feet high and extending beyond the 168-mnile length of the Panhandle, the storm took only minutes to sweep out of Kansas, cross the 34-mile-wide strip and boil southward into the Texas Panhandle like a moving mountain range.

For 10 to 15 minutes, no light penetrated the silt-like dirt. Later the pall of heavy dust left behind muffled sound and made outdoor activity nearly impossible.

And those who had gathered three time daily in a Guymon church to pray for rain knew their prayers would go unanswered a while longer.

The dust from this and other storms drifted into dunes along fence rows and outbuildings. Planting became impossible; wheat was barely in the ground before the wind would dig it up.

The federal Resettlement Administration, predecessor of the Farm Home Administration, set up a program to provide small grants, about $10 to $30 a month to the destitute.

Drake administered the program in Beaver county from 1935 to 1934, evaluating requests for help.

“Our office was filled every day almost. … It was unbelievable,” Drake said. “There were very, very poor conditions. They were existing almost. They kept thinking that things would get better.

“It was just survival. Some of them had to leave. They just give up.”

From 1930 to 1940, the population of the three Panhandle counties dropped form 30,960 to 21,198. Nearly one in three residents succumbed to the vise-like grip of dust and Depression.

But the survivors learned new ways of treating the land. Under Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, the U.S. Forest Service planted millions of acres of trees and shrubs on farms to serve as shelterbelts and reduce wind erosion.

Farmers who prided themselves on their ability to plow straight furrows learned the value of planting with the contours of the land to reduce wind and water erosion.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Soil conservation Service began digging the first of more than 2,000 small lake sin Oklahoma to control flooding and provide irrigation.

Now, in a state that ranks among the top five in wheat and hay production, the Panhandle counties are among the most prolific producers. The weathered homesteads of those who could not withstand the onslaught still dot the counties, reminders of hard times adrift on seas of green wheat.

Cattle feedlots dot the Panhandle, accounting for a thick slide of the state’s beef production.

But rising prices for the fuel that powers irrigation pumps, a receding underground water supply and low farm prices raise the spectre of new dust storms.

“The poorest conservation measure for farmers is low farm prices,” said U.S. Rep. Glenn English, whose district includes much of western Oklahoma.

“Like every small businessman, during tough economic times, the farmer must squeeze every dollar out of his assets,” he said. “That land is once again being plowed up. It’s highly erodable land. Shelterbelts that have been there since the time of the Great Depression are boing torn out.

“Conservation is deteriorating, erosion of the land is increasing. IF we find ourselves in a dry period of time for two or three years, we could see the dirt blow.

According to the note below the photocopy of the article, the clipping was from the Joplin paper. A search of Newspapers.com to locate this article did not find it in any Missouri (i.e. Joplin) paper. However, what is likely the original article was found in the April 14, 1985 edition of the Tulsa World.

In my search for this exact article, I found quite a few newspaper accounts on Black Sunday and its aftermath.

• Reifenberg, Anne. “Dust Bowl Got Its Name on Black Sunday when a Dark Blanket Rolled over the Land,” The Buffalo News (Buffalo, New York). 21 Apr 1985, page F-6 available on Newspapers.com.
• Fisher, James J. “The Cloud They Never Forgot: Dust Bowl Scarred Land and Lives.” The Kansas City Times (Kansas City, MO) 13 Apr 1985, page 27 available on Newspapers.com.
• Fisher, James J. “Families Survived Dust Bowl days by Thinking ‘Next Year'” The Kansas City Times (Kansas City, MO) 13 Apr 1985, page 33 available on Newspapers.com.
• Webb, Tom. “50 Years Can’t Erase Dust Bowl Memories,” The Wichita Eagle (Wichita, KS) 15 Apr 1984, page 63 available on Newspapers.com.
• Griekspoor, Phyllis Jacobs. “Smart Farming Cuts Risk, but Threat Is Still There,” The Wichita Eagle (Wichita, KS) 15 Apr 1995, page 6 available on Newspapers.com.
• “Readers Share Their Stories of the Dust Bowl,” The Wichita Eagle (Wichita, KS) 6 Apr 2010 page 9 available on Newspapers.com.
• “Opinion: Dust Bowl Story, “The Worst Hard Time,’ Has Great Power,” The Iola Register (Iola, KS) 8 Nov 2007, page 4 available on Newspapers.com.
• “Recalling Dust Bowl Years,” The Manhattan Mercury (Manhattan, KS) 23 Mar 1989, page 6 available on Newspapers.com.
• Middleton, April. “‘Black Sunday’ Time Recalled,” The Salina Journal (Salina, KS) 14 Apr 2005, page 1 available on Newspapers.com.
• “Editorials: Black Sunday: The Southern Plains became a Wasteland,” The Wichita Eagle (Wichita, KS) 14 Apr 1995, page 8 available on Newspapers.com.
• “Kansans Shed Light on Dust Bowl’s Darkest Day,” The Salina Jounral (Salina, KS) 16 Apr 1995, page 1 available on Newspapers.com
• Ruetti, Oretha, “Recent Dust Cloud Sparks Memory of Mid-1930s,” The Marysville Advocate (Marysville, KS) 11 Apr 1991, page 21 available on Newspapers.com
• McManus, Gary, “On ‘Black Sunday'” Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK) 18 Apr 2010 page 67 available on Newspapers.com
• “Most Dust Bowl Survivors Stayed Put,” Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK) 25 Mar 2007, page 107 available on Newspapers.com.
• McManus, Gary, “Black Sunday Remembered,” Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, OK) 14 Apr 2010 page 6 available on Newspapers.com
• Hutchison, Mark A., “Som Saw Black Sunday’s Dust Storm as World’s End,” The Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK) 18 Apr 1999 page 155 available on Newspapers.com.
• Diehl, Don, “The Dust Bowl: Dirty Thirties Happened,” Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, OK) 18 Sep 2016, page 12 available on Newspapers.com.
• “Weather Stories Ranked,” The Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK) 14 Dec 1999, page 9 available on Newspapers.com
• “‘Dust Bowl’ Documentary Relives Disaster in the 1930s,” The Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK) 18 Nov 2012 page 64 available on Newspapers.com.
• DeFrange, Ann, “‘Black Sunday’ of Dust Bowl Not Forgotten,” The Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK) 16 Apr 1995, page 203 available on Newspapers.com.
• “Looking Back: Top News Stories, 1928-1947” The Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK) 22 Apr 2007, page 202 available on Newspapers.com.
• Raymond, Ken, “Filmmaker Stirs Up Dust Bowl Memories,” The Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK) 10 Apr 2012, page 79 available on Newspapers.com.
• DeFrange, Ann, “Survivors Dug Deeper Roots in Sands of Dust Bowl,” The Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK) 3 Sep 1989, page 1 available on Newspapers.com.
• Curtis, Gene, “Black Sunday Dust Storm Blotted Out Sun,” Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK) 26 Feb 2007, page 9 available on Newspapers.com.

The above list is just a sampling of my search for

“Black Sunday” “Dust Bowl”

While my direct familial line did not live in the Oklahoma Panhandle, they were living in Dodge City which was affected by the dust storms. When my grandmother would talk about those times, she often mentioned hanging the sheets over the windows. It is hard to imagine such a cloud of dust! Unfortunately, western Kansas may be headed for a repeat since that region is in a major drought.

Igleheart Will

While I have not succeeded at finding a will, probate file or even a mention of the death of John Thompson’s father, it was fairly easy to locate a will for his father-in-law, Jacob Igleheart. I originally found this will on Ancestry, in their Ketucky, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989 database. While that database included images of the will, it also provided the date and page numbers which allowed me to locate the original in the Ohio County, Kentucky will books.

Kentucky, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989
Ohio — Wills, Vol A-D 1801-1988

Image 473
page 161

In the name of God amen
I Jacob Igleheart of the County of Ohio and
State of Kentucky, being of sound mind and
[disposing] memory (for which I thank almighty
God) and Cling to mind the uncertainty of
human life, and being desirous to dispose
of all such worldly estate as has pleased
God to bless me with I give and bequeath
the same in manner following that is to say
First – I give and bequeath to my dear wife
Easter Igleheart all my home property both
real and personal during her natural life
and at her death I will and wish disposed
of as follows to wit:
Secondly, I give and bequeath to my daughter
Juliann Bennett fifty dollars cash also
one feather bed and furniture
Thirdly — I give and bequeath to my daughter
Sally Thompson fifty dollars cast
Fourthly I give and bequeath to my son
Jacob H Igleheart fifty dollars cash
Fifthly I give and bequeath to my daughter
Eliza Igleheart heirs ten dollars cash
Sixthly I give and bequeath to my son
William B Igleheart Heirs (Anne William
Igleheart) ten dollars cash
Seventhly I give and bequeath to my
daughter Jennette Miller heirs ten
dollars cash
Eighthly I give and bequeath to my
daughter Matilda Miller ten dollars and
Ninthly I give and bequeath to my son
John D Igleheart heirs ten dollars and
Tenthly I give and bequeath to my daughter
Rebecca Bennett for the benefit of his
and her heirs my black woman Ann and
her child (boy named Joshua.

page 162
Also one feather bed and furniture
for the same
Eleventhly I give and bequeath to my
son James Sopen Igleheart my black
man named John (Jack) and also all
the real (land) estate I may and shall
own and be seized with (of) at my
death — Provided he the same James
Sopen Igleheart at the death of his mother
Easter Igleheart will well and truly pay
all the legacies named in this my last
will and testament and also all and
singular each and every piece and particle
of the farming utensils and appurtenances
thereunto belonging and appertaining
Named will included and as for the
house hold and kitchen furniture (be the
same more or less) often filling all the
above bequests I will shall be equally
divided between my son James Sopen
Igleheart and my daughter Rebecca Bennett
at and after their mothers death Provided
nevertheless the said James Sopen Igleheart
is bound on [doer] and will well and truly
support and maintained his father and
mother during their natural lives and
after their deaths pay all their just
debts and funeral (burial) expenses and
give to my son Jacob H Igleheart or his
heirs one good feather bead
And twelfthly and lastly I appoint my
dear wife Easter and my son James Sopen
Igleheart as my executors of this my
last will and testament
In witness whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed my seal this tenth
day of March in the year of our

page 163
Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and fifty
two.
Jacob Igleheart (Seal)
Signed Sealed & Published
and declared as and for
the last will and testament
of the above named Jacob
Igleheart in presence of us all
Jacob L Condict Senr
Charles A Tanne[n]
John (his mark) France

I Jacob Igleheart of the County of Ohio
and State of Kentucky do hereby make and
public this codicil to be added to my
last (foregoing) will and testament in manner
following to wit:
I do hereby declare that my will is that
my daughter Rebecca Bennett or her heirs
on the reception of the black boy Joshua
as named in the tenth bequest of my
last will shall well and truly pay to my
son James Sopen Igleheart or his heirs the sum
of fifty dollars cast and of their own
estate
And lastly it is my will and desire
that my powers of Codicil be annexed
to and made part of my last will and
testament aforesaid
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed my seal this thirteenth\
day of March in the year of our Lord
Eighteen hundred and fifty two
Jacob Igleheart (seal)
Signed sealed and
published & declared
as and for a codicil to test

Will and Testament of
the above named Jacob
Igleheart in presence of us all
Jacob L Condict Senr
Charles A Tamen
John (his mark) France

State of Kentucky, Ohio County
Monday June 2nd 1856
J. R. Seth Mosely clerk of the county
Court of said county certify that this
last will testament and codicil of
Jacob Igleheart Decd was produced in
court and duly forever to be the act
and Decd of said Jacob Igleheart by
the oaths of Jacob IL Condict Senr
and John France subscribing witnesses
thereto which being examined and
approved of by the court in order to
be recorded and thereupon on motion
of James S Igleheart who took the oath
to qualify him as excr aforesaid entered
into bond as the law directs with James
B Bennet and J. H. C. Lindley as his [a?t?]
The widow of said deceased relinquished
her right to administration qualify by her
consent in writing filed duly from
att
R eth Mosely Clk
Ohio Co [?]

page 165
by the Court is ordered to be recorded
And thereupon Richd T Brown came
into court and took the oath to qualify
him as Admr with the will annexed of
Paulett Clark Decd and entered into bond
to the commonwealth of KY conditioned as
the law requires with Moses T Reid &
S A Taylor his securities
R Seth Mosely, Clk

Kentucky, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989, Jacob Igleheart, 10 March 1852; database with images, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : viewed online 3 May 2023).

Since I was able to locate this will in the county records, I was also able to attach it to Jacob Igleheart along with everyone mentioned in his will. Below is FamilySearch’s citation for the will.

“Kentucky Probate Records, 1727-1990,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9P3K-9F62?cc=1875188&wc=37R5-L29%3A173618801%2C174121601 : 20 May 2014), Ohio > Will records, Index, 1841-1862, Vol. C > image 89 of 148; county courthouses, Kentucky.

Josie’s Ledger

I shared a poem written by my 2nd great grandfather, Washington Marion Crawford. While discussing this poem with my cousins, one shared a comment about his having a copy of Josie’s ledger of poetry. This comment reminded me that I have the actual ledger. In remembering this ledger, I realized that I hadn’t done enough to share with future generations.

When the Internet was young, I did transcribe some of these poems and contributed them to the Kansas Memory project. However, I did not submit all of the poems. Evidently, I also had never scanned the ledger. I have since scanned the ledger and created a document with the scanned image on the left and the transcription on the right. This PDF file has been uploaded as a memory to Josie Hammond’s profile on FamilySearch. I’ve also uploaded Josie’s Ledger to Archive.org. Thus, I’m hoping that her ledger will be preserved well into the future.

Previous posts:

• Josie’s Poetry
• Our Golden Wedding
• The Call of the Road
• Armistice Day
• Answer to the Playhouse Under the Porch
• Come on, Pal
• Mercies
• Just Thinking
• Lines to a Friend on Her Birthday
• The Little Gray House
• Written for Circle No. 7 ME church

Song of the Wheels

Clickety Click, Clickety Click
Over the rails we go
Clickety click, Clickety click
Westward – westward. Ho
We’re speeding o’er the rolling plain
With wheat fields far and wide
Richer than Coronado’s gold
Spread on everyside.
Clickety click, Clickety click
Merrily on we go
Clickety Click, Clickety Click
Westward – Westward Ho
We climb the mountains steep and high
In Raton’s tunnel hide,
Then out “into the sun” again
On the western side
Clickety Click, Clickety click
Over the rails we go
Clickety Click, Clickety click
Westward Westward Ho
We twist around the rocky curves
In the canyons deep.
Down Glorietor shoot the chutes
Then slowly upward creep.

Clickety Click, Clickety Click
Over the rails we go
Clickety Click, Clickety Click
Westward, Westward Ho
We’re going west to see the sea
Where land and water meet
And the bathing beauties fair
Never even wet their feet
Clickety Click, Clickety Click
Merrily on we go
Clickety Click, Clickety Click
Westward, Westward Ho
When we have gotten clear out here
At the behest of man
We have to turn us right around
And go back East again.
Clickety Click, Clickety Click
Over the rails we go
Clickety Click, Clickety Click
Eastward, Eastward Ho
Clickety Click, Clickety Click
Merrily on we go
Clickety Click, Clickety Click
Westward Westward Ho
Then o’er the desert wide and dry
With sandy river beds
That often ragin torrents are
From snow in the watersheds
Clickety Click, Clickety Click
Over the rails we go
Clickety Click, Clickety Click
Westward Westward Ho
Then we climb the Sierra’s high
And on through El Cafon
The only word that rhymes with that
That we know is Raton

Clickety Click, Clickety Click
Merrily on we go
Clickety Click, Clickety Click
Westward, Westward Ho
Then on into the sunny land
Where the lemons grow
Also oranges and grapefruit
And many kinds of “nuts” also
Clickity Click Clickity Click
Over the rails we go
Clickety Click Clickety Click
Westward Westward Ho
We’re going west to see the sea,
Where land and water meet
And the bathing beau􀆟es fair
Never even wet their feet
Clickity Click Clickity Click
Merrily on we go
Clickity Click Clickity Click
Westward Westward Ho
When we have go􀆩en clear out here
At the behest of man
We have to turn us right around
And go back East again.
Clickity Click Clickity Click
Over the Rails we go
Clickity Click Clickity
Eastward Eastward Ho
J.W.C.

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:

It’s Saturday Night again –
time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Here is your assignment, should you decide to accept it (you ARE reading this, so I assume that you really want to play along – cue the Mission Impossible music!):

1) Then and Now – Did you ever conduct oral interviews of family members or friends and neighbors about your ancestors over the years? Who did you interview, how did you record the interviews, and what did you learn from them? Please share your experiences.

While recording an oral interview can easily be done with an app on a smartphone today, that wasn’t the case when I first started doing genealogy. Since I started my genealogy journey in 1978, I would have had to use a cassette recorder to record an oral interview. If I would have done that, then I would have to have converted those cassette recordings to digital formats to have any hope of preserving them.

Even though I talked family history with my grandmother almost every time we were together, those conversations were not recorded as an audio file. However, they were ‘recorded’ using a different ‘technology’: pencil and paper. Not only did I take notes during those conversations, but my grandmother wrote about her memories in some of her letters.

While I don’t have any audio recordings from either of my grandmothers, I did interview my parents prior to my dad’s death. Those interviews were recorded onto a small digital recorder. Since I wanted those interviews to survive into the future, I uploaded them as memories to his profile on FamilySearch.

I also used those interviews to write up the various family stories. Those stories were ‘published’ in a Shutterfly book. Each of my siblings, nieces and nephew received a copy of this book.

Saturday Tidbits

Courier Tribune
24 Oct 1940

List Nemaha Serial Numbers for the Draft

Over 1600 names are in the County Roll

A Master List Will Be Chosen in Washington, D.C.
Tuesday to Determine Order in Which Local
Numbers Will Be Called

The Courier-Tribune prints today a list of names and numbers important to almost every home in Nemaha county. It is the list of men between ages of 21 and 36 who enrolled on Wednesday, October 16th, for possible service to their country, and with each man’s name, the county serial number which has been drawn for him by the local draft board.
The arrangement is by number rather than by names because numbers will be the important thing next Tuesday, October 29th, when a master list is to be drawn at Washington, D.C. to determine the order in which local numbers will be called. President Roosevelt will draw the first number.

The local drawing and listing was completed Tuesday except perhaps for a few straggling cards. The board officially posted the list yesterday and sent a copy to state headquarters. The Sabetha Herald and Courier-Tribune joined in setting the large amount of type necessary and the list is printed in the two papers. TO avoid ruining the type to still greater length, a key system is sued to abbreviate names of towns. Where two letters make the name of the town clear, only two are used. Seneca becomes Se; Sabetha Sa; Corning Co; Centralia Ce; Goff GO; Wetmore We; and Baileyville, Bern, Kelly, Havensville, Soldier, Pawnee, Axtell and other points are similarly abbreviated. Oneida and Onaga addresses required the use of Onei and Ona. The Nemaha County list follows:

continued from last Saturday

651 Earl Jacob Meyer Sa
652 Charles Nelson Alley Go
653 John William Plattner Sa
654 Kal George Strube Sa
655 Francis L’rence Mohlman Se
656 Jame Salvin Hoskins Ce
657 Glenn Emerson Littrell Sa
658 Clarence Raphel Haug Se
659 Samuel Christ Aeschliman Sa
660 Elmer Walter Allen Co
661 Murray Orvis Thompson Go
662 Oscar Clempton Warfel Sa
663 Albert Lester Andrick Ce
664 Henry Jos Hunninghake Ba
665 Arthur R. Zimmerman Se
666 Emil Roy Edelman Sa
667 Leonard William Grimm Sa
668 Terrell Weston Fritz Sa
669 Reo Andrew Strahm Sa
670 Glenn Robert Jenkins Ce
671 Wilson James Burns Be
672 Joseph Andrew Gudenkauf Se
673 Clarence Paul Huerter We
674 Clarence Galen Freel Co
675 Andrew Philip Huerter Se
676 Gerald John Wempe Se
677 Andrew William Wiltz Co
678 Odilo John Koelzer Ba
679 Glenn Lauern Allison Se
680 Nolan Peter Madden Be
681 Floyd Emerson Downing Sa
682 Eugene Joseph Toby Se
683 Alfred Mathias Lueb Se
684 John Emmet Greeene Jr Sa
685 Edward Joseph Becker Ce
686 Mathias Benedict Rettele Se
687 Marvin Lewis Katz Se
688 Alfred Joseph Koch Se
689 Lorenzo Dale Fletchall Sa
690 James Walter Smith Go
691 Walter Floyd Cornell Sa
692 Clifton Allen Holland Ve
693 Eldon E. Schoen Go
694 Marvin Lester Cottrell Co
695 Carl Herman Boltz Sa
696 Richard Marvin Milne Be
697 Charles Francis Koch Sa
698 Cletus Jerome Schmelzle Se
699 John Wenzel Sack Se
700 Orville Jacob Wittmer Sa

To be continued

Mastodon

I admit it. I’m a Twitter fan. Or, at least I was. I love being able to get information via Twitter. I follow a wide variety of people including genealogists.

Since I have a science background, I also tend to follow scientists. When Swine Flu hit, I started following virologists from around the world. It was thru them, I learned an easy way to disinfect shared keyboards and mice in the high school library and computer lab. With COVID, I have added quite a few virologists and doctors to the list of people I follow.

I enjoy reading my Twitter feed and keeping up with fellow genealogists, the status of COVID and the news. That was until Twitter started changing and some of my sources of information quit using Twitter.

And now, Twitter is making it difficult for me to share my blog posts. I use a tool that automatically shares my blog posts in a variety of ways once they are published. This tool is built on an API. First, Twitter broke the API. Now, Twitter has fixed it but wants to charge more for that access. Instead of passing on that additional charge to me as a WordPress user, WordPress has elected to drop the automatic posting to Twitter. (Currently, I can still open a post and share it manually.) Since my blog is not supported by any advertising, I support the choice WordPress has made.

In the future, WordPress plans to add the ability to automatically share my posts to Mastodon. Thus, I need to learn to use it!

A couple of months ago, many genealogists set up Mastodon accounts and some quit using Twitter. At the time, I set up an account but have not really used it. With the possibility to automatically share my blog posts to Mastodon, it is time to learn to use it.

If you are on Mastodon, you can follow me by searching for @mcphilbrick@mastodon.social – or your can find my posts at https://mastodon.social/@mcphilbrick

For more information about genealogy and mastodon, check out George Eastman’s blog, How Does Mastodon Work and How to Get Started or Cyndi’s List of Mastodon resources.

On my phone, I am trying the Ivory app. This is a subscription app so I may not continue to use it once my free trial expires. Mashable article: Ivory Is a Great New Mastodon Client with a Horrible Name

Let the fun (learning) begin!