Carl Theodore Williams

Today is my Grandmother's 95th birthday. Happy Birthday Grandma!

She was born January 9, 1914. Her first cousin, Carl Theodore Williams was born the same day. Carl was the third child of my Great Grandmother's brother George Frank "Frank" Williams and his wife Sophie Christine Frahm Williams.

Carl died at age 5, on January 19, 1919. I don't know the cause of his death but I do wonder if he was a victim of the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918. My grandmother can recall being very sick as a child and I've often wondered if it was that flu. Carl is buried at Bethel Cemetery, Detroit, Kansas.

Mariah Hannah Noland

Mariah Hannah Noland was my Great Great Great Grandmother. She was born March 11, 1833 at Palmyra Township, Portage County, Ohio. She died January 7, 1911 at Kansas City, Missouri of Pneumonia. She is buried at Highland Cemetery, Junction City, Kansas.

Mariah married her husband, Thornton Poland in 1854. They had six children, Augustus in 1854, John Ellis on March 19, 1855, George Eugene on September 27, 1858, Elizabeth Alice in February 1860, Josephine in March 1861, and Ellis Thornton on February 22, 1863. Josephine died as an infant but the other children lived to adulthood.

Elizabeth Alice (Lizze) was my Great Great Grandmother.

Mariah's Husband, Thornton died on February 7, 1864 at Deerfield Township, Portage Country, Ohio. Mariah married her second Husband, Henry Vick on April 19, 1866. They had a daughter Della Mae on May 20, 1967. Henry was a Captain in Co. B, 104 O Infantry, in the Civil War.

After marrying Henry Vick, they moved to Junction City, Kansas in 1878.

Mariah had 16 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren.

She lived with her daughter, Della, in KC, Mo for the last 15 years of her life.

Mariah later in life apparently went by the name Maria.

Lavirus Addison (Lovirus) Bell

Lavirus Bell was born January 6, 1838 at Jonesville, Michigan. He was married December 25, 1865 at Antwerp, Ohio to Samantha Jane "Grandma Bell" Sines. She was my Great, Great, Great Aunt.

Lavirus and Samantha Jane raised their niece Samantha (my great grandmother) as their own. My uncle Don says they called Samantha "little Mattie" after her mother Matilda, who died when Samantha was two of TB.

Samantha and Lavirus lived in Ohio then moved to Missouri in 1883. They lived there until Oct. 1, 1886 when they moved to Western Kansas. They moved to White Cloud, Kansas April 7, 1892.

Lavirus served in the Civil War as a division teamster. He was Corpl. Co. G, 14 Ohio Infantry

For the Illustrated Doniphan County book:

Lovirus A. Bell, born Hillsdale County, Michigan, 1838, Jan. 6. Enlisted Antwerp, Ohio, Au 26, 1861, in Company G, 14th Ohio. Mustered out July 26, 1865, at Louisville, Kentucky. Came to White Cloud in 1883, Sept. 12. Has wife and Edwin A., his only son, resides in his own property west end of White Cloud.

Lavirus died April 2, 1917 and is buried at Olive Branch Cemetery, White Cloud, Kansas.

Audrey Avis Patton

Today marks the birth of Audrey Avis Patton. Audrey Avis was born January 5, 1924. She was the third child of James Elvas Patton and Elizabeth Neola Shannon Patton, who were Larry's Grandparents. Sadly Audrey lived just a month and four days before she died. Her parents also lost a stillborn daughter two years before Audrey's birth. They had an older daughter, Yvonne Maree who was four at the time.

Following Audrey James and Elizabeth had Jerry in 1926, Joann in 1928, Jean in 1930, Keith in 1932, Lucky in 1934 and Rex in 1936. Yvonne, Joann, Jean and Rex are still living. Jerry and Keith both died in 1989, and Lucky died in 1996.

Wellington W. Norman

Wellington Norman was my Great Great Grandfather. He was born March 7, 1857 and died December 26, 1935. He was my Grandmother Helen Norman Edwards Grandfather. He died at Noble Township, Dickinson County, Kansas and is buried at Good Hope Cemetery.

My mother has bedroom furniture that belonged to Wellington and his wife, Loretta.

Wellington Norman was one of the builders of the Wesley Community, which was located one mile east of the Chapman-Upland road on K-18. Here he established a store and post office, originally known as Good Hope, but later changed to Wesley.

Wellington came to Noble Township, Kansas with his parents, John Norman and Lucinda Deeds Norman, in 1872.

Wellington and his wife Loretta took up land in the W 1/2 of the NE 1/4 of Section 8 and the N 1/2 of the NW 1/4 of Section 9, Noble Township.

From Jim Norman:

Wellington moved from Ohio to Illinois in 1866.

Moved from Illinois to Kansas in 1872.

Moved to a location near Junction City, Geary Co., KS, on March 19, 1873.

Mary Ann Murphy

October 4th, 1870 is the date Mary Ann Murphy was born. She was one of the nine children of my Great Great Great Grandparents, Asa Harrison Murphy and Margaret Jane Turner Murphy. Five of their children died in childhood. Mary Ann was one day short of her second birthday when she died on October 3rd 1872.

Mary Ann's older brother James Merrit Murphy died in 1861 at the age of one year and nineteen days. Her brother Spencer Turner Murphy died on February 22, 1961 on his first birthday. Mary Ann's brother George D. Murphy died on November 5, 1873 at the age of two years and 9 months, and Mary Ann's sister Clara B. Murphy died on August 10, 1877 at the age of three. All the children were born and died in Wapella, Dewitt County Illinois.

Asa and Margaret moved to Barnard in Lincoln County Kansas in 1880. He died in November 1920 and Margaret died in September 1922. Their remaining four children lived to adulthood.

Here is a time line. Asa and Margaret had two children who lived to adulthood William Riley and Nancy Ellen, then lost James and Spencer, had Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Manford, who lived to adulthood, followed by Mary Ann, George and Clara all who died.

My grandmother Helen, who was born in 1914 remembers the surviving family members. Asa and Margaret's daughter Nancy Ellen was my grandmother's grandmother.

For more information see: http://susanpatton.net/wc02_132.html

George Frank Williams

My Great Great Uncle George Frank Williams, Frank, was born today July 10, 1888 at Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was my Great Grandmother Della Williams Norman Neher's brother.

Frank's daughter Arlene Deihl was in my Grandmother's high school class. The class, 1932, celebrated annual reunions until recently. Arlene and my grandmother are both 94.

Frank died November 20, 1966.

Frank and his first wife Sophia had a son Carl Theodore who was born the same day and year as my Grandmother. Carl died January 19, 1919 at the age of five.

Obituary:

George F. Williams, 78, a former Chapman resident died Monday night at his home in Junction City. He had been in failing health for several years.

He was born August 10, 1888 in Minneapolis, Minn., and came to Kansas in his early youth. He was married to Sophia Framn. On September 13, 1946 he married Mrs. Elizabeth Cross at Lawrence.

Mr. Williams was a member of the First Christian church in Junction City, and Odd Fellows Lodge in Chapman.

Surviving are three children, Vera Watkins, Junction City; Ivan Williams, Huron, Kan.; and Arlene Diehl of Enterprise; 10 grandchildren; and one sister, Mrs. Della Neher of Chapman.

Funeral services were at 2 p.m. today at the First Christian chuch in Junction City. Burial was in the Bethel cemetery near Detroit.