Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Fisher Family - Olive Uretta Fisher - Headstone

 

I found these pictures on Ancestry.com, 29 December 2021. They were placed there by Sam Theis in November of 2019. I thank her posting these pictures. When we were last in Illinois, I realized as we were exiting the state that we hadn't visited Olive Pruett's grave, which I deeply regretted.

This stone reads:

OLIVE U.[Uretta] PRUETT

1853 - 1943

The name Pruett comes from her last (3rd?) husband, Charles Pruett, also know as Grandpa Charlie.

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Sunday, December 19, 2021

Carpenter Family - Family Bible Marriage Record sheet - Carpenter and Vannatter

I found this record in Ancestry.com. I think that I had found it a few months back but lost tract of it. In the bottom left hand corner, this document reads as:

Dryden Henderson Carpenter and Louisa Wildermuth's in this entry for their marriage December 24 1869.

Originally posted to Ancestry.com by Loren Cordain. 

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Carpenter Family - Carpenter Marriages - Carpenter Vannatter

I found this document several months ago and am finally positing it. It was originally posted by Loren Cordain, at Ancestry.com.

If you look at the first entry on the left side, you will see the record for the Carpenter-Vannatter marriage.

This document reads:

July 19th 1828.

Mr. Halsey Carpenter

Miss Sarah Ann Vannatter
 

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Fisher Family - Lydia Fisher - Deposition - page 6

good deal of trouble as I didn't want to do it. Finally he said his sister Mrs. Swift would pay the assessments and I consented, but she wanted to keep the policy and she and I and Mr. Aldrich had a good deal of trouble and I finally burned the policy. I don't remember the year that Mr. Aldrich went away but it was in the fall. He went to his brothers in Breckenridge Mich.

The excuse he made to me was that I was sick so much that he couldn't take care of me. I had told him that if he didn't stop abusing me he could leave and I would go home, as we then lived in another house. He drank but wasn't bad only at times. We had not quarrel at the time he left, and I allowed him so sell a new carpet to get money to go with. He took the boys with him, and they understood that I was going to follow them to Michigan; but it was not understood between myself and Aldrich that I was to go. Between ourselves we understood that it was to be a final separation and I told him if we couldn't live in peace we better live separate. I got several letters from him that the boys wrote for him as he couldn't write and I now show them to you. In them he begs me to come and live with them. He sent me money to come once, but I took it to pay for the carpet. I told them I thought I would go, but changed my mind. About the last of 1886 the correspondence stopped and I never heard anything more about him, until I wrote once to a Postmaster to inquire if he knew where Aldrich was. I had been asked by the Pension office to find out about his service and wrote to the P.M. for that.

About the last of 1886 the correspondence stopped and I never heard anything more about him, until I wrote once to the Postmaster to inquire if he knew where Aldrich was. I had been asked by the Pension office to find out about his service and wrote to the P.M. for that reason. The Postmaster at Sugar Grove Mich. wrote that Aldrich was married and living in Canada. His nephew in Breckinridge John Aldrich, wrote me to write to Sugar Grove I got only one better that old anything about them.

Mr. Stinson, of this city, wrote the letter. Yes, I think it was Sugar Grove that he wrote the P.M. I sent the letter to the Pension office.

Q - I now show you a letter written by C.L. Stinson to the Postmaster at Ludington, mich, endorsed on which is the following: "Mr. Luke A. Aldrich gest a pension and his present address is Olds, Alberta Co M.W. Ter. Wm G Hudson, P.M.

Q-  I ask you if that is the letter just referred to by you?

A - Yes sir, I think it is. I got only the one letter conveying any information relative to Mr. Aldrich. I must have been mistaken in thinking the Post Master said Mr. Aldrich was married again, but I got the impression somewhere that he and the boys were in Canada and they were all married. I don't know where I heard it if not from the Post Master. I never heard that Mr. Aldrich got a divorce of that he was dead, except that this summer someone said they heard he was dead. He never told me he was going to get a divorce, and I never was with notice. After Mr. Aldrich left I lived right here. About 3 or 4 years after Mr. Aldrich left, I married Barney K. Wheeler. married him March 11, 1890/ He lived in Marshalltown Iowa, and his little girl lived with my sister. No relation. I knew Wheeler12 or 13 year before I married him. His mother lived at Yorkville Ill. He had been married only once prior to our marriage that I know of I can't remember his first wife's maiden name except that it was Mary. I think Wheeler came from M.Y. gut I don't know where. His father and mother are dead. I think he has a sister named Julia Robinson in Aurora. Her husband is a railroad man named Tom. He also has a sister in Joliet, Ill. I don't know her name. He also has a sister in Yorkville, Ann Shummer, her husband's name Charles. He married his first wife in Yorkville Ill. She died in Clinton Iowa. I don't know when he was first married. I think his wife died at 28 or 30 years ago. He brought his two children to his mother and the youngest

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Fisher Family - Lydia Fisher - Deposition - page 5

 My father had been working Kansas sometime before I went down, and mother was anxious to hear from him as he had not written is one reason I went ahead. Mr. Millay was at home with my mother when I went away. We had never had any trouble of any account. He used to drink some and was too silly when full, but we did not have any quarrels. We never talked of separating and he was a gold old man. When I started for Kansas I expected nothing other than that he and mother would come to Kansas where we were. I did not hear a word from Millay while I was in Kansas and knew mothing about him after I started there until I heard from Kansas that he was dead. I always supposed he intended trying to find me. Julia Day is the only one of Mr. Millays children that I know anything about. My mother didn't know when he went or where.

After I came back here I worked around at different things, and finally went to Plano and did dressmaking and staid there until I became acquainted with Mr. Luke A. Aldrich. He was living at Plan with his sister Marcia Swift. Aldrich said he was fifty-one when we were married I think Jan 15 1882. We were married right in this house. Mr. Aldrich had been married twice before.

His first wife was Sarah -, I can't think of her last name. I now think it was Sarah Holden. She died somewhere in Iowa, I think in Clinton, but I can't be sure. I don't know where they were married, but I believe in Indiana somewhere.

I do not think Aldrich's first wife, had a prior marriage. He had two boys by his first wife, Homer and James D. I don't know where these boys are, but they were at one time in Canada. Since thinking of the matter, I think Aldrich's first wife was named Holdridge. Mr. Aldrich next married myself.\

Q - Did you not tell me he had been married twice before he married you?

A - No, No, not Aldrich. Millay had been but I did not mean to tell you that Aldrich had. I don't hear well and misunderstood you. Mrs. Swift will know about Aldrich's prior marriage and his wife's death.

I knew Heburn was dead when I married Mr. Aldrich as I had had the letter from Mr. King of Wichita Kan. about a Nancy Heburn's claim for pension. I heard from Mr. King only once, and enclosed with the letter was a paper for me to sign fill out; and some people told me that I was entitled to the pension as Heburn's widow, but I knew I was soon to be married to Mr. Aldrich, and thought as this Nancy had children she ought to have the pension. Since thinking of the matter it might have been before my last marriage I got the letter and made the affidavit.

Q - I now show you an affidavit and ask you if that is your signature and if you made the affidavit?

A - Yes, that is my signature and I made that affidavit. I now remember that I was then married to Mr. Wheeler. It says in that that Hebrun was dead when I married Wheeler, but I didn't know anything about his death until I got that paper and the letter with it.

Mr. Aldrich and I lived together about 5 years as nearly as I remember. One of his boys was seven and the other nine when we were married. We lived with my father and mother in this house. Mr. Aldrich had no trade and worked by day's work. We got along pretty well until awhile before he went away. He insisted on having my mother's life insured, and we had a

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Fisher Family - Lydia Fisher - Deposition - page 4

 suppose when he said he would fix the matter he had in mind putting in another name. I knew of no divorce on the part of Heburn at any time. I told Mr. Millay of my marriage to Heburn and that I didn't want to marry him, Mally, because I did not think it would be legal; but I knew if Heburn ever made any trouble about it, that Millay and him would settle it for I trusted Millay. If the Justice who married us called the name, or called me Coleman, I didn't hear it, and I knew nothing whatever about the name Coleman being in the certificate until the day after. We staid the nigh of our marriage with Susan Gilman, Mr. Mallay's sister, and did not come home until the next day, and it was after I got back home that I first noticed the name. I was just going to put it in a frame and when I saw the name I didn't want to frame it. Thae Justice knew Mr. Mallay but didn't know me. There were no witnesses to the marriage. I had no reason to believe, before I married Millay, that I was free from the bond with Bebrun, and so far as I knew, I was still Hebrun's wife. James Millay had been previously married twice. He had two set of children, but none by me. I think he was about 60 years of age when we were married. I think he was born in New York somewhere, and came to Leland about the time of the gold excitement in Calif. His brother and sister, Robert and Sarah, came through in an emigrant wagon, and did not get further than Leland.

Mr. Millay made his home in that place until after we were married. Millay married his first wife in Princeton Illinois. I don't know when that was or what was her name. They had two children. I've hear Millay say his first wife died in Princeton, and in giving birth to their second child. Her people lived in Princeton, but I don't know if James and his wife every lived there. He next married Harriet Hart, who lived with her father about one mile from here.

Her father's name was William. They were divorced in Ottawa. They had eight children. They were divorced quite a while before I knew him. I know nothing about his first wives, but I've heard him say that neither of them were married prior to their marriage to Mallay. I think Arthur Dale of Leland will know about Mr. Millay's prior marriages. I don't know who else would know, except Robert Millay who now lives at Odell, or did some years ago. Mr. Millay and I lived together about 3 years. My father then went to Kansas and the rest of us, my husband and mother and myself expected to go also, and I went ahead of the rest, as my health was not good. Mr. Millay and my mother were coming later, but father had trouble collecting his wages and while we were trying to get that matter arranged, I got a letter saying mother was sick. My sister Mrs. Wm. Morrill, of this place wrote the letter. I came back here and Mr. Millay had gone before I got home and no one knew where he went. Mother said she had not seen him for some time. It don't seem to me now that it was more than a month until I got a letter from someone in Kansas saying that he was dead and asking what they should do. I wrote them to sell his stuff and pay his funeral expenses and send the rest, if any was left, to me. I knew he had a team and tools and supposed he had driven through to Kansas. Father and I had been in Coffee Co., Kan., but it was not from there I got the letter, nor do I now know from what place the letter was written. Julia Day, of DeKalb, is a daughter of Mr. Millay, and I think she knows about Mr. Millay, but she said she would not tell for less than $25.00. Only one child lived with myself and Mr. Millay, a boy about 12 years of age. And he went away with his father.

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Fisher Family - Lydia Fisher - Deposition - page 3

 enough money picking hops, as it was hop season, to take me back home to Sandwich. It was after I had left Heburn that I went to picking hops, and during that time I staid with my mother who then lived about one mile from there. I have never seen Heburn since I left him in Wis. I don't know what year I left him, but we lived together 2 or 3 years I believe it was, I got a letter from a woman in Kilburn City, or rather my mother did, saying that Heburn was married to another woman; and she said in the letter that the woman he then had could lick him just as hard as he had licked me and give him just as bloody a nose as he gave me. The name of the woman who wrote the letter was Mrs. Marb Webber. They called him Marb, but what his right name was I don't know. O did not hear another ting of Heburn until I got a letter from a Mr. King at Wichita Kan. Saying that a Nancy Heburn was trying to a pension and wanted my affidavit. King said Heburn was dead that was the first I knew anything about him after the Webber woman wrote to my mother. I never applied for a divorce from him. I never heard or had notice of Heburn applying for a divorce.

I came directly to Sandwich from Wisconsin, and have lived right here in the house in which I now liveed ever since. My mother was then staying in Wisconsin nursing and my father was her; and when my mother got through nursing she came here to. After I came back I worked out by the week until mother came back and then we got this house which had been rented, but in which I had a bed.

SOmetime after I got back from Wis., as much as two or three years, James Mallay came here to help my mother straighten up some trouble over a carpet, my mother being a weaver. Mallay was a stonemason and a kind of a lawyer. The first I saw him was when he cane here. Mallay lived the second station west from here at Leland. A year or so after I first saw Mallay he wanted me to marry him, but I didn't want to as we was quite an old man; but he seemed to take a liking to me and he was a good old man so I married him. I don't know the date I married him, but it was summer, and we were married in Ottawa. I had never heard at that time that Heburn was dead or divorced.

Q - How did it happen that you married Mallay not know whether Heburn was dead or divorced:

A - That was one reason why I held back and didn't want to marry Millay and I told him all about my prior marriage and that I didn't know what had become of Heburn. I knew I had no legal right to marry, but Millay said He could fix that matter all right.

Q - How did he say he would fix it:

A - He didn't say. He said we would go to get married where I wasn't know and it would be all right, and that is the reason we went to Ottawa. We dove there with a horse and buggy.

Q - Under what name was you married to James Millay?

A - We, I didn't see the certificate until after our marriage, and when he showed it to me it had the name "Coleman" on it. I said to him "Why did you do that," and he said it's all right and "I got the woman I wanted," and he said he had the name Coleman put in to cover up any trace of the former marriage, and so that Heburn couldn't make us any trouble, and that no one would know about it. I

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Fisher Family - Lydia Fisher - Deposition - page 2

 Q-Do you know if it was Clinton Co., or Benton County.

Ans. The name Benton sounds familiar and I believe that it is. I don't think he ever told me his sisters name.

No Heburn never told me that he and his first wife separated; he told me she was dead, and I married him understanding that to be the case. I don't know for sure if Heburn ever lived in Iowa. I only know that he said his first wife died and that his sister who lived in Iowa took his little girl. He could not read or write; and never corresponded with his daughter or sister. He had a locket with his daughters picture in it and I word it until I one day lost it. I don't know of but one living soul who knew John Heburn previous to our marriage, or who had any acquaintance with him, and that is Hank Nennis. I know of no one who knew him before he came here. The reason I think Nennis knew him and would remember him is because I one night went to the saloon to see if he was there, and I found him drunk and when I tried to lead him home he knocked me down. Nennis ran the saloon at that time. Heburn and I lived together here in Sandwich in my home about two years, and he got to drinking so and abused me so much that I couldn't stand it and I went to live with my Aunt, Olive Hodgden at Big Rock. She is now dead. I was at Big Rock a couple of months or so and Heburn found where I was, came there, and said he wanted to go to Wisconsin, and if I would go with him he would quit drinking and treat me better, so I went with him. I sold the house and lot I had here and took the money and bought 40 acres of land in Wis. We went from here to Fairfield Wis., out P.O. being then Portage, about 8 miles from Fairfield. I bought the 40 acres of Samuel Turner who lived in Fairfield, but the land was a Kilburn City, in June Co. Our neighbors at Fairfield were Elisha Plummer, Samuel Turner, Wm. Slack, Jos. Burton, and Levina Myers. I believe she married Lish Plummer afterward. I can't think of any others. We worked a Mr. Jackman's farm one year, but he and his wife had trouble and he left. We also worked to Jo Burton's farm one year. That was when we lived in Fairfield. We were there two years, and then moved into a house just across the road from the 40 acres I bought. Our trading place was Kilbourne City. A man named Griffin owned the house in which we lived. He is undoubtedly dead as he was old then. We lived in Griffins house about one year and then went into Frank Newton's house, which was also near the 40 acres. I can't remember the names of any others who lived there. We lived in Newtons house 5 or 6 months.

While we lived in that neighborhood Heburn was cutting wood off the 40 acres and we were also getting logs out to build a house. Heburn behaved all right and didn't drink any while we were at Fairfield, but as soon as we went to living near the 40 acres he began to drink hard, and abused me by striking me, and once pulled my dress nearly off because I scolded him for staying away from home a week and not bringing anything to eat.

Not long before I left him he got his bounty money, and staid away all week. He went to Kilburn City to get it, and when he got home he was dead drunk and didn't have a dollar left. We had trouble them and I got Mr. Newton to take me to Kilburn City.

I told him I was going to Portage, and he supposed that was where I was going and had my trunk checked there: but i had it rechecked to Chicago and come back here. After I left Heburn I earned

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Fisher Family - Lydia Fisher - Deposition - Page 1

 Lydia A. Adrich Deposition 22 January 1907

I am 63 years of age; and my post office address and residence is Sandwich, Illinois. Occupation housekeeper. I am the claimant in this case and claim renewal of pension as the remarried widow of  Duncan McDonald, who served in Co. D. of the 27th Reg. Ill. Col. Inf. And who was killed at the Battle of Bull Run, in June 1865, claim being made under the act of March 3 1901. I formerly drew a pension as Mr. McDonald's widow. I was married to Duncan McDonald I think in March 11, 1864 and he was killed the next June. Yes, it was in June 1864 that he was killed instead of 1865. I was born in Williston Vt., and lived there until we moved to this place, in May 1858, and this has been my home ever since, except that I lived in Wisconsin about 3 years with John Hebron, my then husband. I was never married prior to my marriage to Mc. McDonald. McDonald enlisted from Shabbona Ill, I believe, and that was his home. He was an orphan and he was raised by a man named Madison, and I think he had lived in Shabbona for quite a while. When we came from Vermont in 1858, went first to Big Rock, then to Shabbona and then to this town. I got acquainted with Mr. McDonald in Shabbona and when he came home on a furlough in Feb 1864, we were married. McDonald had not been previously I married. Just after our marriage, he bought a little home for me here and my father, mother, and myself moved into it before he returned to the army. He did not quite finish paying for it, and I paid the balance after I got my pension. I lived in the house until I married John Hebron who was also a soldier. I can't remember the date I married Hebron, but I believe it was in March, and about a year or so after I married McDonald; and I don't know why I married Hebron, but it just seemed that the men would have me and I let them marry me. Heburn was boarding at a hotel run by Mrs. Horace Wilder, and my mother cooked there and in that way I became acquainted with Heburn. I can't tell how long I had been acquanited with with him before I married him. I did not know him until after my husband, McDonald's death. Heburn was more than 30 years old when we were married, but I don't know how old he was. Heburn's parents lived in Boone Co. N.Y. I know he used to write letters home and I did the writing for him. I can't remember the town in Boone County where he lived. I don't know his parent's names, but he had a brother Harvey who lived in Boone County. I never heard him speak of any other relatives. Harvey was a soldier but I don't know his service. They met accidently at one time in the army.

Heburn was in the 58th Ill. Infantry, but I don't know when he came to this part of the country.

Heburn had been married before he married me, and he had a little girl. He told me there were married before the war and that his wife died leaving the one child, that he was all broke up and went to the Army. I haven't the slightest idea when or where they were married, nor do I know what his wife's name was, either given name or maiden name. His wife had one sister who was married, I don't know her name and two lived in Iowa somewhere; and the little girl lived there with her. The first name was Julia. She must have been about 8 years old when we were married. I never heard him say that he had been married more than once, and I never heard him say that his wife had more than one marriage. I think Heburn's first wife died in Iowa, and that it was near where her sister lived. The only name I can think of in Iowa that I recall in connection their residence is Vinton or Clinton Co.

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Friday, November 26, 2021

Leonard Family - Lenoir Inez Leonard - 1938 letter to folks

This is a letter of my grandmother Lenoir that she wrote to her parents and sister in 1938.  I think she was talking about crochet. This letter reads:

October 20th '38

Dear Folks - Happey to know - the date because I wrote a couple checks this a.m. Should be making beds etc - but decided to write first.

     Heinie we found this hankie - sorry its' yellow instead of [?]. The card is enclosed is the thread card for you Mom. You can follow the pattern on the sets I sent. You start with an 8 chain & the corner chains are 8 too. Lets see chain 8 - faster chain 3 & put in 19 doubles in the ring fasten chain 3 & put in 19 doubles in the ring fasten chain 3+ & double & chain one until you get around and have 20 spaces. You can see the rest easily. Some directions call for chain 2, but I should think it would really ruffle. It's so smooth with one chain.

     We saw Dr. Walker & Lorna's to keep on with out her glases. Shirley' will cast 22 for the bifocal lenses. Can't see it immediately. Fraid it means most no christmas.
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What would you suggest for Pops & the boys for Christmas. Do you [think] a silk shirt (white) woved be acceptable? Mrs H has some pussy-willow--if there's enough it's mine to make for then. If I can make the table for Billie & Erven - that's all they will get. My oak is too narrow tho. I think I'll use pine this time. We also have the lasten[elastic?] thread. Enclosing a sample. Got me a belt - a rubberized cloth that looks like suede - do hope it will be better. Lorna will have the other one when shortened. Have the back for the chair set nearly finished. Am to take Billie & Dale to Dr R to day. I got the crochet thread at Penny's. Used a No. 6 Milward needle. Bot two runners to embroider for Elda for their christmas. Think I will send a big box of cookies south to Burbank [the Triplett's] for Christmas. Don't know


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what else I could fid. Theapples make beautiful apple sause, but Shirley thinks they are not quite ripe enough. I think they are ok-He's all off the sundaes - Let me know how much the rug is going to be when its done & do tell me if it's terribly homely. I have to know the price so I'll have the money - Have 1.71 & a guarter to collect - thats 1.96. Have to figure a new income now he's quit ice cream again. He stepped on the scales the other day. Weighs `68 again. Saw Casey & Mildred a minute last evening. They say there's no business there either. No summer pick-up, same as we had. Mrs H sorry you didn't get to see the house etc mom. She says they may be able to stop if & when they next go to Pac. Grove.

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Well I've raved on for quite a spell & the beds haven't made them-selves yet. Oh yes - The Murdock boy & old man Duan died yesterday & Leah Desmond died the day before. She had a ruptured appendix and didn't recover. Mary Martin etc. had her boy last Sunday morning.
     Monday nite the city Dad's took up the matter of of a bridge at Lake St & referred it to the city street commissioner. (I am getting as bad as Laura on spelling). Tues day I saw Gardener - as Leonard said he had to wade thru the mirer & he's going to do something about bus-service as he has sent a bunch of 3rd graders from that side to Pershing counting on a bridge So that'll be in hand in time. I must quit.
          With love from us all
 Lenoir

Did Heinie [probably Aunt Fred] ever get that madera paper?


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Sunday, November 21, 2021

Carpenter Family - Clinton Shipman Carpenter

This is a 1899 letter from an unknown writer to - I believe - Clinton Shipman Carpenter. "Uncle Clint" was the son of Louisa Wildermuth Carpenter and Dryden Henderson Carpenter. I am transcribing this letter as it is reading and not correcting for spelling and punctuation! This letter reads as:

By                     No. Page      1     

  Dear Clinton I received your kind letter letter late last might and I must Say I was more than glad for we all began to think you was not going to write to us any more. and was trying to forget us. you son you wrote Ethel soon after you got there now She has never got a [?] from you I don't see whatever become of it for she hasn't been away from home a whole day Since you went away and we have not and we have had over mail regular. I worried for along time for fear someting had happend to you. then Neew Years day Dan & Chi was here & Mother asked her whether She had heard from Clint& she sayd why yes she had a letter right away when you got there & she told all about what you was doing and a week ago last Sun she came over in the afternoon with Dan on an Erand & she took particular pains to tell in my hearing that she got another letter from Clint the Friday before and you must own that it would have made you feel bad to have been in our plate under the Same circumstances but I never let  any one  circumstances. but I never let any one know how I felt about it and I just beg an to try and feel reconciled to our lot

when I got your letter & pictures and I must own I was pleased to get them I think their are just five. we are all well only colds. Jot has been as we all have been trying to grind feed. had quite a lot Some days. now he just finished today rigging up to Saw wood down there too there with the engine. they will try it tomorrow Merrit has been Sick had one of his spells. fell over backward in their Shanty & they sent for Jot & they carried him in the house sent for the Dr. and he injected stuff in his arm.& he come to consciouseness. he was sick over a week. So Ethel & I had to help grind but Tues he was back again. well we got some Threshing accts. Jennings and Mr Starkeys & Ethel went out all day yes & got three dollars of Horrace Newkirks. we paid [Him] and the day the interest was due we went to the Center [Richland] - paid it and then next day Hall came over and we paid him $5.00 and the next Mon. he come buy & we paid him the rest and we have got enough now to pay all of the Cunninghans act. [?] will pay what he used on that we sold our hogs. only got $14.62 for them. they found fault with that Sharky hog and docked us 80 lbs on him they woth weight 510 we g 3.40 per hundred. they didn't brin enough to pay our taxes they were higher [?] Enough to pay our taxes they were higher this year than ever before$17.28.
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I do not know if there is more to this letter or not. I have not found anything else in my stack of stuff that would lead me to believe that a 2nd page exists or not.

Addendum:[I do not know where the name "Shipman" comes from. At this moment I cannot find the name in one of my primary sources entitled "Johann David Wildermuth and His Descendants 1752 - 1964", written by Ruth Kline Lee, 1965. There is a digitalized copy of this book in the Salt Lake Genealogy Library . You can access this book online at FamilySearch.org. You do not need to be a member of the LDS Church. You do need to belong to FamilySearch.org. This is free of charge. No one will contact you to donate or join the church.] 

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Saturday, November 20, 2021

Fisher Family - Olive Fisher - Deposition

 Deposition of Olive Pruett

I am 53 years of age; my post office address is R.F.D. No. 4 Aurora, Illi., Resident newar Aurora. Occupation house-keeper. My husband's name is Chas. Pruett. His occupation assit. shipping clerk for Miller, Bryant & Pierce. The claimant, Lydia A. Aldrich is my sister. I came to Sandwich Ill., with my parents when I was about 4 years old, and lived there until about 7 years ago. Claimant for a time lived in Wisconsin, but aside from that has lived in Sandwich and vicinity ever since we first moved there from Vermont. I don't know just how old she was when we came from the East. She is just 10 years older than I.

Claimant was first married to Duncan McDonald and he was killed in the army shortly after their marriage. She next married John Heburn. I don't know just when that was, but not very loong after McDonald's death. I don'ts know where Heburn came from, but I believe claimant first knew him in Sandwich. I think Heburn had been previously married and that I have heard it so stated. I never heard what became of his first wife. If he was previously married it was before he came to Sandwich and I know nothing as to where he lived before he came there. After claimant and Heburn were married, they lived in Sandwich awhile, don't know how long and then went to Wisconsin somewhere near Kilborn. I think they were in Wis. About 1 1/2 years. I was in Wisconsin with my mother and sister Martha at the time claimant and Heburn lived there. They had trouble of some kind tho'. I don't know what it was about, and parted, and claimant came back to Sandwich. I don't think Heburn knew she was going to leave. I have never since heard anything direct from Heburn, but someone said he was married again. I never heard that he was divorced. I know nothing whatever about any of Heburn's relatives. Claimant next married, I believe, a man named James Millay. I never say him very much as I was working out. I did not know they intended getting married, until I heard they were married. I knew nothing of it. He lived in Leland, and had been married before. I don't know of more than one prior marriage. I don't know what her name was, or what became of her. Don't know if she was dead or divorced. I can't tell how long claimant and Millay lived together. We, my husband and I, lived in Michigan about a year, in 1878 or 1879, and during that time claimant and Millay separated or he left, but I know nothing whatever about the circumstances. I remember that my father went to Kansas and that later claimant went or else they went together, but why she went I don't know. I don't think Millay went with them, and don't think he was with them, but I believe he went away about that time and he never came back. We later heard he had died somewhere in Kansas but I don't know where. I think it was about a year or year and one-half after he went away that we heard he was dead. I heard he was dead through my sister (the claimant), but I don't know how she heard it. Claimant next married Luke Aldrich I don't know what year they were married. I can't recall dates. I can't say if she married Aldrich before of after she heard that Millay was dead. I don't know. Aldrich had been married before, but I think only once.

Report said his first wife was dead, and all I every heard anyone say about her was that she was dead. I can't say where she died. My sister was never divorced from Millay or Heburn. I don't know how long claimant and Aldrich lived together, but they had trouble and he left her. When he went away I was there, and I don't think she thought he was going to stay away, but I thought he was. I think the separation was his fault as much as hers. He said before leaving that he would send for her when he got settled. He was awful mean to claimant and I think he drank. II have heard him talk mean to her and use bad language at her but never saw him strike her. I don't know where he went, and don't know what became of him. I never heard he was divorced, but about 2 years ago I heard he was dead.

Claimant next married Barney Wheeler. I can't give date of marriage. He had been married only once before. His wife died I believe in Iowa. I don't know how long they lived together, but He left her, or else they drove him out he was so mean. He wouldn't pay his debts, nor provide for her and he abused her terribly. I have seen him brace his hand to strike her and call her vulgar and indecent names. I don't if he left on his own accord, but it seems to me the town ordered him to go. I think he went to the Soldiers home in Iowa. Claimant got a divorce from Wheeler and from Aldrich 2 or 3 years ago, but I was not there and know nothing about them.

I don't know that claimant had any reason to believe herself free from any bond of matrimony at any time that she married, subsequent to her marriage to John Heburn. I never heard that claimant and Millay had any trouble and I don't know why he left. I never up held claimant in her action of marrying so often because I didn't believe she had any right to get married so often and I thought she was better off single. I don't know why she waited so long before applying for a divorce. I don't know why she finally applied for divorce and have wondered why she did it. Claimant was here just after New Year's but she said nothing about her divorce actions. She has told me she was divorced from Wheeler and Aldrich, but nothing in particular was said about it. Claimant was never married but five times and only to the parties above mentioned. I have said to claimant at different times that I thought she out not to get married without a divorce and have asked her why she did it, but she would say she knew why. She never attempted to justify her action marrying without divorce of being free from other marital bonds. Claimant has no properties of any kind. I have no pecuniary interest in this claim. Have heard my foregoing deposition read, have understood your questions and my answers have been correctly recorded.

Mrs. Olive Pruett

25 January 1907

Fisher Family - Jeremiah Fisher - Marriage Record

On May 1 2020 I found this marriage record via my cousin Sue Chenoweth who resides in Southern California. She is so kind! She alerted me to the Fisher Family and their connection to the Revolutionary War. She also alerted me to Lydia Fisher's frequent marriages.

This document cam from Ancestry.com and reads:

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          State of Vermont}
County Orange County}
Be it remembered that at Northfield in the County afore said on this 29th day of May in the year of our Lord 1802 Jeremiah Fisher of Northfield in the county of Orange and state of Vermont & Sabra Tubbs of Northfield and County and State aforesaid were duly joined in Marriage By me Moses Morse Just[ice]s of Peace Received for Received and Recorded    
                                                                    Attest Gilbert Hutch Town Clerk

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our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty two.

his

William X Vanattors

Mark{LS-

Signed sealed published and delivered By the above named William Vannatters to his last will and testament in presence of us who leave here to subscribe our names as testifies in presence of the testator and in the presence of each other and at the testators request----- 

Wilam Ayles, Greenfield, Herkimer County County
Ephraim Boss Salisbury Herkimer County

I certify the above to be a true record of the last will and testament of William Vannattors deceased and of the [?] and by enuminators taken herein---
Volney Owen                
Surrogate           

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Fisher Family - Lydia Aldrich Fisher - Probate - page 1

I found this probate record for my 2nd great grandaunt around 2015. This probate is rather exhaustive as Lydia was married 5 times that I know of. I found this at Ancestry.com under Illinois, Wills and Probate Records, 1772- 1999; Dekalb County Illinois, Probate Case files, Box 752, 1917-1922. This item reads: 
No. Box 752
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PROBATE COURT
De Kalb County, Illinois
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In the matter of the Estate of
Lydia A. Aldrich
Deceased.
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C. L. Stinson
Executor
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Fee Book   .  J    Page 1060
Date of Letters    March 2  4  -1919

Estate No. 1210           Jan - 6 1919


      March 24, 1919
C. L. Stinson.
     Sandwich, Ill.
Dear Sir:
     Letters are issued under date of March 24th. and enclosed.
     The Court has fixed upon the JUNE term for claims.
     On account of the delay of the [?] the Court thinks the May Term Will not give you time to the first Monday instead of the first Tuesday as you requested. This may cause you to readvertise for Claims.
     We can post notice at Court House if you wish, and will on receipt of notice from you.
Yours truly,                                                      

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Clerk,          
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March 19, 1919
C. L. Stinson,
  Sandwich, Ill.

Dear Sir:

In the Estate of Lydia A. Aldrich, deceased.

     the Judge admitted the will to probate last Tuesday. In writing up his docket entries (after he left the office) I found the certificate of Sandwich Free Press in the publication as to Thomas Rector Fisher - whose present address is unknown, was not filed.
     Unless the Judge waived this certificate, it should be filed. 
     We further find that you oath as Executer was not filed.
     Will you please return the oath, so that Letters may issue next Monday.
     We enclose blank oath.
Yours truly,

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                                    Clerk.

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FOUNDED A.D. 1792
Insurance Company of North America
Western Department
Chicago.          

C. L. STINSON, Agent,
SANDWICH, ILL.,     MARCH 26TH                         
S.M. Henderson, County Clerk

               Sycamore, Ill.

Dear Sir:- I am in receipt of yours of 24th.enclosing Letters Testamentary i in the Lydia A. Aldrich Estate. I will re-advertise for claims and herewith hand you Executors Notice, which kindly post at the Court house and oblige.

Yours truly,
C. L. Stinson                                       

Notice to June term s[d]ocket as requested 3/27/1919


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Saturday, September 18, 2021

Van Natter Family - Sarah Anne Van Natter

This is the only picture that I have of Sarah Anne Van Natter Carpenter. I received this from my Mother Lorna Lee Triplett Winch, who received it from her maternal grandmother Winnie Gladys Carpenter Leonard.








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Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Leonard Family - Frederick George Leonard - Oakland Meat Market

After arriving in California my great grandparents Frederick and Winnie Leonard moved to Oakland and opened a meat market.

I believe that Grandpa Leonard is the 3rd from the left and Henry Weber is 4th from the left.

I think that Rob Weber might have been Henry's father. I think that I have some of their "books" for the meat market and will have to keep looking.

I am thinking that Henry Weber is in the picture of my grandmother, Lenoir Inez [aka Bobbie], and her two sisters, Winniefred [aka Aunt Fred], and Ione [aka Aunt Billie] sitting on a bench next to Henry Webber.

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This is a picture of the inside of the meat market. I would like to know what food items those prices were for..... 






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Saturday, August 7, 2021

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dollars. Thirdly I give and bequeth to my daughter Sarah Ann wife of Halsey Carpenter the further sum of one hundred eighty dollars, to be paid by to herby my executor when my estate is settled. together with the interest from the day of my death.
Fourthly I five and bequeath to my daughter Katharine wife of James Satterly the sum of two hundred dollars to be paid to her by my executor when my estate is settled together with the interest from the day of my death. Fifthly I give and bequeath to my grandchild MaryAnn wife of Orin Beach and daughter of Henry and Abigail Vannattors the sum of two hundred dollars, to be paid to her by my executor when my estate is settled together with the interest from the day of my death. Sixthly I give and bequeath to Clarisa daughter daughter of my wife & wife of John Humphry the sum of one hundred dollars to be paid to her by my executors when my estate is settled together with interest from the day of my death. 
The remainder of my property should there be any after my death is to be distrib[ited] equally amongst my four children Frances Vannattors, William Vannattors Sarah Ann Carpenter wife of Halsey Carpenter and Katharine wife of James Satterly.
And lastly I hereby appoint Erastus Potter my Sole executor to this my las will and testament contained on two half sheet of paper hereby revoking all former will by me made.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this seventh day of July in the year of
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together will all the here [determents] and upper fences. thereunto belonging is in anywise [?].to have and to hold the premises above described to the said Francis Vannattors his heirs and assigns forever. Secondly I give and ascribe to my son William Vannattors his heirs and assigns the piece of land in which I now live and is known as my homestead lot. bounded as follows namely on the west. by the west bound of lot No 159 in the first allotment of the Royal Grant on the north by land owned by David H. Baldwin on the east by land owned by William Burrell and on the South by lands owned by William Frances Vannattors known as the Asa Lake lot. the price of [?] hereby intended to be devised contains about fifty eight acres be at the more or less, my intension is my son William Vannattors is to leave the above described fifty eight acres of land by paying one hundred and fifty eight acres of land twenty eight dollars in cash to my daughter Sarah Ann with in one year from the day of my death. together with the interest from my death. Then my daughter Sarah Ann wife of Halsey Carpenter is to have eight acres of land to be taken off the west side of the above described fifty eight acres of land which I give and devise to my daughter Sarah Ann wife of Halsey Carpenter and to her heirs and assigns forever. if my son William Vannattors should not pay the above one hundred and twenty eight 

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other. That the said deceased at the time of subscribing his name to said instrument as aforesaid was upwards of twenty one years of age. that he appeared to be of sane mind and memory and was not under restraint to the Knowledge or belief of this deponent is informed and believes that said Boss is in the United States Army one out of the jurisdiction of this Court.

William Ayers                        
          Sworn examined, and}
    Subscribed this 27th day}
of February 1865 before me}
         V. Owen Surrogate

Will

In the name of God Amen. I William Vanattors of the town of Salisbury in the County of Herkimer and State of New York of the age seventy six years and being of sound mind and memory do make publish and declare this my last will and testament in manner following that is to say

First I give and devise to my son Francis Vannattors his heirs and assigns forever fifty acres of land it being the same piece of land on which said  Francis now lives. lying on the East side of the [?] lot. and is known as part of the Asa Lake lot. and is founded as follows, namely on the South by land owned by Daniel A. Baldwin and on the East by land owned by William Burrell on the north by land owned by William Vannattors and on the west by land owned by the said William Vannattors. and the flank wood

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Van Natter Family - William Vannattor - Herkimer County NY Probate Records

This Will and Probate Record was retrieved from Ancestry.com on 1 August 2021. The heading for this collection is "New York, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1859-1000 [for] Herkimer > Wills, Vol M-O, 1862-1870.

The webpage is: https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/5022338:8800?tid=&pid=&queryId=ee215722-2db7-4dbc-8b03-fb6a18f85b0d&_phsrc=ihS1548&_phstart=successSource

The document starts on page 75, on the 5th line down. The document reads:

William Van(n)attors
County of Herkimer Suregates Court
For the matter of pursuing the last will and testament of William Van(n)attors deceased.

Herkimer County SS - Hiram Ayers of the town of Fairfield in the County of Herkimer and Eprhaim Boss being first duly sworn in open Court on his oath does depose and say that he and Ephraim Boss are subscribing witness to the last will and testament of William Van(n)ttors late of the town of Salisbury in the said County of Herkimer deceased. And this deponent further says that the said deceased did in the presence of this desponent and said Boss - subscribe his name at the end of the testament which is now shown to this deponent and which purports to be the last will and testament of the said deceased and which bears date on the the day of July A.D. 1865  that the said deceased did at the time of subscribing his name to said instrument as aforesaid declare the same to be his last will and testament that this deponent and said Boss did thereupon subscribe their names at the end of said instrument as attesting witnesses to the execution thereof at the bequest of the Said deceased & in his presence and in the presence of each [continued on page 2]               
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Sunday, August 1, 2021

Carpenter Family - Dryden Henderson Carpenter - Death Record & Obituary

This is the death record for Dryden Henderson Carpenter. Dryden died in Independence Missouri. He was a traveling salesman, who at one time he sold fruit trees.













At the time of his death, Dryden was retired and living with his son. The following obituary is from the Kansas City Star, Kansas City, page 8A reads as follows:

CARPENTER - Dryden H. Carpenter, 69 years old, a retired traveling salesman died Friday at the Independence Sanitarium. His death was caused by complications following influenza. He is survived by eleven children, a sister and four brothers. The funeral services were yesterday at the home of a son, C. I. Carpenter, in Independence; burial in Mound Grove Cemetery.

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Saturday, July 31, 2021

Van Natter Family - Isaac Vannatter - Revolutionary War Records - page 35

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