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:

Page 356

          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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Van Natter Family - William Vannattor - Estate papers - Page 5

[continued from page 4]

page 79

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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