Wandering Around The Family Tree

I'm very lucky to have several of my grandmother Evelyn Clara Call's (1895-1962) photo albums. And perhaps even luckier that she labeled many of the photos - so I know roughly when and where they were taken, and who was in the photos.  My grandmother attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois in 1915-1916, and then Cornell University in Ithaca, New York from 1916-1919.  Page 97 has photographs of the Mannix family farm in Le Roy, New York.  There were photographs of the Mannix family on pages 91-93 in the album Pages 98-100 appear to all be photos of a trip to Niagara Falls in May 1918 Page 98 ?, Norris, Fry Page 99 Norris, LeFevre and Fry Page 100   Miles Fry (Cornell 20) Miles Fry - Miles William Fry (1898-1982), son of Jacob Fry and Maggie Ruth,  earned a degree in Agriculture from Cornell in 1920.  Interestingly, Miles seems to have lied on his World War I draft registration form and on his military records. He claimed a birthdate of 1897 -...

July 9-12. I visited at Robert's. "This is a sample of Lucille's program since I have been here. - Tend to housework till 8 or 8:30. Go with Evelyn (Sukey) to the cabbage field and hoe till noon. Got to town for machine supplies or repairs. To-day she got back at 3:30, sorted clothes and started washing at 4 P.M. Elizabeth gets dinner. She ironed a lot of clothes to-night. Then Mrs. Chase called and visited till dusk, after that Lucille set out some plants she had bought.  Wed 12. Thelma  had a party and shower for Marian,  There were very nice presents, every one of them. Everything went off fine, nice refreshments, pretty flowers, nice company.  July 7-15. Edith at Epworth League meetings at Silver Lake.  July 19. Lucille had a quilting party for Marian.  July 29. Arthur, Bertha and Adelle came. Adelle was accepted for entrance to Brockford Normal, and went to try a physical examination. The doctor said she was in perfect health.  The Call-Joslin Reu...

Last year, the theme for week 2 was Favorite Photo and I had no problems deciding what to write about - the photo of the six Joslin siblings taken in 1904 at Robert Call and Charlotte Joslin's Golden Wedding anniversary celebration.  A year later - when Favorite Photo was announced as theme for week 4 I had a much harder time deciding on which photo to share. I've spent more hours than I can count digitizing and sharing family photos in the past year. So oftentimes my favorite photo is probably the most recent one I've researched.  But as I thought about the theme for this week - I kept coming back to a photograph in my Grandmother Evelyn Clara Call's photo album from college covering the years 1915-1919. The photo was taken on Christmas Day, 1916 and shows a scene that anyone who ever attending a family gathering with a meal is familiar with - the kids table! In the album, the photo is labeled Irving, Floyd, Laura, Albert, James , Evelyn From other photographs, I reco...

I'm very lucky to have several of my grandmother Evelyn Clara Call's (1895-1962) photo albums. And perhaps even luckier that she labeled many of the photos - so I know roughly when and where they were taken, and who was in the photos.  My grandmother attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois in 1915-1916, and then Cornell University in Ithaca, New York from 1916-1919.  Page 96 of the album has photos of Dick Thackery taken in Georgia in his military uniform. As I did a little research to figure out who he was, I found some interesting documents so decided to write a blog post just about Dick Thackery Bouquet of Cotton Dickie In Georgia As I looked at the photos - my first questions were Who is Dick Thackery? Why are there photos of him in my grandmother's photo album? And was she in Georgia to take the photos?  I could only find a few records for him as Richard Thackery. When I found one record with an alternate spelling of Thackray - suddenly there were plen...

 May 7. I wrote "R.O. expects to join the army as a musician. - Charles has worked at Akron some. I have had young Chas. Cone help some at garden work.  May 21. Mabelle Goff invited us three to dinner. We "enjoyed it all, - nice dinner, hundreds of lovely tulips, - the pleasant house, nicely furnished, - and pleasant conversation." May 30. " Alden started for Tennessee ." May 31 "There has a lot of road work been done on the ' North Road'  just east of this farm." June 2. "A party of six" (strangers) "came to the garden where I was working, and I dug plants again. Edith got her sign up last night. The lady of the party said 'These' (the Olympia poppies) 'are what made us stop' She said "This is the best part of the trip.' I was astonished when I found they were overnight guests." June 6. Charles and I went "to Mr and Mrs L.S. Reed Golden Wedding  Celebration - At Home - 4-6. There were quantiti...

 As I researched my ancestors, I realized there were a lot of men with Ralph as their first or middle name. Most it turned out were descendants of Ralph Hankins (1776-1863), first of my Hankins line to settle in New York or Pennsylvania.  So for this week's theme of Namesake I thought I'd talk about all 11 Ralphs in my Hankins family tree.  1. Ralph Hankins . Born Feb 29, 1776, in New Jersey (probably in Hunterdon County), son of Richard Hankins and Elizabeth Pinkerton. Ralph married four times. Ralph died on Sept. 9, 1863 in Tusten, Sullivan County, New York. Census records place Ralph in Lumberland, Ulster County, New York in 1800, Lackawaxan, Wayne County, Pennsylvania in 1810, Pike County, PA in 1820 and 1830, Lackawaxan, Pike County in 1840 and 1850, and Tusten, Sullivan County, NY in 1860.  Ralph first married ______ Lambert, who died in Tusten in 1796 along with their baby.  Ralph married second, Mary Dougherty (born between 1775-1784 based on age in cens...

   I'm very lucky to have several of my grandmother Evelyn Clara Call's (1895-1962) photo albums. And perhaps even luckier that she labeled many of the photos - so I know roughly when and where they were taken, and who was in the photos.  My grandmother attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois in 1915-1916, and then Cornell University in Ithaca, New York from 1916-1919.  Page 91 has photos of my grandmother Evelyn Clara Call, her college roommate Bernice Reynolds and Mrs Ray "Fer-ferd" Bernice Reynolds Bernice Reynolds -  Bernice C. Reynolds (1896-1973) graduated from Cornell in 1920 with a degree in Agriculture. She was the daughter of Charles John Reynolds and Mary Ella Wilder. She married Fred Eugene Wheeler Mrs Ray & Evelyn Clara Call Mrs Ray - Lorinda Minier (1839-1920) widow of Julius Ray (1829-1905). The family lived in Stafford and Le Roy.  Evelyn Clara Call  1917 Evelyn Clara Call By the Oatka  1917 Evelyn Clara Call At ...