Wandering Around The Family Tree

   Here are the April  Birthday's from Mary Jane Kellam's Birthday Book April 11 Brother Frank Frank Marion Kellam was born 11 march 1877 at Hankins, Sullivan County, New York, son of John Ross Kellam and Frances Maria Shafer. He married Minnie Ruth Spelman. He died on 2 December 1952 at Groton, Thompkins County, New York.  He was Mary Jane Kellam's brother.  April 15 1875 Huldah S. Gass B.S.N.S. Huldah Susanna Gass was born 15 April 1875 in Shamokin, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, daughter of Joseph A. Gass and Isabella A Houseweart. She married Robert Young Smith. She died on 11 July 1956 in  Orangeville, Columbia County, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Bloomsburg State Normal School.  April 16 E.B. Gladstone   Andes, NY April 17 Herbert C Stanton  Churchilla Pa, 1875-92 Mrs Rose Lynch died 1928 on her birthday Rose Cogan was born 17 April 1873 in Ireland. She married Patrick Lynch (1875-1951) on 5 March 1899 in Auburn, Cayuga C...

 Arthur, as a little child, was subject to sudden mysterious attacks of illness, which would frighten his mama almost to death. He would have high fever, and sometimes his stomach would reject all food and then he would gag and retch. He and Edith had the whooping cough when Edith was six or eight months old. Arthur had quite a bad cough, but I never heard him whoop more than once or twice. Edith was very  sick, especially along towards Spring, when she caught more Cold and lay in a stupid condition for days, hardly eating or moving. We had a doctor at last, and he said she might get along, but he had known of a similar case where a child dropped off very suddenly and unexpectedly. he couldn't tell what the outcome would be in her case. She began to improve about that time, and with the help of "emulsion of cod liver oil," she soon became robust again. She was always a very large child. Arthur weight 7 1/2 pounds when he was born, Edith 9 1/2, Robert 8 1/2, and Evelyn 8. ...

   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 Pages 141 and 142 have photographs of Evelyn's friends at the Falls in Fall Creek Gorge and canoeing on a lake. There are several photographs of my grandfather in this set.  Page 141 Hankins & McLean Hankins    McLean Hankins - My grandfather, Francis William Hankins (1897-1983), son of William Lucas Hankins (1872-1930) and Mary Jane Kellam (1874-1944). He married Evelyn Clara Call on December 30, 1920.  "Hank"  &  "Mac" Page 142 has another photo at the Falls and photographs of friends canoeing. Falls in Fall Creek Gorge "Mac" & "Hank" "M...

  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 140 has a pair of photographs from the campus of Cornell University in the spring of 1919.  Fall Creek Gorge, back of Risley, showing "swimming hole" Across the Quadrangle  1919 Previous pages in the album:  Trip to Buttermilk Falls, April 1919 Next pages in the album: Hankins and McLean - Spring 1919

  Here are the March Birthday's from Mary Jane Kellam's Birthday Book March 1 - Ruth Leighton March 9 Clarissa B. Kellam, Syracuse, NY 1833 Clarissa Kellam was born 9 March 1833, daughter of John Kellam (1787-1874) and Jane Ross (1801-1856). She died  20 September 1882. She was a paternal aunt of Mary Jane Kellam.  March 10 Mothers Birthday  Feb 4 1924 Died Frances Maria Shafer was born 10 March 1846 in Andes, Delaware County, New York, daughter of Philip Shafer (1795-1873) and Sarah Melvina Benedict (1805-1880). She married John Ross Kellam on 27 Mary 1872 in Long Eddy, Sullivan County, New York. She died on 4 February 1924 in Auburn, Cayuga County, New York. She was Mary Jane Kellam's mother.  F.M. Shafer , Fly Mountain, NY Francis Marion Shafer was born 10 March 1846 in Andes, Delaware, New York, son of Philip Shafer (1795-1873) and Sarah Melvina Benedict (1805-1880). He married Lucelia Adelaide Sedgewick (1842-1910). He died on 29 July 1897 in Kingston, Ulst...

  The seventh photograph is Sarah Frances Ward (1856-1942), wife of Ezra Frank Coe, sister-in-law of Elizabeth Ann Coe.  Sarah Frances Ward was born on 6 June 1856 in Pavilion, Genesee County, New York to Charles Kendall Ward (1819-1898) and Laura Caroline Davenport (1822-1876).  She married Ezra Frank Coe (1853-1942) son of Albert Coe (1827-1907) and Deborah Prentice (1833-1910) on November 7, 1883 in LeRoy, Genesee County.  Wedding invitation shared by Marion Sperry Howe.  Ezra and Sarah moved frequently during the early years of their marriage. In 1885, the Iowa state census has them living in Perry, Dallas County, Iowa. Just over a year later in December 1886, their daughter Clara Evelyn Coe (1886-1972) was born in Hiawatha, Brown County, Kansas. In January 1890, their son Charles Albert Coe (1890-1978) was born in Denver, Adams County, Colorado. By 1892, they were living in Wichita, Sedgewick County, Kansas, where Ezra was employed as a traveling salesman f...

None of our children are mischievous as some are but Robert had a season before he was two years old, when he did some funny, and troublesome things. I had agreed to board two young ministers who met at our church for the Conference Class - for about a week. While I was preparing a bedroom for them,little Robert came climbing up the stairs. I had set out the water pitcher so as to take it down to fill, but set it back in a room when Robert came up. In a few minutes, however, i head a rolling crash and found he had put the cloth kitty and puppy in the water pitcher, and had rolled them down stairs.  A few days after, I was very  tired, and when, at last, I had finished dinner dishes, I went and tumbled on the couch almost exhausted. I picked up something to read for once was almost oblivious to any surround. I was soon aroused, however, and found that Robert had taken the hair- brush,   and climbed up into a chair in the kitchen and pounded a full bowl of gravy he had...