Triple Jump Ancestors

Ancestors of Joanne (Albertson) Skelton

Born, Married & Died in Different States

Generation	Name	Born	Married	Died
3	Oran J Albertson	Iowa	Kansas	Oregon
4	Nathan E Albertson	Indiana	Iowa	Kansas
4	Lafe Smalley	Ohio	Nebraska	Kansas
4	Rosa Ella Shipman	Illinois	Nebraska	Kansas
5	Benjamin Albertson	North Carolina	Indiana	Missouri ??
5	Sabina Marsh	Ohio	Indiana	Kansas
5	Rebecca Hartley	Ohio	Indiana	Kansas
5	Lucy Jane Chase	Connecticut	Ohio	Kansas
5	Solomon Bond	Kentucky	Iowa	Oregon
5	Huldah Hayes	Ohio	Iowa	Oregon
5	Commodore Perry O'Neal	Indiana	Iowa	Oregon
5	Margaret J England	Illinois	Iowa	Oregon
6	Elias Marsh	New Jersey	Ohio	Indiana
6	Edith Townsend	Pennsylvania	Ohio	Indiana
6	Isaac Hockett	North Carolina	Ohio	Iowa
6	Sarah Frazier	North Carolina	Ohio	Iowa
6	Joseph L. Shipman	Connecticut	Ohio	Michigan
6	Sarah Chastain	Virginia	Kentucky	Washington
6	Seth Hayes	New York	Ohio	Oregon
6	Lydia Jewett	New Hampshire	Ohio	Oregon
6	William L England	Kentucky	Tennessee	Oregon
6	Mary Jane Walker	South Carolina	Tennessee	Oregon
7	Solomon Bond	North Carolina	Kentucky	Iowa
7	Joseph England	Maryland	Kentucky	Missouri
7	Mary Reed	Virginia	Kentucky	Missouri

To read more about these individuals look on my genealogy website:

www.joanneskelton.com

Births and Deaths in my Oregon Bond Family on February 18th

My calendar for family vital events showed that on February 18th there were four births or deaths in my Oregon Bond family.

1. 1849 -- My 2nd great granduncle, James Bond, was killed on February 18th. He had come to Oregon as a Baptist missionary in 1847. An accidental shooting in Clatsop County caused his death.
   
   

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   Perry Solomon Bond  born 18 Feb 1882

   1882 -- My granduncle, Perry Solomon Bond, was born to John Howard Band and Mary Ann (O'Neal) Bond. They were living on a homestead located about 5 miles west of Creswell. He was the oldest son, the third of five children. 
   
   
3. 1893 -- Perry's first cousin, Melvin Bond, the son of William Henry Bond and Sarah (Kirk) Bond, died in Umatilla County, Oregon, at the age of 1 year and 1 month old. Melvin was buried in the Helix Cemetery there. It was in December of 1893 that Perry's father sold his homestead and the family soon moved to Gilliam County in Eastern Oregon. 
   
   
4. 1900 -- On Perry's 18th birthday, while living in Lone Rock in Gilliam County, Perry's grandfather and my 2nd great-grandfather, Solomon Bond, died at Halsey, Oregon, at the age of 80. Solomon was born in Kentucky, moved to Indiana, then Illinois and then to Iowa where he was married. In 1853 he traveled to Oregon on the Oregon Trail, obtained a donation land claim which would later be at the edge of Halsey and remained there the rest of his life.

Birthdays in August

Since my birthday is in August, I seem to notice August birthdays.

I checked my on-line (http://www.joanneskelton.com/ui26.htm) ancestor birthday calendar and found that four of my female ancestors were born in August.

They were born within a hundred year period

     from 1797 to 1886

They were from both sides of my ancestry

     two from my fathers side and two from my mothers family

They were all different generations

      grandmother

      great grandmother

      2nd great grandmother

      3rd great grandmother

They were born in different places

      Sherman County, Kansas

      Posen, Prussia

      Adams County, Ohio

      Franklin County, Virginia

I have pictures of three of them

If you would like to read more about them go to my ancestor calendar and click on the links there.

http://www.joanneskelton.com/ui26.htm

A Genealogical Legacy

Recently I was reminded that we don’t live forever. So I began wondering what type of genealogical legacy I would be leaving behind.

In considering this, I thought of at least four ways that genealogists can leave a legacy.

1. Photos—Have they been identified, preserved and shared?
2. Publishing—Are our research findings published in either print or digital format?
3. People—Have we inspired and mentored new genealogists?
4. Problem solving—Have we done real research, not just collected names from other people’s work?

A Mysterious Obituary

Last week I wrote about Annie Clark Collins, who lived to be 99 years old. I closed that blog with information obtained from her obituary that she "was survived by her two daughters, Velma Redmer and Rachel Starr."
I determined that I wanted to know more about these daughters, so using the Oregon Death Index, found that Velma had lived until 2011 and Rachel had died in 1983. A friend at our Society collects obituaries from some of our local papers and was able to supply me with these two obits.
Velma's obituary was similar to what I expected: she had lived to age 98, had 6 surviving children, 9 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren. Her parents were named as well as her husband who had preceded her in death in 1993. Her sister Rachel was not mentioned since she had died over twenty years before Velma.
But Rachel's obituary really surprised me. Her birth, death and marriage information seemed fine. But her survivors were really not what I expected. The husband, two sons and four grandchildren were OK. However, it listed five brothers and five sisters, none of which were Velma. The brothers listed were: Charlie Walter, Frank Walter, Elden Walter, Clifton Walter, and Howard Hance. The sisters were: Lyrl Pryor, Myrna Anderson, Adele Jones, Vi Van Tassel and Dottie Vaughn. If Rachel was the daughter of William and Annie (Clark) Collins, why would her brothers be named Walter or Hance? Did I have the wrong person? She was born about the right year, 1922. She was born in the right place, Seal Rock. She was raised in Cottage Grove. Was she adopted or something? I needed to try to resolve this question.
I tried a number of searches in various databases to see if I could solve the problem. I checked Ancestry, Find A Grave, Roots Web, Family Search, and Oregon State Archives. I tried many of the names listed as brothers and sisters of Rachel. Finally on Find A Grave I found a clue. I found that both Rachel and her husband Lloyd Starr were on that site buried in Blachly Cemetery. I clicked on the side bar for all the Starrs in that cemetery, including maiden names. One of the entries was Viola B. (Starr) Walter. One of Lloyd's sisters had married a Walter, so Viola's husband would have been a brother-in-law. Now I checked further on the family trees on Ancestry and found that she had been married to two men named Walter: first to Charles where she is listed on the 1940 census living with her parents and then about 1943 to Frank. Finally I found the 1930 census for the correct Walter family living in Swantown, Washington. This family included the following Walter children: Lyrl, Myrna, Opal A, Charley, Frank, Violia, Elden and Clifton. This includes the four Walter brothers named in the obituary and at least three of the sisters, probably four. There are still a couple of names in the obit I have not identified, but it is clear that most of those listed were not siblings of Rachel, but those who were siblings of her sister-in-law's husband.
This shows that obituaries cannot always be trusted to give correct relationships.

Annie Clark Collins' Birthday--She lived to be 99.

My first cousin twice removed, Annie Clark, was born on March 8, 1875, probably in Linn County, Oregon. Her mother, Lydia (Bond) Clark, was the oldest sister of my great-grandfather, John Howard Bond. Annie lived to be 99 years old, lacking about 9 months of reaching her 100th birthday, dying on July 17, 1974.
It is probable that Annie lived with her parents, Oren and Lydia Clark, until the time of her marriage to William D Collins November 10, 1897. She was listed with them on the 1880 census in Elk Precinct, Benton County, Oregon. She and William were married at Seal Rock, Lincoln County, Oregon. By the 1900 census the William Collins family, including their 1 year old son Wilbur, was living in the Alsea Precinct, Lincoln County. In 1910 they had moved to Newport, Lincoln County. Annie reported that 4 children had been born, but only 2 were living: Wilbur age 11 and Esther age 6 months. The family had moved into the Willamette Valley by the 1920 census and were living in East Gaston Precinct in Washington County. Their two children Wilbur now age 21 and daughter Velma age 7 were living with them. It appears that Esther had passed away during those ten years betwen 1910 and 1920. Annie had at least one more child, because Rachel Grace was born in 1922 and was living with her parents along with Velma in 1930 when they were living in the Silk Creek Precinct (near Cottage Grove) Lane County, Oregon. William and Annie moved back to the coast between 1935 and 1940 and were in the Glenada Precinct (near Florence) Lane County, Oregon on the 1940 Census.
The year 1942 would have been sad for Annie, since her husband William of over 40 years died in June and her son Wilbur died in September from a logging accident. At the time of William's death, they were living in North Bend, Coos County, Oregon. By the time Annie herself died in 1974, she was living in Blachly, Lane county, Oregon and was survived by her two daughters, Velma Redmer and Rachel Starr.

Ancestors' Wedding Days 150 years apart

Two sets of ancestors were married on March 2nd, 150 years apart. My 3rd great-grandparents, William England and Mary Walker were married in 1827 in Gibson County, Tennessee. My 8th great-grandparents, Joseph Jewett and Rebecca Law were married in 1677 in Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts.