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Elvira T. (Perry) Stickney family at home in Robert Lee, Coke County, TX.
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Bertha Mae (Stickney) Witcher, Part 3
Mae was fifty years old when her husband, J. E. Witcher, died on February 20, 1931. She appears to be doing well and managing her affairs, as newspaper notices indicate. She, or someone in her employ, oversees the cattle herd, … Continue reading
Posted in Buchanan, Stickney, Texas, Uncategorized, Witcher
Tagged Buchanan, Colorado City Texas, family-history, genealogy, history, Odessa Texas, Robert Lee Texas, Stickney, Texas, Witcher
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B. M. (Stickney) Witcher Buchanan Part 2, J. E. Witcher’s Black Box
James Edward Witcher’s black box was made of tin, painted black with gold trim. His name is painted on one end as “J. E. Witcher.” It measures about ten inches by seven and a half inches, and four inches deep. … Continue reading
Part 4, “The Stickney / Sauls Family – Joseph Henry and Lula Bell (Stickney) Sauls”
By 1890, the Sauls and Stickney families were living on neighboring properties near Jonesboro, a small farming community that straddled the Coryell and Hamilton county line. What do these two neighborly families possibly consist of in 1890? William M. … Continue reading
Posted in Sauls, Stickney, Texas, Uncategorized
Tagged Bunting, Coryell County, family-history, genealogy, Hamilton County, Hamlin Texas, history, Jones County, Sauls, Stickney, Stonewall County, Texas, writing
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Part 3, “The Stickney / Sauls Family – William and Elizabeth Gone to Texas through Arkansas and the Civil War,”
Just as William and Elizabeth (Bunting) Sauls begin their lives together as a married couple in October 1849, they are enumerated in three different censuses a year later, providing a clear picture of their household. The October 31, 1850, Agricultural … Continue reading
Part 2 The Stickney / Sauls Family – William and Elizabeth (Bunting) Sauls’ Youthful Beginnings
It was not suspected that William and Elizabeth were underage since the legal marriage age in Tennessee was generally considered to be 14 years for males and 12 years for females, based on the English common law that was largely adopted in the United States at the time, allowing for marriage at these younger ages with parental consent. Indications were that they were on the younger side of age for brides and grooms, even by 1850 norms, not to mention modern ones that instigate this investigation. Continue reading
Posted in Sauls, Stickney, Texas
Tagged ancestry, Bunting, family, family history, family-history, genealogy, history, Marriage ages, Sauls, Stickney, Tennessee, Texas
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The Stickney / Sauls Family Part 1
Lula Belle Stickney was the third of James Franklin and Elvira T. (Perry) Stickney’s ten children, of whom only eight survived to adulthood. Lula was the first to marry and leave the family nucleus in 1892 while they were still living in Jonesboro, Texas. Lula Belle married Joseph “Joe” Henry Sauls, the son of William M. and Elizabeth C. (Bunting) Sauls. Continue reading
John Stickney: Shipbuilder’s Apprenticeship Document Insights
Occasionally family historians come across documents that are exciting and reveal interesting information that they can’t wait to share. The following is one such find. Continue reading
Posted in American History, Fearson, Revolution, Rowley, Massachusetts, Salem & Beverly, Massachusetts, Stickney, Uncategorized, Wingate
Tagged Abigail Wingate, apprenticeship, apprenticeship document, Essex, John Stickney, Lewis Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, Newbury, Newburyport, Peabody Essex Museum, Phillips Library, Stephen Lowell, Wingate
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Cephas Hampton Brown’s Crazy Quilt Autograph Album
In 2019, I came into possession of this Brown family artifact, which my father had collected while settling his aunt Clydine C. Stickney’s estate after her death on December 30, 1989. Clydine kept important estate papers and keepsakes from her … Continue reading
Posted in Stickney, Texas, Uncategorized
Tagged Annie O. Stickney, autograph album, Cephas Brown, crazy quilt, Elsie Brown, genealogy, Roswell New Mexico
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The Stickney / Brown Family Part 3
Elsie Brown 1897 – 1960 Elsie Brown was born on September 22, 1897, in Hamilton, Texas, according to her delayed birth certificate, dated April 1, 1942. The family Bible records her name as Elsie Dorthy Brown, but the middle name … Continue reading
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Tagged Brown family, family, family-history, genealogy, history, Librarian, Los Angeles, Roswell, Stickney, Teacher, University of Texas, ww1
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The Stickney / Brown Family Part 2
The first information about Cephas and Annie’s whereabouts after marriage is in Sherwood, Texas, in 1904. Sherwood is about 30 miles southwest of San Angelo, Texas. This information is from a San Angelo Press newspaper dated August 4, 1904, which simply stated “Cephas Brown of Sherwood was in San Angelo Tuesday.” Continue reading
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Tagged blacksmith, Brown family, family-history, genealogy, history, New Mexico, Roswell, Stickney, Texas
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