Saturday, September 29, 2018

Book Of The Week: History of Otter Tail County, Minnesota:


History of Otter Tail County, Minnesota:
Its People, Industries, and Institutions : 
with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens 
and Genealogical Records of Many of the 
Old Families, 
Volume 1

John Wintermute Mason


B.F. Bowen, 1916 - Otter Tail County (Minn.)



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Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Finding Faulkner: The Progeny | Ursilla A Hagerman {Gen 4}



It started, as good quests always do, with a family tale.


Ursilla A Hagerman (Eliza Marie, Robert, Samuel, William) was born in Monroe Twp., Kosciusko Co, Indiana, August 13th 1861, to parents Eliza Marie Faulkner and Jacob Hagerman.

Ursilla married George A Wood (1855-1937) on January 29th 1886 in Labette Co, Kansas. This was a second marriage for George, presumably divorced.

The couple had two children:

  • Chester Avah Wood b. 31 Jan 1894 d. 1 Nov 1941 m. Pearl E Castleberry
  • Victor Darwin Wood b. 11 Nov 1899 d. 8 Mar 1962 m. Elsie M Castleberry

George Wood was a farmer in Greene Co, Illinois. He was married first to Sarah King and had two children with her. Prior to his marriage to Ursilla George must have divorced Sarah as both are remarried to other spouses by 1892. George's first two children remained with their mother and step father, residing in McLean Co, Illinois.

George appeared to have left his farm and home in 1885, as he turned up in March of that year on the Kansas census, as a single farmer in Labette Co. The following January George married Ursilla and the couple headed west. Their first child, Chester, was born in Ventura, California in 1894. By 1899, and the birth of their second child, the family had returned to Greene Co, Illinois, and George's farm, where they remained.


Ursilla A Hagerman Wood died January 9th 1929 at the age of 67. She is buried in Richwoods Cemetery in Athensville, Greene Co, Illinois.

George A Wood died 7 years later on August 22nd 1937. George was 82. He is buried in Richwoods Cemetery alongside his wife.


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Saturday, September 22, 2018

Book Of The Week: An Illustrated History of Nobles County, Minnesota


An Illustrated History of 
Nobles County, Minnesota

Arthur P. Rose


Northern History, 1908 -
Nobles County (Minn.) - 637 pages



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Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Finding Faulkner: The Progeny | Roswell D Hagerman {Gen 4}


It started, as good quests always do, with a family tale.


Roswell D Hagerman (Eliza Marie, Robert, Samuel, William) was born in Monroe Twp., Kosciusko Co, Indiana, June 1st 1854, to parents Eliza Marie Faulkner and Jacob Hagerman.

Roswell married Carrie A Hamilton on March 25th 1879 in Parsons, Labette Co, Kansas.

The couple had five children:

  • Edward Hagerman b. 10 Jun 1880 d. 5 Jul 1880
  • Arthur F Hagerman b. 19 Jul 1881 d. 17 Nov 1963 m. Emily Landauer
  • Clara Ellen Hagerman b. 31 Dec 1883 d. 18 Feb 1970 never married
  • Theodore C Hagerman b. 29 Jan 1886 d. 18 Jan 1966 m. Bernice M Richel
  • Susan S Hagerman b. 17 Nov 1893 d. 21 Apr 1963 m. James H Foster

Roswell was a dairy farmer in Mount Pleasant, Kansas. He sold butter, grew corn and wheat, and had a peach orchard. In 1888 he was appointed to Postmaster in Hudson, located in the Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory  on the border of what is now Kansas and Oklahoma. Roswell held that position until 1896, when his wife died.

Carrie Hamilton Hagerman died just 2 years after the birth of her youngest daughter, on January 22nd 1896 in Centralia, Oklahoma. Carrie was 34 years old. She is buried in Ellis Cemetery in Labette Co, Kansas.

Roswell Hagerman remained in Oklahoma and raised his children while farming on rented land.

Roswell D Hagerman died on December 4th 1915 at the age of 61. He is buried in Ellis Cemetery in Labette Co, Kansas alongside his wife. 



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Saturday, September 15, 2018

Book Of The Week: An Illustrated History of Lyon County, Minnesota



An Illustrated History of
Lyon County, Minnesota

Arthur P. Rose


Northern History Publishing Company, 1912 -
Lyon County (Minn.) - 616 pages



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Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Finding Faulkner: The Progeny | Emma Ryan {Gen 4}


It started, as good quests always do, with a family tale.


Emma Ryan (Esther Ann, Robert, Samuel, William) was born in Kosciusko Co, Indiana April 12th 1865, to parents Esther Ann Faulkner and James Ryan.

Emma married Wilson E Thrush (1863-1940) on April 5th 1890 in Kosciusko Co, Indiana.

The couple had one child:

  • Harry A Thrush b. 11 Sep 1891 d. 17 Oct 1912 never married

Wilson was a blacksmith by trade, Emma was a stay at home wife who may have been sickly.

Emma Ryan Thrush died on October 4th 1910 of uremic poisoning - kidney failure. She was 45 years old. She is buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Warsaw, Kosciusko Co, IN.

Wilson married for a second time in 1911, the widow Etta Belle Oakley nee Shaffer.

The following fall Emma and Wilson's only child, Harry, was killed in a mining accident in Butte, Montana. He is buried next to his mother in Oakwood Cemetery.

Wilson E Thrush lived to be 77 years old, he died December 7th 1940 and is buried with both of his wives and his son in  Oakwood Cemetery.


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Saturday, September 8, 2018

Book Of The Week: An illustrated history of the counties of Rock and Pipestone, Minnesota



An illustrated history 
of the counties of 
Rock and Pipestone, Minnesota

Arthur P. Rose

Northern History Publishing Company, 1911 - 
Pipestone County (Minn.) - 802 pages



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Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Finding Faulkner: The Progeny | John W Ryan {Gen 4}



It started, as good quests always do, with a family tale.


John W Ryan (Esther Ann, Robert, Samuel, William) was born in Kosciusko Co, Indiana June 5th 1859, to parents Esther Ann Faulkner and James Ryan.

John W married Mary J Ralston (1862-1938) on August 9th 1881 in Kosciusko Co, IN.

The couple had five children: all born Warsaw, Kosciusko Co, IN

  • Howard Ryan b. 12 Oct 1883 d. 7 May 1886
  • Albert John Ryan b. 23 May 1887 d. 13 Nov 1962 m. Jane L Kilkelly
  • Edna M Ryan b. 30 Mar 1889 d. 29 Dec 1973 m. (1) Arthur I Rentfrow (2) Herman Christianer
  • Ona Eliza Ryan b. 18 Jan 1893 d. 10 Oct 1944 m. Elmer H McCleary
  • Garrett Hobart Ryan b. 11 Aug 1896 d. 4 Jul 1968 m. (1) Erba Heeter no issue (2)Anna T Strand

John W held a variety of jobs in adulthood. Day labor, farm hand, laborer at a blacksmith shop and finally custodian at a city park. For a time he owned his own home and farm, later in life he was renting a home.

John W Ryan died on February 7th 1937 of a cerebral hemorrhage. At the time of death he was visiting his newly divorced daughter, Edna, in Anderson, Indiana. He was 77 years old.

John W Ryan is buried in Washington Union Twp Cemetery in Pierceton, Kosciusko Co IN.

Mary Ralston Ryan died the following February and is buried next to her husband in Washington Union Twp Cemetery. Mary was 76 years old.


Anyone with additional information on this family is encouraged to contact me.


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Saturday, September 1, 2018

Book Of The Week: Genealogical and Family History of the Wyoming & Lackawanna Valleys, PA


Genealogical and Family History
 of the Wyoming and Lackawanna Valleys,
Pennsylvania,Volume 2

Horace Edwin Hayden, Alfred Hand, John Woolf Jordan
Lewis publishing Company, 1906 
Lackawanna County (Pa.)




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