tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57712509619314526682024-02-20T23:08:13.654-08:00Missing AncestorsDorothyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336659113403587115noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5771250961931452668.post-72796925663102471022022-03-18T18:07:00.003-07:002022-03-18T18:25:53.085-07:00<p><span style="font-size: large;"> O</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">tillie Audrey Lieberknecht. What a mouthful. Her New Jersey birth certificate said "Otille Lieb," born on September 20, 1908, in Jersey City to Wm. C Lieb, 39, and Florence Wenzel, 25. They lived at 243 Montgomery St. She was the second child and the only one living. I suspect the first child was named Dorothy as Momma Audrey said I was named after her sister. Audrey was the 2nd or 3rd female child of William's, the first two, John and Olive, were with Mary A. Carter, his first wife. William's mother was named Ottilie. There's a little discrepancy here with his supposed first child, Ollie, who was born five months before the marriage, and the DNA doesn't match with William's sister's (Agnes) line and mine. </span></p><span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">William liked to be called Lieb, and that is what Florence called him. Lieberknecht was his step-father's name, and William used that most of his life having grown up with George Lieberknecht as his father since he was seven years old. But that's another story when I write about William.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">I don't think Audrey liked the name Otillie. She was known as Ottilie Lieb in grammar school in Oxnard and at Santa Barbara High School. She changed her name to Audrey Otillie around the time she married Philip Grosvenor Jones in 1930 in Ventura. From then on she signed Audrey O. Jones in her books and watercolor paintings.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Sometime soon after Audrey's birth in 1908, the family left for Detroit, Michigan where they appear in the 1910 US Census. From there they traveled to Santa Barbara where Aunt Barbara was born on September 9, 1911. Barbara's birth certificate says "unnamed," and her parents were Wm. C. Lieb, 42 and Florence Wenzel, 27. They were living at the Anapamu House. Years later in 1971, my sister Phyllis and Barbara filed an affidavit to amend the birth record to show Barbara's name as Barbara Rosemarie Lieb Tuttle to enable Barbara to apply for Social Security benefits. The family must have traveled quickly to Santa Barbara from either Detroit or El Paso, Texas in order for Florence (we called her Mimi) to give birth to Barbara in 1911, and then they traveled back to El Paso, Texas. This is where it gets confusing. Here's where a timeline helps:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">1908 - Jersey City, New Jersey</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">1910 - Detroit, Michigan</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">1911 - Santa Barbara, California</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">1912 - El Paso, Texas</span><div><span style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">1920 - Oxnard and Santa Barbara<br /></span></span><div><br style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Audrey may have been a sickly child. I heard once she had rheumatic or scarlet fever. The Oxnard Courier reported her as having pneumonia. Audrey had complained that she never got to go anywhere with her parents because she was often sick.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">sickly child</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">rheumatic fever?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">high grades in Oxnard school</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">She rode on the train from El Paso to Oxnard alone as reported in the Oxnard Courier.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Plays that Audrey was in:</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Officer 666, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Apron Strings</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">at the Playbox Theater 1408 State St., </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Playbox Players</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">1939</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;" /><br /></div></div>Dorothyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336659113403587115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5771250961931452668.post-4926637979186521212020-05-12T22:49:00.013-07:002021-07-27T19:09:06.201-07:00William Carl Jacob Lieberknecht nee Dickhaut<span style="font-family: arial;">He isn't missing any longer, but his history is compelling enough to relate to my family. My mother's mother, Florence, called him Lieb as did his friends and associates. Sometimes he used Lieb or was referred to as Lieb in city directories and US Censuses.<br />
<br />
From the beginning:<br />
1869: My grandfather, William, was christened in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the Salem Zion United Church of Christ on June 26, 1869. His christening name was Wilhelm Carl Jacob Dickhaut. William thought he had been born in Trenton, New Jersey, but in 2017, I discovered the baptismal record from the church in Philadelphia. His parents were Karl Dickhaut and Auguste Wilhelmine Ottilie Reinecke. The sponsors were Jacob and Johanna Oesterle, the same Jacob Oesterle who was the witness to the marriage of William's parents in the same church in 1867.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtlbH2Coyzn-8kkcZIfPcFeIaJGteLiEzvtmvimoKkwYQ9FUuoee6j5nUXQCg3QUKWGtS0fvx6tJ6Ls78K5FiTKjQjd6tef6tnplIT7xrRxp9TkVWAMFkbbtKrlXVpfYilFZcXT5bpNAo/s1099/Dickhaut%252CWilliamCarlJacob+bap.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="317" data-original-width="1099" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtlbH2Coyzn-8kkcZIfPcFeIaJGteLiEzvtmvimoKkwYQ9FUuoee6j5nUXQCg3QUKWGtS0fvx6tJ6Ls78K5FiTKjQjd6tef6tnplIT7xrRxp9TkVWAMFkbbtKrlXVpfYilFZcXT5bpNAo/s320/Dickhaut%252CWilliamCarlJacob+bap.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br />
<br /><br /><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE9wQ7siTqmU3aLuzfTAPSS2xAfp3A4afh6_avM1yRWLOeK74MW9qjB15pbx_hIFwZQ1IwbXlnXp6Dl_gq8i7G1pcXEZziL81YgfCXkgGVrrIXeML4nAaC6nBnO0iwOItyAMNiP9pFjvE/s1118/Dickhaut-ReinekeMarriage.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1118" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE9wQ7siTqmU3aLuzfTAPSS2xAfp3A4afh6_avM1yRWLOeK74MW9qjB15pbx_hIFwZQ1IwbXlnXp6Dl_gq8i7G1pcXEZziL81YgfCXkgGVrrIXeML4nAaC6nBnO0iwOItyAMNiP9pFjvE/s320/Dickhaut-ReinekeMarriage.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">1870: William and his parents were listed in the 1870 US Census of Winslow Township, Camden County, New Jersey. This township is right across the river from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are listed as<br />
Charles Dickhout 26, laborer, Germany; and<br />
Oteliee Dickhout 22, wife, Germany; and<br />
William Dickhaut, 1, New Jersey.<br />
<br />
1872: Brother Hermann was born. No record found. He says born in PA<br />
1875: Sister Agnes was born. No record found. She says born in NE<br />
1878: Omaha, Nebraska. Mother Ottilie has married George Lieberknecht. Her maiden name is listed as Schultz.<br />
<br />
1880: US Census, Omaha, Nebraska. Family of George Lieberknecht:<br />
George Lieberknecht, 31, compositor<br />
Otillie, 31<br />
William, 11<br />
Herrman, 8<br />
Agnes, 4<br />
William, 2<br />
Herman, 6/12<br />
<br />
1889: William's marriage to Mary A. Carter Oct. 16, 1889, in Omaha, Nebraska.<br />
1890: William lived in South Omaha, Nebraska. Omaha City Directory<br />
1891: Daughter, Olive M. Lieberknecht, was born on 18 Oct. 1891 in Omaha, Nebraska.<br />
1893: Pressman at Omaha Printing with his step-father, George Lieberknecht,<br />
1894: Son William born 6 Jan 1894 in Omaha, Nebraska<br />
1895: Divorce from Mary A Carter<br />
1896: Cordova Alaska, from William's business card.<br />
1897: William kidnaps Olive from Omaha, Nebraska. Newspaper article and a story written by Olive when she was in high school in New Jersey.<br />
1898: Marriage to Cornelia A Allen, 33. June 7, 1898. Council Bluffs, Iowa. Groom: W C Lieberknecht Dickhaut, 30. Groom's father, Chas. Dickhaut, mother, Ottelia Schulz<br />
1899: unknown<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;">
1900: US Census Jersey City, New Jersey:<br />
William Lieberknecht, 30, machinist<br />
Cornelia Lieberknecht, 35<br />
Olive, 8<br />
Margaret, 6 (Cornelia's daughter)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />
1903: William filed a type casting patent 9 Sep 1903 New York City, New York<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXzdIrdtCesspur5Cl5HHsA7KhLxCVLpDFFNsww8AGEu-gSn-KFcBgHLO8Ab_nqEb11-T-CgnsI3UbQvA-BoE-KqAQuiph0xHMDq9MUbk_uJOM03gBC-8xCpfQDBVXjuthKEjAej9Km1A/s843/Type+Casting+Patent+-+Lieberknecht+pg+-2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="843" data-original-width="571" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXzdIrdtCesspur5Cl5HHsA7KhLxCVLpDFFNsww8AGEu-gSn-KFcBgHLO8Ab_nqEb11-T-CgnsI3UbQvA-BoE-KqAQuiph0xHMDq9MUbk_uJOM03gBC-8xCpfQDBVXjuthKEjAej9Km1A/s320/Type+Casting+Patent+-+Lieberknecht+pg+-2.png" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0_25busZCo2Rzg6NhANAZRbKeWWf7tvf4etfTUN8ZSs93g-Wswod2bpDlvDvS1amtA3YKeEuywn8A17ZBkS-gp58kOkRdZSjJMrlmz1XyrVU4ybK2pgkP6gvbDTd48bwA7VfxgOavRjM/s901/Type+Casting+Patent-Lieberknecht+pg+2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="901" data-original-width="633" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0_25busZCo2Rzg6NhANAZRbKeWWf7tvf4etfTUN8ZSs93g-Wswod2bpDlvDvS1amtA3YKeEuywn8A17ZBkS-gp58kOkRdZSjJMrlmz1XyrVU4ybK2pgkP6gvbDTd48bwA7VfxgOavRjM/s320/Type+Casting+Patent-Lieberknecht+pg+2.png" /></a></div> <br /></div><br /><br />
1904: William assigned a patent 8 Aug 1904 in New York City, New York<br />
1905, 6, 7: William wrote a consent note to Mrs. Mary Smith to be the guardian of Olive.<br />
1908: Daughter, Ottilie (Audrey), was born 20 Sep 1908 in Jersey City, New Jersey, mother is Florence Wenzel. Florence states she had a previous child.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />
1910: US Census Detroit, Michigan:<br />
William C. Lieb, 40, job printing<br />
Florence S. 27<br />
Ottilie, 1-7/12</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />
1911: daughter, Barbara Rosemarie, was born 9 Sep 1911 in Santa Barbara, California<br />
<span style="background-color: white;">1914: Arizona. WC Lieberknecht helps with mine drilling. An article in the Arizona newspaper mentions it. </span><br />
1915: El Paso city directory<br />
1917: El Paso, Texas<br />
1918: William and Florence return to Oxnard from Texas<br /><br /></span></div><div>
<span style="font-family: arial;">1920: US Census Oxnard, Ventura County, California (they must have been moving to SB at the same time).<br />
1920: US Census Santa Barbara, California (had just moved into SB on W. Cota St.)<br /><br /></span></div><div>
<span style="font-family: arial;">1921: Voter Registration, Santa Barbara County<br />
1929: William's marriage to Anna Weis Urban 29 Jan 1929, Oakland, Alameda Co., California<br /><br /></span></div><div>
<span style="font-family: arial;">1930: US Census, San Jose, California:<br />
William C Lieberknecht, 61, Machinist, printing press<br />
Anna Lieberknecht, 50<br />
1938: San Jose, Santa Clara County, California<br />
1945: William Lieberknecht died in Santa Clara Hospital, San Jose, California and is buried in the Santa Clara Mission Catholic Cemetery next to Anna, his 3rd or 4th wife who predeceased him. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8P_vCwBS0oVJ4lhQHJVUHI1bFV4dtcm3j14iJ5g8H9F59jgCQcf3_6vaYPZjjvQrNVYKAplWDKSFzDjxvdF6MfXliuYoTThBf5zqqUBMIyANIiBkoHEK5nEzDUzRIW3b4FP2SU9aQD4Y/s2048/Santa+Clara+Catholic+Cemetery.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1377" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8P_vCwBS0oVJ4lhQHJVUHI1bFV4dtcm3j14iJ5g8H9F59jgCQcf3_6vaYPZjjvQrNVYKAplWDKSFzDjxvdF6MfXliuYoTThBf5zqqUBMIyANIiBkoHEK5nEzDUzRIW3b4FP2SU9aQD4Y/s320/Santa+Clara+Catholic+Cemetery.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br />
<br />
It's really William's father, Karl Kaspar Dickhaut, who is missing.<br />
<br /></span>
<br />
<br /></div></div>Dorothyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336659113403587115noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5771250961931452668.post-91104818704846525632020-01-17T15:15:00.000-08:002020-01-17T15:15:58.952-08:00More About Annie TaylorAnnie was missing from the 1910 US Census, but her daughter, Florence Wenzel, had traveled from Jersey City, New Jersey with husband (?) William and daughter, Ottilie, to Detroit, Michigan and appear in the Detroit Census for 1910. Could Annie be close behind or even ahead?<br />
<br />
And then there's this other so-called event of Annie's that would have happened before 1917, and that may have been another marriage. On her marriage application to Thomas W. Adams, her name appears as Sarah Crawford. That Crawford name comes out of the blue! The application (the information was most likely given by Thomas Adams) shows them both living in Los Angeles.<br />
<br />
Since Florence and William were in El Paso, Texas at some time between 1910 and 1918, with daughters Ottilie and Barbara, could Annie have been there too? Barbara was born in Santa Barbara, California in 1911. Figure that one out. There was a lot of moving around between Texas and California. Maybe Annie followed them. How and where did she meet Thomas Adams? Tom was a photographer and had a photo studio in Oxnard while Annie ran a boarding or apartment house in Oxnard.Dorothyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336659113403587115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5771250961931452668.post-65962243882296817142019-01-18T13:17:00.002-08:002020-10-02T16:03:03.522-07:00Annie Sarah Taylor is Missing Again (from the 1910 US Census). She’s in the 1920 and 1900 US Census, but not 1910. <div><br /></div><div>After she divorced Peter Wenzel about 1892, they were living apart in the 1900 US New York Census in Poughkeepsie; Annie was listed as a widow, a seamstress, with four children: Florence 18, Helen 12, Carrie 10 and George 2. In the same Census, Peter Wenzel is a widower, a boarder and is a stableman. Note that George was born in 1898, 6 years after Annie's divorce from Peter. Hmmm.<div><br /></div><div>In the 1910 US New York Census, Peter is living as a renter with his son, George 12, and his sister Adelaide. In the 1915 NY State Census Peter and George 18 are living in Hyde Park. Peter is a florist and George is a laborer. Where is Annie Taylor Wenzel?</div></div>Dorothyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336659113403587115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5771250961931452668.post-46657161373332577812018-06-27T16:51:00.002-07:002018-09-23T16:54:06.927-07:00More about Annie Taylor's 2nd marriage to T. W. AdamsFinally, I am posting the original marriage license and marriage certificate for Annie and T. W. Adams.<br />
It brings to mind more questions and thoughts. This is why it's so good to review documents after a while. They seem to simmer and come to light, occasionally that is. Probably not this time, though. Let's analyze it.<br />
<br />
1. All of the handwriting is in the same hand, presumably the minister who conducted the ceremony, or the clerk at the county. The minister's wife was the only witness. Even the signatures that state,"We the groom and the bride named in this certificate, hereby certify that the information given therein is correct, to the best of our knowledge and belief," are written in the same hand.<br />
<br />
2. So maybe this certificate is not an original, and that someone has copied from the original in order to file it in this book, page 259. Now, this makes more sense, except that the information written or given is questionable. I wonder how I could obtain the original from Los Angeles County. I'd like to see Annie's handwriting. Her mother, Helen Walker Taylor Traver, signed her name with an X on her testimony at Annie's divorce from Peter Wenzel in Poughkeepsie, New York.<br />
<br />
3. Her first marriage was to Peter Wenzel. She stated that her marriage to Adams is her 2nd marriage and that she was a widow, but she is using "Crawford" as her present name. It was customary for a divorced woman to say she was a widow even though her previous husband was still living. Peter Wenzel didn't die until 1935. Who was the Crawford she said had died? Or was she hiding from Peter Wenzel?<br />
<br />
This is all very mysterious. But she is still my missing ancestor until I find where she died and was buried.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0YNMUXLS1p3YGj3DiUbnkMB3UC6vmGgGYp5YlVhDBCnzIAVHrEK7Hz6lm91MSYveAdUVaLGekEJZ1pMmu83xtERWn5aY8W1THNb9LUM-igkCaf0rXWmmb8On1zZNVTpWY2hsWolL5aaU/s1600/Annie+Taylor+marriage+to+Adams.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="891" data-original-width="575" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0YNMUXLS1p3YGj3DiUbnkMB3UC6vmGgGYp5YlVhDBCnzIAVHrEK7Hz6lm91MSYveAdUVaLGekEJZ1pMmu83xtERWn5aY8W1THNb9LUM-igkCaf0rXWmmb8On1zZNVTpWY2hsWolL5aaU/s640/Annie+Taylor+marriage+to+Adams.png" width="413" /></a></div>
Dorothyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336659113403587115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5771250961931452668.post-54483718693358995522018-03-13T15:32:00.000-07:002019-03-29T10:09:51.719-07:00Karl Dickhaut, Missing Ancestor<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;">In April 2016 I again flew to SLC to see what I could find of my </span><b style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif;">Missing Ancestor</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;">, Karl Dickhaut. I did locate a baptismal record for the elusive Karl Dickhaut in Germany with the help of a library volunteer. I'm not certain this is the right </span>Karl<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> Dickhaut. Karl would be my gr-grandfather, the father of William Carl Jacob Dickhaut aka </span><b style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif;">Lieberknecht</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;">. (my maternal grandfather), Hermann and Agnes.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;">William thought he was born in New Jersey, and perhaps he was, but in 2017, I discovered a baptismal record in a church record in Philadelphia. The parents were Karl Dickhaut and Auguste Wilhelmine Ottilie Reinecke. And then I found a marriage record for Karl Kaspar Dickhaut and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Wilhelmine </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Auguste Ottilie Reinecke in Philadelphia at the same church, Salem Zion United Church of Christ. The witness was the same man who was also the sponsor at William's baptism, Jacob Oesterle. Here's the timeline for Karl & Ottilie:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<br />
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1LrpOl9h47gXXN8FToJOz-Rl76BS-HHKlDvO7FtPq1w4gzB0MOrtvX9NAlHaP0vYNnR0gqwJ2MikQBP7xIGKLEKTT7o3V69B39kJhKuozhOcK_3AYP8AHmLlWUG6FDlRjD9DJ-ycbIhQ/s1600/Dickhaut-ReinekeMarriage.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1118" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1LrpOl9h47gXXN8FToJOz-Rl76BS-HHKlDvO7FtPq1w4gzB0MOrtvX9NAlHaP0vYNnR0gqwJ2MikQBP7xIGKLEKTT7o3V69B39kJhKuozhOcK_3AYP8AHmLlWUG6FDlRjD9DJ-ycbIhQ/s320/Dickhaut-ReinekeMarriage.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Marriage record for </span>Carl Dickhaut and Wilhelmine Auguste Ottilie Reinecke. Salem Zion Church of Christ.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;">1867 13 January - Marriage in Philadelphia, PA - Salem Zion United Church of Christ. Historical Society of Pennsylvania record collection 1708-1985. Ancestry.com.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;">1868 Birth and Death of the first son, Paul, in Philadelphia</span><br />
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMwibKqyZPWtDPVFS3Zrl5kOdxGmak4TrPOaehP_VVbRXEOvculbxPhoGVWEHKIYlUrTW0wB95g460k4p7nzwh-EX821A5JupqEoJs3qGBylL9YJoyMER-waQlQ65Zk8aoXBI4rSjozs8/s1600/Dickhaut%252CWilliamCarlJacob+bap.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="317" data-original-width="1099" height="92" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMwibKqyZPWtDPVFS3Zrl5kOdxGmak4TrPOaehP_VVbRXEOvculbxPhoGVWEHKIYlUrTW0wB95g460k4p7nzwh-EX821A5JupqEoJs3qGBylL9YJoyMER-waQlQ65Zk8aoXBI4rSjozs8/s320/Dickhaut%252CWilliamCarlJacob+bap.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">William Carl Jacob Dickhaut baptismal record. </td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;">1869 26 June -Baptism of William Carl Jacob Dickhaut. Sponsors: Jacob & Johanna Oesterle.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;">1870 1870 US Census, Winslow, Camden Co., New Jersey</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;">1873 Son Hermann born - record not found (Later census records state he was born in Pennsylvania.)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;">1875 Daughter Agnes born - record not found. (Later censuses and a marriage record state she was born in Nebraska.)</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1874 Philadelphia City Directory. I'll put that info here when I find it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After 1875, I cannot find Karl Dickhaut. However, in 1877, I did find Witness/Sponsor Jacob <b>Oesterle</b> in an Omaha, Nebraska City Directory with Mrs. Carl <b>Shultz</b> at the same address. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By 1878 Ottilie Schultz has married George <b>Lieberknecht</b> in Omaha, Nebraska. The 1880 US census for Omaha shows George <b>Lieberknecht</b> with a family of Ottilie, wife, William, Hermann, and Agnes as children. There is also Jacob and Johanna Oesterle living in Omaha in 1880 Census. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Truly a mystery of whatever happened to Karl Dickhaut and how Ottilie acquired the surname Shultz/Schultz. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My DNA results reveal close cousin matches to a <b>Dickhart</b> and a <b>Deckhart</b>, but of course, there are no trees for either matched cousin. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">More about <b>Jacob Oesterle</b>: In a US Passport Application #20930 dated 11 April 1873, he states his birth date as 18 May 1834 in Koenigsbach, Baden and that he is a US Naturalized citizen. A Hamburg Passenger List shows him departing Hamburg on the ship <i>Cimbria</i> on 10 September 1873 for a New York port. His occupation is listed as a <i>metzger</i> (pork butcher). 1880 Omaha Census he is listed with Johanna. A death record index for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1803-1915 at Ancestry.com has him listed as born about 1834, died 21 June 1898 in Philadelphia, PA, age 64. </span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
Dorothyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336659113403587115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5771250961931452668.post-81353616405919174052016-04-05T23:14:00.001-07:002018-09-13T17:14:35.064-07:00Annie Taylor Wenzel, AgainI've been thinking about the reasons Annie would have used Crawford on her marriage license. Some reasons may have been:<br />
<br />
1. She was married to Mr. Crawford between the time of her divorce from Peter around 1896 (she had a child, George, with Peter in 1898) and 1910 when she is not found in the 1910 NY Census in Poughkeepsie. What happened to Mr. Crawford? Annie is not in Detroit, Michigan where her daughter Flora is with William Lieberknecht in 1910.<br />
<br />
2. She was hiding from Peter Wenzel. I doubt he would have had the funds to travel to California, and how would he have found out she was married again?<br />
<br />
If anyone has any suggestions about these reasons or have some other possible explanations, please do make some comments.<br />
<br />
I still haven't found the death and burial places for Annie and Thomas W. Adams, or any concrete evidence that Thomas W. Adams is the Thomas Winfield Adams born in Texas, the one I thought was in Long Beach with a deceased wife, Lizzie, who died in 1909.<br />
<br />
Now both Annie and Thomas are missing. But there are death records for a Thomas W. Adams (wife L) in Los Angeles 2/8/1927; Solano Co. (wife K) 9/11/1929; and San Diego Co. 10/1/1931, (no wife's initial). In 1927, Annie and Thomas were still in Oxnard; there's a newspaper article mentioning them, or him.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />Dorothyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336659113403587115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5771250961931452668.post-61888495164189512492015-11-05T23:01:00.001-08:002020-01-17T18:06:57.948-08:00Annie's Marriage Record to Thomas Adams FoundMiracle of miracles! Look what dropped into my lap the other day.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhws65uIgvzxsmkGFy6VqQiLj5Y5WxtX5cLzLkObCfV2gN9ieaIuS8QHOFrEnFCNLEGWHE2u9P7Ion1mwJChyTr8l6NHz5z_Qn38obX0oBhvSs7sbubF0qz51T1YyKjFJ9BgvhGvRky-0w/s1600/Screen+Shot+2015-11-05+at+10.54.39+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhws65uIgvzxsmkGFy6VqQiLj5Y5WxtX5cLzLkObCfV2gN9ieaIuS8QHOFrEnFCNLEGWHE2u9P7Ion1mwJChyTr8l6NHz5z_Qn38obX0oBhvSs7sbubF0qz51T1YyKjFJ9BgvhGvRky-0w/s320/Screen+Shot+2015-11-05+at+10.54.39+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div>
This brings up a lot of questions about Annie's name. Why was she using the name "Crawford?" It was nice of her to get married on my birthday. More to come later.Dorothyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336659113403587115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5771250961931452668.post-27577576166377755712013-07-06T17:48:00.003-07:002018-12-30T19:51:07.404-08:00Annie Sarah Taylor Wenzel Found! HallelujahIt really pays to subscribe to a newspaper archive. In this case, I was subscribed to Ancestry.com, but I had not looked recently in the newspaper article area in the catalog. I revisited it.<br />
<br />
A few years back, I had found an article that mentioned that Mr. & Mrs. T. W. <b>Adams</b> had visited in Santa Barbara with Mrs. Flora <b>Lieb</b>, who had been a former resident of Oxnard. In the article it said, "Mrs. <b>Adams</b> is Mrs. Lieb's mother." This was printed in the Oxnard Courier sometime in 1920. I never could find that article again and so gave up on it, until I found several more articles recently about my mother, Ottilie <b>Lieb</b>, and her sister, Barbara <b>Lieb</b>, attending school in Oxnard and being on the "high grades" list.<br />
<br />
An interesting item of note is that Florence's birth record name is "Flora." Her mother must have called her Flora rather than Florence, so I believe it was Annie who had given the information to the Oxnard Courier's stringer. Who else would have called her Flora?<br />
<br />
That got me to thinking about the 1920 Census again. William and Florence <b>Lieberknecht</b> were listed in Santa Barbara on W. Ortega St., without their two daughters, and also in Oxnard in a boarding house, this time with both girls. At a closer look at the Oxnard census, an <b>Adams</b> couple were in the same house. They were Thomas W. <b>Adams</b> and Annie S. <b>Adams</b>.<br />
<br />
This prompted me to go to the Ventura County Museum and Library to do some more searching in those Ventura County records. I did find more in the Oxnard City Directories and in the Voter Registrations from 1918 up to about 1926. Another article said that the <b>Adams</b> were leaving the city to go to Texas to visit Mr. <b>Adams</b>' son and to recover from rheumatism. Mr. <b>Adams</b> was selling his photo studio.<br />
<br />
There were many more articles about the <b>Adams</b>, about my mother traveling alone at age 9 from El Paso, Texas to stay with her grandparents, the <b>Adams</b>, and her subsequent bout with pneumonia. I faintly remember my mother saying she was a sickly child and never got to go anywhere with her family due to various illnesses. In a 1929 voter registration list Annie and Thomas <b>Adams</b> were living in Hueneme. They hadn't gotten very far on their way to Texas.<br />
<br />
But now I can't find Annie or Thomas W. <b>Adams</b> anywhere in Texas or in California beyond 1929.<br />
<br />
I was able to locate a Thomas Winfield Adams who was born in Gonzales, Texas in 1848, the same age as my Mr. Adams. I have followed him and his family to San Bernardino, CA, to San Diego and to Long Beach, CA. This Thomas was married, his wife, Lizzie, died in 1909 in Long Beach, and he had two sons, Arthur and Ernest. This is suspiciously my same Thomas W. Adams. In the 1920 Census in Oxnard, CA with Annie, Thomas is born in New York, Annie was born in Virginia, although she was really born in Pennsylvania. Florence had listed her mother as having been born in West Virginia in one of her records, so it is Florence who must have given the information to the census taker in 1920 about Thomas and Annie. In previous New York censuses and in her children's birth records, Annie has always said she was born in Pennsylvania. Florence may have guessed at Thomas' birthplace.<br />
<br />
Until I can lay Annie to rest, I will still consider her my missing ancestor.Dorothyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336659113403587115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5771250961931452668.post-46070053023457537922012-09-12T16:51:00.002-07:002012-09-12T16:59:48.370-07:00Annie is Still Missing in ActionNothing has been found on any of the previously posted missing ancestors of mine. It has been 9 months since the last post, so I thought I'd better post something lest you think I have deserted my blog. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxL2QjMPJlyD_1hz6rfQcx6oyyFbWY1clHJbgAfrXZHwvYGbZ78Sw9HQz_Bnv-ysTMRj5XjfPLTm4aYTosxwr4z9BlMWbJbHXeYbIjIqpbdiIAl7KnyuWXeqn_XjSOCQULXfh0c-BvnhU/s1600/Barbara%252C+Mama+and+Gr-Grandma.tif" imageanchor="1" style="clear:right; float:right; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="320" width="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxL2QjMPJlyD_1hz6rfQcx6oyyFbWY1clHJbgAfrXZHwvYGbZ78Sw9HQz_Bnv-ysTMRj5XjfPLTm4aYTosxwr4z9BlMWbJbHXeYbIjIqpbdiIAl7KnyuWXeqn_XjSOCQULXfh0c-BvnhU/s320/Barbara%252C+Mama+and+Gr-Grandma.tif" /></a></div>
I thought I'd post the photo I described before for Annie Taylor Wenzel. It was taken at the Santa Barbara, California breakwater in about 1916. I think I'd better check to see when the breakwater was built, as it may have been after 1916. If the woman is Annie, she would have been only 57 years old. She does look older in this photo. She does look like her daughter, Florence, at the same age, though. The two girls are her granddaughters, Audrey (Ottilie) and Barbara. The year of 1916 is a guess as Audrey looks to be about 8 and was born in 1908. Her sister, Barbara, was born in 1911 and looks to be around 5. Annie's grandfather was MIA James R. Walker, and her father was MIA (George?) Taylor. <b>Annie is still MIA and so are her two ancestors</b>. It must run in the family. Dorothyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336659113403587115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5771250961931452668.post-47316989636221006612011-12-18T11:42:00.000-08:002012-09-12T16:31:15.245-07:00James R. Walker, Missing in Action?James R. Walker and Sarah A. Rowe lived in Kingston, Ulster Co., NY. They first lived in Saugerties, NY where their first daughter died at age 4 in 1838. She is buried in the Saugerties cemetery. James and Sarah had 4 more children, James R., George W., Carrie, and my 2nd gr-grandmother, Hellen (Ellen). According to the Walker headstone in the Kingston Wiltwyck Cemetery, James R. Walker was born in 1809 and died in 1849, only 40 years old. Census and church records do not reveal anything about him. There is mention of the death of a James Walker in the Kingston poorhouse in January 1849. James R. Walker is mentioned with Sarah in a deed having to do with an inheritance from her father, William Rowe. How did James die and where did he come from? <span style="font-weight:bold;">James R. Walker is my missing ancestor. </span>Dorothyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336659113403587115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5771250961931452668.post-10100072787961808992011-11-17T23:19:00.000-08:002020-07-09T17:28:36.190-07:00Whatever Happened to Annie Taylor Wenzel?Annie Sarah (Or Sarah Annie) Taylor married Peter Wenzel in Dutchess County, New York about 1879. This is the Annie who was born in Safe Harbor, PA about 1862 to Hellen Walker Taylor and the unknown Mr. Taylor (George or Harrison?). Annie and Peter Wenzel had about 8 children, at least three survived; my grandmother Flora (Florence Sarah) being one of the first was born in 1882 in Poughkeepsie, New York, and the others were Carrie, who married Patrick Morris, and George. Florence left home at about age 19 with William Carl Lieberknecht and was living in Jersey City, New Jersey where my mother, Ottilie, was born in 1908. Florence and William along with Ottilie were in Detroit, MI in 1910 and in 1911 arrived in Los Angeles setting down (so to speak, but not for long) in Santa Barbara where Barbara was born in the "Anapamu House." I have a photo of Ottilie and her sister, Barbara in Oxnard with a woman who looks like Florence and may be her mother, Annie. They are on the breakwater about 1916, and Ottilie looks to be around 8 years old. The woman could be Annie as she looks very much like Florence had looked at the same age. <br />
<br />
So, did Annie travel to California in 1916 with or to visit her daughter, Florence? I am unable to find a death record in NY or a burial place for Annie. What happened to her? She does not appear in the 1910 NY Census. Peter is shown as a widower. They had a legal separation in the 1890s. Annie is my missing ancestor.Dorothyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336659113403587115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5771250961931452668.post-78912976558149686542011-11-16T21:43:00.000-08:002018-07-06T19:56:55.021-07:00It's The Wrong George Taylor!Well, I did send for the pension file for this George Taylor who served in the 120th NY Infantry, Co. K. I really wanted this George as he was born in Ireland and would have been the Irish connection I had wanted to find This George had a wife, Ann Maria. They married in 1854 and lived in New York City. This George had enlisted in Roundout in Ulster Co., a village next to Kingston and Saugerties where my family lived. It was a long shot, but sometimes you have to kill off a lot of possibles to end up with the one that fits the bill.<br />
<br />
It's back to the drawing board and another investment of funds to order just one more file. If George had deserted, he would not have qualified for a pension nor would have his wife and child qualified. If he was missing in action, I don't know how a wife's application would have been treated. I need to find the book in our Sahyun Library that lists denied pension applications. That's the next step I will take.Dorothyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336659113403587115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5771250961931452668.post-38956596108337090952011-10-19T21:27:00.000-07:002018-07-06T19:48:33.577-07:00George Taylor, a Civil War Casualty?George Taylor was listed as working in an iron works in Kingston, Ulster County, New York before the Civil War began. The supervisor of the iron works would have been George's wife's uncle, William H. H. Rowe. <br />
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
There is a George Taylor who enlisted in the 120th New York Infantry, Company H and is shown as "missing" in regimental reports published in the Kingston newspaper. This regiment's soldiers were mostly from Kingston, New York.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
In the 1860 PA Census, George's wife, Ellen (Hellen) is shown living with her uncle, William Rowe, in Safe Harbor, PA. He is shown as the iron works supervisor. Ellen is married but no husband for her is shown, neither is her baby, Annie, who in later censuses states she was born in 1859 in Safe Harbor, PA. </div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
One reason why I like George, is that Annie named a son George, although she also had an Uncle George, Ellen's brother. Another reason is that George worked with Ellen's uncle in Kingston at the iron works there. </div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Ellen's two brothers, James R. Walker and George W. Walker were both in the 120th Regiment out of Kingston. They were in different companies and were both wounded and captured in the <a href="http://www.nps.gov/frsp/wildspot.htm">Battle of the Wilderness</a> near Spotsylvania, VA and spent time in Andersonville Prison but were paroled.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
In the 1865 Kingston, NY state Census, Ellen (really Hellen) is shown with her daughter, Annie, age 6. Hellen is a widow, and they are living with Hellen's mother, Sarah Walker, who is also a widow. </div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Is George Annie's father and Hellen's husband? What ever happened to George, if that was his name? I will spring for the cost of obtaining this George's military record. Hellen never applied for a widow's pension, nor did George ever apply for a pension. This is strange because Annie certainly was a minor if George died in the war. Hellen's mother, Sarah Rowe Walker, owned property in Kingston, so perhaps Hellen did not need the pension for her daughter or herself.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Things already done: </div>
<div>
1. Searched for a marriage record for Hellen/Ellen Walker and Mr. Taylor in Kingston, NY</div>
<div>
2. Searched for baptismal record for Annie in PA. She was baptized in Kingston, NY at about age 5.</div>
<div>
3. Searched for George Taylor in Ulster Co. State and Federal censuses.</div>
<div>
4. Emailed a person who had access to various iron works' records in Phoenixville and possibly Safe Harbor and vicinity with no response.</div>
<div>
5. Looked at prisoner lists at Libby and Andersonville prisons. No mention of George Taylor.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Things to do:</div>
<div>
1. Find and review the list of workers at the Kingston Iron Works and follow other workers.</div>
<div>
2. Study the regimental history of the 120th NY Infantry.</div>
<div>
3. Order the military record for George Taylor in Co. H, 120th NY Infantry. Done. Not my George. </div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Update: Annie says her father is Harrison Taylor in the 2nd marriage license application to Thomas W Adams. </div>
Dorothyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336659113403587115noreply@blogger.com0