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2 NAME Personal Ancestral File
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2 CORP The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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4 CONT Salt Lake City, UT 84150
4 CONT USA
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1 DATE 23 Apr 2009
2 TIME 00:13:44
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1 NAME Blaine A. Brady
1 ADDR 4165 W Mesquite Way
2 CONT Cedar Hills, Utah  84062
2 CTRY U.S.A.
1 PHON 801-400-4532
1 EMAIL bradyhome@comcast.net
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1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX M
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1 NAME Terence /Brady/ Sr.
2 SURN Brady
2 GIVN Terence
2 NSFX Sr.
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1809
2 PLAC Lavey, Upper Loughtee, Cavan, Ireland
1 DEAT
2 DATE 13 Sep 1854
2 PLAC Bristol, Bucks, Pennsylvania, USA
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1 NOTE Terence Brady is found living in Lavey Townland, Upper Loughtee Barony, Cavan County, Irelan
2 CONC d in the Irish 1821 census.  It appears that he is the oldest son and is twelve years old.  A
2 CONC t some point Terence goes to sea and as a sailor rises to the rank of Advanced Master.  On Ju
2 CONC ne 21, 1849 Terence swears to be legally naturalized and a resident of the United States of A
2 CONC merica for about seventeen years.  He does this while applying for a Carpenters Certificate t
2 CONC o build the Schooner George Washington.  This would indicate that Terence had been living i
2 CONC n the United States of America since 1832.  This information agrees with the Irish 1834 Tith
2 CONC e record which no longer shows the Brady family living in Lavey.  From Ireland it appears tha
2 CONC t Terence ends up living in New York City, New York.  On a will dated April 14, 1844 Terence'
2 CONC s father in law, James Brady refers to Terence Brady of New York City.  According to the obit
2 CONC uary of Terence's wife Bridget the couple married in 1839 in New York City and then moved t
2 CONC o Bristol, Bucks County, Pennsylvannia.  Before his marriage to Bridget, in 1838 property o
2 CONC n Cedar Street, in Bristol Township was purchased, probably in the expectation that he woul
2 CONC d be moving there with his new bride.  The young couple's first home is built on this propert
2 CONC y.
2 CONT While in Bristol, Terence and Bridget's home is the location of some of the first Catholic Ch
2 CONC urch services.  The family appears to have been instrumental in the building of Saint Mark'
2 CONC s Catholic Church in Bristol.  A number of Brady family members appear to be buried here.
2 CONT In 1845 Terence Brady and Walker Laing owner of a Bristol Coal Company file for a carpenter
2 CONC s certificate to have the Schooner Enterprise built. It appears that Terence is fifty percen
2 CONC t owner of the ship with a Chester Sturdevant.  James McLean is to be Master of the ship.  Th
2 CONC e ship is completed August 20, 1845.  According to the carpenters certificate the ship was ei
2 CONC ghty five feet in length, eighteen feet wide with a hull depth of seven feet two tenths.  Th
2 CONC e ship is estimated to be 101 21/95 tons in weight.  In 1847 Terence and Bridget buy a new ho
2 CONC me at 1200 Radcliffe Street and the adjacent lot.  Both lots are 16 feet wide by 180 feet i
2 CONC n length and includes a two story home that is 16 feet wide by 75 feet long. Even today thi
2 CONC s is the only double lot in this part of Bristol.  By 1847, Terence and Bridget had five chil
2 CONC dren and had no doubt out grown the home on Cedar Street.  The larger home was most welcome a
2 CONC nd is located a block or so away from the ship yard and docks.
2 CONT With the completion of the schooner Enterprise, a second schooner is started at Jone's Ship Y
2 CONC ard.  The Ship Yard is located on a bend in the Deleware River where Adams Hallow Creek flow
2 CONC s into the river.  The schooner George Washington has two masts, one deck, is 92 6/10 feet lo
2 CONC ng, 18 feet wide has a hull depth of 7 6/10 feet and is rated at 116 9/95 tons.  The enrollme
2 CONC nt papers are signed by Terence Brady on the 21st of June 1849. Terence is the Master and own
2 CONC er of the ship.  At the completion of the Schooner George Washington, Terence sells his inter
2 CONC est in the schooner Enterprise to Chester Sturdevant.  This probably done to help pay for th
2 CONC e George Washington which he appears to own outright.  Before Captaining the schooner Georg
2 CONC e Washington, Terence was probably sailing some of the large coal carrying ships that used Br
2 CONC istol as its terminus.  The ships were loaded with coal and sailed up and down the east coas
2 CONC t where the coal was sold.  According to family legend a Bill of Lading for a delivery to Mou
2 CONC nt Vernon, the home of George Washighton had hung in the family barn in Sonora Township, Hanc
2 CONC ock, Illinois.
2 CONT In 1832, a sixty mile canal that was forty feet wide had been built to Bristol, Bucks, Pennsy
2 CONC lvannia.  This canal transported coal by barge from the mines to Bristol where it could be lo
2 CONC aded on ships and transported to market.  Terence evidently made a good living as a ship's Ma
2 CONC ster.  The 1850 census lists the value of his personal property at $2000.  With the buildin
2 CONC g of the Reading Railroad into Philadelphia about 1852 or earlier, and new canal outlet bein
2 CONC g built closer to the cape, Bristol's prosperity declines.  By this time Terence is about 4
2 CONC 3 years old with seven children and had no doubt spent more than half his life at sea.  Finan
2 CONC cially he appears to be secure and apparently makes the decision to retire from sailing.  I
2 CONC n 1852 Terence and Bridget leave Bristol and move to Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois leaving behin
2 CONC d their property which likely could not be sold.  Other family members still live in Bristo
2 CONC l so it appears they did not worry about leaving their property.  Nauvoo, Illinois was unique
2 CONC ly situated on the Mississippi River.  It's location was important as rapids were located the
2 CONC re which made it an important port on the Mississippi River.  In 1846 the Mormons (members o
2 CONC f The Church of Jesus Chirst of Latter Day Saints) had been forced to leave Nauvoo, a town wh
2 CONC ich at that time was larger than Chicago, Illinois.  The Church of Jusus Christ of Latter Da
2 CONC y Saints had left behind agents to dispose of their property.  The Brady's probably benefitte
2 CONC d from the depressed property values.  Terence who had grown up a farmers son in Ireland no
2 CONC w owned his own farm. In Ireland the family had not owned land.  Terence also would be able t
2 CONC o be close to shipping on the Mississippi River which probably made Nauvoo that much more app
2 CONC ealling.  The eighty acre farm was located at the south half of the north west corner of sect
2 CONC ion 16 in Sonora Township very close to the farm owned by the martyred Prophet Joseph Smith
2 CONC , Jr.  Another 20 acre parcel located in the south west corner of section 8 was also owned
2 CONC .  Terence immediately outfitted the farm in a first class manner.  On February 15, 1854 hi
2 CONC s youngest son Terence Brady, Jr. was born in Nauvoo, Illinois.  Seven months later Terence r
2 CONC eturns to Bristol, Pennsylvania to visit family and probably dispose of his property.  Whil
2 CONC e in Bristol he contracts Typoid Fever and dies leaving Bridget a widow at age 32, with eigh
2 CONC t children.  Terence's oldest child is Mary Elizabeth age fouteen and his oldest son Michae
2 CONC l is only eleven years old.  With no one old enough to run the farm Bridget sells off live st
2 CONC ock and tools at a public auction and remains living on the farm.  Terence was probably burie
2 CONC d in Bristol at Saint Mark's Catholic Church or in Trenton, New Jersey where the next closes
2 CONC t Catholic burial ground was located.  A grave marker at Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery in Na
2 CONC uvoo lists Terence with his name spelled incorrectly.  It is unlikely that a Typhus body woul
2 CONC d have been brought back to Nauvoo. Terence is probably buried at Trenton, New Jersey which w
2 CONC ould have been the nearest Catholic burial ground.  Bridget Brady never remarries and remain
2 CONC s living on the farm until just before her death in 1892 when in poor health she moves into t
2 CONC own to live with her son-in-law Thomas Nicholas Moffitt's sister Nancy Moffitt Burt.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Deed # 97  "This indenture made the ninth day February in the year one thousand eight hundre
2 CONC d an thirty Between Joseph M. Downing and Mary Ann his wife of the township of Brstol in th
2 CONC e county of Bucks and the State of Pennsylvania and Thomas Wood and Mary F. his wife of the b
2 CONC orough of Bristol County and state aforesaid of the one part and Terence Brady of the boroug
2 CONC h county and state aforesaid of the other part _______ that the said Joseph M. Downing and Ma
2 CONC ry Ann his wife an Thomas Wood and Mary F.  his wife for and in consideration of the sum of o
2 CONC ne hundred and thirty two dollars lawful money of the United States of America unto them wel
2 CONC l and truly paid by the said Terence Brady at or before the sealing and delivery of these pre
2 CONC sents the receipt share of  is hereby acknowledged have granted bargined sold aliened _____
2 CONC _ released conveyed and ______ and by these presents do grant bargin sell alien ______ releas
2 CONC e convey and ______ ______ confirm with said Terence Brady by his heirs and assigns all tha
2 CONC t certain lot if land situated in Pine Grove Bristol Township County and state aforesaid Boun
2 CONC ded and described as follows.  Beginning in the line of the Turnpike road at the corner of th
2 CONC e said Joseph M Downing and Thomas Wood lot thence along said road north forty degrees east f
2 CONC orty four feet to a corner thence South fifty degrees east on hundred and eighty feet to th
2 CONC e line of Cedar Street thence south forty degrees west along said street forty four feet t
2 CONC o a corner of the line of said Downing and Wood lot thence along the line of said lot north f
2 CONC ifty degrees west one hundred and eighty feet to the beginning be the content of the same ___
2 CONC _ __ ___  It being a part of the same premises which Jasmes Burk and Elizabeth his wife by in
2 CONC denture bearing date the fifth day of August in the year AD 1831 for the consideration therei
2 CONC n mentioned did grant and do conere unto said Joseph M. Downing and to his heirs and assign
2 CONC s forever the said indenture being recorded in the recorders office at Doylestown in and fo
2 CONC r said county of Bucks in Deed Book no rr page 575 and it being also a part of the same premi
2 CONC ses which Joseph M Downing and Mary Ann his wife by indenture __ bearing date the eighteent
2 CONC h day of November in the year 1836 for the consideration therein mentioned did grant and conf
2 CONC irm the one individual half part thereof to Thomas Wood and his heirs assigns forever which l
2 CONC ast mentioned indenture is also recorded in the above mentioned office in Deed Book No __  Pa
2 CONC ge   reforance being therinto had fully and at large appears and it is further agreed by th
2 CONC e aforesaid parties that for the mutual accomodation of the said lots an ally four feet wid
2 CONC e shall  be laid out and kept open in the line of the above described lot and the continuou
2 CONC s lot beginning to Downing and Wood the said alley to extend from the line of the turnpike fi
2 CONC fty feet back toward Cedar Street each party to give two feet off of their said lots for tha
2 CONC t purpose together with all ____ Singular the ways waters water courses right liberties privi
2 CONC lges here ______ and appertenances whatsoever thereunto belonging or in any wise apertainin
2 CONC g and the reversions and remainders rents issues and profits thereof and all the estate righ
2 CONC t title interest property claim and demand whatsoever of them the said Joseph M Downing and M
2 CONC ary Ann his wife and Thomas Wood and Mary F his wife in law equity or otherwise howsoever o
2 CONC f in and to the same and every part thereof to have and to hold the said lot of land ________
2 CONC ___ and premises hereby granted or mentioned or intended so to be with the appertenances to t
2 CONC he said Terence Brady and to his heirs and assigns to and for the only ______ ___ ___ of th
2 CONC e said Terence Brady his heirs and assigns forever and the said Joseph M Downing and Mary An
2 CONC n his wife for themselves their heirs executors ___ administrators _____ by there..."
2 CONT 
2 CONT Jones' Ship Yard.--"Between 1840 and 1850, two schooners were built for Terrence Brady, Sr.
2 CONC , a resident of Bristol Township.  One was named George Washington, in honor of the "father o
2 CONC f our country," and the other the Enterprise, the latter one being in charge of Captain Jame
2 CONC s McClain.  Both schooners were of 150 tons each."  A History of Bristol Borough, Doran Green
2 CONC , 1912.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, the ship-building industry at Bristol c
2 CONC ontinued its sucessful pace.  Kirk and Lamb founded a shipyard at Adams Hollow Creek.  The bu
2 CONC siness was sold finally to Captain William Jones, the location becoming known as Jones' Shi
2 CONC p Yard.  For many years, some of the largest and most expensive schooners were built there.
2 CONT The merchants of Bristol invested heavily in shipbuilding and many of the schooners bore thei
2 CONC r names.     Twenty-one schonners were built at Jones' Ship Yard between 1844 and 1864, wit
2 CONC h displacements ranging fron 200 to 600 tons, at a cost of over $300,000.  Six of the twenty-
2 CONC one schooners built at Bristol were lost at sea, constituting a loss of many thousands of dol
2 CONC lars to their owners.
2 CONT Between 1840 and 1850, two 150 ton schooners were built for Terrence Brady, Sr., a resident o
2 CONC f Bristol Township.  One was named the "George Washington" and the other the "Enterprise," th
2 CONC e latter one was captained by James McClain of Bristol.  In 1852, a 250 ton schooner named th
2 CONC e "Adele Felicia" for a daughter of James Johnson, and old resident of Bristol and a stockhol
2 CONC der in the vessel, was launched and commanded by Captain Rackett, a prominent resident of Ne
2 CONC w Jersey."
2 CONT Episodes in Bucks County History, Bucks County Historical Tourist Commision, copyright 1975
2 CONC , Library of Congress Cat. # 75-3502.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "St. Mark's Roman Catholic parish origniated in the efforts of Reverand McGordon more than fi
2 CONC fty years ago.  He was then pastor at Trenton, but came to Bristol at stated periods and cele
2 CONC brated mass at private houses, amoung others those of James Ryan, Matthew McAdams, James John
2 CONC son, Terence Brady, and William Donald.  Funeral services were always held at Trenton, then t
2 CONC he only place of interment within the bounds of that extensive parish.  Father McGordon was a
2 CONC n old man of venerable appearance.  Father Gilligan suceeded him, and continued to visit Bris
2 CONC tol.  Reverend John Mackin was next in order, and through his efforts a church was built.  Th
2 CONC is was a one story building, with six windows on each side, the vestibule in front, flat roof
2 CONC , surmounted by a cross at the apex above the door.  It was dedicated in 1845 by Bishop Neuma
2 CONC n, of the diocese of Philadelphia."  History of Bucks County Pennsylvania, 1887, Edited by J.
2 CONC H. Battle.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "St. Mark's Catholic Church.  In the early Forties, the Catholic population of Bristol was s
2 CONC o small that its spiritual wants were attended to by clergymen from Philadelphia and Trenton
2 CONC , one of whom was Rev. Father Mackin, pastor of St. John's Church, now the Sacred Heart of Tr
2 CONC enton, N.J., who came to Bristol twice a month for that purpose, services being held in priva
2 CONC te houses, amoung them the house of Mr. Brady in Adam's Hollow, just beyond the creek boundin
2 CONC g the borough on the northeast."  Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Bucks County
2 CONC , Penna., Biographical Publishing Co., Buffalo, N. Y., 1899.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Book 6, page 82  Hancock County Court Records
2 CONT This Indenture made this 11th day of March AD 1854  Between Terrance Brady and Bridget Brad
2 CONC y his wife of the town of Sonora in the County of Hancock and state of Illinois of the firs
2 CONC t part and William H. Fulton, Henry Benzer and James D. Mcgregor Trustees of Town number Si
2 CONC x (6) North of Range Eight (8) West in town, county and state afore said of the second part W
2 CONC itnesseth that the said party of the first part for and in consideration of the sum of thre
2 CONC e hundred and three 60/100 Dollars to them in hand paid  the receipt where of is hereby ackno
2 CONC wledged do grant sell and convey unto the said party of the second part  all of the followin
2 CONC g tracts of land situated in Hancock County State of Illinois and known and described as Foll
2 CONC ows to Wit being lots number Five (5) and Six (6) in Section Sixteen (16) Township Six (6) No
2 CONC rth range eight (8) Wit also Twenty (20) acres being the South half of the South West quarte
2 CONC r  if the South East quarter of Section Eight (8) in Town Six (6) north range eight (8) Wes
2 CONC t all in the County and State afore Said with all the appurtenances there to belonging or i
2 CONC n any wise appertaining unto the party of the Second part and their assigns forever Provide
2 CONC d always that these presents are upon this Express condition that if the said party of the fi
2 CONC rst part shall pay or cause to be paid unto the Said party of the second part or their assign
2 CONC s the sum of Three hundred and three 60/100 Dollars payable Five years from the date hereof W
2 CONC ith interest there on payable Semi annually at the rate of ten per cent per annum as specifie
2 CONC d in a certain or obligation bearing even date here with Executed by the Said Terrance Brad
2 CONC y to the Said trustees then and thence forth these presents and every thing here in containe
2 CONC d shall cease and be void every thing here in contained to the contrary not with standing Wit
2 CONC ness where of the Said party of the first part have here unto set their hand and seals the da
2 CONC y and year first above Written
2 CONT signed Sealed and Delivered                                                            Terran
2 CONC ce Brady    seal
2 CONT in Presence o
2 CONC f                                                                                        Brid
2 CONC get Brady      seal
2 CONT W M Cosgrove
2 CONT State of Illinois   Before the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for said Hancock Cou
2 CONC nty this day came Terrance and Bridget Brady his wife Both of Whom are personally known to m
2 CONC e to be the real persons described
2 CONT 
2 CONT A gravemarker is located  at Saints Peter and Paul cemetery in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois.  I
2 CONC t is unlikely he is buried here. Terence was a sea capitain.  The 1821 census of County Cavan
2 CONC , Ireland lists Terence as 12 years old.  The 1850 census of Bristol, Pennsylvania give the a
2 CONC ge of 40.  It is likely that Terence was born in 1809 and had not yet turned 41 in the 1850 c
2 CONC ensus.  In the 1821 census he had probably already turned 12.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 11 Dec 2008
3 TIME 00:23:49
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1 NAME Bridget /Brady/
2 SURN Brady
2 GIVN Bridget
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1 Jan 1822
2 PLAC Ireland
1 DEAT
2 DATE 15 Sep 1892
2 PLAC Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 BURI
2 DATE 17 Sep 1892
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 _UID B5E9B3807BD68041B2C2A1D58978804A9823
1 FAMS @F4@
1 NOTE Bridget Brady was born 1 January 1822 in Ireland and immigrated to the United States of Ameri
2 CONC ca  when she was 18 months old according to her obituary.  Bridget's father was James Brady w
2 CONC ho moved the family to New York City where he worked as a Cartman.  James had two more daught
2 CONC ers Mary and Ann Brady before becoming a widower.   James then married his second wife Ann wi
2 CONC th whom he had not had any children at the time of his will being made on April 15, 1844.  A
2 CONC n immigration record for the quaarter ending December 31, 1823 show a John Brady, age 25, Cat
2 CONC herine Brady, age 24, James Brady, age 26, and Susan Brady, age 23 arriving in Portland, Main
2 CONC e.  It is likely that Bridget is not listed as she was a baby and not a paying passenger.  I
2 CONC n 1839, Bridget Brady marries Terence Brady a sea captain in New York City, New York.  The co
2 CONC uple then moves to a home on Cedar Street on Bristol Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania i
2 CONC n 1839.  Terence had  purchased a house the previous year probably in anticipation of his u
2 CONC p coming marriage to Bridget.  At the house on Cedar Street the first four of Bridget's child
2 CONC ren are born.  In 1847 with Bridget expecting her fifth child Elizabeth the family purchas
2 CONC e a larger home at 1200 Radcliffe Street in Bristol Township.  The new house was built on a d
2 CONC ouble lot which even today is one of the only double lots in the neighborhood.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Book 48, pages 114-117 Hancock County Court Records
2 CONT Page 114
2 CONT 1349
2 CONT J Faulkner To B. Brady
2 CONT Recorded
2 CONT April 24, 1857
2 CONT S/NW 16. 6,8
2 CONT S1/2SW SE 8
2 CONT I do hereby certify
2 CONT that the name of
2 CONT James Faulkner was
2 CONT done _____ before
2 CONT _________
2 CONT           WM Cosgrove JP
2 CONT 
2 CONT Note the name of
2 CONT Bridget Brady was written
2 CONT & erased by lines ____the
2 CONT name & over it the name
2 CONT of James Faulkner underlined
2 CONT            Recorded
2 CONT 
2 CONT Know all men by these presents that I James Faulkner of the county of Hancock and sate of Ill
2 CONC inois, for and in consideration of the sum of Twelvehundred Dollars paid by Bridget Brady o
2 CONC f said county and state the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, hare remised, released a
2 CONC nd quit claimed and these presents do fully forever remise release and quit claim unto the sa
2 CONC id Bridget Brady her heirs and assigns the following described tracts and parcels of land t
2 CONC o wit: The south half of the the North west quarter of section sixteen (16) also the South ha
2 CONC lf of the South West Quarter of the South East Quarter of Section number Eight (8) Township N
2 CONC umber Six (6) North of Range Eight (8) West of the fourth principal meridian situate  and bei
2 CONC ng in the County if Hancock and State of Illinois- To have and To hold the said premises wit
2 CONC h all the privileges and appurtenances hereunto belonging to the said Bridget Brady her heir
2 CONC s and afsigns to her and and their use and behalf  forever So that niether I the said James F
2 CONC aulkner X any heirs or afsigns or any other person claiming through or sending them or me ca
2 CONC n have any claim  or demand any sight title or interest in or tosaid premises or any part the
2 CONC reof-  And I  Catherine Faulkner wife of the said James Faulkner for the consideration herei
2 CONC n before- Exprefsed do hereby relinquish all my right claim or pofsibility of Dowery in or to
2 CONC said premises  In Testimony Whereof in the said James Faulkner and Catherine Faulkner his wif
2 CONC e have hereunto set our hands and Seals this 13th day of January AD 1857.
2 CONT Signed Sealed & delivered in                                               James Faulkne
2 CONC r     Seal
2 CONT presence of W. M. Cosgrove.                                                Cahern Faulkne
2 CONC r    Seal
2 CONT 
2 CONT Sate of Illinois                                             Be it remember that this       d
2 CONC ay of
2 CONT Hancock County                                          January AD 1857.  Before Warrick M. C
2 CONC osgrove and acting Justice of the Peace within and for said county personally appeared jame
2 CONC s Faulkner and Catherine Faulkner his wife to me known to be the real persons whose names ar
2 CONC e subscribed to the forgoing conveyance and Personally acknowledged that they excepted the sa
2 CONC me-  And the said Catherine Faulkner on an Examintaion Separate and apart from her husband ha
2 CONC ving had the contents thereof fully made known her by me acknowledged that She excepted the s
2 CONC ame and relinquished her dowery to the lands and tenancies therein the same herein mentione
2 CONC d voluntarily fully and without anny compulsion from her said husband          In Witnefs Whe
2 CONC reof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal the day and year first above writte
2 CONC n                                            Warrick M. Cosgrove J.P.  Seal
2 CONT 
2 CONT Page 115
2 CONT 1350
2 CONT Bridget Brady
2 CONT To
2 CONT Jas Faulkner
2 CONT Recored April 24th
2 CONT 1857
2 CONT S1/2NW16
2 CONT S1/2SWSE8.
2 CONT 6North 8West
2 CONT 
2 CONT To all persons To whom these preesents may come.  I Bridget Brady of the County of Hancock an
2 CONC d state of Illinois Guardian of Mary Brady  Ann Brady, Michael Brady  Cathearine Brady  Eliza
2 CONC beth Brady  James Brady and Lawrence Brady, children and heirs at law of Terrance Brady decea
2 CONC sed, send Greeting, whereas heretofore wit at the October term of the Circuit court of the co
2 CONC unty of Hancock and state of Illinois in the year AD 1855, in the Matter of the petition of t
2 CONC he said Bridget Brady Guardian as aforesaid for lease to sell certain real estate ofher sai
2 CONC d minor wards the said circuit court then and their in chancery sitting upon the hearing of s
2 CONC aid petiton made and entered their order and and decree therein in the words and figures foll
2 CONC owing to wit.
2 CONT State of Illinois                 In the Hancock Circuit Court
2 CONT County of Hancock          To the October term thereof AD 1856
2 CONT Bridget Brady
2 CONT     vs                     Petition to sell real Estate
2 CONT Mary Brady         Et. Al heirs at law, of Terrance Brady Dcd
2 CONT                              Comes, David Mack a Master in chancery to whom was refered compe
2 CONC a herein, which repert after having being duly inspected by the court and the court being suf
2 CONC ficiently advised as to the same it is ordered that the same be approved. whereupon this caus
2 CONC e coming on to be heard on the original Bell herein amended Bill.  answer of Guardian ad Site
2 CONC rn andthe said Masters report and it appearing therefrom that said Terrance Brady deceased de
2 CONC parted this life on or about the twelfth day of September A.D. 1854 being seized and possesse
2 CONC d of an Estate of inheritance in fee simple to the following described tracts and parcels ofl
2 CONC ands to wit the south half  of the North west quarter of section sixteen (16) also the sout
2 CONC h half of the south west quarter of the South east  quarter of section Eight (8) Township No
2 CONC . six. (6) North af Range Eight (8) West of the fourth principal Meridian Situated in the  an
2 CONC d being in the county of Hancock and State of Illinois, and it further appearing that the sai
2 CONC d Infant Defendants to wit the said Mary Brady  Ann Brady  Michael Brady, Catharine Brady  El
2 CONC izabeth Brady  James Brady  John Brady & Terrance Brady are the children and only heir at la
2 CONC w of said Decedent, to whom the said tracts and parcels of land described and that the incom
2 CONC e derived therefrom is wholly insufficient to support and Educate said infant defendants an
2 CONC d that said Infant defendants have no personal estate which can be applied to their support a
2 CONC nd Education and it further appearing that said Infants have inherited from their said deceas
2 CONC ed ancestor, certain Lands and and Town Lots in the state of Pennsylvania of the value of Twe
2 CONC nty Nine hundred Dollars. that the same is incumbered with a Mortgage executed by the said De
2 CONC cedent, during his life time in the sum of eight Hundred and fifty dollars Exclusive of inter
2 CONC enst tht the same remains wholly unpaid that there is no personal estate which can be applie
2 CONC d to the satisfaction of the same and that the same has not been provided a claim against sai
2 CONC d estate in the county of Hancock and state of Illinois where administration has been had an
2 CONC d it further appearing that said infant defendants are incapable on account of their tender y
2 CONC ears of procurring and support for them selves and that it is necessary to sell the said trac
2 CONC ts and parcels of Land for the support and Education of said infant Defendants and that the s
2 CONC aid Bridget Brady complaintant herein is andwas at the time of the commencement ofthis said t
2 CONC he guardian ofsaid infant defendants duly appointed by order ofthe Hancock county court and t
2 CONC he court having fully inspected the proceedings herein and all things touching the same and h
2 CONC aving sufficiently advised in the premises and having satisfied that all the Material alligat
2 CONC ions in complainants Bill contained Stated
2 CONT page 116
2 CONT or charged are true and that it is necessarry to sell the said premises for the purposes name
2 CONC d in complainants Bill doth find the equity of said case to be with complaintant.  It is ther
2 CONC efore ordered adjudged and decreed by the Court that the said Guardian shall proceed To see
2 CONC l the said premised to wit the south half of the Northwest quarter of section sixteen (16)  a
2 CONC lso the south half of the South west quarter of the south East quarter of of section (8) in T
2 CONC ownship No Six (6) North of Range Eight 8 west of the fourth principal Meridian situate and b
2 CONC eing in the county of Hancock and state of Illinois for the purposes prayed for in said Compl
2 CONC ainants Bill that the said sale shall beholden  by the said Guardian on the Twenty Seventh da
2 CONC y of December A.D. 1855 between the hours of ten o'clock AM. and five O clock P.M. ofsaid da
2 CONC y that said sale shall be at Public vendue for cash in Hand and to the highest andbestbidde
2 CONC r therefor, that said Guardian shall give public Notice of the time and place of holding sai
2 CONC d Sale by posting up written Notices in at leashform of the most public places in the count
2 CONC y at least twenty days beforethe said day of the sale  And it is further ordered that the sai
2 CONC d Sale shall beonthe premises to wit at the residence ofthe said Bidget Brady on the tract o
2 CONC f Land herein before first described  And the said Bridget Brady Guardian as afore said is he
2 CONC reeby authorized and directed to make execute and deliver to purchaer  under this order goo
2 CONC d and sufficent deeds in fee simple for said premised that part thereof which they may purcha
2 CONC se under this order. And the said Guardian shall out of the proceeds ofsale first pay the cos
2 CONC ts of this proceedings and make out a just and line account of all the residue monies by he
2 CONC r received under and by virtue ofsaid order, and shall return the same underoath to the Count
2 CONC y Court of the county of Hancock  and state of Illinois and the said Guardian shall report he
2 CONC r proceedings herein at the next term of this court to which time this cause stands continued
2 CONC .  And the said Guardian before proceeding to sell Said premises do Execute bond in the pena
2 CONC l sum of two thousand dollars with Security to be approved by the clerk of said circuit bon
2 CONC d payable to the people of the State of Illinois for the use of said Defendants and condition
2 CONC ed for the faithful performance of this decree and the payment of all the proceeds of said sa
2 CONC le according to the order of this court
2 CONC .                                                                 J Sibley
2 CONT And whereas I the said Bridget Brady having wholly failed to  make sale of said Inventory an
2 CONC d whereas the said Curcuit Court at the october term there of in the year AD 1856 and made an
2 CONC d entered a furthur order and decree in the words and figures follow in to wit.
2 CONT State of Illinois                In the Hancock Circuit Court
2 CONT County of Hancock         To the Oct term thereof AD 1856
2 CONT 
2 CONT Bridget Brady Guardian
2 CONT               vs.                                  Petition to sell Real Estate
2 CONT Mary Brady et all
2 CONT                Comes the said complainant by her solicitor and files her report herein and i
2 CONC t appearing form said report herein and it appearing from said report that the premises descr
2 CONC ibed in the decree herein have not been sold by the said Guardian as therein directed  It i
2 CONC s ordered by the Court that the said complainant shall sell the said premises on the 23d, da
2 CONC y of December AD 1856 before the door of the dwelling home.  said complainant shall sell on s
2 CONC aid premises on the same terms and up giving the same notice as provided for by said order an
2 CONC d decree
2 CONT J Sibley
2 CONT Therefore know ye that Bridget Brady Guardian as aforesaid by virtue ofthe
2 CONT page 117
2 CONT authority in me vested by the foregoing order and decrees ofsaid circuit court on the Twent
2 CONC y third day of December in the year ofour Lord One thousand Eight hundred and fifty six Betwe
2 CONC en the hours of ten Oclock AM. and five Oclock P.M ofsaid day after having given due and publ
2 CONC ic notice of the time and place of holding said sale did before the dwelling home in said pre
2 CONC mises offer the said premises for sale at public vendue and for cash in hand and the same bei
2 CONC ng Expored to sale in manner aforesaid Therefore know ye that I Bridget Brady Guardian as afo
2 CONC resaid in consideration of the premises hereinbefore recited and for and in consideration o
2 CONC f the sum of twelve hundred dollars to her in handpaid the recipt whereof I do hereby acknowl
2 CONC edge have granted bargained and sold andby these presents do grant Bargain sell, convey and c
2 CONC onfirm unto the said James Faulkner his heirs and assigns forever all of the following descri
2 CONC bed tracts and parcels of Land to wit the south half of the North west quater of section Sixt
2 CONC een (16) also the south half of the south west quarter of the south East quarter of section E
2 CONC ight (8) in Township Numbered six (6) North of Range Eight (8) West of the fourth principal m
2 CONC eridian situate and being in the county of Hancock and state of Illinois.  To have and to hol
2 CONC d the aforegranted premises with all the privleges and appurtinances thereunto  belonging  un
2 CONC to said James Faulkner his heirs and assigns to  his and their use and behalf forever, an
2 CONC d I the said Bridget Brady Guardian as aforesaid do hereby covenant with the said James Faulk
2 CONC ner his heirs and assigns that I have in all things complied with the requirements of the for
2 CONC egoing orders and decrees ofsaid circuit court and the directions ofthe law generally in suc
2 CONC h cases made and provided.  In testimony whereof I the said Bridget Brady Guardian as aforesa
2 CONC id havehereunto set my hand and seal this 12th day of Januarry AD 1857
2 CONT signed sealed and delivered in presance of                               Mrs. Bridget Brad
2 CONC y         Seal
2 CONT RW McKinney
2 CONT Sate of Illinois                   Be it remembered that on this third (third crossed out) __
2 CONC _____________
2 CONT County of Hancock           before one Warrick M Cosgrove a Justice of the Peace within andfo
2 CONC r said county came personally Bridget Brady Guardian of Mary Brady  Ann Brady  Michael Brad
2 CONC y  Catharine Brady  Elizabeth Brady  James Brady  John Brady and Terrance Brady children an
2 CONC d Minor heirs at Law of Terrance Brady deceased who is personally known to me to be the inden
2 CONC tical person named in and who suscribed and executed the foregoing deed of conveyance to behe
2 CONC r free and voluntary act and deed and that she executed the same in her said capacity of Guar
2 CONC dian for the uses and purposes therein mentioned and expressed.  Given under my hand and sea
2 CONC l this 12th, day of January AD 1857
2 CONT Warrick M Cosgrove JP    Seal
2 CONT 
2 CONT "Mrs. Brady, of Sonora, has moved to the city and will make her home in the future with Mrs
2 CONC . A. W. Burt."  Nauvoo Rustler, February 17, 1891.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "Mrs. Brady, of Nauvoo, an aged lady, who came to the west with the family of John W. Bray i
2 CONC n the long ago, visited with T. S. Bray and Mrs. W. J. Smith this week.---La Harper"  Nauvo
2 CONC o Rustler, June 2, 1891.
2 CONT 
2 CONT New York Aug 23d 1892
2 CONT My Dear Cousin
2 CONT I received your note informing me of your dear mothers sickness.  I am heart sorry for her ma
2 CONC y God in his mercy restore her to you all.  And if it should be his wish to take her to Heave
2 CONC n not our will but his will be done   I am sure she will die happy surrounded by her children
2 CONC .  I have known her all her life and she was an industrious hard working creature.  May she h
2 CONC ave her reward in a better world than this.  God always rewards those that are worthy and I k
2 CONC now she is.  have many Masses said for her while she is sick and God will reward you for so d
2 CONC oing see that all her little grandchildren pray for her.  God will hear the prayers of thos
2 CONC e little ones sooner than grown people because they are without sin.  Has he not said suffe
2 CONC r little children to come unto me and hinder them not.  Tell your ever to be respected mothe
2 CONC r that Mrs Galligan only got ten minutes notice of her death she called her daughter and die
2 CONC d of heart trouble.  How thankful people should be to God for giving them time to prepare fo
2 CONC r death.  In conclusion if it be the will of God to take your good mother give her to him wit
2 CONC h resignation and gratitude.  And may God in his mercy have mercy on her soul is the best wis
2 CONC h of your cousin
2 CONT Thomas Brady
2 CONT # 302 East Broadway
2 CONT New York City
2 CONT P. S.
2 CONT If your mother should die please write to me and I will have Masses said here for the repos
2 CONC e of her soul.  I hope all her children will bring their children up as Catholics I know th
2 CONC e female portion ot them will if they are even married to Protestants they will have their ch
2 CONC ildren baptised as Catholics and may God bless you all for so doing our girls here who marr
2 CONC y Protestants always bring their children up Catholics the husbands does not interfere with t
2 CONC heir wives very few of them have any Religion at all.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "Grandma Brady has been quite sick the past week, but is now able to be about."  Nauvoo Rustl
2 CONC er, September 22, 1891.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "Mrs. B. Brady; who is making her home with Mrs. A.W. Burt in this city, lies very low and th
2 CONC ere are very slight hopes for her recovery."  The Nauvoo Indepedent, Friday, September 16, 18
2 CONC 92.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "Jas. Brady, of Groton, and Terry, of Langsford, South Dakota were called to the city last Th
2 CONC ursday, on account of the serious illness of their mother."  Nauvoo Rustler, September 20, 18
2 CONC 92.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "Personals Paragraph - Terry and James Brady of South Dakota, Mrs. Thos. Stafford of Fort Mad
2 CONC ison, and John Brady of Brownsville, Minn., were called to the city the latter part of last w
2 CONC eek by the death of their mother.  The latter has been absent from the city nearly twenty yea
2 CONC rs."  The Nauvoo Independent, Friday, September 23, 1892.
2 CONT 
2 CONT :Obituary - "Mrs. Bridget Brady died at the home of Mrs. A.W. Burt, in this city, last Thursd
2 CONC ay evening at 7:30 o'clock, aged 70 years, 8 months and 15 days.  Mrs. Brady was born in Irel
2 CONC and, January 1, 1822.  She came to New York City when 18 months old,with her parents.  She wa
2 CONC s married in 1839, in that city to Terrence Brady, a sea captain.  They removed to Bristol, P
2 CONC enn., where they resided about twelve years.  They came to Nauvoo in 1852.  Mr. Brady reside
2 CONC d here about two years, when he returned to Bristol, Penn. to dispose of his property there
2 CONC , when he was taken sick with typhoid fever and died.  Mrs. Brady's illness was of several mo
2 CONC nths' duration.  She was the mother of eight children, seven of whom are living:--M. F. and J
2 CONC ames, of Sonora township; Terrence, of Langford, South Dakota; John of Brownsdale, Minn; Mar
2 CONC y Ogden, of Pleasanton, Ia., and Lizzie Moffitt, of Sonora township.  Where they have locate
2 CONC d they have desevedly won a large circle of friends.  In early life Mrs. Brady gave her hear
2 CONC t to God, and united with the Catholic church, of which she lived an exemplary member until c
2 CONC alled to her eternal home.  She was a good woman.  Life was to her a sucess in that it brough
2 CONC t to her a readiness to meet death with full preparation for it.  The funeral services were h
2 CONC eld at the Catholic church Saturday morning  at 9 o'clock, Rev. H. J. Reimbold officiating
2 CONC .  The remains were followed to their resting place by a large concourse of Sympathizing frie
2 CONC nds.  To her bereaved family we tender sincerest sympathies."  Nauvoo Rustler, September 20
2 CONC , 1892.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "Death of Mrs. Brady - Mrs. Bridget Brady departed this life at the home of Mrs. A. W. Burt
2 CONC , in this city, Thursday evening, September 16, at 7:30 o'clock, aged 70 years, 8 months an
2 CONC d 15 days.  Deceased was born in Ireland on the 1st of January, 1822, and was brought to Amer
2 CONC ica by her parents when but 18 months of age.  In the year 1839 she was married to Terrence B
2 CONC rady, a sea captain, and they removed to Bristol, Pa., where they resided some years.  In 185
2 CONC 2 they came to this vicinity and after a residence here of two years Mr. Brady returned to Br
2 CONC istol to look after some property he had there when he took sick and died.  Mrs. Brady live
2 CONC d on a farm several miles east of this city for many years and raised a large family of child
2 CONC ren who are left.  They are M. F. and James, of Sonora; Terry of Langford, S.D.; Mrs. Willia
2 CONC m Ogden, of Pleasanton, Ia; Mrs. T. N. Moffitt, of Sonora township.  Her life has been a hom
2 CONC e life, which can be fully appreciated only by those who have felt the peaceful influence o
2 CONC f her surroundings.  Yet, she was known far beyond the home circle and was known only as a wo
2 CONC man of a tender heart and noble mind.  The funeral took place from SS. Peter and Paul's churc
2 CONC h, Saturday morning at 9 o'clock, conducted by Rev. Father Reimbold, and the remains were int
2 CONC erred in the Catholic burying grounds, followed there by a large number of sympathizing frien
2 CONC ds.  The community extend their sympathy to the stricken family and relatives."  The Nauvoo I
2 CONC ndependent, Friday, September 23, 1892.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Inscription on the tombstone of Bridget Brady at Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery, Nau
2 CONC voo, Illinois.
2 CONT 
2 CONT                                                                          Bridget
2 CONT                                                                           wife of
2 CONT                                                                   Terrance Brady
2 CONT                                                                            Born
2 CONT                                                                      Jan. 1, 1822
2 CONT                                                                            Died
2 CONT                                                                    Sept. 15, 1892
2 CONT                                                        GOD GAVE - HE TOOK HE
2 CONT                                                                   WILL RESTORE,
2 CONT                                                           HE DOETH ALL THINGS
2 CONT                                                                            WELL.
2 CONT 
2 CONT                                                          MAY HER SOUL REST IN
2 CONT                                                                           PEACE
1 CHAN
2 DATE 24 Apr 2008
3 TIME 23:37:56
1 OBJE
2 FORM jpg
2 FILE Pictures\bridget brady.jpg
2 TITL Bridget Brady
2 NOTE 
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2 _PRIM Y
2 _TYPE PHOTO
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1 OBJE
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2 FILE Pictures\bridget brady 2.jpg
2 TITL Bridget Brady
2 NOTE 
2 _SCBK Y
2 _PRIM N
2 _TYPE PHOTO
2 _SSHOW Y
1 OBJE
2 FORM jpg
2 FILE Pictures\bridget brady obituary.jpg
2 TITL Bridget Brady's obituary.
2 NOTE 
2 _SCBK Y
2 _PRIM N
2 _TYPE PHOTO
2 _SSHOW Y
1 OBJE
2 FORM jpg
2 FILE Pictures\moffit family bible 2.jpg
2 TITL Unidentified
2 NOTE Picture found in Moffitt family Bible of Elizabeth Brady Moffitt.
2 _SCBK Y
2 _PRIM N
2 _TYPE PHOTO
2 _SSHOW Y
1 OBJE
2 FORM jpg
2 FILE Pictures\moffit family bible 3.jpg
2 TITL Unidentified
2 NOTE Photo found in the Moffitt family Bible that belonged to Elizabeth Brady Moffitt.
2 _SCBK Y
2 _PRIM N
2 _TYPE PHOTO
2 _SSHOW Y
1 OBJE
2 FORM jpg
2 FILE Pictures\moffit family bible 6.jpg
2 TITL Unidentified
2 NOTE Photo found in the Moffitt family Bible belonging to Elzabeth Brady Moffitt.  Probably her brother, John Brady.
2 _SCBK Y
2 _PRIM N
2 _TYPE PHOTO
2 _SSHOW Y
1 OBJE
2 FORM jpg
2 FILE C:\WINDOWS\twain_32\ScanWiz5\My Images\Sonora Township.jpg
2 TITL 1859 Map of Sonora Township
2 NOTE Bridget's property is located at the south half of the northwest quarter of section 16.
2 _SCBK Y
2 _PRIM N
2 _TYPE PHOTO
2 _SSHOW Y
0 @I5@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Elizabeth /Brady/
2 SURN Brady
2 GIVN Mary Elizabeth
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 9 Jul 1840
2 PLAC Bristol, Bucks, Pennsylvania, USA
1 CHR
2 DATE 2 Aug 1840
2 PLAC St. John's, Trenton, Mercer, New Jersey
1 DEAT
2 DATE 24 Jan 1925
2 PLAC Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, USA
1 BURI
2 DATE 28 Jan 1925
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 _UID 2B8C160022D3F141ABD6FF77E3928AA28CEB
1 FAMS @F7@
1 FAMC @F4@
1 NOTE Mary's baptism took place in Bristol, Pennsylvania.  Since Bristol did not have a Catholic ch
2 CONC urch, clergy came from Trenton, New Jersey.  Original records are located at the Church of th
2 CONC e Sacred Heart, Trenton, New Jersey.  Her sponsors were William Brady and Ann Gormdly.  Mary'
2 CONC s middle name is listed on this record as Elizabeth.  The middle initial "E" is found on he
2 CONC r gravestone in Nouvoo. The birth and death date are also listed on the gravestone.  Copied b
2 CONC y Bertha Moffitt Bush.  According to Kathleen Reimbold, she was her Godmother.  Was suppose
2 CONC d to have a picture of the two of them together when she was a little girl.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "Mrs. Mary Ogden, of Pleasanton, Iowa is a guest of the family of James Ogden."  Nauvoo Rustl
2 CONC er, July 26, 1892.
2 CONT 
2 CONT " John Brady departed today for his home at Brownsdale, Minn.  Mrs. Wm. Ogden also left for h
2 CONC er home at Pleasanton, Iowa."  Nauvoo Rustler, September 27, 1892.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Copy of Obituary of Mary E. Ogden, "Word was received here several days ago of the death of M
2 CONC ary E. Ogden which occurred at Des Moines, Iowa.  Deceased was the oldest child of Mrs. Bridg
2 CONC et Brady who lived in Sonora (twp.) for many years, and a sister of the late Michael Brady an
2 CONC d the late Mrs. Thomas N. Moffitt.  Herself and husband, Wm. Ogden, left here many years ag
2 CONC o settling at or near Des Moines, Iowa.  Both were former residents of Sonora and highly resp
2 CONC ected.  Mr. Ogden, the Husband of deceased, died some 10 years ago and was buried here wher
2 CONC e the body of Mrs. Ogden will be buried next Wednesday, the funeral occurring from the Cathol
2 CONC ic church here.  There were eight children born to the marriage union of Mr. and Mrs. Ogden
2 CONC , three sons and five daughters."
1 CHAN
2 DATE 22 Aug 2007
3 TIME 23:34:43
0 @I6@ INDI
1 NAME Anna /Brady/
2 SURN Brady
2 GIVN Anna
2 NICK Ann
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 5 Nov 1841
2 PLAC Bristol, Bucks, Pennsylvania, USA
1 CHR
2 DATE 14 Nov 1841
2 PLAC St. John's, Trenton, Mercer, New Jersey
1 DEAT
2 DATE 5 Aug 1859
2 PLAC , Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 BURI
2 DATE 7 Aug 1859
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 _UID EEA0313761647B41924B34979CA4A0B2B1BE
1 FAMC @F4@
1 NOTE Anna's baptism took place in Bristol, Pennsylvania with clergy coming from Trenton, New Jerse
2 CONC y in as much as that was where the closest Catholic church was located.  Her sponsor was Mar
2 CONC y Brady.  According to the 1860 census mortality schedule Ann died of Typhoid Fever after bei
2 CONC ng sick for 30 days.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 16 Dec 2008
3 TIME 01:13:32
0 @I7@ INDI
1 NAME Michael Francis /Brady/
2 SURN Brady
2 GIVN Michael Francis
2 NICK Mike
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 8 Oct 1843
2 PLAC Bristol, Bucks, Pennsylvania, USA
1 CHR
2 DATE 8 Oct 1843
2 PLAC St. John's, Trenton, Mercer, New Jersey
1 DEAT
2 DATE 11 Mar 1917
2 PLAC Cartage, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 BURI
2 DATE 13 Mar 1917
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 _UID 6B897BF851A6DD43B6B737CD3230B7676F1D
1 FAMS @F8@
1 FAMC @F4@
1 NOTE Michael Francis baptism took place in Bristol, Pennsylvania.  Since Bristol did not have a Ca
2 CONC tholic church, clergy came from Trenton, New Jersey.  Original records are located at the Chu
2 CONC rch of the Sacred Heart, Trenton, New Jersey.  Michael's sponsors were Michael Brady and Mar
2 CONC y Kelly.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "Mr. and Mrs. Lou Grieger, of Keokuk, visited Mr. and Mrs. M. Brady the past week."  Nauvoo R
2 CONC ustler, August 18, 1891.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "Mr. M. F. Brady lost several hogs the past week;  J. F. Bennett one."  Nauvoo Rustler, Septe
2 CONC mber 22, 1891.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "Relatives and friends gathered at M. F. Brady's last Wednesday evening and a nice little par
2 CONC ty.  About fifteen couples were present; dancing was the chief amusement.  Mrs. Brady serve
2 CONC d a nice lap supper."  Nauvoo Rustler, November 10, 1891.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "Last Tuesday afternoon the democrats held a caucus and nominated the following:  Supervisor
2 CONC , Milo Fulton; town clerk, John Brown; assesor, John Datin; collector, H. Ortt:  commissioner
2 CONC , L. Brown:  school trustee, M. R. Brady."  Nauvoo Rustler, March 22, 1892.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "Mr. M. F. Brady has returned from the north."  Nauvoo Rustler, between September 27, 1892 an
2 CONC d January 10, 1893.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Mrs. Thos. N. Moffitt and Mike and Jas. Brady attended Matt. Staffords funeral at Ft. Madiso
2 CONC n last Friday.:  Nauvoo Rustler, January 10, 1893.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "M. F. Brady accompanied his neice, Miss Dolly Ogden to her home in Pleasanton, Iowa."  Nauvo
2 CONC o Rustler, January 31, 1893.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "Thos. Moffitt and M. F. Brady returned last tuesday from a visit with Decatur county, Iowa f
2 CONC riends.  Quite a number of old Nauvoo citizens are now residents of the above county, and th
2 CONC e gentleman report their doing well."  Nauvoo Rustler, January 31, 1893.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 2 Jan 2005
3 TIME 01:00:00
1 OBJE
2 FORM jpg
2 FILE Pictures\moffit family bible 4.jpg
2 TITL Michael Francis Brady
2 NOTE Photo from Moffitt family Bible owned by Elizabeth Brady Moffitt.
2 _SCBK Y
2 _PRIM Y
2 _TYPE PHOTO
2 _SSHOW Y
0 @I8@ INDI
1 NAME Catherine S. /Brady/
2 SURN Brady
2 GIVN Catherine S.
2 NICK Kate
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 Sep 1845
2 PLAC Bristol, Bucks, Pennsylvania, USA
1 CHR
2 DATE 21 Sep 1845
2 PLAC St. John's, Trenton, Mercer, New Jersey
1 DEAT
2 DATE 28 Nov 1911
2 PLAC St. Louis,St. Louis,Missouri,USA
1 BURI
2 DATE 1 Dec 1911
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 _UID 73BCFD5FDB104F43BB2B7583BC7421BDF4DF
1 FAMS @F9@
1 FAMC @F4@
1 NOTE Catherine's baptism took place in Bristol, Pennsylvania.  Clergy came from Trenton, New Jerse
2 CONC y since Bristol did not have a Catholic church.  Original records are located at the Church o
2 CONC f the Sacred Heart, Trenton, New Jersey.  Catherine's sponsors were Michael and Anna Brady
2 CONC .  Catherine's marriage records are at Saints Peter and Paul Church in Nauvoo, Illinois. Cath
2 CONC erine is living at the time of the 1910 census but has died before March 17, 1917 when her br
2 CONC other Michael dies.  Middle initial S. is on Marriage record for Hancock County, Illinois, vo
2 CONC lume 4 page 20, license 1962.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 6 Mar 2007
3 TIME 13:00:11
1 OBJE
2 FORM jpg
2 FILE Pictures\catherine brady stafford.jpg
2 TITL Catherine Brady Stafford
2 NOTE 
2 _SCBK Y
2 _PRIM N
2 _TYPE PHOTO
2 _SSHOW Y
1 OBJE
2 FORM jpg
2 FILE Pictures\thomas and catherine brady stafford.jpg
2 TITL Thomas and Caterine Brady Stafford
2 NOTE 
2 _SCBK Y
2 _PRIM Y
2 _TYPE PHOTO
2 _SSHOW Y
0 @I9@ INDI
1 NAME Elizabeth /Brady/
2 SURN Brady
2 GIVN Elizabeth
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 Oct 1847
2 PLAC Bristol, Bucks, Pennsylvania, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 17 Nov 1912
2 PLAC Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 _UID E8C613211499D54597B11FC4911ADFCF2D4F
1 FAMS @F10@
1 FAMC @F4@
1 NOTE Elizabeth was married at St. Patrick's Catholic church in Nauvoo.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 22 Aug 2007
3 TIME 23:35:41
1 OBJE
2 FORM jpg
2 FILE Pictures\elizabeth brady moffit.jpg
2 TITL Elizabeth Brady Moffitt
2 NOTE 
2 _SCBK Y
2 _PRIM Y
2 _TYPE PHOTO
2 _SSHOW Y
1 OBJE
2 FORM jpg
2 FILE Pictures\elizabeth brady moffitt and twins.jpg
2 TITL Elizabeth Brady Moffitt with twin daughters.
2 NOTE 
2 _SCBK Y
2 _PRIM N
2 _TYPE PHOTO
2 _SSHOW Y
1 OBJE
2 FORM jpg
2 FILE Pictures\elizabeth brady moffit family.jpg
2 TITL Elizabeth Brady Moffitt family.
2 NOTE 
2 _SCBK Y
2 _PRIM N
2 _TYPE PHOTO
2 _SSHOW Y
1 OBJE
2 FORM bmp
2 FILE C:\WINDOWS\twain_32\ScanWiz5\My Images\thomas n. and elizabeth brady moffitt.bmp
2 TITL Thomas N. and Elizabeth Brady Moffitt
2 NOTE 
2 _SCBK Y
2 _PRIM N
2 _TYPE PHOTO
2 _SSHOW Y
1 OBJE
2 FORM jpg
2 FILE Pictures\elizabeth brady moffitt home.jpg
2 TITL Elizabeth Brady Moffitt family home.
2 NOTE From left Elizabeth, William, Bernadine or Otilla, Thomas, Elizabeth and Thomas Terence Moffitt.
2 _SCBK Y
2 _PRIM N
2 _TYPE PHOTO
2 _SSHOW Y
2 _ROTATE 90
1 OBJE
2 FORM jpg
2 FILE Pictures\moffit children.jpg
2 TITL Bernadine, Otilla and Elizabeth Moffitt
2 NOTE 
2 _SCBK Y
2 _PRIM N
2 _TYPE PHOTO
2 _SSHOW Y
1 OBJE
2 FORM jpg
2 FILE Pictures\moffit twins at ogden school.jpg
2 TITL Otilla and Bess Moffitt at the Ogden School
2 NOTE 
2 _SCBK Y
2 _PRIM N
2 _TYPE PHOTO
2 _SSHOW Y
0 @I10@ INDI
1 NAME James V. /Brady/
2 SURN Brady
2 GIVN James V.
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1849
2 PLAC Bristol, Bucks, Pennsylvania, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 6 Jun 1921
2 PLAC Quincy, Adams, Illinois, USA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
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1 NOTE James was buried at Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery in Nauvoo.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "Jas. Brady, one of our enterprising young men, left for Dakota last Friday evening to remai
2 CONC n for some time.  The Rustler follows him."  Nauvoo Rustler, August 11, 1891.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "Jas. Brady departed for Dakota today, where he will remain several months."  Nauvoo Rustler
2 CONC , July 26, 1892.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "James Brady, one of our enterprising young farmers, leaves tomorrow for Dakota, where he wil
2 CONC l visit a few months with his brothers."  Nauvoo Rustler, August 5, 1892.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "James Brady writes us from Groton, South Dakota, ordering the Rustler sent to him at that pl
2 CONC ace."  Nauvoo Rustler, August 9, 1892.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "Jas. Brady, of Groton, and Terry, of Langsford, South Dakota were called to the city last Th
2 CONC ursday, on account of the serious illness of their mother."  Nauvoo Rustler, September 20, 18
2 CONC 92.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "Mrs. Thos. N. Moffitt and Mike and Jas. Brady attended Matt. Staffords funeral at Ft. Madiso
2 CONC n last Friday."  Nauvoo Rustler, January 10, 1893.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "Death of James Brady.  James Brady, well-known to the people of this community, died at St
2 CONC . Vincent's Home and Infirmary, Quincy, last Monday night at 10:30 o'clock.  He had been ther
2 CONC e about three and one-half years.  Since last December he was confined to his bed, and deat
2 CONC h finnally resulted in his gradual decline.  The body will arrive here this afternoon abou
2 CONC t 4 o'clock when the funeral will take place.  He is survived by his sister, Mrs. M.E. Ogde
2 CONC n of Des Moines, two brothers, Terrence Brady of Lindsay, California, and John Brady of Minot
2 CONC , North Dakota, He also leaves a number of nephews and nieces here and in the vicinity mour
2 CONC n his loss.  Mrs. M.F. Brady and T.N. Moffott of this city are sister and brother-in-law of d
2 CONC eceased.  Mr. Brady was along in the seventy years.  He farmed for a number of years, and aft
2 CONC erwards turned his mind to inventions.  He invented an improvement on corn cultivators whic
2 CONC h was put in general use.  He made other inventions which were never tried out.  Of late year
2 CONC s he was also employed as carpenter.  Mr. Brady was a genial man and well liked.  He was hone
2 CONC st and true to his friends.  He was always a devout Catholic and of religious turn of mind.
2 CONC "  Nauvoo Newspaper, June 8, 1921.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 5 Dec 2008
3 TIME 19:46:07
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1 NAME John /Brady/
2 SURN Brady
2 GIVN John
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE Nov 1850
2 PLAC Bristol, Bucks, Pennsylvania, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE Aft 8 Jun 1921/Bef 1930
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1 NOTE Living in Murray County Minnesota in 1895.  In 1905 is living in Brislet, Polk County, Minnes
2 CONC ota with Katie, Joe T. and Stella.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 Jan 2007
3 TIME 01:11:44
0 @I12@ INDI
1 NAME Terence /Brady/ Jr.
2 SURN Brady
2 GIVN Terence
2 NSFX Jr.
2 NICK Terry
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 Feb 1854
2 PLAC Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 CHR
2 DATE 2 Apr 1854
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 19 Jul 1933
2 PLAC Lindsay, Tulare, California, USA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Lindsay Cemetery,Tulare,California,USA
1 _UID 5764FE4034C6E0458CA461D61A2D64E20C78
1 FAMS @F12@
1 FAMC @F4@
1 NOTE Terence's baptismal record is located at Saints Peter and Paul Church in Nauvoo, Illinois.  T
2 CONC he Latin name of Terentium was used for the baptism.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Some sayings of Terence Brady during his last days on earth  - recorded by Jennie Whitfield B
2 CONC rady
2 CONT 
2 CONT "If you want to ascend, you must be a good climber."
2 CONT 
2 CONT Do & dare, if you think your right, work it out.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Quite a joke if I should happen to know something that younger men think they have learned i
2 CONC n college.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Hold on to what you have, get what you can is bigger saying than it might look to be
2 CONT 
2 CONT The monkey may not be very far behind man.  A man is only advanced as far as his brain is dev
2 CONC eloped, not much we have to admit.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The physiccal is not so important any way
2 CONT 
2 CONT The hardest things for the human mind to do is let go
2 CONT 
2 CONT What did you ask?  do I know the phophets why yes, I know some of the boys, you see they ar
2 CONC e no greater than I am.  When I think right; nor than any others but then, these are big ques
2 CONC tions.  I may not be right.  I am on a big lecture tour, but not very well versed in book lor
2 CONC e, but I may know something after all.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "Keep right on to the end of the road
2 CONT Keep right on to the end.
2 CONT If the way be rough let your heart be strong
2 CONT Keep right on around the bend.
2 CONT Though your tired and weary still journey on
2 CONT Till you come to that happy abode
2 CONT Where all you've loved and been longing for
2 CONT Will be there, at the End of the Road!"
2 CONT 
2 CONT The only God there is in your own Soul  You can not lose him, it is only fear.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Of course you can kill me, there are plenty enuf of you, but I'll be dammed if you can get th
2 CONC e best of me. or own me.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Stay in a condition as long as you are satisfied even if it is 10,000 years, you have plent
2 CONC y of time in your travels you may come to a church or a school house in the meadow, stay in e
2 CONC m as long as you have to learn your lessons, over and over again, but some day you will leav
2 CONC e them, that is the way men are made takes several hundred years to make intelligence seen o
2 CONC n the human face, but it sure does give a fellow a boost when he knows he has got there.
1 SOUR @S2@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 2 Jan 2005
3 TIME 01:00:00
1 OBJE
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2 TITL Terence Brady at Austin, Minnesota
2 NOTE 
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2 TITL Terence Brady at Fort Madison, Iowa
2 NOTE 
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2 NOTE 
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2 NOTE 
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2 TITL Terence Brady at Seattle Cottage
2 NOTE 
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2 _TYPE PHOTO
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0 @I13@ INDI
1 NAME Jennie Belle /Whitfield/
2 SURN Whitfield
2 GIVN Jennie Belle
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 27 Jul 1873
2 PLAC Green, Mecosta, Michigan, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 23 Aug 1948
2 PLAC Lindsay, Tulare, California, USA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Lindsay Cemetery,Tulare,California,USA
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1 FAMS @F12@
1 NOTE New Years Eve
2 CONT 1936-
2 CONT 
2 CONT Terry Darling
2 CONT Tonight I am thinking of you, am wondering if you sometimes think of me.  I recall the many N
2 CONC ew Years Eves we have spent together - with your dear arms around me and I felt so safe and s
2 CONC ecure. and the memories of such times sustain me in my lonely hours -  I am not wishing you b
2 CONC ack for you deserve something better and I can not be so selfish, but Dear Heart I miss you a
2 CONC nd will rejoice when I can join you wherever you may be.  I know you are working for and wit
2 CONC h the "Masters" and learning many valuable lessons.  I am asking your forgiveness for the man
2 CONC y times wherein I failed you but I want you to know that I have always loved you and always w
2 CONC ill. and look forward to the time I can tell you so face to face.  May the rest of my life b
2 CONC e one of patience and forbearance and love to all that I may be able to come to you with a cl
2 CONC ear conscience and with peace  So to-night may this New Year bring us closer together in Devi
2 CONC ne Love and under standing.
2 CONT Ever and Always my Love to You
1 SOUR @S2@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 14 Oct 2007
3 TIME 18:52:12
1 OBJE
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2 TITL Clare, Carol, Jennie and Arden Brady.
2 NOTE 
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2 _PRIM Y
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0 @I14@ INDI
1 NAME Clare Whitfield /Brady/
2 SURN Brady
2 GIVN Clare Whitfield
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 28 Feb 1895
2 PLAC Bismark, Custer, South Dakota, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 24 Apr 1974
2 PLAC Newport Beach, Orange, California, USA
1 BURI
2 DATE Apr 1974
2 PLAC Pacific View Cemetery, Corona Del Mar, Orange, California,USA
1 AFN 2142-HZD
1 _UID 8D8B27F82C93924A8C61A798C8A14A02B3E0
1 FAMS @F14@
1 FAMC @F12@
1 NOTE C. W. BRADY
2 CONT 972 East Colorado Street
2 CONT Pasadena, Calif.
2 CONT Long Beach
2 CONT 4/14/32
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dear Folks-
2 CONT      One thing about a serious sickness is the fact that it encourages a certain amount of le
2 CONC tter writing.  This phenomina would never be in evidence in normal times
2 CONT      I have enjoyed the experience of taking a look at the other side  if only momentarily an
2 CONC d it was not so bad in fact if it hadn' of been for responsibilities which I felt I had to b
2 CONC e taken care of I would rather have enjoyed continuing with the experience.  Am sitting up fo
2 CONC r the first time today & it sure feels funny - but due to a well planned diet & lots pf car
2 CONC e & rest I am going to be stronger then ever before.  I have made up my mind that I will kee
2 CONC p the old engine in perfect shape in order to do some of the things that are cut out for me i
2 CONC n the next 20 or 30 yrs.
2 CONT      It takes a rather severe bump to become cognizant of what is actually of the greatest im
2 CONC portance.  Without health it is hard to have other things so I am going to work on this ide
2 CONC a from now on-.
2 CONT      Every one was very gracious to me during the time of illness as was evidenced by the pro
2 CONC fession of flowers sent to me by every one.  The bif chief sent me a big bunch of cut roses w
2 CONC ith the wnstruction to take as much time as was neccessary to get well & then take another w
2 CONC k after that.  I didn't know I had made as many friends while in L. B.  My office seem to b
2 CONC e able to go ahead without me in fine shape which is good thing and a small compliment to m
2 CONC y management.
2 CONT      Am going to catch up on a lot of things that we wanted to do in the next week or so befo
2 CONC re going back to the job.  Well Mom enjoy the days as best you can because they are sliding b
2 CONC ackrad awfully fast.  And tell Pop to keep in mind that the first hundred years are the harde
2 CONC st.  As I am kind of tired now will close realizing that it takes a special occation t make m
2 CONC e write and that I don't want to overdue it now.
2 CONT Love  Clare
2 CONT 
2 CONT C. W. BRADY
2 CONT 972 East Colorado Street
2 CONT Pasadena, Calif.
2 CONT Long Beach
2 CONT 4/14/32
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dear Carol-
2 CONT      Just rec'd the big box of flowers and can't imagine you going to all this trouble bu
2 CONC t I sure appreciate it and the flowers are scattered all over the front room.  There are 3 va
2 CONC ses full, they are beautiful too-
2 CONT      I firmly believe that the depression with its attending physical ills has served to brin
2 CONC g people closer together in a realization that material things are not of prime importance an
2 CONC d that we should domething for somebody else accumulating  money only, as nessecary as that s
2 CONC eems to be.
2 CONT      Hope you & Laurence are not having to struggle as hard as you did alltho I don't see an
2 CONC y great change in business as yet.  However we are entitled to those things that are neceessa
2 CONC y to supply any need and should expect them absolutely.  Well try & see you soon.  Love to ev
2 CONC eryone---- Clare ----
2 CONT 
2 CONT Hotel Muehlebach
2 CONT BALTIMORE AVENUE
2 CONT AND TWELFTH STREET
2 CONT TRIANON HOTEL CO.
2 CONT Kansas City, Mo.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Tues, 6-
2 CONT Dear Mom,
2 CONT Guess what happened, I ran into a whole flock of cousins, on Pops side.  All by accident too
2 CONC .  The 1st one in James Terry Brady 3223 Washigton st. Kansas City Mo. he is a son ot Mike Br
2 CONC ady, Dads brother.  The next is Terry Thomas Moffitt 1502 E- 35th st K.C. son of Pops siste
2 CONC r Elizabeth.  The next on is Mrs. Harry Barquist of Des Moines Iowa & her mother was Mary Bra
2 CONC dy - Pops sis.  next one is Grace Sheppard 1617 Francis St. Joseph Mo. daughter of Mike Brady
2 CONC .  Next one is Adele Brady daugher of Mike Brady,  lives in Nauvoo Ill.  Next is Mrs. Wm H. H
2 CONC ontz Hamilton Ill.  1st cousin of mine, and the last is Wm Moffett of St. Louis Mo.  Hows tha
2 CONC t for uncovering a flock of relatives at one shot.
2 CONT I am going to write to all of them & visit as many as I can as soon as possible.  I have jus
2 CONC t spent the last hour with my cousin Jim Terry Brady & we got well acquainted.  He sure has t
2 CONC he Brady appearance ok.
2 CONT This really is an experience and so far they are all swell people.
2 CONT When Verle & Bill come out this summer I will take her around to visit them, it should be a k
2 CONC ick don't you think?  Well Mom many happy returns on Mothers day & I will write you again o
2 CONC n the above subject.
2 CONT Clare
2 CONT Mom
2 CONT Call Verle for more dope as I am sending her all the data.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Clares remains were creamated.  When Clare was a boy in North Dakota he was supposed to hav
2 CONC e burned down his fathers barn.  Evidently Terence had a hard time recovering from this finan
2 CONC cially.
2 CONT 
2 CONT CLARE W. BRADY MEMORIAL TROPHY
2 CONT BE IT KNOW THAT
2 CONT The San Diego Power Squadron
2 CONT does hereby give to District 28
2 CONT A PERPETUAL TROPHY
2 CONT Known as the
2 CONT "CLARE W. BRADY MEMORIAL TROPHY"
2 CONT This trophy is intended to Promote Navigational Skills among district members competing in th
2 CONC e annual Founders Day Stag Cruise predicted Log Race.
2 CONT The District 28 member having the lowest percentage of error in the Founders Day Predicted Lo
2 CONC g Race will be awarded this trophy at the Spring Conference following this event.
2 CONT (Date Unknown)
1 SOUR @S3@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 16 Dec 2008
3 TIME 14:22:16
1 OBJE
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1 NAME Carol Altura /Brady/
2 SURN Brady
2 GIVN Carol Altura
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 3 Sep 1900
2 PLAC nr. Perth, Towner, North Dakota, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 2 Oct 2001
2 PLAC Lindsay,Tulare,California,USA
1 BURI
2 DATE 5 Oct 2001
2 PLAC Lindsay Cemetery,Tulare,California,USA
1 _UID 533DE7F6CDEBB24C968AD36F63F3F802D522
1 FAMS @F15@
1 FAMC @F12@
1 NOTE Feb. 1968
2 CONT "Shortly after midnight during  a thunderstorm and early hours of Sept. 3, 1900 I was born
2 CONC .  My folks lived on a farm in northeastern Towner Co. of North Dakota, 20 miles from the Can
2 CONC adian border & the nearest twon - Perth was 17 miles away.  They had recently moved from Sout
2 CONC h Dakota to this area.  My grandparents & my father had homesteaded in South Dakota when it w
2 CONC as still Dakota Territory.  My grandparents coming from Michigan first to Cartage Mo. where t
2 CONC heir two youngest children were born, and then to Dakotas when a Cavalry unit he belonged t
2 CONC o was sent out to quell the Sioux uprising.  They arrived with their family of six children
2 CONC , took up homestead land, built a sod house and barns for the stock.  My mother told about th
2 CONC e children picking up buffalo chips to use for firewood.  She told us many stories of life o
2 CONC n the prairies, the winter blizzards and summer droughts that often destroyed their wheat cro
2 CONC ps just before harvest time.  About harvest time when the thrashers moved in to thrash the wh
2 CONC eat, of big meals cooked for these men and of the relief to have the grain in & seed enough l
2 CONC eft for another year.  Grandfather started the first Sunday School in their area and was fo
2 CONC r many years the superintendent.  Grandmother was the one called on to help neighbors when si
2 CONC ck & acted as midwife at many births.  Grandfathers brothers like himself had been in the Civ
2 CONC il War except his brother Henry.  He was a doctor in Rochester, N. Y.  His brother Nathanie
2 CONC l also a doctor & lived many years in L.A.  Another brother was a preacher and one had poor h
2 CONC ealth as a result of being war prisoner in one of the famous southern (Libby Prison) prisons
2 CONC .  His family ran to preachers, teachers, doctors and professional type men.  His borther Hen
2 CONC ry twice a year sent medical supplies to his family with instructions how to care for his fam
2 CONC ily and neighbors from all around came to him for help, medications, even to having teeth pul
2 CONC led.  There were many Norwegian, German & some French settlers, many with old superstitions
2 CONC .  My grandmother had been a schoold teacher & the families greatest delight was in the book
2 CONC s the received to read.  They were all truly scholars of the better things even tho living i
2 CONC n a wild frontier.
2 CONT  My own father Terence Brady came as a young man & took up adjoining homestead.  He had lef
2 CONC t Nauvoo, Ill. home to strike out on his own.  He was 19 yrs older than my mother who was jus
2 CONC t a young girl when he came to Dakota.  So he watched her grow up so to speak.  She was a del
2 CONC icate child & the climate was hard on her.  She taught school, but was married on Oct 9 1893
2 CONC .  Clare their first son was born Feb 28, 1895.  Another son was stillborn and my Mother's he
2 CONC alth was not good.  Her people had moved west to Tacoma, Wash. where their older daughter ha
2 CONC d moved.  My father traded his place for one in North Dakota, where I was born Sept. 3 1900
2 CONC .  Her health still not good and I was a year old, they sold and Joined my grandparents in Wa
2 CONC shington.
2 CONT It was in Washington that my earliest memories go back to.  We were living on Whidbey Islan
2 CONC d & I can remember a big packing Box I played house in.  I undoubtedly tagged after my big br
2 CONC other as I thought he was special.  He was playing going fishing or maybe be was going fishin
2 CONC g.  Anyway I came along just as he cast his line & the fishhook caught in the corner of my ey
2 CONC e luckily missing the eyeball.  I remember the commotion and the excitement and how carefull
2 CONC y my father worked it out.  He had gently healing hands & whenever anything seemed wrong Clar
2 CONC e & I both would go to him, we would lie down & with one hand on our forehead & holding a han
2 CONC d in his, we would relax all would be right with us.  My folks had deep spiritual insight & g
2 CONC uided us thru God's Love and not fear.
2 CONT There were many adjustments for my father to make, from being a wheat farmer to coming West w
2 CONC here lumbering was the big industry.  Depression was hitting the country and I'm sure made i
2 CONC t harder to find oneself in industry wise.
2 CONT I remember living on a farm in suburban Tacoma.  A little settlement called Midland.  Here m
2 CONC y grandparents lived and my Uncle Will ran a store with a partner named Bixby.  He married Ma
2 CONC e Bixby, & used to say he married her because of the good pies she fed him, & didn't know he
2 CONC r Mother made them until after he was married.  He was a great joker but I believed for a lon
2 CONC g toime that story about the pie.  I dearly loved my Aunt Mae & was glad he was fooled.  The
2 CONC y lived next door to my grandparents.  My grandfather was bald & wore a beard & one day he sh
2 CONC aved off the beard and I thought my grandfather had moved away.  I called him the man that li
2 CONC ved at Grandpa's house and I could not be persuaded otherwise.  Grandmother always had crock
2 CONC s of cookies in her pantry & she'd skim the cream from pans of milk & how good the milk & coo
2 CONC kies were.  I remember their garden and especially the kitchen.  The pump was inside to pum
2 CONC p the water.  The bright shiny reflective lightsfor the lamp, the cozy stove and the big tabl
2 CONC e where all gathered to eat.  She always had foxgloves growing & I think of her to this day w
2 CONC hen I see foxgloves.
2 CONT On our farm I can remember following after my father behind the plow and once when I got stun
2 CONC g by a bee he quickly had me put my foot in a fresh cow dung to draw out the sting.  I recal
2 CONC l my reluctance but I wouldn't think of questioning my father.
2 CONT It was on this farm that I had my first big fright.  Clare & some neighbor boys were going hu
2 CONC nting and I was probably tagging along.  I was 5 years younger than Clare & I can imagine no
2 CONC w was a nuisance to the other boys.  One of them said for me to run home and when I didn't h
2 CONC e raised his gun & said he'd shoot me if I didn't.  Fun to scare a little girl.  I was no dou
2 CONC bt a nervous, sensitive child & became terrified as I started to run.  I literally felt lik
2 CONC e in a dream when you try to run and can't.  How far it was to the house and I could feel th
2 CONC e gun at my back.  I was hysterical when I got home.  I heard the boys laugh when I started t
2 CONC o run but I was completely terrified and it took me a long time to calm down.  In fact it lef
2 CONC t a long time fear of guns in my conciousness.  I developed a decided stutter & I feel now th
2 CONC at that fright to a nervous child greatly contributed to my speek difficulties.
2 CONT We used to take the street car into Tacoma & visit my cousins, the Sutherlands.  That was gre
2 CONC at fun.  Family picnics were held at Point Defiance Park and we children would run & play unt
2 CONC il worn out.
2 CONT I next remember living in a two story rooming house in Tacoma where the folks rented rooms ou
2 CONC t.  I can remeber going to the theater with my folks & making life miserable because I consta
2 CONC ntly wanted a drink or go to the rest room.  Really I was fearful as the first show evidentl
2 CONC y had a gun in it & when it went off I was frightened, so I espected every show to have a gun
2 CONC .  Hense the drink bit, I was trying to avoid a gun bang.  I also contracted whooping coug
2 CONC h ( how well I remember the terrific coughing & throwing up, and asking my mother each time i
2 CONC f I was going to die.  What fears children develop and not telling ones parents about them, t
2 CONC hey often multiply.
2 CONT It ws there I also learned to skate and oh the skinned knees I suffered thru, but I was deter
2 CONC mined to skate & spent many happy hours on them.  I liked the out doors and active play.
2 CONT I remeber being on a row boat on the Sound & being rocked by the wake of a big boat & an olde
2 CONC r boy cousin cried, so I was "brave" and didn't because the grown ups didn't seem to be afrai
2 CONC d.  I also remember my first automobile ride in a big red Rio.  My Aunt's gentleman friend dr
2 CONC ove us out to American Lake, where I heard some guns shooting & was fearful of being shot.
2 CONT The climate with so much rain was not so good for my Mother and times were hard for employmen
2 CONC t, so my father decided to leave for California to see if he could better himself & find a mo
2 CONC re suitable climate for my Mother.  He worked around some of the gold mines and was in northe
2 CONC rn California when then 1906 earthquake hit S. F.  Like many curious people he visited S. F
2 CONC . afterwards to see the ruins etc.
2 CONT I'm not sure how long my mother ran her roooming house, but we did move in with my grandparen
2 CONC ts in Midland because I started school in the Midland School.  When a boy I knew laughed whe
2 CONC n I had trouble saying words that began with L. I became quite concious of the fact I had spe
2 CONC ech trouble.  The school yard had lots of young fir trees around it.  In fact all the countr
2 CONC y had fir trees & it was quite a task to clear the land of trees, ferns & underbrush in orde
2 CONC r to have tillable land.  I remember a play house at school made with fir trees, and how th
2 CONC e ground and woods smelled after a rain.
2 CONT My father sent for us in November and we were to meet him in Klamath Falls, Ore.  He had bee
2 CONC n working at power plant on Yuba River when he first sent for us, so Mother made arrangement
2 CONC s to leave.   She was leaving her parents brothers and sisters for a new country.  In the mea
2 CONC time men were laid off at power plant and he had gone to Klamath Falls.  The train in those d
2 CONC ays went to Grants Pass and from there we took a stage coach to Klamath Falls.  It was dark w
2 CONC hen we started & the road was rough and it was stormy besides.  What a relief when we arrive
2 CONC d in Klamath Falls after midnight and there was our father waiting for us.  He was wearin
2 CONC g a duly hat I remember.  He was 6' tall, wore a mustashe & I thought him a handsome man.  H
2 CONC e took my mother by the arm and she lifted her shirts so they wouldn't drag, so I carefully l
2 CONC ifted mine and took my brothers arm, very important!  We stayed a month there.  Spent Christm
2 CONC as there & I remember visiting some Hot Springs near by and seeing some Indian.  I recalled v
2 CONC isiting the Worlds Fair in Seattle in 1906 and visiting an Indians Village where the Siwash I
2 CONC ndians lived.  My Uncle had taken us over.  I was impressed seeing Indian Squaws kneading bre
2 CONC ad in a big pan while she squatted on the ground.  Little Indian children playing around woul
2 CONC d dip their dirty hands in the dough and the mother didn't object.  Some white men nearby wer
2 CONC e saying something to Indian Man (apparently teasing) & the Indian picked up a pail of wate
2 CONC r and throwing in on the Man.  My Mother thought it served him right.  I was impressed by who
2 CONC le thing.
2 CONT My father decided to take us to French Corrall, Nev. Co. where he had made friends & worked i
2 CONC n mines.  When we left Klamath Falls, snow had fallen so the stage coach was changed for a sl
2 CONC eigh, and the trip to Grants Pass was made over snow, the horses prancing and the scenery bea
2 CONC utiful.  I can remember how beautiful the trees were with their many shapes.  We took the tra
2 CONC in at Grants Pass for Marysville, Calif.  Here we stayed all night at a hotel near where th
2 CONC e stages left for the Gold Country.
2 CONT We took off for French Corral, Nev. Co. by stagecoach going thru Smartsville & then north t
2 CONC o F. C. which was between Smartsville & North San Juan, and west of Grass Valley & Nevada Cit
2 CONC y.  This was a dusty, rocky road and we seemed to careen from side to side, but it probably s
2 CONC eemed that way to me.
2 CONT We arrived in French Corral and stopped at Culver House, a large 2 story house that served a
2 CONC s hotel.  French Corral is a sort of Basin ringed around by foothills.  I thought they were m
2 CONC ountains at the time.  Two active gold mines were operating at the time, and they were usin
2 CONC g Hydraulic mining at the time, drawing water from the Yuba River.  Whole hillsides were bein
2 CONC g washed down & the dirt being sluiced thru miles of sluice boxes stretching accross the "Dig
2 CONC gins".  An area that had been washed down  & worked for gold.  It was an impressive sight, ev
2 CONC en for a 6 yr. old to see this big stream of water coming thru a gigantic nozzle to wash & ea
2 CONC t away the hillsides.  This was stopped by Law the next year and that brought almost an end t
2 CONC o the big mining operations in this small town.  We were told it had a population of near 10,
2 CONC 000 in the gold hey day.  When we were there it had dwindled to about 300.
2 CONT My father introduced us to his friends.  The Culvers, The French's and others I can't recall
2 CONC .  At first we had rooms with the French's, a miner & his wife.  She had a piano & I was faci
2 CONC nated by that.  From then on I dreamed of owning one, but it wasn't until I began working tha
2 CONC t I had one.
2 CONT We soon found a house to rent higher on the ridge on road to N. San Juan.  Here we had a co
2 CONC w & chickens, fruit trees and grapevines on the slope back of us.  We had a big oak tree nea
2 CONC r the house on which was a big swing that I delighted in.  Also a big pine tree across the ro
2 CONC ad under which I would sit & crack pine nuts from ones that fell.  I can remember the rock un
2 CONC der the pine & how I loved those nuts.
2 CONT When school started Clare & I enrolled.  The school was in the town settlement, which also ha
2 CONC d a general store & post office and a saloon.  Wells Fargo had a large brick vault there, whe
2 CONC re gold was kept ready for shipment.  The School had one large room, with an ante room to on
2 CONC e side, a porch went across the front and down one side.  It had a woodshed in the back an
2 CONC d a girls & boys rest room, one on each side.  A well in front where hung a dipper.  Everyon
2 CONC e drank out of this dipper.  The teacher Marie Allen taught all 9 grades.  The room had a lar
2 CONC ge stove in the center.  The school was used for meetings, social affairs, and sunday school
2 CONC .  My father was a natural violinist and played all the old time tunes & the square dance cal
2 CONC ls.  He taught me to dance there.  He was a good dancer with natural rythm & I was always hap
2 CONC py when he would dance me around the floor.  I can recall social affairs where families cam
2 CONC e & the small children would be bedded down in the ante room.  A big midnight supper was hel
2 CONC d and it seemed very exciting.  Our house was qutie a ways from the school & it seemed lik
2 CONC e a long walk.  When weather was good one could take a short cut.  Down hill going to school
2 CONC , but a good climb home.  The road & trails were rocky.
2 CONT There were a number of boys Clare's age & he had to fight every one of them before he was acc
2 CONC epted.  A boy form the city had to prove himself.  He watched after me pretty close and would
2 CONC n't even let any boy tease me without a fight on.  I soon learned to run to him quickly i
2 CONC f I thought I was put upon.  He teased me a great deal himself, but no one else could.
2 CONT I was fascinated by all the pretty rocks & made collections of them.  Making believe they wer
2 CONC e people.  This way I had families of rocks & they seemed more fun than regular dolls.  I wa
2 CONC s always outlining play houses & making believe.
2 CONT On Feb. 28, 1908 my brother Arden was born.  That was a big event in the family.  My Mother'
2 CONC s sister Lucy Whitfield came to take care of her.  That was a big event also for us.  By th
2 CONC e time he was a year old we moved to a house not far from the school house.  We had a big bar
2 CONC n and pasture with fruit trees.  There were quite a few close neighbors as there were house
2 CONC s on each side of the lane and our house was below the lane.  This house had a big willow tre
2 CONC e down in the pasture and I loved to swing on the low hanging limbs.  When the hay was cut an
2 CONC d stacked, we'd play hide and go seek amoung the stacks.  I loved to run & climb trees.  Onc
2 CONC e in awhile I'd go with my father & brother on a gold mining or panning trip.  They had a roc
2 CONC ker & gold pans and I remember how exciting it was when a nugget or some gold would appear
2 CONC .  I was learning many lessons in human behavior.  I recall my mother teaching me, we were al
2 CONC l children of God and all mankind were brothers.  This was quite an equation to make.  I fina
2 CONC lly decided it was alright, except for the driver of the big freight wagons he drove.  Whenev
2 CONC er the freight came in, he apparently talked to his horses in a violent language which alway
2 CONC s scared me, if I happened to be in the store.  So I decided I could be brother to everyone e
2 CONC xcept the freight driver.  That was too much.  I was absorbing my folks philosophy of life a
2 CONC s a child of God, it was my responsibility to live as one.  So lessons in honesty, clean thou
2 CONC ghts & tolerance of others were basic.  Unpleasant things, "hard luck" were only experience
2 CONC s to help us toward higher goals.  God doesn't punish us, only ourselves & wrong ways punis
2 CONC h us. We reap what we sow.  My mother expected us to be obedient & when we weren't, her look
2 CONC s & words soon put us right.  I used to think it would be easier if she spanked me.  I though
2 CONC t she was a very brave woman.  Once when we were in a horse & buggy coming home, an automobil
2 CONC e came chugging along.  I was sure the horse would run away & I wanted to get out.  But she h
2 CONC eld the lines form & pulled off to the side of the road while the auto went by.  The horse wa
2 CONC s a little skittish but soon calmed down.  It was probably as important to let the horse kno
2 CONC w she wasn't afraid as it was the children.  I was impressed at any rate.
2 CONT At school one played many running games, Dare Bone, Run sheep run, Kick the can & Tag.  On ra
2 CONC iny days we played on the wide porch, mumbledepeg, hop scotch etc.  We roamed the hills in th
2 CONC e spring.  My father was cutting wood and it was a lonely lazy spring day, myriads of butterc
2 CONC ups, shooting stars & Baby Blue eyes were out.  The manzanita bushes were in bloom & how deli
2 CONC ghtful it all was.
2 CONT Christmas we went out and cut our own tree.  Strung popcorn & red toyon berries, made paper c
2 CONC hains Etc.  Had real candles for the tree & how pretty it was.
2 CONT Valentines Day was a favorite as we worked hard to make real pretty ones with real lace on th
2 CONC em & pretty pictures.  It was surely a do it yourself age and we never once thought we were u
2 CONC nder privileged.
2 CONT As my grandfather had fought in the Civil War, we were all brought up with patriotism & lov
2 CONC e of country.  The flag always had an honored place.
2 CONT The village had a general store and Post Office and a sa loon.  The Wells Fargo had a large b
2 CONC rick vault, which was used to store gold during the big mining days.  The first telephone i
2 CONC n the West was established there.
2 CONT Clare had a job delivering groceries for the store.  They had a fine teacher at the schoo
2 CONC l & Clare graduated form the 9th grade there in 1910.
2 CONT My father decided to go to Tulare that Spring as times were not good & work was scarce.  Whe
2 CONC n Clare graduated he knew there was nothing there for him.  He had earned the money for a bic
2 CONC ycle & he planned to join our father in Tulare when school was out & he left on his bicycle
2 CONC , riding all the way to Tulare from Nev. Co.  Mother & I & Arden left by stage to Marysvill
2 CONC e & then by train.  We shipped our belongoings & selling cows etc.
2 CONT The summer before tho a fire broke out & swept all around the hills.  The men & boys were ou
2 CONC t for days it seemed, fighting it.  The women prepared food & drink & taking it up to the men
2 CONC .  At night the fire seemed most menacing burning the trees as it swept up the hills.  By bac
2 CONC k firing they eventually got it stopped before it came down into the village.
2 CONT That  year also appeared Haley's Comet & that was a sight for everyone.  Many expecting dir
2 CONC e things, like sticking the earth & big castastrophes.  Always every age brings prophecies o
2 CONC f world's end, & dire things.  I recall the excited talk of neighbors, but the folks didn't s
2 CONC eem scared, so I wasn't.
2 CONT We lived there four years and I have many early memories of the Gold Contry.
2 CONT We arrived in Tulare & my father & Clare met us at the train.  He had rented a Tent House whe
2 CONC re he lived.  A platform floor & wood sides with a tenet over the frame.  It was summer tim
2 CONC e and hot.  The nightswere cool tho.  I'm not sure how long we stayed in the tent house, bu
2 CONC t had moved into a house before school started.  Clare should have entered high school, but n
2 CONC o extra money for that, as H. S. s were not as free as they are now.  Took money for book
2 CONC s & proper clothes and we were not in circumstances to afford extras.  I'm sure it was a disa
2 CONC ppointment to Clare as he had a good keen mind.  He found work where he could & soon got int
2 CONC o the mechanical world.
2 CONT Arden was years old and loved to run away.  Had a real yen to explore.  My Mother could span
2 CONC k & scold & often tied him to her sewing machine to keep him home where she could watch him.
2 CONT Livery stables with fine horses were quite the thing.  A neighbor who kept a horse and bugg
2 CONC y would take me & her girl for a buggy ride occationally and I thought that the greatest.  M
2 CONC y grandparents became ill & in Dec. Mother & I & Arden took the train to Tacoma and to Midlan
2 CONC d where they lived.  We had Christmas there and on New Years morning, the house caught on fir
2 CONC e and quickly burned.  All our clothes & Xmas presents, family heirlooms etc went up in smoke
2 CONC .  What a tragedy.  We had to get our invalid grandmother & grandfather out.  My uncle was i
2 CONC n his store & they sent me on the run to tell him.  Very little was saved.  Clothes came in f
2 CONC orm friends & relatives and nothing really fitted.  The family rented a house in South Tacom
2 CONC a & while there I went to the Horace Mann School.  I remember not seeing right & I was take
2 CONC n to a Dr. Slaydon an osteopath and corrections on my neck, corrected my eyes & headaches.  W
2 CONC as always sold on osteopathe when I needed something done.
2 CONT My grandmother died in the Spring and we stayed until after the funeral.  My grandfather ha
2 CONC d had a stroke that affected his speech, & he would be most frustrated because he couldn't ex
2 CONC press himself.  He would spend as much time outside in his chair as he could when the weathe
2 CONC r was nice.  I believe we stayed about six months and my mother felt she had to return to Tul
2 CONC are.  My Father had rented a house on O St. and we went back to a different place, then we le
2 CONC ft.  At the first home, I remember my father had fallen from a scaffolding & was hurt.  No wo
2 CONC rkmans Compensation then and it made it very hard on the folks.
2 CONT The little house on O St. had a big yard with cottonwood trees.  I used to climb them and wha
2 CONC t fun to make believe in my tree house.  An irrigation ditch ran south of the house and in op
2 CONC en fields, we'd play Cowboys & Indians, but the tree was my sanctuary.  My Mother used to res
2 CONC t every afternoon as she was not real robust.  One afternoon we received word that my grandfa
2 CONC ther had died.  I remember my Mother's sadness.  She probably felt she should have stayed lon
2 CONC ger in Tacoma.
2 CONT I had a good imagination and was always making believe & acting out stories with my friends
2 CONC .  Alos loved to skate.  There was a big pavilion on the main st E & W where a park is now
2 CONC , & I used to skate there for hours.  Also a friend & I would play on the portico of the H. S
2 CONC . imaging the columns & wide portico was her home.  We didn't need things we had our make bel
2 CONC ieve world.  The movies were new then & we would reenact every one we got to see.
2 CONT I went to the Christian Science Sunday School as that seemed to better express my folks philo
2 CONC sophy.  They were greatly inteested in what then was called "New Thought", and their Spiritua
2 CONC l Awakening was always along the newer philosophy rather than the orthodox.  My Mother had be
2 CONC en steeped in Methodism, but felt no real response or truth she could be inspired by.  My fat
2 CONC her was raised a Catholic & it too was automatic.  They both became interested in "New Though
2 CONC t" & sought to enrich their lives & thoughts as children of God and live the truths that th
2 CONC e Master Jesus taught.  "What I am, ye also can be".  It is not I, but the Father within tha
2 CONC t doeth the works "I and the Father are One".  When one starts on that conscious upward Spiri
2 CONC tual Climb to find oneself and his relation with & to God and to mankind, his awareness and v
2 CONC alues become clearer.  Enlightment occurs.  It is not an easy road, as many lessons have to b
2 CONC e learned and so we grow.
2 CONT Jan 31 1971 - Resuming story after 3 yrs.
2 CONT I attended the old Washington School in Tulare.  From O St. we moved to a house on N. H St
2 CONC .  Had a vacant lot next door & I spent many hours batting a tennis ball in the air & runnin
2 CONC g under with raquet to bat it up again.  Played marbles and investigated a eucalyptus grove n
2 CONC orth of us, which was fun to run thru the trees.  I was extremely thin and nervous, affectin
2 CONC g my speech in School.  While in the 5th grade my teacher was Miss Pyle & I thought her topps
2 CONC .  The school started a deportment system going to different rooms and teachers for special c
2 CONC lasses.  My math teacher, a Mr. Washburn who took an interest in me.  Having me come in for s
2 CONC pecial speech therapy.  He had me start taking early morning walks to increase my appetite s
2 CONC o I would eat breakfast, gain weight & hopefully put on some pounds.  He started me coming in
2 CONC to his room in the morning & read to his class.  Because he helped me, I relaxed and got s
2 CONC o I could read aloud with no trouble.  In other classes, tho I became self conscious and woul
2 CONC d start the old stutter syndrome.  Mr. Washburn also interested in astronomy & had his classe
2 CONC s come to his house on few evenings and he would paine out the heavens & constellations.  I
2 CONC n the 6th grade they decided to put me up a half grade.  I was capable in all phases except m
2 CONC ath, & the time I missed in grade I left & grade I went into had its effect on my later math
2 CONC .  It was too hard to pick up the missing parts & now realize I didn't have proper help in br
2 CONC idging the gap.  Miss Woods was my new teacher.  I recall I felt lost & alone in class with n
2 CONC ew classmates.  Had several good friends and we enjoyed our make believes & games at school
2 CONC .  In start of 7th grade we had a homemaking class which was given in the high school.  Learn
2 CONC ed all basic stitches in sewing, also became interested in H. S. football games & yelling mys
2 CONC elf hoarse.  I was gaining self confidence & enjoying my school days.  Clare had been livin
2 CONC g in Lindsay for sometime, and began to urge us to move there so he could live at home.  He w
2 CONC orked in garages & also as chauffeur for a well to do man.  Worked for Morley in old Ford  Ga
2 CONC rage.  In Spring then of 1914 the folks decided to move to Lindsay.  I was really sad and cou
2 CONC ldn't bear to leave my friends, school, & my real help in my speech.  The folks moved and tw
2 CONC o friends Mildred Stiff & Adilen Thomas who had a horse & buggy drove me over on a week end
2 CONC .  March 10, 1914.  A beautiful day with wild flowers blooming in profession.  How strang
2 CONC e I thought Lindsay.  Dirt streets & some curving, not like Tulare with paved main sts, etc
2 CONC .  We even rode int on Tulare Rd past the Ingoldsby place which as pasture, & just covered wi
2 CONC th poppies lupine paint brushes & all the wild flowers.  A really beautiful sight.
2 CONT I entered school & was a shy scared girl, so self concious I reverted back to stuttering whic
2 CONC h only made it much worse.  After a few days of school became sick, fever nausea etc.  Two we
2 CONC eks before I could go back again.  The half grade I was put up into in Tulare, placed me in a
2 CONC n irregular place here.  Was in low 7th in Spring, so would enter high 7th in fall.  Makin
2 CONC g a split year during 8th when graduation would take place.  So in 8th year, as high school w
2 CONC as in same building, the school divided the 8th grade for me & a few others, 1st half of th
2 CONC e year had Math & English and 2 High School subjects & last half taking history & geograph
2 CONC y & 2 High School subjects.  This also interfered with my Math, as by time we had 8th grade f
2 CONC inals, it had been 4 months since having math.  Even at that had over 9230 average in my coun
2 CONC ty exams.
2 CONT To go back to early Lindsay life.  We lived on Bellah Ave.  Clare and friend Claude Blotchle
2 CONC y roomed with us.  They were really eligible young men about town.  Clare was studying violi
2 CONC n & had group developing for dance orchestra.  They were good dances. Would pick up new danc
2 CONC e steps in S. F. & bring them to Lindsay.  They practiced on me, so as a result I became a go
2 CONC od dancer, knowing the latest steps.
2 CONT The family getting aquainted on Bellah, with the neighbors & had several social gatherings w
2 CONC e attended as families, Redstones, Hoppings, McNeills, Andersens, Burgeles, Whites, McKnight
2 CONC s to name a few.  That fall Anne Hill came from Illinois to live with her sister Florence McN
2 CONC eill.  I met her at the train & we have been friends ever since.  Later her parents & other b
2 CONC rothers & sisters moved out and lived on Bellah.
2 CONT Back to school, when I graduated from Grammar School I had 2 units of high school.  In 1st ye
2 CONC ar of H.S.  took enough extra subjects so at end of my freshman year, had enough credits to g
2 CONC o into Junior year.  Since  have regretted that, as I missed a year I should have had to enjo
2 CONC y.  I did have a good time in high school going to many dances.  Clare having an orchestra
2 CONC .  He married Verle Parker Oct 9, 1916.  That made another change in our life.  They were mar
2 CONC ried a Parker Ranch home.  I was bridesmaid and Verles brother Clifford was best man.  My dre
2 CONC ss was white organdy with many ruffles in the shirt.  I thought it preety special, but rememb
2 CONC er my Mother thought it a dilly to iron.  That Halloween our house caught fire from a box pun
2 CONC pkin in the window & ran up the curtains.  Anne H was there as we were going to a dance.  I r
2 CONC an out the house clutching my organdy dress & a bottle of milk on the doorstep.  The fire chi
2 CONC ef was Mr. Buszele who lived across the street & when he got the alarm, he went to Clare's a
2 CONC t Fairlawn instead of Brady's on Bellah.  My father got the fire out, he had just coume out o
2 CONC f bathroom & was dressed in his long underwear.  He climbed up in attic to be sure no fire th
2 CONC ere.  Anne & I were 2 giggly girls & to see his long legs hanging out of the attic hole sen
2 CONC t us into hysterical laughter.  But I did save my dress.  The summer (1916) before I staye
2 CONC d a month with Anne at the Gillette Ranch.  She was working for them & they took a trip to Ha
2 CONC waii & had me come out and stay with Anne for company.  We had this big house to ourselves, p
2 CONC lenty to eat and records to play.  A gardener would bring us flowers every morning & whateve
2 CONC r food we needed.  Occationally we would ride in the horse and buggy.  We had a great tim
2 CONC e & lived like the rich.
2 CONT 
2 CONT We dearly loved to dance and didn't miss many of them.  They were well supervised & anyone ap
2 CONC pearing with liquor on his breath, was out of it.  My brother saw to it.  I didn't have to da
2 CONC nce with anyone who drank or who had a "reputation".
2 CONT I enjoyed "Chorus" at school and was in several operettas.  Had several boy friends going t
2 CONC o dances & school activites.  Did have one special Oscar McDowell.  He played the drums.  Liv
2 CONC ed in Prairie Center.  Boys from that area went to Lindsay High School, also Strathmore Boys
2 CONC .  It was those country boys that gave us a Champion Football team.
2 CONT All during high school years a favorite pastime was hiking.  A party of us would hike all ove
2 CONC r the hills, during winter and spring.  Lindsay peak, Lindsay Rocky and up over little elepha
2 CONC nt back & into Round Valley.  We would take our lunch & be gone all day.  We would be tired b
2 CONC ut have good exercise & fresh air & good companionship.  One Halloween on a moonlight nigh
2 CONC t a bunch of us hiked to Lindsay Peak & back, & one Sunday Anne & Celia (sp?) Braton & I hike
2 CONC d to Strathmore on old, old highway that was just being built as piles of sand were along th
2 CONC e road.  We were pretty tired on that trip & stopped at Butze ranch on way home.  They gave u
2 CONC s a drink & drove us back to town.  We were glad of that.  Not many cars in those days.
2 CONT World War I was on and the country in throes of patriotism & war fever.  Girls & women knitte
2 CONC d sox & sweaters & rolled bandages.  Many assemblies at school were patriotic & even tearfu
2 CONC l from singing songs of the time.  "My Buddy", "Just a prayer at twilight", "Hello central i
2 CONC s my Daddy there" etc.  The war atrocities were played up big, until we couldn't believe ther
2 CONC e was a good German.  People of German blood really had a bad time.  So went my Junior and Se
2 CONC nior years.  By the time I was a senior, we were rationed on food.  Bread hard to get.  My Mo
2 CONC ther made cornbread every day it seemed, even in summer & baked in Hot Stove.  No coolers o
2 CONC r conveniences we know now.
2 CONT My first introduction to the mts. came in those high school years.  Carl Kroells & Mr. Babcoc
2 CONC k were going to Gen. Grant for a month.  Helen Babcock invited me to go along.  Carl Kroell
2 CONC s Ford car was really packed as we had to take enough food for the whole time.  We made a nic
2 CONC e camp & the mt. air soon had its good effect.  I was always a thin nervous girl & the summe
2 CONC r heat was hard on me.  This was a good health boon for me to be able to go to the mts.  Expe
2 CONC ct my friends thought I needed the change.  McKeills had a camp up there too, and we enjoye
2 CONC d hiking, singing & fun of the campfire.  All went well, until one day we hiked to Sequoia La
2 CONC ke, where I cut my foot on some broken glass.  Some other Lindsay people were ther & Bob Witm
2 CONC er in a Ford offered to drive us back to the park.  On a steep hill the car just couldn't mak
2 CONC e it with all of us in it, so we all got out to help push.  Anyway I got dirt in the cut & i
2 CONC t became pretty sore.  I got so I couldn't walk on it & was pretty miserable.  A young Dr. i
2 CONC n another camp looked at it & advised me to get home & have it taken care of.  I'm sure it sh
2 CONC owed signs of Blood poison.  They had me a kind of crutch to hobble on and some campers tha
2 CONC t lived in Dinuba were going home, so they took me to Dinuba where I could catch the train t
2 CONC o Lindsay.  I must have been a sorry sight, dressed in mt. clothes & hobbling on a makeshif
2 CONC t crutch.  My foot pained me a great deal and I was really homesick besides.  Imagine my surp
2 CONC rise when the train pulled into Lindsay & I met Clare coming out of the next car.  He had bee
2 CONC n in S. F. when I saw him all reserve melted away & I disolved in tears.  Bob Witmer happene
2 CONC d to be at depot so Clare had him drive us home.  The folks got Dr. Locke & one look at my fo
2 CONC ot & he had it in hot epsom salts water & the Lysol.  The red streaks had started up my leg
2 CONC , but the treatment got it in time.  Believe that was 1915.  My love for the mts. wasn't hur
2 CONC t any & I had many more camping trips.  Another enjoyable mt. vacation was spent at Oriole Lo
2 CONC dge with my friend Evalyn Childs & her sister & brother Ada & Otto Soper & daughter Carol.  A
2 CONC lso another sister Ruth Hess & the Dr. Bruce family.  There was a cabin we lived in, but th
2 CONC e Dr. Bruce family camped.  Dr. Bruce had advised me to get boots as protection against snake
2 CONC s.  Never did see any, but wore boots until they wore out.  On way to Oriole, stopped at Nort
2 CONC hmore Ranch.  They grew apples, garden & had a cow & chickens.  How good the food tasted.  Or
2 CONC iole was about a two mile hike from there I think as we walked it several times.  Once in a t
2 CONC hunderstorm.  The pines were really swaying & the lighting made our hair stand on end.  Gav
2 CONC e me an exhilarated feeling to run with the wind.  We were glad to be back in camp.
2 CONT April 22, 1976
2 CONT I graduated from L.H.S. June 1918.  Graduation week I was coming down with measles and didn'
2 CONC t realize it.  Had missed it all my growing years.  A bunch of us went to the "Dam" at Spring
2 CONC ville near Soda Springs, where we all went swimming.  The wather was hot & the water felt s
2 CONC o good.
2 CONT I had a chance to go to work for  Mr. Hersey, who had an office back of Lienhen Drug Store, w
2 CONC here the  cosmetics Dept. of Drugs Store now is.  Mckee  MAoon (sp?) also had an office ther
2 CONC e & Laurence Ingoldsby worked part time for Mr. MAoon & Mr Hersey.  Mr. Hersy was agent for T
2 CONC he Fancher Creek Nurseries in Fresno and L.E. was doing most of the work for Mr. Hersey regar
2 CONC ding the nursery.  Laurence had quit H.S. his senior year to do this work and sometime durin
2 CONC g this time 1917, Mr. Hersey turned the nursery agency over to L.E.  However when I went to w
2 CONC ork for Mr. Hersey I didn't see L.E. as I only lasted a week.  It was hot & I sat under a fa
2 CONC n trying to follow directions, but my throat got sorer all the time & was running a tempature
2 CONC , which finally caused me to stay home I became really sick & when Dr. Bond was called, she s
2 CONC aid the measles had been driven inside & was having a struggle to break out.  Expect my throa
2 CONC t showed that.  Finally did break out with them, but I was a very sick girl.  Became so thi
2 CONC n it hurt even to sit in a chair.  The folks had moved to Hermosa St. in house just west of p
2 CONC resent Benneyans Office.  The war was still on & so many foods rationed.  Flour for one thing
2 CONC .  Every day my mother made cornbread.  We had an oil stove & it was hot weather & it seeme
2 CONC d I ran temperature for ever so long.  Finally thought I was better & took a ride with some f
2 CONC irends & could feel myself getting sick again.  Took a back set & was as sick the 2nd time a
2 CONC s the first.  A real hard summer.  In August Clare & Verle who lived in Visalia then took m
2 CONC e over there & Verle set about to put some fat on my bones.   They lived next door to a chiro
2 CONC practor (Dr. Hofedity) & when he saw me & insisted I come over to his place for treatments
2 CONC .  I was so thin & had creased my monthly periods & could have been headed for something real
2 CONC ly serious.  Dr. Hofedity took me under his wing & with Verles good cooking I begin to pick u
2 CONC p.  Clare was in partnership with Mr. Bahler in an auto ignition repair shop.  I went to wor
2 CONC k in their office & while there Clare taught me to drive.  I was thrilled over that & to ge
2 CONC t a driving license all one had to do was to apply to Vehicle Motor Dept. & one was sent to y
2 CONC ou.  It was quite a few years before you really had to take a test.  I stayed in Visalia unti
2 CONC l late Fall when the 1918 Flu epedemic broke out.  Verle was pregnant with Bob.  People wer
2 CONC e required to where masks & people were really dying all over from the Flu.  I believe it wa
2 CONC s November when I came back to Lindsay.
2 CONT Less Flu casualties here.  By the time I came back the folks had moved from Hermosa St. to th
2 CONC eir own place on 525 Homassel.  My father had been able to buy that lot.  Bought a bldg. know
2 CONC n as Socialist Hall which was located North of old Baptist Church on Elmwood.  He moved it o
2 CONC n lot, turned the bldg lengthwise, crosswise of lot, added an ell & a back Porch, divided th
2 CONC e floor space into rooms and we had our own home.  That was a big deal for the Brady family
2 CONC .  I remember starting a cold and I thought of the Flu, so I sat down & kept reading the 91s
2 CONC t psalm & miraculously the cold dried up & the Flu escaped our family.  I was offered a job a
2 CONC t the Calif. Olive Growers Bldg at south end of Sineet Briar.  I worked until summer.  Had co
2 CONC lumns of olive tonnage to add & no adding machine.  Really had to learn how to add.  That sum
2 CONC mer 1919, the folks decided to go to San Jose & find work in the peach canneries.  Anne Hil
2 CONC l went with us.  My father hired a neighbor Mr. White to drive us there.  On the way the ca
2 CONC r ran off the road & almost turned over, but we got back on road & altho shook up continued
2 CONC .  Got jobs at Calif. Packing Co. & moved into one of the Co. Cabins.  Anne & I had a great s
2 CONC ummer.  Met several boys who took us around & showed us the sights & it was great for 2 count
2 CONC ry gals.  Didn't make our fortunes but able to buy some new clothes & enough to come home b
2 CONC y train.  The folks came back in time to get Arden in school.  We stayed until tomatoes began
2 CONC .  One of the boys had a car & we had a trip to Santa Cruz & S. F.  We appreciated the boys a
2 CONC ttentions but were glad to get home and free from them, as they were getting serious.  I wen
2 CONC t back to work at Olive House & along in November 4 of the S.J. boys came down to look for wo
2 CONC rk here.  They stayed at McNeills.  Anne & I were on a spot, we had to be nice to them but no
2 CONC t really interested on as good friends.  They eventually went back to S. J.  Believe that yea
2 CONC r spring of 1920, Aunt Lucy, Mariel & cousin Ethie Marsh visited us form N. W.  Ethie was no
2 CONC t well.  In early ummer my mother went to Wash with Ethie & visited her family.  Aunt Luc
2 CONC y & Mariel stayed with us until mother returned & she went back to Portland.  We spent some t
2 CONC ime in General Grant Park.
2 CONT In the fall I office work work made me nervous & I didn't work steady.  Olive Co had new mana
2 CONC gers.  In Dec. early I walked up Mirage & saw a new little bldg. going up & plants sitting ou
2 CONC tside.  Out of curiosity I walked by & Harold Ingoldsby came out & asked if I was Miss Brady
2 CONC .  He had heard I wasn't working & he asked if I would like to work tempararily.  L.E. was ha
2 CONC ving bldg made & was going to open flower shop, along with nursery.  Nursery was at Ingoldsb
2 CONC y home place on Tulare Rd.  I was interested & went to work as sales lady.  Had to learn abou
2 CONC t flowers anyway I could.  Harold was my boss as I seldom saw Laurence.  He was busy sellin
2 CONC g nursery stock & was traveling a lot to S.F. & around the State.  He was doing really well a
2 CONC nd Bank loanig him money to buy new nursery stock.  He even bought 10 acres on old strathmor
2 CONC e hiway & setting out to orange trees.  Then a depression hit & he was left with a lot of fru
2 CONC it trees on hand & private loans due & no money to pay.  They had been willing to loan withou
2 CONC t security as he had been a successful young man & willing to loan him the money.  I worked a
2 CONC t "Canary Cottage" as he named it until Spring, when nursery season was over & he having fina
2 CONC ncial problems.  Harold went to work elsewhere & I did see Laurence occationally.  A new rea
2 CONC l estate office opened by G.T. Rider & I got a job there as Stenographer.  I did well takin
2 CONC g dictation, but had trouble talking on the phone as my nervousness made me stutter.  Howeve
2 CONC r he was satisfied with my work & wanted me to continue, but I had planned on visiting relati
2 CONC ves in northwest and in July went to Portland to visit Aunt Lucy & family.  Had an enjoyabl
2 CONC e time there going on many weekend picnics in surrounding countryside.  In August we went t
2 CONC o Vashon  Island to visit relatives there, The Marshes & the Will Whitfields.  While there be
2 CONC gan to have a recurring ear absese.  Went to ear specialist in Tacoma & said infected tonsil
2 CONC s were the cause & they had to come out.  Had local anesthetic & I remember it was an ordea
2 CONC l & took quite a while to recuperate.  In September went back to Portland with the Catton's
2 CONC .  While visiting the Sutherland cousins in Seattle got exposed to the scabies which were ram
2 CONC pant in the NW.  It didn't really break out until back in Portland.  My uncle had recommende
2 CONC d me to office mgr of Big Dept. Store Alds, Wortman & King & I went to work in office.  Had u
2 CONC sed up all my money with tonsil operation & visiting & needed money to get home again.  Whil
2 CONC e in the office met a girl who was acquainted with Florist Nilslas & Son.  I was interested i
2 CONC n learnig florist trade.  Also filled in as on of bosses private secretary and was offered th
2 CONC e full time job.  But I was planning on coming home to Calif. & turned it down.  About that t
2 CONC ime the scabies got real bad & I was miserable with itch.  Used everything I heard what to do
2 CONC .  Finally Germicidal Soap #2 on top of everything else, died it up.  One of girls in offic
2 CONC e found I had it altho it was on wane she complained to mgr.  He said as long as I was planni
2 CONC ng on going home, perhaps I should quit then.  My friend introduced me to Hans Nilslas & he a
2 CONC greed to let me come in his shop & watch what they were doing & learn all I could that way ab
2 CONC out the floral business.  I did this for a week, & in the meantime I wrote L.E. I would lear
2 CONC n all I could & could even so some of his office work if he was reopening his floral Shop.  H
2 CONC e wrote that I had a job waiting, so I came home in time for Thanksgiving & ready to work b
2 CONC y Dec. 1921.
2 CONT I helped with the bookeeping and was learning all I could about the flower business and the F
2 CONC ruit tree & grapevines L.E. was wholesaling.  While the market had dropped in the nursery bus
2 CONC iness somewhat leaving him with a lot of unsold nursery stock to pay for, he still had some r
2 CONC egular custumers.  He kept the fruit trees out to his folks place 1078 Tulare Rd.  All grapev
2 CONC ines had to be dipped in hot water at cetain temperature for a certain length of time.  He ha
2 CONC d a tank built with a large basket that could be lowered into the tank.  Water was heated b
2 CONC y oil I believe.  Harold in lighting it one morning, was severely burned. Ted Braswell worke
2 CONC d fo L E then also Fred Stewart, Frank Wammack.  Ted worked for us a good many years, livin
2 CONC g in a cabin on the homeplace.  He was killed driving aou truck around Niles, turned it ove
2 CONC r in 1945.  Jack Fredrick usually drove the truck, but this time Ted wanted to take it out
2 CONC .  Ted was a good faithful nursery worker.  To get back to earlier days, Ihad started going t
2 CONC o dances held at arboretum & had met several dancing partners.  My friend Anne Hill had marri
2 CONC ed Ralph Keeley in Nov. 1921.  I told L.E. about the dances.  Harold would tell me about hi
2 CONC s girl in Brooklyn he met during the War.  Bea Stafford.  I believe it was about March that L
2 CONC . E. invited me to go to the dance.  He had to make a trip north first & of course was late g
2 CONC etting back & Harold kept his date, with L. E. arriving later.  He was a good dancer & I wa
2 CONC s also, so we hit it off very well.  So that started the courtship.  His nursery friend Mr. C
2 CONC hambers of Madera came down a time or two & helped us making sprays & teaching us & I picke
2 CONC d up all I could from Magazine Florist Review.  Our floral business wasn't too big so we gre
2 CONC w with the town flowerwise.  That summer 1922 I visited my brother & wife Clare & Verle in Pa
2 CONC sadena.  Believe I had my hair cut while down there.  A big step, short hair just getting pop
2 CONC ular.
2 CONT In the meantime L. E. had sold Canary Cottage to raise some money.  He rented space in old Al
2 CONC elano Bldg.  Now where Virginias Fasluons is next to Cent. Valley Electric.  Rent was $65.0
2 CONC 0 a month and that was big.  We tried selling cards, pottery as well as flowers, not too man
2 CONC y plants as they were very seasonable.  He had his nursery office there & I kept books, got o
2 CONC ut bills & took dictaion & wrote letters, learning more about flower arranging, which I reall
2 CONC y enjoyed.  Our interest in each other grew & we planned to get married.  I really had a har
2 CONC d time making up my mind.  I knew it was a lifetime decision & I wanted to be sure,  We wer
2 CONC e married July 8th 1923.   We planned to close the shop for the summer, but at the last minut
2 CONC e, someone wanted to use the office for the summer.  An orange man.  We had made plans to ge
2 CONC t married in Delano at the  Parish house & go on down south for the summer.  The priest tha
2 CONC t served Lindsay at the time lived in Delano, so we had a Kern Co. license.  We were marrie
2 CONC d 9 a.m. by Father Stuhlman.  Howard & Bea had been married two weeks before in L.A. she comi
2 CONC ng out from Brooklyn.  We were werved a nice breakfast, just family was there.  We had to com
2 CONC e back to Lindsay to get shop ready for the summer tenants.  It was a hot hot day coming bac
2 CONC k we had a flat tire in the Ford on seater so pulled into Portersville garage, so while there
2 CONC , Harold & Ray really decorated the car.  My folks had gone on south as they had planned
2 CONC .  I really developed a sick headache form nerves & heat.  We went back to Ingoldsby's & I ha
2 CONC d to lie down until mu headache subsided.  We went over to our place & spent the first coupl
2 CONC e days there & working.  Finally got away to Pasadena and stayed in Hotel Green.  We also wen
2 CONC t to San Diego & also stayed at old Mission Hotel in Riverside.  We got a small apt. in L.A
2 CONC . Sb. & L. E. looked for work.  Our money was rather limited.  He collected a few bills tha
2 CONC t was owed him.  He started selling "Ferilore" a plant food in Beverly Hills & Hollywood area
2 CONC .  He called on many nice homes & sold enough to keep going.  Our apt. had no laundry & I di
2 CONC d all washing by hand.  Real Hard.  But we were young & happy.  We stayed there until Sept
2 CONC . & then we started up the coast to S. F.  Stopped in Lodi where he had an account that was d
2 CONC ue.  Arrived there in time to hearr about the big earth quake in Japan.  Our custumer was Jap
2 CONC anese & he was really upset & so back to Lindsay, where we rented our first house on Denver C
2 CONC t, on corner of Tulare Rd.  We had a bedroom & dining room set & an inexpensive 4 burner ga
2 CONC s stove, & a small ice box.  I had bought myself a set of dishes and a set of silverware.  I
2 CONC n those day us "common people" didn't have showers so outside of a few wedding presents, we b
2 CONC ought all our own supplies.  I had been buying for my "Hope Chest", so had linens & enough be
2 CONC dding for the bed.
2 CONT In October found I was pregnant.  We had moved our shop as rent too much for us (times weren'
2 CONC t affluent) to the west side of Alanielsons Plg. Co.  The P.O. wasn't there then.  They ha
2 CONC d a mezzanine where we had our office, & a back room to do floral work & a section of the fro
2 CONC nt for display.  Not too fancy but the rent was not too bad.  I owrked when we had floral wor
2 CONC k.  Bea worked in office part time, also Evelyn Barry.  Then Mrs. Danielson answered phone a
2 CONC s she was in Plg Shop.  We got thru the winter and Carol Jeanwas born 6 a.m. May 30th, 1924
2 CONC .  Laurence had left shortly to pick some flowers for Memorial orders.  At that time all ou
2 CONC r flowers came form S. F. by Railway Express.  Had two trains a day form the north.  When h
2 CONC e returned we had a lovely baby daughter.  I had a fairly hard time as no benefit of drugs
2 CONC .  My Mother was there to take care of me & Dr. Bond was the Dr. She worked with me from 12 o
2 CONC 'clock on.  She was born at home as were all the children, with Dr. Annie Bond officiating.
2 CONT By Jan. 1925 I was beginning to feel good again & enjoying our growing daughter.  After we go
2 CONC t her food regulated she was a good baby. full of smiles.  I became pregnant again.  Times we
2 CONC ren't too good and we really struggled for every dollar.  We had moved to a house back of 52
2 CONC 0 Elmwood.  Laurence was raising vegetables on some land he rented & had some grape cutting
2 CONC s in.  He also worked half day for Mr. MAoon for 75.00 per month & that was our main income
2 CONC .  Not much flower business & what we did we made on our back screen porch.  It was a hot sum
2 CONC mer & Norman was born Oct 9th 1925.  Aunt Lucy & Mariel came from Washington & helped take ca
2 CONC re of me.  L.E. had his wholesale nursery business & with that & what we did in flowers we ma
2 CONC naged.  Tho we had some big debts over us.  That next summer my folks went wouth & we moved i
2 CONC nto their hould 525 Homassell & Lurence started gleaning oranges & selling them around the Va
2 CONC lley.  He leased the corner Lot at Elmwood & Hermosa from McLeas & he made enough on his oran
2 CONC ges to put up another Bldg. 20 x 30 a lath House.  We were there from 1926 to 1936.  We had t
2 CONC o get off the corner lot as it had been sold.  After a lot of looking & persuading we were ab
2 CONC le to buy the acre where we are now.  Mr. Sorenson form Bakersfield a good nursery friend hel
2 CONC ped us finance it.  With Mr. Sorenson we sold lots of grapevines all  over the State.  Denepu
2 CONC h of Delano & Mr. Mergoian of Visalia were 2 real good custumers.  Sold a great many in Coach
2 CONC ella Valley.  Wholesale business with fruit trees & grapevines was good.  Made contract wit
2 CONC h orange growers in Coachella Valley for citrus.  Mr. Fowler of Newcastle raised fruit tree
2 CONC s for us.  A combination of long standing.  My father built a small house in rear of 525 H fo
2 CONC r he and Mother & lived in front until 1952, when we built on Hamblin Way.  Ann was born Fe
2 CONC b 13, 1934, Larry on June 6, 1937 both on Homassel.  Dr. Bond attended all four.  My father d
2 CONC ied Aug of 1933, also Laurence's Father within 3 days of each other.  They were the first peo
2 CONC ple buried in that section of Olive cemetery in front of present office.
2 CONT Aunt Lucy who had lived with us off & on all those years.  She passed away Fall of 1942.  W
2 CONC e were at war.  C. J was going to San Jose State.  Norman had entered U. C. at Berkeley.  H
2 CONC e entered the Army that Dec.
2 CONT I have passed over quite a few years.  After Norman was born I was in poor health for severa
2 CONC l years.  Took a lot of treatments & health care to make me feel normal again.  I did feel go
2 CONC od again so Ann was born.  we enjoyed her babyhood.  Had 2 built in baby sitters & we were mo
2 CONC re relaxed about raising children.  We were doing better in business & slowly getting out o
2 CONC f debt.  By the time Larry was born we were having it much easier which relieved a lot of str
2 CONC ain & tension wewere on.  The big depression years were hard, but we ahd always been in a fin
2 CONC ancial depression so we weren't as downed by it as those that lost what they had.  The War ye
2 CONC ars were busy ones and financially we were able to pay off old debts & look forward to someth
2 CONC ing for ourselves.
2 CONT We took the acre in on a baddebt, where I now live, but it was several years before we buil
2 CONC t our home in 1952 & moved from 525 Homassel.  My Mother passed away Aug. 23, 1948 on L. E.'
2 CONC s birthday.
2 CONT May 28, 1978.
2 CONT It has been sometime since I last wrote & I did pass over a lot of years.  They were busy one
2 CONC s trying to get out of debt, raise our family & build a solid business.  All too soon Carol J
2 CONC ean was out of H.S. ready for college.  We managed to send her to then San Jose State.  The w
2 CONC ar was on.  She was the first to leave home and that really left a vacancy.  The next year No
2 CONC rman graduated from H.S. & Larry entered first grade.  We wondered if we would make it thru a
2 CONC nother 12 years before he was ready for college.  Ann entered COS in 1952 & then transferre
2 CONC d to Fresno State where she graduated.  In 1945 Carol Jean married her war time boyfriend wh
2 CONC o she met in S. J.
2 CONT Joe Kirby.  He was a P38 Pilot & home was in St. Louis Mo.  She had one more year to finish c
2 CONC ollege, but determined to be married.  War romances were the thing & when he came back from I
2 CONC taly, he came west & they were married July 28, 1945.  He was released from Army in Oct. & th
2 CONC ey moved to St. Louis.
2 CONT Norman entered Berkeley U.C. but the Army picked him up in Dec. 1943.  Think my dates are rig
2 CONC ht.  He took training in Texas, also Fort Lewis in Wash. & sent to Hawaii where he was statio
2 CONC ned until discharge when war was over.  They CJ & Joe returned to Lindsay Fall of 1949.  Sh
2 CONC e was pregnant with Roseanne.  Their marriage not a happy one.  His war years gave him a liqu
2 CONC or problem.  They moved south after Roseanne was born but their life didn't improve and the
2 CONC y got a divorce when Roseanne was 4 yrs old & Carol Jean came home.  We had insisted she fini
2 CONC sh college and she graduated from Washington University in St. Louis.  She went to COS summe
2 CONC r school to obtain her California credentials.  Taught one year at Doyle in Portersville.
2 CONT That summer Ann & her roomate Janice graduated from Fresno State.  C.J. went back to S.J. t
2 CONC o visit some of her old college friends & one of them worked in Cambrian School district.  Sh
2 CONC e had Carol Jean, Ann & Janice all applied for teaching there & were accepted.  They moved th
2 CONC ere & all kept house together.  Consequently she met John Carroll & Ann met Jerry Jarvis wh
2 CONC o they married.
2 CONT Larry was longer going to college.  We Lost L. E. Oct 14 1958.  Larrys second year.  He staye
2 CONC d home with me the rest of semister.  The year before he took off work trying to find his goa
2 CONC l.  Also joined the National Guard to get in his army duty.  He was 5 years getting his crede
2 CONC ntial & found teaching was his forte.
2 CONT When Norman came home from service he entered Davis as he had working in Nursery in mind.  We
2 CONC nt one year & anxious to go to work as 2 years in army, 4 years of school seemed too long.  H
2 CONC e's father needed him as we were real busy, we didn't object too much.  He met Daphine Owe
2 CONC n & has been happily married.
2 CONT May 12, 1986.
2 CONT Looking this over find I need to fill in a lot.  Dec 11, 1949 Our first grandchild was born C
2 CONC arol Rsoeanne Kirby, 30 days later twins Kirk & Bron born to  Norman & Daphine.  An excitin
2 CONC g time for us.  N & D lived nest door & both grandmothers helped in those early months.  Bus
2 CONC y happy years.  Children all married & 13 great grandchildren.  L. E. left us in 1958.  Poo
2 CONC r health, worries, Depression a sad time.
2 CONT My later years had some nice trips Bea & I to Northwest.  Bea, Mary B, Bernue W O 2 to N.W
2 CONC . & Canada.  Bea & I to Mexico where Larry going to University one summer.  We joined he & Ju
2 CONC dy.  Another trip to Mexico with Arden & Helen toured the whole country.  A trip East one Fal
2 CONC l with Arden & Helen.  A trip to Hawaii with Arden & Helen.  A trip to Tetons, Yellowstone, D
2 CONC akotas, Montana etc with Larry Judy Erin & tracy.  A trip up to Canada & N.W. with Arden & He
2 CONC len.  A trip to new Lake Powell with Hazel Giefer, Bea, Bernice & myself.  Morro Bay, Cayceca
2 CONC c, Yosemite.  The good times, also the sad times.  Lost my brother Clare.  Then Bill & Bo
2 CONC b & Verle & Sept 1985 my younger brother Arden.  A real loss I still miss greatly.  I'm the l
2 CONC ast of my Brady family.
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2 DATE 6 Sep 1985
2 PLAC Vista, San Deigo, California, USA
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2 DATE Sep 1985
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2 CONT                                    April 22, 1981
2 CONT Dear Blaine :-
2 CONT 	About two years after you urged me to write about my life, I have begun an account which ma
2 CONC y turn out to be as much fiction as fact.  What life isn't when viewed in retrospect by the w
2 CONC riter about himself.
2 CONT 	I was born on my older brother Clare's thirteenth birthday about 5 a.m. on a chilly Februar
2 CONC y 28, 1908 in the gold mining town of French Corral, California.  I have no recollection of t
2 CONC his event so this is heresay, altho I would resent, even now, if someone spanked my bare bott
2 CONC om just to make me cry.  In subsequent years I received many spanking and recall enjoying non
2 CONC e.  My mother, Jennie Bell Whitfield Brady, was thirty four and I gave her a difficult time
2 CONC .  My father Terence Brady at fifty four years was probably appalled and then totally delight
2 CONC ed as he had quite a few reverses in the immediate preceding years.  My sister, Carol Altura
2 CONC , at 8 years probably thought another boy, ugh, but as a baby better than a teasing older bro
2 CONC ther.
2 CONT 	Nothing in the next year and a half was of importance except I fell off a foot bridge on m
2 CONC y head - this accounts for many things.
2 CONT 	My first memory was being very mad because my sister wouldn't let me slide down a hill cover
2 CONC ed with snow.  The scene is vivid, and I'm told, was probably in Tacoma where my Grandparent
2 CONC s lived.
2 CONT 	My next memory was at 2 years riding in a hot train all day and arriving in Tulare just as t
2 CONC he summer sun set in fiery ball.  We were met by my Father and Clare and we set off for hom
2 CONC e in streets which were deep in fine dust.  Tulare 1910 had been the repair yards for the Sou
2 CONC thern Pacific Railway, but was now a forlorn and unprosperous country town.  We lived there f
2 CONC our years.  I fought the Civil War on the vacant lots between the house and S.P. tracks.  I
2 CONC t was there that I declared that I was going to "preach and read".  I still read.
2 CONT 	While digging a well turning a windless his partner let loose and caught my Dad's shoulder
2 CONC , breaking it.  Never prosperous this was an especially difficult time while his shoulder men
2 CONC ded.  A carnival came to town and mom scraped up a dime for my ride on a Merry Go Round she p
2 CONC ut me on as it was moving and somehow got hit breaking her ribs.  Tulare was not the familie
2 CONC s best experience.
2 CONT 	Clare had learned how to drive a car and at 17? was the personal chauffeur of the head engin
2 CONC eer for the Electric Co.  He had been to Lindsay and persuaded the family to move to this ne
2 CONC w and bustling town where they were planting orange orchards.  We arrived in Lindsay, first o
2 CONC f March 1914.  Clare had borrowed a truck to move us from Tulare.  I promptly ran away to th
2 CONC e nearest hill which was green and covered with flowers.  Clare found me too tired to walk an
2 CONC d expecting a severe spanking.  Everyone was too tired so I didn't get one.  I have always lo
2 CONC ved California's hills especially in the Spring.
2 CONT 	The summer of 1914 I first heard about what turned out to be the start of World War I.  Th
2 CONC e neighborhood kids were talking about it and how the Germans were really conquering all befo
2 CONC re them.  I began to learn about war at age 6 and though I had re-fought the Civil War in m
2 CONC y imagination, the real thing was exciting, but depressing.  In the second grade, Wilson beca
2 CONC me President on the promise of a peace program.  April 1917 we were in the war to save the wo
2 CONC rld for democracy.  All young and able bodied men enlisted so as to be part of the great crus
2 CONC ade.  Those who did not enlist were openly called "slackers" and made to feel very uncomforta
2 CONC ble.  Clare had married Verle Parker in October 1916 and after a short time moved to Visali
2 CONC a where he had an interest in an auto electric business.  At twenty-one to twenty-two he wa
2 CONC s openly called a slacker, but was really turned down because of a deafness in one ear.  Th
2 CONC e war soon turned to casualty lists which were printed in the Fresno Republican each day.  Th
2 CONC ere were many in Lindsay who were on the lists.  I knew most of them or their families.  Th
2 CONC e casualty lists each day became an increasingly depressing factor in my life.  I have neve
2 CONC r viewed war as other than man's ultimate stupidity from that day.  I was 10 years old by th
2 CONC e time the war was over.  Armistice Day was one of great jubilation in the town.  The whole t
2 CONC own closed down and an impromptu parade accompanied by every conceivable noise maker was cele
2 CONC brating.
2 CONT 	The Volstead Act had been passed and there was little liquor to be had -esp.- not in Lindsay
2 CONC , but what there was flowed freely.  I remember seeing my first drunk who was having more fu
2 CONC n than anybody while everyone laughed at him and continually pulled him out of the way of exc
2 CONC itedly driven cars in the parade.  He kept repeating "Hey, John - you tickle me"?  I still sa
2 CONC y it on appropriate occasions.
2 CONT 	In 1915, I think, Clare lived at home and shared a room with a young man who also worked i
2 CONC n the same garage.  My Mother who had been a teacher was not impressed by "Claude" who bragge
2 CONC d to her about how he "fooled the teacher".  Claude was practically illiterate, but he had "f
2 CONC ooled the teacher".  Another favorite expression was born.
2 CONT 	Sometime before Clare was married in 1916 he gave me his bike and in that same period of tim
2 CONC e I acquired what turned out to be the nickname "Steve".  It derived from a comic strip calle
2 CONC d "Steve de Bunk and Steve de Boody".  We called each other by Steve de Bunk ragged one anoth
2 CONC er.
2 CONT 	During War I there was no building materials available.  "Pop" bought the Maxwell Socialis
2 CONC t Hall and moved it onto a lot where a previous house had burned down.  He scrounged material
2 CONC s and added on and did most of the work himself.  This was 1918-1919.  The plumbing was crook
2 CONC ed and backward but worked.  The bathtub had a cracked enamel down the back.  It probably i
2 CONC s still in use.  This was 525 Homassil Avenue which is still in Carol's possession today in 1
2 CONC 980.
2 CONT 	My oldest friends in Lindsay was the Anderson brothers.  Berger, Arthur and Eustece who wa
2 CONC s nearest my age.  He had his fiftieth marriage year in 1980 - same as we.
2 CONT 	I ran all over Lindsay pushing my vehicle - a stick with segment of barrel hoop pushing a ba
2 CONC by buggy wheel.  Played marbles, spun tops, and in the summer played kick the can, run sheep
2 CONC y run, and baseball.  Spring time I hiked the hills.  I carved wooden race cars that resemble
2 CONC d Indianapolis race cars, made airplanes using cigar top box material for wings (now its Bals
2 CONC a wood).  The planes had a propeller and when slung around and around attached to a string ma
2 CONC de a satisfactory noise.  I fought the World War I battles in the air thus.  I also made (?
2 CONC ) racing cars using wagon or baby buggy wheels, steering gear was a spiral rope wrapped aroun
2 CONC d a broom stick - worked good.  In spring I made my own kites.  I favored the Bulldog as agai
2 CONC nst the triangle.  It flew as high as there was string.  Card board messages were sent up t
2 CONC o the kite.  In the summer I made a tractor or tank (as you fancy) from a notched spool, matc
2 CONC h and rubber bands.  Summers I made sling a shots using bands  out from car inner tubes, tong
2 CONC ue of a shoe, and prongs carefully selected from any available tree.  I became a dead shot wh
2 CONC en I had good rock ammo - no steelies were ever used as that would have been a waste and the
2 CONC y were dangerous.  I got my marbles, "immies" for imitation agates, glades and dobies.  Rea
2 CONC l aggies cost as much as $1.25 which I never had.  I played mostly purgatory - 4 - holes spac
2 CONC ed appropriately.  I didn't play keeps as "keeps" was strictly a no, no as a form of gamblin
2 CONC g in my family.
2 CONT 	I explored the hills around Lindsay and was fortunate to see the hieroglyphics in their orig
2 CONC inal condition.  The ones at Lindsay Rocky and others were close at hand at Towts hill.  Th
2 CONC e grinding holes the Indians used were especially good at top of Towts hill.  The hill is no
2 CONC w covered with houses and probably no one in Lindsay appreciates the total value and archaeol
2 CONC ogical interest which has been covered or defaced.
2 CONT 	In the Spring the hills and fields were solid masses of flowers - fuzzy britches and "gras
2 CONC s mutts" first, lupine, poppies and owls clover and myriad others.  They were so thick and lu
2 CONC xurious it was not possible to walk through them without trampling many.  Golden shooting sta
2 CONC rs took over in May when the hills became brown again.  I hiked over Elephants back to El Mir
2 CONC ador, to Lindsay Peak and over to Yokal, and Lindsay Rock, and countless times to Towts and W
2 CONC ards hill.  On Towts there was an abandoned magnetite mine, on Wards there was abandoned copp
2 CONC er cut.  Talc was mined and for two to three years was milled in Lindsay.  We carved and wrot
2 CONC e with talc rock - a good chalk on sidewalks.
2 CONT 	The main railway was and is Southern Pacific but I was there when the Santa Fe put in a lin
2 CONC e and concurrently the Hillside Packing house was built.  One summer we had a great time roll
2 CONC ing in boxes down the conveyor rolls sitting in an orange box.  We turned it over and did w
2 CONC e run.  I probably was nine to ten years, but the best thing was the unlimited amount of juic
2 CONC e oranges we could have - they were simply dumped then.  Along one side of tracks was a row o
2 CONC f pomegranates trees.  The beautiful flowers in the spring and the almost unbearable wait unt
2 CONC il fall for ripe fruit.  We reached over the fence and swiped all available.  Pipes were mad
2 CONC e from bamboo and Eucalyptus leaves because they were good for you was the favored smokes.  C
2 CONC offee grounds if available, and grape leaves - cigarettes were rolled mainly from corn silk.
2 CONT 	About 1920 I joined the Boy Scouts, but I never acquired a uniform.  I quit when I couldn'
2 CONC t march in the Fresno Raisin Day festival the last of May each year - no uniform.
2 CONT 	Clare played the violin and organized an orchestra.  My first job was distributing hand bill
2 CONC s door to door advertising the dance.  Dances in the summer were held in the street just newl
2 CONC y paved and in the winter in the arboretum hall - the only community diversion at that time
2 CONC .  The movies came to town and were first shown in an old metal building about 25 by 50 fee
2 CONC t and were shown only once a week.  I usually could get a dime to go see "Fatty" Arbuckle an
2 CONC d Mack Sennett comedies.  The Lindsay Theater was built in the early 20's, but an outdoor scr
2 CONC een next door was the summer theater.  There were revival meetings every day of every year pl
2 CONC us 21 Churches that all were active.  There were also 20 packing houses.  Harvest time was al
2 CONC ways an exciting time.  There was always work for everyone and the old fashioned medicine sho
2 CONC ws held forth every year with magic medicines for $1 that cured everything by an old Indian r
2 CONC emedy - in grown toe nails and constipation or ?
2 CONT 	Summer when I was 10 I went to the library - one book for two weeks.  I exhausted Zane Gre
2 CONC y and Wrights western romances and Motor Boys Overland and many adult books which were over m
2 CONC y head, but read I did.  There was no one to play with and no place to go.  Maybe once a summ
2 CONC er someone with a car would take us to the "Dam" on the Kaweah for a swim an almost unbearabl
2 CONC e pleasure as I loved the water - still do.
2 CONT 	Later - probably twelve years - I hiked four miles to a big dirt reservoir with some water
2 CONC , algae, cat tails and too shallow to swim - a mess.  A concrete reservoir was opened near th
2 CONC ere about 1920+ and I hiked the 4 miles barefoot in 100+ weather to swim - it later was mad
2 CONC e into a regular public swimming pool.  Sometime in these years  I discovered there was a swi
2 CONC mming hole 7 miles west on Tulare Road.  I bicycled out and back.  There was always someone s
2 CONC wimming there.  It was a deep mud hole in St. Johns River ending at the Sunset Ranch - a divi
2 CONC ng board too.
2 CONT 	Lindsay was booming in the 20's, three department stores and new schools were being built
2 CONC .  I was promoted from sixth grade to seventh because one of the first "intelligence" tests s
2 CONC howed I was smart.  I wasn't because my seventh and eighth grades were pure misery.  The mat
2 CONC h problems asked stupid questions which stopped my mental processes trying to figure out wh
2 CONC y any one would want to know the answer to such a stupid question.  View it as a mental exerc
2 CONC ise - I couldn't - and still can't.  In the eighth grade I was the original "Ichabod Crane" a
2 CONC ll disjointed legs, elbows which never quite knew which way to go.
2 CONT 	I did enjoy recess when we played what was so called soccer, one ball for the entire school
2 CONC .  The object was to kick the ball - no matter where - and any number could play.  I have rid
2 CONC ges on my shin bones where someone "missed" the ball.  I was the hand ball champ and discover
2 CONC ed the intensity of your play determined who won.
2 CONT 	I played basketball on a dirt court more or less to rules.  The rules were much rougher the
2 CONC n - lots of body contact.  The same intensity of desire gave me the ball about two thirds o
2 CONC f the time.  I liked to run so summer nights the neighborhood played "run sheepy run", "priso
2 CONC ners base" and other games.  I learned a valuable lesson in a version of "hide and seek".  Yo
2 CONC u could peak from your hiding place without being seen providing  you could look without an
2 CONC y mental intensity, but if you were in any way mentally tense who ever was "it" would find yo
2 CONC u out.
2 CONT 	Finally to High School where my frosh year was a continuation of eighth grade confusion
2 CONC .  I was a mid term class because of my earlier promotion.  I pitched some baseball and coul
2 CONC d throw a good curve, out curve drop and once in a while a good "in curve".  My arm wasn't go
2 CONC od enuf to be good and my strength was in my legs.
2 CONT 	In the summer of 1923, I was fifteen, and my mother was asked to come and care for Verle an
2 CONC d their new baby boy, Bill.  They were both not doing well and Bill was a delicate and ofte
2 CONC n sickly child.  Verle was bitchy with Mom and treated her like dirt - Clare was no better
2 CONC .  Pop and I were on our own and we drove to Ventura and camped in a Park near the beach.  W
2 CONC e both worked in an apricot orchard where the crop was mainly being dried.  When that job end
2 CONC ed we moved back to Pasadena and pitched our tent in Clare's back yard.  Back of us they wer
2 CONC e opening up a new road and all the road equipment was pulled by horses.  Teamsters were in s
2 CONC hort supply and we were hired immediately.  I drove a dump wagon - others loaded the trucks b
2 CONC y hand with a shovel.  I had a pair of the biggest, strongest mule team I have ever seen the
2 CONC n or since.  Hauling a loaded dump truck up hill was child play and going down hill was mor
2 CONC e than they could resist.  One day they decided to run.  My seat was an iron one common on fa
2 CONC rm and road equipment at that time.  I had nothing to hang on to and only when we got to th
2 CONC e bottom did the men turn the team into a lemon grove and	thereby got them stopped.  I was gi
2 CONC ven a regular team to teamster the next day.  Each teamster was responsible for his team an
2 CONC d while someone fed them in the morning, we had to harness them and hitch to the wagons, wate
2 CONC ring them first and feeding at noon and evening.  It was my first job which I did a man's wor
2 CONC k (almost) and I learned from one of the Mexicans loading the dump wagon how to use a shovel
2 CONC .  I have never been contemptuous of any skill since.  I bought a suit ($25) with my earning
2 CONC s - I had - taken the first step as a man.
2 CONT 	When I was sixteen Pa had the care of an orange orchard.  I tended the irrigation waters tha
2 CONC t summer and when we picked the crop I drove the orchard wagon picking up the picked boxes an
2 CONC d watching to see that the pickers properly clipped the orange - stem not too long and absolu
2 CONC tely none to be pulled.
2 CONT 	At age seventeen I helped Pa on the spraying rig - he had become a commercial sprayer.  Th
2 CONC e nozzles had 300 # pressure and we sprayed the entire tree - inside and out - walking as fas
2 CONC t as we could move.  The horses pulled the rig forward by voice command over rough plowed lan
2 CONC d.  In November I bossed the picking crew, picked up the filled boxes, piling them as much a
2 CONC s four high taking them out to the road and unloading on the larger wagon which hauled them t
2 CONC o the Packing Houses.
2 CONT 	From the time I was fifteen I bought most of my own clothes and whatever spending money I ha
2 CONC d I earned.  I always wanted to work, but in Lindsay there weren't many jobs especially in th
2 CONC e summer.  Spring vacations and thanksgiving vacation there were usually jobs connected wit
2 CONC h harvesting or pruning or spraying orange trees.  Pa always had a team of horses, but come A
2 CONC ugust
2 CONT and September there was no work and the horses had to be put out to pasture.  In the dry year
2 CONC s pasture was hard to come by.
2 CONT 	Lawrence Ingoldsby - a nursery man from age seventeen married Carol who had gone to work fo
2 CONC r him in Lindsay's first flower shop and other things at the "Canary Cottage".  Lindsay home
2 CONC s had bare yards for the most part.  Trees were planted sparsely and ornamentals were few s
2 CONC o the "Canary Cottage" lasted long enuf for Carol to marry the boss and the "Canary Cottage
2 CONC " subsequently became what it is now as the Ingoldsby Nursery.  During the summer "L.E." pick
2 CONC ed or bought oranges and lemons gleanings and sold them to restaurants in Visalia and Tulare
2 CONC .  I helped pick grade and clean and sell them driving an old model T Ford truck.  The pay wa
2 CONC s not so much but I had a good time and learned a lot.  "L.E." as he was called by most was a
2 CONC n energetic and imaginative entrepreneur eternally optimistic and willing to gamble on his fu
2 CONC ture - bare root stock was ordered two years in advance as he then grown to his order.  He ra
2 CONC nged the state selling wholesale.  One year he bought land, planted melons and sweet peas
2 CONC .  I was in school and only did odd jobs in the summer or picked sweet peas for the floral sh
2 CONC op.  One year at Christmas time I took a load of Christmas trees, poinsettias and cyclamen an
2 CONC d set up shop at the main intersection of Exeter.  I almost sold out as there was no other so
2 CONC urce in Exeter for the Christmas items.  It was cold and drizzly weather that year and my fee
2 CONC t froze and my teeth chattered, but the excitement more than made up the difference.  The cab
2 CONC s of trucks and most cars were open and very cold or very hot depending on the season.  L.E
2 CONC . loved music and always had a collection of jazz records.  He was one of my very favorite pe
2 CONC ople.  I still miss him.
2 CONT 	At the end of my "frosh" year I noticed that I had most of the "ideas" in any class activity
2 CONC , but someone else took my ideas and benefited from the attention as a leader.  I resolved t
2 CONC o correct this situation at the start of my "Soph" year and became vocal with my ideas.  I re
2 CONC solved that I would henceforth proclaim my ability to do almost anything.  I had voluntaril
2 CONC y dropped back to my regular class room rating thus nullifying the mistake of being promote
2 CONC d ahead in the seventh grade.  I immediately felt comfortable with myself and fellow class ma
2 CONC tes.  That year, age fifteen, I went out for football and was placed on the "lightweights" pl
2 CONC aying tackle.  I was a head taller than most and weighed 140 pounds.  We won our league champ
2 CONC ionship, but lost the county to Visalia.  My legs and arms and body began to go in the same d
2 CONC irection at the same time and I became self confident.
2 CONT 	My Junior year was one of personal triumph.  I made the California Scholarship, played end o
2 CONC n the Heavyweight football squad and was Captain at center of the basketball team and came i
2 CONC n second in the cross country track meet in the mile - wrong race for me.
2 CONT 	I couldn't break 5 minutes in the mile, but could run any two quarters in 60 and 63 seconds
2 CONC .  College meets were won then 2 minutes 2 seconds and the mile in 4:50.  The pole vault whic
2 CONC h I tried in grammar school was 10'6" for me and world record was 13'6" - (USC) - but I shoul
2 CONC d have been in the 880.  It had no coach and the track was hard rutted adobe - very tough o
2 CONC n the legs - and developed shin splints that were too painful to ignore.  Football was playe
2 CONC d on a dirt field and the action was often obscured by the dust.  My throat and nose became b
2 CONC adly inflamed and have not been able to tolerate dust since that time.  My Junior year I wa
2 CONC s boys sports editor for the Echoing L and also Circulation Manager.  I ran on delivery all o
2 CONC ver downtown.  No question I was very important in school affairs - you could have found tha
2 CONC t out by asking me.
2 CONT 	At the annual football reception held last of May I was elected Captain of the football tea
2 CONC m for the 1925 season, my senior year.
2 CONT 	I was elected or appointed to be Editor of the Echoing L and immediately set about making th
2 CONC e best paper ever.  My girlfriend was editor of the "Comet" - yearbook and I was sports edito
2 CONC r, and of course, as editor I was a member of the school cabinet, the schools governing bod
2 CONC y for the senior year.
2 CONT 	We had excellent teachers and one organized a writers society called the "Dab of Ink".  I wa
2 CONC s the chief editor and the one who decided which authors - who wrote under pseudonym - woul
2 CONC d be eligible to join the talented "Dabbers".  Our teacher, Miss Benson, had a hard cover boo
2 CONC k made of our efforts.  I believe - Carol - has this effort.  My Mother was really my adviso
2 CONC r on things literary, especially poetry.  My nom-de-plume was Gar M. Gurk.  I called a spad
2 CONC e a spade and ruled arbitrarily as I printed the results of success or failure in Echoing L
2 CONC .  One cannot be universally loved in such a position as some were accused - probably unjustl
2 CONC y - of copying known authors.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 	Senior year I was selected by Miss Benson to become lead in Senior annual school play whic
2 CONC h was the "Three Live Ghosts".  I was not the best in this affair and that's my opinion.  Th
2 CONC e school decided also to have a school carnival and a chorus follies of boys dressed as girl
2 CONC s (flappers) and I was old lover boy himself.  Oh Boy!  There was another public affair in wh
2 CONC ich I had to recite a long poetic narrative in Italian accent, "The Spring she came to tal
2 CONC e - my leetla boy, he no could wait".  It was a two person affair and my partner was a heavy
2 CONC , red haired Irishman who couldn't remember his own name too well, and I was one of the talle
2 CONC st at six foot in the entire school.  It was very serious, but why this incongruous pair were
2 CONC n't laughed off the stage I'll never know.  I had to prompt my partner through most of his li
2 CONC nes (out loud) and we didn't look like a couple of wops.
2 CONT 	In the last semester as a senior I was ineligible to compete in sports - which was a good th
2 CONC ing.  I was tired from all extraneous activities and unknown to me I had four abscessed teeth
2 CONC .  I was dating "steady" with Glenna Walters who was also valedictorian that year.  I only ne
2 CONC ed two units to graduate and I could pass those without effort.  Every time I opened my mout
2 CONC h I seemed to get appointed to some new activities, customs etc. which still are included i
2 CONC n the set activities of all classes from that time.  School dances were not allowed for our c
2 CONC lass, but was for all subsequent classes.  As editor of the Echoing L I decided to call Linds
2 CONC ay ? athletes "the Cardinal".  They still are.  One of the school yells is still being use
2 CONC d - but I was very tired - and vowed never to volunteer in any other organization as I woul
2 CONC d immediately get the job of trying to get volunteers to do their appointed job.  I always wo
2 CONC und up working harder than any others.  I didn't mind furnishing ideas, but some others shoul
2 CONC d at least, help implement them.  I have never joined ANY organization with serious talent si
2 CONC nce.  Oh yes - the 20-30 service club and the San Fernando Sheet Metal Association.  I have h
2 CONC ad many invitations - Masons, Rotary, Kiwanis, Church - But no thanks.  I get tired just thin
2 CONC king of what would be my lot.
2 CONT 	On graduation day night I was placed in one of the four front seats.  I tried for the back r
2 CONC ow as I was terribly tired and wanted to sleep.  No soap - I was to be presented with a medal
2 CONC .  It was given to me by the Supt. of Schools John Bradley, for all around activity - scholas
2 CONC tic, athletic, drama, editor of school paper, annual editorial contributions, school governin
2 CONC g cabinet.  It was also given to my girl friend at the time who among other accomplishments w
2 CONC as valedictorian.  It was a simple copper medal, but I valued it above my gold plated footbal
2 CONC l and other forms of recognition.
2 CONT 	Most all of my class mates went on to college and while I had the grades didn't have the fun
2 CONC ds to do so - Scholarships were almost unknown then and altho approached were not sufficien
2 CONC t for me to make it.  The economic pressures at home were too great altho my Mother would hav
2 CONC e given much to see me go on to college.  	Pa wanted me to go into commercial spraying with h
2 CONC im, but it was not for me.  I had places to go, things to do, mountains to climb and there wa
2 CONC s nothing in Lindsay for me.
2 CONT 	Graduation was Friday night and Sunday a.m. I left for Pasadena to a job in my brothers Aut
2 CONC o Electric business in Pasadena and a totally new era of confusion.
2 CONT 	The first three months I lived with Clare, Verle and sons Bob and Bill.  I went to work on t
2 CONC he bus and returned each day eat a good meal and fall asleep.
2 CONT 	I was the battery delivery service man taking batteries to all the Pasadena car dealers as w
2 CONC ell as individuals at home or stalled cars.  Radio was the new sensation in the world and Cla
2 CONC re had obtained the Shoater Kent agency.  They were battery operated and so a battery and ign
2 CONC ition place was a logical dealer.  Although a service department was established, I had no in
2 CONC terest in the technicalities altho I posed as a service man - but mainly just checked the bat
2 CONC teries and helped erect elaborate radio aerials.  I became a fair salesman for the used radio
2 CONC s which were mainly washboards with tubes and coils exposed.
2 CONT 	My first summer out of school (1926) working for Clare, I bought my first car, a 1920 for
2 CONC d T Roadster for $80.
2 CONT 	During that first summer I started going to a dentist.  My four front teeth were abscessed a
2 CONC nd were pulled.  My health immediately improved, I began to feel stronger and I was no longe
2 CONC r tired.  I gradually regained my health altho, at the time never thought I was anything bu
2 CONC t healthy.
2 CONT 	My regular girl friends (in those days one went steady) father had a storage garage in Lon
2 CONC g Beach.  She came down and when I could borrow Clare's car took her to the Long Beach "Pike
2 CONC " a famous entertainment spot in southern California.  My dental bills took most of my spar
2 CONC e money the first year and while I lived with Clare and Verle and later with my folks, ther
2 CONC e was not much money for dates.
2 CONT 	The Christmas of 1926 I worked until 6 P.M. (regular hours for everyone was 8 A.M. to 6 P.M.
2 CONC ) on Christmas Eve and I left as soon as I could clean up and eat for Lindsay.  The route wa
2 CONC s over the Ridge (now known as the old Ridge via (Sanboins sp?)) and at Saugus I filled up wi
2 CONC th gas and took off, but made a mistake and next I knew I was in Mohave late at nite.  I stop
2 CONC ped for gas and picked up a merchant sailor who was broke and trying to get to Bakersfield
2 CONC .  We started over the mountains to Bakersfield via Tehachapi.  In the mountains I became ter
2 CONC ribly tired, but wouldn't stop.  My rider woke me several times as I was trying to drive a cr
2 CONC ooked mountain road dead asleep.  Had it not been for my rider I probably would have been dea
2 CONC d.
2 CONT 	Christmas in Lindsay was a failure.  I called on my girlfriend and the next thing I knew I w
2 CONC as eating Christmas dinner with her family - not my own.  I was sick with fatigue and had t
2 CONC o go home almost immediately after dinner - it was a courting disaster.
2 CONT 	My Mother and Dad moved to Pasadena and we rented a small home quite a ways out of town an
2 CONC d then, I got the mumps that february and stayed home a few days to get over them and make su
2 CONC re that future generations might not be endangered.
2 CONT 	In 1927 I quit Clare's business in June just one week short of a year after starting, and on
2 CONC e week short of being eligible for a one week vacation with pay - a not too common amenity i
2 CONC n that time.  I was doing lousy work and could hardly stand the job.
2 CONT 	I went home to Lindsay doing odd jobs for the summer for L.E. before going to Fresno State w
2 CONC ith Bert Ware as a room partner.  My dental bills took all my savings and I had to go to wor
2 CONC k immediately and my first job was waiting tables for a girl's sorority.  It was beneath me a
2 CONC ccording to my self estimation, so gave the girls short shrixt and promptly quit or was fire
2 CONC d I remember not.  Next job was as bus boy for downtown cafeteria - same problem - same resul
2 CONC t.  I was not a school boy any more and I had been on my own in an adult world for a year.  M
2 CONC y school mates were still children doing what ever the professor assigned.  I was not and fel
2 CONC t out of place with my contemporaries in class.
2 CONT 	I was obviously quite egotistic about my abilities.  That year (1927) the colleges gave ever
2 CONC yone an English entrance test.  One passed or had to take "bonehead" English.  In the allotte
2 CONC d time I wrote two stories, the first was too wordy.  The second short concise and no mistake
2 CONC s.  Intelligence tests were also given, my rate was 137, my roommate was 112 which was abou
2 CONC t average.  This made me feel better than I was and served no good purpose.
2 CONT 	I went out for Frosh basketball, but could gain no enthusiasm for sports where once it absor
2 CONC bed my total being.  One game I cut entirely, because Will C. Durant was lecturing.  He was a
2 CONC t the beginning of his great career.  The coach was not at all happy.  In another game I star
2 CONC ted to play as I knew how to play - picked up the team and carried it as once I did in High S
2 CONC chool.  This time I only tired and felt how utterly silly it was to run up and down a basketb
2 CONC all court chasing a ball as if it was important.  I quit and by the time the second semeste
2 CONC r was ready to start I had to borrow money for books and other expenses and no one in the fam
2 CONC ily had any.  L.E. advanced me some, but it came out of "bread and rent" which he was barel
2 CONC y able to provide.  I informed my professors of my decision to drop out giving no reason
2 CONC .  I had a "B" average and my English Professor tried to dissuade me, but I was unhappy wit
2 CONC h my life and felt that I should get on with earning my way.  School seemed to be a waste o
2 CONC f time - so many courses led no where and I couldn't afford to sit for four years.
2 CONT 	I went back to Pasadena and started working for Clare selling radios on commission.  It wa
2 CONC s then 1928 and my parents moved to Pasadena and made a home for me.  I sold enuf to pay expe
2 CONC nses and in early 1929 I bought my second car a 1927 Model T coupe for $350.  It was a dand
2 CONC y and the last of Ford T models made.
2 CONT 	I was disillusioned with the business world which in the 1920's was a frantic cut throat wor
2 CONC ld where men with good business neglected same to play the Stock Market.
2 CONT 	My Mother recognized my great dissatisfaction with my life and contacted her Brother, Ray, i
2 CONC n the Philippines unbeknownst to me and from him I received an offer of a job in the Lumber M
2 CONC ill "IF" I could get over there.  He, Ray, was Superintendent of three lumber mills and a "Bi
2 CONC g" man in that part of the world.  I was delighted with the opportunity to change direction
2 CONC s and immediately went about getting $500 fare to make the trip.  I borrowed $300 from a reti
2 CONC red couple that I had become acquainted with in Pasadena, obtained passage to Hong Kong o
2 CONC n a Japanese ship "Siberia Maru" sold my car and because I had no birth certificate had to ha
2 CONC ve my mother swear that I was born a citizen.  I sold my car and that was enuf  along with th
2 CONC e loan to pay the passage.  I was twenty-one, unhappy and ready to go almost anywhere.  I wa
2 CONC s disillusioned with the business world and alone or so it seemed.  My self esteem was high e
2 CONC nuf but I began to wonder why and for what reason I was here.
2 CONT 	We sailed out of San Pedro, June 14 1929.  It was a momentous day and I knew not whether o
2 CONC r if I would ever come back, and didn't much care.  On the deck were a whole crowd of colleg
2 CONC e kids, my age, waving someone off.  The someones turned out to be two college girls, one blu
2 CONC e eyed a blonde, tall and slender with a windblown haircut and her companion was a pretty bru
2 CONC nette with warm, inviting eyes.  As the ship left the harbor I was touring the decks and righ
2 CONC t by a bunch of loaded garbage cans I met the girls.  Flying fish were darting about, I had n
2 CONC ever seen them, and I was so enthused so my first question to the girls was "Had they seen th
2 CONC e flying fish".  Under the circumstances who cared about garbage cans.  We quickly found tha
2 CONC t we were both traveling second class and would share the same table at dinner along with th
2 CONC e ship's purser, the next morning we docked in San Francisco.  I contacted a school friend i
2 CONC n Berkeley, John Alexander and one of the days in San Francisco (we sailed on June 19) we wen
2 CONC t over to Oakland on the ferry and met John with his roadster and toured the Berkeley Campus
2 CONC .  The blonde had just graduated from U.S.C. and this was a graduation trip to Japan.  The br
2 CONC unette had been a teacher in Calexico and was with a group of "Christian" Japanese returnin
2 CONC g to Japan to see their families.
2 CONT 	John and I told a few lies which I later had to eat, but it was a glorious day and the blond
2 CONC e wasn't too heavy on my lap.  I gained a cabin mate in San Francisco, a pimply faced boy jus
2 CONC t out of high school.  Our cabin had two bunks one lower and one upper.  Ray, my cabin mate
2 CONC , promptly found himself assigned to the upper bunk, after all his mother had asked me to kee
2 CONC p a watch on him.  Ray also had a guitar.  With a beautiful blonde and pretty brunette to cho
2 CONC ose from and NO competition except Japanese men the voyage seemed to have a wonderful start
2 CONC .  Oh yes the Golden Gate was also there, little noted and soon forgotten.
2 CONT 	It took five days to reach Honolulu where Helen, the brunette, had a boy friend who had a ca
2 CONC r which he loaned us for sight seeing.  Helen, the blonde and Helen the brunette, and I promp
2 CONC tly toured as much as we could in one day and as the time went on I felt that Helen, the blon
2 CONC de, was about the best person I'd ever knew.  As the ship sailed out of Honolulu at sunset ti
2 CONC me I was standing alone with my thoughts a feeling of peace and wholeness that I never experi
2 CONC enced before and a voice as clear as any said "This is the girl for you" meaning Helen Campbe
2 CONC ll.  It was a mystic experience and from that moment she has been the girl for me.  Without h
2 CONC er I feel incomplete even to this day.  I have never doubted from that time that we would liv
2 CONC e our life together even though she was going to Japan on a trip to return to her friends i
2 CONC n L.A. and I destined to the Philippines at least until I could save enuf for passage home
2 CONC .  The next year was a maturing and in retrospect a very interesting one for me.
2 CONT 	First we, Helen and I, had a few days in Tokyo and then parted.  I to go on to Shanghai, Hon
2 CONC gkong where I stayed two nights at the Y.M.C.A. until I embarked again on a President Line sh
2 CONC ip to Manila.  In Manila two or three days before boarding the Negro-Phil Lumber's own ship t
2 CONC o Iloilo.  From Iloilo aboard a launch to Barolod on Occidental Negro, my destination.  Ther
2 CONC e was no pier in Barcolod and even the launch could not take us to shore and it was necessar
2 CONC y for a row boat to bring us ashore.
2 CONT 	Uncle Ray's chauffeur was waiting with shiny Buick Sedan to take me on to Cadiz, my home fo
2 CONC r most of the next year.  Aunt Polly met me and made me welcome.  Uncle Ray was Supt. in char
2 CONC ge of three lumber mills through out the Philippines the largest of which was Cadiz.  Uncle R
2 CONC ay was rarely home during my stay there.  My first few weeks Aunt Polly and I were guests a
2 CONC t several dinner parties which were given to introduce me to their circle of friends and th
2 CONC e white community, a very small and select group   mostly Americans brought over from the Sta
2 CONC tes to operate the mills.  In the space of one month I had been transported from the franti
2 CONC c jazz age of the 20's to a mid-Victorian society with formal manners, formal dinners, an
2 CONC d a much more affluent society.  To say I understood that I was the guest of honor at the par
2 CONC ties would be a great exaggeration.  I thought I'd just been invited to accompany Aunt Poll
2 CONC y because Uncle Ray was not there.  We'd never entertained at home or had Clare and Verle s
2 CONC o I was a know nothing twenty-one year old youth.
2 CONT 	I was anxious to get to work and get ahead in the world.  Soon after I arrived Uncle Ray too
2 CONC k me out to the Country Club created solely for the American employees of the two largest lum
2 CONC ber mills, Negros Phil Lumber and the Insular Lumber Company.  My first round of golf was wit
2 CONC h Uncle Ray and in a pouring rain, we were alone on the course.  Uncle Ray paid no attentio
2 CONC n to the rain so neither did I.  At that time I was still a very confident and competitive at
2 CONC hlete so I certainly was not going to give.  Uncle Ray used the golf course to make an estima
2 CONC te of a mans character.  The following week I was invited to play in an inter-club tournament
2 CONC .  It was held in a tropical downpour with the golf course under as much as two inches of wat
2 CONC er on the fairways.  My opponent was a young American teacher who finally forfeited the matc
2 CONC h about half way thru the course.  I was the only one from our club to win his match, so muc
2 CONC h for my second game of golf and borrowed mis-matched clubs.  Most every weekend for the res
2 CONC t of my time was given to golf, caddie and all.  After all I was making $80 per month and liv
2 CONC ed most of the time in the "Bosses" home with five servants to care for my needs.
2 CONT 	After three weeks, Uncle Ray finally found a job inventorying the "bodega" which had everyth
2 CONC ing from screws and nails to locomotive parts.  In this way I became acquainted with the res
2 CONC t of the American help who held all the skilled jobs such as a complete  machine shop -  Warr
2 CONC en, the Mill Wright. Sawyer, Filer.  After about a month I was put in charge of the yard wit
2 CONC h a crew of 150 men.  The Yard Master took the lumber as it came from the mill, piled it, shi
2 CONC pped it.  I understood that it was only temporary until the regular yard master finished a sa
2 CONC les assignment.  My ignorance was the greatest, but my self confidence in being the boss wa
2 CONC s undaunted - the men and crews knew what to do which was a very good thing.
2 CONT 	That year 1929 the great depression started without my knowledge, it was a far away world, b
2 CONC ut it was soon reflected in lumber sales and the management in Manila giving the word, econom
2 CONC ics and cut costs.  It nearly cost me my life as they would not authorize steel rope to mak
2 CONC e slings for lifting and loading lumber aboard the boats and barges at the wharf.  A rope sli
2 CONC ng was not equal to the task and a sling of lumber about 3500 pounds dropped four feet from w
2 CONC here from where I was standing.  For no reason I had just moved from the exact spot where i
2 CONC t fell.  This brings me to another aspect of my life.  I have always felt as if I was protect
2 CONC ed by another force and so it has always been, except for one brief experience while living i
2 CONC n Pasadena.  One morning when I got up I all of the sudden felt real terror and it was al
2 CONC l I could do to force myself to drive to work.  This vulnerable feeling lasted until the sam
2 CONC e afternoon.  I have never forgotten the feeling and many incidents during the rest of my lif
2 CONC e has reinforced my belief in being under the protection and guidance of a very loving and be
2 CONC nevolent force.  Much of my life with much violence near, but of which I had no real danger o
2 CONC r fear.
2 CONT 	One incident in my year, I had discharged a foreman for what I thought was poor performanc
2 CONC e and which I have regretted since, but at the time, one of his relatives (I think) dreamed u
2 CONC p an imaginary grievance.  One noon my right hand man came to me and escorted me out throug
2 CONC h a little known gate to avoid a machete bearing and vengeance bound man out the my usual pat
2 CONC h home.  The man was drunk on Tuba Coconut Palm wine, very potent.  I have always felt indebt
2 CONC ed to my right hand man, Igralaga, but never had the way to let him know.
2 CONT     I learned about "face" while in the Orient and still is of primary importance especiall
2 CONC y in the Orient.  A local Chinese Trader had somehow managed to get an entire shipment of lum
2 CONC ber aboard an inter-island vessel without the tally being taken.  I was informed of such an
2 CONC d immediately dispatched my best tallyman to the Island where the lumber was destined.  He to
2 CONC ok the tally and the trader was duly billed.  Everyone knew of the attempt to steal, but no o
2 CONC pen accusations were made.  The trader then ordered a gigantic party in which everyone concer
2 CONC ned was invited except me.  I was too dumb to know until told the following Monday of the gre
2 CONC at snub.  I laughed, the man chose the wrong man I didn't really care.  I'm sure he heard I j
2 CONC ust laughed.
2 CONT 	After a year in the Philippines in which I matured a great deal (I had a long way to go), th
2 CONC e Great Depression started, a nearby lumber mill burned releasing a lot of very skilled and e
2 CONC xperienced men.  Uncle Ray was able to obtain a spot with the crew on a U.S. freighter whic
2 CONC h we had just loaded lumber for U.S.
2 CONT I took the job and within 48 hours was on the way to Manila where I boarded S.S. Aunawili a
2 CONC s an "Ordinary Seaman" and so registered with the U. S. State Department.  We sailed out of t
2 CONC he harbor in a Typhoon and I had the first watch standing out on the flybridge in open with i
2 CONC nstructions to watch for any other ships.  The wind driven rain was so strong that I placed m
2 CONC y hand over my eyes and looked through the crack between my fingers.  My eyes were still bloo
2 CONC d shot from the rain.
2 CONT 	Arriving in San Francisco with about $80 in my pocket the 1st mate offered me a job sailin
2 CONC g to Australia.  I told him I was a prune picker and there ended my nautical career.  There w
2 CONC as a girl about 500 miles away that I wanted to see.  I bought a new blue siege suit for $1
2 CONC 5 in San Francisco and discovered how deep the Depression really was in 1930.  It had largel
2 CONC y escaped my attention in the Philippines.  A few days in Lindsay and I was on my way to L.A.
2 CONC , the train was very slow or so in seemed.
2 CONT 	There was an excellent transportation system in Southern California - from Pasadena to L.A
2 CONC . (about 15 cents) and phoned (5 cents) to Campbell residence on Victoria Street and found m
2 CONC y girl at work in her office at Santa Monica.  I boarded a street car to Santa Monica and sh
2 CONC e really was surprised and a little flustered.  She had a Red Cross life saving class that ni
2 CONC ght so I stayed and was persuaded to be the "victim" those big, good looking lifeguards dam
2 CONC n near drowned me - and so was my welcome home.  That was August 1930.  I worked on commissio
2 CONC n selling household refrigerators which were "BRAND NEW" - most people used ice - Clare provi
2 CONC ded the job and a place to sleep.  I also caught the last street car to Pasadena.
2 CONT 	Helen's father, Scott Campbell offered me a job selling sheet metal.  He thought anyone wh
2 CONC o could sell those new fangled things like refrigerators and radios would find it a cinch t
2 CONC o sell sheet metal - also he could try and see what his favorite daughter saw in me.  I don'
2 CONC t think he ever really did find out.  The only gutters I had ever heard about were those on t
2 CONC he edge of a street.  If Ignorance was bliss I must have been in a blissful state.
2 CONT 	Business conditions got steadily worse and even the good salesmen couldn't sell jobs that we
2 CONC re non-existent.  Then things got bad.  Even so the next February (1931) we decided to get ma
2 CONC rried.  Business got a little better and then England went off the gold standard and busines
2 CONC s all over the world took a nose dive from zero to less than.  The pound Sterling was the bus
2 CONC iness standard of the world, not the U.S. dollar.  I was paid $25 per week and Helen was pai
2 CONC d $80 per month as executive secretary of the Red Cross in Santa Monica.  We were married o
2 CONC n April 18, 1931 same month and day but not same year as her folks.  It was a beautiful, war
2 CONC m day, Helen was beautiful, I was numb.  The services were in the Westwood Methodist Church o
2 CONC n Wiltshire.  I paid the Minister $5 and with that they built the grand, big church that stan
2 CONC ds there now.  We honeymooned in Laguna Beach at the (Red Rooster?) hotel.  It was a nice hot
2 CONC el, but they charged $5.  We ate breakfast and I ordered french toast which was the cheapes
2 CONC t thing on the menu.  I haven't liked french toast since.
2 CONT We finally got back to Sunset Beach and there has been a special place in my heart for that p
2 CONC lace.
2 CONT 	Business got worse and finally by next January 1932 I couldn't take not paying my way at th
2 CONC e shop and took a part time job at the Perfection Bakery at 39 cents per hour and all the bre
2 CONC ad and pastry we could eat.  We moved to a cheaper, over the garage, apartment and our firs
2 CONC t child, Richard Campbell Brady, a beautiful, healthy baby which trilled me unaccountably.  T
2 CONC hings got worse and we moved to a cheaper apartment I was still working part time about $1
2 CONC 5 a week - six days.  Our apartment was robbed and all of Helen's fine wedding clothes were s
2 CONC tolen as well was my gold plated football and other goodies.  They left the medal which say
2 CONC s just Echoing L 1926 and name, but the verbal presentation at graduation was for the whole r
2 CONC ange of activities.
2 CONT 	In March 1933 Roosevelt elected and immediately closed all banks.  I had my pay which was pa
2 CONC id in coin and we drove to Lindsay where they had no cash at all.  I cashed a check for Lawre
2 CONC nce which got them thru until the banks re-opened.
2 CONT 	March 10, 1933, Long Beach earthquake.  I was working at the bakery and heard metal bins ban
2 CONC ging and looked up to see the asphalt floor moving in waves as in the ocean.  I got out of th
2 CONC e building as there were big gas ovens in back of me and a garage full of trucks and gas pump
2 CONC s between me and the street.  I drove home to see if all my family were safe - they were, bu
2 CONC t brick chimneys and brick walls were tumbling down on the route home.  Our world changed an
2 CONC d reconstruction started in Long Beach.  I borrowed tools and took my desperation, hope and i
2 CONC gnorance and opened up our first shop in Long Beach.  Long Beach was a devastated affair, an
2 CONC d there were about twenty sheet metal shops moved in to help re-build.  My first shop was 20
2 CONC ' by 40' and rented for $25 per month.  Scott Campbell helped me get started.  I paid $10 fo
2 CONC r my first Contractors license.  One didn't need to know anything about sheet metal, just ha
2 CONC d to pay $10 and ask for the license.  During my first year the California Sales Use Tax wa
2 CONC s imposed to give relief from property taxes.  People were losing homes by the thousands beca
2 CONC use of defaulted mortgages - Frank and Irma Veazy lost theirs at that time.  The Sales tax wa
2 CONC s supposed to be a temporary measure, as you are well aware how temporary.  It was 2 percent.
2 CONT 	We did all right living at Sunset Beach - no rent- and trying to run a shop - until 1934 - w
2 CONC hen again there was no building and twenty-one shops to do it.  Most quit as did we.
2 CONT      The summer of 1933 my father died at 79.  He was blind and had cancer.  Cancer was not s
2 CONC poken out loud in those days either by Doctors or anyone else.  The blindness was because o
2 CONC f cataracts which are little more that office call today.  My Mother came down to live with u
2 CONC s and helped by keeping the shop open and answering the phone while I was out installing or s
2 CONC elling.
2 CONT      The only coat Helen had was an elegant fur coat, everything else had been stolen, and ab
2 CONC out $10 for groceries for the four of us.  She got a lot of dirty looks because she looked li
2 CONC ke Mrs. Ritch Bitch.  We also were able to get a washing machine.  Prior to that she washed t
2 CONC he dirty diapers by hand.  She weighed between 90 to 100 pounds.  It was a tough go for a gir
2 CONC l who had been raised with servants to do all the work.  The first year learning to cook th
2 CONC e green beans were invariably burned.  I thought that was the way they were supposed to be co
2 CONC oked.  Most young couples were in the same boat.  If you earned $35 a week you could affor
2 CONC d a housekeeper.
2 CONT 	In July of 1934 we closed the shop owing nothing and having nothing.  Earlier that year I ha
2 CONC d made a toy for Richard on which he fell and cut deeply across the bridge of his nose.  Thi
2 CONC s cut deviated the septum and has had chronic Catarrh ever since.  Richard was a strong healt
2 CONC hy child and I played rather rough games with him which delighted him no end.  We moved to Na
2 CONC ples from the Beach house in December 1933 - five rooms - $20 a month.  Business was grea
2 CONC t - when there was any.  If we had enuf money to go to the show (25 cents) we couldn't affor
2 CONC d a baby sitter - also 25 cents for the evening.
2 CONT 	The Catalina Company was offering script for money - we paid $17 for $25 worth of script wit
2 CONC h which we bought round trip on S.S. Avolon and two nights in the St. Catherine Hotel and oth
2 CONC er goodies.  It was 4 P.M. the day before the ship sailed that I finally made a collection fo
2 CONC r $17.  It was our first vacation without a baby.  Grandma Campbell took came of him.
2 CONT 	The so called "Great Depression" was not a myth.  Our so called recessions today would hav
2 CONC e been boon times then.
2 CONT 	After closing our sheet metal business in Long Beach in 1934, we moved to Glendale where I w
2 CONC orked for Clare selling Frigidaires, ranges and washers on a commission basis.  The store pro
2 CONC spered and we had more spending money than for a long time.  Helen was a trained social worke
2 CONC r with a degree from U.S.C. - one of the very few at that time - and went to work as a superv
2 CONC isor for the State Relief at $35 per week.  We hired a girl to baby sit Richard and between t
2 CONC he two of us were able to buy our first car - a two door Chevy Sedan for $625.  In 1935 Clar
2 CONC e opened a Burbank Branch and made me manager.  Your Grandmother was carrying Jim so when w
2 CONC e moved to Burbank, she quit her job.  Our home was a new, Spanish stucco with cedar lined cl
2 CONC osets, hard wood floors and a dual fireplace into a den and living room - $35 monthly rental.
2 CONT 	July 1935 tragedy struck when Richard who was playing with a can opener and card board box
2 CONC .  Using the can opener as a pry the card box gave way suddenly and into Richard's eye.  As J
2 CONC im was born about a month later.  The doctor bills - eye and birth wiped us out financially
2 CONC .  We wouldn't borrow so I did a little fancy financial juggling by renting an electric rang
2 CONC e from the Power Company - and financing a sale.  The payments were very low and we made it O
2 CONC K.  From that time on I have been a little less critical of others who do what may indeed b
2 CONC e a desperation action.
2 CONT 	1936 was a better year financially, but in 1937 Fridgidaire upped their prices and lowered t
2 CONC he quality and dealer and their salespeople were left hanging by their financial necks.  I le
2 CONC arned - never again to trust a large Corporation that controlled both the product and price.
2 CONT 	Clare had to economize so I lost my salaried job and was again on commission.  We decided t
2 CONC o open an electric range agency in Santa Monica and rented space from a washer dealer on Sant
2 CONC a Monica Blvd. near the business center.  We moved to Venice and started from scratch agai
2 CONC n - on $800 credit guaranteed by my father-in-law, no cash loan.  With that credit and a on
2 CONC e month rental paid we ordered a stock of electric ranges (Woolevine).  We made it just - fo
2 CONC r a while then simultaneously the factory closed down and I lost a sizable sale to poor credi
2 CONC t.  I learned then that lawyers were not to be trusted as the credit people already knew
2 CONC .  I am sure there are exceptions, but not very many.  The washer dealer had a sheriff instal
2 CONC led because of his financial problems and while he had nothing to say about my affairs, my bu
2 CONC siness what little there was shut off like a faucet.  We closed up again - the problem was fo
2 CONC od and shelter.  We moved back to Burbank where again I was on commission - business generall
2 CONC y was sliding back to 1933 levels.  We were flat.  Helen and I somehow managed to slug out ou
2 CONC r problems together.  In 1938 events conspired to put me looking for a job where there seeme
2 CONC d to be none.  Helen was the bread winner working again for the State Relief as a superviso
2 CONC r - her pay went for all expenses plus a housekeeper for both Richard and Jim.
2 CONT 	I had written considerable advertising copy and related promotions so when a radio time sale
2 CONC s job appeared, I grabbed it - still on commission.  It was my greatest failure.  I was dow
2 CONC n about as far as I could go.  I finally was forced out and by good fortune got a commissio
2 CONC n job selling  newspaper advertising.
2 CONT 	My territory was the scraggle end areas the regular salesmen didn't want.  I sold and at on
2 CONC e time had over fifty accounts.  I learned a great deal about business from the many and vari
2 CONC ed accounts.  I use that knowledge to this day.  All experience is valuable if you learn.  W
2 CONC e prospered and were able to buy a lot and contract for our first home - five room house fo
2 CONC r $4100 - lot $525, balance the building contract - interest 4.5 percent and monthly payment
2 CONC s including reserves against taxes came to $35 per month.
2 CONT 	December 1941 we were visiting Lindsay and we heard from a Japanese-American's radio about P
2 CONC earl Harbor.  I knew that our lives were changed forever.  My newspaper days were over so w
2 CONC e rented our home and moved to Sunset Beach again and I went to work as a sheet metal worke
2 CONC r at L.A. Shipyards.  It was an educational and definitely undesirable experience.  The greed
2 CONC , waste and downright venality offended every fibre of my being.
2 CONT 	I was of draft age and old enuf to have no part of wars destruction.  I could remember 191
2 CONC 4 and the killing.  After fifteen months I was able to obtain my release without prejudice an
2 CONC d got a job with my old newspaper.  This time I became circulation manager and at one time ha
2 CONC d 250 carriers and an organization of several district managers.  At least I felt I was contr
2 CONC ibuting to society - which I certainly didn't feel to be the case with the shipyards and als
2 CONC o a short time at Lockheed on the swing shift.  I got our home back and brought my family bac
2 CONC k to Burbank at our Niagara Street home.  It was a great feeling.
2 CONT 	In the newspaper circulation job (1944-1945) I was able to use both Richard and Jim as carri
2 CONC ers for their spending money.  Helen became a supervisor of carrier boys.  She always backe
2 CONC d me.  We were a team.  The newspaper business went down the drain and internal politics an
2 CONC d the attempt to start a new paper went down the tubes.  The war was over but paper mills an
2 CONC d all other commodities were still rationed.
2 CONT 	By 1946 the newspaper became defunct or nearly so and I had to sue for wages.  I had some st
2 CONC ock in the enterprise and learned I had no claim "as part owner I could not sue myself" so sa
2 CONC id the Judge.
2 CONT 	In March of 1946 I decided to go into the sheet metal business again in our backyard.  Ther
2 CONC e were no vacancies that I could have rented even if I could have afforded the rent.  By th
2 CONC e next two years in 1948 I persuaded (Grandpa Campbell offered) to loan me enuf to buy a comm
2 CONC ercial lot and build our first shop.  Uncle Donald's arm was twisted by his father and he pu
2 CONC t up half the amount.  Banks were paying 3 percent interest on savings and I paid 6 percent o
2 CONC n this loan.  We built a 2000 square foot building on Alameda Street with no other financin
2 CONC g and I was finally in a good building and good location for business at a cost I could affor
2 CONC d.  The Building finished June 1948 and in August my mother died.  She never saw the new buil
2 CONC ding.  Business was not all that good.  There were two other shops on the same street.  Ther
2 CONC e were seven or more other shops all in competition for the new work.  We decided to take a f
2 CONC amily trip, vacation to Oregon.
2 CONT 	In 1949, Richard was sixteen and Jim was to be thirteen the next August.  Helen took a jo
2 CONC b  as executive secretary of the American Red Cross in Burbank.  There was literally NO new b
2 CONC uilding in 1949 and it looked like the 1930's all over again.  We bought with almost our las
2 CONC t spare dollar a very good tent.  With that we took off for Oregon in our 1941 Ford sedan.
2 CONT 	While in Oregon we learned of the start of the Korean War.  I wrote to my foreman to buy al
2 CONC l the flat steel he could - was still rationed - and we proceeded to criss cross Oregon befor
2 CONC e going home.  Helen's salary helped keep the home going while I put everything into the busi
2 CONC ness.  Again it was a real team effort.  I was not very enthused about her going back to wor
2 CONC k as it seemed to accent my own inabilities.  In the meantime Richard and Jim worked at the s
2 CONC hop and learned how to work.  Not many know how to really work - then and now.  It is valuabl
2 CONC e knowledge contributing to ones self confidence to get along in this world.
2 CONT 	I have skipped a lot, but from here your father can pick up the story as he lived it.  You
2 CONC r father and mother's marriage and then you came along in 1955.
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2 CONT                              Our very best to you
2 CONT 
2 CONT                                  Grandpa B
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2 CONT Note:  This history was created from a combination of two histories written.  The first was d
2 CONC ated April 22, 1981 when he started it.  The second started November 20, 1984 and completed D
2 CONC ecember 16, 1984.  The second history was changed some to keep names of people consistent wit
2 CONC h the first history; ie Clare/Uncle Clare, Richard/your father, Helen/your grandmother, etc
2 CONC .  There was some overlap in the history which may account for some redundancy.  The two hist
2 CONC ories merge in the period where he is finishing High School and working for Clare afterwards
2 CONC .  Some on the names may be incorrect as I couldn't always read the writing.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 					    Blaine A. Brady
2 CONT 
2 CONT                                                         Letters of Arden W. Brady
2 CONT 
2 CONT Fresno State College
2 CONT October, 23, 1927
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dear Mother:
2 CONT 
2 CONT      Here we are again for our usual Saturday account.  Yesterday we had the big Soph--Fros
2 CONC h brawl and today I'm sore and stiff and bruised.
2 CONT      First came the sack rush.  Five 75 lb. sacks of sand were placed on a central line and b
2 CONC oth teams lined up about twenty yards from this line.  The signal was given and both classe
2 CONC s made a wild scramble.  The Frosh trying to get the sacks back of their line and the Sophs t
2 CONC rying to keep them from it.  The wildest scramble you ever saw - legs and hands in every dire
2 CONC ction, after five of the allotted eigt minutes had passed I was so all in I could hardly se
2 CONC e straight.  Iwas so weak that I'd just get up in time to fall over again.  Altho we got th
2 CONC e sack down within a few feet of the goal, we couldn't quite make the grade.  the Sophs won t
2 CONC hat event.
2 CONT      Next, after a three minute rest period, we prepared  for the tie - up.  We3 lined up a
2 CONC s in the sack race and a whole bunch of ropes were thrown on the center line.  Again there wa
2 CONC s a mad rush and scramble for the ropes.  The object was to tie as many Sophs by one hand an
2 CONC d foot and drag him behind the line and vice versa to tie the Frsoh.  Being a big gad, hold b
2 CONC oy I had to run away ahead of the rest of the frosh and into the arms of aboutfour Sophs.  Th
2 CONC ey gave a war whoop and went after me.  I was holding my own and just a little more when thre
2 CONC e other Sophs joined the melee. After a few minutes struggle, they finally harnessedme and dr
2 CONC ag me back of there line.  The Frosh won by a big majority in this mix-up.
2 CONT      Last came the less violent relay race and this was to decide the victor of the brawl a
2 CONC s both sides claimed a victory a oiece in the two other events.  The relay was a walk-away fo
2 CONC r the Frosh.  our man finished a good 50 yards ahead of the Soph man and we had won the brawl
2 CONC .
2 CONT      Before the brawl all the Frosh were plastered with green paint .   I had an old acid eat
2 CONC en shirt and I had one green hand print in front and one in back.  The Sophs came on the fiel
2 CONC dstripped to the waist and covered with grease.  To offset this advantage the Frosh sanded th
2 CONC eir hands and rubbed it into the old boys backs.  I'll bet there is more than one tender bac
2 CONC k aong the Sophs today.  One Frosh was stripped to the waist and painted green from his bel
2 CONC t to his neck.  Another with pretty ice cream pants was smeared with green paint.  The footba
2 CONC ll boys were not allowed to contend.  They stayed on the side lines and with the galaxy of co
2 CONC eds cheered the combatants.  The fight was in the stadium on the fooball field and we certain
2 CONC ly tore up the turf.
2 CONT      How do you like our stationary?  Some class, huh?  Bert bought some and the lady managin
2 CONC g the school store gave us a whole lot.  We have some gray and white both, besides some of kr
2 CONC eases special with a silver edge.  We can write three times with out using the same kind of p
2 CONC aper.
2 CONT      I believe I'm getting along OK in my school work, except geography.  Everyone, excep
2 CONC t a very few, are flunking the tests cold and I'm no exception.  I don't know just how I'm co
2 CONC ming out in that.  It doesn't worry me too much, however.
2 CONT      I've got a job for Sunday so we're staying over this week.  Bert has a date with a dizz
2 CONC y blonde tonite, too.  I'm still off the women and I don't mean if.
2 CONT      I didn't have much time to talk with Papa and I'm hoping he'll take a trip up this way a
2 CONC nd see me.
2 CONT      I still think of going to the Philippinies, but will not go before next June or July any
2 CONC way.  I rather expect to stay out the second semester and work enuf to pay all my debts and g
2 CONC et a little money ahead for expenses.  I think it will be worth more than my college educatio
2 CONC n to make the trip and if necessary I can still go when I get back.
2 CONT      I'm reading from one to three stories and articles every day and increasing my vocabular
2 CONC y as fast as possible.  Style and type and a good vocabulary is quite essential to good writi
2 CONC ng.
2 CONT      Write soon and tell me all you think and know.
2 CONT                                                              Arden
2 CONT 
2 CONT Post Marked Oakland, California, June 19, 1929
2 CONT Note on second class dinner menu
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dear Folks:
2 CONT Certainly do like this boat travel so far.  Met a couple of good looking college girls goin
2 CONC g to Yokahama and have spent most of my time with them.  Believe I shall have no trouble usin
2 CONC g the 1st class decks and lounge. Have had none so far.  Arden
2 CONT 
2 CONT S.S.  Maru
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dear Folks:
2 CONT Here we are on board ship sailing along seas that are as smoothe as glass and as blue as th
2 CONC e ocean could be.  The weather is perfect and we are living a life of the utmost ease.  It i
2 CONC s so easy to laugh and be relaxed ---and romantic and all that rot.  We are enjoying every pr
2 CONC ivlege the ship offers except eating at the first class table.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      Suppose you would like to hear of my adventures and all that tale since I left south.  T
2 CONC he trip has been absolutely uneventful so far as weather goes altho we did run into rain on o
2 CONC ur way up to Frisco.  There was plenty  of rought water for most of the passengers aboard o
2 CONC n our way thru Santa Barbara Straights, but I felt perfectly well myself.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      I got off the boat at Frisco and had dinner and then went to see the "Show Boat" and the
2 CONC nce to the YMCA hotel for the nite.  I phoned the Alexander's Sunday and they invited me to s
2 CONC tay with them at their home in Oakland while I was in that region.  We stayed.  Sunday aftern
2 CONC oon we went for a ride up to Stanford and looked the college over.  Monday we played tennis
2 CONC s and fooled around doing the town and playeng ping pong.  Tuesday we went all over the U.C
2 CONC . campus and then took some girls for a ride in the hills that afternoon.  The girls were a c
2 CONC ouple of college girls taking a trip to the Orient---a blonde and a brunettee and both plent
2 CONC y easy to look at.  Use your imagination----and I have no competion aboard ship either.  Tues
2 CONC day nite we played cards until late.  Wednesday we went aboard ship and sailed promptly at no
2 CONC on.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      The water was quite rough the first day out of Frisco and the dining rooms were noticeab
2 CONC ly vacant at meal times.  Felt fine myself, however.  Thursday we started making rounds and g
2 CONC etting acquainted with everyone and we met some very nice people.  Amoung my best aquaintance
2 CONC s on board is one Japanese gentleman from Tokio.  Most all the Japs and Chinese speake Englis
2 CONC h fairly well.  Since then or since I got board boat my time has been taken up with deck game
2 CONC s, getting aquaineted and eating and sleeping.  The two girls names both are Helen.  I call '
2 CONC em my harem and we more or less represent the younger set on board boat.  They call me thei
2 CONC r "Man".  Lots of fun dodging one or two soft old saps on board.  One old German just simple
2 CONC y will not take no for an answer and doesn't even get insulted at things any man ought to.  W
2 CONC ants to hold the girls' hands all the time.  We get a great kick out of dodging him however
2 CONC .  We had movies one nite.  Two rotten slap stick comedies.  Didn't even see them thru.  We d
2 CONC ance every other nite and my harem and Our Man rate very high then.  We certainly take the op
2 CONC position down the row in most of the deck games, too.  Tonite we have another movie, but my h
2 CONC arem and I are going to sit on deck and enjoy the moonlight on the water.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      You have heard and read of the beautiful nites on the ocean and especially on the Pacifi
2 CONC c.  I'm telling you that I have never seen any sight so beautiful in all my life.  The wate
2 CONC r is there so smoothe and restful and the wash of waves as the ship plows along and then th
2 CONC e streaming down of that gorgeous full moon in a warm silvery path across the ocean broken b
2 CONC y an occasional drifting cloud.  Beautiful beyond a painter's or a writer's brush or pen.  M
2 CONC y harem stayed up until very late just drinking in the beauty of the scene.  It was too beaut
2 CONC iful a nite to waste in sleeping.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      The weather is getting warmer as we get farther southward and the easiest thing I do i
2 CONC s sweat at the slightest exertion.  We will reach Honolulu nest Tuesday morning and spend th
2 CONC e day there.  I'm sorry that they do not stay longer there.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      The crew or rather my cabin boy, bath boy, table boy, and head steward all give us goo
2 CONC d courteous service.  Polish your shoes and call you every morning for your bath.  We bathe e
2 CONC very morning at 7:15 in a tub of hot salt water and then rinse off in fresh water.  At abou
2 CONC t 11 A.M. tiffin is served.  A little bowl of beef tea.  We eat at the first table and I si
2 CONC t at the officers right three places away.  The meals are all fine and there is always a wid
2 CONC e range of foods to choose from.  Tea is served at 3 P.M. every day and I take that on too
2 CONC .  Quite the old tooper, you know.  The bar is in full swing, but can't say that it is doin
2 CONC g a rushing business.  If they depend on my trade they could close up for 24 hrs. every day
2 CONC .  I have never enjoyed such perfect weather.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      My cabin mate is pimply faced, gangly young kid just graduated from high school in Birmi
2 CONC ngham, Alabama.  plays guitar and entertains royally with his southern accent.  He is going a
2 CONC ll the way to Manila with me.  Very nice young fella that obliges me by following every sugge
2 CONC stion I make.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      I rather plan to stay a day or two in Tokio where my Japanese friend lives and my hare
2 CONC m is getting off.  The ship stayes there several days (two days).  Yokahama is the port for T
2 CONC okio.  My Jap friend has been around the world and has been studying sound pictures in the U.
2 CONC S.  One of my harem has just been proposed to by a little Frenchman from Manila.  Pretty hot
2 CONC , No?
2 CONT 
2 CONT      The swimming pool, a big cnvass tub, has just been opened and I guess I'll have to go an
2 CONC d see how every thing is getting along and protect my harem.  I shall drop you another card f
2 CONC rom Honolulu.
2 CONT 
2 CONT           We are near Hawiian waters so I shall say aloha
2 CONT Arden
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dear Folks:
2 CONT 
2 CONT      We have just done Yokahama and are now about to sail into Kobe for another day.  Have be
2 CONC en having a most wonderful trip the whole way over and have plenty to write you about.  I bel
2 CONC ieve that my stop in Honolulu was not chronicled to you at all.  I shall begin there.  Ther
2 CONC e was four of us in a party together from S. F. on.  My harem and my cabin mate, Ray.  They a
2 CONC nd I are we in this story because we were always together.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      We sailed into Honolulu docked and got ashore by about 9 a.m.  In the meantime one of th
2 CONC e girls had a boy friend that lived in Honolulu so she phoned him and he came down to get us
2 CONC .  He had to work, however, and so he gave us the use of his car to drive around Honolulu an
2 CONC d the surrounding territory.  We drove all over the city and then took a trip out to one of t
2 CONC he beaches and on our way saw sugar plantations, banana trees, mangoes, paipaiya trees, and c
2 CONC ocoanut trees.  The foliage all over the island was a beautiful green such as you see aroun
2 CONC d Washington -- so I've heard say -- The beach was an obscure one, but it was most beautiful
2 CONC .  There were at least a dozen different soft shades of green and blue in the water.  All ove
2 CONC r the island the trees are in full bloom and there are trees just simply loaded with large re
2 CONC d blossoms, yellow blossoms, salmon, blue, purple, and various shades and inter-mixtures of a
2 CONC ll of shades.  It is like one large and beautiful flower garden.  The climate is especially c
2 CONC onducive to  and easy life with much music and romance.  There is an unhurried spell about th
2 CONC e place that you feel when you first arrive there.  Rushing around as we did, the slow, easy
2 CONC , slumberous or rather langorous spirit was not appreciated nor wanted.  We did a little shop
2 CONC ping had a lovely salad lunch of Hawaiian fruits and then back to the ship to the ship our ne
2 CONC rves all shot to a frazzle.  There is something about leaving Honolulu that is different fro
2 CONC m all other ports.  It is the spirit and the spirit is one of sadness and farewell.  You fee
2 CONC l it in your bones.  A sad sweetness with a certain heart wrench about going away that you d
2 CONC o not feel at any other port.  Yes, there is a charm about the islands that is hard to defin
2 CONC e and it rather stifled me some way.  I don't believe I shall ever want to live there.
2 CONT      Then started the ten day trip to Japan.  the days floated by like dreams.  It is a funn
2 CONC y sensation.  There was a sense of pleasant unrealty about the whole thing.  Today I cannot t
2 CONC ell you without some mental effort what the hour and the day and how long we have been on th
2 CONC e way.  We have benn blessed with perfect weather all the way across and I haven't had even t
2 CONC he slightest towuch of sickness of any kind.  Every other nite we have movies on board, but t
2 CONC hey are terrivle two reel things that disgust me so that I have yet to see a complete show
2 CONC .  The crew gave a very fine entertainment one nite in the way of some Japnese plays.  I di
2 CONC d not stay to see them, because I felt nervous and restless and wanted to be by myself and wa
2 CONC lk and think.  They had dances oncr of twice a week too.  I and my harem certainly did show a
2 CONC dvantage there alright.  They had a fancy dress ball and my harem had two mantillas so they d
2 CONC ressed as dizzy Spanish senoritas and I as a gay dashing caballero.  They tell me that I mad
2 CONC e a most dashing young Spanish blood.  Then every nite my harem and I would be entertained b
2 CONC y young Japanese men and Chinese telling us about the customs of their countries and their ge
2 CONC stures and descriptions were certainly fun to see and listen to.  Then there were long, beaut
2 CONC iful nites alone with the girls that were like majic hours of romance.  One of the girls I se
2 CONC emed to have known for years.  It was a queer sensation.  I seemed to be able to tell absolut
2 CONC ely what she was thinking and how she was feeling, especially how she felt.  When she felt ra
2 CONC ther low, blue of high-tentioned I could feel it.  She used to lay down with her head in my a
2 CONC rms or in my lap and I would rub her head and neck mustles.  I could feel her begin to rela
2 CONC x and feel better right away.  Funny thing, I would feel all shot to pieces of high tensione
2 CONC d and when I got thru with her there would be that same peaceful feeling of content and happi
2 CONC ness in me that shee would feel.  I have never felt so wonderful  around anyone in my life
2 CONC .  She seemed to give me confidence and optimsim about the future that I have always lacked
2 CONC .  She expressed our sentiments absolutely one night after a particularly hectic day when sh
2 CONC e said she felt "Just as if there wasn't any more in the world to want".  A peculiar sence o
2 CONC f happiness and contentment that I have never felt before.  She's engaged to a fellow and sh
2 CONC e lives in Los Angeles so I guess I'm safe from any rash act. (that we might decide to do.(th
2 CONC is part was lined out))      The girls, and in fact most all of the passengers, got off in Yo
2 CONC kahama.  That is another chapter brought to a close.  The ship is populated most entirely wit
2 CONC h Japs now.  I shall tell you about our time in Yokahama and Tokyo.
2 CONT      We dock in Yokahama and the passengers getting off there had to have their baggage inspe
2 CONC cted for customs tax and what not.  We landed there and then got in ginrickshas and were take
2 CONC n to the street car station going to Tokyo.  We from now will be Ray and I.  Then our fun beg
2 CONC an trying to make the Japs understand what it was all about.  We bought tickets to Tokyo an
2 CONC d then rushed around and got on a train and sat there and rode until we finally saw an Englis
2 CONC h sghn saying Tokyo.  We got off and there we were without knowing why nor anything about it
2 CONC .  All this time we were more or less the center of attraction, because we towered over every
2 CONC one around there.  We started out walking and walked around the Imperial grounds and then int
2 CONC o a bunch of little shops and into the regular part of town.  We had a lot of fun just foolin
2 CONC g around in the shops and trying to get used to the traffic.  They drive on the left hand sid
2 CONC e and turn around any place they take a notion.  This is certainly a country of curious conta
2 CONC dictions.  You see the ginrickshas and the modern automobile, the trucks and the ox carts an
2 CONC d hand carts too.  European and Chinese dress.  Bobbed haired flappers in kimonas and littl
2 CONC e stilt like shoes shuffling along; Big elaborate coiffures of old Japan.  Tens of dozens o
2 CONC f different kinds of foot wear and lots of people dressed half Oriental and half European  Pr
2 CONC actically all the cars here are American make and the Chevs, Durants, and Fords abund in quan
2 CONC ity.  There are just thousands of bicycles and, of course, that seems rather funny to us too.
2 CONC .  Gasoline is very high here.  Costing about 50 cents American.  We are dealing in yen now
2 CONC .  A yen is about 45 cents and they have coins that equal 1/2 yen, 10 sen-- sen is 1/2 cent -
2 CONC - , 5 sen, and 1 sen.  Altho cars are high here and gasoline expensive taxis are very cheap
2 CONC .  I picked up my harem for the evening and we rode around for an hour for 2 yen.-- or rathe
2 CONC r 4 yen.  In Pasadena that would have cost about $5 or more.  Ray and I had a lovely 7 cours
2 CONC e European dinner for 2 yen a piece.  About half what it would cost in the U.S.  We got bac
2 CONC k to the ship late that nite.  The next morning we hired ginrickshas and drove all around yok
2 CONC ahama and visited a Buddhist temple, Shinto temple & then went into see the earthquake museum
2 CONC .  Certainly was a terrific catastrophe altho the cities with large reinforced steel building
2 CONC s that are supposed to be as near earthquake proof as possible..
2 CONT      That afternoon we left for Tokyo and then called at the office of one our ship friends
2 CONC .  He took an hour from his work and showed us more of Tokyo.  All three of us then went to t
2 CONC he YMCA and picked up my harem and another girl and went to dinner in a roof garden sort of p
2 CONC lace that overlooked the whole city.  It was beautiful to see the city at nite.  We had abou
2 CONC t a nine course dinner there with about 6 forks, and 4 knives --- no exaggeration at all --
2 CONC - and what is more I knew what to do with the tools too.  We got excellent European food an
2 CONC d fine service and only cost us 2 yen again.  Our Jap friend then took us to a dance hall whe
2 CONC re they had a good Philippine orchestra and we danced there for a couple of hours.  We got ou
2 CONC t and walked around among the shops awhile and then back to the YMCA where I had to say goodb
2 CONC ye absolutely to my harem and my Jap friend.  Ray and I finally got back to Yokahama and on s
2 CONC hip around 12:30.  The ship sailed at 10 a.m. Sunday for Kobe.  I was rather blue all that da
2 CONC y because we had lost absolutely all our friends that we had really made an acquaintance wit
2 CONC h at Yokahama.  Yes, I did hate to say good bye to my girlfriend, believe it ornot.  The shi
2 CONC p sailed into Kobe since I started this letter and has enterted quarantine and now is steamin
2 CONC g for the docks.  Thus you have a very or fairly close account of my journey thus far.  I a
2 CONC m now anxious to get to Manila and Cadiz to start work.  The next two weeks I'm afraid will d
2 CONC rag slightly heavy on my hands.  Let us hope not.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      Believe it or not, but my hair is just as curly as can be.  Not wavy, but littly curls a
2 CONC nd makes me look absolutely handsome.  I have not gained a pound and no one else seems to gai
2 CONC n either.  We eat like horses tho.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      I shall probably do Kobe with a little sight seeing excursion today.  Tomorrow we sail t
2 CONC hru the famous inland sea of Japan which they say is very beautiful.  Then to Shanghai.
2 CONT      One thing else and that is the toilets of Japan.  They have no sewage system and each li
2 CONC ttle deposit is carefully carted away to raise vegetables on.  The sweet scented orient is th
2 CONC us made up of benjou smells which you catch as you walk along in even the best places.  The t
2 CONC oilets are little porcelain affairs that are even with the floor.  Thus far I have not foun
2 CONC d it necessary to use one.  Seeing Japan makes me realize how really wonderful the U.S. is
2 CONC .  The little huts the Japs live in at Lindsay and in California are fine homes compared to h
2 CONC ere.  ADIOS
2 CONT                                                                               Love
2 CONT                                                                                       Arden
2 CONT 
2 CONT America-Euopean
2 CONT Young Men's Christian Association
2 CONT Manila, P.I.
2 CONT Corresondence Room
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dear Folks:
2 CONT      Finally we have arrivied at Manila and tho' I still have a two day steamer trip ahead o
2 CONC f me I feel as if I were somewhere close to someone again.  Since leaving Yokahama, Japan, th
2 CONC e trip has been very dull.  Talk about getting tired of doing nothing, I certainly did.  No w
2 CONC onder people with no work except to keep themselves entertained grow old quick & deteriate me
2 CONC ntally.  I'll have to tell you about seeing China at Shanghai & hong Kong.
2 CONT      First we left the China Sea and sailed into the Yellow Wea-- and yellow is certainly rig
2 CONC ht.  At one point the ocean is green and then just as if some one had put a wall to separat
2 CONC e the waters the sea is absolutely a deep brownish yellow.  This is caused by sediment from t
2 CONC he Whang Poo River on which Shanghai is situated.
2 CONT      We got off the boat & started to see China or Shanghai and we did - And how!  I've neve
2 CONC r seen so many people Swarming around in my life.  Just like ants and they don't look half a
2 CONC s clean.  Disease is absolutely rampant & we saw hundreds of men women & children with nast
2 CONC y skin eruptions all over their heads & often their whole bodies.  Some heads were masses o
2 CONC f boils; many had eyes out or nearly so from disease.  I have never seen so rotten a collecti
2 CONC on of humanity in my life.  Makes my stomach turn to think of it.  But the worst was the foo
2 CONC d market.
2 CONT      One whole street - size of a filthy alley in Los Angeles - was literally packed with lit
2 CONC tle carts and humanity.  You had to twist  your thru in order to get around.  There were thes
2 CONC e diseased dirty, filthy people sticking hands in and waving the food in the air and yellin
2 CONC g and jabbering like a flock of monkeys.  The smell of the food amounted to a stench worse th
2 CONC an anything you can imagine.  Rubbish of all kinds was arot out and dumped within a few fee
2 CONC t of the food carts.  Filthy beggars and women, men, children sleeping on the narrow walks an
2 CONC d in stairways.  I would rather eat the garbage tho out of our kitchen than touch that food
2 CONC .  We finally got to the YMCA and there bot some ice cream which was all we had until dinne
2 CONC r aboard the boat.  The weather was suffocating, too.  On the way to Hong Kong the next day m
2 CONC y stomach became upset - Shanghai & the weather _ and I missed several meals.  I was gettin
2 CONC g terribly sick of the food, anyway.  It was good, but nothing like the diet I have always be
2 CONC en used to.
2 CONT      After a sweltering trip thru the China Sea, we reached Honkong.  You can say all you wan
2 CONC t about British rule in Hongkong, but the place is clean and safe quite like a modern city
2 CONC .  (Shanghai is not safe for anyone).  We stayed one night in Hogkong & rode around the cit
2 CONC y and saw as much as we could of the place.  After Shanghai it was wonderful.  We had to chan
2 CONC ge boats, too.
2 CONT      We had to pay $12/50 more for passage 1st class on the Pres. McKinley - American Mail Li
2 CONC ne-.  We sailed 6 p.m. July 16, 1929 from Hongkong & arrived in Manila at 9 a.m. 7-18-29.  Th
2 CONC e $ line may cost lots more, but I've never had such wonderful food & American style in my li
2 CONC fe.  You have no idea how my whole system responed to the American food.  Not only good old U
2 CONC .S. style, but of the very best quality.  I had a tenderlion steak over an inch thick and jui
2 CONC cy as could be.  The last dinner aboard was some affair.  Never saw so many good things to ea
2 CONC t in all my days & you could order all nite if cared to.  It took two menus to print the asso
2 CONC rtment of foods.  If I go back 1st class it will be aboard a $ liner.  Otherwise an N.Y.K. bo
2 CONC at!
2 CONT      Manila is a very beautiful city as reckoned in the world at large.  I'll always think th
2 CONC e clean, orderliness of the U.S. towns preferable to what might otherwise be termed "pictures
2 CONC que" & "color".  However, we have no complaint against Manila.  I believe I shall like the pr
2 CONC ovincial town of Cadiz even better.  This is the rainy season here and I saw more rain toda
2 CONC y than in a whole year in the States.  It is comfortable enuf, however.  Received letters fro
2 CONC m Ray & Polly & a letter of introduction to Gen. Mgr. of the Company, Mr. Harris.  I like hi
2 CONC m very much.  The company is growing rapidly and I believe I can work into something quite go
2 CONC od with the possibility of opening offices in the States within the next year or two.  We sha
2 CONC ll see what is what, however.
2 CONT      Already I am wondering how long before I can save enuf to go back on.  No, I'm not homes
2 CONC ick, but I do certainly appreciate the U.S. now and will be glad to come back when the time c
2 CONC omes.  No doubt a year will see me sith you again.  I am anxious to be to work and believe th
2 CONC at I shall be happy in it.  My money has changed to Pesos which are worth $.50.  All Jap, Chi
2 CONC nese, and Philippine money is figured about 1/2 the U.S. standard.  China is a glorious mix u
2 CONC p so far as money goes.      Love,
2 CONT Arden
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT July 24, 1929
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dear Folks:
2 CONT       We have finally arrived in our new home and are promptly taken up with the Islands a
2 CONC s a whole.  The climate is womderful and the people tell us that this is as near the perfec
2 CONC t climate as can be found.  It is cool now, but of course there will days that are plenty hot
2 CONC .  It is very beautiful here and I have seen some of the most wonderful scenery already aroun
2 CONC d here.  The life is different.  It is much easier, of course.  It is much more conducive t
2 CONC o what I would call reall living.  More time to think, more time to read and study, more tim
2 CONC e to play.  You would love the tranquillity of the place.  I am not marrooned from civilizati
2 CONC on.  I find more real civilization here than in the States.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      I have yet to find anyone that has lived in the Islands for several years that does no
2 CONC t love the Islands.  I have found few that ever thot they would care to go back to the strif
2 CONC e and strain and the competition of America.  I don't know as I blame them.  I, at least, ca
2 CONC n understand and appreciate their view point.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      I was met at the end of my boat trip by Ray and Polly.  It is some 15 miles from where t
2 CONC he boat finally lands to Cadiz.  We had a very beautiful trip to Cadiz thru the sugar plantat
2 CONC ions and the occational cocoanut groves.  Altho it rains plenty here and rains easily, the co
2 CONC untry is not soogy nor does it have the appearance or feel of a dank climate.  It rains one m
2 CONC inute and the next minute the sun shines.  Tain is an incidental to life here.  Ray and Poll
2 CONC y certainly do have a beautiful place here in Cadiz.  It is on the beach amidst a cocoanut gr
2 CONC ove,  The bay is one singular tranquillity and beauty.  At high tide the water comes to withi
2 CONC n 35 feet of the front steps.  There are no breakers on this beach.  The swimming is quite id
2 CONC eal.  They have a beautiful home and it is furnished very nicely.  My room is very nice.  I h
2 CONC ave a very good bed and my room adjoins the bathroom -- more or less a private one, too.  I a
2 CONC m living in some style and have been since leaving the States.  I even know what most all o
2 CONC f different kinds of silverware stand for -- and I have run on to different combinations ever
2 CONC y oplace I have eaten.  I am beginning to feel at ease in going into a good hotel and orderin
2 CONC g my meals and am getting so I know what to expect and all that rot, you know.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      Since my arrival here, I have been going to one continual round of dinners and parties
2 CONC .  Every one is very hospitable here on the Islands and make you feel very much at home.  Th
2 CONC e parties were not given especially in my honor, but I happen to run inon an busy week with m
2 CONC ore than the usual number of dinner invitations for Ray and Polly.  One night I went to a bi
2 CONC g party given at a sugar central or refinery some hundred miles or more away.  Another youn
2 CONC g fellow and I with the belles of the Island did the party in the style parties should be don
2 CONC e.  Evidently there are only two eligible white girls of the better class and in good taste o
2 CONC n the Island.  Their father is the head of one of the large sugar refineries here.          H
2 CONC e profferred the use of his new Cadillac limousine and chauffeur to us.  The first time suc
2 CONC h a thing has happened, I am told and asked to appreciate.  But who cares about that.  The gi
2 CONC rls have never been in the States and have been brought up in an atmosphere of culture and wh
2 CONC at not.  I must tell you about the party for that was the unusual thing of the trip.  It wa
2 CONC s another introduction to provincial life.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      The occation for the party was a Spanish holiday known or didicated to Santiago, the pat
2 CONC ron saint of Spain.  The party was given by a wealthy Englishman, manager of the sugar mill
2 CONC .  They are admirable hosts.  There were over 100 people from all over the Island there.  Th
2 CONC e crowd was a mixed one including Spanish, Filipino, and Whites.  They have a large hacienda
2 CONC , home in the country, and there was much room for dancing and having a downright good time
2 CONC .  Music furished by an expensive Victor Electrola.  A large number of the pieces played wer
2 CONC e Spanish.  The Spanish idea of music here on the Islands does not have the life and color o
2 CONC f the music that we attribute to Spanish in the States.  There was every conceivable kind o
2 CONC f drink, hard or soft, and all of the very best obtainable.  There is a large and spacious ve
2 CONC randa around the whole house and there were big long tables all set for the gorge.  Dinner o
2 CONC r supper if you will was served between 10 and 11 p.m.  We all grabbed a plate and helped our
2 CONC selves to the choisce of several different kinds of meat, salad, vegitables, relishes, and wh
2 CONC at not.  There was enuf food for almost twice the number of people there.  We found our way t
2 CONC o the tables and there we found red and white wine in bottles awaiting oour desires.  It wa
2 CONC s a sumptuous banquet.  We danced and ated and drank -- cool drinks -- until one bell and the
2 CONC n decided to go home.  I stayed at Steve's, boy friend, from 5 am. until 7 a.m. -- total numb
2 CONC er hours of sleep that day.  But such is life.  We had a good time.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      Ray and Polly are very well liked here on the Island and very much respected -- as the
2 CONC y should be.  They are extremely gracious and charming without that falseness found in so man
2 CONC y of our charmin' people.  You know 'the forced smile type'.  You would love both of them i
2 CONC f you only had more time to get aquainted with them.  Very genuine and sincere and understand
2 CONC ing, the both of them.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      Uncle Ray has taken me thru the mill and the woods and I certainly saw an immense organi
2 CONC zation.  Altho the company is not the largest here on the Island, it is by far the most profi
2 CONC table.  They have declared a 20% dividend since the first year.  That is phenomenal.  The who
2 CONC le organization from woods to the mill is absolutely coordinated.  Uncle Ray deserves the cre
2 CONC dit of putting the plant from a losing proposition to where it is now.  He is accredited wit
2 CONC h being the smartest saw mill man on the Islands.  They are starting a new mill in the northe
2 CONC rn part of the Island group on Luzon, the principal island of the Philippines.  Ray and Poll
2 CONC y are leaving for Manila and the new saw mill in the next few days.  They are to be gone fo
2 CONC r a week or rather a month.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      There is a great opportunity for any white man in the lumber industry.  The trouble righ
2 CONC t now is in getting executives to take charge of mills and etc.  Ray tells me that right no
2 CONC w they could place tow mill managers.  They cannot find them.  He has offered to take me in a
2 CONC s and apprentice and promises promotion just so fast as I learn the details.  I see a big opp
2 CONC ortunity here.  The market for Philippine woods almost exceeds the supply and yet there i
2 CONC s a large supply at hand and under the government control here in the islands.  The trouble i
2 CONC s in getting white man with executive capacity.  In the whole organization here at Cadiz the
2 CONC r isn't one man with executive ability.  The one quality I believe I have is executive abilit
2 CONC y and if I learn the business I shall have the chance at a very good postion.  Of course, I s
2 CONC hall have to devote several years to learning the business knowledge of so large and varie
2 CONC d a business does not come over night.  Ray does not want me to start unless I am seriously g
2 CONC oing to stick with it.  I have decided to start in and stick it out.  The organization is lar
2 CONC ge enuf for real advancement and I think I would be foolish to pass up such an opportunity.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      I do not know wwhen I shall start in to work, but people do not hurry over here and Ra
2 CONC y is letting me become accousomed to the country and its ways and conditions before putting m
2 CONC e to work.  I have no idea what I shall be started to doing.  I expect most anything.  No dou
2 CONC bt I shall have the opportunity of working in both mills and the woods before the year goes b
2 CONC y.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      Imagine, all the homes are bulit of mahogany.  In fact almost everything here is made o
2 CONC f mahogany.  They even burn it for fuel.  The brown mahogany of the States is not the natura
2 CONC l color of the wood at all.  There are several different kinds of wood here that come under t
2 CONC he classification of Philippine mahogany.  Some is as clear and actually resembles golden oak
2 CONC .  Other is dark like walnut and some has red hue.  Some isquite white.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      The hills are very beautiful with their tall trees, palms, banana trees, countless ferns
2 CONC , and many different kinds of growth.  As a whole I believe  this is one of the most beautifu
2 CONC l spots I have ever seen.  You would love it here, I believe.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      I have played tow rounds of golf since arriving and from the looks of things I shall hav
2 CONC e the opportunity to play a great deal before I find my way back home.  Ray and Polly are qui
2 CONC te the golfers and everyone is doing it.  The cost is very nominal.  Clubs are cheaper, due
2 CONC s are very cheap, and there is every inducement to play.  They do not let work interfere wit
2 CONC h their pleasure here on the Island.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      I had 4 pair of pants made and the damn tailor made them all too small around the waist
2 CONC .  I got them back last night and I'm boiling mad this morning.  Soon as I have finished thi
2 CONC s letter, I'm going to go out and eat the ears off of one very healthy, now, tailor.  The pan
2 CONC ts all together would have cost me $7.50 dollars counting the tailoring.  The tailor does no
2 CONC t get his pay unless the pants fit.  I guess I shall have to bear the loss of the goods.  Abo
2 CONC ut $4.50, I should say.  I guess I shall have my pants tailored in Manila.  Send up a pair o
2 CONC f my States pants for a pattern.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      I believe you would like the life here.  It is easy, Genuine, tolerant, and there isn'
2 CONC t a rush as in the States.  People have time for one another here.  Every one reads a great d
2 CONC eal here.  Both men and women.  The amount men read gere is one of the big surprises of the p
2 CONC lace.  There is much here that you don't get here that you get in the States.  It is almost e
2 CONC ven up between here and there with the personality of the individual the deciding factor in t
2 CONC he equation 'which is best'.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      I am waiting for my States mail.  I have written a great deal and have received nothing
2 CONC .  Of course, I have to expect that at first.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Radios will hardly work here because of the Static.
2 CONT           Tell everyone hello and tell 'em I'm in a perfectly lovely & civilized place.  Arde
2 CONC n
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dear Mother & Father:
2 CONT 
2 CONT      Now for one month I shall be alone in a great house to come and go as I may after workin
2 CONC g hours.  I am at last working and I can say that I am more than gratified for the fortune th
2 CONC at has been mine these last or all my years, for that matter.  Here there is time to thaink a
2 CONC nd read and wonder and I can say that I am enjoying the experience thoroly.  I believe both o
2 CONC f you would like the life here.  It is unhurried, tranquil, and entirely wholesome if you ord
2 CONC er it that way.  It is an existence that would be hard to strike in the States.  This is th
2 CONC e land of manana -- tomorrow.   Everything is done manana.  It is dangerous and easy for th
2 CONC e mind to forget the States life.  To fall under the spell of the tropical life.  Here your w
2 CONC hite man is master or craven.  Here in the Orient there is a different psychology.  It is rom
2 CONC antic, deadly, with a charm that cannot be thrown off by the white who has been here too lon
2 CONC g -- missed too many ships.  The hurry and bustle, strife and competition is not so keen.  I
2 CONC t is a land for philosophers of the oriental philosophy.  There isn't the hard, strengthenin
2 CONC g philosophy of the west.  You understand the mystic thot of the East more easily.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      Uncle Ray and Aunt Polly have left for Manila and other ports for a month or more and co
2 CONC nsequently I have the whole run of the house to myself.  It is a large hacienda with a very l
2 CONC arge hall which is both living and dining room thru the center.  The library is the one plac
2 CONC e of retreat here and it is well-stocked with all kinds of books of the better type.  I hav
2 CONC e at least 50 good books that I particularly wish to read before too many moons pass away an
2 CONC d ther is an abundance of good current magazines around, too.  Really we live here much bette
2 CONC r than I have ever lived in the States.  We have servants to do all the work, altho it is n
2 CONC o mean job to get this childish people to understand and so what you wish to have done.  Th
2 CONC e people are quite a happy carefree people entirely without responisbility or moral values
2 CONC .  It is almost necessary to stand over and direct every move of their bodies in order to ge
2 CONC t anything done right  -- unless you have them trained as you would in time with any animal
2 CONC .  If I had ment of Bobbies mental --present development -- equipment to work for me I woul
2 CONC d feel more than gratified.  Bobby or any American boy for that matter is three years brighte
2 CONC r and more grasping mentally than these people.  You couldn't call them a tribe of morons bec
2 CONC ause they don't  have that much brains.  Of course, there are a good many exceptions to tha
2 CONC t rule, but the large majority of the people do not come under the rule of exceptions.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      You will remember that someone suggested that I would be greatly changed when I get bac
2 CONC k home.  Don't worry that was a safe one.  Already I have changed.  I have for the first tim
2 CONC e a chance to develop my own personality.  My experience gained with and from Clare certainl
2 CONC y is coming in handy now.  The valuable business experience I got thru Clare was better tha
2 CONC n a  couple of years in college.  I feel that I was especially fontunated in being with him a
2 CONC fter getting out of high school.  I believe I shall get a great deal from Uncle Ray, too.  So
2 CONC meone of these years I ought to be a valuable man to someone.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      I only have had or have about $80 left from my original amount to send back to McAlliste
2 CONC rs.  However, that makes about two hundred that I will stillowed them as I had some $20 fro
2 CONC m the radio credited against my account.  Oh, well I think I can that little debt off rathe
2 CONC r soon and be square with the world again.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      I have put in my application to join the golf club here and as that is the only social a
2 CONC nd recreation enjoyed in this part of the world I expect I shall put out the 50 or $25 and be
2 CONC come a golf fan.  Not having a car to keep up and no shows or entertainments to spend money o
2 CONC n I think I would be foolish not not join and get the benefit of the social and golf life.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      Well, Mother, you have passed another milestone on your carreer and I hope that it is o
2 CONC r was a happy one.  Mail was supposed to be in tonite, but I'll bet those dammed (crossed out
2 CONC ) Filipino post men sent my mail to Manila along with Uncle Rays.  I rather expect a letter f
2 CONC orm home today as it has been about long enuf to expect one.  Letters are among the events o
2 CONC f this place.  Say, Mom, I wanted to send you some little rememberance for your birthday, bu
2 CONC t honestly I haven't seen anything that I wanted to send you.  I have been so darn busy getti
2 CONC ng settled and oriented that I haven't had time to really look around.  Now don't think I for
2 CONC got you for one minute, because I didn't.  I haven't the slightest idea how old you are, bu
2 CONC t who cares about that.  Somehow time has lost a good deal of its meaning since I left the St
2 CONC ates.  Days seem to flow along smoothly and swiftly and the minutes and days are full, but no
2 CONC t with rushing to gain time.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      Both Uncle Ray and Aunt polly have made it very pleasant for me here and I cannot than
2 CONC k them too much.  They are both fine people with a broad perspective on life.  It is a pleasu
2 CONC re and an education to be with them.  One thing you can see the Whitefield in both of you ple
2 CONC nty strong.  You both have many characteristics alike and they are good ones too.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      I believe I have, at last, struck my opportunity so far as work for bread and butter goe
2 CONC s.  Uncle Ray and Aunt Polly both assure me that if I apply myself and grasp every job that i
2 CONC s set out for me I shall be promoted rapidly.  Due to dearth of executive material among th
2 CONC e whites here and the great expenses of importing capable men from the States they are starti
2 CONC ng in a young fellow with executive possibilities and work him thru the business and make an
2 CONC d executive out of him.  That is the position I occupy at the present time.  I am officiall
2 CONC y an apprentice.  My first job is to take inventory of the entire warehouse stock of the mil
2 CONC l here.  They have four bodegas, warehouses, full of different materials.  There hasn't bee
2 CONC n a real inventory taken for some time and I have found things piled around in pretty much o
2 CONC f a mess.  I have straightened out the bodegas, put them in order, and at last am getting a r
2 CONC eal inventory of the company's stock.  The job will no doubt take me into September to finis
2 CONC h as the thousands of stock cards are in pretty much of a mixup and it will atke a long tim
2 CONC e to straigten them out.  When they are finally fixed up, I can assure the world they will b
2 CONC e right to the last bolt as nearly as I can possibily make them. I get up about 5:30 a.m. an
2 CONC d have a cup or tow of coffee from a thermos bottle left in my room and then proceed to wor
2 CONC k at 6 bells.  I work for an hour getting my crew organized and started on the way andthen ha
2 CONC ve breakfast at home around 7:30 and then proceed until noow again.  We have an hour and hal
2 CONC f for noon and siesta and then to work again until 5:30.  Home for a bath and dinner abou
2 CONC t 7 of after.  We retire around 9 of shortly after.  Quite different from my life in the Stat
2 CONC es, eh wot?
2 CONT 
2 CONT      Aunt Polly mentioned that I could get the job of purchasing agent in Manila if I mastere
2 CONC d the details of what this company needs to keep it going along.  A purchasing agent is the o
2 CONC ne thing they need and don't have at the present time. A p.a. does all the buying for the thr
2 CONC ee mills and that is no small job.  The idea is that one man devoting his entire time to buyi
2 CONC ng will more than save his salary by making sucessful and more economical purchases and by ke
2 CONC eping the amchinery of the company operating smoothly and without hitch because of adequate a
2 CONC nd timely shipment of supplies.  The job pays well, too.  I do not know how much of a salar
2 CONC y I'll be getting at first, but it won't make me rich, I can assure you.  I have been assure
2 CONC d that it won't, in fact.  However, I am living exceedingly well and gaining much valuable ex
2 CONC perience.  There is no doubt that in my mind that this was the move to make for me.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      How is Pop getting along these days?  By golly, I sure miss having him around and woul
2 CONC d like to see and talk and argue a round with him right now.  I hope the eye is making famou
2 CONC s headway and I believe that it will, too.  Regardless of how the eye comes out, I shall alwa
2 CONC ys know that the perception of mind has increased many fold and that success has crowned life
2 CONC .  I can readily appreciate now the splendid training in many traits of character that I hav
2 CONC e unconsciouly picked up from his training.  I am, indeed, thankful to my parents for what th
2 CONC ey have done for me.  My inheritance is worth more that all the gold in the world -- and no g
2 CONC old could buy such an inheritance from me if it were there to sell.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      I hope you folks have found something to break into in the way of a business of some kin
2 CONC d.  I am anxious to hear from you and know all the dope about what has transpired since I lef
2 CONC t your horizon.  I believe the tide has turned for all of us and we will all manifest prosper
2 CONC ity form now on.  I am sure we all have i in our power to draw the things we most desire to u
2 CONC s.  We shall have a sufficiency of all things.  That is assured us.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      I have recieved several quite wonderful letters from my girl friend on the boat, Helen C
2 CONC ampbell of Los Angeles, I believe I mentioned her to you in one of my previosu letters.  Sh
2 CONC e seems to think I am just about the last word, if you get my slant on the idea.  I don't thi
2 CONC nk she's so bad, myself.  I write pretty good letters to her, too.  These women will fall fo
2 CONC r me no matter where I am or what I do.  She ought to fall for me, tho, because I always mad
2 CONC e her feel so darned good when she was with me.  Funny thing about her, I could sense just ho
2 CONC w she felt and more than once I sort of made her feel relaxed and in a happy frame of mind
2 CONC .  I always felt good around her myself -- sort of happy and conteneted, not hot and bothere
2 CONC d about anything at all.  Aw well, such is life!  Live within 15 miles of a girl for three ye
2 CONC ars and never meet her until you sail half way around the world and then leave her.  Aw well
2 CONC , hell, what of it!
2 CONT 
2 CONT      I've stayed an hour over my bed time just to write you folks a letter, but here goes.  I
2 CONC 'm off for my mosquito netting bed -- and profound slumber until sunrise tomorrow morning.  A
2 CONC nd the sun rising over the bay is beautiful and the fishing boats land with their day's catc
2 CONC h and half the population pick up half the day's meal then.  The other half of the meal is ri
2 CONC ce.  It is a beautiful and picturesque life, with ahppy children for people, and a romantic s
2 CONC etting with the graceful coconuts ever gracing the backround, and a placid bay always befor
2 CONC e you.  It is one different life.
2 CONT                                                                      Love
2 CONT                                                                           Arden
2 CONT 
2 CONT August 20, 1929
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dear Monther & Dad:
2 CONT      Sorry, I didn't get this order off with the last mail, but some few difficulties in so d
2 CONC oing.  Am having a great time here and everything is going as per the way it should.  Enjoy m
2 CONC y work immensely and see a good future in it as purchasing agent for the company.
2 CONT      Do not get the shorts or the tie as my work here and habits, i have since found, do no
2 CONC t demand either articles.  What I have will more than suffice for my needs.
2 CONT      Played a few games of golf the other day and went to a boxing contest last Saturday nite
2 CONC .  Had a great time watching the fights and the crowds gathered in the pavillion (big barn)
2 CONC .  Mr. Cameron, plant engineer, invited me for a ride to San Carlos on Sunday and we were gon
2 CONC e all day.  I saw a great many beautiful "South Sea Island" spots that were very picturesque
2 CONC .  Little villages tucked away back amoung the cocoanut trees and bamboo clumps.
2 CONT      The natives all gather around on Sunday at the way side barrios (stores) and gamble & tr
2 CONC ade.  The women & children and men are all great gamblers here.  The sugar plantations here a
2 CONC re certainly healthy looking.  Big, tall, heavy canes that give a good yield of sugar per ton
2 CONC .  Almost anything will grow here if you but stick it in the ground.  The natives are exceedi
2 CONC ngly cozy and do not plant any vegetables to sell.  They do plant quite a bit of corn which i
2 CONC n some parts of the Philippines is the standard food instead of rice.
2 CONT      We stopped in San Carlos, a big sugar refinery, and had dinner with a big ruddy old Dane
2 CONC .  He was quite a character and had been all over the world and had finally settled here to l
2 CONC ive & leave his bones.
2 CONT      We passed over the Dinao river (Dinow) which has a good many alligators in it.  Alligato
2 CONC rs are not hunted to any extent at all and it is dangerous to fool around them.
2 CONT      Aunt Polly & Uncle Ray will probably be back this week altho we haven't heard from the
2 CONC m yet.  I don't look for Uncle Ray to stay here in Cadiz much longer as he is getting too bi
2 CONC g for the place.  Rather expect to see him become Gen. Mgr. of all three of the mills.  If h
2 CONC e does he will live in Manila.  Uncle Ray is recognized as the best lumber man in the Philipp
2 CONC ines----- and there are plenty of them, too.  Many men come here to see how he runs his mil
2 CONC l and try to get some pointers themselves  Aunt Polly & Uncle Ray are both well-liked & highl
2 CONC y respected all over the Island.
2 CONT      This is a very beautiful place and living here is reputed to be the best in the Philippi
2 CONC nes.  the place is quite provincial, but we have all the comforts of civilization here.  I li
2 CONC ke it very much.
2 CONT      I'm studying hard in order to rise rapidly as possible in position and salary.  I won'
2 CONC t know until U. Ray gets back just how much my pay will be.  It won't be high, I am assured o
2 CONC f that.  At least, not a first.  I am always invited out once or twice a week to dine and ton
2 CONC ite I eat with the chief accountant and his Filipino wife.  Nice people even tho they are no
2 CONC t strictly Am.
2 CONT      Must be getting back to my work as I have plenty to do.
2 CONT      Remember no shorts or ties unless you have already gotten them for no good reason at all
2 CONC .  Tell everyone hello for me and be sure and write often about how you are making along wit
2 CONC h the world.  Give Pop a big kick in the pants and tell him to keep his nose clean and not fl
2 CONC irt around with the neighbors too much.
2 CONT        Adios
2 CONT                           Arden
2 CONT Will send you some photos one of these days of this place so you'll get an idea of the plac
2 CONC e your vagrant son is living in.  Arden
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Aug. 30-31, 1929
2 CONT Dear Mother & Dad:
2 CONT       Between spells and nothing to do but write.  Have been having a great time here and fee
2 CONC ling fine as could be.
2 CONT      Last Saturday afternoon I went out & plyed a round or two of golf and then rushed back t
2 CONC o the house, cleaned up, ate dinner and went to the big charity carnival here.  I saw severa
2 CONC l good boxing matches and walked around the grounds a little bit, but it was raining most o
2 CONC f the time so didn't see very much.  There wasn't much to see --- and they had no dances ther
2 CONC e either that nite.  It is quite a kick to watch the native crowds and their big, hi-powere
2 CONC d entertainments.  Last nite I mosiyd down town and all of a sudden heard a big noise of shou
2 CONC ting and music playing at a high pitch so decided to go down to the seene of the disturbance
2 CONC .  I figured they must at least, have killed someone or were tearing down a couple of buildin
2 CONC gs, but it was only the local movie playing a hot western thriller and the hero had just kill
2 CONC ed the other 50 villains in the nickel of time to save the beautiful peroxide blonde from bei
2 CONC ng done wrong by.  They get all het up over their movies here and take 'em to heart with th
2 CONC e proper actions to suit each mood.  I'd be scared to go to a war picture, because your neigh
2 CONC bor might take a notion to turn on you with a bolo and play at bayonet practice on your ribs.
2 CONT      I quit work the other morning and went out & had a game of golf.  You see I'd been doin
2 CONC g some hi- powered concentating on the inventory and my head was wobbly and my neck and shoul
2 CONC ders ached so I ups and has a game of golf to relieve myself a bit.  I felt fine when I cam
2 CONC e back.
2 CONT      The old inventory is getting inself wound up toward the end of the string and I ain't so
2 CONC rry a bit either.  I believe that I've done a darned good job of it and what I don't know abo
2 CONC ut saw mill and logging supplied ain't worth knowing.  I can see a lot a things that could b
2 CONC e better here and one of them is the purchasing of supplies.  It is only Uncle Ray's rare exp
2 CONC erience and goo judgment that makes this mill the paying concern that it is.  If he went awa
2 CONC y and left the mill now, I wouldn't want to answer for shape it would be in within a year's t
2 CONC ime.  The labor isn't to be trusted here as they'll steal the shirt off your back if they ca
2 CONC n get away with it.
2 CONT      Personally I'm working darned hard to get into the purchasing agent's job.  There ain'
2 CONC t no such animal now, but I aim to be it when they create the office.  No doubt in the worl
2 CONC d in my mind, but what I could handle the job after a few more months of education.  That i
2 CONC s one job I always that I like, but never could see anyway into it.  How I've got darned goo
2 CONC d chance to be it.  I ain't aomon at anything else either, because that is one job I like an
2 CONC d it pays very well, too.  I'd like to get the job of buying for all three mills and that wou
2 CONC ld be a darned sweet job, too.  I always get what is best and I aim to get that job if workin
2 CONC g and studying will do the trick.  I rather expect my present salary will be P150 or $75 whic
2 CONC h isn't very dam much, but good enuf for a start.
2 CONT      I sent back $80 to McAllisters on my note so I only owe about $200 all told now.  The so
2 CONC oner that can pay it the better.
2 CONT      The way things look now I'll be over here for at least three years altho I'm going to tr
2 CONC y and get back next year for awhile for certain reasons which I would not disclose at this ti
2 CONC me.  If I go I figure the company will pay my expenses.  Figure that out if you can and the
2 CONC n watch for me about next June.  I always make a change about that time a year and I'm planni
2 CONC ng ahead already just what that change is going to be.
2 CONT      My darned beard grows like grass over here and I have to shave every day to keep clean
2 CONC . ------------
2 CONT      Friday I went out in the afternoon and played a round of golf.  I didn't have anything t
2 CONC o do here at the office so took the opportunity to play a little golf.  That nite I went wit
2 CONC h Cameron, chief engineer, down to the carnival again and watched them pick the Queen and the
2 CONC n dance.  They are very formal and dignified in their dancing.  None of the carefree abando
2 CONC n of the American Youth here.  The native women's fancy dresses are very pretty and quite pic
2 CONC turesque.  Some of the more fancy and formal gowns had trailing trains which the belles carr
2 CONC y in their hand, as they dance.  I call them ladies from a page in the past'.  You can be saf
2 CONC e in saying that the beauty of women here blossoms, blooms and then bears fruit and dies in t
2 CONC he short space of five years of their whole life.  After child birth, they become regular squ
2 CONC aws.  There are quite a few people that we call mestisas here.  Mestisas are half native & ha
2 CONC lf something else.  Tonite we shall witness the coronation of the Queen and the big day of ca
2 CONC rnival week.  I might also take in a boxing match.  One thing sure I'm going to have a game o
2 CONC f golf this afternoon.
2 CONT      I have an application in to Join the golf club here.  The cost of initiation is P50 or $
2 CONC 25.00 and P5 per month.  As it is the only recreation to be enjoyed hereabouts, I guess I sha
2 CONC ll go in.  I am waiting for Uncle Ray to get back from Manila with a report on my salary an
2 CONC d the cost of room & board before I make any cash statements.
2 CONT      I don't know whether I even told you my daily routine or not, but here it is.  Rise 5:3
2 CONC 0 A.M. and get to work by 6A.M.; work until 7 or 7:30 and go home for breakfast; then work un
2 CONC til 12; lunch and siesta until 1:30 P.M., work until 5:30 P.M. and then bath; dinner around 7
2 CONC :00 to 7:30; and then the evening for what have you.  My meal service is quite unique.  The b
2 CONC oys set the table and get everything all ready and then ring the meal gong; I sit down & sou
2 CONC p is served.  I finish soup and ring the table bell; the soup dish is cleared away and a dinn
2 CONC er plate left for me; a try of several dishes are brought in and I help myself;  I eat that a
2 CONC nd ring the bell for a 2nd helping; eat that and ring again; the dishes are all cleared off a
2 CONC nd dessert served; coffee is brot on immediately afterward and then to finnish up the meal
2 CONC .  My water glass is refilled several times during the meal if nesessary.  My laundry is take
2 CONC n out two or three times every week and brot back two days later.  All this besides my room b
2 CONC eing cleaned & straightened everyday.  A thermos bottle of hot coffee is left every nite so t
2 CONC hat I can have hot coffee the minute I get out of bed in the morning.  Some life, eh wot?
2 CONT      This is a very beautiful place and Uncle Ray's home is one of the most beautiful place
2 CONC s imaginable.  Set in a grove of tall cocoanut palms and right on the beach of a beautiful ba
2 CONC y.  The native outrigger baneas or sail boats make a beautiful sight as they pass amoung th
2 CONC e bamboo fish traps in front of our home.  This is one of those romantic settings that you re
2 CONC ad about, but never expect to see ---  except that I am living here now.
2 CONT      I am, indeed, a favored son of destiny for every thing that best seems to come my way
2 CONC .  I am humble with recognition to the Source from which all things flow.
2 CONT      Somehow I feel as if I had hit my stride at last and know that there is no limit to th
2 CONC e success that I can and expect to attain in life.  I feel now as always that there is someth
2 CONC ing that protects me, most jealously and that no matter where I am or what I do no harm can b
2 CONC efall me.  I have gained a great deal in experience and many kinds of experience since leavin
2 CONC g home and know that I have benefited richly from all of them.
2 CONT      You know I can never quite repay Clare for the marvelous business training that he has g
2 CONC iven me.  I feel that I have grasp of certain business principles that many men never gain an
2 CONC d here, where there are not so many highly trained business men, I do not feel inferior at al
2 CONC l.  My youthful appearance is apt to be more against me here than anything else.  I think tha
2 CONC t obstacle wouldn't be safe here for him, because there a lot of good looking women running a
2 CONC round loose that might take advantage of his innocence.
2 CONT      Wherever you are living now, I hope you are getting along fine and happy.  Love to every
2 CONC one and a hello for everyone, too.
2 CONT                                        Arden
2 CONT P.S.  Give my regards to Clare & tell him I'm sorry to hear that he got a hold of some poiso
2 CONC n meat as poison meat certainly is mean stuff.  AWB.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Sept 21, 1929
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dear Dad:
2 CONT      Saturday morning and my work is pretty well done for the week so that I would write yo
2 CONC u a note.  I have finished my first assigned job of taking the inventory and according to eve
2 CONC ry one's report the job was well - done.  Even the natives under my supervision claimed tha
2 CONC t it was the best inventory ever taken.  Uncle Ray seemed justly pleased with my work.  Natur
2 CONC ally I feel rather proud of myself for turning out a good job on the start.  My job right no
2 CONC w consists of checking time on the men working in the yard and mill.  I have started in on th
2 CONC e yard men and there are about 150 men to check besides checking up on the regular timekeeper
2 CONC s.  It is some job, too, as there are men working under contractors mixed in with our men.  T
2 CONC hese natives have such a negative personality that it makes it harder to remember each man
2 CONC .  A good job to improve the memory.
2 CONT      Thanks to Uncle Ray and Aunt Polly I have quickly adapted myself to the country and fee
2 CONC l entirely at home.  Somehow I hardly feel further away than when you were in Lindsay and I i
2 CONC n Pasadena.  After all time and distance are not all together what they appear to be.  I ofte
2 CONC n think of you and miss having a good argument now and then.  Seems to me that I miss the fir
2 CONC e works of our arguments in which neither of us ever won a point over the other in our own es
2 CONC timation.  Uncle Ray tells me I'm a good deal like you.  I can see that, alright.
2 CONT      I believe that you would enjoy the life here more than in the States.  Everyone is not i
2 CONC n such a mad rush to get nowhere and there is time to go visiting and enjoy your neighbor's h
2 CONC ospitality.  A broader and more liberal life here!
2 CONT      It is a beautiful country and I am in love with its simple beauty.  There are untold opp
2 CONC eortunities for a man here if he is of a mind to take advantage of them.  It is essentially a
2 CONC n undeveloped land and the prospects for profitable and future development is great.  I was n
2 CONC ot wrong in the least in my belief in the future of this country.  Of course, hard work and h
2 CONC ead, work is as essential to success here as any place.  I often pinch myself to see whethe
2 CONC r I'm really here or in a dream.  Everything is better than I had expected.
2 CONT      I have also accomplished a great deal in myself.  Here I am an individual and am able t
2 CONC o express myself as one.  You have no idea how great a feeling that is for me.  I have come t
2 CONC o believe more firmly in myself and in my powers.  This belief instead of making me conceite
2 CONC d has rather made me more humble and appreciative of everyone and every instance that has hel
2 CONC ped me to shape my life.  I can for the first time appreciate the valuable training you hav
2 CONC e given me and which has thus molded my character.  I can appreciate the hardness and the tou
2 CONC ghness of the fiber that you have built in me.  Your unconsicous actions and attitude have in
2 CONC fluenced my character more than you can possibly ralize.  Coming here has made me appreciat
2 CONC e all that you are.  Made me see what a success you have made of your individual life.  Do no
2 CONC t for the second feel that because you have not piled up money that we don't think you have b
2 CONC een a supreme success.  A man who has stuck to his ideals no matter the result and who has co
2 CONC ntinually tried to improve his spiritual understanding is so much greater a man than those wh
2 CONC o have achieved riches and a hollow fame that dies with them.
2 CONT      I have come to believe that our rather mutual antagonism was due to our own like nature
2 CONC s and the direct positive action of both of us.  Yet I do not believe that ever a father an
2 CONC d a son loved each other more than we have.  If I could pick parents, conditions, life all ov
2 CONC er again, I would not change an instance.  My fortune has been rich beyoond all expectaion n
2 CONC o matter what move I have made.  I believe that life will always be full and complete for m
2 CONC e and for all that I shall ever have I shall always be grateful to your heritage.  No greate
2 CONC r gift has any man ever had than that from you to me.
2 CONT      I have found the girl, too, that I intend to marry.  I met her on the boat coming out
2 CONC .  I know that the short time we were together should ordinarily not be enuf for either Hele
2 CONC n or I to make any decision.  Realize all too well what everyone has a perfect right to concl
2 CONC ude - that ours was a sudden infatuation such as often springs up on summer trips.  Altho I r
2 CONC ealize all the criticism and the silent misgivings of my friends, I would not give up an iot
2 CONC a of belief in the fact that Helen is to be my wife.  Life has always been dealt clean hand
2 CONC s to me and all the circumstances surrounding our romance only serve to make me more sure o
2 CONC f our decision.  Somehow a voice more insistent than any I have ever felt seemed to say tha
2 CONC t ' Here is the girl for you and go ahead for she is to be your wife'.  The memory of that st
2 CONC rong voice coming to me at a time when my mind was cool and relaxed and we were thinking an
2 CONC d talking of some outside subject still bewilders me when I recall it.  I can hear that inne
2 CONC r command yet.  i did not even ask her to marry me.  We just started making plans and tryin
2 CONC g to remove one anothers doubts for everything seemed to be in a maze, a dream too sudden t
2 CONC o be real.  You can believe that the doubts which both had concerning our sanity were torturi
2 CONC ng our minds.  We wanted to believe, but couldn't.  Our last few days together drove every do
2 CONC ubt from our minds.  We parted one night in Tokyo, Japan.  I have never experienced such a lo
2 CONC ss, such a numbness of body and mind as our leaving caused me.  Helen wrote me that she, too
2 CONC , felt as if everything had gone with me.
2 CONT      We both realized, however that we had to part and that I had to come here and become est
2 CONC ablished and that she would have to go home and prepare things there.  She had just graduate
2 CONC d from U.S.C. this spring and the last minute had decided to take this trip to Japan as a gra
2 CONC duation present.  In four days she had decided and rushed around to get everything arranged f
2 CONC or this trip.  There were so many things that happened to both of us that I believe everythin
2 CONC g was ordered ---- as my life has always been.
2 CONT      Greatest of all revelations, for such they were to me, was the fact that somehow I alway
2 CONC s felt complete when she was around.  I have felt a lack which I could not guess for a long t
2 CONC ime, but when we were together I had that feeling of complete happiness, content and a greate
2 CONC r faith in my future.  She would come to me feeling 'shot to pieces' and 'blue' and very muc
2 CONC h out of sorts and before long she was happy, contented and feeling fine.  I could feel her f
2 CONC eelings running thru me and understand every mood she had.  The same was true of her in regar
2 CONC ds to my own feelings.  Helen described my feelings perfectly when she said that "it seems a
2 CONC s if there is nothing else in all the world to want when you are around".  I can truly say th
2 CONC at I have never loved anyone as devoutly and without passion in my life.
2 CONT      I confess this to you because you have always been able to understand and appreciate the
2 CONC se dear things to which I am sensitive.
2 CONT      She lives in Los Angeles and is a cocial worker among the dependents, diseased and the w
2 CONC orld's unfortunates,  She will either work in L.A. or in San Diego.  Her folks are well-to-d
2 CONC o and have more than the average in worldly goods.  Helen knows just how much I have and wha
2 CONC t she will have to put up with if she marries me.  There is no misunderstanding on that point
2 CONC .  She is working this year instead of going back to coolege at my suggestion that she lear
2 CONC n a little more of the value of money by earning some.  She is attractive and rather quiet
2 CONC .  You would like her.
2 CONT      I have written a great deal that I did not plan when I started this letter, but I am hap
2 CONC pier for writing it.  I hope that you will be happier for having heard me out.  Three month
2 CONC s ago I could not have written as I now do.
2 CONT      I have consumed most of the morning and now I shall have to turn again to business dutie
2 CONC s and so off to the work which I enjoy.
2 CONT                                      Arden
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT October 5, 1929
2 CONT Dear Folks:
2 CONT 
2 CONT      Was rather disapointed in not receiving a letter from you last nite in the State's mail
2 CONC .  Fact is I haven't received a letter from you since the first of September.  Mails must hav
2 CONC e been sidetracked somehow or other.  That is easily done here in this part of the world.  Th
2 CONC ere is no tradition of mails here as there is in the U.S.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      Have managed to fill in the week with to many parties of bridge.  Last Thursday Aunt Pol
2 CONC ly and I went to a big dinner and bridge party and it was 2:30 a.m. before we got home.  A
2 CONC s I had to get up at 5:30, yau can imagine how peppy I felt the next day.  The following Satu
2 CONC rday I was hooked nto an other party and after the first table I was asleep and managed to tr
2 CONC ump my own trick several times.  Even forgot what the trumps were and I was playing the hand
2 CONC .  I slept all day Sunday and made up for some lost sleep.  You don't recuperate nearly so fa
2 CONC st here as you do in the States from a little disspation.  The climate tends to enervate rath
2 CONC er than invigorate.  I miss a few hours sleep and I'm no good the next day.
2 CONT      I received a letter from Helen last nite and she said it reached 115 deg. in Pasadena o
2 CONC n Sep. 3.  I'm certainly glad that I do not live in such a hot country.  I don't see how yo
2 CONC u folks get along in such heat.  It is warm here, but it never gets like that.  It's funny wh
2 CONC at people can stand.  Yes, and Helen said it was hotter than hades from Fresno to Bakersfiel
2 CONC d on her trip from Yosemite.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      Last Monday she sent me her picture all fixed up in a blue leather folder.  Do I rate an
2 CONC d how.  You can see that I have become a gentleman at last.  Helen is a distinct blonde.  Lig
2 CONC ht hair and blue eyes and all that rot which blondes have.  As predicted, I've fallen and how
2 CONC .  The fall is mutual, however.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      Uncle Ray is still away in China and we do not know when he will get back.  Aunt Polly s
2 CONC ays no matter how soon he gets back it will be too long for her.  They are both extremely dev
2 CONC oted to one another.  It makes me happy to see them so happy with one another.  Both have no
2 CONC t had the easiest nor the most fortunate experience in their first loves.  Uncle Ray will no
2 CONC t be here in Cadiz much longer.  They are due to live in Manila soon as the right man can b
2 CONC e found to manage affairs here.  When that time comes, I shall probably find things slightl
2 CONC y different for my self.  We shall see what manna brings us.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      Am progressing right along with my work of checking the payroll and learning the differe
2 CONC nt departments.  Lumbering covers such a wide scope of activities that one needs must hav
2 CONC e a large perspective to grasp the organization as a whole.  I feel that I shall be capable o
2 CONC f it however.  I am enthusiastic over my chances here and really expect to get into somethin
2 CONC g good.  As usual my age is a handicap.  Damn it why must my age always work so hard agains
2 CONC t me.  I know my ability or rather have confidence that I can do the work.  Just a kid, but s
2 CONC ome kids are not so slow as some of these old farts are.
2 CONT      We'll just have to do our work the best way we know and then let the good providence o
2 CONC f my destiny take its way.  Every day I feel that I am destined to play more than an averag
2 CONC e part in the world's affairs.  There is a need in this world of ours for people who can orga
2 CONC nise and inspire others to a greater universality of tolerance.  Some day I'm going to writ
2 CONC e something and I have faith that it will be recognised.  Since coming here I have found it e
2 CONC asier to express my self more and have written in the simplest and most straight forward mann
2 CONC er that I am able to command.  Ideas simply expressed form all of the really great reading o
2 CONC f the world's history.  Then why make a show of a vocabulary which anyone can acquire, yet fe
2 CONC w do and can understand lots of the unusual words used.  Simplicity in all things I have com
2 CONC e to believe is the richest and most powerful way.  Simple food, conservative clothes, healt
2 CONC y habits are all condusive to a straightforward and fruitful life.  Straight honesty in all t
2 CONC hings, a profound appreciation of all situations all give us an understanding and judgment wh
2 CONC ich if mstaken will be an honest mistake.
2 CONT      I find the work of influencing men and more or less handling the personnel of the firm h
2 CONC ere is very much to my liking.  The psychology of handling these simple folks (or any for tha
2 CONC t matter) interests me and I believe that I understand how to get the most out of them withou
2 CONC t driving them.  The one thing these people cannot do is to organise their activities.  Sinc
2 CONC e I have been checking the yard crew of 150 men, I have and others also have noticed a bette
2 CONC r moral and more work with less men.  My influence has been purely psychological as I have n
2 CONC o authority to issue commands or to fire anyone.  I have also made suggestions to different h
2 CONC eads for the improvement of the personnell and have seen them carried out with success.  Yo
2 CONC u can imagine that I feel confident of my abilitiy even more with each successful move.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      I trust that you are all well and that you have worked out events a little more to you
2 CONC r happiness.  I regret that I cannot in some way fashion life for you after my own desires fo
2 CONC r you, but am wise enuf to realise that right now it is not to be.  You can be sure that I un
2 CONC derstand and appreciate all that you have and are going thru in this life.  That I consider t
2 CONC hat both of you have made supreme successes of your lives in that you have held to your ideal
2 CONC s and have climbed far upward in evolution.  Mu only hope is that I shall be worthy of you an
2 CONC d vindicate your faith in me.
2 CONT                                                           Arden
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dear Folks:
2 CONT 
2 CONT      Regular weekly letter home.  Boy and how these weeks do fly.  Never dreamed that time co
2 CONC uld pass so quickly.  Here it is going on Thanksgiving and we have to send our Xmas parcels o
2 CONC n their way now or they won't get home in time.  Before we know it the year will be startin
2 CONC g anew again.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      I had Aunt Polly pick up some little present for you, Mother, in Hongkong and I'll be d-
2 CONC -- if she didn't pick out a luncheon set.  I couldn't very well say anything and as she offer
2 CONC ed to wrap it and send it home with her things I couldn't transfer the present to anyone else
2 CONC .  Now if you wish you can give it to someone else for an Xmas present.  As I remember you ha
2 CONC ve a whole flock of those luncheon sets and never use them too much either.  I may not rememb
2 CONC er just exactly right; but don't hestiate if you want to give some one that set for a presen
2 CONC t from you not from me.  Loerdy, but I haven't a cent to spend as usual this year.  However
2 CONC , I'm going to try and pick up a few little nicknacks that will be peculiar to the Orient an
2 CONC d don't cost too much either.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      Now for the big news.  Uncle Ray put me in charge of the yard crew as ass't Yard Master
2 CONC .  After I get on to the details I'll have complete charge of the yard.  My duties consist i
2 CONC n handling about 200 men who are piling, loading, cleaning, trimming lumber, getting up order
2 CONC s and what not.  We handle wver 2,000,000 bd. ft. a month from the mill and ship out almost a
2 CONC s much.  We handle altogether between 3 & 4 million feet of lumber every month.  It is quit
2 CONC e a job to oversee and keeps me going pretty strong.  Some responsibility but that is what I'
2 CONC ve been wanting.  I want to show some of these xxxxxxx xxxx of men over here that while I'm s
2 CONC till young I'm not so dam slow as they are or think I am.  Some of these guys or bozos like t
2 CONC o treat me as if I were ten year old that din't know enuf to keep his ears clean.  I know m
2 CONC y limitations a dam sight better than they do and don't try to kid myself or anyone else abou
2 CONC t what I can do.  When I get thru we're going to have a real yard crew and a darned nicely or
2 CONC ganized yard unless I'm all wet.  There is plenty of room for improvement and I feel darned c
2 CONC onfident that I can improve it.  Time will tell that.  It's a funny thing.  Iought to feel el
2 CONC ated over the promotion; but it seems as if it's just another job to be analysed and worked o
2 CONC ut in better shape.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      Because of the Jap hard times and the Chinese revolution and local suspense over the ind
2 CONC ependence issue, business is not as bright as it might be.  For a small concern it would be t
2 CONC ough times, but for a large one like this it is just quiet.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      Three letters from Helen and two from Bert in the last mail.  Helen just had two impacte
2 CONC d wisdom teeth jerked out.  Felt pretty rotten for a while.  i don't believe that dammed dent
2 CONC ist pulled out my impaction.  If he didn't he's going to have the privilege of pulling out th
2 CONC e tooth when I get back.  Helen still thinks I'm the Cat's whiskers for her.  I feel the sam
2 CONC e about her and gosh what a long time it's going to be to keep feeling that way about one ano
2 CONC ther with out being together.  Must be a pretty strong attraction if three weeks together an
2 CONC d less make me still feel 'nuts' over anyone girl.  Me who loved 'em and left 'em.  It's hard
2 CONC er for her than for me, however.  She had two or three steady b.f.s and they still call aroun
2 CONC d and take her out and all that rot.  She writes each occasion and interesting comments etc.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      Life is being extraordinarily good to me.  I have my ups and downs, but the main strea
2 CONC m flows good and strong.  These gray hairs of mine which are quite noticeable now are sort o
2 CONC f a paradox.  Funny how things work out for me now.  For over a month I have wanted a job wit
2 CONC h some responsibility.  Without mentioning the fact I got that job and It is some responsibil
2 CONC ity.  I have wanted to appear older so that my youthful appearance wouldn't be such an obstac
2 CONC le to getting on.  We get a few gray hairs & I don't feel so enthusiastic about them either
2 CONC .  I am being tried and tested in more ways than one.  I have the best of living conditions a
2 CONC bout me and yet that doesn't effect the size of my head.  Live in the same house with the Bos
2 CONC s and stil keep my relations with him as they should be.  Get homesick, down in the mouth, no
2 CONC thing to do for a month or more and still the main desire is to stick and fight it out and cl
2 CONC imb to a higher job.  helen writes that she wishes I would come home almost regardless of opp
2 CONC ortunity or none.  Fact that I could help you folks more if I were there and olts of reason
2 CONC s I could think of to climb the next boat home.  Lots of temptations.  Licquor and people dri
2 CONC nking yet I take a drink have enuf and leave it alone as I will.  Never in all my life hav
2 CONC e I felt such a level-headed confidence in my own self.  I can depend on myself to meet any s
2 CONC ituation as it should be met.  A million dollar asset to me.  I have come to feel that so lon
2 CONC g as I give thanks to the proper source and realize from whence all things flow that my lif
2 CONC e shall be one of utmost happiness & success.  I hope my life will bear out the trust of you
2 CONC r beliefs.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      Trust that you are all well and happy.  Sorry to hear that certain of you have to ailin
2 CONC g all or part of the time.  Wrote a letter to Clare.  Hope to devil that he writes back.  N
2 CONC o use of anyone being too busy and yet I know how it is with him.  Love to everyone and lot
2 CONC s of all good things to you
2 CONT Arden
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dear Carol,
2 CONT      By this time, no doubt, you have heard that I was the Sultan of Siam but even so I'm sti
2 CONC ll my old big-hearted self.  Just goin' along spreading kindness & cheer wherever I may & doi
2 CONC ng things in a big way.  A great big lumber man from the Orient tryin' to get along and not b
2 CONC other anyone.  That's me!  I'm like a big spatter, but nobody saw me.
2 CONT      Well sir, you know I took the other $50,000 and bought red flannels for all these nake
2 CONC d native babies here.  There was some tall scratchin' done when those were distributed.
2 CONT      No doubt, you have received my Xmas presents by this time.  Lucky girl!  I haven't sen
2 CONC t any.  Reason for that was that there just wasn't anything good enuf for you and if I couldn
2 CONC 't get the best  why I wouldn't get anything.  You know how us workin' boys are.  We got ou
2 CONC r pride.
2 CONT      We received the seed and over half of them are paid for.  That's what I call a real reco
2 CONC rd.  The part not paid for is owed by a guy what is tight anyway.  Only I didn't know it whe
2 CONC n I was big-hearted & ordered the seeds.  This guy is so tight that here in a country where w
2 CONC hiskey is no sin and rubbing alcohol is not poisoned he spoiled grape juice by putting a kic
2 CONC k in it with alcohol right straight from the good old medicine chest.---------- Then I went h
2 CONC ome and had nightmares instead of a plain, old nightmare.  I figured I ought to be polite eve
2 CONC n if it killed me.  I'm that tenderhearted.
2 CONT      Talk about a society gink.  Well, I am.  The last two weeks we've had about 40 people o
2 CONC r so in to dinner and when people weren't in we were out.  Company don't bother my appetit
2 CONC e - not even much.  I invariably grab the wrong fork, but I don't feel bad about that becaus
2 CONC e most everyone else thinks they grabbed the wrong one instead of me.  And bridge 1.  I can s
2 CONC tay awake  three tables; but really a fella can't stand punishment too long in one shot.  I'
2 CONC d hate to be married because I'd get my shins cracked  for going to sleep or looking horribl
2 CONC y bored.  Of course, I never really get bored.  I just get knocked out on my feet.  This Frid
2 CONC ay We are going to dinner - dance party for about 40 people.  thoings are gonna be done i
2 CONC n a big way.  All kinds of grub & drinks & games & dancing & all that rot.  We're gonna mak
2 CONC e merry with our gorgozzola.  My job is to run the phonograph & keep my food down.  We're goi
2 CONC ng to make whoopee, as it were.  Piles & piles of people are gonna come & be glad of it.  M
2 CONC y room is going to be the depository for infants as they arrive.  We ain't got no much to ea
2 CONC t outside of food so we're going to have a H2O drinking contest before eating.  The one who d
2 CONC rinks the most H2O gets a pound of dried apples for dinner.  Everyone else can take another d
2 CONC rink when they get hungry.  No olives will be served, because we're afraid people will hear t
2 CONC hem splash.  Imagine my embarrassment.  One old dowager with a tandem & gall stones is slte
2 CONC d to take a roll on roller skates.  She thinks she has touble with her stones now,   but wait
2 CONC 'll she tries to skate on her tandem.
2 CONT      Hope everyone is feeling OK now; but don't believe it would be quite the thing in your f
2 CONC amily & those connected closely thereabouts.  It isn't that you couldn't all feel well at on
2 CONC e time; but more that you just haven't gotten around to it yet.  I'll bet Carol Jean is som
2 CONC e miss at school.  I can see her showing 'em how and doing a good job of it.  And Norman if h
2 CONC e like I was when I was real young, say before I was born, must be a whiz.  I got to admit th
2 CONC at he must be good, though.  And you say he's stretching upwards a little, too.  Well, we won
2 CONC 't kick at that; altho the way a fellow is built don't make a particle of difference with th
2 CONC e kind of a man he is.  And tall or short, wide or lean just so he's a olt like me you got t
2 CONC o admit he's all right.  And so's your old man.
2 CONT      I wake up around 5 a.m. every morning and that's over an hour before sunnrise, too.  Th
2 CONC e sun sets, too, before we quit work.  I take a cold shower every morning when I get up an
2 CONC d I got to admit it makes me feel better.
2 CONT      My new job a foreman of the yard certainly keeps be busy.  Actually interferes with my g
2 CONC olf.  Uncle Ray gave me a raise of $25 and, boy, I felt like old man Gottrocks, as Helen woul
2 CONC d say. --- Yes, I've even fallen so far as to quote her.  She still thinks I'm the cat's whis
2 CONC kers & I admet it to her.  She ain't so bad.  She's taking bumb bell exercises; but it's to b
2 CONC uild up her health & not for my benefit.
2 CONT      I shall be alone Xmas as Uncle Ray & Aunt Polly will be in Manila for a month or more
2 CONC .  I can't realize that Xmas is almost here What I can remember is how mentally miserable & u
2 CONC nhappy I was this time last year.  And this year I am settled in my aims & future & happy, to
2 CONC o, as anyone can be & still want something.  Have sent $20 today to the folks to be used to b
2 CONC uy them presents from me.  There is absolutely nothing that you can get here suitable for pre
2 CONC sents.  Entiende Ud?  Ex I looked around to every story in town for a pocket knife; but could
2 CONC n't get anything but cheap tin ones.
2 CONT      Play golf regularly & don't get much better fast.  Wish Laurence could take on golf i
2 CONC n a place like his.  The cost is absolutely the lowest in the world, I believe, and a good co
2 CONC urse, club house, & caddies for 10 cents a round.
2 CONT      The New Year will be with you when you receive this letter.  Best Wishes & all that a Ne
2 CONC w Year should bring which is good to you.  Wish everyone around a Happy New Year for me.
2 CONT                                                                       As foolish as ever
2 CONT                                                                                Arden
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dec. 18, 1929
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dear Folks
2 CONT       We're busy as the devil now, but I can always find time to write the best Mother & Da
2 CONC d in the world.  Another week and Christmas will be here again.  Me an' three dogs in a big h
2 CONC ouse will do the honors.  However, I'm just as happy to be alone as I have not been able to g
2 CONC et people very much for Xmas this year.  You know what you got and all the rest combined go
2 CONC t twice as less.  Even Helen got a good go-bye.  However, I trust that she has level enuf hea
2 CONC d to understand plain facts.  I don't make any boners about how much I haven't got to her.  N
2 CONC o use trying to explain away false Ideas later on.  It's too hard work & I'm lazy that way.
2 CONT      Glad to hear Lindsay had a champ football team this year.  They need one.  That shows wh
2 CONC at having on coach for severalyears will do for a team.  Glad to hear Coyne still grabbing lo
2 CONC cal honors on the mound.  There's a thrill in that sort of thing; but it is nothing compare
2 CONC d to the thrill of loading on board an ocean freighter a million feet of lumber and do it i
2 CONC n record time.  Not half the thrill of planning and managing 175 men and getting the work don
2 CONC e.  Not half the thrill of waking before dawn and get the crews at work in the gray dark of d
2 CONC awn.  Building, constucting, managing, creating ------------ what else could a live man ask?
2 CONT      I am in my element.  I am creating and working plans out.  It is the great thrill to fee
2 CONC l Devine Power flow thru your system and manifest in clear, organised work.  Never a day pass
2 CONC es, but what at least once and often more times I give thanks and am humble to the Devine Pro
2 CONC vidence that guides me each day and manifests through me.  With every new responsibility I fe
2 CONC el more humble and grateful.  True humility and recognition of the Devine Power is the root o
2 CONC f all Real Success.  Thank God for the wonderful heritage you have given me that enables me t
2 CONC o appreciate the true Being.  That heritage is priceless.  I can never repay you fo that.
2 CONT      Uncle Ray & Aunt Polly have left for Manila again.  And a happy couple they are.  They g
2 CONC ave me a Chinese pipe all of brass & pretty design.  It is a rare ogject.  I am tickled pin
2 CONC k with it and it will always be amoung those things to show people.  I have to be Santa Claw
2 CONC s & give out the Xmas presents to the emplyees- Big hearted- that's me.  They are all gettin
2 CONC g presents picked up in China.
2 CONT      We certainly are having some parties this week.  Monday two married couples invited me o
2 CONC ut to the Club House for dinner and then we all came in here and had a glorious swim under th
2 CONC e rays of the great, old Moon.  What beautiful nights we have here when the moon is out in gl
2 CONC ory.  The soft, silver path across the rippling bay; the cocanut trees silhouetted against th
2 CONC e shy; a fleeting cloud plying hide & seek across the moon; soft rustle of the breeze in th
2 CONC e cocanut palms; and the low roar of the ocean.  It is black moon magic.  The spell is cast a
2 CONC nd my heart goes out across the ocean.  The beauty; serenity; the longing that comes to me o
2 CONC n these magic nights can never be described on paper.  I want to sit down and write; but am t
2 CONC oo full of longing and beauty to do it.  I think of- well, if only Helen were here with me no
2 CONC w.  you know and understand.  I can't help feeing rather incomplete.  "The other half" I neve
2 CONC r realized what and how much that meant before.  And ever so often the natural sounds of th
2 CONC e night are broken by strumming of some string instrument and heart full of the magic of th
2 CONC e moon sings a curiously plaintive song that comes from the heart free of all affection.  Wha
2 CONC t beauty---- and I am all alone.
2 CONT      During the last typhoon on of our coconut trees was blown down.  In the top and heart o
2 CONC f the tree is a delicious meat which is highly prized as a food.  It is a rare treat for in o
2 CONC rder to get it out ordinarily you would have to kill the tree.  Coconut salad and it is ver
2 CONC y rich & delicious.  The natives prize it highly.
2 CONT      I am getting along famously in my work and Uncle Ray has commended me thus far for the i
2 CONC mproved condition of the yard department.  Incidentally I have lowered the cost per day in la
2 CONC bor considerably and yet get more work actually done.  However, they haven't seen anything Ye
2 CONC t for I'm going to have the best yard department in the Philippines before I'm through with t
2 CONC he job.  No foolin', I am.
2 CONT      Glad to hear that Bert called on you and I'm telling that there is a real prince of a fe
2 CONC llow.  His own folks keep him down and his heart is too darned good to hurt them.  Anytime yo
2 CONC u see him why give him a real glad hand and make him believe that he's the man he really is
2 CONC .  He can help you in many little ways if you'll do that for him.
2 CONT      Heard from Art Reisner.  he's getting along OK.  Says that his interest in athletics lik
2 CONC e mine is rather passive.  Helping fellows who need help physically & mentally os his big ai
2 CONC m now.  He is an instructor in Cin - Ohio now.  Helping boys become real men and not making c
2 CONC hampion teams he has come to believe is the real thing.  He had to go thru hell to get a tru
2 CONC e perspective.  Now he has it and more power to him.
2 CONT       Must be at work again.
2 CONT                           Love to all
2 CONT                                      Arden
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Jan. 27, 1930
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dear Folks:
2 CONT      Received your letter written shortly before Xmas yesterday.  Was glad to hear that Pop w
2 CONC as feeling more chipper than usual.  Sorry to hear that Clare's folks were down again in bed
2 CONC .  It seems that they are always sick of something amiss.  I hope you enjoyed Xmas in good sp
2 CONC irit, altho I know you didn't have much of substance to give.  But the spirit is more fine th
2 CONC an substance.  Personally I had little to give, but was thankfull for that which I had.
2 CONT      This has been a very busy month for me and, no doubt, I have not written so much as usua
2 CONC l.  I cannot remember when I wrote last.  For Xmas I received your gift of socks and hank
2 CONC s & boy how I needed 'em.  Those socks cetainly take the prize.  Most welcome were books fro
2 CONC m Carol & Aunt Lucy.  I'm sorry that my exchecquer was too low to get them something worthwhi
2 CONC le.  Aunt Mae sent a pair of socks-- off-breed & too small- and two candy bars & 2 packs of g
2 CONC um.  Aunt Lillie sent 2 hanks.  Uncle Ray & Aunt Polly gave me a Chinese pipe, 2 native pipes
2 CONC , a hand-woven, native laundry bag & 6 golf balls,  the Company gave a box of 25 cent cigars
2 CONC , 3 golf balls from a friend; from Bert a cigarette (leather) holder, from Helen a leather wa
2 CONC llet & key holder with my name engraved and which was of the kind of stuff that was better th
2 CONC an good.  Santa, you see, was exceedingly good to me.  To most everyone aforementioned I gav
2 CONC e good wishes.  From Clare's folks good wishes, but they were not expressed by card or lette
2 CONC r or visible means.
2 CONT      In most of my letters from the States I am told about the breathless rush for time in wh
2 CONC ich everyone is rushed along in a swirl fast getting no place.  You write, Mother, of just no
2 CONC t having time to write a longer letter.  I know that you do not write letters from a sense o
2 CONC f duty and yet you are too rushed to write more.  I would think you were crazy did I not kno
2 CONC w that you all are being pushed along at a mad pace which you cannot escape.  And yet when yo
2 CONC u stop a moment to figure what has been done you can realise nothing.  Helen writes of bein
2 CONC g so busy and " I am writing this at 10:30 p.m. and still have a Red Cross report to make.  Y
2 CONC ou know how we all rush here and yet when I look back I can see little accomplished".  Yes
2 CONC , I know the rush in which nothing is done and in which there is no time to do it in.  Hele
2 CONC n writes that she is a little fed up on the idea of rushing.  And I wish that you folks coul
2 CONC d live bere in this place of beauty and serenity where there is time to eat, sleep, read, an
2 CONC d think.
2 CONT      Helen writes that she is now the Executive Sec. of Santa Monica Red Cross.  She starte
2 CONC d the 1st of the year by getting a trip to S. F. with expenses paid in order to study the org
2 CONC anization and forms.  I believe she will like her work.  She is a capable young lady.  And w
2 CONC e are closer together today than those first few months of uncertainty as to our own reaction
2 CONC s and each others.  We were not just certain that we were not day dreaming.  Too many thing
2 CONC s have since happened to convince me that we were meant for one another.  Our thoughts cros
2 CONC s in the mails.  And we reason and think the same.  Sometimes I rebel against the forces tha
2 CONC t are for making such a high economic barrier between us and our love for one another.  And t
2 CONC he barrier is high and strongly built as convention can build.  However, I know that all is a
2 CONC s it should be and that when the right time comes everything shall work out to a refection fa
2 CONC r beyond what our reason can forsee.
2 CONT      More and more do I become convinced that we need but let that for which we are best fitt
2 CONC ed manifest thru us in order to live harmonious life.  My experiences this year convince me t
2 CONC hat Reason and Consistency are bugaboos peculiar to the Genus of Average and that genius is m
2 CONC anifesed where the medium is best in harmony with events.
2 CONT      Here in far-off island I have found myself.  Here I have come to believe that somehow m
2 CONC y life will be more than average.  That great things shall be manifested thru me.  I have com
2 CONC e to believe that someday I shall be a leader among men for never have I been able to follo
2 CONC w as a sheep.  This belief is with me in the darkest hours of self-condemnation & melancholy
2 CONC .  I believe that people limit themselves as much or more than events.
2 CONT      Another note of confidence from the Co.  Starting February 1st we get another raise.  Ho
2 CONC w much I do not know.  We are thankful.
2 CONT      Uncle Ray will probably be on his way to Manila and to other mills soon.  We started u
2 CONC p another mill this month and he is more than busy.  Uncle Ray is one of the Big Men here i
2 CONC n Philippine lumber and make no mistake about that.  Aunt Polly is fine & chipper.
2 CONT      My own dep't has been exceedingly busy & for that we are thankful.  I believe we have co
2 CONC ut operating costs with an increase in general efficiency.  As we agin experience we shall b
2 CONC e more useful to the Co. & society at large.
2 CONT                                                             As ever
2 CONT                                                                          Arden
2 CONT And so Phil Coyne & Thelma S. are married.  So many of my old friends are getting foolish ide
2 CONC as that way.
2 CONT      AWB
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Feb. 6, 1930
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dear Mother and Dad:
2 CONT 
2 CONT      Your Wonderful and devine letter I received last Monday  bringing new of better health
2 CONC .  I rejoice that you both are feeling physically and mentally wel..  Your letters are beauti
2 CONC ful and they always inspire me tremendously.  I sometimes need that inspiration for I fall in
2 CONC to the welter of smaller things and am lost for a while.  I believe you are expressing yourse
2 CONC lf more than you have ever done in your life.  You are at last, coming into your own for your
2 CONC s is the expression of the eternal beauty and justice of life.  Never were you either so grea
2 CONC t nor beautiful as you are now for I know that you are fast nearing the goal of expressing th
2 CONC ru yourselves the Devine Law of Being.
2 CONT      I realise of course, fully just what you have going thru in the way of finances.  No dou
2 CONC bt, but what the thing you feared mostly that of being dependent on your Children has come ab
2 CONC out.  As surely as we live each day, that which we fear to have we have thrust at us.  We ar
2 CONC e all natural cowards and try to evade what our pride does not admit is ours.  We have to g
2 CONC o thru these ehings before we know their shallowness and the superficiality of this we call p
2 CONC ride and success.
2 CONT      I would like to help you both more than the little that I do help and often lose my ow
2 CONC n balance in pounding my head against the force which is the wheel of compensation and evolut
2 CONC ion.  I know that I can not help or hinder you or anyone else one iota in working out your li
2 CONC ves.  Neither can you help or hinder me.  Our desires and our rantings are idle in the face o
2 CONC f the Devine Power of our lives.  The lack in the one direction that has characterized your w
2 CONC hole life has been the great fear in your life previous to the time I left you.
2 CONT      From now on I know that you do not fear poverty, dependence on your children nor blindne
2 CONC ss and ill - health.  You know that such conditions do not belong to you and so you no longe
2 CONC r will try to keep them.  If there seems to be no alternative, but to give or sell your las
2 CONC t possessions!  Then sell them to the first buyer and be glad for you are done with them an
2 CONC d have need of other things.  Give to everyone the benefit of your beautiful character.  A si
2 CONC ngle word is often the turning point in someone's life.  Who knows but what the one to whom y
2 CONC ou are talking needs your expression of the beauty and divinity of life to start them on a ne
2 CONC wer and upward road.  Give of your real self and withhold form no one the knowledge that lif
2 CONC e has given you of the real life.
2 CONT       I is not physical help; it is not money that people need.  It is the expression of th
2 CONC e Divinity that is manifest thru you that this hungry world needs.  Yours is the high knowled
2 CONC ge and now has come the time to quit school and manifest this knowledge.  Do not try hold i
2 CONC n to yourself: give.  Give of yourself and of everything material that you have.  If they wer
2 CONC e of higher value than the Power then you would want to keep them.  What use can we have of t
2 CONC hings which irk and worry us to keep?  Free yourselves from dependability or material possess
2 CONC ions for they are not the highest treasure.  If you will be a slave and tie your Being to a m
2 CONC aterial possession, you shall be bound for life.  If we tie ourselves to convention and consi
2 CONC stency we then become one of a mob.  We are that we are to manifest the Devine Law through us
2 CONC .
2 CONT      Give your most treasured articles to whomever will have them and free yourself of the fe
2 CONC ar of losing them.  This is an ever upward life and at no age can we stop and live in the pas
2 CONC t of days that were and some that might have been.  Yours is the glory and the life and God'
2 CONC s in his heaven and all's right with the world.
2 CONT      Free yourselves and express the beauty and divinity of life.  Yours is the great knowled
2 CONC ge and now you must manifest that which you are.
2 CONT      Beautiful is the world and beautiful is life and I know for I have just come up form ou
2 CONC t of a deep, deep well that shut out the daylight so far was it into the ground.  Here about
2 CONC s we call that well "Despond" after an evil genie that once afflicted the lives of men.
2 CONT Love
2 CONT Arden
2 CONT 
2 CONT Mar. 4, 1930
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dear Folks:
2 CONT      Have delayed writing for each mail I expected to get that book you mentioned reading i
2 CONC n your last letter, but as it has not arrived will write a line anyway.  Received letter fro
2 CONC m Clare last night that was started in November & finished in January.  Business has been goo
2 CONC d for him wntil the usual January slump came along.  Times at home, it seem, are not so goo
2 CONC d as what they were when I left and they were rotten then.  Clare tells me I was lucky to ge
2 CONC t out at the time I did.  I know I am very lucky.  This is the 3rd letter in all that I've re
2 CONC ceived from Clare's folks.
2 CONT      I received two more wonderful letters from Helen.----  her letters improve each mail s
2 CONC o it seems to me.  She is doing well with many disabled veterans from the World War.  War i
2 CONC s not glorious she can easily see.
2 CONT      This economic barrier which keeps us spart gives me some few dark thoughts these days
2 CONC .  Makes me rage at the forces that are, but to no avail.  Today there are thousands of youn
2 CONC g men & women in our own poistion.  Unable to keep up to the general standard of living deman
2 CONC ded by custom until they have had too long to think the idea of marriage over and have natura
2 CONC lly drifted apart.  This is the answer to the growing moral laxness of today.  Matural desire
2 CONC s have been released illegitimately and homelife or rather companionship has been gained by m
2 CONC en living with their mistress.  This economic problem which confronts all of us is not so muc
2 CONC h of a joke as it might be.  Naturally I want my wife as well as myself to have an ordinary a
2 CONC mount of good things, and be able to live up to reasonable standards, and to appear well to t
2 CONC he average of our friends.  If we both work we can make enuf between us to get along.  If sh
2 CONC e works then what of family life.  Should a women be expected to work and then come home an
2 CONC d get the meals and do the housekeeping as well?  Yet I do not want my marriage to be merel
2 CONC y another and slightly more highly regarded liason than "so-called" companionate marriage
2 CONC .  I want a home and my name is legion amoung those of my age.  Yet I don't know when I shal
2 CONC l be able to afford one!  Work like H--- and college education or no it takes several years t
2 CONC o work up to a salary for two to live on and start a home.  In my own case I can work here an
2 CONC d get along faster than the average fellow does and yet I figure it will be two years, at lea
2 CONC st, from last August to now before I can afford marriage.  And while that is not an age of to
2 CONC me yet it is two years in a short life to me.  To others it would be 5 or 6 years at my age a
2 CONC nd an average chance before they were able to marry:  I know that at the period of life whic
2 CONC h I have just entered there is a certain happiness in a congenial marriage that it is impossi
2 CONC ble to gain later.  Altho later I know there is a happiness that comes which cannot be experi
2 CONC enced in early life and is no doubt the greater.  However, I don't want to miss enjoying firs
2 CONC t happiness of youth as well as the more matured happiness of companionship.  So far I thin
2 CONC k youth has passed me by in a good many ways, anyway.
2 CONT      You can see that I have given a slight amount of thought to this problem of marriage an
2 CONC d it has given me some cause for thought also.  At the present time I work and hope for a sol
2 CONC ution to my problem.
2 CONT      There is one thing on which you can bet and that is this.  I am not going to stay over h
2 CONC ere and away from Helen too long and lose her or miss her for if she is to be mine and the on
2 CONC e whom I shall be happiest with no odds are to great to keep me from her.  This job may be m
2 CONC y future, but there are other jobs and other opportunities, but no other Helen.  Do you see m
2 CONC y point in all this talk?  If Helen is not to be for me then I shall be satisfied to find out
2 CONC .  But I must be satisfied one way or another.
2 CONT      It is beautiful here and my work goes along smoothly and, I believe, well.  I am older a
2 CONC nd more matured now and have my own standard of judgments more firmly established.  A liitl
2 CONC e better conception of life and not quite so intolerant;  altho I cannot be social easily bec
2 CONC ause I detest "face" so much.  And so many people live on "face" and their characters are no
2 CONC t much deeper.  While I'm away from people and can analyse and write about them, I can be dec
2 CONC ent to them.  But to their face and around them their superficialities exhaust and irritate m
2 CONC e.
2 CONT      I know that you are both well and happy and grow more full of the beauty of devine lif
2 CONC e each day and I am glad.  I hear that you gave Mrs. Clearman some of my letters from which t
2 CONC o write an article.  Tell her that I shall be glad to write straight articles for her if sh
2 CONC e wishes.  I wouldn't charge over $1.00 a word either.  There is much of life and problems th
2 CONC ereto here in the Orient & esp. Philippines which should be of pertinent value to all America
2 CONC ns at this time.
2 CONT                                                                                  As ever
2 CONT                                                                                             A
2 CONC rden
2 CONT 
2 CONT Mar. 22, 1930
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dear Mother & Dad:
2 CONT      Again I find myself changing more.  Is life such a vague inceasing unrest to everone
2 CONC ?  I am getting along famously with my work and I like it, too.  But again the old doubt!  No
2 CONC w I find that I must need go on to college and take up certain studies in order to f__  me fo
2 CONC r the work here.  I have come to the strong conclusion that I must train my mind further in o
2 CONC rder to achieve first rank success.  I am coming back probably within the next six months t
2 CONC o resume my college education.
2 CONT      This time I am going to take up a "special students" course part time.  Am going to tak
2 CONC e a course in civil engineering, one in economics and, if possible, one in psychology.  Bot
2 CONC h economics & psychology require but three days a week and one hour lecture on each of the tr
2 CONC ee days.  Civil-engineering is a 5 hour course requiring attendance every day.  I can take th
2 CONC ese courses and still get in, at least, a half day of work to make my expenses.  I am quite c
2 CONC onfident that this is the best for me to do.  I know that with my present practical experienc
2 CONC e I can go far providing I have the proper training now.  I don't intend going more than on
2 CONC e year.  Then I shall come back here and start in where I leave off now.  My advance will b
2 CONC e faster in the long run and the sooner will I become more valuable to the Company.
2 CONT      This solution seems to me the best now.  Such is the conviction that has come out of a c
2 CONC lear sky after a month of troublesome thought.  This is the answer.  Always do the solution
2 CONC s  to my problems work out thus.  I am indeed, a child of fortune.  I ask to be guided and t
2 CONC o have that for which I am here manifested thru me in the greatest of harmony.  That great Po
2 CONC wer never fails me.  I am humble and grateful.  This means for this, I know, shall come about
2 CONC .  soon I shall have the debt to McAllisters paid.  And i am grateful to them for thier help.
2 CONT      So far as getting back, I think that shall be easy.  I'm quite certain that I can eithe
2 CONC r get a job back or go as a "workaway".  The details, as you know, always work out for me whe
2 CONC n the time is ripe.
2 CONT      You know it seems gueer to me that I am changed about ever so often and each time afte
2 CONC r the change has been made I am able to see why the change.
2 CONT      Living over here has broadened the horizon for me.  I have struck my judgment of values
2 CONC .  Values!  I know not what was what before I came here.  My individuality has become a mor
2 CONC e distinct personality.  I am that I am and the work for which I am here has not yet been ful
2 CONC ly revealed to me.  This tonite I know.  My perspective has grown immeasurably.  I have grow
2 CONC n and changed inside -- more of a man, I guess.
2 CONT      I want to see Helen and be near her for a year or more so that we can know each other pe
2 CONC rfectly as possible.  I think that we know each other better in our letters than otherwise w
2 CONC e could have known.  I can express myself very much better and explain my views in writing
2 CONC .  It has been marvelous to see the growth of her love for me in her letters.  While we bot
2 CONC h wrote a great deal during the first six months still there was that restraint and doubt o
2 CONC f one another.  Now the love that comes in her thrice more often letters is like a warm floo
2 CONC d that chokes me.  She is truly the "differnet" girl.  i love her more than I can express.
2 CONT      One reason for my going back to college is that I think I can go further and make more o
2 CONC f our life by doing so.  Helen has not said she wanted me other than I am and I don't know wh
2 CONC ether she will approve of my going back to school or not.  She will have to have confidence t
2 CONC hat my decision is the best for us both in the long run.  I have also written that we are bot
2 CONC h young and a year or more will go quickly if we are somewhere near to one another.  It is be
2 CONC st, I believe, for both of us to wait until the stage is set.  I have written that the Provid
2 CONC ence that brought us together at first would bring us together again at the right time.  We h
2 CONC ave complete understanding of one another.  Our thoughts so often cross in the mails and the
2 CONC y are not previously suggested thoughts either.
2 CONT      Regardless of all other considerations, the fact that it has come to me that here is th
2 CONC e solution to my next step in life will see me follow the suggestion.  I am as free as the wi
2 CONC nd for the wind goes by natural laws.  I feel sometimes that i am being prepared for somethin
2 CONC g, but I know not what it is.  My way seems ever to be protected and guarded.  I wonder ofte
2 CONC n what is it that I am here for.  I shall soon be going again.  June sees me coming and the i
2 CONC tch is in my blood-- And I would not be a stayin if I could.  Have been a good boy now for mo
2 CONC st a year -- But must be a goin' as it is not my fate to stay.  We shall see what the full po
2 CONC ssibilities of the next year will bring.
2 CONT      I know that you both are well and happier each day.  And that the Devine Power manifest
2 CONC s in all ways thru you.  The Devine Love in you as I know you are manifesting it must make yo
2 CONC u beautiful ofr all to see.  There is no light which hines quite so strongly nor so beautiful
2 CONC ly as the Inner Light.
2 CONT                                                                                             A
2 CONC s ever your son
2 CONT Arden.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT NEGROS PHILIPPINE LUMBER CORPORATION
2 CONT (Incorporated Under the Laws of the Philippine Islands)
2 CONT Manufacturers of Exporters of
2 CONT Philippine Mahogany
2 CONT Sawmills at Cadiz, Oc., Negros, P.I.
2 CONT 
2 CONT March 31, 1930
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dear Mother & Dad:
2 CONT      Another letter from you today mailed on Mar. 3rd.  You said that you have not heard fro
2 CONC m me for a long tome.  A letter must have miscarried somewhere along the line for I am sure t
2 CONC hat three weeks did not go by without my writing you.  However, at that time and all during F
2 CONC ebruary my annual depression form which some conclusion and change had to spring from my bein
2 CONC g was on me.  Being depressed I could not express.  Helen writes the same thing about not get
2 CONC ting letters.  You were not the only ones.  I could hardly talk to anyone.  Not even Uncle Ra
2 CONC y & Aunt Polly!  So far as writing went I wrote madly to myself and everyone, but could not s
2 CONC end such irrational letters home.  My gold game showed the mental state very much.  I couldn'
2 CONC t hit the ball straight once in a dozen times and then I'd get sore at myself and sear neve
2 CONC r to pick up a club again.  However, that is golf, anyway.  I am sorry if I have caaused yo
2 CONC u some worry.  There is nothing ever to worry for about me.  There is nothing in the whole wo
2 CONC rld to harm me for that is not the way which I have to travel.  These mental depressions giv
2 CONC e me punishment for all my sins and the punishment certainly seems to be intense at times.  H
2 CONC owever, out of these periods of groping and mental darkness always emerges some idea that ope
2 CONC ns a new world of thought for me and makes the future prospect cleared.
2 CONT      Even now I am mentally insettled, but my work goes on well here and the unsettled stat
2 CONC e is expressive & not repressive.  I often wonder at the difference in my life and experienc
2 CONC e compared to others.  Somehow my way seems very sheltered and idealistic are my standards
2 CONC .  I feel the urge to write very strongly at all times; but lack confidence in my ability t
2 CONC o get to the public.  I feel all too unfit and yet the desire is very strong in me.  I wonde
2 CONC r if the ten thousands that do write and struggle to write are all afflicted the same way.
2 CONT      The eternal mental unrest, what is it that causes it?  There is a hunger a feeling of wa
2 CONC nting something that seems to drive me from place to placee.  Am I, I wonder often, one of th
2 CONC ose fellows who are a flash in the pan and who cannot stay put in anyone place and stick fo
2 CONC r more than a year.
2 CONT      Is it that I lack the "guts" to stick and am a confirmed "drifter"? or I can stay satisf
2 CONC ied only just so long it seems and then the wheels within seemed to upset the mental balanc
2 CONC e so that I cannot stay longer.  I know in my own heart that a change which I do not forsee i
2 CONC s coming and my work here will soon be over.  I like the work here and I can see the opportun
2 CONC ity bright with half shut eyes; but the wheels turn round inside me and I find it harder an
2 CONC d harder to stay complacent with my mind full concentrated on my work.  The idea of college i
2 CONC s good to me, but tho ever present bogey of finances get my goat.  I can borrow money and I s
2 CONC hall, but I do so need to earn more money to satisfy all my present needs.
2 CONT      This change that I feel in my bones does not assure me that the change will take me bac
2 CONC k to the States; but my reason says that it must.  You can expect to see me, no doubt, by nex
2 CONC t September.
2 CONT      I shall be glad to see you all again; but one week in Lindsay is a little more than I th
2 CONC ink I can stay.  I can't seem to reconsile myself to that place.
2 CONT      I am sorry to hear that again you ae the mainstay of a sick family.  Carol, A. Lucy, mum
2 CONC ps & all!  I always feel rotten when I go into the old home.  If you could sell and make a ch
2 CONC ange to another place and Carol would move into a different home in another part of town, I f
2 CONC eel certain that your mental and physical health would be greatly rejuvenated.  I always ge
2 CONC t such a cramped mental feeling and restless physical feeling when I go there.  I think it ef
2 CONC fects you all.  You are like Clare in his business.  He couldn't get next to any good busines
2 CONC s until he moved.  He admits that Dad was right there.  You may have the same condition.  I f
2 CONC elt the same way in his old shop as I do in the old home.
2 CONT      I wouldn't worry about "nest eggs" and "something to fall back on" if I were you.  Mothe
2 CONC r why don't you try getting in as a Unity Center attendant or Christian Science Center like t
2 CONC hey have in Pasadena.  Your work would be perfect for you both and the library work is easy
2 CONC .  Write to the Unity in Kansas City and one or tow of the Christian Science Centers.  Stat
2 CONC e your case in your own simple, beautiful thaoughts and I am sure you could get in.  There i
2 CONC s no use of your trying hard work and physical work for it does not belong to you.  You are m
2 CONC ore valuable in other work.  Write your problem to them and confidently expect the problem t
2 CONC o be worked out for you.
2 CONT      Ican see no reason, except the bogus one of "common convetion" to keep you tied to you
2 CONC r present conditions.  They do not belong to you any more than they belong to me.  I would ha
2 CONC ve nothing to do with them.  Let them go and keep them no longer.  Keep nothing that you hav
2 CONC e which is related to your present condition.  Hold not the slightest obligation with anythin
2 CONC g or anyone that holds you to inharmonious conditions.
2 CONT       This is a busy morning for me, but not too busy to write to you.
2 CONT Your Son
2 CONT Arden
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT April 7th (1930)
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dear Mother & Dad:
2 CONT      In order to give you fair warning so that you will not think something is wrong.  I'll t
2 CONC ell you now that shipping for the next three weeks  looks as if it would keep me busy night a
2 CONC nd day.  You may not hear from me as regularly as otherwise for that reason  There certainl
2 CONC y is a formidable amount of shipping stacked up for this month and right in the middle of i
2 CONC t comes Holy week in which three regular work days are turned over to holidays.  I know by th
2 CONC e way loading instructions read that I shall be on high nervous strain most of the time and w
2 CONC orking a great deal overtime.
2 CONT      Helen wrote that she had not received a letter of three weeks, too, so you see I just wa
2 CONC s not writing is all.  Helen writes many other hings, too, and you can use your imagination a
2 CONC s to some of the contents.  We have been perfectly honest with each other and have written al
2 CONC l of the conditions which surround us, our beliefs, and ambitions.  It seems to me that I hav
2 CONC e known her always.  We seem to think identically along the same lines on everything.  I beli
2 CONC eve we have become acquainted by our letters better than the average couple do together.  I k
2 CONC now that I have expressed myself much better than my blundering tongue could do.
2 CONT      I shall be glad to get back home for many reasons; but I shall be glad to come back her
2 CONC e again in another year or two.  Many living conditions make this the more desirable home s
2 CONC o far as I am concerned.  However, have come to realize how much the world demands trained br
2 CONC ains in this age and brains that are specialised on some particular phase of business.  I a
2 CONC n going back and really study marketing and if possible to take a course in civil-engineering
2 CONC .  Marketing is the one study I like as it concerns itself with economics, psychology, custum
2 CONC s & habits, and all the sociological problems of society.  I have come to realise, also tha
2 CONC t I would be foolish at my age to stay over here very long as the conditions which govern bus
2 CONC iness in the States do not affect business so much here.  The change at home is so rapid tha
2 CONC t I'm afraid to stay away longer for fear of finding myself too far behind to catch up.  By g
2 CONC oing to cllege now and studying definite subjects on the work I like will be an invaluable in
2 CONC vestment.  Only the man who knows his stuff gets along in this day and age.  My rich practica
2 CONC l training these past four years will make my studies now of vital and real value.  The way m
2 CONC y life has been organised so far is an absolute accord with what the leading business men tod
2 CONC ay want if I go to college now to get the additional training there.  I feel certain that I s
2 CONC hall have no difficulty in landing a job which will pay me well for my part-time work.  Big o
2 CONC rganisations are looking for young men who have both practical & theoretical training.
2 CONT      I am lonely here for want of people of my own age and interests.  This country is not s
2 CONC o hot for a young single man, because there is no out to go around with either male or female
2 CONC .  The first few months when everything was new didn't bother me, but now I feel the lack dec
2 CONC idedly.  It is a kind of hunger that doesn't make you feel so hot.  "Hunger not of the bell
2 CONC y kind".  If I was not so confoundedly busy this place would be pretty hard to stand.  Work c
2 CONC ures many ills.
2 CONT      Later:
2 CONT      Have received a letter from McAllisters and he has just had a stroke of paralysis.  Sh
2 CONC e is worried, I believe, and quite depressed.
2 CONT      Uncle Ray & A. Polly are still on the go and busy as usual.  They are at the northern mi
2 CONC lls or in Manila most of the time.  Uncle Ray has too much work to do.  Such is his life.
2 CONT      Clare wrote twice in side of a month & I nearly fell over.  He's really down to where h
2 CONC e can make money now, I guess.
2 CONT      I'm glad to hear that you are both well.  Iwould bery much like to see you get into a Un
2 CONC ity Center of New Thought work as I believe you would both like the work and be very successf
2 CONC ul in it.  I still hold to selling out at the best price offered and getting out and into ano
2 CONC ther atmoshpere.  i would like to see you settle in the South where you could have worked i
2 CONC n one of the Centers.
2 CONT      I know that you will both get along beautifully well for your life has not soured but en
2 CONC lightened and made beautiful you and your horizon.  I wonder if I can ever be worhty of you a
2 CONC nd advance so far as I know you have along the eternal path.  I know tht I am because of yo
2 CONC u and I shall strive to be worthy of your ideals and expectations.
2 CONT                                                                     As ever your son
2 CONT                                                                                            Ar
2 CONC den
2 CONT 
2 CONT April 18th (1930)
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dear Mother & Dad:
2 CONT      Last Tuesday night fire broke out in the Fabrica Mill some ten miles from here and compl
2 CONC etely gutted the entire millworks and the surrounding homes of the natives & some of the Amer
2 CONC icans.  Fabrica is the mill where Uncle Ray first worked here in the Islands.  It was repute
2 CONC d to be the largest single hardwood mill in the world.  At least 15,000 people were burnt ou
2 CONC t of homes.  Ten bodied brom the mill have been recovered so far, but more are expected to b
2 CONC e found when the ruins cool down.  Around 3000 men will be thrown out of work as a result o
2 CONC f the fire.  The fire started under the mill at 11 p.m. and within 15 minutes the entire mil
2 CONC l had burnt up and was down.  Thereafter the plainer sheds, supply rooms, dry-kilns, foundry
2 CONC , hospital and homes burned.
2 CONT      I got over there by 8 a.m. the next morning and never have I seen so impressive a sight
2 CONC .  Never such a fire.  The whole mill operations was in hollow at river side with hills risin
2 CONC g immediately around covered with laborers homes.  The fire was still raging when I got ther
2 CONC e and stock piled in the yard was creating a pretty fire.  I walked up through the barrios (N
2 CONC ative homes) and over and down to the dock.  The flames had just started on the barrios whe
2 CONC n I started over.  One half hour later it was necessary to climb to an adjacent cane field i
2 CONC n order to escape the fire.  Everything was bone dry and the nipa palm roofs of the natives w
2 CONC ent like tender.  A gale like wind that twisted this way and that carried the fire everywher
2 CONC e until every house was razed to the gound.  Furniture was strewed in every vacant protecte
2 CONC d place and boats at the dock were loaded with refugees and their goods.  today the fire stil
2 CONC l smolders and in all the fire three privies right in the center of the fire remain intact.
2 CONT      This fire is  the culmination of many years of mis-management, hates and antagonisms.  T
2 CONC he mill was sstarted on a swindle that resulted in a suicide.  Our very good state senator Bu
2 CONC rlingame Johnson was the swindler.  He it was who stole a mans life earnings and caused him t
2 CONC o lose everything so that the man killed himself and left a family of three penniless.  Our S
2 CONC enator's record is a series of swindles & crooked deals here in the Orient.  He left China, b
2 CONC ecause he had to.  The same was true of the Philippine.  The mill has carried a curse on it a
2 CONC nd thsi is the final act of a long play.  Uncle Ray was framed on the job and thrown out.  Th
2 CONC e same is true of every management so far.  They were going to "bust" the local lumber marke
2 CONC t wide open, but this fire saves the situation.  It will mean land-slide business for us.  W
2 CONC e shall probably have to run night and day in order to satisfy the demand for lumber.
2 CONT      The burning of this mill effects everyone here in some degree.  As for me, it is too ear
2 CONC ly to fortell how it will effect.  I know if I stay I shall have much more work to do in vie
2 CONC w of the greatly increased shipping.  However, the forner yord foreman who has been out on th
2 CONC e road selling will probably not find it necessary to go on the road any more.  No doubt ever
2 CONC ything will work out according to plan.
2 CONT      We are having 4 days of holidays now from Good Thursday to Easter.  During the holy Day
2 CONC s there is just no work doing.  The men will not work.  We have an extremely heavy amount o
2 CONC f shipping to do during the next week and ten days.  I have worked every Sunday and Sat. p.m
2 CONC . this month, except one Sunday.  The rest of the month looks like Sunday work, too.  March a
2 CONC nd thus far in April have gone I know not where nor how to account for the days.  Time goes i
2 CONC ncredilbly swift here.  the first thing I know I shall be rushing around in order to get my g
2 CONC rips together and jump aboard a ship home.
2 CONT      There are many inducements to stay here as I know that within another year I shall be ma
2 CONC king a fairly decent salary.  I have just now really broken in to the game.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Exactly 24 hours later   April 19th
2 CONT 
2 CONT      The fortunes of war change quickly.  Three hours after I had stopped writing last nigh
2 CONC t a terrific gale blew up.  We had six loaded barges of lumber out in the bay awaiting the ar
2 CONC rival of two freighters.  When the gales stopped blowing this morning, three of our largest b
2 CONC arges were total wrecks and over 400,000 Bdft. of lumber was strewn from one island to anothe
2 CONC r and in the water and on the beach.  The actual cost of the lumber to this Company is $27.5
2 CONC 0 per thousand Bdft. or $110,000.00 plus three barges worth at least $5000.oo each and damag
2 CONC e to three others amounting to $2000.00 for repairs plus labor of recovering the lumber avail
2 CONC able.  In other words we lost a few dollars last night.
2 CONT      It means that four boats will be delayed unreasonably long and my crew will have to wor
2 CONC k day and night.  Two weeks work will have to be accomplished in one week.  At best then th
2 CONC e work will be quasi- satisfactory.  If the weather which is still unsettled turns rough agai
2 CONC n, we are due for some more hard luck.
2 CONT      For several hours today I rode from barge to barge with the transportation master tryin
2 CONC g to save as much as possible.  The sea was quiet, but the rain poured incessantly.  I had lu
2 CONC nch at 4p.m. and then got my foreman and figured how to proceed from here.  These next two we
2 CONC eks are going to be mad days for us.  I write tonite, and if I write again this month it wil
2 CONC l be because I have relieve myself of the nervous strain.  My department will have to bear th
2 CONC e brunt of this small disaster.  Fortunately no blame can be attached to my part of the work
2 CONC . ----  Dinner gong sounds - I have ordered tea & crackers - soup & jam and then I shall fini
2 CONC sh this letter to start one to Helen----
2 CONT      The whole loss would have been avoided "if" judgment in putting out the barges had bee
2 CONC n used.  I feel certain that this would never have occurred had U. Ray been here.  You see w
2 CONC e have to depend on the tides to tow our barges out in the bay.  Weather is always an uncerta
2 CONC in factor here.  Clear one minute & a typhoon the next -- almost that quick.  The man in char
2 CONC ge while U. Ray is away ordered all barges out in order to meet boats that were supposed to a
2 CONC rrive either Fri. or Sat.  U. Ray never takes a chance on the arrival of boats.  They are to
2 CONC o uncertain.  In other words all the stakes were put up for one throw of fortune's dice.  Th
2 CONC e weather turned bad & practically all our barges and much of the lumber are lost.  The yar
2 CONC d dep't has been working to capacity plus and now the whole additional load plus extra new wo
2 CONC rk plus a shortage of lumber will throw work on the yard which will be more than can be well-
2 CONC handled.  But damm their eyes.  I'm going to organise the work and see that the Company recov
2 CONC ers as much lumber and lost time as pooible.  This Easter Sunday there will be no church or g
2 CONC olf.  Sweating men and creaking derrick will be the order of the day and for many days this m
2 CONC onth.  We'll see what is our capacity in times like this.
2 CONT                                             As ever
2 CONT                                                             Arden
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Atlas Cornice Works
2 CONT 1688 W. Washington Street
2 CONT Los Angeles, Calif.
2 CONT 10-26-32
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dear Mother & Dad
2 CONT      Well, well and so you got yourself a fall and a broken wrist.  Tp say the least I  was v
2 CONC ery much surprised and grieved.  I know how you feel about it, but for gosh sakes don't let i
2 CONC t get you down too much.  Brave words, eh Mom?  It was tough especially after you got the jo
2 CONC b of taking care of the kid and the election job, however , we'll see everything is taken car
2 CONC e of including the Doctors bills.
2 CONT      We realize that things have been plenty tough for you both and that bare necessities hav
2 CONC e come like luxuries, but I can assure you that the worst point has been reached in our finan
2 CONC cial affairs.  From now on we shall all do a little better as work has picked up considerabl
2 CONC y and I'm looking for it to get much better and soon.
2 CONT      No doubt you feel and are greatly handicapped by your wrist and I hope it mends fast.  H
2 CONC owever, I am firmly convinced that your fall was due entirely to the fact that you had been s
2 CONC upporting Roosevelt for President and Shuler for Senate.  Of all the dammed foolishness I thi
2 CONC nk your choice of candiates is the greatest.  If I weren't so sure you were my mother I'd sur
2 CONC ely disown you.  Just think of having old "hell-raising Shuler" in the Senate.  The whole Sen
2 CONC ate would adjourn every time he got up to speak.  As for Roosevelt, the very fact you fell do
2 CONC wn and broke your wrist is hardly compensation for even thinking of it.  Why, Roosevelt is th
2 CONC e biggest nincompoop since Bryan(This sentence is underlined).  (Say Mom read this last sente
2 CONC nce very pointedly to Pop and just see what he says.  If he doesn't splutter I'll quit trying
2 CONC ))
2 CONT      Lawrence says he is voting for Roosevelt.  What a shame he has to vote wrong so many tim
2 CONC es.  It's the only weakness in judgement, I've noticed in him.  If Carol doesn't vote Hoove
2 CONC r to gain one I'll be deeply aggrieved at you utter lack of understanding of conditions & iss
2 CONC ues.  Since Roosevelt was in town here there are thousands changing back to Hoover.  He was p
2 CONC articularly unimpressing with his total disregard of issues and his commonplace banalities ab
2 CONC out the weather and the women.
2 CONT                                                                       Love  Arden
2 CONT      We are ready any minute to go a running to the hospital.  Things look mighty imminent
2 CONC .  The prodigy will arrive soon.  The world is about to be blessed by another genius.  Our on
2 CONC ly prayer is that he won't want to be president right away.  Without question our addition t
2 CONC o the Bradys of the world will be noteworthy and hosannas will be sung by the multitudes. ---
2 CONC -(The Dr. & the hospital will be the multitudes.)
2 CONT 
2 CONT Cedars of Lebanon Hospital
2 CONT Fountain Ave.
2 CONT Los Angeles
2 CONT 10-31-32
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dear Mother & Dad:
2 CONT 
2 CONT      What a Boy!  I'm telling you he's the longest & best looking boy I ever saw.  He weighe
2 CONC d exactly 7lb. 13 1/2 ounces and is 22 1/2 " long.  The Dr. said he was the longest baby he'
2 CONC d ever delivered and no wonder - look at his papa & mama.
2 CONT      Saturday about 3 a.m. Helen woke up with pains, but not very hard ones.  We called the D
2 CONC r. & he said they probably were not labor pains.  As Helen seemed to have gas on her stomach
2 CONC , we thought that might be it.  However, the pains kept up with increasing in intensity ver
2 CONC y much until 11 p.m. Saturday and by that time Helen was so worn out that we called the Dr. t
2 CONC o come & see her & give her some relief.  We gave her an enema before the Dr. arrived & tha
2 CONC t didn't relieve anything.  The Dr. gave her an examination & said I'll meet you in the hospi
2 CONC tal at once and beat it & so did we.
2 CONT      Helen was taken to the preparation room where the Dr. gave her twighlight sleep and a pi
2 CONC ll to make her labor harder.  At five a.m. the baby arrived and 45 minutes later they had i
2 CONC t cleaned & brought him out to show Mrs. Campbell & I.  no question but what he was a Brady w
2 CONC ith a big snub nose.  We heard him yell to beat the band when he first arrived.  Helen & I we
2 CONC re both a little surprised it was a boy, because we had so easy a time to pick out Richard Ca
2 CONC mpbell for a name that the last two months we had been trying to decide upon a girls name.  T
2 CONC he Dr. told us to come back at 10 a.m. so we went home & slept a little & went back.
2 CONT      Helen had just awakened and looked as fresh and happy as I've ever seen her.  When she w
2 CONC oke up she didn't know the baby had been born until she put her hands on her stomach and foun
2 CONC d it flat.  She says she just had three hard pains and then she droused off.  The Dr. was a D
2 CONC r. Reynolds from Lyle McNeile's office and McNeile is supposed to be the best authority on ba
2 CONC bies in the west.  His opinion is law to all other Doctors as well as in law court where he i
2 CONC s called to determine abortion cases.  I'm telling you that I'm more than tickled and please
2 CONC d that we pursuaded ourselves to make the sacrifice and have the best.  The Cedars of Lebano
2 CONC n Hospital is the newest & most modern one on the Pacific Coast.  It is keen.  They give Hele
2 CONC n all kinds of service even though she is in a 4 bed room --(which is the nearest they have t
2 CONC o a ward.  The walls are tinted cream & the curtains are in colors and the bedsteads are gree
2 CONC n.  There is spotless cleanliness, but no smell of ether & antiseptics.  Its a pleasure almos
2 CONC t to be sick.  And the best part is that Helen is feeling like amillion.  She says she's asha
2 CONC med of herself almost, because all the other women in the ward had lotsharder time and had t
2 CONC o endure much pain.
2 CONT      Richards head is well shaped as are his ears (not flat at all) and he has small wrists
2 CONC , big hands and long feet and a big snub nose.  Helen says He looks like his Grandpa Brady s
2 CONC o Grandpa Campbell said that was a break for the kid to look like Grandpa Brady instead of me
2 CONC .
2 CONT      They keep the babies in a glassed in room and no one is allowed to handle them except th
2 CONC e nurses.  He is taken in at regular intervals to pull for 3 minutes on a dry well.  Tonite h
2 CONC e was hollering his head off and I declare he was just hungry.  He is so long we'll probabl
2 CONC y have to have a full sized bed for him in a month of two.
2 CONT      This Dr. gives the mothers exercise to strengthen the muscles after the first few days s
2 CONC o that they are stronger than usual when they leave the hospital.  Helen has the best bed i
2 CONC n the ward right near a window on the 6th floor.  She was in a 2 bed room yesterday, but the
2 CONC y moved her today and she likes it much better as the time passes more quickly & she can visi
2 CONC t more.
2 CONT      I am extremely grateful that Helen has been feeling well all 9 months and that the birt
2 CONC h was made so easy for her.  Everything came on time, altho the Dr. could have let her suffe
2 CONC r another day if he had wanted to.
2 CONT      Boy, it's a grand and glorious feeling to be the Papa of such a boy and the husband of s
2 CONC uch a swell wife.  Things certainly are looking up for this part of the Brady family.  prospe
2 CONC cts for jobs are a little better too.
2 CONT      Minerva had one of her pups taken away yesterday and she is heartbroken.  She stays ver
2 CONC y close to her remaining child.  That one will go to Clare next Sunday.  I rather dread the d
2 CONC ay as she is so human in her emothins and she looked at me in askance when she discovered he
2 CONC r baby gone.
2 CONT      I'm sorry I didn't write sooner when I heard about your wrist, but things happened too f
2 CONC ast for me.  I did write the letter but never mailed it.  I'm sure sorry taht you had such to
2 CONC ugh luck and I hoped it mends very fast.  Don't worry about the Dr. bill as it will be take
2 CONC n care of.  Work is looking up for me so soon will all forget about this depression.  Busines
2 CONC s men down here are almost unanimous for Hoover, but the unemployed & lots of the employed ar
2 CONC e for Roosevelt.  Frankly many manufacturers are delaying operation until they see the outcom
2 CONC e of the election as they feel that it would upset conditions for at least another year (if c
2 CONC rossed out) before the Democrats got in and got their machinery going.  I have an advertisin
2 CONC g campaign which I'm waiting until after Nov. 8th to send.  I want to see the reaction to th
2 CONC e peoples choice.  Hoover is gaining plenty down here this last month.
2 CONT As ever
2 CONT Arden
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT May 29, 1933
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dear Mother & Dad:
2 CONT 
2 CONT      You will, as usual, have to forgive me for not writing sooner as I have been working str
2 CONC enuously and too tired to do anything else.  However, I've been thinking of you every day shi
2 CONC ch is something.  The shop has been pretty busy and it keeps me busy.  This week I had two me
2 CONC n working most of the time and putting in overtime at that.  I have at least two or three mor
2 CONC e busy days and then I'll be caught up again wnless new jobs come in.  My custumers so far se
2 CONC em to be pretty well pleased with my work which is most encouraging.
2 CONT      Yesterday Helen & I took the Reo truck in to Los Angeles and the eon-rod brake loose an
2 CONC d busted the engine block.  That means a new engine or a second hand one, at least.  This com
2 CONC ing week I'm going to really open up the shop.  So far I haven't kept it open relying entirel
2 CONC y on contract work solicited outside.  The shop has paid well from the start and collection
2 CONC s thus far have been fast.  However, I keep getting in more jobs and the increase in materia
2 CONC l & payrool take up about all the spare (crossed out) money I can collect.  I had to go to Lo
2 CONC s Angeles twice this last week to get materials.  The Buick is showing signs of faltering a
2 CONC s well it might for it has been going about 1500 miles every two weeks for the last two month
2 CONC s.  And for city driving that is a lot of miles!
2 CONT      Richard is growing so big and is strong as a young bull.  He shows no inclination to cra
2 CONC wl, but is all set to walk.  He pulls himself up everytime he gets a chance.  He is fast as l
2 CONC ighting with his left hand.  Eats and reaches entirely left handed.  We're not going to try a
2 CONC nd break him of it.  In fact when he gets old enuf.  I'm going to use his right arm instead
2 CONC .  May this be a warning to all innocent bystaners.  He requires very little sleep a total o
2 CONC f 2 hours during the day of 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.  A cat nap for 1/2 hr. and he's already to star
2 CONC t all over again at anything with anyone.  When we came back after being gone a whole day, h
2 CONC e had the swellest grin for us and was all excited.
2 CONT      Helen has a lot of trouble keeping up with him and is all in each night.  As he gets old
2 CONC er, we hope to get away now and then & get a good rest.  Last night I slept 12 hours soundl
2 CONC y and I could repeat again tonight with at least the hours.
2 CONT      Say hello to everyone and trust all is OK with you.  Ask Dad if anyone found his straigh
2 CONC t razor yet.  I asked him if I could try it as safety razors seem to pull my face too much
2 CONC .  Is Dad feeling a little more chipper after getting rid of so much poison?
2 CONT      It remains quite cool down here & not at all like summer.  We certainly do enjoy livin
2 CONC g here and feel the best ever.  I am learning to fish and when you come down I'll see you ge
2 CONC t a fish dinner with fish that are plenty fresh.  Tell Norman I'll be seein him down here t
2 CONC o help fish and Carol Jean can cook them.
2 CONT                                                          Love to you both as always
2 CONT                                                                                        Arden
2 CONT 
2 CONT A. W. BRADY SHEET METAL WORKS
2 CONT 4427 E. Anaheim Blvd.
2 CONT Long Beach, Calif.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Feb. 27th (1937)
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dear Mother:
2 CONT 
2 CONT      Perhaps you have recalled that some 29 years ago your "baby" was almost ready to brave t
2 CONC he world with what help, aid and the providence would give him.  No doubt your hopes were mix
2 CONC ed with joy and anguish somehow mingled into one.  I know that in the intervening years you
2 CONC r dreams have been built up by your desires and hopes that your "baby" would amount to more t
2 CONC han just another clod in a large, plowed field.  I know that none of your dreams in this resp
2 CONC ect have been fulfilled, that your "baby" was after all just another mortal without that spar
2 CONC k known as genius.  I'm sorry that my inheritance of intelligence inddeed has only muddled t
2 CONC o an average existence for I should like to make you more than just proud of your "baby".
2 CONT      Sometimes, I, too, have felt the swift touch of genius, but so fleeting so obstructed ha
2 CONC s my wall of self around me hid that view that I'm not sure that the touch was only a mirag
2 CONC e of desire.  The medium to express myself seems so "left-handed" that I rather scorn the opp
2 CONC ortunities I might have even now to live to my fullest possibilities of service.  Of late wit
2 CONC h my family responsibilities the financial struggle i a never ending day to day, month to mon
2 CONC th consideration that I welcome, but taxes my abilities to keep up.
2 CONT      I am again about to try my hand at a business of my own.  It is an excellent opportunit
2 CONC y which my reputation in the appliance business has made possible.  I find I have many friend
2 CONC s who welcome the opportunity to aid me when my austere self-sufficiency breaks down and allo
2 CONC ws them to do so.  I also find my self and family in a rather peculiar position with practica
2 CONC lly all of our friends & relitives, that of being the poor relative & "haven't we had it so h
2 CONC ard & trying".  Yet the peculiar part is that we have paid off nearly $900.00 in debts, Dr. B
2 CONC ills etc in space of one year and have average $50-$75 per month more than my pitying audienc
2 CONC e.  Perhaps our cry of wolf has been too loud & convincing.  Helen and I have resolved  to st
2 CONC art making a front for our friends.  If it's an act that's needed I feel certain we can act t
2 CONC hat well to put it over.  The asses  that pity my family for the most part are paid clerks wi
2 CONC th a very average income, no future, no reputation in their respective fields.  Helen & I s
2 CONC o lack in personal "front" or rather the desire to even live up to any possibility we might b
2 CONC e capable  of that our friends mistake their own petty judgement of the world of appearance
2 CONC s as being a universal thought.
2 CONT      I have made you my confessor tonite, but then mothers have a way of understanding and fo
2 CONC rgiving to foibles of their sons.  I find it a help to write you when my petty world of value
2 CONC s becomes shaken.  I still believe in the destiny of your "baby" and become anxious for my st
2 CONC ar to rise faster, but I find that I can do nothing, make no progress until the time is righ
2 CONC t --- and then I cannot help myself --- cannot stay the course even when I might.  I only hop
2 CONC e that I may sometime bear out that hope I know you must have had that your "baby" had more t
2 CONC han just another passage on earth to make.  I believe my star will flash brilliantly across t
2 CONC he horizon of (ordianary lives crossed out) our times.  I cannot know as yet what form my sta
2 CONC r shall take.  Perhaps, mine is just another life to live for those near and dear to me.
2 CONT      My family are all well, happy, healthy and full of love for one another and for you --
2 CONT Your son
2 CONT Arden
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1 NAME Helen M. /Campbell/
2 SURN Campbell
2 GIVN Helen M.
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 28 Aug 1907
2 PLAC Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 9 Feb 2000
2 PLAC Pala, San Diego, California, USA
1 BURI
2 DATE 14 Feb 2000
2 PLAC Oak Hill Cemetery, Escondido, San Deigo, California, USA
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1 NOTE August 27, 1978
2 CONT Dear Blaine -
2 CONT 	Such as it is, I had better get on it before my seventy first birthday.
2 CONT 	I was born August 28, 1907 in Los Angeles at the house of my maternal grandmother Viola Nevi
2 CONC ns Poole.  It was late afternoon, I'm told, and there was a madd scramble to locate my father
2 CONC , Scott John Campbell, who was a sheet metal worker and out on a job.  My mother Edna Poole C
2 CONC ampbell named me Thelma.  My Dad could not remember that so it was changed to Helen before th
2 CONC e birth certificate was registered.  My paternal grandmother, Addie Scott Campbell wanted m
2 CONC e named for a cousin who had just died.  My mother hated the name Minnie, so I have no middl
2 CONC e name.  Some years later when I was 20 and applied for a passport the initial "M" was adde
2 CONC d to the records.  I was the first grandchild on either side and had a young unmarried aunt o
2 CONC n both sides, Agnes Campbell and Irma Poole.  Just before my brother Don was born in 1910, m
2 CONC y father and mother moved into a new house one block out of the city limits.  It wasn't lon
2 CONC g before the City grew out here and I attended kindergarten and first grade in the neighborho
2 CONC od public school.  I was a tall, blonde, thin first grader.  When I was six years old my Da
2 CONC d had a nervous breakdown and we moved to 160 acres of desert land fourteen miles from Victor
2 CONC ville.  At the end of 18 months his homestead was complete and with the beginning of World Wa
2 CONC r I in Europe we returned to Los Angeles, and my Dad again became a sheet metal contractor wi
2 CONC th my mother doing the office work.  We lived in the same neighborhood so I returned to Wes
2 CONC t Vernon School until graduation from 8th grade.  I did 7th and 8th grade in one year which w
2 CONC as the very beginning of the group system.  In our small class we had half doing advance wor
2 CONC k and half the students were grouped as slow learners.
2 CONT 	My third grade teacher was one my Dad had when he was in the third grade.
2 CONT 	From high school on to U.S.C. were average years.  The big thrill was being given a car fo
2 CONC r my 16th birthday.  I was shy and had few friends in Los Angeles High.  We had moved to a tw
2 CONC o story house in my 10th grade.  Most of my friends were from grammer school days and lived i
2 CONC n the old neighborhood.
2 CONT 	Four years in U.S.C. with a generous allowance, a sorority memebership and class work not to
2 CONC o hard, went by fast.  I majored in sociology and minored in psychology, with a certificate o
2 CONC f Social Work.  For graduation from my parents I went to Japan with a College friend also nam
2 CONC ed Helen.  She taught in Calexeco and became friend with a Japanese lady who acted as our gui
2 CONC de for a month.  On ship board we met a young man going to the Phillipine Islands to work fo
2 CONC r his uncle in a lumber mill.  This was in June 1929 and in April 1931 we were married.  Man
2 CONC y letters came by slow ship until July of 1930 when Arden Whitfield returned to Los Angeles.
2 CONT 	When we were married I had a part time job with the American Red Cross in Santa Monica, an
2 CONC d your grandfather began to learn about sheet metal work working for my father.  In 1932 cam
2 CONC e our first son Richard, also the Great Depression in California.  Work was so slow Arden wen
2 CONC t to work for the Perfection Bakery and we were glad for the job earning 40 cents per hour o
2 CONC n a split day.  We were able to have lots of bread and cake.  On March 10th the banks close
2 CONC d and that same month 1933 came the Long Beach earthquake, and we went into the sheet metal b
2 CONC usiness and lived in a beach house belonging to my parents.  In July 1933, my father-in-law T
2 CONC erence Brady died of cancer and Arden's mother Jennie Belle Brady came to live with us.  Sh
2 CONC e helped out by answering the phone and staying in the shop.  By July 1934 work was finishe
2 CONC d in Long Beach and we moved to Glendale to work selling appliances for Arden's brother Clare
2 CONC .  It was strictly a commission job.  Jennie Belle Brady had returned to Lindsay, her home
2 CONC .  Our son Dick had a bad cut across his nose and we were pretty poor.  About this time the S
2 CONC tate of California established a welefare program so I went back to work doing social work, u
2 CONC ntil 1935 when our second son Jim was born.  We were now in Burbank, still in the appliance s
2 CONC elling.  Just before Jim was born in August, Dick injured his eye, and my father was in a ser
2 CONC ious accident, and his business was at low ebb.  Thru various loans established by the U.S. G
2 CONC overnment we both managed to survive.  Some loans were not quite legal but Jennie Belle Brad
2 CONC y came back to help us by caring for baby Jim and I went back to work for the Welefare Depart
2 CONC ment of the State of California and Arden had various selling jobs.  By March of 1941 we wer
2 CONC e able to buy our first home, in Burbank.  Back to sheet metal work after the World War II an
2 CONC d the establishment of Brady Shett Metal in Burbank 1946.  After 5 years of hard work we mana
2 CONC ged to begin to have a decent living and by the time Dick was ready for college we were finan
2 CONC cially able to send him.
2 CONT 	In August 1953 we moved to Studio City to be near my father and mother.  From 1953 to 1971 a
2 CONC nd retirement we lived in Studio City.  Since then in Pala on our six acres in Indian Reserva
2 CONC tion.  I have now high lighted up to your time.  It is for you to write the finish.
2 CONT                            Love and Happy Birthday
2 CONT                            Grandma Brady
2 CONT 
2 CONT S.S. Siberia Maru
2 CONT June 22, 1929
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dearest Family:
2 CONT Have spent three days on the water and haven't been sick yet.  Leaving San Farncisco was awfu
2 CONC lly rough and Helen got sick and lost her lunch but managed by walking around to keep her din
2 CONC ner in the right place  I bet I walked five miles that day.  I lost track after I had been ar
2 CONC ound 18 times which is two miles.
2 CONT We didn't get our cabin changed nor the 2nd class dining room but have all first class deck p
2 CONC rivleges which is the main thing for we can come up and play deck games and to the movies an
2 CONC d the dances.  We are the most popular people around for we are the only 2 young Americans o
2 CONC n board.  The only other  young one is the boy I told you about and his roomate some pimple f
2 CONC aced kid just out of high school but we let him hang around because he plays guitar which sou
2 CONC nds keen when we are sitting in the moon light with our one man between us.
2 CONT There are lots of Japs returning home from college who have more degrees than I knew existed
2 CONC .  Not a one hasn't a masters degree and they all speak English so we sort of have to tear cl
2 CONC ear of them for fear they will talk above our heads.
2 CONT Yesterday was the first day of teaching and it wasn't bad because it isn't real school but ju
2 CONC st like my club work with the Mexicans.  We sure are living an easy life.  Every morning at s
2 CONC even forty five we are called by the bath stewart who has water drawn and at eight we have br
2 CONC eakfast and play games all morning long.  At ten a little cup of soup is served and at 12 lun
2 CONC ch  After lunch we play games again untill tea which is at three and then we read, sleep or w
2 CONC rite until dinner time.  After dinner we go to the movies or dances which ever is happening a
2 CONC nd then we sit and talk in the moonlight until about eleven when we go to bed.  Today we ar
2 CONC e so stiff and sore from playing deck tennis, golf, shuffle board etc that we can hardly move
2 CONC .
2 CONT Every night at midnight we have to retard our watches a different amount.  At dinner they pos
2 CONC t a notice how much time to retard and we skip June 29 all  together.  I have it all marked d
2 CONC own in my little book so that when I get home I can tell you exactly about the time.
2 CONT We are still having good meals and Helen & I have the place of honor at the table for we si
2 CONC t next to the officer at the head of the table  We saved our money and didn't get deck chair
2 CONC s because we never have time to use them and at night when we do want them, all the duffers w
2 CONC ho do have them go to bed and so we use theirs to keep the night air off of them.
2 CONT The days are so warm the we don't need coats and each day it gets warmer.  We get into Honolu
2 CONC lu at 8 in the morning and don't leave until four in the afternoon so that we will have quit
2 CONC e a bit of time there.
2 CONT There is so much to do during the day that I don't have time to get home sick but I sure do a
2 CONC fter dinner and when I get ready for bed, but I am having a lot of fun besides meeting a lo
2 CONC t of interesting people
2 CONT When we got on board at San Francisco a man from the Steamship Co. took our pictures for a ma
2 CONC gazine called Japan that they put out.  We were flattered until we got a look at the rest o
2 CONC f the passengers.
2 CONT Today we took some pictures of the different people on board playing games.  I'm beginning t
2 CONC o feel like a movie queen because so many people have asked us to pose for them
2 CONT June 24 -
2 CONT Will finish this letter and mail it tomorrow.
2 CONT Sunday we went to church and the minister gave an awfully dumb talk.  We all, Helen, Arden
2 CONC , 2 Japs and I got the giggles and disgraced ourselves but I guess it is alright for the mini
2 CONC ster still speaks to us.  The cause of all the giggles was that our lunch gong rang and he ke
2 CONC pt right on talking for fifteen minutes and then finished up the meeting by singing a hymn ab
2 CONC out fasting and fasting
2 CONT Last night the scouts had a pyjama parade, the three loudest pairs getting prizes and Hele
2 CONC n & I were the judges.  Tonite is ladies night but Helen & I say our pyjamas are dirty so w
2 CONC e can't enter, anyways we are going to the dance.  After we leave Honolulu they are going t
2 CONC o have a fancy dress party so Helen & I are going to wear our Spanish shawls.  They have a la
2 CONC undry on board ship which is cheap as dirt so we are going to have clean clothes after all wi
2 CONC thout hanging'em out the port holes to dry.  They have rigged up a canvus swimming pool so w
2 CONC e go in every night just before dinner.  It is sultry heat that makes you feel pepless unti
2 CONC l evening when it cools down.  The 2nd class eat 1/2 hr. before 1st class so we dash up to th
2 CONC e writing room just above  the dining room and write to soft music.  Everyone tell us that Ja
2 CONC pan is full of Y.W.C.A.'s which have rooms & Am food for a dollar a day so are no longer worr
2 CONC ying about hotel bills.  One Jap who got his M.A. at Columbia U. in Comparative psychology an
2 CONC d is now getting his Phd. at Hartford said that his sister is meeting the boat at Yokahama an
2 CONC d he would like us to meet her and then come to tea at his home in Tokio.  He apparently is q
2 CONC uite wealthy for he does not plan to work but to carry on psychological research work in emot
2 CONC ion.  He is smart as a whip and I get a kick out of talking to him about psychology.  When I'
2 CONC m too dumb to understand him I pretend it is his English which is really good.
2 CONT Yesterday we had a fire drill and everyone had to dash up and wear life belts and go to thei
2 CONC r boat.  My life belt was so heavy and it was so hot I nearly died so I took it off before ti
2 CONC me and one officer said that I was so thin I should have a baloon instead of a belt.
2 CONT There is a darling Chinese couple and baby on board who are just like Americans and they dres
2 CONC s the baby fit to kill.  There is also a 19 yr. old Chinese colleged at 14, and was sent ove
2 CONC r to San Diego by the Southern Gov't of China to learn to fly and now he is returning with se
2 CONC veral ships.  He is the hit of the boat with the girls because he struts around in uniform s
2 CONC o much.
2 CONT The boy scouts are all Japanese and surely can drill.  They blew the bugle at every move so h
2 CONC alf the time I think I'm home listening to our neighbor
2 CONT I guess I had better close or I'll have to use all my stamps to get this to you.  It surely s
2 CONC eems more than a few weeks since I left home.  I guess it is because so much has happened
2 CONC .  I hope you are having a good time on your trip and that you all feel as good, well, as I d
2 CONC o.
2 CONT Lots of love
2 CONT Helen
2 CONT 
2 CONT North County Times, February 12, 2000
2 CONT Helen Brady, 92
2 CONT PALA ---- Helen M. Brady, 92, died Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2000, in Pala.
2 CONT Born Aug. 28, 1907, in Los Angeles, she lived in Pala for 30 years. She was an executive secr
2 CONC etary for the American Red Cross and a 1928 graduate of the University of Southern California
2 CONC .
2 CONT Mrs. Brady was preceded in death by her husband, Arden "Steve" Brady, in 1985. She is survive
2 CONC d by her sons, James A. Brady of Temecula and Richard Brady of Escondido; eight grandchildren
2 CONC ; and 20 great-grandchildren.
2 CONT A graveside service will be held at 1 p.m. Monday, Feb. 14, at Oak Hill Memorial Park. Buria
2 CONC l will follow at 1:30 p.m.
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2 SURN Ogden
2 GIVN William
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1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 Jul 1837
2 PLAC Pilkington, Lancashire, England
1 CHR
2 DATE 23 Mar 1876
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 27 Jan 1912
2 PLAC Leon, Decatur, Iowa, USA
1 BURI
2 DATE 1912
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 _UID D186567CB88FE34E9F140153ABDE65A73D2B
1 FAMS @F7@
1 NATU 
2 DATE 1842
2 SOUR @S4@
1 NOTE      William Ogden emigrated to the United States of America from Lincolnshire, England in 18
2 CONC 42.  William age 5, accompanied his widowed mother Elizabeth Madder Ogden, brothers James L
2 CONC , Samuel and sisters Sarah and Ann.  The family had joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latt
2 CONC er Day Saints or "Mormons" and moved to Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois to be with other mem
2 CONC bers of their new church.  After arriving at Nauvoo, mother Elizabeth Ogden married a Georg
2 CONC e Nelson who was also a Mormon at that time.  Elizabeth had two additional sons John and Jose
2 CONC ph which are listed in the 1850 census in Nauvoo.  Whether it was because Elizabeth was expec
2 CONC ting a child or another reason, George and Elizabeth Ogden Nelson did not evacuate Nauvoo wit
2 CONC h the rest of the Latter Day Saints that went to Utah but rather chose to stay behind.  In 18
2 CONC 50 the excitement of California's gold rush prompted brother James to leave Nauvoo for the go
2 CONC ld fields.  William at age thirteen chose to accompany his brother James to California.  Whet
2 CONC her William made any money is not known.  According to Brady descendant Rev. William Joseph O
2 CONC gden also a grandson of James L. Ogden; "In California he got enough gold to buy three 160 ac
2 CONC re farms, but gambled one away, drank up a second, but still got back with enough to buy wha
2 CONC t became the Ogden homestead east of Nauvoo".
2 CONT      On May 8, 1865 William married Mary Elizabeth Brady, oldest daughter of Terence and Brid
2 CONC get Brady whose homestead was a little less than two miles south east of the James L. Ogden f
2 CONC amily where William was living.  William is listed as a farm hand on his brother James farm i
2 CONC n Sonora Township in the 1860 census.
2 CONT      William and Mary's first four children were born in Nauvoo Mary Ann being born July 28
2 CONC , 1872.  On March 23, 1873 William converted to Catholism and was christened at Saints Pete
2 CONC r and Paul Catholic Church in Nauvoo, Illinois.  By March of 1875 the family had moved acros
2 CONC s the Mississippi River to Decatur County, Iowa just outside of the town of Leon where son Jo
2 CONC hn F. Ogden is born.  The area was called Ireland due the number of people whose families ha
2 CONC d come from Ireland.  William and Mary lived on this farm until the time of William's death i
2 CONC n 1912.  By 1920 Mary had moved to Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa where she lived until her de
2 CONC ath in 1922 with daughter Josephine A. and her husband Harry Lewis Barquist.  Both William an
2 CONC d Mary were buried at Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery in Sonora Township, Hancock Cou
2 CONC nty, Illinois.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT "The next land entries and purchases were in Woodland Township, ten miles southeast of Leon
2 CONC , which became a rural farming community know as Ireland.  There was never a town at Ireland
2 CONC , only a church and cemetery.  The town of Woodland was three and one-half miles northeast wh
2 CONC ile Bracewell was a store, a mill and a couple of houses about three and one-half miles south
2 CONC east of Ireland...
2 CONT Including John W. Wallace, twelve Catholic Irish immigrants entered or purchased land in Wood
2 CONC land Township during the 1850's.  Thomas Owens, who came to Decatur County with the Barrett'
2 CONC s in 1856 or 1857, purchased land in Woodland Township in the 60's.  Following the Civil Wa
2 CONC r more came such as Thomas Dillon, James Dillon, Francis McGovern, Patrick Flynn, Joseph Pete
2 CONC rs, Dennis Mahoney, Cornilius Hannon, Patrick Mahoney, Thomas Grogan, and others such as Sylv
2 CONC ester Kritz, Daniel Sullivan and William Ogden who purchased land in or near Woodland Townshi
2 CONC p to cause that part of Decatur County to be called "Ireland" ten miles southeast of Leon.
2 CONC "  A Histroy of the Catholic Church Decatur County, Iowa.  By Rev. Edward J. Harkin, Pastor
2 CONC , 1956.
2 CONT 
2 CONT " Ogden - William Ogden and Mary Brady came from Nauvoo, Illinois, about 1875 and lived nort
2 CONC h east of Pleasanton, Iowa.  They are buried in Illinois.  Children all married and moved t
2 CONC o Canada, Des Moines and California."  A History of the Catholic Church Decatur County, Iowa
2 CONC .  By Rev. Edward J. Harkin, Pastor, 1956.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Leon Reporter, Leon, IowaThursday, June l3, l900
2 CONT "We learn from Mr. Ogden, the agent of the Western Stage Co. that a daily line of four hors
2 CONC e stages is to be shortly put on the route from Chariton to Leon, passing through Garden Grov
2 CONC e and Franklin. The principal part of the mail passing through the southern part of the Stat
2 CONC e from the east to the west will take this route. The mail route from Leon directly east wil
2 CONC l not be discontinued, but the mail is to be carried in two horse coaches as heretofore."
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Death and birth dates are listed on gravestone in Nauvoo.  Copied by Bertha Moffitt Bush.  De
2 CONC ath is also recorded in the James Ogden family Bible. Check the 1850 census for Nauvoo, Illin
2 CONC ois.  He may not have left for California yet.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "Miss Anna Brady, of Sonora, is visiting Wm. Ogden's family, in Decatur county, Iowa.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Wm. Ogden, of Iowa, who has been visiting relatives in the vicinity, returned home last week.
2 CONC "  Nauvoo Rustler, April 5, 1892.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "Wim. Ogden, of Pleasanton, Iowa, who has been spending the past week with his brother Jame
2 CONC s returned home yesturday."  Nauvoo Rustler, August 16, 1892.
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0 @I31@ INDI
1 NAME James Dennis /Ogden/
2 SURN Ogden
2 GIVN James Dennis
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 8 Jul 1867
2 PLAC Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 CHR
2 DATE 14 Jul 1867
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 6 May 1942
2 PLAC , Snohomish, Washington, USA
1 _UID D4CC3B5E849FC34897968A989D42BEC619E1
1 FAMS @F27@
1 FAMC @F7@
1 NOTE Birth and christening records are located at Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Nauvoo
2 CONC , Illinois.  The Latin name was Jacobum Dennrin Ogden.  Family photograph lists the middle na
2 CONC me as Dennis.  The 1900 census lists Jas Ogden as a boarder in the home of Eugine Corson.  Ja
2 CONC mes is living in Silver Creek Township, Merrick, Nebraska and is working as a hired hand.  I
2 CONC n 1920 James is listed as married living in School District No. 1, Dawson County, Montana.  I
2 CONC n Montana, James owns his own farm free of mortgage.
2 CONT By 1930 James and Minnie have moved to Port Susan, Snohomish, Washington where he is farming.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 12 Jan 2009
3 TIME 08:59:02
0 @I32@ INDI
1 NAME Elizabeth /Ogden/
2 SURN Ogden
2 GIVN Elizabeth
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 27 Jan 1869
2 PLAC Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 CHR
2 DATE 27 Feb 1869
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 23 Apr 1952
2 PLAC , Los Angeles, California, USA
1 _UID 80A646CB18DA3E4982C713836F37B22108C0
1 FAMS @F28@
1 FAMC @F7@
1 NOTE Birth and christening records are located at Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Nauvoo
2 CONC , Illinois.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 5 Mar 2007
3 TIME 14:52:57
0 @I33@ INDI
1 NAME William T. /Ogden/
2 SURN Ogden
2 GIVN William T.
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 25 Nov 1870
2 PLAC Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 5 Jun 1944
2 PLAC Chico, Butte, California, USA
1 _UID 723D7B928B0FD74E830BC64783B0D6D3F22B
1 FAMS @F29@
1 FAMC @F7@
1 NOTE On August 1, 1906 William and his wife Agnes are listed as living in Qu' Appelle, Saskatchewa
2 CONC n, Canada.  They are listed as having come to Canada in 1903.
2 CONT In 1910 William is living in Kemshew Township, Butte, California.  William has been married f
2 CONC ive years and has two daughters.  The oldest is listed Catherine M. age 3 was born in Canad
2 CONC a and the second daughter Willah M. is less than a year old and was born in California.  Will
2 CONC iam is living with his Uncle Samuel Ogden, who is listed as age 80 and single.    William i
2 CONC s listed as head of the household although his Uncle Samuel is listed as living there ten yea
2 CONC rs before in 1900.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT OBITUARY - THE CHICO ENTERPRISE, Chico, CA, Monday Evening, June 5, 1944: "William Ogden Die
2 CONC s After Fall. William T. Ogden, a long time resident of Chico, died early this morning at th
2 CONC e Enloe hospital, the result of a fall down the stairs of his residence about a year ago.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "He was born in Nauvee [sic], IL, November 25, 1870, and came to California about 38 years ag
2 CONC o. At that time he drove stage coach between Chico and Magalia, which was a large mining town
2 CONC .
2 CONT 
2 CONT "For 13 years the family lived in Paradise and Ogden planted the first apple orchard there. T
2 CONC wenty five years ago Ogden moved to Chico and during that time he had been a call fireman fo
2 CONC r the Chico fire department. He was a rancher and carpenter all his life and helped build man
2 CONC y of the early residences of Chico.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "He is survived by his wife, Agnes Ogden of Chico, four daughters, Mrs. Kathleen Hovey of Oak
2 CONC land; Mrs. William M. Owen of Alameda, Mrs. Rose Lucas of Chico and Mrs. Inac Aufranc of Sacr
2 CONC amento; also five sisters, Mrs. Kathleen Rochelle of Casper, Wyoming; Mrs. Grace West of Chic
2 CONC ago, Illinois; Mrs. Josephine Barquist of Des Moines, Iowa; Mrs. Elizabeth Dale of South Gate
2 CONC , California; and Mrs. Mary Toovey of Long Beach, California.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "Friends are invited to attend the Rosary, Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock at the Black, Johnso
2 CONC n & Brusie Funeral Home. Requiem Mass will be said for the repose of his soul Wednesday morni
2 CONC ng at 10 o'clock, the cortege leaving the Black, Johnson & Brusie Funeral Home at 9:45 a.m. a
2 CONC nd proceeding to St. John The Baptist Catholic church."
1 CHAN
2 DATE 16 Dec 2007
3 TIME 23:04:14
0 @I34@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Ann /Ogden/
2 SURN Ogden
2 GIVN Mary Ann
2 NICK Dollie
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 28 Jul 1872
2 PLAC Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 CHR
2 DATE 1 Sep 1877
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 20 May 1955
2 PLAC Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, USA
1 BURI
2 DATE 1955
2 PLAC All Souls Cem., Long Beach, Los Angeles, USA
1 _UID AEFC9BA8006E9E42B6CC2C55D727D2101E58
1 FAMS @F30@
1 FAMC @F7@
1 NOTE Birth and christening records are located at Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Nauvoo
2 CONC , Illinois.  Family photograph lists middle name as Ann.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Pleasanton News:On January 1st, at 7:30 o'clock occurred the marriage of Mr. Ben F. Toove
2 CONC y and Miss. Dollie Ogden at the residence of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Ogden
2 CONC , in the presence of about fifty guests. The bride was attired in a cream colored gown, the g
2 CONC room in the usual Prince Albert. Miss. Mary and Mr. Ed Griffin acted as bridesmaid and best m
2 CONC an. A Catholic Priest whose name we did not learn, performed the ceremony which was short an
2 CONC d impressive. After this, supper was announced and after all had partaken, dancing began an
2 CONC d was continued till the "wee small hours". Mr. and Mrs. Toovey have the best wishes of a hos
2 CONC t of friends, and may their lives be as bright as the day of their union.Leon Reporter-Iowa
2 CONC January 4, 1894(In another column):About fifty guests were in attendance at the home o
2 CONC f Mr. and Mrs. William Ogden of Pleasanton, on New Year's evening about 7:30 o'clock, to witn
2 CONC ess the marriage of their daughter, Mary A. to Mr. Benjamin F. Toovey.The house was tastefu
2 CONC lly arrayed and decorated with evergreens and roses for the important event. While the weddin
2 CONC g march was played by Miss. Kate Ogden, accompanied by her brother, John, sister and brothe
2 CONC r of the bride, the bridal party entered and took their places under a festoon of roses and d
2 CONC ecorations prepared for them. Reverend Malone, of Maloy, Iowa, came forward and performed th
2 CONC e short and impressive ceremony that united them for life.Mr. Ed Griffin was best man and M
2 CONC iss. Mary Griffin bridesmaid. The bride was elegantly dressed in a cream wool trimmed in lac
2 CONC e and ribbon. The groom wore the conventional black and looked worthy of his fair bride.Aft
2 CONC er the ceremony, the guests partook of an excellent feast prepared for the occasion. They wer
2 CONC e the recipients of many beautiful and useful presents.Miss. Mary A. Ogden is well known, h
2 CONC aving been reared here. She is an accomplished young lady, and a general favorite in society
2 CONC . Mr. Toovey is a promising young business man of Pleasanton, where he has lived with his par
2 CONC ents. The young couple will occupy the new residence he has finished in Pleasanton. The write
2 CONC r joins with a host of friends in extending best wishes for a long and prosperous life.- A GU
2 CONC ESTLeon Reporter-IowaJanuary 4, 1894
2 CONT 
2 CONT The folowing marriage licences were isuued the past week.
2 CONT John L. Bobbins, 27 to Anna Battels, 22.
2 CONT Joseph B. VanMeter, 59 to Ella Roberts, 38.
2 CONT Frank A. Niday, 26 to Susie Warrick, 21.
2 CONT Benj. F. Toovey, 24 to Mary A. Ogden, 21.
2 CONT Abram Goodman, 27 to Lemma Luse, 21.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Leon Reporter-Iowa
2 CONT January 4, 1894
1 CHAN
2 DATE 2 Jan 2005
3 TIME 01:00:00
0 @I35@ INDI
1 NAME John Francis /Ogden/
2 SURN Ogden
2 GIVN John Francis
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 Mar 1875
2 PLAC Pleasanton, Decatur, Iowa, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE ABT 1930
2 PLAC , , Canada
1 _UID 8A03BC12D9F55040BFD089B820A652D77875
1 FAMS @F30975@
1 FAMC @F7@
1 EVEN 
2 TYPE Military Service 
2 DATE Iowa National Guard
2 PLAC Spanish American War State Milita
1 NOTE Was hit by a car while walking by the side of a road in Canada.  This infomation is from Curt
2 CONC is Rochelle.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Leon ReporterMay 30, 1895On Thursday and Friday evenings, May 23 and 24, 1895, the Eighte
2 CONC enth Annual Commencement of the Leon High School took place in Jordan's Opera Hall.The clas
2 CONC s of 1895 consisted of nine boys and twelve girls, by far the largest class graduated from th
2 CONC e school since its establishment in 1877.The program consisted of orations by each member o
2 CONC f the class, interspersed with music under the management of the musical director, Prof. M. S
2 CONC choenert.The exercises were opened by invocation by Reverend Hughes of the M.E. Church, fol
2 CONC lowed by an instrumental duet by Miss. Maude Schenck and Mr. Allie Schoenert.After which:Wi
2 CONC lliam J. Springer, stepped before the audience and in a clear voice told us of the "Growth o
2 CONC f Americanism" from the time the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth, finding a wilderness inh
2 CONC abited only by savages, down to the present day. Showing how tyranny and despotism, when arra
2 CONC yed against a people whose very existence is a monument to personal liberty, were overthrow
2 CONC n by earnest effort born of principle, and that a government of the people, by the people, fo
2 CONC r the people, fosters those things which, rightly applied, are a blessing to humanity.The n
2 CONC ext on the program was:Miss. Hallie Moore, who was tastefully attired in a gown of cream Sw
2 CONC ansdown, decorated with ribbons. Miss. Moore presented her subject "Stepping Stones", in a ve
2 CONC ry pleasing manner, teaching us that we cannot hope to reach the summit of the mountain of su
2 CONC ccess except by earnest and persistent effort. We are to remember that every failure and disc
2 CONC ouragement we meet and overcome is another step on the upward road, and that we can attain n
2 CONC o lasting greatness or power without the harmonious development of both our mental and our ph
2 CONC ysical natures.Miss. Hattie Haskett, wore a dress of cream colored silk and carried a bouqu
2 CONC et of lovely rose buds. Her costume accorded well with her subject, "Adornements". In speakin
2 CONC g of the different costumes provided us for different occasions, Miss. Haskett reminded us th
2 CONC at we must not judge a man by the clothes he wears as some of our greatest men, both in hear
2 CONC t and mind, were those whose ideas of dress were quite primitive. We are not however to negle
2 CONC ct the study of nature and art, as all that is beautiful is elevating and ennobling. Many o
2 CONC f the rarest gems require patient and careful burnishing to produce the brillancy that will g
2 CONC ladden the eye and the heart. So in our lives: "When souls are being tried and ripened. God i
2 CONC s hewing out the pillars of his temple."The next oration was entitled "Clouds Lingering Yet
2 CONC ", the speaker was:Miss. Grace Albaugh, who was becomingly dressed in pure white mull, so a
2 CONC ppropriate for the occasion. She interestingly portrayed to us a thunder-storm and the cleari
2 CONC ng, noticing the clouds lingering near the horizon; then comparing the scene with the human l
2 CONC ife in which storms of trouble and disappointment break over us and for a season we are hidde
2 CONC n by the bitter clouds of darkness and despair, but if faithful and true to our better self w
2 CONC e may see the clouds disperse and the sunlight of hope burst through to gladden and cheer us
2 CONC , yet there will be some lingering clouds-trials awaiting us in the future to remind us "tha
2 CONC t there is only one perfect place where clouds do not linger."Henry S. Arnold, spoke to u
2 CONC s concerning "The Mission of the Middle Class", which we can best review by quoting: "The abs
2 CONC ence of a great middle class is the evidence of national imperfection. Behold the giant for
2 CONC m of the Russian Empire! What an example of national decay! How degraded are her masses! Rule
2 CONC d by a despot, inhabited by the uneducated, there she stands locked in the prison cells of de
2 CONC gredation. Turn from this scene of turmoil and view the prosperous Republic of America, the U
2 CONC nited States, with her refined and intelligent masses and her departments of government in ha
2 CONC rmony with each other." Since early all great reforms spring from the middle class it is ou
2 CONC r duty as a nation to "look well to the middle class", thus developing intelligent and loya
2 CONC l citizens whose love of country shall be her safeguard to future prosperity.Miss. Stella A
2 CONC llen, wore pale blue silk, trimmed with ribbons and lace. Her subject was well presented. Sh
2 CONC e pictured for us some of "Life's Lessons", charging us to be warned and profited by the expe
2 CONC rience of others, remembering that our lines have a direct influence upon those with whom w
2 CONC e are associated, though we may not realize to what extent; therefore let us strive to do al
2 CONC l the good we can knowing that our reward is sure. It may be that we will meet with reverses
2 CONC , for "success brings with it a penalty, undeserved, but certain, and a penalty that is oft t
2 CONC imes cruel in its operations", yet "we shall reap if we faint not."The next oration was del
2 CONC ivered by:Miss. Mary Springer, who was looking her best in a handsome toilet of cream sil
2 CONC k and tulle. She told us of some of the great achievements of the past which when proposed we
2 CONC re pronounced follies by the world, but by the persistent effort of their advocates were prov
2 CONC en to be a benefaction to all those who come under their influence. Not only to man are the g
2 CONC rand "possibilties" of life open, for woman, since the founding of our great republic has mad
2 CONC e rapid strides, now being permitted to fill many positions of honor and trust. We have onl
2 CONC y to reach out into the world and demand recognition, for the world respects those who help t
2 CONC hemselves.Edward Thompson, had chosen for his subject "The Value of Emotion", describing so
2 CONC me of the uses of man's emotional nature. First, as one of the distinctive elements which sep
2 CONC arate man from the brute creation. A man is what his emotion makes him, either high and nobl
2 CONC e or low and groveling. For it is "Emotion that nerves that hand, steadies the eye, stimulate
2 CONC s the brain and fills the soul with an enthusiasm that sweeps everything before it", withou
2 CONC t which we would be unable to appreciate the grandeur of nature or art-The greater the more m
2 CONC agnanimous the soul of man, the deeper his emotions and; "He who smothers his emotions smothe
2 CONC rs his chances for greatness."Miss. Claudie Clapp, was very becomingly dressed in cream alb
2 CONC atross, decorated with ribbons and eloquently declared "The Kingdom of Women" to be not onl
2 CONC y the home, though this is recognized to be her grandest domain where by refining and softeni
2 CONC ng influence she may instill into those around her the love for that which is noble and eleva
2 CONC ting, but every position in life when nobility of thought, mind and purpose are desired. Eve
2 CONC r recognized as man's superior in virtue and morality and by many of our greatest men said t
2 CONC o be his intellectual equal, surely she is fitted to become the queen of any station in life
2 CONC , either social, domestic or political.John Ogden, was the last speaker on Thursday evening
2 CONC , and the opinions he advanced in regard to "The Teacher" were certainly endorsed by all thos
2 CONC e who heard him. In speaking of our great government and the many nationalities here represen
2 CONC ted he proved to us that it must be the duty of every teacher, aside from the usual curriculu
2 CONC m, to instill into the heart and mind of the children the love of country and loyalty to he
2 CONC r flag, thus ennabling them to become fitted for the honorable position every American may ho
2 CONC ld, that of an intelligent citizen of the United States. In a large measure this education mu
2 CONC st come from the teacher as so many parents, among the working class at least, are of foreig
2 CONC n birth and unable to speak our language, their sympathies largely with their mother country
2 CONC . "The whole future condition of the rising generation, their mental, social and moral intere
2 CONC sts are involved in the character and work of the teacher." But "left alone to work by himsel
2 CONC f, cheered by no word of approval, encouraged by no friend, the best teacher finds his energi
2 CONC es weaken and his spirits grow dull." Then help your children's teachers, encourage them; kin
2 CONC d words are an inspiration to us all and no one feels their need more than the weary teacher.
2 CONC Miss. Minnie Smith, was first on program Friday evening. She wore cream albatross decorate
2 CONC d with ribbon and roses, and interested us for a short time by speaking of "The Girls of Amer
2 CONC ica", noticing the distinguishing features of the girls of the north and the south, also th
2 CONC e advancement of female education from the time girls were grudgingly admitted to the highe
2 CONC r institutions of learning open to them but a large majority of the teachers in the public sc
2 CONC hools are women.James Conwell, spoke to us of "Patriotism" as the key to national wealth an
2 CONC d prosperity, the noblest impulse of man's nature, while false patriotism is the most dangero
2 CONC us calamity that can befall any country. "The patriot, God's greatest gift to a nation is ind
2 CONC eed one of nature's noblemen." Then let patriotism be instilled into the hearts and minds o
2 CONC f every child both in the home and at school, teaching them to so love their country and hono
2 CONC r its starry emblem that no sacrifice will seem too great when the welfare of the nation is a
2 CONC t stake.Miss. Edith Johnson, wore a dress of pink silk on this occasion. Her oration was en
2 CONC titled "Character". In her discourse she remarked the influence which men of good character h
2 CONC ave upon the world, showing that all lasting good must eminate from those who, not only prete
2 CONC nd to have, but really possess a true and noble character, and that the value of a good chara
2 CONC cter cannot be estimated, neither can it be bought except by the payment of a life devoted t
2 CONC o that which will elevate and ennoble.The next on the program was:Miss. Maud Schenck, wh
2 CONC o was dressed in pea green albatross and chiffon and carried a bouquet of lovely roses. Her s
2 CONC ubject "What is a Man?" was looked at from several standpoints and answered in as many ways
2 CONC . Some declaring man to be "a gardener", others assuring us that he is "a good-for-nothing-ga
2 CONC mbler", "an actor" or "a student", while Miss. Schenck asserts that man is a pilgrim, a sojou
2 CONC rner and the earth the inn where he reposes for a season before resuming his way.Orville Ha
2 CONC milton, has chosen the character of "John Brown". The subject was unique but well discussed
2 CONC , showing that he understood the elements of true courage. Mr. Hamilton admitting that John B
2 CONC rown committed the high crime of treason against his country; showed that it was, in a grea
2 CONC t measure, condoned for by the holy purpose actuating him-of benefiting humanity and liberati
2 CONC ng four millon people from the bonds of slavery.Miss. Pearl Osborn, was next on the program
2 CONC . She wore a very becoming dress of corn colored Swansdown and presented her subject "The Pow
2 CONC er of Thought" in a commendable manner. Every person has thoughts, plans, and purposes, and a
2 CONC s a "man thinketh so is he", therefore it is necessary for us, if we wish our lives to be i
2 CONC n harmony with the Divine will, to guard well our thoughts and acts. The way in which this pr
2 CONC oduction was worded showed that the author was well acquainted with the subject under discuss
2 CONC ion.Miss. Nannie Paris, in her discourse, entitled "Cast Down but not Destroyed" showed u
2 CONC s how all great reforms and inventions, when first proposed, meet with the scoffs and jeers o
2 CONC f the people and only by indomitable will and courage where the leaders enabled to withstan
2 CONC d the discouragements and persecutions, which surely follow. "And if it be necessary for us i
2 CONC n this generation to lay down our lives to advance or enlighten the world in any way may we r
2 CONC egardless of the frowns and discouragements step upward and onward, and although our ideas ma
2 CONC y be disbelieved and cast down they will not be destroyed." Miss. Paris wore a very becomin
2 CONC g costume of cream Lansdown decorated with ribbons and lace.Edward O. Moore, in his discuss
2 CONC ions of "Ambition" spoke of its being the power by which men rise to eminence and distinction
2 CONC . Ambition, it is that which stimulates within us the desires for something better and noble
2 CONC r than that already achieved, and by constant and earnest effort-"each individual may accompl
2 CONC ish at last some worthy purpose" Beware, however, of vain ambition as it is a means of decei
2 CONC t and leads sooner or later to ignomy and dishonor. "Nothing is pure but Heaven; let that b
2 CONC e the ideal of our aspirations.Miss. Ethel Bowman, was daintily attired in a pure white gow
2 CONC n and brought to our minds some "Voices of the Past" showing us that a little work carelessl
2 CONC y spoken or an unconscious act may have an influence for good or evil, to what extent none o
2 CONC f us can determine. Our lives influence those around us and this influence will live after us
2 CONC . "Dignity, rank and wealthy are worthless, but moral character has an immortality that nothi
2 CONC ng can destroy; that traverses the universe and leaves an influence."The last oration, "Bru
2 CONC tus" was very well delivered by:Earnest Horner, in which he gave an interesting sketch of t
2 CONC he public life of Brutus. In a peculiar style he acquits him of the crime of assassinating Ca
2 CONC esar because of his desire to benefit the Roman people, by preventing Caesar from becoming ki
2 CONC ng. Although his act hastened the danger he hoped to avert, "even the very enemies of Brutu
2 CONC s would say he had no end or aim from first to last but to restore to the Roman people thei
2 CONC r ancient government." No greater tribute was ever paid to man than that which his arch enemy
2 CONC , Mark Antony, bestwoed on Brutus when he said:"This was the noblest Roman of them all;Al
2 CONC l the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy of great Caesar;He, only, in a g
2 CONC enerous, honest thoughtOf commons good to all, made one of them.His life was gentle; and th
2 CONC e elementsSo mix'd in him, that nature might stand up,And say to all the world, "This wa
2 CONC s a man."Frank Jackson, was a member of the class of '95 but on account of sickness was una
2 CONC ble to prepare an oration. He was however, permitted to graduate with the class.After a lad
2 CONC ies' quartet composed of Misses Avery, Carmean, Parrish, and Schenck, Prof. Sam L. Darrah tha
2 CONC nked the audience for their courtesy in preserving order during the necessarily lengthy exerc
2 CONC ises, then made a short but appropriate address to the class urging them to do the best tha
2 CONC t within them lies and become noble young men and noble young women, thereby receiving the "c
2 CONC ommendation of men and the reward of Heaven."Mr. S.C. Penniwell, President of the School Bo
2 CONC ard in a few words presented to the class their diplomas thus severing their connection wit
2 CONC h the Leon High School, except as member of the Alumni.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Leon Reporter
2 CONT September 19, 1895
2 CONT 
2 CONT Our friend John Ogden, who graduated from Leon High School this year, went to Iowa City Monda
2 CONC y to enter the State University.
2 CONT 
2 CONT OGDEN, JOHN, 95, real estate, Sasktoon, Canada.  1913 Alumni Rosster for Leon High School.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 9 Jul 2007
3 TIME 00:00:03
0 @I36@ INDI
1 NAME Kathleen Mae /Ogden/
2 SURN Ogden
2 GIVN Kathleen Mae
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 Nov 1877
2 PLAC Leon, Decatur, Iowa, USA
1 DEAT
2 PLAC Casper,Natrona,Wyoming,USA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Highland Cemetery,Casper,Wyoming,USA
1 _UID F04F84922DB53C40B63BA491E38DECE217A5
1 FAMS @F31@
1 FAMC @F7@
1 NOTE In 1880 census a Catharine age 2 is listed.  This is probably Kathleen M. listed in the 190
2 CONC 0 census living with her parents in Leon, Decatur, Iowa.  Kathleen is working as a teacher an
2 CONC d is still single.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Kathleen was elected  to the Wyoming State Legislature as a democrat  in 1926 and 1932 repres
2 CONC enting the City of Lusk, Niobrara County.  As a member of the legislature she introduced a bi
2 CONC ll creating Wyoming Day as December 10th.
2 CONT 
2 CONT There's an Equality State called Wyoming, away out in the West
2 CONT The state of my adoption, the one that I love best
2 CONT Where there is a kindred spirit that permeates the air
2 CONT Like an aura sublime, you feel it everywhere
2 CONT In these wide open spaces, there's room to think and do
2 CONT Where men bold Nature faces, will develop the best in you
2 CONT Thus in our territorial Constitution a new idea gave
2 CONT Equal suffage to the Women of Wyoming
2 CONT Which swept like an advancing wave.
2 CONT All the states of this great country soon fell in line
2 CONT With the Wyoming idea.... and embraced it's example fine
2 CONT All honor to these pioneers, who saw fit to give
2 CONT Women the privilege to develop courage, faith and initiative
2 CONT Many worthy personalities present themselves in review
2 CONT But I prefer to eulogize, the women the public never knew
2 CONT The women on the homesteads, the women on the plains
2 CONT The Women  on the ranches, who bore the brunt and pains
2 CONT Of pioneering life on Wyoming's frontier
2 CONT Who lacked the opportunity to do
2 CONT Today's heralded accomplishments, which they prepared for you
2 CONT Those true and patient women, who spent many lonesome day
2 CONT Out on the wind swept prairies, and had the will to stand and stay
2 CONT They helped build a home in the wilderness
2 CONT To carve a state upon a crest
2 CONT We call it Wonderful Wyoming, the one we love the best
2 CONT So December 10th is set aside, that we may pause and meditate
2 CONT On the heritage left by our pioneers, a splendid guide to our estate
2 CONT Their work lives on, it cannot die, it shall not pass away
2 CONT Let us keep faith and carry on, the brave won spirit of yesterday!
2 CONT Kathleen M. Ogden Rochelle
2 CONT 
2 CONT Kathleen (Ogden) Rochelle 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Kathleen Rochelle
2 CONT (November 20, 1877 - May 2, 1958)
2 CONT The Lusk Herald 
2 CONT May 1958
2 CONT Mrs. Albert Rochelle, Niobrara Pioneer and Legislator, Dies in Casper Friday
2 CONT Mrs. Albert Rochelle, 80, Niobrara and Wyoming pioneer and former member of the State Legisla
2 CONC ture, died in the Natrona County Memorial Hospital at Casper Friday evening after a short ill
2 CONC ness.The community of Rochelle in northwestern Niobrara County is named after Mr. Rochelle
2 CONC . He died February 15, 1957. Rochelles lived in Lusk for many years. The C. W. Spacht home o
2 CONC n south Main was originally built by Rochelles for their home.Mrs. Rochelle was a woman o
2 CONC f many “firsts” and most of them directly concerned the welfare and development of Niobrara
2 CONC . She was the first primary teacher in Lusk, the first woman on the board of education in Lus
2 CONC k, first president of the original Parent-Teacher Association in Lusk, and the first woman me
2 CONC mber of the Legislature to come from Niobrara County.Mrs. Rochelle was born Kathleen Ogde
2 CONC n in Leon, Iowa, November 20, 1877. She was reared there and attended normal schools in Iowa.
2 CONC She taught in primary schools in Leon for eight years before deciding to come west. She cho
2 CONC se Wyoming because that state granted women the right to vote, and Mrs. Rochelle was a stron
2 CONC g advocate of woman suffrage.Married In 1907She was Lusk’s first primary teacher, from 19
2 CONC 06 to 1907. On June 7, 1907, she was married to Albert Rochelle who died February 15, 1957, o
2 CONC nly a few months before their 50th wedding anniversary.She was President of the Lusk Readin
2 CONC g Club, and first president of the Lusk Civic Improvement Club. During her term of office th
2 CONC e Carnegie Library was established in Lusk. During the First World War she was a member o
2 CONC f the Niobrara Council of National Defense, a member of the Food Administration Committee, an
2 CONC d vice county chairman of the American Red Cross.In 1918 she was the first woman elected t
2 CONC o the school board of Lusk. The following year she became president of the first local Paren
2 CONC t Teacher Association in that area. Four years later, she served as state president of the Wy
2 CONC oming PTA for three years. From 1919 to 1923 she was also recording secretary of the State Fe
2 CONC deration of Women’s Clubs.Elected To LegislatureIn 1926 she ran and was elected to the St
2 CONC ate Legislature from Niobrara County, the fifth woman in Wyoming to be thus honored. A fello
2 CONC w legislator said of her, “Mrs. Rochelle had quite a fine influence in many ways. We are prou
2 CONC d of her.” And February 12 of that year she addressed the assembly on “Lincoln in the Home.”
2 CONC The Rochelles moved to Natrona County in 1927 and lived on a ranch near Arminto. In 1932 sh
2 CONC e was again elected to the Legislature on the Democratic ticket and re-elected two years late
2 CONC r.She was the first president of the Natrona County Wool Growers Auxiliary. She was als
2 CONC o a charter member of Chapter I of PEO at Lusk serving as president in 1927. She later belong
2 CONC ed to the Casper chapter.She had served as president of the Casper Women’s Club.A membe
2 CONC r of St. Anthony’s Roman Catholic Church, she belonged to the Altar and Rosary Society of tha
2 CONC t church.Surviving are six children, Ogden J. of Pacific Palisades, Calif., Marion F. and R
2 CONC odney James both of Casper; Curtis William, Rawlins; Mrs. George Angelovic of Green River, an
2 CONC d Mrs. Emmett Osborne of Riverton. There are also 15 grandchildren.Recitation of the Rosar
2 CONC y took place at the Bustard Funeral Home Monday at 8 p.m. High Requiem Mass was performed Tue
2 CONC sday at 9:30 at St. Anthony’s Church with Rt. Rev. Msgr. Thomas F. O’Reily officiating. Buria
2 CONC l was in Highland Cemetery.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 2 Jan 2005
3 TIME 01:00:00
0 @I37@ INDI
1 NAME Josephine Amilda /Ogden/
2 SURN Ogden
2 GIVN Josephine Amilda
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE Mar 1880
2 PLAC Pleasanton, Decatur, Iowa, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1947
2 PLAC Des Moines,Polk,Iowa,USA
1 BURI
2 DATE 1947
2 PLAC Woodland Cemetery,DesMoines,Polk,Iowa,USA
1 _UID 670725AD29D1D9428587A72FF48A56FE0921
1 FAMS @F32@
1 FAMC @F7@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 2 Jan 2005
3 TIME 01:00:00
0 @I38@ INDI
1 NAME Grace /Ogden/
2 SURN Ogden
2 GIVN Grace
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 21 Nov 1881
2 PLAC Pleasanton, Decatur, Iowa, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 6 Jan 1974
2 PLAC Chicago,Cook,Illinois,USA
1 BURI
2 DATE Jan 1974
2 PLAC All Saints Cemetery,Des Plaines,Cook.Illinois,USA
1 _UID 48371E115FE3A549AFD6206621350B1963D4
1 FAMS @F33@
1 FAMC @F7@
1 NOTE OGDEN, MRS. GRACE WEST, 02, housewife, 4l4l Perry St., Chicago,Illinois.  1913 Roster of Alum
2 CONC ni for Leon High School.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 2 Jan 2005
3 TIME 01:00:00
0 @I39@ INDI
1 NAME Mary M. /Smith/
2 SURN Smith
2 GIVN Mary M.
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1 Jan 1847
2 PLAC , , Louisiana, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 18 Feb 1937
2 PLAC Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 BURI
2 DATE 20 Feb 1937
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery, Sonora, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 _UID 08C95F0BB253D440B9AE8F964DF6254A92F5
1 FAMS @F8@
1 NOTE According to Buelah Gotshall, family legend has it that Mary was kidnapped and brought to Nau
2 CONC voo by a family from the south.  Another account says that she was found on the side of the M
2 CONC ississippi River after possibly a flood  boat accident.  It is interesting that census record
2 CONC s indicate that she was born in Louisiana.  Helen Brady tells that according to Jennie Brady
2 CONC , Mary was found and raised by one of the Smith families of Nauvoo.  In 1880 census it says h
2 CONC er parents both came from Ireland. She is buried at Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery in Nauvoo
2 CONC , Illinois.  The 1920 census gives her middle initial as M.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 25 Sep 2005
3 TIME 00:45:07
0 @I40@ INDI
1 NAME Anna T. /Brady/
2 SURN Brady
2 GIVN Anna T.
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 27 Sep 1866
2 PLAC Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 CHR
2 DATE 7 Oct 1866
2 PLAC Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 31 Aug 1924
2 PLAC Hamilton, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 REFN djferg
1 _UID 9AEA7A1A13CDD14DABCE0F8FD5380532713D
1 FAMS @F34@
1 FAMC @F8@
1 NOTE In the 1880 census she is listed as Anne.  In her fathers obituary she is listed as Mrs. Ann
2 CONC a Jackson.  The 1886 Hancock County directory lists Miss _____ Brady, school teacher in Sonor
2 CONC a Township.  In 1891 "The Rustler" newspaper indicates that Anna is a school teacher.  In 191
2 CONC 0 Anna Brady Jackson is listed a widow and works as a bookeeper for a bank in Nauvoo.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "Misses Anna Brady and Pheobe Powers attended the exibition at No. 6 last night."  Nauvoo Rus
2 CONC tler, March 3, 1891.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "We had the pleasure of attending a very pleasant picnic given by Misses Powers, Brady and Lo
2 CONC ring to their School last Saturday.  The schools met at No. 6 in Montebello and from there we
2 CONC nt in procession to River Side; having found a suitable place the procession stopped, dismoun
2 CONC ted and proceeded to enjoy themselves on the banks of the Father of Waters.  Best of all wa
2 CONC s the dinner hour, and such a dinner it was.  Well, the spread was made on a good foundation
2 CONC , the ground, as a table could not have sustained the weight of goodies.  I tell you we did a
2 CONC mple justice as far as our capacity would allow us.  An excellent program was rendered by th
2 CONC e pupils.  After enjoying themselves for several hours, all returned home, wishing many retur
2 CONC ns for such a day.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Well, Mr. Edior, I expect you will be using hard words before you get through with this scrib
2 CONC bling, as i am not used to writing for editors to read, but we do this for the sake of the sc
2 CONC hool marms, be so patient.  May 24, 1891'  XXX"  Nauvoo Rustler, May 26, 1891.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "The Misses Anna Brady and Pheobe Powers of Sonora made us a call Saturday."  Nauvoo Rustler
2 CONC , June 16, 1891.
2 CONT "Miss Anna Brady, of Sonora, is visiting Wm. Ogden's family, in Decatur county, Iowa."  Nauvo
2 CONC o Rustler, April 5, 1892
2 CONT 
2 CONT "Miss Anna Brady returned home a week ago last Sunday from a visit in Iowa with relatives.  S
2 CONC he commenced her spring term of school at the following day."  Nauvoo Rustler, April 19, 1892
2 CONC .
2 CONT 
2 CONT " Miss Anna Brady visited with her sister Mrs. W. R. Honce last week."  July 15, 1892.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "Misses Lulu Kendall and Anna Brady spent a few days with Mrs. W. R. Honce the past week."  N
2 CONC auvoo Rustler, September 22, 1891.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "Miss Annie Brady spent Friday in Carthage."  Nauvoo Rustler, March 7, 1893.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The middle initial T. appears on the Hancock County death record.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 2 Jan 2005
3 TIME 01:00:00
0 @I41@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Elizabeth /Brady/
2 SURN Brady
2 GIVN Mary Elizabeth
2 NICK Minnie
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 29 Feb 1868
2 PLAC Sonora, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 15 Jun 1966
2 PLAC Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Oakwood Cemetary, Chicago, Cook. Illinois, USA
1 _UID 522666324796A74BB8EEEEFDFAB25D7AF360
1 FAMS @F35@
1 FAMC @F8@
1 NOTE Obituary - "Mrs. Honce, 98, dies Tuesday in Chicago  Hamilton, Ill. - Mrs. Mary E. Honce, for
2 CONC mer resident of Hamilton, died at 3:20 a.m. Tuesday in Chicago, at the age of 98.  Mrs. Honc
2 CONC e died in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Harry Gotschall, where she has made her home the las
2 CONC t 15 years.  She was born in Sonora township, Hancock county, on Feb. 29 1868, the daughter o
2 CONC f Michael and Mary Smith Brady.  On November 27, 1889 at Nauvoo, she married to William R. Ho
2 CONC nce who preceded her in death in 1940.  She is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Harry (Beulah
2 CONC ) Gotschall of Chicago, a brother, James T. Brady of Kansas City, two sisters, Miss Clara Bra
2 CONC dy and Mrs. Grace Shepherd both of Kansas City, three grandchildren and four great grandchild
2 CONC ren.  Mrs. Honce was a member of the Royal Neighbors.  Funeral services will be held Friday a
2 CONC t 9 a.m. in St. Mary's church with the Rev. Edward E. Kusch officiating.  Burial in Oakwood c
2 CONC emetery.  The Rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Lamporte Funeral Home."
2 CONT Was called Minnie.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 23 Sep 2007
3 TIME 01:13:26
0 @I42@ INDI
1 NAME James Terrence /Brady/
2 SURN Brady
2 GIVN James Terrence
2 NICK Ted
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 19 Jan 1877
2 PLAC Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 CHR
2 DATE 18 Mar 1877
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE Oct 1967
2 PLAC Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, USA
1 _UID 2689EB1F9FFE344ABFD9671B8B6F7E6ED48F
1 FAMS @F36@
1 FAMC @F8@
1 NOTE Ted's birth and christening records are located at Saints Peter and Paul Church in Nauvoo, Il
2 CONC linois.  In the 1900 census Terence 23, is listed as a farm laboror working for his brother-i
2 CONC n law William R. Honce. Worked for years as the house detective for the Mulebach Hotel in Kan
2 CONC sas City, Missouri.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 4 Oct 2007
3 TIME 02:51:19
0 @I43@ INDI
1 NAME Julia /Brady/
2 SURN Brady
2 GIVN Julia
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 28 Sep 1869
2 PLAC Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 CHR
2 DATE 5 Dec 1869
2 PLAC Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 26 Oct 1878
2 PLAC Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 BURI
2 DATE 27 Oct 1878
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 _UID 1E5838153DD35F4CA02EB3FD50781C462603
1 FAMC @F8@
1 NOTE Birth, christening, death and burial records are located at Saints Peter and Paul Church in N
2 CONC auvoo, Illinois.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 1 Mar 2007
3 TIME 20:25:44
0 @I44@ INDI
1 NAME Josephine Adele /Brady/
2 SURN Brady
2 GIVN Josephine Adele
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 4 Mar 1880
2 PLAC Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 CHR
2 DATE 16 May 1880
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 11 Aug 1958
2 PLAC St. Mary's Hospital, Kansas City, ,Missouri, USA
1 BURI
2 PLAC St. Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri, USA
1 _UID 061EDA5FF707604284EF25475B694B968191
1 FAMC @F8@
1 NOTE Adele stayed with her sister Mary for a time after Marys husband, William Honce died.  Accord
2 CONC ing to Marilyn Gotshall Shedko, Adel decided to get rid of some of Marys things with out real
2 CONC ly checking with her.  She saw some of them in a trift shop.  Adele never married.  Birth an
2 CONC d christening records are located in Saints Peter and Paul Church in Nauvoo, Illinois.  Accor
2 CONC ding to Connie Faulkner Reimbold, Adel had a long time boyfriend in Nauvoo.  They never marri
2 CONC ed but could be seen on a sunday going for rides together.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Miss Adele Brady Dies At Kansas City, Mo.
2 CONT 
2 CONT      Miss Adele Brady, native of Sonora township and former resident of Nauvoo, passed away M
2 CONC onday, August 11, 1958, in St. Mary's hospital, Kansas City, Mo.
2 CONT      Miss Brady was born in Sonora township, a daughter of Michael and Mary Smith Brady.  Sh
2 CONC e was employed for many years by the dry goods firm of Datin & Leppert, and later by their su
2 CONC ccessor, Geo C. Harsch.  About 15 years ago she moved to Kansas City, Mo. where she resided a
2 CONC t 3335 Flora Ave.
2 CONT      She was preceded in death by her parents; and brothers and sisters who died in infancy d
2 CONC uring a diphtheria epidemic; also a sister, Mrs. Anna Jackson.
2 CONT      Surviving are three sisters, Mrs. Grace Sheppherd of St. Joseph, Mo., Mrs. Minnie Honc
2 CONC e of Chicago, and Miss Clara Brady of Kansas City, and a brother, James T. (Ted) Brady of Kan
2 CONC sas City.
2 CONT      Services were held Wednesday in Kansas City, and burial was at St. Joseph, Mo.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 23 Sep 2007
3 TIME 01:13:11
1 OBJE
2 FORM jpg
2 FILE Pictures\ed and lucy moffit reimbold.jpg
2 TITL Adel Brady pictured upper right.
2 NOTE 
2 _SCBK Y
2 _PRIM Y
2 _TYPE PHOTO
2 _SSHOW Y
0 @I45@ INDI
1 NAME Clara E. /Brady/
2 SURN Brady
2 GIVN Clara E.
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 27 Jul 1884
2 PLAC Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 CHR
2 DATE 21 Sep 1884
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE Sep 1971
2 PLAC Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, USA
1 _UID 1D733AE697B9164D8A1F26C52CEF131C41A4
1 FAMC @F8@
1 NOTE According to her sister Marys obituary,she was living in 1966 at the time of the death.  Th
2 CONC e birth and christening are located at Saints Peter and Paul Church in Nauvoo, Illinois.  Th
2 CONC e Priest records the name in Latin as Claram
2 CONT Avelinam Brady.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 30 Nov 2008
3 TIME 20:40:12
0 @I46@ INDI
1 NAME Grace Gertrude /Brady/
2 SURN Brady
2 GIVN Grace Gertrude
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 23 Sep 1881
2 PLAC Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 CHR
2 DATE 21 Feb 1882
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE Aug 1971
2 PLAC Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, USA
1 _UID E171A57F14F1574CB5A3EF60F7872AA10E82
1 FAMS @F37@
1 FAMC @F8@
1 NOTE Married name was Grace Shephard, died after 1966.  Lived in Kansa City with her brother Teren
2 CONC ce.  Birth and christening records are located at Saints Peter and Paul Church in Nauvoo, Ill
2 CONC inois.  The Priest records the name in Latin as Gertrudem Brady.  The 1920 census lists her n
2 CONC ame as Grace G. Shepherd.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 30 Nov 2008
3 TIME 20:49:50
0 @I47@ INDI
1 NAME William R. /Honce/
2 SURN Honce
2 GIVN William R.
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 Jun 1866
2 PLAC nr. Hamilton, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE Jan 1940
2 PLAC Hamilton, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 _UID 4CF1A051D7D2BC4B8CC2254228CCEDF96D7E
1 FAMS @F35@
1 NOTE William is listed as a farmer in the 1900 census.  By 1910 William is listed as a merchant ow
2 CONC ning a feed store and in 1920 he is listed as a plumber owning a shop.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 2 Jan 2005
3 TIME 01:00:00
0 @I48@ INDI
1 NAME Beulah Mary /Honce/
2 SURN Honce
2 GIVN Beulah Mary
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 9 Feb 1898
2 PLAC Montebello Twp, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 25 Feb 1983
2 PLAC Hoffman Estates, Cook, Illinois, USA
1 BURI
2 DATE 1983
2 PLAC Marion, Grant, Indiana, USA
1 _UID D76156178158BE41B2AE603DD10B69B67537
1 FAMS @F38@
1 FAMC @F35@
1 NOTE Buelah died in a nursing home just outside of Chicago.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 2 Jan 2005
3 TIME 01:00:00
1 OBJE
2 FORM jpg
2 FILE Pictures\ed and lucy moffit reimbold.jpg
2 TITL Buelah Gotshall pictured at right.
2 NOTE Ed and Lucy Moffitt Reimbold wedding.
2 _SCBK Y
2 _PRIM Y
2 _TYPE PHOTO
2 _SSHOW Y
0 @I49@ INDI
1 NAME Harry Christopher /Gotschall/
2 SURN Gotschall
2 GIVN Harry Christopher
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 9 Oct 1891
2 PLAC Marion, Grant, Indiana, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 16 Apr 1976
2 PLAC Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Marion, Grant, Indiana, USA
1 _UID 102F207769F7954397C965B4E4A1EB1007B4
1 FAMS @F38@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 2 Jan 2005
3 TIME 01:00:00
0 @I50@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX M
1 _UID 18879CDFA0072243AC0A1FDA3014A98E503E
1 FAMS @F40@
1 FAMS @F41@
1 FAMS @F42@
1 FAMC @F38@
0 @I51@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX F
1 _UID B010258A0EBD9743B91037A2CB4054DAEF1A
1 FAMS @F43@
1 FAMC @F38@
0 @I52@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX M
1 _UID 89354CBA52F6C640A06F64AA1AE192A46031
1 FAMS @F44@
1 FAMC @F38@
0 @I53@ INDI
1 NAME Anna Maria /Gotschall/
2 SURN Gotschall
2 GIVN Anna Maria
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE Sep 1933
2 PLAC , , Illinois, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1933
1 BURI
2 PLAC Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 _UID 4E724196E748F943AB93ED5BC691D4883B68
1 FAMC @F38@
1 NOTE Born 15 or 16 September 1933.  Died as infant, was about two months old.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 7 Mar 2007
3 TIME 15:53:45
0 @I54@ INDI
1 NAME Alice Anne /Clifton/
2 SURN Clifton
2 GIVN Alice Anne
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 4 May 1931
2 PLAC New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 6 Dec 1984
2 PLAC Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, USA
1 BURI
2 DATE 8 Dec 1984
2 PLAC Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, USA
1 _UID 914D70D124847B41A8E8B5495B32433E1FCC
1 FAMS @F40@
1 NOTE Anne died at 2 A.M., Thursday, December 6, 1984.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 7 Mar 2007
3 TIME 13:39:24
0 @I55@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX M
1 _UID 18ACA069B0ED6A40B51EF8F5AE95EA0304DD
1 FAMC @F40@
0 @I56@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX M
1 _UID 354934CB786AEC409ACE5554A296A564DD70
1 FAMS @F46@
1 FAMC @F40@
0 @I57@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX M
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1 FAMS @F43@
0 @I58@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX M
1 _UID 5F9E83279E4EC5469AAE61B193F521AB4CA6
1 FAMC @F43@
0 @I59@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX M
1 _UID 364D16F42609BB419A811A62D44261410733
1 FAMC @F43@
0 @I60@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX F
1 _UID FDF4CA88A07CD24A8D54332DAE5B6F9CD0BC
1 FAMS @F48@
1 FAMC @F43@
0 @I61@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX F
1 _UID 3F2122BB4600AA4A9CAA274B231F1C30BDF8
1 FAMS @F44@
0 @I62@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX M
1 _UID 5B0CD1D4655AC643AABAE25FACE8F9FD032B
1 FAMC @F44@
0 @I63@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX M
1 _UID C8003EDD18034247B0E70558076C55307352
1 FAMC @F44@
0 @I64@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX F
1 _UID AA7C5B0975F49849955C1683619DEB0F564B
1 FAMC @F44@
0 @I65@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas John /Stafford/
2 SURN Stafford
2 GIVN Thomas John
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 Mar 1839
2 PLAC Ireland
1 DEAT
2 DATE 8 Oct 1912
2 PLAC St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
1 BURI
2 DATE 11 Oct 1912
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 _UID FBBBA3EE3F1E3C458FC680E7381ACC2A29FD
1 FAMS @F9@
1 OCCU 
2 DATE Stonecutter
1 NOTE Thomas was a marbler worker.  Immigrated to the United States in 1856 at the age of eleven ac
2 CONC cording to the 1900 census.  The 1910 census says he immigrated in 1847 at age seven.  In th
2 CONC e 1870 census Thomas is listed as a marble worker and is living in Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa
2 CONC ,  At the time of the 1880 census the family is living in Nauvoo, Illinois.  By looking at wh
2 CONC ere the children were born, the family probably moved to Nauvoo between 1876 and 1877. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT STAFFORD---Entered into rest on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 1912, at 6 a.m., Thomas John Stafford. relic
2 CONC t of Catherine Stafford (nee Brady), and dear father of Mrs. Margaret M. Kleeman, Mrs. Mabe
2 CONC l B. Moulton, Mrs. Anna Osborne, Mrs. Julia Blundell, Mrs. Loretta Grant.  Mrs. Adelaide Meie
2 CONC r, Mrs. Rose Byrne, John T. and Elizabeth Stafford and the late Mrs. Catherine Knehans, Alic
2 CONC e and Matthew Stafford, after a lingering illness.  Funeral on Friday, Oct. 11, at 8:30 a.m.
2 CONC , from residence of his son-in-law, H. G. Osborne.  3880 Humphrey street, to St. Plus' Church
2 CONC , thence to SS. Peter and Paul's Cemetery.  Friends are respectfully invited.  Nauvoo (Ill.
2 CONC ) papers please copy.  (c4)  St. Louis Post Dispatch, Tuesday, October 8, 1912, page 18.
2 CONT 
2 CONT BURIAL PERMITS.
2 CONT T. J. Stafford, 76, 3880 Humphreys:  heart disease.  St. Louis Post Dispatch, Thursday, Octob
2 CONC er 10, 1912, page 23.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 2 Oct 2006
3 TIME 00:01:01
0 @I66@ INDI
1 NAME Margaret M. /Stafford/
2 SURN Stafford
2 GIVN Margaret M.
2 NICK Maggie
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE Aug 1866
2 PLAC Keokuk, Lee, Iowa, USA
1 _UID 4A71B630512F14419EA59065CFBCFD3369EE
1 FAMS @F51@
1 FAMC @F9@
1 NOTE Maggie and her husband Albert are living in Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho in 1910 census.  A Mar
2 CONC y and Francis Kleeman are buried at the Mountain View Cemetery in Bannock county, Idaho.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 30 Sep 2007
3 TIME 10:54:01
0 @I67@ INDI
1 NAME John T. /Stafford/
2 SURN Stafford
2 GIVN John T.
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE Mar 1870
2 PLAC Keokuk, Lee, Iowa, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1936
1 _UID 55A67075E97A3344AF47393AF82AA308F034
1 FAMS @F52@
1 FAMC @F9@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 1 Mar 2007
3 TIME 20:10:15
0 @I68@ INDI
1 NAME Mabel B. /Stafford/
2 SURN Stafford
2 GIVN Mabel B.
2 NICK Mary
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1872
2 PLAC Keokuk, Lee, Iowa, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1 Nov 1944
2 PLAC Seattle, King, Washington, USA
1 _UID 3563DFB982F06146835C29342AB2CCDD0A25
1 FAMS @F53@
1 FAMC @F9@
1 NOTE Is living in Denver, Colorado in 1920.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 1 Dec 2008
3 TIME 02:58:22
0 @I69@ INDI
1 NAME Mathew /Stafford/
2 SURN Stafford
2 GIVN Mathew
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1873
2 PLAC Keokuk, Lee, Iowa, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1893
2 PLAC Lea, , Kansas, USA
1 _UID 230BBEBB3543C149AE6924F81F3F33A49172
1 FAMC @F9@
1 NOTE According to an account published in the Nauvoo Rustler, he died just before june 10, 1893, i
2 CONC n Lea, Kansas.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 27 Feb 2007
3 TIME 01:22:15
0 @I70@ INDI
1 NAME Katherine /Stafford/
2 SURN Stafford
2 GIVN Katherine
2 NICK Kate
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE Jun 1875
2 PLAC Keokuk, Lee, Iowa, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE ABT 19 Jul 1901
2 PLAC St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
1 _UID 7404A1719ADCEF478B4DB5091AAD319155C8
1 FAMS @F54@
1 FAMC @F9@
1 NOTE Is called Kate in 1900 census.  The St. Louis Post Dispatch lists an obituary for Kate on Jul
2 CONC y 19, 1901.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 30 Sep 2007
3 TIME 16:42:52
0 @I71@ INDI
1 NAME Anna /Stafford/
2 SURN Stafford
2 GIVN Anna
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 5 Nov 1876
2 PLAC Keokuk, Lee, Iowa, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 24 Feb 1951
2 PLAC Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
1 _UID AB74D3AA5854EE45AAFB728C1F4F48C3976E
1 FAMS @F55@
1 FAMC @F9@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 27 Feb 2007
3 TIME 01:22:23
0 @I72@ INDI
1 NAME Elizabeth /Stafford/
2 SURN Stafford
2 GIVN Elizabeth
2 NICK Lizzie
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1 Mar 1877
2 PLAC Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 CHR
2 DATE 18 Mar 1877
2 PLAC Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE Jul 1942
2 PLAC St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
1 BURI
2 DATE 28 Jul 1942
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Cemetery, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 _UID 6C13965E64543B4496019B6086C4C53F8A3B
1 FAMC @F9@
1 NOTE The Christening and birth  record is located at Saints Peter and Paul Church in Nauvoo, Illin
2 CONC ois.  The 1880 and 1900 census do not agree on birth date.  Elizabeth is not living with th
2 CONC e family in the 1910 census, there is an Elizabeth living in the St. Louis Insane Asylum ag
2 CONC e 31.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 1 Dec 2008
3 TIME 03:01:42
0 @I73@ INDI
1 NAME Julia M. /Stafford/
2 SURN Stafford
2 GIVN Julia M.
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 Dec 1878
2 PLAC Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 CHR
2 DATE 12 Jan 1879
2 PLAC Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE Prob. 11 Oct 1950
2 PLAC , Cook, Illinois, USA
1 _UID 04F90B10B6526D4C9C3A5258DEFE489815F1
1 FAMS @F56@
1 FAMC @F9@
1 NOTE The birth and christening records are at Saints Peter and Paul Church in Nauvoo, Illinois.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 29 Oct 2007
3 TIME 20:51:20
0 @I74@ INDI
1 NAME Alice /Stafford/
2 SURN Stafford
2 GIVN Alice
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 15 Feb 1880
2 PLAC Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 CHR
2 DATE 28 Mar 1880
2 PLAC Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 31 Dec 1881
2 PLAC Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 BURI
2 DATE 1 Jan 1882
2 PLAC Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 _UID 44869447FC93EB49BE5F736455D59785A262
1 FAMC @F9@
1 NOTE The birth, christening, death and burial records are located at Saints Peter and Paul Churc
2 CONC h in Nauvoo, Illinois.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 20 Jun 2007
3 TIME 22:44:44
0 @I75@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas Nicholas /Moffitt/
2 SURN Moffitt
2 GIVN Thomas Nicholas
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 16 Jul 1845
2 PLAC Sonora, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 13 May 1935
2 PLAC Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 _UID FF580A852B64194088484DB7CEE249EC87E4
1 FAMS @F10@
1 NOTE When he died he was 89 years, 9 months, 27 days.  Was married at Saint Patrick's Church by Fa
2 CONC ther H. J. Reimbold.  Witnesses were John Faulkner and Nancy J. Moffitt.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 2 Jan 2005
3 TIME 01:00:00
0 @I76@ INDI
1 NAME Mary /Moffitt/
2 SURN Moffitt
2 GIVN Mary
2 NICK Mayme
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 28 Aug 1870
2 PLAC Sonora, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 CHR
2 DATE 8 Sep 1870
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois,USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 3 Jan 1923
1 _UID B7E1999D60FFEF4EAECF4F8AE8360B866F02
1 FAMC @F10@
1 NOTE Called Mayme. She never married.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 24 Sep 2006
3 TIME 17:24:07
0 @I77@ INDI
1 NAME Julia Bridget /Moffitt/
2 SURN Moffitt
2 GIVN Julia Bridget
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 Dec 1871
2 PLAC Sonora, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 CHR
2 DATE 3 Jan 1872
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois,USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 25 Nov 1876
2 PLAC , Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 BURI
2 DATE 26 Nov 1876
2 PLAC Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 _UID F1E5F20CF0C9FF4DA58899FF964D89D1DB74
1 FAMC @F10@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 24 Sep 2006
3 TIME 17:39:47
0 @I78@ INDI
1 NAME James Aloishus /Moffitt/
2 SURN Moffitt
2 GIVN James Aloishus
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 19 Feb 1873
2 PLAC Sonora, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 CHR
2 DATE 23 Mar 1873
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois,USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 18 Sep 1947
2 PLAC Fort Madison, Lee, Iowa, USA
1 BURI
2 DATE 20 Sep 1947
2 PLAC Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 _UID DD81873324300446B200B5EB030A7F6E02B1
1 FAMS @F58@
1 FAMC @F10@
1 NOTE Is buried at Nauvoo Catholic Cemetary.  Birth, christening, death and burial records are loca
2 CONC ted at Saints Peter and Paul Church in Nauvoo, Illinois.  The Priest used the Latin name Jaco
2 CONC bum.  His mothers family Bible says James A. Moffitt.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 12 May 2005
3 TIME 01:43:38
0 @I79@ INDI
1 NAME Anna Theresa /Moffitt/
2 SURN Moffitt
2 GIVN Anna Theresa
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 24 Aug 1874
2 PLAC Sonora, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 CHR
2 DATE 20 Sep 1874
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois,USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 19 Aug 1961
2 PLAC Seattle, King, Washington, USA
1 BURI
2 DATE 5 Sep 1961
2 PLAC Nauvoo Catholic Cemetery, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 _UID FCE3F892C1539A4DA15DC9EEEE737ACBBF1C
1 FAMS @F59@
1 FAMC @F10@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 12 Aug 2008
3 TIME 01:10:41
0 @I80@ INDI
1 NAME Lucy Fedelia /Moffitt/
2 SURN Moffitt
2 GIVN Lucy Fedelia
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 6 Aug 1877
2 PLAC Sonora, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 CHR
2 DATE 26 May 1877
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois,USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 2 Oct 1943
2 PLAC Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 BURI
2 DATE 5 Oct 1943
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 _UID 70D13908B7D1C847A96A3CD8F538C23C6BAD
1 FAMS @F60@
1 FAMC @F10@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 2 Jan 2005
3 TIME 01:00:00
1 OBJE
2 FORM jpg
2 FILE Pictures\ed and lucy moffit reimbold.jpg
2 TITL Ed and Lucy Moffitt Reimbold
2 NOTE 
2 _SCBK Y
2 _PRIM Y
2 _TYPE PHOTO
2 _SSHOW Y
0 @I81@ INDI
1 NAME Richard /Moffitt/
2 SURN Moffitt
2 GIVN Richard
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1879
2 PLAC Sonora, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 _UID 50732EBF6916D8449C0445D6E2D1A83E9FF7
1 FAMC @F10@
1 NOTE Died as infant.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 24 Sep 2006
3 TIME 17:42:16
0 @I82@ INDI
1 NAME Julia Rosanne /Moffitt/
2 SURN Moffitt
2 GIVN Julia Rosanne
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 16 Mar 1880
2 PLAC Sonora, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 CHR
2 DATE 11 Apr 1880
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois,USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 9 Jan 1894
2 PLAC , Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 BURI
2 DATE 11 Jan 1894
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 _UID F8E5ADE224A1EC4EA735CC12BB907AA28C6B
1 FAMC @F10@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 24 Sep 2006
3 TIME 17:42:09
0 @I83@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas Terrance /Moffitt/
2 SURN Moffitt
2 GIVN Thomas Terrance
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 24 Dec 1882
2 PLAC Sonora, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 CHR
2 DATE 5 Feb 1883
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois,USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 18 Oct 1949
2 PLAC Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, USA
1 _UID 9C479A85C0C1454482D3A59396D516EF09FB
1 FAMS @F61@
1 FAMS @F62@
1 FAMC @F10@
1 NOTE He lived and worked in Kansas City, Missouri.  He was called Ted.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 28 Mar 2007
3 TIME 12:39:29
1 OBJE
2 FORM jpg
2 FILE Pictures\ed and lucy moffit reimbold.jpg
2 TITL Thomas Terence Moffitt pictured upper left.
2 NOTE 
2 _SCBK Y
2 _PRIM Y
2 _TYPE PHOTO
2 _SSHOW Y
1 OBJE
2 FORM jpg
2 FILE Pictures\elizabeth brady moffitt home.jpg
2 TITL Thomas Terence Moffitt pictured far right.
2 NOTE 
2 _SCBK Y
2 _PRIM N
2 _TYPE PHOTO
2 _SSHOW Y
2 _ROTATE 90
0 @I84@ INDI
1 NAME Josephine Ida /Moffitt/
2 SURN Moffitt
2 GIVN Josephine Ida
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 28 Dec 1883
2 PLAC Sonora, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 CHR
2 DATE 11 May 1884
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois,USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 28 Dec 1887
1 _UID A43BAC4FBDF884449B4F81698BAA987A7218
1 FAMC @F10@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 24 Sep 2006
3 TIME 17:42:30
0 @I85@ INDI
1 NAME William Albert /Moffitt/ Sr.
2 SURN Moffitt
2 GIVN William Albert
2 NSFX Sr.
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 23 Dec 1885
2 PLAC Sonora, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 CHR
2 DATE 19 Apr 1886
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois,USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 16 Nov 1964
2 PLAC St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
1 BURI
2 DATE 19 Nov 1964
2 PLAC Calvary Cemetary, St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
1 _UID A7BBC72E3AD21847B8022EE4AC2A8413FB69
1 FAMS @F63@
1 FAMC @F10@
1 NOTE William A. Moffitt, Sr. was born in Nauvoo, Illinois on December 23, 1885.  He attended the o
2 CONC ne room schoolhouse in Nauvoo.  His brother-in-law, William Ogden, a master carpenter, was i
2 CONC n Minot, North Dakota working on a construction job.  William Moffitt, Sr. went to Minot.  On
2 CONC e day he was skating and saw Marie Solien who was also skating.  He must have liked what he s
2 CONC aw because he asked her brother, Noel Solien, to introduce him to her.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Marie Solien was born on June 4, 1886 in Stoughton, Wisconsin.  She attended the state teache
2 CONC rs college in Madison, Wisconsin and taught primary grades in Stoughton and later in Minot, N
2 CONC orth Dakota, when she moved there with her family.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Their courtship, which lasted for several years, was not an easy one.  The construction job e
2 CONC nded, but of greater importance was the fact that Marie's parents were opposed to any plans f
2 CONC or marriage.  He was not a Norrwegian and he practiced the wrong religion.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Despite the parental opposition, Marie Solien came to St. Louis and the couple were married o
2 CONC n June 19, 1918.  A son, William A. Moffitt, Jr. was born June 19, 1919.
2 CONT 
2 CONT To support his family, William A. Moffitt, Sr. had a small business which he called the Shav
2 CONC e Easy Company.  He sold straight razors, barber supplies and leather goods.  He develope
2 CONC d a product for treating strops used to sharped straight razors.  To demonstate the sharpnes
2 CONC s of a razor he would stand in the window of his store, pull a hair from his head, and then p
2 CONC roceed to shave that hair with a straight razor repeatedly.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Unfortunately Gillette and other companies manufactured safety razors.  The use of straight r
2 CONC azors diminished the market for the Shave Easy Company altough it continued to have a loyal f
2 CONC ollowing until William A. Moffitt, Sr. closed his shop.
2 CONT 
2 CONT To meet the changing market William Moffitt, Sr. became a self-taught locksmith and the One M
2 CONC inute Key Company was born.  Both businesses continued to be operated out of the small shop o
2 CONC n Pine Street in downtown St. Louis.  William A. Moffitt, Sr. was active seeing that key shop
2 CONC s were unionized, and he became a member of the Machinists Union.
2 CONT 
2 CONT When World War II resulted in an increasing shortage of metal for key blanks, William A. Moff
2 CONC itt, Sr., because he was a member of the machinists union, was able to find work as a machini
2 CONC st  in the bottling plant of Anheuser-Busch in St. Louis, where he was when he was sevety tw
2 CONC o and one half years old.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Both William A. Moffitt, Sr. and Marie Solien Moffitt were devoted and loving parents and gra
2 CONC ndparents.  On the day his daughter-in-law delivered twin boys, William A. Moffitt, Sr. start
2 CONC ed up the steps to their apartment.  His wife called down to him:  "Delores had two boys."  H
2 CONC e at once turned around and started for the door.  "Where are you going?"  "I have to get cig
2 CONC ars to take to work tomorrow."
2 CONT 
2 CONT Marie Solien Moffitt dropped dead on the street in downtown St. Louis while Christmas shoppin
2 CONC g on December 16, 1963. William A. Moffitt, Sr. died November 16, 1964 after a series of smal
2 CONC l strokes.  He loved to sing and dance.  He was in the finest sense of the word a gentle man.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Written by William A. Moffitt, Jr., March 6, 2002.
2 CONT 
2 CONT St. Louis, Missouri                                            September 6, 1962
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dear Noel and Evva:
2 CONT 
2 CONT I hope this will not be too much of a shock to both of you, but I hope you will recover.  I d
2 CONC on't know when I have written a letter but as you were going to hang your key on the wall an
2 CONC d just talk I thought perhaps you should have just a few facts about the little old inland to
2 CONC wn of Nauvoo on the banks of the Old Mississippi where I and my older brother Ted went fishin
2 CONC g to supply some 15 people of the Thomas N. Moffitt family with food during the summer months
2 CONC .  When we were not fishing we were hunting squirrels with our old dog Rover, a wonderful squ
2 CONC irrel dog, which we thought was the best in the country; but he was out in the field with u
2 CONC s one day where we were putting up hay and he strayed down in a weed patch, but he was a terr
2 CONC or on snakes, but this happened to be the wrong day for him.  We heard him bark once and kne
2 CONC w he had a snake, but the snake to my sorrow got him.  For when we got to the house that even
2 CONC ing his head was almost twice its original size.  We poured whiskey down him and did whateve
2 CONC r we knew what to do but the next morning I got up real early hoping to find him O.K., but th
2 CONC ere he was with his head stuck in the straw stack.  That was all for poor Old Rover, and I cr
2 CONC ied I guess for a week, but we never had another Rover, and it wasn't any fun to hunt squirre
2 CONC ls any more.
2 CONT 
2 CONT I think Marie sent you a letter trying to explain about the Mormons, but I don't believe sh
2 CONC e knows too much about them so I thought I would tell a few facts about those days around 182
2 CONC 0.
2 CONT 
2 CONT About the key I sent you I have always been awfully sorry that I haven't any papers on this a
2 CONC ll I have is what I remember father told me.  My father was deaf from the time he was about 1
2 CONC 8, so it made it awfully hard to talk to him, but I have a land grant issued on sheep skin si
2 CONC gned by Martin Van Buren then President of the U.S. in 1840.  Now my grandfather came to thi
2 CONC s Country from Ireland and settled on this land because of the wonderful timber on it as ther
2 CONC e was no building material to be had.  So they went into the timber and cut down tree after t
2 CONC ree and started to builda a house, and I am awfully sorry that this house was not preserved a
2 CONC s a land mark for I think this house was the oldest house in that part of the country.  The l
2 CONC ogs in it were all hand hewn by a distant cousin of my grandfather by the name of Lyman Beech
2 CONC er.  Of course, there was no cement so I think they used red clay to plaster up the crackes b
2 CONC etween the logs.  And that is where I was born and raised and my father and mother and the th
2 CONC irteen children were raised along with my grandfather, for he had bad luck.  He and his wif
2 CONC e had my father and a girl, but his wife died in childbirth when the girl was born.  So tha
2 CONC t left him with two small children.  But he never married again and when my dad married, the
2 CONC n in later years he came to live with us.
2 CONT 
2 CONT I started this September 6, 62 and now it is October 2, 62.  It has taken me quite a spell t
2 CONC o finish it.  Continued from page three.  So you see we had quite a family in the Log House
2 CONC , 13 children my father and my mother and my grandfather.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Now getting back to a few facts about the Mormons.  My grandfather had .6 acres of Apple Orch
2 CONC ard on the farm and they would pack the apples in barrels and haul them into the Mississipp
2 CONC i landing in Nauvoo where they would be loaded on boats and shipped to New Orleans, for rive
2 CONC r transportation was the only way to get in and out of Nauvoo unless you wanted to go somewhe
2 CONC re in a lumber wagon, which I did many times.
2 CONT 
2 CONT At that time the population of Nauvoo was much greater than Chicago.  I do not know what th
2 CONC e exact population was but it was quite large, and a lot of them were Mormons, some of who
2 CONC m I have been told were big husky fellows who were not too fond of work.  They seemed to thin
2 CONC k that everybody owed them a living, and thats one reason the people in Nauvoo got together a
2 CONC nd drove  them out of the city.  They crossed the river in boats and landed in Iowa, but I th
2 CONC ink it was on the third night after they left that they came back across the river and burne
2 CONC d down the temple.  In the meantime, I haven't any dates, but during this uprising the crow
2 CONC d captured Hiram and Joseph Smith and put them in jail at Carthage, the county seat of Hancoc
2 CONC k County.  And a few days later a crowd went to county jail after the Smith boys and Joseph S
2 CONC mith was standing in one of the windows ready to jump when one of the mem shot him while stan
2 CONC ding in the window.  For years they never knew what they had done with his body, but years af
2 CONC ter they located what they believe was his grave down close to the river front in Nauvoo.
2 CONT 
2 CONT My dad told me a number of times that during apple harvest time there would be 10 or 12 big h
2 CONC usky fellows drive out in a wagon and go right into the orchard and help themselves to all th
2 CONC e apples they could haul away for my father and grandfather were helpless to do anything abou
2 CONC t it.  So you see there were lots of reasons for the uprising against them.
2 CONT 
2 CONT And for the key the only information I have is what my father told us, that there were thre
2 CONC e elders to the temple and each one was supposed  to have a key supposedly so that no one cou
2 CONC ld lock the other out.  The key that I have is supposed to be the smallest of the three keys.
2 CONT 
2 CONT The latter Day Saints, as they call themselves, now are buying up all the property they can b
2 CONC uy and at the present time are working trying to find the old foundation of the temple that w
2 CONC as destroyed.  I think I have a couple of issues of a weekly newspaper published in Nauvoo wh
2 CONC ich had some pictures of them digging trying to locate the original foundation.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Well, Noel, this is a terrible letter with one mistake after another, but I hope you get a li
2 CONC ttle kick out of it.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Lots of love to both of you and Evva and her mother.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Just Moff
1 CHAN
2 DATE 2 Oct 2006
3 TIME 19:01:33
0 @I86@ INDI
1 NAME Bernadine Loretta /Moffitt/
2 SURN Moffitt
2 GIVN Bernadine Loretta
2 NICK Bernie
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 8 Apr 1888
2 PLAC Sonora, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 CHR
2 DATE 3 Jun 1888
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois,USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 30 Mar 1940
1 _UID 2F0FB61B0ED18F43A1D23CD80051C266C0FB
1 FAMS @F64@
1 FAMC @F10@
1 NOTE First name maybe spelled Bernadien.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 24 Sep 2006
3 TIME 17:25:04
0 @I87@ INDI
1 NAME Otilla M. /Moffitt/
2 SURN Moffitt
2 GIVN Otilla M.
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 8 Apr 1888
2 PLAC Sonora, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 CHR
2 DATE 3 Jun 1888
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois,USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 30 Mar 1960
2 PLAC Bartonville, Peoria, Illinois, USA
1 BURI
2 DATE 2 Apr 1960
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery, Sonora, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 _UID B3A814467C5D194499FDFD5CE023B5E3757E
1 FAMC @F10@
1 NOTE Birth, christening and death records are located at Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church i
2 CONC n Nauvoo, Illinois.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 24 Sep 2006
3 TIME 17:42:40
0 @I88@ INDI
1 NAME Samantha Elizabeth /Moffitt/
2 SURN Moffitt
2 GIVN Samantha Elizabeth
2 NICK Bess
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 6 Nov 1889
2 PLAC Sonora, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 CHR
2 DATE 22 Dec 1889
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois,USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 16 Nov 1976
2 PLAC Fort Madison, Lee, Iowa, USA
1 BURI
2 DATE 18 Nov 1976
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 _UID 50C68EA7A81DD24793894238FCFBBA5ACA55
1 FAMC @F10@
1 NOTE During the 1920 census, Elizabeth Moffitt is living in Kansas City, Missouri with her widowe
2 CONC d brother Thomas T. Moffitt and cousin, James T. Brady and his wife Enda Mary.  Elizabeth i
2 CONC s buried at Nauvoo Catholic Cemetary.  The birth and christening record located at Saints Pet
2 CONC er and Paul Catholic Church lists her name in Latin as Samantham Elizabetham.  Her mother rec
2 CONC ords in the family Bible, Lizzie S.
2 CONT Moffitt.  She was called Bess by the family.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 28 Mar 2007
3 TIME 12:44:19
0 @I89@ INDI
1 NAME Clara Amelia /Reimbold/
2 SURN Reimbold
2 GIVN Clara Amelia
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 Feb 1872
2 PLAC , Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 CHR
2 DATE 26 Feb 1872
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 26 Jan 1955
2 PLAC Quincy, Adams, Illinois, USA
1 BURI
2 DATE 29 Jan 1955
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 _UID D9A9D510F04EC842A52123F0FE5E586AA666
1 FAMS @F58@
1 NOTE She would have been born in either Nauvoo or Sonora.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 2 Jan 2005
3 TIME 01:00:00
0 @I90@ INDI
1 NAME Cyril James /Moffitt/
2 SURN Moffitt
2 GIVN Cyril James
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 Feb 1899
2 PLAC Appanoose, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 14 Dec 1934
2 PLAC Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 BURI
2 DATE 17 Dec 1934
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 _UID CED289D872652C4582D7D2E400B68834CA2F
1 FAMC @F58@
1 NOTE Never married.  Is buried in Nauvoo Catholic Cemetary. The death and burial records are locat
2 CONC ed at Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Nauvoo, Illinois.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 5 Apr 2005
3 TIME 22:46:02
0 @I91@ INDI
1 NAME Bertha Amelia /Moffitt/
2 SURN Moffitt
2 GIVN Bertha Amelia
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 Sep 1901
2 PLAC Appanoose, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 4 Nov 1994
2 PLAC Fort Madison, Lee, Iowa, USA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 _UID 9D1D485F0C989B40BEB0125F85DC5F44C35D
1 FAMS @F66@
1 FAMS @F67@
1 FAMC @F58@
1 NOTE Bertha Moffitt Bush Kerr was a very large part of keeping our family history alive.  Bertha h
2 CONC aving stayed in the Nauvoo area had kept track of the various branches of the family and wa
2 CONC s able to share that information with me.  I have since been able to locate many branches o
2 CONC f the family which I never could have done without her help.  I am including the letters I ha
2 CONC ve from her because I feel it shows how important she felt family was.  Blaine A. Brady
2 CONT 
2 CONT Nauvoo Ill.
2 CONT Nov. 4, 1977
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dear Blaine,
2 CONT      I hope you won't mind if I'm not formal, but thought since we are relatives we may as we
2 CONC ll act like it.  I'm not sure you will be able to read this as I don't do quite as well a
2 CONC s I did years ago.
2 CONT      I'm sorry I am so slow getting this information for you, but decided to paint the wall
2 CONC s & woodwork in my dining room and it took longer than I expected.  My daughter Elaine Foehri
2 CONC ng offered to help me get some dates from the Cemetery, but just as we were leaving an old fr
2 CONC iend stopped by to visit so didn't get there.  Today I went alone and came up with some date
2 CONC s you may want.  First the stone you saw with the name Terrance Brady is undoubtly My great g
2 CONC randparents and your great, great, great grandparents I think.  The stone was probably put th
2 CONC ere after Mike Brady's wife died in 1937.  The dates I copied are as follows Terrance Brady d
2 CONC ied Sept. 13, 1854 age 40 years.  No birth date given.  His wife Bridget Brady Jan. 1-1822 di
2 CONC ed Sept. 15-1892.  Michael Brady Oct. 8-1843 - Mar. 11-1917  His wife Mary Brady Jan. 1-184
2 CONC 7 - Feb. 18-1937.
2 CONT      I remember her well, but just barely remember Uncle Mike.  I could not find a stone fo
2 CONC r Uncle Jim Brady, but since he was not married there probably isn't one.
2 CONT      My grandparents were Thomas N. Moffitt July 15, 1845 - May 13, 1935.  Elizabeth Oct. 22-
2 CONC 1847 - Nov. 17-1912.  Also found Mary E. (Brady) Ogden July 9-1840 - Jan 24-1927.  Her husban
2 CONC d Wm July 10-1837 - Jan 27-1912.  I never knew them as they lived in Des Moines Iowa.  Rememb
2 CONC er meeting one or two daughters.
2 CONT      Thanks so much for the picture and tell your grandfather if he ever visits Nauvoo whil
2 CONC e I'm still here I would be very glad to meet him.  Am sending a clipping from a death notic
2 CONC e of one of Mike Brady's darghters.  By the way I'm sure you meant your grandfather would b
2 CONC e a cousin to my DAd not my Mother.
2 CONT     If I come up with more information will be glad to pass it along to you.
2 CONT                As ever
2 CONT                           Bertha (Moffitt) Bush
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT (The dates I sent first were on the Stones at the cemetery so should be correct)
2 CONT Nauvoo Ill.
2 CONT Jan. 22, 1978
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dear Blaine,
2 CONT      Am sorry I have been so slow in answering but have spent most of the last two weeks in b
2 CONC ed with the flu.  Sure had it hard but was lucky to have a grandaughter a student at Iowa Cit
2 CONC y who was home for Christmas break.  She offered to stay with me until she had to go back t
2 CONC o school.  Then my neighbor offered to give me penisillum shots.  She came every day for 10 d
2 CONC ays.  If I had to go out in the cold to the Dr's office I'm afraid I wouldn't have made it.
2 CONT      Am sending what information I have here.
2 CONT      Buelah Gotschall is the only decendant of Michael & Mary Brady now living.  I wrote to m
2 CONC y cousin in Chicago to get it.
2 CONT      As for the ones from the Rectory, I'll have my daughter-in-law check if she can find Fat
2 CONC her Wissing there, but he spends so much time over at the school, he is hard to find.  I don'
2 CONC t know when I'll be able to go to town.
2 CONT      Michael & Jim Brady were of course my great Uncles and while I remember Uncle Mike & Aun
2 CONC t Mary I think Uncle Jim died when I was quite small.  I remember my Dad saying he lived wit
2 CONC h them as he was not married.
2 CONT Best Wishes     Bertha Bush
1 CHAN
2 DATE 2 Jan 2005
3 TIME 01:00:00
0 @I92@ INDI
1 NAME Bernard Henry /Moffitt/
2 SURN Moffitt
2 GIVN Bernard Henry
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 6 Aug 1905
2 PLAC Appanoose, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 9 May 1954
2 PLAC Fort Madison, Lee, Iowa, USA
1 BURI
2 DATE 12 May 1954
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 _UID D70DEC4CA723EA48893B4C29D0F8DEC9C01F
1 FAMC @F58@
1 NOTE Never married.  Is buried in Nauvoo Catholic Cemetary.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 2 Jan 2005
3 TIME 01:00:00
0 @I93@ INDI
1 NAME Eldred George /Bush/
2 SURN Bush
2 GIVN Eldred George
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 Jun 1905
2 PLAC Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 18 Dec 1976
2 PLAC Sonora, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 _UID 156DB1730969D74EB4BFD6B810017DAC78A9
1 FAMS @F66@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 2 Jan 2005
3 TIME 01:00:00
0 @I94@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX F
1 _UID B2E44D81D4D03E44917DAAB0D2697C15BEDE
1 FAMS @F69@
1 FAMC @F66@
0 @I95@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX F
1 _UID 93350DF6C3837A4282B0666F0405F72E0204
1 FAMS @F70@
1 FAMC @F66@
0 @I96@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Louise /Bush/
2 SURN Bush
2 GIVN Mary Louise
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 Oct 1938
2 PLAC Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 CHR
2 DATE 1 Nov 1938
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 19 Sep 1997
2 SOUR @S5@
1 _UID 027E9467D46D3C438E7E0D3D8CCFE300CFEB
1 FAMS @F71@
1 FAMS @F72@
1 FAMC @F66@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 2 Jan 2005
3 TIME 01:00:00
0 @I97@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX M
1 _UID 3FCBFDC81DFD8C459E52B0C68EE9B72371A3
1 FAMS @F73@
1 FAMC @F66@
0 @I98@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX M
1 _UID 0243C6CAA763C34C9EB2058F44989777BCB6
1 FAMS @F69@
0 @I99@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX F
1 _UID 509666F12ABB204CB8327723BCFAC4E6726B
1 FAMS @F75@
1 FAMC @F69@
0 @I100@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX F
1 _UID 44FFD6D14AF9214FB0510C4866DADED7E7DE
1 FAMS @F76@
1 FAMC @F69@
0 @I101@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX M
1 _UID A7144BDE9A70984C8356446EE8E1C81705BA
1 FAMS @F77@
1 FAMC @F69@
0 @I102@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX M
1 _UID 04DD58B2C843954382534D6E72AF2238D915
1 FAMS @F78@
1 FAMS @F30778@
1 FAMC @F69@
0 @I103@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX M
1 _UID B49953F47D42B7419E29678A777C4AA5E5FA
1 FAMS @F75@
0 @I104@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX F
1 _UID B7AC57AC46C91149AC3844338F2BC2A84E90
1 FAMS @F31581@
1 FAMC @F75@
0 @I105@ INDI
1 NAME Joseph Henry /Millmeyer/
2 SURN Millmeyer
2 GIVN Joseph Henry
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 28 Dec 1931
2 PLAC Fort Madison, Lee, Iowa, USA
1 CHR
2 DATE 1 Jan 1933
2 PLAC Fort Madison, Lee, Iowa, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 26 May 2006
2 PLAC Quincy, Adams, Illinois, USA
1 _UID 2D10CC4608ACDA46BB99CABC981DABBE1B6E
1 FAMS @F70@
1 NOTE Joseph Henry Millmeyer, 74, of 2805 Ave. C, Fort Madison, died at 6 p.m. Friday, May 26, 200
2 CONC 6 at Blessing Hospital in Quincy, Ill.He was born on Dec. 28, 1931 in Montrose, the son o
2 CONC f George and Louise Hoenig Millmeyer. He worked at Chevron Chemical and also at Gleasons. H
2 CONC e married Dorothy Bush on April 21, 1956. He then married Janet Cagle on May 5, 1984. He serv
2 CONC ed in the Navy during the Korean War.Survivors include his wife Janet of Fort Madison; fou
2 CONC r daughters, Debbie (husband Zahed) Sheikholeslami of Westborough, Mass., Linda (husband Dust
2 CONC y) Cole of Ramstein, Germany, Marcia (husband John) McKinley of Williamsburg, and Janis (husb
2 CONC and Danny) Vittetoe of Washington; a son, Dan (wife Becky) Millmeyer of Coralville; two step-
2 CONC daughters, Renee (husband John) Davlin of Ankeny and Terri Cagle-Nelson of Fort Madison; 13 g
2 CONC randchildren, and a brother, Louis Millmeyer of Texas.He was preceded in death by his paren
2 CONC ts, a brother, and an infant son.Friends may call after 1 p.m. Thursday, and the family wil
2 CONC l meet with friends from 5 to 6 p.m. Thursday evening at King-Lynk Funeral Home. His body ha
2 CONC s been cremated. A Celebration of Life will be at 6 p.m. Thursday at King-Lynk, with Pastor L
2 CONC arry Wagner officiating. Burial will be in Sacred Heart Cemetery.
2 CONT 	
2 CONT Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society or Holy Trinity Catholic Schools. Contri
2 CONC butions can be left at King-Lynk. Online condolences may be left at King-Lynk Funeral Home'
2 CONC s website at www.kinglynk.com.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 29 Mar 2008
3 TIME 20:35:02
0 @I106@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX F
1 _UID F2C2FA43613F41418998CA4C94B34B6945B5
1 FAMS @F81@
1 FAMC @F70@
0 @I107@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX F
1 _UID FB4F5A371B50C144B59FF3A1EC6E0D51EBE7
1 FAMS @F82@
1 FAMC @F70@
0 @I108@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX F
1 _UID 15ECB9826C44F846A13D9BE2E9B3FA3B56A9
1 FAMS @F83@
1 FAMC @F70@
0 @I109@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX F
1 _UID 9E080ADF6BEE464D9D1376A3AE6D0E69D6CA
1 FAMS @F84@
1 FAMC @F70@
0 @I110@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX M
1 _UID 499338723D273F4CB4D4D5EF9559AFBF1D43
1 FAMS @F85@
1 FAMC @F70@
0 @I111@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX M
1 _UID 66A6F01936F5374D9DC35B1A1856D027FE73
1 FAMS @F82@
0 @I112@ INDI
1 NAME Richard J. /Blindt/
2 SURN Blindt
2 GIVN Richard J.
1 SEX M
1 DEAT
2 DATE 12 Nov 1966
1 _UID 311F40C2CA3CD346BFC015CDE17BBD8C77AD
1 FAMS @F71@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 8 Apr 2000
3 TIME 02:00:00
0 @I113@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX M
1 _UID 69934C7F3359C04F819A2E876AE6BC064413
1 FAMC @F71@
0 @I114@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX F
1 _UID 5F05DD95BC28EF4ABFA8496E7CAE029CD960
1 FAMS @F87@
1 FAMC @F71@
0 @I115@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX M
1 _UID 69F3CA4E5791AE45936634EAEC9436708CCB
1 FAMS @F72@
0 @I116@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX F
1 _UID 98CA86D16B4F5D4B915700332A8705EAD60E
1 FAMS @F73@
0 @I117@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX F
1 _UID 20C3F28DDC4F5844BADEFDC70A5A06E3D233
1 FAMS @F89@
1 FAMC @F73@
0 @I118@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX M
1 _UID 5080563B2B5BDB4BA62765496014E9F5DAE0
1 FAMS @F90@
1 FAMS @F91@
1 FAMC @F73@
0 @I119@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX M
1 _UID 06E025A13ABF4A49BB12C7FEF96813E01E2D
1 FAMS @F92@
1 FAMC @F73@
0 @I120@ INDI
1 NAME Marie /Solien/
2 SURN Solien
2 GIVN Marie
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 4 Jun 1885
2 PLAC Stoughton, Dane, Wisconsin, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 11 Dec 1963
2 PLAC St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
1 BURI
2 DATE 19 Dec 1963
2 PLAC Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
1 _UID 66217839692A87428849C2802C35E791800F
1 FAMS @F63@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 31 Mar 2008
3 TIME 11:31:23
0 @I121@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX M
1 _UID BD1E60B94B11A24086B23094872C4D25537B
1 FAMS @F94@
1 FAMC @F63@
0 @I122@ INDI
1 NAME Dolores /Finan/
2 SURN Finan
2 GIVN Dolores
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 8 Aug 1922
2 PLAC St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
1 CHR
2 DATE 1922
2 PLAC St. Matthew's, St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
1 DEAT
2 DATE 4 Mar 2008
2 PLAC St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
1 _UID D1DAB20C2BCE72409EA93D8379EC9561767F
1 FAMS @F94@
1 NOTE Dolores Finan Moffitt  	 	
2 CONT Moffitt, Dolores Finan Fortified with the Sacraments of Holy Mother Church on Tuesday, Marc
2 CONC h 4, 2008. Beloved wife of William A. Moffitt, Jr.; loving mother of Patricia 'Pam' Bell (Mar
2 CONC k), Maureen Wilt, William 'Mike' Moffitt (Jacque Pfeifer), Terry Moffitt (Diane Mueller); pro
2 CONC ud grandmother of Mark Robert Bell (Bianca), Brendan Moffitt Bell (Candace), John Christophe
2 CONC r Wilt, II, Robert Westley Finan Wilt, Megan Moffitt, Michael Moffitt, Kelsey Moffitt, Annali
2 CONC se Moffitt. Dolores was preceded in death by her parents Thomas J. Finan Sr. and Mae Finan (n
2 CONC ee Berkley) and her beloved brother, Thomas J. Finan, Jr. Dear sister of Bunny (Tom) Herrmann
2 CONC , sister-in-law of Mary Ellen (Tom) Finan, aunt, cousin, friend and godmother. She was devote
2 CONC d to her husband and family. When her children were older, Dolores returned to work in financ
2 CONC e at Rosary High School and the Ladue School District. She was a wonderful wife, mother, gran
2 CONC dmother, mother-in-law, and friend. She loved to play cards, particularly bridge, and she lov
2 CONC ed to garden. Dolores was a nurturer in the truest sense. Dolores donated her body to St. Lou
2 CONC is University Medical School. Services: A Memorial Mass to celebrate her life will be held o
2 CONC n Monday, March 24, 2008, 10:00 a.m., at St. Anslem Catholic Church (Priory), 530 South Maso
2 CONC n Road. The Family will receive friends following the service at St. Anslem's Parish House. I
2 CONC n lieu of flowers, contributions to the charity of your choice appreciated.
2 CONT Published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from 3/12/2008 - 3/20/2008.
2 CONT 
2 CONT  Pam Moffitt Bell
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dolores Finan Moffitt, my mother, was always a nurturer.
2 CONT I cannot remember a time when there wasn't some kind of a plant in the house. From the earl
2 CONC y childhood peach trees that grew from tiny peach stones sprouted by my Grandfather Finan’s t
2 CONC rash bin, grown and canned by Mom, Aunt Bib and Ginny every year on Harden Drive, to her beau
2 CONC tiful garden on Chamblee Lane, Mom loved to grow and care for living things.
2 CONT 	She passed her love and fascination of growing plants on to her children, but especially o
2 CONC n to her grandchildren. Going through Moma’s garden with her-- oohing and talking over each n
2 CONC ew bud was a special delight and a cherished adventure. There was always time to look for fou
2 CONC r leaf clovers in the lawn and amazingly, most of the time they found them-Irish Luck. Ther
2 CONC e was always an interesting insect, a new bird or a weed to pull and take to the creek. The o
2 CONC ld white glider was a special garden observation point where she encouraged her young grandch
2 CONC ildren to be aware of wonder.
2 CONT 	Dolores was an optimistic.
2 CONT My father was never going to World War II (He served 44 months.)
2 CONT Her back and leg were always getting better.
2 CONT Things would always be better in the morning.
2 CONT 	Dolores was a trooper
2 CONT She continued on is spite of chronic pain and continued setbacks. She suffered for years with
2 CONC out complaint.
2 CONT 	Dolores was a character, a card and a real card player. 
2 CONT She loved to play cards: solitaire, poker, hearts, war and Uno with the grandchildren. She lo
2 CONC ved to play bridge with her friends. She loved to make a good bridge hand. She loved to win a
2 CONC nd usually did. She and Dad taught their grandchildren to play bridge. She had a competitiv
2 CONC e spirit and taught her grandchildren to take risk-but use their heads. During Christmas an
2 CONC d summer family gatherings, two tables of bridge were the norm in the family room with thre
2 CONC e generations playing together.
2 CONT 	She was a seamstress
2 CONT She spent hours sewing for us when she probably would have liked to be doing anything else.
2 CONT She felt pressure to get four Easter outfits made for her four children, the bridesmaids dres
2 CONC ses, the prom gowns, the Christmas dresses, the Halloween costumes. She whipped these up an
2 CONC d more on her sewing machine. She made doll clothes, beanie baby sleeping bags, Christmas tre
2 CONC e skirts and our most prized family heirloom Christmas quilts. She has knitted everyone an af
2 CONC ghan; naps wouldn't be the same without those comfy afghans	
2 CONT 	Mom/Moma was a cookie baker.
2 CONT My favorite was pink Christmas cookie cutter wreaths. Others would choose “Nighty Nites,” bu
2 CONC t probably the all around favorite was her chocolate chip cookies-and her secret ingredient t
2 CONC hat Brendan always recognized-LOVE.
2 CONT 	“Love One Another” was her wish for her family. There was a plaque up in our home with tha
2 CONC t statement and reminder of her wish for us all.
2 CONT 	Dolores was a dancer.
2 CONT She loved to dance, from early vaudeville childhood plays that her mother, Mae Finan, produce
2 CONC d and directed, to dancing with my father. Her eyes would sparkle and her feet would tap. I w
2 CONC as always envious because I inherited two left feet, but when I saw the joy she and my Dad di
2 CONC splayed when dancing, I was filled with delight.
2 CONT 	She was my best friend, example, mentor, model, strength and confident. 
2 CONT Mother’s suffering and chronic pain are now over. She is at rest and peace. To go without he
2 CONC r support seems most challenging, but  we celebrate her life and her spirit, for we know tha
2 CONC t she is up there with those bright shining Irish eyes, looking down on us, supporting us wit
2 CONC h her positive thoughts and saying the two things both  our parents tried to instill in us-
2 CONT “Always stay close and love one another."
2 CONT 	This we shall try to do and we thank you, Mother, for giving us life and the nurturing lov
2 CONC e and concern to live that life. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Mark Bell
2 CONT 
2 CONT I have known Dolores for 43 years, longer than I have known my own mother.  She was an extrao
2 CONC rdinary woman, with a competitive spirit, who accomplished with excellence whatever she under
2 CONC took.
2 CONT In another time she could have been our first woman president.
2 CONT  
2 CONT Mark Robert Bell
2 CONT 
2 CONT Grandparents are in a very interesting position. They have a uniqueangle on educating youth
2 CONC .  My Grandmother taught me to be practical andtrue to myself and the importance of bein
2 CONC g a gentleman. She taught mehow to recognize a good joke and when not to point out a bad one
2 CONC .
2 CONT Moma was unconditional in her love and encouragement. As a toddler,despite my fears, she enc
2 CONC ouraged me to learn to swim in our big pool.She encouraged me to jump off the diving board w
2 CONC hen 10 feet down lookedlike the end of the earth. She encouraged me to play soccer when Alex
2 CONC and I were 3 and I was nervous. When I went off to Stanford and Oxford,England to study, sh
2 CONC e encouraged me to work hard but to live a balancedlife.  She taught me who I was literally
2 CONC . In fact, she not onlyencouraged me but arranged for me to meet and stay with our long-lost
2 CONC Finan cousins in Sligo Ireland. I stood in front of my great, great,great grandfather Finan
2 CONC 's birth home and shoot skeet with my Irishcousins--all due to my grandmother.
2 CONT I am her 1st grandson and we are alike in many ways. Now likeDolores and Bill/ Moma and Bopa
2 CONC , Bianca and I are expecting twins, too!
2 CONT I will try always to follow the advice she gave when she learned of the twins, 
2 CONT namely that, "All they need is lots of love." I am sure in the next few months --
2 CONT and years to come I will remember her educating and encouraging me. 
2 CONT Most of all I will remember her love.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Brendan Bell
2 CONT 
2 CONT  My Moma was always a sage, who provided practical old school, time tested advice.
2 CONT I remember some key moments when I was young including: the secret to making her famous choco
2 CONC late cookies, it takes patience and a keen eye to find four leaf clovers, the importance of b
2 CONC eing Irish and through dedication and hard work all these and much more were possible. 
2 CONT     When I was older and going through a difficult time, Moma's  looked at me and said all th
2 CONC at was needed, " Brendan, life is for the living." These simple words have had a profound imp
2 CONC act on my life and have been a mantra ever since. She understood the importance of using th
2 CONC e memory of a lost loved one in a positive and active way, to honor their memory by living an
2 CONC d loving life. 
2 CONT I leave you with words often spoken by my beloved Moma when I left her: "I pray for your heal
2 CONC th and that you hold good cards." 
2 CONT     
2 CONT 
2 CONT Maureen Wilt
2 CONT 
2 CONT I don't know of any other Mom who was able to give her daughter the twin brothers she request
2 CONC ed, even when the doctors didn't know she was carrying twins until five hours before their bi
2 CONC rth. I remember getting on my knees at night beside the bed with Mom where I frequently praye
2 CONC d that my twin brothers not grow up to be bank robbers. And I remember seeing Mom praying o
2 CONC n her knees at night when she came up to stay with me after my surgery (though she was very i
2 CONC ll herself) when I had two boys of my own.
2 CONT I remember Mom getting such a kick out of my sons and Wes's prayer, "And, God, with the mosqu
2 CONC itoes I think you made a mistake" and getting a kick out of Christopher's nice/mean guy imagi
2 CONC nary friend. I remember her staining the rocking chair for Chris and Wes, giving Christophe
2 CONC r his "Teddy" that still adorns his desk at school, the boys’ haircuts, our quilts, cookies
2 CONC , and looking for four leaf clovers together.
2 CONT I don't know of many mothers who would allow a neighborhood wedding at their house and give p
2 CONC ermission for a 5-year-old daughter to be married by a 7-year-old sister/priest, or a Mom wh
2 CONC o would provide all the refreshments for the wedding reception, including the Cheez-its. An
2 CONC d I know that my Mom was the best cook and nobody could top her chicken noodle soup or peanu
2 CONC t butter sandwiches I bragged about (or her almond Christmas cookies, banana cream pie, grand
2 CONC ma's rolls, fudge pie or ham and olive baked sandwiches, to name a few). 
2 CONT I appreciate all the sacrifices Mom made for us when she went without so we could have more
2 CONC . All the (almost perpetual) times she gave up candy so that her prayers would be answered fo
2 CONC r some family member. I remember with fondness the gorgeous prom dresses, dresses and coats s
2 CONC he made for me. There was never any doubt that we were most important in her lives. I remembe
2 CONC r some years back when we interviewed Mom and Pop in different rooms for the grandparent book
2 CONC s. The last question we asked was "What would you want your progeny to remember most of all?
2 CONC "  Mom and Pop both answered "Love One Another." Mom lived her life teaching us that messag
2 CONC e and I know without a doubt that love is the most powerful force in the world and lasts fore
2 CONC ver. Mom's love will be with us forever and ever (and then some) and has made all the differe
2 CONC nce.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Christopher Wilt
2 CONT 
2 CONT When I think of Moma, I think of how much she gave:
2 CONT She gave me chocolate-chip cookies, hash browns, and eggs from her oven.
2 CONT She gave me blankets, quilts, and stockings created from her own hand.
2 CONT She gave me Cheez-its, coffee cake, and pumpkin pie (some slices were better than others) fro
2 CONC m her kitchen.
2 CONT She gave me basil, strawberries, and mint from her garden.
2 CONT She gave me four-leaf clovers, pads of paper, and tic-tacs from whatever magical place Moma k
2 CONC ept such amazing treasures.
2 CONT She gave me knowledge about shuffling, counting, and bidding from her card-player brain.
2 CONT She gave me deep wisdom, stern lectures, and loving advice from her heart. 
2 CONT But most of all--Moma gave me my family- one that she created, mended, and molded from love.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Wes Wilt
2 CONT 
2 CONT Rudy Giuliani said it best when asked about grandparents “What children need most are the ess
2 CONC entials that grandparents provide in abundance.  They give unconditional love, kindness, pati
2 CONC ence, humor, comfort, lessons in life.  And, most importantly, cookies.” 
2 CONT My Moma always knew how to make me feel loved.  Her love was displayed in many ways, whethe
2 CONC r it was a wink from across the room or her support for her grandchildren as they starred i
2 CONC n the beloved Christmas play every year.  Her love was genuine and unconditional and will liv
2 CONC e with me forever.  I am so blessed to have inherited these traits that make me who I am toda
2 CONC y.  Thank you for leading by example and showing me what family is all about.  I love you Mom
2 CONC a and thank you for the chocolate chip cookies.  
2 CONT 
2 CONT Mike Moffitt
2 CONT 
2 CONT My memories of my mom span over half a century.  With her passing, simple memories now take o
2 CONC n a new and special meaning.  I remember when I was 10 or 11 years old, picking peppermint fr
2 CONC om our backyard garden and drinking ice tea with my Mom. During family vacations we would wal
2 CONC k the beaches and collect rocks that she would later use to decorate her flower and rose gard
2 CONC ens.  
2 CONT My mom was my greatest advocate and biggest supporter. When I became frustrated and wanted t
2 CONC o give up, my Mom would simply smile and reassure me that I could accomplish the task at hand
2 CONC .  She was right.  I did learn to tie my shoes.  I did grow tall enough to touch the top of t
2 CONC he refrigerator.  In elementary school, I struggled with learning.   My mom spoke with the sc
2 CONC hool officials and helped me get the resources I needed to be successful. She was my first Tu
2 CONC tor.  With her help, I was able to eventually graduate and even go on to earn a doctorate deg
2 CONC ree.  My Mom always believed in me, and helped me to believe in myself. 
2 CONT My mother’s faith was very important to her.  When we went on vacations, my parents made sur
2 CONC e we went to mass on Sunday.  My parents sacrificed in order for all four of their children t
2 CONC o receive private Catholic Education.  Every time I see a rosary, I will think of my mother
2 CONC .  I remember on many occasions coming in to visit and finding my mother lying on the livin
2 CONC g room couch.  She frequently would “stretch out” on the couch in order to deal with her chro
2 CONC nic pain.  Even though she might be asleep, she would be holding a Rosary in her hands.  In f
2 CONC act, you could find Rosaries throughout our home, either by the night stand by her bed, the c
2 CONC offee table near the couch or in the kitchen.
2 CONT When I visited my mother for the last time, she was basically uncommunicative.  I decided t
2 CONC o say a Rosary with her.  Although she seemed unresponsive earlier in the day, she repeated “
2 CONC The Hail Mary” each time it was prayed.  I believe it was her faith that helped her through t
2 CONC he last trying years, never complaining or feeling sorry for herself, but offering up her suf
2 CONC fering for others that she loved.  
2 CONT I will truly miss my mother but I know she is now happy in Heaven with her parents, brother
2 CONC , sister and friends.  I hope that in the years to come, I can live a life that she would b
2 CONC e proud of, not only as a son and a brother, but as a husband, a father and friend as well. M
2 CONC om, thank you for all the important life lessons you modeled for me over the years.  Love, Mi
2 CONC ke 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Jacque Pfeifer Moffitt
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dolores was my mother-in-law.  She was a lot of fun to talk to and listen to.  She used to sm
2 CONC oke cigarettes at the kitchen table and tell me stories of her life--the memories of her fami
2 CONC ly of origin and how she wished that I could have known her brother.  She told me about Mik
2 CONC e and his siblings growing up and about their family vacations.  She talked about her job an
2 CONC d her special friends at work. I felt like I intimately knew all the players in Dolores’s lif
2 CONC e even if I had never met them.
2 CONT Dolores was a woman that I would have chosen as a friend.  She was a woman who wore shorts in
2 CONC to her 60's.   She drove cars fast and wild.  She looked up facts in the encyclopedia or dict
2 CONC ionary in order to settle an argument.   She could recount each play of the cards laid down b
2 CONC y all four hands.  Dolores always wore her hair short and it was always dark and her nails an
2 CONC d lips were always bright.  She liked fashion and always dressed well.  She taught me beaut
2 CONC y secrets like keeping lipstick and nail polish in the refrigerator.
2 CONT Dolores was a role model as a wife.  I admired her dedication to the vocation of marriage.  D
2 CONC olores literally anticipated Bill’s needs, gladly answered them and always encouraged and res
2 CONC pected him.   Dolores always thanked Bill for making coffee.  She asked him how he liked hi
2 CONC s food and if he slept well.  Bill always praised Dolores for her cooking and entertaining sk
2 CONC ills.   Mike told me that his parents never had a fight, not one!   One time we played Pictio
2 CONC nary and Dolores and Bill were on the same team. The category was animals.  Bill drew one str
2 CONC aight line and Dolores immediately answered with the correct animal.   They had telepathy. Th
2 CONC eir marriage was unbeatable.
2 CONT Dolores was a faith filled and accepting person.  She had abundant energy even though her chr
2 CONC onic pain was a heavy cross to bear.  She coped in ways that have been researched by health p
2 CONC rofessionals and theologians for centuries.  She distracted her mind with the joys of simpl
2 CONC e things like birds and the colors and smells of flowers.  She did what she could like sit an
2 CONC d play cards, sew for awhile, read and lose herself in a plot, she took frequent breaks to “s
2 CONC tretch out” and she used her higher power to comfort her when she could not bear the pain alo
2 CONC ne.
2 CONT The strength of her determination, the sophistication of her daily living, and the inheritanc
2 CONC e of her faith has been left for all her family to remember.  There is no greater gift tha
2 CONC t a wife, mother, and grandmother could ever give.  Thank you Dolores for having such great p
2 CONC urpose.  
2 CONT 
2 CONT Kelsey Moffitt
2 CONT 
2 CONT Moma and I had a lot of “first” experiences.  I was the first daughter of her first son.  Sh
2 CONC e gave me my first baby blanket.  I carried that until I was 10 and she promised to make it i
2 CONC nto a handkerchief for my wedding.  She gave me my first best-friend, “Baby-doll,” who is sti
2 CONC ll with me today.  She threw me my first birthday party at her house.
2 CONT Moma liked that I had an Irish name.  She always thought my hair had a red-tint to it.  We ha
2 CONC d matching Irish Girl shirts and the same thin dancer legs.  She measured our heights at ever
2 CONC y visit.  I eventually grew taller than her but I never out-grew my Moma and all her specia
2 CONC l ways.  Moma is the first person I have loved that is now passed away.  I hope she will be t
2 CONC he first angel to watch over me until we meet in Heaven.  
2 CONT 
2 CONT Annalise Moffitt
2 CONT 
2 CONT Moma made me feel like a Princess.  She sewed me a pink and white Princess dress when I was l
2 CONC ittle.  I wore that dress everyday during our visit and on the way home.  I felt like a Princ
2 CONC ess with her.  She gave me crackers in a special bowl and poured me milk from a glass jar whi
2 CONC ch I ate on a little black stool.  She let me have my own room when I visited.  Moma displaye
2 CONC d my art work and my pictures.  She held my face with two hands when she kissed me.  Wheneve
2 CONC r we left their house she gave me “gas money” for the ride home.   Moma called me “Pumpkin.
2 CONC ”  Even when I saw her for the last time, when she wasn’t feeling well at all, she said, “Hi
2 CONC , Pumpkin.”   I love you Moma and I miss you very much.     
2 CONT 
2 CONT Terry Moffitt
2 CONT 
2 CONT My Mom and Dad put four children through college and none of them grew up to be bank robbers-
2 CONC -yet!  Mom shared in the joy of eight grandchildren who loved their Moma in a way that word
2 CONC s will never adequately convey.  Mother/Dolores/Moma was there for us in the best of times an
2 CONC d the worst of time.  Throughout it all Mom always maintained her sense of humor.  Her gift o
2 CONC f laughter is the legacy that will live on from one generation to next.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Diane Moffitt
2 CONT 
2 CONT Dolores was the best mother-in-law a person could hope for. Whenever my friends would talk ab
2 CONC out family issues with in-laws, I would proudly tell them about my mother-in-law and friend
2 CONC . Dolores was always there for me, and I learned so much from her, including how to entertai
2 CONC n and play the intricate game of bridge with card players extraordinaire Dolores, Bill. and T
2 CONC erry. Even after playing thirty years with the lucky but bridge challenged, their patience wi
2 CONC th me and encouragement never wavered, despite my never ending question--”What are you askin
2 CONC g me?”
2 CONT The years of laughter, love, and wonderful memories shared with Dolores, will always be a viv
2 CONC id reminder of a life well lived and well loved.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Megan Moffitt
2 CONT 
2 CONT I am truly blessed to have had such a wonderful grandmother.  In reflecting on the times I ha
2 CONC ve spent with her, I remember all the little things that made our relationship so special
2 CONC . I will always remember going to her house as a little girl.  She always had something to te
2 CONC ach me.  Whether it was how to sew, play cards, or how to garden, she always made the visit f
2 CONC un and interesting.
2 CONT I will always remember family dinners at her house.  No matter the occasion, she always mad
2 CONC e potatoes especially for me because they were my favorite. I will never forget how much sh
2 CONC e loved and supported me.  She always attended my recitals, concerts, sports, and ceremonies
2 CONC .  Just knowing how much she cared about me has always motivated me to want to achieve more i
2 CONC n life. I will never forget our conversations over Cheez-its and lettuce with peanut butter
2 CONC . It did not matter what the conversation was about, she was always interested in what I ha
2 CONC d to say. I will never forget all that I have learned from her.  She taught me so much abou
2 CONC t life, love, and friendships. I could never imagine what life would have been like without h
2 CONC er, and I will always cherish the time we spent together.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Michael Moffitt
2 CONT 
2 CONT Moma taught me the saying “It must be the luck of the Irish”.  When I used to visit during m
2 CONC y years as a bleached blond, impressionable, curious boy, Moma would take me out into the fro
2 CONC nt yard to go hunting for the illusive four leaf clover.  At first, I did not believe they tr
2 CONC uly existed except in Lucky Charms cereal, but Moma proved me wrong.  After countless hours s
2 CONC earching, I eventually found one.  Moma then carefully wrapped the clover in wax paper, stuc
2 CONC k it in between the pages of a book to press it, and told me to find a safe place to keep it
2 CONC .   Years later, while cleaning out my old bedroom, I came across the four leaf clover, its g
2 CONC reen color remaining intact.
2 CONT   I like to think that this clover has truly brought the “Luck of the Irish” into my life.  N
2 CONC ot only have I found a one carat diamond ring next to a trash can, won BigMac Land tickets fr
2 CONC om the radio, a Game Cube from school, and Erin the prized Irish themed Beanie Baby, but I ha
2 CONC ve been blessed with a great family that has given me a lifetime of cherished memories.  I mi
2 CONC ss you Moma, and the great influence you had on me.  To me, not even a four leaf clover was a
2 CONC s lucky as having you as my grandmother.
2 CONT 
2 CONT ******************************
2 CONT 
2 CONT When Irish Eyes Are Smiling 
2 CONT When Irish eyes are smilingSure 'tis like a morn in spring.In the lilt of Irish laughterYo
2 CONC u can hear the angels sing.When Irish hearts are happyAll the world seems bright and gay.
2 CONC And when Irish eyes are smilingSure they steal your heart away.When Irish hearts are happy
2 CONC All the world seems bright and gay.And when Irish eyes are smiling Sure they steal your he
2 CONC art away.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 31 Mar 2008
3 TIME 11:29:57
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1 NAME William Albert /Ogden/
2 SURN Ogden
2 GIVN William Albert
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 Apr 1871
2 PLAC Sonora, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 12 Jun 1922
2 PLAC Everett, Snohomish, Washington, USA
1 BURI
2 DATE 22 Jun 1922
2 PLAC Nauvoo Catholic Cemetery, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 _UID 28411E4D8075AB43BE6BF5104860ABEA2257
1 FAMS @F59@
1 NOTE "Will Ogden left for Dakota last week, where he will remain for some time."  Nauvoo Rustler
2 CONC , April 5, 1892.
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2 DATE 2 Jan 2005
3 TIME 01:00:00
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1 NAME Merrill Francis /Ogden/ Sr.
2 SURN Ogden
2 GIVN Merrill Francis
2 NSFX Sr.
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 Aug 1905
2 PLAC Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 CHR
2 DATE 17 Sep 1905
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois,USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 29 Sep 1967
2 PLAC Seattle, King, Washington, USA
1 BURI
2 DATE 1967
2 PLAC Holy Rood Cem., Seattle, King, Washington
1 _UID 4A0DBE6C364F504884455E1B3B13799E454B
1 FAMS @F104@
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1 NOTE Is buried at Holy Rood Cemetary.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 2 Jan 2005
3 TIME 01:00:00
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1 NAME William Joseph /Ogden/
2 SURN Ogden
2 GIVN William Joseph
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 4 Jan 1904
2 PLAC Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 CHR
2 DATE 20 Mar 1904
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois,USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 10 Aug 1984
2 PLAC Seattle, King, Washington, USA
1 BURI
2 DATE 17 Aug 1984
2 PLAC Nauvoo Catholic Cemetery, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 _UID FF2A927E91671D48B7DF44CEDAF936E62DBF
1 FAMC @F59@
1 NOTE "Honor Student's Chair Vacant --- Father, Hope Realized, Killed --- William Ogden, 18 years o
2 CONC ld, 1227 N. 48th St., who for four years straight won the gold medal as first honor pupil o
2 CONC f his class at The Seattle College and his fouf medals, with fifth, the grand prize given b
2 CONC y Bishop Edward J. O'Dea.  Young Ogden's medals were pinned on a vacant chair because his fat
2 CONC her was killed the day before commencement. --- William Ogden Unable to Attend Graduating Exe
2 CONC rcises at Seattle College Because of Bereavement. --- First honors at the graduating exercise
2 CONC s when twenty graduates of the Seattle College received their diplomas last week, were pinne
2 CONC d on a vacant chair -- that of William Ogden, 18 years old, 1227 N. 48th St.  His father wa
2 CONC s killed the day before he was to have received the honors.  Throughout his four years in th
2 CONC e college, William has studied chiefly because his pal--for that was what his dad meant to hi
2 CONC m--wanted him to be "first in his class."  For three years straight, William Ogden Sr., as th
2 CONC e proudest man in Seattle, watched his son win the gold medals offered each class each year f
2 CONC or first honors.  Together father and son talked about and worked together for the final hono
2 CONC rs, the Bishop Edward J. O'Dea medal.  Pitcher for his team, young Ogden played last week an
2 CONC d his father went along to witness the game.  The Seattle College twirler won his game and th
2 CONC e happy father was en route home, when five miles this side of Everett, he sptopped his car t
2 CONC o inquire about other members of the party who were slow in coming.  He was run down by anoth
2 CONC er automobile and died within minutes.  Young Ogden could not attend the graduating exercises
2 CONC .  He knew his father could not attend and for him the prizes meant but little.  So his chai
2 CONC r was left vacant.  Four years of college with no mark less than "excellent"!  It's a recor
2 CONC d for the Seattle College that has never been equaled.  Today the prize winner is en route t
2 CONC o Nauvoo, Ill., where his father will be buried.  Upon his return to Seattle he will ente
2 CONC r a special class at the Seattle College and will receive his first year's training for the p
2 CONC riesthood, carrying out the wishes of his pal and father."
2 CONT 
2 CONT "FATHER OGDEN SINGS HIS FIRST MASS HERE --- Former Nauvoo Boy In Solemn  Service Here---Larg
2 CONC e Attendance at Ceremonies. --- Solemn and impressive services were held at SS. Peter and Pau
2 CONC l's Catholic church in this city Sunday morning at 10 o'clock when first solemn high mass wa
2 CONC s sung by Rev. Father William J. Ogden, who was ordained an oblate priest in Washington, D. C
2 CONC ., last week.  The church was filled with relatives and friends who came to witness one of th
2 CONC e most brilliant and solemn ceremonies of the Roman Catholic church.  The church wass decorat
2 CONC ed with St. Joseph lilies and never presented a more beautiful appearance.  The ceremonies st
2 CONC arted with a procession from the rectory to the church, the order of which was:  Father Willi
2 CONC am Ogden, Father Tholen, two visiting priests, three acolytes; and twelve altar boys.  Arrivi
2 CONC ng in the church Father Ogden celebrated his first mass.  Father L. C. Tholen, local pastor
2 CONC , acted as master of ceremonies, while Father Lawrence and Father Lucien, two Franciscan prie
2 CONC sts of Quincy, Ill., acted at deacon and sub-deacon respectively.  Ralph Seidler was cross-be
2 CONC arer and Henry Reimbold and Nile Ogden were acolytes.  The three are cousins of Father Ogden
2 CONC .  Father Tholen preached an eloquent and appropriate sermon for the occation.  There was spe
2 CONC cial singing by the choir and Merrill Ogden, brother of the newly ordained priest, sang sever
2 CONC al solos.  Following the mass the young celebrant gave a special benediction to the congregat
2 CONC ion.  Soon after the mass a dinner was given by immediate relatives at St. Edmund's Hall in h
2 CONC onor of Father Ogden.  Fifty-five persons were present and enjoyed a most delicious meal.  Af
2 CONC ter dinner Father Tholen and Father Ogden both gave short talks.  In the evening a public rec
2 CONC eption was given at the Parish hall for Father Ogden, which was well attended.  He received t
2 CONC he felicitations of numerous relatives, friends and aquaintances.  Father Ogden gave a shor
2 CONC t talk and solos were sung by Mrs. H. Rissi and Emil Rissi of Collinsville; Mrs. John Dusenbe
2 CONC rry of Nauvoo, and Merrill Ogden of St. Louis.  Rev Wm. J. Ogden, O. M. I., gave a violin sel
2 CONC ection.  All these numbers were accompanied on the piano by Marie Rissi.  Punch and wafers we
2 CONC re served.  Among the out of town relatives and friends who came to attend the mass were Mrs
2 CONC . Anna Ogden, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Moffittt and son Billie, Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Ogden and son Me
2 CONC rrill Jr., and Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Schacht, of St. Louis, Mo.; Mrs. Wm. Honce, Hamilton; Mrs
2 CONC . Clara Parker, St. Joseph, Mo.; Miss Bernadine Moffitt, Fort Madison; Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Hie
2 CONC rstein  and Wm. Spexarth, Fort Madison; Henry Reimbold and Nile Ogden, Chicago; Ralph Seidler
2 CONC , Cleveland, Ohio; R. and Mrs. H. Rissi, daughter Marie and son Emil, Collinsville, Ill.; Te
2 CONC d Rissi, Detroit; Mrs. J. H. Boeddeker, Fort Madison.  Sister Mary Fabian, of Peoria also att
2 CONC ended and was a guest at dinner.  Father Ogden comes from a well--known family of this vicini
2 CONC ty.  On his mother's side he comes from pioneer stock of Moffitts who were among the very ear
2 CONC ly settlers.  T. N. Moffitt is his grandfather.  From the father's side he is a descendant o
2 CONC f James Ogden, also a prominent pioneer.  His grandmother on his father's side was the siste
2 CONC r of the late Judge J. B. Risse of Hancock county.  His father was William Ogden, a carpenter
2 CONC , who met his death in Seattle some years ago.  Father Ogden will be stationed at Seattle Was
2 CONC h., for the present, the home of the family for a number of years.  He will leave Monday fo
2 CONC r St. Louis, accompanied by his mother, Mrs. Anna Ogden, where they will visit at her home fo
2 CONC r a short time and then will motor to Seattle.  The mother will accompany the son and be wit
2 CONC h him in Seattle."  Nauvoo, Illinois, June 1930.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "YOUNG PRIEST READS MASS IN NAUVOO --- Nauvoo, Ill., June 16.--Rev William Ogden read his fir
2 CONC st mass at the Catholic church sunday morning.  The young priest with Father Tholen, two Fran
2 CONC ciscaon priests of Quincy, three acolytes, cousins of the young priest, and twelve altar boy
2 CONC s marched from the rectory to the church at 10 o'clock where his first mass was celebrated b
2 CONC y the lately ordained priest.  Father Tholen acted as master of ceremonies, while the two Qui
2 CONC ncy priests acted as deacon and subdeacon respectively.  Father Tholen preached as excellen
2 CONC t and appropriate sermon for the occation.  The choir sang Leonard's mass in B flat.  The chu
2 CONC rch was filled, many being required to stand.  Father Ogden comes from a well known family o
2 CONC f this vicinity.  On his mother's side he comes from the pioneer stock of Moffitts, who wer
2 CONC e among the first settlers of Hancock county.  From the father's side he is a descendant of J
2 CONC ames Ogden also a pioneer of this county and a prominent citizen.  His grandmother on his fat
2 CONC her's side was a sister to the late Judge John B. Risse.  He is ordained as an oblate priest
2 CONC , and will probably be stationed in Seatttle, Washington, where the Ogden family formerly liv
2 CONC ed.  The father was a carpenter and met his death in an accident in Seattle some years ago
2 CONC .  A big reception was given the young priest at the parish hall on Sunday evening.  He was g
2 CONC reeted by many of his former acquaintances, who were school mates with him when he attended t
2 CONC he Catholic schools here.  Many of his relatives from aboard were here to attend the celebrat
2 CONC ion of his first mass by Father Ogden.  The Moffitt and Ogden families are very large and the
2 CONC y by themselves made a large audience.  All wished the young priest success in his station i
2 CONC n the sacred priesthood."  Nauvoo, Illinois, June 1930.
2 CONT 
2 CONT "Golden jubilarians are Fathers Jeremiah F. Milner, Daniel McAllister, and William J. Ogde; B
2 CONC enedictine Abbot Gerald Desmond; and Jesuit Fathers James B. McGoldrick...
2 CONT A native of Illinois, Father William J. Ogden was associate pastor at St. Benedict parish, Se
2 CONC attle from 1930 until 1933.  From Seattle he was transferred to Holy Angels Juniorate in Buff
2 CONC alo, NY, where he was superior and teacher from 1933 to 1936.  Subsequent assignmnets include
2 CONC d teacher at the Oblate Scholasticate in Washington DC; pastor os St. John the Baptist parish
2 CONC , Green Bay, Wis., and chaplain at Niery Hospital in Davenport, Iowa.  Father Ogden's first a
2 CONC ssignment in the Seattle Archdiocese was associate at St. Patrick parish, Tacoma.  He was als
2 CONC o as associate at St. Benedict, Seattle; St. Anthony, Wenatchee; and Holy Rosary, Seattle.  F
2 CONC ather Ogden was a student at Seattle University during 1946 and 1947.  From November, 1948, u
2 CONC ntil January, 1952, he was administrator of Immaculate Conception parish, Arlington.  His fir
2 CONC st pastorate was at St. Cecilia parish, Banbridge (June 1955-November 1961).  Subsequent past
2 CONC orates were at Our Lady of Good Help, Hoquiam (November, 1961-April, 1970); and St. Joseph, E
2 CONC lma (April, 1970-March, 1972).  Father also was chaplain at the former Dominican House, Issaq
2 CONC uah.  He now resides at the Josephinum.  Father was Faithful Friar, Fourth Degree Knights o
2 CONC f Columbus, Aberdeen; and chaplain to KC Council 1674 of Hoquiam."  Seattle, Washigton, Jun
2 CONC e 1980.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 2 Jan 2005
3 TIME 01:00:00
1 OBJE
2 FORM jpg
2 FILE Pictures\william joseph ogden first mass.jpg
2 TITL Willaim Joseph Ogden's first Mass in Nauvoo, Illinois.
2 NOTE 
2 _SCBK Y
2 _PRIM Y
2 _TYPE PHOTO
2 _SSHOW Y
0 @I140@ INDI
1 NAME Julia Frances /Barry/
2 SURN Barry
2 GIVN Julia Frances
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 18 Apr 1907
2 PLAC St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
1 CHR
2 PLAC St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 19 Sep 1992
2 PLAC Seattle, King, Washington, USA
1 BURI
2 DATE 23 Sep 1992
2 PLAC Holyrood Cemetery, Seattle, King, Washington, USA
1 _UID 8EC4EF89E20673489E693C0AC2DBDA8BBC84
1 FAMS @F104@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 2 Jan 2005
3 TIME 01:00:00
0 @I141@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX M
1 _UID 6684485FD1BCA94BB59A4124B77B378FBE5E
1 FAMS @F106@
1 FAMC @F104@
0 @I142@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX F
1 _UID A2A5DB358C1E364D8B26A39AF7D1EB587DD4
1 FAMS @F107@
1 FAMS @F108@
1 FAMC @F104@
0 @I143@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX F
1 _UID 858DD8E51BBD6C4C84679DBD03C2EEBD1486
1 FAMS @F109@
1 FAMC @F104@
0 @I144@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX M
1 _UID AB5DE12E293D5D45B96CCF769F0CD58A9319
1 FAMS @F110@
1 FAMC @F104@
0 @I145@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX F
1 _UID 2D4ED4B9FA4E954D8C52BAC46933D5BCBB69
1 FAMS @F106@
0 @I146@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX F
1 _UID 6160441F2C5B754986450FE3C7E642C6DB0B
1 FAMS @F112@
1 FAMC @F106@
0 @I147@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX M
1 _UID 35A10B24A4B825468FD77E6DABBC15BE57E3
1 FAMS @F113@
1 FAMC @F106@
0 @I148@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX M
1 _UID CCD76CF060AD194F9556CE63F1D6416F071D
1 FAMS @F107@
0 @I149@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX F
1 _UID EE3C5D9166238C4BB311147FDF51D7BE9418
1 FAMS @F114@
1 FAMC @F107@
0 @I150@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX M
1 _UID 094873674EA0314CAE6F402FAECC2DD09995
1 FAMS @F109@
0 @I151@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX F
1 _UID 44E329F21539E74FBE380FD53F9289ADA7BD
1 FAMS @F116@
1 FAMC @F109@
0 @I152@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX M
1 _UID A136EBE10F48944BB25FFFC2A8CA8AED94A4
1 FAMS @F117@
1 FAMC @F109@
0 @I153@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX M
1 _UID C8BD61C47C5503439AA5B155CF751F7EE73E
1 FAMS @F118@
1 FAMC @F109@
0 @I154@ INDI
1 NAME Kathleen Willa Helen /Swanson/
2 SURN Swanson
2 GIVN Kathleen Willa Helen
2 NICK Kay
1 SEX F
1 DEAT
2 DATE ABT 1990
1 _UID 99C37D4D6131C2448DE93E7528705521F59A
1 FAMS @F110@
1 NOTE He was married three times. I'm not sure which is the mather of his son.  He
2 CONT married 1) Kay, 2) ?, 3) Rose.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 6 May 2006
3 TIME 21:03:26
0 @I155@ INDI
1 NAME LIVING
1 SEX M
1 _UID E0CA9E2C95C5CF4B9F9D1F1DBDCA12EEE7D4
1 FAMS @F119@
1 FAMS @F18849@
1 FAMC @F110@
0 @I156@ INDI
1 NAME Henry Edward Vincent /Reimbold/
2 SURN Reimbold
2 GIVN Henry Edward Vincent
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 19 Dec 1874
2 PLAC Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 CHR
2 DATE 25 Dec 1874
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 20 Nov 1942
2 PLAC Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 _UID AF8C9D1E1A64464C9FD0B013067728724F92
1 FAMS @F60@
1 NOTE Was the youngest son. Birth year listed in 1880 census.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 2 Jan 2005
3 TIME 01:00:00
0 @I157@ INDI
1 NAME Henry Aloishus /Reimbold/
2 SURN Reimbold
2 GIVN Henry Aloishus
2 NICK Henry Edward Reimbold
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 Jan 1909
2 PLAC Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 CHR
2 DATE 4 Jul 1909
2 PLAC Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 7 Dec 1992
2 PLAC Carbondale, Jackson, Illinois, USA
1 BURI
2 DATE 12 Dec 1992
2 PLAC Oakland Cemetery, Carbondale, Jackson, Illinois
1 _UID 5BE25D7DB7A73544A914034357A508BCB1E0
1 FAMS @F120@
1 FAMC @F60@
1 NOTE Obituary - "Henry E. Reimbold, June 20, 1909 - December 7, 1992.   Henry E. Reimbold, 83, o
2 CONC f Carbondale, Ill., died at 2:55 p.m. Monday, Dec. 7, at Memorial Hospital of Carbondale
2 CONC .  A son of Edward and Lucy Moffitt Reimbold, he was born June 20, 1909, in Nauvoo.  He marri
2 CONC ed Constance Faulkner at Nauvoo, on June 17, 1936, and she survives.  In 1974, after 40 year
2 CONC s of service, he retired from the Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad.  He was a member of th
2 CONC e St. Francis of Xavier Catholic Churc in Carbondale.  Surviving besides his wife are six son
2 CONC s:  Robert and Betty of Brookfield, Richard and Irene of Mt. Clemens, MI., Edward and Lorell
2 CONC e of Cobden, Patrick and Maria of Tulsa, Okla., and John and Shirley of Carbondale; two daugh
2 CONC ters, Mary Anne and Gus Casey of St. Charles, and Kathryn and Jack Clemens of San Diego, Cali
2 CONC f.; 28 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and one sister, Kathleen Veith of Midlotian, Il
2 CONC l.  He was preceded in death by his parents, one brother, and one sister.  Funeral srevices w
2 CONC ere held Saturday, Dec. 12, at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, Carbondale, with Father Ca
2 CONC rl Scherer officiating, and burial in Oakland Cemetery, Carbondale on Dec. 11.  Memorials ma
2 CONC y be made to St. Franics Xavier Catholic Church, Carbondale; or St. Andrews Catholic School
2 CONC , Murphysboro."
2 CONT Henry's death information was obtained from his obituary.  His birth was recorded in the Moff
2 CONC itt Family Bible.  The birth record appears to list the middle initial as "A." which is diffe
2 CONC rent from what Henry gave me.
2 CONT Henry's christening record lists his name as Henry Aloishus Reimbold.  Henry did not like th
2 CONC e middle name Aloishus so had it legally changed to Edward after his father.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT "I remember a lot about Henry A. Reimbold. He was my maternal grandfather. We used to visit w
2 CONC ith him and Constance, my grandmother at the farm of Aloysius Faulkner, my maternal great gra
2 CONC ndfather in Nauvoo, Illinois when I was very young. They owned a house at 61st and Lawndale i
2 CONC n Chicago and I remember fondly visiting my 6 uncles there. My mother's youngest brother Joh
2 CONC n Reimbold was like an older brother to me as I had no older siblings. He was the youngest o
2 CONC f 8 and I was the the eldest of 8. He was two years my senior and we were best of friends thr
2 CONC oughout high school and college as well. Henry was an avid baseball fan and particularly fon
2 CONC d of the Chicago White Sox. His favorite read was the Sporting News and he smoked Dutch Maste
2 CONC rs cigars. He worked nights for the railroad. First at Dearborn Street Station and then late
2 CONC r at Union Station. He was a ticket seller at the station. Mary Anne, my mother, was the elde
2 CONC st daughter of Connie and Henry. She married my father, Augustine W. Casey at St. Nicholas Ch
2 CONC urch on Lawndale Avenue in Chicago. They grew up about one block from each other. Augustine w
2 CONC as the the second eldest of five children born to Peter Casey and Nora Casey nee Galvin. Pete
2 CONC r Casey was from Templemore, Ireland and Nora Galvin from Galway, Ireland.
2 CONC "                                      Michael J. Casey, Aurura, Illinois, 7/17/2007
1 CHAN
2 DATE 2 Jan 2005
3 TIME 01:00:00
0 @I158@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Elizabeth Catherine /Reimbold/
2 SURN Reimbold
2 GIVN Mary Elizabeth Catherine
2 NICK Kathleen
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1 Nov 1916
2 PLAC Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 CHR
2 DATE 12 Nov 1916
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE Dec 2002
2 PLAC Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
1 _UID 55019171B432AE43BB2261716FEE0DB0F858
1 FAMS @F121@
1 FAMC @F60@
1 NOTE The Christening records at SS Peter and Paul Catholic Church have the name Mary Elizabeth Cat
2 CONC herine Reimbold.  The name Mary Elizabeth Kathleen Reimbold was given to by Kathleen as her n
2 CONC ame.  At the time of her birth the names were probably for her mother's Aunt Mary Brady Ogden
2 CONC , her Grandmother Elizabeth Brady Ogden and her mothers Aunt Catherine Brady Stafford.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 2 Jan 2005
3 TIME 01:00:00
0 @I159@ INDI
1 NAME Maria Bernard Gertrude /Reimbold/
2 SURN Reimbold
2 GIVN Maria Bernard Gertrude
2 _AKA Sister Mary Fabian
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 Oct 1904
2 PLAC Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 26 Jan 1974
2 PLAC Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 BURI
2 DATE 28 Jan 1974
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 _UID B8C672FFBE2B884C97F74BEF0EB95B801685
1 FAMC @F60@
1 NOTE Was a Catholic Nun known as Sister Mary Fabian.  Was killed in a car accident.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 4 Nov 2007
3 TIME 01:15:55
0 @I160@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Ann /Riggs/
2 SURN Riggs
2 GIVN Mary Ann
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 7 Feb 1853
2 PLAC , Monroe, Missouri, USA
1 CHR
2 DATE 3 Jun 1855
2 PLAC Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 25 Apr 1930
2 PLAC , Hennepin, Minnesota, USA
1 _UID 1C54E1B6FD109B429172EF65AA7AB47E9E59
1 FAMS @F11@
1 NOTE The 1900 census lists Mary as having a total of eight children.  As of 1900 when the census i
2 CONC s taken only seven are living.  In 1910 Mary is living with daughters Julia and Anna in Gran
2 CONC d Forks, Grand Forks, North Dakota.  In 1920 Mary is living with daughter Julia in Niagara, G
2 CONC rand Forks, North Dakota.  In 1930 Mary is living with daughter Mary and her husband Willia
2 CONC m Keary in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 29 Nov 2008
3 TIME 22:14:23
0 @I161@ INDI
1 NAME Julia E. /Brady/
2 SURN Brady
2 GIVN Julia E.
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE Sep 1875
2 PLAC Austin, Mower, Minnesota, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE AFT 1953
2 PLAC Seattle, King, Washington, USA
1 _UID 1DF2AA0133505E4388CB7499AFA145E4B7C1
1 FAMC @F11@
1 NOTE Visited the Terence Brady family in Lindsay, California about 1919.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 30 Sep 2007
3 TIME 16:20:32
0 @I162@ INDI
1 NAME Mary E. /Brady/
2 SURN Brady
2 GIVN Mary E.
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 25 Jul 1878
2 PLAC Austin, Mower, Minnesota, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 16 May 1965
2 PLAC San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
1 BURI
2 DATE 19 May 1965
2 PLAC Holy Cross Cemetery, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
1 _UID 21D1956A7A0C424489F1E71B3ED3F6F17129
1 FAMS @F123@
1 FAMC @F11@
1 NOTE KEARY--MAY 16, 1965, Mary Keary, loving mother of Katherine and John Keary.  A native of Bost
2 CONC on, Minnesota.
2 CONT Friends are invited to attend the funeral Wednesday, May 19, at 8:30 a.m. fromDUGGAN'S, 343
2 CONC 4 17th St. near Valencia, thence to Mission Dolores Basilica, where a Requiem Mass will be of
2 CONC fered at 9 a.m.  Interment, Holy Cross Cemetery.  Rosary.  Tuesday evening 8 p.m.  San Franci
2 CONC sco Examiner, Mon., May 17, 1967.  The same notice also ran on May 18, 1967 in the San Franci
2 CONC sco Examiner.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 7 Oct 2005
3 TIME 00:53:41
0 @I163@ INDI
1 NAME Rachel Catherine /Brady/
2 SURN Brady
2 GIVN Rachel Catherine
2 NICK Katie
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 18 Oct 1880
2 PLAC Austin, Mower, Minnesota, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE Sep 1971
2 PLAC Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
1 _UID F2AA371E0EBFC144BE4AA8E743F333AF72CC
1 FAMS @F30367@
1 FAMS @F30410@
1 FAMC @F11@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 28 Aug 2008
3 TIME 22:17:11
0 @I164@ INDI
1 NAME John William /Brady/
2 SURN Brady
2 GIVN John William
2 NICK Willie
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE Apr 1884
2 PLAC Austin, Mower, Minnesota, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE AFT 1900
1 _UID 9E272E8520F2EB48BC2419570A1088BA6951
1 FAMC @F11@
1 NOTE According to nephew William John Brady, John's middle name was William.  John was killed whe
2 CONC n a gun he was carrying dropped and shot him in the chest.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 28 Aug 2008
3 TIME 22:17:50
0 @I165@ INDI
1 NAME /Brady/
2 SURN Brady
1 SEX U
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1876/1877
2 PLAC Austin, Mower, Minnesota, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1880
1 _UID 2DCC5712949EED42908B3A03B567954814F1
1 FAMC @F11@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 29 Nov 2008
3 TIME 22:19:01
0 @I166@ INDI
1 NAME Anna T. /Brady/
2 SURN Brady
2 GIVN Anna T.
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE Jul 1890
2 PLAC , , Minnesota, USA
1 DEAT
2 PLAC Seattle, King, Washington, USA
1 _UID 91DB14680168414AA1AB7814B0071EFC85E3
1 FAMS @F30392@
1 FAMC @F11@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 8 Apr 2006
3 TIME 01:53:18
0 @I167@ INDI
1 NAME Bridget Estelle /Brady/
2 SURN Brady
2 GIVN Bridget Estelle
2 NICK Stella
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 Jan 1886
2 PLAC , , Minnesota, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 28 Feb 1978
2 PLAC Bloomfield, Greene, Indiana, USA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Scotland Cemetery, Scotland, Greene,Indiana,USA
1 _UID A06E4D04CB8565458F09BB2C8359A098EC5A
1 FAMS @F124@
1 FAMC @F11@
1 NOTE The information concerning John Brady's age in the 1920 census listed with her family is of
2 CONC f by five years.  She is listed as being 31 in 1920.  Stella married I. Nicholson 19 Decembe
2 CONC r 1911 in Minot,Ward, North Dakota.  Information obtained over phone from Ward county licenc
2 CONC e office.  On April 11, 1930 the family is living in Sherman Township, Johnson County, Arkans
2 CONC as.  The family owns its own farm which is valued at $1000.00.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 29 Nov 2008
3 TIME 22:03:41
0 @I168@ INDI
1 NAME Joseph Terence /Brady/
2 SURN Brady
2 GIVN Joseph Terence
2 NICK Joe
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 3 Nov 1882
2 PLAC Austin, Mower, Minnesota, USA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1 May 1969
2 PLAC Havre, Hill, Montana, USA
1 BURI
2 DATE 3 May 1969
2 PLAC Calvary Cemetery, Havre, Hill, Montana, USA
1 _UID 3507E643049909449ACC1986D522D5DFFF10
1 FAMS @F20695@
1 FAMC @F11@
1 NOTE The June 8 1895 Minnesota census has Joseph still living at home.  By the 1900 census josep
2 CONC h has left home.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Mr and Mrs. Joe Brady were Cottonwood callers Friday evening.  Havre Daily News Promoter, Ma
2 CONC y 12, 1925.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Havre callers Saturday from south Cottonwood vicinity were Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Wilkins, and fa
2 CONC mily, Mrs. Fred Horton, Joe Brady, M.E. Larson.  Alfred Sather, Ernie McDonald and William Jo
2 CONC hnson.  Those from the Cottonwood vicinity were Mr. and Mrs. John Keller, Herbert Warp, Pau
2 CONC l Jacoby.  Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Malsam and family, Miss Caroline Keller and Violet Alford.  H
2 CONC avre Daily News Promoter, May 17, 1925.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Among the ones that were in Havre on business Saturday from Cottonwood were:  Mr. and Mrs. W
2 CONC . D. Springer, A. A. Johnson, Chas. Vaughn, Alva Allen.  George Hogue, Mr. and Mrs. Ole Melan
2 CONC d and children, Mr. and Mrs. Seb. Malsam, M. E. Larson, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Allen and Josep
2 CONC h Brady.  Havre Daily News Promoter, July 4, 1925.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Mr. and Mrs. Joe Brady and family and some neighbors motored out to the mountains last Sunda
2 CONC y to spend the day and fish.  Havre Daily News Promoter, July 24, 1925.
2 CONT 
2 CONT NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
2 CONT Department of the Interior
2 CONT U.S. Land Office at Havre, Montana, Sept. 17, 1925
2 CONT Notice is hereby given that Robert J. Donnelly, of Havre, Montana, who on Oct. 25, 1920 mad
2 CONC e Homestead Entry G. F. 059828.  Havre, No. 045292 for South-half (S1/2) Section 30, Townshi
2 CONC p 34 North, Range 14 East, Montana Meridian, has filed notice of Intention to make final Thre
2 CONC e Year Proof, to establish claim to the land above described before M. C. MacKenzie, Clerk o
2 CONC f the District Court at Havre, Montana on the 7th day of Nov., 1925, by tow of the followin
2 CONC g witnesses:
2 CONT Gustav Krienke, of Havre, Montana
2 CONT Werner Mangnell of Havre, Montana.
2 CONT Joseph T. Brady, of Havre Montana
2 CONT William M. Colton, of Havre, Montana.
2 CONT                          W. E. Bennett, 
2 CONT                                   Register.
2 CONT Havre Daily News Promoter, Seeptember 30, October 1,4,6,7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 1925
2 CONC .
2 CONT 
2 CONT Joe Brady was a caller in Cottonwood  last Monday.  Havre Daily News Promoter, October 11, 19
2 CONC 26.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Fred Hyderdahl and Joe Brady were business callers in Cottonwood Monday evening.  Havre Dail
2 CONC y News Promoter, October 25, 1925. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Among those in Havre from Cottonwood Saturday on business were Mr. and Mrs. Robert Thompson
2 CONC , Mr. and Mrs. Emil Draeger and son, Mrs. Emil Gerky, Mrs. Donaldson and son, Arthur Johnson
2 CONC , Paul Jacoby, Ruth Peterson.  Bill Keller, J. C. Dunnington, John Keller, Mrs. Henry Verploe
2 CONC gen, Fred Heyerdahl.  Joe Brady  Herbet Warp, James Alford, Violet and Hazel Alford.  John Ve
2 CONC rploegen.  Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Springer, Martha Staples, Claude Springer, Tony Malsam  Alice B
2 CONC renden.  B. Velk,   A A Brenden. Hath Garding, Carl Smith, and Chas. Vaughn.  Havre Daily New
2 CONC s Promoter, December 1, 1925.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Joe Brady has purchased a new Ford this winter.  Havre Daily News Promoter, January 20, 1926.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Joe Brady and Fred Heyderdahl were callers at Cottonwood Friday for their mail.  Havre Dail
2 CONC y News Promoter, January 26, 1926.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Those in Havre on business from Cottonwood Monday were Mr. and Mrs. James Alford and daughter
2 CONC , Violet, Herbert Warp, Ben Agle, Lum Parsons, Joe Brady and Anton Umhoefer.  Havre Daily New
2 CONC s Promoter, February 3, 1926.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Joe Brady was a Cottonwood caller Saturday.  Havre Daily News Promoter, February 9, 1926.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Those numbered in Havre from Cottonwood Saturday were Mr. and Mrs. John Keller, Art Johnson
2 CONC , Ruth Peterson, Emil and Ethel McDonald, Paul Jacoby ( Mrs. Joe Brady, Herbert Warp, Mr. an
2 CONC d Mrs. Amund ) Brendea and Violet Alford.  Havre Daily News Promoter, March 10, 1926.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Cottonwood News
2 CONT ...Joe Brady was a caller at Ole Metlands' last Saturday...Mr. and Mrs. Joe Brady were in Hav
2 CONC re on business last Saturday.  Havre Daily News Promoter, April 25, 1926.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Joe Brady was in Havre on business one day last week.  Havre Daily News Promoter, May 16, 192
2 CONC 6.
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2 CONT Mr. and Mrs. Joe Brady were callers Wednesday.  Havre Daily News Promoter, May 30, 1926.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Mr. and Mrs. Claude Springer and family visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Brady, Sunday
2 CONC .  Havre Daily News Promoter, July 18, 1926.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Joe Brady spent Saturday in Havre from his ranch in Cottonwood.  Havre Daily News Promoter, M
2 CONC arch 14, 1927.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Joe Brady was a business caller at Heber Warp's Tuesday evening and called at Herman Pruy's o
2 CONC n his return home.  Havre Daily News Promoter, April 18, 1927.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Joe Brady and M Getsenberger were caller at James Alford's home last Wednesday evening on bus
2 CONC iness.  Havre Daily News Promoter, April 27, 1927.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Robert Thompson and Joe Brady of Cottonwood were in Havre Wednesday.  Havre Daily News Promot
2 CONC er, June 2, 1927.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Robert Thompson, Joe Brady, Henry Horton and Oscar Sedhal all of Cottonwood spent Tuesday i
2 CONC n Havre on business.  Havre Daily News Promoter, June 8, 1927.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Joe Brady was in Havre Saturday from Cottonwood.  Havre Daily News Promoter, June 26, 1927.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Joe Brady and son were Cottonwood business callers one evenin last week.  Havre Daily News Pr
2 CONC omoter, June 27, 1927.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Joe Brady spent Friday in Havre from Cottonwood.  Havre Daily News Promoter, July 24, 1927.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Conditional Sales Contract
2 CONT Joe Brady to Havre Comm. Co. Overland touring.  Havre Daily News Promoter, October 24, 1927.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Herman Price, Dewey Johnson, John Keller, Joe Brady and E. C. Draeger all of Cottonwood wer
2 CONC e in Havre Saturday.  Havre Daily News Promoter, November 27, 1927.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Oscar Seedahl and Joe Brady from north of Havre were in the city this forenoon and last night
2 CONC .  Havre Daily News Promoter, December 6, 1927.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Charles Wilkins, Wesley Buck and Joe Brady of Cottonwood were in Havre Saturday.  Havre Dail
2 CONC y News Promoter, December 11, 1927.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Joe Brady and Robert Thompson were in Havre from Cottonwood Saturday.  Havre Daily News Promo
2 CONC ter, December 25, 1927.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Roy Horton and Joe Brady of Cottonwood were in the city Saturday.  Havre Daily News Promoter
2 CONC , January 22, 1928.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Mr and Mrs. Joe Brady of Cottonwood spent Saturday in Havre.  Havre Daily News Promoter, Janu
2 CONC ary 29, 1928.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Joe Brady and Fred Horton of Cottonwood were in the city Sunday on business.  Havre Daily New
2 CONC s Promoter, February 27, 1928.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Joe Brady and Fered Horton spent Sunday in Havre from Cottonwood.  Havre Daily News Promoter
2 CONC , February 28, 1928.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Claude Springer, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Brady and Mrs. John Staples all of Cottonwood were in Havr
2 CONC e on Saturday.  Havre Daily News Promoter, March 11, 1928.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Cottonwood Ladies Meet This Afternoon
2 CONT The Cottonwood Ladies Aid society meets this afternoon at the home of Mrs. J. Brady five mile
2 CONC s south of Cottonwood. General business of the will be discussed.  Havre Daily News Promoter
2 CONC , December 6, 1928.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Joe Brady of Cottonwood was a Havre caller here Saturday.  Havre Daily News Promoter, Januar
2 CONC y 15, 1929.
2 CONT 
2 CONT For Sale--1 good Hereford bull five years old.  Five miles south of Cottonwood, Joe Brady.
2 CONT 14-5tp   Havre Daily News Promoter, February 14, 1929.
2 CONT 
2 CONT For Sale--1 good Hereford bull five years old.  Five miles south of Cottonwood, Joe Brady.
2 CONT 14-5tp   Havre Daily News Promoter, February 15, 1929.
2 CONT 
2 CONT For Sale--1 good Hereford bull five years old.  Five miles south of Cottonwood, Joe Brady.
2 CONT 14-5tp   Havre Daily News Promoter, February 16, 1929.
2 CONT 
2 CONT For Sale--1 good Hereford bull five years old.  Five miles south of Cottonwood, Joe Brady.
2 CONT 14-5tp   Havre Daily News Promoter, February 18, 1929.
2 CONT 
2 CONT For Sale--1 good Hereford bull five years old.  Five miles south of Cottonwood, Joe Brady.
2 CONT 14-5tp   Havre Daily News Promoter, February 19, 1929.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Joe Brady of Cottonwood was a caller in the city yesterday.  Havre Daily News Promoter, Marc
2 CONC h 7, 1929.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Joe Brady was a Havre caller one day last week.  Havre Daily News Promoter, March 9, 1929.
2 CONT 
2 CONT H. J. Brady of Cottonwood was a business caller in the city on Thursday.  Havre Daily News Pr
2 CONC omoter, March 29, 1929.
2 CONT 
2 CONT oJe Brady and Fred Horton were business caller in Havre last Thursday.  Havre Daily News Prom
2 CONC oter, April 4, 1929.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Mrs. Joe Brady and Miss Anna Shockermeyer entertained at the home of Mrs. Brady Saturday even
2 CONC ing.  Visiting, dancing and cards were the main features of the evening.  A delicous lunch wa
2 CONC s served at midnight.  Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Ernie McDonald, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Tho
2 CONC mpson, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Gettinberg and family, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Wilkins and Family. Mr
2 CONC . and Mrs. Dewey Johnson and family, Mrs. Henry Johnson and family, Mr. and Mrs. Merkline an
2 CONC d daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Jay Buzzell and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. John Staples and family, Mr
2 CONC . and Mrs. Robert Thompson, Miss Eleanor and Elizabeth Brubaker, Dorothy Johnson, Martin Stap
2 CONC les.  Oscar Sendahl, Martin Larsen, Curtis Buzzell, James Brubaker, Melvin Thompson, Mr. an
2 CONC d Mrs. Joe Brady and family, and Miss Anna Shockermeyer.  Havre Daily News Promoter, April 9
2 CONC , 1929.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Little Iris Brady of Havre, who is a patient at Sacred Heart hospital with pneumonia is repor
2 CONC ted better today.  Havre Daily News Promoter, April 16, 1929.
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2 CO