I love autumn. I love the cooler days, and for a while it seemed those days would never get here. Those 90+ degree days we had through the spring and summer seem determined to linger into fall. At long last, however, we've had a bit of a cool-down and it is much appreciated. There is a ton of stuff to do around here, cut back the dead stuff, mulch the flower beds and figure out how many more bags of mulch we need out front. Nothing compared to the harvesting our farmer ancestors had to do.
Did you ever think what it was like for the women left behind during the Civil War, to have to continue to run the farms? They had to continue to try to grow crops just to be able to eat. My own great-great grandmother, Susan (Davidson) Percival ended up leaving Missouri and living in Kentucky after 1862. She had one small child at the beginning of the war and another one by the end of February 1862. I'm thinking she and husband John Stearns Percival had one heck of a farewell! Out of curiosity, I had my RootsMagic genealogy program show me all the people born in 1862. I quit looking in the "Bs" because there were way too many. I see a future project down the line to see if I can find civil war records for them.
While I contemplate my fall "projects" inside and out, I can't help feel grateful for the abundance I have been granted. While I am not harvesting crops, I certainly can appreciate what my ancestors worked and fought so hard for.
Copyright 2010, ACK for Gene Notes
Monday, October 4, 2010
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Sympathy Saturday - Alexander Maitland
My great-great grandfather, born in Toronto, died in Missouri. Someone in the family collected all these bits and pieces of obituaries and then didn't attribute them. Fortunately, I've been able to source some of them.
Kansas City (Missouri) Star, Wednesday, April 23, 1924.
Alexander Maitland, Sr.,Dies.
Death of Missouri Pioneer, 84, Caused by Heart Disease.
Alexander Maitland, Sr., 84 years old, a retired farmer and pioneer of Missouri, died last night at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J. H. Percival, 704 East Forty-first street.
Mr. Maitland was the father of Alexander Maitland, 3801 Tracy avenue, chairman of the former bipartisan water commission and member of the firm of Fuller & Maitland, engineers.
Mr. Maitland died from heart disease at 9:45 o'clock following an illness of several days. Mr. Maitland was born in Toronto Canada, April 13, 1839. He came to Missouri with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Maitland when he was 13 years old. The family settled near Lexington, where the elder Maitland engaged in the milling business.
Under the administration of Governor David R. Francis, Mr. Maitland was appointed a member of the state board of agriculture. He served sixteen years in this position and became widely known in the state.
Mr. Maitland's wife, Mrs. Mary Oliphant Maitland, whom he married March 4, 1865, died on the Maitland farm near Richmond in May, 1922. After her death, Mr. Maitland came to Kansas City.
Besides Mrs. Percival and Alexander Maitland, Jr., Mr. Maitland is survived by a sister, Mrs. W. J. McDonald, Fowler, Col., another son, George F. Maitland, 1735 Houston avenue, and five other daughters, Mrs. M. M. Watkins, Caldwell, Tex.; Mrs. H. A. Booth, Pacific, Mo.; Mrs. D. B. McCammon, Dallas, Tex.; Mrs. J. W. Shackelford, 820 East Forty-first street, and Mrs. W. R. Ballinger, 2928 Forest Avenue. He also leaves twenty-two grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
Funeral services and burial will be held tomorrow at Richmond.
Copyright 2010, ACK for Gene Notes
Alexander Maitland, Sr.,Dies.
Death of Missouri Pioneer, 84, Caused by Heart Disease.
Alexander Maitland, Sr., 84 years old, a retired farmer and pioneer of Missouri, died last night at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J. H. Percival, 704 East Forty-first street.
Mr. Maitland was the father of Alexander Maitland, 3801 Tracy avenue, chairman of the former bipartisan water commission and member of the firm of Fuller & Maitland, engineers.
Mr. Maitland died from heart disease at 9:45 o'clock following an illness of several days. Mr. Maitland was born in Toronto Canada, April 13, 1839. He came to Missouri with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Maitland when he was 13 years old. The family settled near Lexington, where the elder Maitland engaged in the milling business.
Under the administration of Governor David R. Francis, Mr. Maitland was appointed a member of the state board of agriculture. He served sixteen years in this position and became widely known in the state.
Mr. Maitland's wife, Mrs. Mary Oliphant Maitland, whom he married March 4, 1865, died on the Maitland farm near Richmond in May, 1922. After her death, Mr. Maitland came to Kansas City.
Besides Mrs. Percival and Alexander Maitland, Jr., Mr. Maitland is survived by a sister, Mrs. W. J. McDonald, Fowler, Col., another son, George F. Maitland, 1735 Houston avenue, and five other daughters, Mrs. M. M. Watkins, Caldwell, Tex.; Mrs. H. A. Booth, Pacific, Mo.; Mrs. D. B. McCammon, Dallas, Tex.; Mrs. J. W. Shackelford, 820 East Forty-first street, and Mrs. W. R. Ballinger, 2928 Forest Avenue. He also leaves twenty-two grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
Funeral services and burial will be held tomorrow at Richmond.
Copyright 2010, ACK for Gene Notes
Friday, October 1, 2010
Much Confusion Here
I wasted spent a good hour looking for Dudley Bowman Moore on the 1900-1920 censuses the other day. I looked for Dudley Moore, D. B. Moore, Moore born in Kentucky circa 1874, etc. I finally found him by searching for one of his children. Even that didn't gel right away, but the wheels in my head finally turned around the thought that Bowman was indeed Dudley BOWMAN Moore. In 1900, as far as I can tell, he was the only Dudley Bowman Moore in Kentucky. So why use Bowman? Not only that, but while Ancestry had him indexed as Boman Moore in 1910, they didn't actually have him linked to the correct page. Paging backward and forward did not find the correct page - it was missing. Fortunately, our library here in Tennessee subscribes to Heritage Quest and I was able to find the missing page on their site. Aren't there enough obstacles when researching that we don't really need to any more?
Copyright 2010, ACK for Gene Notes
Copyright 2010, ACK for Gene Notes
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