Saturday, August 25, 2018
Sunday, August 19, 2018
Woodruffs
Daughter of Jonathan and Sarah Vaughn Richmond.
The following article appeared in the Wessington, Beadle County, SD Times Enterprise Saturday July 13, 1907:
"The W. H. Woodruff family received the sad intelligence Saturday of the death of Mrs. Norman Woodruff who passed away to her home above, June 29, in Roberts, Illinois. Many in Rose Hill (especially the pioneers of this county) will remember Mrs. Norman Woodruff. Her kindly deeds in time of sickness and trouble among her neighbors, and her christian charity to all, won for her many friends. The friends in Rose Hill extend their sincere sympathy to the bereaved family."
The following is from the Roberts, IL "Herald" issue of Wednesday May 5, 1920, page 1:
"Norman Harvey Woodruff was born near Ithica, New York, November 15, 1833 and died at his home in Melvin April 25, 1920, aged 86 years, 5 months and 10 days.
He was united in marriage to Alice R. Richmond June 2, 1861. The wife died June 29, 1907. Nine children were born to this union all of whom are living except George L., who died September 13, 1894. The living children are: Allie Wagner, Citrus Center, Fla.; Clayton Woodruff, Wessington, S.D.; Harvey O. Woodruff, Clarkston, Washington; Harry Woodruff, Alaska; Sadie Bear, Watseka; Nina Revell, La Hogue; Roy and Fred Woodruff of Roberts. There are 17 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren.
Mr. Woodruff was married to Lucy P. Erwin at Paxton, May 21, 1916. He leaves besides his wife and children, two sisters and two brothers. The brothers names are Charles Woodruff, San Francisco, Cal.; and Hugh Woodruff, St. Lawrence, SD.
Mr. Woodruff has been ill about a year and was ministered to tenderly by loving hands. He died very suddenly last Sabbath evening - such was his desire. He had eaten a hearty supper and was engaged in pleasant conversation with the family when the summons came. His loved ones say that there was a laugh on his face when the spirit took its flight.
Mr. Woodruff was an Easterner and settled first in Henry County, Illinois. Some fifty-five years ago he came to Roberts - Melvin community, where by honest endeavor fair treatment of his fellows he won a host of friends. He enjoyed telling of the struggles and hardships incident to the settlement of this counry. We who live today are the inheritors of the prayers, tears, struggles and privations of the early pioneers. May their mantle fall upon our shoulders.
The funeral service was held from the M. E. Church in Roberts, Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock, Rev. W. L. Barnes of Melvin preached the sermon. Rev. D. G. Du Bois of the M. E. church in Roberts assisted. Interment at Lyman cemetery"
The following is from the Wessington, SD "Times Enterprise" issue of Friday May 21, 1920:
"We have just learned of the death of Norman Woodruff, one of the early pioneer residents of Rose Hill township. His son C. N. Woodruff, received the news of his death about three weeks ago. He died on April 25th having reached the age of 87 years. Mr. Woodruff came to this point in the early spring of 1882, filing a homestead and preemption on the South half of Section 11 in Rose Hill, the farm now owned by W. H. Bagley. The family left here in the early nineties, going from here to Missouri, and later back to their old home in Illinois, in Ford County. Since then Mr. Woodruff has lived in several states, but at the time of his death he was back at the old home."
"Norman Harvey Woodruff was born near Ithica, New York, November 15, 1833 and died at his home in Melvin April 25, 1920, aged 86 years, 5 months and 10 days.
He was united in marriage to Alice R. Richmond June 2, 1861. The wife died June 29, 1907. Nine children were born to this union all of whom are living except George L., who died September 13, 1894. The living children are: Allie Wagner, Citrus Center, Fla.; Clayton Woodruff, Wessington, S.D.; Harvey O. Woodruff, Clarkston, Washington; Harry Woodruff, Alaska; Sadie Bear, Watseka; Nina Revell, La Hogue; Roy and Fred Woodruff of Roberts. There are 17 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren.
Mr. Woodruff was married to Lucy P. Erwin at Paxton, May 21, 1916. He leaves besides his wife and children, two sisters and two brothers. The brothers names are Charles Woodruff, San Francisco, Cal.; and Hugh Woodruff, St. Lawrence, SD.
Mr. Woodruff has been ill about a year and was ministered to tenderly by loving hands. He died very suddenly last Sabbath evening - such was his desire. He had eaten a hearty supper and was engaged in pleasant conversation with the family when the summons came. His loved ones say that there was a laugh on his face when the spirit took its flight.
Mr. Woodruff was an Easterner and settled first in Henry County, Illinois. Some fifty-five years ago he came to Roberts - Melvin community, where by honest endeavor fair treatment of his fellows he won a host of friends. He enjoyed telling of the struggles and hardships incident to the settlement of this counry. We who live today are the inheritors of the prayers, tears, struggles and privations of the early pioneers. May their mantle fall upon our shoulders.
The funeral service was held from the M. E. Church in Roberts, Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock, Rev. W. L. Barnes of Melvin preached the sermon. Rev. D. G. Du Bois of the M. E. church in Roberts assisted. Interment at Lyman cemetery"
The following is from the Wessington, SD "Times Enterprise" issue of Friday May 21, 1920:
"We have just learned of the death of Norman Woodruff, one of the early pioneer residents of Rose Hill township. His son C. N. Woodruff, received the news of his death about three weeks ago. He died on April 25th having reached the age of 87 years. Mr. Woodruff came to this point in the early spring of 1882, filing a homestead and preemption on the South half of Section 11 in Rose Hill, the farm now owned by W. H. Bagley. The family left here in the early nineties, going from here to Missouri, and later back to their old home in Illinois, in Ford County. Since then Mr. Woodruff has lived in several states, but at the time of his death he was back at the old home."
Lyman Township Cemetery, Roberts, Ford County, Illinois.
--Photos and history from: "Pat from Sacramento" on FAG. 2018.
Friday, August 17, 2018
Sunday, August 12, 2018
Roberts & Whorrall
--Photo from James Lossing. FAG. August 2018.
Obit for Oscar James Roberts at:
http://lymantownshipcemetery.blogspot.com/2018/08/oscar-james-roberts.html
Wakelins
Married in Livingston County, Illinois. August 10, 1871.
William H. Wakelin
Emma H. (Mahannah) Wakelin
--Photos and history provided by James Lossing. FAG. August 2018.
Arthur James
Arthur James was the son of Alfred James and Emma Jane (Jones)and the husband of Melissa Inez "Nina" (Woodruff.)
Alfred and Nina Woodruff were married December 25, 1900.
The following is from the Paxton IL "Record" issue of July 25, 1901, Page 4, Col. 1:
"Arthur James was buried on Wednesday last from the home of Norman Woodruff. He leaves a young wife who is almost heartbroken."
In 1906 she married Charles W. Revell.
--Photos and history provided by "Pat from Sacramento" on FAG. August 2018.
Thursday, August 09, 2018
Adelaide Wakelin
--Photo from James Lossing. FAG. July 2018.
Roberts -Talbot Wedding
Flossie Roberts Weds Walter Talbot
Submitted by James O. Talbot.
Married: At the home of the bride’s parents on North Main Street in Roberts, yesterday, November 26, 1913, Miss Flossie Elizabeth Roberts to Mr. Walter J. Talbot of Roberts. The ceremony was performed in the presence of an assemblage of invited guests
which consisted of near relatives and the members of the “Friday Night Club”. At exactly three o’clock, the guests were assembled in the parlors which were handsomely decorated with bouquets and flowers, the ceremony was begun by an instrumental solo by Miss
Cesta Kennedy and two vocal duets by Misses Blanche and Oma Foster, cousins of the bride, after which the bride, handsomely attired in net over cream Mrssaline, and the groom in the conventional black, took the solemn vow that joins them to pass along life’s highway hence forth as husband and wife. Rev. R.W. Ames, pastor of the ME Church of Roberts officiated using the approved ceremony of the church. After the ceremony an elegant three course luncheon was served. The guests enjoyed a social hour, viewed the handsome display of wedding gifts, and departing wished the happy couple many years of happy and useful lives.
Both bride and groom have always been residents of Lyman Township. The bride is the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Roberts, and is one of the most prominent and highly respected young ladies of our community. She was educated in the Roberts school after which she took course in the Illinois Women’s College. The groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Talbot also of Roberts. He also was educated in the Roberts school and in Grand Prairie Seminary of Onarga and at Sycamore, Illinois.
Mr. and Mrs. Talbot left on the 6:35 train last evening for Chicago to begin a wedding tour in which they will visit several places of interest. They will be at home to their many Roberts friends after January first.
--Provided by Patricia (Whorrall) Ellis by Email. August 2018.
Submitted by James O. Talbot.
Married: At the home of the bride’s parents on North Main Street in Roberts, yesterday, November 26, 1913, Miss Flossie Elizabeth Roberts to Mr. Walter J. Talbot of Roberts. The ceremony was performed in the presence of an assemblage of invited guests
which consisted of near relatives and the members of the “Friday Night Club”. At exactly three o’clock, the guests were assembled in the parlors which were handsomely decorated with bouquets and flowers, the ceremony was begun by an instrumental solo by Miss
Cesta Kennedy and two vocal duets by Misses Blanche and Oma Foster, cousins of the bride, after which the bride, handsomely attired in net over cream Mrssaline, and the groom in the conventional black, took the solemn vow that joins them to pass along life’s highway hence forth as husband and wife. Rev. R.W. Ames, pastor of the ME Church of Roberts officiated using the approved ceremony of the church. After the ceremony an elegant three course luncheon was served. The guests enjoyed a social hour, viewed the handsome display of wedding gifts, and departing wished the happy couple many years of happy and useful lives.
Both bride and groom have always been residents of Lyman Township. The bride is the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Roberts, and is one of the most prominent and highly respected young ladies of our community. She was educated in the Roberts school after which she took course in the Illinois Women’s College. The groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Talbot also of Roberts. He also was educated in the Roberts school and in Grand Prairie Seminary of Onarga and at Sycamore, Illinois.
Mr. and Mrs. Talbot left on the 6:35 train last evening for Chicago to begin a wedding tour in which they will visit several places of interest. They will be at home to their many Roberts friends after January first.
--Provided by Patricia (Whorrall) Ellis by Email. August 2018.
The Life and Times of Flossie
This information was taken from "The Life and Times of Flossie" (last names were Roberts, Talbot, Anderson). The information was submitted by James O. Talbot.
After marriage, the Talbots started farming on land owned by his father, three miles north of Roberts, Section 4, Lyman Township. In 1921 the moved to the farm where John was born, Section 29, three miles southwest of Roberts Lyman Township.On May 15, 1915 a wind storm went through the area. All the buildings were destroyed except the house which was badly damaged. Machine shed, barn, milk house and the windmill all were blown down or away. The chimney blown off the house, most all the windows broken and flying boards driven through the side of the house.
Walter J. Talbot was listed in the Prairie Farmer Director of Farmers and Breeders Book of Ford County in the 1917 Edition as having Shropshire Sheep, Percheron Horses, Chester White Hogs, and Shorthorn Cattle. Walter owned a Rumeley Threshing Machine his brother Joseph owned the tractor and together did threshing in the area.
The first test of Flossie’s courage came with the death of their son, Walter John Jr. who died August 13, 1918 of infantile paralysis. His sister Florence was suffering from the same malady at the time but recovered. Another son, Elmer Ralph, died March 14, 1924 from pneumonia. And after fourteen years of marriage Flossie lost her husband in a threshing machine accident August 3, 1927. Walter John Talbot died the next day. Years later in 1969, Flossie suffered the loss of another son Chalmer.
The accident that took the life of John resulted in Flossie to do what she years later told Florence was the hardest thing she ever did in her life, move with her five children, ages five months, to eleven years, in with her parents, O. J and Mary Roberts. Her parents were in their sixties, and in the process of losing everything they owned due to business failures and later the depression of the 1930’s.
The Roberts house was large and with a barn for milk cows and chicken house they were able to sell milk, eggs and butter. Bread was also baked for sale. When the hard road was built in the early 1930’s the upstairs bedrooms in the front part of the house were rented to construction workers.
O.J. Roberts died in 1934.
Walter J. Talbot was listed in the Prairie Farmer Director of Farmers and Breeders Book of Ford County in the 1917 Edition as having Shropshire Sheep, Percheron Horses, Chester White Hogs, and Shorthorn Cattle. Walter owned a Rumeley Threshing Machine his brother Joseph owned the tractor and together did threshing in the area.
The first test of Flossie’s courage came with the death of their son, Walter John Jr. who died August 13, 1918 of infantile paralysis. His sister Florence was suffering from the same malady at the time but recovered. Another son, Elmer Ralph, died March 14, 1924 from pneumonia. And after fourteen years of marriage Flossie lost her husband in a threshing machine accident August 3, 1927. Walter John Talbot died the next day. Years later in 1969, Flossie suffered the loss of another son Chalmer.
The accident that took the life of John resulted in Flossie to do what she years later told Florence was the hardest thing she ever did in her life, move with her five children, ages five months, to eleven years, in with her parents, O. J and Mary Roberts. Her parents were in their sixties, and in the process of losing everything they owned due to business failures and later the depression of the 1930’s.
The Roberts house was large and with a barn for milk cows and chicken house they were able to sell milk, eggs and butter. Bread was also baked for sale. When the hard road was built in the early 1930’s the upstairs bedrooms in the front part of the house were rented to construction workers.
O.J. Roberts died in 1934.
In 1935, because of her lifelong association with the Democratic Party, Flossie was appointed Asss’t Postmaster. On August 25, 1937 Flossie married Adam H. Anderson, a farmer. Adam and Flossie had attended school at the same time in Roberts. Adam was a progressive farmer. He farmed his mother’s 320 acres three miles east of Roberts. Adam became president of the Ford County Farm Bureau and was on of the founders of the Farm Bureau Seed Company in Piper City.
Adam and Flossie left the farm in 1942 and traveled for about a year. Adam had planned to settle in Grants Pass Oregon. They visited me at Washington State College, Pullman, Washington where I was in the Air Force Flight Training program, May 1943.
They returned to Illinois and bought a house with twenty acres just south of Paxton. Adam’s mother and sisters lived in Paxton. Later they moved to a house on the south side of the golf course and Adam started to work full time as a carpenter. Then another extended travel trip and return to Paxton to a house on the north side of the old golf course now a school yard at 611 East Franklin Street. Adam went back to carpenter work. It was their last move.
Flossie was always ready to listen. She never talked about the past or herself. In spite of her many sorrows, she was never bitter or complained, or gave the impression life was unfair.
Submitted by James O. Talbot.
Adam and Flossie left the farm in 1942 and traveled for about a year. Adam had planned to settle in Grants Pass Oregon. They visited me at Washington State College, Pullman, Washington where I was in the Air Force Flight Training program, May 1943.
They returned to Illinois and bought a house with twenty acres just south of Paxton. Adam’s mother and sisters lived in Paxton. Later they moved to a house on the south side of the golf course and Adam started to work full time as a carpenter. Then another extended travel trip and return to Paxton to a house on the north side of the old golf course now a school yard at 611 East Franklin Street. Adam went back to carpenter work. It was their last move.
Flossie was always ready to listen. She never talked about the past or herself. In spite of her many sorrows, she was never bitter or complained, or gave the impression life was unfair.
Submitted by James O. Talbot.
--Story and Photo Provided by Patricia (Whorrall) Ellis by Email. August 2018.
Sunday, August 05, 2018
Helen Hurst
Helen Hurst, daughter of Joseph and Harriet Hurst, was born August 29, 1876, on a farm two miles west of Roberts, Ill., and departed this life Feb. 9, 1908, at the home of John Talbot aged 31 years, 5 months and 10 days.
About 10 years ago she was converted at special services being held in Harvey, Ill. and united with the M. E. Church of that place, remaining a faithful and consistent member of the same until the time of her death. About two years ago she went to California and while performing the services of a nurse on Catalina Island she suffered an attack of Typhoid in a mild form. Recovering somewhat she returned to Los Angeles and while there suffered a relapse, the disease finally assuming the form of Tuberculosis from which she could get no relief; and though, much of the time she was suffering intensely no murmuring of discontent escaped her. Nothing but Christ-like patience, and perfect resignation to the will of the Father marked the days and months of suffering.
She was the youngest of a family of ten children and excepting the mother who died more than 28 years ago, she was the first to cross the bar. Besides the father and stepmother she leaves to mourn her loss five brothers, four sisters, and one half-sister—Frank of Tingley, Iowa, Joseph of Bessemer, Alabama, Warren and George of Miller, South Dakota, Harvey of Ogle, New Mexico, and Mary Talbot and Adelaide Wakelin of Roberts, Isabelle Healer of Kansas City, Mo., Harriet Dillon of Estherville, Iowa, Florence Hurst of Harvey, Ill., together with a number of other relatives and a large circle of friends which her kind and gentle spirit had won for her. Among these special mention may be made of her aunt, Mrs. Hannah Hurst Talbot (with whom the deceased made her home for about a year after her mother’s death and to whom deceased was a special favorite)
The funeral services were held at the M. E. Church, Roberts, Ill., Tuesday at 2 o’clock. Interment in Roberts Cemetery.
Those who attended the funeral from a distance were Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hurst and Mrs. Tom Talbot of Harvey, Ill, and Warren Hurst of Miller, South Dakota.
--Photo and Obituary provided by James Lossing. FAG Friend. August 2018.
More burials in Lyman
--The above note was at the top of some typed pages of Roberts history I was given.
I think there is another cemetery due to this note, to the location of the first settlers in Lyman Township, and a previous article, published in 1922, that talks about a cemetery near the "Forbes" farm. (Or at least a burial location on the Forbes farm used for their family and neighbors.)
Monday, July 30, 2018
Mary (Hurst) Talbot
Obit and headstone at Lyman Township Cemetery Blog:
https://lymantownshipcemetery.blogspot.com/search/label/Talbot%20Mary%20%28Hurst%29
Harriet (Hurst) Dillon
She married Harvey G. Dillon on Dec. 28, 1897, in Ford Co., Illinois.
They had two children: Oliver Harvey Dillon and Genevieve Dillon.
Buried: Lyman Township Cemetery. (There is not stone for this burial.)
--Photo from James Lossing on FAG. Info also from FAG.
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Sunday, July 29, 2018
Adelaide Wakelin
Wakelins
--Photo from James Lossing. FAG Friend. July 2018.
Another H. A Whorrall photograph. Roberts, Illinois.
Wakelin Home????
--Photo from James Lossing. FAG Friend. July 2018.
Research.
Green Street Looking West
--Photo from James Lossing. FAG Friend. July 2018.
Thomas and Sarah Wakelin.
He and his family came to El Paso, Illinois in 1860. They started from England and encountered such a severe storm that the ship was damaged and they had to put into Cork Ireland, and wait for another ship. It was six weeks from the time they left England until they reached El Paso.
Uncle Joseph Whorrall lived there with his wife Debbie and family in a log cabin, and that was where they stopped. Debbie had a big family and was not a very tidy housekeeper. William was 14 and Thomas was 7 years old when they arrived there in El Paso. William remembered about their drying corn on the roof for winter and even had some tobacco drying.
Grandma had brought sponge cake and crackers from England and of course tea and tea pot. Aunt Debbie said after Sally got there she make a pot of that English tea and served the dry sponge cake and crackers which Sally called biscuit. Aunt Debbie said, "Grace, that was the best food I ever tasted." Papa said there was lots of wild game and Grandma nearly had a fit because Aunt Debbie let the children throw meat bones to the dogs and they ate them on the hearth- which drew flies since the window had no screens.
The first work dad (William) did was to help get in a load of hay. They put him on the wagon, but he didn't know how to spread it. Dad and the hay slipped off and they surely scolded him, then showed him how to spread it. The hay was wild slough hay. They also were drying wild plums for winter, had mosquito bar over them, and flies so thick. They dried berries too.
Thomas and Sarah settled on a farm near the present location of Roberts, Illinois, but that was several years before the coming of the railway and therefore before Roberts had been brought into existence. It was such a change from life in England. Grandma Wakelin brought copper kettles and dishes and silver from England. The copper kettles had to be scoured, and as soon as the food was cooked in them the food had to be poured out. Grandpa had brought a lot of goods, coats, etc., from England which he sold at a profit.
Sarah was taller and real slender. Thomas was short and stout and he always wore a plug hat and carried a walking stick. One morning he got up early and went down town. The banker, Mr. Anderson, asked him, "Thomas, what have you got on your neck?" He said a handkerchief. It was dark, in the room and he had picked up Sarah's white cotton stocking-and did they joke him. Sarah got up and hunted everywhere for the other stocking. She could not understand what had happened to it. Sarah wore a bonnet with the strings tied in a bow. She didn't wear glasses but used a reading glass. She would carry her Bible to church and follow when the minister read the lesson, also the songs.
[Also contributed by J Lossing] Thomas WAKELIN was born January 1, 1816, when the bells were ringing the old year out and the new year in.
--Photo and story from James Lossing. Find A Grave.
Thomas and Sarah (Whorrall) Wakelin buried: Lyman Township Cemetery. Roberts, Illinois.
Wakelin
Wakelin Homes.
First picture Mae, Sadie, Harvey, Adelaide, Della on rail, Genevieve and Walter.
Second picture Walter, Sadie, Mae, Della, Harvey, and Adelaide. I understand that this house on the farm burned down and they moved to town.
House they built in Roberts after the fire.
--Photos from James Lossing. FAG Friend. July 2018.
First picture Mae, Sadie, Harvey, Adelaide, Della on rail, Genevieve and Walter.
Second picture Walter, Sadie, Mae, Della, Harvey, and Adelaide. I understand that this house on the farm burned down and they moved to town.
House they built in Roberts after the fire.
--Photos from James Lossing. FAG Friend. July 2018.
Roberts, ILL. Society Reunion
I have read articles about this group of Roberts families that all moved to California and kept in touch.
ROBERTS, ILL. SOCIETY REUNION BROOKSIDE PARK APRIL 3, 1927.
From James Lossing: "People who moved to southern California kept in touch and got together a number of times. This one in 1927 must have been a special occasion.
Most of the Wakelins are here, also John Colteaux and family."
--Photo and information from James Lossing. FAG Friend. July 2018.
ROBERTS, ILL. SOCIETY REUNION BROOKSIDE PARK APRIL 3, 1927.
From James Lossing: "People who moved to southern California kept in touch and got together a number of times. This one in 1927 must have been a special occasion.
Most of the Wakelins are here, also John Colteaux and family."
--Photo and information from James Lossing. FAG Friend. July 2018.
Saturday, July 28, 2018
Cabinet Photo from Roberts
Photo is the Wakelin sisters from Roberts.
--Photo from James Lossing. FAG Friend. July 2018.
Wakelin Family Photos
Wakelin children after Wesley died.
Della Wakelin, 20 month old.
Della Wakelin and her mother.
Sadie, Genevieve, and Mae Wakelin.
Sadie, Genevieve, and Mae Wakelin.
Young Sadie and Mae Wakelin, maybe.
--Photos and names provided by James Lossing. FAG Friend. July 2018.
Thomas and Adelaide (Hurst) Wakelin Family
Children of Thomas Walter Wakelin and Adelaide Hurst:
1. Sarah Adelaide WAKELIN was born November 14, 1882, Roberts IL Died 28 April, 1954, Los Angeles, CA. Married December 19, 1900, in Roberts, Illinois Henry Emanuel WALDSCHMIDT. b. 27 Jan, 1867, Peru, Illinois, died 6 Sept, 1942 in Los Angeles, California. Three children.
1. Wesley Henry Waldschmidt, b. 24 Aug. 1904 Roberts IL, d. 16 July, 1967, Long Beach, CA. m. 25 June 1940 Beatrice Beverly Olson, b. 20 Feb. 1908, North Dakota, d. 13 Feb, 1973, Los Angeles, CA. One child Wesley Henry Waldschmidt, b. 3 June 1941, d. 4 June, 1941.
2. Hilda Bernice Waldschmidt b. 28 Aug, 1908, Los Angeles, CA, d. 14 Jun 2000 San Diego, San Diego, California. M. 21 Mar. 1925, Dudley Glidden Beadle, b. 26 Feb, 1902 New York, d. 01/31/1996, San Diego, CA. Two children.
3. Norman Eugene Waldschmidt b. 29 Dec. 1924, Glendale, CA, d, 08/11/1985, Los Angeles, m. 7 July 1948 Harriet (Terrry) Runge b. 28 Oct, 1924, Chicago IL. Four sons.
2. Mary Genevieve WAKELIN was born April 11, 1884, Roberts, IL d. 11 Nov. 1971, Los Angeles, CA. Married June 26, 1907, Los Angeles, Royal A. WEAVER, b. 24 Jan, 1882, Nebraska d. 27 Dec. 1962.
1. William Clarence Weaver b. 26 April, 1908, Madison, NJ, d. 24 Jan, 1987, Downey, CA, m. 29 Jan, 1935, Compton, CA Genevieve Helen Marshall, 6 May, 1915, d. 18 May 1999, Los Angeles Co. CA. Four children.
2. Glenn Wakelin Weaver, b. 19 Nov, 1912, Pasadena, CA, d. 13 Apr 1998, m 1. 27 March, 1936, Luene Huston Lucas b. 31 July, 1912 Jonesboro, Arkansas, d. 8 Nov. 1986 Glendale CA, m. 2. 1 Jan, 1989, La Crescenta, CA. Helen Cox. Two children with Luene.
3. Florence Adelaide Weaver b. 27 Feb. 1918 Williams, Arizona, d. 30 Aug 1998, Arcadia, CA, Compton, CA Stanley Ray Arrowsmith, b. 24 July, 1913, d. 10 Feb 2005 Arizona, divorced. Two children.
4. Ruth Claudine Weaver, b. 12 Oct. 1920 Los Angeles, CA, m 4 April 1940, Compton, CA, Ansel Glenn Creasser, b. 27 Oct. 1915, Los Angeles, CA, d. 6 Nov. 1987. Three daughters.
3. Harriet Mae WAKELIN was born November 28, 1885, Roberts, IL, d. 31 July, 1964. m June 28, 1905, Roberts, Illinois, Clarence Orville SQUIRES, b. 14 June, 1884, Roberts, IL, d. 28 May, 1961. Two children.
1. Glenn Orville Squires b. 26 Sep, 1910 Roberts, IL, d. 28 Dec.1976, Riverside, CA, m. 25 Nov. 1936 Riverside, CA, Pansy May Banks, b. 11 July, 1914, Selah, Washington, d 6 Jul 2003, Riverside, CA. One daughter
2. Clara Vivian Squires b. 28 Dec, 1914, Roberts, IL, d. 23 Aug 2004 Puyallup, WA, m. 27 June, 1937, Upland, CA, Ewart Ward Robson, b. 11 May, 1914, Manzanar, CA, d. 24 Mar., 1984 Anacortes, WA. Three children
4. Walter Wesley WAKELIN was born November 29, 1887. Died January 9, 1895, in Roberts, Illinois .
5. Harvey Miles WAKELIN was born May 15, 1890, Roberts, IL, d. 4 June, 1930, Los Angeles, CA, m1. 1 April, 1911, Roberts, IL, Jessie O. BOND, b. 15 July, 1889, Roberts, IL d. 10/01/1976, Los Angeles, CA divorce. Jessie m2 ___ Johnston . Harvey m2. Ruth ___ ? . Three children with Jessie.
1. Walter Earl Wakelin b. 10 March, 1912, Roberts, IL. d. 04/18/1985, Los Angeles, CA married and had children.
2. Donald Everett Wakelin, b. 30 April, 1916, Paxton, IL, d. 18 April, 1985 Sherman Oaks, CA, married and had children.
3. Leta Ann Wakelin, b. 14 March, 1918, Roberts, IL, d. 16 Jun 2004, CA, m Moorehouse, had children.
6. Della Melissa WAKELIN was born August 5, 1892 Roberts, Illinois, d. 20 Dec. 1979, Riverside, CA. Married July 7, 1915 in Los Angeles, California, Lloyd Clinton LOSSING b. 24 Jan, 1892, Compton, CA,. Died 2 July, 1965, Compton, California. One child.
1. Kenneth Lloyd LOSSING was born August 29, 1917, Los Angeles, California.
Wakelin Family Portrait
--Photos and family history from James Lossing. FAG Friend. July 2018.
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--Photos and comments from Ayesha H. LeRoy. Posted to the Roberts Illinois History Group FB Page. July 2018.
From James Lossing: " In this picture, with the ladies sitting on the ground, can anyone tell me about Mrs. Swanick, Mrs. Roberts, and Mrs. Pettit? Della, Sadie, and Genevieve are my grandmother and two of her sisters. Lena and Amelia are Waldschmidt sisters. I don't know if that picture was taken in Roberts or California."
--Photo from James Lossing. FAG Friend. July 2018.
John Ruedger and Norman Gilmore
--Photo and comments by Barbara Arthur Leroy. Posted to the Roberts Illinois History Group FB Page. July 2018.
Friday, July 27, 2018
Haling
--Photo from Barbara Arthur Leroy. Roberts Illinois History Group FB Page. July 2018.
Sunday, July 22, 2018
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