A Second Week of Walkers

Welcome back, cousins!

Last time, we talked about the descendants of Clara A Walker Welch (1851–1932), the elder daughter of Isaiah Walker (1821–1906) and Huldah Montgomery (1829–1918). Today, we'll start with her younger sister:

     B. Mary Elvina Walker (1868–1957) was born on 18 May 1868 and grew up in Rochester, Fulton County, Indiana. Her older sister, Clara, was 16 years old when Mary was born.

Mary grew up and married Samuel Percy Terry (1861–1936) on 12 October 1887 in Fulton County, Indiana. He was born on 15 May 1861, the son of Samuel S Terry (1825–1893) and Sarah J McCloud (1831–1883) and grew up in Henry and Rochester, Fulton County.

Samuel's father was a physician who received his commission as an officer in Company S, Indiana 73rd Infantry Regiment on 27 September 1862. He served as an assistant surgeon until he was promoted to full surgeon on 29 January 1863. The younger Samuel followed in his father's profession, graduating from Notre Dame College in 1882 and practicing in Rochester in 1900. During the 1900s, the Terry family moved to Alameda County, California, where Dr. Terry was in practice in 1910. He also served as an examining surgeon in the United States Department of the Interior.

Samuel died in Alameda on 5 November 1936 and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland. Mary died on 8 April 1957 and was buried with her husband. They were survived by two sons and a daughter.

     1. Lillian Terry (1888–1972) was born on 1 November 1888 and grew up in Rochester, Fulton Couty, Indiana. She was probably about 17 years of age when her family relocated to Alameda County, California.

On 22 January 1911, she married an optometrist named Eugene D Painter (1878–1961) in Stockton, San Joaquin County, California. Eugene was born on 13 December 1878, the youngest son of Jerome B Painter (1828–1883) and Caroline A Weaver (1837–1913).  He and Lillian had a son together, but by 1920, Lillian and her son were living back in her parents' home, and she was listed as divorced.

She soon remarried James Roy Rowe (1890–1972) on 27 March 1921 in Alameda County, and they lived in Oakland. James was the son of James F Rowe (1850–1900) and Maria (or Mariah) E Freeman (1856–1929), born on 17 January 1890 in Alameda County, California.

James died in Alameda on 18 September 1972; Lillian died just a few weeks later on 23 October 1972. Their remains were interred in the mausoleum of the Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland.

     a. Terry E Rowe (1913–1971) was born Terry Painter on 13 August 1913 in Alameda, California. Before he turned 18, however, he was adopted by his step-father and appears on his official documents as Terry Rowe after 1930.

On 31 October 1931, Terry married Mildred Lucille Kelber (1913–1992) in Alameda County. Mildred was born in Los Angeles on 28 August 1913 to George C Kelber (1884–1965) and Treasy May Cappleman (1889–1955). They had a son and a daughter together, both still living.

Terry died in Solano County, California, on 4 October 1971. Mildred, who was a secretary for the Plumas County Recorder's office from 1965 to 1980, remarried and moved to Reno, Nevada around 1990. She died in Reno on 1 January 1992 and is buried in the Johnsville Cemetery in Johnsville, Plumas County, California.

They were survived by their son, daughter, and five grandchildren.

     2. Samuel Walker Terry (1894–1964) was born on 9 February 1894 in Rochester, Fulton, Indiana. His family moved to California when he was about 10 years old. Samuel attended University of California at Berkeley and met  Ellis E Morris (1895–1995). His education was interrupted by World War I, and he saw pilot duty in France, and was discharged from the Air Corps with the rank of first lieutenant. Samuel was believed to be the first pilot on the West Coast to come out of a tailspin. He returned from St. Nazaire, France, aboard the Zeelandia in 1919.

Engagement of Samuel Terry and Ellis Morris Fri, Jul 6, 1917 – 1 · The San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, California) · Newspapers.com
Ellis was born in Ohio on 29 June 1895, and grew up in Alger County, Michigan. She was daughter of Henry Nelson Morris (1860–1920) and Ella Blymyer (1860–1935). Her family moved to Alameda County, California, during the 1900s.

Samuel and Ellis were both attending University of California at Berkeley in 1916, and they announced their engagement in 1917. (see right)

In 1926, with an investment of $5000, he co-founded the Aladdin Heating Corp., a 7-acre plant in San Leandro, which became one of the largest heating, ventilating and air conditioning contractors in Northern California. 

Samuel and Ellis raised their children in Berkeley and Oakland. Samuel was a pioneer in the Bay area's gas beating industry and was a director of five a firms, including the News Equipment Sales Corp. and the Aladdin Heating Corp.

Samuel died on 10 August 1964 in Hayward, Alameda, California. Ellis died on 12 August 1995 in Alameda County, California. They were buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland. They were survived by three sons and 14 grandchildren.

     a. Raymond Morris Terry (1918–1997) was born on 17 July 1918 in Oakland, Alameda, California. He graduated from University of California at Berkeley in 1940 and went to Stanford University that fall.

Raymond married Marian Abbie Fisher (1919–1980) about 1941, and after graduating around 1945, he accepted a commission in the U.S. Navy, serving from about 1946 to 1956. Marian was born on 1 May 1919 in Alameda County, the daughter of Edgar Clement Fisher (1889–1927) and Abbie Gail Cleary (1890–1944).

They settled in San Leandro, San Francisco County, California, where Ray and his business endeavors grew along with the town. His invention of the first coin operated newspaper vending machine led to the establishment and success of New Equipment Company, which eventually became a division of his firm, the Aladdin Heating Corporation.

Marian died on 14 June 1980, and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland. Ray died "after a great day fishing and with a cookie in his hand" on 7 May 1997 and was buried with Marian. They were survived by Ray's brother and sister-in-law, and by their five children, sixteen grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

     i. Raymond Lee Terry (1942–2002) was born on 27 September 1942 in Berkeley, Alameda, California. Like his father, the younger Ray Terry accepted a commission in the U.S. Navy. He died on 20 January 2002 and was survived by a brother, three sisters, his wife, a son, and a daughter.

     b. Henry Morris Terry (1921–1978) was born on 8 February 1921 in Berkeley, Alameda, California. Henry was attending Stanford University in 1942, and while the records I have found don't tell me the details, he appears to have served as a doctor in the U.S. Navy, as late as 1959. 

He married Allace Ann Heald (1924–2000), the daughter of Wallace Sheldon Heald (1890–1936) and Foss R Radebaugh (1890–1980). She was born on 9 August 1924 in Duluth, St Louis, Minnesota. Her family relocated to San Diego by 1940, and she presumably met Henry when he was stationed there. We do know that in 1974, they lived in San Diego where Henry was chief of geriatrics at the County University Hospital.

Henry died on 27 August 1978 and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland. Ann died on 20 June 2000.

     c. Samuel Walker Terry, Jr (1925–1999) was born on 13 June 1925 in Oakland, Alameda, California, and grew up in Berkeley. He also had a commission in the U.S. Navy by 1948 - which rounds out an entire family of Naval officers, and completes three generations of service from one family.

Samuel Jr. died on 4 October 1999 in San Leandro, Alameda, California, but I don't believe that's the whole story. His father's 1964 obituary claimed 14 grandchildren, so Samuel and his brother, Henry, must have had nine children between them who I have not been able to identify.

     3. Frederick Percy Terry (1896–1986) was born on 19 March 1896 in Rochester, Fulton, Indiana. His father moved the family to California in 1904. Fred enlisted in the U.S. Army, serving from 15 December 1917 through 18 June 1919, returning home as a sergeant from France aboard the Madawaska.

Fred married Marion Adelaide McCormick (1899–1977) on 9 October 1924 in Alameda County, California. She was born on 15 October 1899 in Saginaw, Michigan, the youngest child of Walter James McCormick (1864–1908) and Maude A Speddy (1870–1922).

Marion died on 25 April 1977 in Alameda County, California, and was buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Saginaw, Saginaw County, Michigan, where her parents and other ancestors were buried. Fred died in Alameda County on 27 September 1986 and was buried with Marion in Saginaw.

     a. Frederick Mccormick Terry (1927–1993) was born in Alameda, California, on 6 April 1927. He married Patricia Eleanor Goggin (1929–2006) on 3 February 1951. They were both graduates of Alameda High School. Patricia was born on 10 November 1929 in Alameda, the youngest daughter of Alfred Samuel Goggin (1884–1931) and Maude E Curley (1892–1965).

The couple lived in Walnut Creek, Contra Costa County, California, starting in 1963. Patricia worked in the insurance industry before having children, then she retired to become a stay-at-home mom. Fred died on 4 April 1993 in Contra Costa County; Patricia died at the age of 77, on 28 November 2006 at her home in Walnut Creek.

They were survived by two daughters and two grandchildren.

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The Great COVID crisis continues, and I'm still sorting out what I need to do to complete my degree. No promises I'll stick to my "schedule," but for now, we're pressing on! Thanks for sticking with m, everybody!

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A Week With the Walkers

Hello, cousins!

So, for those of you in the future, looking back at this time, the United States has been slowly adjusting to the global pandemic of a virus called COVID-19 by the World Health Organization. I am sitting at home this week, waiting to find out whether I should plan on going back to work next week, and wondering how the rest of my final semester of school will be affected.

While I had semi-suspended posting in this blog, in favor of focusing my efforts on finishing my Bachelor's degree in music, I have found myself in the position of having time on my hands which is better spent doing family history research than worrying about the possible cancellation of my recital or other things I don't have control over. Hopefully, one day, we'll look back on this time with relief that things did not turn out too badly, considering the disruption to our lives.

That said, doing research and writing is something that I enjoy and it relaxes me, so I'm moving forward with the Montgomery family posts. Hopefully, you will enjoy the fruits of my labor!

Last time, we documented the tragic, early end of every member of Elvina Montgomery Huffman's family. Elvina was the eldest of three daughters of Jonathan and Sarah (Callin) Montgomery. This week, we'll start with the middle daughter, Huldah Montgomery Walker.


II. Huldah Montgomery (1829–1918)

Born on 7 March 1829 and raised in Olivesburg, Huldah was barely a year old when her mother, Sarah, died. She grew up with her sisters in the home of her father and step-mother, probably attending the school established on a property that her grandfather, Benjamin Montgomery, deeded to the village.

Huldah married Isaiah Walker (1821–1906) on 5 June 1849 in Richland County, and at first they lived in Jefferson Township. Isaiah was a young lawyer, born on 7 January 1821 to James Walker (1771–1844) and Lucinda Barrell (1784–1871) in Montville, Waldo County, Maine. The Walker family moved from Maine to Massachusetts, finally settling in Richland County in 1834.

Isaiah and Huldah had their first daughter in 1851, and in May of 1859, Isaiah moved his young family to Rochester, Fulton County, Indiana, where he established himself as a lawyer. He and Huldah raised both of their daughters in Rochester. Eventually, Isaiah retired and, in 1905, they moved to California, where both of their daughters' families lived.

Isaiah died from pneumonia on 5 November 1906 at the home of his youngest daughter, Polly, in Glendora, Los Angeles County, California. Huldah died on 30 December 1918 in Long Beach, Los Angeles County. She was 90 years old.

Isaiah and Huldah are buried in the Rochester I.O.O.F. Cemetery in Rochester, Indiana.

     A. Clara A Walker (1851–1932) was born in September 1851 in Mansfield, Ohio. Her family moved to Rochester, Indiana, when she was about eight years old, and she grew up there. She married Cornelius Welch (1847–1934) on 12 November 1872 in Fulton County.

Cornelius, or "Con," was born to James and Sarah Welch on 5 September 1847 in Ontario, Canada. According to his obituary in the Rochester Sentinal, his parents died before he was nine, and he went to live with Andrew Oliver, then residing six miles south of Rochester. At 18, he enlisted in Company G of the 155th Regiment of Indiana Volunteers on 17 March 1865. The war ended less than a month later, but Con did well in the army; he was promoted to Corporal on 6 May 1865 and mustered out near Dover, Delaware, on 4 August 1865. He re-enlisted with the 23rd U. S. Regulars on 12 June 1867 and was stationed at Fort Boise, Boise, Idaho. At the end of this enlistment, he returned to Rochester, where he married Clara a few years later.

In 1880, Con ran a livery stable in Rochester, but sometime after that, he moved the family to a farm in Newcastle, which is where they were in 1900. Soon after that, the Walkers relocated to Glendora, Los Angeles County, California, leaving their sons Edwin and Oliver to run the family farm.

Con and Clara lived in Long Beach for many years. Clara died there on 24 June 1932, having been ill since the previous Christmas. Con died on 10 August 1934 at the age of 86, also in Long Beach.

     1. Marguerite Beatrice "Maggie" Welch (1875–1962) was born on 17 October 1875 in Rochester, Fulton County, Indiana. She spent some time working as a bookkeeper in Chicago, where she appeared on the 1900 Census; she was in that city when her brother, Mont, died.

Maggie seems to have gone west when her parents did in 1905, and while it isn't clear where she was in 1910, by 1917, she was married to Frank McKeever Burnside (1877–1936) and lived with him in Seattle. Frank's origins aren't confirmed by the documents I've found, but I believe he was the son of Irish immigrants George Burnside (1848–1889) and Sarah Clark (1846–1912), was born on 1 May 1877 and raised in Pittsburg, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

Maggie lost her mother in 1932, her father in 1934, and Frank on 28 December 1936 in Alameda, Alameda County, California. Maggie remained in their home on Santa Clara Avenue, again working as a bookkeeper. She died in Alameda on 29 March 1962.

     2. James Montgomery "Mont" Welch (1878–1904) was born in Rochester on 5 December 1878. He was well thought of in his community, and after working for a time at the City Book Store in Rochester, he went first to Chicago, then to Pierceton, Indiana, and engaged in business for himself. Failing health forced him to abandon his business, and he returned to his parents’ home where he "died of lung trouble" - most likely succumbing to tuberculosis, as so many of his cousins had done.

     3. Edwin Walker Welch (1882–1932) was born on 14 July 1882 in Rochester and grew up on the family farm. He was living in Chicago in 1904, when his brother Mont died, but came back to run the farm when his parents moved to California.

Edwin married Carrie M Daniel (1884–1985) on 19 October 1906 in Knox, Starke County, Indiana. Carrie was the daughter of William Smith Daniel (1860–1939) and Anna M Chapman (1862–1936), born 20 June 1884 in Paint Township, Highland County, Ohio. By 1910, Edwin and Carrie had settled in Smith, near Churubusco, Whitley County, Indiana, where Edwin worked as a jeweler. They had a little daughter there, named Margarite, possibly after Edwin's sister.

It isn't clear when they divorced, but in 1917, Edwin was living with his parents in Long Beach and working as a jeweler and watchmaker in that city. On 16 August 1922, he married his second wife, Harriet Ann Hodgin (1886–1950) in  Los Angeles County, California. They lived on Lime Avenue until Edwin's death on 29 February 1932 in Long Beach.

Carrie married her second husband, Frederick William Berg (b. 1891), on 18 June 1919 in Chicago. Fred was one of a family of German immigrants, born on 27 September 1891 in Germany to Ludwig F Berg (1862–1935) and Augusta W Haacker (1860–1943). He married Carrie just a couple of months after returning from fighting in France as part of Company D, 415th Railroad Telegraph Battalion, Signal Corps.

Carrie and Fred kept house in Davis, Starke County, Indiana, where Fred worked as a telegraph operator for the railroad. I don't know when Fred died; the last record I have for him places the family in Lansing, Cook County, Illinois, where he was working for the Grand Trunk Railroad in 1942. Carrie Berg died in August 1985.

     a. Margeret Ann "Margot" Welch (1908-1949) was born on 11 November 1908 in Churubusco, Whitley County, Indiana. Her parents, Edwin and Carrie, divorced when she was young, and she grew up in the home of her mother and step-father, Fred Berg. In 1933, she and Robert Henry Batzka (1906–1978) applied for a marriage license in Valparaiso, and their son, Norman, was born the following year.

Margeret and Robert were divorced around 1937, and Margeret (appearing in the marriage record as "Margot Batzka") remarried Andrew P Foley (1910–1994) on 23 December 1938 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan. Robert and Norman went to live with Robert's parents in Starke County, Indiana, and Robert married Sarah Mildred Gusman (1918–1990) on 29 April 1941 in San Pierre, Starke County.

Margeret and Andrew lived in Petoskey, Emmett County, Michigan for many years. She died on 5 November 1949 at Ford Hospital in Detroit and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Petoskey. Andrew remarried and he eventually died on 10 April 1994 in Grosse Pointe, Wayne County, Michigan.

Robert Batzka retired from farming, and he and Sarah, by then a retired teacher, took a European trip in the summer of 1978. He died unexpectedly from a stroke on 8 July 1978 at the University Hospital in Bern, Switzerland. Sarah later remarried, and she died on 23 June 1990 in Markle, Wells County, Indiana.

     i. Norman Robert Batzka (1934–2011) was born on 27 May 1934 in Indiana. His parents divorced when he was small, and by 1940, he and his father were living with his grandparents in rural Starke County, Indiana. He graduated from Mackenzie High School in Detroit, Michigan, in 1953.

Norman served in the U.S. Air Force as a staff sergeant in Korea. He married Mariann Coleman (1939–2006) about 1959. She was the daughter of Elmer W Coleman (1909–1995) and Gail M Coombe (1915–1997) born on 3 October 1939 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan.

Mariann died on 15 May 2006 in Pontiac, Oakland County, Michigan. Norman died in Lenawee County, Michigan, on 14 December 2011, and they are both buried in the Great Lakes National Cemetery in Holly, Oakland County.

They were survived by their three children and nine grandchildren.

     4. Oliver Raymond Welch (1886–1907) was born on 20 March 1886 in Talma, an unincorporated town in Fulton County, Indiana. He lived with his parents on the family farm until they moved to California around 1905, and then he ran the place himself.

Oliver married Anna Pearl Kenley (1888–1966) on 16 August 1904 in Tiosa, Fulton County. They had a baby daughter together, and Anna was pregnant with their son when Oliver began suffering from stomach problems which resulted in a fatal case of appendicitis. He died on 19 February 1907 at Woodlawn Hospital in Rochester. He is buried in the Rochester Oddfellows Cemetery.

Anna, the daughter of John Kenley (1856–1899) and Armilda "Millie" Ross (1860–1895), was born on 24 December 1888 in Plymouth, Marshall County, Indiana, which means she was 15 when she married Oliver and 16 when Audra was born. After Oliver died, she remarried a few years later on 1 July 1911 in Fulton County. Her second husband was Clarence Clement Ailer (1878–1928). They had a son together, named Clarence Herbert Ailer (1913–1968).

Clarence died on 28 February 1928 in South Bend, St Joseph County, Indiana, and Anna seems to have married a third time. She died on 29 July 1966 in Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana, under the name Anna P. Beatty, and an "Anna Beatty" lived in Fort Wayne during the 1950s with Wilbert T. Beatty. She is buried in Fairview Cemetery in Mishawaka, St. Joseph County, Indiana.

     a. Audra G Welch (1905–1997) was born on 11 January 1905 in Indiana (most likely in Fulton County), and she was barely two years old when her father died. She grew up in the home of her mother and step-father in Fulton County and according to other researchers (I have yet to locate any documents), she married Joseph Elmer Troyer (1906–1978) on 3 September 1926 in La Porte County, Indiana.

Audra and Joe had a son, Richard (1927-1994), and in 1930 they lived in Mishawaka, Indiana. However, they soon divorced. Joseph remarried in 1931, and Audra took Richard to Cleveland. There, she worked as a secretary and stenographer. Joe served in the military during World War II and divorced his second wife after the end of the war. He died on 12 March 1978 in Garden City, Wayne, Michigan.

Audra died in Cleveland on 5 Aug 1997 and was buried in Fairview Cemetery in Mishawaka, St. Joseph County, Indiana.

     i. John Richard Troyer (1927–1994) was born on 6 June 1927 in Kokomo, Howard County, Indiana, and grew up in Cleveland with his mother. He was married in Orange County, California, in 1967. He died on 8 August 1994, in Orange County at the age of 67.

(I have not been able to find obituaries or documents that might tell us about Richard's family, or whether he left children and grandchildren behind.)

     b. Oliver Kenley Welch (1907–1978) was born in Rochester, Fulton County, Indiana, on 24 August 1907 - six months after the death of his father. He grew up in Newcastle and ended up in Pontiac, Michigan, where he was working as a draftsman in 1940. He was in his late 30s or early 40s he married Effie May Chalmers (1912–2008), and they had a daughter who survives.

Effie was the daughter of William Lionel Chalmers (1875–1938) Stella May Shoemaker (1880–1970), born on 11 April 1912 in Huntington, Huntington County, Indiana. She graduated from Huntington High School in 1930 and became a nurse, working in Toledo in 1940.

Oliver died at age 71 on 16 November 1978 in Norwood Nursing Home at Huntington. Effie died much later on 27 February 2008 in North Manchester, Wabash, Indiana. They are survived by one daughter and two grandsons.

     5. Marion Percival Welch (1889–1982) was born on 27 December 1889 and grew up in Newcastle, Fulton County, Indiana. He married Jessie C West (1890–1976) on 23 November 1910 in Glendora, Los Angeles, California. Jessie was the daughter of John Charles West (1856–1935) and Emma Frasia Cornel Hinman (1857–1943), born on 4 June 1890 in California.

Marion worked as a superintendent for the lumber yard in Blinn, California, and he and Jessie raised their son in Lomita, Los Angeles County, California. (Jessie's obituary from 1976 lists a daughter, as well, but I have yet to find any other evidence of a daughter in the available records.)

Jessie died on 31 March 1976 in Los Angeles County, and Marion died almost precisely six years later on 30 March 1982. They are buried next to each other in Green Hills Memorial Park, Rancho Palos Verdes, Los Angeles County, California. According to Jessie's obituary, they were survived by three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

     a. Wallace Marion Welch (1911-1977) was born on 11 October 1911 in Glendora, Los Angeles, California, and grew up in Lomita. He was working for his father's lumberyard when he was in his twenties.

Wallace married Laural Faye Hill (1918–1991) on 30 November 1936 in Yuma County, Arizona, and they had a son a few months later in February 1937. Faye was born on 10 December 1917 in Lebanon, Laclede County, Missouri, the daughter of Carlas Eldon Hill (1879–1980) and Laura E Gilmore (1885–1966). She grew up in Laclede County, and her family moved to California when she was in her teens.

The couple was not together for very long, however, as both Wallace and Faye were remarried to other people by 1940. Wallace married his second wife, Beth May Merryman (1916–1991), on 4 May 1939 in California. She was the daughter of William Ausian Merryman (1881–1964) and Dora Bell (b. 1887), born in Fort Dodge, Webster County, Iowa, on 10 May 1916. They also had a child (a daughter, still living), and were divorced before 1946. Beth lived in Lomita for 43 years and was a bookkeeper for the San Pedro (California) Postal Credit Union for 35 years. She died on 27 December 1991, survived by her daughter, step-daughter, four grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

Wallace married his third wife on 9 October 1952 in Ventura County, California. She was Catherine Hanes Cleland, born 15 March 1914 in Crawford, Madison, Iowa, the youngest of 14 children born to Charles David Cleland (1864–1944) and Frances R Siedel (1864–1919). She grew up in Iowa and worked in Des Moines as a waitress in 1940, before eventually moving to California.

Catherine died in Los Angeles County on 1 November 1976, a resident of Sepulveda. Wallace died the following year on 15 December 1977 in Los Angeles. He was survived by his son and daughter.

     i. Wallace Max Johnson (1937–2007) was born on 12 February 1937 in Thayer, Oregon County, Missouri, the son of Wallace Marion Welch and Laural Faye Hill. His parents were divorced when he was an infant, and Max was adopted by his step-father, Eugene Field Johnson (1909–1959), appearing under the name Johnson in his public records.

Max was married on 2 August 1961 in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, to Annie Margaret Spivey (1938–2016). Annie was the daughter of the late Thelma and Burl Spivey of Charlotte, North Carolina, born on 12 February 1938. After receiving her bachelor’s degree from Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina in Greensboro, she lived in Rock Hill and Spartanburg, South Carolina prior to moving to Greer, Greenville, South Carolina.

In 1983, Max & Ann opened Travel Planners at Eastgate Village, which they operated for many years. Max died on 24 July 2007 in Greer. Ann died at her home on 9 June 2016. They were survived by their son, daughter, and four grandchildren.

     6. Hulda A Welch (1892–1905) was born in Indiana in July 1892 and moved to California when she was small. She died at the home of her parents in Glendora, Los Angeles County, on 13 November 1905, when she was only 13 years of age. She is buried in Oakdale Memorial Park in Glendora.

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I hope this post found you and your family well, and if events proceed as expected, I should be able to tell you about the Walkers' other daughter, Mary Elvina, next week.

As always, if you've found one or more of your relatives mentioned in this blog, please get in touch. You can comment below (anonymous comments are usually not as helpful), or email "mightieracorns" at Gmail.com.

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Until next time... Happy Hunting!

Admin: School's IN

Hey, cousins!

If you're watching this blog regularly, you probably noticed I missed my Friday post last week - and I'm probably going to miss the next several posts.

We're really close to wrapping up with the descendants of the last known grandchild of James Callin, but I have to put my energy into preparing for my Senior Recital so I can finish my undergraduate degree.

So, if you like what I've been doing, and want to help, dig into my previous posts, and hit me up with your questions and corrections. I may not get back to you immediately, but I will eventually!

See you again in May - if not sooner!

Your cousin, Tad (Class of 2020, Towson University)