#17 Sarah Ann Ford was born on 26 April 1826 in Green County Kentucky. She is my third great grandmother on my Dad’s Mother’s side. She was married to Lewis Coakley and was the daughter of Thomas Jefferson Ford and Eleanor Edwards. She had eight children. She died when she was only 42 years old in 1868. Her youngest child was three months old. Llife was rough in the old days
1942 Well I Didnt wash but washed today as Marie & Daddy were both home yesterday Nice Today
1943 Slept late went Down Town – Dad went To work & I washed some will finish Tomorrow. Got letters from Both Kids.
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1942 Today is Monday & I am going to wash & Dad is going To work tomorrow Night Morning Tour
1943 Slept late Dad worked afternoon tour I went To pats & she fixed My hair. I stay up till Dad comes home.
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1942 Sat I didn’t write any thing & wrote Todays in Saturday
1943 Slept late & Didnt Do Much got Easter card from Marie. No Mail from Bud I always wonder about them
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#5 (catch up) Cary Stevens is my Great Grandfather on my father’s side. He was born 1 February 1870 in Acton, Indiana to George W. Stevens and Sarah J. Foglesong.
The story gets interesting when he marries Minnie Blanche Shipp in 1888. He joined the Army, swearing he is single, in 1899 and was sent to the Philippines to fight in the Spanish American War. He hadn’t been there long when Minnie Blanche petitioned the Army to let him out because she was pregnant. The Army let him out and he is listed in the 1900 census twice, once in the Philippines with the Army and then again in Indiana living with Minnie Blanche and their son, Henry Burl in the house of her father, William Henry Shipp. I can only imagine the tension in that household!
By 1904, Cary has married Gertrude Lindburg Mock who, in 1900, had been living with her husband and daughter just five dwellings away from Cary and Minnie Blanche. I know that Gertrude was widowed by that time. I’m assuming Cary and Minnie Blanche divorced but I have yet to find proof. Cary went on to have a daughter with Gertrude, they moved to California with the two girls and lived a very happy life out there. Minnie Blanche remarried but I have no evidence of that yet either except that we always knew her as Grama Moore.
Cary Stevens with Gertrude, their daughter Joanna, my mother Sylvia Marie Tennant Stevens and sister, Barbara Marie Stevens.
#4 (catch up) is my great grand aunt, the daughter of John Diggs Wright and Lydia Ann Jackson. She was the sister of my great grandfather, Everett Emerson Wright. She was born on 26 January 1875. in Randolph County, Indiana. She lived there all her life. She died in 1956. In 1890 she married Francis Wright. That made her Lydia Ann Wright Wright!
Lydia Ann Wright with granddaughter Edith.
1942 Apr 26 Sunday. Marie went To church ate about 3 oclock. Bills Brought washer Down. Marie Took Kids to the carnival tonight
1943 Sunday we went over To pats They are going to her Mother Bill & Nick are back here again Had 1 hr Blackout tonight
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1942 Marie was off slept Late. Went up Town. Marie went To Dance Bill’s were here. Marie found her last Bag.
1943 Today is Saturday & Dad has long change slept untill Noon. We went To show Tonight. He goes out Tomorrow
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1942 entry: Don’t you wonder what the story is about Marie and her missing bags? I wish Grama had written more about he circumstances.
#11 (catch up) John Hominy Wright is my 4th great grandfather on my maternal grandmother’s side. He was born 17 March 1774 to James Wright and Sarah Haworth in Newberry, South Carolina. The family were among a group of Quakers who had moved to South Carolina and formed the Newberry Monthly Meeting. Later on John Hominy settled Randolph County, Indiana with his wife Margaret Lane Reese again with a group of Quakers. Our family has a long history of being Quakers.
I‘m not sure where he picked up the nickname, Hominy. It is said that wherever it was, there were so many John Wrights that they were all given nicknames to differentiate between them. If you read histories of Randolph County, Indiana, there were so many Wrights that it is hard to keep them apart in your mind.
1942 Did Nothing all Day Just fooled around trying to clean. Marie worked today. Marie went To Dance at school.
1943 I washed Buds clothes He didn’t get His C. Book But got gas to get to Taft & left about 6 oclock I feel so Blue tonight.
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Wandering Through My Roots 