Wordless Wednesday - Uvalde

 

Happy Mother's Day 2023, Iris!

This Mother's Day, I'm giving a shout out to my direct female line ancestors. These are the women from whom I received my mitochondial DNA (mtDNA) or "female DNA".

My mtDNA haplogroup is I2, a subclade of haplogroup I, sometimes called "IRIS".  Haplogroup I is one of the older mtDNA haplogroups in Europe and it's relatively rare. My mtDNA is part of the mtDNA Haplogroup I Project at Family Tree DNA. 

Happy Mother's Day, "Iris"! 

- Revis

Wordless Wednesday - Col Abel Kolb

 

The Historical Marker Database

 My 1C6R (first cousin six times removed) 

 Happy Ancestor Sleuthing!

- Revis 

 

Valentine's Day 2023

Today is Valentine's Day 2023. I was thinking about the excitement as a kid of taking Valentine's to school for classmates. Would I get candy? Do you remember these "Sweetheart" candies? You can still buy these "full of sugar" hearts! 

Going through my never-ending stash of photographs and memoraphilia, which my mother kept for years, I came across this Valentine that my sister and I sent to my maternal Grandmomie, Eva Nell Stuart Dennis. 

Do you remember giving Valentine's to your parents or grandparents? Girlfriend/boyfriend? Best friends? Did you give candy or flowers?

From my furry buddies (Callie and DT) to all of you, I wish you a Happy Valentine's Day!  

- Revis

Treasure Chest Thursday - the KOLP family bible from Ohio and the Kolb-Kulp-Culp family of Pennsylvania

Anyone that knows me well, knows that I love old photos, bibles and other family memorabilia. Old photos of my Grandmomie Dennis-Stuart are what got me started in this addiction called genealogy. 

I used to scope out Ebay regularly hoping to find long lost family bibles or other treasures. I don't spend much time doing that these days.

In 2017, my "cousin-in-love" and fellow Kolb family researcher, Marika, contacted me about a bible that was being sold on Ebay. I checked it out and saw that it was for a KOLP family out of Ohio. Some of the names in the bible I recognized as from our own Dielman KOLB lines out of Skippack, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. I didn't know any of the Kolb-Kulp-Culp families spelled their name "Kolp". 

Long story short is I bought the old German bible. It's been in my safe since 2017. Today I brought the bible out and looked at the family photos. Inside the bible is "The Kulp Family" genealogy for this line. Also included is a copy of the bulletin inviting family members to the Seventy-Second Annual Reunion, Kolb-Kulp-Culp Family, Perkiomen School, Pennsburg, PA, Saturday, August 14, 1999. This is my family in Pennsylvania and I've attended a family reunion there in Skippack. 

The KOLP family name out of the KOLB-KULP-CULP family reminds me of a conversation I had recently with a beginning researcher. The comment was made regarding the spelling of a surname. I told the person to not be stuck on one spelling - example: my STUART's are actually STEWART's out of Augusta County, Virginia back to Scotland and Ireland. 

I didn't know that the KOLP spelling was part of the Kolb-Kulp-Culp family. I'd never seen that variation of the spelling. I'm glad Marika took a look at this bible despite the different spelling because it's a treasure. 

And it's a treasure that I hope can someday be handed back to the KOLP family it belongs to. 

Carey Kolp with dog

Is this your family? If so, please contact me. 

- Revis

 

Friday's Faces From the Past: Lea (Ham) Chance Child

Looking through the old unidentified pictures I had scanned that were in my mother's possession - again - and I ran across this one that has written on the back "Lea Ham child". 

Lea HAM (b. 9 Jan 1892-TX - d. 28 Sept 1981-San Diego, CA) married Basil Houston CHANCE on 4 Jan 1912 in Tishomingo, OK. 

Lea was the younger sister of my great-great-grandmother, Jennie HAM Teel, the wife of William Perry TEEL. 

Another sister to Lea was Mary HAM King, wife of Butler KING.

Sisters Jennie and Mary were older than Lea and born in Bibb County, AL, and their father was Jordan HAM (b. 1840-AL - d. 19 Dec 1929-Tishomingo, Johnston Co., OK).

Their mother, Jordan's wife, was Francis "Fannie" PARKER (b. Jan 1849-AL - d. 7 Dec 1927- Tishomingo, Johnston Co., OK).

Now, for my questions: 

Is this a boy or a girl? I think it's a boy, but I'm no expert with photos. In my tree information, I show Lea and Basil Chance with three children, a girl and two boys. 

Do you know who this child is? If so, please comment or message me. Thank you!

-Revis

 

Sunday Obituary: John Mark HARDIN (born 1849-probably Cedar Co., MO; died 1933-Wichita Falls, Wichita Co., TX)

My daddy called John Mark Hardin "Uncle Mark Hardin". So did my paternal grandaunts, the daughters of Helena Olivia ZIEGENFUSS and her husband, James Andrew CAUBLE. James "Jim" Cauble was the son of Julia HARDIN and William Jefferson Lonzo (called "Bill") CAUBLE. 

The first time my daddy told me about "Uncle Mark Hardin" (always using the last name, never just "Uncle Mark"), I was like, "Ummm, wait a minute. He died in 1933 a few months after you were born. You talk like you knew him." 

My daddy laughed and said, "Oh, we all knew about "Uncle Mark Hardin". He lived at times with the Caubles. Something happened with him and his wife, and she left him for another man." I asked about children. Daddy didn't know anything about children, if any.

I left it at that and pondered on "Uncle Mark Hardin". My grandaunts had the same story my daddy had told me, but they knew that he did have children. I searched for several years to find more out about this man everyone called "Uncle Mark Hardin", and I did come to know some of his descendants, my cousins, through genealogy research. I learned the story passed down in their family about his wife leaving him. And then one day, I hit the jackpot in Knox County, Texas. But I'm saving that story for another day! 

This is about his obituary. 

On 24 July 1933 (a Monday), the Wichita Falls Times (Wichita Falls, Texas), page 7, the obituary of J.M. Hardin can be found here at Newspapers.

 J. M. Hardin

   J.M. Hardin, 85, died Sunday

night at his home southeast of

Wichita Falls. The body was taken

in charge by the Thomas Funeral

home of Burkburnett. Relatives in-

clude a nephew, J.W. Cauble, 1004

Eighth street, Wichita Falls, and a 

niece, Mrs. J.B. Basham of Roby. 

That's it??? I'd hoped it would shed more information on this 2nd great-granduncle of mine. But it wasn't full of names or information like I'd hoped. You know the kind of info we genealogists want - his parents' names, the children, what his occupation was, etc. Sometimes we just get what we get. 

The two people named in the obituary I recognized: 

(1) J. W. Cauble was James William Cauble, the son of Arrenia Malinda Hardin (sister to my Julia Hardin Cauble) and James Monroe Cauble (brother to my Bill Cauble). 

In other words, two Hardin sisters had married two Cauble brothers down in McLennan County, Texas. Arrenia and James Monroe married in 1869; Julia and Bill married in 1875.  

(2) Mrs. J. B. Basham named as a niece is Louisa Mae Cauble, a daughter of Julia Hardin and Bill Cauble. I knew the Basham name because Louisa Mae and her husband, J. P. (not J.B.) - John Peter Basham - were my daddy's grandaunt and granduncle. 

Even though I wished there had been more details about "Uncle Mark Hardin's" life in his obituary, it did give a glimpse of what I'd find in upcoming research. Later findings would answer some of my questions about the obituary, such as why weren't any of his children named in it. 

Stay tuned as I'm not finished with the Hardin's of Missouri, Arkansas and Texas yet. 

-Revis