Friday's Photo: Anna Rita Alter

Anna Rita Alter was my grandmother's first cousin. Her mother, Caroline "Carrie" Glynn, was the sister to Mary Lucy Glynn Giddens, my great-grandmother. Anna, the daughter of Caroline Glynn and William Alter, was born in the Bronx on June 7, 1905. 

Anna married Joseph John Doran in 1925 in the Bronx. It is said he died young. If so, it was before 1938 when she married James V. Morris in Dutchess County, New York. James and Anna had one child, a daughter. 

According to the obituary, Anna died at 58. She is buried, along with her husband and other relatives, in Fishkill Rural Cemetery. Anna's obituary can be seen below. 

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Diana

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Sources

Family photographs and documents from the collection of Diana Bryan Quinn. 

New York State, Marriage Index, 1881-1967. New York State Department of Health; Albany, NY, USA; New York State Marriage Index. Ancestry.com

Poughkeepsie Journal, Mrs. Morris, Fishkill Resident. Poughkeepsie, New York. 

19 Jul 1965, Mon  •  Page 16. Newspapers.com. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/39406783/poughkeepsie_journal/

Friday's Photo: William Glynn and Family of Albany County, New York

On the back: Johnny, Margurite, Willy, and Grace 1938

William Glynn was my grandmother's first cousin. He was the son of Henry H. Glynn and Harriet Mae Snyder. Henry H. Glynn was the son of Joseph Albert Glynn and Julia Harvey (my great-great-grandparents). 

William, born on December 26, 1892, in Cohoes, NY,  was one of two siblings born to Henry Glynn and Harriet Snyder. Harriet died in 1893. It is said Henry Glynn died about the same time. The two brothers, William and Albert, were raised by Harriet Snyder's parents, William and Angeline Snyder in Albany County, New York. 

William married Ella Marguerite McBain in 1913. William was a milk dealer or owned a dairy. They had one child, Grace, who married John King. William and Marguerite remained in Albany County until their deaths. William died on April 24, 1960, and his wife died on January 23, 1977.

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Diana

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Sources

Family photographs and documents from the collection of Diana Bryan Quinn. 

Honoring my Parents on Veterans Day

My parents served in the U.S. Navy Hospital Corps. Mom and Dad met when both were stationed in New Orleans in the 1950s. 

Dad served in the Navy from 1940 to 1969. I've written much about his service. You can find more at this link - Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day - Dad was stationed at the Mobile Naval Hospital #2 in Aiea Heights, Territory of Hawaii.

Mom joined the Navy in 1952 while working in New York City. She was only in the Navy for a few years but had duty stations in Bainbridge, Maryland (Boot Camp), San Diego, Corpus Christi, and New Orleans. Mom left the Navy a few months before my birth in 1955 and was a Navy spouse until Dad retired in 1969. While Dad was deployed, Mom managed the household and was the sole parent of two children. Thank you, Mom!

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Diana

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Sources

Family photographs and documents from the collection Diana Bryan Quinn.

Friday's Photo: Cannons in Phillipsburg, New Jersey

On the back:
South Main Street
Phillipsburg, Warren County, New Jersey
The Civil War Mortar, at the left, was built at Fort Pitt, Pa. in 1862. It was used at the Island No. 10 in the Mississippi River from 1862-1865. 

Charles Giddens 1911
Charles lost the tip of
his right index finger
in the 1909 explosion.

I don't know where I purchased this postcard. Maybe an antique shop or eBay? My interest was South Main Street as I knew my grandmother grew up living over her parents' shop on South Main. And, I was very interested in the cannon pictured as my grandmother's brother, Charles Giddens, stuffed dynamite in a cannon causing minor injury to Great-Uncle Charlie and his friend when detonated. See Monday's News: Dynamite for newspaper articles describing this event in 1909. 

My great-grandparents' store is not visible. It must be further down the street. So on to my next question, Was this the cannon used by Uncle Charlie and his friend on July 3, 1909? 

A little research told me that the item pictured was a Civil War mortar, not a cannon. According to Google, a mortar is simply a tube. The mortar shell has its own contained lifting charge and stabilizing fins.  A cannon works like a rifle with the shell casing and bullet in the tube.

This mortar was one of four mortars found in Phillipsburg - three mortars around the Civil War Memorial and one on the soldiers’ plot in the cemetery are the property of Tolmie Post. These appear to be the "cannons" granted to the John G. Tolmie Post, No. 50 of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1896.

From the Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, Volume 54, Issue 1

I re-read many of the articles about Uncle Charle and the cannon explosion and learned that the boys probably loaded the dynamite into a home-made cannon, not the mortar.  

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Sources

“Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States - United States. Congress. House - Google Books.” https://books.google.com/books?id=1lNQAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA478&lpg=PA478&dq=civil+war+mortar+phillipsburg+nj&source=bl&ots=MWZy0Pz9ox&sig=ACfU3U2D1IQLJPZkE6-74xuLXcbctLJvJA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi7jJ7roqnlAhVuhOAKHRfAAYYQ6AEwEXoECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false. Accessed 8 Nov. 2019.

King, Drew. “Phillpsburg, Pennsylvania {note that this should be New Jersey not Pennsylvania} Civil War Memorial .” <i> Adventures in History</i>, https://monumentman.wordpress.com/2013/12/30/phillpsburg-civil-war-memorial/. Accessed 8 Nov. 2019.

Quinn, Diana Bryan. “Moments in Time, A Genealogy Blog: Monday's News: Dynamite.” https://momentsintimeagenealogyblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/mondays-news-dynamite.html. Accessed 8 Nov. 2019.

Friday's Photo: Is this Laura Jessie Wimberly?

Laura Wimberly, Bryan Martin, Charlie Martin, and Tommie Martin

I knew that the boys in this photo were the sons of Laura Frances Bryan and Thomas Jefferson Martin, but had to sift through the several Lauras in the Wimberly Family History to find Laura Wimberly's parents. 

If I am correct, Laura Wimberly is Laura Jessie Wimberly, daughter of Jesse Wimberly and Jane Crumpton of Bienville Parish, Louisiana. Laura, born June 26, 1879, was the first of four children. Her father died in 1889 and Laura was raised by her mother. 

Laura married John S. Sheppard, a farmer in Red River Parish, in 1913. They had three children; Catherine, William Henry Marshall, and Mary. 

Sadly, Laura died young in 1921. As told in the Wimberly Family History, her children were sent to the Genevieve Orphanage in Shreveport.  Catherine and William later made their home with Laura's brother, Abner and his wife, Callie.  Mary was adopted and her whereabouts were unknown. 

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Sources

Family photographs and documents from the collection of Marguerite Cook Clark. Accessed April 28, 2014, September 14, 2014, and November 9 to 11, 2016. Used with permission.


Wimberly, Vera. Wimberly Family History: Ancestors, Relatives, and Descendants of William Wimberly, Pioneer from Georgia to Louisiana, 1837. Houston, Tex.: D. Armstrong, 1979. Print.