County Clare, Bienville Parish, Phillipsburg, and Siberia

This blog is a relatively small blog in the blogger world. On average, I get about 2000 legitimate link clicks each month, most by the same set of readers. I love writing the blog and do not plan to stop. Writing the posts keeps me organized and has improved my research skills. It allows me to share my finds with those who are interested, collaborate with others, and, most importantly, find family. 

This year, I have written 78 posts. My most-read post, in 2020, was about my husband's great-aunt's store in New Quay, County Clare, Ireland. I learned much about New Quay while researching for Julia Moylan's Store on the Flaggy Shore.

The second of my top three posts, Friday's Photo: Charles William Giddens, told of my Great-Uncle Charlie and his service in World War I and World War II. Uncle Charlie lived in Phillipsburg, New Jersey when he first joined the Army in 1911 and he remained in New Jersey until World War II when he entered the United States Naval Reserve to be an instructor at the Naval Air Gunners School.

Three Bryan Cemetery Monuments Beautifully Restored in Bienville Parish was my third most-read post. The Bryan Cemetery is located in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. 

My all-time favorite posts this year were those regarding the photos of Almus and Lillie Beck in Siberia. Almus and Lillie were not my family and I was looking for a good home for the photos. As only four of many photos were labeled, I started with almost nothing and came upon an incredible story. The photos now have a good home at the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri. 

Click here to read the story of Almus and Lillie. To see many of their photos from Siberia, visit Snapshots From Siberia 1918 -1919. 

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Diana

© 2020 

Sources 

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

"Moments in Time, A Genealogy Blog: Friday's Photo: Almus E. Beck of North Carolina." https://momentsintimeagenealogyblog.blogspot.com/2020/10/fridays-photo-almus-e-beck-of-north.html. Accessed 30 Dec. 2020.

"Moments in Time, A Genealogy Blog: Friday's Photo: Charles William Giddens." https://momentsintimeagenealogyblog.blogspot.com/2020/08/fridays-photo-charles-william-giddens.html. Accessed 30 Dec. 2020.

"Moments in Time, A Genealogy Blog: Julia Moylan's Store on the Flaggy Shore." https://momentsintimeagenealogyblog.blogspot.com/2020/02/julia-moylans-store-on-flaggy-shore.html. Accessed 30 Dec. 2020.

"Moments in Time, A Genealogy Blog: Snapshots From Siberia 1918." 1919 https://momentsintimeagenealogyblog.blogspot.com/2020/10/snapshots-from-siberia-1918-1919.html. Accessed 30 Dec. 2020.

From the Files of Marguerite Cook Clark: Alice Beatrice Lawson Alexander

Alice Beatrice Alexander died at age 58 on October 11, 1959. She was the daughter of Andrew Wimberly Lawson and Alma Bryan. She descends from my 2nd great-grandparents, Reddick Bryan and Elizabeth Regan. Her mother's father was Augustus Reddick Bryan, son of Reddick and Elizabeth's son, Joseph B. Bryan. Additionally, her father's mother, Lucy M. Regan, was a granddaughter of Elizabeth Regan Bryan and her first husband, Joseph Regan. 

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Diana

© 2020 

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.

"Public Member Trees." Ancestry. https://www.ancestry.com. 2020.

"U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current," database on-line. Ancestry. https://www.ancestry.com. 2020.

Clippings from The Baylor County Banner - Seymour, Texas - March 29, 1923

My grandparents, Redic E. Bryan and Myrtie Hairston, and my great-grandparent's, Phillip A. Hairston and Lodema Criswell, moved to Baylor County in 1905. My father, Whit Criswell Bryan, was born in Seymour in 1920. He was the youngest of seven children born to Redic and Myrtie. 

In April 2019, I visited the Texas State Library and Archives to read Baylor County Banner issues that could not be found online or on microfilm. I photographed articles with information about my father's family who lived in Seymour. While sorting through my family finds, I realized I had photos of articles that might interest others looking for family. I have pictures of numerous articles from 1923 and a few from other years. I will post as time allows. 

Thank you to Matt Gwinn at the Baylor County Banner for giving me permission to post these clippings.  

If you want to know more about the families I research, click here to like my Facebook page where you will see each post and other genealogical finds. 

Diana

© 2020

Sources

Harrison, O. C. The Baylor County Banner. (Seymour, TX.), Vol. 27*, No. 27. 29 Mar 1923. Print. Accessed 15 April 2019. 

*Note that January and February issues were part of Vol. 28. This and all March and April issues were printed as Vol. 27. In May, it goes back to Vol. 28. 

Friday's Photo: December 25, 1951, An Engagement Party

Written on the back of this photo is Mother, me, and Bill. My engagement party. December 25, 1951. Pictured are Helen Staubach, Doris Staubach, and William "Bill" Quinn. Doris and Bill were my husband's parents. Helen was the mother of Doris. I'm sure the photo was taken in New York City as both Doris and Bill's parents lived on West 153rd Street. 

Doris and Bill were married just a little over a year later on January 3, 1953. 

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Diana

© 2020 

Sources 

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

Christmas Wishes to Sarah Eddy of Adams County, Wisconsin - 1906 and 1914

Before genealogy, I used to spend time in antique shops, flea markets, and various antique shows at malls. Postcards from the past always interested me and I now have a small collection of old postcards depicting my hometown and my ancestors' hometowns as well as those with holiday greetings and patriotic themes.  

Production of Christmas Seals such as
this 1914 Red Cross Christmas Seal,
found on the second card, was one
way the charity raised money between
 the years 1907 and 1919. 

These two found holiday postcards were written to Sarah Eddy of Adams County, Wisconsin. The first, in 1906 was sent by Herbert Townsend when Sarah was living in Easton. The second was sent when Sarah was living in Friendship in 1914. The sender, only known by their initials C. L. S., was living in Fulton, Michigan. 

According to Pubic Member Trees at Ancestry.com, Sarah, born in 1857 in Easton, was the daughter of Thomas Eddy and Castara Mason.  It does not appear that she married or ever lived beyond Adams County. More research would be needed to determine if these facts are correct.  

Sarah died at her home in Friendship on January 27, 1933.  She is buried in Easton Cemetery along with her parents and a few of her siblings. 

Fulton, Mich., Dec. 25-14, We wish you all a Merry Christmas and 
Happy New Year. C.L.S

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Diana

© 2020 

Sources 

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

"Christmas seal."  Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_seal. Accessed 22 Dec. 2020.

"Public Member Trees." Ancestry. https://www.ancestry.com. 2020.

100 Years Ago in Seymour, Texas

Whit Criswell Bryan
December 21, 1920 - August 22, 2001

My father, Whit Criswell Bryan, was born 100 years ago today. I know Dad was born in his home in Seymour, Texas. His family lived on River Street in April of 1920 when enumerated in the 1920 United States Census and I assume but don't know if that is where they lived when he was born later in the year. 

About 1922 in Seymour

In 2012, I wrote three blog posts about a photo of a home found in my family's Bible while trying to determine if that was the home on River Street. Read these posts to learn more about the house in Seymour. 

Family Photos: The House in Seymour – Part I

Family Photos: The House in Seymour – Part II

Family Photos: The House in Seymour – Part III

The house in Seymour

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Diana

© 2020 

Sources 

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

Year: 1920; Census Place: Seymour, Baylor, Texas; Roll: T625_1774; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 11

Friday's Photo: Elva Batchelor and Family

Elva, James, and Lelialu - about 1920

In this photo, one found in Marguerite Cook Clark's collection, only Elva Batchelor was identified. A search of Ancestry.com's Public Member Trees was a little confusing as some gave Elva's parents as Daniel P. Batchelor and Sara Josephine Woodard and others said her parents were Henry B. Batchelor and Leila Estelle Woodard. 

I was finally able to see that Daniel and Henry were brothers who married sisters. Census records showed that Daniel P. and Sara J. had a daughter Eula and Elva was the daughter of Henry B. and Lelia E. And, when Elva's daughter married in 1948, it was written in the newspaper announcement that her daughter, Lelialu, was the grand-niece (not granddaughter) of Mrs. D. P. Batchelor. 

Elva was born on July 10, 1893. She was found with her parents in Bienville Parish on the 1900 United States Census and sometime before 1920, she married James Herbert Hutchinson of Tennesee. The 1920 census shows Elva, James, and a new baby living in Murray, Kentucky where James is a high school teacher. Ten years later they are living in Drew, Arkansas where she is a music teacher and James is an administrator at Arkansas A&M College (now the University of Arkansas at Monticello). In 1940, James was Dean of Academics.  

Elva and James had children Lelialu, William, and James Jr. Elva died in 1981 at age 89. James died in 1975 at age 85. Both are buried in Oakland Cemetery in Monticello, Arkansas. 

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Diana

© 2020 

Sources 

Arkansas, Drew County. 1930 U. S. Census, population schedule. Database with images. Ancestry. https://www.ancestry.com : 2020.

Arkansas, Drew County. 1940 U. S. Census, population schedule. Database with images. Ancestry. https://www.ancestry.com : 2020.

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.

Find A Grave.com. Digital images. http://www.findagrave.com: 2020.

Kentucky, Calloway County. 1920 U. S. Census, population schedule. Database with images. Ancestry. https://www.ancestry.com : 2020.

Louisiana, Bienville Parish. 1900 U. S. Census, population schedule. Database with images. Ancestry. https://www.ancestry.com : 2020. 

"Marriage of Niece of Shreveporters Is Solemnized." The Shreveport Times 75, no.26 (1948): 48.

"Public Member Trees." Ancestry. https://www.ancestry.com. 2019.

Clippings from The Baylor County Banner - Seymour, Texas - March 22, 1923

My grandparents, Redic E. Bryan and Myrtie Hairston, and my great-grandparents, Phillip A. Hairston and Lodema Criswell, moved to Baylor County in 1905. My father, Whit Criswell Bryan, was born in Seymour in 1920. He was the youngest of seven children born to Redic and Myrtie. 

In April 2019, I visited the Texas State Library and Archives to read Baylor County Banner issues that could not be found online or on microfilm. I photographed articles with information about my father's family who lived in Seymour. While sorting through my family finds, I realized I had photos of articles that might interest others looking for family. I have pictures of numerous articles from 1923 and a few from other years. I will post as time allows. 

Thank you to Matt Gwinn at the Baylor County Banner for giving me permission to post these clippings.  

If you want to know more about the families I research, click here to like my Facebook page where you will see each post and other genealogical finds. 

Diana

© 2020

Sources

Harrison, O. C. The Baylor County Banner. (Seymour, TX.), Vol. 27*, No. 26. 22 Mar 1923. Print. Accessed 15 April 2019. 

*Note that January and February issues were part of Vol. 28. This and all March and April issues were printed as Vol. 27. In May, it goes back to Vol. 28. 

Friday's Photo: Charles Staubach, Sr.

Charles Staubach, Sr. - photo taken about 1921

Charles Staubach, Jr. doted on his daughter, Doris, when she was a child. She remembered him as a kind man who took her out for ice cream after he attended services at the Lutheran Church each Sunday. When I asked Doris, my mother-in-law, about his family, she was only able to tell me a little. She knew that her father's parents spoke German and they had a butcher shop. 

Years later, I now know just a little more. Charles Staubach, Sr. was born in Herbstein, Germany on October 18, 1846. He came to New York sometime in October of 1871 and married his wife, Margaret, in 1872. His only child, Charles Staubach, Jr., was born in 1878. 

Charles Sr. completed an application for a passport in 1921. He was going to Germany to visit his brother. He was 74 years old and retired. The photograph above was his passport photo. 

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Diana

© 2020 

Sources 

"United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKDF-PDYV : 16 March 2018), Charles Staubach, 1921; citing Passport Application, New York, United States, source certificate #48326, Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 - March 31, 1925, 1644, NARA microfilm publications M1490 and M1372 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

"United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K6NB-C7Q : 25 August 2019), Charles Staubach, Jr, 1917-1918.

Clippings from The Baylor County Banner - Seymour, Texas - March 15, 1923

My grandparents, Redic E. Bryan and Myrtie Hairston, and my great-grandparent's, Phillip A. Hairston and Lodema Criswell, moved to Baylor County in 1905. My father, Whit Criswell Bryan, was born in Seymour in 1920. He was the youngest of seven children born to Redic and Myrtie. Redic and Myrtie died in the 1920s and my father moved along with his sisters to Borger, Texas. 

In April 2019, I visited the Texas State Library and Archives to read Baylor County Banner issues that could not be found online or on microfilm. I photographed articles with information about my father's family who lived in Seymour. While sorting through my family finds, I realized I had photos of articles that might interest others looking for family. I have pictures of numerous articles from 1923 and a few from other years. I will post as time allows. 

Thank you to Matt Gwinn at the Baylor County Banner for giving me permission to post these clippings.  

If you want to know more about the families I research, click here to like my Facebook page where you will see each post and other genealogical finds. 

Diana

© 2020

Sources

Harrison, O. C. The Baylor County Banner. (Seymour, TX.), Vol. 27*, No. 25. 15 Mar 1923. Print. Accessed 15 April 2019. 

*Note that January and February issues were part of Vol. 28. This and all March and April issues were printed as Vol. 27. In May, it goes back to Vol. 28.