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.  

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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. 

Pearl Harbor 79th Remembrance

My father, Whit Criswell Bryan, sent his aunt, Dollie Bryan Wylie, these photos
from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. When the bombing occurred,
Dad was a Pharmacist's Mate 3rd Class and one of many Naval personnel
building Mobile Naval Hospital #2.

Whit Bryan and Bob Brunner at Pearl Harbor in the 1940s and on
December 7, 1991, at the Joint Expeditionary Base Little
Creek-Fort Story, Norfolk, VA

Memorial to local veterans who served at Pearl Harbor at the
Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story, Norfolk, VA

National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day is observed every year on December 7th to honor victims of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Seventy-nine years ago, aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor in what was then Hawaii Territory. Over 2,000 military personnel were killed and more than 1,000 injured. The next day, the United States entered the Second World War.

Remembrance ceremonies are smaller or virtual this year. The Pearl Harbor National Memorial Facebook page has many virtual opportunities to learn more about Pearl Harbor this weekend.

On Monday, December 7th at 12:55 PM EST, take the opportunity to gather virtually at the Pearl Harbor National Memorial Facebook page to view the ceremony commemorating the 79th Anniversary of the Attacks on Pearl Harbor. 

More of my Pearl Harbor Remembrance posts can be seen at the links below. 

Friday's Photo: Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day 2012

Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day - 2019

Thoughts of Dad on Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day 2014

Remembering Dad and Pearl Harbor: Naval Mobile Hospital # 2

Friday's Photo: Pearl Harbor 

Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day - Dad was stationed at the Mobile Naval Hospital #2 in Aiea Heights, Territory of Hawaii

#52ancestors Post Fifty-One: The Second Anniversary of Mobile Hospital No. 2, Pearl Harbor - August 1943 

Friday's Photo: Pearl Harbor Survivors, Whit Bryan and Bob Brunner - 1991

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Diana

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Sources 

"Attack on Pearl Harbor."  Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor. Accessed 4 Dec. 2020.

Memorial to local veterans. Photograph, ca. 2001. Privately held by Diana Bryan Quinn, Virginia Beach, VA.

Whit Criswell Bryan. Photograph, ca. 1941. Privately held by Diana Bryan Quinn,

Virginia Beach, VA.

Whit Criswell Bryan and Bob Brunner. Photograph, ca. 1941. Privately held by Diana Bryan Quinn, Virginia Beach, VA.

Whit Criswell Bryan and Bob Brunner. Photograph, ca. 1991. Privately held by Diana Bryan Quinn, Virginia Beach, VA.

Friday's Photo: Patrick Quinn from Galway to Australia

Written below the photo:  Pat Quinn and Wife, sons - Tom and Jack - Australia

This photo was shared with me by a distant Quinn cousin while visiting Galway, Ireland in 2016. Patrick was born on January 14, 1867, in Labane, Ardrahan, Galway. His parents were John Quinn and Sarah Burke. It is not known when Patrick left Ireland for Australia or where this photo was taken. 

I have much information about other children and grandchildren of John and Sarah; however, I don't know how they connect to my husband's Quinn family of nearby Caherawoneen, Kinvara, Galway. 

There is definitely a connection. Descendants of both families share stories about family visits and share DNA. My husband's family knew John and Sarah's daughter, Cecelia Quinn Foley, as a cousin. And, her photo was found in my husband's family's photo collection.  

If you are a descendant of either of these Quinn families, please contact me on my Facebook page or send me an email. I have much to share and would love to hear anything that you have to add. 

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Diana

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Sources 

National Library of Ireland, "Adrahan/Microfilm 02442/09," Catholic Parish Registers at the NLI  (https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000634143#page/3/mode/1up: accessed [date]), record for Patrick Quinn, 14 Jan 1867.

Patrick Quinn and Family. Photograph, date unknown. Privately held by Owen Quinn [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE,] County Galway, Ireland.