Thanks to Cory and Tara at Posthaven for their time spent on my recent help query.
I appreciate you AND Posthaven!
Thanks to Cory and Tara at Posthaven for their time spent on my recent help query.
I appreciate you AND Posthaven!
While searching for (old) news of my family in 1896, I ran across this gem by Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_Caine
Just checked. Tulsa's library has one of his books. A copy is now on my tablet via the library's marvelous assistant, LIBBY.
See the middle of the second column for the remaining paragraphs.
From a Kentucky paper published Sunday, August 3, 1969 in The Lexington Herald-Leader:
In 1913 Elethea Ann (Barton) Miller (1855-1934), widow of Thomas D. Miller (1842-1886), made application for her husband's military pension. Though Mr. Miller had fought for the Confederacy while serving in a Mississippi cavalry unit, his wife was entitled to his pension from the state she was then living.
Elethea Miller made her home in Duckett, Howard County, Arkansas according to the pension record. In 1932 she supplemented her pension request, indicating a current address of Mena, Arkansas.
FamilySearch has scanned many Confederate pension records. If you've registered with FamilySearch you can find Elethea's application at the link cited below, beginning with Image No. 598 of 1392.
FamilySearch is free, and it is an AWESOME database. Do it! Or you can bear with my copies attached here:
Source: "Arkansas Confederate Pensions, 1901-1929," database with images, FamilySearch : 2 December 2019), Milam, J, A - Mitchell, J, W > image 598 of 1392; Citing Arkansas State Auditor, History Commission, Little Rock.
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939J-TGDP-H?cc=1837922&wc=M617-GP8%3A164379601
BTW, Thomas Miller's middle name was given on his son's birth certificate. I've seen it spelled phonetically, but will use this spelling until I find a better source.
A few records and articles of descendants of Susie Teague (1881-1952) and her husband Bogayn Miller (1877-1955)
Front and back sides of Bogayn's World War II draft card dated April 25, 1942:
And on Friday, July 29, 1955 The Apache Review carried Bogayn's obit on the front page:
Published September 2, 1955 in The Apache Review, page 2:
TO BE CONTINUED:
A marriage record from the Comanche County Courthouse in Oklahoma 1929. First the whole page. (Click once inside to enlarge the image. Click once again to return to this page)
The Texas State Board of Health's Certificate of Birth for
Town: Celeste
County: Hunt
D.O.B. Aug 29
Name: Miller #36882
Female White Legitimate Alive
Father's name: B L Miller, American
Mother's name: Susie Teague, American
Parents' Home: Celeste, Tex
Occupation: Farmer
Name of person reporting: J. E. _______?
So, Baby Girl Neva, how did your mother happen to be in Celeste, Texas when she went into labor? Were your parents en route to another town? Visiting family or friends nearby?
Wikipedia has a page on Celeste, Texas. Note which famous veteran from World War II once lived in Celeste:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celeste,_Texas
Neva and Joseph in Springfield, Illinois in 1930?
I've just spent an hour viewing these links below. Some contain a FAVORITE sentence of mine:
"To view a digital version of this item, click here." Ahh, access!
Veterans Administration Master Index - via FamilySearch Historical Records:
https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/United_States,_Veterans_Administration_Master_Index_-_FamilySearch_Historical_Records
U.S. National Archives, Military Records, 1885-2004
https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/United_States,_National_Archives,_Military_Records,_1885-2004
I bookmarked this site. Once again, FamilySearch is free to those who register:
https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2968245
This link connects you to what is inside the Granite Mountain Record Vault buried deep in Utah. #TornadoProof
https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/4092378?availability=Family%20History%20Library
My Dad served in Korea during the war. Years ago we ordered and received his military file from NARA (National Archives) and also his father's records from the Great War.
I thought I had exhausted the many online military databases available regarding my Grandfather's service in World War I. But upon signing on to FamilySearch today, it suggested a record I hadn't seen before.
It was a simple card showing his enlistment and discharge dates. Full legal name, address, DOB. Yes, I already knew those dates from other records, but hey! It's another source. Secondary proof! Proof I might obtain when learning of a distant cousin whose birth date is unknown.
An added bonus was seeing yet another (miss)spelling of Grandpa's middle name. A three-syllable word that I've not seen with any other person. This rendition appeared to be typed phonetically: Sulvenious. #SMH
It was a reminder to allow for misspellings when searching databases by keyword.
Two articles are from the March 21, 1907 edition, page 6. Welch was then in Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory. Soon to become the new state of Oklahoma. My Pennsylvania people had once lived near there in the late 1870s. But had moved on into Pawnee County.
Wiki provided details. Links to streaming both silent films are added inside two of its articles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_a_Race
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Miracle_Man_(1919_film)
--Thanks for dropping by!