In 1835 Jane Lockmiller Marries Pleasant Wilhelm

In Rhea County, Tennessee on September 29, 1835, Pleasant Wilhelm obtained a marriage license to marry (Virginia) Jane Lockmiller. They are my maternal 3rd GGrandparents. 


          "License Bond
           Pleasant L Wilhelms
           Jane ? L_Miller
           Sept 29th 1835"


This clipped section is easier to read. 

via Ancestry.com. Tennessee, Marriage Records, 1780-2002. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008.

Do you also descend from Jane and Ples?

1877 Marriage of Pleasant Willhelms and Nancy Gains

Two copies. One shows the cropped portion. The other, the whole page from which it was taken.



Familysearch has:

Name: Pleasant Willhelms
Event Type: Marriage
Event Date: 15 Feb 1877
Event Place: Franklin, Arkansas, United States
Event Place (Original): , Franklin, Arkansas, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 22
Birth Year (Estimated): 1855
Spouse's Name: Nancy A Gains
Spouse's Gender: Female
Spouse's Age: 18
Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated): 1859
Page: 283

Citing this Record - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N974-V4Z

"Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N974-V4C : 18 March 2019), Nancy A Gains in entry for Pleasant Willhelms, 15 Feb 1877; citing Marriage, Franklin, Arkansas, United States, county offices, Arkansas; FHL microfilm 1,034,243.

McCormick Family Obits

I'm reading Newspapers.com this rainy afternoon. Found a few McCormick obits of people my GGrandmother Elta (McCormick) Coffee or her parents may have known--beginning with her dad's obituary:



Obit of Elta's father's father, William S. McCormick, Sr.:


via Carroll Daily Times-Herald, Carroll, Iowa, p. 2, on August 21, 1945.


via Gibson City Courier, Gibson City, Illinois, p. 4, March 20, 1914.


via The Decatur Review, Decatur, Illinois, p. 24, on May 18, 1950.


A grandson of William S. McCormick, Sr., via Redlands Daily Facts, Redlands, California, p. 6, April 25, 1961.



Vada, daughter of Firman and Lucinda McCormick, was the g-granddaughter of William S. McCormick Sr and his wife Mary Morgan McCormick.  via The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia, p. 45, May 26, 1997.



A grandson of William S. McCormick, Sr., via Des Moines Tribune, Des Moines, Iowa, p. 8, April 20, 1959.


Another grandson of William, Sr., and our GREAT Aunt Helen's cousin, via Albuquerque Journal, New Mexico, p. 84, April 10, 1983. (Postscript to Coffee cousins:  my app's relationship-counter ALSO indicates Helen and Wilfred were 4th cousins via a distant Van Doren ancestor-cousins who were married). #Agoodygoody



This was Roscoe and Margaret's son, and grandson of William McCormick Sr. and wife Elizabeth Mount Van Doren. 


1882 Murder Most Foul

Front page of The Galveston Daily News, Galveston, Texas, on November 9, 1882.  



Highlighted in yellow on page 4 of this paper is a brief account of Willie Berry's death at the hand of my maternal 2x Great-Grandfather, Welcome Wilhelm.


Other articles have mentioned different locations for the murder scene (as posted elsewhere on this blog) and used initials only for the given names of the two men. Dear editors, please do not use initials. Ever.

I have since made acquaintance with many Texas records in search of Mr. "W. Berry." #manyverymany

So on this lovely April day of pandemic shelter-in-place I am HAPPY to have learned Mr. Willie Berry's full name.

With a name and possible birth location, I hope to learn more of William or Willie Berry's past. Did he have family in Texas? If married, was his wife pregnant with their eighth child when he was killed, as was my GG-Grandmother Mary Wilhelm? I hope to find him in a Kentucky census. Let's hope "Willie" wasn't a nickname. 

How on earth did he get crosswise with Welk Wilhelm?

Let me re-phrase that.

What on earth provoked Welk to shoot Willie Berry?


Source:  The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 199, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 9, 1882, newspaper, November 9, 1882; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth462323/m1/4/: accessed April 2, 2020), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, texashistory.unt.edu; .

Cobb Tells Naharkey's Story

          Today's TulsaWorld newspaper has a guest columnist's piece on an appalling land grab 100+ years ago in Creek Nation, Indian Territory. No, not THE big land grab when the U.S. Government broke its zillioneth contract with indigenous peoples by declaring their territory the 46th state in 1907. This is about a woman cheated of control of her very own allotment. 

          Written by a former Tulsan and a forever-Okie, Russell Cobb adapted the story of Millie Naharkey from his new book, The Great Oklahoma Swindle: Race, Religion, and Lies in America’s Weirdest State. 

https://t.co/CNXx8iOFOC?amp=1

          (I pray my link leads you to the article. Holler, if not). 

          Because I can't wait for Prime to bring Cobb's book to my doorstep (we ARE practicing "social distance" in lieu of Covid-19), I plugged Millie Naharkey's name into Newspapers.com.

          From the front page of an October 5, 1922 newspaper:



          Because front pages of old newspapers rock, here's a partial shot from the same paper. Look who was en route to Muskogee that week. See "Comrades Attention!" at the top:



          I was happy to learn from Cobb's article of Millie Naharkey's hard-fought legal victory against Charles Page, head of the corporation named "Sand Springs Home." Good for her!  Although she saw little of the profit from the land thanks to her guardians at 1st National Bank of Tulsa. Imagine what the Bank's lawyers hourly fee was to represent themselves in that lawsuit, I mean, Ms. Naharkey.

          Having her repeatedly declared "an incompetent Indian" before a judge and then stealing her inheritance!  Reminds me of Wells Fargo's recent fine for twice setting up fake accounts under customer's names so it could profit by moving money around--without knowledge or approval from customers, FFS.  

          Have you ever wished bankers could be tarred and feathered?

https://law.justia.com/cases/oklahoma/supreme-court/1936/23023.html

         
          If you also read Newspapers.com, here's the 1922 article's link:  https://www.newspapers.com/image/608081786/
 

Happy Birthday, Johnny Cash and Uncle Larry


“I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down,
Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town,
I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime,
But is there because he's a victim of the times.

I wear the black for those who never read.”

I once saw Johnny sing with June Carter at the church his parents once attended in Meiners Oaks--outside of Ojai, California. He had returned for a revival in the mid-1970s.

Saw him again at a funeral in Bakersfield on the side of a hill. Toni might correct me on that. In the spirit of Harold & Maude, we had crashed the event that hot summer day to catch site of Merle Haggard and Buck Owens. 


And Happy Birthday to my Uncle Larry who turns 80 today. He's now old enough to run for president.

That's Larry in 2006 with his favorite sister-in-law, Elta.