The food was good!
More pics on flicker.
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Political Unrest Impacts Family Education
You all heard that recently the Occupy Wall Street movement was uprooted by Michael Bloomberg. So the protesters took the movement to Michael Bloomberg. They are planning to occupy 79th street between 5th and Madison. So Steiner will be closed for now.
Turned off the water (KLY) and emptyed the fridge (me) etc.
The etc. being, we went to the Alexander, NY cemetery. Having a family history is so new and totally interesting. Well, we did not find John Riddle's grave, but his wife, Olive. I think we located most of the Riddles that were buried there in the 18oo's.
Friday, November 18, 2011
More genealogy, sorry
I’m stopping with the family tree for a while. I’m sick, and the fever dreams about chasing a family line last night were horrible. I’ll figure out a way to blog the tree later. Some things in the meantime:
Bacom and Colvin did not leave behind much by way of info or descendents. The well-documented lines (McKinney & Cantonwine) have been followed to England, Ireland, the highlands, the Netherlands, the Rhineland and Lalaland. The furthest back a US born line went (with a shred of credibility- if that isn’t a problem for you, I direct your attention to Grimsditch & “Boleyn” below, or John Hambledon of UK (1570-?), who seems to be a forbear of the great Hamiltons) was Nicholas Ferris, born in Henrico, VA in 1596.
We have a Hezekiah Moseby (1695-1745), next to whom Ezekial Jenkins (1695-1750)(both of Virginia, by the way- pretty much every path that reaches the 1700s leads there, to PA or NJ) sounds pretty ordinary.
One of the English Riddles is Robert Bollen of Norfolk. If that is a corruption of Boleyn, might some of us be in line with the throne? Must check.
Francis Grimsditch! This remarkable woman, b. 1621 in Cripplegate (!), London, d. 1716 in Port Royal, Bermuda (!) is my 9x great-grandmama. The
fact that she gave birth to our ancestor Abigail Bloomfield at the age of 9 only makes me admire her more, and nothing is going to make me take her away from that tree. I think Grimsditch should become the default middle name for the DOJ clan. For females, I mean, males get Hezekiah.
Penelope Van Princis (1622-1732), Robert Henry Riddle’s 5XG-G, gives us a drop of Dutch blood.
Antrim, Derry, Mayo... I’m trying to get the Irish county names of the Galey ancestors together, just in case it can pad out that “Oh, I have ancestors from Ireland” conversational path.
Bettie Mckinney, Russell’s mom, gives us some interesting names as well as some German bllod on that side. Her mother is a Bowser, her 2xG-G is a Ditto, and her maternal G-G is a Dull. No Grimsditch, but a fine collection. The Bowsers are from Rheinland-Pfalz.
tl;dr: I could not find a Tom Riddle, but I did find a picture of him.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Monday, November 14, 2011
Russell Bacom Hewitt
Since Catherine will be filling in the Riddle side of things, this is a thread for the Bacom line:
In the 1880 census, John J. Bacom (1827) and Julia A. Bacom (1840) (my great-great grandparents) are living in Abingdon, IL, with 6 children ranging from 10-1 (Harriet, John, James, Nathaniel, Francis (age 3) & Samuel (!)). John J. is a carriage trimmer. John J. and Julia are both from Kentucky. Great Grandpa Francis seems to disappear at this point, but 30 years later...
1910- Bettie Bacom (26 yrs.) is living in Abingdon with her 3 children (Nathan (7), Russell (5), & Dorothy (3)) at her parents' home (William (50) & Rachie (45) McKinney) with her 3 brothers (John (23), Jessie (19), & Walter (14)). William and his 2 older sons work on the railroad.
1920- Betty (36) Has married David J. Hewitt (46), and is living in Rosedale, Kansas, with Russell and Dorothy in a house with David's brother, Richard, and his wife Lucille, who is from Sweden. Richard and David are barbers.
1930- Russell (25) is living with David & Betty Hewitt in L.A.. Russell is a checker at a wholesale grocery. David is a vacuum cleaner salesman.
All of this comes from census records. It would benice to find out what happened to Francis between being aged 3 and dying in a hotel room in Texas. And what kind of Civil War did our Kentucky forebears have?
In the 1880 census, John J. Bacom (1827) and Julia A. Bacom (1840) (my great-great grandparents) are living in Abingdon, IL, with 6 children ranging from 10-1 (Harriet, John, James, Nathaniel, Francis (age 3) & Samuel (!)). John J. is a carriage trimmer. John J. and Julia are both from Kentucky. Great Grandpa Francis seems to disappear at this point, but 30 years later...
1910- Bettie Bacom (26 yrs.) is living in Abingdon with her 3 children (Nathan (7), Russell (5), & Dorothy (3)) at her parents' home (William (50) & Rachie (45) McKinney) with her 3 brothers (John (23), Jessie (19), & Walter (14)). William and his 2 older sons work on the railroad.
1920- Betty (36) Has married David J. Hewitt (46), and is living in Rosedale, Kansas, with Russell and Dorothy in a house with David's brother, Richard, and his wife Lucille, who is from Sweden. Richard and David are barbers.
1930- Russell (25) is living with David & Betty Hewitt in L.A.. Russell is a checker at a wholesale grocery. David is a vacuum cleaner salesman.
All of this comes from census records. It would benice to find out what happened to Francis between being aged 3 and dying in a hotel room in Texas. And what kind of Civil War did our Kentucky forebears have?
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Here's what Mom got.
Mom was taking notes, so she'll be right when we differ.
What I learned from Catherine Smith
11/12/11
The Great Aunts, Julia and Adalide Riddle were born in ……….Kansas.
Father was John Henry Riddle, Mother Elizabeth Galey
Siblings of Julia and Adalide were David, George, Sussanah, (Suda)
and Bloomfield.
How the family went to W.T.
They were active Methodists. They were at a meeting, singing. George
was playing the harmonica, badly. One girl gave someone a nickel to
give to George if he would stop playing. George was mad, a fight
broke out with David and George and another kid. A knife was
involved. And a kid was killed! David was convicted, but the whole
town knew that David was a nice kid, the kid who died was a bully.
David went to jail. He was there 3 years, and then his family got a
judge to let him out. The whole family immediately went to Waitsburg,
W.T. on the Oregon Trail!!! The father, J
That is how Cora came to be born in W.T. Her mother was Suda. Suda
contracted typhoid and died. Cora had 2 siblings Myrtle & Elmer
(?). Myrtle was a nurse. She died at a young age of stomach cancer.
We have pictures of her with fantastic hats.
The family moved to Chicago (?).
David Riddle became a doctor.
George became a policeman (we have a picture of him in uniform).
Cora was married 3 times. Arthur Colvin was Cora’s second husband.
They had mother and Alfred. She then married Mr. Bigelow, and had
Aunt Betty.
Cora was a nurse. Arthur was married 5 times.
The ‘Great Aunts’ went to medical school in Chicago. They had one of
the first cars in their town. Picture we have is of a parade in
which the car is decorated with flowers with probably them driving.
Arthur Colvin, mothers father, was married 5 times. We may have
relatives we do not know about.
However, Cora’s children are the only ones in the Riddle line. None
of the other siblings of The Great Aunts had children. And mother is
the only one of her siblings to have children.
There are letters about the cruelty of the Great Aunts.
The reason mother knew Lydia and Ed Kreck was they took her in and
defended her when she was suing to leave the Great Aunts.
What I learned from Catherine Smith
11/12/11
The Great Aunts, Julia and Adalide Riddle were born in ……….Kansas.
Father was John Henry Riddle, Mother Elizabeth Galey
Siblings of Julia and Adalide were David, George, Sussanah, (Suda)
and Bloomfield.
How the family went to W.T.
They were active Methodists. They were at a meeting, singing. George
was playing the harmonica, badly. One girl gave someone a nickel to
give to George if he would stop playing. George was mad, a fight
broke out with David and George and another kid. A knife was
involved. And a kid was killed! David was convicted, but the whole
town knew that David was a nice kid, the kid who died was a bully.
David went to jail. He was there 3 years, and then his family got a
judge to let him out. The whole family immediately went to Waitsburg,
W.T. on the Oregon Trail!!! The father, J
That is how Cora came to be born in W.T. Her mother was Suda. Suda
contracted typhoid and died. Cora had 2 siblings Myrtle & Elmer
(?). Myrtle was a nurse. She died at a young age of stomach cancer.
We have pictures of her with fantastic hats.
The family moved to Chicago (?).
David Riddle became a doctor.
George became a policeman (we have a picture of him in uniform).
Cora was married 3 times. Arthur Colvin was Cora’s second husband.
They had mother and Alfred. She then married Mr. Bigelow, and had
Aunt Betty.
Cora was a nurse. Arthur was married 5 times.
The ‘Great Aunts’ went to medical school in Chicago. They had one of
the first cars in their town. Picture we have is of a parade in
which the car is decorated with flowers with probably them driving.
Arthur Colvin, mothers father, was married 5 times. We may have
relatives we do not know about.
However, Cora’s children are the only ones in the Riddle line. None
of the other siblings of The Great Aunts had children. And mother is
the only one of her siblings to have children.
There are letters about the cruelty of the Great Aunts.
The reason mother knew Lydia and Ed Kreck was they took her in and
defended her when she was suing to leave the Great Aunts.
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Ready? Mom, check if this seems correct.
Robert Riddle was born in Indiana (1830?), but he was a sod-house farmer in Kansas when his two sons David and George got in a fight at a 'sing'. The other guy (who was offering David a nickel to stop playing harmonica) died, and David Riddle was convicted. His parents launched a petition drive, and after three years he was released by the governor. The family immediately headed west on the Oregon trail. Wagons and everything. They were visited by a census taker while on the way.
Robert died en route, but his wife and 5 children, George, David, Julie, Adeline, Bloomfield, and Suda, (whose real name was...Susannah!), arrived in Washington territory. Suda is the only one to have had any children of her own. George eventually became LAPD, Julia, Adeline, and David all doctors. Suda died very young.
Suda's daughters Cora and Myrtle were both nurses. Cora went to care for the daughters of the widower Arthur in Shenandoah, Iowa. He was a prosperous traveling salesman. He started out as a grocer. Julia and Alfred were born there. Arthur and Cora divorced (he was beating her). Cora then nursed Caleb Bigelow, who had lost an arm in a farm accident. That was Aunt Betty's father.
Cora's brother, Elmer, was in jail for highway robbery, literally, and she seemed to have moved to Oklahoma with Caleb, to be near him. She was also petitioning for his release. Elmer was in the jail that Tom Joad is coming home from in the beginning of Grapes of Wrath. In the meantime, Julia and Adeline (henceforth the GAs) and George ended up in LA. They were also in Oshkosh, WI for a time, I forget why. They had a car. GA Julia was the first woman (maybe person) in Wisconsin to get a speeding ticket. She once hit someone. The GAs went to the Chicago Women's Medical college, both of them. Julia was a brilliant student. They had a magazine about healthy living practices and were very involved in the suffrage movement. However they are largely ignored in documentation about amazing women of the day. Perhaps because they were involved with the eugenics movement rather heavily, and their magazine was funded by a eugenics group! They were distributors of birth control, and probably practitioners of abortion.
Cora would already have known that they were awful people, because they had originally gotten Elmer sent into the juvenile system, because he was growing wild; the evidence for this is that he was consorting with Chinese persons. The GAs began raising Julia and siblings when Cora died. Julia would have been 11. They basically raised Cora, Myrtle, and Elmer, so this was their second little family. They appear to have adopted the children of patients they saw as unfit also.
Well known people involved in women's welfare and education helped Julia with her lawsuit against the GAs. She also had a high school friend (Hollywood High) whose parents protected her at the time. Apparently, Julia went, with the GAs reluctant consent, to live in a dorm, at a Christian college. The GAs demanded that they be informed if she left the dorm for any reason. They were very weird about men. The college refused, (GA Julia's letter to them is pretty creepy,) and they gave Julia permission to go stay with the friend. GA Julia came after her, but the friend's family and the neighbors intervened, and GA Julia was unable to grab Julia.
The man below is James Riddle Hoffa.
Robert died en route, but his wife and 5 children, George, David, Julie, Adeline, Bloomfield, and Suda, (whose real name was...Susannah!), arrived in Washington territory. Suda is the only one to have had any children of her own. George eventually became LAPD, Julia, Adeline, and David all doctors. Suda died very young.
Suda's daughters Cora and Myrtle were both nurses. Cora went to care for the daughters of the widower Arthur in Shenandoah, Iowa. He was a prosperous traveling salesman. He started out as a grocer. Julia and Alfred were born there. Arthur and Cora divorced (he was beating her). Cora then nursed Caleb Bigelow, who had lost an arm in a farm accident. That was Aunt Betty's father.
Cora's brother, Elmer, was in jail for highway robbery, literally, and she seemed to have moved to Oklahoma with Caleb, to be near him. She was also petitioning for his release. Elmer was in the jail that Tom Joad is coming home from in the beginning of Grapes of Wrath. In the meantime, Julia and Adeline (henceforth the GAs) and George ended up in LA. They were also in Oshkosh, WI for a time, I forget why. They had a car. GA Julia was the first woman (maybe person) in Wisconsin to get a speeding ticket. She once hit someone. The GAs went to the Chicago Women's Medical college, both of them. Julia was a brilliant student. They had a magazine about healthy living practices and were very involved in the suffrage movement. However they are largely ignored in documentation about amazing women of the day. Perhaps because they were involved with the eugenics movement rather heavily, and their magazine was funded by a eugenics group! They were distributors of birth control, and probably practitioners of abortion.
Cora would already have known that they were awful people, because they had originally gotten Elmer sent into the juvenile system, because he was growing wild; the evidence for this is that he was consorting with Chinese persons. The GAs began raising Julia and siblings when Cora died. Julia would have been 11. They basically raised Cora, Myrtle, and Elmer, so this was their second little family. They appear to have adopted the children of patients they saw as unfit also.
Well known people involved in women's welfare and education helped Julia with her lawsuit against the GAs. She also had a high school friend (Hollywood High) whose parents protected her at the time. Apparently, Julia went, with the GAs reluctant consent, to live in a dorm, at a Christian college. The GAs demanded that they be informed if she left the dorm for any reason. They were very weird about men. The college refused, (GA Julia's letter to them is pretty creepy,) and they gave Julia permission to go stay with the friend. GA Julia came after her, but the friend's family and the neighbors intervened, and GA Julia was unable to grab Julia.
The man below is James Riddle Hoffa.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Monday, November 7, 2011
NYC weekend
NYC weekend, a set on Flickr.
it was a lovely week end with Janice and Madhu. We went to the Met to see the new middle Eastern and South Asian galleries, done beautifully. Had a nice lunch at Saravanna's and a very good dinner with Junu at il Riccio.
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Local Pullet Graduates
Today marked the proud beginning of adulthood for one Reed Road Buff Orpington. "Well, it couldn't have been under worse circumstances," she confided to this reporter. "It seemed like the flock would just never leave, but finally the Human with the Hairy Fiend showed up and let them out.
I thought I would have a quiet moment in the only good box, (I would never lower myself to use any of the other three-you'd never see George or Leslie in them, and, of course, Barry never lays at all, though only this morning I saw one of the Australorps in there, tacky, but you know Australorps.) Anyway, the next thing I knew HWTHF came IN to the house! That beast was dancing about in the doorway!
She came over and dared to touch me and checked to see if there was anything in the box. If I could talk, I would have said, 'There's nothing there yet, and what have you done with Dear Janice? And why have you no grapes?'
But I can't, so I just centered as best I could while HWTHF struggled with a new food bag. Oommm.
Well, then it happened. 'Pa-kaaaak, pa-kaak,' I cried, hoping to summon the others, you understand, but all I got was HWTHF holding a handful of scratch up to me. So I left. Well, okay, I ate a bunch of scratch first, but let me tell you I tried to eat a bunch of HWTHF while I was at it."
The Buff Orpington reports that she hopes to distinguish herself in the egg-laying field, as she is otherwise indistinguishable from the other two Buff Orpingtons.
I thought I would have a quiet moment in the only good box, (I would never lower myself to use any of the other three-you'd never see George or Leslie in them, and, of course, Barry never lays at all, though only this morning I saw one of the Australorps in there, tacky, but you know Australorps.) Anyway, the next thing I knew HWTHF came IN to the house! That beast was dancing about in the doorway!
She came over and dared to touch me and checked to see if there was anything in the box. If I could talk, I would have said, 'There's nothing there yet, and what have you done with Dear Janice? And why have you no grapes?'
But I can't, so I just centered as best I could while HWTHF struggled with a new food bag. Oommm.
Well, then it happened. 'Pa-kaaaak, pa-kaak,' I cried, hoping to summon the others, you understand, but all I got was HWTHF holding a handful of scratch up to me. So I left. Well, okay, I ate a bunch of scratch first, but let me tell you I tried to eat a bunch of HWTHF while I was at it."
The Buff Orpington reports that she hopes to distinguish herself in the egg-laying field, as she is otherwise indistinguishable from the other two Buff Orpingtons.
Friday, November 4, 2011
I got the last chicken in...
I went down after dark, and, sure enough, there was a dark form huddled on the ladder behind the chicken house. I grabbed it, and, luckily, it was the missing chicken. I still think it's a rooster.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
College: Halloween Edition
Hi everybody. I hope everyone is well. I myself am just fine. I am currently into my 8th week of school. That would 8 weeks out of 12 weeks. My first semester ends in aboot a month. I don't know aboot you but this year seems to be flying by.
So yesterday was halloween, which is always a fun time. Except for this year if you are apart of the Brockport clan. If I'm not mistaken it was business as usual. I spent my first college halloween in a 3 hour chem lab. It started at 7 pm. It was actually a relatively easy lab but there was a lot of waiting we had to do. We made aspirin. It was actually kind of fun. It was also my roommates 18th birthday, so she went oot with her friend from home. Now I know what you all must be thinking, does that mean Jo got no candy this year?!!!!! Don't worry Mommy has got me covered. She bought me a whole bag of mini coffee crisps. If you don't know what those are 1) you're missing oot and 2) come to Canada and buy some. I saw a lot of "friendly" costumes. Wink wink. Nudge nudge. I also saw some rather interesting costumes. When I say interesting I mean kind of unoriginal. There were some cows and monkeys and of course witches. My new friends, the early morning Starbucks ladies, all went to work dressed as hippies. It was completely unintentional. Yeah other than that nothing really exciting happened on halloween. So, let's gossip.
Apparently Kim Kardashian is divorcing her husband after 72 days. Just messing with you, I'm not actually gossip now. Don't worry Grandma, you don't need to know who they are.
Anyway what else has happened? Hmmm. Oh yes, I remember now. I went to Stratford with those still left in Brockport plus Sam. I don't remember what they saw, but me and Sammy saw Jesus Christ Superstar. It was even better the second time. Then after the show I got a cd signed by Josh Young aka Judas. Now that I think aboot it, it wasn't all that exciting. Not quite the same rush I got when I got dan's autograph.
So anyone seen any good movies lately? I haven't.
Over and Oot
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