My Old Ohio Home./2023-10-14T00:00:00-04:00Family historyJohn Parent of Onondaga, New York2023-10-14T00:00:00-04:002023-10-14T00:00:00-04:00Ed Hamiltontag:None,2023-10-14:./john-parent-of-onondaga-new-york.html<p>A brief discussion of the family of John Parent of Onondaga, New York</p><p>They say that life is about the journey, not the destination. <a id="footnote1" href="#fn1"><sup>1</sup></a> I hope so, because I spent a lot of time looking for the family of John Parent and when I got there I found someone else had already figured it out.</p>
<p>I started with George E Parent, husband of Mary Dial and father of <a href="./frank-parent-of-abilene-kansas.html">Frank Parent of Abilene, Kansas</a>. George is on the 1860 census of Rockford, Illinois, with his apparently widowed mother Sarah E., and on the 1850 census of Onondaga, New York, with his father John, his mother and his older brother Ephraim. So far, so good, but that is all I knew about George's father John. When did he die, and whose son was he?</p>
<p>Thanks to some hints on ancestry.com, I found the Baldwin Genealogy <a id="footnote2" href="#fn2"><sup>2</sup></a> which says that Sally Eliza Baldwin was born January 29, 1810, and married John Parent of Syracuse on October 13, 1841. The book said that John died January 16, 1852, while John's headstone on findagrave.com says he died June 12, 1853.</p>
<p>As for his parents, there was really only one Parent couple in the area, namely Thomas and Elizabeth Parent, of Otisco. Were they John's mother and father? I still don't know for sure, since I never found a record that connected him to them.</p>
<p>Thomas' brother David Parent's probate information in 1862 was the key document that put the family together. His widow Polly provided a list of David's heirs and next of kin naming Thomas and four other brothers, along with four of Thomas' daughters and numerous grandchildren. But no mention of John. Was it because he had died 10 years earlier and his widow had gone west? <a id="footnote3" href="#fn3"><sup>3</sup></a></p>
<h4><strong>Conclusion</strong></h4>
<p>For the time being, I'll have to just assume that John Parent was the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Parent of Otisco, New York. As for the end of the journey, you can find the complete family of Thomas and Elizabeth Parent, his brothers, parents, grandparents, and maybe more at
<a href="https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/family-tree/person/tree/189414503/person/372479845652/facts">Thomas Parent, on ancestry.com</a>, though for some reason the tree's owner thinks that Thomas was married 3 times. I doubt it. You could probably piece the family together in the tree at familysearch.org as well.</p>
<h4><strong>Credits</strong></h4>
<p><a id="fn1" href="#footnote1">^1</a>. To be honest, it isn't just "they" who say it, it was Ralph Waldo Emerson, and that isn't exactly what he said. I found a neat site called <a href="https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/08/31/life-journey/">Quote Investigator</a> which provided the real quote:
"To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom."</p>
<p>A footnote on that site points to Google Books which has the original: <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=DlwhAAAAMAAJ&q=%22every+step%22#v=snippet">Essays: Second Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Second Edition</a>, published in 1845 by James Munroe and Company, Boston. Essay: II Experience. The quote is on page 65.</p>
<p>It sounds a lot like 'today is the first day of the rest of your life' or however that hippie saying went, but then I've been spoiled by reading the Bible for a while where the Proverbs actually have something to say.</p>
<p><a id="fn2" href="#footnote2">^2</a>. The Baldwin Genealogy, from 1500 to 1881, by Charles Candee Baldwin, (The Leader Printing Company, Cleveland, Ohio, 1881). You don't need ancestry.com to read it. It is long out of copyright and is on the Internet Archive at <a href="https://archive.org/details/baldwingenealogy00bald">The Baldwin genealogy from 1500 to 1881</a>.</p>
<p><a id="fn3" href="#footnote3">^3</a>.
You don't need ancestry.com to find David Parent's will either. It is transcribed at the NY Genweb site, (ah, remember Genweb?) at <a href="https://jefferson.nygenweb.net/wills/davidparentwill.htm">David Parent Will</a>.</p>George Allabaugh of Crawford Township, Coshocton County, Ohio2023-08-05T00:00:00-04:002023-08-05T00:00:00-04:00tag:None,2023-08-05:./george-allabaugh-of-crawford-township-coshocton-county-ohio.html<p>Tracing back the ancestry of George Allabaugh of Coshocton County, Ohio.</p><p>George Allabaugh and his son-in-law John Dial, arrived in Crawford Township, in time to be on the tax rolls in 1827 and are listed one after the other on the 1830 census. George's household held himself and his wife, both between age 60 and 70. John's included himself and his wife, age 20 to 30, and two sons under 5 years old.</p>
<p>For more on John Dial, see <a href="john-dial-of-crawford-township-coschocton-county-ohio.html">John Dial of Crawford Township, Coschocton County, Ohio</a>.</p>
<p>The two man are listed next to each other on the 1840 census as well. This time George Allabaugh's home includes a 10 to 15 year old male, George age 60 to 70, and his wife age 70 to 80. John Dial's family is "short" one male compared to 1830. He has only one son age 10 to 15 where you would expect two, based on the 1830 enumeration. I know that both of John's older sons lived to be adults, so it would seem that George Allabaugh and his wife had taken in one of John's sons.</p>
<p>Neither George Allabaugh nor John Dial are on the 1850 Census. Instead we find one household headed by John's second-oldest son Thomas, age 23, and including his sister Eliza, age 18, and his brother Evans, 16. Next door is Maria Dyal, 48, with two children Maria, age 9, and Harrison, 6. Maria has no occupation but holds real estate worth $2000; Thomas is a farmer with no real estate. It looks like Thomas was farming his mother's land--the farm that had been his father's. </p>
<p>Those three censuses confirm, in my mind at least, the "rumor" on familysearch and ancestry.com that John Dial's wife's name was Maria Allabaugh. What the rumor did not include was the identity of Maria's parents, who look to all accounts to be George Allabaugh and his wife. I haven't yet learned the name of George's wife. </p>
<h5>And before that ... </h5>
<p>... where was George Allabaugh? </p>
<p>European settlers in the United States generally moved from East to West, so the logical place to look for him was somewhere east of Ohio. Also, John Dial's oldest son, George, usually said on his censuses that he had been born in Pennsylvania. (This matters if we are correct in concluding that John Dial's wife was Maria Allabaugh, since they must have met before arriving in Ohio if the families were traveling together.) Looking in Pennsylvania, I found this household in Cross Creek Township, Washington County, in 1820:</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><code>George Allabaugh
1 male 45 and over
1 female 16 to 25
1 female 45 and over
1 person engaged in agriculture
</code></pre></div>
<p>If that isn't George and his wife, then I don't know who is, since I didn't find a match anywhere else. That also agrees with this bit of information from the <em>History of Coshocton County, Ohio, 1740-1881</em> (Newark, Ohio, A. A. Graham & Co, 1881), page 487:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>"Beginning about 1832, quite a number of settlers from Washington county, Pennsylvania, poured into this and the adjoining township in Tuscarawas county."</p>
</blockquote>
<h5>Farther East</h5>
<p>Backing up and looking farther east, I found this family in Coventry Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, in 1800 and 1810:</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><code><span class="mf">1800</span>
<span class="n">George</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">Allibaugh</span>
<span class="mf">1</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">male</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">under</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mf">10</span>
<span class="mf">1</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">male</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mf">26</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kr">to</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mf">44</span>
<span class="mf">1</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">female</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mf">26</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kr">to</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mf">44</span>
<span class="mf">1810</span>
<span class="n">Geo</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">Allabaugh</span>
<span class="mf">1</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">male</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mf">26</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kr">to</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mf">44</span>
<span class="mf">1</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">female</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mf">0</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kr">to</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mf">9</span>
<span class="mf">1</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">female</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mf">45</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="ow">or</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">older</span>
</code></pre></div>
<p>If that is George, then he and his wife had at least two children before Maria. Either they died before 1810 or, more likely in the daughter's case than the son's, had married and moved out of the household.</p>
<p>Coventry Township puts George about 15 miles away from Lower Salford Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, home of the immigrant ancestor Christian Allebach, who died in 1746. A transcription of Christian Allebach's estate papers is online at <a href="https://www.reynolds-lake.ca/genealogy/showmedia.php?mediaID=7658&medialinkID=13655">Christian Allebach's estate papers</a>. They name five sons: Christian, David, Peter, John, and Abraham. Various online sources have lists of the sons of those men, but none are named George.</p>
<h5><em>Somebody's</em> Son</h5>
<p>Still, I think "our" George Allabaugh is a grandson of Christian Allebach. The lists might be incomplete--I didn't find the original sources. Or possibly George Allabaugh went by his baptismal name rather than his given name, or vice versa, and the lists include him under the other name. (German custom was for a child to be given a baptismal name in addition to his or her given name. A family could actually use the same baptismal name for a number of children, resulting in sons named John George, John William, etc.)</p>
<p>Note that there were Albaugh or Ahlbach families in Maryland about this time as well. I don't think George Allabaugh was part of that family. They seemed to have kept the spelling of the name closer to the original German, not including a vowel after the "l", and often preserving the "ch" at the end of the name. And I looked in Maryland for George Allabaugh and didn't find him there.</p>
<h5>For further research</h5>
<p>The following resources, which I did not have access to, might provide more information on George Allabaugh:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>John Alleback, son of the first Christian, died November 6, 1790. His will is in the Charlestown, Chester County, PA, Estate Files at ancestry.com. George could be named in the will.<br>
Updated August 5, 2023: John died intestate and the record in probate dated 18 March 1794 says he was survived by a widow Mary and seven children. It does not name the children. </p>
</li>
<li>
<p>The book <em>Pennsylvania births, Chester County, 1682-1800</em>, by John T Humphrey, is said to include baptisms at the Brownbacks German Reformed Church in Coventry Township. George Allabaugh's children could be named there, or possibly even George himself.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h5>Sources</h5>
<p><a href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GR8V-97J?i=2&wc=3V1X-HZG%3A1585149703%2C1585150233%2C1585149325&cc=1804228">George Allibaugh, 1800 Census of Coventry Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania</a></p>
<p><a href="https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH2R-PZF">George Allabaugh, 1810 Census of Coventry Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania</a>. </p>
<p><a href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHL5-58R">George Allabaugh, 1820 Census of Cross Creek Township, Washington County, Ohio</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH5D-G86">George Allabaugh and John Doyle, 1830 Census of Crawford Township, Coshocton County, Ohio</a>. <br>
<a href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHRF-J7W">George Allabaugh and John Dial, 1840 Census of Crawford Township, Coshocton County, Ohio</a>. </p>
<p><a href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX3G-PSK">Thomas Dial and Maria Dial, 1850 Census of Crawford Township, Coshocton County, Ohio</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:79YJ-DN2M">Taxable property in Crawford Township, 1827, 1828</a></p>
<p>tagged: <a href="tag-genealogy.html">genealogy</a></p>John Dial of Crawford Township, Coschocton County, Ohio2023-08-05T00:00:00-04:002023-08-05T00:00:00-04:00Ed Hamiltontag:None,2023-08-05:./john-dial-of-crawford-township-coschocton-county-ohio.html<p>Some notes about John Dial of Crawford Township, Coschocton County, Ohio</p><p>John arrrived in Coschocton County at the same time as George Allabaugh. There is reason to think he married George's daughter Maria before that. See <a href="george-allabaugh-of-crawford-township-coshocton-county-ohio.html">George Alabaugh of Crawford Township, Coshocton County, Ohio</a>. </p>
<p>Since George had arrived in Ohio from Washington County, Pennsylvania, I looked there for likely Dial families of which John might have been a part. </p>
<p>There were no Dials in Cross Creek Twp, Washington County, but I found Thomas Dial in neighboring Hopewell Township with a large family that included a son born between 1800 and 1810. Could "our" John have moved out of this household? John named his first son Thomas.</p>
<p>There was also a Simon Doal in Hopewell Twp, but he was too young to be John Dial's father. There was a Joshua Dile in Smith Twp, but he was in Buffalo Township, Fayette County, with no children in 1820.</p>
<p>But where was Thomas before that? I did not find a match for him in 1810 or 1820 in Pennsylvania or Virginia. </p>
<h4>Sources</h4>
<p>I used this site as a starting point for Doyle family, including for the sons of Edward Doyle II in Bullskin Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania: <a href="http://turnergenealogy.com/MasterSite-o/p62.htm">Turner Genealogy</a>.</p>
<h4>For further research</h4>
<p>The following resources, which I did not have access to, might provide more information on John Dial:</p>
<p>Violet Dial DeMoure (Compiler), <em>The early Pennsylvania Dials-their ancestors and descendents</em>, 1972</p>
<p>Dean Alexander Doyal, <em>Descendants of Edward Doyle Sr (1700-1741) and Priscilla Connell</em>, Newport News, Virginia, 1995, available at the Allen County Public Libary, the Family History Libary in Salt Lake City, Utah, and a few other places.</p>Frank Parent of Abilene, Kansas2023-08-04T00:00:00-04:002023-08-04T00:00:00-04:00Ed Hamiltontag:None,2023-08-04:./frank-parent-of-abilene-kansas.html<div class="left_image"><a href="./articles/frank-parent-of-abilene-kansas.html"> <img src="../images/1909-VancouverBC-to-AbileneKS-back.png" title="Frank Parent, of Abilene, Kansas" width="97" height ="60"> </a></div>
<p>In July 1909, Mr Frank Parent of Abilene, Kansas, received a postcard from his mother, who was on vacation in British Columbia. It read ...</p><div class="center_image">
<img src="../images/1909-VancouverBC-to-AbileneKS-back.png" title="1909 postcard from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Abilene, Kansas " width="408" height="251"/>
<p>1909 postcard from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Abilene, Kansas</p>
</div>
<p></p>
<p>In July 1909, Mr Frank Parent of Abilene, Kansas, received a postcard from his mother, who was on vacation in British Columbia. It read ...</p>
<p class="centerblock">
Friday<br>
Dearest son - <br>
Here we are on board the boat between Victoria and Seattle. We are having a grand trip. Never saw such scenery in my life. Wish you were all along. How is my sweetheart. We are all feeling fine. Will reach Seattle tonight. Bushels of love to all.
Mother <br><br>
</p>
<p>Can we learn anything about Mr Parent and his family?</p>
<h3><strong>Frank Dyal Parent</strong></h3>
<p>Yes, and apparently a lot of other people have as well. A place to start is this <a href="https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/24505159/person/430178814572/facts">tree on ancestry</a> or <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/93NH-4J9">this one on familysearch</a>.</p>
<p>As the trees point out, Frank Dyal Parent was born July 11, 1878, in Abilene, Kansas, the only known child of George Parent and Mary A Dyal. He and his wife Alice Stirl had two daughters: Mary Alice, born in 1908, and Nancy born in 1911. I assume George's mother was asking about Mary Alice when she said "How is my sweetheart?"</p>
<p>Frank was an attorney in Abilene when he received his mother's card, but soon left for Los Angeles and is on the 1910 census there. He became a municipal judge and worked in real estate. He died there at the age of 81--you can find his obituary on <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/180971369/frank-dyal-parent">his findgrave page</a>. A death notice for his mother can be found on <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/180977898/mary-e-white">her page at findagrave</a> as well.</p>
<h3><strong>Skipping farther back</strong></h3>
<p>Rather than just copy information from ancestry or familysearch into this article, I skipped back a few generations and looked at Frank's mother's paternal grandfather, John Dial, and John's likely father-in-law, George Allabaugh. See <a href="john-dial-of-crawford-township-coschocton-county-ohio.html">John Dial of Crawford Township, Coschocton County, Ohio</a> and <a href="george-allabaugh-of-crawford-township-coshocton-county-ohio.html">George Alabaugh of Crawford Township, Coshocton County, Ohio</a>, on this site. And on his father's side <a href="./john-parent-of-onondaga-new-york.html">John Parent of Onondaga, New York</a>.</p>James and Thomas Cunningham, Ballygowan Townland2023-06-12T00:00:00-04:002023-06-12T00:00:00-04:00Ed Hamiltontag:None,2023-06-12:./james-and-thomas-cunningham-ballygowan-townland.html<p>Some records for James and Thomas Cunningham of Ballygowan Townland, Kilkeel, County Down, Ireland</p><h3> Earlier Cunninghams </h3>
<h4> Flaxgrowers' List, County Down, 1796 </h4>
<h5>in Kilbroney and Kilkeel </h5>
<p>Cunegan Patrick Kilkeel Down<br>
Cunigan Arthur Kilkeel Down<br>
Cunigan Catherine Kilkeel Down<br>
Cunigan Christopher Kilkeel Down<br>
Cunigan Daniel Kilkeel Down<br>
Cunigan James Kilkeel Down<br>
Cunigan John Kilkeel Down<br>
Cunigan Patrick Kilkeel Down<br>
Cunigan Peter Kilkeel Down<br>
Cunigan Phelemy Kilbroney Down<br>
Cunigan Shane Kilkeel Down<br>
Cunigan Thomas Kilkeel Down<br>
Cunnigan George Kilkeel Down<br>
Cunnigan Henry Kilkeel Down<br>
Cunnigan Peter Kilkeel Down </p>
<h4> Freeholders List, 1820 </h4>
<p>no Cunigans (or Colgans) anywhere in Kilkeel<br>
one Divine: Divine, James Lurganreagh Same James & John Divine & W, Thompson </p>
<h4> Tithes Applotment List, 1830 </h4>
<p>Cunigan Bernard Ballygowan <br>
Cunigan James Jr. Ballygowan <br>
Cunigan James Sr. Ballygowan <br>
Cunigan John Ballygowan <br>
Cunigan Patrick Ballygowan <br>
Cunigan Peter More Ballygowan <br>
Cunigan Peter Ballygowan <br>
Cunigan Thomas Ballygowan <br>
Cunigan William Ballygowan </p>
<p>only one Divine: Mary in Lurganreagh<br>
(many Colgans) </p>
<h3> James Cunningham</h3>
<h4> Possible children's baptisms: </h4>
<p>Ann Cunningham baptism 1843<br>
Kilkeel Parish Register, baptisms:<br>
November 2, 1843, Ann Cunningham.<br>
no parents, location, or sponsors in this section of the register<br>
<a href="https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000633230#page/12/mode/1up">https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000633230#page/12/mode/1up</a> </p>
<p>Thomas Cunningham baptism 1846<br>
Kilkeel Parish Records, Baptisms<br>
23 August 1846<br>
Thomas, [son] of Jas Cunningham and Cath. ___<br>
sponsors: Bernard and Mary Cunningham<br>
findmypast transcribed her name as Doran<br>
other possibilities are Feran, Toner, Teer?, or maybe Trainor or Divine if the name is cut off.<br>
<a href="https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000633230#page/22/mode/1up">https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000633230#page/22/mode/1up</a></p>
<h3> Thomas Cunningham </h3>
<h4> Children's Births </h4>
<h5> Kilkeel Catholic Parish Records </h5>
<p>baptism: 17 December 1873 Catherine, of Thomas and Mary Ann Cunningham<br>
baptism 5 January 1876, Mary Margaret, of Thomas and Maria Ann Cunningham<br>
[note: found if you look for 1877] </p>
<h5> Civil Records </h5>
<p>Catherine Cunningham, 14 January 1874, Ballygowan, Kilkeel, daughter of Thomas and Maria, formerly Cunningham. informant: James Cunningham, his mark, occupier, Ballygowan, Kilkeel. This means James was the occupier of the house in which the child was born. OED: occupier = a person living in a dwelling as its owner or tenant<br>
<a href="https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1874/03165/2161005.pdf">https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1874/03165/2161005.pdf </a></p>
<p>Mary Margaret Cunningham, 31 January 1876, Ballygowan, daughter of Thomas and Maria, formerly Cunningham. informant: the father<br>
<a href="https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1876/03073/2126436.pdf">https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1876/03073/2126436.pdf </a></p>
<p>James Cunningham, 22 May 1880, Ballygowan, son of Thomas and Maria, formerly Cunningham. informant: Sarah Cunningham of Ballygowan, her mark, present at birth<br>
<a href="https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/cert_amends/cert_1880/2054272a.pdf">https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/cert_amends/cert_1880/2054272a.pdf </a></p>
<p>Thomas Cunningham, 21 August 1883, Benagh, son of Thomas and Maria, formerly Cunningham. informant: the father<br>
<a href="https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1883/02728/2003329.pdf">https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1883/02728/2003329.pdf </a></p>
<p>Note: Thomas, the father, is not in the Valuation Revision Books for Benagh for 1880 to 1883 or 1884 to 1898 </p>
<p>Sarah Ann Cunningham, 6 November 1885, Ballygowan, dau of Thomas and Maria, formerly Cunningham. informant: the father<br>
<a href="https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1886/02618/1966378.pdf">https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1886/02618/1966378.pdf </a></p>
<p>Elizabeth Cunningham, 15 November 1889, Ballygowan, dau of Thomas and Maria, formerly Cunningham. informant: the father<br>
<a href="https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1889/02457/1912898.pdf">https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1889/02457/1912898.pdf </a></p>
<h4> Censuses </h4>
<h5> Census of Ireland 31 March 1901 </h5>
<p>house 7 in Ballygowan<br>
Thomas Cunningham, 53, head, farmer<br>
Maria Cunningham, 50<br>
Thomas Cunningham, 17<br>
Sarah A Cunningham, 14<br>
Lizzie Cunningham, 11<br>
<a href="http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Down/Greencastle/Ballygowan/1235766/">http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Down/Greencastle/Ballygowan/1235766/</a></p>
<p>Note: I didn't find a marriage record for Sarah Cunningham in Kilkeel from 1901 to 1911 </p>
<h5> Census of Ireland 2 April 1911 </h5>
<p>house 8 in Ballygowan<br>
Thomas Cunningham, 65, farmer, house 8<br>
Maria Cunningham, 63, married 37 years, 6 children, 6 alive<br>
Thomas Cunningham, 27<br>
Lizzie Cunningham, 20<br>
<a href="http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Down/Greencastle/Ballygowan/245022/">http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Down/Greencastle/Ballygowan/245022/</a></p>
<h3> James and Thomas Cunningham - Land Records </h3>
<pre> Griffith's Valuation and Valuation Revision Books
parcel year name acreage
4 1864 James Cunningham, senior 4 acres, 2 rods, 30 perches
1879
1883 James Cunningham, senior
1885 Thomas Cunningham
1913 Thomas Cunningham in fee
1915 parcel 5B from Charles Cull to Thomas Cunningham
1924 Maria Cunningham. and 5B to Maria Cunningham
NI will calendar index: d 12 Feb 1922, grant of administration 8 Nov 1922
Full Abstract: Administration of the Estate of Thomas Cunningham late
of 12 Ballygowan County Down Farmer who died 12 February 1922 granted
at Belfast to Maria Cunningham the Widow Effects £47 D.B.N. P.R. 05/08/1937
also 5 Aug 1937 Cunningham Thomas of Ballygowan county Down farmer died
12 February 1922 Administration (d.b.n.) Belfast 5 August to Thomas
Cunningham junior farmer. Unadministered effects £2. Former Grant Belfast
8 November 1922.
</pre>
<div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><code>
</code></pre></div>
<h3> not found </h3>
<p>There are no other baptisms for children of James Cunningham and Cath in the index to the parish registers.<br>
There is no marriage for a James Cunningham and Cath early enough in the parish registers to be Thomas' parents. </p>
<h3> to do </h3>
<h4> Catherine (Devine) Cunningham's death, 1865 to 1901, </h4>
<h5> she is not </h5>
<p>3rd Qtr 1868, age 70 - received June 27, 2023<br>
Returns Year 1868<br>
Returns Quarter 3<br>
Returns Volume No 11<br>
Returns Page No 360 </p>
<p>That woman died in Drummondlane, Kilkeel, and was a widow. </p>
<h5> request this </h5>
<p>3rd Qtr 1866, age 61<br>
Returns Year 1866<br>
Returns Quarter 3<br>
Returns Volume No 11<br>
Returns Page No 353 </p>
<h3> Some other Cunninghams in Ballygowan </h3>
<h4> Land Records </h4>
<pre> parcel year name acreage
13 1864 James Cunningham, publican 3, 1, 0
1878 reevaluated, increased rates, noted: public house in holdings
1883 James Cunningham, publican
1892 William Cunningham
1906 Henry Nicholson
12a,b 1891 William Cunningham "Ho[use?]corn mill laboress", office, land
1895 William Cunningham flax mill
1904 Henry Nicholson
</pre>
<h4> Census of Ireland 31 March 1901 </h4>
<p>John Cunningham, 55, farmer, not married
Mary Cunningham, 62, sister, not married </p>
<p>William Cunningham, 52, head
Serah Cunningham, wife, 42<br>
Patrick, 22<br>
Ellen 18<br>
Tessia 16<br>
Fredrick 13<br>
Edmond 11<br>
Dorothy 9<br>
Minnie 7<br>
Nellie Cahalane, 2, grand daughter </p>Accessibility2022-11-29T00:00:00-05:002023-05-17T00:00:00-04:00Ed Hamiltontag:None,2022-11-29:./accessibility.html<p>I am making some changes to the website to improve its accessibility for the blind and those with difficulty seeing. </p>
<p>I'm currently making changes to the individual articles. Most of the problems seem to be with appropriate alternate text and with the inline footnotes. This will take some time. If …</p><p>I am making some changes to the website to improve its accessibility for the blind and those with difficulty seeing. </p>
<p>I'm currently making changes to the individual articles. Most of the problems seem to be with appropriate alternate text and with the inline footnotes. This will take some time. If you have problems reading one of the articles that I haven't improved yet, please let me know.</p>
<p>There were three major changes to the overall site design. First, the pastel green background is now white. The white background with black text provides more contrast than the pale green. </p>
<p>Second, the menu at the top of the page is gone. The menu items were too small and were dark green on light green–even worse than black on green. While I was working on the menu I discovered that the hamburger menu for tablets and phones was not working anyway, so I removed the menu altogether. If you want to see a list of the categories of articles on the site, click on the "Categories" link at the bottom of each page.</p>
<p>Last, among the obvious changes, the text over the image in the sidebar or footer is now white on black. In general, text over images is hard to do right. It doesn't always provide enough contrast, in fact I had trouble reading it myself and I knew what it said. White on black was a "quick fix". Maybe I'll figure out something better later.</p>
<p>The family trees section of the website is generated by a separate software program. Most of it seems to pass the accessibility test, except for–you guessed it–the hamburger menu. I will get to that in time. On a full screen desktop there seem to be no significant accessibility problems with the family trees.</p>
<p>The original article above was written November 29, 2022</p>
<p>Edited May 17, 2023</p>
<p>A few more changes: All links are now underlined. The index page has the correct order of headings.</p>Rose Sloan and Richard Farrell, Killowen to Cleveland2018-10-09T00:00:00-04:002022-12-09T00:00:00-05:00Ed Hamiltontag:None,2018-10-09:./rose-sloan-and-richard-farrell-killowen-to-cleveland.html<div class="left_image"><a href="../articles/rose-sloan-richard-farrell-killowen-to-cleveland.html"> <img src="../images/SSCampania.jpg" alt="Rose Sloan and Richard Farrell, Killowen to Cleveland" title="Rose Sloan and Richard Farrell, Killowen to Cleveland" width="81" height ="60"> </a></div>
<p>Rose Sloan and Richard Farrell were marrried in Rostrevor in 1896 and soon left for Cleveland. Can we learn any more about them?</p><div class="left_image">
<img src="../images/SSCampania.jpg" alt="photo of a steamship said to be the SS Campania ">
<p> SS Campania</p>
</div>
<p>This is a reworking of an older article. What's new:</p>
<ul>
<li>the death information of Rose's father</li>
<li>Richard Farrell's birth information</li>
<li>elimination of a few candidates for Rose's mother</li>
</ul>
<p>Rose Sloan and Richard Farrell were married in the Roman Catholic Chapel of Our Lady in Rostrevor on January 2, 1896. Rose said she was of full age, living in Ballincurry, the daughter of Daniel Sloan, a laborer, who had died.</p>
<p>So far I haven't found a birth or baptism record for Rose or for any child of Daniel Sloan from 1868 to 1874, and whoever provided the information for Rose's death record did not know her mother's name.</p>
<p>Rose's father is likely the Daniel Sloan on the Valuation Revision Books of Ballincurry from 1865 to 1892. He is renting a small parcel, consisting only of a house and garden, from Hugh Brennan. There were no out-buildings. Daniel died June 22, 1889, in Ballincurry at the age of 75. Rose was present at his death and provided the information for his death record. </p>
<p>In 1892 the parcel passed into the hands of Daniel's representatives. In 1907 the parcel went from Daniel Sloan's representatives to Rose Brennan and there is a note in the margin that says "House not quite down as reported"–if I read it right. Rose's mother might not have stayed in Ballincurry after her husband died. I don't see her there in the 1901 census. She isn't Rose Brennan, since that woman had a 25 year old son named Brennan in her 1901 household.</p>
<p>On the other hand, Rose's mother may have died before her father, and she might have been named Rose also, who knows. But she is not:</p>
<ul>
<li>Rose Sloane d 28 February 1871 in Mayhereagh (?), a spinster</li>
<li>Rose Sloane d 19 June 1876, Drummond, a spinster</li>
<li>Rose Sloane d 24 April 1883 Greencastle</li>
<li>Rose Sloan 19 Oct 1884 in Tullyframe</li>
<li>Rose Sloan d 20 Jan 1893, Ballincurry, wife of James </li>
<li>nor any other Rose Sloan who died in Kilkeel Registration District between 1870 and 1894.</li>
</ul>
<p>I haven't yet looked for the death of a female Sloan not named Rose during those years.</p>
<p>Richard Farrell's marriage information said he was living in Ballinadoalty at the time and was the son of William Farrell, a butcher. His birth record shows that Richard was born April 19, 1875, in Benagh Townland, Kilkeel, to William Farrell, a butcher, and Margaret George. Whether Upper Benagh or Lower could be determined by looking at the Valuation Revision Books again. </p>
<p>Richard and Rose (Sloan) Farrell were on the SS Campania when it arrived June 9, 1900, in New York from Liverpool. Between them they had $50, but were not holding tickets to their final destination, which they said was Albany, New York. They were travelling with James O'Rourke, James Murney, and Matthew Sloan. All five of them said that their last residence in Ireland was Newry. However the three young men with the Farrells were from Killowen, Rose said she was living in Ballincurry when she was married, and Richard said he was of Ballinadoalty at the time of his marriage.</p>
<p>Rose was 28 and Richard was 24 when they emigrated. They said they were going to the home of Mary Pearl, Richard's sister in law, at 115 Jefferson Street, Albany. There was a Mary Pearl in Albany who had been born in Ireland about 1830. She was the widow of John Pearl, and had sons Thomas (born in New York in July 1852) and John (born in Ohio about 1860). She was living at 8 Jefferson, Albany, in 1898 and 1899, but she died on March 27, 1899. I have not determined her maiden name or county of origin in Ireland. I think the Farrells actually went straight through to Cleveland with the others.</p>
<p>What we do know is that in the 1902 Cleveland City Directory Richard Farrell was listed at 2059 Cannon, which corresponds to about 9200 Cannon in the current numbering. In fact he might be in the 1901 Directory as the Richard Farrell at about 8000 Burke, according to the modern numbering. Both of these streets are in the Newburgh section of Cleveland. The city directories reflect the previous year's information, so that could put the Farrells in Cleveland in 1900.</p>
<p>Having arrived in Newburgh, the Farrells didn't go far. They were at various addresses on Cannon until at least 1935. Richard worked in a "wire mill" and a "steel mill", which sounds a lot like American Steel and Wire. In 1910 Rose said that she had been married 14 years and had given birth to one child, but it was no longer living. I didn't find a record of this child's birth in Cleveland. Their census records say that Richard and Rose had no other children.</p>
<p>As for births in Ireland, the civil records are on line, and I have also eliminated the following children: </p>
<ul>
<li>Not female Farrell, d June 6, 1897. She was the daughter of John Farrell, a farmer of Carrickbroad.</li>
<li>Not Elizabeth Farrell, d May 8, 1899, daughter of Catherine, a farmer's wife, of Carrickbroad.</li>
<li>Not Peter Farrell, d December 14, 1899, son of Mary Ellen Farrell, a laborer's wife, of Rostrevor.</li>
<li>Not John Francis Farrell, d July 25, 1900, son of John, a laborer of Rostrevor.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Conclusion</strong></p>
<p>Rose died at home, at 9220 Cannon Ave, Cleveland, on Nov 24, 1935, of complications from chronic myocarditis, which had affected her for six months. Richard died on July 16, 1937, at 4055 East 91st, of the same condition. He was working at Allyne-Ryan Foundry when he died. They were both buried in Calvary Cemetery from Donlon's Funeral Home on Miles Ave.</p>
<p><strong>Sources</strong></p>
<ol>
<li> <a href="http://www.ellisisland.org/search/shipManifest.asp?pID=604864050066&MID=06162514290001337952&">Manifest of the SS Campania in the Ellis Island records</a>.</li>
<li> "United States Census, 1870," index and images, FamilySearch (<a href="https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M8JN-ZZ5">https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M8JN-ZZ5</a>.</li>
<li>"New York, State Census, 1892," index and images, FamilySearch (<a href="https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/X366-GX1">https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/X366-GX1</a>; 1898-1900 Albany City Directories at ancestry.com; and <a href="http://persi.heritagequestonline.com/hqoweb/library/do/census/results/image?surname=pearl&series=12&state=1&county=albany&countyid=738&hitcount=8&p=1&urn=urn%3Aproquest%3AUS%3Bcensus%3B17221056%3B118509893%3B12%3B1&searchtype=1&offset=6">1900 Census of Ward 16, Albany, Series T623, Roll 1005, page 252, at HeritageQuestOnline.com</a></li>
<li> Cleveland City Directories at ancestry.com.</li>
<li> "United States Census, 1910," index and images, FamilySearch <a href="https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/ML8G-VLT">https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/ML8G-VLT</a> and "United States Census, 1920," index and images, FamilySearch <a href="https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MDRT-NFC">https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MDRT-NFC</a></li>
<li> "Ireland, Civil Registration Indexes, 1845-1958," index, FamilySearch (<a href="https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FTDD-7PX">https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FTDD-7PX</a> : accessed 18 Sep 2013), Peter Farrell, 1899; citing vol. 1, p. 449, General Registry, Custom House, Dublin, Ireland; FHL microfilm 101600.</li>
<li> "Ireland, Civil Registration Indexes, 1845-1958," index, FamilySearch (<a href="https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FT8B-YZK">https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FT8B-YZK</a> : accessed 18 Sep 2013), Female Farrell, 1897; citing vol. 1, p. 579, General Registry, Custom House, Dublin, Ireland; FHL microfilm 101599.</li>
<li> "Ohio, Deaths, 1908-1953," index and images, FamilySearch (<a href="https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/X8HT-ZLF">https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/X8HT-ZLF</a> : accessed 16 Sep 2013), Richard Farrell in entry for Rose Farrell, 1935.</li>
<li> "Ohio, Deaths, 1908-1953," index and images, FamilySearch (<a href="https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XZXR-661">https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XZXR-661</a> : accessed 16 Sep 2013), Richard Farrell, 1937.</li>
<li> "Ireland, Civil Registration Indexes, 1845-1958," index, FamilySearch (<a href="https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FYCJ-KNP">https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FYCJ-KNP</a> : accessed 17 Sep 2013), Richard Farrell, 1896; citing vol. 1, p. 707, General Registry, Custom House, Dublin, Ireland; FHL microfilm 101258.</li>
<li> "Ireland, Civil Registration Indexes, 1845-1958," index, FamilySearch (<a href="https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FYCN-9XQ">https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FYCN-9XQ</a> : accessed 17 Sep 2013), Rose Sloan, 1896; citing vol. 1, p. 707, General Registry, Custom House, Dublin, Ireland; FHL microfilm 101258.</li>
<li> Ros Davies County Down Website, transcription at <a href="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rosdavies/SURNAMES/S/SloanKW.htm">http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rosdavies/SURNAMES/S/SloanKW.htm</a>.</li>
<li> Ros Davies County Down Website, transcription at <a href="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rosdavies/SURNAMES/S/SloanAJ.htm">http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rosdavies/SURNAMES/S/SloanAJ.htm</a>.</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>Credits</strong></p>
<p>Photo of the SS Campania is from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Campania">Wikipedia</a>.</p>Nellie Pyeatt Holmes of Lenora, Oklahoma2022-08-02T00:00:00-04:002022-08-02T00:00:00-04:00Ed Hamiltontag:None,2022-08-02:./nellie-pyeatt-holmes-of-lenora-oklahoma.html<div class="left_image"><a href="../articles/nellie-pyeatt-holmes-of-lenora-oklahoma.html"> <img src="../images/1967-GoldenGroveCA-to-WoodwardOK.jpg" alt="Nellie Pyeatt Holmes of Lenora, Oklahoma" title="Nellie Pyeatt Holmes of Lenora, Oklahoma" width="93" height ="60"> </a></div>
<p>In August 1967, Mrs Nellie Holmes of Woodward, Oklahoma, received a postcard from her daughter which read:</p><div class="center_image">
<img src="../images/1967-GoldenGroveCA-to-WoodwardOK.jpg" alt="" title="" />
<p>1967 postcard from Garden Grove, California, to Haddon, Oklahoma</p>
</div>
<p></p>
<p>In August 1967, Mrs Nellie Holmes of Woodward, Oklahoma, received a postcard from her daughter in Garden Grove, California, which read: </p>
<p class="centerblock">
Aug 5 1967<br>
Dear Mother:<br>
I hope this finds you ok and weather is more agreeable. It is hot here in Garden Grove, too. So dusty, also. We are at Hubert's just now. It is hard to get at writing when one is away from home. Ray is taking the usual shots and pills from a doctor here. <br>
Love, Audrey <br>
Next time I'll try to write you a letter.<br>
</p>
<p>Can we learn a little about these people?</p>
<h3><strong>Introduction</strong></h3>
<p>Nellie Pyeatt was born March 5, 1876, in Illinois, the daughter of Jacob Pyeatt and Margaret Jane Ellison. She married John Holmes on May 15, 1895, at her father's home in St Clair County, Missouri. They began their marriage in Lenora, Oklahoma and had two daughters: Lenora and Audrey.</p>
<p>Nellie's husband John died from an accident on their farm in Doby Springs in 1917 and Nellie and her daughters moved back to Lenora. Lenora and her husband stayed in Oklahoma; Audrey and her husband Jim moved to California between 1935 and 1940. Hence the postcard from Audrey in California to Nellie in care of her daughter, back in Oklahoma. Nellie died in October 1967, shortly after receiving the card. </p>
<h3><strong>Genealogy</strong></h3>
<p>Usually I include a few generations of family history for the families I find on postcards, but the Pyeatt and Holmes families have been well researched. You can find that here: <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/G34M-863">Nellie Pyeatt, familysearch tree</a>. And for the Pyeatts, look here also: <a href="https://www.angelfire.com/ar/pyeatt/JacobOK.html">Jacob and Margaret Jane Ellison Pyeatt, at angelfire.com</a>.</p>
<h3><strong>Lenora, Oklahoma</strong></h3>
<p>There is some information about the city of Lenora on line as well. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=fSqmnpHFEF0C&pg=PP132&dq=lenora+oklahoma&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=1">Ghost Towns of Oklahoma by John Wesley Morris</a>, at Google Books, allowed me to preview the page on Lenora when I tried it, your mileage may vary. The book was written in 1977 and said a few people still lived there. Currently it is uninhabited, at least according to this video at youtube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SvcV7gEmUk">Ghost Town of Lenora Oklahoma</a>.</p>Curtis and Nancy Booth, of Turlock, California2022-05-22T00:00:00-04:002022-05-22T00:00:00-04:00Ed Hamiltontag:None,2022-05-22:./curtis-and-nancy-booth-of-turlock-california.html<div class="left_image"><a href="../articles/curtis-and-nancy-booth-of-turlock-california.html"> <img src="../images/1916-TurlockCA-GreatFallsMT.jpg" title="Curtis and Nancy Booth, of Turlock, California" width="97" height ="60"> </a></div>
<p>In December 1916, Mrs Curtis M (Nancy) Booth, of Turlock, California, sent a postcard to her son which read ...</p><div class="center_image">
<img src="../images/1916-TurlockCA-GreatFallsMT.jpg" alt="" title="" width="408" height="251"/>
<p>1916 postcard from Turlock, CA to Great Falls, MT</p>
</div>
<p></p>
<p>In December 1916, Mrs Curtis M (Nancy) Booth, of Turlock, California, sent a postcard to her son, Robert P Booth, at 526 2nd Ave South, Great Falls, Montana. It read ...</p>
<p class="centerblock">
Dec 8 - 1916<br>
To My Dearest Boy:<br>
The mornings and evenings are pretty cold. heavy frost this a.m. Papa is plowing with riding plow [.] got a mule of a neighbor to work with Prince & Rex. Frisco is near a coal famine for lack of cars. The papers are full of scarcity of cars. Freeze not so bad as they thought at first. Every packing house nearing full capacity. We have planted lettuce, raddishes, turnips and onion sets.<br>
love from Father and Mother B. <br><br>
R4 Box 105<br>
Turlock, Calif
</p>
<p>Can we learn anything about these people and the times they lived in?</p>
<h3><strong>Robert Pearl Booth</strong></h3>
<p>Robert Pearl Booth was born December 12, 1889, in Corydon, Wayne County, Iowa, the first known child of Curtis and Nancy Booth. He was still living with his parents in Lindsay, Tulare County, California, on October 8, 1913, when he married Pearl Viola Hardesty. The couple must have soon moved to Montana where they were in December 1916 when Robert received the postcard. Their first child, Edith, was born in Bozeman, Montana, in 1918. By 1920 the family had returned to California and was living with Robert's maternal uncle Charles Thornburg in Orange County. </p>
<p>Robert and Pearl eventually settled in Kittitas County, Washington, where Robert worked as a postal worker. Their remaining three children were all born there. Robert died in Kittitas Co. on August 5, 1975, and is buried in the IOOF Cemetery in Ellensburg with his wife Pearl who died in 1994 and their son Robert who died as a child.</p>
<h3><strong>Curtis Monroe Booth</strong></h3>
<p>Robert's father, Curtis Monroe Booth, was born in March 1859 in Corydon, Iowa, the son of William and Hattie (Bishop) Booth. He married Nancy "Nannie" Isabell Thornburg on November 25, 1886, in Appanoose County, Iowa. She had been born July 2, 1863, in Red Oak, Montgomery County, Iowa, the daughter of Robert W Thornburg and Mary E Whitsell.</p>
<p>As mentioned, their son Robert was born in Iowa in 1889, but they soon moved to California, where their daughter Mary Garnet was born in December 1892. They had two other children: a child who died before 1900, and a son Oliver who died at the age of 6 in Long Beach, California.</p>
<p>Curtis was a farmer for his entire life in California, but did not seem to stay in one place for very long. Maybe "the grass was always greener" somewhere else. For a time line of his residences, click on the time line: </p>
<details>
<summary>Curtis Booth Time Line</summary>
<p>
1886 25 Nov, Appanoose Co, IA married
1889: Corydon, Iowa, birth of son Robert <br>
1892: California, birth of daughter Mary G <br>
1896: Pasadena, voter reg <br>
1899: California, birth of son Oliver <br>
Jun 1900: Downey Township, LA Co, CA, census <br>
1902: Fullerton, Orange Co, voter reg <br>
1904/1905/6: not in Long Beach dir <br>
Dec 1905 corner of Perris and State, Long Beach (Oliver's death notice) <br>
1907: 1422 Elm, Long Beach <br>
1908: west side of Oak Ave, Long Beach, 1st house n of Hill <br>
1909 not listed in Long Beach <br>
no dir for Lindsay or Tulare until 1957 <br>
1912: Lindsay, Tulare County, voter reg <br>
1914: Lindsay, Tulare County, voter reg <br>
Nov 1916: Turlock, voter reg <br>
Dec 1916: RR 4, Box 105, Turlock - postcard <br>
1917: RR 4, box 197, Turlock <br>
1918: RR 1, box 382, Turlock <br>
1919: RR 1, box 36, Turlock <br>
Jan 1920: Whittier, wage worker, farmer <br>
1924: Garden Valley, El Dorado Co <br>
1926: Placerville, El Dorado Co <br>
1928: Smith Flat, El Dorado Co <br>
Apr 1930: Placerville, retired <br>
May 1939: Anaheim, death <br>
</p>
</details>
<p>Curtis Monroe Booth died May 30, 1939, in Anaheim. His wife Nannie died September 23, 1944, in Orange County. They are both buried in Santa Ana Cemetery, Santa Ana. There is a picture of Curtis on <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/117234218/curtis-monroe-booth">his page</a> on findagrave.com.</p>
<h3><strong>Supply Chain Problems—1916 Style</strong></h3>
<p>The part of the message on the card that got my attention were Nannie Booth's words "Frisco is near a coal famine for lack of cars. The papers are full of scarcity of cars. ... Every packing house nearing full capacity."</p>
<p>My first–and second and third–thought was 'I didn't think there were that many cars by 1916 for there to be a scarcity of them.' But after a few readings, I realized that Nannie was talking about <em>railroad</em> cars, not automobiles. So I started typing phrases into search engines and found out that, Yes, there was a shortage of railroad cars in 1916. </p>
<h3><strong>The Farmers and the Trains</strong></h3>
<p>To appreciate the California farmers' dependence on the railroad, take a look at this 1915 or 1916 picture from Hughson, California, near the Booths' farm in Turlock:</p>
<div class="center_image">
<img src="../images/1915-1916-HughsonCaliforniaFarmers.jpg" alt="farmers with horse drawn carts of melons wait at the Hughson, California, train depot in either 1915 or 1916" title="" />
<p>Shipping melons from Hughson, CA in 1915 or 1916</p>
</div>
<p></p>
<p>As the accompanying text, at the <a href="https://calisphere.org/item/ark:/13030/kt6q2nd4n7/">Calisphere, University of California</a> site said: </p>
<p class="centerblock">
In front of the Ward Lumber Company is a train locomotive with two freight cars visible ... [and] wagons full of watermelons that are powered by horses and mules. It appears that all are waiting until the watermelons can be loaded onto the freight cars. The railroads were the primary method farmers had to ship their crops long distances to large market areas, such as San Francisco, especially for perishable crops like watermelons.
</p>
<p>Next realize that in February 1915 there was a <em>surplus</em> of 279,000 railroad cars, but by March 1, 1917, there was a <em>shortage</em> of almost 125,000 cars. The problem seems to have started in mid-August of 1916. (See <em>Business Digest</em>, January to March 1917, Vol 1, page 359, found at Google books.)</p>
<p>The number of cars didn't seem to be the only problem. Edwin E. Albertson, the marker reporter for the San Francisco <em>Call</em>, in an article dated November 22, 1916, quoting the Railway Age Gazette, says: </p>
<p class="centerblock">
"If the railways now had enough cars to supply one for every one ordered, it is probable that when they got them all loaded their tracks would be so blocked that they would be unable to move much more traffic than they are at present handling. The term 'car shortage' is now, as always, merely a misnomer used to describe a condition resulting from the inablility of the roads to supply facilities enough of any kind to handle the business available."
</p>
<p>The effect on West Coast farmers was "most severe" according to an article in the Los Angeles <em>Herald</em>, October 20, 1916:</p>
<p class="centerblock">
Information gathered by the interstate commerce commission confirmed reports that the Pacific coast states are suffering most severely from the shortage of cars. It was also learned that Nebraska's grain crop and Colorado's mining products are in great danger of damage and incurring storage losses through lack of carriers.
</p>
<p>And the Chicago <em>Packer</em> of November 11, 1916, carried a story with the dateline "Seattle, Wash., Nov 10" and the headline "Car Shortage Affects Potato Shipments" which read in part:</p>
<div class="center_image">
<img src="../images/1916-11-11-ChicagoPacker.jpg" title="" alt="" />
<p><em>Chicago Packer</em> of November 11, 1916 </p>
</div>
<p></p>
<p class="centerblock">
All doubts as to the scarcity of cars and the inablility of the railways to cope with the situation was shown here last week when three carloads of spuds, loaded on gondolas covered with tarpaulins, were switched into the wholesale fruit yards of this city. This is the first time in the history of the North Coast that it has been necessary to transport perishable freight in this way.
</p>
<h3><strong>The Coal Famine</strong></h3>
<p>The other problem that Nannie Booth mentioned was that "Frisco is near a coal famine for lack of cars." Other cities faced the same problem. Mr Albertson's article in the San Francisco <em>Call</em> said this:</p>
<p class="centerblock">
... many Pennsylvania and West Virginia mines have been operating on half time, as they could not get cars to move their product.<br>
The city of Columbus, O., confronted by a coal famine, has established a municipal coal and wood yard, in order to assure fuel to its inhabitants this winter, and Cleveland now threatens to do likewise.
</p>
<p>The Report of the Department of Mines of Pennsylvania for 1916 said on page 5:</p>
<p class="centerblock">
The operations of the year were of an unusual character. ... with sharp contrasts in prices and exasperating uncertainty, due to car shortage, labor troubles, and embargoes placed upon traffic.<label class="inline-toggle linenote-number" for="linenote6">(footnote)</label><input class="inline-toggle" id="linenote6" type="checkbox" /><span class="linenote"><a href="https://archive.org/details/reportofdepartme1916penn">"The Report of the Department of Mines" </a> (Harrisburg, Penna, J.L.L. Kuhn, Printer to the Commonwealth, 1917), page 5.</span>
</p>
<p>Here are a few headlines about the coal famine from around the United States.</p>
<p>From Utah:</p>
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<img src="../images/1916-12-28-SaltLakeCityRepublican-p1.png" alt="Headline: Utah Hit by Coal Famine" title="" />
<p>Salt Lake City, Utah, <i>Republican</i>, December 28, 1916, page 1</p>
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<p></p>
<p>and Cleveland: </p>
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<img src="../images/1916-10-27-AkronBeaconJournal-p1.png" alt="Headline: Cleveland Coal Shortage Serious" title="" />
<p>Akron Beacon Journal, October 27, 1916, page 1</p>
</div>
<p></p>
<p>Even Altoona, in coal country, felt the effects:</p>
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<img src="../images/1916-11-22-AltoonaTimes-p10.png" alt="Headline: Coal Shortage due to Eastern Shipments" title="" />
<p>Altoona, Pennsylvania, <i>Times</i>, page 10</p>
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<p></p>
<p>The October 27, 1916 edition of the Cedarville, Ohio, <em>Herald</em>, page 1, summed up the nationwide situation nicely:</p>
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<img src="../images/1916-10-27-CedarvilleOhio-Herald-p1.png" alt="Headline: Coal Shortage due to Railroad Facilities" title="" />
<p>Cedarville <i>Herald</i>, October 27, 1916, page 1</p>
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<p></p>
<p>saying in part: </p>
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<b>Coal Shortage Due to Railroad Facilities</b><br>
Almost every section of the country is at present affected by a shortage of coal due largely to the railroad companies being unable to supply cars.
</p>
<h3><strong>Causes</strong></h3>
<p>Why was there a rail car shortage? Why were farmers having a hard time getting their produce to markets? Simply put, there was a war going on. The Booths on their small farm in Turlock, California, were being affected by the war in Europe thousands of miles away.</p>
<p><strong>Munitions and war supplies</strong></p>
<p>The United States did not yet enter the war until 1917, </p>
<p class="centerblock">
But soon after war broke out in August 1914, America began to supply food, materials and even munitions to Britain and other German enemies, such as Italy.<label class="inline-toggle linenote-number" for="linenote1">(footnote)</label><input class="inline-toggle" id="linenote1" type="checkbox" /><span class="linenote"><a href="https://www.dla.mil/AboutDLA/News/NewsArticleView/Article/1162583/logistics-and-american-entry-into-the-great-war/">"Logistics and American Entry into the Great War" </a> at the Defense Logistics Agency website. </span>
</p>
<p>Cleveland and Pittsburgh are dear to my heart, so here is what was going on in those two cities:</p>
<p>For Cleveland:</p>
<p class="centerblock">
The years of U.S. neutrality were bonanza ones for Cleveland's industries, as its workers satisfied contracts for uniforms, weapons, automobiles and trucks, and chemicals for explosives. By the fall of 1918, it was estimated that the city had produced $750 million worth of munitions in the 4 years since the war had begun.<label class="inline-toggle linenote-number" for="linenote2">(footnote)</label><input class="inline-toggle" id="linenote2" type="checkbox" /><span class="linenote">"<a href="https://case.edu/ech/articles/w/world-war-i">"World War I"</a> at the Case-Western Reserve Encyclopedia of Cleveland History website. </span>
</p>
<p>and for Pittsburgh: </p>
<p class="centerblock">
1914 had seen a slump in American steelmaking, with output well below capacity. By mid-1915, all mills in the Pittsburgh area were operating day and night, even though the United States had not yet entered the war. Production throughout 1915 was at about 85 percent of capacity, reaching 100 percent during the fourth quarter. From 1916 onward, US Steel alone delivered more steel each year than all the plants of the German and Austro-Hungarian Empires combined. By the second half of 1917, some 75 percent of iron and steel output was supplying war demands.<label class="inline-toggle linenote-number" for="linenote3">(footnote)</label><input class="inline-toggle" id="linenote3" type="checkbox" /><span class="linenote"><a href="https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/pennsylvania-in-ww1-articles.html">"Facts About Pennsylvania in the First World War"</a> at the World War I Centennial website. </span>
</p>
<p>The increased production of the factories meant they needed more coal. The coal had to be transported in. The manufactured goods and munitions had to be transported out. All of this required railroad cars. </p>
<p>An editorial on the same page of the San Francisco <em>Call</em> as Mr Albertson's article, November 22, 1916, summed up the country's situation this way:</p>
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<img src="../images/1916-11-22-SanFranciscoCallEditorial-p6.png" alt="" title="" />
<p>San Francisco Call editorial, November 22, 1916</p>
</div>
<p></p>
<p class="centerblock">
We have lent England hundreds of millions. We have turned our entire nation into an ammunition factory for her benefit.
<br>
Our citizens and business men are unable to get goods, the poor are unable to get coal, because those interested in saving England control our railroads—and England's service in the ammunition line is put ahead of everything else on our American roads.
</p>
<p><strong>Shipping rates</strong></p>
<p>Another consequence of the war was an increase in shipping rates. The San Francisco <em>Call</em> article by E. E. Albertson said that the rates for shipping iron ore on the Great Lakes had risen to a point where it was more profitable for ore boats to return home empty than to carry back coal, as they had done previously. This left the burden of taking coal to places like Minnesota up to the railroads. </p>
<p>I looked for some original sources online to back this up but didn't find anything, but it makes sense to me. The munitions factories would require iron ore and could probably pay what it took to get it. </p>
<p>Pacific shipping rates had increased also, which affected California farmers directly. Mr. Albertson's article pointed out that the rates on shipping routes from the West Coast to Asia had risen since the beginning of the war. This motivated at least one shipping company, the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company, to move their vessels from the west coast-east coast route elsewhere.</p>
<p>Tables 1 and 2 in "The War and Trans-Pacific Shipping," by Abraham Berglund bear this out. When the war broke out, Germany pulled its entire commercial fleet from the Pacific. Net tonnage carried under the British flag was cut in half from 1914 to 1916. Japan made up some of the difference but the overall net tonnage in July 1914, 237,004 tons, dropped to 147,744 tons in May 1916.<label class="inline-toggle linenote-number" for="linenote4">(footnote)</label><input class="inline-toggle" id="linenote4" type="checkbox" /><span class="linenote"><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1809717.pdf">"The War and Trans-Pacific Shipping"</a> in The American Economic Review, September 1917, Volume 7, Number 3, pages 553-568. Published by the American Economic Assocation. </span></p>
<p>Tables 3 and 4 show the change in freight rates from Asia to America and America to Asia. Increases were across the board, many more than 100%. </p>
<p>American-Hawaiian's decision might be referred to here:</p>
<p class="centerblock">
"By the time the Canal reopened on 15 April 1916, American-Hawaiian had entirely suspended its intercoastal service, and its ships were operating only on war charters."<label class="inline-toggle linenote-number" for="linenote5">(footnote)</label><input class="inline-toggle" id="linenote5" type="checkbox" /><span class="linenote"><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/3111801">"The American-Hawaiian Steamship Company, 1899-1919"</a> by Thomas C Cochran and Ray Ginger, in Business History Review, Vol. 28, No. 4 (Dec., 1954), pp. 343-365, published by The President and Fellows of Harvard College. </span>
</p>
<h3><strong>Conclusion</strong></h3>
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<img src="../images/elephantsFighting.jpg" alt="a drawing of elephants fighting" title="" />
<p>When elephants fight, <br>it is the grass that suffers.</p>
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<p>With all this going on, the California farmers were in a bind. Were the Booths able to sell their "lettuce, raddishes, turnips and onion sets"? Did they lose their farm? Their rural route address changed from 1917 to 1918, but I can't tell whether they moved or the route system was re-organized. If they moved, did they buy another farm in Turlock? Again, I don't know. There are probably property records out there somewhere that would answer those questions. But I do know that by January 1920, Curtis had left off farming for himself and was a wage worker in a walnut grove in or near Whittier, California, more than 300 miles south. I don't think that is what he pictured for himself when he moved to California in the 1890s.</p>
<h3><strong>Credits</strong></h3>
<p>The genealogical information for the Booth family came from the usual suspects—ancestry.com and familysearch.org—with a few vital records from the Washington State Archives thrown in for good measure.</p>
<p>The image of the farmers in Hughson, California, is in the Stanislaus Region History and Culture Image Collection of California State University, Stanislaus, <a href="https://calisphere.org/item/ark:/13030/kt6q2nd4n7/">Calisphere, University of California</a>.</p>
<p>Business Digest, 1917, was at Google Books.</p>
<p>I found the Los Angeles and San Francisco articles at the <a href="https://cbsrinfo.ucr.edu/CNP">University of California, Riverside, Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research's California Newspaper Project site</a>.</p>
<p>The Chicago <em>Packer</em> article was in the <a href="https://idnc.library.illinois.edu">University of Illinois' Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections</a>.</p>
<p>The clippings from the Salt Lake City <em>Republican</em>, the Akron <em>Beacon-Journal</em>, and the Altoona <em>Times</em> were found on <a href="https://www.newspapers.com">newspapers.com</a>.</p>
<p>The Cedarville <em>Herald</em> article can be found on <a href="https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1583&context=cedarville_herald">Digital Commons</a>.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/759419555910167950/">drawing of two elephants fighting</a> was available at pinterest which said it was royalty free.</p>Robert Carroll (Dudley Anderson), Actor, of Chicago, Illinois2018-10-09T00:00:00-04:002022-05-17T00:00:00-04:00Ed Hamiltontag:None,2018-10-09:./robert-carroll-dudley-anderson-actor-of-chicago-illinois.html<div class="left_image"><a href="../articles/robert-carroll-dudley-anderson-actor-of-chicago-illinois.html"> <img src="../images/medicineshowposter.jpg" alt="Robert Carroll (Dudley Anderson), Actor, of Chicago, Illinois" title="Robert Carroll (Dudley Anderson), Actor, of Chicago, Illinois" width="41" height ="60"> </a></div>
<p>In the last article, we learned that William Dudley Anderson had a stage name of Bobby Carroll and died in Chicago in 1932. Can we fill in anything else in his life between his marriage to Mary Rodgers in 1887 and his own death?</p><p>In the last article, <a href="./william-d-anderson-of-richmond-virginia.html">William D Anderson, of Richmond, Virginia</a>, we learned that William Dudley Anderson had a stage name of Bobby Carroll and died in Chicago in 1932. Can we fill in anything else in his life between his marriage to Mary Rodgers in 1887 and his own death?</p>
<p><strong>The Records</strong></p>
<p>Actually, the records themselves so far are pretty sparse for Dudley Anderson. </p>
<p>His 1930 Census said that he was a veteran of the Spanish-American War, which took place in 1898,<sup>1</sup> but I couldn't find a record of his service–not all the information is on line. And he is <em>not</em> the W.D. Anderson who married Lillie Birchfield in Bell County, Texas, in 1901.<sup>2</sup> That couple is in Justice Precinct 5 in McLennan County, Texas, in 1910.</p>
<p>We know that by 1904, Dudley had married Sarah "Lillie" Jacobs, and settled down in Chicago, since their daughter Evelyn was born there in August of that year.<sup>3</sup> A 1906 newspaper article also said he was "of Chicago." Their daughter Evelyn died in 1936, and Dudley's wife was called Sarah Jacobs on Evelyn's death record.<sup>3</sup></p>
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<img src="../images/medicineshowposter.jpg" alt="Poster: The Great Medicine Show-One Continuous Round of Pleasure" title="">
<p>Medicine Show<br> Poster </p>
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<p>In 1920, Robert, Sarah, and Eva Carroll, age 14, were living in a hotel at 231 East Garfield Blvd. in Chicago, Illinois. Robert's occupation was "theatre, medicine show, working on his own account."</p>
<p>The man listed above Robert on the census was James J McNulty, a showman with the circus. He shows up on a few pages at <a href="https://www.circushistory.org/">Circus History.org</a>. I don't know if Bobby Carroll worked with him, but I don't think it is just a coincidence that they were living in the same hotel. The hotel housekeeper's son was a treasurer for a theater as well.<sup>4</sup></p>
<p>In 1924, Robert and Sarah's daughter, Eva, married Arthur J Meader. In 1930, she and Arthur were living in the Columbus Park Hotel at 311 North Central Ave, Chicago. Eva's mother was with them and this time she is listed as Lillie Carroll, not Sarah. Arthur was a lineman for a telegraph company.<sup>5</sup></p>
<p>In the same year, Robert Carroll was living on his own, at the Monarch Hotel at 517 North Clark, Chicago. He was an unemployed theater actor. All of the thirty-two hotel residents were men on their own and many were out of work. There was one other actor in the building, a 70 year old single man named Frank Healy, also out of work.<sup>6</sup></p>
<p>I would like to think that living apart from his family was a "career move" on Dudley's part–that maybe he was closer to the theater district–but I don't think so. I imagine he was more likely "down and out." </p>
<p><strong>His Stage Career, 1887 to 1900</strong></p>
<p>I don't know when Dudley Anderson began performing as Bobby Carroll, but the first mention I found of him was at the Odeon Theatre in Baltimore in October 1887, on the same bill as his wife, Mary Rodgers, who used the stage name Minnie Kelly.</p>
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<img src="../images/1887-10-24-BaltimoreMD-BaltimoreSun-p1.png" alt="Advertisement for Minnie Kelly and Bobby Carroll at the Odeon Theater" />
<p> October 24, 1887, Baltimore Sun, page 1</p>
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<p></p>
<p>They were at the Centre Square Hall and Restaurant in Allentown, Pennsylvania, for the week beginning January 21, 1889. After that they seemed to shift their career west. August 1890 finds them in Butte, Montana, and in December 1891 they are in Deadwood, South Dakota. In Deadwood, Mary Rodgers and Dudley Anderson apparently parted and went their separate ways–they do not appear together again. The April 12, 1895, edition of the Elwood, Indiana, <em>Daily Press</em> calls Bobby Carroll's wife "Caroline Gardner" not "Minnie Kelly."</p>
<p>(Note: For Mary's career, see <a href="./mary-rodgers-kelly-anderson-of-cleveland-ohio.html">Mary (Rodgers) Kelly Anderson, of Cleveland, Ohio</a>.)</p>
<p>April 1895 in Elwood, Indiana, seems to have been one of the turning points in Dudley's career. He was running a show of his own at the Elwood Opera House</p>
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<img src="../images/1895-04-05-ElwoodIN-FreePress-p8.png" alt="Newspaper advertisement for Bobby Carroll's Vaudeville Show at the Elwood Opera House" />
<p>Elwood, Indiana, <i>Free Press</i>, April 5, 1895</p>
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<p></p>
<p>but ran into financial and marital problems. The April 11, 1895, Elwood <em>Free Press</em> carried news of local court proceedings. A judge had awarded James Howard $27 in back wages owed to him by Bobby Carroll. The article asked "Will he get it?" </p>
<p>The Friday, April 12, 1895, issue of the same paper carried a long article about Bobby Carroll's trials and tribulations. "Caroline Gardner" had left him the previous Monday and Bobby began to drink heavily and neglect his business. On Thursday afternoon, Bobby was on the 2:26 train westbound, leaving behind debts to the newspapers and merchants of Elwood, as well as to his actors and employees. His actors were talking about putting the word out in the trade so that he would never work again. </p>
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<img src="../images/1895-04-12-ElwoodIN-FreePress-p10-1.png" alt="Newspaper article: Bobby Carroll has left for parts unknown, never to return" />
<p>Elwood Free Press, April 12, 1895,<br> page 10, part 1</p>
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<img src="../images/1895-04-12-ElwoodIN-FreePress-p10-2.png" alt="Newspaper article: Bobby Carroll says he's going to Dayton, Ohio, but leaves Elwood, Indiana, on a westbound train." />
<p>Elwood Free Press, April 12, 1895,<br> page 10, part 2</p>
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<img src="../images/1895-04-12-ElwoodIN-FreePress-p10-3.png" alt="Newspaper article: Bobby Carroll heavily in debt" />
<p>Elwood Free Press, April 12, 1895,<br> page 10, part 3</p>
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<img src="../images/1895-04-12-ElwoodIN-FreePress-p10-4.png" alt="Bobby Carroll's actors think he has gone to Chicago to join his wife." title=" " />
<p> Elwood Free Press, April 12, 1895,<br> page 10, part 4</p>
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<p></p>
<p>I didn't find a trace of Bobby Carroll for the next few years except for a possible sighting in Los Angeles in 1899, but no mention is made of that man's occupation or why he was in Los Angeles. </p>
<p><strong>His Stage Career, 1901 to 1928</strong></p>
<p>The 20th century opened for Bobby Carroll in August 1902, in Elmira, New York, at least according to the available newspapers. He hit his high point a few months later when, according to a promotional piece in the New York <em>Clipper</em>, he was in his 12th week with Quinlan and Wall's Imperial Minstrels. </p>
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<img src="../images/1902-11-01-NewYorkClipper-p788-2.png" alt="Article: Bobby Carroll says our show is a big hit" />
<p> New York, NY, <i>Clipper</i>, November 1, 1902, page 2</p>
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<p></p>
<p>It included an appearance at the Colonial Theater in Akron, Ohio, which prompted this bit of advance publicity:</p>
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<img src="../images/1902-11-05-AkronOHBeacon-Journal-p5.png" alt="Short article describing Bobby Carroll's contributions to Quinlan and Wall's Minstrel Show" />
<p>Akron, Ohio, <i>Beacon Journal</i>, November 5, 1902</p>
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<p> </p>
<p>He was still with Quinlan and Wall in December 1902, when they appeared in Paducah, Kentucky. </p>
<p>The next few years have Bobby Carroll working solo, and usually in Illinois or surrounding states: May 1904 in South Bend, Indiana, and Freeport, Illinois; January 1905 in Waukegan, Illinois; May 1905 in Minneapolis, Minnesota; April 1906 in Waterloo, Iowa. The Waukegan article called him "of Chicago", which he would have been by then.</p>
<p>1906 brings a few mentions of "Mr and Mrs Bobby Carroll." The "Mrs" this time must have been Sarah Jacobs. They were together in Waterloo, Iowa, later in April 1906 and in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, in June 1908. </p>
<p>After that, it was Bobby on his own in various locations around the Midwest, including this show in Rockford, Illinois:</p>
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<img src="../images/1909-06-23-BelvidereIL-DailyRepublican-p6.png" alt="Article: Bobby Carroll, black face comedian, opens at the Rockford Orpheum July 5th" />
<p>Belvidere, Illinois, <i>Daily Republican</i>, June 23, 1909</p>
</div>
<p> </p>
<p>He was still acting in 1927 and was in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, in October of that year. The last <em>possible</em> mention I found of him was in the Brooklyn, New York, <em>Times Union</em>, April 8, 1928, page 141, on a bill with Ted Eddy and his "College Misfits." It seems likely this Bobby Carroll was Dudley Anderson, but I can't be positive since it was much farther east than I had found him down to then.</p>
<p><strong>Conclusion</strong></p>
<p>The Brooklyn show might have been Bobby Carroll's last stand. I can't say he went out on top, but he did have a 40+ year career. On the 1930 census he was living apart from his family, in a run-down hotel in Chicago. Most of the residents, including him, were unemployed. He died in 1932.</p>
<p>And that just about sums up what I know about this gentleman. It must have been a long way from being William Dudley Anderson, son of a court clerk in Richmond, Virginia, to Robert "Bobby" Carroll, unemployed actor in Chicago, Illinois. Especially when the road takes you through Oil City, Pennsylvania, Butte, Montana, and Deadwood, South Dakota.</p>
<p>For more information and for the genealogy sources for Dudley Anderson, find Anderson in the <a href="https://myoldohiohome.com/cleveland/">Ohio Families</a> section of this website.</p>
<p><strong>Footnotes</strong></p>
<ol>
<li> "United States Census, 1930," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XS59-9QN : accessed 24 Feb 2014), Robert Carroll, Chicago (Districts 1501-1750), Cook, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 1544, sheet , family 258, NARA microfilm publication.</li>
<li> "Texas, Marriages, 1837-1973," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FX7D-9VH : accessed 27 Feb 2014), W. D. Anderson and Lillie Birchfield, 22 Sep 1901.</li>
<li> Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947, at ancestry.com.</li>
<li> "United States Census, 1920," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MJSR-1MP : accessed 24 Feb 2014), Robert Carroll in household of Benair G Wheeler, Chicago Ward 6, Cook (Chicago), Illinois, United States; citing sheet , family 1, NARA microfilm publication T625, FHL microfilm 1820310.</li>
<li> "United States Census, 1930," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XSP8-WPX : accessed 24 Feb 2014), Arthur J Meader, Chicago (Districts 2627-2876), Cook, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 2742, sheet , family 215, NARA microfilm publication .</li>
<li> "United States Census, 1930," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XS59-9QN : accessed 24 Feb 2014), Robert Carroll, Chicago (Districts 1501-1750), Cook, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 1544, sheet , family 258, NARA microfilm publication .</li>
<li> See previous article.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>The image of the medicine show poster comes from <a href="http://www.legendsofamerica.com/ah-patentmedicine.php">Legends of America/Patent Medicine</a>.</p>