tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47607890345363797222024-02-19T17:48:38.159-07:00TRAILS OF MY IMAGINATIONDick Ellishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14266387580032337708noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760789034536379722.post-35289227518649582202012-05-08T18:28:00.000-06:002012-05-23T18:42:47.915-06:00RICHARD CLARK ELLIS 1899-1967<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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RICHARD CLARK ELLIS</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Memories that I have of
my Dad:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dick as he was called by most of
the adults who knew him, was 5'7" tall. He had dark brown hair and hazel
eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was a soft spoken man and slow
to anger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He loved hillbilly music or
mountain music as it was sometimes called.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>His musical ability came from what he was able to teach himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He could play the piano, mouth harp
(harmonica) and "jaws" harp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>These he played by "ear".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I sometimes think that he knew the words to all the old songs and the
new ones as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remember his
favorite hymn as being Rock of Ages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After we got a radio he enjoyed listening to broadcasts of "Fibber
Magee and Mollie", "The Bell Telephone Hour", and the
"Grand Ole Opry".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When these
programs came on, the kids were instructed to "sit down and shut up or
leave the room."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also told us
funny Mother Goose rhymes such as Mary had a little lamb, her father shot him
dead, now Mary takes that lamb to school, between 2 slabs of bread or Mary had
a little lamb, his foot was black as soot, and everywhere that Mary went, he
put his sooty foot and Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her
daughter a dress but when she got there the cupboard was bare and so was her
daughter---I guess.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dad had many occupations during his life
time including farming, road construction and as a laborer for the WPA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His road construction started with building
roads and railroads using horse drawn equipment and progressed to the hugh road
machines that one sees today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During the
Depression years, Dad would find work where ever he could.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I recall hearing that he was picking potatoes
in Scottsbluff, NE.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and other times he
would be helping in the hay fields around Lexington, NE.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He always tried his best to provide for his
family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Looking back I can realize how
difficult it was for him and Mom during the Depression days but, as a kid
living through it, it didn't seem so bad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I always had food and clothes and all the other kids had the same so I
didn't know we were poor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know that
for me it seemed that he was not around much but whenever we were quarteened
with some disease or another; he was always there to help out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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</div>Dick Ellishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14266387580032337708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760789034536379722.post-40490488018670588762012-05-04T17:44:00.001-06:002012-05-04T17:44:47.753-06:00LUCY BELLE (WEEKLY) ADKINS 1884-1979<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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knew her, was about 5'5" tall, slightly built but quite muscular.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was rather dark complexioned and when she
was younger, had dark brown hair that had turned gray by the time of my
earliest memory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her eyes were hazel and
her voice was rather high pitched.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
had deep scars on her right hand (as I remember) that were caused from glass
cuts she received when her house caught fire and she broke a window to get
something out of the burning house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Grandma Adkins was a spry little lady even into her later years. My Dad
used to say, “Lucy was always busy and she went about things "like she was
killing snakes."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is one story
I remember hearing about her--this happened one time when she wanted Granddad
Adkins to come home from a poker game he was in at a railroad line shack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When he did not come home, grandma took a wet
gunny sack and stuffed it in the chimney of the shack and "smoked"
him and his cronies out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Granddad came
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<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I think about Grandma Adkins, I marvel
at the things she saw and the changes that occurred during her lifetime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our 21st President, Chester A. Arthur was in
office when she was born and Jimmy Carter was President when she died.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nineteen different men would be sworn into this
office (Cleveland twice) during her lifetime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She witnessed everything from foot travel to lumber wagon, covered
wagon, stage coach, paddle wheeler on the Mississippi River, car, train and
airplane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She prepared meals on stoves
heated with cow chips, corn cobs, wood, coal, kerosene, gas and
electricity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The development of sulfa,
penicillin and flu vaccines were discovered during her life time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her houses were lit with candles, kerosene
lamps, gas lamps and electric lights. Lucy endured two world wars and then the
Korean and Vietnam situations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Music
came to her by personal presentation, radio and television.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She once told me about going to a World Fair
in Chicago, IL.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At that fair her father
would send her and her sister Eva to the educational exhibits while he attended
an "International Geographic Presentation" entitled "Little
Egypt” She was a grown woman before she knew the truth about Little Egypt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She had lived in a sod house, then a wood
house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She lived through fire, flood,
feast and famine; the depression years were extremely difficult for her and
Granddad Adkins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She witnessed the
explosion of the Atomic Bomb and the landing of a man on the moon, both of
these events via Television.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Granted
there were others who experienced the same things -- but this Lady was my
Grandmother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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April 29, 1903 in Beatrice, Nebraska.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To
this marriage seven children were born but only three lived to adulthood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lucy was christened Methodist and is buried
in the Trenton Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>Dick Ellishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14266387580032337708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760789034536379722.post-52293235190808781772012-05-02T18:17:00.001-06:002012-05-02T18:17:46.869-06:00SAMUEL JAMES ADKINS 1866-1959<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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interesting fact, at least to me, was that Grandad’s biological father was
killed while taking a team of horses across a flooded stream.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was around Chariton Iowa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His Mother then married her husband’s
brother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both brothers had served with
the Union Army during the Civil War.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Thus he is the only person I know who had two fathers who both served
during the Civil War.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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hunting accident when he was a young man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He was quite adept using only his left hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He could harness horses and drive a four
horse team using what was always termed his "stub arm."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In addition to farming he was a County
Commissioner-Hitchcock Co.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My dad told
me about watching "Sam", as he was known by most adults, play pool
with a special sleeve made to fit over the stub.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It had a ring mounted in the sleeve to hold
the pool cue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was a good pool
player.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remember watching Granddad
wrestle with brother Jim, he would use that stub quite effectively for a choke
hold and he could punch with it as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He was a proud man and carried himself with dignity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was five feet ten or eleven inches tall,
had grayish eyes and always had white hair and a mustache to match.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His wedding pictures do show him as having
dark hair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was from his teaching that
my brothers and I learned to use fire arms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He taught us gun safety, proper use of weapons, and the principles of
hunting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We learned to use a rifle, shot
gun and hand guns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remember that
Granddad almost always carried a loaded hand gun with him and I asked him about
this once.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He said, "during my
lifetime I have known many men who I would not like to meet unarmed."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He would tell many stories that I still do
not know if they were true or not since he was an interesting "story
teller."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such as the one he told
about helping his half-brother "Doc" vaccinate hogs for farmers
around the countryside where they were not well known.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Doc, a name he apparently assigned himself,
would manufacture his own vaccine to treat hogs for erysipelas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Granddad said, "many times</span><span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">he
was glad that his horse was faster than those of the farmers when they
discovered they 'had been had'."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Samuel James Adkins was
born Oct 18, 1866 at Newbern, IA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
came by covered wagon to Nebraska where they settled on a homestead 10 miles
north and east of Alma, NE., on the day he was 12 years old, Oct 18, 1878.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He lived his early life around Alma and
Oxford, NE.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was married to Lucy B.
Weekly,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>April 29, 1903.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He passed away at his home in Trenton on May
9, 1959 at 3:30 AM at the age of 92 years, 6 months and 19 days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He leaves to mourn his passing, his wife,
Lucy and three daughters, Mrs. Doris Ellis, Mrs. Beulah Seybold and Mrs.
Mildred Frick, all of Trenton.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A son
Charles, preceded him in death in Feb 1924.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He leaves 11 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren; one brother, Ora
B. Adkins of Holdredge, NE.; several nephews and nieces and a host of
friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The family spent the first
years of married life in Oxford, NE. where he served 8 years as City
Marshall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He resigned from this work and
bought a farm 4 miles south of Edison, NE. where they lived four years. They
wanted to go further west and moved to Trenton in March 1919 and bought the
Owen Murphy farm 5 miles east of Trenton.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>During this time he served as County Commissioner 12 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He retired from farming in 1947 and moved to
Trenton.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He gave his life to God and was
baptized in Feb 1955 and continued in his faith until the last.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Dick Ellishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14266387580032337708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760789034536379722.post-22443847721615751372012-04-27T10:09:00.002-06:002012-04-28T17:18:02.927-06:00MARTIN ADKINS 1833-1869<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Martin Adkins was born in 1833
in Decatur Co., Indiana.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Died in
1869.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was killed crossing a river
with a team of horses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Buried in
Newbern, IA. Cemetery near the Davis plot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>At the time of his death he was trying to lead a team of horses across
the flooded Chariton River.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The horses
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<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Feb. of 1864 he enlisted for three years
service; Co. G., 15th Iowa Infantry, R.L. Hanks, captain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Martin was described in his Army papers as 5'
10 1/2" tall, dark eyes, hair and complexion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was 31 at the time of his enlistment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Martin was in the Siege of Atlanta and spent
May and June in a Hospital in Keokuk, IA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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</span>He and Perlina Davis had 6 children--Electra, William, Lavena, Serepta,
Samuel James (my grandfather) and Martin Jr.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>Dick Ellishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14266387580032337708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760789034536379722.post-55463024994474581312011-11-28T09:57:00.001-07:002011-11-28T10:04:24.513-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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AMOS ASHLEY</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I do not remember any
stories told about my great grandfather Ashley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I did find his obituary that was written in the Tonica daily
newspaper<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>from Tonica, Illinois.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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theTonica News-Fri. Sept 14, 1894 issue # 29<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Death of Amos Ashley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although Mr. Ashley has long been a sufferer
from kidney complaint, his acute illness at the last was of less than a week's
duration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the news was rapidly passed
from neighbor to neighbor last Saturday evening, it was difficult to realize
that he had really gone--gone forever from the activities of life among his
friends and associates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Funeral services
were held at the home on Tuesday forenoon with Masonic ceremonies and burial.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rev. G. L. Taylor spoke briefly from the
Scripture, "No man liveth unto himself, and no man dieth unto
himself."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He showed how the fabric
of our lives is interwoven--how one is dependent upon another, and how
impossible it is for a human being to isolate himself entirely from the
influence of others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had words of
consolation and comfort for the bereaved ones mourning their great loss. From
the house the friends proceeded to the Tonica cemetery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By careful count there were found to be 67
carriages in the procession as it started, 15 of them being occupied by Masons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On arriving at the open grave the Masons
rendered their impressive burial service and committed the body of their
beloved brother, "earth to earth, dust to dust, ashes to ashes."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Following is the obituary notice read by the
minister:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amos L. Ashley was born at
Barnard, Windsor County, Vermont, June 15, 1829. Was brought by his parents to
Illinois in 1839; lived in Magnolia until the fall of 1840, then moved to
Tonica and lived in that vicinity until the time of his death, which occurred
Sept. 8, 1894.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was married to Velina
S. Thomas of Royalton, VT., Feb. 24, 1856; was the father of three children,
all of whom were privileged to be with and care for him during his last
sickness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I have been rather slow in posting stories to my blog lately. Perhaps with the winter coming on I will be spending more time indoors and will try to get back to posting more diligently. D</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</div>Dick Ellishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14266387580032337708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760789034536379722.post-90964741632212963112011-09-01T09:52:00.000-06:002011-09-01T09:52:44.686-06:00JASON ASHLEY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh64D0vfEhE_10KDccWvuJmbu4XUyYDEqLLTSmXx-6e0uwDcq0VlCg5JmVbx7e4DR4BPlVtm2n79aHPM4znszun-XeshW1IdAE54wHivwkX6R6P4OxuY1Qn8YpiLZn9WZXZBi-XtlaAdhIt/s1600/Jason+Ashley+at+100.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh64D0vfEhE_10KDccWvuJmbu4XUyYDEqLLTSmXx-6e0uwDcq0VlCg5JmVbx7e4DR4BPlVtm2n79aHPM4znszun-XeshW1IdAE54wHivwkX6R6P4OxuY1Qn8YpiLZn9WZXZBi-XtlaAdhIt/s320/Jason+Ashley+at+100.jpg" width="320" />i</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Jason Ashley at 100 years old </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In a previous post I had mentioned a time when Sarah Ashley had to go down into a well to rescue her son Jason. The above pictured person is that Jason. (<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">Picture of Jason Ashley was in the possession of Millie Miller of Hendricks, MN. She allowed me to take a photo of it to add this story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aug 31, 2009.)</span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This Article was taken from the Tonica News dated April 26, 1895</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(From the Grange News, Apr. 5)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jason Ashley, father-in-law, of our Sister V.S. Ashley, passed his 99th birthday in February, and is now in his 100th year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And what is remarkable he has never been sick, he has had his pantaloons on every day (for 95 Years just think of it up and dressed every day since the people quit using pounds, shillings, and pence.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Indeed, he was born in 1796, before the people had dropped the use of sterling money, before the birth of the U.S, dollar; as old as the stars and stripes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Twenty-eight states have been added in his life time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When he was a year old nails were made singly and by hand.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1790 the first little steam propeller was made.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First cast iron plow was made when he was but two years old, but the farmers would not use them; they said they "poisoned the soil."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Hail Columbia," first national song, was written when he was three years old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first braided straw bonnet was made when he was four years old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was five years old when Patrick Henry died; the same when George Washington died, and if he had seen him might have remembered him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was five yeas old before anyone in this country was vaccinated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was seven years old when Ohio was admitted as a state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was nine years old when the government built Fort Dearborn (Chicago) as an Indian outpost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was 11 years old before cotton was first planted in the United States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was 13 years old before stone coal was used as a fuel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was 17 years old, almost old enough to enlist, when Jackson fought the British at New Orleans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was 45 years old before reaping machines were used; 55 years old before the telegraph was a success.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What remarkable years the 100 years of his life have been.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sister Ashley says he was always temperate in everything, a teetotaler as far as liquor and tobacco were concerned, a small and slow eater, and satisfied and contented at all times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was born in East Barnard, Vermont, and came to Illinois in an early day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> (note by author--Jason moved his family to Illinois in 1839. Jason was born in Barnard, VT on Feb 28, 1796. He died shortly after his 100th birthday but I do not have the exact date.) </span>H.K.S.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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Dick Ellishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14266387580032337708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760789034536379722.post-27250285467530848012011-07-22T14:20:00.001-06:002011-07-25T21:28:49.496-06:00MORE ABOUT THE ASHLEYS<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Notes obtained from Helen Moe's Family History and also from a story told by Gerald Paige at the time of the visit by the Moe’s in 1997: In 1784 Lemuel Ashley came to East Barnard. The 1st year the family, which consisted of father, mother and 7 children, lived on venison and wood nettles. The next summer, having cleared some land they planted corn. That spring Lemuel walked to Windsor and bought a pig, which he carried home on his back. They had visions of johny-cake and salt pork to add to their diet the next winter. But, before they had a chance to butcher the pig, the Episcopal Church in Woodstock took the pig to pay the church tax. It was reported that they were not ardent Episcopalians after that. In fact, they became known as fox hunters and fiddlers. However, it is reported that one of his descendants, a son, Jonathan Ashley, became a minister in the Christian church. I was unable to verify this—again Trails of My Imagination.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> The above was probably taken from LOCAL HISTORY OF EAST BARNARD by Lucy Edna Allen. It was also included in the stories told by Gerald Gibbs to Bud Moe in 1987 and also reported in <u>The Harbor a Glimpse of East Barnard</u> by the East Barnard Community Club 1976.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Another story reported in <u>The Harbor</u> concerned Sarah Osborn Ashley, Jonathan’s wife and my 3rd Great Grandmother. They lived in a log cabin and in the year of 1797 or 1798 and one of her children, a son Jason fell into the well. <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">(Jason would later become my Great Great Grandfather)</span> Although she was pregnant, she climbed down into the well and rescued the child. Her third child, Sarah, was born in February 1808. After this birth Sarah was paralyzed and unable to walk. She managed to get around the house in a chair as she looked after family. She had ten children in all. Before her paralysis she sowed flax seed, harvested it, spun the flax into linen thread, wove it into fine cloth and from ths cloth she made two ruffled shirts for Mr. Boyden. She received five acres of land in payment.</span></div>Dick Ellishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14266387580032337708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760789034536379722.post-64594903106162930272011-07-14T20:12:00.000-06:002011-07-14T20:12:14.304-06:00THE ASHLEYS<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:RelyOnVML/> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/> <w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/> <w:OverrideTableStyleHps/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">When Helen Moe, one of my cousins, visited East Barnard, VT in 1997 with her children they had an opportunity to visit with Ruth Paige, a granddaughter of Ozro Ellis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her brother in law, Gerald Gibbs was also there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gerald was a widower and had been married to Ruth’s sister Margaret.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bud Moe, son of Helen, had a chance to interview Mr. Gibbs and caught it on Video.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He started by telling of Lemuel Ashley the ancestor of the Ashleys who eventually moved to East Barnard and were to become related to the Ellis family when Dollie Ashley married my grand father Harlan Joel Ellis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But back to the story told by Mr. Gibbs—He told of the early Ashley who had been a member of the infamous Captain Kidd's pirate crew. Captain Kidd was a pirate who preyed on Spanish galleons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Captain Kidd went to turn himself in to authorities he paid his men off with the gold doubloons that had been pirated from the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Spanish</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lemuel Ashley bought a house in one of the Eastern States and paid for it with gold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Ashleys eventually moved to Vermont and established themselves around East Barnard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have no documentation of this but it does make an interesting story. (Trails of my imagination)</span></div>Dick Ellishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14266387580032337708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760789034536379722.post-32153135958420387172011-06-19T17:45:00.001-06:002011-06-19T17:53:38.131-06:00OLIVER'S CAVE<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<div class="MsoNormal">While I am still on the subject of Ellis Mountain I will also include another article from <u>The Harbor</u> publication: Oliver’s Cave on the side of Ellis Mountain was the mecca of many boys during the last hundred years and an expedition there sometimes served to close the spring term of school. They have cited their article from <u>Vermont Life Spring 1961. </u>) For a boy of the 1830’s, Oliver Plaisted had a good education, and as a youth taught school for awhile before learning something of the builders trade. In the 50’s he came back to live down on Broad Brook in Royalton with his parents and he remained there after their deaths, taking on strange and reclusive ways. He was ill and a man to fear imagined dangers. It was a special house that Oliver built which keeps his name alive today, not the hermit shack which he first built down by Broad Brook.<span style="color: #c00000;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"> There is no evidence that the authorities ever thought to come for him but when the Civil War broke out, Oliver struck out for the hills—for the wilderness of ledges and mountain top near the Barnard-Royalton town line.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Here he took refuge, living for some time in a small natural cave whose opening he walled up partially. Here in his fear and misery Oliver chiseled on the rock works to be seen today: “This is Hell.”</div><div class="MsoNormal">Nearby Plaisted soon erected a small stone house which now is known to picnickers and hikers as “Oliver’s Cave”. He built staunchly, his only tool a jackscrew but with this he somehow moved a huge stone slab across the top to form a complete roof. There was a doorway and inside a rude fireplace. Nearby he built pits and rock piles, which some say were his forts or outposts.</div><div class="MsoNormal">It’s not recorded how long Oliver kept to his mountain retreat, though probably he was there off and on throughout the war. Once, it is told, he backpacked in from Woodstock a barrel of crackers. Nobody ever came after Oliver, it appears, and he died at 58 in Royalton some fifteen years after the war ended. The old there and his shack by Broad Brook have long since gone, but the stone refuge, “Oliver’s Cave” stands firm on the mountain top, a Civil War monument in its way.</div><div class="MsoNormal">I have added a link for all you geocachers out there.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=98928">http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=98928</a></div>Dick Ellishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14266387580032337708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760789034536379722.post-77380222569449614292011-06-06T15:14:00.001-06:002011-06-19T17:11:12.371-06:00OZRO ELLIS—1849-1929<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3cnpkHV5PX1FglgD18Jvdj2kx9Rr2V16H2D5P0Pq_l0WKTqXqLXA0M6_eQyzCZV9BznpyemQg4AnwEBfVsblo7KK2HP3evCA1PDBMKgS_rPy2nVtkS7EqwKZ2qLsKAYKYEGxn5_yR0zsT/s1600/2011-6-14+Barnard+a+look+back+005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3cnpkHV5PX1FglgD18Jvdj2kx9Rr2V16H2D5P0Pq_l0WKTqXqLXA0M6_eQyzCZV9BznpyemQg4AnwEBfVsblo7KK2HP3evCA1PDBMKgS_rPy2nVtkS7EqwKZ2qLsKAYKYEGxn5_yR0zsT/s320/2011-6-14+Barnard+a+look+back+005.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><br />
</div>Picture and text from <u>Barnard A Look Back</u> by Marie deGiacomo, 1982 Greenhill Books Randolph Center<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Now before I get completely away from Vermont I will expand my imagination even more. The history I have of Ozro is taken from interviews with Philip Desmond, owner of Ellis Farm in 1999, and articles from <u>The Harbor.</u> Since Harlan has left the farm Ozro will take over the operation of the farm. That will include managing the quarrying of granite from Ellis Mountain. From the sources I cited earlier, indications are that the granite from the mountain was used extensively throughout the area. </span><br />
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</tbody></table></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The method of harvesting the granite was by the “drill and fill” method. Holes were drilled into the granite, by hand, several inches apart and then filled with water. I was told that this operation was done during the winter months so as the water froze and expanded the rock was forced apart. The granite, being layered, would split off into rather uniform slabs which were then loaded on a stone boat or as some say stone sled. This piece of equipment consisted of two wooden runners tapered in front and a platform secured to the runners forming a very low sled. This was pulled by horses down trails on the mountain and to the place where the granite was to be used. The use of granite for foundations and retaining walls was prevalent at that time and were laid up with the “dry stone” method. That is no mortar was used but by careful fitting the stones were placed and remain in place to this day. </span>The dry stone method was mostly abandoned after the Civil War as poured concrete became more readily available. Some walls and fences still use the dry stone method. <br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">This excerpt was taken from <u>The Harbor </u> published July 1976 by the East Barnard Community Club: The stone quarry on Ellis Mountain furnished the underpinnings and handsome doorsteps for many homes in the valley and for houses as far away as Woodstock. The wall around the Billings’ Mansion <span style="color: red;"></span> is built with Ellis Mountain stone. The stones were all moved by sleds in the winter. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">My wife and I found another use of the granite slabs as indicated in this picture of granite fence posts in use in the Royalton area. Since granite is quite abundant in that area I don’t know if the granite posts came from Ellis Mountain or not. But I thought them quite interesting. Yankee ingenuity </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">at work. </span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"></div>Dick Ellishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14266387580032337708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760789034536379722.post-67644736718930422732011-05-15T16:03:00.004-06:002011-05-20T13:50:48.105-06:00HARLAN JOEL ELLIS 1857-1933<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Harlan Joel Ellis moved from East Barnard, VT. to Illinois in 1878. There he met and married Dollie Ashley. From this union four children were born while in Tonica, IL. From Tonica, IL. they moved to Mt. Airy, MO. where my father, Richard Clark was born. They later moved to Iowa Falls, Iowa and then to near Trenton, Nebraska. After the death of Harlan Grand mother Ellis moved back to Iowa Falls, IA. My Dad stayed in NE. where he had met and married my mother Doris Adkins. I do not remember my Grandfather Ellis although I have a copy of a picture taken when I around three years old. The picture shows my Dad, his brother Ashley, both grandparents, with my Grandmother Ellis holding me. My brother Jim and sister Peg are in the picture. Since my Granddad died in 1933 the picture must have been taken in 1932 or early '33.</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;"> Harlan Ellis, a former resident of the Ellis' Community, died at Ellsworth Hospital in Iowa Falls Wednesday afternoon, age 75 years, 10 months, and 21 days. He and his wife had come here from their home in Leota, Kansas, to attend the funeral of their son who was buried in the Iowa Falls Cemetery last week. Mr. Ellis' funeral will be held Saturday morning at the Wilbur Undertaking Home at 10:30 AM and interment will be made in Union Cemetery. The immediate cause of death was heart trouble. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;"> Mr. Ellis was born at East Barnard, VT, July 12, 1857. On Dec 1, 1880 Mr Ellis was married at Tonica, Ill. To this union were born 5 children namely: Bert Ellis of Hampton; Mrs Edna Jones of Barron, Wi.; Phillip Ellis of Hendricks, MN.; Richard Ellis of Culberson(sic), NE.; and Ashley Ellis, deceased. There are 13 grandchildren. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;"> The Ellis Family lived near the Ellis Church for 16 years and were well respected by everyone.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">HARLAN JOEL ELLIS' grave is located in the Union Cemetery in Iowa Falls, Iowa Section 1 Block 2 Lot 12 Space 7</span><br />
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*My direct lineageDick Ellishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14266387580032337708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760789034536379722.post-68105280476395114972011-04-23T15:53:00.001-06:002011-04-23T21:16:16.305-06:00Clark Ellis<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">From the BARNARD, VT. HISTORY 1928</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">Moses with his brother, Joseph, were the ones who came to Barnard, VT. from Walpole, MA. in 1785. Moses at age 16 settled the Ellis Farm. The barn that is dated 1785<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"></span></span><span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;"> was probably finished that year. His brother Joseph settled an adjoining farm. This is supposition is based in part on my <i>imagination </i> but I feel that the move from Walpole to Vermont might have been prompted by the offer of free land since Vermont had not yet achieved Statehood. The adventuresome spirit of the young men of that era might have had a lot to do with it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;"> Moses married Catherine Boyden February 3, 1794 in Walpole Massachusetts. To this union six children were born. They were Clark*, Joel, Lucy, Catherine, Enoch, and Joel. Note: I don't understand the two Joels since the second one was born before the first Joel died.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <span style="background-color: white;"></span></span> <br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><i><span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Information taken from NEW ENGLAND FAMILIES--Genealogical and Memorial Volume. 1.<span> </span>Joseph Ellis(Ellice), probably the youngest of the Ellis brothers who settled in Dedham and Medfield, MA. was born about 1635 and doubtless came from England to live with one of his brothers.<span> </span>He was a taxpayer as early as 12-6-1659 and his name appears next to that of Richard Ellis (Ellice) on the list in that year.<span> </span>He continued on the tax list until 1671.<span> </span>In that year he probably died, for in the year 1672 his widow Ruth takes his place as a taxpayer.<span> </span>He drew land with Sargent Richard Ellis and Michael Metcalf, 3-23-1662/63.<span> </span>The following extract from the Dedham town records relates to his appointment as schoolmaster, "in consideration of the present want of a schoolmaster and the weakly estate of our brother, Joseph Ellis (Ellice), he being willing and we being hopeful he may do some good in teaching some children to read English, so for the present and until one more able may be attained; do so agree that he shall have 6s. a week so long as he shall so teach." (March 23, 1663/64).<span> </span>He received his salary, amounting to 15 pounds, 12 shillings Feb. 10,1665 and made a similar contract for 1666.<span> </span>The records show he was paid for part of the year of 1666.<span> </span>An account of his service, similar to this, is given in the book "Schools and School Teachers of Dedham."</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> My research shows that Joseph was born in Wrentham, Suffolk, England around 1631. Joseph </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"></span>married Ruth (last name unknown) September 19, 1650 in Dedham. To this marriage one child was born, Joseph Ellis II. Joseph II was born in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts 1666.</div>Dick Ellishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14266387580032337708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760789034536379722.post-56386857021130228582011-03-30T15:11:00.001-06:002011-03-31T18:36:20.245-06:00my second postMy purpose for this Blog is to provide a narrative history of my family.Dick Ellishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14266387580032337708noreply@blogger.com2