AMANUENSIS MONDAY–TRANSCRIBING FLORENCE MILNE'S JOURNAL - A LIST OF BIRTH & DEATH DATES - FEBRUARY

What does Amanuensis mean anyway?

To put it simply, it means a “person employed to write what another dictates or copy what has been written by another.”

As many of you know from reading previous posts on my blog, my maternal grandmother left a spiral notebook, which I call her journal.  In it she left us a list of 183 family members and their birth dates and some death dates, a list of anniversaries and other various lists or things that were important to her.  It’s a treasure that I cherish.  

Today I’m going to be transcribing her list of names & dates from February.

For the previous post transcribing January, please click on this link
Amanuensis Monday - Transcribing my grandmother's journal - January

Here is the page from her journal. This journal was begun when my grandmother, Florence L. Bowden, married my grandfather, Joseph A. Milne, in 1906, so it’s very old.  I don’t touch it anymore.  I have digitized all the pages.  



Here is my transcription of this page, with some annotations.  I have indicated the family connection in brackets, even though it’s not part of the document.  I just thought you’d like to know who these people are to me.  And, for any cousins out there reading this, maybe you’ll find it helpful. 
In this post I have added photos of some of the family members listed here. The photos are at the bottom of this list.  

February

Arthur Seigle    Feb. 1  ‘89    died July 22,  36  [1st cousin, twice removed]
Robert Edward Lee Bowden   Feb. 8  ‘63  died  Oct 1906  [Great grandfather]
Andrew Charles Milne   Feb. 8  ‘56   died Dec. 8,  92  [Great grandfather]
Dorothy Irene Milne  Feb. 17  ‘07  died  Feb 24, 1920  [Aunt] 
*  Melville Austin   Feb. 21 – 6-13-46 
died Apr. 17,  39  Mary Donnelly-Seaver   Feb. 20  ‘83  died 4-39 [1st cousin, twice removed]
*  Carroll Platz   Feb. 26  ‘15
Rosemary Seigle   Feb. 28  [2nd cousin, once removed] 
Elizabeth Verney   Feb. 9  ‘65   3-8-48 [Great grandaunt]
*  Sadie Cole Wood  Feb. 9   died Feb. 4,  ‘53  73 yrs. 360 days 
Ada King  Feb. 14,  ‘65  died  3-17-49  [Great grandaunt] 
*  Dora Marie Foster Purcey   Feb. 12,  ‘16 
Edna Gill Verney   Feb. 21,  ‘88 [Wife of 1st cousin, twice removed]
*  Margaret Scott   Feb. 1, ‘93
Edwina Booth Smullins Milne   Feb. 12,  ‘13 [Wife of Uncle]
Dennis Lee Morrison   Feb. 24,  ‘45   11:38 p.m.  [1st cousin]
Grace Hunter Fenner Jenkins   Feb. 19,  ‘74   died Sept. 15, ‘46  [Great grandaunt]
*  Margaret King’s Geo    Feb.  17,  ‘40 
Christopher Robert Dattolo  [Feb] 14  ‘80  [2nd cousin, twice removed]

That’s a total of 19 names.  I am very fortunate to have this kind of list from my grandmother.

I have placed an asterisk * next to the names I have not yet connected to our family.  Six of the names are still waiting for me to find their connections.  I have them in my Legacy database as unlinked individuals.  In the lists from the other 11 months of the year, there are also names that aren’t yet connected.  I keep looking from time to time and link them as I identify them.  

This time to add a bit of interest I thought I would post the pictures I have of people who are on this list.

                   
Arthur Seigle                     Andrew Charles Milne                      Dorothy Irene Milne

        
   Rosemary Seigle                             Ada King

I’ve enjoyed sharing this with you and will continue to share the items from my grandmother’s journal.  This is a great way for me to take another look at these lists and perhaps catch something I didn’t catch last time, or take a new look online for records.

UPDATE - All the posts for each month of the year can be found by clicking on this link: http://www.michiganfamilytrails.com/p/blog-page_17.html

Please contact me if you recognize any of the names with asterisks or if you are related to any of these family members.  I’d love to hear from you.  

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Happy hunting,

Michigan Girl

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SIBLING SATURDAY–THE HUNTER SISTERS

MEET THE HUNTER SISTERS

Back row – left to right – Grace Hunter 1874-1946, Daisy Dean Hunter 1876-1948, Ada Emily Hunter 1865-1949.

Front row – left to right – Estelle “Stella” M. Hunter 1867-1947, Florence Hunter 1860-1946 (my great grandmother) and Myra Hunter 1859-1938. 

There were also two brothers in the family, Clyde Hunter 1861-1901, and Raphael Hunter, 1871-1952.  Another sister, Lenorah Hunter 1863-1892 is not in the picture as we believe the photo was taken after her death.

These women are the children of James Gillen HUNTER 1832-1884 and Susan Caroline BOGGS 1842-1913.  This couple married in Lawrence County, Ohio on 29 Aug 1859.  The first five children were born in Lawrence County, Ohio.  The other four were born in Kentucky.  James Hunter was a Carpenter.  Sadly, he died in 1884, at the age of 52.  That left 8 of the 9 Hunter children still at home from ages 23 down to 8 years.  It certainly cannot have been easy for Susan with all those children to care for.  She didn’t remarry for 13 years.  

Marriage record for James G. Hunter & Susan C. Boggs

THE ORIGIN OF THE PHOTOGRAPH

I obtained this lovely 8 x 10 photograph from my cousin, Rick, in Michigan.  When I went back for a visit in 2007 he brought a box down from the attic that contained some items from our grandmother, Florence Bowden Milne.  Rick said he didn’t know who any of the women in the photograph were.  However, I immediately recognized our great grandmother, Florence Hunter, front row, center.  And, I also recognized two of her sisters, Ada & Myra, from other pictures I have.  Eventually I was able to correctly identify the other 3 sisters, Daisy, Stella & Grace. 

GREAT STORY ABOUT ASKING COUSINS FOR PHOTOS

Another cousin from this side of the family lives here in California.  We were talking on the phone and I mentioned that I had this particular picture of the Hunter sisters, one of which is her great grandmother.  She said “I have a photo of the six sisters also.”  She emailed her photo and I emailed her mine.  There were the sisters at the same sitting, only seated in a different order.  I’d love to show you the other photo here, but I haven’t asked permission.

THE STORY ABOUT THE TWO PHOTOS MADE IT INTO MAUREEN TAYLORS PHOTO DETECTIVE POSTING ON 1 DEC 2008.

Now this was exciting!  I read Maureen’s columns all the time and she is always asking for people to submit photos to her for dating and identifying.  She’s the author of several books about identifying photos (which I have in my library) and I love to read her articles.  When I submitted this photo and said I wanted to narrow down the date, she accepted it and wrote the following article.  I hadn’t been doing genealogy for very long, maybe 5 years, and this was exciting to me.  There was my family in an online article.  

Here is a link to that posting: http://blog.familytreemagazine.com/photodetectiveblog/default,month,2008-12.aspx   
I ENCOURAGE YOU TO GO TO THIS LINK TO VIEW MAUREEN'S ENTRIES.  YOU CAN LEARN A LOT ABOUT PHOTO DATING BY READING HER MATERIAL.

HERE IS THE ENTRY FROM THAT WEB PAGE.

 

Since all of this occurred I have learned so much about the Hunter sisters and their families.  All the girls (except Lenorah) went on to marry and four of the six had children.  Of the two brothers, Clyde died in 1901 at the age of 40.  I never located any marriage records for him and in the 1900 census he is living with his sister, Myra, and her family, as a single man.  

The other brother, Ralph, married twice and had two children.  He first married Helena Hill and they divorced.  Next he married Lucy Della Siler.  

Of the four sisters who did have children, they had 12 between them.  I’ve had plenty of descendants to follow up on and have thoroughly enjoyed learning about this family.

A couple more pictures of the ladies in this family:

Florence, Myra & Ada Hunter circa 1910

Four generations

In the picture above are, standing left to right, Florence Hunter Bowden Bell (my great grandmother), Florence Bowden Milne, (my grandmother) and seated is the mother of all the HUNTER children Susan Caroline Boggs Hunter with Dorothy Milne, her great granddaughter in her lap - 1907    

Here is a quick listing of the family:

James Gillen Hunter married Susan Caroline Boggs on 29 Aug 1859 in Lawrence Co., Ohio.  Here are all the children born to that union.

1.  Myra Hunter married Jacob Seigle 6 Oct 1880, probably in Ohio
     Children: Grace 1882-1882, Mary Ada 1883-1939, Arthur George 1889-1936
2.  Clyde Hunter 1861-1901
3.  Lenorah Hunter 1863-1892
4.  Ada Emily Hunter married William James King 26 Nov 1884 in Lawrence Co., OH
    Children: Charles Louis 1886-1961, Joseph Edward 1889-1974, William Albert 1891 – ?  Grace Leona 1896-1990, Unknown child born bet 1900-1910, Edith Lucille 1900-1976
5.  Estella “Stella” M. Hunter married 1st Leon R. Leigh 28 May 1893 in Cook Co., Illinois, married 2nd William J. Ferguson 27 Aug 1901 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, married 3rd Albert Frederick Pfeiffer 18 Dec 1913 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois.
    Children: Albert Herman Pfeiffer 1910-1979
6.  Florence Hunter married 1st Robert Lee Bowden 10 Mar 1887 in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio.  They divorced in 17 Jul 1899.  She then married George Keatley Bell on 16 Oct 1904.
   Children: Florence Lenora Bowden 1888-1986, Edna Mabel Bowden 1890-1932
7.  Raphael Hunter married 1st Helena Hill 25 Jun 1901, they divorced.  Married 2nd Lucy Della Siler 15 Apr 1916 in Jackson, Madison, Tennessee
    Children: Joseph Jackson 1913-1938, Helen Marian 1917-1994
8.  Grace Hunter married 1st Charles Henry Fenner on 16 May 1891 in Belmont Co., Ohio.  He died and she later married John A. Jenkins.  She had no children.
9.  Daisy Dean Hunter married George A. Skinner bet 1900-1910.  She had no children.

There is my Mother’s mother’s family.  If you are related to or researching anyone listed here or anyone descended from these families, please contact me.  There is still a lot I don’t know about them and I would love to exchange information.

Happy hunting,

Michigan Girl  

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