Evermore Genealogy

Month: September 2010

  • Paul Noyes Photo

    Paul Noyes Photo

    Paul Noyes Original image courtesy of Nancy Benton Paul, son of James Allen Noyes and Caroline Atwell, was born 24 Nov. 1869 at “10 oclock AM” in Anna, Union Co. IL, and died 3 May 1931 at Humansville, Polk Co., MO. He married Edna STARK on June 8 1891 at Liberal, Missouri. Their three children…

  • Ray Noyes and Bettie Brewer

    Ray Noyes and Bettie Brewer

    Ray NOYES was born 4 Jan 1874 at Anna, Union, Illinois, the youngest of 6 known children and the 4th son born to James Allen NOYES and Caroline ATWELL. The family record reports he was 10 pounds at birth. Obituary and family accounts vary as to when the move to the freethought community of Liberal,…

  • James Noyes and Sally Marble

    James Noyes and Sally Marble

    James Noyes, born Sep 13, 1793 at Worcester County, Massachusetts, died Aug 26 1864 at Pavilion, Kalamazoo, Michigan. On Sep 6, 1815 he married first, at Pavilion, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Sally Marble. She was born Sep 6 1796 in Massachusetts and died at the age of 41 on Aug 10 1838 at Pavilion, Kalamazoo, Michigan. James…

  • James Noyes and Rebecca Russell

    James Noyes and Rebecca Russell

    “James Noyes was a circuit rider and clergyman. He preached in several New England states. He also preached among the Indians in Canada and Michigan during his later life. He was one of the first Methodist ministers in Michigan according to his youngest daughter, Eliza Ann, and was a great student of history.” SOURCE: Noyes…

  • Pansy Noyes Feeding Chickens

    Pansy Noyes Feeding Chickens

    Worked on in Photoshop. See still a possible tear that I neglected to fix. Original courtesy of Nancy Benton Photo of Pansy Noyes feeding chickens. Born 1895 at Liberal, Barton County, Missouri, she was the daughter of Ray Noyes and Bettie Brewer Noyes.

  • Viola Sells Poultry

    Viola Sells Poultry

    Chickens! It was fun to come across this ad of Viola Noyes Harmon selling chickens, especially as I have a photo of her niece, Pansy, feeding chickens, and another photo of a nephew beside a poultry incubator. The White Wyandottes that she specialized in had been standardized in 1888 and were popular in the 1890s…

  • 2001 Kansas City Star Article – History Of Liberal Details Small Town’s Unusual Test Of Faith

    2001 Kansas City Star Article – History Of Liberal Details Small Town’s Unusual Test Of Faith

    This story was published in the Kansas City Star on Saturday, December 22, 2001. One rather wonders what prompted the report. I suppose, it having been the Xmas season, a story was wanted that was a feel good, reaffirmation of Christian faith over freethought. History Of Liberal Details Small Town’s Unusual Test Of Faith Steve…

  • Samuel Durant on THE PRIMITIVE EXPOUNDER, 1880

    Samuel Durant on THE PRIMITIVE EXPOUNDER, 1880

    HISTORY OF INGHAM AND EATON COUNTIES MICHIGAN WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THEIR PROMINENT MEN AND PIONEERS By SAMUEL DURANT Philadelphia D. W. Ensign & Co. 1880 THE PRIMITIVE EXPOUNDER. This paper was originally established at Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1844, by Billings & Thornton. It was a small quarto in form, with two…

  • Eli W. McKinney b. 1877 in Iowa

    Eli W. McKinney b. 1877 in Iowa

    Courtesy of Larry McCombs Tried photoshopping Eli W. McKenney (Eli Wilson McKenney, sometimes spelled Eli W. McKinney), son of George Washington McKenney Sr. and an unknown woman, was born 1877 in Iowa. Half-brother of our George Washington McKenney Jr., he was career military and in the Philippine War of Independence/American-Philippines War. George W. McKenney’s first…

  • Carrie Isabel McKenney with her niece, Jennie Belle Tripp, 1910

    Carrie Isabel McKenney with her niece, Jennie Belle Tripp, 1910

    This 1910 photo shows Carrie Isabel McKenney, daughter of George Washington McKenney Jr. and Belle M. Sparks, with her niece Jennie Belle Tripp, born October 6, 1909. Jennie was a daughter of Mabel Clair McKenney, Carrie’s sister, and Franklin B. Tripp. Francis Partch once wrote me of a postcard she had mentioning Jennie: I am…