The date on the letter looks like Dec 1887 but Victor died in 1886. The date has been determined to be 1883, it being known that Victor was working in a tin shop in Kansas City in March of 1884. “I have many more envelopes than letters, and none of the letters were enclosed in […]
Courtesy of Nancy Benton, we have papers listing the personal property from the estate of our David Nathaniel Brewer. Born Oct 31 1850 at Pleasant, Steuben, Indiana, David married Delana Fowler on March 1 1869 at Osage Mission, Neosho, Kansas. He died Aug 29, 1921 at Greenfield, Dade, Missouri.
Van Caldwell, b. 1799, was brother of Paris Caldwell, b. 1816, who married Margaret Ellen Hackney in 1845 in Wapello Co., Iowa. She was sister of William S. Hackney (direct line of this blog) and daughter of William Hackney and Sarah Shannon. In 1849 in Wapello County, Iowa, W. W. Baker, son of Joshua Wells […]
Though Elmer Wheeler is not immediate family line, I find it often useful with family history to get a better picture when we know not only what was going on with family but with their extended relations and neighbors. Elmer C. Wheeler married Eva Rogers in 1903, a cousin of Antwine Rodman who married May […]
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