Month: September 2012
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Elouise Rebecca Crockett married William Foster and Nathaniel Brockey
Elouise (Louisa, Lula) Rebecca Crockett, daughter of our James Kelly Crockett and Millie Ann Stricklin, and sibling of our Samuel Kelly Crockett, was born 1870 Nov 2 in Boone County, Missouri. 1895 Jan 5 she married William W. Foster, who I don’t locate in the Chautauqua County cemeteries. They had no children. In 1900 she…
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John Wesley Pershall and Jennie Kirkpatrick
Lucretia Jane “Jennie” Kirkpatrick, who married John Wesley Pershall, was a daughter of William Robert Kirkpatrick and Zilpha “Jane” Strickland, sister of our Millie Ann Stricklin who married James Kelly Crockett (direct line of this blog). All these families settled in Chautauqua County, Kansas. PERSHALL, JOHN WESLEY AND JENNIE From a “Chautauqua Co. History” F748…
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John B. Ellis on the Free Love Community at Berlin Heights
I include the below as James Allen Noyes and Caroline Atwell were connected with the free love community at Berlin Heights, and it’s known that some early residents of the free-thought community of Liberal came to there from Berlin Heights. It is shortly obvious that the writer had little sympathy for the group, but then…