So I was going through some of my grandmother’s pictures and found a few of me as a child. This was a good reminder to me that not all history is from other generations. It’s good to take a look at your own history. All pictures taken at the home of Grandma and Grandpa Davis…
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Bausman Girls
These are the daughters of Nicholas Jr. and Catherine (Hebenstreit) Bausman. From left to right, standing are Pearl, Gertrude and Viola. Hazel is sitting. Viola was my maternal grandfather’s mother. I believe the photo was taken about 1898 or 1899 since Gertrude (the oldest) was born in 1887, Pearl in 1890, Viola in 1893, and…
Hazel Bausman With Her Pleasant Valley Relatives
Hazel Bausman was a sister of Viola (Bausman) Davis Hickman, my maternal grandfather’s mother. Hazel enjoyed photography, and took these shots at her uncle Lawrence Lincoln Bausman’s farm in Pleasant Valley, Grundy county, Iowa. I love that their dog appears in both pictures, though it is resting underneath the car in one. While I don’t…
Bausman Brothers
This past summer I had the opportunity to meet a distant Bausman relative when I traveled to Steamboat Rock, Iowa. Janice showed me amazing Bausman family photos. The one I’m sharing today is of the Bausman Brothers. I took this photograph of a photocopy. Unfortunately, Janice did not remember where she got her photocopy. Nicholas…
Scales Mound High School, Class of 1933
This is a picture of my grandfather Stanley “Spud” Davis’ high school graduation class. He graduated from Scales Mound High School, Scales Mound, Illinois, in 1933. The Scales Mound Class of 1933 had eleven graduates. The photograph includes the graduates and the superintendent, W.D. Stephenson. Written on the back of photo: Stanley P. Davis Kenneth…
Identified! Lavelle and Lawrence Bausman
The picture at the right is one of the unidentified pictures from my great-grandmother Viola’s collection. Lavelle and Lawrence Bausman are the children of Irl Hicks Bausman and Annette Marie Jensen. Irl was Viola’s cousin. I was able to identify it over the summer after visiting Pleasant Valley, Iowa, and meeting Janice, a cousin of…
Five Generations of Loretta (Cherry) O’Neil Boyle’s family
When I was finishing my book, I wanted to include a bit of family history of my grandfather’s first wife, Cleone O’Neill, whose parents were Joseph Patrick O’Neil and Loretta Bernice Cherry. Both Joseph and Loretta died young. Joseph was 28 when he died in a mining accident in 1917. Loretta remarried a few years…
Schoenhard Relatives?
I found an envelope containing four pictures. Written on the outside of the envelope was: We think these pictures are some of Uncle Lester’s Schoenhard family that live in Belote, Wis. Possibly some of his half sisters family. Also related to Ernie Schoenhard. Betty S. wasn’t sure, really didn’t get to know them. Uncle Lester…
Family History: Jacob and Christina (Casper) Hess
My mom has binders filled with interesting information. I’ve gone through them several times, and still find things. How do I miss this stuff? My discovery of the family history of Jacob Sr and Christina (Casper) Hess is one of these interesting finds. My mother received this from her parents; I’m not sure when they…
Rebecca (Firestone) Smith Headstone – Thank You RAOGK.org!
Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness is a fantastic website where dedicated volunteers agree to do a free genealogy research task at least once per month in their local area purely as an act of kindness. I’ve used the website three times and am always amazed when they are able to get my information. In July…
Cemeteries
I’ve added cemetery pages for Pioneer Cemetery in North Judson, Indiana Mount Calvary Cemetery in Dubuque, Iowa Linwood Cemetery in Dubuque, Iowa There are Lightcaps buried in all three of these cemeteries. In addition to Lightcaps, family names at Mount Calvary include Strelesky, Sanders, Uhlrich, and Heitz. Linwood Cemetery has Uhlrich, Hatzenbuhler, Hornung, and Woodward….
Discovery: Picture of Lawrence Bausman Family?
Last week, I went back to Scales Mound Illinois to visit my grandmother. My grandma has my great-grandmother’s, Viola Bausman Davis, photo collection. I thought I’d seen all the photos, but I was wrong! I discovered beneath several boxes of photos this gem. And when I say beneath several boxes, I mean that literally. It…
Forgotten History 