January 24

Margaret 'Peggy' Bullard was born 24 January 1852

Here is the story of "Aunt Peggy" Bullard:

Annie Arnold Hicks (my great-grandmother) wrote:

Grandmother’s name before marriage was Emma Bullard. She married a man by the name of Arnold.  They had one child, Henry (my father).  

PHOTO: John Henry Arnold (I don't have a picture of his mother, Emma Bullard)

They didn’t live together but three or four years.  They had trouble because he wanted to move from Missouri to Texas (or at least that’s what set off the separation), with his folks and she wouldn’t move, but he went ahead and moved without her and in a little while he came back and wanted her to take him back but she wouldn’t.  Then in a year or two she married a man by the name of Alex McReynolds.  They had one boy and twin girls and they had trouble and he took the girls and left, and they never heard from him any more.  But about the time she married the second time, her brother and sister (neither one married) took my Dad - just a small boy about maybe 2 years old, and set up housekeeping and raised him.  Their names were George Bullard and Margaret Bullard (Peggy).  Uncle George and Aunt Peggy was always exactly like my Grandpa and Grandma.  

After they got my Dad about raised, Uncle George married Josie Tamsett, an aunt of Amy Tamsett that John Carter married. Then a little later, Aunt Peggy married Alex Williams, a very strange character.  Aunt Peggy said she never could get acquainted with him or understand his actions.  Lots of nights he would get up in the night and sit in the door with his gun just like he was expecting a murderer, but in just a few years he was walking home across an old field where there was some dead trees and one of them fell on him and killed him.  Just the day before that, he had a snuff box packed full of $20 gold pieces and that would be a lot of money for them times.  He evidently had hid that money for not a penny could be found (about 1897).  In those days gold pieces were in common circulation.  They got the idea that he bored a hole in a tree and put the box of money in the hole and put a peg in on it, but they had no idea which tree nor for sure that he did that, so there wasn’t any chance to find the money.  This all took place in Missouri around Thayer. My Father was grown and married before Aunt Peggy married.  

PHOTOS: George Bullard with his first wife Josie Tamsett and their daughter Leona. George Bullard with his second wife Mary Robinson, with their daughter Tessie and Mary's two sons from a previous marriage.

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Here is what my grandmother Cleffie Hicks Burford wrote:

I want to tell a little story about my Grandpa Arnold, that I have heard my mother tell several times during my life.  My grandpa was born in McCrory, Arkansas in White County, and apparently the woman who gave birth to him was married to a man named Arnold.  But we don’t know what his first name was, and don’t know anything else about him.  That was way back before my time.  But the woman who gave birth to my grandpa was Emma Bullard, and I don’t know if she stayed married to her husband, or if they separated or what.  She had family up in the hills around Cleburne County, and she sent word to her brother George Bullard that she wanted him to come and get her little boy and take him home with him and raise him for her. I don’t know what had happened to her marriage, if anything.  But it seems strange that she’d do that if everything was alright.  Anyway, he went down there on horseback, and brought that little boy back here in the hills, and one of his sisters helped him raise him.  Her name was Margaret Bullard.  They had set up housekeeping just especially to raise that boy.  But of course, later on then there was another boy or two that they raised, but this one was the only one that was anything to our family. I have wondered, I’ve just pictured him in my mind a lot of times bringing that child back up here on horseback.  And it must be about 50 miles, one way.  He’d have to spend a night or two on the road, just riding horseback.  I just wonder how he managed that.  And to just picture that little child, and him trying to get along with it that far, on horseback.  And feeding it too.  That’s another difficult thing. Back then there weren’t as many places to eat -- restaurants and things to stop in, as there are now.  I don’t know, but anyway they made it and he lived to a long enough life -- a normal lifetime and raised a big family.  I don’t know if anybody hardly knows about that or not, but my mother has told that.  Several times, I’ve heard her tell that story about that and so, I know that it’s true or she wouldn’t have told it.

Step by step...

 

KINDLE VERSION COVER

SO FAR, SO GOOD...

PAPERBACK COVER PREVIEW...

BUT THEN...

WHAT????

tinker, tinker, tinker...

OKAY, HOW'S THIS?

AND THEN...

AGAIN???

SERIOUSLY????

THIRD TIME'S A CHARM????

THE SUSPENSE IS KILLING ME...

TADA!!!!!

Welp, I STILL don't know what the problem was. This is definitely not the book cover that I wanted, but ... I'm sure not going to try to mess with it again. If I hold my mouth just right maybe this time it will keep.

Or maybe... Mom wanted the lavender cover, so she arranged to make it so....????

January 23

Juliet Lough married Oliver Shurtleff Rice 23 January 1840

Juliet was the daughter of Prudence Gibson and Peter George Lough

This picture is from the FamilySearch website.

Here is a better picture of Prudence Gibson

Prudence was the daughter of Nicholas Gibson and Lydia Sink

Nicholas was the son of John Gibson

(According to FamilySearch, the Gibson family traces its roots all the way back to Adam... But I'm going to stop at Col. John Gibson because everything prior to that is, shall we say, questionable.)

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Going forward from John Gibson...

John Gibson was the father of Nicholas Gibson.

Nicholas was the father of James Wilson Gibson (I don't have a picture of him).

James was the father of Smith Gibson.

Smith was the father of Asa Gibson.

PHOTO: Front - Smith and Emily Stanley Gibson. Back: Asa and Adaline Lucretia Gard Gibson.

Asa Gibson was the father of my great-grandmother Lora Gibson Burford.

PHOTO: Alexander and Lora Gibson Burford

PHOTO: Back - Wathada (my mother), Juanita, me. Front: Judy, Lora, Helen.

Judy, Juanita, and Helen are daughters of Lora.

This picture was taken in 1965 in Brinkley, Arkansas.

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So, in summary...

Juliet Lough Rice was a first cousin twice removed to my great-grandmother Lora Gibson Burford.

 

("Will this be on the test?")

January 22

Otho Horace Ford married Maude Reiter 22 January 1924

I don't have a picture of Maude Reiter.

Otho Horace Ford was the adopted stepson of Charles Ford (brother of my great-grandmother Nancy Ford Thomas). He was the son of Effie Viola Harvey and her first husband, Milton Franklin Conklin.

PHOTO: Milton Franklin Conklin

Effie married Charles Ford in 1893 when Otho was 6 years old, and Charles adopted him.

PHOTO L-R: Charles Ford, Cleo Ford, Otho Simeon Ford, Otho Horace Ford, Effie Harvey Ford

Otho Horace Ford was married four times:

He married Edith Abbie Stuller 01 January 1908.

He married Laura Johnson 08 December 1915.

He married Maude Reiter 22 January 1924.

He married Ann Olsen 28 May 1960.

Otho Horace Ford died 02 May 1961.

Otho had only one child, with his first wife, Edith Abbie Stuller. 

That was a son, Otho Simeon Ford, born 23 July 1908. 

Here is the story, as recorded in my dad's family history research:

PHOTO: Otho Horace and Otho Simeon Ford

January 21

 Surprise!

Today's the day!

(Kindle version is available on Amazon now. It might take a day or two for the paperback version to be available.)

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January 20

Audrey Dallas Cushman was born 20 January 1907 in Michigan

Audrey was the daughter of Andrew John and Dora Miller Cushman

PHOTO: Andrew John Cushman

I don't have a picture of Dora Miller Cushman.

Dora was the daughter of Dale and Alice Ford Miller

Alice was a sister of my great-grandmother Nancy Ford Thomas

PHOTO: Alice Ford Miller and granddaughter Audrey Cushman

PHOTO: Kate Ford Adams (sister of Alice and Nancy Ford), Audrey Cushman, Effie Thomas Wieland (sister of my grandfather Bill Thomas)

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Pauline Dorothy Cushman was born 20 January 1909 in Michigan

I don't have a picture of Pauline. She was Audrey Cushman's sister. Pauline Cushman was born prematurely and only lived 5 hours (according to her death certificate). Her mother, Dora Miller Cushman, had been ill with tuberculosis and typhoid fever. Dora died January 22, the day they buried baby Pauline. (Pauline's dates are confirmed by her death certificate. Actually, when I looked up the documents to verify the dates, it turns out Audrey was born 22 January 2007. I will correct it in my records, but I'm leaving the post up today, anyway.)

Here is the full text from the newspapers regarding Dora Miller Cushman's death - 

MRS. ANDREW CUSHMAN DIED AT 10 A. M. TODAY

Dora Miller Cushman died this morning at 10 o’clock at the home of her mother, Mrs. Alice Miller, corner Indiana Ave. and Superior Street after an illness of about seven months, from serious complication of diseases. During that time she had been a great sufferer, and especially so for the past ten days with only now and then a short respite from pain. She was conscious until the end came and passed away happy in knowing that her suffering was over.

Dora Miller was born in South Haven, Sept. 10, 1881, the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Miller. She attended school until within two years of graduation. Afterwards, for four years she was employed as sales-lady in Noble’s candy store and was a general favorite with everyone who met her either in a business or social way.

In May 1905, Dora was untied in marriage to Mr. Andrew Cushman. with whom soon after, she moved to Berrien Springs where he engaged in the grocery business. A year ago they moved to Kalamazoo, where he entered the employ of the Upjohn Co. This fall Mr. Cushman going on the road as their traveling salesman, Mrs. Cushman came here to live with her mother. Since coming here in October, the tubercular trouble became more pronounced and she has been able to get out but very little. The last time she was down was just before the holidays. 

Besides the bereaved husband, there is a little daughter, Audra, two years old last Wednesday who will never remember a mother’s care, devotion, and months of agonized watching over a sick bed; a sister, Mrs. Clifford Girard, who has not yet fully recovered from an attack of typhoid fever; a brother, John C. Miller, who resides at Tacoma, Washington. The sympathy of a host of friends go out to them in the loss of one who was gentle and kind and loving, even when suffering almost beyond physical endurance.

The announcement of the date of the funeral services is pending the answer received from the brother in Tacoma, to whom news of the death was wired before noon. Should he be unable to come, the services will probably take place from the home Sunday.

The infant born to Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Cushman Wednesday night was buried this morning, just a few hours before the death of the mother.

MRS. CUSHMAN BURIED TODAY

  Funeral services for Mrs. Dora Miller Cushman were held at the residence of Mrs. Alice Miller on Indiana Avenue this afternoon at 2 o'clock. The number of friends who attended was so large that they filled the rooms to overflowing and spread out upon the veranda and lawn. The room where the casket reposed was literally filled with flowers. The casket was hidden in them while quantities of them were spread on tables and upon the floor. Very few funerals have been the occasion of so lavish a display. Mrs. Cushman was laid away in her wedding dress of white.

  Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Carpenter, Mrs. J. L. Avery and Harry Randall sang "Lead Thou Me On" and "Peacefully Sleep." The last piece of music was a phonograph selection which Mrs. Cushman had made special request should be played. It was "Precious Name" beautifully rendered by a male quartet. The association made this selection especially touching. Rev. A. E. Nagler spoke briefly from John 41:1-2, "Ye believe in God, believe also in me. I go to prepare a place for you."

  The pall bearers were the uncles of the deceased, Chas. Ford and Geo. Adams of Hartford, Charles Thomas of Bangor and two cousins, Clarence and Roy Thomas also of Bangor, and C. L. Cushman, a brother-in-law of Kalamazoo.

  Relatives present from out of town were Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Thomas, Roy Thomas and sister, Miss [Effie] Thomas, John Miller and Homer Miller, all of Bangor, Chas. Ford of Hartford, C. L. Cushman [Andrew's brother] and Mr. and Mrs. Lister [Andrew's sister] of Kalamazoo, and Mr. and Mrs. Cushman, father of the bereaved husband, from Breedsville. Burial occurred in Lake View Cemetery, nearly a dozen carriages following the remains to the grave.

January 19

Elisha Forrest Herdman married Christine Olson 19 January 1888

This is the only picture I have of Forrest Herdman. I don't have a picture of his wife, Christine Olson. In this photo are his sisters Sara and Eve. (Eve and Forrest were twins.)

The Herdman family is related to the Treat branch of our family tree by the marriage of Belle Treat to Ulysses Grant Herdman.

Belle Treat was the sister of my great-grandfather Marcus Treat

John and Martha Walls Treat with their children Belle, Marcus, and Estle (center)

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This is the only birthday person I have pictures of today.

January 18

Barbara Jean Smith Hicks died 18 January 2020, age 89

Barbara was the wife of Olan Hicks.

Olan was a brother of my grandmother Cleffie Hicks Burford.

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Birdie Leona Hays Arnold was born 18 January 1899 in Arkansas

Birdie was the wife of Marlie Arnold.

Marlie was a brother of my great-grandmother Annie Arnold Hicks.

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Calvin Olan Jackson died 18 January 2003, age 77

PHOTO: Calvin and his sister Wincel.

Calvin was a son of Ben and Etta Arnold Jackson.

Etta was a sister of my great-grandmother Annie Arnold Hicks.

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Clinton Olan Hicks was born 18 January 1948

Clint is the son of Barbara and Olan Hicks.

(That's Clint, on the left, with his sister Jeannie and brother Chuck.)

Olan was a brother of my grandmother Cleffie Hicks Burford.

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Dorothy Lena Williams was born 18 January 1917 in Tennessee

I don't have a picture of Dorothy. She died at age 4 by being struck by lightning.

Dorothy was the daughter of Albert and Charlotte 'Tot' Williams.

Tot was a sister of my great-grandfather Ulysses Hicks.

PHOTO: Ulysses and Annie Hicks, Tot and Albert Williams.

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Garland Moore was born 18 January 1929

Garland Moore is not, strictly speaking, related to our family. He was the brother-in-law of Keith Carrigan (my first husband, father of my children). I'm posting this because I just happen to have a picture of Garland. These were my in-laws, spouses of Keith's siblings. Garland was the husband of Charlene 'Sissy' Carrigan; Lucia (right) was the wife of Doss 'Sonny' Carrigan; Florence (left) is the wife of Aubrey Carrigan; and that's me in the front. This picture was taken at Christmas 1977, at my mother-in-law's house in Fairhope, Alabama.

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Harlon Henry Riggs was born 18 January 1921

Harlon was the husband of Christine Arnold.

Christine was the daughter of John Davidson Arnold, brother of my great-grandmother Annie Arnold Hicks.

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Jay E Bridges was born 18 January 1925

Jay was the husband of Bernice Hicks.

Bernice was a sister of my grandmother Cleffie Hicks Burford.

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Lois Arnold married Clarence Newman 18 January 1941

Lois was a daughter of Marlie and Birdie Arnold.

Marlie was a brother of my great-grandmother Annie Arnold Hicks.

I don't have a picture of Clarence Newman.

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Pearl Wheetley was born 18 January 1906

Pearl (top left) was a sister of Record (top right) Wheetley.

Record was the husband of Bess Hicks.

Bess was the daughter of Pinkney Hicks, brother of my great-grandfather Ulysses Hicks.