Josiah V. Thompson Uniontown, Pa Family Record Book No 16

I walked over here about six blocks from Mr B.E. McCague's to see his sister, Lydia, who has the bible of their father, Rev Thomas McCague, which was printed at Phila, Pa by Lippincott, Grambo & Co in 1852 & from which I am entering the dates in book 15 p 521 in the table there.

Miss McCague says her step grandmother, Mrs Amanda Dunlap Foster McCague on Jany 1835 became the 4^th wife of Rev Saml Crothers of Greenfield, O & he was her 3^d husband. By her, he had 5 children, of whom one son survived in 1857. She has a book printed in Cincinnati, O in 1857 entitled the life & writings of Rev Saml Crothers.

She also has the history of the Chillicothe Presbytery pub in 1889 at Chillicothe, O.

Leaving 10:30 PM

Mrs J.N.G. Wylie nee Eva Bartlett, a widow, lives at Los Angeles, Calif No 3616 Third Ave, she thinks.

V16 Page 26 & V16 Page 27

[children]

V16 Page 31

Mr Armstrong has an old note size sheet of paper on which is written:

"Geo Jack was born June 21, 1802 died Mch 27, 1883 joined the M.E. Church in about the year 1836, was formerly a member of the Presbyterian Church. Married Mary Thompson Jany 3, 1838. She was the mother of four of his surviving children. Married Mary Yarnell Sept 14, 1857. She is the mother of one surviving daughter & has filled a mother's place toward all the others in such a manner as calls forth both their lasting gratitude & warmest affection"

Mr Armstrong has a big well preserved bible printed at Phila Pa in 1864 by Wm W. Harding in which is the inscription in front "Presented to Mrs Priscilla M. Jack by Father George Jack May A.D. 1865"

"George B. Jack of Boalsburg, Center Co, Pa and Priscilla Martin Johnston of Boalsburg, Center Co, Pa were united in Holy matrimony at Boalsburg Center Co, Pa on July 27, 1864 by Rev Robt Hammel D.D.

Witnesses: Mr John T. Colbertson of Tyron, Ia

Mr John J. Tompson [sic], Miss Anna M. Jack, Miss Lizzie M. Boal

Parents

George B. Jack was born July 11, 1840 in Boalsburg, Center Co, Pa

Children

2. John Boal Jack born Mch 28, 1867 in Boalsburg, Pa

3. George Hutchison Jack born Oct 22, 1869 in Boalsburg, Pa

4. Charles McFarlane Jack born May 15, 1880 in Boalsburg, Pa

George Boal Jack died Aug 7, 1902 at Rushville, Neb

Priscilla M. Jack died Feby 26, 1916 at Omaha

Both buried at Fairview? Cemetery at the edge of Rushville, Neb

Lizzie M. Jack Armstrong died Mch 1, 1925 at Omaha & is buried at Rushville, Neb

Joseph Gray Armstrong died Nov 8, 1916 & is buried at Rushville, Neb
V16 Page 34
Elizabeth Mary Jack on Apr 31, 1889 married at Rushville, Neb Joseph Gray Armstrong born Nov 24, 1850 at Toronto, Canada, son of Alexander Armstrong & his wife Eleanor _____. They had three children all born in Rushville, Neb viz:

1. George Jack Armstrong born Jany 13, 1891 married June 16, 1925 in Omaha, Neb to Sarah Jane Wells born in Minneapolis, Minn Oct 10, 1902 daughter of Walter Woodworth Wells & his wife Jennie Cameron. Have one child born here in Omaha, Neb viz:

1. Priscilla Jane Armstrong born Jany 11, 1926.

Mr A. is with the Bradstreet Co.

2. Josephine Armstrong born Dec 7, 1895 & died Aug 6, 1897 & buried at Rushville, Neb.

3. Joseph Thexton Armstrong born Dec 24, 1898. He is unmarried. He is a newspaper reporter at Sioux City, Iowa.

H

he has a cft of appointment from John Tanner Reg of Center Co, dated Aug 28, 1848 appointing David Jack Adm of the estate of Thomas Hastings. Mr A. says David was a brother of

A letter her had from Mrs Helen Sellers nee Thompson says if you want the Thompson line, I can get it out for you. Her address in 1924 when she wrote the letter was No 514 West 4^th ST Williamsport, Pa. She speaks of her Uncle Jim (possibly James Patterson) who she says would be 70 in Aug. See Book 20 p 570 et seq

Leaving 12:25 AM Feby 26, 1926

It was drizzling rain when I left Mrs McCague's & freezing & the walking to Miss Lydia McCague's abt 7 blocks & from her place 3 blocks to St car & fr St car 2 blocks to Geo J. Armstrong's & back to St car was very slippery & dangerous & I was fortunate in leaving when I did as the car I caught was the last one in.

Lucian Pettingill Jr tells me that his father Lucian Pettingill is in Calif & will not return until Apr. He had three children all born in Omaha viz:

1. Emmeline Pettingill born Feby 25, 1891

2. Lucian Pettingill Jr born Sept 11 1893

3. Ethel Pettingill born May 8, 1895
1. Emmeline married Aug 11, 1919 in Minneapolis, Minn to George A. Marsh born Aug 6, 1891 son of Adoninam Judson Marsh & wife Mary Huckins. No issue. He is in the com. business as Marsh & Marsh at No 314 S. 11^th St.
2. Lucian Jr was married Jany 25, 1920 at Omaha, Neb to Marie Jensen, born Aug 18, 1897 in Omaha, Neb daughter of Christopher Jensen & wife. Live at No 2610 S 33^d St & is V.Pt of the Johnson Hdw Co. Have one child born here viz:

1. Wm Arthur Pettingill born Oct 29, 1920

Lucian was in the World War Co C 10^th Ammunition train from Aug 30, 1918 until Jany 25, 1919 but did not get abroad & was engaged in truck service, motor transport service from Detroit to Balto & for a time his headquarters were at Camp Funston, Kansas.

Leaving 10:30 AM

Lucian had read of me in the papers & said he would want a book.

See book 15 p 430.
V16 Page 38
Office of Marsh & Marsh, Nos 314 318 S 11^th St Omaha, Neb Feby 26, 1926 10:50 Am

This is an active busy wholesale commission house of Geo A. Marsh & his brother. Mr Marsh has given me the data to complete his record on page 36.

Leaving 11 AM

Mr Marsh's name is George Atwood Marsh. He was in the World War from July 21, 1918 to Jany 2, 1919 in the 75^th Balloon Co Air service. He did not get abroad. Was stationed at Fort Omaha, Neb & Camp Dodge, Des Moines Iowa.

Mr Howard Franklin Kaho has come in & is giving me his mother's record. She was daughter of Rachel Finley (daughter of James Finley of Ebenezer) & her husband Stephen Dennison & her name was:

Rebecca Anna Dennison born June 26, 1851 in Senecaville, O & died there Aug 10, 1922. She was married Dec 13, 1872 at Senecaville, O to George Sidney Kaho born July 9, 1849 at Ellicotts Mills, Md son of Daniel Kaho & his wife Eliza Armstrong. He is living in Senecaville, O. They had four children all living. The oldest born in Summerfield, Noble Co, O & the other three in Senecaville, O viz:

1. Howard Franklin Kaho born Sept 1, 1873

2. Lulu Harriet Kaho born Aug 12, 1875

3. Mary Estella Kaho born June 29, 1878

4. Helen Jane Kaho born June 5, 1886
1. Howard F. was married Mch 23, 1904 at Quaker City, O to Hazel Elizabeth Yost born Aug 21, 1885 at Quaker City, O daughter of Marshal Yost & his wife Harriet Dowdell. Both living here at 2568 Fowler Ave & Mr K.
V16 Page 40
is train master for the Mo Pacific RR Co. Have one child born in Quaker City viz:

1. Elizabeth Ellen Kaho born June 17, 1907. She is in school at Grinnell, Iowa. Mr K. says his mother gave him the bible of her mother, Rachel which he has with other books at the home of Mrs Yost in Quaker City, O & he will have the record copied & sent to me.

1. George Wm Stranathan, single & at Akron

2. Lucy married & lives in small town near Akron

3. Herbert, thinks single

4. Laura May, at home, single

5. Howard, died

6. a son died
V16 Page 41
3. Mary Estella was married 1903 to W. Grant Trott born in Guernsey Co near Cumberland, O. Both living in Senecaville, O where he is a lumber dealer. Have three children, the first two born in Guernsey Co near Cumberland, O & the youngest in Roanoke, Va.

1. Esther Trott. She is working in Pgh

2. Howard, in Senecaville, O at home unmarried.

3. Helen
4. Helen Jane Kaho [see page 39] married to Whitney Maize. Both living in Columbus, O have just recently moved where he is a salesman of Ford Car. No issue.

Mr Kaho says his grandfather Kaho was a blue stocking Presbyterian, the only one in the family who was not a Catholic.

He left at 3:15 PM

See Book 7 pages 216 & 273

He said Jno G. Drew was now in NY & was in charge of the finances of the Mo Pacif RR & very powerful.
V16 Page 42
Hotel Fontenelle, Omaha, Neb Room 624 Feby 26, 1926 5 PM

After seeing Mr Pettingill & Geo A. Marsh this morning, both of whom were very kind, the former having read in the papers of my troubles, I took a street car & went to residence of James McClair (real name James Larrick) at No 3720 Meredith Ave upon a hill where I arrived at 11:55 AM. He came to the door, a substantial heavy set smooth faced positive man of about 65, abt 5 ft 7 & weighing say 185 lbs & said he knew nothing at all about the record of his mother, Rebecca Thompson who married Joseph Larrick & who was daughter of Joseph Thompson, twin brother of David, son of James 1758 1835. I then asked him for the record or names of his brothers & sisters & he said he hadn't time then to give them. Plainly he wanted to evade any questioning as I had expected he would. I then took a street car to 16^th St & walked out to the home of Rev D.E. Jenkins 1921 Binney St & found the house locked up. Going next door to 1919, a young See book 12 p 19

I then came to the Hotel & had a light lunch & at 2 PM, H.F. Kaho came in. See pages 39 to 41.

I then went over on Howard St to the Aquila Court Bldg arriving at 3:30 PM & met Dr Palmer Findley. He spoke of his ancestors coming from Londonderry & said his grandfather, Samuel Findley started a school or college at Antrim, Ohio & said his sister, Mrs G.W. Noble living here, living at 3505 Hawthorne Ave Tel Walnut 1587 & whose husband is Gen Agt of the N.E. Mut Life Ins Co had his bible & he sd he wd have the record copied & sent to me. He Phoned for her, but she was not in. He said he had four sons, one, David, being his father & another, R. Pressly was editor of a newspaper at Xenia & later at Cincin, O & his son Earl M. Findley, Wash D.C. was much interested in tracing the family & had gathered data of Wm Findley of Pa. He said the Wallaces at Des Moines & Wallace of
V16 Page 44
Panama Canal fame were related to them. He gave his own address as Dr Palmer Findley 3602 Lincoln Blvd, son of David Findley, Atlantic, Ia.

I then walked over to 1506 Dodge St to Office of McCague Inv Co & bade B.E. McCague goodbye & gave him a copy of the pneumonia cure & asked him to have his wife send me records of the families & descendants of his Uncles John & Joseph W. McCague. I then came here & is now 5:30 PM & I will pack up & try to get 6:08 PM train to Des Moines.

My hurried trip did not admit of my working the references in the Tel Book & City Directory, so I made no notations thereof.
V16 Page 45
Hotel Fort Des Moines, Des Moines, Iowa Room 727 Feby 27, 1926 12:55 PM

I went to bed last night at 2:30 AM & got up at 6:45 AM, took a good hot bath, followed by a cold one, got my breakfast, hunted out, for an hour, the residences & telephone numbers of the parties I wish to see, so far as they were listed & then called up my old College mate, James C. Cummins, brother of U.S. Senator Albert B. Cummins & his wife answered that he had had a heart attack at the office three weeks ago & had ever since been bedfast & the doctor would not allow him to see anyone. I then called Ross Wallace's home & his wife or some woman gave me his business number. (His residence is 711 4^th St Tel Drake 3863 W. She said the Ross Wallace living at 3935 9^th St was not related to them) & he said H.A. Wallace, son of Henry C. Wallace late Secy of Agriculture was the party I wanted to see, as he was intensely interested in such matters & he switched me to his line, Walnut 2835 at the Wallace Farmer 1103 Walnut Cor 11^th. He said he had an engagement at 11 o'c & up until 2 PM

He then took me to the office on 3^d floor, corner to office of his Uncle, John P. Wallace & went on to his appointment. He said his mother was now in Europe.

Mr Wallace is a large full faced man with sandy complexion & hair & resembles the Finley type. He showed me on the wall a fine likeness of his father, whom he resembles with a fine strong human face & a large head, also a picture on the wall of his brother, the late Secy H.C.W. holding his hat aloft & smiling inscribed:

"To my brother, John, still going strong H.C.W."

He said the Ross now living here could not give me any records. He asked where the Finleys came from to this country & I told him from County Armagh, Ireland & he said his grandfather John Wallace had come from County Antrim Ireland adjoining & that he had been over there. I asked for his record & he gave as follows saying I could get some of the dates of his wife from H.A. He wrote it out & I am copying. He said his father had preached at one time at Morning Sun, Iowa & that when a boy, he had lived at Winterset, Iowa on a farm, I think.

1. Margaret Wallace born May 10, 1898 married Aug 18, 1925 at Wallace Cottage Lake, Okobigi, Iowa to Anson Willard Voorhees born June 12, 1895 of 319 Upper Montclair NJ now Prof of Geology in South Dakota Univ, Vermillion, South Dakota & son of Anson Augustus Voorhees & wife Anna Virginia Williams. He was born at Verona, NJ.

2. Ross Wallace born Dec 2, 1900 married Oct 4, 1923 at Lake Okobigi, Iowa at Clark College to Virginia Clarke born May 9, 1901 daughter of Elmer S. Clarke of York, Neb & his wife Virginia Mayne. They have one child born in Des Moines:

1. John Clarke Wallace born July 3, 1924

2. Ross Wallace born Nov 12, 1926 [added later]

3. Josephine Wallace born Sept 26, 1902 unmarried.

Leaving 11:54 AM
V16 Page 49
At residence of Nancy Jane Scroggs No 1416 Guthrie Ave, Des Moines, Iowa Feby 27, 1926 3:44 PM

I arrived here abt half an hour ago & have met Mrs Scroggs who says she is 88 & her two daughters Juliet Elizabeth & Jennie May. Mrs Scroggs has recently been giving attention to gathering records of the family & writing to relatives on both the Scroggs & Thompson side. She can only go back to William Thompson who was the grandfather of her husband & have given them the names of his father & grandfather & am making a table on pages 52 et sequiter giving what she & her daughters can give of his descendants. Mrs Scroggs says that both Jennie & Leacy Thompson, sisters of her mother in law, were married & the husband of one of them was named Gronindike & these two sisters lived near together in Vermillion Co, Indiana. Gronendike [sic] was a boatman on the Rivers & was Juliet E. thinks, lost by the sinking of a vessel when on a trip to Louisiana. She thinks the name was Gruendike. Georgia Cutter Waterman was born in Weston, Mass & died in Marshalltown, Iowa see page 54. See T.A.L.T. Hist pages 16 & 76.

Feby 28, 9 AM Mrs Scroggs has given me some further data this morning which I have entered in the tables on pages 52, 53, 54 & 55.

Mrs Herrold has given me her father's her own & her children's record entered on pages 52 & 53.

She says her Uncle John Thompson got his father's bible & after his death, his widow went to live with the P.E.O. a Society which took care of her & she died there. She says that Jane, wife of Chas B. Miller living at Davenport, Iowa can give information & says her sister, Mary who married a Morrison has a son Chester Morrison who was living in Des Moines, Iowa where he did work for the Rock Island RR Co. Mrs H. does not know of the earlier generations. She thinks Ida, wife of Cy Wood, would get a letter addressed to Ankeny, Iowa as she lives in the town. Has 3 or 4 children & a married daughter lives here in Des Moines, but don't know her name. Her Uncle Samuel Thompson is buried Pine Hill Cem on the Saylorville, road on the north side of the town & east side of the river, has a marker which is down. Take auto & go out 6^th Ave. Graves are up by pine tree on North side of Cem in same lot are buried her grandparents, her Uncle John's two children, her own parents & her brother & sister & her Uncle Samuel. Thinks Jane Miller or Andrew Coffeen can give record of her Uncles John & Robert. Write them. Says to call Riley Nesbit at the Valley Natl Bank & he can give Jane Miller's address. He is her Atty & she was living in Davenport, Iowa last summer.

Leaving 11:40 AM