Selected Families and Individuals
Source Citations
John Carpenter PATRIQUIN
1Karen Farmer, Langille Family Database, Ancestry.com.
2Census, Canadian - 1871 - Colchester Co., Nova Scotia, Tatamagouche. "Family # 211
Patriquin, John age 77
Ann 74
Tattrie, Alice 11." Alice is John and Ann's granddaughter.
3Gary Patriquin at
ary112251@aol.com, Patriquin GED received 13 Oct 2003.
Ann MATTATALL
1Karen Farmer, Langille Family Database, Ancestry.com.
2Census, Canadian - 1871 - Colchester Co., Nova Scotia, Tatamagouche. "Family # 211
Patriquin, John age 77
Ann 74
Tattrie, Alice 11." Alice is John and Ann's granddaughter.
3Gary Patriquin at
ary112251@aol.com, Patriquin GED received 13 Oct 2003.
4Gary Patriquin at
ary112251@aol.com, Patriquin GED received 13 Oct 2003.
5Gary Patriquin at
ary112251@aol.com, Patriquin GED received 13 Oct 2003.
George PATRIQUIN
1Karen Farmer, Langille Family Database, Ancestry.com.
William Henry PATRIQUIN
1Karen Farmer, Langille Family Database, Ancestry.com.
Amos PATRIQUIN
1Karen Farmer, Langille Family Database, Ancestry.com.
Archibald PATRIQUIN
1Karen Farmer, Langille Family Database, Ancestry.com.
Margaret PATRIQUIN
1Karen Farmer, Langille Family Database, Ancestry.com.
Susannah PATRIQUIN
1Karen Farmer, Langille Family Database, Ancestry.com.
Louis PATRIQUIN
1Karen Farmer, Langille Family Database, Ancestry.com.
Flora PATRIQUIN
1Karen Farmer, Langille Family Database, Ancestry.com.
David PATRIQUIN
1Karen Farmer, Langille Family Database, Ancestry.com.
2, Patriquin Connection, an Email dated 10 Oct 2003.
Abram PATRIQUIN
1Karen Farmer, Langille Family Database, Ancestry.com.
Forrest Elbert ZIMMERMAN
1Who is He, Oakwood Village Newsletter - date unknown.
2World War II end- newspaper article, Oregon Journal 8/31/1945 - vol XLIV, NO. 151, Zimmerman, F., Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
3Census, Federal - 1920 - Multnomah, Oregon, city of Portland, ED # 104, roll# T625 - 1501 p. 6A. "Line 20 1289 E. Morrison Dwelling # 115 Household # 137
Zimmerman, George E. Head age 40 MN Can OH OCC: Mechanic- Iron works
Minnie J. Wife 39 IA Ger Ger
Forest E. Son 10 WA MN IA."
4Forrest Zimmerman letter to Dawne Stevens - 14 Jan 1974, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "Dear Dawne,
Grandma is writing to you about when she was a little girl on a farm. I grew up in small towns so my life was different.
When I was nine years old your great grandmother and great grandfather and I lived in Astoria Oregon. This was during World War I and they were building wooden ships at Astoria. My father worked at the shipyard. When we first went to Astoria we couldn't find any house to rent or buy so my father bought a lot and built a house on it. He built a real simple house, and got a carpenter friend to help him. I remember when we first moved into the house there were no inside partitions.
The year I was eight we had an influenza epidemic that killed lots and lots of people. I remember every week when we went to school we would see another empty desk. Most of the time the kids got well and came back but not always. Several of my classmates died that winter.
My how it rained there and how the wind blew! I remember one time I started out for school wearing a raincoat, a rain hat, and rubbers. I got just a short distance from the house when the wind caught my hat and blew it off. Every time I tried to pick it up the wind caught it again just as I was about to pick it up.
Astoria is very hilly and our house was on the side of a hill, with the back of the house on dirt and the front of the house on stilts. We kept our wood under the front of the house. We had a wood burning stove that your great grandmother cooked on and that we used to heat the house.
The country around Astoria is a lot like that in the rain forest on the Olympic Peninsula that we visited, lots of trees, brush, moss, and grass. During the heavy rains the water would soak into the ground at the top of the hill and sometimes we would find the nicest spring bubbling out of the ground at the bottom of the hill. Other places you would see the water just flowing out of the side of the hill. After the rain stopped the spring would dry up and the water would stop flowing out of the side of the hill.
I remember when I was there I went with a friend of mine (he was five years old) and his father for a walk through the woods. We saw half a wooden sled and my friend asked his father what it was. Of course I was a big boy and I knew. It snows there about once every twenty years.
My friend and I explored all the woods around and picked flowers in the spring. We found trilliums, wild Iris, johnny jump-ups (yellow violets to you), mayflowers, and many more that I cannot remember.
One of our neighbors was a commercial fisherman and in the middle of the afternoon he would bring some of his catch around to sell. My mother would buy salmon, or rock cod, or ling cod, or some other fish and cook them for dinner. I can still remember how good they were.
This is about all I can remember now. Grandma and I hope you get a Girl Scout badge for this.
Love, Grandpa.".
5Forrest E. Zimmerman Experience and Education Resume - 1967, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION RESUME Forrest E. Zimmerman 1734 Dickinson Street Waukegan, Illinois 60085
Telephone: Area Code 312, ON 2-6586
EXPERIENCE
1. Midwest Division, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Building 1-A, Great Lakes, Illinois
August 1957 to the present date
I am responsible for electrical power distribution functions of the Utilities Division. I prepare economic and technical
projects, studies, and analyses to evaluate existing and proposed electric distribution and generation systems for the
Ninth Naval District. This includes evaluation of existing or proposed systerns and components thereof including
transformers, switches, relays, fuses, circuit breakers, etc.
I conduct special engineering studies relating to the operation and maintenance of electrical distribution systems, and
make recommendations to the operating forces concerned. I make surveys and investigations and prepare repor ts
and evaluations of the technical and operational requirements of the electrical power generation and distribution
system operating staffs. I advise and lend technical assistance in the training of operating personnel.
I work under the general supervision of the Head of the Utilities Engineering Branch. The Branch Head assigns work,
pointing out broad objectives and furnishing guidance only on critical issues and policy matters.
2. Kleinschmidt Laboratories, Inc. Deerfield, Illinois
February 1955 to August 1957
Under the general supervision of the Chief Electrical Engineer, I was responsible for the selection of all electric
components used in equipment manufactured for the Signal Corps. I wrote Technical Action requests to Signal Corps
Engineering Labs to obtain contractual approval for non-standard items. I specified tests for new sources and
evaluated results. I changed and designed or specified different components as necessary to insure reliable operation
of equipments under all service conditions. I initiated engineering changes necessary for electrical components. I
designed some relay circuits and checked models to insure reliability of operation under all operating conditions.
3. Gramer-Halldorson Transformer Corp. 2734 North Pulaski Chicago, Illinois
August 1953 to January 1955
Under the supervision of the Chief Engineer, I designed transformers, both power and audio, and inductors for
electronic equipment. I specified tests and evaluated results on samples of new transformers designed by me. I acted
as project engineer for subcontract with Armour Research Foundation on Signal Corps contract on design method for
power transformers. This consisted of designing units by Armour method, translating results into form suitable for
commercial production, testing models and evaluating results, editing Armour reports for clarity and agreement with
commercial practice.
4. Air Force Cambridge Research Center 230 Albany Street Cambridge, Massachusetts
February 1946 to August 1953
Under the general supervision of the Chief of Unit, I designed all types of transformers (power, audio, ultra-sonic and
pulse) and chokes (filter, audio, resonant charging and radio-frequency). I specified construction and tests and
evaluated results. I designed some saturable reactors. I acted as consultant to other groups for problems in electrical
engineering. I outlined problems and necessary action to be taken to convert 5-25KVA diesel driven generators into a
mobile generating station mounted on two semi-trailers. After completion, I placed the units in operation.
I advised Air Installations Office of various electrical problems including use of transformers, ground problems and
measurements, voltage control and some distribution problems, I selected motors for various applications and
selected or designed control systems. I acted for the Chief of Unit in most administrative matters, which included the
ordering of materials, assignment of work, and keeping of records.
5. Military Service United States Navy
September 1942 to January 1946
I was commissioned as a line officer Lieutenant (Junior Grade) in September 1942. 1 spent eight weeks in
indoctrination school at the U. S. Naval Training Station, Newport, Rhode Island; then twelve weeks at the New York
Navy Yard in Gyro Compass School. I was assigned to the Norfolk Navy Yard for further training and later as Gyro
Compass Officer where I handled both production and planning for repair and conversion. In June 1944, 1 was
assigned to the Navy Yard, Pearl Harbor, where I became planning officer for Gyro Compass and where I remained
until release from active duty as a Lieutenant Commander.
6. U. S. Army Engineers Bonneville District Portland, Oregon
September 1935 to September 1942
1 worked as a clerk in cost section until May 1938, when I transferred over as an electrician helper. In September
1938 1 became Junior Operator. In 1940 1 became Operator. I was responsible for the operation and maintenance of
two 50,000-KVA hydro-electric generators; for the operation of cooling water pumps, fire pumps, air-compressors and
other auxiliary equipment.
EDUCATION
Undergraduate
Reed College, Portland, Oregon Bachelor of Arts (Physics) 1932
Graduate
Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 10 graduate hours of Physics, 1948 - 1949
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION
Registered as a Professional Engineer in the State of Illinois (Registration
Number 62-25020) by examination 1965 Member, National Society of Professional Engineers Member, Illinois
Society of Professional Engineers (Lake County Chapter) Lieutenant Commander, U. S. Naval Reserve, (Retired)
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Born: December 28, 1909 Present Age: 57 Birthplace: Tacoma, Washington Height: 6'2" Weight: 210 # Health:
Excellent Marital Status: Married, 2 grown children Hobbies: Photography.".
6Census, Federal - 1930 - Multnomah Co., Oregon, Portland, ED# 26-322, Ancestry, p. 3 of 4, 3 Apr 1930. "Line 22 972 Wasco Dwelling 37 Household 37
Zimmerman, George E. Head Owns $6000 Radio age 50 m at 24 MN CAN OH occ: Sheet metal worker in Bldg trade
Minnie J. wife 49 23 IA GER GER None
Forrest E. son 20 s WA MN IA None."
7Census, Federal - 1910 - Pierce Co, Washington, Tacoma , 2A (Ancestry p.3), 10 Apr 1910. "Tacoma Ward 3 ED# 244 1323 S. M Street Dwelling # 28 Households #'s 29 and 30 Line 23 - 29
Zimmerman, George E. Head 30 M1 5yrs MN Can PA OCC: Tinsmith at Hardware store R
Minnie J wife 29 M1 5yrs IA GER GER
Forrest son 3/12 WA MN IA
Mundorf, John Head 28 M1 5yrs KS GER PA Laborer at odd jobs R
Ella C wife 25 M1 5yrs OR GER GER
Lowell L son 3 OR KS OR
Druschel, Mitelda mother-in-law 65 wd GER GER GER."
8Ancestry.com, U.S. Dept Veterans Affairs. "U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010 about Forrest Zimmerman
Name: Forrest Zimmerman
Birth Date: 28 Dec 1909
Death Date: 8 Mar 1989
Cause of Death: Natural
SSN: 544187631
Branch 1: N
Enlistment Date 1: 10 Sep 1942
Release Date 1: 14 Jan 1946."
91940 US Census, Warrendale, Multnomah, Oregon. "Front E Zimmermon
in the 1940 United States Federal Census
Name: Front E Zimmermon
Age: 30
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1910
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birthplace: Minnesota
Marital Status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Head
Home in 1940: Warrendale, Multnomah, Oregon
Map of Home in 1940: View Map
Inferred Residence in 1935: Portland, Multnomah, Oregon
Residence in 1935: Portland, Multnomah, Oregon
Resident on farm in 1935: No
Sheet Number: 7A
Number of Household in Order of Visitation: 171
Industry: U S Engineer
House Owned or Rented: Rented
Value of Home or Monthly Rental if Rented: 20
Attended School or College: No
Highest Grade Completed: College, 4th year
Hours Worked Week Prior to Census: 44
Class of Worker: Wage or salary worker in Government work
Weeks Worked in 1939: 52
Income: 1720
Income Other Sources: No." The names and places were written correctly on the census form but mal-transcribed in this summary.
10Zimmerman, Forrest, certified copy of birth certificate, Zimmerman, F., Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
11Zimmerman, Forrest-death certificate, Zimmerman, F., Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
12Zimmerman, Forrest & Thelma, copy of marriage certificate, Zimmerman, F., Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
Thelma Ellen DEMOUTH
1Census, Federal - 1920 - Yellowstone Co, Montana, school district 24, ED#181, sheet 9A, Ancestry p.17. "Line 11 Dwelling #4 Household #4
Dimouth, Samuel L. Head Owns Mort. 46 m WI NJ Ver Occ: Hotel Proprietor
Elzora M. wife 34 m WI WI WI None
Musa I. dau 16 s WI WI WI None
Thelma E. dau 8 WI WI WI None
Lester J. son 6 ND WI WI None
Baker, Fred S. Boarder M W 27 s IL MN IN Auto Mechanic
Shreevam, Peter J. Boarder M W 50 wd MA VT NY Surgeon."
2Census, Federal - 1930 - Multnomah Co, Oregon, Maplewood, precinct 525, ED # 263, sheet 3A (Ancestry p. 5 of 18). 1930 Census Sam and family are living in Maplewood, Oregon (Now part of Portland ) He is paying $20/mo rent. They have a boarder living with them, John Simons a 49 yr old grader of lumber. "Line 42 West Ave. dwelling # 77 Household # 77
Demouth, Samuel L. head rents $20/mo age 56 M age 28 WI NJ VT occ: Painter of bldgs Vet Phil
Elzora M wife 49 22 WI WI WI none
Musa I dau 26 s WI WI WI maid - in school
Thelma E dau 19 s WI WI WI none - in school
Lester J son 16 s WI WI WI none - not in school
Simons, John H boarder 49 s WI Eng Eng lumber grader."
3Ancestry.com, High Scool yearbook 1927. "U.S. School Yearbooks about Thelma Demouth
Name: Thelma Demouth
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1911
Age: 16
School: High School of Commerce
School Location: Portland, Oregon, USA
Year: 1927
Yearbook Title: Ledger." Thelma is mentioned as member of Glee Club.
4Ancestry.com, School Yearbooks - Cardinal 1930. "U.S. School Yearbooks about Thelma De Mouth
Name: Thelma De Mouth
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1914
Age: 16
School: Lincoln High School
School Location: Portland, Oregon
Year: 1930
Yearbook Title: Cardinal 1930
Ideal Girl must have - smile of Thelma DeMouth."
5Ancestry.com, School Yearbooks - Commerce high school 1927. "U.S. School Yearbooks about Thelma de Mouth
Name: Thelma de Mouth
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1911
Age: 16
School: Commerce High School
School Location: Portland, Oregon
Year: 1927 - p 41
mentions Thelma doing artwork for the Yearbook, the Ledger
see p. 17."
61940 US Census, Warrendale, Multnomah, Oregon sheet 7A. "Name: Thomas E Zimmermon
Age: 29
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1911
Race: White
Birthplace: Missouri
Marital Status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Wife
Home in 1940: Warrendale, Multnomah, Oregon
Map of Home in 1940: View Map
Inferred Residence in 1935: Portland, Multnomah, Oregon
Residence in 1935: Portland, Multnomah, Oregon
Resident on farm in 1935: No
Sheet Number: 7A
Attended School or College: No
Highest Grade Completed: College, 4th year
Weeks Worked in 1939: 10
Income: 120
Income Other Sources: No
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Front E Zimmermon 30
Thomas E Zimmermon 29
Ion C Zimmermon 5/12." The names and places were written correctly on the census form but mal-transcribed in this summary.
7DeMouth, Thelma - Baptismal certificate, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
8Zimmerman, Thelma, death certificate, DeMouth, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
9Obituary.
10Zimmerman, Forrest & Thelma, copy of marriage certificate, Zimmerman, F., Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
Howard HENSLEE
1self-given information, 23 Oct 2004.
2Dawne Pamplin. Personal Interview 5 JUL 2006.
Rae Anna HOLLIDAY
1Dawne Pamplin. Personal Interview 5 JUL 2006.
Forrest Elbert ZIMMERMAN
1Who is He, Oakwood Village Newsletter - date unknown.
2World War II end- newspaper article, Oregon Journal 8/31/1945 - vol XLIV, NO. 151, Zimmerman, F., Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
3Census, Federal - 1920 - Multnomah, Oregon, city of Portland, ED # 104, roll# T625 - 1501 p. 6A. "Line 20 1289 E. Morrison Dwelling # 115 Household # 137
Zimmerman, George E. Head age 40 MN Can OH OCC: Mechanic- Iron works
Minnie J. Wife 39 IA Ger Ger
Forest E. Son 10 WA MN IA."
4Forrest Zimmerman letter to Dawne Stevens - 14 Jan 1974, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "Dear Dawne,
Grandma is writing to you about when she was a little girl on a farm. I grew up in small towns so my life was different.
When I was nine years old your great grandmother and great grandfather and I lived in Astoria Oregon. This was during World War I and they were building wooden ships at Astoria. My father worked at the shipyard. When we first went to Astoria we couldn't find any house to rent or buy so my father bought a lot and built a house on it. He built a real simple house, and got a carpenter friend to help him. I remember when we first moved into the house there were no inside partitions.
The year I was eight we had an influenza epidemic that killed lots and lots of people. I remember every week when we went to school we would see another empty desk. Most of the time the kids got well and came back but not always. Several of my classmates died that winter.
My how it rained there and how the wind blew! I remember one time I started out for school wearing a raincoat, a rain hat, and rubbers. I got just a short distance from the house when the wind caught my hat and blew it off. Every time I tried to pick it up the wind caught it again just as I was about to pick it up.
Astoria is very hilly and our house was on the side of a hill, with the back of the house on dirt and the front of the house on stilts. We kept our wood under the front of the house. We had a wood burning stove that your great grandmother cooked on and that we used to heat the house.
The country around Astoria is a lot like that in the rain forest on the Olympic Peninsula that we visited, lots of trees, brush, moss, and grass. During the heavy rains the water would soak into the ground at the top of the hill and sometimes we would find the nicest spring bubbling out of the ground at the bottom of the hill. Other places you would see the water just flowing out of the side of the hill. After the rain stopped the spring would dry up and the water would stop flowing out of the side of the hill.
I remember when I was there I went with a friend of mine (he was five years old) and his father for a walk through the woods. We saw half a wooden sled and my friend asked his father what it was. Of course I was a big boy and I knew. It snows there about once every twenty years.
My friend and I explored all the woods around and picked flowers in the spring. We found trilliums, wild Iris, johnny jump-ups (yellow violets to you), mayflowers, and many more that I cannot remember.
One of our neighbors was a commercial fisherman and in the middle of the afternoon he would bring some of his catch around to sell. My mother would buy salmon, or rock cod, or ling cod, or some other fish and cook them for dinner. I can still remember how good they were.
This is about all I can remember now. Grandma and I hope you get a Girl Scout badge for this.
Love, Grandpa.".
5Forrest E. Zimmerman Experience and Education Resume - 1967, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION RESUME Forrest E. Zimmerman 1734 Dickinson Street Waukegan, Illinois 60085
Telephone: Area Code 312, ON 2-6586
EXPERIENCE
1. Midwest Division, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Building 1-A, Great Lakes, Illinois
August 1957 to the present date
I am responsible for electrical power distribution functions of the Utilities Division. I prepare economic and technical
projects, studies, and analyses to evaluate existing and proposed electric distribution and generation systems for the
Ninth Naval District. This includes evaluation of existing or proposed systerns and components thereof including
transformers, switches, relays, fuses, circuit breakers, etc.
I conduct special engineering studies relating to the operation and maintenance of electrical distribution systems, and
make recommendations to the operating forces concerned. I make surveys and investigations and prepare repor ts
and evaluations of the technical and operational requirements of the electrical power generation and distribution
system operating staffs. I advise and lend technical assistance in the training of operating personnel.
I work under the general supervision of the Head of the Utilities Engineering Branch. The Branch Head assigns work,
pointing out broad objectives and furnishing guidance only on critical issues and policy matters.
2. Kleinschmidt Laboratories, Inc. Deerfield, Illinois
February 1955 to August 1957
Under the general supervision of the Chief Electrical Engineer, I was responsible for the selection of all electric
components used in equipment manufactured for the Signal Corps. I wrote Technical Action requests to Signal Corps
Engineering Labs to obtain contractual approval for non-standard items. I specified tests for new sources and
evaluated results. I changed and designed or specified different components as necessary to insure reliable operation
of equipments under all service conditions. I initiated engineering changes necessary for electrical components. I
designed some relay circuits and checked models to insure reliability of operation under all operating conditions.
3. Gramer-Halldorson Transformer Corp. 2734 North Pulaski Chicago, Illinois
August 1953 to January 1955
Under the supervision of the Chief Engineer, I designed transformers, both power and audio, and inductors for
electronic equipment. I specified tests and evaluated results on samples of new transformers designed by me. I acted
as project engineer for subcontract with Armour Research Foundation on Signal Corps contract on design method for
power transformers. This consisted of designing units by Armour method, translating results into form suitable for
commercial production, testing models and evaluating results, editing Armour reports for clarity and agreement with
commercial practice.
4. Air Force Cambridge Research Center 230 Albany Street Cambridge, Massachusetts
February 1946 to August 1953
Under the general supervision of the Chief of Unit, I designed all types of transformers (power, audio, ultra-sonic and
pulse) and chokes (filter, audio, resonant charging and radio-frequency). I specified construction and tests and
evaluated results. I designed some saturable reactors. I acted as consultant to other groups for problems in electrical
engineering. I outlined problems and necessary action to be taken to convert 5-25KVA diesel driven generators into a
mobile generating station mounted on two semi-trailers. After completion, I placed the units in operation.
I advised Air Installations Office of various electrical problems including use of transformers, ground problems and
measurements, voltage control and some distribution problems, I selected motors for various applications and
selected or designed control systems. I acted for the Chief of Unit in most administrative matters, which included the
ordering of materials, assignment of work, and keeping of records.
5. Military Service United States Navy
September 1942 to January 1946
I was commissioned as a line officer Lieutenant (Junior Grade) in September 1942. 1 spent eight weeks in
indoctrination school at the U. S. Naval Training Station, Newport, Rhode Island; then twelve weeks at the New York
Navy Yard in Gyro Compass School. I was assigned to the Norfolk Navy Yard for further training and later as Gyro
Compass Officer where I handled both production and planning for repair and conversion. In June 1944, 1 was
assigned to the Navy Yard, Pearl Harbor, where I became planning officer for Gyro Compass and where I remained
until release from active duty as a Lieutenant Commander.
6. U. S. Army Engineers Bonneville District Portland, Oregon
September 1935 to September 1942
1 worked as a clerk in cost section until May 1938, when I transferred over as an electrician helper. In September
1938 1 became Junior Operator. In 1940 1 became Operator. I was responsible for the operation and maintenance of
two 50,000-KVA hydro-electric generators; for the operation of cooling water pumps, fire pumps, air-compressors and
other auxiliary equipment.
EDUCATION
Undergraduate
Reed College, Portland, Oregon Bachelor of Arts (Physics) 1932
Graduate
Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 10 graduate hours of Physics, 1948 - 1949
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION
Registered as a Professional Engineer in the State of Illinois (Registration
Number 62-25020) by examination 1965 Member, National Society of Professional Engineers Member, Illinois
Society of Professional Engineers (Lake County Chapter) Lieutenant Commander, U. S. Naval Reserve, (Retired)
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Born: December 28, 1909 Present Age: 57 Birthplace: Tacoma, Washington Height: 6'2" Weight: 210 # Health:
Excellent Marital Status: Married, 2 grown children Hobbies: Photography.".
6Census, Federal - 1930 - Multnomah Co., Oregon, Portland, ED# 26-322, Ancestry, p. 3 of 4, 3 Apr 1930. "Line 22 972 Wasco Dwelling 37 Household 37
Zimmerman, George E. Head Owns $6000 Radio age 50 m at 24 MN CAN OH occ: Sheet metal worker in Bldg trade
Minnie J. wife 49 23 IA GER GER None
Forrest E. son 20 s WA MN IA None."
7Census, Federal - 1910 - Pierce Co, Washington, Tacoma , 2A (Ancestry p.3), 10 Apr 1910. "Tacoma Ward 3 ED# 244 1323 S. M Street Dwelling # 28 Households #'s 29 and 30 Line 23 - 29
Zimmerman, George E. Head 30 M1 5yrs MN Can PA OCC: Tinsmith at Hardware store R
Minnie J wife 29 M1 5yrs IA GER GER
Forrest son 3/12 WA MN IA
Mundorf, John Head 28 M1 5yrs KS GER PA Laborer at odd jobs R
Ella C wife 25 M1 5yrs OR GER GER
Lowell L son 3 OR KS OR
Druschel, Mitelda mother-in-law 65 wd GER GER GER."
8Ancestry.com, U.S. Dept Veterans Affairs. "U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010 about Forrest Zimmerman
Name: Forrest Zimmerman
Birth Date: 28 Dec 1909
Death Date: 8 Mar 1989
Cause of Death: Natural
SSN: 544187631
Branch 1: N
Enlistment Date 1: 10 Sep 1942
Release Date 1: 14 Jan 1946."
91940 US Census, Warrendale, Multnomah, Oregon. "Front E Zimmermon
in the 1940 United States Federal Census
Name: Front E Zimmermon
Age: 30
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1910
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birthplace: Minnesota
Marital Status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Head
Home in 1940: Warrendale, Multnomah, Oregon
Map of Home in 1940: View Map
Inferred Residence in 1935: Portland, Multnomah, Oregon
Residence in 1935: Portland, Multnomah, Oregon
Resident on farm in 1935: No
Sheet Number: 7A
Number of Household in Order of Visitation: 171
Industry: U S Engineer
House Owned or Rented: Rented
Value of Home or Monthly Rental if Rented: 20
Attended School or College: No
Highest Grade Completed: College, 4th year
Hours Worked Week Prior to Census: 44
Class of Worker: Wage or salary worker in Government work
Weeks Worked in 1939: 52
Income: 1720
Income Other Sources: No." The names and places were written correctly on the census form but mal-transcribed in this summary.
10Zimmerman, Forrest, certified copy of birth certificate, Zimmerman, F., Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
11Zimmerman, Forrest-death certificate, Zimmerman, F., Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
12Zimmerman, Forrest & Kathryn, marriage certificate, Zimmerman,F., Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
Kathryn Virginia KLEASNER
1Who is She?, Oakwood newsletter - June 1982. "Who Is She?
Our woman of June is known for the sweetness of her smile and the fact that she is a delightful dinner companion. This necessarily short profile is a condensed version of her life as related by her daughter.
Our lady was born in 1918 on a farm near Franklin, Missouri, the second of five children. Missouri was not then one of the more advanced states, no one in the area having running water or electricity. But they had food, all of which, including the meat, they raised and preserved. All was used carefully. The girls learned to sew on brightly printed flour sacks from which they made their dresses.
They had fun, too, a play house under an apple tree, baseball in the summer, and on winter evenings playing cards and popping corn. The three older ones rode several miles to a one-room school on a little horse named Trixie.
Her father allowed bands of gypsies who traveled the countryside to camp near the house and her mother gave them milk for their children. They told fortunes for a penny. When her Grandfather Brown went out to have his told in the evening, the little girl worried about him, but he would be back in the morning and the gypsies gone.
During the Depression many men who were out of work walked the roads or rode the freight trains looking for odd jobs. Though her daddy couldn't afford to hire them, her mother always managed to find something for them to eat.
After finishing the eigth grade in 1932, the girl couldn't afford to go to the high school ten miles away. Besides, the family needed any money she could earn by working for families in the area. The pay was negligible and she suffered agonies of homesickness. In fact, in all the jobs she held over the next 20 years, she never got over being homesick.
In Kansas City she got a better job, earning $6.50 a week out of which she saved enough to buy a radio for her father and brothers to listen to ball games. On her days off she enjoyed the local YWCA where she made two fast friends among the working girls. Eventually the three went to Chicago to work for wealthy familites.
Though she worked for a kind family with a huge house on Lake Michigan, she was so homesick that she took a bus to Missouri every time she could. The first year her family had electricity she saved enough money to buy her mother a refrigerator.
Once again she found social life at the YW. There she met a little dark haired girl who had lost her mother and had come to live with her aunt who was Director of the YW. The girl liked the plump lady with the beautiful smile and would watch for her coming. A real love affair developed.
A year later when the girls' father and brother came to visit, our woman's cheerful ways captured the heart of the grieving father and in 1955 they were married.
Instantly she became the mother of the girl and the 15 year old boy who was considered a total loss. The new mother soon had the house running smoothly and the boy jumped from being a D to an A student. He now has a PhD degree and is a Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force.
Meanwhile the job of Resident Director of the Highland Park YW opened up. For 10 years, along with her home duties, our woman ran the Y for 15 girls, supervised the upkeep of the building and kept the books.
Ill health forced her to retire and, when her husband retired, they lived on Puget Sound in sight of the snow-capped Olympic Mountains.
When they moved to Madison in response to her daughter's urging, they feel that the view from their 15th floor "penthouse" beats that of Puget Sound. Best of all they are near their daughter and three grandchildren all of whom visit Oakwood often.".
2Dianne Stevens, Kathryn Zimmerman Eulogy, unpublished, Copy in Personal Files of Dianne Z. Stevens. "Kathryn V. Zimmerman
My mom was a super nice lady with a big heart and a big smile. She had tremendous organizational abilities, she was a wonderful mother, and she radiated a courageous joyful spirit.
My mom had a big heart. She came from a poor Missouri farm family, She had to leave home when she was just 14 to help support her family. But she always had a heart for the poor. Maybe she got it from her dad whom she said would always find something to share with the hobos who would stop by their farm. When she was a very young woman she left Missouri and went to the Chicago area to work.She was upset for a long time by the experience of riding on the train through Chicago's slum neighborhoods. It made her so sad to think that anyone would have to live in such places. When we were growing up it seemed that whenever she received a request in the mail to help the poor she would always find a few dollars to send.
My mom had a big smile. Her smile could light up a whole room. The first time I ever remember seeing her was one day when she came through the big front door at the YWCA where I was staying with my aunt. She had such a beautiful smile and it seemed like it was just for me. After that whenever groups of people would come to the Y for meetings, I would always watch and hope that the lady with the beautiful smile would come.
My mom had tremendous organizational abilities. When she married my dad we were a pretty forlorn raggle taggle little group, my dad, my brother and me. And she made us such a good home. Though it was humble by material standards, she used her many skills to make it an oasis of peace and order and happiness in a bustling busy world. It was such fun to help her with the housework because she took such pride in it and enjoyed it so.
My mom was a wonderful mother. She made me feel I had no problem too large or too small for her to be concerned about. I remember when I was a fullgrown high school girl I would look forward to each evening when she would get home from work, and while she changed her clothes I would sprawl across the bed and tell her everything that had happened to me all day long and she would help me figure out what it all meant. And we had such fun together! She really taught me to find the fun in everyday living.
My mom was a woman of tremendous courage and spirit. She suffered with various physical problems all her life. She spent her last 20 years in a wheelchair. But she didn't let these things stop her from enjoying her friends and family and from running her own life the way she wanted it to be. Because of her great spirit I always felt like people who knew my mom socially would have been very surprised to learn how very physically handicapped she really was - and those who knew what shape she was really in would have been very surprised to see how resourceful and ingenious she was at caring for herself, and how independent she was able to be. She was a tremendous example for myself and many others of living with adversity.
A former minister at my church was fond or quoting a great theologian who had said, "Joy is the surest sign of the presence of God." Everytime I heard him say that the image of my mother came to my mind. My mom was a person who found joy in life. And she radiated joy to everyone around her. She was surely one of God's special people.
I'm very glad that we were able to take care of her in my home for her last year and a half. She enjoyed being in the heart of our home and getting in on the hubbub of our everyday life. This was not easy for us to do. It would have been impossible without the help and support of a great many people. I want to acknowledge some of the wonderful people who made it possible: Our helpers; Dianne, Elspeth, Cindy, and Zoua; the many fine people from our chuch, especially Bev who helped in emergencies and gave us respite; the fine professionals who worked with us; Rose, Mary, Dr. Adlin; and all of her great friends at Oakwood who remembered her and shared their love. Thank you to you all." Dianne presented this Eulogy at her mother's Memorial service at Oakwood Village, Feb 13, 1992.
3Kathryn Zimmerman letter written to granddaughter Dawne in 1974. "Jan. 14, 1974
Dear Dawne,
Grandma is more than glad to write you about how life was for me when I was nine years old. I'm so happy about your Girl Scout badges. I always "root' for the Girl Scouts.
I grew up on a farm in the central part of Missouri. There seemed to be many jobs to be done so everyone worked and had fun too. When Grandma was nine, this was the time of the great depression.
Our way of life was rather primitive in some ways such as no electricity, running water, and definitely no modern conveniences of today. We had to grow all our food. That covered meat, (pork and beef) chickens, vegetables and fruits. Lots of our summer days were spent in the vegetable garden, hoeing and keeping weeds from taking over. We had to can all vegetables and fruits and place them in a food cellar. My mother was the kind that definitely canned enough food of all kinds to feed her family all winter.
Butchering time for the pigs and beef was a neighborhood affair. Neighbors helped one another as killing a big beef or porker was a big job. This could not be done until very cold weather started. You had to cool your fresh meat good before you cured it. This was done in what they called a "smoke house." After your pork was all trimmed and sugar and salt coated it was smoked by burning very small hickory logs in this tightly closed house. The trimmings were fat from the pigs so that called for a big session of cutting this fat into small chunks and cooking it ina big kettle over a fire. That was called lard and was long before Crisco was ever heard of. Some of the meat had to be canned. A lot was made into sausages and smoked. The farm ladies always made head cheese - truly a delicious part of fresh meat. My father susally butchered 5 or 6 big hogs. They usually milked about 6 Jersey cows and that meant lots of rich cream to be made into butter and sold at the grocery store.
As for fun, we had to make our own fun. We were always allowed to have neighborhood children over and we were luckier than some farmers as we had a car. My father was a great lover of the model "T" Ford and also had a Ford tractor. Our dad was wonderful at going after our friends for us. One thing Grandma remembers so well that was so much fun - We didn't have paved highways and when a snow storm hit opening up roads was unheard of. One of our neighbors had a huge horse drawn sleigh. So he would start out and go from farm to farm gathering up all the children for school. We always sang songs. What fun!
Would you believe Grandma went to a one room school house where all eight grades were taught? How we did have fun when time came to put on our Christmas play. We all would take a sheet and would make curtains that would draw. Our plays were something to remember. Another thing that was a lot of fun - we always held a "pie social" every fall at school. The girls were to trim a box up pretty and make a pie. Then at the social the boys would bid on them. You never knew who would help you eat your pie.
One nice thing - we had telephones. Kids talked as much on them then as they do today. Another thing that was fun - Grandma and Aunt Tudie always built a "pretend" house under a big apple tree. That worked fine until my brother and his friends would come to visit us.
Good Luck in your G. S. work, Dawne.
Let Grandma hear from you.
Lovingly,
Grandma.".
4Young Women's Christian Association, .
5Kathryn Kleasner Certificate of Birth, State of Missouri, Bureau of Vital statistics, File # 35824, 13 Aug 1919.
6Zimmerman, Kathryn Death Certificate, copy, Kleasner, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
7Zimmerman, Kathryn, cremation certificate, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
8Zimmerman, Forrest & Kathryn, marriage certificate, Zimmerman,F., Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
George Edward ZIMMERMAN
1Dianne Zimmerman Stevens, Zimmerman Family History, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. compilation from many sources.
2Census, Federal - 1880 - Fillmore County, Minnesota, Carrolton twsp, Ancestry p. 18 of 21. "Line 47 Dwelling 138 Household 138
Zimmerman, Adam age 44 Farmer Canada Ger Ger
Elizabeth 35 wife Keeping House Ohio Ger Ger
Lizzie 20 dau MN Can Ger
Mary 19 dau MN Can Ger
Next page
William 14 son MN Can Ger
Emmie 10 dau MN Can Ohio
Arien 5 son MN Can OH
Clara 3 dau MN Can OH
George 8/12 son MN Can OH
Joseph, Emile 17 servant Farm hand Ger Ger Ger."
3Census, Federal - 1920 - Multnomah, Oregon, city of Portland, ED # 104, roll# T625 - 1501 p. 6A. "Line 20 1289 E. Morrison Dwelling # 115 Household # 137
Zimmerman, George E. Head age 40 MN Can OH OCC: Mechanic- Iron works
Minnie J. Wife 39 IA Ger Ger
Forest E. Son 10 WA MN IA."
4Adam Zimmerman Estate Papers, Clackamas County Court, state of Oregon; 3 Apr1899 - 3 Mar 1902, County Court, State of Oregon, County of Clackamas - 28 Jun 1899 until 3 Mar 1902, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "Adam Zimmerman Estate Papers
IN THE COUNTY COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON, FOR THE COUNTY OF CLACKAMAS
Inventory and Appraisement - p. 5
Personal Property
One promissory note for $1000.00 date of Jan 2nd, 1899, given by
Chas Druschel, interest at 7% for 2 years valued at $ 1040.00
One promissory note for $200.00 date of Jan 25th 1899, given by
_____ at 6 % interest for 2 years valued at 202.00
One promissory note for $4500.00 date of Nov 16th 1898, given by
John Krusp with interest at 5% for 15 years, secured by
mortgage or real property in Fillmore County Minnesota,
valued at 4633.00
One promissory note for $250.00 date of Nov 26, 1898 given by
John Krusp at 7% interest one year, valued at 261.60
One promissory note of Theodore Riep for $37.00 date of
Nov 26th 1898, one year at 7% interest. Value 38.68
One promissory note of Wm Rappe for $34.00 date of
Nov 26th 1898 one year at 7% interest Value 36.74
One promissory note of J.D. Britzius for $30.00 date of
Nov 26th 1898, one year at 7% interest Value 31.25
One promissory note of Ole Tollefsen for $22.50 date of
Nov 26th 1898 One year at 7% interest Value 13.54
One promissory note of Leonard Haas for $18.25 date of
Nov 26th, 1898 One year at 7% interest Value 19.10
One promissory note of T M Morgan for $10.50 date of
nov 26th 1898, one year at 7% interest Value 11.00
Household Furniture 100.00
Real Property
Seven acres of land and dwelling house situate in
Canby, Clackamas County Oregon - Value 550.00
Amount carried forward 6946.91
p.9 of estate papers says the above list was submitted to the court on 7 Aug 1899
Elizabeth (widow and admistrator) submitted her final account of income and expenditures
of the estate on 23 Jan 1902.
A final petition to close the estate and distribute the assets as follows is dated 3 Mar 1902
P.11 Disposition
Elizabeth Krak (dau) already received $700.00
Elizabeth Zimmerman (widow) 1/2 $4690.71 2345.35
Mary Zimmerman 1/9 of remainder of estate 260.65
Estate of Wm Zimmerman deceased 260.59
Mrs. Emma Druschel 260.59
Aaron Zimmerman 260.59
Clara Hoff 260.59
George Zimmerman 260.59
Maggie Zimmerman 260.59
Sarah Zimmerman 260.59
Della Zimmerman 260.59
"That said real property be decreed to descend according to law.".".
5Census, Federal - 1930 - Multnomah Co., Oregon, Portland, ED# 26-322, Ancestry p. 3 of 14. "Line 22 972 Wasco Dwelling 37 Household 37
Zimmerman, George E. Head Owns $6000 Radio age 50 m at 24 MN CAN OH occ: Sheet metal worker in Bldg trade
Minnie J. wife 49 23 IA GER GER None
Forrest E. son 20 s WA MN IA None."
6Census, Federal - 1910 - Pierce Co, Washington, Tacoma , 2A (Ancestry p.3), 10 Apr 1910. "Tacoma Ward 3 ED# 244 1323 S. M Street Dwelling # 28 Households #'s 29 and 30 Line 23 - 29
Zimmerman, George E. Head 30 M1 5yrs MN Can PA OCC: Tinsmith at Hardware store R
Minnie J wife 29 M1 5yrs IA GER GER
Forrest son 3/12 WA MN IA
Mundorf, John Head 28 M1 5yrs KS GER PA Laborer at odd jobs R
Ella C wife 25 M1 5yrs OR GER GER
Lowell L son 3 OR KS OR
Druschel, Mitelda mother-in-law 65 wd GER GER GER."
7Census, Federal - 1900 - Multnomah Co, city of Portland, Ward 4; dist 52 Ancestry p. 17 of 35, 8 Jun 1900. "Line 7 430 Yaw(?) Hill St. Dwelling 88 or 89 Family # 102 or 103
Zimmerman, Mary Head b. Mar 1865 age: 35 S MN Can Ger Occ: Lodging House Keeper
Aaron Dec 1874 25 S same Blacksmith
George Oct 1879 20 S " Driver (Hardware store)
Maggie Dec 1882 17 S " Dressmaker
7 additional lodgers."
8World War I Draft Registration, Ancestry.com.
9Census, Federal 1940, Portland, Multnomah, Oregon. "1940 United States Federal Census about George E Zimmerman
Name: George E Zimmerman
[Goerge E Zimmerman]
Age: 60
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1880
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birthplace: Minnesota
Marital Status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Head
Home in 1940: Portland, Multnomah, Oregon
View Map
Street: N E Wasco
House Number: 3142
Farm: No
Inferred Residence in 1935: Portland, Multnomah, Oregon
Residence in 1935: Same House
Sheet Number: 2A
Number of Household in Order of Visitation: 29
House Owned or Rented: Owned
Value of Home or Monthly Rental if Rented: 5500
Attended School or College: No
Highest Grade Completed: Elementary school, 8th grade
Weeks Worked in 1939: 0
Income: 0
Income Other Sources: Yes
Household Members:
Name Age
George E Zimmerman 60
Minnie Zimmerman 59."
10Wayne Wardle letter to Dianne Stevens dated 3 Jun 2003, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "(George) was in the furniture repai business."
11Lloyd, Steve, Zimmerman, Christian - descendants, EMail.
12Zion Cemetery Sexton, Canby, Oregon, Note sent in response to request for information by Patsy Clark, July 2003.
13Sandy McGuire, Clackamas County Family History Society Letter to Patricia Andrea dated 27 Feb 1997.
Wilhemina Julia WINTERMANTEL
1First Grave in Zion in 1897 Recalled in Daughter's Death, Unknown Newspaper - Unknown date, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "First Grave in Zion In 1897 Recalled In Daughter's Death
Internment in Zion Memorial Park was given Friday to Mrs. George Zimmerman, nee Minnie Wintermantle, 79, of Portland, whose father, the late Christian Wintermantle, was the first person to be interred in the Canby cemetery.
Mrs. Zimmerman was 11 when she came to Oregon with her parents in 1892. She attended Mundorff school after the family moved from Jefferson in 1894 to live on the old Henry Kraft farm on Union Hall road, and later taught classes for a year at Mundorff. Her father was a Civil war veteran, a corporal with the 26th Wisconsin infantry. He and several other Canby E.U.B. church members, including Jacob Mundorff and John Koehler, a Civil war veteran who died in 1905, bought the original acre for cemetery use in 1897, and Wintermantle's grave was dug that fall - the first in the now city-owned cemetery.
Mrs. Zimmerman's widower and son, Forrest, who flew from Chicago for the funeral were here Saturday to visit Mr. and Mrs. John Koehler. Mr Koehler's first wife, Louise, who died in 1936, was the sister of Mrs. Zimmerman. Of the eight daughters and three sons of the Christian Wintermantles, only two survive - Ella Mundorff of Cornelius and Clara Wardle of Yakima.".
2Census, Federal - 1900 - Clackamas Co, OR, Canby Precinct, Town of Canby ED82, p. 8 of 16. "Line 54 Dwelling 89 Family 89
Druschel William head b Apr 1834 age 66 m 0 yrs Ger Ger Ger imm 1855 Na Farmer
Matilda wife May 1845 55 m 0 yrs Ger Ger Ger 1854
Herman son Dec 1874 25 s IA Ger Ger
Minnie dau Oct 1880 19 s IA Ger Ger at school
Clara dau Oct 1882 17 s IA Ger Ger at school
Ella dau Feb 1885 15 s OR Ger Ger at school."
3Census, Federal - 1920 - Multnomah, Oregon, city of Portland, ED # 104, roll# T625 - 1501 p. 6A. "Line 20 1289 E. Morrison Dwelling # 115 Household # 137
Zimmerman, George E. Head age 40 MN Can OH OCC: Mechanic- Iron works
Minnie J. Wife 39 IA Ger Ger
Forest E. Son 10 WA MN IA."
4Census, Federal - 1930 - Multnomah Co., Oregon, Portland, ED# 26-322, Ancestry p. 3 of 14, 3 Apr 1930. "Line 22 972 Wasco Dwelling 37 Household 37
Zimmerman, George E. Head Owns $6000 Radio age 50 m at 24 MN CAN OH occ: Sheet metal worker in Bldg trade
Minnie J. wife 49 23 IA GER GER None
Forrest E. son 20 s WA MN IA None."
5Minnie Zimmerman letter to Forrest after Thelma's death, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "Dear Darling Folks - That was hard news to take. She was beautiful and sweet and everybody loved her. We can never forget her.
I suppose from what I wrote you that I'm not able to work but George has developed into a GOOD cook and gets well balances meals. He sure is good.
We and others wonder why God lets these things happen. We will never know until that glad morning when we will meet again.
I'd like to be of some comfort to you.
What can we tell the children?
All my love goes to children. How can they understand?
About us coming back there, it just makes us feel there is some good we still can do.
God bless and help all of you. Maw." Dear Maw, Your love comes across all the years and you are a comfort, dear Maw, my dear dear grandmother.
6Census, Federal - 1910 - Pierce Co, Washington, Tacoma , 2A (Ancestry p.3). "Tacoma Ward 3 ED# 244 1323 S. M Street Dwelling # 28 Households #'s 29 and 30 Line 23 - 29
Zimmerman, George E. Head 30 M1 5yrs MN Can PA OCC: Tinsmith at Hardware store R
Minnie J wife 29 M1 5yrs IA GER GER
Forrest son 3/12 WA MN IA
Mundorf, John Head 28 M1 5yrs KS GER PA Laborer at odd jobs R
Ella C wife 25 M1 5yrs OR GER GER
Lowell L son 3 OR KS OR
Druschel, Mitelda mother-in-law 65 wd GER GER GER."
7Census, Federal 1940, Portland, Multnomah, Oregon. "Name: Minnie Zimmerman
Respondent: Yes
Age: 59
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1881
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birthplace: Iowa
Marital Status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Wife
Home in 1940: Portland, Multnomah, Oregon
View Map
Street: N E Wasco
House Number: 3142
Inferred Residence in 1935: Portland, Multnomah, Oregon
Residence in 1935: Same House
Sheet Number: 2A
Attended School or College: No
Highest Grade Completed: College, 1st year
Weeks Worked in 1939: 0
Income: 0
Income Other Sources: No
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
George E Zimmerman 60
Minnie Zimmerman 59."
8Wintermantle, Minnie, note, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "1) Matilda Fey - daughter of Adam Fey and Anna Thomas Fey - Born in Westphalia, Prussia, May 2, 1845. She was the youngest of nine children Adam, John, Carl, Katherine, Caroline, Anna, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Matilda. Her mother died of TB when Matilda was three years of age. At the age of nine, she and the family came to America and settled in Wisconsin. When she was 20 years old she was married to Christian Wintermantel. For a time they lived in Ackley, Iowa, then in 1883, the family came to Oregon. They lived near Jefferson and in 1891 moved to the Canby district. In 1899 she was married to William Druschell. She died July 2, 1922 at the age of 77, and was buried in Zion Cemetery."
2) "Christian Wintermantel, youngest son of Jacob (?) Wintermantel was born in Baden, Germany on Oct 3, 1843. The family came to the U.S. in 1855(?) settling in Wisconsin. At the age of 18 he volunteered in the Union forces, was with the Union army at Gettysburg, and Shermans march to the sea. He was appointed corporal of his company, and when the army was mustered out, he returned to Wisconsin. In 1866 he married Matilda Fey and was the father of eleven children
Rosina
Matilda Caroline
Frederic William
Albert Ernst
Hedwig Ottilia
Herman Otto
Amelia
Louisa Anne
Minnie Julia
Clara Edith
Elianor Charlotte"
(The handwriting is very hard to read on some of those names, particularly Frederic, Ottilia, and Elianor.)
3) This is a book that my father, Christian Wintermantel kept on our journey from Iowa to Oregon.
The blackbordered stationery was almost a "must as was the black veil the widow wore. The bereaved gentlemen wore crepe bands on their sleeves but not very long.". "Matilda Fey - daughter of Adam Fey and Anna Thomas Fey - Born in Westphalia, Prussia, May 2, 1845. She was the youngest of nine children Adam, John, Carl, Katherine, Caroline, Anna, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Matilda. Her mother died of TB when Matilda was three years of age. At the age of nine, she and the family came to America and settled in Wisconsin. When she was 20 years old she was married to Christian Wintermantel. For a time they lived in Ackley, Iowa, then in 1883, the family came to Oregon. They lived near Jefferson and in 1891 moved to the Canby district. In 1899 she was married to William Druschell. She died July 2, 1922 at the age of 77, and was buried in Zion Cemetery."."
9Minnie Wintermantle Autograph Book, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. Small blue book- well worn- notes written in pencil-Mostly from Jefferson-dates from Oct. 1887 to Nov. 18,1892. The Nov 1892 note is definitely marked Canby. Nov 13, 1891 is marked Jefferson. Names: Perry Nye
mollie Metcalf
John Tyler
Mrs. Perry Nye
Cora Hosman
Miss Mattie Myers
Edna Nye
Avis Hudelson
Janey Hudelson
Datus Myers
Tillie (sister)
E J Harmes
Ida Klaetsolr (Canby)
Lottie French
Mary Campbell
Eric Kleppin
Louise Wintermantle, Jefferson, Nov 13, 1891 - sister
Jenny R.
Clara Stanley
Eliza Harmon
Myrtle Smith
Truda Metcalf
Amelia – sister
Ella Kammerer
J. J. Klein
Eva Marlatt
Nellie Sedgwick, Albany Oct 29,1890
Annie Heitz Nov 13, 1891
Celestia
Carrie Miller, Buttevill, apr 23, 1890
Lizzie, Butteville
Perry N, Jefferson,Apr 19, 1889
J.E., 11/18, 1892, Canby. Shows family moved from Jefferson to Canby between Nov. 1891 and Nov 1892.
10Christian Wintermantel Pension Papers, p. 37, Copy in Personal Files of Dianne Z. Stevens. "the spring of 1872...we moved to near Ackley, Hardin Co., Iowa. We were there twelve years." I believe Matilda was confused about what county she lived in. They lived near Ackley, Iowa. Ackley actually straddles two counties, Franklin and Hardin. According to the 1880 census the family lived in Geneva township of Franklin County, Iowa. Matilda testifies they moved from the Winterset home in 1872 and lived in the next place for 12 years so that next place must have been Geneva township, Franklin County, Iowa.
11Census, Federal - 1880 - Franklin Co., Iowa, Geneva Twsp.
12Zion Cemetery Sexton, Canby, Oregon, Note sent in response to request for information by Patsy Clark, July 2003.
13Zion Cemetery Sexton, Canby, Oregon.
14Sandy McGuire, Clackamas County Family History Society Letter to Patricia Andrea dated 27 Feb 1997.
Samuel L. DEMOUTH
1Census, Federal - 1920 - Yellowstone Co, Montana, school district 24, ED#181, sheet 9A, Ancestry p.17. "Line 11 Dwelling #4 Household #4
Dimouth, Samuel L. Head Owns Mort. 46 m WI NJ Ver Occ: Hotel Proprietor
Elzora M. wife 34 m WI WI WI None
Musa I. dau 16 s WI WI WI None
Thelma E. dau 8 WI WI WI None
Lester J. son 6 ND WI WI None
Baker, Fred S. Boarder M W 27 s IL MN IN Auto Mechanic
Shreevam, Peter J. Boarder M W 50 wd MA VT NY Surgeon."
2Census, Federal - 1900 - Philippine Islands, Daet, Ancestry p. 1 of 5, 30 Jun 1900. This census shows Sam is a sergeant and has been married for two years. Company B, 45th Regiment, Infantry.
3Census, Federal - 1880 - Clark Co., WI, town of Weston. ED 174, Ancestry p 1 of 11, 1 Jun 1880. "1880 Federal Census--Weston, Clark, WI
Jacob Demouth age 45, b. NJ, Farmer, Father b. NJ
Wife: Cordealia age 36, b. VT, Parents b. VT
Son: Don A. 17, b. WI
Dau: Eva 16, b. WI
Son: John 12, b. WI, Student
Son: Samuel 6, b. WI, Student
Dau: Sharlet 3, b. WI
Dau: Lucindah 1, b. WI."
4Census, Federal - 1910 - Clark Co, WI, Weston, ED # 40, sheet 3A (Ancestry p. 5 of 17), 26 Apr 1910. census taker is Mrs. Della Armitage
This Census shows Sam is a farmer in the general farm industry. He owns his home but it's mortgaged.
5Census, Federal - 1930 - Multnomah Co, Oregon, Maplewood, precinct 525, ED # 263, sheet 3A (Ancestry p. 5 of 18), 7 Apr 1930. 1930 Census Sam and family are living in Maplewood, Oregon (Now part of Portland ) He is paying $20/mo rent. They have a boarder living with them, John Simons a 49 yr old grader of lumber. "Line 42 West Ave. dwelling # 77 Household # 77
Demouth, Samuel L. head rents $20/mo age 56 M age 28 WI NJ VT occ: Painter of bldgs Vet Phil
Elzora M wife 49 22 WI WI WI none
Musa I dau 26 s WI WI WI maid - in school
Thelma E dau 19 s WI WI WI none - in school
Lester J son 16 s WI WI WI none - not in school
Simons, John H boarder 49 s WI Eng Eng lumber grader."
6Rootsweb, http://www.rootsweb.com, Siskiyou Co., CA - Index to Federal Land Records California Land Patents Database. "MD 0430N 0070W 004 4925 1906/06/26 DEMOUTH ELZORA M MD 0440N 0080W 008 4851 1905/10/13 DEMOUTH JOHN C MD 0440N 0080W 008 4898 1906/02/05 DEMOUTH LILLIAN D MD 0440N 0100W 008 4957 1906/10/29 DEMOUTH SAMUEL."
7Jonathan Raban, Bad Land, an American Romance, Pantheon Books, New York, 1996, Copy in Personal Files of Dianne Z. Stevens.
8World War I Draft Registration, Roll # 1819447; order # 623B reg # C - 33 - 1 27, 12 Sep 1918, Ancestry.com. "Samuel L. DeMouth
Permanent home address: Quinion, Billings, North Dakota
age: 44 DOB: March 12, 1874
white native-born farmer at address: Quinion, Billings, North Dakota
nearest relative: Elzora M. DeMouth
at adress: Ballantine, Yellowstone, Montana
height: tall build: medium eyes: blue hair: gray."
9US Dept of the Interior - Bureau of Land Management - General Land Office Records, http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/search/default.aspx#searchByTypeIndex=0&searchTabIndex=0, Land Patent. "
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Meridian Twp - Rng Aliquots Sec. # County
Mount Diablo 044N - 010W N½NW¼ 8 Siskiyou
044N - 010W SW¼NW¼ 8 Siskiyou."
10Pierce, Ben, , email, 8 Aug 2013. "The Q-Bar was where Dad worked during his horse roundup days, someplace between 1916-1919 As far as I know it was a ranch though, probably a large one for that time and place. Lester's family was likely working there at the time he was born, since dad said there were lots of riders working there, as well as other ranch help."
11Clark Co., WI Internet Library, ALHN & AHGP website, http://wvls.lib.wi.us/ClarkCounty/clark.htm, News: Christie (03 Nov 1911), 14 Aug 2013. "Sam Demouth sawed wood for Willis Armitage on Wednesday of last week."
12DeMouth Family Bible, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "Aug 29 1843 Cordelia E. Martindale, Orwell Vermont." An inscription in the front of the Bible reads, "Presented to Musa Irene Demouth on her fourteenth birthday, Quinion, Oct 29th 1917, by her Grandma, Cordelia E. Demouth, Loyal, Wisconsin." below that in pencil is written "June 20, 1917". DeMouth Bible gives birth date as 12 Mar 1874.
WWI Draft registration card gives birth as 12 Mar 1874.
Death certificate gives birth as April 1871.
13DeMouth, Samuel - Death Certificate, certified copy.
14DeMouth, Samuel - Death Certificate.
15Findagrave, http://www.findagrave.com/, internet. "Name: Samuel L. Demouth
Birth Date: 12 Mar 1874
Age at Death: 65
Death Date: 18 Mar 1939
Burial Place: Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA
URL: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-..."
16DeMouth Family Bible.
17Pierce-DeMouth wedding invitation, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. also wedding photo in same envelope.
18Clark Co., WI - Marriages before 1905, Vol. 2, p. 383.
19Mr& Mrs Frank O. Pierce, wedding invitation, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
20Wisconsin - Clark Co Marriage Records before 1907, vol 2, p. 383, 27 Nov 1902, Wisconsin State Historical Society, 816 State St, Madison, WI 53706.
Elzora Maude PIERCE
1DeMouth Family Bible, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "Aug 29 1843 Cordelia E. Martindale, Orwell Vermont." An inscription in the front of the Bible reads, "Presented to Musa Irene Demouth on her fourteenth birthday, Quinion, Oct 29th 1917, by her Grandma, Cordelia E. Demouth, Loyal, Wisconsin." below that in pencil is written "June 20, 1917".
2Stevens, Dianne Z., DeMouth Family History, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
3Census, Federal - 1900 - Clark, WI, Eaton twsp, 15/16 Jun 1900, Ancestry.com. "1900 United States Federal Census
Name: Frank O Pierce Age: 45 Birth Date: Oct 1854 Birthplace: Wisconsin
Race: White Gender: Male Relationship to head-of-house: Head
Father's Birthplace: Vermont Mother's Birthplace: New York
Spouse's name: Martha E Pierce Marriage Year: 1887 Years Married: 13
Home in 1900: Eaton, Clark, Wisconsin [Greenwood, Clark, Wisconsin]
Frank O Pierce 45 WI-VT-NY Oct 1854 m. 13 yrs Farmer
Martha E Pierce 43 WI-ME-ME Jun 1856 m. 13 yrs 3 of 4 children living
Elzora M Pierce 20 WI-WI-WI May 1880 Servant
Royal A Pierce 12 WI-WI-WI Mar 1888 at school
Winnifred E Pierce 10 WI-WI-WI Apr 1890 at school
Edna F Pierce 5 WI-WI-WI Jul 1894."
4Census, Federal - 1920 - Yellowstone Co, Montana, school district 24, ED#181, sheet 9A, Ancestry p.17. "Line 11 Dwelling #4 Household #4
Dimouth, Samuel L. Head Owns Mort. 46 m WI NJ Ver Occ: Hotel Proprietor
Elzora M. wife 34 m WI WI WI None
Musa I. dau 16 s WI WI WI None
Thelma E. dau 8 WI WI WI None
Lester J. son 6 ND WI WI None
Baker, Fred S. Boarder M W 27 s IL MN IN Auto Mechanic
Shreevam, Peter J. Boarder M W 50 wd MA VT NY Surgeon."
5Place names of North Dakota. "Quinion II
from Place Names of North Dakota
Quinion (Billings). This rural Post office was established February 25, 1910 with Lydia B. Townsend pm. Her suggested name of O-Y Ranch was rejected by postal officials, who then accested the name QUINION, honoring H. Chris Quinion, a native of VT who came here in 1885 and started the Q-Bar Ranch on Magpie Creek north of Fryburg. It was located in SE 1/4 Sec. 13-144-100, twenty-nine miles NNE of Medora near the McKenzie County line until 1911 when it moved one mile west to SE 1/4 Sec. 14-144-100, the home of the new pm Florence M. Mason. Elizora M. Desmouth became the pm in 1916, holding this position until 1918 when the post office moved one mile NE to SW 1/4 Sec. 12-144-100, the home of new pm Frank O. Pierce. It closed July 14, 1923 with mail to Fairfield. (1, 2, 40, 53, 81, 414)." This article was sent to me by volunteer genealogist Patrice Hartman of Stark County, North Dakota.
6Census, Federal - 1910 - Clark Co, WI, Weston, ED # 40, sheet 3A (Ancestry p. 5 of 17). census taker is Mrs. Della Armitage
This Census shows Sam is a farmer in the general farm industry. He owns his home but it's mortgaged.
7Census, Federal - 1930 - Multnomah Co, Oregon, Maplewood, precinct 525, ED # 263, sheet 3A (Ancestry p. 5 of 18). 1930 Census Sam and family are living in Maplewood, Oregon (Now part of Portland ) He is paying $20/mo rent. They have a boarder living with them, John Simons a 49 yr old grader of lumber. "Line 42 West Ave. dwelling # 77 Household # 77
Demouth, Samuel L. head rents $20/mo age 56 M age 28 WI NJ VT occ: Painter of bldgs Vet Phil
Elzora M wife 49 22 WI WI WI none
Musa I dau 26 s WI WI WI maid - in school
Thelma E dau 19 s WI WI WI none - in school
Lester J son 16 s WI WI WI none - not in school
Simons, John H boarder 49 s WI Eng Eng lumber grader."
8Census, Federal - 1880 - Clark Co, WI, town of Eaton. ".". "1880 United States Federal Census
Name: Frank Pierce Age: 25 Estimated birth year: abt 1855 Birthplace: Wisconsin
Relation to Head of Household: Self (Head) Spouse's name: Sarah Pierce
Father's birthplace: Vermont Mother's birthplace: New York
Occupation: Farmer Marital Status: Married Race: White Gender: Male
Home in 1880: Eaton, Clark, Wisconsin
Frank Pierce 25 WI-VT-NY Farmer
Sarah Pierce 25 WI-England-Eng
E. Mabel Pierce 1 WI-WI-WI
E. Ella Pierce 1m WI-WI-WI b. May."
9DeMouth Family Bible.
10Clark County Genweb site, http://www.usgennet.org/usa/wi/county/clark, 27 Dec 1934. "Obit: Demouth, Elzora (? – 1934)
Posted By: Crystal Wendt > Date: Thursday, 9 June 2005, at 4:43 p.m.
Surname: Demouth, Pierce
Source: Neillsville Press (Neillsville, Clark County, Wis.) 27 Dec. 1934
Demouth, Mrs. Sam **‘Elzora’(?- 5 Nov. 1934)
Word was received at the Press office that Mrs. Sam Demouth died at her home in Maywood, near Portland, Ore., November 5, 1934.
Mrs. Demouth, before her marriage was Miss Zoe Pierce, and was quite well known here. Her childhood home was in the town of Easton.
**Taken for the Oregon death index 1903 – 1998; Death County: Multnomah."
11DeMouth Family Bible.
12Pierce-DeMouth wedding invitation, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. also wedding photo in same envelope.
13Clark Co., WI - Marriages before 1905, Vol. 2, p. 383.
14Mr& Mrs Frank O. Pierce, wedding invitation, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
15Wisconsin - Clark Co Marriage Records before 1907, vol 2, p. 383, 27 Nov 1902, Wisconsin State Historical Society, 816 State St, Madison, WI 53706.
Musa Irene DEMOUTH
1Moore, Helen, DeMouth, Musa - fish story, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
2Census, Federal - 1920 - Yellowstone Co, Montana, school district 24, ED#181, sheet 9A, Ancestry p.17. "Line 11 Dwelling #4 Household #4
Dimouth, Samuel L. Head Owns Mort. 46 m WI NJ Ver Occ: Hotel Proprietor
Elzora M. wife 34 m WI WI WI None
Musa I. dau 16 s WI WI WI None
Thelma E. dau 8 WI WI WI None
Lester J. son 6 ND WI WI None
Baker, Fred S. Boarder M W 27 s IL MN IN Auto Mechanic
Shreevam, Peter J. Boarder M W 50 wd MA VT NY Surgeon."
3Ancestry.com, Messageboards http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/message/an/localities.northam.usa.states.o. "Lincoln High School, Portland, OR, Class of 1930
Author: Dalice Fadden Date: 9 Mar 2003 12:28 AM GMT
Taken from The Cardinal, Lincoln High School, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, Class of 1930 Seniors: Irving Albert, G. Martin Allen Jr., Julius Bergstrom, Edmund F. Beuter, Frances W. Booth, Edward L. Brown, Edward F. Burpee, Edwin Cohen, Henry Cohn, Charles K. Cummings, Dorothy A. Cunningham, Dorothy E. Dahl, H. Hollis Daniel, Musa I. DeMouth, Herbert A. Doty, Hilda A. Fries, Jean E. Gaddis, Marjorie K. Gray, Bonifacio Jacob, Austin Jennings, Celia Kaplan, Villard C. Kiel, Edna A. Kinney, Dorothy Kramer, Remington Low, Waite Lukesh, Evelyn Mathiesen, Leslie McLennan, Oscar Melzer, Marguerite Miller, John Morehouse, Stanley Moy, Philip Mulder, Frances Nemiro, Lawrence Newell, Evelyn Palmquist, Clifford Paulson, Charlotte Pearson, Chester Pearson, Esther K. Raz, Melchior Raz, Grant H. Ridley, Guido M. Rizzo, Mark Rosumny, Joseph Saslavsky, Dorothy Schaffner, Beulah Schobert, Mary Stamp, Louise Stein, Robert L. Swain, Kathryn Swoboda, Russell S. Taylor, Helen Thomson, Molly Lou Thompson, Audrey Williams, Louis Wachsmuth, Edna M. Whitmer, Evelyn Winchell."
4Census, Federal - 1910 - Clark Co, WI, Weston, ED # 40, sheet 3A (Ancestry p. 5 of 17). census taker is Mrs. Della Armitage
This Census shows Sam is a farmer in the general farm industry. He owns his home but it's mortgaged.
5Census, Federal - 1930 - Multnomah Co, Oregon, Maplewood, precinct 525, ED # 263, sheet 3A (Ancestry p. 5 of 18). 1930 Census Sam and family are living in Maplewood, Oregon (Now part of Portland ) He is paying $20/mo rent. They have a boarder living with them, John Simons a 49 yr old grader of lumber. "Line 42 West Ave. dwelling # 77 Household # 77
Demouth, Samuel L. head rents $20/mo age 56 M age 28 WI NJ VT occ: Painter of bldgs Vet Phil
Elzora M wife 49 22 WI WI WI none
Musa I dau 26 s WI WI WI maid - in school
Thelma E dau 19 s WI WI WI none - in school
Lester J son 16 s WI WI WI none - not in school
Simons, John H boarder 49 s WI Eng Eng lumber grader."
6Young Women's Christian Association, .
7Young Women's Christian Association.
Lester Jacob DEMOUTH
1Video "The Arisan Maru", Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
2US Marine Corps certificate given to Musa DeMouth on 8/17/1948, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
3Census, Federal - 1920 - Yellowstone Co, Montana, school district 24, ED#181, sheet 9A, Ancestry p.17.
4Lester J. DeMouth Letters as a US Marine. "I have five letters Uncle Lester wrote to my mother before the war but while he was in the Marines and one he wrote to a friend. Here they are:
LETTER # 1
return address; Pvt. L.J. DeMouth, Marine Guard, U.S.S. Lexington, Long Beach, Calif.
postmark: U.S.S.Lexington, Aug.6, 4PM, 1936
address: Mrs. Thelma Zimmerman, Bonneville, Oregon
Aug. 6, 1936, Off Long Beach, at sea
Dear Thelma,
I'm sorry I haven't answered sooner but it's been pretty hard to find time. There's so many things doing all the time, and sports to work for and I'm really trying to study once in awhile. We're in the gunnery season now great noises all around us and being big and husky and pretty calm and cool, they put me in the thick of it... Can you imagine me as a man who stands right on top of a large gun throwing great big shells into it, and getting 7 shells in and shot off in 8 seconds. I won in speed the other day and when our battery officer said very good it sure made me feel good. Of course there's nine other men on the gun. But I consider my job first and most important. We're out at sea now drilling. But we go into port every night. I wish you could see how immaculate things are on a ship of this type. Everything is spotless. And the men are of course the same, if you have a spot on your white belt you don't get liberty, or if shoes aren't shined enough. However I've been quite lucky and haven't been restricted. Only once down in Panama and I tried to get ashore in a pair of kakie pants that weren't starched. And the seargent sent me back to change. Well I'm sure in with a mighty decent bunch. They're of course pretty rugged or they just get that way in here. But at least I don't drink anymore, only a glass of beer or something about once a month. If you see Jim(Probably Uncle Jim Martindale)tell him to write to me and that I haven't forgot that I owe him and, Jack, I haven't heard from him or heard much about him, so tell him to drop a line once in awhile and let me know his address. I'm sure glad to hear you and Forrest are coming along so nicely, but I knew you would. I sure tried hard to get to come home when we were in Bremerton but there wasn't a chance but we'll be up there again this winter (if we don't go east(?)) or maybe Spain. I sure had a nice job in Bremerton. I was a telephone orderly. Of course I had a lot of duty, but it's fun to talk to Captains, Admirals, Commanders, and all the rest. We've got the nicest bunch of officers in the navy on this ship. And I would do anything for them. Just think I get up out of my hammock every morn at 6;00, some difference from what I was used to. It's kind of a thrill to be a real "sea goin marine," as they're respected wherever we go. But at times I get a little lonely for the old friends and well some kind of a real home. I will try and save a little money and when I can get up there we'll get a tombstone for Mama. But you can't imagine how fast money goes, laundry, supplies, and many things. Well I've got to get back to drill, so tell Forrest and everyone hello. and PLEASE answer soon.
As ever
Your brother,
Lester
This letter may sound kind of funny but, everybody yelling, guns banging and, well, just try and figure it out.
LETTER #2
return address: Lester J. DeMouth, Marine Guard, U.S.S. Lexington, San Pedro, Calif.
postmark: U.S.S.Lexington, August 23, 7 AM, 1937
address: Mrs. F.E. Zimmerman, Bonneville, Oregon
Envelope: looks like an official "Lexington" envelope. It's decorated with a golden dragon and goat, has a stamp affixed with a photo of the ship, in the "return" area is printed the following:
U.S.S. Lexington with 63 planes aboard in company with the U.S.S. Lamson, Drayton, and Cushing, steamed into the Domain of the Golden Dragon and Realm of Neptunus Rex on 14 July 1937, when the intersection of the equator and International Date Line was crossed while searching for the lost Earhart Plane in the South Seas. The Lexington search group steamed about 11,000 miles and searched 200,000 square miles with no casualties while conducting the largest and most extensive mass search in naval peacetime history for the lost flier. 3 to 30 July, 1937.
Aug 22, 1937
Long Beach, Calif.
Dear Thelma
Sorry I didn't write sooner but that's the way it goes. We're finally back in Long Beach for 48 hours anyway. We're leaving again tomorrow (Monday) for San Clemente to fire nite battle practice. I guess I'm a little bit nervous but I can take it. I somehow just can't get used to firing those big guns. And I work on one every day, been taking care of a gun now for 1 whole year, quite a record on this ship for a marine gunner. I get it pretty easy though. Take right now for instance. Instead of being cooped up with a bunch of men I'm taking it easy in a sailors bunk. While he's ashore I'm in charge (back here) of the battery, 3 5in. guns. A nice homey compartment all to myself and all there is , is a little responsibility. I guess you read about our mad dash across the Pacific in search of Amelia. It was mad alright. I thought all the crew would go mad before we sighted land. But we proved our mettel by really roughing it out. Run short of provisions, gas, oil, and everything else. If you think it gets hot in Portland you should spend a few days around that Equator. I hope I never have to go back down there. That makes three times I've been down in those waters and I know a lot of sailors who have sailed for 20 years and never got near the equator. Well it's all over now and I sure am glad to be back in home port.
I think I'll spend five days in Portland sometime in Oct. At least I hope I can. I don't think I'll have to go to China. But one never knows does one.
I'm glad to hear you have the library at Bonneville. Maybe I can get some more of Wodehouse(?) books. How is Forrest coming along? Tell him hello and be seeing you soon. I wish I could have found a job before I joined so I could have stayed in Portland. But I guess this four years will do me a lot of good. But it's a cinch I won't save any money in here. I think I'll live in Frisco when I get paid off. I kind of like that place and there's a lot of work there, that is of course if I don't ship over in the navy. The marines are alright but it's the loneliest outfit in the world. It isn't much wonder that marines drink so much. We're the outcasts of every service. It really is.
Please write and let me know what you and Forrest are doing. It gives me something to think about anyway, and I'm really terribly lonely. So If I don't go to China I'll be seeing you in Oct.
Lots of Love
Lester
I hope you like the envelope.
Letter #3
Return Address: Pfc. L. J. DeMouth, U.S. Marines
Postmark: Bremerton Wash. Nov 8, 1937 8:30 AM
Address: Mrs. Forrest Zimmerman, Bonneville, Oregon
Envelope: On the left front of the envelope is a gold embossed picture labeled, "U.S.S. Lexington, Aircraft Battle Force." In the lower center of that picture is a stamp bearing a photo of the Lexington. Above, these words are printed in gold: "U.S.S. Lexington Visits the Pacific Northwest - Navy Yard, Puget Sound, Bremerton, Washington."
May 21, 1938
Long Beach, San Diego
Dear Thelma,
I was just counting the letters I've received from you in two and a half years, and if I'm not mistaken, it's three. Possibly Four, but not any more than that. So don't you think you could write me another one now, to that little grown up brother of yours? I';m sending a picture and I hope you can find one to send me. It's a fairly good picture, don't you think? They tell me I look like Fred McMurray (in the picture). The cute little fellow is a great buddy of mine. Believe it or not he's a smart kid too. Went to college for over 2 years and he's not quite 21 yet. He takes care of me, (as he calls it). You see, whenever I go ashore with him he refuses to let me drink, not even a beer, and for some reason I don't. Anyway, a great little fellow. The car belongs to a buddy of mine in Long Beach. His wife took our picture.
Have you heard from Dad lately? I haven't for months and there seems to be a big bill in San Jose that they insist we pay. I haven't enough money to pay for a bill that size, but Almeda (1st cousin) doesn't seem to realize it. I don't know what to do about it. I've tried to borrow money, but it's impossible. I guess we'll all have to get together and see what can be done about it. I'm going to 'Frisco' in a month or so and I'll see them. I don't know if I can raise any money or not. But we'll see.
We got back from the toughest cruise the fleet has ever made a few weeks ago. Gosh, it was tough too. We had five hundred men sick with tonsilitis and in between times we were having war maneuvers. And when there in the thick of battle, a man might just as well forget he ever had a place to sleep. But it's the fourth and last cruise to a foreign Port o' Call. I"m Pretty sure of getting off in Oct. and then I'll only have about a year left to do. I've been about the busiest man on the old lady Lex. these past few weeks. I've been holding down a gunner's mate's job, I'm in charge of the upkeep and general order of three big five inch anti aircraft guns. I've got two men but gosh, what a job. I've been trying to get out of it, as it's too much responsibility for me. But the officers tell me I'm doing fine and the gunner's mate will be back from leave in a couple of weeks. Well I may pull through.
Well write soon, Thelma and tell Forrest, Hello.
Lots of love,
Lester
Letter #4 (in same envelope as #3)
Feb. 7, 1941
Shanghai, China
Dear Sis"
So sorry, I've been so long in writing. Thanks a million for the pictures. They were swell. Little Jon sure is a mighty cute little baby. Gee, just think, by the time I see home land again, he'll be running around and almost ready to start to school. There's a matter of us remaining out here during the duration of war, that is of course if the U.S. actually goes into combat. However, if there is no war, I'll be back in around two or three more years.
I'm rather depressed today. I took a competitive exam for corporal. (It's been going on for the last three weeks.) And at the last few points, I lost out, just five tenths of a point lacking. I can hardly describe my actions. But after much hollering and yelling and all, I I settled down to consider that it was all my own fault and not the Marine Corps. I've been hitting the champanea little heavy, and they've warned me to lay off. Of course I still have plenty of time to make, but it sure hurt me and everyone was so sure I'd make it alright. Oh well, I guess I shouldn't let it get me down.
I had some pictures to send, but someone made off with them. However I'm having some more made so will send some next time. Shanghai is still the same - always trouble brewing. I'm on duty tonite. It's a sort of a riot squad in case of trouble. We have to go out and settle it, here in the settlement. Well Thelma I'm feeling so bad I guess I'll sign off. The mail leaves for the States in the morn. Will write more next time.
Best regards to Forrest.
With Love,
Lester
Letter #5
the Envelope:
Address: Mr. J. H. D. Simons, Bonneville, Oregon, U.S.A., c/o Mrs. F.E. Zimmerman, Box 705
Postmard: 4th Regt. U.S.M.C. Shanghai, China, Jul 7, 1941, 8 AM
Return address area: a black stamp , Shanghai, China, "Lester J. DeMouth" in the body of a dragon, some Chinese characters, F. Co. 2nd Bn. 4th Marines
Back flap of envelope: a stamped blue & white figure showing two dragons on opposite sides of a figure of planes earth. Above the words: Fourth U.S. Marines. Seper Fidelis. Below the words: Shanghai China.
The Letter:
top of each page : same stamp as on envelope flap.
June 1, 1941
Shanghai, China
Dear Jack,
Was glad to hear from you. A letter from the States is a very prized possession here in the Orient. I was out of Shanghai when your letter came on outpost duty. We get a dollar twenty extra a day for that duty, so with the exchange around eighteen for one it makes a tidy little sum. However the ~+' money isn't worth a great deal. The beer out here sure isn't as good as the brew you get at home. And although the world's beauties are on parade here, there isn't a chance with the upper crust so a wad of money goes for any darn fool thing. Well, if I live through another year out here I'll be coming home next year at this time. I'm keeping all my fingers crossed and I almost pray at nite. Some people might like this country, but little Lester sure has a different opinion. It wasn't so bad for awhile but now, it's getting to be too much routine. Most all places are restricted to us. We can't go out of the settlement unless it's on official business and liberty is up at midnite. Gosh, remember the day I met you on Wash. Street and you bought me a beer. I shipped over that day. Little did I know I would be coming way out here.
I kind of got on the deep end of it after I came back in. The old man, John Barterom (?) had me whipped to a frazzle up til a few weeks ago. And it was either quit or my whole body would have quit. Well after a few days lay off I felt a lot better. I should be a corporal now and up for sgt. instead of a pfc. nor even on the corporal's list. But I've had enough warning. But I just couldn't see it. But now I'm beginning to realize what a rugged life I've been leading. Gosh, and I'm not a kid anymore either. It's about time I began to think a little of the future. If I make out alright this cruise I'll stay in the service. If, however I'm still a pfc I'll quit for good and make a stab at something else. Maybe a bank guard job or something if I'm awful lucky.
I'm glad to hear you've got a pretty good job, in hopes you can keep it for a good while. I remember Betty alright. Tell her hello when you see her for me.
I haven't heard from Thelma or Musa for sometime. There's a little girl in the old home land, though, that never misses a mail boat. God bless her. It's almost a life blood to get her letters.
Gosh yes, Jack, I've spent many hours laying around dreaming of Maplewood, Mult, etc. And holy smoke, we were having good times. At least I can really enjoy the memories of them, if I can't have much fun here. Watches out here are pretty often and drill and schools all day. Oh me. Well Jack I'll promise a good letter next time but I have to go out on patrol soon and so must hurry to try to get this boat that's in.
Good Luck,
As ever
Lester
July 2 - I missed that boat and a few others but I make up the delay in the next letter.
Pfc. L. J. DeMouth, F Co. 2nd Batt, 4th Marines, Shanghai, China
Letter #6
Envelope:
Address: Mrs. F.E. Zimmerman, Bonneville, Oregon, U.S.A.
Return address area: a black stamp , Shanghai, China, "Lester J. DeMouth" in the body of a dragon, some Chinese characters, F. Co. 2nd Bn. 4th Marines
Postmark: Chinese characters, hard to read numbers 63.40/17 (?), Shanghai
Back flap: a stamped blue & white figure showing two dragons on opposite sides of a figure of planes earth. Above the words: Fourth U.S. Marines. Seper Fidelis. Below the words: Shanghai China.
Letter:
(no date)(Probably should come before Letter #4)
top of each page : same stamp as on envelope flap.
Dear Thelma,
It's been a long time since old Uncle Les has had a chance to write but, I'll scratch off a little note now. And after I hear from you I'll tell you all about China and Shanghai. I left More Is. in May or June. (Time is passing so fast I can't keep track (or care too.) and set sail for Honolulu a few days there, then off for Wake Island, a dreary desolate little Isle then to Guam. All hands went ashore and not being able to find anything else to do, the whole streets were a mob of fights. I got a tooth knocked out, and a few scars, then back to the transport and off to the Philippines. A hectic nite in Manilla, next morn off for China, and they dropped me off in Shanghai. We're out of the war zone but the Japenese and marines mix here quite a bit. The U.S. Marines are considered a sort of idol or god to the Chinese. They're supposed to be fearless and the boldest and bravest men in the world. I'm glad somebody thinks so.
Shanghai is a parade of all nations. Chinese, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Phillipino, British, Scotch, Indians, Russians, Germans. There's so many languages. I'll bet I'll be able to qualify for a diploma after the two or three years I'll be here. I like it, but also dislike it. The books or magazines or Richard Haliburton never even half described it. Filth in some sections, so terrible it turns the stomach. Splendor so great in other places it makes you gasp. We're living in a small billet, twelve of us and four servants. We're not allowed to even shine our own shoes. If we reach for a cigarette a boy grabs the matches and lights it for you. Ho hum, I will be lazy if I ever go back home. But how is everything in the Zimmerman family? Send me a picture of the baby. If you have a picture of you and Forrest with the baby, I would prefer that. Please write soon Thelma. I'm so lonesome for the states & home & everyone I know I feel like stowing away on the China Clipper.
Regards to all.
As ever
With Love
Lester
Be sure to send to San Francisco as you only have to pay 3 cents to mail there.
Pvt. L.J. DeMouth, Co. F, 2nd Batt, 4th Marines, Shanghai, China, c/o Postmaster, San Francisco, Cal.".
5Bill Bowen, The Arisan Maru Tragedy. "THE ARISAN MARU TRAGEDY
A draft of prisoners was assembled at Old Bilibid Prison starting in late
September 1944 for transport to Japan to work as forced labor. Many of the
men came from the Cabanatuan Prison Camp. The draft of approximately 1800
boarded the Arisan Maru and departed Manila on October 10, 1944. The ship
sailed south to the vicinity of Palawan Island and laid over until 19
October. One reason advanced for the move South and the layover was to
avoid US air and naval action. The Arisan returned to Manila on the 19th,
took on supplies on the 20th and left in a convoy around midnight headed for
Takao, Formosa. The 6886 ton Arisan Maru was sunk in the Bashi Straits,
South China Sea, Latitude 20 o 46' N, Longitude 118 o 18' E, on October 24,
1944 at about 5:00 PM. Naval records indicate that the USS Shark II (SS 314)
attacked a Japanese freighter in the late afternoon of October 24, 1944. The
USS Shark was lost with all 87 hands in that same action and is believed to
have torpedoed the Arisan. The Arisan carried no markings or flag indicating
that it was carrying Allied prisoners. It was hit aft of midships causing
the ship to split open with the rear section sinking downward into the sea.
A torpedo is thought to have hit in number three hold where Japanese troops
and civilians were located. The Japanese quickly evacuated the ship and were
picked up by their destroyer escorts. Before leaving the Japanese guards cut
rope ladders into the prisoner holds but these were restored by the
prisoners and the survivors agree that almost all prisoners were able to get
off the ship. Many scavenged whatever food and water they could before
leaving the ship. At first, many prisoners swam toward the Japanese
destroyers hoping for rescue. They were pushed and beaten away with poles.
The men climbed on whatever wreckage they could find to stay afloat for
rescue.
There is sometimes a question regarding the number of survivors. The
documented number is eight or nine depending on whether you include PFC
Charles W. Hughes who succumbed to exposure and poor treatment shortly
after being picked up and taken to Formosa. Five men miraculously sailed to
China and were taken to Allied forces and returned to the USA in December
1944. The five were civilian Robert S. Overbeck, Sgt. Calvin R. Graef, Cpl.
Donald E. Meyer, Pvt. Anton Cichy, and Pvt. Avery Wilber. Overbeck was the
first to climb into an abandoned life-boat shortly after the destroyer left
the area. Later in the evening Wilber was noticed and picked up followed a
few hours later by Cichy. At dawn Graef and Meyer were spotted and they
completed the five. A few other men were spotted floating at a distance but
sea conditions did not allow them to get close enough to be picked up. The
story of the five is one of extraordinary good fortune and divine help from
above. Overbeck found a box with a sail floating near the life-boat. Later,
a keg of water was found and some hard tack ration was on board. Two days of
sailing brought them near the China coast and a friendly Junk. The Junk
Captain escorted the men to friendly Chinese and for the next 12 days the
five survivors were transported about 600 miles by foot, truck, bicycle and
plane to Kunming air field, base of the 14th Air Force and the Flying
Tigers. On November 28, 1944 they started their flight aboard a C47 back to
the USA. They flew over historic sites and terrane in India, Pakistan, Iran,
Egypt and Africa. They were back in Washington, DC being debriefed on
December 5, 1944
Four men survived on rafts of wreckage, Sgt. Philip Brodsky and Cpl. Glenn
Oliver together on one and WO Martin Binder and Pvt. Charles W. Hughes
separately. These four where picked up 4-5 days after the sinking by
Japanese ships and transported to Formosa. Upon arriving in Formosa Brodsky
and Oliver were interrogated by the Kempeitai and later they were joined by
Binder. The three were blindfolded, taken to the dock area and loaded on a
Japanese freighter that turned out to be the Hell Ship Hokusen Maru. The
three were held topside and forbidden to communicate with any other
prisoners. After a few days Hughes was brought on board. The ship then
sailed for Japan but after a few days returned to Formosa and the men
unloaded. Pvt Hughes died 11/09/1944 in Shirakawa Japanese prison hospital
on Formosa. The remaining three were moved to various camps on Formosa and
on January 19, 1945 Glenn Oliver was put on a detail to Japan. His last day
of work for the Japanese was August 15, 1945. Brodsky and Binder remained on
Formosa until Wars end. The accounts of the survivors are available in the
National Archives and in other interviews.
Who were these men of the Arisan whose lives would end in such an
inauspicious manor. They were Chaplains and doctors, farm boys, poets and
roustabouts, young soldiers and old, fathers, brothers and sons. They were
the product of boom times and depression. They were put in harms way by a
government and electorate with strong isolationist leanings. A nation that
stood by while millions of Chinese and others were slaughtered by a ruthless
Japanese Army. A Japanese military that was collecting intelligence on every
inch of the Philippines prior to Pearl Harbor with the full knowledge of the
US Government. Let those who love peace not close their eyes to evil. Only
the NON surprise attack on Pearl Harbor would arouse our nation to action
but the loss of Naval control in the Pacific sealed the fate of the men in
the Philippines. They would receive no outside help. They would fight along
with their Filipino comrades until their supplies were exhausted. They
became the victims of a war of political ideology and attitude not of their
making. For nearly three years these men of the Hell Ships fought to near
starvation, many enduring the "death march" and all experiencing the
brutality of their captors. Many were from National Guard and Reserve units
called up with little preparation and for the most part, supplied with
antiquated equipment to defend the far off Philippines.
Picture now, after enduring all this, of feeling your life ebb away in the
waters of the Pacific. Picture lines of men swimming to a Japanese destroyer
only to be denied rescue, actually beaten away with clubs, as described by
the eight survivors. Of voices fading in the night as the sea slowing
claimed the weakened men of the Arisan. In the morning the sun would rise
over a choppy sea with some men still clinging to wreckage, praying for
rescue. Their final days or hours known only to God. Remember to that these
men spent two weeks in the filthy holds of the Arisan before it was sunk.
My father spent his thirty-ninth birthday in the hold of this Hell Ship. I
wonder how many others spent their last birthday in such filth.
I was six years old when we left my father on the pier in Manila. For a
number of years after the war I wondered if my father could still be alive
on some remote island. Occasionally a story would surface of some soldier,
mostly Japanese, turning up in some remote island location. I am sure that
many relatives held out this hope as I did for years. Sadly, we know from
the survivors that many men were able to leave the ship and climb on
wreckage. It was eight months after the sinking before the relatives were
notified of the sinking and loss of their love one. Consider also the
anxiety of the relatives at the start of the war when their loved ones were
classified as MIA for months before they learned if the relative was alive
or dead. Freedom has its' costs for those who defend it on the front lines
and those who support their loved ones from afar. I learned of a strange
story a few years ago when contacted about a soldier on the Arisan. The
story started in 1945 when a family was contacted about their relative that
was listed on the Arisan Roster. They received a letter from a sailor who
claimed to have found a dog tag on a beach in China that was that of their
relative. In fact he sent the dog tag to the family. Years later another
relative has tried in vain to locate the sailor to confirm the facts of the
story.
Regardless of the final count, the Arisan still represents the greatest
loss of American life in a single military sinking. Greater than the more
well known sinking of the Arizona, Indianapolis or Titanic. Approximately
5000 American men died on hell ships in transit from the Philippines to
Japan. The total is over 20,000 men lost when considering all Allied
prisoners on Japanese hell ships traveling in the Pacific. If they were not
killed by friendly fire in the fog of war by Allied planes and submarines
they died in the filthy holds of the freighters carrying them to Japan for
forced labor. Questions have been raised regarding when and what was known
about these Hell Ships by American commanders, a question still being
researched. We know that spy's were active in Manila and it was no secret
that prisoners were being shipped to Japan. The problem was to identify the
ships in a vast sea. The ships carried no special markings and in fact the
Japanese even switched numbers on the Arisan while it laid off Palawan. It
is a matter of record that the group of five survivors of the Arisan were
debriefed in mid November at the 14th Air Force in China and again on
December 5th in Washington. Could not this intelligence been used in hopes
of avoiding the later tragedies of the Oryoku, Brazil and Enoura Hell Ships
that occurred after December 13, 1944?
The primary purpose for posting the story and roster of the Arisan is to
honor the men in this little known tragedy and to provide information to
relatives and friends. The inscription on the Pacific War Memorial on
Corregidor provides the best final benediction for the men of the Arisan:
"Sleep my sons, your duty done. Sleep in the silent depths of the sea or in
your bed of hallowed sod until you hear at dawn the clear low reveille of
God"
The Arisan Maru data on this site was compiled and edited from a number of
sources. The primary source was the hand written list prepared by US
prisoners acting as clerks for the Japanese and is available from the
National Achieves. Additional typed lists carried the designation: List No.
J.U.75 501-1-1 and No. J.U. 75 (Refers to ST/8). Additional information
regarding home towns and personal notes were obtained from returning
Veterans, relatives and friends of the men lost. The National Battle
Monuments Commission was very helpful in supplying information such as
service numbers from their data base. Additionally, information was gained
from the new W.W.II Memorial Website. Even though the list has been cross
checked with the noted sources there are still mistakes and omissions due to
human error and the lack of a single accurate record. It is unlikely that a
totally accurate count of the prisoners on-board the Arisan Maru or most
other Hell Ships can ever be established due to last minute changes in
rosters and the turmoil of war. The handwritten Arisan list contains 1764
names and I have added eleven names indicated by testimony given in
Washington (Sec 293 file of Gilbert R. Abell, 0-890111) by Arisan survivors.
One J.U. 75 list fixes the count at 1778. Another count of 1805 has been put
forth with some support. My estimate from the data suggests that at least
1794 were aboard the Arisan. I encourage comments regarding corrections or
additions to my list. I am always glad to share whatever information I have
that might be helpful, be they relative, friend or researcher regarding the
Arisan Maru.
BILL BOWEN
920 HARDING STREET
OREGON, WISCONSIN 53575
PHONE 608-835-1968
Internet address:
.".
6Walla Walla, Shanghai, China, Vol. XIII, number 36, 15 Feb 1941. "DeMouth heard from two gals in the states the last mail and it was quite comical. One of the girls (Betty) wanted him to write more because it was hard to love him when she got no word from him, and the other girl (Betty's friend) wrote to assure him that Betty was madly in love with him. Anyway, they both wished him a speedy return. Looks as though he may have something there." This article was sent to me by a buddy of Lester's from Co. F in Shanghai, Joseph E Dupont, Jr. Walla Walla was a weekly magazine of the Fourth Marines in Shanghai. He says Walla Walla in Chinese means, "Talk Talk." The betty mentioed turns out to be Ruby Elizabeth Luth, daughter of Lester's first cousin, Verna Pearl Luth.
7Census, Federal - 1930 - Multnomah Co, Oregon, Maplewood, precinct 525, ED # 263, sheet 3A (Ancestry p. 5 of 18). 1930 Census Sam and family are living in Maplewood, Oregon (Now part of Portland ) He is paying $20/mo rent. They have a boarder living with them, John Simons a 49 yr old grader of lumber. "Line 42 West Ave. dwelling # 77 Household # 77
Demouth, Samuel L. head rents $20/mo age 56 M age 28 WI NJ VT occ: Painter of bldgs Vet Phil
Elzora M wife 49 22 WI WI WI none
Musa I dau 26 s WI WI WI maid - in school
Thelma E dau 19 s WI WI WI none - in school
Lester J son 16 s WI WI WI none - not in school
Simons, John H boarder 49 s WI Eng Eng lumber grader."
8M Celius, , email 7 Feb 2010. ""In the story you wrote about Lester. the woman Betty is my mom...she was named after Ruby Demouth...her name was Ruby Elizabeth and went by Bette"."
9Clark Co., WI Internet Library, ALHN & AHGP website, http://wvls.lib.wi.us/ClarkCounty/clark.htm. "Bio: Demouth, Samuel (birth of son - 1913)
Poster: Ann Stevens
Email: sdann88@yahoo.com
Surnames: Demouth
-------- Source: Neillsville Times (Neillsville, Clark County, Wis.) Jan 1, 1914
-------- Demouth, Samuel (birth of son - 14 Dec 1913)
Born to Samuel Demouth and wife at Quinion, N.D., a son Dec. 14th. Mr. and Mrs. Demouth will be remembered by many around here."
10Pierce, Ben, , email, 6 Aug 2013. "Quinion was in Billings County. It was a rural post office that was established Feb. 25, 1910 with Lydia B. Townsend as postmaster. Her suggested name of O-Y Ranch was rejected by postal officials, who then accepted the name QUINION, honoring H. Chris Quinion, a native of VT who came there in 1885 and started the Q-Bar Ranch on Magpie Creek north of Fryburg. It was located in SE1/4 of Sec. 13, twenty-nine miles NNE of Medora near the McKenzie County line until 1911 when it moved one mile west to SE-1/4 of Section 14, the home of the new postmaster Florence M. Mason. Elizora M. Desmouth became the postmaster in 1916, holding this position until 1918 when the post offfice moved one mile to the NE to the SW-1/4 of Section 12, the home of the new postmaster Frank O. Pierce. It closed July 14, 1923 with mail to Fairfield, ND.
Taken from North Dakota Place Names by Douglas A. Wick."
Jacob DEMOUTH
1May Sommers, May Sommers personal family history of the DeMouths, Written for her children in 1936, unpublished, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "Demouth Family History
dated June 1936
This history is of my Mother's ancestors, and my father's what little is known of them.
This story begins many years before the Revolutionary War. It follows down through the years the history of my people, covering a period of about two-hundred years of time.
William Levi was born in Germany in 1737. At the age of thirty he was sold to the English army to fight against the colonists during the Revolutionary War. These Germans were Hessians. William being one of them. They were lured on board the battle-ships to see the interior. Then the gangplanks were lifted and the ships sailed away. William Levi hated the English and got out of fighting every apportunity. He would play off sick at their military drills, etc. One cold night when snow was on the ground he took off his shoes and tied them on his feet, heels front and toes of the shoes facing backwards so the British would think he had gone in the opposite direction! In a short time he safely reached the American lines. Levi was a miller and was following his trade when carried off to America.
After the Revolutionary War ended, he went back to his trade and married a girl by the name of Abigail Mudge who was of English descent. Abigail's grandparents came over to this country on the Mayflower, not sure, and brought with them a pewter platter which they gave to Abigail. This platter many years after was melted and molded into spoons, one of which the writer posesses.
Abigail's second husband was Mr. Lamb, by whom she had two children. He was killed in the Revolutionary War fighting against the English.
There was an incident happened along about this time, no date to make sure when it happened, which shows are folks were in poverty. One dark night a wagon drove up which was loaded with barrels of flour being taken to the British soldiers. One barrel had rolled off and the head broken in. The driver went to the house where some of my folks lived and told them about the broken barrel and said he would give it to them, half or more was still in the barrel and clean. He would give them this barrel if they would remove every trace of the flour that was scattered, in other words, cover his trail. They studied a little. It was abetting and helping an enemy but their family was hungry and no harm could come of it probably, and they accepted the barrel of flour and covered the flour in the road with dust. It was the Colonists that must not know that the British were near. Such is war.
Abigail now a widow marries William Levi the Hessian who was brought to this country on a British warship. We have no proof of this marriage but we have proof of the 1740 marriage first one. This week came the following from Sharon, Conn. The town clerk sends a notice of David Skinner's marriage to Abigail Mudg in 1740. Also D. Skinner died August 12, 1740, her husband.
K. B. Hotaling, Town Clerk
The above item is all the proof we have of the authenticity of our history, all else has been carried down by word of mouth and may be correct and may not be.
Where was Abigail Mudg between 1740 first marriage and 1797 when my grandmother Mariah was born, supposed to be Abigail's child by William Levi. I think a generation was skipped right here. We know the date of 1740 must be trueit coming out of a book of vital statistics. We know 1797 must be correct for my grandmother remembers things she saw in 1800, she was three years old then.
Abigail's name was first Mudg then Skinner, she then married and changed name to Lamb, then married William Levi. Eight children were born to them as follows: William, Oliver, John, Phoeba, Mariah, Betsy, Frances and Elizabeth, twins who died in infancy. William Levi and Abigail his wife spent most of their lives near Sharon, Connecticut.
We drop all these children but Mariah my grandmother. She was born in 1797. She learned to write on birchbark by the light of a fireplace. She learned to spin wool on a tall spinning wheel, being very young and small, her father had to make her a bench on which she would walk back and forth as she spun.
We will now turn to my mother's father's people. Many years before the Revolutionary War, there were a Mr. and Mrs. Demouth who came from Holland and settled in New Jersey. To them was born in1770 a son Jacob.
They owned 300 acres of landabout twenty miles fron New York City. They had but one child, Jacob, who at his parents death inherited everything they left, three hundred acres of land with a beautiful stone mansion on it, archards, flowergardens, etc. We have no record of Jacob's wife.
One or both of them did not seem to know how to handle an estate as in course of time all was lost. Jacob had a conscience and it would not let him keep those thirty slaves, so in 1810 he freed them. That of course was a loss of much money. That and other things caused the estate to be sold piece by piece until finally the family got in hard straits.
It was in the great mansion Jacob and his wife's children were born nine of them who were: Frederick, Adam, James, John, Thomas, Jacob, Mary, Betsy, and Charlotte. Jacob Demouth, the father of these nine children was a prominent public man. He was Justice of the Peace of Pequat Township, Morris County, New Jersey for thirty years. He belonged to the Methodist church. But we must now follow one of these children down the line, one of them is related to us, it is John. John Demouth was my grandfather.
At the age of twenty-four he became acquainted with Mariah Levi. She had come from Connecticut to New Jersey to keep house for her brother. At the age of twenty-three she and John Demouth were married (my grandparents). The wedding was in the year 1818. The first two years of their married life were spent in Connecticut, after which they returned to New Jersey. John was a farmer. To this union six children were born: Samuel, Chalon, James, Jacob, Frances and Semantha, my mother the youngest of the family.
John and Mariah raised their family in New Jersey then migrated to Wisconsin in 1848. Semantha was twelve years old when her parents moved to Wisconsin. It was in Wisconsin John Demouth was killed by a tree falling on him that he had just chopped down. His grand-daughter May was about one year old in 1861. . . .
A cousin, Frank Barber, was visiting in New Jersey and saw the place where his mother and mine (sisters) had lived. Demouth was their maiden name now changed to Frances Barber and Semantha Webster. Cousin Frank also saw the place where the old mill had been when slaves worked in it. That was before Jacob Demouth freed his slaves.".
2DeMouth, Jacob - civil war letters. "Jacob Demouth Civil War Letters to his Wife Cordelia
There are three letters. In 1983 they were in the possession of Jacob's granddaughter, Erma Schaper, of Butternut, Wisconsin. I transcribed the letters from copies I made of the originals. The task was difficult because 1) Jacob's spelling was strictly phonetic and he used no punctuation, 2) The letters have deteriorated with age and very difficult to read (letter 2 was in six pieces instead of one.) and 3) the copies given to me were not made dark enough and some words are almost totally lost, especially those in the folds.
To make reference to the originals easier I have labeledthe letters A, B, and C according to their date. The number following the A, B. or C refers to the page of the original. I transcribed line by line so that one line as printed corresponds to one line of the original.
I have retained Jacob's spelling as much as possible. Sometimes I had to guess at the spelling as well as at the word itself. Where the word is undecipherable I left a blank. I added some punctuation to make them more readable.
LETTER A
A1 April the 23, 1864
Chattonoga, Tennessee
My dear wife, I take my
pen in hand to let you no hoow
I git alonng. I went out and took
a walk. Wee went down the side of
the mountain. There was lakes along
our walk. There was a little crick. In
sum places the water fell about
ten or twelve feet. There sum
posys. Wee could look down in the
valey. The gras was green down
there and it looked very plesand.
Wee went down five or six hundred
feet. On our return to camp I saw
a little girl and it brot my
thoughs back to my home. I
love you and the children. God
bless you all. April the 24, 1864 Sunday
I had nother walk to day. Past
threw too orcherds - appel trees, plum,
peach and cherry trees. The government
is goin to have a _______ing up heer.
It has about 20 acors in it. There
A2
is about 200 men going to work
in it. April the 25, 1864
I continue my leter to you to let
you no how I am giting along.
I went to day and took a walk.
Wee went so wee could see down
on the Tennessee River. Wee past
over the old battle filed.
The trees was about full of
holes and I picked up four or
five boles. I saw there one sight
that I hope I may never see
again. It was a man with the dirt partley
dug out of from him so
it left his skull and shoulder and
arm bair. And I thought of the
horoes of the war dear beover.
Wife, think of mee and
pray for me that I may
com home. And again God
bles us all for his name sake.
Wee past threw as porty orchard
as I ever see. The trees was very
thrifty plumes and apple ___________.
A3
There are sum rasberry bushes
and sum posyes. There was
about 500 trees. It covered
about 20 acors of land. I see
M___v Charles. He youst to
live in _______________. He saw
Mr. Webster and Mr. Halock. They
are home sick. How how but
hope that they will be
well. They must leave there
soon. I think that I will
wright to Webster. Good by
for to night me love.
April 27, 1864
I have just been out on
nother walk. I saw
(criters?) running by the Tennessee
River. You must take good
care of the fruit trees
and our bushes and poses.
When the pinkes blossom
you must send me one.
I have got well of the
mumps and my arm is
A4
sore ___________ ____________ I feel
very weell to day.
It is a pleasant day heer.
April 28, 1864
My dear wife, it is a pleasant
day heer to day. I have 1
and onley leter from you that
cum direct heer. It
was dated the 10 of April. I hope
that I may see you soon.
I love you one and all. Pray
for mee and Lord give me
strength. I shall pray for
you. Let us look to God.
He is our trust to helpe
in time of need. My arm is
giting beter. The mumps
is well now. Good by my
loved ones and I thank God
for his goodness to mee
from day to day. Chattonooga
Tennessee ____________ 21 reg
Jacob Demouth
B1
May the 2, 1864 Gorgia
Wee left Look-
out Mountain about 5 osleck
in the morning. Nothing
of importase the first time.
Wee stoped the sestint time.
Wee see a very nice lot of
fruit trees _____________________
appel trees. The land was
sandy land. Wee stop
at 2 o'clock in the day and
setunder a cherry tree and
about two rods off was 2 very
nice apple trees. The sun
is moust down and wee have
got to the division. There is
about 13,000 men heer to
night. The place is colect
graysville. The curs run
threw it. It is a nice
valey. Wee marched about
15 miles today.
B2
May 3 _____________________________
This morning about 20
men was about ____________________________
went ahead of us. Wee
see nothing ________________________
________________________________________
and _________ the _______________________
__________________________________________
__________________________________________
Wee ________ not tell how
long wee can stay. The Tennsig
River is close by but it
Looked as if wee might
have sum good time heer.
I got your letter
May 2. It was dated April the 19th.
I was glad to heer from
you. I am well to day.
I hope you ____________________
I love you and think of you
when I am alone and I
think of you _________ I _________
_______________________________
B3
______________________________
___________ May the 4, 1864
I have just
received your leter mailed
the 16th of April with one
from your mother in the
__________. I was glad
to hoer from you all.
You must lookout for hiring
_______________________
but no more. I hope you
__________ let out the south
lot. Do the best you
kin but do not work to ________
hard. The enemy is about 7
miles from here but I
do not no how meney they
have. I have herd sum
men say that there was
about 100,000 men here in
this division. I got one dated
the 22 of April. Tell Mr.
Watrous that I will make
it all wright about the logs.
B4
I love to talk to you
How does the old fruit trees
do? There is heer sum very
nice orchards heer. I love you
and the children so well.
I think of you very much
of the time. I am not
lonsom heer for like to go
sum where I cin be alone
and (somewhere) to think of home.
and think how ______________
God lookes over us all. I
love my God and I no
he loves me to. When I
am alone I love to look
away in that bright land
where pain and sorrow is no
more. All sorrow
is gon. I pray that God
will keep you threw this
war and dismal world
__________________________
____________________________
I hope I may cum home
sum day. Good by my
dear wife. Jacob Demouth
Send me 2 postage stamps.
That is anouf to send it once.
C1
July the 12, 1864
Georgia - Wee are near
the Talhuzit River. Sum
of our men are acrost it.
Wee are nine miles from _____________.
I am well this morning and I love
_______________________________
perty good _________ _____________
four days. I have washed
my shirt and drores so I
feel very good to day. I
do not think that the coper
heds kin do eney thing
this ________ ______ ________
I think that the soldiers
will ______________________
______. We have been in the
______ sum 2 or 3 dayes. Wee have
had very still times. I hope
you will not feel bad when
I have to go in the fight.
I will right as often as
C2
think I kin aford. I don't
no how son I kin come home.
but every thing lookes as if
the war would close this fall
but you must not put to
much dependance on what
I say about coming home beckus
I kin not tell how long this
war will last and you no how
unsurten life is heer. I hope I
may come home to live and
to see the little ones romp
as they should. I trust you
will be good to them by night
and day. I love you one and
all. I pray that God will bles
you and keep you from sin.
I am happy to day and I hope
you will rite and let me
no how the fokes are giting
along at home. I cannot rite
C3
to them all but they must
ask you how I do and then
they kin finde out.
July the 14, 1864
Good afternoon my old
woman. I am well today
and I hope you are the
same. If you know how
Esmond Jenkins got hurt
I want you should let
me know becaus
Martain Jenkins is about
thirty rods from heer. Hee
has not hurd from home
in about 1 month. I have
had several talkes with
him. If you heinte bin
to Manitowock I think
you hast beter weite
untill school is out
and I hope you will
in joy your self well.
You must kiss the children
for me.
C4
This cost me 2 cents.
Skoonie made it.
(Here is a detailed picture of a warrior riding an eagle)
Long Liveth the Union!
I hope that you will
look to God at all times
and he will take care
of you. I pray that God
will bles me and keep me from all
harm and bring me back in
safety to you and my friends.
I have been heer in camp 7 days
and had a good time but I do
not no how soon wee will leave heer.
pray for mee.
from your husben. Jacob Demouth." originals last in possession of Erma Schaper of Park Falls, WI. as of 1983. Copies of the Civil War Letters - files of DZStevens. Originals were in the possession of Erma Schaper of Butternut, WI in 1983 when I made the copies. She kept them in a bank vault in Park Falls.
3Civil War Certificate from WI State Historical Society, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
4Census, Federal - 1870 - Calumet Co., WI, Charlestown twsp., p. 71 (Ancestry p. 11 of 32), 1 Jun 1870.
5Census, Federal - 1860 - Calumet Co., WI, Charlestown twsp, p. 135, 30 Jul 1860.
6Census, Federal - 1880 - Clark Co., WI, town of Weston. ED 174, Ancestry p. 1, 27 Sep 1880.
7Census, Federal - 1860 - Calumet Co., WI, Charlestown twsp, p. 129 (Ancestry p. 8 of 24). "1880 Federal Census--Weston, Clark, WI
Jacob Demouth age 45, b. NJ, Farmer, Father b. NJ
Wife: Cordealia age 36, b. VT, Parents b. VT
Son: Don A. 17, b. WI
Dau: Eva 16, b. WI
Son: John 12, b. WI, Student
Son: Samuel 6, b. WI, Student
Dau: Sharlet 3, b. WI
Dau: Lucindah 1, b. WI." Jacob is listed twice on 1860 census.
8Census, Wisconsin - 1875 - Weston Twsp, Clark Co., 20 Jun 1875. "Demouth, Jacob - 5 males; 2 females."
9Census, Federal - 1850 - Calumet Co., Wisconsin, District 36, Ancestry p. 30 of 42.
10Clark County Genweb site, http://www.usgennet.org/usa/wi/county/clark, Gleaner 9-7-1900. "Jacob Demouth went to Chicago to attend the Reunion."
11Clark County Genweb site, The Clark Republican and Press Date: 9-16-1886 . "Frank Barber is attending the high school at Neillsville.
C. P. LaFluer, Charles Kayhart, and Jacob Demouth, are the jurymen from this section in attendance at the September term of Court which is in session at Neillsville."
12Wisconsin Veterans Museum, http://museum.dva.state.wi.us/CivilWar/Soldiers.aspx. " NAME DEMOUTH, JACOB ENLISTED 6/8/1865 7/18/1865 FROM COMPANY E, 21ST WISCONSIN INFANTRY; MUSTERED OUT OF SERVICE JULY 18, 1865.
FOND DU LAC 3RD WIS. INFANTRY, CO. E DEMOUTH, JACOB ENLISTED 2/26/1864 6/8/1865 TRANSFERRED TO 3RD WISCONSIN INFANTRY, JUNE 8, 1865.
NEW HOLSTEIN 21ST WIS. INFANTRY, CO. E - See more at: http://museum.dva.state.wi.us/CivilWar/Soldiers.aspx#sthash.SUUJtVLU.dpuf."
13Census, Federal - 1830 - Morris Co., NJ, Pequanac Twsp.
14Census, Federal - 1840 - Morris Co., NJ, Pequannock. Gravestone, of which I have a rubbing says he was born in 1834.
15DZStevens, gravestone rubbing.
16DeMouth Family Bible, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "Aug 29 1843 Cordelia E. Martindale, Orwell Vermont." An inscription in the front of the Bible reads, "Presented to Musa Irene Demouth on her fourteenth birthday, Quinion, Oct 29th 1917, by her Grandma, Cordelia E. Demouth, Loyal, Wisconsin." below that in pencil is written "June 20, 1917".
17Jacob DeMouth Obituary, Neillsville Republican Press; Neillsville, Clark Co., WI; 14 Sep 1905. " JACOB DEMOUTH Jacob Demouth died at his home in Christie, Clark County, Thursday, Sept. 7th, 1905, after an illness of about three months. He was nearly 71 years old, being a resident of Clark Co. for 35 years. He leaves a wife and one daughter, Mrs. C. Nutting of Loyal and three sons, Don Living at home and Johan and Sam, both of Etna Mills, Calif., besides a host of friends to mourn his loss. He was a man who will be missed by all. The funeral was held at the home Sept. 9. Rev. Presnel of Greenwood delivered the funeral sermon, interment taking place at the Christie Cemetery.".
18DZStevens, gravestone rubbing.
19Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, FamilySearch.com. "Wisconsin Marriages, 1836-1930
Groom's Name: Jacob Demouth
Groom's Birth Date:
Groom's Birthplace: Charlestown
Groom's Age:
Bride's Name: Cordelia Martendale
Bride's Birth Date:
Bride's Birthplace:
Bride's Age:
Marriage Date: 25 Sep 1861
Marriage Place: Gravesville, Calumet, Wisconsin
Groom's Father's Name:
Groom's Mother's Name:
Bride's Father's Name:
Bride's Mother's Name:
Groom's Race: White
Groom's Marital Status:
Groom's Previous Wife's Name:
Bride's Race: White
Bride's Marital Status:
Bride's Previous Husband's Name:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M00338-8
System Origin: Wisconsin-EASy
Source Film Number: 1275843
Reference Number: P 365 Cn 02327."
20DeMouth Family Bible.
Cordelia Elirt MARTINDALE
1Census, Federal - 1870 - Calumet Co., WI, Charlestown twsp., p. 71, 1 Jun 1870.
2Clark County, Wisconsin Rootsweb site, www.rootsweb.com/~wiclark/.
3Census, Federal - 1880 - Clark Co., WI, town of Weston. ED 174. "1880 Federal Census--Weston, Clark, WI
Jacob Demouth age 45, b. NJ, Farmer, Father b. NJ
Wife: Cordealia age 36, b. VT, Parents b. VT
Son: Don A. 17, b. WI
Dau: Eva 16, b. WI
Son: John 12, b. WI, Student
Son: Samuel 6, b. WI, Student
Dau: Sharlet 3, b. WI
Dau: Lucindah 1, b. WI."
4Cordelia Demouth Obituary, Neillsville Press; Neillsville, Clark, WI; 5 April 1923. "Demouth, Cordelia E. (29 Aug. 1834 - 23 March 1923)
Mrs. Cordelia Demouth, whose death occurred March 23, 1923, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C. H. Nutting in Park Falls, was born at Ornell, Vermont, Aug. 29, 1834. Her maiden name was Cordelia E. Martindale. When 11 years of age, she came with her parents to Calumet County, Wisconsin. There she grew to womanhood, and on Sept. 25, 1861, she was married to Jacob Demouth. In 1871 they came to Clark County and started on a new farm near Christie, and there they passed through all the struggles and privations of pioneers. Seventeen years ago Mr. Demouth died. Some years ago Mrs. Demouth went west and had a new pioneer experience of taking a claim and living for a time on the prairies. Recent years she has made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Nutting of Park Falls.
Of the seven children born to Mr and Mrs. Demouth, five preceded the mother in death. She leaves one son Samuel L. Demouth of Ballentine, Montana; one daughter, Lottie, Mrs. C. H. Nutting of Park Falls, 12 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren.
She was a member of the M. E. church for many years, a faithful, consistent Christian.
The funeral was held March 27, at Christie, Rev. Bickles of Greenwood officiating.".
5Clark County Genweb site, http://www.usgennet.org/usa/wi/county/clark. "News: Loyal Trib--(17-Jan-1907)
Posted By: Audrey Roedl > Date: Friday, 12 March 2004, at 2:18 p.m.
THE LOYAL TRIBUNE – 17 January 1907
The following of this village and town were present at the installation of the officers of the G.A.R. and W.R.C. at Spencer on last Saturday afternoon: Henry Nichols and wife, C. H. Brown and wife, J. H. Welsh and wife, E. D. Bowman and wife, Jas. Arms and wife, R. Hutchins and wife, Mrs. Romaine, Mrs. Demouth, Mrs.Dr. Sayles, Mrs. Emerson, Miss Emerson, Mrs. Thomas, Mrs. Payter, Mrs. Oliver Mulligan, Hugh Mulligan, Mrs. Albright, and Mrs. Allen. Supper was served at 4 o’clock and all participating say it was as fine as they ever had. They left about five o’clock to return to their homes all speaking about the fine time they had enjoyed." I believe this is Cordelia.
6Clark County Genweb site. "News: Loyal Trib, WRC Officers (1908)
Posted By: Audrey Roedl > Date: Monday, 8 March 2004, at 7:51 a.m.
THE LOYAL TRIBUNE – 9 January 1908
The Loyal W.R.C. held public installation of officers at the hall January 2nd. There were present the members of W.R.C. and their families and a few of the “Boys in Blue.” At 12 o’clock they all ast down to a dinner of good things such as the ladies of the Corps know how to prepare. At 2 o’clock the following officers were installed, Mrs. Brown, installing officer:
President, Mrs. Henrietta Milligan; Sen. Vice-President, Mrs. Mary Brown; Jun. Vice President, Mrs. C. DeMouth; Chaplin, Mrs. Lillian Kihr; Secretary, Mrs. Julia Prior; Treasurer, Mrs. Eliza Nichols; Conductor, Miss Elsa Emerson; Ast. Conductor, Mrs. Viola Roberts; Guard, Mrs. Mary Visgar; Asst. Guard, Mrs. Jennie Philpott; Patriotic Ins., Mrs. Alma Paynter; Organist, Mrs. Flora Colby; Press Cor., Mrs. Hattie Richardson; Color Bearers, Mrs. Mary Thompson, Mrs. F. Chesterman, Mrs. Anna Greely, Mrs. E. Merrill."
7Census, Federal - 1910 - Santa Clara Co, California, Burnett Twsp, ED # 65, Ancestry p. 24 of 40. "1910 United States Federal Census about Cardilea Demoth Name: Cardilea Demoth
[Cardilea Demouth]
[Cordelia Demouth]
[Cordilia Demoth]
Age in 1910: 66
Estimated Birth Year: 1844
Birthplace: Vermont
Relation to Head of House: Mother
Father's Birth Place: Vermont
Mother's Birth Place: Vermont
Home in 1910: Burnett, Santa Clara, California
Marital Status: Widowed
Race: White
Gender: Female
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
John C Demoth 42
Lillian Demoth 38
Almeda Demoth 9
Vena Demoth 6
Ruby Demoth 6/12
[0]
Cardilea Demoth 66."
8Census, Federal - 1920 - Clark Co, WI, Weston ED #35, sheet 2A (Ancestry p. 3 of 18). Mrs. Della Armitage is the census taker.
9Census, Federal - 1850 - Addison Co., Vermont, Orwell, Ancestry p. 16 of 35. "Line 15 Dwelling # 117 Household # 127
Samuel Martindale 36 M Farmer r.estate value $600
Lucinda 30
Cordelia 7
Lucy 73."
10Census, North Dakota - 1915 - Billings, Commisioners District 1, p. 17 of 21. "Family 33
Demouth, Samuel L.
Elzora M.
Musa
Thelma
Lester
Family 34
Demouth, Cordelia."
11Census, Federal - 1860 - Calumet Co., WI, Charlestown twsp. " Census, Federal 1860, Charlestown, Calumet, WI.
"Name: Saml Martindale
Age: 46
Birth Year: abt 1814
Gender: Male
Birth Place: Vermont
Home in 1860: Charlestown, Calumet, Wisconsin
Post Office: Charlestown
Family Number: 951
Value of Real Estate: View image
Household Members:
Name Age
Saml Martindale 46
Lucinda Martindale 42
Elizh Martindale 17
Sarah Martindale 9."."
12Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, FamilySearch.com. "Wisconsin Marriages, 1836-1930
Groom's Name: Jacob Demouth
Groom's Birth Date:
Groom's Birthplace: Charlestown
Groom's Age:
Bride's Name: Cordelia Martendale
Bride's Birth Date:
Bride's Birthplace:
Bride's Age:
Marriage Date: 25 Sep 1861
Marriage Place: Gravesville, Calumet, Wisconsin
Groom's Father's Name:
Groom's Mother's Name:
Bride's Father's Name:
Bride's Mother's Name:
Groom's Race: White
Groom's Marital Status:
Groom's Previous Wife's Name:
Bride's Race: White
Bride's Marital Status:
Bride's Previous Husband's Name:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M00338-8
System Origin: Wisconsin-EASy
Source Film Number: 1275843
Reference Number: P 365 Cn 02327."
13DeMouth Family Bible, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "Aug 29 1843 Cordelia E. Martindale, Orwell Vermont." An inscription in the front of the Bible reads, "Presented to Musa Irene Demouth on her fourteenth birthday, Quinion, Oct 29th 1917, by her Grandma, Cordelia E. Demouth, Loyal, Wisconsin." below that in pencil is written "June 20, 1917".
Don A. DEMOUTH
1Census, Federal - 1870 - Calumet Co., WI, Charlestown twsp., p. 71, 1 Jun 1870.
2Clark County, Wisconsin Rootsweb site, www.rootsweb.com/~wiclark/.
3Census, Federal - 1880 - Clark Co., WI, town of Weston. ED 174. "1880 Federal Census--Weston, Clark, WI
Jacob Demouth age 45, b. NJ, Farmer, Father b. NJ
Wife: Cordealia age 36, b. VT, Parents b. VT
Son: Don A. 17, b. WI
Dau: Eva 16, b. WI
Son: John 12, b. WI, Student
Son: Samuel 6, b. WI, Student
Dau: Sharlet 3, b. WI
Dau: Lucindah 1, b. WI."
4Census, Federal - 1910 - Clark Co, WI, Weston, ED # 40, sheet 3A (Ancestry p. 5 of 17). census taker is Mrs. Della Armitage
This Census shows Sam is a farmer in the general farm industry. He owns his home but it's mortgaged.
5Clark Co., WI Internet Library, ALHN & AHGP website, http://wvls.lib.wi.us/ClarkCounty/clark.htm. "---Source: The Granton News (Granton, Clark Co., WI.) February 24, 1911
---Demouth, Don (25 August 1862 – 15 February 1911)
From the Christie church on Saturday, February 18, the last sad rites of a devoted son and brother, Don Demouth were solemnized in the presence of a large concourse of sorrowing friends.
Don who resided west of Christie was well known in this community, respected and liked by all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance for his modest demeanor and kindly ways. When it became known that he was stricken with a cancer in an acute and painful form, expressions of sympathy and hoped for his speedy recovery were heard on all sides. The best of medical aid was procured, and all that loving care could devise of think of was done for the relief of the sufferer whose agonies were mercifully prolonged, until on the morning of February 15th the great messenger came swiftly and silently, bearing away the soul from its pain racked tenement of clay to dwell forever more in the abodes of peace.
Sorrow and desolation are left behind however in the home whence the spirit has fled, for a loving mother, two brothers, and a sister remain to mourn his loss, remain to question with aching hearts the strange decrees of providence and to wonder why this should be. To the grief stricken mother our hearts go out in tenderest sympathy.
Don was the oldest son; was born August 25, 1862, at Charlston, Wis., and moved here several years later with his parents.
Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. March of Greenwood, interment in the Methodist Cemetery at Christie."
6Don DeMouth Obituary, Loyal Tribune; Loyal, Clark Co, WI; 2 Mar 1911, p. 1. "From the Loyal Tribune [Loyal, Clark County, Wisconsin], March 2, 1911, Page 1
Died at his home in Christie Wednesday morning, Feb. 15, at 6 o'clock, Don Demouth was born in Charlestown, Calumet County, August 25, 1862. When nine years of age he moved with his parents to Clark Co., where they settled on the farm still owned by his mother, Mrs. C. E. Demouth, who survives him, his father having died nearly six years ago. He has always remained on the old farm except two years spent in Oregon, and he has been a faithful son. Three years ago he and his brother Samuel returned to the old homestead where they have remained ever since.".
7DeMouth Family Bible, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "Aug 29 1843 Cordelia E. Martindale, Orwell Vermont." An inscription in the front of the Bible reads, "Presented to Musa Irene Demouth on her fourteenth birthday, Quinion, Oct 29th 1917, by her Grandma, Cordelia E. Demouth, Loyal, Wisconsin." below that in pencil is written "June 20, 1917".
8DZStevens, gravestone rubbing.
Lucinda DEMOUTH
1Census, Federal - 1880 - Clark Co., WI, town of Weston. ED 174. "1880 Federal Census--Weston, Clark, WI
Jacob Demouth age 45, b. NJ, Farmer, Father b. NJ
Wife: Cordealia age 36, b. VT, Parents b. VT
Son: Don A. 17, b. WI
Dau: Eva 16, b. WI
Son: John 12, b. WI, Student
Son: Samuel 6, b. WI, Student
Dau: Sharlet 3, b. WI
Dau: Lucindah 1, b. WI."
Frank Orlando PIERCE
1Blancher, Bessie - letter re the Pierces-11 MAR 1974, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "Grandpa Pierce did not go to any war - his father had died - and he, being the oldest, had been the head of the family - evidently inherited the farm - and lived there until they sold and went west(North Dakota) in perhaps 1912 or 1913?...They moved to North Dakota when Aunt Winnie and Uncle Roy took claims on land out there... Of course you realize Clark County was a logging area and completely forested when they first were there. How they got there, I don't know." Uncle Roy and Aunt Winnie were two children of Frank Pierce by his second wife Martha Greeley. The info in this letter about Frank's first wife, Bessie's grandmother seems unreliable because she keeps confusing the Pierces with her Tucker grandparents. (See reply by Aunt Musa - same folder.).
2Census, Federal - 1880 - Clark Co, WI, town of Eaton, vol 3, p. 158. ".". "1880 United States Federal Census
Name: Frank Pierce Age: 25 Estimated birth year: abt 1855 Birthplace: Wisconsin
Relation to Head of Household: Self (Head) Spouse's name: Sarah Pierce
Father's birthplace: Vermont Mother's birthplace: New York
Occupation: Farmer Marital Status: Married Race: White Gender: Male
Home in 1880: Eaton, Clark, Wisconsin
Frank Pierce 25 WI-VT-NY Farmer
Sarah Pierce 25 WI-England-Eng
E. Mabel Pierce 1 WI-WI-WI
E. Ella Pierce 1m WI-WI-WI b. May."
3Census, Federal - 1860 - Adams Co., WI, Strong's Prairie Twsp., P.O. - Friendship, Image # 149, Roll M653_1399; Ancestry image 2 of 15, 27 Jun 1860. "Line 1 Family # 350
Pierce, Warren age 38 Farmer Real Estate: $800 Personal: 200 born: Vermont
Jane S. 44 NY
Ann 16 NY
Phebie W. (M) 9 WI
J.W. 8 WI
Frank O. 5 WI
Sabrina 3 WI
Willard, Sarah 13 NY."
4Census, Federal - 1920 - Billings Co., ND, unorganized twsp 144N -R100W; ED# 13, sheet 4 recorded 28 Jan 1920, ED # 13, sheet 4, 28 Jan 1920. "Name: Frank B Pierce [Frank O Pierce] Age: 65 Estimated birth year: abt 1855
Birthplace: Wisconsin Relation to Head of House: Self (Head)
Father's Birth Place: Vermont Mother's Birth Place: New York
Spouse's name: Martha E Pierce Marital Status: Married
Race: White Sex: Male Home owned: Own Able to read/write: Yes/Yes
Home in 1920: Township 144, Billings, North Dakota
Frank O Pierce 65 WI-VT-NY Head Postmaster
Martha E Pierce 63 WI-ME-ME Wife
Iner L Pierce 17 WI-WI-ME Son." Frank and Winnie Pierce are living next door to William and Winnie Braden (their daughter) 2012 - This area being developed for oil and gas - see North Dakota Industrial Commission
N.D. Oil & Gas Division.
5Census, Federal - 1900 - Clark, WI, Eaton twsp, 15/16 Jun 1900, Ancestry.com. "1900 United States Federal Census
Name: Frank O Pierce Age: 45 Birth Date: Oct 1854 Birthplace: Wisconsin
Race: White Gender: Male Relationship to head-of-house: Head
Father's Birthplace: Vermont Mother's Birthplace: New York
Spouse's name: Martha E Pierce Marriage Year: 1887 Years Married: 13
Home in 1900: Eaton, Clark, Wisconsin [Greenwood, Clark, Wisconsin]
Frank O Pierce 45 WI-VT-NY Oct 1854 m. 13 yrs Farmer
Martha E Pierce 43 WI-ME-ME Jun 1856 m. 13 yrs 3 of 4 children living
Elzora M Pierce 20 WI-WI-WI May 1880 Servant
Royal A Pierce 12 WI-WI-WI Mar 1888 at school
Winnifred E Pierce 10 WI-WI-WI Apr 1890 at school
Edna F Pierce 5 WI-WI-WI Jul 1894."
6Census, Federal - 1910 - Clark Co, WI, Eaton, ED: 23, sheet 9, 21 Apr 1910, Ancestry.com. "Name: Frank Pierce Age in 1910: 56 Estimated birth year: abt 1854
Birthplace: Wisconsin Relation to Head of House: Head
Father's Birth Place: Vermont Mother's Birth Place: New York
Spouse's name: Martha Pierce Race: White Gender: Male
Home in 1910: Eaton, Clark, Wisconsin
Frank Pierce 56 WI-VT-NY m2 23 yrs farmer - dairy
Martha Pierce 52 WI-ME-ME m2 23 yrs 3 of 7 children living
Roy Pierce 22 WI-WI-WI Son
Winnie Pierce 19 WI-WI-WI Daughter
Iner Bredeson 7 WI-Norway-Nor Boarder."
7Census, Federal - 1930 - Columbia Co, Oregon, St Helens City, ed 525, sheet 4B; Ancestry p. 8 of 17. "Line 79 dwelling 75 household 89
Pierce, Roy Head Owns worth $2000 age 42 M age 27 WI WI WI Fireman at Woods steam Boiler
Carry wife 37 20 WI PA WI
Amos son 14 ND Wi WI
Arthur son 11 ND WI WI
Line 83 dwelling 76 household 90
Pierce, O. Frank Head Owns worth $1800 75 M age 23 WI VT ME OCC: none
Martha E. wife 74 M 24 WI ME ME Trimmer at saw mill."
8Census, Federal - 1870 - Clark Co, WI, twsp Eaton, Ancestry image 5 of 8, 27 Jul 1870. "Line 27 Family 30
Pierce, Jane age 51 Keeping House born: New York
J.W. 17 works on farm WI
Frank 15 works on farm WI
Sabrina 13 at home WI
Line 31 Family 31
Green, Phoebe 19 at home WI."
9Wisconsin - Clark Co Marriage Records before 1907, Vol 1, p. 110, Wisconsin State Historical Society, 816 State St, Madison, WI 53706.
10Census, Federal - 1870 - Clark Co, WI, twsp Eaton, p. 161, 16 Jul 1870.
11DeMouth Family Bible, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "Aug 29 1843 Cordelia E. Martindale, Orwell Vermont." An inscription in the front of the Bible reads, "Presented to Musa Irene Demouth on her fourteenth birthday, Quinion, Oct 29th 1917, by her Grandma, Cordelia E. Demouth, Loyal, Wisconsin." below that in pencil is written "June 20, 1917".
12Oregon Death Index 1903- 1998, Ancestry.com. "Oregon Death Index, 1903-98
Name: Pierce, Frank County: Columbia Death Date: 12 Jan 1936
Certificate: 7 Spouse: Martha."
13Wisconsin - Clark Co Marriage Records before 1907, vol 1 - p. 231. "Wisconsin Marriages, 1836-1930
groom's name: Franklin Pierce groom's birthplace: Waterloo, Jefferson Co., Wis.
bride's name: Sarah Jane Toddhunter
marriage date: 29 Oct 1877 marriage place: Sherman, Clark, Wisconsin
groom's father's name: Warren Pierce groom's mother's name: Jane S. Pierce
bride's father's name: Joseph T. Toddhunter bride's mother's name: Mary Toddhunter
groom's race: White bride's race: White indexing project (batch) number: M00338-9
system origin: Wisconsin-EASy source film number: 1275834."
Sarah Jane TODHUNTER
1Wisconsin - Clark Co Marriage Records before 1907, Vol 1 - p. 110, Wisconsin State Historical Society, 816 State St, Madison, WI 53706.
2Census, Federal - 1880 - Clark Co, WI, town of Eaton, vol 3 p. 158. ".". "1880 United States Federal Census
Name: Frank Pierce Age: 25 Estimated birth year: abt 1855 Birthplace: Wisconsin
Relation to Head of Household: Self (Head) Spouse's name: Sarah Pierce
Father's birthplace: Vermont Mother's birthplace: New York
Occupation: Farmer Marital Status: Married Race: White Gender: Male
Home in 1880: Eaton, Clark, Wisconsin
Frank Pierce 25 WI-VT-NY Farmer
Sarah Pierce 25 WI-England-Eng
E. Mabel Pierce 1 WI-WI-WI
E. Ella Pierce 1m WI-WI-WI b. May."
3Census, Federal - 1860 - Waukesha Co., WI, Twn of Brookfield, vol. 2, p. 58, 26 Jun 1860. post office - Elm Grove.
4Census, Federal - 1870 - Clark Co, WI, town of Loyal, p. 6 & 7, 16 Jun 1870. "Joseph Toddhunter 57 England works on farm
Mary Toddhunter 56 England housekeeping
Isaac Toddhunter 20 Wisconsin works on farm
Mary A Toddhunter 18 Wisconsin at home
Sarah J Toddhunter 16 Wisconsin at home << future wife of Frank O. Pierce
Willie Toddhunter 12 Wisconsin at home."
5Block, Betty, Pierce~1.PAF file, Imported 21 MAY 2002. Betty Block is a descandant of Warren Pierce and Jane Gould through their daughter Phoebe.
6M Hosefeld, Greenwood Cemetery Record; Greenwood Clark, WI. "Greenwood City Cemetery - EATON TOWNSHIP, CLARK COUNTY, WI
c Pierce, Baby 11 Mar 1884 12 Mar 1884 F. & Sarah J. Pierce
c Pierce, Sarah J. 06-D032-01 17 Mar 1855 9 Nov 1885 Frank Pierce
cem. rec. shows burial as 3/14/1884." There are conflicting dates on this cemetery record. I am going with the 1884 date as the story that came down in the family was that Sarah and the infant died about the same time.
7Clark County, Wisconsin Rootsweb site, www.rootsweb.com/~wiclark/.
8Wisconsin - Clark Co Marriage Records before 1907, vol 1 - p. 231. "Wisconsin Marriages, 1836-1930
groom's name: Franklin Pierce groom's birthplace: Waterloo, Jefferson Co., Wis.
bride's name: Sarah Jane Toddhunter
marriage date: 29 Oct 1877 marriage place: Sherman, Clark, Wisconsin
groom's father's name: Warren Pierce groom's mother's name: Jane S. Pierce
bride's father's name: Joseph T. Toddhunter bride's mother's name: Mary Toddhunter
groom's race: White bride's race: White indexing project (batch) number: M00338-9
system origin: Wisconsin-EASy source film number: 1275834."
Jessie Irene PIERCE
1Clark County, Wisconsin Rootsweb site, www.rootsweb.com/~wiclark/.
2Letter from Bessie Tucker to Dianne Stevens dated 3-11-1974, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
3Clark County, Wisconsin Rootsweb site.
4Clark County, Wisconsin Rootsweb site.
5Letter from Bessie Tucker to Dianne Stevens dated 3-11-1974.
6M Hosefeld, Greenwood City Cemetery - EATON TOWNSHIP, CLARK COUNTY, WI. "
c Pierce, Jesse 06-D032-03 20 Mar 1882 22 Dec 1885
c Pierce, Jesse (duplicate?) 1895." There are two dates here. As I have a picture of Jessie as a pre-teen I'm going with the 1895 date.
PIERCE
1DeMouth, Musa - Letter re Frank Pierce's wife- 3APR 1974.
2Block, Betty, Gould-Pierce-Wisconsin, EMail dated 5/15/2002 from to DianneStevens@charter.net.
3M Hosefeld, Greenwood Cemetery Record; Greenwood Clark, WI. "Greenwood City Cemetery - EATON TOWNSHIP, CLARK COUNTY, WI
c Pierce, Baby 11 Mar 1884 12 Mar 1884 F. & Sarah J. Pierce
c Pierce, Sarah J. 06-D032-01 17 Mar 1855 9 Nov 1885 Frank Pierce
cem. rec. shows burial as 3/14/1884."
4Compiled by Jim & Kathy Heath, 1997, Clark County Cemeteries, Greenwood City Cemetery, p. 29.
5Compiled by Jim & Kathy Heath, 1997, Clark County Cemeteries, Greenwood City Cemetery, p. 29.
John DEMOUTH
1May Sommers, May Sommers personal family history of the DeMouths, Written for her children in 1936, unpublished, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "Demouth Family History
dated June 1936
This history is of my Mother's ancestors, and my father's what little is known of them.
This story begins many years before the Revolutionary War. It follows down through the years the history of my people, covering a period of about two-hundred years of time.
William Levi was born in Germany in 1737. At the age of thirty he was sold to the English army to fight against the colonists during the Revolutionary War. These Germans were Hessians. William being one of them. They were lured on board the battle-ships to see the interior. Then the gangplanks were lifted and the ships sailed away. William Levi hated the English and got out of fighting every apportunity. He would play off sick at their military drills, etc. One cold night when snow was on the ground he took off his shoes and tied them on his feet, heels front and toes of the shoes facing backwards so the British would think he had gone in the opposite direction! In a short time he safely reached the American lines. Levi was a miller and was following his trade when carried off to America.
After the Revolutionary War ended, he went back to his trade and married a girl by the name of Abigail Mudge who was of English descent. Abigail's grandparents came over to this country on the Mayflower, not sure, and brought with them a pewter platter which they gave to Abigail. This platter many years after was melted and molded into spoons, one of which the writer posesses.
Abigail's second husband was Mr. Lamb, by whom she had two children. He was killed in the Revolutionary War fighting against the English.
There was an incident happened along about this time, no date to make sure when it happened, which shows are folks were in poverty. One dark night a wagon drove up which was loaded with barrels of flour being taken to the British soldiers. One barrel had rolled off and the head broken in. The driver went to the house where some of my folks lived and told them about the broken barrel and said he would give it to them, half or more was still in the barrel and clean. He would give them this barrel if they would remove every trace of the flour that was scattered, in other words, cover his trail. They studied a little. It was abetting and helping an enemy but their family was hungry and no harm could come of it probably, and they accepted the barrel of flour and covered the flour in the road with dust. It was the Colonists that must not know that the British were near. Such is war.
Abigail now a widow marries William Levi the Hessian who was brought to this country on a British warship. We have no proof of this marriage but we have proof of the 1740 marriage first one. This week came the following from Sharon, Conn. The town clerk sends a notice of David Skinner's marriage to Abigail Mudg in 1740. Also D. Skinner died August 12, 1740, her husband.
K. B. Hotaling, Town Clerk
The above item is all the proof we have of the authenticity of our history, all else has been carried down by word of mouth and may be correct and may not be.
Where was Abigail Mudg between 1740 first marriage and 1797 when my grandmother Mariah was born, supposed to be Abigail's child by William Levi. I think a generation was skipped right here. We know the date of 1740 must be trueit coming out of a book of vital statistics. We know 1797 must be correct for my grandmother remembers things she saw in 1800, she was three years old then.
Abigail's name was first Mudg then Skinner, she then married and changed name to Lamb, then married William Levi. Eight children were born to them as follows: William, Oliver, John, Phoeba, Mariah, Betsy, Frances and Elizabeth, twins who died in infancy. William Levi and Abigail his wife spent most of their lives near Sharon, Connecticut.
We drop all these children but Mariah my grandmother. She was born in 1797. She learned to write on birchbark by the light of a fireplace. She learned to spin wool on a tall spinning wheel, being very young and small, her father had to make her a bench on which she would walk back and forth as she spun.
We will now turn to my mother's father's people. Many years before the Revolutionary War, there were a Mr. and Mrs. Demouth who came from Holland and settled in New Jersey. To them was born in1770 a son Jacob.
They owned 300 acres of landabout twenty miles fron New York City. They had but one child, Jacob, who at his parents death inherited everything they left, three hundred acres of land with a beautiful stone mansion on it, archards, flowergardens, etc. We have no record of Jacob's wife.
One or both of them did not seem to know how to handle an estate as in course of time all was lost. Jacob had a conscience and it would not let him keep those thirty slaves, so in 1810 he freed them. That of course was a loss of much money. That and other things caused the estate to be sold piece by piece until finally the family got in hard straits.
It was in the great mansion Jacob and his wife's children were born nine of them who were: Frederick, Adam, James, John, Thomas, Jacob, Mary, Betsy, and Charlotte. Jacob Demouth, the father of these nine children was a prominent public man. He was Justice of the Peace of Pequat Township, Morris County, New Jersey for thirty years. He belonged to the Methodist church. But we must now follow one of these children down the line, one of them is related to us, it is John. John Demouth was my grandfather.
At the age of twenty-four he became acquainted with Mariah Levi. She had come from Connecticut to New Jersey to keep house for her brother. At the age of twenty-three she and John Demouth were married (my grandparents). The wedding was in the year 1818. The first two years of their married life were spent in Connecticut, after which they returned to New Jersey. John was a farmer. To this union six children were born: Samuel, Chalon, James, Jacob, Frances and Semantha, my mother the youngest of the family.
John and Mariah raised their family in New Jersey then migrated to Wisconsin in 1848. Semantha was twelve years old when her parents moved to Wisconsin. It was in Wisconsin John Demouth was killed by a tree falling on him that he had just chopped down. His grand-daughter May was about one year old in 1861. . . .
A cousin, Frank Barber, was visiting in New Jersey and saw the place where his mother and mine (sisters) had lived. Demouth was their maiden name now changed to Frances Barber and Semantha Webster. Cousin Frank also saw the place where the old mill had been when slaves worked in it. That was before Jacob Demouth freed his slaves.".
2Census, Federal - 1860 - Calumet Co., WI, Charlestown twsp, p. 129 (Ancestry p. 8 of 24), 27 Jul 1860. "John age 65
Maria age 64
Saml 40 shoemaker b. Conn.
James 30 farm laborer NJ
Frances 29 seamstress NJ
Jacob 26 farm NJ
Martha 24 service NJ
Jonas 33 farmer Conn
Jane 18 NY
Jenny 5/12 WI
Maria 10 WI."
3Census, Federal - 1830 - Morris Co., NJ, Pequanac Twsp, Roll m19-82, p. 141. "1830 Census lists John as having 2 male children under 5 yrs (Chalon ?) and
one male between 5 & 10 Probably Samuel.
1 male 30 - 40
1 female 30 - 40."
4Census, Federal - 1840 - Morris Co., NJ, Pequannock. "Lists Oliver Levi family with one male between 50 and 60, and one female between 40 and 50. Oliver is living next door to Isaac "Birgie", probable son-in-law.". "1840 Census:
1 male under 5 years ?
2 males 5 - 10 (jacob and James)
1 " 10 - 15 (Chalon)
1 " 40 - 50
1 female under 5 (Semantha)
1 " 5 - 10 (Frances)
1 " 40 - 50."
5Fowler, Alex. D., Boonton, NJ, Demouth Report, Copy in Personal Files of Dianne Z. Stevens. This report was written in response to a letter from Mrs. Charles Webber of 10 Aug 1949. Mrs. Webber apparently hired Mr. Fowler to do genealogical research for her. In 2003 when I (Dianne Stevens) hired Linnea Foster to investigate the Levi connection, Linnea said that Mr. Foster was very highly regarded in New Jersey for his genealogy work.
6Census, Federal - 1850 - Calumet Co., Wisconsin, District 36, Ancestry p. 30 of 42, 4 Sep 1850. "1850 census John appears on Wisc. census as John Demoth with wife Maria and 4 children Chilion, James, Jacob, and Samantha."
7Findagrave, http://www.findagrave.com/, internet. "
Birth: 1795
Death: 1861
JOHN DEMOUTH
MAN KILLED BY A TREE FALLING ON HIM – On Thursday last John Demouth, an old and respectable resident of Charlestown, met with an accident which resulted fatally on Saturday. He was chopping down a tree about a quarter of a mile from the house and when it commenced to fall he stepped back as he supposed a safe distance, but it turned out otherwise. The tree in falling struck a stump causing the butt to fly around and strike Mr. Demouth knocking him down, breaking one of his legs and otherwise injuring him. His cries soon brought assistance and after great exertion he was extradited. Dr. LaCount was immediately summoned who set his leg and did all in this power to relieve him but in vain. Mr. D. was a very old man and near sighted and could not possibly see what course the tree would take when falling. He was buried on Sunday.
Chilton Times – May 1861."
8Rootsweb, http://www.rootsweb.com, 1855 Calumet County, WI state census. "Demouth, John 021 Charlestown."
9Ancestry.com, WI Census 1855. "Wisconsin, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1820-1890 about John Demoth Name: John Demoth
State: WI
County: Calumet County
Township: 36th District
Year: 1855
Database: WI 1855 State Census Index."
Mariah LEVI
1May Sommers, May Sommers personal family history of the DeMouths, Written for her children in 1936, unpublished, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "Demouth Family History
dated June 1936
This history is of my Mother's ancestors, and my father's what little is known of them.
This story begins many years before the Revolutionary War. It follows down through the years the history of my people, covering a period of about two-hundred years of time.
William Levi was born in Germany in 1737. At the age of thirty he was sold to the English army to fight against the colonists during the Revolutionary War. These Germans were Hessians. William being one of them. They were lured on board the battle-ships to see the interior. Then the gangplanks were lifted and the ships sailed away. William Levi hated the English and got out of fighting every apportunity. He would play off sick at their military drills, etc. One cold night when snow was on the ground he took off his shoes and tied them on his feet, heels front and toes of the shoes facing backwards so the British would think he had gone in the opposite direction! In a short time he safely reached the American lines. Levi was a miller and was following his trade when carried off to America.
After the Revolutionary War ended, he went back to his trade and married a girl by the name of Abigail Mudge who was of English descent. Abigail's grandparents came over to this country on the Mayflower, not sure, and brought with them a pewter platter which they gave to Abigail. This platter many years after was melted and molded into spoons, one of which the writer posesses.
Abigail's second husband was Mr. Lamb, by whom she had two children. He was killed in the Revolutionary War fighting against the English.
There was an incident happened along about this time, no date to make sure when it happened, which shows are folks were in poverty. One dark night a wagon drove up which was loaded with barrels of flour being taken to the British soldiers. One barrel had rolled off and the head broken in. The driver went to the house where some of my folks lived and told them about the broken barrel and said he would give it to them, half or more was still in the barrel and clean. He would give them this barrel if they would remove every trace of the flour that was scattered, in other words, cover his trail. They studied a little. It was abetting and helping an enemy but their family was hungry and no harm could come of it probably, and they accepted the barrel of flour and covered the flour in the road with dust. It was the Colonists that must not know that the British were near. Such is war.
Abigail now a widow marries William Levi the Hessian who was brought to this country on a British warship. We have no proof of this marriage but we have proof of the 1740 marriage first one. This week came the following from Sharon, Conn. The town clerk sends a notice of David Skinner's marriage to Abigail Mudg in 1740. Also D. Skinner died August 12, 1740, her husband.
K. B. Hotaling, Town Clerk
The above item is all the proof we have of the authenticity of our history, all else has been carried down by word of mouth and may be correct and may not be.
Where was Abigail Mudg between 1740 first marriage and 1797 when my grandmother Mariah was born, supposed to be Abigail's child by William Levi. I think a generation was skipped right here. We know the date of 1740 must be trueit coming out of a book of vital statistics. We know 1797 must be correct for my grandmother remembers things she saw in 1800, she was three years old then.
Abigail's name was first Mudg then Skinner, she then married and changed name to Lamb, then married William Levi. Eight children were born to them as follows: William, Oliver, John, Phoeba, Mariah, Betsy, Frances and Elizabeth, twins who died in infancy. William Levi and Abigail his wife spent most of their lives near Sharon, Connecticut.
We drop all these children but Mariah my grandmother. She was born in 1797. She learned to write on birchbark by the light of a fireplace. She learned to spin wool on a tall spinning wheel, being very young and small, her father had to make her a bench on which she would walk back and forth as she spun.
We will now turn to my mother's father's people. Many years before the Revolutionary War, there were a Mr. and Mrs. Demouth who came from Holland and settled in New Jersey. To them was born in1770 a son Jacob.
They owned 300 acres of landabout twenty miles fron New York City. They had but one child, Jacob, who at his parents death inherited everything they left, three hundred acres of land with a beautiful stone mansion on it, archards, flowergardens, etc. We have no record of Jacob's wife.
One or both of them did not seem to know how to handle an estate as in course of time all was lost. Jacob had a conscience and it would not let him keep those thirty slaves, so in 1810 he freed them. That of course was a loss of much money. That and other things caused the estate to be sold piece by piece until finally the family got in hard straits.
It was in the great mansion Jacob and his wife's children were born nine of them who were: Frederick, Adam, James, John, Thomas, Jacob, Mary, Betsy, and Charlotte. Jacob Demouth, the father of these nine children was a prominent public man. He was Justice of the Peace of Pequat Township, Morris County, New Jersey for thirty years. He belonged to the Methodist church. But we must now follow one of these children down the line, one of them is related to us, it is John. John Demouth was my grandfather.
At the age of twenty-four he became acquainted with Mariah Levi. She had come from Connecticut to New Jersey to keep house for her brother. At the age of twenty-three she and John Demouth were married (my grandparents). The wedding was in the year 1818. The first two years of their married life were spent in Connecticut, after which they returned to New Jersey. John was a farmer. To this union six children were born: Samuel, Chalon, James, Jacob, Frances and Semantha, my mother the youngest of the family.
John and Mariah raised their family in New Jersey then migrated to Wisconsin in 1848. Semantha was twelve years old when her parents moved to Wisconsin. It was in Wisconsin John Demouth was killed by a tree falling on him that he had just chopped down. His grand-daughter May was about one year old in 1861. . . .
A cousin, Frank Barber, was visiting in New Jersey and saw the place where his mother and mine (sisters) had lived. Demouth was their maiden name now changed to Frances Barber and Semantha Webster. Cousin Frank also saw the place where the old mill had been when slaves worked in it. That was before Jacob Demouth freed his slaves.".
2Census, Federal - 1870 - Calumet Co., WI, Charlestown twsp., p. 64 (Ancestry p. 4), 1 Jun 1870.
3Census, Federal - 1860 - Calumet Co., WI, Charlestown twsp, p. 129 (Ancestry p. 8 of 24), 27 Jul 1860.
4Letter from Mrs. Chas Webber to Mr. Alexander Fowler, Copy in Personal Files of Dianne Z. Stevens. "Denver, Colorado, August 10, 1949
Mr. Alexander Fowler
Vreeland Avenue,
Boontown, New jersey
Dear Mr. Fowler,
Through Eulalia Chapman of the Denver Public Library, and May B. Leonard, assistant Librarian of the Morristown Library of Morristown, New jersey, I have learned of your research concerning the De Mouth family.
I am a descendant of that family and am interested in additional information.
Here is some of the information I have - some as handed down by our grandmother and some from Morristown Library and our Library here.
Our grandmother Semantha Demouth, born in 1836 in Morris County, daughter of John Demouth. Brothers and sister were Samuel, Chalon, James, Jacob, and Frances. Semantha married Bradley Webster and Frances married Joseph Barber. John Demouth was one of the nine children of Jacob De Mouth. These were Frederick, Adam, James, John, Thomas, Jacob, Mary, Betsey, and Charlotte.
"Jacob was a prominent public man. He was Justice of the Peace of Pequat Township for thirty years." This according to family chronicle, and I have discovered that it was Pequannock Township and find records of marriage performed by him covered the years from 1816 to 1829. The name Pequot is confused with the records of the first Mudge, Gen. Jarvis Mudge, who lived in Pequot, now New London, in 1649. My grandmother was not sixteen when she married so it was easy to see how she could get the names confused. She did not learn to read and write until after her marriage.
John Demouth, father of Semantha, married Mariah Levi in 1818, who came down from Connecticut to live with her brother (Oliver Levi, no doube, who married Mary Levi in 1816). Also the Rockaway records mention that Thomas Demouth married Betsy Levi of Litchfield, Connecticut. The children of William Levi, the Hessian who married the widow Lamb, were William, Oliver, John, Phoebe, Mariah, Betsy, and twins Frances and Elizabeth who died in infancy. So three Demouths married Levis.
The first settlers of Litchfield from whom John and Thomas De Mouth's mother descended were the Mudges on her mother's side. But as far as I can find out the Widow Lamb's maiden name was not Mudge, although an Abigail Mudge was an ancestor. William Levi was a Hessian who deserted during the Revolutionary War and remained in America. He was crippled with one foot shorter than the other and a miller by trade. The descendants of Thomas De Mouth might know just who was the wife of William Levi.
We have the account of the "Beautiful stone Mansion in which Jacob DeMouth was born in 1770 and which he as an only child inherited. In 1810 he freed his thirty slaves as his conscience would not let him keep them. It was in this house that his nine children were born." I would like to know if the DeMouth house near Newfoundland and the "old De Mott Place" on Pompton Plains and the house of Jacob DeMouth are the same. If so, then the DeMouths must be descendants of Hendrick DeMott born in 1715 who came into possession of the place. He had twelve children. Possibly Jacob Demouth born in 1770 was a grandson of Hendrick but there is a conflict of dates. He was born in the "stone mansion" and Peter Snyder was in possession in1773 according to a letter from May B. Leonard. I have heard my grand mother describe this old stone house but about the only thing I remember was that the white wash was over an inch thick. And she thought the railroad cut through there and the house or part of it was destroyed. Frank Barber, a son of Frances Demouth Barber, visited the place in 1936 and at least part of it was standing. We have lost all touch with these relatives as that generation is gone.
Grandmother's stories were a mixture of Connecticut and New Jersey and are confused in my mind.
John Demouth lived for two years after his marriage in Connecticut, then returned to New Jersey, where his children were raised. He was killed by a falling tree in Wisconsin in 1861.
Any additional information I can get would be most welcome.
May B. Leonard stated that in 1944 the Library received a letter from Victor E. DeMouth, Pfc. Ward #100, Hospital #2, Fort Bragg, N.C. He had worked on his family for a number of years. I know of no way to get in touch with him, but will send a letter to that address.
Very truly yours,
Mrs. Chas. O. Webber
3734 Fillmore Street,
Denver 5, Colorado".".
5Census, Federal - 1850 - Calumet Co., Wisconsin, District 36, Ancestry p. 30 of 42, 4 Sep 1850.
6M Celius, , email. "
MARIA DEMOUTH
DIED – At the residence of her son-in-law, Jos. L. Barber, Esq., Charlestown, Wis., Dec. 2nd, 1877, Mrs. Maria Demouth, aged 80 years, 9 months and 4 days.
Mrs. Demouth was born at Sharon, Conn., on the 28th day of February, 1797, and in early life moved with her parents to Morris Co., New Jersey, where she afterwards married John Demouth, the father of Samuel, Chaleon, James, Jacob, Mrs. Barber and Mrs. Bradley Webster, all formerly, well, and favorably known in this community. She came with her family to Wisconsin and settled at Elkhart Lake, in Sheboygan Co., in 1848 and early in 1850 removed to Hayton, this county, where she has since resided.
Mrs. Demouth was a woman of many noble and generous qualities, strong in her likes and dislikes, yet charitable withal, firm in her convictions of right and steady in the pursuit of well doing. No person ever left her door in want if it was in her power to relive them and many's the time has she shared her last loaf with a hungry way worn traveler. Mrs. Demouth commanded the respect and admiration and regard of all the early settlers in Charlestown with most of whom she was personally acquainted and in her death the few remaining pioneers lose another link in the chain that formerly bound then together as one harmonious whole.
"The year rolls round, and steals away
The breath that first it gave;
Whate'er we do, where'er we be,
We're trav'ling to the grave."
Chilton Times." article originally printed in Chilton Times.
7Obituary, From Chilton Times, Chilton, WI. sent by M Celius.
Chalon S. DEMOUTH
1Census, Federal - 1850 - Calumet Co., Wisconsin, District 36, Ancestry p. 30 of 42, 4 Sep 1850.