1Nyman, Ina - various papers.
2Shirley Nyman Harris-verbal report, 19 Aug 2009.
1Nyman Richard Picnic-notes-summer 1984, Nyman. notes from event.
2Nyman, Ina - various papers.
3Nyman Richard Picnic-notes-summer 1984.
1Nyman, Ina - various papers.
1Patsy Clark, Julie Edwards, and Margaret Ann Jensen, Descendants of Georg Jakob Wintermantel, Private informal printing in May 2003.
2Ihringen Evangelical Church records, p.1189610, LDS film. "Ihringen church record - as transcribed by Julie Edwards- DEC 2003 -." sent by Julie Edwards Dec 2003. "1799
Johann Jakob Wintermantel
The 28th of August between 10 and 11 p.m., born, and the 29th of the same (August) christened
father: Johann Jakob Wintermantel
citizen here.
Mother: Catharina nee Muller.
Christening Witnesses:
1. Jakob Walther, citizen and caregiver here
2. Wilhelm Muller, single here.
3. Salome Birmelin, single here.
4. Anna Maria nee Muller, wife of Johannes Mossner, citizen here."
copy of original (in German) in files of Dianne Z. Stevens.3Arlene Riemer, Email 19 Feb 2007.
1Patsy Clark, Julie Edwards, and Margaret Ann Jensen, Descendants of Georg Jakob Wintermantel, Private informal printing in May 2003.
2Ihringen Evangelical Church records, LDS film. "Ihringen church record - as transcribed by Julie Edwards- DEC 2003 -." sent by Julie Edwards Dec 2003.
3Arlene Riemer, Email 4Jan 2007.
1Arlene Riemer, Email 4 Jan 2007.
2Arlene Riemer, Email 19 Feb 2007. Arlene says Anna Maria died in 1814.
1Arlene Riemer, Email 4 Jan 2007.
1Arlene Riemer, Email 4 Jan 2007.
1Arlene Riemer, Email 4 Jan 2007.
1Frank D. Walker, Derrick Family History, Wheeler, TX - 22 FEB 1957, Derrick, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
2Nyman, Ina - various papers.
3Census, Federal - 1850 - Green Co., Wi, town of Spring Grove, Ancestry p. 16. "Line 7 Dwelling # 100 Household # 104
F H Derrick age 27 farmer b. NY
Harriet " 29 U Canada
Theodore " 2 WI
Franklin " 1/12 WI
Mary Boslow 53 New Brunswick real estate value $1000." Living next door is FHDerricks brother Alonzo Derrick & family.
In the next house is FHDerrick's Uncle Nathaniel B. Condon.
Living with the Condons is FH's Uncle Morris Derrick.4Census, Federal - 1880 - Green Co, WI, Spring Grove, Film T9-1428, p. 194C.
5Fleming, Bell TenEyck, History of Old Clarence. ""The old village plot was located on land in Section 2, which was first settled by Wm. Sherry in the spring of 1841...
"Clarence was known in those days as Tenneyville. It was later named Clarence in honor of Squire Derrick, the name of the town from which he came ...
"Morris Derrick, brother of Squire Derrick, kept a small stock of groceries and liquors ...
"In 1840 Rudolphus Derrick settled on Section 2 in the town of Spring Grove. He bought 1200 acres of land and was one of the leading men of his time. He built a log house west of the bluff where he lived until his death. He was Justice of the Peace for many years. His log house served as a court house. His son, Franklyn Derrick, father of Frank Derrick, built the house on the hill...
"Jacob Ten Eyck, my grandfather, came from Canada and bought 540 acres of Rudolphus Derrick. He built a house just west of the Clarence bridge on the south side of the road.
The log house that grandfather built had no doors or windows -only places cut for them and blankets were hung up at the door. (There was no saw mill.) All slept in the loft, or up stairs reached by a ladder, and after all were up, the ladder was drawn up so the wolves could not reach them. Kate (daughter of Jacob) said she could see wolves everywhere, their eyes shining in the dark ... Kate was the first white child born in Clarence ...
"Grandmother Ten Eyck was an invalid in the latter part of her life. She never tired of relating incidents of the early settlements. Especially of Peter Emel, the Frenchman, and his Indian wife, who often called. They would follow Mrs. Ten Eyck to the chamber, cellar, or garden, when she would supply them with meat or other eatables. She told of the herds of deer that bounded through the brush and thicket that then surrounded the place, and of the wild turkey that came and gobbled near the door, feeding from the corn they found. Kate Taylor said she could remember seeing 30 deer at one time.
"Before there was a bridge, Grandfather Ten Eyck built a canoe out of logs in which he brought the people across the river that had no other way. Later, a bridge was built but every winter it would wash out. Frank Derrick says that once when it had gone out they built a raft of logs and had a couple of pulleys in which ropes were run. They would take hold of the rope and pull the raft to their side, then all would get on, the smallest children were made to sit down and the older ones would manage the raft. It would float down with the current as far as it could go, and then they would pull on another rope to bring them to the other side. He says many a morning they went to school that way and as he thinks of it now, he wonders how it happened none of them drowned...
"Sugar River received its name from the white sand that could be seen through the water.
"An old cemetery used in the days of Clarence is located on Section 2 opposite the Searles place. A private graveyard is located on the original purchase of R. H. Derrick.
"In the spring the Indians camped along the Sugar River. They came to fish and hunt. The men and women walked, their tents and other things were fastened to long poles. One end was held up by the pony and the other dragged on the ground. One winter there was a sickness among them and nothing to eat. Someone came and told Grandfather Ten Eyck and he sent word back for them to bring their ponies and he would help them. They came and he loaded their ponies with meat, vegetables, bread and straw. The children that died, they hung up in the trees down near the bridge where the park is now. They were left there through the winter and the next spring they came for them, but they never came again to camp."
""The old hotel and barn were destroyed by fire and the post office was discontinued in 1857 and who can tell what became of the many, many homes and business places. Everything is gone where was once this beautiful village of Clarence and now laid out in fields of farm land and farm homes."." The excerpts from this source come from various papers copied and given to me in 1985 by Ina Nyman. They are parts of the book that she copied. There were no page numbers given.6Beckwith, Helen, Clarence, written abt 1936. "The Half-Way Tree
"This tree is a burr oak standing south of HWY 81 on land once owned by Charles A. Warner...His son well remembers the Indian chief who twice a year with some members of his tribe camped on the bank of the Sugar River where it flowed through Warner land... When [the son] was a little boy, about 1867, he can remember the Indian chief standing at the door of his father's blacksmith shop, where he had come to get a gun and some other things repaired, and saying, 'You no cut that tree!' and pointing to the burr oak, which still stands alone. The Indian then explained to Mr. Warner that the tree marked for the Indians the point which was one half way between the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes.
The Indians walking single file, one foot directly in front of the other, had worn the trail down through the sod. The tree was then about the size of a stove pipe. The bark was hacked in many places by Indian tomahawks. One year during an unusual drought nearly all the leaves died. At another time the tree was found one morning stripped of all its leaves by grasshoppers. Mr. Warner promised it should stand and it has. The Indian trail wound from the northeast to the southwest. Mr. Warner, coming home one day, announced that the Indians were quite accurate, as the middle point had been located at Magnolia."." Ina Nyman excerpted these paragraphs from Beckwith's article and sent them to me.7Franklin H. Derrick Will, Copy in Personal Files of Dianne Z. Stevens. "Know all men by these presents, that I, Franklin H. Derrick, of the City of Brodhead, Green County, Wisconsin, being of sound mind and memory, and mindful of the uncertainty of human life, do make, declare and publish, this my last will and testament, in form and manner following, hereby revoking all former wills by me made.
First.- I desire and direct that all of my just debts and my funeral expenses and the cost of administering my estate shall be paid in full, that a suitable monument shall mark my last resting place, and that a marker shall be erected at a cost not exceeding fifty dollars, at the grave of my deceased father and mother.
Second.- I give, devise and bequeath to my wife, Mary A. Derrick, the entire use of all of the residue of my estate both real and personal during her natural lifetime; and in case such use shall not be sufficient to provide for her maintenance and comfort I desire and direct that such portions of the principal of said residue as shall become requisite for her maintenance and comfort shall be appropriated and used for that purpose.
Third.- I will and direct that all of the residue of my entire estate that shall remain after the death of my said wife shall be divided into five equal shares; and I give, devise and bequeath the same to my children as follows, to-wit: to my sons Theodore J. and Levi F. one half of one share to each; to my sons Franklin R., Paul E., and my daughter Harriet L. Lamson one share to each; to my grandsons Frank T. Balis, Robert H. Balis and Ernest Balis one ninth of one share to each; to my granddaughters Hattie Belle Livingstone and Mabel Walker one sixth of one share to each; and to my granddaughter Flora L. Stevens one third of one share.
Provided however that any amout which may hereafter be paid by me or out of my estate by reason of my signature to any note or notes as surety for my said son Franklin R. Derrick shall be computed as a part of my estate and of said residuary legacy to my said son Franklin R.
Fourth.- I nominate and appoint my said son Franklin R. Derrick to be the executor of this, my last will and testament, and I authorize and direct him, as such executor to compound, compromise and settle all claims in favor of and against my estate, and to sell and convey by good and sufficient deed or deeds and real estate of which I shall die seized, without obtaining any license from court therefore, and to pay over the legacies and residue as above provided, in money.
In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty-third day of February A. D. Nineteen Hundred three.
Franklin H. Derrick (Seal)
The foregoing written instrument, all on two half sheets, was signed and sealed by Franklin H. Derrick, the testator therein named, and was by him declared to be his last will and testament, on the day of the date thereof, in the presence of us who hereunto sign our names as witnesses, at his request, in his presence, and in the presence of each other.
Mabel Dodge
Burr Sprague." Copy received from Ina Nyman.8Jack Taif Spencer and Robert Abraham Goodpasture, Genealogy and History of the Derthicks and Related Derricks, Eight Centuries of the Derthicks and Related Derricks..., Gateway Press, Inc. Baltimore, 1986., p.449. "It is recorded that Franklin H. Derrick bought the homestead after his father died in 1860 and that the property was farmed by his sons Theodore and Levi. However, Theodore joined the army in 1865 and Levi moved on to the town of McCracken in Rush County, Kansas. Franklin H. continued to farm in Green County until he retired in 1883, but most likely (to judge from the sale records), it seems that he was probably in a different location than the old Derrick homestead."
9Jack Taif Spencer and Robert Abraham Goodpasture, Genealogy and History of the Derthicks and Related Derricks, Eight Centuries of the Derthicks and Related Derricks..., p.482. "Loranda (FH's mother) kept Scott until he became a young man. After this, she went to live with Franklin Derrick who had built a large home on the hill north of the old log home. Loranda resided here until 1872, when Franklin moved to Monroe, Green County. This city was the county seat and Franklin had been elected sheriff."
10Jack Taif Spencer and Robert Abraham Goodpasture, Genealogy and History of the Derthicks and Related Derricks, Eight Centuries of the Derthicks and Related Derricks..., p.488-489. "Quoting from the History of Green County (1901):
Franklin H. Derrick was 14 years of age when he came with his parents to Wisconsin and he has lived continuously in Green County since that time, with the exception of two years which he spent in California engaged in mining. He crossed the plains in 1850, taking five months to make the journey. In 1852 he returned home by way of the isthmus and on a sailing vessel to New Orleans, where he took a steamer for Cincinnati. He farmed until 1883, when he retired. Mr. Derrick attended the district school one winter after coming to the West. He lived at home until his father's death, when he bought the entire homestead of four hundred acres, but has since sold it.
Mr. Derrick and Miss Harriet Boslow were married November 18, 1846. She was the daughter of John and Mary (Condon) Boslow, and became the mother of seven children: Theodore James, Franklin R., Levi F., Mary L., Harriet L., Flora L., and Paul E. Theodore James lives at Jolly, Texas; he married Mrs. Ellen Purdy. Franklin R. lives at Brodhead, and is the husband of Miss Belle Moore. Levi F. married Miss Mary Simmons, and lives at McCracken, Kansas; they have two children, Edna and Maud. Paul E. married Miss Adeline Bowen, and lives in the city of New York. Mary L. married John C. Balis, and both are dead; they were the parents of six children (Franklin T., Robert, Ernest, Mary L, Hattie, and Mabel). Flora L. died at the age of two years. Mrs. Harriet A. Derrick died October 22, 1871, at the age of 49. She was a member of the Methodist Church. Mr. Derrick married Mrs. Mary A. Northrup, September 17, 1872. She was thw widow of Sylvester Northrup and the daughter of Sanford Williams. Mr. and Mrs. Derrick are members of the Methodist Church, where he serves on the board of trustees. He was formerly a Republican, but is now a Prohibitionist. He was sheriff from 1873 to 1875, and a chairman of the town board a number of terms. He was a member of the Brodhead Lodge, I.O.O.F., No. 123, in 1867. He has a good home in Brodhead, and is reckoned among the leading citizens in the town and county.
Since Green County is famous to this day as a great center of cheese production, it is interesting that some of the Derricks were prominent in this business."11Jack Taif Spencer and Robert Abraham Goodpasture, Genealogy and History of the Derthicks and Related Derricks, Eight Centuries of the Derthicks and Related Derricks..., p. 489. "Since Green County is famous to this day as a great center of cheese production, it is interesting that some of the Derricks were prominent in this business more than a century ago. The first cheese factory in Brodhead was put in operation 20 May 1879 by J. W. Westlake, proprietor. Later, a stock company was organised in 1883 by seventeen stockholders, including Paul and Franklin H. Derrick. The latter was treasuer of the company, whild Paul was the salesman. The factory was located in the northwest corner of Section 11. In its early operations it used 5,000 pounds of milk per day."
12Census, Federal - 1870 - GreenCo., Wisconsin, Spring Grove, p, 20 of 32, 6 Aug 1870. "Line 30 Dwelling # 148 Household # 148
Derrick, F.H. age 46 farmer Real Estate = $15,000 b. NY
Harriet 48 Canada
Theodore 22 farmer WI
Frank 20 in school WI
Mary 17 in school WI
Levi 15 in school WI
Harriet 13 in school WI
Peter 8 in school WI
Lorinda 78 NY."13Ancestry.com, message board post, 2002. "From Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin, publ. 1901- page 355-356
FRANKLIN H. DERRICK, of Brodhead, Green county, is a retired farmer, and is passing his last days in this beautiful little inland city. He has lived a useful life, worked hard, and is now enjoying a competence for which he has rendered an honest equivalent in brain and brawn.
Mr. DERRICK was born in Erie county, N.Y., Jan. 26, 1824, and is a son of Rodolphus D. and Lorinda (Sheldon) DERRICK, natives of Vermont and New York, respectively. Eight children were born to them, of whom two are now living: Franklin H.; and Elvira, the widow of Levi DERRICK, of Henderson, Neb. The father was a farmer, and during his active years cleared several heavily timbered farms in his native State. He came to the West in 1838 to make his home, though he had already been out two years before and bought land in Green county, Wis. In 1840 he broke land on this farm, and the following year moved his family to it, and made it his home as long as he lived. He died in 1860, at the age of sixty-seven, and his widow died fourteen years later, at the age of seventy-seven, lacking one month. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and in his mature years, a leading man in his community. He was one of the three county commissioners in Green county at an early day, held several town offices, and was on the county board at different times. His father, Ephraim DERRICK, was a native of Vermont, of English lineage. He was a Revolutionary soldier, and drew a pension. He died in New York at the age of seventy-seven. His grandfather, John DERRICK(1), born in England in 1833, came to America in 1674, and died at the age of one hundred and eight years. The maternal grandfather of the subject of this article was William Sheldon. He was a farmer in New York, reared a family of eleven children, and reached the age of seventy-five.
Franklin H. DERRICK was fourteen years of age when he came with his parents to Wisconsin, and he has lived continuously in Green county since that time, with the exception of two years which he spent in California engaged in mining. He crossed the Plains in 1850, taking five months to make the journey. In 1852 he returned home by way of the Isthmus, and on a sailing-vessel to New Orleans, where he took a steamer for Cincinnati. He farmed until 1883, when he retired. Mr. DERRICK attended the district school one winter after coming to the West. He lived at home until his father's death, when he bought the entire homestead of four hundred acres, but has since sold it.
Mr. DERRICK and Miss Harriet A. BOSLOW were married Nov. 18, 1846. She was the daughter of John and Mary (Condon) BOSLOW, and became the mother of seven children, Theodore James, Franklin R., Levi F., Mary L., Harriet L., Flora L., and Paul E. Theodore James lives at Jolly, Texas; he married Mrs. Ellen Purdy. Franklin R. lives at Brodhead and is the husband of Miss Belle Moore. Levi F. married Miss Mary Simmons, and lives at McCracken, Kans.; they have two children, Edna and Maud. Paul E. married Miss Adeline Bowen, and lives in the city of New York. Mary L. married John BALIS, and both are dead; they were the parents of six children, Franklin T., Robert Ernest, Mary L., Hattie and Mabel. Harriet L. married Junius T. LAMSON, and lives at Orleans, Neb.; they have four children. Flora L. died at the age of two years. Mrs. Harriet A. DERRICK died Oct. 22, 1871, at the age of forty-nine. She was a member of the Methodist Church. Mr. DERRICK married Mrs. Mary A. NORTHUP, Sept. 17, 1872. She was the widow of Sylvester Northup, and the daughter of Sanford Williams. Mr. and Mrs. DERRICK are members of the Methodist Church, where he serves on the board of trustees. He was formerly a Republican, but is now a Prohibitionist. He was sheriff from 1873 to 1875, and was chairman of the town board a number of terms. He has a good home in Brodhead, and is reckoned among the leading citizens in the town and county."14Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf, rec'd via EMail 0n 14 APR 2002.
1History of Green County, Wisconsin - 1884.
2Census, Federal - 1880 - Green Co, WI, Spring Grove, Film T9-1428, p. 194C.
3Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf, rec'd via EMail 0n 14 APR 2002.
4Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf.
5Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf.
1Frank D. Walker, Derrick Family History, Wheeler, TX - 22 FEB 1957, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
2History of Green County, Wisconsin - 1884.
3Fleming, Bell TenEyck, History of Old Clarence. ""The old village plot was located on land in Section 2, which was first settled by Wm. Sherry in the spring of 1841...
"Clarence was known in those days as Tenneyville. It was later named Clarence in honor of Squire Derrick, the name of the town from which he came ...
"Morris Derrick, brother of Squire Derrick, kept a small stock of groceries and liquors ...
"In 1840 Rudolphus Derrick settled on Section 2 in the town of Spring Grove. He bought 1200 acres of land and was one of the leading men of his time. He built a log house west of the bluff where he lived until his death. He was Justice of the Peace for many years. His log house served as a court house. His son, Franklyn Derrick, father of Frank Derrick, built the house on the hill...
"Jacob Ten Eyck, my grandfather, came from Canada and bought 540 acres of Rudolphus Derrick. He built a house just west of the Clarence bridge on the south side of the road.
The log house that grandfather built had no doors or windows -only places cut for them and blankets were hung up at the door. (There was no saw mill.) All slept in the loft, or up stairs reached by a ladder, and after all were up, the ladder was drawn up so the wolves could not reach them. Kate (daughter of Jacob) said she could see wolves everywhere, their eyes shining in the dark ... Kate was the first white child born in Clarence ...
"Grandmother Ten Eyck was an invalid in the latter part of her life. She never tired of relating incidents of the early settlements. Especially of Peter Emel, the Frenchman, and his Indian wife, who often called. They would follow Mrs. Ten Eyck to the chamber, cellar, or garden, when she would supply them with meat or other eatables. She told of the herds of deer that bounded through the brush and thicket that then surrounded the place, and of the wild turkey that came and gobbled near the door, feeding from the corn they found. Kate Taylor said she could remember seeing 30 deer at one time.
"Before there was a bridge, Grandfather Ten Eyck built a canoe out of logs in which he brought the people across the river that had no other way. Later, a bridge was built but every winter it would wash out. Frank Derrick says that once when it had gone out they built a raft of logs and had a couple of pulleys in which ropes were run. They would take hold of the rope and pull the raft to their side, then all would get on, the smallest children were made to sit down and the older ones would manage the raft. It would float down with the current as far as it could go, and then they would pull on another rope to bring them to the other side. He says many a morning they went to school that way and as he thinks of it now, he wonders how it happened none of them drowned...
"Sugar River received its name from the white sand that could be seen through the water.
"An old cemetery used in the days of Clarence is located on Section 2 opposite the Searles place. A private graveyard is located on the original purchase of R. H. Derrick.
"In the spring the Indians camped along the Sugar River. They came to fish and hunt. The men and women walked, their tents and other things were fastened to long poles. One end was held up by the pony and the other dragged on the ground. One winter there was a sickness among them and nothing to eat. Someone came and told Grandfather Ten Eyck and he sent word back for them to bring their ponies and he would help them. They came and he loaded their ponies with meat, vegetables, bread and straw. The children that died, they hung up in the trees down near the bridge where the park is now. They were left there through the winter and the next spring they came for them, but they never came again to camp."
""The old hotel and barn were destroyed by fire and the post office was discontinued in 1857 and who can tell what became of the many, many homes and business places. Everything is gone where was once this beautiful village of Clarence and now laid out in fields of farm land and farm homes."." The excerpts from this source come from various papers copied and given to me in 1985 by Ina Nyman. They are parts of the book that she copied. There were no page numbers given.4Beckwith, Helen, Clarence, written abt 1936. "The Half-Way Tree
"This tree is a burr oak standing south of HWY 81 on land once owned by Charles A. Warner...His son well remembers the Indian chief who twice a year with some members of his tribe camped on the bank of the Sugar River where it flowed through Warner land... When [the son] was a little boy, about 1867, he can remember the Indian chief standing at the door of his father's blacksmith shop, where he had come to get a gun and some other things repaired, and saying, 'You no cut that tree!' and pointing to the burr oak, which still stands alone. The Indian then explained to Mr. Warner that the tree marked for the Indians the point which was one half way between the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes.
The Indians walking single file, one foot directly in front of the other, had worn the trail down through the sod. The tree was then about the size of a stove pipe. The bark was hacked in many places by Indian tomahawks. One year during an unusual drought nearly all the leaves died. At another time the tree was found one morning stripped of all its leaves by grasshoppers. Mr. Warner promised it should stand and it has. The Indian trail wound from the northeast to the southwest. Mr. Warner, coming home one day, announced that the Indians were quite accurate, as the middle point had been located at Magnolia."." Ina Nyman excerpted these paragraphs from Beckwith's article and sent them to me.5Census, Federal - 1850 - Green Co., Wi, town of Spring Grove, Ancestry p. 15.
6Olsen, Wayne, Sheldon Family Line, The, Received via EMail 12 APR 2002.
7Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf, rec'd via EMail 0n 14 APR 2002.
8Jack Taif Spencer and Robert Abraham Goodpasture, Genealogy and History of the Derthicks and Related Derricks, Eight Centuries of the Derthicks and Related Derricks..., Gateway Press, Inc. Baltimore, 1986., pp. 483-484. "VI. RODOLPHUS DERRICK AND THE HISTORY OF
GREEN COUNTY, WISCONSIN.
In the "History of Green County", the following biography of Rodolphus Donaldus Derrick was published:
Rodolphus D. Derrick was born August 8, 1793 and was reared in Herkimer County, New York. His parents, the grandparents of Franklin H. Derrick, were natives of the Green Mountain State. When a young man, Rodolphus D. Derrick removed to Erie County, New York, where he was married to Loranda Sheldon. In 1820, in company with two brothers-in-law, the latter being accompanied by their families, he went down the Allegheny River in a flat boat and thence down the Ohio River to Morgan County, Illinois, where his brothers-in-law settled. The following spring he returned to New York. In 1836, he came to Green County and purchased for himself and other parties, 1,200 acres of land in Sections 3 and 4 in the present towns of Spring Grove and Decatur. In the fall of 1838, he removed with his family to Wisconsin, stopping at White Oak Springs in what is now Lafayette County, where his two sons, Frederick and Alonzo, were at work in the lead. mines. Here he remained until spring, keeping a boarding house during the winter. He then removed to Illinois, locating near Savannah. In 1840, he sent his son, Alonzo, with a hired man and team, to his land in Green County, who broke land preparatory to a crop the following year. In April, 1841, Rodolphus removed with his family to the town of Spring Grove, and there resided until his death, which occurred September 19, 1860.
Rodolphus was a soldier in the War of 1812. He was a county commissioner in Green County in 1845, 1847, and 1853. He also held several town offices and was on the county board at different times.
Loranda (Sheldon) Derrick survived her husband for many years, departing this life at the residence of her son, Franklin H. Derrick, at Monroe on January 14, 1874.
Rodolphus D. Derrick, familiarly known as "Squire Derrick", is well remembered by the early settlers for his many excellent qualities. He was a man of much general information, was justice of the peace for many years, and otherwise connected officially with the affairs of his town. He had eight children, five of whom, three sons and two daughters, are still living. Franklin H. Derrick is the only resident of Green County at this time."9Jack Taif Spencer and Robert Abraham Goodpasture, Genealogy and History of the Derthicks and Related Derricks, Eight Centuries of the Derthicks and Related Derricks..., pp.480-482. "The rail fences in these days were made of rails split from small logs. Gates for these fences were made of .small poles and hung on wooden hinges to swing in or put. A box filled with stones was used as a weight attached to the gate with a rope in such a manner that when the gate was released for opening, this weight would pull it open.
All of the doors in the Abby had homemade latches and the latch rested in a catch made of wood. A string ran through a hole in the door and served to raise the latch. A button was attached to each end of the string and when one wished to go either way, it was only necessary to pull on the string and the latch would fly up releasing it from its keeper and the door could be opened. It was a reminder of when Little Red Riding Hood visited her grandmother and the big wolf ate her up.
Harvesting the grain was all done with hand sickles and cradles, which was a slow tedious process. Thrashing was accomplished by means of treadmills operated by horses walking on a revolving floor. A very primitive method from the present means of threshing. Ploughs to cultivate the fields were homemade and drawn by ox teams, which was very slow work. Dishes in use in the household were crude and would tarnish very easily. They were kept in a dry condition by jabbing them down in the earth, which took off the tarnish and scoured them. Household and other luxuries were very few, but people were happy and contented fully as much as they are today with all the modem conveniences. Butter in these old days was made in wooden chums fashioned from staves cut from saplings on the homeplace.
Scott Dory and Ida Boslow used to play and run around the Abby kitchen while Pauline, Ida's mother, was scalding the chum. On one occasion, Scott accidentally ran wider his mother's arm. The scalding water spilled on him, burning him severely. He carried the scar for life.
Wild grapes, blackberries, crab apples, hawthoms, and black and while mulberry trees grew in the yard of the old home. There were many nut trees, such as hickory, walnut, butternut. and others. Silver maple trees grew on each side of the path that led to the west door of the house, making a beautiful picture in the spring of the year. A large pine tree stood in the southwest comer of the yard and Lombard poplars were scattered around, along with a few pepper trees. Wild plum trees bore an abundance of fruit from which Grandma made the most delicious sauce. An orchard had been set out early and many kinds of trees bore fruit used in the home.
To keep fruit from freezing in the winter, a deep hole was dug in the ground and lined with straw. It was then filled with apples and straw and earth put on top. Then in the spring, what a treat it was to have apples brought out in fine condition to eat. To preserve potatoes, the same method was used. There was no such thing as a cold storage house.
Cows were pastured in the wild woods and it was the duty of the boys to find them and bring them home for milking in the evening. Many times it would be dark before they could be found, sometimes several miles from home.
The well on the Derrick place was dug by hand and
lined with stones gathered on the place. They were laid
together with ashes from the wood burned in the fireplace
and mixed with a. certain amount of lime. The mortar
hardened to hold the stones fast. There was no cement
to be had in those early days. I
The well was 60 feet deep and to get the water to the top, a windlass was positioned over the top, to which was attached a rope and two long buckets. In this manner. when a full bucket was raised to the surface, the empty one was lowered down to be filled. The water was of a very fine quality. The well reminded one of the-old song and poem, "The Old Oaken Bucket- That Hung in the Well". Most of the water used in washing clothes was from a spring where the clothes were taken and the water heated.
Grandfather helped to build the first bridge across the Sugar River. The old schoolhouse, where so many of the children went to school, was built of stone and had a floor that slanted down from the side, making an elevation at the back of nearly two feet. The desks and seats were all homemade and two pupils occupied one desk and seat. All grades were taught by one teacher in-the single room. The teacher's desk was bullt on a raised platform in one end of the room so that they could see what was going on anywhere in the school room. The room was crowded to the limit during the winter months when all big boys could attend school. In the summer times, there was no school for them as it was their lot to work on the farms. During the years of 1859 and 1860 there were as many as 70 children attending school in this one room. There were two doors in the west and one in the east end. The windows were deep and three on each side. The grades ran from the ABC class to the 9th grade. One stove supplied the heat and was located in the middle of the room with a long pipe running to the west end over the teacher's desk. Sometimes, this pipe would fall apart and then there would be a great time before it could be put together. There would always be a recess at this time.
The games played at school were anteover, crack the whip, tag, the old cat, and mumblepeg. In the winter, it was sliding down hills and skating on the river. There was also a big pond near the school house which furnished fine, skating. School was called by ringing a bell by hand. In the summer time, it was lovely around the school pond, for in it grew many beautiful white pond lillies and sweet flowers.. Around the pond later, grew fine wild strawberries, chestnuts, thorn apples, and wild grapes.
In the old log home were many varied experiences in the form of births, marriages, and deaths. Four of the children were married here: Harriet, Statira, Pauline, and Elvira. The latter was known in her later years as Aunt Vie by everyone who knew her. Rodolphus, the father, after suffering a long period of illness, died on September 29, 1860. After the death of Rodolophus, Loranda broke up housekeeping and went to live in another log house that had been built for her sister, Elvira Sheldon Hickman, who had gone to live in Urbana. Loranda lived here with her grandson, Scott Dory, whose mother (Statira (Derrick) Dory, had died. Loranda kept Scott until he became a young man. After this, she went to live with Franklin Derrick who had built a large home on the hill north of the old log home. Loranda resided here until 1872, when Franklin moved to Monroe, Green County. This city was the county seat and Franklin had been elected- sheriff. Loranda (Sheldon) Derrick died on January 14, 1873 and was buried alongside other members of her family at the old homestead. The old log home was still standing in 1893 when Elvira and Pauline made their last visit to the home of their youth." This section is from the Ida Klumb article written in 1927. She was a granddaughter of Rodolphus.10John Howe Letter to Parents - 1842, Janesville Gazette, 16 Aug, 1948. ""The soil is very fertile, producing every kind of grain and every kind of vegetable that one could wish. This is one of the most delightful countries to look upon that there is in the world. The prairies extend as far as the eye can reach without a tree. There is a prairie about one mile from this place which contains 64,000 acres, a smart chance for a farm, as the Housier says.
"The prairie wolves inhabit these vast plains. You can hear them howl very often in the night, but hardly ever see them. They are about as large as a common sized dog. There are plenty of deer, wild geese, (no turkeys), ducks and hill crane. Fish of every description fill the rivers; catfish, pike, pickerel, rock bass, and a great many other kinds.
"Rock River is one of the handsomest rivers in east. Its current is about two miles an hour.
"I will give you some prices of grain; wheat 500, corn - 18-200, oats 12 1/20, and other things in proportion. I can buy factory clothes as cheap here as in the east. I am satisfied that a man will support a family much easier than in the east. A man can get a bushel and a half of wheat and from five to six bushels of corn for one day's work in harvest.
"Cattle grow very large here. I saw a cow which had nothing but grass to eat and weighed 876 pounds after she was dressed. They tell me that it is not infrequent for cows that are turned upon the prairie in the spring to get so fat as to weigh 1,000 pounds. Sheep get fatter here than in the east. The hogs here are not so large. The average weight, I should judge, would be from 100 to 175 pounds. But what they lack in weight they make up in number. Some men keep 60 to 80. Pork will not be over 1 or 1 1/2 0 a pound this fall." The following is an excerpt of a 100 year old letter that appeared in the Janesville Gazette on August 16, 1948. It describes the attraction of the Wisconsin prairie to the early settlers of which Rudolphus was one. This letter was written By John Howe to his parents back in Vermont. (John's son Henry married a granddaughter [Maria] of our ancestor Abeah Balis.) This letter is from 1842.11An Epic Journey in the Northwest Territory by Rodolphus Derrick - April 30, 1820 to March 31, 1821, Genealogy and History of the Derthicks and Related Derricks, Eight Centuries of the Derthicks and Related Derricks...; , p. 457 - 477, Wisconsin State Historical Society, 816 State St, Madison, WI 53706.
12Census, Federal - 1860 - Green, WI, Spring Grove, P. 5 of 5. "Line 34 1511 35
RD Derrick age 66 farmer b. NY
Neeranda " 63
Scott Duory 10 WI."
1Frank D. Walker, Derrick Family History, Wheeler, TX - 22 FEB 1957, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
2Census, Federal - 1850 - Green Co., Wi, town of Spring Grove, Ancestry p. 15.
3Jack Taif Spencer and Robert Abraham Goodpasture, Genealogy and History of the Derthicks and Related Derricks, Eight Centuries of the Derthicks and Related Derricks..., Gateway Press, Inc. Baltimore, 1986., pp.477-480. "The original cabin built by Rodolphus and Loranda (Sheldon) Derrick at Spring Grove, Green County, Wisconsin, is clearly described by a granddaughter, Ida L. Klumb of Olympia, Washington. Ida wrote this article in 1927.
He was born August 8, 1793 and died September 29, 1860. She was born February 14, 1797 and died January 14, 1873. The house was made of logs and partitioned off,,, into two rooms. The north end of the lower part was used for a kitchen-dining room and a sitting room. The south end was used for sleeping quarters and a play room for the children. There was only one door and two windows in each of these rooms. The bedsteads were wooden and home made, with high posts on each comer in which curtains were fastened to make them private. A hallway ran between these two rooms and one door on the east and one on the west. Steps behind the east door led to the upper story in which there were two rooms with partitions made of logs.
As there was no sawmill in those times, the floors were made of puncheons which were logs split and smoothed on one side with an adze. The rough side was laid next to the ground. There was a large fireplace on the north side of the kitchen. Here, Loranda did all of the everyday cooking by hanging pots on a rod over the fire. Big tongs were used to set beside the chimney to be used when the fire needed replenishing. Pot hooks and cranes were tools used in handling the cooking utensils in these times. The baking was all done in a big brick oven built in the north comer of the kitchen. Loranda baked the most delicious salt-rising bread, pumpkin and mince pies, and baked beans at various times, usually twice per week.
After 77 years of time has passed, one of the grandchildren (Ida Boslow Klumb) is giving this description. She was born in this same log house in the year 1850 in the northeast comer room on the upper floor. It was known as the "Old Abby". All of the buildings on the homestead were constructed of logs and they consisted of corncrib, barns, chicken houses, hen coops, carpenter shop, sheds, and a smoke house. She remembers the smoke house very vividly as it used to be filled with meat every fall. The meat was smoked and cured for winter use. The carpenter shop was very much used by Rodolphus, who was a handy workman with carpenter tools.
The only kind of chairs used in the Abby in the year 1840 and some years later, were splint bottom chairs. They were all homemade. One chair in particular, I remember. It was a big rocking chair with splint bottom and back. These splints came from the inside bark of elm trees, arched and cut into proper lengths, then woven back and forth until the bottom of the chair would be covered. Frames of the chair, back legs and rounds, were fashioned from small limbs of walnut trees which were very plentiful. The rocking chair mentioned above was very substantial and was used for many, many years. It was still in the possession of Loranda Derrick at her death in 1873. The chair served many purposes, being used for a cradle for many of the grandchildren as well as a rest chair for the elderly. I well remember seeing Grandma sitting in it at the window that looked out on the yard. Beside the window was a rose bush and in June it was loaded with large pink roses. Grandma would sit by the window with her knitting work - a pretty sight, dressed in her white cap and neckerchief, a costume worn by all elderly women at that time.
Lamps were not known in the home. For lighting the old log cabin, pine nuts and tallow candles were used. Grandma used to make up very large quantities, hundreds of dozens of them every fall. They were burned in candlesticks and had snuffers to snap the wicks. The brass candle sticks had to be cleaned and candles renewed every morning.
Besides doing the work and cooking, Grandma made clothes for all the family by taking the wool from. the sheep, cleaning and carding it, spinning it into yam and then weaving it into cloth. All this was done with homemade utensils such as the spinning wheel, reels, and looms. In 1860, the spinning wheel Was still in the garret of the old home. After all this work to get the cloth, the clothing for every member of the family was made by hand sewing. Sewing machines had not been put into use at this time. Stockings were all hand knitted from yam which had been home spun. Even the shoes were all hand cobbled from home-tanned leather.
All the joys and comforts of a home were of crude form compared with the present. For drinking purposes, gourds were mainly used. They were formed by cutting off one side, digging out the center, and then put them through a drying process. As a result, they became very hard, serviceable, and durable. They had a long neck used as a handle. A hole was made in the end through which a homespun string was run and the gourd was hung by the old stone well for a drinking cup. Many of these improvised dippers were kept about the house for various purposes.
Besides the homemade splint bottom chairs, there were wooden cradles for the babies made of walnut wood. Bookcases and all cupboards used in the Abby were made of wood from the farm. One of the bookcases did service until 1873 and later.
All soap used was home processed. First, they had to get the lye by making a sort of rack or bin to hold ashes and when this became full, water was poured on to the ashes until it was thoroughly saturated. After a short time, the water having penetrated all through the ashes, it would trickle out into a trough. This lye was used to cut the grease in making soap. The soap was made in big iron kettles placed over an outdoor fire. Large quantities were made and stored in a big log room used only -for this purpose." The original cabin built by Rodolphus and Loranda (Sheldon) Derrick at Spring Grove, Green County, Wisconsin, is clearly described by a granddaughter, Ida L. Klumb of Olympia, Washington. Ida wrote the article quoted in this source in 1927.
He was born August 8, 1793 and died September 29, 1860. She was born February 14, 1797 and died January 14, 1873. The house was made of logs and partitioned off,,, into two rooms. The north end of the lower part was used for a kitchen-dining room and a sitting room. The south end was used for sleeping quarters and a play room for the children. There was only one door and two windows in each of these rooms. The bedsteads were wooden and home made, with high posts on each comer in which curtains were fastened to make them private. A hallway ran between these two rooms and one door on the east and one on the west. Steps behind the east door led to the upper story in which there were two rooms with partitions made of logs.
As there was no sawmill in those times, the floors were made of puncheons which were logs split and smoothed on one side with an adze. The rough side was laid next to the ground. There was a large fireplace on the north side of the kitchen. Here, Loranda did all of the everyday cooking by hanging pots on a rod over the fire. Big tongs were used to set beside the chimney to be used when the fire needed replenishing. Pot hooks and cranes were tools used in handling the cooking utensils in these times. The baking was all done in a big brick oven built in the north comer of the kitchen. Loranda baked the most delicious salt-rising bread, pumpkin and mince pies, and baked beans at various times, usually twice per week.
After 77 years of time has passed, one of the grandchildren (Ida Boslow Klumb) is giving this description. She was born in this same log house in the year 1850 in the northeast comer room on the upper floor. It was known as the "Old Abby". All of the buildings on the homestead were constructed of logs and they consisted of corncrib, barns, chicken houses, hen coops, carpenter shop, sheds, and a smoke house. She remembers the smoke house very vividly as it used to be filled with meat every fall. The meat was smoked and cured for winter use. The carpenter shop was very much used by Rodolphus, who was a handy workman with carpenter tools.
The only kind of chairs used in the Abby in the year 1840 and some years later, were splint bottom chairs. They were all homemade. One chair in particular, I remember. It was a big rocking chair with splint bottom and back. These splints came from the inside bark of elm trees, arched and cut into proper lengths, then woven back and forth until the bottom of the chair would be covered. Frames of the chair, back legs and rounds, were fashioned from small limbs of walnut trees which were very plentiful. The rocking chair mentioned above was very substantial and was used for many, many years. It was still in the possession of Loranda Derrick at her death in 1873. The chair served many purposes, being used for a cradle for many of the grandchildren as well as a rest chair for the elderly. I well remember seeing Grandma sitting in it at the window that looked out on the yard. Beside the window was a rose bush and in June it was loaded with large pink roses. Grandma would sit by the window with her knitting work - a pretty sight, dressed in her white cap and neckerchief, a costume worn by all elderly women at that time.
Lamps were not known in the home. For lighting the old log cabin, pine nuts and tallow candles were used. Grandma used to make up very large quantities, hundreds of dozens of them every fall. They were burned in candlesticks and had snuffers to snap the wicks. The brass candle sticks had to be cleaned and candles renewed every morning.
Besides doing the work and cooking, Grandma made clothes for all the family by taking the wool from. the sheep, cleaning and carding it, spinning it into yam and then weaving it into cloth. All this was done with homemade utensils such as the spinning wheel, reels, and looms. In 1860, the spinning wheel Was still in the garret of the old home. After all this work to get the cloth, the clothing for every member of the family was made by hand sewing. Sewing machines had not been put into use at this time. Stockings were all hand knitted from yam which had been home spun. Even the shoes were all hand cobbled from home-tanned leather.
All the joys and comforts of a home were of crude form compared with the present. For drinking purposes, gourds were mainly used. They were formed by cutting off one side, digging out the center, and then put them through a drying process. As a result, they became very hard, serviceable, and durable. They had a long neck used as a handle. A hole was made in the end through which a homespun string was run and the gourd was hung by the old stone well for a drinking cup. Many of these improvised dippers were kept about the house for various purposes.
Besides the homemade splint bottom chairs, there were wooden cradles for the babies made of walnut wood. Bookcases and all cupboards used in the Abby were made of wood from the farm. One of the bookcases did service until 1873 and later.
All soap used Was home processed. First, they had to get the lye by making a sort of rack or bin to hold ashes and when this became full, water was poured on to the ashes until it was thoroughly saturated. After a short time, the water having penetrated all through the ashes, it would trickle out into a trough. This lye was used to cut the grease in making soap. The soap was made in big iron kettles placed over an outdoor fire. Large quantities were made and stored in a big log room used only -for this purpose.4History of Green County, Wisconsin - 1884.
5Census, Federal - 1870 - GreenCo., Wisconsin, Spring Grove. "Line 30 Dwelling # 148 Household # 148
Derrick, F.H. age 46 farmer Real Estate = $15,000 b. NY
Harriet 48 Canada
Theodore 22 farmer WI
Frank 20 in school WI
Mary 17 in school WI
Levi 15 in school WI
Harriet 13 in school WI
Peter 8 in school WI
Lorinda 78 NY."6Census, Federal - 1860 - Green, WI, Spring Grove, p. 5 of 5. "Line 34 1511 35
RD Derrick age 66 farmer b. NY
Neeranda " 63
Scott Duory 10 WI."
1Frank D. Walker, Derrick Family History, Wheeler, TX - 22 FEB 1957, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
2Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf, rec'd via EMail 0n 14 APR 2002.
1History of Green County, Wisconsin - 1884.
2TenEyck Family Record Book, Brodhead, WI library.
1TenEyck Family Record Book, Chap. 5, p. 37, Brodhead, WI library.
2Joyce Condon-Warren
oyce Condon-Warren, RE: Condon, Stewart, Lafferty in Canada 1776, Roots Web.com Message Board, Ancestry.com.3Edited by Mary Poast and Dr. Arnold Condon, Condon Clan (The), Descendants of Thomas Condon, Ontario, and his son Nathaniel Bloodsworth Condon, WI and Allied Lines, The Condon Family of Brodhead, WI, 5 AUG 1983.
4Census, Federal - 1850 - Green Co., Wi, town of Spring Grove, Ancestry p. 16. "Line 7 Dwelling # 100 Household # 104
F H Derrick age 27 farmer b. NY
Harriet " 29 U Canada
Theodore " 2 WI
Franklin " 1/12 WI
Mary Boslow 53 New Brunswick real estate value $1000."5Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf, rec'd via EMail 0n 14 APR 2002.
1Olsen, Wayne - EMail dated 7 APR 2002 - "Condon, Lafferty, Stewart". The names of Mary and John Boslow's children are from a letter to Wayne from Audrey Condon Delaney dated 23 FEB 1990.
1Olsen, Wayne - EMail dated 7 APR 2002 - "Condon, Lafferty, Stewart". The names of Mary and John Boslow's children are from a letter to Wayne from Audrey Condon Delaney dated 23 FEB 1990.
1TenEyck Family Record Book, Chap 5, Brodhead, WI library.
2Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf, rec'd via EMail 0n 14 APR 2002.
1Olsen, Wayne - EMail dated 7 APR 2002 - "Condon, Lafferty, Stewart". The names of Mary and John Boslow's children are from a letter to Wayne from Audrey Condon Delaney dated 23 FEB 1990.
1Olsen, Wayne - EMail dated 7 APR 2002 - "Condon, Lafferty, Stewart". The names of Mary and John Boslow's children are from a letter to Wayne from Audrey Condon Delaney dated 23 FEB 1990.
1Olsen, Wayne - EMail dated 7 APR 2002 - "Condon, Lafferty, Stewart". The names of Mary and John Boslow's children are from a letter to Wayne from Audrey Condon Delaney dated 23 FEB 1990.
1Frank D. Walker, Derrick Family History, Wheeler, TX - 22 FEB 1957, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
2Census, Federal - 1850 - Green Co., Wi, town of Spring Grove, Ancestry p. 16. "Line 7 Dwelling # 100 Household # 104
F H Derrick age 27 farmer b. NY
Harriet " 29 U Canada
Theodore " 2 WI
Franklin " 1/12 WI
Mary Boslow 53 New Brunswick real estate value $1000."3Jack Taif Spencer and Robert Abraham Goodpasture, Genealogy and History of the Derthicks and Related Derricks, Eight Centuries of the Derthicks and Related Derricks..., Gateway Press, Inc. Baltimore, 1986., p. 490. "Theodore James Derrick was a soldier in the Civil War. He enlisted 6 February 1865 and was mustered out 18 July, same year. He was enrolled in Company B, 18th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry.
When Theodore and Ellen were first married, they lived on the old Derrick homestead, three miles southwest of Brodhead. Later they lived in Clay County, Kansas and after that moved on to Jolly, Texas. Throughout his life, Theodore Derrick was known by the nickname of "Tid."."4Census, Federal - 1870 - GreenCo., Wisconsin, Spring Grove. "Line 30 Dwelling # 148 Household # 148
Derrick, F.H. age 46 farmer Real Estate = $15,000 b. NY
Harriet 48 Canada
Theodore 22 farmer WI
Frank 20 in school WI
Mary 17 in school WI
Levi 15 in school WI
Harriet 13 in school WI
Peter 8 in school WI
Lorinda 78 NY."5Ancestry.com.
1Frank D. Walker, Derrick Family History, Wheeler, TX - 22 FEB 1957, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
2Jack Taif Spencer and Robert Abraham Goodpasture, Genealogy and History of the Derthicks and Related Derricks, Eight Centuries of the Derthicks and Related Derricks..., Gateway Press, Inc. Baltimore, 1986., pp.489 & 490.
1Frank D. Walker, Derrick Family History, Wheeler, TX - 22 FEB 1957, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
2Jack Taif Spencer and Robert Abraham Goodpasture, Genealogy and History of the Derthicks and Related Derricks, Eight Centuries of the Derthicks and Related Derricks..., Gateway Press, Inc. Baltimore, 1986., p. 490. Jessie May d. 30 Sept. 1884 of typhoid fever, Jessie May died in the room where she was born and from which her grandmother, Harriet Boslow, and great grandmother, Loranda Sheldon Derrick, had been buried.
3Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf, rec'd via EMail 0n 14 APR 2002.
1Frank D. Walker, Derrick Family History, Wheeler, TX - 22 FEB 1957, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
2Census, Federal - 1850 - Green Co., Wi, town of Spring Grove, Ancestry p. 16.
3Census, Federal - 1870 - GreenCo., Wisconsin, Spring Grove. "Line 30 Dwelling # 148 Household # 148
Derrick, F.H. age 46 farmer Real Estate = $15,000 b. NY
Harriet 48 Canada
Theodore 22 farmer WI
Frank 20 in school WI
Mary 17 in school WI
Levi 15 in school WI
Harriet 13 in school WI
Peter 8 in school WI
Lorinda 78 NY."
1Frank D. Walker, Derrick Family History, Wheeler, TX - 22 FEB 1957, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
2Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf, rec'd via EMail 0n 14 APR 2002.
3Belle Derrick Obituary, The Independent Register, Brodhead, WI, 13 Jun 1935.
1Nyman, Ina - various papers, from Brodhead Independent Register. "Died
Derrick on Monday, May5, 1884, Sue, infant daughter and only child of Frank and Belle Derrick, aged 7 months and 6 days. Many a heart will be saddened, many an eye dimmed with tears, as they read the brief record of the little life, so small, so weak. How strong the cords of love with which she bound us. Oh how many a life in the wide circle of friends and relatives she laid the gentle pressure of her baby hands and memory shall respond there forevermore. How the world widened and brightened with her presence! Alas! How hath it changed with her absence! The tender sympathy of many friends with the bereaved parents was manifest in the large gathering at the funeral services; in the beautiful songs of comfort sung with trembling voices in the tender and comforting words of hte minister, Rev. G. W. Nuzum. So beautiful, the littler one as she lay in the dainty casket, the heart would fain have kept her eventhuss, and it was hard to lay her away forever from sight." I believe this article was written by Mary Derrick.
1Census, Federal - 1900 - Rush Co., Kansas, ED# 245, Ancestry p. 12 of 13.
2Census, Federal - 1880 - Hamilton Co.., Nebraska, Farmer's Valley. "line 37 household #40
Boslaw, Thomas C, age 52 farmer Canada VA New Brunswick
Pauline 50 wife keep house NY VT NY
Clarence 24 son farmer OH Canada NY
Minnie 22 dau public school teacher OH " NY
Ernest 17 son farmer WI " NY
Derrick, Levi F. 24 nephew farmer WI NY Canada
Fay, Reuben A. 32 farmer MI NY NY
Lucy 25 wife keep house MI NY MI
Linda 3 dau NE MI MI
Alice 2 dau NE MI MI."3Census, Federal - 1870 - GreenCo., Wisconsin, Spring Grove. "Line 30 Dwelling # 148 Household # 148
Derrick, F.H. age 46 farmer Real Estate = $15,000 b. NY
Harriet 48 Canada
Theodore 22 farmer WI
Frank 20 in school WI
Mary 17 in school WI
Levi 15 in school WI
Harriet 13 in school WI
Peter 8 in school WI
Lorinda 78 NY."4Ancestry.com, Greenlee Family tree.
1Frank D. Walker, Derrick Family History, Wheeler, TX - 22 FEB 1957, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
2Census, Federal - 1900 - Rush Co., Kansas, ED# 245, Ancestry p. 12 of 13.
3Ancestry.com, Greenlee Family Tree.
4Ancestry.com, Greenlee Family Tree.
1Carden, H.B. letter to Lona Belle, 23 Oct 1966.
2Waugh, Carelton, Familysearch.com-Waugh.
3Church of Jesus Christ of the latter Day Saints - Familysearch.com.
1Frank D. Walker, Derrick Family History, Wheeler, TX - 22 FEB 1957, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
2Census, Federal - 1870 - GreenCo., Wisconsin, Spring Grove. "Line 30 Dwelling # 148 Household # 148
Derrick, F.H. age 46 farmer Real Estate = $15,000 b. NY
Harriet 48 Canada
Theodore 22 farmer WI
Frank 20 in school WI
Mary 17 in school WI
Levi 15 in school WI
Harriet 13 in school WI
Peter 8 in school WI
Lorinda 78 NY."3Waugh, Carelton, Familysearch.com-Waugh.
4Church of Jesus Christ of the latter Day Saints - Familysearch.com.
1Carden, H.B. letter to Lona Belle.
2Ancestry.com. tree contact - Jack Scanlan; Email- Baldeguy.
1Hettie Balis Carden, Thoughts and Memories over the Years, unpublished, p. A 54, Copy in Personal Files of Dianne Z. Stevens. Written when she was in her late 80's.
2Ancestry.com. tree contact Jack Scanlan; Email Baldeguy.
3Social Security Death Index.
4Social Security Death Index.
1Carden, H.B. letter to Lona Belle.
2Ancestry.com. tree contact - Jack Scanlan; Email- Baldeguy.
3Social Security Death Index.
1Ancestry.com. tree contact - Jack Scanlan; Email- Baldeguy.
1Hettie Balis Carden, Thoughts and Memories over the Years, unpublished, p. A 54, Copy in Personal Files of Dianne Z. Stevens. Written when she was in her late 80's.
2Ancestry.com. tree contact - Jack Scanlan; Email- Baldeguy.
3Social Security Death Index.
1Frank D. Walker, Derrick Family History, Wheeler, TX - 22 FEB 1957, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
2Census, Federal - 1880 - Green Co, WI, Spring Grove, Film T9-1428, p. 194C.
3Jack Taif Spencer and Robert Abraham Goodpasture, Genealogy and History of the Derthicks and Related Derricks, Eight Centuries of the Derthicks and Related Derricks..., Gateway Press, Inc. Baltimore, 1986., p. 494. "Paul Erwin Derrick established the American Advertising Company and was instrumental in getting "Quaker Oats" known round the world. He was the American representative with headquarters in London. After his retirement, he returned to Brodhead where he built a spacious house for him and his wife, the former Adelaide Bowen.
In 1944, Adelaide May Derrick prepared a very detailed will providing for the distribution of her setate to a large number of beneficiaries. The principal legatees were her sister, Nellie (bowen) Stair, and her husband, Lewis J. Stair, of Brodhead, Wisconsin. Thassets included the homestead known as "PandaLodge" in Block Nine of the original plat of Brodhead. A large number of nieces and nephews were included in the will as beneficiaries."4Census, Federal - 1870 - GreenCo., Wisconsin, Spring Grove. "Line 30 Dwelling # 148 Household # 148
Derrick, F.H. age 46 farmer Real Estate = $15,000 b. NY
Harriet 48 Canada
Theodore 22 farmer WI
Frank 20 in school WI
Mary 17 in school WI
Levi 15 in school WI
Harriet 13 in school WI
Peter 8 in school WI
Lorinda 78 NY." The person called "Peter" is actually Paul.5Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf, rec'd via EMail 0n 14 APR 2002.
1Frank D. Walker, Derrick Family History, Wheeler, TX - 22 FEB 1957, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
2Shirley Nyman Harris, Various papers copied and sent to DZStevens in August 2003. 2 obituaries from unamed papers.
3Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf, rec'd via EMail 0n 14 APR 2002.