Marriage Notes for Enoch Barrett Jr and Margaret BARNINGHAM-2179
"Scrapbook" article from Rootsweb says marriage date was 24 Mar 1895.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~iljodavi/scrapbook/part2.htm
Scrapbook Gleanings - Part 2
Scrapbook of Newspaper Clippings - Part 2
Marriage: Barningham - Barrett With pleasure we record the marriage nuptials of Miss Margaret Barningham of Thompson and Mr. Enoch Barrett of this township, which was solemnized at the M. E. parsonage last Tuesday afternoon at two o’clock.
They were attended by Wesley White and sister Lizzie. After the words of union had been pronounced, the newly wedded couple took the afternoon train for the east on a wedding tour.
The bride is a daughter of the late James Barningham of Thompson and is an estimable young lady. The groom is a son of Mrs. W. L. White and is a worthy young man. We wish them a long and happy life.
Aunt Dorothy writes, "John K, he was very religious. His first wife died when their baby was born, of puerperal fever, a disease caused by the carelessness of doctors and nurses. Of course the baby died too. By the way the second wife acted, we think she wasn't quite sane and by divorcing Uncle John, she made him the only one of the family to go through a divorce court."
Rootsweb Scrapbook Gleanings Part 1 reports a John White going to school at Normal Illinois, the state teacher's college. I believe this is our John White because I have a photo of him taken at Bloomington, Il, he was a teacher and his brother William Wesley had gone there.
"James Armstrong, John White and Miss Barningham left Monday to attend school at Normal, Ill."
Tibbals was a twin with Lizzie. Here's what Aunt Dorothy says of him. "He was a postmaster at Oskaloosa, Iowa for a long time. Tibbals and his wife, Merritt's mother and father, died of the flu when Merritt was tiny. He was raised by an aunt on the Sincox side of the family. I guess they were sort of rough. They drank and Merritt does too. When he phoned me the last times I could hardly understand him."
Per Ellen Faragher White's will: name is George Tibbals White.
1920 census shows Emma Francomb, age 57, living with Ellen and Annie White. Emma is an older sister of Ella Francomb who had married Ellen's son Tibbals in 1902. (See 1880 census, Apple River, Jo Daviess County, IL, Ancestyr p. 18 of 22.)
Tibbals was a twin with Lizzie. Here's what Aunt Dorothy says of him. "He was a postmaster at Oskaloosa, Iowa for a long time. Tibbals and his wife, Merritt's mother and father, died of the flu when Merritt was tiny. He was raised by an aunt on the Sincox side of the family. I guess they were sort of rough. They drank and Merritt does too. When he phoned me the last times I could hardly understand him."
Per Ellen Faragher White's will: name is George Tibbals White.
1900 census shows name as Adella. Adella's family is living nextdoor to family of Wes and Adie White. (Adella later married Wes's brother Tibbals.) Adella has a twin sister, Ida, also born March 1887.
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The "W" is from 1920 census.
1930 Census shows Merritt living with his widowed Aunt Eva Wilkinson. Benjamin Sincox and Charles Sincox, probably uncles, live nearby.
Merritt and Ruth had 6 children.
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WWI draft reg. - 12 Apr 1918 - working as a clergyman for Nazarene Church in Artesia, Eddy, NM.
physical description - tall, med. build, gray eyes, dk brown hair1920 census - Hayes' parents were both born in Ohio. He is working as a minister for the Church of the Nazarene.
1930 Census - Hayes states he is a veteran of the Spanish American War.
At the time of Lizzie's letter to Helen, Hayes and Lizzie lived in Oklahoma City.
1920 census - Lizzie's profession is "Minister" - Church of the Nazarene (same as husband.)
The following information is from Lizzie's niece, Helen Romppainen.
Lizzie married Hayes Phillipes, a minister of The Church of the Nazarene. When she became ill with TB they moved to La Lande, New Mexico. There she recovered and took in Edith, a child whose mother was dying of TB. After that she had her own daughter, Ellen. They stayed in the ministry until Uncle John and Grandma White died. Then they came to live with Annie in the big old house in Apple River, Illinois. (However, they do not appear on the 1930 census in the home of John and Annie White.) When Annie died, Lizzie inherited most of the furniture, except for several pieces which went to Helen. Lizzie writes (White, Lizzie - letter to Helen White 31 DEC 1962):
"I had left to me the old family Bible with the family record made out by John and can be depended on. In it he had all the grandchildren's names and ages down to Ellen."I have Lizzie on the 1930 Census in Taylor County, Texas. Listed on the census is an adopted son, Houston Hilt, whom Nana never mentioned.
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In White, Lizzie - letter to Helen White 31 DEC 1962
Lizzie writes:
"Edith has a lovely home in Texas."
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John George Nicklas 1806 - 1884 and
Anna Catherine Betsch 1809 - 1889
February 23, 2007Dear Children
Tonight I will tell you about the Nicklas Family. Anna Adelaide Nicklas was Nana's mother. She married William Wesley White on March 16, 1899 in Platteville, Wisconsin. This is the story of her people.
The first Nicklas ancestors that we know of were John George and Anna Catherine Betsch Nicklas. They were first cousins, born in Leonabach, Hessen, Darmstadt, John George Nicklas on July 2, 1806 and Anna Betsch on August 9, 1809. From 1567 to 1806, the year John was born, Hesse-Darmstadt was a state in the Holy Roman Empire. From 1806 until 1918, after the Holy Roman Empire dissolved, the area was called the Grand Duchy of Hesse, It was a member of the German Confederation and then the German Empire. From 1918 to 1945 it was called the Peoples' State of Hesse and it was a state of Germany during the Weimar Republic. It's located in west central Germany near Frankfurt.
In Germany John was a hooked rug designer. He and Catherine came to Pennsylvania in 1832 and were married in 1833. Their first three children, Peter Benjamin, Elizabeth, and John were born there in Cumberland County. Baby John died before he was eleven months old. By the time their next baby was born in June of 1839 they had left Pennsylvania and moved to Monroe County, Illinois, along with the mother of either John or Anna. We can see her listed on the 1840 census, but only by age, not by name. Monroe County borders the Mississippi River down in southern Illinois. John and Anna really wanted a John in their family so when the next baby turned out to be another boy, they again named the baby John. They had four children during the ten years they lived in Illinois; after the 2nd John came Catharina, George, and William. Then they put all their belongings on a boat and came up the Mississippi River to Wisconsin. First they settled in Lafayette County where Carolina was born, and then they moved to Grant County where their last child, Jacob was born in 1851. They lived and farmed in the township of Georgetown for thirty years. When they were very old they moved into Platteville and they died there, John on 2 December 1884 and Anna on 5 January 1889.
We know a great deal about the descendants of John and Anna Nicklas because of their granddaughter, Sophia Driskill of Yukon, Oklahoma. During the last ten years of her life she worked on compiling information on all the Nicklas descendants she could find. Before she died she sent me a copy of her work, titled Nicklas Family History. She also wrote me a number of letters over the years and they are printed in the sources for John George Nicklas. Two of their sons died as a result of their Civil War service. Baby John died in infancy. From the remaining six children they had 29 grandchildren.
I am calling them John and Anna. However, they may have been called George and Catherine. Many Germans immigrants seem to have had a peculiar custom of giving their children a first name and a middle name and then calling them by the middle name. On the 1840, 1850, and 1860 census he is George, she is Catherine (except that only the head of the family, usually male, is listed before 1850.) On the 1880 census he is John G. and she is Anna C.
On the last page of her book Sophia has a list of "Nicklas Characteristics." How many of these can you see in your mom's family?
tall and slender
slow
religious
neat
stingy with money
queer in some ways
stomach trouble
curvature of the spine
Also senile
Many teachers and doctors
not talkative
Poor business peopleDoesn't sound like your mom to me! Maybe your grandpa.
Among John and Anna's descendants were many teachers and doctors, so I don't think when she said "slow" she was talking about brain power. I found one who was an English professor right here in Madison while we've been living here and we didn't even know it. That was Irving Kreutz (b. 1917). It bothered Sophia that along with brilliance, the family seemed to have a dark side. Sophia thought perhaps it was because of George and Anna being first cousins. Nowadays its against the law for first cousins to marry because there is a greater risk of having babies with abnormalities, but it used to be quite common. We have a good number of marriages between first cousins in our family tree besides John and Anna. One time when Sophia said to a cousin that she wished she had known more about her grandparents the cousin replied, "You would NOT want to KNOW about them." (See Sophia Driskill Letters G and H) There were a number of cases of mental illness and at least two suicides among their grandchildren and great-grandchildren.. Sophia thought those cases were due to their having been cousins. We will never know for sure.
Now I'm going to tell you a little bit about each of John and Anna's nine children.
John and Anna Nicklas's first child was Peter Benjamin Nicklas, born 5 July 1834 in Blue Ridge, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He is our ancestor. More about him later.
John and Anna Nicklas's second child was Elizabeth Nicklas, born 13 February 1836 in Blue Ridge, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Elizabeth grew up and married Leonard VonBerg who was born in Germany. They had one son that was a doctor, and another was a dentist. The third died in a dormitory fire when he was at college. They also had tthree daughters. Some of their descendants lived in Iowa.
John and Anna Nicklas's third child was John Nicklas, born 5 October 1837 in Blue Ridge, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He died in infancy.
John and Anna Nicklas's fourth child was John Nicklas, born 26 June 1839 in Monroe County, Illinois. He married Amelia Kreutz in 1870 in Wisconsin. Amelia's brother, George Kreutz, married John's sister, Carolina Nicklas. John and Amelia had six children, two boys and four girls, with many descendants in Iowa. Their youngest daughter committed suicide by throwing herself down a well.
John and Anna Nicklas's fifth child was Catharina Nicklas, born 1 January 1842 in Monroe County, Illinois. She married Sam Linderman on 25 February 1870. They had two adopted children. It was reportedly an unhappy marriage.
John and Anna Nicklas's sixth child was George Nicklas, born 10 October 1845 in Monroe County, Illinois. George was a private in Co. K of the 47th Wisconsin infantry in the Civil War. He died of Tuberculosis several years after the war ended. Many Civil War soldiers suffered from TB. Over 6,000 died during the war and countless others, including George and his brother Jacob, succumbed after they returned home.
John and Anna Nicklas's seventh child was William Nicklas, born 9 February 1847 in Monroe County, Illinois. He married Emma Schlick in 1876. They settled in Floyd County, Iowa and had seven children, the youngest of whom was Nicklas family historian, Sophia Nicklas Driskill. Many of their descendants lived in Iowa.
John and Anna Nicklas's eighth child was Carolina Nicklas, born 24 June 1848 in Lafayette County, Illinois. She married George Kreutz in 1868. GeorgeKreutz and Amelia Kreutz, John Nicklas's wife, were brother and sister. George and Caroline had six children. The youngest, Earnest, was seven feet tall and committed suicide.
John and Anna Nicklas's ninth child was Jacob Nicklas, born 3 November 1851 in Georgetown, Wisconsin Sophia says Jacob served in the Civil War but I haven't found his record. If he did he would have had to do so as a very young teenager. He died in 1873 of Tuberculosis.
So that's the story of our immigrant Nicklas ancestors from Leonabach, Hesse, Darmstadt.
Here is how you're related to John George and Anna Catherine Betsch Nicklas: They had a son Peter, Peter had a daughter Addie, Addie had a daughter Helen White, Helen had Paul Stevens, Paul had Dawne, and Dawne had Sarah, Becky, Timmy, and Hannah!
Hooray for John and Anna! (Or George and Catherine.)
Love
Granny
I don't know how much you know about the Nicklas family. My father spoke very little about them. They left quite a sum of money to the children in the will. Our cousin found the will in a trunk. - Sophia Driskill Letter A
From S. Driskill history, p. 1:
"Anna Catherine Betsch Nicklas died January 5, 1889, of huigh blood pressure, age 79 years, 4 months, 27 days. She was born August 9, 1809. In 1832, she came to the U.S. from Lenabach Hessen, Dormstadt, Germany. In 1833, she was united in marriage to John George Nicklas. He preceeded her in death 4 years before. She was a faithful member of her church since 1845. God comfort the relatives and meet again in heaven.
J. F. Steiner, minister, Platteville, Wisconsin."
John and Anna Nicklas's sixth child was George Nicklas, born 10 October 1845 in Monroe County, Illinois. George was a private in Co. K of the 47th Wisconsin infantry in the Civil War. He died of Tuberculosis several years after the war ended. Many Civil War soldiers suffered from TB. Over 6,000 died during the war and countless others, including George and his brother Jacob, succombed after they returned home.
John and Anna Nicklas's ninth child was Jacob Nicklas. Sophia says Jacob served in the Civil War but I haven't found his record. If he did he would have do so as a very young teenager. He died in 1873 of Tuberculosis.
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The Christiana Thies Story
(abt 1818 - aft 1880)2 March 2007
Dear Children,
Tonight I want to tell you about one of your great-great-great-great-grandmothers. Do you have any idea how many of those you have? If you figure it out let me know.
Christiana Thies (At least I think that was her name!) was born in a little town in Hanover, Germany called Salzhemmendorf. Salzhemmendorf is a village in Hamelin-Pyrmont district, in the province of Hanover in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is about 12 miles east of the city of Hamelin. Do you remember that town from the story of the pied piper? Perhaps he led the children through Salzhemmendorf.. Think of Christianna when you read that story. Salzhemmendorf is famous as a health resort. Hanover was the Kingdom of Hannover in the early 1800's when Christianna was born there. It became a province of Prussia in 1866 and then part of Germany after unification of Germany in 1871. When Christiana lived there her country was Hannover, not Germany.
Our Nana's sister, Aunt Dorothy White, told us that her great grandmother, Christiana, was an unwed mother and that she came to this country with two little girls, our ancestor Dorothea and a little red-headed sister. Until very recently there was a certain amount of shame involved for a woman who was not married and had children. The shame centered only on the woman and not on the man who fathered the children. This shame may have been part of the reason Christianna came to America. But the shame came with her. When our Aunt Dorothy told us about Christiana, this is how she began, "History may reveal skeletons, so adults please read before releasing to children." She was talking about her grandmother, Henrietta Dorothea. She continued, "This grandmother was a dear little lady who had the misfortune of being an illegitimate child. As I remember it, she had a red-headed illegitmate sister. When she came to this country great grandmother (Christiana) became a law-abiding citizen." Another place we can sense the shame is on the 1850 census. Christiana has married and is shown on the census with only her husband, even though Henrietta Dorthea would have been only 9 years old at the time and the little red-headed sister is nowhere to be found either.
I believe Christiana may have been a seamstress and probably supported herself that way until she married John Kalt. I think this because two of her daughters were seamstresses, Dorothy and Christiana. It was a fairly common occupation for single woman in that time as ready made clothes were scarce.
You may wonder, "How do you know she is our ancestor?" I'll tell you how I found her and why I'm sure she is your 4g grandmother and you will learn a little bit about how to do genealogy.
1) I knew your 3g grandfather's name from Nana and Aunt Dorothy and where he lived. That was Peter Nicklas. They told me Peter's wife was Dorothy or Henrietta or Harriet.
2) I looked online, found his marriage record, and ordered a copy. The Grant County, Wisconsin marriage record gave her name as Doratha L. H. Schlucke. It showed the names of her parents. Not all marriage records show that information so I was very lucky. It said her mother was Christina Colt and her father, Mr. Schlucke.
3) I have a photo album kept by Addie Nicklas, Dorothy's (or Harriet's or Henrietta's) daughter. In it I found a lovely photo of a woman named Christianna Kalt. Hmm ...Colt, Kalt, Chistina, Christiana, very similar.
4) I found a marriage record on line for John Kalde and Christine Tiece, 23 Jul 1848. Again, the spellings are a little different but similar and the date is approximately right.
5) I followed Christianna and John in the Grant County, Wisconsin census and this is what I found:
a) 1850 - Eastern Grant County -John, a shoemaker, and Christianna Colt, both born in Germany and married within the year.
b) 1860 - Hazel Green - John , a boot and shoemaker born in Saxony, and Christena Kalt, born in Hanover, and their four children, Mary J., August, Christena, and Louise.
c) 1870 - Hazel Green - John, a shoemaker born in Baden, and Christiana Kaulte, born in Switzerland, and their four children, Mary J., Augustine, Christiana, and Louise.
d) 1880 - Beetown - John, a shoemaker born in Holland, and Christine, born in Prussia, and two children, Christiana and Louise.
Notice all the different spellings of Kalt and all the different places of birth. But the names and ages of children, I omitted the ages here, make it read almost like a string of DNA. I became quite sure I had the right family. Those kinds of problems make genealogy a fun and challenging puzzle. It's a thrill to finally put the pieces together. From the census records I concluded the photo I have of Chistiana was the daughter, not the mother. The album also has a photo of August Kalt, her son, and his wife.
6) The final piece of evidence, I ordered the death certificate for Dorothy or Henrietta or Harriet Nicklas. It gave her mother's name as Christiana Thies and her father's name as ... August Thies! That's genealogy. Whenever you solve one mystery you open another. I discovered that the spelling Thies is much more common than Tiece, so I'm going with Thies.
But the Christiana Thies on Dorothy's death record is clearly the same person as the Christine Tiece who married John Kalde in 1848, and the Chistiana Kalt whose children's pictures appear in their half-sister's, Addie's, photo album. I hope you followed all that!The fact that I have photographs of two of Christiana's children from John Kalt in Addie's photo album leads me to believe Christiana did not desert her first children even though they are not listed on the 1850 census with her. A good relationship must have been maintained between the two sets.
Here is a little bit about Christiana's children:
Dorothy or Henrietta or Harriet Schlucke is our ancestor. More about her later.
The little red-headed sister mentioned by Aunt Dorothy., one of Christiana's descendants I have correspended with believed her name was Carrie.Christiana and John's first child, Mary Jane married William Hutchcroft from England. They farmed in Glen Haven in Grant County, Wisconsin and had three children, Lester, Oscar, and Elsie. Lester became a state health officer.
Christiana and John's second child, August Kalt, married Anna Amelia Carlton. He farmed in Bloomington in Grant County. They had three children, Albert, Leonard, and Edith. Albert became a physician and practiced in California.
Christiana and John's third child, Christiana, never married. She was a dress maker like her half-sister, Dorothy or Henrietta or Harriet. She lived over the years with various nieces and nephews and may have helped them go to college.
Christiana and John's fourth child, Louisa married Lewis Taylor in 1888 and had at least three children.
So here ends the story of your fouth great grandmother, Christiana Thies. She was born in Germany and came to America in shame as a young unwed mother with two small children. She redeemed herself by making a good marriage and raising a second, respectable family in Grant County, Wisconsin. You can be sure it was not an easy life.
Here is how you are related to Christiana Thies. Christiana had Dorothy or Henrietta or Harriet Schlucke. Dorothy or Henrietta or Harriet married Peter Nicklas and had Anna Adelaide Nicklas (Addie). Addie married Wesley White and had Helen White (Nana). Nana married Harold Stevens and had Paul Stevens. Paul married me and had Dawne. Dawne married your daddy and had...Sarah, Hannah, Timmy and Becky!
So Hooray for Christiana Thies!
Love Granny
"Thies" is from children George's and Dorothy's death certificates.