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#52Ancestors – No. 33 – Kenneth Ralph Barnett
Posted by Caroll in Genealogy Blog on August 21, 2014
This post is number 33 in the series of the #52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge where a group of us blog about a different ancestor for each week of the year. To learn more about the 52 Ancestor Challenge visit Amy Johnson’s site at Amy’s website.
Loss of a child
Kenneth R. Barnett only lived one day. Born on May 11, 1948, he passed away the next day. His headstone at Fairmount Cemetery in Central City, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, is quite poignant. Kenneth was the grandson of my great Aunt, Grace Pittman. He is the son of Bettie Jo Holmes (first cousin 2x removed) and her husband Herbert K. Barnett.
A Lost Branch
I know very little of the Holmes/Barnett Family. Grace Pittman died at the age of 45. Bettie Jo was eight when her mother passed away. Grace remained in Kentucky, while her two sisters moved their families to Michigan. I have no family photos or information passed down from my grandmother regarding her cousins in KY.
Hopefully through this blog, I can connect to cousins on this branch and learn their stories.
Sources:
Photo credited to Tammy Dozer and can be found at Find A Grave
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=126622905&PIpi=98063050
#52Ancestors – No. 30 – Isaac N Pittman
This post is number 30 in the series of the #52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge where a group of us blog about a different ancestor for each week of the year. To learn more about the 52 Ancestor Challenge visit Amy Johnson’s site at Amy’s website.
This week’s ancestor is Isaac N. Pittman, father of John Thomas Pittman in post #52 Ancestors No. 9. Isaac is the son of Thomas A. Pittman and Susan Lawson. Born March 1838 in Todd County, Kentucky. There is an unsourced death date of 1904 in Wabash, Indiana.
I located a Civil War Draft Registration for Isaac that I have included below. I could not find a pension recorded that could be attributed to this Isaac. There was an Isaac Pittman from Indiana who served in the Civil War and had a pension record. I will have to add this research task to my ever growing list of topics to follow-up.
Isaac Pittman’s name on the draft list
Source: Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registrations, 1863-1865. NM-65, entry 172, 620 volumes. ARC ID: 4213514. Records of the Provost Marshal General’s Bureau (Civil War), Record Group 110. National Archives at Washington D.C.
#52 Ancestors – No. 17 – Gracie Pittman
This post is number 17 in the series of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge where a group of us blog about a different ancestor for each week of the year. To learn more about the 52 Ancestor Challenge visit Amy’s website.
I just spent a fun weekend catching up with half-cousins once removed. So this week’s entry is going to be quick. No, really.
Gracie Pittman was born in 1887. She is the first daughter of then 15 year-old, Josepine Woodburn and John T. Pittman. She is the sister to my great-grandmother, Mable Pittman Roll Baumgartel.
Gracie marries at age 17 in 1904 to one, Chester Oliver Board. The marriage wasn’t agreeable to either of them. They are together on the 1910 Census and have gone their separate ways by the 1920 Census. The 1910 Census alleges that the mother has given birth to two children that are living. However, no children are enumerated with this couple. I have not discovered a birth or death certificate for any child born of this union.
Chester is living in San Francisco as a laborer on the 1920 Census. Gracie has remarried. Her new husband is James H. Holmes. James and Gracie have four children. Mary B Holmes, 1918; James in 1921, Margaret in 1923, and the last Bettie Jo Holmes in 1927.
Regrettably, Gracie Pittman Holmes dies in 1932 at the age of 45. The cause of death in Pulmonary Tuberculois. She passes away at the Western State Hospital in Hopkinsville, KY. Her oldest child is 14 and the youngest, is just 5. I have not been able to locate the family in the 1940 Census at this time.
Within my grandmother Olive Roll Howes batch of photos, there was a mystery photograph of an Edwards family. My genealogy research led me to identify the family as children of Margaret Holmes Edwards.
“Kentucky Marriages, 1785-1979,” index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F4QR-6DJ : accessed 29 Apr 2014), Chester O Board and Gracie Pittman, 12 Nov 1904; citing Muhlenberg, Kentucky, reference ; FHL microfilm 557331.
“United States Census, 1910,” index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M28N-DL4 : accessed 29 Apr 2014), Grace Board in household of Chester Board, Magisterial District 1, Caldwell, Kentucky, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 11, sheet 12A, family 235, NARA microfilm publication T624, FHL microfilm 1374481.
“Kentucky Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates – Microfilm (1911-19550. Microfilm rolls” #7016130-7041803. Kentucky Dept for Libraries, and Archives, Frankfort, Kentucky.
#52 Ancestors – No. 12 – The start of the Roll surname
This post is number 12 in the series of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge where a group of us blog about a different ancestor for each week of the year. The learn more about the 52 Ancestor Challenge visit Amy’s website.
The extra “l” in my first name, Caroll, came from my grandmother’s “Roll” surname. It was my mother’s way of paying homage to the family name. I wrote about Oliver Cromwell Roll in in #52 Ancestors post #7. The Roll name is a variation of “Rol” and comes from my 8th great-grandfather is, Jan Mangelsen (Rol).
Jan Mangelsen came from the Netherlands (Holland) to New Amsterdam (New York) in the mid-1650’s. His name, Mangelsen, is a Dutch patronymic meaning, Jan, son of Mangels. It is alleged that Jan’s father or grandfather was a Burgomaster named Jan Mangels of Rol. Surnames were not common in the past, they became a necessity to distinguish who was who as populations grew. People of wealth or status were the first to start passing down last names to their children.
Jan Mangelsen children started to use a variant of “Rol” as their last names. Some of the variations include, Roll, Rol, Ral or Rall, Rool. Later descendents use Mangelrol as a last name. My branch settled on “Roll”.
My Roll Lineage
Jan MANGELSEN & Tryntje Pieters VAN WOGGELUM
→Mangel Jansen ROL & Annetje Hendriex VOLCX / VOLCK/ VOLKERTS
→→Jan Mangelse ROLL & Altje BAS
→→→Johannes ROLL & Mary NEVIS
→→→→Michael ROLL & Christina VOUGHT (VAUGHT)
→→→→→Isaac ROLL & Elizabeth Wier
→→→→→→David W. ROLL & Catherine Traylor GUY
→→→→→→→Oliver C. ROLL & Mabel PITTMAN
→→→→→→→→Olive ROLL & Hugh HOWES
My great-grandfather Oliver C. Roll did not have sons. My first name is the last remnant of the this twig.
#52 Ancestors – No. 9 – John T. Pittman
Posted by Caroll in 52 Ancestors, Uncategorized on March 2, 2014
This post is number 9 in the series of the 52 Ancestors Challenge where a group of us blog about a different ancestor for each week of the year.
John Thomas Pittman is my second great-grandfather. John outlived both his brides. Born in 1863 to Issac N. Pittman and Rachel Maranda Fortney, he passed away at age 93 in 1956. My Pittman or Pitman line, are the Scots-Irish who originally settled in the Orange County, North Carolina in the mid 1750’s. The family migrated toward Kentucky in the early 1800s.
At the age of 22, John Thomas married 14 year old Josephine K. Woodburn. I wrote about her in subject No. 2 of this series, Josephine Woodburn Pittman. Josephine died 1893. John must have had some help raising his three young daughters during that time. But I have no family stories to tell. Seven years after Josehpine’s death. John met and married 29 year-old, Ella Belle McDowell in 1900.
They went on to have four children of their own, Tena, Clarence, Hugh, and Finis. Finis supposedly got his name as he was going to be the last child. Through 1900 to 1920, John mostly works in coal related industries. On the 1920 Census, he is listed as a Farm Manager. The family struggles during the depression area in the late 1920’s, early 1930’s. John is 66 and not working, according to the 1930 Census record.
His daughter Tena, is still single at 29, and living at home according to the 1930 Census. The 1940 Census indicates that all John’s and Ella’s children have returned home and are enumerated together. Two of the sons, Clarence and Finis are in the late 30’s and single. Hugh is divorced. His wife, Ella, passed away in 1936 at the age of 65.
My grandmother, Olive Roll, mentioned that John T. Pittman was a hard man. The girls from his first marriage all left the house before the age of 18, never to return because of this.
From old family photos, Olive and my grandfather, Hugh A. Howes, visited her grandfather John from time to time. I have a photo of her and Finis. Photos showing my mom and Aunt Tena at John’s house in Kentucky. A letter that Finis wrote to my Grandmother about his life. It’s a response to a letter my grandmother wrote to him about a possible family burial plot.
I am not sure if my great-grandmother, Mable, John’s daughter from his first marriage visited her father, after she moved to Michigan. If there are photos, they didn’t get passed down. And, so the stories and memories are gone also.
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