Columbian Gleanings - 18 March 1943

From the Columbian newspaper, Vancouver, Washington

Allen Leroy Brown
Deanna Marie Berger
Services for Allen Leroy Brown, 20 months, and Deanna Marie Berger, 4, both of route 5, were held Thursday at 2 p.m. at Hamilton's chapel, with the Rev. Walter Givens and the Rev. G. W. Pettit officiating at the double ceremony. Interment was at Park Hill cemetery.

Archie Monroe Hearing
Services for Archie Monroe Hearing, 56, 1515 Harney, who died Tuesday at his home, will be Monday at 10 a.m. at Hamilton's chapel, with the Rev. Maurice G. Brock officiating, and interment at Park Hill.

Viola Quintane
Viola Quintane, four months, died Tuesday at a local hospital. She is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Quintane, McLoughlin Heights, and five brothers and sisters: Jeannette, Selma, Rose, Betty and Billy. Services were graveside ceremonies Tuesday at 4 p.m. with Limber's in charge. The Rev. Stuart Goude officiated; interment was at Park Hill.

Alma Johnson
Alma Johnson, 40, 2115 Kauffman, died at her home Wednesday evening following one week of illness. Born in Finland she came to Minnesota when 18 years old, and to Hoquiam in 1927. She had lived in Vancouver one year, and was a member of the Apostolic Lutheran Church in Hockinson; and is survived by her widower, Gunnar, in Vancouver; and by four brothers and sisters. Funeral services will be Saturday at 2:30 p.m. at the Apostolic Lutheran Church in Hockinson, with interment in the Elim cemetery. The Vancouver funeral chapel is in charge of arrangements, and the Rev. John Sakrison will officiate.

CARD OF THANKS:
We wish sincerely to thank friends for their kind expressions of sympathy and for the beautiful floral offerings in our recent bereavement in losing our dear brother, James A. Blair.
Mrs. Emma Litchfield,
Mrs. Sarah E. Bradley.

Messing Around With Stuff

Why hello there.

Though I've been absent from blogging, I've still been quite busily researching. And, in a sheerly geeky move, I used my genealogy computer program to make a list of my direct ancestors, aunts and uncles, and first cousins, with their birth and death dates and places of burials (or whatever info I have). I'm now organizing it into generations which is going to take forever, but I'll be durned if I won't know where all my people are currently "residing". I don't know why, but that's a thing with me.

Today I went to the library and messed around with newspaper archives on microfilm. My great grandparents moved to this area in the 1940s and lived here for the rest of their lives (mostly - my widowed great grandmother moved around a little). Their sons, my granduncles, both passed away here at young ages, and my great-great grandmother (great grandfather's mother) also lived here for a good long time. All of them are buried here. I decided to peek around and see if I could find their obituaries, which I did (along with my dad's birth announcement, yay).

Along with my family members' articles were obituaries and birth announcements for other families, so I've decided to type them up here and see if anyone could use them. And they'll be Google-able! Nifty!

Really Awesome Cousin Sooze

As much as I would like to think of myself as a genealogist extraordinaire (ha!), I am truly humbled when I read my cousin Susan's genealogy blog.

She is a master researcher. Not only does she find great, obscure, weird information about our ancestors, she reviews it deftly, creatively and charitably. In short, I love reading her stuff, and when she finds something terrible and upsetting, she frames it in the best possible way, always giving our ancestors the benefit of the doubt. Made of gold, this woman.

Her husband is my third cousin; our common ancestors are Thomas Merrill Johnson and Hattie Ellen Duggan. I haven't met her yet, but will be giving her a big squeeze when I do. I seriously can't thank her enough for all the great research she has done.

Here's to you, Sooze :)

"Bring Out Your Dead"

Can I just tell you that I love calling funeral homes, cemetery offices and county death record offices? 

Not once have I ever encountered anything other than a helpful, kind employee when I've made the effort to look up a number and get on the horn. 

One lady in South Carolina (SWEET accent) offered to go outside in the snow one January day and take a picture of my relative's headstone and email it to me.

Bless you, employees.  We geeks couldn't do it without you.

Now on to today's character - my great uncle Burt Damon Bathrick*.  Never married as far as I can see, Burt lived what must have been a colorful life.  Born in 1863 in upstate New York to Lysander and Phoebe (who died when he was seven years old), the youngest child by fifteen years - Burt made his way west with his father and landed in Great Falls, Montana.  (Lysander ended up in Wyoming.)

I'm trying not to mix him up with a Bert Bathrick, who was born five years earlier and died in 1923. 

My uncle Burt held a variety of jobs, from railway laborer to beer hall employee to novelty salesman.  Just guessing from the occupations he chose, he is an adventurous, hardworking, gregarious, people-loving soul, who loved his adopted city but wasn't much for sticking around in the same job.  He never owned a home, always lived at boarding houses, which to me says he preferred to take life one day at a time.

I'm about to call Cascade county and see if he did stick around long enough to be buried there.  What's funny is, I find myself mentally stuck in the 1980s way of genealogy-ing sometimes... "So Great Falls, huh... it would be so fun to go there, but it's so far away..."

Then I remember "when" I am.  In these days of instant access to telephone numbers listed online, help is only a few clicks and a phone call away. 

Blessings abound :)

*Why Burt today?  The 1940 Census, of course.  I did an individual search on PAF using my ancestors filter (grandparents and aunts and uncles only) and filtered them by individuals born in the 1840-1941 birth range, so I didn't miss anyone.  Three hundred and ninety-six people I'm looking up.  I've already found new family members all over the place.  Yay :)

Now, where was I?

Oh yes - I was having an awesome genealogy time.

I heard from a Keithler cousin on Findagrave today (hooray, my faith is restored!).  Her great grandparents, Ignatius and Jennie (Dragoo) Keithler, are my great-great grandparents.  We are second cousins once removed.

Yay :)

CUTE

The Howard Keithlers, about 1927, Montana.

I! Have Made Fire!!

As of this morning, I now know where all sixteen of my great-great grandparents are buried, city and cemetery.

(Obviously my grandparents and great grandparents, too.)

:)

Hee. "Graves R Us."

It's funny.

But guess what? I LOVE IT!!! This is the kind of website I've been waiting for, a site with lists of people buried in cemeteries of Montana and northern Wyoming! It's like they had my Smiths and Keithlers and all their kin and my inability to locate all of them in mind!

And it has an awesome name, to boot.

It's been a sweet, sweet day. I decided to mess around with my PAF and see if there were any superfluous families I needed to prune out of my tree, such as the parents of aunts, uncles, or cousins who married into my family. Not that we don't love them or that they're not important, but we can only keep track of so many people.

I was just about to pare down my Vanderpauwert relatives - like, why? How many Vanderpauwerts does anyone ever have, and I'm about to get rid of them? - when I decided to keep Uncle John's first family, the one he had with his first wife before she died and he married my aunt Verne Keithler. I wasn't really going to get rid of them, I was just going to put them in his notes/sources.

But I don't know, they did something to me and I ended up searching their census records and their son Claude's World War I draft card (he died in the influenza epidemic before he ever left Fort Lewis - that was probably a blessing) and pretty soon I was adding his information, which I found at Graves R Us (hee), to Findagrave. And there I found that some nice man had added Aunt Verne and Uncle John to their cemetery, which was awesome, because I didn't even have a death date for Uncle John! Perfect.

So. Thanks, Graves R Us... and way to go with that name.

Awesome Cousin Sooze

... found this, cemetery records from Washington county, Nebraska, which contain a record belonging to my great-great grandfather's first wife: SARAH C. "KATE" DOLAN.

I added Kate to Findagrave, then peeked around in Findagrave records for that cemetery and found some Hetricks buried there too. After Kate died in 1883, my great-great grandfather Thomas married Hattie Ellen Duggan. Hattie's mother is a Hetrick.

Sooze has mad research skills. I love it when she throws great records my way! Thanks!! :)

WDYTYA: Kim Cattrall

Watch it here.

This was an incredibly hard one for me to watch. If I ever meet her grandfather in the hereafter, I will have a hard time not kneeing him somewhere painful.

To quote John Mayer: "Fathers, be good to your daughters..."