--Kendrick Family Album.
Sunday, March 4, 2018
Ted Kendrick
Ted's mother is Marguerite (Linn) Kendrick. Marguerite (Linn) Kendrick is the daughter of Frank and Seba (Arnold) Linn. Seba (Arnold) Linn is a daughter of Amos and Lora (Johnson) Arnold.
The Kendrick family still live and farm near Roberts.
--The News-Gazette. 4 March 2018. Page B-4.
Saturday, February 24, 2018
AMOS ARNOLD COMES TO ILLINOIS --Part 1--
-- Above photos: Amos Stukely Arnold and his wife Lora Ann (Johnson) Arnold.
(I am not sure who wrote the following article about the Arnold family's arrival to Illinois, but it is very informative. It documents a lot of rumors I had heard over the years. I believe it was written in 1984 for entry in the "History of Ford County" book published by the Ford County Historical Society due to the fact that a large portion is published in that book. I found this copy in the Kendrick family albums. I have added some visuals.)
Amos Stukely Arnold left his home in Morrisonville, a small town near Plattsburg, New York in 1866.
Traveling through the Lakes by boat and with a horse and cart aboard, he landed in Chicago at Michigan Avenue (near the present Navy Pier) and started driving southwest.
Having heard about the Sibley Estate and their huge corn cribs, he wanted to see for himself the good farm land. He worked for a year with a threshing gang while he looked the country over. The next year he bought 160 acres of land (Section 9 in Ford County) for $12.00 an acre.
(This would be what we in the area remember as the Stamm place. It was about 3 miles north of Roberts past Bud Otto's farm. Amos built his home here on this section in 1867. This photo below was from the Kendrick family album. Under the photo it states "North Arnold Farmhouse. Built 1867.")
The next year (October 26, 1867), his wife, Lora Ann Johnson Arnold, and the three oldest children (Harriet, Johnson, and Elma), came to this sparsely settled region -
- the land being in its mostly primitive condition. It was a great contrast for the family, who left a pleasant home in the East to live in this unsettled region and bear all the hardships and privations of frontier life. Roberts was not laid out yet.
(Not sure if this is the home they left in the East, but I believe Amos was raised in the home pictured above. I also think this home is located on Mason Street very near Irish Settlement Road in Morrisonville, New York. More research needed.)
With the growth and development of the county since that time, Mr. Arnold has ever borne his part in its upbuilding. He was one of the extensive land owners of this community.
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold had seven children: Harriet, Johnson, Elma, Mary, Seba, Silas, and Seward who all walked two and a quarter miles to the Smith Grade School north of Roberts.
(Smith School circled below.)
Harriet married Eli McNeil, a farmer of Ford County. They had four children: Pearle, Lora, Ellen, and Robert.
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----Newspaper Clipping from Susan McNeil Marshall.
(The McNeil family photo below. Left to right: Eli, Lora, Bob, Ellen, Pearle, Harriet or "Hattie." Eli and Harriet are buried at Lyman Township Cemetery, Roberts, Illinois.)
Pearle McNeil married Chester Dillon. She died of the flu while carrying their first child.
(Photo below Pearle and Chester Dillon. Pearle is buried at Lyman Township Cemetery, Roberts, Illinois. Chester remarried.)
Lora McNeil married A.V. Smith - lived in Ohio - had one child, Joan.
(Lora and Arthur Smith photo below. Arthur and Lora are buried at Lyman Township Cemetery, Roberts, Illinois.)
Ellen McNeil married Merton West and they adopted twin girls, Ellene and Merlene. She ran a musical kindergarten in Crete for many years.
(Photo below Ellen (McNeil) West.)
--K. Family Photo Album.
Bob McNeil married Geraldine Cutler, a teacher. He was Ford County Superintendent of Highways for 30 years. Their two daughters are Susan and Margaret.
(Bob and Geraldine photo below. Bob and Geraldine are buried at Lyman Township Cemetery, Roberts, Illinois. )
Bob McNeil married Geraldine Cutler, a teacher. He was Ford County Superintendent of Highways for 30 years. Their two daughters are Susan and Margaret.
(Bob and Geraldine photo below. Bob and Geraldine are buried at Lyman Township Cemetery, Roberts, Illinois. )
--K. Family Photo Album.. . . to be continued.
Saturday, February 17, 2018
Hiram E. Heyworth Family
Mary L. "Pet" White, daughter of J. B. White and Eunice "Abigail" (Arnold) White, married Hiram E. Heyworth 25 April 1877.
Eunice "Abigail"(Arnold)White is a sister of Amos S. Arnold.
--Genealogical & Family History of Northern New York. Vol I. 1910.
Friday, February 16, 2018
Maida Backus
Maida Libbey Backus, 104
Centerville — Maida Libbey Backus, 104, died May 8, 2008.
Mrs. Backus was born in Revere and grew up in Roxbury. She began her art studies in 1922 and graduated from the Massachusetts Normal School of Art, now known as the Massachusetts College of Art, in Boston.
She married former Barnstable County Commissioner H. Heyworth Backus in 1926 and moved to Centerville. He predeceased her in 1976.
She was a well-known Cape artist and a member of many art associations. From the 1950s until the late 1990s her work was on exhibit in shows and galleries on the Cape and in Boston and Vermont. She was a painter, printmaker, metalsmith, sculptor and weaver of tapestries.
She was particularly active at the Cape Cod Conservatory, where she was invited to have several one-woman retrospectives, including “In the Nineties” to celebrate her 90th birthday. A final memorial exhibit will be on display this summer.
She was part of the Boston University New England Centenarian Study.
She is survived by her son, Heyworth G. “Buddy” Backus and his wife Margaret and her daughter Virginia B. Upham of Centerville; four granddaughters, Caryl Steward and Donna Backus of Centerville, Debra Hennessy of East Falmouth and Linda Hogan of Montpelier, Vt; six great-grandchildren, Catherine McMahon of West Barnstable, Wesley Harris of Baltimore, Md., Justin Hogan of Makawao, Hawaii, Nicholas Steward and Samantha Steward of Centerville, Brian Schlegel of Marstons Mills and Marc Schlegel of Depew, N.Y.; and five great-great-grandchildren.
Visiting hours and service were held at the John-Lawrence Funeral Home in Marstons Mills.
Donations can be made to the Cape Cod Conservatory of Music and Arts, 2235 Iyanough Road, West Barnstable, MA 02668, or to the Hospice & Palliative Care of Cape Cod, 765 Attucks Lane, Hyannis, MA 02601.
--Barnstable Patriot. May 2008.
Maida is the wife of Hiram Heyworth Backus. Hiram is the son of Abigail (Heyworth) and George Backus. Abigail (Heyworth) Backus is the daughter of Mary "Pet" (White) Heyworth. And "Pet" is the daughter of Eunice "Abigail" (Arnold) White. Abigail Arnold is a sister of Amos S. Arnold.
Stukely & Lovicy Arnold
Eunice "Abigail" & J. B. White
Mary "Pet" & Hiram Heyworth
Abigail & George Crocker Backus
Hiram & Maida Backus
An artist and a baker.
--Delta Democrat-Times. Greenville, Mississippi. 7 January 1960. Page 7.
Sunday, February 11, 2018
1996 at the New Schuyler Falls Cemetery
Our 1996 trip to New York.
We visited the cemetery where Stukley and Lovicy Arnold are buried. Also their daughters: Mary, Samantha, and Harriet are buried in the same area of the same cemetery.
In the above photo (L to R): Jackie Arnold Allen, Olive Lewis, Janice Arnold Dowell, Lisa Arnold Fancher, June Runyon Arnold (kneeling), Olive's daughter (Joyce ?), Frances Arnold Stephens.
Eunice "Abigail" Arnold
Eunice "Abigail" Arnold
Married: Jehial B. White 14 October 1857
Born: 1838
Died: 1899
Buried: New Schuyler Falls Cemetery, Schuyler Falls, NY.
Sister to Amos S. Arnold. Married Jehial B. White. Two Children.
--Photo from the Kendrick Family Album.
Samantha M. L. Arnold
Samantha M. L. Arnold
Born: 1835
Died: 1926
Buried: New Schuyler Falls Cemetery, Schuyler Falls, NY.
Sister to Amos S. Arnold. Never married. No children.
--Photo from the Kendrick Family Album.
Mary L. Arnold
Mary L. Arnold
Born: 1832
Died: 1911
Buried: New Schuyler Falls Cemetery, Schuyler Falls, NY.
Sister to Amos S. Arnold. Never married. No children.
--Photo from the Kendrick Family Album.
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