My aunt recently told me about finding the Corbly Family bible. She has passed it onto another aunt and I can’t wait to see it.
Bibles are full of great information! Births, deaths and marriages in many cases are recorded. In this case the information goes back to 1862. I find interesting the first death recorded is Edwin and Ella Corbly that passed away the same day. I am curious about what happened and will have to do some more research on that one. I also see recorded later two children that passed away including my dad’s sister Cleta Fern. The bible records that she passed away at St. E hospital. I hadn’t known that before so that’s another interesting piece of information. As I get more time I’m going to have to record all this info in my family tree and do some more research!
Ancestry has some bible records too. I have had one bookmarked for a while that seemed like it should fit. A John McArdle that was killed at age 50 while blasting rocks at Little Falls NY. November 29, 1820. I’ve kept it just in case but can’t find a person to match in my files. I do have John McArdles in my file, but the death date and age range don’t match. It’s always so exciting to find something with so much information that seems to be such a great find, and then so discouraging to not find a match.
I’m sure this came from Karin also. It’s a telegram from the early 1900s showing the death of Collins McArdle in Tonganoxie Kansas. It says he died ‘this PM.’ and I’d swear it says ‘Come Answer’ It’s signed Henry Gieb. Reading documents like this is never easy. As time goes on they have yellowed or darkened with age making them difficult to ready.
Looking at my records Henry Geib was the husband of Lulu McArdle – Henry Geib was the son in law to Collins McArdle and Collins is listed as passing away in 1909 matching up with the telegram. I have been trying to figure out the to on the telegram though. It looks like it’s a Clarinda Keltner – I did find a Claude Keltner so that most likely is the person. Claude is the husband to Jennie Mae McArdle (also a daughter of Collins McArdle). Jennie Mae moved from Kansas to Oklahoma.
From all this I think this telegram was the method that one daughter (and Son in law) used to tell the other that their father had passed away….
After arriving in the US – Francis Moretto passed away. I’m not sure what she passed away from, but child mortality was fairly high during that time period. The receipt shows that Pearl Pearch was paid $4 for a grave and opening the grave. Francis died December 29, 1906. My great grandparents also lost another daughter Theresa while a child. (Yes same name as my grandmother) The story was that my Great Grandmother had a sister with the same name, so when she lost her daughter Theresa she reused the name for my grandmother.
I also remember my mother mentioning that they went to find the grave in Clinton IN and the grave had washed away. I think it was Francis’ grave that is now missing since I remember my mother also telling a story about visiting Theresa’s grave.
This is a letter showing that after an investigation showing that my great grandmother arrived on or before June of 1905 – they allowed her to file for citizenship without a certificate of arrival. It’s funny how now those papers are pretty easy to find, but the original paper copies were not easily accessible- even knowing date, ship, and so on. It does make me wonder about my aunts that arrived with my great grandmother. How did they get citizenship? Did they get citizenship? One, Francis, died shortly after arriving… but my great Aunts Mary and Maggie survived until the 80s. I wish I had thought to ask them at the time. I remember a visit to the hospital to visit one while I was in school….
