Those Places Thursday: St. Mary's Catholic Church, Nashville, Tennessee

St. Mary's Catholic Church, Nashville, Tennessee. 22 May 2010. Photo by Andrew Jameson (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)]. Available from Wikimedia Commons.

St. Mary's Church is the oldest extant church in Nashville, Tennessee and the oldest Catholic church in the Diocese of Nashville. The church was built in 1844-1847. Adolphus Heiman, a German immigrant, was the architect. It is located at 330 5th Avenue North, at the corner of Charlotte Avenue. It was originally called Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin of the Seven, and is now known as St. Mary of the Seven Sorrows. It was the Cathedral of Nashville until 1914, when the Cathedral of the Incarnation was built.

During the Civil War, St. Mary's Church was used as a hospital for wounded Union and Confederate soldiers. In 1970, the church was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

My 3rd-great-grandmother Mary, widow of Michael Dyer, married her second husband John Cox at St. Mary's on 10 April 1871. They were married by Father Edward Doyle, who died in the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1879. Mary's funeral and the funerals of some of her children were held at St. Mary's Cathedral. Most of her children were probably baptized there.

References
St. Mary's Catholic Church
St. Mary's Catholic Church (Nashville, Tennessee)
St. Mary of the Seven Sorrows
Oldest Church in Nashville Tells of City's Rich History

Workday Wednesday: Pevely Dairy

Photograph of a detail sign on the Pevely Dairy Company Plant office building (viewed looking west) at 1001 S. Grand Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 4 March 2012. By Poroubalous (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)]. Available from Wikimedia Commons.

My great-grandmother Kathleen (Graham) Boe worked for the Pevely Dairy in St. Louis, Missouri. According to Boe (Bø) and Halvorson-Otterholt: Shared Roots in Telemark, compiled by Melvin and Alpha (Boe) Broadshaug, Kathleen worked for the dairy in a public relations capacity. The 1930 United States Census shows her as working as Educational Director for a dairy company.

Kathleen Boe household. 1930 United States Census, St. Louis City, Missouri, Ward 14 (part), population schedule, enumeration district 96-496, sheet no. 3A.

Kathleen filed a patent for a design for a scorecard on 4 April 1927, and the patent was granted on 16 October 1928. The design included milk bottles, so it is likely that she created it while working for the Pevely Dairy.

Boe, Kathleen. Design for a Score Card.Patent USD76601. Application filed 4 April 1927. Patented 16 October 1928. Available from http://www.google.com/patents/USD76601.

Boe, Kathleen. Design for a Score Card.Patent USD76601. Application filed 4 April 1927. Patented 16 October 1928. Available from http://www.google.com/patents/USD76601.

My mother told me that Kathleen was responsible for the introduction of milk into the St. Louis public schools. During the Great Depression, free milk programs were established in the St. Louis Public Schools. These are probably the programs that Kathleen was involved with.

The Peveley Dairy was founded in 1887 by Martin W. Kerckhoff.  It was originally located at 1312 South Seventh Street. In 1903, a three-story building was erected at 3301 Park Avenue. In 1916, the plant on the corner of Chouteau Avenue and Grand Boulevard was constructed. Its eight acres of property included the company's headquarters, a dairy production facility, a soda fountain, and a stable for the horses which were used to deliver milk by wagon. In the 1940s, Pevely Dairy had more than 350 milk delivery routes. Pevely Dairy was purchased by Prairie Farms in 1989. The factory was closed in 2008. The dairy complex was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. St. Louis University purchased the property in August 2011, and began demolition in 2012.

Photograph of marquee sign on the Pevely Dairy Company Plant office building (viewed looking west) at 1001 S. Grand Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 4 March 2012. By Poroubalous (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)]. Available from Wikimedia Commons.

Photograph of a detail sign on the Pevely Dairy Company Plant office building (viewed looking west) at 1001 S. Grand Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 4 March 2012. By Poroubalous (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)]. Available from Wikimedia Commons.

References
Pevely Dairy Company Plant
Prairie Farms Closes Pevely Plant. (December 2008). Dairy Foods, 109(12), 14.
Remembering the Pevely Legacy
The History of One Dairy Plant. (April 1919). The Milk Dealer, 8, 68.

Talented Tuesday: Booth Tarkington

Booth Tarkington, with signature. Available from Indiana University and Wikimedia Commons.

 
Today is the birthday of writer Booth Tarkington. I first heard of Booth Tarkington when I was growing up, because my paternal grandfather said that we were related to him. Although I had not yet begun any genealogical research at that time, I was curious enough to ask my grandfather how we were related to him. He didn't know, other than that the relationship was on his mother's side (my great-grandmother's maiden name was Tarkington). Although Booth Tarkington was from Indiana, his paternal grandfather was born in Tennessee. Tarkington is not a common surname, and his ancestors were from the same area that my ancestors came from. If I could prove the identity of my 3rd-great-grandfather Joseph Tarkington's parents, I would be able to figure out what the relationship is. But as of now I just know that he is a distant cousin of some sort. He is a distant relative of Joseph S. Tarkington, the man that I suspect is the father of my Joseph Tarkington.

Newton Booth Tarkington was born on 29 July 1869 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Over more than fifty years, he wrote 171 stories, 21 novels, 9 novellas, and 19 plays. He also produced numerous illustrations, radio dramas, and movie scenarios. He won the Pulitzer prize for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and Alice Adams (1921). Other works of his include The Gentleman from Indiana (1899), Penrod (1914), and Gentle Julia (1922). Many of his works were adapted for films.

Ad for the 12 part film series The Adventures of Edgar Pomeroy, based on stories written by Booth Tarkington. Film Daily, 20 February 1921, page 10. Available from Wikimedia Commons. Film Daily issue available from the Internet Archive.

References
Armistead, Sarah Peery; Sawyer, Ova Lee Peery; and Russell, Lorraine Peery. Boyer, Penny Russell, ed. Tarkington-Kersey, Theresa, photo ed. Tarkingtons of Tennessee: Genealogy of John G. Tarkington. 2001.
(Newton) Booth Tarkington. Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Literature Resource Center.
Booth Tarkington
1919 Pulitzer Prize
1922 Pulitzer Prize

DAR Elias Van Bunschooten Museum

I visited the DAR Elias Van Bunschooten Museum in Wantage, New Jersey over the weekend, during the museum's annual Christmas in July. Tours of the museum were given, and there were vendors, demonstrators, and re-enactors. The house was owned by Reverend Elias Van Bunschooten, a Dutch Reformed minister.

 

Links
The DAR Van Bunschooten Museum
Van Bunschooten Museum
Elias Van Bunschooten Museum

Church Record Sunday: Marriage of Edward Lucas and Bridget Scott

My 8th-great-grandparents Edward Lucas and Bridget Scott married in 1700. They were Quakers, so they first had to declare their intentions. Bridget belonged to the Chesterfield Monthly Meeting in Burlington Co., New Jersey, where Edward declared his intentions on the 4th day of the 5th month 1700 (4 July 1700).

Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington Co., New Jersey. Minutes, 1688-1809. 4th day of 5th month 1700. Ancestry.com. U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1994 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: Haverford, Quaker Meeting Records. Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania.

Edward and Bridget declared their intentions again at the Chesterfield Monthly Meeting on the 1st day of the 6th month 1700 (1 August 1700). Edward brought a certificate from the meeting he belonged to, the Falls Monthly Meeting in Bucks Co, Pennsylvania.

Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington Co., New Jersey. Minutes, 1688-1809. 1st day of 6th month 1700. Ancestry.com. U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1994 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: Haverford, Quaker Meeting Records. Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania.

 

Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington Co., New Jersey. Book of Records, 1684-1756. 1st day of 6th month 1700. Ancestry.com. U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1994 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: Haverford, Quaker Meeting Records. Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania.

Edward and Bridget married on the 3rd day of the 7th month 1700 (3 September 1700) at the house of Thomas Lambert (the husband of Bridget's sister Margaret) in New Jersey.

  

Marriage of Edward Lucas and Bridget Scott. 3rd day of 7th month 1700. Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington Co., New Jersey. Minutes, 1682-1847. Ancestry.com. U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1994 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: Swarthmore, Quaker Meeting Records. Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

Sports Center Saturday: Theodore Christopher Troedson, Player for Past Grammar Football Club

Theodore Christopher Troedson, the son of my great-great-grandfather's brother Ola Peter Troedson, played rugby with the Past Grammar Football Club in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. He was later elected patron of the club.

Past Grammar School Rugby Union Club, 1905 season. P. C. Poulsen. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland. Available from OneSearch and from Wikimedia Commons.
Back row:  R. Murray, C. K. Lea. Middle row:  C. E. Parkinson, A. W. Leeds, D. F. Storey, H. S. Smith, G. W. Murray, F. G. Lewis, G. H. Blanchard. Front row: A. J. Bennett, J. Dalrymple, T. Troedson, F. C. Cleeve (Captain), T. J. Brundrit, R. Collins, N. R. Murray. In front: F. Walsh, J. Robertson.

Brisbane Courier, 12 May 1905

Queensland Figaro, 10 May 1906

Brisbane Courier, 22 February 1929

52 Ancestors: #30 Charlotte Garland

My 5th-great-grandmother Charlotte Garland was born on 1 July 1782. She is listed in the Garland family Bible under Elisha and Lucy Garland and before the children born after Elisha and Lucy's marriage.

Garland Family Bible. Available from Tennessee Bible Records. Nashville, Tennessee: Tennessee State Library and Archives.

Based on the composition of Elisha Garland's household in 1790 (1 free white male over 16, 6 free white females), Charlotte appears to be in Elisha's household.

Elisha Garlin household. 1790 United States Census, Pendleton, South Carolina. Series M637, roll 11, page 4, image 17. Family History Library Film 0568151. Ancestry.com. 1790 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.

However, when Elisha Garland's widow, Lucy (Reeves) Garland, applied for a Revolutionary War widow's pension, she stated that they married on 14 December 1783 in what became East Tennessee.

Declaration of Lucy Garland, widow of Elisha Garland, pension application. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files (NARA microfilm publication M804). Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Record Group 15. National Archives, Washington, D.C.

She also named her children with Elisha. She stated that their first child, Sally, was born in 1784. Charlotte was not mentioned.

Declaration of Lucy Garland, widow of Elisha Garland, pension application. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files (NARA microfilm publication M804). Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Record Group 15. National Archives, Washington, D.C.

Who were Charlotte's biological parents? Elisha and Lucy (Reeves) Garland seem to be the parents that raised her. But were they both her biological parents?

Charlotte may have been an illegitimate child. Lucy Reeves was probably her biological mother. Lucy had a sister named Charlotte (the wife of James Robertson, "Father of Middle Tennessee"). Charlotte has sometimes been referred to as Charlotte Reeves.

Woodward, J. E. History of the Gower Family. Nashville: Harry V. L. Gower, 1920.

Lucy also could have been previously married, and Charlotte could be a child from that marriage. Or perhaps Elisha Garland had been previously married to a relative of Lucy's, maybe a sister. I had the Family Finder test done with Family Tree DNA and matched with a Reeves descendant, so I know I am related to the Reeves family. Or perhaps Lucy did not want to acknowledge that she had given birth to an illegitimate child, so she omitted Charlotte. 

Charlotte married William Gower in Davidson County, Tennessee in 1802.

Marriage record, William Gower and Charlotte Garland, 1802. Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002. Nashville, Tennessee: Tennessee State Library and Archives.

In 1850, Charlotte, her husband William Gower, and their daughter Cynthia lived in Davidson County, Tennessee, near their son Lorenzo, his wife Nancy (Gatlin), and their children. Their daughter Margaret ("Peggy"), my 4th-great-grandmother, married Nancy's brother John Gatlin.

Charlotte died in 1860. Her estate inventory was dated 11 April 1860 and recorded on 31 July 1860.

According to the 1860 United States Census mortality schedule, Charlotte died of old age in May 1860 in Davidson County, Tennessee. The informant probably could not recall the exact date of her death.

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, D.C.; Federal Mortality Census Schedules, 1850-1880, and Related Indexes, 1850-1880; Archive Collection: T655; Archive Roll Number: 27; Census Year: 1860; Census Place: District 10, Davidson, Tennessee; Page: 71. Ancestry.com. U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1885 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.

Charlotte was buried in Gower Cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee. According to her gravestone, she died on 16 April 1860.

 

Cousins Day

July 24 is Cousins Day. I have many first cousins and spent time with all of them when I was growing up, even though not all of them lived near me. Although they lived on the other side of the country, my cousins from California visited New Jersey almost every year and I was especially close to them.

This cousin tree shows different types of cousins.

Cousin tree. Public domain image, available from Wikimedia Commons.

Wednesday's Child: Botilla Troedsdotter

Death/burial record for Botilla, January 1862. Grevie FI:2 (1861-1894), image 11.

Botilla, the youngest child of my 3rd-great-grandparents Troed Andersson and Christina Jacobsdotter, was born on 12 December 1861 in Grevie, Skåne, Sweden. She lived for only a few weeks. Botilla died on 3 January 1862 and was buried on 6 January 1862.

Tombstone Tuesday: Louise Amanda (Tarkington) Whitman

Louise Amanda Tarkington was the youngest child of my 3rd-great-grandparents Joseph Tarkington and Amanda Russell. She was born in Tennessee on 24 March 1873. On 3 March 1897, she married Albert Powell Whitman in Davidson County, Tennessee. Louise and Albert had four children: Amanda Mary (born 5 February 1898), Finner Dupree (born 13 December 1903), Joseph Tarkington (born 31 March 1905), and Walter William (born 23 March 1908). Louise died in Nashville on 13 February 1915. On 15 February 1915, she was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville, section 13 lot 75.

Mappy Monday: Nashville, Tennessee, 1919

Map of Nashville, Tennessee, 1919. Automobile Blue Book, vol. 6, 1919. Available from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection.

This map, published in 1919, shows some of the roads and locations in Nashville, Tennessee. Many of my ancestors lived in Nashville. Although my direct ancestors were no longer living in Nashville in 1919, other relatives, including ancestors' siblings, still lived there.

52 Ancestors: #29 Ola Peter Troedson

Ola Petter Troedsson, the brother of my great-great-grandfather Andreas Troedsson, was born on 11 December 1841 in Grevie, Skåne, Sweden, and was baptized on 14 December 1841. He was the first child of Troed Andersson and Christina Jacobsdotter. Household examination records list him as Sjöman (seaman) Ola Petter Troedsson.

On 12 April 1871, Ola Petter boarded the ship Friedeburg in Hamburg, Germany, headed for Australia. The passenger list showed that his previous residence was Copenhagen, Denmark (which is near Skåne, Sweden). He arrived at Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia on 12 August 1871. The 15 August 1871 issue of the Brisbane Courier contains an account of the voyage. The text is faded and difficult to read, but additional information about the voyage can be found on a Web page about Jørgen Berthelsen's voyage to Australia. He traveled at the same time as Ola Petter.

After immigrating to Australia, he modified his name slightly and was known as Ola Peter Troedson. He married Rosina Catharine Louise Walter on 20 August 1878. Rosina was an immigrant from Pfedelbach, Württemberg, Germany. She had come to Australia with her family in 1865, when she was eight years old. The couple lived in Brisbane and had nine children: Theodore Christopher (born 17 October 1879), John Frederick (born 17 July 1881), Annie Christina (born 25 January 1883), Alfred William (born 3 August 1884), Ellen Louisa (born 26 July 1886), Peter Henry (born 4 August 1888), George Arthur (born 12 April 1890), Matilda (born 1 August 1891), and Otto Edward, later known as Edward Otto (born 20 January 1893).

Ola Peter took an oath of allegiance on 18 July 1901. Three years later, he lost two members of his family almost at the same time: his son John Henry died on 5 June 1904, and his wife Rosina died on 11 June 1904. Two of his other children also predeceased him: his daughter Annie Christina (Troedson) McDonald died on 20 January 1916, and his son Peter Henry died on 16 May 1923.

Ola Peter died at his home in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia on 12 May 1926. He was buried in Toowong Cemetery.

Birth/christening record for Ola Petter, 1841. Grevie CI-5 (1837-1861), image 27.

Birth/christening record for Ola Petter, 1841. Grevie births, 1829-1874. Page 47.

Household examination. Grevie AI-13 (1864-1869), image 80.

 Household examination. Grevie AI-14 (1870-1876), image 80.

Brisbane Courier, 5 June 1926

Photo by Terry McMahon

Sibling Saturday: Carl, Martin, and Ellen Dahlquist

My great-grandmother Ellen Victoria Dahlquist (8 September 1886 - 26 April 1986) is pictured here with her brothers Carl Frederick (10 January 1888 - 14 October 1966) and Martin Luther (22 February 1891 - 30 July 1919).

Funeral Card Friday: John Schneider

Memorial card for my great-grandfather John (Johann) Schneider
Born 6 December 1878, Remagen, Ahrweiler, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
Died 11 June 1955, St. Louis, Missouri