Fredrick Wilhelm Schiefelbine (1885-1953)

Fredrick Wilhelm “Fred” Schiefelbine was born October 10, 1885 in Kansas.   He was the son of Leo Earnest Schiefelbine and Earnestine Urban.

Fred married Alzena Belle Adams around 1907 in either Kansas or Missouri.  Alzena was born June 4, 1890 in Missouri, the daughter of George W. Adams and Sarah Ellen Halloway.  Fred and Alzena had four children:

            Belle E.                      born 1908

            Alberta Lorene          born 1911

            Leonard                     born 1915

            Fred M.                       born 1918

After their marriage, Fred and Alzena settled on a farm in Jackson, Camden County, Missouri. 

Fred registered for the draft for World War I on September 12, 1918 in Camden County, Missouri.  He was described as tall and slender with gray eyes and black hair.  He did not serve in the war.

Alzena Belle Adams Schiefelbine died on November 21, 1919 in either Camden County, Missouri or Kingman County, Kansas.  She was 29 years old at her death. 

Fred and his children were living in Canton, Kingman County, Kansas in 1920 and 1925, where Fred found work as a farm laborer. 

By 1930, Fred had married Ora Gertrude Stansbury.  This was the second marriage for both Fred and Ora.  Ora was born May 19, 1888 in Missouri, the daughter of Samuel Stansbury and Josephine Stewart Wilson.

Fred registered for the draft for the Second World War in 1942 in San Diego County, California.  He was 57 years old at that time and working in Fallbrook, San Diego County, California.

Ora Gertrude Stansberry Schiefelbine died on July 21, 1944 in San Diego County, California.  She was buried in the Upchurch Cemetery in Norwich, Kingman County, Kansas.  Ora was 56 years old at her death. 

Fred married Lucy Elinor “Fanny” Torry sometime after the death of his second wife.  Fanny was born June 1, 1901 in Grant County, Louisiana.  She was the daughter of Lycurgus Eugene Torry and Lucy Anna Williamson. She was raised in Grant County, Louisiana.  In 1920, Fanny was living in Harris County, Texas with her sister, Phalby Barton, and brother-in-law, Silas.

Fredrick Wilhelm Schiefelbine died on March 24, 1953 in Riverside County, California at the age of 67 years.

Lucy Elinor Torry Schiefelbine died on July 12, 1989 in Los Angeles County, California.  She was 88 years old at her death.

Notes for Fredrick Wilhelm Schiefelbine

Birth, Residence & Physical Description in 1918:  Ancestry.com. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.

Parents & Residence in 1905:  Ancestry.com.. Kansas State Census Collection, 1855-1925 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009.

Marriage to Alzena:  Year: 1910; Census Place: Jackson, Camden, Missouri; Roll: T624_772; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 0031; Image: 1055; FHL Number: 1374785.

Residence & Occupation in 1910:  Year: 1910; Census Place: Jackson, Camden, Missouri; Roll: T624_772; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 0031; Image: 1055; FHL Number: 1374785.

Residence & Occupation in 1920:  Year: 1920; Census Place: Canton, Kingman, Kansas; Roll: T625_536; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 98; Image: 47.

Residence & Occupation in 1925:  Ancestry.com.. Kansas State Census Collection, 1855-1925 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009.

Marriage to Ora:  Year: 1930; Census Place: Bennett, Kingman, Kansas; Roll: 705; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 4; Image: 899.0.

Residence & Occupation in 1930:  Year: 1930; Census Place: Bennett, Kingman, Kansas; Roll: 705; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 4; Image: 899.0.

World War II Draft Registration:  FamilySearch.org, United States, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 for Fred William Schiefelbine

Marriage to Lucy Elinor Torry:  Ancestry.com. California Death Index, 1940-1997 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.  Original data: State of California. California Death Index, 1940-1997. Sacramento, CA, USA: State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics.

Death:  Ancestry.com. California Death Index, 1940-1997 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.  Original data: State of California. California Death Index, 1940-1997. Sacramento, CA, USA: State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics.

Notes for Alzena Belle Adams

Birth & Death:  Ancestry.com, “Jordan's Family Tree,” accessed on 5 November 2011

Notes for Ora Gertrude Stansberry

Birth & Death:  Ancestry.com. California Death Index, 1940-1997 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.  Original data: State of California. California Death Index, 1940-1997. Sacramento, CA, USA: State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics.

Notes for Lucy Elinor Torry

Birth & Death:  Ancestry.com. California Death Index, 1940-1997 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.  Original data: State of California. California Death Index, 1940-1997. Sacramento, CA, USA: State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics.

Residence in 1920:  Year: 1920; Census Place: Justice Precinct 2, Harris, Texas; Roll: T625_1812; Page: 9A; Enumeration District: 107; Image: 997.

Frances Lou Crump (1903-1968)

Francis “Lou” Crump was born February 1, 1903, in Stamford, Jones County, Louisiana.  He was the son of John Franklin Crump and Frances Lorena Boggus.  He was raised in Grant County, Louisiana, and Jones County, Texas.

After the death of his mother, Lou was sent to a neighboring family to be raised.  He lived with Charles Wesley and Sarah Stevenson in Jones County, Texas.  Lou was living on their farm in 1910.

By 1920, Lou was living in a home in Stamford, along with three of his brothers, (Oliver, Charles, and William) and his sister, Edna, and her two children.  Lou and his brothers were employed as cooks in a café in Stamford.

From his death certificate, we learn that Lou was a veteran of World War II.  We also learn that he married Ollie Bernice Gipson.  Ollie was born on June 10, 1909 in Collins County, Texas, the daughter of John H. Gipson and Bertie Sloan Guffey. 

Francis Lou Crump died on Christmas Day, December 25, 1968 in Lubbock, Lubbock County, Texas.  The cause of death was a myocardial infarction, or heart attack.  He was 65 years old at his death.

Ollie Bernice Gipson Crump died on May 25, 1976 in the same place as her husband.  She was 66 years old at her death.

Notes for Frances “Lou” Crump

Birth & Death:  FamilySearch.org, Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 for Francis L. Crump

Residence in 1910: Year: 1910; Census Place: Anson, Jones, Texas; Roll: T624_1569; Page: 11A; Enumeration District: 0132; Image: 623; FHL Number: 1375582.

Residence & Occupation in 1920:  Year: 1920; Census Place: Stamford, Jones, Texas; Roll: T625_1824; Page: 11A; Enumeration District: 129; Image: 237.

Notes for Ollie Bernice Gipson

Birth & Death:  FamilySearch.org, Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 for Ollie B. Crump

Ida M. Hobbs (1888-1982)

Ida M. Hobbs was born Feb 16, 1888 in East Liverpool, Columbiana County, Ohio.  She was the daughter of Eli Hamilton Milton Hobbs and Henrietta Arb.

Ida married John William Hendricks on December 26, 1906 either in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania or Columbiana County, Ohio.  She was 18 years old and he was 21 years.  John was born June 14, 1885 in Yellow Creek Township, Columbiana County, Ohio, the son of Francis Marion Hendricks and Maria Blanche Connor. 

After their marriage, the couple bought a home next to John’s parents in East Liverpool, Columbiana County.  There, John found work as a roller for a tin mill.  John enlisted for service in the First and Second World Wars.  John and Ida had at least six children:

            Dorothy Edna           born December 25, 1907

            Hilda Mae                  born 1911

            Evelyn                        born 1914

            John                           born December 12, 1915

            Thelma                       born 1920

            Betty A.                      born 1926

John William Hendricks died on October 26, 1965 in East Liverpool, Columbiana County, Ohio.  He was 80 years old at his death. 

Ida M. Hobbs Hendricks survived her husband by 17 years.  She died on October 9, 1982 in Coweta County, Georgia, at the age of 94 years.

Notes for Ida M. Hobbs

Birth:  FamilySearch.org, Ohio Births and Christenings, 1821-1962

Death:  ncestry.com. Georgia Deaths, 1919-98 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001.  Original data: State of Georgia. Indexes of Vital Records for Georgia: Deaths, 1919-1998. Georgia, USA: Georgia Health Department, Office of Vital Records, 1998.

Notes for John William Hendricks

Birth, Military, Residence, Occupation & Physical Description in 1918:  Ancestry.com. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.

Residence & Occupation in 1910:  Year: 1910; Census Place: Liverpool, Columbiana, Ohio; Roll: T624_1161; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 0018; Image: 685; FHL Number: 1375174.

World War II:  Ancestry.com. U.S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.

Death:  Ancestry.com and Ohio Department of Health. Ohio Deaths, 1908-1932, 1938-1944, and 1958-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010.

Celia A. Boggess (1885- )

Celia A. Boggess

Daughter of Earle Montrose Boggess & Hattie A. Gaugh

 

Celia A. Boggess was born in December 1885, probably in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri.  She was the eldest of nine children born to Earle Montrose Boggess and Hattie A. Gaugh. 

On December 27, 1909, Celia married Julian Western Obear in Excelsior Springs, Clay County, Missouri.  She was 24 years old and he was 30 years.  Julian was born on December 21, 1879 in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of William Frank Obear and Elsie Underwood Henry.

In 1910, the newlyweds were renting a room at the Rosalind Hotel on Forest Avenue in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri.  Julian was employed as a glass worker at the Ober-Nestor Glass Company, located just across the Mississippi River, in East St. Louis, Illinois.

Julian enlisted with the U.S. Army in 1905 and then enlisted for service in the first World War on September 9, 1918.  He and Celia were living at 3504 Gillham Road in Kansas City, Missouri at that time. 

Julian enlisted for service in World War II on April 27, 1942, while he was living in Seattle, Washington.  He was 6’2”, 190 lbs, with a light complexion, brown eyes, and grey hair.  He was working for L.J. Pfister, located in Cleveland, Ohio, and traveling between California, Oregon, and Washington.  His personal contact was his wife’s sister, Mrs. C.E. Mains in Berkely, California.

Julian Western Obear died on January 25, 1945 in Seattle, Washington at the age of 62.

           

 

Notes for Celia A. Boggess

Birth:  Year: 1900; Census Place: Excelsior Springs Ward 2, Clay, Missouri; Roll: T623 849; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 17.

Marriage:  Source Information:  Ancestry.com. Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007.  Original data: Missouri Marriage Records. Jefferson City, MO, USA: Missouri State Archives. Microfilm.

Notes for Julian Western Obear

Birth & Marriage:  Source Information:  Ancestry.com. Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007.  Original data: Missouri Marriage Records. Jefferson City, MO, USA: Missouri State Archives. Microfilm.

Residence & Occupation in 1910:  Source Citation: Year: 1910; Census Place: Kansas City Ward 6, Jackson, Missouri; Roll: T624_786; Page: 10A; Enumeration District: 0071; Image: 440; FHL Number: 1374799.

U.S. Army Enlistment:  Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S. Army, Register of Enlistments, 1798-1914 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.  Original data: Register of Enlistments in the U.S. Army, 1798-1914; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M233, 81 rolls); Records of the Adjutant General’s Office, 1780’s-1917, Record Group 94; National Archives, Washington, D.C.

World War I Draft Information:  Source Citation: Registration Location: Jackson County, Missouri; Roll: 1683385; Draft Board: 12.  Source Information:  Ancestry.com. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.

World War II Draft Information:  Source Citation: The National Archives Pacific Alaska Region (Seattle); Seattle, Washington; Fourth Registration Draft Cards (WWII); State Headquarters: Washington; Record Group Name: Records of the Selective Service System; Record Group Number: 147; Archive Number: 563992; Box Number: 150.

Death:  Source Information:  Ancestry.com. Washington Death Index, 1940-1996 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002.  Original data: Washington State Department of Health. State Death Records Index, 1940-1996. Microfilm. Washington State Archives, Olympia, Washington.  Certificate #470.

Annie Jane Boggess (1895- )

Annie Jane Boggess

Daughter of William Clarence Boggess & Dora A. Reed

Annie Jane Boggess was born in May 1895 in Galla Creek, Pope County, Arkansas.  She was the third of four children born to William Clarence Boggess and Dora A. Reed.  Annie was raised on the family farm located on the Little Rock Fort Smith Highway in Galla Creek, Pope County, Arkansas.  The family farm was located near the farms of her grandparents, Charles and Isabella Boggess, and her Uncle Haise Boggess.

Annie married Wade Bryan Henry on August 3, 1918 in Russellville, Pope County, Arkansas.  She was 22 years old and he was 24.  Wade was born on April 11, 1893 in the same city.  He was the son of William Charles Henry and Elizabeth Henry.

Prior to his marriage to Annie, Wade enlisted for service for World War I on June 5, 1917 in Illinois, Arkansas.  He was of medium height and build, with blue eyes and light hair.

In 1930, Wade and Annie lived in Wilson, Pope County, Arkansas, where Wade was a farmer.  They had no children at that time.  In that census, Wade was listed as a veteran of World War I.  In 1942, Wade registered for the draft during World War II.  He and Annie were living in Atkins, Pope County Arkansas at that time.  Their telephone number was 74B.

Wade Bryan Henry died in September 1967 in Russellville.  He was 74 years old at his death.

 World War I Draft Card

 

 World War II Draft Card

Notes for Annie J. Boggess

Birth:  Year: 1900; Census Place: Pottsville, Pope, Arkansas; Roll: T623 72; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 174.

Marriage to Wade Bryan Henry and Residence in 1930: Year: 1930; Census Place:  Wilson, Pope, Arkansas; Roll: 89; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 33; Image: 1106.0.

Notes for Wade Bryan Henry

Birth, Physical Description, Occupation, and Residence in 1917: Ancestry.com. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005. Original data: United States, Selective Service System. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. M1509, 4,582 rolls.  Registration Location: Pope County, Arkansas; Roll: 1530571; Draft Board: 0.

Residence in 1942:  Ancestry.com. U.S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006. Original data: United States, Selective Service System. Selective Service Registration Cards, World War II: Fourth Registration. National Archives and Records Administration Branch locations: National Archives and Records Administration Region Branches.   Roll: WW2_2281464; Local board: Pope , Arkansas.

Death:  Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2006.  Number: 430-68-2939; Issue State: Arkansas; Issue Date: 1955.

Signature:  from Military Draft Card, see above