ancestors – Page 4 – Ruth E. Hendricks

My Mother and her Brother Robert c. 1925

Robert and Marian VanSickle. Durand Illinois c.1925. My mother sporting breeches and tie

January 13, 2021 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Throwback ThursdayTags: ancestors, brother, Durand IL, family, fashion, mother, photography, postaday, Throwback Thursday, uncle 16 Comments

Your Guess as Good as mine

From my grandmother’s album.

At first I thought they were my grandparents, Judd and Charlotte VanSickle.

I don’t even know who owned the camera.

In or near Durand, Illinois. Early 1900’s

November 18, 2020 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Throwback ThursdayTags: ancestors, bridge, Durand Illinois, family, grandmother’s album, old photographs, photography, postaday, vintage 5 Comments

1920’s Family Vacation

My Uncle Robert, my mother Marian, my Grandfather Judd VanSickle, my Uncle John and my Grandmother Charlotte

October 28, 2020 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: ancestors, antique, family, grandmother’s album, photography, postaday, Throwback Thursday, vacation, vintage, vintage car 9 Comments

Grandmother, Her Sisters and Friends

Grandmother second from right Aunt May left center

My son Mark found my mother Marian and her brother John in the photos. My mom was born in 1912 so this photo must be about 1914.

October 21, 2020October 22, 2020 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Throwback ThursdayTags: ancestors, Durand Illinois, family, friends, grandmother’s album, photo album, photography, postaday, Relatives, vintage 4 Comments

Ancestor born in 1795 – My Father’s Side

Not sure why the info on the back says two years 1862–63 for death date unless it’s an approximation?.

Katherine is from my father’s mother’s line. I wish I knew more.

I don’t see any family resemblance.

October 14, 2020October 15, 2020 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Throwback ThursdayTags: 1795, ancestors, family, genealogy, Illinois, photography, postaday, Relatives, Throwback Thursday, vintage 6 Comments

My Great Great Grandfather

This commemorative plate now hangs in my grandson Michael’s room, in Columbus, Ohio.

James Armstrong Cannon, born August 6, 1839. served in Co. C 26th Kentucky Infantry Regiment in the “War Between the States”. He was “war wounded and pensioned” and married Louverna Jackson of Shaw’s Point, Illinois. She was born March 25, 1857.

Justice of the Peace, Samuel Cummings officiated their wedding on March 24, 1872 with J.R.Fields and Cordelia Fields as witnesses in Carlinville,Illinois.

James A. Cannon died November 21,1928. his wife Louverna died July 26,1914. They are buried in Bethel Ridge Cemetery near Girard, Illinois.

In a note found by niece Florence Opal Jacobs we read the following: “James A. Cannon and Louverna Jackson Cannon came to Illinois from Kentucky in a covered wagon in about 1884. He was given a land grant in Macoupin County, Illinois for service in the “War Between the States” in which he was wounded and pensioned. They lived just north of Old Rural Church and School, east of Carlinville, Illinois.

My father’s mother, Mary Alta Kerr Hendricks (who taught me to knit) was the first child born to Charles Kerr and Sarah Anna Cannon Kerr (daughter of James A and Louverna) in Womac, Illinois. In the papers I have given to me by my sister, his wife’s name is sometimes spelled differently- Louverna and Laverna but Louverna seems correct as she is listed as daughter of David Jackson 1838-1891 and Rutha Duff Jackson 1830-1893.

James Armstrong Cannon
and
Louverna Jackson Cannon

October 8, 2020 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: ancestors, antique, Bethel Ridge Cemetery, Civil War, covered wagon, family, Illinois, Macoupin County, photography, postaday, vintage, War Between the States 4 Comments

John Christopher Van Sickle 1851–1927and Lucy Maria Judd Van Sickle 1850–1915 were his parents. He was the one of their seven children, to reach full adulthood, passing in 1975.

The inscription on the back of his baby photo is in my mother’s hand.

September 4, 2020 by Ruth Categories: FamilyTags: 1887, ancestors, birthday, Durand Illinois, grandfather, grandmother’s album, photography, postaday 9 Comments

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My Mother and her Brother Robert c. 1925

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1920’s Family Vacation

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Grandmother, Her Sisters and Friends

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Ancestor born in 1795 – My Father’s Side

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My Great Great Grandfather

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From My Grandmother’s Album – the 1920s

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From My Grandmother’s Album

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Ancestors on my Father’s Side

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September 4, 1887

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