I have been looking forward to taking the grands to the park again and we finally had a nice enough day to do that. I love to watch them run, play, and have fun! They are such a delight.
Sunday, March 31, 2019
Finally...
I have been looking forward to taking the grands to the park again and we finally had a nice enough day to do that. I love to watch them run, play, and have fun! They are such a delight.
Saturday, March 30, 2019
Uncle Ken..
A few year later Uncle Ken called me when Mom was so sick, and drove up from Denver to see her. She took his hands and wept. I know that meant everything to her to see her brother, and now they are together again.
A few us had breakfast at our favorite diner in Cheyenne, we had the best time visiting with him. Uncle Ken told me how much he missed his wife Dorothy, he promise her that he would wear her wedding band after she passed away and he did. He was proud to show me! After we finished eating Uncle Ken said he would like propose a toast, so we raised our glasses and this is what he said, “To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.” (Ogden Nash) We all laughed and thought it was good advice. Uncle Ken was brilliant and so kind. I will miss him.
Mom had nine brothers and sisters and now they have all passed away. I have thought this before but it's a little unsettling and strange to now be the oldest generation. Time, it goes by fast.
Walter Arlo Ames 2/26/1919 – 3/15/1919 (Lived 17 days, died of scarlet fever)
Elizabeth Carol Ames Winkleblack (Betsy)
Helen Flora Ames Federer
Barbara Ellen Ames Crouch
Edgar Neal Ames (Bud)
Olive Jeanne Ames (Jeanne)
Kenneth Leroy Ames (Ken)
Dale William Ames (Bill)
Nelle Eileen Ames (Federer) Kennedy
Mildred Clara Ames Warr
Elizabeth Carol Ames Winkleblack (Betsy)
Helen Flora Ames Federer
Barbara Ellen Ames Crouch
Edgar Neal Ames (Bud)
Olive Jeanne Ames (Jeanne)
Kenneth Leroy Ames (Ken)
Dale William Ames (Bill)
Nelle Eileen Ames (Federer) Kennedy
Mildred Clara Ames Warr
Ken
June 5, 1929 - March 20, 2019
Mechanical Engineer
Kenneth joins his wife Dorothy who preceded him in death, and is survived by his three children, Annette, Arlo, and Harold, by five grandchildren and by ten great grandchildren. A longtime resident of Denver, Colorado, he had recently moved to Albuquerque to spend some time with his eldest son. Ken's career included firing and hostling on the Big Boy locomotives, artillery service in Germany in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, a Bachelor's degree from the University of Wyoming (G.I. Bill), engineering on the Apollo space program and in weapons demilitarization, and maintenance work at Safeway Bakery and Sigman Meat.
He had deep technical knowledge and told amazing stories about working with history-making machines and people. Dad, we miss you. We miss your hugs and stories. Grandpa, please save us a piece of P-I-E and some mint jelly. Kenneth has donated his body to medical research; afterward, his remains will join Dorothy's in the Colorado Mountains. The family would like to thank the dedicated staff at The Bridge at Garden Plaza of Aurora and Morning Star in Albuquerque, and everybody who befriended and cared for Ken in his final years.
June 5, 1929 - March 20, 2019
Mechanical Engineer
Kenneth joins his wife Dorothy who preceded him in death, and is survived by his three children, Annette, Arlo, and Harold, by five grandchildren and by ten great grandchildren. A longtime resident of Denver, Colorado, he had recently moved to Albuquerque to spend some time with his eldest son. Ken's career included firing and hostling on the Big Boy locomotives, artillery service in Germany in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, a Bachelor's degree from the University of Wyoming (G.I. Bill), engineering on the Apollo space program and in weapons demilitarization, and maintenance work at Safeway Bakery and Sigman Meat.
He had deep technical knowledge and told amazing stories about working with history-making machines and people. Dad, we miss you. We miss your hugs and stories. Grandpa, please save us a piece of P-I-E and some mint jelly. Kenneth has donated his body to medical research; afterward, his remains will join Dorothy's in the Colorado Mountains. The family would like to thank the dedicated staff at The Bridge at Garden Plaza of Aurora and Morning Star in Albuquerque, and everybody who befriended and cared for Ken in his final years.
Friday, March 29, 2019
Germany...
Germany is also on my travel bucket list. My great-grandparents are from Germany. I am not sure why they left and settled in Illinois. I don't know much about them, but I do know they sacrificed a lot and worked hard to make a good life for their children. I want to travel to Germany someday and see the land of my ancestors.
Johanna Marie Karolina Frederike “Ricka” Konrad was in born in Todenhagen, Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany on May 12, 1860. Rostock is toward the top of the state.
Johann Ludwig “Louis” Federer was born March 19, 1848 in Unterschöntal
Baden-Württemberg, Germany. I don't know what city.
Johanna Marie Karolina Frederike “Ricka” Konrad was in born in Todenhagen, Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany on May 12, 1860. Rostock is toward the top of the state.
My Grandpa Theodore and two of his brothers, Louie, and John left Illinois and homesteaded in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Theodore Federer
Louie and Theodore Federer
John Federer
I have some family history but how I wish I would have asked more questions. I long to know more about my people. I wish they would have kept a journal. I grateful for the information some of my aunts and uncles shared with me. I did compile a book with pictures and the stories. The book is a valued treasure.
Thursday, March 28, 2019
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
The Parker's...
Dan Lacy, his mom Kay, and his sisters
I recently had a friend request from my cousin, Dan Lacy that lives in Missouri. I like Facebook for that reason. It brings family together even if many miles separate us. I know the "Missourians" as we called them, came to Grandpa and Grandma Federer's ranch a few times through the years. I really don't remember them all that much, but I do remember Grandma was always excited to have a visit from her people.
Grandpa Federer helping Dan get on the horse
Dan's Grandmother Edith and my Grandmother Edna were first cousins. Edith and Edna shared the same grandparents, James Thornton Parker and Mary "Molly" Taylor Zion.
Dan sent me some pictures and family history that I enjoyed reading. I have always wanted to visit the town where Grandma was born. Dan and his family live in Drexel, Missouri. Grandma was born in Everett about six miles away. Dan invited to come for a visit and stay with them at their ranch. His mother Edith is 84 and in good health. Dan took over the family business when his Dad Dale passed away. They raise Red Angus bulls.
Lacy's Red Angus Bulls
We are located in west-central Missouri where the tallgrass prairie meets the Kansas plains. Our roots in the cattle industry date back to 1955. For nearly four decades, we produced and developed a herd of Polled Herefords whose influence can still be seen across the country today. 1990 marked the start of our Red Angus herd and they have been the focus of our attention ever since.
Due to age and Dale’s deteriorating health, the majority of the herd was dispersed in 2011. Shoal Creek Land & Cattle of Excelsior Springs, Missouri purchased all of the 2009 heifers, and Jon Marshall of Katy, Texas purchased nearly all of the remaining cows. Sadly, we lost Dale shortly thereafter.
Our herd currently consists of approximately 160 registered 1A/1B females. Nearly all of these females carry the “LACY” prefix and result from the dedicated use of the top genetics in the breed for the past three decades.
Dale was committed to producing pasture efficient cows with strong maternal traits, that commitment will never change. Our cattle must be easy calving, slick haired, docile cattle that are fundamentally sound. They must perform while grazing fescue and enduring the extreme weather conditions experienced on the Missouri-Kansas border.
99% of our cows calve completely unassisted while grazing large, open pastures. The cows themselves were born with an average 66 lb BW and an average WW of 563 lbs. The 66 lb BW can be attributed in part to an average gestation period of 277 days.
Unlike many bull producers today, our bulls are born & raised here in Missouri on our ranch. We develop our bulls here as well, where they run on fescue pasture and are bunk fed a developer pellet twice a day. Doing so insures no bull is overfed and produces a docile bull that is ready to go to work for you.
“Balanced & Proven Genetics” is the key to our operation.
Take a look inside... Feel free to stop by and visit anytime.
Welcome to Lacy’s Red Angus
Dale Lacy with his family
James Thornton Parker (Grandma Federer's Grandfather) was born in White County, Indiana on March 9,
1836. He was born the son of James Parker and Jane Rees Parker, the Grandson of
James Parker and Rebecca Wolfe Parker and great-grandson of Benjamin Parker and
Margaret Thornton Parker. James Thornton was a member of the pioneer family of
Hampshire County, Virginia, near Romney on the Potomac River since 1740, whose
original American ancestor, Robert Parker, a grandson of the Earl of
Macclesfield, immigrated to Virginia in 1660.
At the age of four, James Thornton moved with his parents to Virginia where he was educated.
James Thornton had two older sisters; Susan Matilda was born March 2, 1822 in Hampshire Co. Virginia and died December 6, 1904 at Reese Mill, Mineral Co. West Virginia. Rebecca Ellen was born November 20, 1829 in Indiana and died September 9, 1912 in Mineral Co. West Virginia. Susan married Abraham Johnson (son of Okey Johnson and Nancy Hollenback) in Hampshire Co. Virginia on March 20, 1844. Rebecca married James H. Carskadon (son of Thomas Carskadon / 1793-1856 and Mary Johnson / 1798-1855) in Hampshire Co. Virginia on November 19, 1846.
In June of 1861 James Thornton joined the Confederate States Army as a Private. In 1862 he was promoted to 1st Lieutenant and served in Company "F", 7th Regiment, Virginia Calvary which was under the command of General Stonewall Jackson. He was captured by the Union troops in February 1864 and was released from prison June 1865. He was held in "Fort Delaware Prison Camp". During his tenure as a Southern soldier, he came to a well in Cass County, Missouri, near Freeman, where he was given a dipper to drink from by a young lady named Mary "Molly" Taylor Zion. This well was in the Zion family yard. He told his comrades, "when the war is over I will return to Cass County and make this girl my wife". He kept his word and came back to the farm 2 miles south of Freeman in the spring of 1869. James Thornton married Mary T. Zion, the daughter of John Zion and Nancy T. Davidson Zion, on October 4, 1870.
James Thornton's parents birth and death dates are as follows;
James – Born Dec 18, 1798 in Hampshire Co. Virginia
Died Jul 6, 1895 in Mineral Co. West Virginia
His name appears on the 1830 Wabash Twp, Tippecanoe Co, Indiana census.
Jane Rees – Born July 15, 1800 in Patterson Creek, Hampshire Co, Virginia
Died Oct 18, 1868 in Mineral Co, West Virginia
James and Jane were married on November 28 1820 in Hampshire Co, Virginia.
To the union of James Thornton and Mary T., nine children were born, Charles W. and Nannie J., dying in infancy. James Oscar, George J., Bessie, Robert, John Wesley, Harvey Carskadon, and Myrtle "Babe". The couple raised their family on the same farm where James T. first met Mary T. for that drink of water during the war. They lived at this location for 31 years. In 1901 James and Mary moved to the Grand River community in Cass County. James Thornton served as a Cass County Judge from 1898-1901. Therefore James Thornton was called "Judge Parker" by many. James rode a horse from his home south of Freeman to Harrisonville to fulfill his duties as a judge.
An article appeared in the "Cass County Democrat" (county newspaper) and read as follows:
Birthdays
I had a birthday. Birthdays are sad events, but you just can't get away from them. I was so sad I cried on my first one but it didn't do any good, so I quit and up to this time have nursed my secret sorrow in silence.
With a heavy heart I went out to find someone who could understand and sympathize with me. James T. Parker, better known as Judge Parker, had had a birthday. He had just reached his ninety-fourth one. I found Mister Parker at his regular hangout, sitting on a bench in front of the restaurant down town (Freeman).
"Judge," I says, "I understand you had a birthday."
"Yes," he answered in self-defense, "Like everybody else, I have birthdays."
"Well, I'm about one-third your age – how was the world treating you at my age?"
Judge spat into the gutter, wiped a rich-brown spatter from his chin, leveled his cane at a door knob across the street and sighted down an imaginary barrel, while a train of thoughts flashed across his mind that, nearing the century mark, is retentive and recalls and depicts memories in accurate detail.
"I was a Rebel in the Civil War. It was in '61 and was five years later before I returned home. Once I was taken prisoner. When they got tired feeding me they gave me a tall bottle of whiskey and told me they had detailed a single guard to take me to prison, and whispered, "Get him drunk and beat it." But the whiskey lasted longer than our trip and we hid the bottle, half full of whiskey, between the rails on the railroad tracks when we left the train, and that bottle is still there," he added humorously, "for them railroad men wouldn't bother it would they?"
"Did folks talk hard times in those days, too?" I asked.
At the age of four, James Thornton moved with his parents to Virginia where he was educated.
James Thornton had two older sisters; Susan Matilda was born March 2, 1822 in Hampshire Co. Virginia and died December 6, 1904 at Reese Mill, Mineral Co. West Virginia. Rebecca Ellen was born November 20, 1829 in Indiana and died September 9, 1912 in Mineral Co. West Virginia. Susan married Abraham Johnson (son of Okey Johnson and Nancy Hollenback) in Hampshire Co. Virginia on March 20, 1844. Rebecca married James H. Carskadon (son of Thomas Carskadon / 1793-1856 and Mary Johnson / 1798-1855) in Hampshire Co. Virginia on November 19, 1846.
In June of 1861 James Thornton joined the Confederate States Army as a Private. In 1862 he was promoted to 1st Lieutenant and served in Company "F", 7th Regiment, Virginia Calvary which was under the command of General Stonewall Jackson. He was captured by the Union troops in February 1864 and was released from prison June 1865. He was held in "Fort Delaware Prison Camp". During his tenure as a Southern soldier, he came to a well in Cass County, Missouri, near Freeman, where he was given a dipper to drink from by a young lady named Mary "Molly" Taylor Zion. This well was in the Zion family yard. He told his comrades, "when the war is over I will return to Cass County and make this girl my wife". He kept his word and came back to the farm 2 miles south of Freeman in the spring of 1869. James Thornton married Mary T. Zion, the daughter of John Zion and Nancy T. Davidson Zion, on October 4, 1870.
James Thornton's parents birth and death dates are as follows;
James – Born Dec 18, 1798 in Hampshire Co. Virginia
Died Jul 6, 1895 in Mineral Co. West Virginia
His name appears on the 1830 Wabash Twp, Tippecanoe Co, Indiana census.
Jane Rees – Born July 15, 1800 in Patterson Creek, Hampshire Co, Virginia
Died Oct 18, 1868 in Mineral Co, West Virginia
James and Jane were married on November 28 1820 in Hampshire Co, Virginia.
To the union of James Thornton and Mary T., nine children were born, Charles W. and Nannie J., dying in infancy. James Oscar, George J., Bessie, Robert, John Wesley, Harvey Carskadon, and Myrtle "Babe". The couple raised their family on the same farm where James T. first met Mary T. for that drink of water during the war. They lived at this location for 31 years. In 1901 James and Mary moved to the Grand River community in Cass County. James Thornton served as a Cass County Judge from 1898-1901. Therefore James Thornton was called "Judge Parker" by many. James rode a horse from his home south of Freeman to Harrisonville to fulfill his duties as a judge.
An article appeared in the "Cass County Democrat" (county newspaper) and read as follows:
Birthdays
I had a birthday. Birthdays are sad events, but you just can't get away from them. I was so sad I cried on my first one but it didn't do any good, so I quit and up to this time have nursed my secret sorrow in silence.
With a heavy heart I went out to find someone who could understand and sympathize with me. James T. Parker, better known as Judge Parker, had had a birthday. He had just reached his ninety-fourth one. I found Mister Parker at his regular hangout, sitting on a bench in front of the restaurant down town (Freeman).
"Judge," I says, "I understand you had a birthday."
"Yes," he answered in self-defense, "Like everybody else, I have birthdays."
"Well, I'm about one-third your age – how was the world treating you at my age?"
Judge spat into the gutter, wiped a rich-brown spatter from his chin, leveled his cane at a door knob across the street and sighted down an imaginary barrel, while a train of thoughts flashed across his mind that, nearing the century mark, is retentive and recalls and depicts memories in accurate detail.
"I was a Rebel in the Civil War. It was in '61 and was five years later before I returned home. Once I was taken prisoner. When they got tired feeding me they gave me a tall bottle of whiskey and told me they had detailed a single guard to take me to prison, and whispered, "Get him drunk and beat it." But the whiskey lasted longer than our trip and we hid the bottle, half full of whiskey, between the rails on the railroad tracks when we left the train, and that bottle is still there," he added humorously, "for them railroad men wouldn't bother it would they?"
"Did folks talk hard times in those days, too?" I asked.
"Food was scarce and sometimes we went hungry. I have taken dough, wrapped it around my ramrod and held it before a fire to cook. I've eaten stuff you'd throw out to the dogs."
"I don't know about that," I said – "I batched once."
At the end of an hour, Judge had taken me through the Civil War. He named all the battles and called all the captains, generals and the rest of the army, by their first names. Today he keeps house and cooks his meals. Reads without glasses and carries a cane from force of habit. With a heavy heart I left to be on my ways looking for someone old enough to understand.
Some of James Thornton's bad habits was smoking cigarettes and drinking whiskey. These vices would eventually kill him, but it took them 95 years to do so.
James Thornton became a member of the Methodist Church at Shiloh in 1874. He passed away on April 1, 1931 and was laid to rest in Freeman Cemetery. Mary Taylor passed away on July 14, 1917 in Freeman also.
A book titled "Hanging Rock Rebel" depicts the life of Lt. John Blue during the Civil War and mentions James Thornton Parker's name many times, along with many other relatives such as; Okey Johnson, Abraham Johnson, James Parker, Rees, Carskadon. Lt. Blue and James T. were childhood friends and were in Fort Delaware Prisoner of War Camp during the same period.
Parker Home
The children of James Thornton and Mary T. Zion Parker, as follows, were all born in Cass County Missouri.
Charles W. – born 1871 (?) - died in infancy 1871 (?)
Nannie J. – born 1872 (?) - died in infancy 1872 (?)
James Oscar Parker – born May 13,1874 / died May 30, 1944
Married Lottie Bishop of Everett, Missouri
Children: Grace, James, Marvin and Lester.
Lived in Tulsa, Oklahoma
George J. Parker – born 1875 / died Oct. 25, 1951
Married Ivor Stevens of Everett, Missouri (my Great-Grandparents)
Children Edna Federer (my Grandma), Mabel Warner and Frank Parker
Lived in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Bessie (no middle name) Parker – born Jan 12, 1880 / died June 21, 1932
Married Quince Augustus Thomas on 11-27-1901 of Freeman, Missouri
Children an infant (died April 10, 1903), Ruth Bogar, Edith May Lacy, Robert, Walter Glen.
Lived in Freeman, Missouri
Robert Parker – born Nov 28, 1881 / died Oct 2, 1949
Married Della Reed of Drexel, Missouri on Feb 15, 1905 Lived in Kansas City, Freeman. (Separated from Della who lived in California)
Children None
John Wesley Parker – born Aug 5, 1883 / died Aug 10, 1946
Married Irene Waggener on Jan 8, 1905
Children Opal Laverene Barnett, Louise Heider, John Earl And a younger child that died in infancy.
Harvey Carskadon Parker – born Sept 16, 1885 / died Sept 3, 1943
Married Jennie Anderson of Harrisonville on Oct 1, 1911
Children Willie H.
Myrtle "Babe" – born Sept. 26, 1886 / died Nov. 16, 1957
Married Walter E. "Tiny" Bybee of Grand River community on Aug 30, 1905.
Children Lloyd and La Verna
Parker family
I feel a strong connection to the Parker's,
someday we will meet again...
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