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Ninth Generation + 458 F i. Irene Pratt .
391. Hassel Delmar Balckom was born on 21 Sep 1916 in Collinston, Morehouse Parish, LA and died in May 1984 in AR aged 67.
Death Notes: Buried in TX.
General Notes: Hassel was a WWII veteran. He served in battles in North Africa, Italy, the Normandy Invasion, and the Battle of the Bulge.
Hassel married Georgia Adams on 1 Mar 1941 in Sayre, OK.
Hassel next married Laura Mae Foster on 8 Nov 1946 in Rayville, LA.
Hassel next married Florence Evelyn Phillips on 31 Jul 1956 in Vicksburg, MS.
408. Lillian S. Hopkins was born on 2 Aug 1872 in Foster, RI and died on 10 May 1947 in Fitchburg, MA aged 74.
Lillian married Lorenzo (Levi) Dow Brown on 25 Sep 1895 in Providence, RI. Lorenzo was born on 12 Apr 1855 in Houlton, ME and died on 10 Jan 1923 in Gardner, MA aged 67.
460 F i. Madeline Winsor Brown was born on 26 Oct 1896 in Leominster, MA and died on 12 Apr 1990 in Winchendon, MA. aged 93.
General Notes: Children were:
i. Robert Brown Pearson b. 2 Mar 1914; d. 4 Sep 1991 in Old Town, Maine.
ii. Richard Stanley Pearson (Private).
iii. Barbara Louise Pearson (Private).
iv. Grace Margaret Pearson b. 21 May 1918; d. 4 Dec 1932.
v. Wallace Stuart Pearson b. 17 Jan 1921; d. 16 Aug 1999 in Bridgton, ME.
vi. Hedley Alfred Pearson b. 30 Jul 1922; d. 29 Feb 2000 in Fitchburg, MA. Ordained on 7 Jun 1978 in Christ Church, Springfield, MA. He was ill with Parkinson's Disease.
vii. Philip Edward Pearson (Private).
viii. Madeleine Windsor (June) Pearson (Private).
ix. Ruth Elizabeth Pearson (Private).
x. Janet Lee Pearson.
xi. Nancy Ann Pearson (Private).
xii. Joan Charlette Pearson (Private).
xiii. Baby Pearson b. Dec 1939 in Fitchburg, MA; d. Dec 1939. She was buried on 31 Dec 1939 in Forest Hill Cemetary, Fitchburg, MA.
Madeline married Richard Stanley Pearson on 28 May 1913 in Leominster, MA. Richard was born on 2 Sep 1887 in Highfield, NB Canada and died on 2 Feb 1963 in Fitchburg, MA aged 75.
Death Notes: He was buried in Forest Hill Cemetary, Fitchburg, MA.
461 M ii. Wesley Hopkins Brown was born on 22 May 1900 in Leominster, MA and died on 27 Aug 1916 in Laconia, NH aged 16.
409. John Murdoch Pratt was born on 12 Oct 1884 in Elmira, NY.
John married Martha Ellen McKinney.
+ 462 F i. Martha Janet Pratt .
412. Pratt Balcom was born in 1894 in 1961.
Pratt married Margaret Adelmann.
463 M i. Pratt Balcom was born in 1933.
464 F ii. Margaret Balcom .
465 F iii. Edith Balcom .
466 F iv. Beverly Balcom .
467 F v. Katherine Balcom .
468 F vi. Alice Balcom .
469 M vii. Stephen Balcom was born in 1937.
426. Winthrop Wesley Rathburn was born on 29 Apr 1874 in Cleveland, Ohio and died on 13 Feb 1949 in Los Angeles, California aged 74.
General Notes:
WW Rathburn was ordered to pay £15.00 a month for support of Wesley. Evidently he did not pay. The court found that for a long time prior to Feb. 1, 1906 Mina had sole support and custody of Wesley. I wonder if he ever really knew the impact his desertion had on his son. He died of coronary sclerosis. I called it "hard heart."
I can tell from pictures my dad had saved in a very special pocket in his memory book, that he did have some contact with Winthrop's brother(s) in Nebraska in the early 1920's. There are pictures of when he went to visit them.
Winthrop was married four times. His daughter is from his third marriage. She is half sister to my Father. I noticed he married the Conaly woman the same day his wife died. The child was born seven months later. Here we go again. I was actually only a couple of years older than his daughter. My sister Loujen was the same age.
I remember that I was in Los Angeles living (age 12) with Billie Gardner's mother (she was a friend of my mothers). I was there to finish my orthodontia. It was during WWII. Billie's mom suggested that I write to my Grandfather. I did. I told him I was alone and that is was my idea to write and that I would like to meet him. He wrote back some three weeks later stating that he did not want to meet me because my grandmother and my father had hurt him too deeply. I accepted that and never attempted to contact him again. He died about four years later. I remember his handwriting as being very distinctive, old fashioned, and his signature as W. W. Rathburn. The letter was lost.
On March 16, 2004 I received a copy of my grandmother's divorce papers. It had the same old fashioned, slightly artistic signature. I do wish I could find out what caused him to be such a man. Evidently he refused to support Mina even while they were married. There may be some relatives in and around Boulder, Colorado.
Winthrop's birthday is listed in California death records as April 28,1874.
His SS# was: 551-093-824
California Deaths #2574-49-236
FEDERAL CENSUS 1910: Canyon County, Idaho
Federal Census 1920: Los Angeles, California
Federal Census 1930: Los Angeles, California
Source: Minabelle Kerper
Noted events in his life were:
Occupation: Plumbing Salesman.
Winthrop married Mina Ethel Nelson, daughter of Peter Dallas Nelson and Amanda Jane Garfield, on 1 Jul 1900 in Valaparasio, Nebraska. Mina was born on 22 Dec 1879 in David City, Butler, Nebraska and died on 30 Sep 1967 in Powell, Wyoming aged 87.
Noted events in her life were:
Divorced: Winthrop W. Rathburn, 1 Feb 1906, Lancaster Co., Nebraska. District Court of the Third Judicial District State of Nebraska. Divorced: Geroge B. Kerper, 5 Jun 1923, Park County, Wyoming. Divorced: Dr. JRA Whitlock, 27 Mar 1935, Park County, Wyoming. Misc:
We called her Nana. She was gifted with great beauty which was a legend in her day. People used to get up in their seats at opera houses to get a glimpse of her. She had a natural grace, a great sense of humor and people liked her. Her own father was a kind, hail fellow well met, kind of a guy, who cared a great deal about people, animals, and those around him. Hazel Kerper said that she had been spoiled as a child by getting a lot of attention in the hotels where her father was manager, owner, and cook as she was growing up.
She was a legendary cook. Nana had a secret recipe for fruit cake. For many years she made and sold it during the holidays. I remember many people coming to her house to buy it. She told me that her secret was using caramel as part of the binder. I have a recipe for caramel candy and am going to try it next xmas.
She was a surgical nurse, which made her a professional woman in her day. She ran the Powell Hospital for her husband Dr. Whitlock for twelve years. She seemed to have worked hard.
Nana was a woman who got along well, with men. She married men who were bright, talented, rich and alcoholic. Her second husband, George Kerper, was a Harvard educated attorney. Robie Whitlock was an MD who had an impeccable medical background (summa cum laude) etc. I knew and was devoted to both of those men. There was one other man she was connected to. I don't know if they were married or not. His name was Martin Bell. I think, from pictures, he was also prosperous. I have found no record of a marriage or divorce from him. He lived in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Nana also had many beautiful Jewels. She had a three carat diamond which my dad sold to a gambler. It was really a dazzler. She also had diamond bar pins, and many other diamond rings. Grandpa George gave her that jewelry. He was wealthy. I think they bought it as investment also. I was miffed at my dad for selling that ring. To him things like that were extraneous. For Wes Kerper, money had to be making money. He was the capitalist of his time.
In those days, even one failed marriage was a disaster for a woman. Nana did not verbally express her disappointment with herself but did drink. I believe she was afflicted by alcoholism, which in those days everyone condemned and no one understood. She was (also) a battered woman. George Kerper was free with his fists when drinking. I know she was verbally abusive when she drank. She did become abusive to Whitlock when they fought, as her alcoholism progressed. He was drinking and using too so it was a fine kettle of fish.
One thing I remember now is that she was emotionally distant. I never remember her talking about how she felt about anything. She didn't volunteer it with us. It may have been shame. I don't remember Mina as ever being unkind to me. It seems she did the appropriate thing but did not emote much warmth. I was taught that I was her
favorite because I looked like her. In fact, I was punished for being her favorite. I remember when she left on the train for a sojourn to the Menninger clinic, after her divorce from Robie. I cried all of the way to the train station because she was leaving. No one ever comforted me. I was about five.
Robie (Dr. Whitlock) committed suicide when I was about six. It devastated me. I worshiped him. He had married again. His new wife was pregnant with a child which was rumored to have been another man's child. He married the mother to give the child a name and soon after killed himself by a self administered dose of Morphine.
My Mother's family, the Bowmans, were riddled with alcoholism and scandal too. Many of the Garfield brothers died of alcoholism. Margaret Blair Garfield, Nana's grandmother was Irish but I don't have any indication Margaret or Amanda drank. My mother died as an addict of Codeine. Her father was illegitimate. One aunt was hurridly married. My mother's father had all of the earmarks of a sex addict. The family was troubled. They dealt with it by scapegoating and judging others. I can proudly say that those patterns are being overcome by the current generations. I tell all of this history of dysfunction so that posterity can see what the problems were. With the new information on DNA and genetic characteristics, it maybe that they lie in dysfunctional immune systems somewhere or perhaps in some brain function or endocrine anomaly. It is not meant as a condemnation.
My other grandmother Bowman hated Nana and hated my father. I was taught to deride my grandmother that she was some kind of leech and bad creature. My mother couldn't stand Nana who she felt encouraged my father's relationships with other women. The truth is that I think Nana felt my mother was some sort of a prima donna. Nana was emotionally supporting her son. She couldn't have done anything about any of her sons relationships and she may have been more tolerant because of her own failed relationships and her alcoholism.
Grandma Bowman always looked down her nose at her and stated Nana was married six times. That story is not true. Here, I might mention that Grandma Bowman came from a puritan background of the early New England. Grandma B's grandfather was a minister of the Church of Christ. One of the Colby's testified against someone in the Witch craft trials of Massachusetts. They were straight laced people and Grandma B. was no exception.
Nana took up with a woman named Dorothy Leib after her divorce from Robie in 1935. They stayed together until about 1943. Dorothy worked for my parents. I never did like her and did not understand their relationship. I do not believe Nana was Gay. I think she had been sexually abused by one of her uncles as a child. (The uncle was Solomon, who showed signs of being a pedophile) I think she was a sex addict and perhaps very narcissistic. The Womens' Movement would call her a progressive thinker. When she and Dorothy broke up, it was thunderous in the Kerper household. She ran away with Billie, my mother's best friend. Billie and Dorothy were very critical of me when I noted they drank too much. They moved from Cody soon after that.
There was a great unfairness in the judgment of Nana though. It was entirely without compassion. Please note the writings of (my sisters) Loujen and Janeen about her. In my opinion, this woman in our family was singled out as having all the negative characteristics no one else would admit to. The rest of the family had them, IN SPADES, and used her as a scapegoat.
Source: Minabelle Kerper
+ 470 M i. Wesley Lewis Rathburn was born on 28 Oct 1902 in Columbus, Nebraska and died on 3 Jun 1981 in California aged 78.
Winthrop next married Myrtle Amanda Snyder in 1908.
Winthrop next married Margaret B. Marker.
Winthrop next married Constance Conaly on 28 Nov 1931 in Los Angeles, California.
Eva married Mr. French.
431. Robert Elmer Balcome was born on 1 Jun 1896 in Boston, Suffolk, MA and died on 13 Jan 1968 in Douglas, MA aged 71.
Robert married Matilda "May" Jean Cowan, daughter of Leith Cowan and Julia W. Brehaut. Matilda was born in 1902 in Sydney, NS and died in 1997 in Douglas, MA aged 95.
Death Notes: Headline: May J. Balcome, 94
Publication Date: January 17, 1997
Source: Telegram & Gazette Worcester, MA
Page: B5
Subjects:
Region: Massachusetts
Obituary: DOUGLAS - May J. (Cowan) Balcome, 94, formerly of Chestnut Street, a hospital nurse for many years, died Wednesday night in Beaumont Rehabilitation Center, Northbridge, after an illness.
Her husband, Robert E. Balcome, died in 1968. She leaves a son, Herbert L. Balcome of Suwanee, Ga.; three daughters, Louise Johnston of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Jean Metzel of Huntington Beach, Calif., and Carolyn Park of Douglas; three stepsisters, Beth Smith in Ontario, Canada, and Frances and Phyllis Cowan, both of Prince Edward Island; a sister, Eva Spoor of Wexford, Pa.; 11 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; nephews and nieces. She was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, daughter of Leith and Julia W. (Brehaut) Cowan, and lived many years in West Orange, N.J., before moving here in 1948. She moved to Northbridge eight years ago. She graduated from Orange (N.J.) Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in 1925.
Mrs. Balcome was a registered nurse at Whitinsville Hospital, later Milford-Whitinsville Regional Hospital, in Whitinsville for many years before she retired. She was a member of First Congregational Church.
A funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. tomorrow in Buma Funeral Home, 480 Church St., Whitinsville. Burial will be in Douglas Center Cemetery. A calling hour is noon to 1 p.m. tomorrow at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to First Congregational Church, PO Box 1109; or the Douglas Ambulance Fund, PO Box 222, both Douglas 01516.
472 F i. Carolyn B. Balcome .
General Notes: Children of Carolyn Balcome and Robert Parker are:
Carolyn married Robert Parker, son of Earl Parker and Ardis Shipey. Robert was born about 1930.
+ 473 M ii. Herbert Leith Balcome .
474 F iii. Louise Balcome .
General Notes: She married Mr. Johnston.
+ 475 F iv. Jean Roberta Balcome .
433. Edna Mae Pike was born on 12 Sep 1912 in Mena, Polk Co., AR and died in Nov 1985 aged 73.
Death Notes: Buried in Pine Crest Cemetery in Mena, AR.
General Notes: Granddaughter Kelli Perriello <globalgrl@msn.com> 03/17/2002.
Edna married Quincy B. Lindsey before 1938. Quincy was born in 1908 and died in 1951 aged 43.
Death Notes: Quincy is buried in Pine Crest Cemetery in Mena.
General Notes: http://members.tripod.com/pikegen/lindsey.htm
Quincy Lindsey and his brother Alex owned the Studebaker dealership there and in 1951 they were both in a car accident in which Quincy was killed.
476 M i. Harley Craig Lindsey was born on 10 Dec 1938.
436. Charles Otto Balcom 11 was born on 6 Feb 187912 and died on 27 Sep 1930 aged 51.
Charles married Inez Werner 11 on 29 May 1907.11 Inez was born on 17 Oct 1882 and died on 6 Oct 1960 aged 77.
+ 477 F i. Elizabeth Inez Balcom was born on 14 Apr 1908 and died in Apr 1976 aged 68.
+ 478 M ii. James Otto Balcom was born on 4 Jan 1923.
437. Glen Gould Balcom was born in Jul 1892.
Glen married Unknown before 1935.
+ 479 M i. William Pierce Balcom was born in 1935.
440. Jacob Ray Scott 2 was born on 16 May 1884 in Allendale, Ottawa, MI,61 died on 27 Mar 1970 in Lamont, Ottawa, MI62,63 aged 85, and was buried on 30 Mar 1970 in Allendale, Ottawa, MI.62,64 Ancestral File Number: 6ST7-3W.
Birth Notes: Clipping sent to me by Jean MacDonald.
Burial Notes: Allendale Township Cemetery
Noted events in his life were:
Census: 1910, Holton, Muskegon, MI. 71 Enumerated as Ray 25, Sadie 24, Emory 3, Earl 2. Census: 1920, Allendale, Ottawa, MI. 72 Enumerated as Ray 35, Sadie 33, Emory 13, Earl 12, Lucille 7, Claude
4.
Jacob married Sarah Helen (Sadie) Parm on 28 Jun 1905 in Lamont, Ottawa, MI. Sarah was born on 3 May 1886 in MI, died on 23 Oct 1928 in Grandville, Kent, MI aged 42, and was buried in Oct 1928 in Allendale, Ottawa, MI.
Burial Notes: Allendale Township Cemetery
+ 480 M i. Emory Ray Scott was born Living Individual, details withhel.
+ 481 M ii. Earl Edwin Scott was born Living Individual, details withhel.
+ 482 F iii. Lucille Irene Scott was born Living Individual, details withhel.
+ 483 M iv. Claude Otis Scott was born Living Individual, details withhel.
+ 484 F v. Lylia Lorraine Scott was born Living Individual, details withhel.
Jacob next married Lila Pearl Russell on 12 Mar 1930 in Grandville, Kent, MI. Lila was born on 27 Jan 1897 in Mancelona, Antrim, MI,73 died on 6 Dec 1957 in Allendale, Ottawa, MI74 aged 60, and was buried on 7 Dec 1957 in Allendale, Ottawa, MI.56,74
Burial Notes: Allendale Township Cemetery
General Notes: Vague rumors of "Indian blood" in her lineage. Still unproven. May
have been Algonquin tribe. (See her father's notes)
Noted events in her life were:
Census: 1920, Lansing, Ingham, MI. 75 Enumerated as a boarder: Lila 23.
+ 485 F i. Ardis June Scott was born in 1931.
+ 486 M ii. Dale Owen Scott was born on 20 Mar 1933 and died on 19 Oct 1995 aged 62.
487 M iii. Donald Richard Scott was born in 1937.
Jacob next married Alta Bennet in 1961 in MI.61 Alta was born on 27 Apr 1905,76 died on 1 Aug 1976 in Alcona, Ottawa, MI76 aged 71, and was buried after 1 Aug 1976 in Allendale, Ottawa, MI.13
Burial Notes: Allendale Township Cemetery
447. Avery Abram Balcom was born on 30 May 1909 in Aetna, MI and died on 23 Dec 1993 in Fremont, MI aged 84.
Avery married Nilah Lucille Stout before 1941. Nilah was born on 12 Oct 1919 in Denver Township, MI and died on 6 May 1977 in Fremont, MI aged 57.
488 M i. Gary Wayne Balcom was born on 1 Nov 1941 in Muskegon, MI.
Gary married Brenda Carol Burd on 1 Jun 1963 in Gaylord, MI. Brenda was born on 28 Mar 1944 in Saginaw, MI.
489 M ii. Allan Michael Balcom .
+ 490 M iii. Leon Wesley Balcom .
451. Anna May Wagoner was born on 26 Apr 1889 in Albany, NY12 and died on 13 Dec 1977 in Albany, NY12 aged 88.
Anna married Walter F. Fieseher on 29 Jun 1921. Walter was born on 4 Jun 1883 and died on 18 May 1962 aged 78.
491 F i. Audrey Mae Fieseher was born on 12 Dec 1923.
492 F ii. Shirley Agnes Fieseher was born on 21 Dec 1925.
493 M iii. George Clayton Fieseher was born on 25 Oct 1927.
494 F iv. Edith June Fieseher was born on 4 Jan 1932.
Edith married Addison Fletcher Cox III on 9 Jul 1954. Addison was born on 3 Feb 1930 and died on 9 May 1993 aged 63.
453. Walter Leroy Wagoner was born on 4 Jun 1897 and died on 25 Oct 1967 aged 70.
Walter married Mary Elizabeth Benson. Mary was born on 6 Jul 1896 and died on 18 Jan 1984 aged 87.
+ 495 F i. Doris E. Wagoner was born on 28 Apr 1918.
456. Burton Edward Harvey was born on 17 Jun 1888 and died on 25 May 1957 aged 68.
Burton married Anna Koblenzer. Anna was born in 1894.
+ 496 F i. Unknown Harvey .
497 F ii. Verna Harvey .
Verna married Unknown Rolf.
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