Dear Little Jimmie:
I am lonesome without you all, and without you.
You are a darling little baby, and you
have and ideal Momma and daddy to bring you
along through the years, and your Grandma will be a
big help. What a joy you are ,
to them and it will be increasingly so through the years.
You and I will have a joint birthday
party one of these days.
Your loving, Uncle Jim.
Post mark Columbus, Ohio April 25, 1938
James Ross McCartney
Route 5
Newark
Ohio
I wonder if they ever celebrated a birthday together!
James R. Kaye b. May 2 1865
James R. McCartney b. May 10
Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. From The National Standard Encyclopedia Amanuensis Monday was started on the Transylvanian Dutch Blog. This link will take you to the page concerning Amanuensis and why one should transcribe the records !
The letter below was written to my Grandparents and my Dad on the occasion of a visit from their Uncle and Great Uncle, James R. Kaye, the son of Byron and Ellen Smith Kaye of Woodstock, Ontario, Canada. This and a few more letters were found in a scrapbook that my grandmother started for my Dad. I have been sorting through them and getting them put away in protective coverings. As time allows I will post more.
Enjoy!
Oak Park, Ill. April 30, 1938
James Ross McCartney aka Jimmie
Dear Ruth, Mac. and Jimmie:
I had such a mighty fine time with you all that I have been lonesome all week, not with standing the fact that I have been swamped with work.
You cannot know what a good time you gave me, and I want you to know how deeply I appreciate it.
I have been seeing You, Mac, out in the strawberry patch. I do hope you have had our good weather and got in all the plants. I am sure the frost danger is past, and trust everything will conspire to give you a bumper crop.
I have been telling the folks that you have everything that could be desired in your little home. It is ideal. I will always be able to picture you in it, and visualize all your movements. There you are Ruth playing with Jimmie, he chewing up the bus and Mac smoking his pipe, and your mother getting the greatest happiness out of the baby. That is what I call ideal.
You will never know little Jimmie how much happiness I got out of being with you those days. It will have an enduring place in memory. You are a darling baby, and no baby ever had finer, more ideal parents and grandma than you, and no one every had a sweeter baby.
I have been telling the folks all about you, Betty, Jimmie and little Jean wanted me to tell them more, and Jean was just as much interested as the other two. She said “Jean see baby-Mimi baby,”
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by which she meant she wanted to see Jimmie baby. She calls her brother “Mimi.” They would all love to see your Jimmie.
Now, Jimmie, as I told you on the Columbus picture card, You and I , little pal, will get together some time for a joint birthday party. Won’t we have a good time! The folks will be invited, and will have the privilege of doing all the cooking and baking and join in the eating.
What a happiness it will be to watch your growing life. What a joy you are and are going to be to your Mamma and daddy, because it will be impossible to find a finer boy and a finer, noble man in a week’s ride.
I have given your mother the facts regarding the state of things here, Ruth, and my talk with Winnie.
Kiss little Jimmie for me often.
I am wishing for you all every good thing and every Divine blessing, remembering you all at the Throne of Grace, and that the Good Shepperd will keep you, protect and pasture the little in your home and keeping.
Daniel and Elizabeth Jackson Jackson were married on November 8, 1836 in Knox Co., Ohio.
Daniel H. and Elizabeth are second cousins. Elizabeth’s parents are Silas and Mary Polly Peterman Jackson and her grandparents are Daniel and Jamima Benjamin Jackson. Elizabeth is my 3rd great-grandaunt and Daniel H. is then my 3rd great-uncle via marriage and my 2nd cousin 5 times removed.
Here are two picture that I found in The History of the Jackson Family of Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y., Ohio and Indiana. Descendants of Robert and Agnes Washburn Jackson.
Daniel and Elizabeth are the grand-parents of the man who wrote the genealogy above, his name is Oscar Burton Robbins.
Daniel was born in Amity, Knox Co., Ohio on 3 Nov 1814 to David and Prudence Hathaway Jackson. He died 10 Mar 1904 in Whitley Co., Indiana.
Elizabeth was born in or near Benton Columbia (Northumberland) Co.,Pennsylvania along Fishing Creek. Her birthdate is 31 Aug 1814. She was the third child of Silas and Mary Jackson. Elizabeth died 4 Jul 1863, Whitley Co. Indiana.
You can find pictures of their headstone on Find A Grave memorial number # 44809414
Daniel and Elizabeth’s children are:
2-Mary Prudence Jackson b. 13 Jul 1837, Knox Co. Ohio
+David Jackson Neal
2-Lucinda Armenia Jackson b. 31 Jan 1840, Knox Co. Ohio, d. 12 Aug 1929
+Issac Allen Bradrick
2-Susan Jackson b. 1 May 1842, Knox Co. Ohio, d. 9 Oct 1843
2-William Logan Harris Jackson b. 3 Jan 1844, Knox Co. Ohio, d. 1 May 1905
+Ella Dickerson
2-Silas Albert Jackson b. 14 Jun 1844, Knox Co. Ohio, d. 15 Oct 1926
+Rebecca Rhodes
+Georgia Jay Norris
2-Olive Myra Jackson b. 7 Oct 1849, Knox Co. Ohio, d. 28 Aug 1902
+Justice Clinton Dunfee
2-Sophrina Doty Jackson b. 13 Jun 1852, Knox Co OH, d. 19 Jun 1933
+Dr. C. Robbins
+Simon P. Marsh
2-Lura Abi Jackson b. 26 Jan 1855, Whitley Co. Ind., d. 27 Mar 1937
+Albert W. Kaufman
It is believe that this couple may have had 4 more children that died in infancy, one birth being a set of twins.
I thought I might save you the connection to my children that this couple holds, I’ll bet it is interesting as this is the family which my husband and I connect. It’s always fun what you run across as you are doing your family history.
Willard and Ruth tied the knot on 2 November 1935 in Newark Licking Co., Ohio.
The bride was 30 and the groom 24. One thinks that the man robs the cradle, but here that was not the case! (giggling)
Willard (Mac) and Ruth met at a church social. I am guessing this happened before Mac was in Ruth’s Latin class, she was his teacher.
Had Nana not passed away in April of 1985 they would celebrated fifty years of marriage that November. My Dad and Uncle were born in Newark Ohio in 1937 and 1939. They were living in Mayfield Heights village, Ohio, at the time of the 1940 census. I believe by 1942 or 1943 they were in Kirtland Ohio where they both spent the rest of their lives.
Grandpa worked for the Ohio Gas company. After getting married, Nana gave up teaching. After early (forced) retirement Grandpa started farming full-time. They had an orchard, with apples, peaches, plums, pears along with at a truck garden. Nana also had a strawberry patch and she soon became known as the Strawberry Lady. I remember spending time picking strawberries and polishing apples. Among many other wonderful memories while spending time on the farm.
back row: Nana, Grandpa Mac, Uncle Tom middle row: Grandpa T, Uncle Chester, Uncle Butler, Uncle Harold, Uncle Milton front row: Mom, Grandma T, Auntie Peg, Trish and I
Here it is Military Monday and I just happen to have a photo to share!
This photo was taken in 1967 at Easter time. It was taken on the steps of Old South Church, Kirtland Ohio.
Grandma, front center behind the cutie in the red coat (yeah it’s me) at one time had five stars in the bay window on the front of her house, just down the street from this church.
You will find three of the stars in the photo, my Uncles Butler, Chester and Milton. My Uncle Tom who is also pictured next to his father “Grandpa Mac” was in uniform for a season. The other two stars that were on my grandmothers window are my Aunt Karin (wife of Butler) and Uncle Bob.
From those five stars, nine of my cousins have also served this country in the uniform of their choice. My Love and Thanks to each and everyone.
