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Beulah Leona Hamilton (1890 - 1982)

Beulah Leona Hamilton
Born in Vermillion Village, Edgar, Illinois, USAmap
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Wife of — married 11 Oct 1916 in Vigo, Indiana, USAmap
[children unknown]
Died at age 91 in Paris, Edgar, Illinois, USAmap
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Biography

This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import.[1] It's a rough draft and needs to be edited.

Name

Name: Beulah Leona /HAMILTON/[2]

Birth

Birth:
Date: 30 DEC 1890
Place: Vermillion Village, Edgar, Illinois, USA[3]

Death

Death:
Date: 28 JUL 1982
Place: Paris, Edgar, Illinois, USA[4]

Burial

Burial:
Date: JUL 1982
Place: Roselawn Cemetery, North Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA[5]

Note

Note: #H198

Marriage

Husband: Joseph Fessant
Wife: Beulah Leona Hamilton
Marriage:
Date: 11 OCT 1916
Place: Vigo, Indiana, USA[6]
Note: #H567
Husband: Samuel James Hamilton
Wife: Minnie Mae Buckler
Child: Jesse Allen Hamilton
Relationship to Father: Natural
Relationship to Mother: Natural
Child: Bertha Mae Hamilton
Relationship to Father: Natural
Relationship to Mother: Natural
Child: Beulah Leona Hamilton
Relationship to Father: Natural
Relationship to Mother: Natural
Child: Laura Belle Hamilton
Relationship to Father: Natural
Relationship to Mother: Natural
Child: Lalah Garnet Hamilton
Relationship to Father: Natural
Relationship to Mother: Natural
Child: Hannah Coral Hamilton
Relationship to Father: Natural
Relationship to Mother: Natural
Child: William Hobert Hamilton
Relationship to Father: Natural
Relationship to Mother: Natural
Child: Harlan Hamilton
Relationship to Father: Natural
Relationship to Mother: Natural
Child: Catherine Hamilton
Relationship to Father: Natural
Relationship to Mother: Natural
Child: Archie Quentin Hamilton
Relationship to Father: Natural
Relationship to Mother: Natural
Marriage:
Date: 23 JAN 1887
Place: Near Paris , Edgar Co., Illinois[7][8]
Object: @M52@
Marriage License:
Place: Vol 01B Page 0169[9]
Event:
Type: Residence
Date: 1880
Place: Elbridge Township, Edgar Co.[10]
Note: #N675

Sources

  1. Hamilton-9236 was created by Ellen Welker through the import of Ellen Hamilton Family Tree_2015-02-26.ged on Feb 26, 2015. This comment and citation can be deleted after the biography has been edited and primary sources are included.
  2. Source: #S351
  3. Source: #S555
  4. Source: #S480
  5. Source: #S480
  6. Source: #S555
  7. Source: #S525 Data: Text: Ellen Welker, granddaughter of Minnie & Samuel Hamilton has the original Marriage Certificate.
  8. Source: #S125 FOOT Illinois Marriage Index, www.cyberdriveillinois.com/geneaology/
  9. Source: #S125 FOOT Illinois Marriage Index, www.cyberdriveillinois.com/geneaology/
  10. Source: #S523
  • Source: S351 Title: Notes from Mabel Webster Hamilton
  • Source: S480 Title: Ellen Welker - Personal Knowledge
  • Source: S555 Title: Marriage License - Beulah Hamilton and Joseph Fessant Repository: #R22
  • Repository: R22 Name: Vigo County Public Library, Terre Haute, Indiana Address: E-Mail Address: Phone Number:

Notes

Note H198From Robert Moffitt's interview with Beulah Fessant:
"Beulah lived in Sandford, IN. In the early 1900's Sandford had 3 grocery stores. In 1981 Beulah said,
'Now you can't buy a loaf of bread.' There used to be 20 in the Ladies Sunday School Class at Sandford Methodist Church. Joe Fessant's father got their land as an original grant. He came from Canada, taught Sunday School, was superintendent for 26 years. Beulah was the sickly child of the family. She remembered having ear-aches as a little girl, and her father warming something over a lamp to put into her ears. She was 91 in 1981 when we visited her, and was still active in Eastern Star and her Home Economics Club, in which for over 20 years she enjoyed learning about home decoration, landscaping, diet, etc. Joe Fessant was described by his wife as a friendly, joking sort of person who enjoyed traveling. He would say, 'I feel like if I could afford it, I'd like to go to ________.' They took a driving trip just about every summer. Three times they visited Drusilla Moffitt Boller, Beulah's favorite cousin, on the sheep ranch in Wyoming. They went to all but 5 of the 48 contiguous states. Beulah vividly recalled their trip on a ferry boat from Boston to Cape Cod, and her struggle to keep 5 year old Richard from falling through the railing into the ocean. Joe "loved his cattle", Beulah said. One morning he went out to the barn after breakfast, had a heart attack, and was found dead beside the manger. Beulah continued to live on the farm, but was no longer responsible for the farming. She lived out her days on the farm.
From Ellen Hamilton Welker's memories of her Aunt Beulah.
When Uncle Joe was alive, we visited their home in Sandford, IN many times. Aunt Beulah was a wonderful cook. I still use her recipe for scalloped potatoes. Uncle Joe was fun to be around. When we visited in the 1940's, we had to stop visiting for fifteen minutes at about 5:00 p.m. while Uncle Joe listed to the news with Gabriel Heatter.
Aunt Beulah and Uncle Joe lived in the nicest house in Sandford. It was a yellow brick home, built in about 1930 after their other house burned. It had a finished basement with a coal furnace fed by a stoker. The kitchen had a breakfast nook and the bathroom had peach colored fixtures. It was very upscale for that part of the country, even though it had only two bedrooms. Aunt Beulah raised chickens, a large garden and many flowers. In later years she moved from her home in Sandford to her farm just out of town. Her son, Richard, and his wife Evelyn moved into her home. The farm house was very basic, but she lived there for several years until just before her death in July, 1982. Her last few months were spent in a nursing home.
Two of Aunt Beulah's trips to Wyoming to visit the Bollers were with my family. The first one was in 1948, when I was eight years old. Six of us; my dad, Archie, my mother, Mabel, Aunt Beulah and Uncle Joe, my grandmother Minnie Hamilton and I drove first to Denver and then to Gillette, Wyoming in our family car, a 1948 Frazier. It was either late July or early August because we could only travel after the crops were laid by. We only traveled west, north or south, never east. Since this was before cars were airconditioned, it was usually very hot.
We usually spent the night in tourist homes. I especially remember one night in Wall, South Dakota. Aunt Beulah and Uncle Joe were both quite large. The walls were thin in this home and we could hear them giggling long after they went to bed. Apparently the bed sagged in the middle and they kept rolling to the center. We spent a few days in Denver with Dad and Beulah's cousins, Paul and Joe Hamilton, Jesse's sons. I really enjoyed this part of the trip because Joe and Edna had two children close to my age, Virginia (Ginny) and Wayne. They took us to see the dancing waters, a lighted fountain show in a park, to the Red Rock amphitheater in Estes Park and trout fishing. Aunt Beulah got into an altercation with the operators of the trout fishing venue. You paid by the pound for fish you caught and Aunt Beulah objected to them rolling the fish in the sand before weighing them. She made them rinse every one of them off!
My dad enjoyed the sheep ranch in Wyoming. He was a frustrated cowboy and was just born in the wrong part of the country. Life there was fairly primitive. They generated their own electricity, ate antelope and venison, which they canned for winter eating, kept food cold in an underground shelter, using ice and sawdust. As a special treat they had watermelon for us. Dad felt bad about that because they paid over .00 for a watermelon and we either raised our own watermelons or paid $.50 or less for one.
The second time we went to Wyoming was in 1956. This time our car was a 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air and we took 3 passengers again, Aunt Beulah, Aunt Belle and Aunt Lalah. This time the weather was cooler until we were almost back home, with the exception of the day Drusilla, her son Earl and wife Mildred and their children took us 25 miles over dirt roads to the "timber" for a cook out. Earl and Mildred's daughter, Alberta Jean was just a baby and it was so hot her milk soured in the bottle. The "timber" consisted of about 5 or 6 trees on a hill. They cooked potatoes over an open fire in a cast iron dutch over, which they burned. These are the recollections of a 16 year old girl who wasn't exactly thrilled about this kind of vacation. Six people in a car gets crowded after several days on the road, even though cars were much larger then, even Chevrolets. The sisters being typical sisters had some disagreements. The last two days were quite hot, which didn't help their tempers. By the time we got to Springfield, IL, Aunt Lalah had had enough and asked to be taken to the train station so she could go back to Winnetka, IL.




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