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52 Ancestors - 2018

So I am in Week 1 prompt was START.

My START post will be the person who started me is my mother's sister-in-law Annabelle Eagan Leonard. When we went out to visit her in 1984 she had given me a book to fill my family tree. The book was called Our Family Tree and she helped me start filling it in. So when she came in for visits and funerals we would talk and get information on family members. So she got me very interested in genealogy. But at the end she developed dementia and she is dead now. She been dead for about 2 or 3 years. I will get her in my family tree soon. This is here profile: Eagan-291.

So on Week 2 prompt was FAVORITE PHOTO,

52 Ancestors for 52 Weeks in 2018 Challenge for Linda Barnett Image 1

Leonard-5579 The picture is on it. There is Andrew and Amanda Fine Leonard, Benjamin Leonard, William H and Lydia Leonard Henson , Catherine Jane Hays and Elcanah Martin (Cain) Leonard, Susan Cornelia Leonard, Hester Leonard, Nellie Leonard, Charles E. Leonard, John W. Leonard, Juanita (Nete) Henson, Isadora Henson, Jessie Maude Leonard. My mom has the original and her sister which is dead scanned it in to her tree and made a Leonard Family book for all the women and children of the Leonards. She even made me one to have. The title is Elcanah and Catherine Jane Hays Leonard family in front of someone house. You will see that the family is a big one. There is some in this we do not know or recognize. I think this was a family gathering and decided to have a family photo taking in front of their house.

So on Week 3 prompt was LONGEVITY

I will use my granddaddy on my dad's side Roosevelt Jason Barnett. He turned 91 in a nursing home and then in a week he died. When he first married a wife he didn't really want to marry her, it was her sister so when his first wife had gotten sick and was having problems with her heart that one night she got up from bed and he knew she wasn't feeling good then so when she passed out he didn't get up and check on her and let her die on their kitchen floor. He didn't get to marry her sister before he married her because she was already married but when his wife died and her sister husband died then he didn't wait till about maybe 3 to 6 months before he married her sister the one he wanted to marry before her. So my grandmother sister was my aunt and then she became my step grandmother but we and his brother family couldn't call her step grandmother just aunt because of their father didn't wait enough time to marry her. She had gotten cancer and died before he did and they promised if either one got where they needed to be put in a nursing home they wouldn't they will stay at home but he ended up putting her in the nursing home when he couldn't no longer take care of her by himself. Then we had to put him in the nursing home when we find out he had brain cancer and couldn't look out for himself and that was where he was when he died Barnett-3557

Also my parents has been married as of March 15, 2018 61 years. My brother as of December 14, 2018 will be 61 years old. What is weird about this is that my mom's oldest sister Ellen Sapp married in the same year and her youngest brother Carroll Leonard married in the same year also but her brother Carroll, and her sister is dead before they made to the 60th anniversary only my dad and mother out of her immediate family made to their 61st anniversary. My dad is 6 years older than my mother. He is 85 going on 86 in July and my mother this past October turned 79 years old and what is weird is her youngest brother married her best friend from her class in high school and her birthday is in October before my mom and was born in the same year. Also my dad's brother wife was born in the same month and year also. How my mom and dad met when my dad was Student Teacher trying to get a degree in college and my dad couldn't resist my mothers fluttery brown eyes and by the time she graduated from high school they were engaged. But my mom's dad wouldn't let her date him because he thought he was one of the other brother of my dad's that had a bad reputation but finally he find out that my dad was a descent person and would let her see him. But she had to wait till he got out of the Army before they got married March 15, 1957 Barnett-3518 and Leonard-5569.

Also my self because of people with Prader-Willi Syndrome the use to not live past 7 years or 12 year old. Now there is very few that is in their 50's and 60's and I am one of them I am 58 and will be 59 on September 19. Here is my profile Barnett-3517.

Also there is Schreiner-389 on my mom's side of the family that lived to be 94 when she died.

So on Week 4 prompt was INVITE TO DINNER

To do my invite to Dinner would require a large table because it would be my mother's mother which is my grandmother she died when I was 2 years old and I hear that she has a lot of information on my notables that I do not know how to connect to the Leonards which are President Andrew Johnson and David Crockett who fought at the Alamo. Then there is my dad's mother who died before I got to know her she was very young when my granddad find her on the floor dead one morning. I do not have a lot of information on her family at all. Then there is my dad's grandparents, His granddad I don't have a lot also on in him and his family. But I do his wife and it is very interesting. Her mother was not married to her dad and she had siblings that he was also their father. He was already married and had kids from that wife so he couldn't marry her mother. Here is my dad's grandfather Herbert Barnett Barnett-3528 and here is wife Bessie Jane Honeycutt Honeycutt-753 and here is my dad's mother Mildred Hester Jones Jones-33183. Here is my mother's mother my grandmother Myra Belle Clementine Leonard she was my granddad's first cousin and they married each other Leonard-5581. They would help me with my brickwalls. Plus my grandmother of my mother seems to have a lot of information that would be helpful for me for information on the Leonards side.

So on Week 5 prompt was IN THE CENSUS

I am going to go with Thomas Leonard which is my 3rd great grandfather. This is his link:https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Leonard-8531. In the Leonard census records there are some definite inconsistencies within the census records from year to year making it more difficult to establish a definite pattern.

The birth location for Thomas Leonard is listed as Pennsylvania (1850), North Carolina (1860), Tennessee (1870). Jane is listed as North Carolina (1850 - 1860) and Tennessee (1870). To further muddy the waters in 1880 when the birth state of the parents are listed on the census the known children of Thomas and Jane give conflicting information: Malinda (Tennessee), Elkinah (Ireland), Andrew (Tennessee), and Franklin (North Carolina). Samuel and Batson both sons of Thomas, list their father as being born in North Carolina. By 1900 some of the children have changed their mind on where Thomas was born: Malinda (Tennessee), Elkinah (Ireland), Franklin (Tennessee), and Batson (Ireland).

Both Batson and Samuel had daughters named Matilda presumably named after their sister. Both Batson and Elkinah list their father as being born in Ireland.

The birth location for Batson Leonard is just as confusing: Tennessee (1850), North Carolina (1860 - 1900). His children also had difficulty with the location. In 1880: Thomas and James list their father as being born in North Carolina, while William and Arnold list Tennessee 1900 shows them all in agreement with Tennessee.

The fact that Batson's, Omega/Ona's and Thomas birth state have all changed to North Carolina, makes research more difficult. Perhaps the early Leonards moved from Pennsylvania to North Carolina then on to Tennessee.

In an attempt to fit the pieces together this would be the most logical conclusion. The Leonards family immigrated from Ireland, possibly coming to a port in Pennsylvania around the time of Thomas' birth in 1787. He would have been born in Ireland, after the family reached Pennsylvania or perhaps at sea. The family then moved to Virginia where the brothers of Thomas were born. At some point in the early 1800's Thomas moved to North Carolina where he met and married Jane and their first two sons, Samuel and Batson were born. By 1834 they had moved to Tennessee and the rest of the Leonard family migrated there shortly thereafter.

So on Week 6 prompt was FAVOURITE NAME

I will do Adam Spach since Adam is the first name and person that God created in the book of Gensis in the Bible. Adam Spach profile link is:https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Spach-20.

He is the child of Hans Spach and Salome Müller.

In 1754 Adam Spach settled near the upper line of Davidson County, NC and soon made friends with the Moravians who were building the Village of Bethabara ten miles north of his farm. He invited them to preach at his home, which they soon began to do, and this led to the organization of Friedberg Congregation.

During the Indian War of 1759 Spach and his family took refuge in the Bethabara stockade, as did many other settler from the surrounding country. When he decided later to erect a substantial house on his farm he planned it of a type which could be defended against quite an opposing force. In 1774 Adam Spach built his now famous Rock House.

It stood about one mile from Friedberg Church, and was built of uncut stone, laid up without mortar, except for inside plastering. It was 30 by 36 feet, and was one story, with a full basement and a small attic. It was built over a spring of water; and an outside entrance to the basement made it possible to drive in the cattle for protection in case of need. The windows were of the Flemish-Bond type and each room had its loopholes, through which the defenders could fire, as you can see in the cuts shown at the rear of the house. During these attacks, Spach would gather his cows and place them in the basement to protect them.

Adam Spach had five sons and four daughters; the sons all married and raised large families, so there are many descendants in North Carolina. About 1862 some branches of the family began to spell the name Spaugh, while others retained the original form of Spach, but all trace back to Adam Spach of the Rock House.

Sometime during the mid 20th Century, the Rock House fell to ruin and only a partial foundation can now be found.

When Adam Spach was born on January 20, 1720, in Pfaffenhofen, Bas-Rhin, France, his father, Hans, was 47 and his mother, Salome, was 25. He married Maria Elisabeth Hueter on December 17, 1752, in Maryland. They had nine children in 17 years. He died on August 23, 1801, having lived a long life of 81 years.

Forsyth County: Economic and Social: (pg 17)

Friedburg, on the lower edge of the county, had a similar small beginning, Adam Spach a native of Pfaffenheim, Alsacer, settled about three miles south of the Wachovia line in 1754. Soon he became acquainted with the Moravians, taking refuge at Bethabara during the Indiana War, and afterwards urging the Brethren to come and hold services in his neighborhood. This was done until 1766, when it was realized that enough settlers were there to form a new congregation. The church authorities at Salem set apart some 34 acres near the southern boundary of Wachovia for the use of the new congregation, adding to them 77 acres across the line bought from Adam Spach. Part of the 77 acres was afterwards sold or exchanged but the Friedburg Church Land is still divided by the county line. In 1769 the first meeting-house of the Friedberg congregation was consecrated.

Hanns Adam Spach, a sixty-year-old widowed Bildweber ("picture weaver", or weaver of tapestries) from Pfaffenhoffen, Alsace, and his thirteen-year-old son Adam left Alsace in 1733. Adam was the son of Hanns Adam's second marriage, to Salome Müller. The Spachs came to America in 1733 aboard the Charming Betty, landing at Philadelphia in October. The elder Spach was unable to pay the full fare, and on arrival, young Adam was indentured to a Mennonite for six years. After his term of service ended, he moved to Frederick County, Maryland, where he married and where his eldest son was born. In his Lebenslauf (life story), Adam doesn't mention his father after their arrival in America, and the fate of Hanns Adam Spach remains a mystery. He took the oath of allegiance to the Crown at Philadelphia on 12 October 1733, but no further record of him has been found. At sixty, he was already an old man for the time, and that combined with the rigors of the Atlantic crossing may have weakened his health, so it's possible he didn't survive long in America. On the other hand, he was hardy enough to have survived to a relatively advanced age and to have undertaken a difficult voyage, and his son and more than half of his grandchildren lived past the age of eighty. So maybe he settled down in America, perhaps trying to find work as a weaver, and perhaps trying to stay near his son. But it seems most likely that he passed away before the end of Adam's service, which would have been in late 1739. In the mid-1740s, Adam was drawn to the Moravian Church, which had established a presence in Frederick County. It may have been through the church that he met John Gumpp, a German immigrant. In about 1750, Mr. Gumpp brought to his home a young indentured servant from Hüffenhardt, Württemberg. The young lady, Maria Elisabetha Hütter, had made Mr. Gumpp's acquaintance in Baltimore. Learning that she was from his home village, he purchased her indenture and allowed her to work out her obligation in one year, which no doubt considerably shortened her term of service. In 1752, she became Mrs. Adam Spach.

So on Week 7 prompt was VALENTINE

I have decide to do my cousin Karen Wood and Michael Harris since they got married on February 14, 1976 in Mobile, Albama. Here are the links for Michael Harris:https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Harris-31336 and Karen Wood link:https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wood-22291.Here is picture of the family after the wedding that day.

Karen and Michael is the couple in the middle and the two people at the end of them is Karen's mother and dad.

So on Week 8 prompt was HEIRLOOM

The first heirloom is from my uncle which is my mom's brother, Carroll Leonard and his profile link is:https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Leonard-5586. Here is his heirloom

Now the next ones are My granddad's my mom's dad. His name is Summers Lyle Leonard Sr. Here is is profile link: Leonard-5596 Here are the pictures of his heirloom:

Next ones are my grandmother's which is my mother mom. Her name is Myra Belle Leonard her last name was the same as my granddad's my mother's name they were first cousins who married each other. Here is her profile link:https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Leonard-5581

My granddad was a policeman of Johnson City, Tennessee and he worked on security duty for the schools in Johnson City, Tennessee especially Training school where my mom was a student from kindergarten to graduated from High School and that is where she met my dad when he was student teacher getting his degree in teaching from ETSU. Their love was first true love. They married March 15, 1957 after he was in the army for a year and she went for the freshman year before they married. Here is my dad's dad profile link:https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Barnett-3557

Also this his police badge that he gave to me for safe keeping before he died.

So on Week 9 prompt was WHERE-THERES-A-WILL

I am going do Michael Rominger with his will. Here is his profile link: Rominger-32.

In his will all of his siblings, children and wife is not listed. Just one or 2. His will mentions the Grist and Saw Mill that he owned and owned with his brother Phillip. He mentions that the Grist and Saw Mill will not be divided till after his youngest kid turns 21 and they all will share alike. He will give his wife a yearly annuity of 50 Bushels of wheat out of the proceeds of his part of the Grist and Saw Mill until his son Christian Lewis Rominger turns 21 years old and after that time an annuity of 25 bushels of wheat till his youngest child turns 21 years old. His executors will pay expenses for repair of the Grist and Saw Mill out of the profits. If there is any surplus of the profits after paying for the repairs of the Grist and Saw Mill the wheat which his wife to have an annually of the remaining profits should be put in interest and what to do about the Grist and Saw Mill. He put in about his slaves named Jack, Tom and Martha and what to do with them and also his whiskey, saddles, wagon and property. How to pay his debt off and what to do with the rest of the money that was left after paying the debt provisions should remain to his wife for taking care of their children that are not 21 years old when his wife dies.

His will is on his profile and I am including it here also:

Will of Michael Rominger

Stokes County, NC 1 June 1824 In the Name of God Amen, I Michael Rominger of Stokes County in the State of North Carolina being weak in Body but of sound Mind and memory do this 1st day of June 1824 make this my last will and Testament. 1. I will that my Body be decently burried to the custom of the Church of the United Brethern.

2. I will that all my just Debts be paid and my dues be collected by my Executors.

3. I will that the interest I hold in a Grist and Saw Mill which is owned by myself and my Brother Phillip Rominger one half to each shall remain undivided and be kept up by my Executors for the Benefit of my heirs till all my Children (if they live to reach the age of twenty one years) arrive at the age of twenty one years and after that period arrives my Executors shall expose to public sales the said Mills among my then surviving Children and the highest the proceeds shall them be made amongst my then surviving Children share and share alike.

4. I give unto my beloved Wife a yearly anuity of Fifty Bushells of Wheat out of the proceeds of my part of the Grist Mill til my son Christian Lewis arrives to be twenty one years old and after that time an anuity of twenty five Bushells of wheat till my youngest surviving child shall become twenty one years old to be given to her by my Executors and leaving _______ out of the profits of my interest in the Grist mill from time to time during the yer as she may need it and call on them for it.

5. I will that my Executors shall pay all expenses for repair of Grist and Saw Mill out of the Profitts of said Mills and if any surplus Profitts remain after paying for such repairs and the wheat which my Wife is to have anually and remaining Profitts shall be put in interest and if the said Mills should need rebuilding then these funds so put on on interest shall be expended together with the interest therein so the payment for such a building and if not all used it shall the Balance so remaining be kept on interest till my surviving children become to the age of twenty one years when a division shall be made thereof as mentioned in Article the 3rd.

6. I will that each and every of my Children (which may arrive to the age of twenty one years) when they arrive at that age have the full and sole profitts of both Grist and Saw Mill for the term of one year each after paying to my beloved wife the anuity of twenty five Bushells of Wheat asdescribed in Article the 4th.

7. When I speak of my interest of the Mills in this Will I will allways be understood in this way that the seven Acres of Land which is termed by is the Mill tract shall allways be and belong to the Mills and be treated throughout as being part of said Mills.

8. I will that the Tract of Land whereon I now live together with my House and out Houses and other improvements thereon shall be and belong to my beloved Wife Christina during her natural Life or so long as she remains my Widow for the purpose of raising and maintaining my Children and after the decease of my Wife or if she marry then my Executors shall make a public Sale amongst my then surviving Children and the highest bidder shall be the purchaser and the proceeds thereof shall be divided as mentioned Article the 3rd.

9. I will that my Executors shall expose to Public or private Sale my Negro Man Jack, my Whiskey, Sadles, Waggon and such other loose Property as may not be needed for cultivating and attending to the Plantation whereon my beloved Wife is to raise and maintain my Children and likewise my Netro Man Tom and my Negro Woman Martha shall be sold public or private and if in case my Executors can not sell Tom and Martha they may give them to any persons willing to take them - out of the proceeds of these Sales my Executors shall pay my Debts which may remain unpaid after my dues are collected and expended towards the payment of my Debts and if any funds then remain on hand they shall be put on interest and if necessary shall be applyed in the same way as directed in Article the 5th for rebuilding the Mills and the surplus funds not expended as herein directed shall be put on interest and shall with as directed in Article the 3rd.

10. All the provisions in dividing grain and forrage on hand at my decease shall remain to the use of my beloved Wife for the maintenance of the Children - and all my Household and Kittchen furniture of whatsoever discription shall be and belong to my beloved Wife for her use as long as she may live or marry and after such term of her decease or marriage my Executors shall proceed the same way as mentioned in Article the 3rd.

11. But if in case my beloved Wife should depart this Life before all my Children should be the age of twenty one years, then and in that case my Executors shall forthwith proceed to get Guardians appointed of Good and uninterested Men over the then minor Children according to law and after such appointments are made shall make Public Sale of the interest in the Mills and of my Plantation and give notice of the time of such Sale to the appointed Guardian or Guardians of my then Minor Children and I do hereby enjoin on those Guardians to attend said Sale and see that no advantage be taken of my then minor children and of the proceeds of the Sale I will that the whole be divided as mentioned in Article the 3rd. Also all proceeds which may remain on hand in the case of my Wife's departure before all my Children are of age - of whatsoever description shall then be divided after such sales have taken place as directed in Article the 3rd - all the residue of my Estate of whatever Nature here not mentioned shall after the different proceeds herein mentioned have ____- - be equally divided amongst my living Children.

12. And I do hereby ordain and appoint my beloved Son Christian Lewis and my beloved Son Joshua as Executors of this my last will and Testament hereby revoking all prior wills and make and declare this to be my last Will and Testament. In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand Seal this 1st Day of June 1824.

M. Rominger (seal)

Signed Sealed Delivered and acknowledges before us.

Jacob______ jurat Joseph Rominger

So on Week 10 prompt was STRONG WOMAN

My strong woman is my aunt husband mother: Her name is Beulah Mable (Archer) Sapp Archer-3665. This is going to a long one because of her husband. Her husband was my uncle's father who was married 4x. My uncles mother was his fathers last wife Beulah Mable (Archer) and how he married her is the real story. The 3rd wife he married because he heard how rich she was so he divorced his second wife. Then he plotted with some friends on he should marry the third wife and then have someone kill her for her wealth. So he arrange to go camping with her and some friends the he hired two men to kill her when the went camping. When that happened the two men who killed his wife got to talking and so he and one other brother of his plotted to kill the two men and hide their bodies. So the were caught and charged with their death and he was sentenced to 99 years in prison. He escaped and came to East Tennessee and married Beulah and then they had 2 sons and a daughter. But he had taken his other dead brother name when he married her but he was caught and sentenced to go back to prison and that is where he died. The kids were very young and so Beulah had to take care of their kids by her self and with very little money and he was policeman when he was arrested and wanted his fellow policeman to help with Christmas for the kids while he was in prison. He was also charged the second time with taking his brother name and taking his brother money that should of gone to his dead brother's wife. I believe she didn't know about all of that till he was arrested and he was sentenced. My uncle has written a book about his dad and him taking his dead brother name and about the marriage of his dad's third wife and up to where he did at prison. The name of the book is The Man With Two Names which is based on the True Story of the Most Notorious Fugitive in Southeast Texas by Charles Sapp. That is where his dad was born and lived till he escaped to East Tennessee. If you want to find about my uncles father and mother you should get the book and read it is very interesting reading.

So on Week 11 prompt was LUCKY

I will do this I think I might have luck this one. Or on the other hand I might not because this one seems to be a very hard one to do. I thought very hard and I have decided to do my uncles brother Clarence Willard Sapp here is his profile Sapp-1318. Because when he was very young his father was put into jail for 99 years. His father died in prison. So he didn't have a father figure as he grew up. Then he contracted polio at the age of sixteen, while visiting an uncle and aunt on their farm in Iowa. Spent time recuperating at Warm Spring, Georgia. All expenses were paid by the March of Dimes. Still walks with crutches. As a young man, he won several talent contests, singing solo. A popular student in school. Being chosen class president as a freshman at East Tennessee State University, He became a music director in several Louisiana churches, and was ordained as a Baptist minister.

A newspaper did an article on him. The title is Have You Given to Polio Fund? Story of Clarence Sapp Could Be YOURS. Here is the article.

It had been a pretty enjoyable vacation so far for a young Washington county lad, who was spending the summer on a farm near Council Bluffs, Iowa.

He was having a good time, doing the things on the farm that he loved to do. He was saving up a few dollars to help him in his school work when he returned to Johnson City.

Suddenly he became ill. The diagnosis said polio. The date was August 12.

To Clarence Sapp, 18 year old son of Mr and Mrs Tom Sapp of 909 Afton street, it meant plenty to worry. It wasn't the diagnosis that worried young Sapp. It was the heavy expense attached to the treatment of such a disease.

But financial worries soon ended. The Washington County chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis came to the rescue and is paying for the expense.

Now although crippled in both legs, young Sapp is on the road to recovery, and he gives the credit to the polio organization.

In writing to Major Cy H. Lyle, chapter chairman, Sapp said "if it hadn't been for you, I would not be able to walk again."

Young Sapp is a junior at Science Hill High School. He was an active member of the Red Shield Boys Club and took a lead in activities at Temple Baptist Church where he is teacher of a young boys class before he went to Iowa.

He loves music and has often appeared before various organizations with other Boys Club members in furnishing musical programs. He played the bass violin in the Boys Club Band.

Now, his heart is set on getting well, returning to Johnson City and resuming his school and church activities.

Development of polio was not the first tragedy that has happened to Sapp. The previous summer he went to his uncle's farm to work and stuck a pitchfork in his foot. This has caused him considerable trouble, but his spirits are never daunted.

His mother didn't want him to go to Iowa this past summer, but the thought of being able to do the things he loved and the idea of picking up a few dollars attracted him, so she finally gave her consent.

But just as satisfying is the fact that those helped are so grateful.

In commenting on a recent letter received from Sapp, Major Lyle said: " the chapter is very grateful to have someone express appreciation for aid rendered such as the letter received from Clarence."

Since Sapp was first hospitalized August 12 and up through November 30, the chapter has extended 1,303 for hospitalization alone and $120 for braces for Sapp. The December bill is unpaid because of lack of funds, but the chapter chairman is optimistic that citizens will come through in the March of Dimes drive with sufficient funds to pay of all indebtedness and then some.

Should Sapp have to be retained in Iowa hospital until March when he will be entered at Warm Springs some $900 hospitalization bill will be due. On top of this will have to come funds for the Warm Springs hospitalization.

To really get an inside picture of how thankful a polio victim can be read Sapp's letter to Major Lyle:

"As I write this letter, I can't get the right words to really say what I want to say, and I hope you will forgive me for not writing sooner than this."

"I would like to thank you and the Foundation for the splendid help which has been given to me because if it wasn't for you I would not be able to walk again.,"

"Sir, when I came to the hospital that first day I wasn't afraid of polio. The thing that worried me was, how am I going to pay the bill, because I didn't know that infantile paralysis and polio were the same."

"I knew about the March of Dimes for infantile paralysis and had given to it. The times I have given to it have not been as often as it should have been. I never realized that what I was giving to would be helping me. I thank God there is a Foundation for polio, and I thank God from the depths of my heart for you and all the other workers who are doing such a fine job for others. If the people of Johnson City will go a little deeper in their pockets and give a little more than they did last year, it will help a lot. They never knew when polio will strike someone in their homes and if it wasn't for the polio Foundation they would have to get loans on their homes in order to pay the high priced bills that go with polio."

"Well, as it is time to get my workouts for the day will close for now, wishing you a very good and successful drive this year."

"May God bless you.

So on Week 12 prompt was MISFORTUNE

My Misfortune is Adams-39172 Wilma Jeanette Adams. There was an article on her death in Chicago, Illinois in April 6, 1963. Her husband killed her with a hammer to the skull and then cut her to pieces and strewn her body all over Chicago. Parts of her body were found in April and May of 1963. When she had disappeared she was working as a nurse's aide in a Chicago hospital. Her husband was an immigrant from Baghdad, Irag. He was questioned by the Illinois authorities but was released after lie detector tests proved inconclusive.

She met her husband while she was a student at University High School and he was a student at East Tennessee State University in 1959.When he killed her they had a 3 year daughter named Venus Lynn. She was sent to Baghdad to live with his parents. There was search for her that was started because of her father writing a letter to President John F. Kennedy. Her husband told the police that had last seen her on April 6, 1963 as he left Chicago to fly to New York City with the couple's three-year old daughter. He also told the police that he had not reported her missing because she had left home on two previous occasions and also they had quarreled and he thought she had left him. He said that he had written to her parents that she had left him and that he suspected that she was running around with a wealthier man than himself. That was written in July, four months after she disappeared. He also wrote in the letter "Mama, please if you ever hear from Jeanette let her know that he still loves her and if she promised that she will not leave him again. That he was ready to accept her back as an honest wife and mother to us." The letter was written to President Kennedy to appeal for help in finding his missing daughter. The letter found it way to Chicago Immigration Official who initiated the search for her through Chicago police.

The identification of the dismemberment parts of the body of her was climaxed six months of investigation by Illinois police officials. They had checked all missing persons from a wide area who might have fit the description they had drawn from the body parts they found. They had not known she was missing apparently until someone in July according to officials.

The last letter she wrote to her parents was dated March 10. In the letter she had said she had been sick most of the winter and had lost weight to 85 pounds. Her mother said her daughter had told her in a telephone call just before her disappearance that she had though she was pregnant again. She had a daughter by a previous marriage but the daughter is with the father.

She had apparently met her husband while he was in school in Tennessee. She was a senior at University High School in 1957 dropping out in February of that year according to the principal.

The principal remembered her as a shy quiet girl who had been in school band while she was in high school. She started in ETSU Training School in the first grade.

Some woman at grocery store in Johnson City, Tennessee recalled that she had worked in the grill at the store and used to visit the woman there.

Her brother had not been heard from Johnson City since June 1062. Her father had been trying to find him since that time. Her father said that her brother wife and three children are with him but he had no idea where they might be.

They found her skull and four vertebrae and they were found in a blue and white plastic bag. The skull was found Christmas Eve in a slough near Crystal Lake, Illinois. She was a native of Johnson City, Tennessee. The other parts of her body was found in Lake County, Illinois in April and May of 1963. Crystal Lake is in adjoining McHenry County.

She had been listed as missing since April 6, and the first part of her body was found on April 11. The baffling case was broken when a Deputy Captain found some x-rays taken of the woman's foot when she was in the sixth grade in Johnson City and he sent them to Illinois State Police. Her father told them that she had been living in Chicago for over four years. She had married her husband a foreign exchange student at East Tennessee State University before going to Chicago.

Five days after she was reported missing boys playing near the Des Plaines River in Chicago suburb of Gurnee found a woman's right leg floating in the water wrapped in blue and white plastic and tied with twine.

Other parts of the woman's body were found through May 15, She apparently slain in early April and various parts of her body turned up from April 11 through May 25 in Lake County, Illinois. She had unusal bone structure in her feet which made identification certain, It was learned. Chest x-rays were also used in the identification of the portions of the body.

This was her second marriage.

This was misfortune for her and her family and other relatives.

So on Week 13 prompt was THE OLD HOMESTEAD

Mine is Huff-4245 Nancy Huff Jones. Her home was given to her when she applied for her husband pension from the war they were given her home as homestead for payment for her husband's serving in the war. Her husband is Jones-76636 Darling Jones.

About the time of the Revolution War, he was visiting his parents in Washington (now Carter) County on the "Doe River" when he was drafted for Revolutionary service. He stated in his pension application: "left Roans Creek, crossed Stone Mountain at the head of Watauga to the high hills of Santee and to the Santee Swamp where he joined Marion." He also stated in the Indian Wars with John Sevier. Also the war, he moved his family to Washington County where he had a grant of 259 acres - Grant No.1073, July 11, 1794" on Brush Creek." (The land was actually in the present Asbury Community.)

Darling and Nancy Huff Jones lived in a cabin home located near the Clinchfield Railway and the Asbury Bridge. After Darling's death, Nancy continued to live in that home until her death. The cabin was moved at the efforts of a Mr. Miller to the Girl Scout Camp on Oakland Avenue, where it is used as an office building.

So on Week 14 prompt was THE MAIDEN AUNT

My maiden aunt is my mom's dad's sister Leonard-8012 Ella Walls Leonard. Ella was crippled by illness (inflammatory rheumatism) and she never married. I meet her when I was in elementary school when the Leonards had a family reunion in Johnson City, Tennessee at a park. She remained at the family home until her death. She lived with a sister until she died. In her early twenties she developed tuberculosis of the bone. It was concentrated in one of her hips and resulted in her being crippled for the remainder of her life. She walked with a limp so she wore a shoe that keep her from walking with a limp. She also developed sever arthritis in her hands, which made it impossible for her to open her fingers. However, it did not prevent her from crocheting beautiful doilies, etc.

She was always full of life, with a ready smile for everyone.

So on Week 15 prompt was TAXES

Mine is Fine-662 Jonathon Fine. In Rhea County, Tennessee. As per instructions in the Act of 1807 the Court appointed four individuals to make lists of the taxable inhabitants in the County, Joseph Brooks was "to take in taxable below main Richland Creek; John Henry to take in taxable above main Richland Creek and below Clear Creek; Alexander Ferguson, above Clear Creek and below Piney Creek; Jonathan Fine for all the county above Piney Creek" The Court also laid the following tax: "Poor tax at 4 1/2 cents on each 100 acres of land, the same on white polls and double than sum on black polls." Jury tax was laid at three cents on each 100 acres of land, the same for white polls and six cents for black polls.

Another source of information on the early settlers and land owners is the Rhea County Tax List of 1808. Unfortunately the 1809 through 1818 lists are incomplete.

So on Week 16 prompt was STORMS

This will be weird but I put my self Barnett-3517 Linda Barnett. Because in 1972 in Athens, Tennessee where we just had built a house not to far from our old house we could walk to our new house to our new house. We had to build a new house because as us kids was growing up we need more room even me and my sister in the old house shared a room and we need separate rooms as I got into the 6th grade. But the year we move into the new house was when I just started junior high the 7th grade and that year there was a tornado that started up in the neighborhood I lived in and it went on the other side of the street and did not damage our new house that we just moved in a few weeks earlier. It even went on the side of the street of my junior high school and then went even beside the elementary school that my sister was going to in the 6th grade. My mom was home and she was upstairs in the house and she tried to get downstairs and almost trip over our cat as she was going downstairs also. We had just got our downstairs straighten up and cleaned so we could store my neighbor across the streets furniture because it had taken the roof of their house. My dad was out of town when it happened. At my school I was in a classroom facing the back parking lot and there was a door leading out to the parking lot and if flew open and all I saw was look like a white sheet with debris blowing around. It was scary and I did not know much about a tornado but I said I bet that was from a tornado. I did not know that it had started in my neighborhood. But that was when the schools in Athens, Tennessee started practicing tornado drills like they do fire drills. Since then I have heard a lot about tornados. I did not hear any noise with the tornado but the door just flew open and it was locked and saw all that debris blowing around and it looked like a white sheet I couldn't see anything except white sheet with black debris blowing. That was because it went right beside the school. It was little scary for a teenager that didn't know much about a tornado to go through that.

So on Week 17 prompt was CEMETERIES

Mine will be Space:Leonard_Family_Cemetery it is done. Right now my mom brother who is dead wife which is mom best friend and graduated with her is looking after it right now. But when she dies and my mom and her sister dies my sister is going to be caretaker of the Leonard Family Cemetery. I just looked at I need to edit it but I think I have all the pictures of the graves on it. Some time I will go over there to take and add on paper what I need to add to it. Especially since I live nearby now since I moved up here in November 6th, 2018.

So on Week 18 prompt was CLOSE-UP

My will be Amanda Emma (Fine) King and here is her profile Fine-248. I find a lot out about her when I first started doing genealogy by going on line and also plus I borrowed and now own from my mom's sister that is dead now some books. The title of the books are History of Washington County, Tennessee 1988 and the History of Rhea County, Tennessee where the Fines ended up in. So I feel very close to her.

So on Week 19 prompt was MOTHER'S - DAY

My Mother's Day is my mom Deanna (Leonard) Barnett and her profile is Leonard-5569 . She is feisty, very independent, and loves to help people out that needs help.

When I had a complete hystercomy, had my glad bladder out because I had a stone in it, and plus my appendix out she took of for a week from work and stayed with me in the hospital for a week and took care of me that is what a mother does for their family. She even helps other children when other children has problems at home and lets them stay at our house while their parents deal with things. She even tries to find owners of cats and dogs that ends up in our yard and if she doesn't find their owners she will try to give them away to some good family. She even works in church groups like WMU, Acteens, or GA'S. Also she would work with the youth groups.

Also we would be Girl Scout leader for Girl Scout troops. She would take care of my dad when he was down or sick long time ago which was not very often. But she loves my dad so much that she would take care of him when she wasn't feeling good in this last 6 years. We would have to push, insist or even take her to doctors to take care of her self that is how she is. But lately she understands that she can't take care of him by herself without help which we are all happy about.

So on Week 20 prompt was ANOTHER LANGUAGE -

Mine will be Graham Leonard and his profile is Leonard-5584. Graham Leonard vitae reads like an International travelogue of positions with the United Nations, United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and universities ranging from teaching post in China, Europe, and the Midwest, where he has spent many years. Education is his passion. He has a degrees from the University of Tennessee, John Hopkins, and a Ph.D. from Harvard in linguistics and psychology. He headed a continuing education program for adults and teachers (CEEPAT) in Arabic language for masters in liberal arts studies in the Occupied Territories. He said that the Western education provides learning in history, language, and literature which enables students to think for themselves. But in the Mideast he found that these subjects were not taught in Arabic, but only in one of the romance languages. Only the elite Arabs were afforded a liberal arts education. He said "you can't get a humanities liberal arts education in any language in the world except English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian. He is fluent in Arabic, and French. His Chinese is "tourist level" but was good enough to enable him to write the first book published in China by a foreigner since 1949. The recent book was on methods of modernizing education in China.

So on Week 21 prompt was MILITARY

Mine Military is Franklin Lafayette Rominger and his profile is Rominger-118. National Archives Civil War records reveal that he enlisted in both the Confederacy on November 1, 1862 in Taylorsville, Tennessee (which may have been conscript) and was listed as AWOL on the June to December 1863. Company Muster Roll of the (6th NC Cav) 65th Reg't Co. G, North Carolina Volunteers only to surface again in Olney, Ill. on February 27, 1864 where he joined the 46th Reg't Illinois Infantry. He was listed as 22 years of age at this time putting his year of birth between 1842 and 1843. He is listed in Broadfoot Publishing Co's "The Roster of Confederate soldiers 1861 - 1865" as Frank Rominger.

So on Week 22 prompt was SO FAR AWAY

Mine is Hans Jerg Rominger and his profile Rominger-60

He was born about 1680 in Winterlingen, German and later moved from there to Singen, near Durlach. He married Elisabeth Odelin in 1708 in Winterlingen. In 1742 he applied for permission to emigrate to New England with his sons David and Philip. His son Michael did not emigrate until 1752 but then joined his family in Broad Bay, Maine. This settlement was a colony recruited in Germany by an American entrepreneur, Samuel Waldo, who promised more than he delivered in terms of land and amenities. George Soelle, a Moravian missionary who came to the settlement, noted that the settlers were "poor as church mice" and suffering greatly from the cold, inclement winter weather. Soelle estabilished a Moravian church in Broad Bay in 1762, In 1770 a group of families left Broad Bay and traveled by ship to Wilmington, NC, then overland to the Wachovia area. forming a new community at Friedland.

MIGRATION

Captain: James Abercombie From:Rotterdam By Way of: Deal Arrival: Broad Bay, October 1742

A list of men in the colony in May 1744 made by Captain John Ulmer in Preparation for the Indian wars. Also a letter by Zouberbuhler in May 1744 identifies names of two others who came that weren't on Ulmer's list. A list of people living in Broad Bay about the spring of 1745 made by John North. The "North List" was made up for Broad Bay and for the surrounding towns of ST. George, Cushiing and Meduncook and was probably a "Muster Roll" for the Louisbourg Expedition

So on Week 23 prompt was GOING TO THE CHAPEL

Mine is Reverend Richard Henry Jordan. His profile is Jordan-13111. Richard was born in 1821. He passed away in 1893. He is the son of Ashael Jordanand Grisally Anonymous

In 1870 Census of Rhea County, Rev. Richard Henry Jordan was listed living in the area of Smith's Cross Roads. His parents both are from South Carolina. Sometime before 1821 the Jordan family moved to Habbersham County, Georgia and by 1830, they migrated into Bledsoe County, Tennessee, where his parents died between 1871 and 1879.

In 1880 Rev. Richard Henry Jordan was living in Meigs County, Tennessee and by 1890 he made his home in Hamilton County, Tennessee. Rev. Jordan, a Baptist Circuit Rider Minister for 41 years was born July 17, 1821 in Habbersham County, and died September 18, 1893, in what was James County, but is now Hamilton County. His death occured at the Salem Church, reportedly after preaching to large congregation. His last sermon was taken from St. John the 12th Chapter.

So on Week 24 prompt was FATHER'S DAY

Mine is my dad that is a wonderful dad. His name is Robert Eugene Barnett. His profile is Barnett-3518. My dad when we were kids would work 2 jobs to support us. He was a school teacher during the day. Then he worked on construction with my mom's dad. He even got a job a supertindent at the Athens Area Vocational School before it was built so while it was built during the week he would be living in the school and then on the weekends he would come up to Bristol where we lived in a house that he and mom and relatives help build when I was born. Then in 1966 when it was open we moved to Athens. He was their first supterdintent for that school till 1982. Then when he retired he started by word of mouth put aluminum siding on peoples houses and also did mission work on churches. He and my mom would go on mission trips while I looked after our cat that was between 12 and 20 years old and was sick and I volunteered to keeper her while they did mission work till she died when she was 20 years old.

He even helped my sister and her husband redo their 2 houses and helped set up and fix up a building for my brother to have an artichect business he started. Also helped my brother and his wife build his home. Also he helped my brother - in - law build his computer office beside my house that I am renting from them.

He also has built in all 3 house in 3 towns for me and my mother and when my sister and brother lived with us. The towns were Bristol, Athens and Loudon, Tennessee. But since 2015 he has gone done hill in his health and can't do anything now people and my family has to do things for him.

When he was able he did care and loved people and would help do things for others.

So on Week 25 prompt was SAME NAME

Mine is that with the surname of the Honeycutts on my dad's side I have a lot of names that keeps repeating. There are my great grandmother's relatives.

They are:

Reuben Honeycutt, Moses Honeycutt, Nathan Honeycutt, Peter Honeycutt, Sampson Honeycutt, and Lucinda Honeycutt.

So on Week 26 prompt was BLACK SHEEP

Mine is my uncle who is Charles Monroe Sapp and it is his dad who is Emory Eron Sapp half brother who is Louis Benjamin Sapp.This is Louis Benjamin Sapp's brother profile: Sapp-1417. Both are Black Sheep of that Sapp family. He was charged along with his half brother in the murder of his half brother 4th and last wife for her property and then the murder of the two men that killed his Em's wife, Richard Watt and Frank Havard. He was convicted for the murder of Em's wife, with Em getting 40 years and Lou getting 20 years. However, the conviction was overturned, and Em was retried while Lou sat waiting in jail for his trial. He was never retried and was let out on $7000 bail in June, 1919 more than a year after Em's conviction. In November of 1939 Lou again made headlines when he surrendered to officers in Louisiana for the slaying of a patient in a hospital in New Orleans. The story as told was that Lou caught his wife in bed with a man, and that he shot at him, but the man escaped through the window of the house. However, he had been hit by one of the shots, and that he was admitted to a hospital in New Orleans. It is said that Lou bought a bunch of flowers, hid his pistol in the flowers and went to the hospital to visit the man. He shot and killed the man in his hospital room. He was sent to prison in Louisiana and after serving some time was pardoned from prison in Louisiana sometime during the administration of Bill Dodd as Lt. Governor. Bill Dodd's mother, Virginia was a brother Louis or of Lou as he was called. It was no reason to believe that Bill Dodd had any part in getting Lou pardoned for Bill Dodd was a highly respected politician both as Lt. Governor and Supt. of Schools.

So on Week 27 prompt was INDEPENDENCE

Mine is Darling Jones and his profile is Jones-76636. Pvt. Carter's Co Shelby's N.C. Regt. Rev.War 10-9-1848 The D.A.R. has placed a marker to by his headstone, a Revolutionary War veteran. About the time of the Revolution War, he was visiting his parents in Washington (now Carter) County on the "Doe River" when he was drafted for Revolutionary service. He stated in his pension application: "left Roans Creek, crossed Stone Mountain at the head of Watauga to the high hills of Santee and to the Santee Swamp where he joined Marion." He also stated in the Indian Wars with John Sevier. After the war, he moved his family to Washington County where he had a grant of 259 acres - Grant No.1073, July 11, 1794" on Brush Creek." (The land was actually in the present Asbury Community.) Darling and Nancy Huff (his second wife) Jones lived in a cabin home located near the Clinchfield Railway and the Asbury Bridge. After Darling's death, Nancy continued to live in that home until her death. The cabin was moved at the efforts of a Mr. Miller to the Girl Scout Camp on Oakland Avenue, where it is used as an office building. Darling Jones was buried near his home where his grave was marked by the DAR. Now I will provide on this the sources I have on his profile

So on Week 28 prompt was TRAVEL

I will do this. Mine is Hans Jerg Rominger and his profile is Rominger-60. Than his sons - Michael Rominger which his profile is Rominger-34 and David Rominger and his profile is Rominger-86. And also Philip Rominger and his profile is Rominger-59

For Hans Jerg Rominger he was born about 1680 in Winterlingen, German and later moved from there to Singen, near Durlach. He married Elisabeth Odelin in 1708 in Winterlingen. In 1742 he applied for permission to emigrate to New England with his sons David and Philip. His son Michael did not emigrate until 1752 but then joined his family in Broad Bay, Maine. This settlement was a colony recruited in Germany by an American entrepreneur, Samuel Waldo, who promised more than he delivered in terms of land and amenities. George Soelle, a Moravian missionary who came to the settlement, noted that the settlers were "poor as church mice" and suffering greatly from the cold, inclement winter weather. Soelle estabilished a Moravian church in Broad Bay in 1762, In 1770 a group of families left Broad Bay and traveled by ship to Wilmington, NC, then overland to the Wachovia area. forming a new community at Friedland.

For Michael Rominger he came to Broadbay, Maine from Germany about 1752 with family. In 1770 he moved to Broadbay Township, Forsythe Co., North Carolina via ship to Wilmington North Carolina and then overland to Salem. Winterlingen is in the Bolinger District of Wurtemberg, Germany. He had been a soldier in the Royal Regiment but quit when he married. Michael and family sailed from Amsterdam (June 1753) and Portsmouth, Landed at St. Georges, 18 Oct 1753. Moravian church records say the Anton family came from Howettersbach, in Baden-Durlach in 1751.

Michael & Anna left Germany and immigrated in early 1752 or 1753 with four children, losing one son in Germany. They landed in New England (Maine) where they lived until 1770. The family moved to North Carolina in 1770. He married Anna Catharina Anton in Hoch Wettesbach, Germany in 1740.

Immigration

from 1752 to 1753 to ME from Germany

•Event: Move 1770 To North Carolina

Our old Br. and Sr. Michael and Anna Catharina Rominger celebrated the jubilee of their marriage with a lovefeast for the congregation, Br. Koehler presiding. In an earnest prayer he commended to the Savior these two people with their children and children's children, and pronounced a blessing upon the couple with the laying of hands. Most of their children and grandchildren were present. Of their eleven children five are still living; of their forty-seven grandchildren thirty-four survive, with four out of five great-grandchildren; a total of forty-three.

elected Steward of Friedland

1752 St. Andrew

Captain: Captain Alexander Hood

From: Rotterdam, June 1751

By Way of: Cowes, England

Arrival: Boston 19 Sep 1752, Broad Bay Oct 1752

Carried 260 passengers. Some stayed in Boston, some probably went to Germantown (Marblehead), and the

majority continued on to Broad Bay (133 persons).

Primary sources for the names of the passengers that came on this ship come from the following sources:

A list of heads of households that came to Broad Bay on a ship from Germantown in October 1752 in the

Knox Papers at the Massachusetts Archives in Boston.

Lists of those who were sent supplies dated 29 Jun 1753 and Jul 1753 among the Knox Papers.

The 1788 list of Germans coming to Broad Bay

Some families probably remained in Boston while 133 of the passengers continued to Broad Bay in the fall of

1752.

Since these colonists were ill prepared for the winter of 1752-1753, and since this winter was especially trying,

the hard pressed colonists were sent supplies in the spring of 1753. Among the Knox Papers there is a list of

provisions of salt, corn, and meal which were sent to Broad Bay German colonists on June 29, 1753 and

another list of the signatures of colonists receiving these supplies in July 1753.

Each family in need was allotted 2 bushels of meal for each freight. For those with more than one freight it was

rounded down often for 3-4 bushels of meal for two freights. This probably depended on the size of the family.

Each adult in the family counted as one freight. For children ages 4-13, they were considered a half-freight.

Children under 4 were not counted as freights. With this system a family with three freights would have included

a father, mother, and adult son or two children between 4-13, and perhaps additional children under 4. The

number of freights listed for each family as reported in the first list of supplies sent to Broad Bay in the remarks

column. This indicates the size of the family. [Abbreviations: w.=wife, s.=son, d.=daughter, b.=brother, ss.=step

son, md=married, f.=father]

And for David he He immigrated to New England with his father in 1742. Will Whitaker, editor of the Old Broad Bay newsletter, states that he is supposed to have married in 1741, but no record of his marriage could be found in Winterlingen, Singen, or nearby towns.

He came to NC in 1769 with the first group of Broad Bay settlers, leaving his wife behind. In a postscript to a letter written from Broad Bay to Frederic William Marshall August 24, 1769, George Soelle wrote, "Dear David Rominger does not bring his wife with him, partly because she is sickly, partly because she prefers to remain with her children [presumably hers from a previous marriage, not his]. But he is leaving with her approval and consent, and has divided his property with her according to law, and has put everything in order. He asked me to tell you this. His son is a dead soul."^[1]

His wife did make the trip to NC in 1770, but died before she reached Wachovia.

Phillip he He was born in 1721 in Winterlingen, Germany and came to New England with his father and brother David in 1742. His wife's name is unknown. He died in 1762 in Boston, MA.

So on Week 29 prompt was MUSIC

I will do this. I have a lot that are musical talented but I am going to do my cousin named Jerry Parker Leonard and his profile is Leonard-9101. He was a choir member of First Baptist Church of Kingsport, Tennessee. He enjoyed singing and had been a member of S.P.E.B.Q.S.A. and the Symphony of the Mountains Chorus.

So on Week 30 prompt was COLORFUL or

I will do this one also. Mine is my great aunt Opal Flora Hutchison Leonard and her profile is Hutchison-1745. Because Opal is pretty colorful. She was visiting my Great aunts Ruby and Ella at their home. There was a stoop with no railing at the door and she stepped backwards and fell of the stoop and broke her hip. She had surgery, but was incoherent when she came to. She never really recovered. She had hip surgery several years previously to replace a hip joint, and recovered so well she was able to play golf again, which she loved. She and her husband my great uncle lived on College Heights across from my great uncle Roy's parents and from my mothers parents for many years and their boys grew up there, before they moved to a fine home in Ridgefields in Johnson City, Tennessee a golfing community in Kingsport, Tennessee.

So on Week 31 prompt was OLDEST

Mine is my uncle Charles Sapp mother's homestead in Jonesborough but I put on Mattie Emma Lou Archer profile and her profile is Archer-3811. It was taken in 1890.

Archer Homestead

So on Week 32 prompt was YOUNGEST

I will do this also. Mine is Wilma Jeanette (Adams) Hassan and her profile is Adams-39172. I did her on Week 12 but she is the youngest in her family so I decided to do her again. There was an articles on her death in Chicago, Illinois in April 6, 1963. Her husband killed her with a hammer to the skull and then cut her to pieces and strewn her body all over Chicago. Parts of her body were found in April and May of 1963. When she had disappeared she was working as a nurse's aide in a Chicago hospital. Her husband was an immigrant from Baghdad, Irag. He was questioned by the Illinois authorities but was released after lie detector tests proved inconclusive. She met her husband while she was a student at University High School and he was a student at East Tennessee State University in 1959.When he killed her they had a 3 year daughter named Venus Lynn. She was sent to Baghdad to live with his parents. There was search for her that was started because of her father writing a letter to President John F. Kennedy. Her husband told the police that had last seen her on April 6, 1963 as he left Chicago to fly to New York City with the couple's three-year old daughter. He also told the police that he had not reported her missing because she had left home on two previous occasions and also they had quarreled and he thought she had left him. He said that he had written to her parents that she had left him and that he suspected that she was running around with a wealthier man than himself. That was written in July, four months after she disappeared. He also wrote in the letter "Mama, please if you ever hear from Jeanette let her know that he still loves her and if she promised that she will not leave him again. That he was ready to accept her back as an honest wife and mother to us." The letter was written to President Kennedy to appeal for help in finding his missing daughter. The letter found it way to Chicago Immigration Official who initiated the search for her through Chicago police. The identification of the dismemberment parts of the body of her was climaxed six months of investigation by Illinois police officials. They had checked all missing persons from a wide area who might have fit the description they had drawn from the body parts they found. They had not known she was missing apparently until someone in July according to officials. The last letter she wrote to her parents was dated March 10. In the letter she had said she had been sick most of the winter and had lost weight to 85 pounds. Her mother said her daughter had told her in a telephone call just before her disappearance that she had though she was pregnant again. She had a daughter by a previous marriage but the daughter is with the father. She had apparently met her husband while he was in school in Tennessee. She was a senior at University High School in 1957 dropping out in February of that year according to the principal. The principal remembered her as a shy quiet girl who had been in school band while she was in high school. She started in ETSU Training School in the first grade. Some woman at grocery store in Johnson City, Tennessee recalled that she had worked in the grill at the store and used to visit the woman there. Her brother had not been heard from Johnson City since June 1062. Her father had been trying to find him since that time. Her father said that her brother wife and three children are with him but he had no idea where they might be. They found her skull and four vertebrae and they were found in a blue and white plastic bag. The skull was found Christmas Eve in a slough near Crystal Lake, Illinois. She was a native of Johnson City, Tennessee. The other parts of her body was found in Lake County, Illinois in April and May of 1963. Crystal Lake is in adjoining McHenry County. She had been listed as missing since April 6, and the first part of her body was found on April 11. The baffling case was broken when a Deputy Captain found some x-rays taken of the woman's foot when she was in the sixth grade in Johnson City and he sent them to Illinois State Police. Her father told them that she had been living in Chicago for over four years. She had married her husband a foreign exchange student at East Tennessee State University before going to Chicago. Five days after she was reported missing boys playing near the Des Plaines River in Chicago suburb of Gurnee found a woman's right leg floating in the water wrapped in blue and white plastic and tied with twine. Other parts of the woman's body were found through May 15, She apparently slain in early April and various parts of her body turned up from April 11 through May 25 in Lake County, Illinois. She had unusal bone structure in her feet which made identification certain, It was learned. Chest x-rays were also used in the identification of the portions of the body. This was her second marriage.

So on Week 33 prompt was FAMILY LEGEND

I will do this but it will be hard one to do. I have several legends: 1) a lot on both sides of my family in my mother and dad side that seemed to be married to Indian princess. 2) On my mom side my mom's mother told my aunt that we are related to 1) President Andrew Johnson who profile is Johnson-10479. I haven't confirmed and figured how we are related to him on my mom side. And the 2) one is David Crockett and his profile is Crockett-311. I also haven't confirmed and figured how we are related to him also on my mom side. But I am very interested in how we are related to President Andrew Johnson and David Stern Crockett.

So on Week 34 prompt was NON-POPULATION

Mine is John H. Fine. His profile is Fine-602 The year that John died (1860) was determined from Rhea County Will Book Number One (page 164) that was dated May of 1860. The following entry also was written: Stephen Breeding, Administrator of John FIne, deceased, reported that "the estate was not sufficient to provide the years support of the family and exempting the land from execution. The estate was deficient by $200.00. Amount owed by the estate is $300.00; nothing to administer.".

So on Week 35 prompt was BACK-TO-SCHOOL

Mine is Abraham Fine and his profile is Fine-249 In 1948 Abraham probably taught at May's school according to record's at Cherokee Baptist Church.

So on Week 36 prompt was WORK

So on Week 37 prompt was CLOSET - TO - YOUR - BIRTHDAY

Mine is Issadora O "Iza Dora" Henson and her profile is Henson-2357. She is buried in the Leonard Cemetery. They lived across the street from my mother family and across the family cemetery the Leonard Family Cemetery. One of her kid which was a son lived in Knoxville, Tennessee above where we lived in Loudon, Tennessee. Then she has a daughter who lives in Portland, Oregon. Issadora birthday was on September 18 and mine is September 19th

So on Week 38 prompt was UNUSUAL SOURCE

I will do this one. Mine is Franklin Lafayette Rominger and his profile is Rominger-118. His Unusual Sources is United States Veterans Administration Pension Payment Cards, 1907 - 1953; Roster of Confederate Soldiers, 1861 - 1865. Also Pension Applications for military service.

So on Week 39 prompt was ON THE FARM

Mine will be James Anquish McKay and his profile is Mckay-3799. In the 1880 Census for Mobile County, Alabama the listed his occupation as Farmer then in the 1910 census for Mobile County, Alabama his occupation was listed as Grocer

So on Week 40 prompt was TEN

Mine is my paternal grandmother's father who is Burton Bert Yelton and his profile is Yelton-144. My grandmother's mother wasn't really married to my grandmother's father since he was already married to Lilah Harrell and the had 11 children themselves. So my grandmother mom didn't marry Burton. So she married Clingman Henson. So Clingman Henson was her step - dad.

So on Week 41 prompt was SPORTS

Mine is my first cousin child. Her name is Lauren Sapp and her profile is Sapp-1221. She was very athletic into sports in school. Volleyball, and swimming. Especially swimming in high school her and three other girls set a girls' 17 - 18 record of 1:37.7 in the 200 free relay. She now even on swim team in college now. When she was in high school the whole family will go with her to her swim meets all over United States.

So on Week 42 prompt was CONFLICT

Mine is Franklin Lafayette Rominger and his profile is Rominger-118. His pension for Military service. National Archives file designation SC 143 - 395. First communication dated 20 May 1872. On it the date and guardian appointed for minor child not named (Conrad Dove, on 5 February 1913, Washington County, Tennessee this is assumed to be Suzie, daughter born to Frank and Sarah Gervin). Also on the pension papers was a challenge by and rebuttal to Sarah Gervin. Rominger's claim to Frank pension (NOTE: Susie DOVE - International Genealogical Index / NA; Gender:F Marriage: 16 October 1918 Warren, Tennessee to James Wallace SANDERS on 16 October 1918 in Warren, Tennessee)

So on Week 43 prompt was CAUSE OF DEATH

Mine is Lloyd Reece Leonard and his profile is Leonard-8018 1st Lieutenant Lloyd R. Leonard. Lloyd was a graduate of Science Hill High School and after high school worked as a brick and stone mason. He enlisted in the United States Army at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia on 14 June 1941. In 1943, he applied for and was accepted into Officer Candidate School. Lloyd completed that course and was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant as an artillery field officer at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Afterwards, he was sent to Camp Mackall, North Carolina and assigned to Battery A, 674th Glider Field Artillery Battalion, 11th Airborne Division. Lloyd was serving in the Pacific Theater in the New Guinea Campaign when he died from injuries received in an automobile accident at 108 Station Hospital, Dobodura, Papua New Guinea. Lloyd was 25 years old and the son of John William Leonard and Laura Elminia Rominger. He was married to Elizabeth Evans.

So on Week 44 prompt was FRIGHTENING

Mine is Victoria Rominger and her profile is Rominger-161. Emily Belton stated that at about 14 years of age, while picking berries in the mountains, Victoria was lost and never heard from again. A search of the area at the time failed to produce any trace of her. This information is questionable as a marriage record has been located that shows Victoria Rominger married David Wilson in Ashe County, North Carolina on 6 July 1889. More information has surfaced (12 July 2002) that states another child, not previously known to Emily was the one who disapperared. Her name was "Callie Rominger", died young." I don't know if Callie Rominger is kin to us but I think she is.

So on Week 45 prompt was BEARDED

Mine is Elcanah Leonard. His profile is Leonard-5579.

Bearded Elcanah Leonard

So on Week 46 prompt was RANDOM FACT

Mine is Doyle Washington Hoilman and his profile is Hoilman-20. He said that his dad was so small when born that they would pin his clothes with him in them onto a pillow for a bed and his head could fit into a tea cup.

So on Week 47 prompt was THANKFUL

Mine is that I am thankful that I found a lot of information on my dad's side of the family starting with Spencer Barnett and his profile is Barnett-3530 and Flora (Jones) Down Barnett and her profile is Jones-33184. I found a lot from people contacting me on that side plus as I am unpacking my mom's stuff and put things away in her house to help get her settle since our move from Loudon, Tennessee last November I found a lot more information that was given to my dad and mom.

So on Week 48 prompt was NEXT - TO - LAST

Mine is Elcanah Martin Leonard and his profile is Leonard-5579. He was born on November 9, 1833.

So on Week 49 prompt was WINTER

Mine is Roger Craig Barnett and his profile is Barnett-3519. He was born on December 14, 1957. Every year before me, mother and my dad moved up to Upper East Tennessee in November, we still celebrate his brother when we get together for Christmas and then we give him his birthday presents first and then we will get then celebrate Christmas.

So on Week 50 prompt was NAUGHTY

Mine is Mohsin Abdul-Amer Hassan.His profile is Hassan-136. He killed Wilma Jeanette (Adams) Hassan and cut her body up and strew her body parts all over Chicago, Illinois and the highway and lied about doing it.

So on Week 51 prompt was NICE

Mine is Flora (Jones) Barnett and her profile is Jones-33184. She made all kinds of delicious food to eat and meals. Always was given the children candy.

So on Week 52 prompt was RESOLUTIONS

Mine resolution is to see and research on how my family on my mother side is connected to President Andrew Johnson and his profile is Johnson-10479 and his wife Eliza (McCardle) Johnson and her profile is McCardle-11. The David Hawkins Stern Crockett and his profile is Crockett-311. Plus his two wives which is Mary Polly (Finley) Crockett and her profile is Finley-132 and Elizabeth (Patton) Crockett and her profile is Patton-162

Sources

↑ Moravian Church Records, Moravian Archives, Winston-Salem NC

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