Hendricks, Roberta

Notes:

Personal Records, Maureen (Molly) McGUIRE COLSON:

May have had more children with Angie. It is unclear from the notes I have whthere the additonal names are children or children's children. The names are: Johyce, Harold, Lozetta, Glenna.

Robert married Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: 1919, Waldo, Josephine Co, OR

Notes:

Personal Records, Maureen (Molly) McGUIRE COLSON:

Hugh Bell wrote a self-published book of poems. I know of no copies within the family. His copies burned when his cabin burned down.
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Autograph in Autograph book of Cassius E. Hendricks: Signed 5 June 1899, in Bay City, OR
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Newspaper article: Rogue River Courier (now Grants Pass Daily Courier) Grants Pass, OR. "Gem of Famous Rogue Valley" includes write-up of businessmen. . . H. B. HENDRICKS, real-estate and insurance."
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Filed Donation Land Claims (OR) on the following dates: May 16, 1888 Douglas Co., May 16, 1893 Wheeler Co., Dec. 21, 1895 Wheeler Co., and Jan 27, 1919 Josephine Co.

Buried:
Granite Hill Cemetery

Hugh married Gilkison, Nancy Jane on 4 Oct 1880 in Douglas County, Oregon, USA. Nancy (daughter of Gilkison, Eben Sturgis and Neal, Elizabeth Mary "Nancy") was born on 13 Apr 1864; died on 6 Aug 1945 in Grants Pass, Josephine Co., OR; was buried in Grants Pass, Josephine, Oregon, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Personal Records, Maureen (Molly) McGUIRE COLSON:

Nancy Jane was Hugh Bell's student before they were married. As you can see, there wasn't much difference in their ages. They later divorced. She rand boarding houses and a confectionary store here in Grants Pass, OR, to support herself. She was a very tiny woman who wore size 4 shoes. She saw great value in education and, because of her interest, my mother and aunts (Ramona, Pearl, Ernestine)
attended high school while living in the town of Grants Pass with her. My mother, Ramona, loved her dearly.

Greatgrandma Nancy loved adventures and was ready whenever the opportunity presented itself. Once when my mother was girl taking care of her little sisters while my grandparents sold fruit near Klamath Falls, OR., Greatgrandma was at the orchard for a visit. She talked Mamma into taking Grandma & Grandpa's car for a spin. Never mind that neither Greatgrandma nor Mamma knew any more about a car than how to ride in one. They did have a great time and got back home without mishap. I'm not sure they ever told Grandma & Grandpa. Pearl & Betty were probably too little to tell.

Greatgrandma loved flowers, especially roses. After she died, my parents transplanted her rose garden to our house. She raised Banty chickens and their home was a chicken wire bear cage that had once sat in front of the theatre housing a cub bear. Greatgrandma's boarding house was on the NW corner of 7th & F Streets in Grants Pass.

Buried:
Ash & ? Sts.,/Granite Hill Cemetery

Notes:

Married:
at bride's parents'

Notes:

Personal Records, Maureen (Molly) McGUIRE COLSON:

1860 Census, Linn Co., OR Dwelling #1127, the following persons are listed:

Parents Birthplace
Samuel WHITLEY 70 M VA farmer
Catherine WHITLEY 69 F KY
E. S. GILKERSON 34 M KY Harness maker
Catherine GILKERSON 30 F IL

1870 Myrtle Creek, Douglas Co., OR census: In addition to direct family members, the following persons were listed in the household :
William NEALE 21 M MO miner 1849
George NEALE 19 M MO school 1847
Angeline JACKSON 11 F OR school 1859
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The following letter was sent to me by M. E. (Moe) Gilkison, 310 11th Street, Altoona, IA 50009, in the year 2000. I am fairly certain that the Oregon cousin who is mentioned is our Eben Sturgis Gilkison.

Keating, Oregon
Jan. 28, 1932

Dear Allie:

Your letter, mailed the 17th inst. was read yesterday. We have 46 inches of snow here and it is hard to get in or out. Do not get our mail very often and yesterday was the first we had heard of Murry's death. Well in his condition, the poor man is better off.

I am glad that you have taken on the task of finding out all you can about your Grandfathers ancestors and I suppose that I can give more information about that than anyone now living, so I will tell you all I know and you can file it away for future generations.

The original line of Gilkisons were Danes, but in the 9th or 10th century when the Danes overran England and north of Ireland, there was a young General in the Danish army by the name of Gilkison. He fell in love with a young Irish colleen and married her and settled in Dungannon, In the north of Ireland. This part of our history I got from and old educated Dane that was [with] the Oregon Lbr. Co. on Tucker flat, in the 80's. He knew Danish history from the earliest civilization. His name was Charly Baker, a big fat old Dane. No doubt that your father and Mark will remember him. He was their log scaler. But our line has been Irish for the last 100 years. Between that date and 1812 1 know nothing but as to our progeny from then on.

In your Great Great Grandfathers family in Ireland, there were three sons. John, James and William, they were drafted in the British navy quite young. John was killed in the battle on Lake Erie in 1812. James and William deserted from the British navy and made their way to Ohio the same year. They settled in Jefferson County when it was mostly woods, wild animals and Indians. James was your Great Grandfather not John. He was 20 when he left the British navy, so according to that he was born in 1792. He married a girl by the name of Blair, and they had three sons and three daughters. John my father was the oldest, then William, who died in Illinois long years ago and your Grandfather James. The daughters were Isabelle who married Elias Sutton, and died in Champaign, Ill. and Martha, who married Lewis Walton, and died in Iowa. Your grandfathers brother William, first married in Ohio. Her name was Warren. They lived at Chanclersville, Muskingham Co. She died there. They had three children, John W., Bruce, and Mina. Bruce and Mina stayed with their grandparents, Warren after their mothers death. Both married and were still living there a few years ago- In the early 60s William. your grandfather, Martha, and the Suttons with Grandmother Gilkison, all went to Illinois. William and your Grandfather settled near Mattoon, and the Sutttons, near Champaign. I have not the date of your great Grandfathers death, but he died in Ohio several years before they went to Ill. William married again after he went there and they had a large family of boys, who settled in that state. As to my father's family and your Grandfathers, well they are all in Oregon except my sister Marda, who lives in Cambridge, Ohio. William Hutchinson went to California in the 50s. They had two children. James and Clara. James married in Ohio and went to Florida, and in the early_______ Hutchinson sent for his wife and daughter, and Clara married David Horn. Mark knows the history of the Horn family as well as I do. Elias and Isabell Sutton had a large family of boys and one girl. The boys were all railroad men and James visited this county with Aunt Susan in 1887. The daughter, Florence. married a man by the name of Jefferies, they visited all of us about 22 or 23 years ago. The Jefferies lived at Fort Pierre, South Dakota.

Florence Jeffries was a very prominent woman in the Woman Suffrage movement of South Dakota. She was President of that organization and was on a trip to Seattle to attend a national meeting of the same when she and her husband visited us. As to Martha Walton, your Grandfather's youngest sister, and her family, I have no record of them after they moved to Iowa long years ago.

Your Great Grandfather's brother, William, who came to Jefferson County, Ohio in 1812, married and settled down there and had a large family of boys and about the time I came to Oregon in 1885 there was on whole Township of Gilkisons in Jefferson County.

Mark has the names wrong. John was the one that was killed on Lake Erie and James was your Great Great Grandfather and William your Great Great Uncle. Now I know I am correct about this for I got it from my Mother and my oldest sister, Martha Barrett, and they knew the history of the Gilkisons, perfectly, from the time of their coming to America in 1812. As to the Gilkison in Ireland. I have no history, except that there was a cousin of my Grandfathers that settled in Mansfield, Ohio and he had a son that came to California in 49 and drifted north to Oregon in 56 and 25 years ago was living at Cottage Grove in southern Oregon. I corresponded with his son, James M. Gilkison, who at that time was managing a furniture plant in Albany, Oregon.

There was another of the old cousins from Ireland that settled in New Orleans, Louisiana. But they got their name twisted and spelled it Gilkerson, but all the Gilkisons in America, That came from Ireland are direct descendants of the Danish General.

The only Gilkison that I ever heard of in Ireland, was a great Aunt of mine, who was said to be the handsomest woman that ever walked the streets of Dungannon. Perhaps some time she will have a relative in America that will pattern after her, but so far I have failed to find them.

The John W. son of Uncle William, was a rambler. He left Illinois in his younger days and was last heard of in Trinindad, Colorado. I think your Aunt Clara Maharry corresponded with him at one time, but that was years ago.

This letter will no doubt, be interesting to all of the North Powder Gilkisons. If I should run onto any more data concerning the name, I will give it to you. I may have some among my old papers in my home at North Powder, and the first time I am over there I will try and see you and I may be able to help you out some more.

I just looked out and it is snowing. We only have 46 inches but we may get the 4 feet yet.

Yours very truly,
John M. Gilkison
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Buried:
Pine & Rose Sts., Granite Hill Cemetary

Eben married Neal, Elizabeth Mary "Nancy" on 4 Jul 1861 in Linn Co., Oregon, USA. Elizabeth was born on 27 Jan 1843 in Dallas, Missouri, USA; died on 7 Apr 1918 in Josephine Co., Oregon, USA; was buried in Grants Pass, Josephine, Oregon, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Personal Records, Maureen (Molly) McGUIRE COLSON:

Listed on Death Certificat #34, Josephine Co., OR as Nancy Elizabeth Gilkison

Buried:
Pine & Rose Sts., Granite Hill Cemetary