It often pays to go through genealogical material more than once. Recently I came across
a forgotten envelope full of newspaper clippings from the 1920s and 1930s and later. They
weren't new - just forgotten. What a treat it was to re-read them! My grandmother had clipped the articles, mainly obituaries, from the Hardin County (Illinois) Independent but did not note the date on any of them. Fortunately, I can determine the date for most of them.
One clipping
is an obituary for my great-grandmother, Mary Ann Wolstenholme Smith, who died
in 1933 in Rosiclare, Hardin County. This obituary is especially
interesting to me now because I am once more researching her father, Hugh Wolstenholme Jr. and his
family. Hugh was born in England ca 1818/1819, came to America ca 1820 and
lived many years in Davidson County, Tennessee. I know he visited his daughter,
Mary Ann and her husband, Reddick Smith,
but I have not found the date or place of his death. My goal for the next six months is to
determine where he was after the 1880 Davidson County census and where he died. Family
tradition has it that he died while traveling between Tennessee and Illinois, but I have never found proof.
Mary Ann
lived with her children after her husband died in 1913. She would stay first
with with one child and then another. Apparently, she entertained her grandchildren with stories of growing up in
Goodlettsville, Tennessee not far from Nashville. It is a good thing she did as
she does not appear on the 1850 and 1860 census records even though she was
born in 1848. Her stories provide the only view of her activities before her
marriage to Reddick Smith in 1866.
So, the
Wolstenholme family is back on the research list and I hope to have something
to report periodically.
Published 1 July 2016, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/
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