What's in a Name ? Nicknames !

Your Granny may have gone by Sadie, Sally, Sal, or Sarah.  You may have seen several listings for her through the years on Census records. This Nickname list is a great beginning of understanding nicknames.

NICKNAMES

 Abby Abigail 

Addie Adelina 

Aggie, also Nancy (Scotish usage), Agnes, Agatha 

Allie Alice, Althea 

Alma Almarinda

Amy Amelia 

Annette Ann, Anne 

Axey Achsah 

Babs, Barb, Babbie Barbara 

Becky Rebecca 

Bee Beatrice, Beatrix 

Belle, Bella Arabella, Isabel 

Berty Bertha,Roberta 

Betty, Bess, Betsy, Beth Elizabeth 

Biddy Obedience, Bridget

Cam Camilia 

Candy Candace

Carrie Caroline 

Cassie Cassandra

Cathy, Kate, Kathy, Kit, Kay, Kitty Catherine

Chrissie, Christie, Chris Christina 

Cicely, Cis Cecelia 

Cinda, Cindy Lucinda, Cinderella

Clara Clarissa 

Clemmie Clementine 

Collete Nicolette 

Connie Constance 

Corley Cornelia 

Creasy, Crecy Lucretia 

Deb, Debby Deborah 

Delia Cordelia 

Della Adelina 

Dicey, Diza Eudicia, Boadicea 

Dona Caledonia 

Dot, Dolly Dorothy 

TR>  Dotie Theordosia, Doris,

Dorothy, Odette,

Delores, Dora

Drucie Drucilla 

Eddie, Edy Edwina, Edith 

Effie Euphemia 

Ella Eleanor, Gabriella 

Ellen, Elle Eleanor, Helen 

Elsie Alice, Elsbeth 

Emma Erminia 

Essie Esther 

Ethel Ethelinda 

Eudora, Dora Theodora 

Eunie, Nicey, Nicy Eugenia, Eunice 

Eura or Ura  Eura or Ura Eureka 

Eva Evangeline, Evaline 

Fanny, Frank Frances 

Flo, Flossie, Flora Florence 

Freddie Fredericka 

Gail Abigail

Genie, Gene  Eugenia

Gertie Gertrude

Gincey, Jenny Jane

Greta Margaret

Grissel Griselda

Gussia Augusta

Gwen Gwendolyn

Hallie Mahalia

Hatty, Hattie, Harriett

Hepsy Hephzibah

Hetty Henrietta

Hulda Mahulda

Janet, Jeanne, Jennet, Jenny, Jane, Virginia

Jess Jessie

Jessie Jessica

Josie, Jo Josepha, Josephine

Judy Judith

Juliet Julia

Karen Karenhappuch

Kate, Kathy, Kay, Kitty K(C)atherine

Leitha Alletha, Tellitha

Lena Helena, Magdalena

Letty Lettice, Letitia

Lexie Alexa, Alexandra

Lila Delilah

Lina Selina

Linda Malinda, Ethelinda

Livvy Lavinia, Olivia

Liz, Liza, Lizzy, Libby Elizabeth, Eliza

Lotta, Lottie  Charlotte

Lou, Louie, Lu, Lulu, Louisa, Louise

Lucy Lucinda

Lula Tallulah

Madge, Margie  Margaret, Margery, Marjorie

Mae, May Mary

Mag, Maggy  Margaret

Mandy Amanda

Milly Emily, Amelia, Millicent, Mildred

Minnie Mary, Minerva

Modlin Magdalena - German Usage

Molly, Polly Mary

Mona Desdemona, Ramona

Myra Almira, Palmyra

Nabby Abigail

Nan, Nancy, Nanny  Agnes - Scotish usage

Nan, Nancy, Nanny  Ann, Anne, Anna - English usage

Neecy Permecia

Nell, Nelly Eleanor, Ellen, Helen, Penelope

Nerva, Nerve Minerva

Netty Antionette, Henriells, Joannette, Zan(n)etta 

Nicey Eunice

Nina Ann, Anna, Penina

Nita Anita , Juanita

Noma Naomi

Nona Winona

Nora Eleanor, Honora, Leonora

Ola Viola, Tuliola

Ollie Olivia, Ollvine

Pam Pamala

Patsy, Patty, Pat, Martha, Patricia

Peg, Peggy Margaret

Phemie Euphemia

Pheny Josephine

Polly, Poll Mary, Paulina

Prissy Pricilla

Prudy, Prue Prudance

Reba Rebecca

Rena Serena, Irena, Arrena

Rita Marguerita

Roxie Roxanne

Sadie, Sally, Sal  Sarah, Sara

Sam, Sammy Samantha

Sandra Cassandra

Sheba Bathsheba

Sillah Drusiliah, Drucilla, Priscilla

Sinah Arcena

Sis, Sisley, Sesaley Cecilia

Sophy Sophia

Sue, Suke, Suky, Susie  Susan, Susannah

Tabby Tabitha

Tammy Tamira

Tamzine Thomasine

Tempy Temperance

Terry, Tess Theresa

Theny Bethena

Thursa, Thursday, Thurze Theresa

Tilda, Tilly, Mathilda, Matilda

Tina Albertina, Christina

Tish Letitia

Trix, Trixy Beatrix, Beatrice

Trudy Gertrude

Vergie Virginia

Viney, Vinnie Lavinia

Willie Williamana, any feminine form of William

Wilmett, Wilmot  Wilhelmina

Winnie Winifred

Xina Christina

Zilla Zerilda, Luzilla, Barzilla

Zoey Zoe

 (Originally compiled by Ernest Connally and Pauline Jones Gandrud, added to by Joan Wright and others)

 

 

Before Statehood Listings

 

North America - 1790

Before Statehood 

The following is a list of state names, prior to statehood. Depending on when, some states were part of several territories before statehood. This is a basic ‘beginning’ for state references.

ALABAMA TERRITORY

ARKANSAS TERRITORY

BAJA CALIFORNIA

COLONY OF RHODE ISLAND

COLONY OF VIRGINIA (or Colony of Virginia and Old Dominion)

CONNECTICUT COLONY

FLORIDA TERRITORY

JEFFERSON TERRITORY (later as Colorado)

KANSAS TERRITORY 

KENTUCKY TERRITORY

ILLINOIS TERRITORY

LOUISIANA TERRITORY (or Territory of Orleans)

MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY

MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY

MISSOURI TERRITORY

MONTANA TERRITORY 

NEVADA TERRITORY (also as Sierra Nevada)

NEW MEXICO TERRITORY

OKLAHOMA TERRITORY 

OREGON TERRITORY

PROVINCE OF GEORGIA

PROVINCE OF MARYLAND

PROVINCE OF NEW JERSEY

PROVINCE OF NEW YORK

PROVINCE OF NORTH CAROLINA

PROVINCE OF PENNSYLVANIA

PROVINCE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

REPUBLIC OF TEXAS

TENNESSEE TERRITORY

UTAH TERRITORY

WASHINGTON TERRITORY

Order of Statehood

Order   State                            Date

1.         Delaware                     Dec. 7, 1787

2.         Pennsylvania               Dec 12, 1787

3.         New Jersey                  Dec. 18, 1787

4.         Georgia                       Jan. 2, 1788

5.         Connecticut                 Jan. 9, 1788

6.         Massachusetts             Feb.6, 1788

7.         Maryland                     Apr. 28, 1788

8.         South Carolina            May 23, 1788

9.         New Hampshire          June 21, 1788

10.       Virginia                       June 25, 1788

11.       New York                   July 26, 1788

12.       North Carolina            Nov. 21, 1788

13.       Rhode Island               May 29, 1790

14.       Vermont                      Mar. 4, 1791

15.       Kentucky                    June 1, 1792

16.       Tennessee                    June 1, 1796

17.       Ohio                            Mar. 1, 1803

18.       Louisiana                     Apr. 30, 1812

19.       Indiana                         Dec. 11, 1816

20.       Mississippi                   Dec. 10, 1817

21.       Illinois                         Dec. 3, 1818

22.       Alabama                      Dec. 14, 1819

23.       Maine                          Mar. 15, 1820

24.       Missouri                      Aug. 10, 1821

25.       Arkansas                     June 15, 1836

26.       Michigan                     Jan. 26, 1837

27.       Florida                         Mar. 3, 1845

28.       Texas                           Dec. 29, 1845

29.       Iowa                            Dec. 28, 1846

30.       Wisconsin                    May 29, 1848

31.       California                    Sept. 9, 1850

32.       Minnesota                   May 11, 1858

33.       Oregon                        Feb. 14, 1859

34.       Kansas                         Jan. 29, 1861

35.       West Virginia              June 20, 1863

36.       Nevada                        Oct. 31, 1864

37.       Nebraska                     Mar. 1, 1867

38.       Colorado                     Aug. 1, 1876

39.       North Dakota              Nov. 2, 1889

40.       South Dakota              Nov. 2, 1889

41.       Montana                      Nov. 8, 1889

42.       Washington,               Nov. 11, 1889

43.       Idaho                           July 3, 1890

44.       Wyoming                    July 10, 1890

45.       Utah                            Jan. 4, 1896

46.       Oklahoma                    Nov. 16, 1907

47.       New Mexico                Jan. 6, 1912

48.       Arizona                       Feb. 14, 1912

49.       Alaska                         Jan. 3, 1959

50.       Hawaii                         Aug. 21, 1959

 

A closer look at Algernon Sidney Clement

A  cousin, Algernon Sidney Clement. A man dedicated to his family, his country and his God.

Formation of Ellis County Baptist Association
Source: The History of the Ellis County Baptist Association,
A. D. Brooks, 1907

According to Elder E. C. Leake of Navarro County, before this Association was formed in 1872, there were only twelve Baptist churches in the area comprised of all Ellis County, that part of Dallas County west of the Trinity River, those parts of Johnson and Tarrant Counties south and east of the cross timbers and that part of Navarro County between Trinity River and Chambers' Creek. In addition, only four ordained Baptist preachers lived in this area: D. D. Swindall, Josiah Leake, R. Q. Burnett and F. M. Herring, although there were some active laymen. In order to unite efforts for preaching the gospel, in July 1872 at the General Association meeting in Collin County, a movement was begun to create an association in each district. The Waxahachie Association (Ellis County) was formed in October at Liberty Church, Grove Creek, in Ellis County. Representatives at the first session were:

Lancaster
James A. Lindsay, George White, Wm. Orr, James Rafferty and Elders Josiah Leake and E. C. Leake.
Johnson Station
Elders J. C. Burnett, J. D. Blanton, C. C. Strahan and G. W. Evans
Prairie Valley
C. H. Patrick, N. V. Lovett and W. D. Vestal
Waxahachie
R. M. Wyatt, W. H. Roberts and E. Finch
Deer Creek
A. S. Clement
(Source: Ellis County Website via www.usgenweb.com

The following listings mention A.S. Clement and is likely part of his wife Rebekka (nee Farrar) family.
A. J. and Anna E. Farrar - page 211
Exs: John R. Flippin, Memphis, Tenn. ; Jas. A. Flippen; Thomas J. Flippen and George W. Farrar, Fayette Co. Tenn.
Date 10 June 1878
Attest: Mollie Farrar, John Burnett, A. S. Clement;
Filed 22 July 1880; rec. 23 Sept. 1880
(Source: Ellis County, Texas via www.usgenweb.com

1880 US Census & National Index CD
Ellis Co., Prect. 4, TX Pg. 499B
Enumeration date, dwelling & family number are not listed

Algernon S. Clement 41 W M Self Farmer Place of birth: Mississippi Father: NC Mother: MS
Rebecca " 37 W F Wife KY NC NC
Lucy Ann " 9 W F Dau TX MS KY
Henry Allen 27 W M Laborer Other AR VA MS

Bee Creek community was located about five miles south of Maypearl at Bee Creek and Bee Creek School House Roads. The creek runs though rolling terrain surfaced with clays and clay loams with oak, juniper and grasses. It is rough land and was used mostly for range with some crop land. Bee Creek empties into Chambers Creek about 5-1/2 miles north of Italy.

Postmasters were Thomas A. Canon, June 14, 1886; Clava V. Via, Sept. 25, 1886; Thomas A. Canon, Dec. 8, 1889; Amanda V. Vancleave, Dec. 1, 1891; Algernon S. Clement June 25, 1892; (name changed to Beecreek); Henry S. Vancleave Nov. 18, 1893; Marion C. Cornwell Juned 18, 1897; Hance Day Jan. 31, 1898; Matthew A. Davidson June 11, 1903. Office was discontinued Sept. 15, 1904 with mail sent to Maypearl.

There once was a school and cemetery on the School House Road, but today the scattered stones of the cemetery are the only reminders of this community.

References:
U. S. Postal Department, Washinigton, D. C.
Handbook of Texas Online
Personal visit to area and interviews with older residents
 
The following letter was handwritten by Lucy Clement Witten, following the death of her father Algernon Sidney Clement in 1909. Special thanks to Clement cousin and fellow researcher Marty Johnson of Texas, for sharing the letter and permission to transcribe it.

In memory of Bro. A.S. Clement. On Wednesday February 17, 1909. Bro A.S. Clement's spirit was taken from his body to God who gave it. Bro. Clement was born April 9, 1839 in Hines County, Miss. Born of poor parents and in a new country, he had very limited opportunities to gain an education and attended school only a few months in all his life. However in youth, and in later life he used ever available means to educate himself and was a constant reader, especially of the Bible, and such history as he could procure. be it said to his credit, be not only left himself conversant with the topics of the day, but attained a through knowledge of the scriptures.

He professed religion when but a youth and joined the old County Line Baptist Church near his home. He left his home in early life traveling west on horseback with little money, but a good store of determination. He stopped a year or two in Louisiana and then came to Texas, where he became a citizen of Ellis county in 1868, living with his Aunt Mrs. Davis.

Some time in 1862 he was drafted as a soldier and served in Mc Gruder's Calvary, west of the Mississippi river until the close of the war and received his discharge.

In 1870 he was married to Miss Rebecca Farrar, who died June 22, 1901. One child, a daughter was given to them, who is Mrs. Pat Witten of Waxachachie.

He has three sisters living, Mrs. Hudson, Mrs. Thompson and Mrs. Leak and two brothers, G.W. Clement of Maypearl and C.C. Clement of Baylor county.

He was a charter member of Old Bee Creek Church and went into the organization of what is now the Ellis County Baptist Association in 1879.

He was afterwards a member of Greathouse Church, where he was ordained a deacon. Later he became a member anda acting deacon of Plum Grove Church, where his membership was when he died.

Always faithful, honest and true, always standing firm for what he thought to be right. In December 1902 he married a second time to Mrs. L.J. Ray, who survives him and mourns his death.

Be it resolved by the Plum Grove Church, That in his death Plum Grove church lost one of her strongest followers, a model deacon, and a loving member, his wife devoted husband and a most aggreeable companion, his daughter a noble and loving at her; his relatives a friend whose place cannot be filled; Ellis county one of her best citizens, Texas as one of her good men.

Friends, relatives, daughter and wife he has gone never to return until the resurrection morning at which time his spiritual form will come forth from the grave a spiritual tabernacle for the indwelling of that same spirit that has gone to God who gave it.

Knowing these things let us not weep as those who have no hope, but rather rejoice that the time is soon coming when we will go to that glorious time if we follow the example of our dear brother as he followed Christ. His faith in Christ was surpassed by none, but he, like Paul, felt a weakness in the flesh and trusted all to Christ, who he believed would bring him out of the grave at his coming to gather up his followers.

He was a deep thinker and in all things reasonable. It was his delight to talk of the work of the Kingdom of his Lord-A lover of the church work and his pastor was thought of and looked after by him; his friends were many, his enemies few, if any - His presence is gone, but his good works and influences is with us and will remain to point us to a higher life.

He fought a good fight; he kept the faith and God has called him home to wear the crown.
A.W. Willis
A. Wardlaw
D.B. Dearcy
Committee

Adopted by Plum Grove Church in regular conference Saturday, April 24, 1909, and ordered sent to the Baptist Echo for publication and a copy sent to his wife and daughter, and also spread on the church records.

In Memory of my dear Father
By Lucy Clement Witten
@ death of Algernon Clement
(Reference to Algernon being born in "Hines County", is actually Hinds County, Mississippi)
transcribed Sept. 1, 2006 by Gayle Hennington -Van Horn

Family Group Record
Husband: Algernon Sidney Clement
Born: 9 Apr 1839 - Hinds County, Mississippi
 Died: 17 Feb 1909 - Milford, Elllis County, Texas
Buried: - Milford Cemetery, Ellis County, Texas
Father: William Sidney Clement (1807-Abt 1874)
Mother: Amelia Ann Mullican (1822-After 1900)
Marriage: 18 Jan 1870 Place: Ellis County, Texas
Other Spouse: Lucinda J. Ray (1849-After 1920) Date: Dec 1902 - Ellis County, Texas

Wife: Rebekah L. Farrar
Born: 9 Mar 1842 - Kentucky
Died: 22 Jun 1901 - Milford, Elllis County, Texas
Buried: - Milford Cemetery, Ellis County, Texas
Father: George W. Farrar (1807-)
Mother: Ann E. Hester
Children
1 F Lucy Ann Clement
Born: Apr 1871 - Ellis County, Texas
Died: 9 Mar 1964 - Ellis County, Texas
Buried: - Hillcrest Burial Park Cemetery, Waxahachie, Ellis County, Texas
Spouse: Patrick Shields Witten (1868-1950)
Marr. Date: Abt 1892 - Texas

How Photo Retouching Worked Before Photoshop

 

BY JOCELYN SEARS JULY 28, 2016

This is the first installment in a short series of articles on photo manipulation in the days before computers.

In 1841, the Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot patented the calotype—the first practical photographic process to create a negative that could generate multiple copies. Just five years later, in 1846, the first known act of photographic retouching was performed by a Welsh colleague of Talbot’s named Calvert Richard Jones, or perhaps by one of Jones’s associates. Jones had taken a photograph of five Capuchin friars on a rooftop in Malta, but while four of the friars were clustered together talking in a group, the fifth hovered a few feet behind them, framed awkwardly against the sky. Jones, or an associate, didn’t like the way this fifth friar was interrupting the scene, and so blotted out the figure on the paper negative using some India ink. In the positive print, the place where the fifth friar had stood became white sky.

Additional story at: 

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/83262/how-photo-retouching-worked-photoshop?fbclid=IwAR3jR1JGw12777yUxaG95iZEcObBpyFi0IRlbZ12APGtopY-ADz4tFiCUoY

(photo/Reditt.com)

Francis Chickering-an Early Settler of Dedham

 

Francis Chickering was an early settler of Dedham, Massachusetts, who served in the Great and General Court of Massachusetts and on that town's Board of Selectmen for 15 years. He was also a teacher in the first public school in America, today well known as the Dedham Public Schools.

He arrived in Dedham in 1637 from Suffolk, England, with his wife, Ann, and was admitted as a freeman in 1640.

Together, they had Elizabeth in 1638, Bethia in 1640, and Mercy in 1648. He was possibly the brother of Henry Chickering, with whom he served in the General Court.[1] He was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company.

Chickering was a part-owner of a mill on Mother Brook, the first man-made canal in America. The Town was displeased with the "insufficient performance" of the mill under Nathaniel Whiting's management and so, in 1652, Whiting sold his mill and all town rights to John Dwight, Chickering, Joshua Fisher, and John Morse for £250.[8] Whiting purchased it back the following year, however.

Though the schoolhouse was still standing, in 1661, school was kept in Chickering's home.[4] He signed the Dedham Covenant.

He was an ancestor of Jabez Chickering and Hannah B. Chickering.

(Wikipedia) 

Brief Life History of Francis

When Francis Chickering was born in 1597 in Suffolk, England, his father, Henry Chickering, was 38 and his mother, Mary, was 30. He married Anne Fiske about 1629 in Suffolk, England. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Dedham, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States, in 1636 and the Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America in 1639. He died on 2 October 1658, in Dedham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 61, and was buried in Old Village Burying Ground, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States.

(LDS)

(map/https://www.fairbankshistory.com/colonial-history/tag/Francis+Chickering)

Family Group Sheet: Benjamin Apling Burdette family

Benjamin and Millie Burdette

My post today is an updated family group sheet for the family of Benjamin Apling Burdette and his wife Amelia (Millie) Elizabeth Hood. Benjamin and Millie are my great grandparents. 

The following is the most recent version, and has been confirmed and sourced. If you are a descendant from any of Ben and Millie's children, I would welcome your correspondence at: gaylevanh@gmail.com  

Special thanks to Bob and Julia Fox for the photo of Ben and Millie. It is greatly appreciated.

Husband: Benjamin Apling Burdette
    Born: 23 Dec 1835 - DeKalb County, Georgia
    Died: 14 Sep 1921 - Meridian, Bosque County, Texas
    Buried: 15 Sep 1921 - Meridian  Cemetery, Meridian, Bosque County, Texas
    Father: James Woodall   (Jim) Burdett (1807-1868)
    Mother: Alice Falkner (1815-Abt 1862)
    Marriage: 4 Jan 1855 Place: Wedowee, Randolph County, Alabama

   Wife: Amelia Elizabeth (Millie) Hood
    Born: 1 Oct 1838 - Newton County, Georgia
    Died: 23 Apr 1926 - Meridian, Bosque County, Texas
    Buried:  - Meridian  Cemetery, Meridian, Bosque County, Texas
    Father: Josa Hood (1808-1870)
    Mother: Harriet Salina Robertson (1815-1887)

Children
1  F  Maryann Martina (Mattie) Burdette
        Born: 30 Jan 1856 - Randolph County, Alabama
        Died: 29 May 1921 - Lubbock County, Texas
        Buried:  - City of Lubbock Cemetery, Lubbock, Lubbock County, Texas
        Spouse: Jasper Alexander Syfrett (1849-1950)
         Marr. Date: 27 Nov 1873 - Marquez, Leon County, Texas
   
2  M  William Wesley Burdette
        Born: 13 Apr 1858 - Randolph County, Alabama
        Died: 23 Aug 1937 - Denton, Denton County, Texas
        Buried:  - Old Dublin Memorial Park, Dublin, Erath County, Texas
        Spouse: Louisa Winifred Thurman (1858-1920)
        Marr. Date: 23 Jul 1882 - Meridian, Bosque County, Texas
        Spouse: Alice Lovelace (    - Abt 1945)
        Marr. Date: After 1920
   
3  F  Emily (Emma) Frances Burdette
        Born: 9 Nov 1859 - Randolph County, Alabama
        Died: 11 Jun 1946 - Mexia, Limestone County, Texas
        Buried: 12 Jun 1946 - Dew Cemetery, Mexia, Limestone County, Texas
        Spouse: William Houston Bailey (1855-    )
       Marr. Date: 18 Jul 1878 - Concord, Shelby County, Texas
   
4  M  Benjamin A. Burdette
        Born: 27 Nov 1861 - Randolph County, Alabama
        Died: Abt 1862 - Randolph County, Alabama
   
5  M  James Gora Burdette
        Born: 19 Dec 1866 - Texas
        Died: Bef 1870 - Poss. Leon County, Texas
   
6  F  Susan Elizabeth (Bettie) Burdette
        Born: 3 Sep 1868 - Marquez, Leon County, Texas
        Died: 7 Aug 1959 - Spur, Dickens County, Texas
        Buried:  - Meridian  Cemetery, Meridian, Bosque County, Texas
        Spouse: John Pleasant Jordan (1846-1929)
        Marr. Date: 14 Jan 1886 - Bosque County, Texas
   
7  F  Salina (Lina) Isabel Burdette
        Born: 13 Aug 1871 - Marquez, Leon County, Texas
        Died: 15 Apr 1954 - San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas
        Buried:  - Meridian  Cemetery, Meridian, Bosque County, Texas
      Spouse: Frank C. Gandy (1866-1922)
      Marr. Date: 5 Nov 1885 - Glenrose, Somervell County, Texas
   
8  M  John Monroe Burdette
        Born: 7 Mar 1873 - Marquez, Leon County, Texas
        Died: Bet 1873 and 1880 - Marquez, Leon County, Texas
   
9  F  Lurana A. Burdette
        Born: 27 Jan 1875 - Marquez, Leon County, Texas
        Died: 1887 - Bosque County, Texas
   
10  M  Albert Alonzo Burdett
        Born: 26 Jul 1877 - Marquez, Leon County, Texas
        Died: 29 Jul 1960 - Sudan, Lamb County, Texas
        Buried:  - Sudan Cemetery, Sudan, Lamb County, Texas
        Spouse: Maggie N. Bowman (1882-1966)
        Marr. Date: 8 Oct 1899 - Comanche County, Texas
     
11  F  Ella Mae Burdette
        Born: 20 Oct 1880 - Marquez, Leon County, Texas
        Died: 21 Nov 1957 - Canyon, Randall County, Texas
        Buried: 23 Nov 1957 - Resthaven Memorial Park Cemetery, Lubbock, Lubbock
        County, Texas Plot # N 155 Space 2 (next to husband Fletcher)

        Spouse: Fletcher Woosley Hennington (1873-1953)

       Marr. Date: 25 Jul 1895 - Meridian, Bosque County, Texas
   
12  M  George Issac (Sr.) Burdette
        Born: 28 Aug 1882 - Meridian, Bosque County, Texas
        Died: 15 Sep 1947 - Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas
      Buried: 16 Sep 1947 - Shannon Rose Hill Cemetery, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas
      Spouse: Annie L. Burns (1881-   )
      Spouse: Dozie Lee Redwine (1883-1934)
      Marr. Date: 1902 - Texas
____________________________________________  
Last Modified: 27 Oct 2025 

Rare Letters From a Titantic Passenger

 

See Rare Letters From a Titanic Passenger, Who Called the Vessel a ‘Fine Ship’ Days Before It Sank

Archibald Gracie’s letter, which recently sold at auction, is part of a new exhibition at the Molly Brown House Museum in Denver

Sarah Kuta - Daily Correspondent

"It is a fine ship, but I shall await my journey’s end before I pass judgment on her.”

Archibald Gracie wrote these foreboding words in a letter to a friend while sailing aboard the Titanic in April 1912. A few days later, the brand new vessel famously collided with an iceberg and sank into the chilly waters of the North Atlantic.

Though 1,500 passengers and crew members died in the accident, Gracie survived—and so did his letter. He had mailed it from Queenstown (now Cobh), Ireland, which was one of the two places the Titanic stopped before heading across the Atlantic. His friend, A.P. Brooks, received the letter at the Waldorf Hotel in London, then kept it for the rest of his life. Eventually, the letter passed into the hands of one of Brooks’ descendants, who sold it in April for roughly $399,000 (£300,000).

The buyer’s identity remains a mystery. But whoever acquired the letter wants to share it with the world.

Read more at: 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-rare-letters-from-a-titanic-passenger-who-called-the-vessel-a-fine-ship-days-before-it-sank-180987112/?utm_campaign=8126257-The%20Weekly%20Genealogist&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_xEaWbdR26kXY80BrRGtlr8HGqRQTIMVU4Wskjx9E8SFoqTYWyTKUZHZSoDptRD8dkPSTk7xU2J3F3WC_uLIPLfzT4tw&_hsmi=375573561&utm_content=375573561&utm_source=hs_email

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