A Couple of Old Photos

This is a picture of my dad, Elmer Kofoid, my mom, Alice Kofoid and me. It was taken about 1939 in North Dakota. This is the home of my Aunt Viola and Uncle Walter Kofoid. It is where my Aunt Viola lived as a child. Located in the Cordelia school district, it is very near the Cordelia School where my mother was a teacher. My mother boarded with the H.R. Kofoid family, who lived near by. Below is a photo of the same house that I took when we visited the area in 2001.

On the left is my cousin, Rosemary Raftery, daughter of Bill and Helen Cornwell Raftery. Next to her is my cousin, Jean Cornwell, daughter of John and Marie Cornwell and on the right is my cousin, Mary Ellen Cornwell, daughter of Percy and Mary Cornwell. I'm the little kid in the middle. Dolph said, "Look, you were even complaining then!"

Mary Ellen was also an only child. Jean had an older brother, Charles (Pat) and Rosemary had an older brother, John (Jack). My cousins Elaine and Eldon are my only other cousins on the Cornwell/Allen side of the family

Family History...not blogged!

I have been adding photos and stories to my pedigree on www.familysearch.org. By the time I add them to my family history software and to FamilySearch, my ambition ebbs...and I don't get them on the blog. So...following are the steps to see what is on FamilySearch on my pedigree (and yours). I have uploaded photos (and a few stories) to each of the four lines...see if you can find them! I'm going to start scanning again...so more photos will be posted.

To see your family lines, pictures and stories on familysearch.org,,

do the following...

·        Go to www.familysearch.org

·        Click "sign in"  (use your FamilySearch or LDS account)

If you do not already have an LDS or FamilySearch account, click "create an account". Follow the instructions to open an account. (Be sure to write down your user name and password and put them where you can find them later).

Click on "Family Tree", then click "Tree"

Look for the magnifying glass icon and click "find".  Choose "ID Number".  Search by typing in any one of the following personal identification numbers (PID).

·        For Lundholm line, use KWZC-NQ5 (Adolph Lundholm)

·        For Brown line, use KWZC-N79 (May Brown)

·        For Kofoid line, use KHJ5-5GY (Elmer Kofoid)

·        For Cornwell line, use KHZR-9VB (Alice Cornwell)

Once you have entered the PID (see above) and clicked "find", click on the blue underlined name (link).

·        This will bring up the "summary" page.

·        At the bottom of the "summary" page, click on "tree" to see the pedigree chart of this person or on "person" to see personal information for this person.

·        At the top of the "person" page, click on "memories" to see photos and stories that have been uploaded.

·        Double click on photos to make them larger.

Note: You can click on any deceased person in the pedigree chart to see their information by clicking on their name and then selecting "person". 

Knitivity

 This is the nativity that I knit this year. It is from the book Knitivity by Fiona Goble. It was a fun, but time consuming
project!

 The donkey was one of my favorite pieces (and the hardest one to make...)He doesn't show up very well in this picture.

 

 A better picture of the donkey...

This picture shows the angel a little better.

Carpenter Bee (not an ancestor)...

This is a female Carpenter Bee. She is about the size of a thumb. Carpenter bees are non-aggressive, live by themselves in burrows that they make in old wood. She gathers pollen and rolls it into balls that she sticks inside her burrow. She lays her eggs in the pollen balls. This cactus flowers at night and wilts when the sun gets warm. I took this picture about 6 am.

Royce Allen

Royce Allen was my great grandfather, (father of Sarah Allen Cornwell and married to Sarah Elizabeth Wilson). He was born 16 Jun 1817 in Camden, Oneida New York and died 15 Feb 1880 in Munson, Henry, Illinois. He was a farmer who raised champion Durham cattle. One of his bulls gored him and died as a result of this accident.

 He had a long and very "flowery" obituary. I tried to add it here...but it didn't work!

Miss C. P. Allen (listed before Royce Allen) is his sister, Chloe Permelia Allen.

Back row: Sarah Elizabeth Wilson (Mrs. Royce Allen); Julia Abigail Wilson (Mrs. James Wickwire); Mr. Truman O. Jones; Susan Margaret Bell (Mrs. David Candee Wilson); Mr. David Candee Wilson; Nancy M. Orton (Mrs. Levi P. Wilson; Hulda Jane Wilson (Mrs. Truman O. Jones.
Front Row:
Eli Pomeroy Wilson; James Wickwire; Levi P. Wilson; Mary M. Grant (Mrs. Eli P. Wilson). 

These are the children of Eli Wilson and Julia Candee Wilson. (I don't have photos of Julia Candee or Eli Wilson.) The Wilsons and Wickwires (James and Julia Abigail Wilson Wickwire) were abolitionists (they worked to outlaw African slavery and free the slaves). Both the Wickwire and the Wilson homes were safe houses on the Underground Railroad. Eli Wilson is my great great grandfather and Julia Wilson Wickwire is my great grand aunt. (You can calculate your own relationship:)

(The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause....Wikipedia)

I found the following on the Internet...regarding Eli and Julia Candee Wilson and the Wickwires...
Mr. and Mrs. Wickwire, were the first couple ever married in this township, and the ceremony that made them one was performed Mary 17, 1837, in the home in which they now live., by the Rev. George Sill. Mrs. Wickwire’s maiden name was Julia Wilson, and her father was Eli Wilson, a native of Harrington, Conn. Her grandfather, also bearing that name, was a farmer of English extraction, born in that old New England State of a prominent family. The father (Eli Wilson) was educated in Yale College and in 1818, settled in the wilds of Oneida County, N.Y., where he cleared a farm, and also engaged in teaching in the schools besides being a teacher of vocal music and a leader of the choir. In 1834, he came to this county with his family at the same time that our subject (James Wickwire) came, arriving in Farmington in a prairie schooner, June 4. He became wealthy and the owner of several hundred acres of land. He was connected with the educational interests of the township and was a Whig in politics and a Congregationalist in religion. During the latter part of his life he lived retired until his death at the age of eighty-five in 1875. His wife was named Julia Candee and she was born in Connecticut, a daughter of David Candee, a large and wealthy land-owner of that State. She died in 1881, at the age of ninety-three years. Mrs. Wickwire (Julia Wilson) was one of eight children and was born September 22, 1817, in Connecticut. She was well educated and was a teacher by profession and taught the first school ever taught in Farmington, which was conducted in the rudest of school-houses.

Sarah Elizabeth Allen & Children

Sarah Elizabeth Wilson Allen is my great grandmother. Sarah Allen Cornwell is my grandmother (mother of Alice Cornwell Kofoid, my mother). 

My Aunt Beth told me the following when she visited us in Albany Oregon in the 1980s.

Aunt Beth Carlson said that S.E.W. Allen was genteel, sedate
and tolerated no slang such as "gracious"! She was a moralist. Aunt Beth
remembers her saying "Pretty is as pretty does" when Aunt Beth, age 6, was
looking in a mirror. She said that she was "probably opinionated, like Aunt
Ettie". (Aunt Ettie was Charles Cornwell's sister. I met her once...stern and scary!)

 She and Aunt Helen collected bottles on the beach which they played with a lot.
 S.E.W.Allen threw them down the toilet. (That's before toilets flushed!)

She can remember when she was age 5, she was made to take a nap when she visited her grandmother. There was an earthquake and she rolled off the couch and her doll fell
on the floor and was broken.

 Family tradition: Sarah E Wilson Allen's family was related to President Wilson (probably not!)

 S.E.W.Allen moved to Santa Cruz Calif. and was cremated there.
Ashes spread in California. (according to Aunt Beth)

 

 

Back row: Sarah Allen Cornwell, Royce Allen

Middle Row: Carrie Allen Busenbark, Sarah Elizabeth Wilson Allen, Maria Allen Gifford

Front Row: Julia Allen Topping, Margaret Allen Lay





Grandmother, Sarah Elizabeth Allen; Daughter, Julia Allen Topping;
Mother, Fannie Allen Eckler; Daughter Elizabeth Ray Eckler (born: Feb 4, 1905, died June 10, 1905)

Sarah Elizabeth Allen
December 25, 1904
80 years old

Dolph's New Thumb

Dolph had his thumb joint reconstructed last Thursday. It was in a splint for a week, and yesterday they removed the splint and put it in a cast. He had a choice of about 10 colors. I thought that the hot pink would be nice, but he opted for blue. The cast will be on for 3 weeks and then he will do physical therapy to get it to work like a thumb again.  If you like the gory details of the surgery, you can see it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jqOkBE-eHw

Dolph

This is a picture of Dolph with his handle bar mustache. It was taken between 1952 and 1956. 1956 is when he got out of the Navy.

 

 

 

This picture was taken after we were married. He was working at Graves Music, but I don't know if it was in the Albany or the Eugene store. I notice that he had added a few pounds since the Navy picture was taken!

More Slides...

This was taken of Karen and Eric when we lived on E. 24th Street in Albany (before 1970). We lived across the street from the grade school. I made Karen's dress. I made one like it for me, but there are no pictures of us together. That's probably because it looked better on Karen.

Another fish picture of May and Adolph. I notice that May caught the BIG fish and she looks pleased!

Karen & Colleen

Karen and her friend, Colleen Beggs. Taken about 1968 (second grade?) when we lived in Albany.

Fishing Runs In The Family!

 These were probably taken on one of our camping trips to a mountain lake...probably Detroit Lake...as that was a favorite camping spot for us.

We have lots of fishing pictures...with two granddads (and one grandma!) that liked nothing better than fishing, Eric definitely inherited the fishing gene. I don't see Karen out fishing a lot...she probably inherited her gene from me!

Big Fish!

 Adolph, May and Dolph after one of their deep sea fishing trips.
Adolph and May, after they bought the cabin at Seal Rock, went deep sea fishing almost every week. I think it cost $7 each to go. I went a few times, but it was a total loss of $7, because I don't really like to fish and ocean going boats aren't high on my list either! We ate a lot of salmon. They had most of it canned, but it was really good barbecued. I would appreciate it a lot more now than I did then.

My mom & dad, Alice & Elmer Kofoid, about 1957

Mom, correcting papers. She was teaching second grade at Santiam Grade School in Lebanon. I think she corrected papers every night of her life. I would help sometimes, but not very willingly.






This is the kitchen of our home on Hwy 20 about 2 miles north of Lebanon. We moved there about 1950 and my parents lived there until they built the house on F Street in Lebanon



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My dad, watching TV on our black and white set with 3 channels to chose from. The first time I saw TV was about 1953. The TV was in a store window and it was a grainy picture of the Liberace show. By 1957 the TV wasn't so grainy. "I've Got a Secret", "What's My Line", "You Were There" and "American Bandstand" were some of the programs that were popular.  I can't remember the man's name...he had something to do with the government and TV...and about this time, he described TV as a "vast wasteland". I wonder what he would think now!

Dolph and me...about 1957

These pictures are from old slides.  They were probably taken after we were married (Oct. 1957). They were taken at Dolph's folks place on O'Neil Street in Lebanon.

May was sewing a button on Dolph's shirt sleeve (and I was learning how!)
We were on our way to a dance job...probably New Year's Eve...as I don't think the band dressed quite so formally for other occassions. We loved New Year's Eve dances because everybody wanted a live band and we got paid more. Dolph thinks it was $75. On regular weekends he made $25 to $35 a night depending on the length of the job. We usually had to drive 2 or 3 hours each way plus a 4 or 5 hour job.

Too good not to share!

Karen, Spring of 1962

I've finally got my pictures, computer and scanner all in one place!!!

This is Karen at about 14 month's old. We were living in Eugene on Bell Avenue. I made her top. I think it was about the first of many things I sewed for her. These pictures are from slides that her Grandma May or Grandpa Adolph took.

Sailor Guy!

Dolph joined the Navy in 1952. He attended the Naval School of Music in Washington DC. Before he graduated, he was sent to the USS Yorktown (an aircraft carrier) for their band. As Dolph tells it..."They needed a trumpet player real bad, and I was real bad, so they sent me". Actually he was a very good trumpet player.

 The year before and the year after we were married, he played in a dance band. We spent many Friday and Saturday nights in (smokey, boozey) Elk's Clubs where the band was booked. We would then drive back to Lebanon in the middle of the night. I can remember trying to see the side of the road driving back across the mountains in the fog! The guys in the band kept asking us when we were going to get married and we would always tell them that we didn't have money for the license. We told them that one too many times and one night they took up a collection and gave me the money! We used it to buy the license. We got married on a Friday afternoon and went to the coast on our honeymoon. The band was playing in Florence that weekend and they couldn't find a trumpet player to replace Dolph. They told him that if he would play, they would pay for our motel room on Saturday night. We were so broke that we took their offer...we spent one  night of our three day honeymoon at the Elks Club. The band booked the "honeymoon suite" at the Paddock Motel in Yachats for us. The "honeymoon suite" consisted of a table, some chairs and a bed that was draped with some old curtains. It looked pretty good at night but lacked a lot in the light of day.

While Dolph was in the Navy he spent two years at sea off the coast of Korea and Japan. He was also stationed in Norfolk Virginia. I like this picture of him in the coolie hat and kimono.

Getting Ready For The Big Day!

Dolph, getting ready for church (at 5:30 am), the day before the Oregon/Wisconsin Rose Bowl Game. Can't guess who he wants to win!

Moonshine

Elva Funk, Dolph's cousin interviewed and taped the conversation with Adolph (Dolph's dad)in 1989. This is taken from the typed copy...

Elva:  Moonshine, we were on the moonshine.

 Adolph:  "Oh, yeah.  Make a little moonshine.  Well, again, after it got started out Dad got a still fixed up.  We had to hide out with the dang thing.  They made some moonshine there at home in us boy's bedroom for a while.   And then we moved it up to a neighbor's place that they had moved out of (about 1/2 hour from our place.)  We went up there and run off several batches.  Then we went over to the Kurchers.  Each of us had our distillery."

 Elva:  "And the sheriff came out there one day?"

 Adolph:  "He came and knocked on the door and dad was gone.  We had the stuff brewing down next to the old barn right next to the side of the creek.  We'd been letting it go so dang long we just got careless.  We had the still down in the potato cellar.  The sheriff was working with Dad as Dad was on the school board    and that kind of stuff.  They got well acquainted and he was over at Roberts a lot of the time where they had contact.  He said that he had heard rumors and he was forced to come out and take a look.  I told him 'yes, go ahead, take a look.  As quickly as he moved out there and went toward the shed (used for a car garage), Mamie lighted out around the house the other way and down to the barn. There was a regular 40 gal. barrel filled up pretty well to the top with mash.  She just pushed it over.  There was nothing there when..."

 Elva:  "Wouldn't there have been an odor to some of that?"

 Adolph:  "Oh, hell yes!  He could have gathered some up, but...  He came in the house and looked around a little and there was a stovepipe going through into our bedroom.  He went and looked in there, but we had moved the still out of there. Anyhow he didn't do a very big job of trying to find it."